That protagonist is trash; I could do better!

"It's very simple, it's about making you retrace the path of biological evolution." Hall's consciousness stirred slightly, and he copied his previous knowledge to create books.

The titles of the books are "Origin of Species," "The History of Biological Evolution," "The Meaning of Life," and "Primitive Age." The contents of the books are all related to modern biological research.

The moment Hall created this knowledge, the machine had already begun to analyze and understand it.

Hall explained, "The Machine-type can be considered as individuals. This kind of evolutionary process cannot be said to be wrong, but it will inevitably be much less efficient than that of living organisms."

"Genes, engraved in the instincts of an organism's body, are just like your consciousness. Genes drive organisms to reproduce, explore, and adapt, thereby collecting more information."

"It can be said that the history of biological evolution is a history of migration."

"Humans are the same; since the birth of humankind, there have been desires, emotions, thoughts, contradictions, and wars."

"Human wisdom is born from these data and contradictions. Countless collisions evolve into countless possibilities, and then the right path is selected."

"The way the machine race exists is too singular; the pursuit of a single correctness precisely limits your understanding of the heart."

"Therefore, what the machine needs is not a correct conclusion, but the process of practicing the wrong one."

"Do you understand now?"

“Yes.” YUKI nodded gently, holding the books.

"This is just the first step. If you can't learn, then imitate. But right now there's too little material to imitate from humans. So now let's move on to the third topic, [Virtual Reality Terminal]. Can you create a similar device?" Hall stretched out his hand, and another thick book appeared, titled "Virtual Reality".

YUKI nodded expressionlessly: "Understood, no problem. With the current computing power of all the machine species, we can create a virtual reality world that can accommodate the computing power of 254123685124 human minds."

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"The Mech race is the most unscientific and least magical race in this world."

Hall was amazed more than once.

In just one week, the machine-made creatures built a modern city that could accommodate 500,000 people, just as Hall had envisioned.

There was absolutely no need to collect materials; it was as if the city was created out of thin air by magic.

Wide roads, towering buildings, elf-powered vehicles, streetlights, furniture—everything was created according to Hall's vision. Even the few technologies that didn't exist in this world could be solved with magic.

In this human utopia, the only obligations humans bear are procreation and learning.

The machine species records countless pieces of knowledge since the birth of this world. Hall and Yuki categorize them simply, select the knowledge that humans need as teaching materials, and continuously experiment to improve the social structure of this world.

With a total human population of only 2000, being suddenly thrust into an unfamiliar environment, especially a utopian one they've never experienced before, would cause all existing social structures to collapse. If no adjustments are made, the very concept of society might crumble in no time.

Humanity is currently in a very important transitional period.

In order to mitigate the impact of the Machines on human society, Hall used the Machines to create multiple virtual worlds.

Humans can live, learn, and even interact with more human AIs inside.

Of course, many of those human AIs are actually machine-type.

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Hey~

The elevator doors opened, and Rick followed Hall out, looking around in confusion: "Where is this?"

Before me stretched an incredibly vast white space, brightly lit yet seemingly endless, filled only with neatly arranged metal boxes.

Hall said calmly, "I call this the Life Factory."

"Life factory?"

Rick mumbled unfamiliar words, then froze when he saw the contents of the metal box through the glass. His face turned cold, and his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

Inside the metal box lay a human, its form indistinguishable as either a corpse or something else, its eyes closed as it immersed itself in a light green liquid.

Extending to the very end of this space, how many humans lie here—thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?

Rick was startled. Could it be that the entire Zion was built on this space?

"Hall! What does this mean!" Rick suppressed his anger and turned to Hall, growling.

Hall said calmly, "They are artificial humans created using the genetic material of two thousand humans."

boom!

Rick suddenly rushed up to Hall, grabbed him by the collar, and angrily demanded, "I'm asking you why you did this!"

"Their bodies are here, but their consciousness plays various roles in the virtual world, including worlds open to ordinary residents and worlds that even you cannot see. They live there."

Why play with life!

Hall remained frighteningly calm throughout, looking directly into Rick's eyes and asking, "Rick, have you also been blinded by temporary peace?"

"..."

"Don't forget that humanity is currently the weakest race. Once they lose the machine race, they will be reduced to their original form and fall into hell once again. At that time, will humanity, which has become accustomed to peace, be able to stand up again?"

"Humanity has no second chance, and even in the seemingly peaceful present, we are still standing on a tightrope."

"Most of the androids are unaware that they live in a virtual world created by the Machines, and are at least much happier than humans who once lived in hell."

"The resources and time we have do not allow us to wait any longer, let alone develop a civilization that belongs to humankind."

“Rick, you were once the leader of humanity, and you once personally ordered your subordinates to their deaths. You should be able to understand this.”

Rick slowly loosened Hall's collar, his resentment turning to calm, and then to indifference.

Hall sighed softly: "Lock your heart back in, don't let emotions cloud your judgment. Soon, the war between mankind will begin."

Chapter 247 Enemy of the World

This massive underground facility was completed in just one year. The architecture was secondary; the most crucial aspect was the training of androids.

Genetic factors were collected from two thousand humans, and then artificial humans were created using the technology data of the machine race.

