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Chapter 190 Information Pollution

"However, these things alone are not enough."

Lynn looked at Xiao Ye, "This isn't payment; it's just a tool for work."

Xiao Ye stood there for a few seconds, his ears twitching slightly, then nodded and replied, "Okay, what do you want? A core material?"

Lynn knew that it wasn't Owl Night who agreed to his conditions, but rather Madam Mabel Tessa who had agreed.

However, given Ms. Mebetesa's status, it would be too unbecoming for her to haggle with him; that would be beneath her dignity.

Xiao Ye is the person in charge in the middle.

"I don't need the raw materials, I need two sets of information. The first is knowledge about the Bio-Wizard Tower," Lynn said, knowing that Ms. Mebetessa would definitely agree.

Xiao Ye was taken aback.

He looked at Lynn strangely. He also knew about the Biological Wizard Tower, but he had heard some bad rumors. The Biological Wizard Tower was a rather special existence among wizards.

Besides, Lynn's wizard tower has already been built, so what's the point of having a bio-wizard tower?

"Sure, there's more." Xiao Ye nodded.

"I need the knowledge and research data from the Cult of Machine God regarding consciousness uploading."

"This..." Xiao Ye frowned; this condition didn't sound quite right.

While knowledge can be traded and shared among wizards, it was, after all, the knowledge of the Cult of Machines. Xiao Ye looked at Lynn with some concern; Lynn's condition seemed a bit presumptuous to him, and he felt Lynn could change his terms.

It would be a loss to anger Ms. Mebetesa.

But then Xiao Ye was taken aback. He heard a clear, cold female voice in his ear, agreeing to the condition.

Xiao Ye was somewhat surprised and looked at Lynn in astonishment, not expecting that the lady would actually agree.

Lynn wasn't surprised; neither of the two conditions was actually too difficult.

The first piece of knowledge is that Ms. Mebetesa had been consciously promoting information about the Bio Wizard Tower for a long time. Although the reason is unknown, Ms. Mebetesa would certainly agree if I wanted to learn about it.

The second aspect of consciousness uploading in the Mechanicus is not some profound knowledge. This knowledge was already mastered by the Mechanicus a long time ago and applied to various aspects of life.

If all you need is knowledge related to consciousness uploading, you can buy it directly from the Chamber of Commerce. But what Lynn also needs is some related research data. This research data cannot be bought from outsiders; only wizards of a certain status can exchange it with other wizards to obtain it.

It would be difficult for Lynn to obtain it now, but not for Ms. Mebetesa.

This is the gap caused by differences in status and identity.

After agreeing to the deal, Lynn began his learning journey.

Lynn's "teacher" who taught him archery was a Crow-people archer.

This Arakkoa archer claimed to be proficient in archery from the Elves and several other races. According to him, all archery techniques in the world are actually quite similar, with only one purpose: to kill the target with an arrow.

"An arrow that misses its target is a failed arrow," the Arakkoa archer said earnestly.

Lynn remembered that wizards also had some spells that involved shooting arrows at targets; such spells were rare but not nonexistent.

For example, the third-tier spell Deathspeaker's Lament is a similar spell.

After casting the spell, a white bone undead bow and a white bone undead arrow will appear in the palm of the hand.

This arrow needs to be shot by the caster using this bow, and its accuracy is highly dependent on the caster's archery skills.

Although the activation conditions are relatively complex, this spell is more powerful than ordinary third-tier spells.

Furthermore, some wizards' fighting styles are not purely those of spellcasters. Some wizards modify their physical bodies, master various auxiliary, healing, and functional spells, and are proficient in melee weapons, each with their own unique style.

After advancing to the first level wizard, Lynn's greatest advantage, besides his mental strength far exceeding that of ordinary first level wizards, is his physical body, which is far stronger than others of the same level and possesses various divine characteristics.

However, because Lynn's previous combat habits involved fighting with spells and using the Wizard Tower to crush opponents after it was successfully crafted, Lynn did not spend time honing his physical strength, even though he knew he was powerful.

This learning experience was also a good learning opportunity for Lynn.

After all, neither divine beings nor high-level demons have physical strength as their weakness. Lynn, who combines the advantages of both, possesses the strengths of both, which significantly enhances his combat power.

"Many people say that different races have different archery techniques, but actually it's just that they use different bows. Differences in physical characteristics between races lead to differences in the bows and arrows they use, and differences in living environments result in significant differences in the archery styles of different races."

