Chapter 988: Chapter 224: Candidness
Niyaguti raised her hand, and a cup of hot chocolate appeared before Xiang Shan: “Double milk, one and a half tis the sugar, I rember you like it sweet.”
“Ah, thank you.” Xiang Shan raised his hand and received the cup of hot chocolate.
It wasn’t with a chanical arm, but with an AR-modeled arm. The sensation felt like an “out-of-body soul” experience, as a semi-transparent arm extended directly from his body.
When the palm collided with the cup, the virtual tactile signal was already triggered. Xiang Shan felt the temperature, shape, and weight of the cup, as if this model truly existed. anwhile, pre-recorded olfactory information was also released into the relevant neural network, allowing him to sense the aroma. He felt as if he also had a mouth—the tactile signal of the “oral cavity” was simultaneously simulated.
It had been a long ti since he felt this way. Even if he excluded all mories after waking up and only looked at the mories of the original Xiang Shan, it had been fifty years since he’d simply had a drink like this.
Xiang Shan drank half a cup of hot chocolate. He felt as if his blood vessels were dilating, and his circulation was speeding up. Simultaneously, the signal of “blood sugar rising” was sent out, causing the brain to generate a “pleasant” emotion. At the sa ti, more pleasant mories associated with “sweetness” were artificially evoked, creating a series of chain reactions.
The virtual hot chocolate being drunk into the virtual mouth eventually produced a real physiological response.
Niyaguti ultimately did not take Xiang Shan to the operating room.
As for the reason…
“I’m afraid of being hit.”
Those were Niyaguti’s exact words.
According to records, this Xiang Shan issued commands using inner strength and destroyed Earth’s satellite network. Even though the prosthetic body he was using now wasn’t a combat model, his inner strength was still very powerful.
Niyaguti had no doubt that if this guy wanted, he could use inner strength to sweep the entire underground base.
And “getting ahead of an Internal Strength Master using external strength to kill them instantly”…
Don’t be silly. It’s impossible. That is Xiang Shan.
Under equal-level prosthetic conditions, no one has ever beaten Xiang Shan—perhaps Haya could do it after mastering martial arts, but Haya has barely faced off with the Martial God.
Moreover, in the base, most Heroes use the sa prosthetic bodies.
Under these circumstances, Niyaguti really dared not take emotionally unstable Xiang Shan to the operating room.
If this Xiang Shan is emotionally unstable…
It would be a disaster for this base.
So, she instead took Xiang Shan to Tao Enhai’s place.
The three of them each held a virtual paper cup, with Tao Enhai and Niyaguti having virtual instant coffee, while Xiang Shan had hot chocolate.
Niyaguti’s virtual model leaned on a gun fan, looking at Xiang Shan, and asked, “Feeling better?”
Xiang Shan nodded.
“So what on earth is going on with you?”
Xiang Shan was suddenly startled. He suddenly realized that the influence of the Holy Lord’s mory on him might be deeper than imagined.
He didn’t directly bring out the intelligence of the Six Dragons Sect to share with Niyaguti and Tao Enhai.
Although upon arriving, the first thing he did when connecting to the network was to disclose a large amount of Six Dragons Sect intelligence, placing it openly in a public community without any intention of hiding it.
But when he was exchanging information earlier, he ntioned Ola Freeman under the sea but did not ntion this matter.
He didn’t bring up the matter of the “Holy Lord.”
For Xiang Shan, there was no subjective intention of “concealing for the Six Dragons Sect.” He inherently despised the ethic of “Don’t express too much to relatives.” However, his previous thought was…
“Fierce Ghost” giggled: [Did your subconscious not want to ntion it? Or are you afraid that once people know about the ‘Holy Lord Xiang Shan,’ they’ll look down on you?]
Xiang Shan said, “I… um, how should I put it, I might be showing symptoms of cognitive dissonance right now.”
Tao Enhai asked, “Symptoms of Inner Strength deviation? Which kind? Is it where everything looks like text? Or…”]
Xiang Shan shook his head: “Psychogenic, I guess. I encountered another Xiang Shan under the sea…”
Xiang Shan explained the matter of the Six Dragons Sect, the Holy Lord, Kotoba, and ngying.
Then he self-deprecatingly said, “To fully understand the truth and know the enemy, I chose to read the Holy Lord’s mory directly—this kind of situation almost never occurred when I read others’ mories. But now it seems, this has affected much more deeply than I estimated. It’s a loss that I confidently said sothing like, ‘If you can’t even face your own darkness, how can you face all beings’…”
He took another sip of hot chocolate. Since it’s a virtual model, no matter how much he drank, the cup would never be empty. The hot chocolate in the cup would be replenished at the rate of depletion when it’s less than half.
Xiang Shan could even feel the tactile sensations in his esophagus and stomach.
He sighed and then looked at the other two: “Ah, why aren’t you saying anything?”
At this mont, Tao Enhai and Niyaguti were utterly stunned.
Niyaguti shook her head violently, raising her hands to both sides of her head: “What… what are you talking about? This is too much information. This… this…”
Tao Enhai sighed: “It really is hard to accept all at once.”
“Which part is hard to accept?”
“Every part,” said Tao Enhai.
Xiang Shan could only smile wryly.
“However… although unexpected, it indeed makes sense.” Niyaguti lanted, “The ergence of an evil Xiang Shan is really reasonable. After the initial Xiang Shan’s death, there were already eleven individuals like you, which we see as identical to the original. Each of these eleven is slightly different. So the ergence of an evil Xiang Shan was just a matter of ti.”
“Evil… huh.” Xiang Shan mused, “In truth, by human nature, that version of aligns more with morality. He possesses a sacred kind of family love. If rogues like and people like him traveled back to ancient tis, he would have more potential to beco a moral model.”
When modern society can’t satisfy people’s emotional needs, when they can’t feel the benefits brought by consurism, they naturally long for a morally aligned slavery. People who want to revive clans and religions don’t necessarily want to return to the low productivity of the Middle Ages but can’t bear the comprehensive exploitation of modern society and the distortion of human nature by modernity, thus seeking a more “gentle,” “moral,” and “sacred” ideology.
And the essence of the Holy Lord is an image Xiang Shan crafted to attract people. He would better et humanity’s… expectations in this regard.
“If the world outside weren’t so insane, my version would not necessarily be so deranged either.”
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