Comprehensive Comics KanColle: Building a Dimensional Empire from Scratch

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"Horou is not dead. The Old Deus were born from the concept. Having their essence penetrated is merely the equivalent of entering a dormant state."

"Just right, bring back a divine seed."

Lu Chen stretched out his hand, used the power of the Herrscher, and poured energy into it.

The dormant spirit was activated.

A loli dressed in a shrine maiden-like costume gradually appeared.

She wears colorful clothing, a frilly white hat with an orange and yellow ribbon, and a traditional Japanese mask in the shape of a fox hangs to her left.

She has purple bangs, and the long hair at the back gradually changes from blue to green. She is barefoot and her eyes are empty and a little confused.

“Question, who am I?…”

The God of Doubt expressed his confusion about his own reawakening and looked around in a trance.

Whether it was Lu Chen or anyone else, he had never seen them before.

"Welcome back to Disboard, the Sail Tower of the God of Doubt."

Lu Chen gently touched her head.

"...Fanlou?"

"No, I don't have that name..."

The confused loli god blinked and shook her head.

After countless epochs of deep sleep, she is trying to regain her sanity.

"Cough-cough-"

The nanobot cleared his throat and moved closer to her with concern.

"Are you awake?"

"What? You can't remember your true identity?..."

"Well, ah..."

Hanlou nodded subconsciously.

"Oh, all right."

Swah——

Xiao Hui projected a contract and took Fanlou's little hand to go up and put his fingerprints on it.

"In fact, you are the commander's pet and fluff ball. You signed a contract with us six hundred million years ago."

"The contract just expired. Be good and be obedient, and we will renew it now."

"???"

Fanlou: “Huh?”

(The picture shows Sail Tower 10).

Chapter 711: Eight Hundred Minds Calculating Silly White Sweet

"Question, why am I your pet and ball of fluff?"

"Objection. I was inactive 6 million years ago. The contracts I signed during that time were not my own will."

Fanlou adds a prefix before each of his sentences to summarize his thoughts.

Even though she had just woken up and was not fully conscious, she still instinctively resisted the nanorobots' abduction.

Taking a quick glance at the contract, I saw some strange provisions including but not limited to dedicating my body and everything to the commander, wearing a maid outfit to perform "morning wake-up calls" every day, etc.

"Oh, don't worry about it, just sign it, and I'll give you a lollipop after you sign it."

Xiao Hui took out a handful of candy from his pocket, as if he was forcing the young goddess Ming to sell herself to the Star Sea Empire.

"Deny it, I don't know you and I'm not your pet."

"Rejected. I need to read the terms of the treaty carefully before deciding whether to sign it."

Fanlou retracted his little hand, curled up on the big ink pot, and looked at the people around him vigilantly.

After a while, he asked again:

"I doubt it. This treaty is so unfair to me that I don't remember signing it."

"Objection. I request to renegotiate the terms of the treaty."

"..."

Lu Chen was amused and tapped Xiao Hui.

"Are you kidding her for Aqua?!"

He reached out and touched Fanlou's forehead, injecting a surge of power into it.

"You probably slept for too long and your mind isn't clear. Let me help you sort it out."

"Um……"

Nourishes—

After receiving external stimulation.

Hanlou, the body of this ancient spirit god was gradually activated.

She shuddered all over and her mind became clear.

Within a few minutes, his expression and eyes went from being vague and dazed to returning to their original innocent and simple look.

"what……"

Holou rubbed his head and once again asked himself the ultimate question in the history of philosophy:

"Question, who am I?"

"...How can you be the same as Xiu? You are Hanlou, the God of Suspicion."

Lu Chen was convinced.

Countless epochs ago, the God of Doubt denied his own existence and then committed suicide.

In a sense, it is understandable that she doesn't know who she is.

"Horō? I accept that name."

"Inquiry, who are you? What do you want from me?"

Fanlou sat up cross-legged and looked up at Lu Chen.

"We are from the Star Sea Empire..."

As Kewei started to explain, Fanlou's eyes suddenly lit up:

"Inquiring, what is the Star Sea Empire?"

"It's a civilization from another universe..."

"Ask, where is the other universe? Are there more universes outside this universe?..."

"exist……"

"Inquiring, what is the purpose of the universe? What is the name of Commander?"

"Yes……"

"Ask, why was I born? Why were you born? Why was the universe born?..."

"..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Facing the God of Doubt, if you answer one question, she will ask ten more questions, especially about a completely unfamiliar existence like the Star Sea Empire, which could not be fully explained even if Fanlou talked for months.

The incarnation of the irritable fat dinosaur, who was afraid of being asked this question, shook his head while grabbing his hair and pulled Lu Chen:

"Commander, tell her I can't talk to this kind of person."

"..."

Lu Chen didn't continue to argue with Fan Lou over the details, but pondered for a moment:

"You created the Ex-Machinas to answer questions, right?"

"Confirmed, I don't know why I was born, so I created them, hoping to answer my questions."

"But they don't have a heart. That's not what I want."

Hanlou closed his eyes and recalled for a long time before answering.

"First question, the Old Deus were created and sustained by emotions, concepts, desires, and beliefs. You were born from the thoughts, doubts, and wishes of the various races on Disboard."

"As for the concept of the heart, you can ask her."

Lu Chen gestured to Xiao Hui.

The nanorobot takes two steps forward:

"Ahem, the Ex-Machina you created previously had decent performance, but its design concept was a bit outdated. I guess you didn't realize the technology of sentient AI, did you?"

"If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

"Ok?"

Fanlou was still a little wary of the girl who had just tried to trick him into signing a contract to sell himself.

After a closer look, she quickly discovered something unusual.

"Question, are you... an Ex-Machina?"

"No, that's not right. Are you another life?"

She was surprised to find that this gray-haired girl was also a mechanical life form, which she had not recognized at all before.

Grey Wind's intelligence is several levels higher than the Ex-Machinas he created, and communicating with her is no different from communicating with humans.

——Houlou didn't think the Ex-Machinas had the intelligence and courage to trick him into signing a contract to sell himself.

"Question, can you understand the concept of mind?"

"Of course, I can give you different explanations from biology, philosophy, religion... and the 1.26 million different alien myths I've documented."

Xiao Hui nodded proudly, and dazzling text was projected on the holographic interface.

It includes the definitions of the heart by various civilizations and religious sects. All the information collected by Gray Storm is displayed here.

It can be called the ultimate exhaustive method.

"what?!"

Fanlou was stunned for a moment. Even though the Old Deus had extraordinary willpower and understanding, they were still drowned in the ocean of information.

“If you are not satisfied with these definitions, I personally have a simple solution:”

"Artificial intelligence with a heart can empathize with other species and rely on emotions rather than pure rational logic to decide actions."

“When a person’s thinking ability surpasses cold-blooded mechanical logic, he or she will have a heart.”

"..."

If the countless data gave Fanlou some shock about the computing power of super artificial intelligence, Xiaohui's own explanation gave her a feeling of enlightenment.

Why did she think that Ex-Machinas had no "heart" many years ago?

Because they only execute commands based on logic, their way of thinking and actions are all optimal solutions calculated through logic.

The gray-haired girl in front of him was also a mechanical life form. Her actions were partly for the Star Empire, partly for "fun", and partly out of pure personal bad taste.

From her, Fanlou saw what he wanted but could not get:

A perfect combination of rationality, sensibility, and knowledge, Gray Wind possesses the ability to answer his own endless questions.

"Please, can you help me answer the questions?"