Chapter 416: Bell and Seed

Human beings are the most important resource.

New London Industrial Institute.

Ji Lin walked into the lobby. To him, the guards of the Industrial Park were no different. Under the cover of darkness, he could easily enter through the main entrance.

There were a few drunkards lying in the somewhat dark hall. They were leaning on the table in the corner, facing the wine glasses that reflected the traces of dryness.

A spot of light floated in the hall, rising slowly with a trace of smoke.

"Those guys should have been fired. How pitiful."

Nikus Tesla held a cigarette in his mouth. The ordinary cigarette without any markings swayed in the air and flashed a trace of fire.

"I came to remember my friend Faraday. When he died, he still held his electrical manuscript and told me to continue and see how this building developed."

It is spotlessly clean and stained with the blood and tears of researchers.

Those clean and tidy facilities are not for their use, but for those noble bachelors of noble birth. They, the most ordinary researchers, can only hold their mentor's manuscript and repeat calculations day after day.

Until a certain project ends, they are no longer needed, and then they are fired.

This is the fate of ordinary researchers.

Not only are they recognized as consumables in this mode, but researchers are also the same.

"It's still the same here... it sucks."

His eyes withdrew from the drunken white-robed researcher and landed on the oriental young man who took off his mask.

What about you, what is your purpose here?

The precision gear mechanism made of brass rotates slowly at the top. Those precision machines have only one purpose, driving the extremely accurate clock in the New London Industrial Institute.

They use this ability to show other countries their attainments in mechanical technology.

They believe that this clock wall can continue to run stably and unswervingly even if no one maintains it.

There is no eternity in this world, and there will be no eternity.

"And mistakes will continue to accumulate, and a small mistake will become a bigger mistake in the flow of time, just like a government that does not have the ability to self-correct will inevitably overturn in the tide of time."

He stood in front of the clock wall, and the slow but steady hands passed by. It seemed that only he and Ji Lin were left in the suddenly dimmed industrial hall.

"Machines can make mistakes, right?"

Ji Lin stretched out his hand and pressed it against the metal wall, feeling the vibrations and traces produced by the gears' bite.

It's amazing.

The first life was born from a wrong copy, and the evolution on this planet all originated from a wrong copy of genes.

So can machinery make mistakes?

There will be.

The machinery exists for precise calculation in design. Once an error occurs, it will only result in damage/disablement.

But the power of the runes changed everything. The existence of the runes endowed the structure with the lowest intelligence.

All it takes is one mistake, an extremely coincidental mistake.

The bell became a species.

A new species is born, and even though it is ignorant, it cannot see the world like its creator.

But it woke up in this world through a mistake.

He should have thought of it earlier.

"I went to the ground floor to see it. They have expanded a large amount of electrical equipment and used the efficient conduction characteristics of electricity to give this machine stronger computing capabilities."

Nikus Tesla gently kicked away the beer bottle that the drunkard had just finished drinking under his feet. It rolled and stopped somewhere in the shadows.

"All it took was a coincidence, an incomprehensible accident, and that's how life was born in the first place."

"So why did you leave the Industrial Institute?"

Ji Lin turned around and looked at the engineer in simple work clothes. With his beard, he was no different from the worker leader on the roadside.

"No, purely because this is a shitty place that ignores everything I love."

The cigarette in Negus's mouth burned out, and the only shining fire in the hall went out in the long gray darkness.

"This is my story, this is that part of my story."

Just the story of an ordinary engineer.

"So that big mechanical computer here is really intelligent, right?"

Although Ji Lin already felt that there was no reason to ask anymore, he still asked, wanting to confirm this astonishing fact.

Negus was noncommittal.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Ji Lin."

Nikus Tesla smiled, a slightly cruel smile.

"You should know that those madmen pursuing immortality want to launch an attack at the coronation ceremony. Let's guess where the attack will start...?"

He had no sympathy for those nobles and royal families.

The answer to the mystery is on the surface from the beginning.

The start-up ceremony of the large-scale wonder difference engine.

The gathering of knights.

Royal coronation.

They are basically concentrated in the same time period, and in order to maximize the efficient use of resources, the royal family will inevitably put these activities together, which will have an excellent publicity effect while highlighting the empire's past.

That would be a disaster beyond his imagination.

Ji Lin slapped his mouth.

Difference Engine/Large Mechanical Computer, the most sophisticated machine ever built in the world.

As long as it is a machine, it can be transformed into a structural monster beyond imagination.

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