This Arakkoa archery instructor was indeed a master in archery.

The explanations, which progressed from simple to complex, greatly benefited Lynn.

After learning this knowledge, Lynn gained a deeper understanding of anatomy and alchemical golem making.

"Those giants are huge, and small bows are awkward for them to use, so they prefer to use heavy giant bows. Heavy giant bows shoot arrows with great power, but because they are so big, their speed is affected. Therefore, their archery style is more about shooting at high frequency to cover a large area of ​​prey."

"The archery skills of the halflings are very insidious, partly due to their size. Halflings are naturally small and weak, so the arrows they use are very light and small. Therefore, they like to make their arrows from vines or tree vines. Their arrows are light and difficult to detect. At the same time, in order to make it easier to hunt prey, halflings like to coat their arrows with poison. Therefore, every halfling archer is a master of wilderness survival and poison making."

Lynn seemed to be deep in thought, combining the professions of these races with their lifestyles and racial characteristics, which led to differences in their fighting styles and schools of thought. This analytical model sounded quite interesting.

"I taught the adults archery of the elves and werewolves. Elven archery is very graceful because elves are of moderate build and their limbs are flexible and very resilient. It's more like the elves have two bows than one!"

"They use their supple bodies as a bow, and then shoot with even more graceful power. That's why the archery of the Elven race is ruthless, cunning, and can even curve."

"This is because the elves live in forests. Therefore, the weapons they use are wooden bows. In addition, due to the special environment of the elves, the wooden bows they use have extremely strong toughness and more elasticity than ordinary bows and arrows."

"The archery of the werewolf race is swift and fierce. Because the werewolf race has a strong burst of energy and a moderate physique, the bows used by the werewolf race often have a large elasticity. The archery of the werewolf race emphasizes straight and direct attacks, killing with one blow. The archery style combines the styles of two races and is unpredictable. I checked the battle record of Mongollas. On the battlefield, the weapon he used most often was his bow."

After studying for half a month, Lynn learned all the archery techniques and had mastered all the routines and skills. All that was left was to keep practicing.

Lynn was taught spearmanship by a snake-man.

The genuine Serpent People of the Orc Empire on the continent of Ferran.

It has grayish-white pupils, light yellow scales, and no nose on its face, only two black holes representing nostrils.

Voldemort looks like he has grown some scales.

"My lord wizard, please spare my people. I will teach them all the spear techniques I know," the snake-man pleaded humbly.

"This is not my responsibility. I will relay your request to them, and how they handle it is up to them."

Lynn glanced at the snake-man indifferently.

When the snake-man heard that Lynn was going to tell the people who had captured it, its face turned pale with fear.

The snake-man lowered his head, begging Lynn not to tell anyone.

"While I may not be able to save people, killing someone is a piece of cake for me," Lynn said with a half-smile. "Teach me the marksmanship of the Mongol Ras family that you've mastered."

Seeing the expression on Lynn's face, Snakeman felt a chill and dismissed all his little schemes.

It passed on its marksmanship to Lynn, but Lynn's marksmanship was incomplete, rather fragmented.

Lynn was not surprised, because according to the information Xiaoye gave him, the Mongolian Ras family lost a lot of its heritage after its decline.

Therefore, he shouldn't have learned the complete gun technique. To avoid exposing his muscle memory, he initially mastered an incomplete gun technique.

It took Lynn three days to master the incomplete marksmanship.

At Lynn's special request, Snakeman told Lynn some common mistakes that beginners often make when practicing shooting without guidance from elders.

Besides these two teachers, there was also a native hunter from the Orc Empire.

It took another four days to master this knowledge.

"Here is the information you need."

The two documents that Lynn needed were brought over.

Lynn set aside the information on the Bio Wizard Tower and first looked at the information uploaded by the Mechanical Wizard's consciousness. After quickly reading the general introduction, Lynn's expression changed slightly, as if he had understood something.

The uploading of consciousness is a topic that mechanical wizards have been researching for a long time. In their research, mechanical wizards believed that the human body could be divided into three parts.

Body, soul, consciousness.

The soul resides in the physical body, but some special life forms can detach from the physical body and exist solely through the soul and consciousness, such as ghosts.

Life forms existing purely as consciousness were not discovered at the time, because the soul decays. Therefore, mechanical wizards researched how to upload consciousness to machines and separate it from the soul, thus extending lifespan in a more unconventional way.

In the early stages of the research, the mechanical wizard discovered that this did indeed have many benefits, as consciousness was more mysterious than the soul.

