"Old man, we meet again."
"This is my boss. He needs to talk to you about something, so you'd better tell him everything."
"Otherwise, my boss has a very bad temper; he might flatten this place."
Thousand Faces spoke arrogantly, standing next to Qin Ze, playing the role of a henchman to the fullest.
The old man looked at the group of guests who had suddenly arrived with a face full of surprise.
"You're still alive!"
"As expected," Qin Ze said calmly, "The note was from you, wasn't it?"
The old man smiled and asked, "How did you discover that?"
Qin Ze pointed at Thousand Faces beside him. "You went to such lengths to get him to stay the day before yesterday, you must have anticipated what would happen today."
The old man was compassionate.
He didn't want Thousand Faces to die in Bai Bai, which is why he kept urging Thousand Faces to join their big family.
Qin Ze crossed his arms. "Let me guess again, is the decapitation team sent by the Dynasty the mole?"
"Or continue with the benevolent mindset that the entire Dynasty is no good; they were only established by the head of state."
"After all, those who rebel openly are easier to control than those who stab you in the back from time to time."
The old man sighed silently, "You're half right."
"Many of the heads of state's people have infiltrated the Dynasty, and even they themselves don't know who the spies are."
"Similar decapitation strikes are carried out periodically."
Qin Ze smirked. "The person who came up with the idea of periodically eliminating unstable elements is quite talented."
"But how can you be so sure we're not spies sent by the Führer?"
The old man explained, "I've never seen a spy cause such chaos in Happiness City."
"More importantly, you are very strong."
Thousand Faces Yangyang, "That old man is quite good at praising people."
Qin Ze tapped the table lightly with his right fingertips. "Let's get straight to the point, I need you to help us assassinate the Führer."
"Master, you wouldn't want your followers to live in the sewers their whole lives, would you?"
The old man remained unmoved. "What's wrong with living in the sewers? At least you're alive."
Thousand Faces scoffed, "I have never seen such a cowardly person who clings to life."
Qin Ze said in a deep voice, "Perhaps your generation has become accustomed to these dark and gloomy sewers."
"We've grown accustomed to being poorly clothed and starving."
"We've gotten used to having to fight with others even for a single bite of rat meat."
"But what about your descendants?"
"You want them to be like you? From the day they're born until the day they die, they'll never see the sun again."
"One day, the children may ask, 'Where were you when the leader was exploiting and ruling the world?'"
"Your only answer can be that back then we were like rats and cockroaches, hiding in the sewers watching."
Qin Ze gazed into the old man's eyes. "Rather than perish in silence, I choose to blossom in silence."
"I'm not here to beg you today, but to give you a chance."
"We can still kill the Führer even without you."
After saying that, Qin Ze got up to leave.
Thousand Faces left behind the words "Only disappointment," which followed closely behind.
"The Führer is immortal."
Qin Ze, who had already reached the door, suddenly stopped in his tracks upon hearing the old man's words.
"What's the meaning?"
The old man took out a thick book and handed it to Qin Ze.
Qin Ze flipped through it briefly; it was a kind of Chronicle of Time, recording many major events.
The old man slowly said, "You don't seem to be from this world; you seem to be visitors from outer space."
Qin Ze raised an eyebrow, puzzled.
The old man continued, "More than a century ago, the attacks of the alien beasts became increasingly fierce, making it urgent to solve the problem."
"Thus, the Humanoid Combat Weapon Project was proposed."
"So-called humanoid combat weapons use AI robots to fight in place of warriors, thereby reducing human casualties."
"But the Human Race's high command soon discovered that AI could not think like a human, and the machines' strength was nowhere near that of martial artists."
"Based on this, the development of second-generation weapons began."
"The concept behind second-generation weapons is human-machine coexistence, thereby transcending the martial artist themselves and unleashing even greater power."
"To strip away the human spirit and use it to replace AI in operations."
"The extracted spirit, stripped of human emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, is reduced to a purely combative mindset, transforming it into a pure weapon of war."
"This will allow for the mass production of filler cannon fodder."
Qin Ze was also taken aback upon hearing this.
He thought of the time Shi'an underwent his trial.
This world has actually managed to successfully perform mass stripping of spirits.
Use your spirit to control the machine.
Even if the machine is destroyed, its spirit remains and can possess and control the next one.
In a sense, this can be considered a form of immortality.
Can a person without a physical body, devoid of all emotions, still be considered human?
"As development progressed, people were no longer satisfied with simply producing mass-produced cannon fodder."
"The study of the spirit has also entered the next stage."
"Spirits can Fusion, and the Fusion computing power of a massive number of spirits surpasses that of a quantum computer, while their mental strength is directly comparable to that of Advanced Martial Artist."
"After Fusion the souls of hundreds of millions of people, the Spirit of Eternal Life was born."
"The spiritual power of the Spirit of Eternal Life far surpasses that of Level Nine Martial Artist. After being placed in a container, it wreaked havoc on the Abyss Battlefield."
"It was thought that with its Spirit of Eternal Life, it could completely annihilate all the alien beasts, but one day, it developed self-awareness and was no longer subject to human control."
"It placed itself above all humanity, and on that day, people discovered that the Spirit of Eternal Life had gone out of control."
"All the Advanced Martial Artist were killed by it, and their souls were completely devoured by it."
"Later, humanity was confined to cities, where the Spirit of Eternal Life periodically selected and devoured the best and most suitable spirits."
"The devoured beings' physical bodies mechanically ascend, becoming one of them."
At this point, the old man rolled up his sleeves, revealing a section of alloy skeleton and exposed electronic blood vessels.
Qin Ze exclaimed in surprise, "So you're one of them too..."
The old man nodded. "Martial arts have been severed by the Spirit of Eternal Life. Ordinary people can only reach the third or fourth level of cultivation; only mechanical ascension can break through."
Qin Ze suddenly realized.
No wonder the old man said they looked like visitors from outer space.
Qin Ze is at level four, Five Heavenly Kings are at level five. Their vital energy is extremely vigorous, which makes them truly out of place in this world.
The old man sighed, "When a machine ascends, its spirit is split in two. One part is absorbed by the Spirit of Eternal Life, and the other part is yours."
"In this way, you are also firmly under its control."
Qin Ze asked curiously, "Aren't you no longer controlled by it? And you're quite emotionally expressive too."
The old man explained, "The spirits it devours are not monolithic; many rebels will forcibly separate themselves from it, thus escaping its control, but that part of the spirit remains trapped in the world of the Spirit of Eternal Life."
"For example, my part."
"At the same time, the higher the level, the more emotions can be retrieved from the Spirit of Eternal Life."
" The Spirit of Eternal Life is the true ruler; the ruler you see today is merely a toy it displays on the table."
"The only way to defeat the Spirit of Eternal Life is to dismantle it from within."
"But the spirits of us free men are far too insignificant to make any move against the Spirit of Eternal Life."
Qin Ze said earnestly, "Please be sure to let me join your chat group."