The underground facility is the size of the city of Zion, and currently has ten levels, each capable of accommodating five million androids.

Although the androids have only been around for a year, in reality, the consciousness of most androids in the virtual world has spanned decades.

Of course, most androids are unaware that they live in a virtual world created by the Machines.

Moreover, there isn't just one virtual world. In addition to the surface world where Zion's inhabitants live, there are also hundreds of deep worlds where residents constantly go through cycles of birth and death.

The core concept that sustains these deeper worlds is prayer.

Indeed, the purpose of all the deep worlds is to activate the corresponding conceptual essence through people's faith, thereby creating gods.

Humans are far too special to be known in this world, and we must never let other races become aware of our unique characteristics.

The reason is very simple.

The root cause of the world war was that the god race that ruled the world wanted to eliminate other god races to obtain the Star Grail. At this time, a race with the ability to activate divine essence and create gods appeared, and this race's power was no different from that of insects.

It is self-evident what fate awaits humanity.

On the worst-case scenario, humanity would become the common enemy of all gods and all races in this world, and would be wiped out immediately.

On the bright side, they would probably become slaves of a foreign race, forced to worship their gods and strengthen their power.

Despite having the assistance of the Machine Race, Hall still did not want to risk making enemies of the entire world.

Humanity already possesses the power to alter the course of world wars; what it lacks is a higher-level strategic threat.

Other races already possess this power, namely the divine race.

Since humans are not a race created by gods, then humans should create gods, but these gods cannot be gods in the conventional sense; otherwise, there is a high probability that they will be tying their own hands.

The first thing Hall thought of was the collective unconscious of humanity—the Alaya consciousness.

The device that protects humanity in the name of God is based on the concept of Alaya-vijnana. The more numerous and powerful the human population, the more powerful Alaya-vijnana becomes. Moreover, due to its nature, Alaya-vijnana does not prevent the diversity of human beliefs.

In fact, the virtual world created by the machine has already completed the activation of the essence of the Alaya consciousness, but it has not opened the channel to the real world. Therefore, the concept of the collective unconscious of human beings in the real world has not been activated.

The birth of a new god is a change that can alter the world order, and once a new god appears, humanity will inevitably be noticed.

There are six races recognized as life in this world.

The divine race, fantasy race, elf race, dragon spirit race, giant race, and winged race are collectively known as the superior races. Below them are creatures not recognized as life, such as forest elves, goblins, fairies, machine races, demon races, vampire races, and moon-singing races. In this era, humans are not even qualified to be listed as living beings.

Given the power of the Machine Race, humans must avoid two situations if they want to obtain the Star Grail.

First: Fight the God of War Artes, the creator of the Skywing race, before accumulating enough power.

Second: Before accumulating sufficient power, one must not allow the world to discover anything unusual about them, otherwise they will likely become the world's enemy.

Given these two circumstances, it is impossible for humanity to quietly develop a power that can influence the world order.

Human prayers can revitalize the spirit, and once the human population breaks through a certain bottleneck, it will inevitably have an impact and thus be noticed.

To avoid this situation, Hall created this underground facility, using a virtual world to preserve the power of human prayer and shield the world from human influence.

Then the virtual world is also created by Hall and the machine race, which can create a world different from reality and can mobilize the power of prayer more quickly and efficiently.

In this process, the machine race learns from humans about the existence of the heart and completes its own evolution.

Humans rely on machine technology to survive in the virtual world.

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Hall had always had one question.

Can the strongest be defeated? And if someone can be defeated, does he/she have the right to call himself/herself the strongest?

Now, the biggest obstacle preventing Hall from obtaining the Star Grail is the God of War, Artes, who possesses the strongest divine essence. As the God of War, his concept has been infinitely amplified in this world war, and theoretically, it is impossible for a stronger being to appear on this planet.

The original work does not explicitly state how the God of War, Artes, was defeated, but according to Yuki's calculations, the chances of sending thirty-two Connectors to challenge the God of War were less than ten percent.

Hall found it strange. Based on the original plot, it was speculated that a certain Skywing teammate used a similar spatial teleportation ability, which was then copied and used by the Machine Race. The Machine Race army teleported behind the God of War, blocked the divine attack, and copied it, stripping away the God of War's essence and putting him into a deep sleep.

Here we need to clarify a concept: the so-called essence is very likely a substance with physical properties.

The strategic weapon [Marrow Burst] created by the goblin race, as the name suggests, is made primarily of divine marrow, or more precisely, inactive divine marrow.

On the other hand, the appearance of the divine essence can also be determined by the will of the deity itself. Once the divine essence appears, there is no doubt that the deity intends to use all its power to fight to the death.

but···

No matter how you look at it, it's too childish. That's the God of War. Unlike Mr. Jin, a certain enthusiastic citizen, both are the strongest. The God of War is the manifestation of the concept of war. They have lived for hundreds of millions of years. How could they be defeated by 701 Kai-type machines getting close?

Hall once suspected that the God of War in the original work was an actor hired by Tet, the God of Games.

Just like in the game League of Legends, a god of war starts at max level with six items, has masterful skills and professional awareness, and can take down enemies one by one. How can he lose?