Even a wisp of consciousness can split off and reside in a mechanical body to operate independently, and can recover on its own even if the consciousness is erased.

Yes, the research log revealed that consciousness can be restored.

Research data revealed that damaged consciousness can also heal itself, which in a sense significantly increases the lifespan and safety of wizards.

This experiment led to a significant rise in the mechanical wizarding school at the time, attracting many wizards to join the research on this topic.

However, as they delved deeper into the research, the wizards gradually discovered the flaws in the consciousness uploading process.

Although the consciousness does exist for a longer period of time than the soul after simply uploading it.

However, over the long course of time, the consciousness of uploading will be contaminated by information.

Some wizards gradually become indifferent, some wizards experience intermittent memory loss, and some wizards experience memory duplication or false memories.

After specific experiments, it was found that the problem stemmed from the excessive abuse of consciousness and the overly frequent self-regeneration of consciousness, which resulted in information pollution.

Before information pollution, this term did not exist in the wizarding world. However, just as certain special diseases can be named after their patients, this term appeared in the wizarding world after information pollution occurred.

Countless soul particles exist in nature, and these soul particles are filled with a large amount of trace pheromones. When a living organism dies, its soul breaks apart and dissipates into countless wandering soul particles.

These soul particles cannot be observed with the naked eye; wizard meditation is one way to observe them.

These soul particles that emanate from the void and can be captured through meditation can enhance mental power.

However, these harmless soul particles became the source of information pollution for the uploaded consciousness. After careful research by the wizard, it was finally discovered that this was because the important framework of existence, the soul, was missing.

The souls function like filters, filtering out all pheromones from soul particles and preserving only the pure soul power for wizards to absorb and enhance.

However, if there is no soul, the soul particles will have a polluting effect on consciousness, and the pheromones within them will pollute the purity of consciousness.

Consciousness itself has a certain degree of exclusivity, but over time, and because consciousness absorbs soul particles from the air as a supplement during the process of being damaged and replenished, information pollution will occur in the long run.

The consequences of information pollution are terrifying, potentially causing wizards to suffer from various ailments such as memory errors, loss of memories, and proliferation!

It will also deviate from the wizard's personality to some extent, causing the wizard's personality to change.

This is precisely why the consciousness uploading function has such a huge drawback.

However, some wizards did not mind and conducted research on the isolated soul particles. There is not much information about the research on isolated soul particles.

This involves a deeper level of experimentation, which is only briefly mentioned in the materials.

The document also mentions several research directions. The mechanical school studies the segmentation of consciousness and has found that human consciousness is very powerful and has great potential. In particular, the consciousness of wizards, whose mental strength has been greatly enhanced through meditation, far surpasses that of ordinary people.

A powerful wizard's consciousness can split into countless forms, which is equivalent to being able to control countless bodies simultaneously.

However, research data in this area is scarce, with only brief mentions.

In addition, subsequent research materials contain a large amount of research data on consciousness uploading.

This includes both success and failure data.

This data includes detailed information on various aspects of the consciousness of tens of thousands of races and hierarchical life units after it has been uploaded.

This is invaluable information for Lynn.

This saved him a great deal of energy.

Lynn didn't look at these specific data because there was too much of it, and it would take him at least several months to see it.

Let's come back to this after the transaction is completed.

However, after reading this information, Lynn had a vague idea pop into his mind about guessing the time.

He believed that the natural death of a person, or rather, certain life forms, is based on the premise of "aging".

If we define the moment a life is born as having all of time, then time is like an hourglass, with time passing every second, and his life is constantly entering a countdown.

Conversely, if we define a person's time as the moment they die, then from the moment of their birth, they are acquiring time every second, like a line drawn on a white sheet of paper. The moment of birth is a black dot, and the trajectory of life is a straight line extending from this black dot as it moves forward.

When a straight line reaches its end, it signifies the end of his life's work.

If life is a line, then wouldn't time be some kind of poison?

It can make life grow old, step by step, until the end of life.

If we could isolate time, make its influence disappear, and create a space where there is no sense of time, only consciousness.

Is it possible to achieve a different kind of immortality inside?

But this requires solving two major problems.

I. How to isolate time.

II. How to prevent pheromone pollution from the souls of ordinary people.

Thinking of this, Lynn couldn't help but think of the pocket watch's ability to stop time. If time could be stopped, then the influence of time could be isolated.

(End of this chapter)