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But he didn't say much in the end.
But after thinking about it, he felt that the only two people who were close enough to help him handle things were probably her and Arisa the Shrine. However, Arisa the Shrine was obviously a fool with a beautiful appearance but a rotten heart. Not to mention that she did not have much talent in worldly affairs, even on the mysterious side, even though Ling Wuji had given her many privileges, she had no way of maintaining her leading position among the believers.
So she can only be a vase.
Although it may not be appropriate to say this, loyalty is her only advantage.
As for others...
Asagami Fujino?
The relationship is close enough, but this young lady is not the kind of career-oriented woman. I guess being a wife and mother with children is her ideal life in the future?
Kamiya Kaori?
Putting aside the awkward distance between the two of them, her problem is actually similar to that of Awashima Seri, right?
Otherwise...Ji Moyu?
If I go find her, I'm afraid within ten days I'll find myself in control of the situation, right?
Volume 2: Where is Penglai: Chapter : Candidates ()
Of course, for Ling Wuji, it was just a matter of dealing with the problem of the Official History Compilation Committee, and there was no need to go into it to this extent for the time being. He did not have any good solution to the current situation, so he just casually instructed Arisa of the Koubeiin on the policy for dealing with the Official History Compilation Committee. Although Ling Wuji felt that as long as Susanoo was still hiding behind the scenes, the Official History Compilation Committee would have a chance to make a comeback even if they suffered a huge loss, Ling Wuji had no intention of going to Susanoo to talk to him for the time being, nor did he think about killing them all. He just wanted to destroy some of them - such as Sayamiya Kaoru and that Amakasu Touma, and then stop there.
Of course, people like Yuri Manrigai still cannot accept the death of Kusanagi Godou.
What's strange is that Ling Wuji doesn't feel much guilt about killing Kusanagi Godou.
Although he didn't think much of Kusanagi Godou, and he jumped into the fire pit knowing full well that he had designed the Holy Grail War, but logically speaking, Kusanagi Godou didn't do anything too excessive. Of course, Ling Wuji had long known that he was his natural enemy, and as long as he existed, he would inevitably be used as a banner by his opponents in Japan, no matter what his own wishes were, so Ling Wuji chose to take action against him.
But he had thought he would mind it.
But the fact is, he didn't care whether this person was dead or alive.
"So, am I drifting further and further away from the world of normal people?"
Ling Wuji was actually a little confused.
He didn't want to become a god who was high above and detached from the world.
Although he had imagined when he was in middle school that his ideal self was a cold-blooded person who would never be shaken by external things, his heart is now calm. In the past, he would feel genuine joy and excitement just because he imagined what kind of plot would happen to his future self, but now he no longer has much expectations for his future life.
"If this continues, I'm afraid I'll become a joker."
Ling Wuji just sighed.
But no matter what, the concession and heavy bleeding of the Official History Compilation Committee did not cause any problems. At the very least, their concession caused a lot of power vacuum, and without the constraints of the Official History Compilation Committee, the mysterious side also caused a lot of chaos. But because some of the Official History Compilation Committee had handed over certain key positions, Ling Wuji was able to smoothly insert people into them. In this way, it was not difficult for Ling Wuji to get the transfer order of the IS troops. He directly mobilized those believers who could use the spells of the Sky Curtain Barrier fluently. Sometimes when there were not enough people, he would ask Ying Manshu and the Funeral Home to help.
But it was just a makeshift team hastily put together.
Of course, with the "Taixu Jian" here, the land veins in the Kanto region are now completely under Ling Wuji's control, so naturally there won't be any major problems.
However, the authority layer of Ziwei Star in the Sky Curtain Barrier that the "Taixu Mirror" itself involves belongs to a very core area. Not to mention that Ling Wuji has no possibility of letting it go. Even if Ling Wuji really lets it go, even if there are some truly geniuses among these believers, it will take them thirty to fifty years to climb through the outer area and enter the core area. If they want to restrain the mysterious side, the "Taixu Mirror" is an extremely useful means. So Ling Wuji has been using the Taixu Mirror to spy on and monitor the movements in the Sky Curtain Barrier every day, and soon got bored of it.
He was a lazy bum.
He really had no patience for this kind of thing.
But at the moment he was not very confident about the makeshift stage.
So the current situation suddenly became delicate.
If Ling Wuji really wanted to act recklessly, no one would say anything to him, but he just couldn't let go of his messy sense of responsibility. When he was in a dilemma, an unexpected visitor came to his door:
"I heard you've been worried about the lack of staff lately?"
Ling Wuji was feeding pigeons on the rooftop of his home at the time. When he saw the visitor with white hair and red eyes and a gentle smile on his face, he was stunned for a moment, but then he remembered that Irisviel's attainments in magic were just those of an ordinary magician, and she could never appear in front of him as easily as she did. So the person in front of him must be the Saint of Winter, Justisia Rizleich von Einzbern:
"how?"
"Do you need help?"
"why?"
Ling Wuji asked straightforwardly.
"You can understand that I am doing this to repay you for saving me from the Greater Holy Grail."
"But I don't think you really hate that past, right? You're just desperate because you can't use the Holy Grail to fulfill your wish, the wish you inherited from the disciples of the former Third Magician to save all of humanity. That's why you want to get out of the Holy Grail, that's all."
Yustisa lowered her head and watched the young man casually break the steamed bun in his hand into small pieces and throw them in front of the pigeons not far away. His handsome face was full of absent-mindedness, as if nothing in the world could shake him.
"You are really perceptive, Lord Ling."
"Excellent."
Ling Wu Ji still spoke casually.
"But you, Lord, have said before, maybe in the future, the third law may become magic. Then, at that time, saving all mankind will not be an empty talk that is out of reach."
"So?" Ling Wuji then became a little interested.
"So I want to help you speed up the process."
Ling Wuji looked at the Winter Saint with great interest, thinking that something was not right. She was the kind of naive person who was fooled into becoming a sacrifice. Why did she think this way now? Could it be that being trapped in the Holy Grail for hundreds of years made her smarter? But didn't she say that her spirit and intellect would not grow anymore?
He knew very well what the other party's behavior was intended to do:
Find a new way out for the Einzbern family, a group of artificial humans.
If the Greater Holy Grail is disintegrated, it means that all the actions of the Einzbern family over the past hundreds of years have lost their meaning, and even the meaning of the family's survival has been denied. Therefore, the family may gradually wither away from now on, because they can't find the meaning of continuing to create new members of the family. Justisia herself is the prototype of all artificial humans. Her idea will inevitably inject new vitality into the family and allow them to find a new way out.
Volume 4: Where is Penglai: Chapter 42: The Problem of Artificial Humans
But no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that Ling Wuji is short of manpower now.
Although if he really wanted to expand his system, there would definitely be a lot of people who wanted to surrender to him, and even if he went to extremes, he could use the Shinto system to control those who surrendered to him. However, Ling Wuji couldn't do the kind of thing that happened in the martial arts novels of the last century, using the "Three Corpses Brain Pill" to control his subordinates. In his opinion, this kind of thing was too low, and in fact, he was too lazy to listen to those muddy voices. In fact, he didn't even care about the situation of his current believers...
So when the Winter Saint said she would lead the Einzbern family to help, Wu Ji was quite suspicious:
"Let's not talk about whether these theories are your own or others' ideas. But your idea is to make the third method into magic. So the direction you should work on is to break the wall between the inner and outer worlds, right?"
Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern looked at Ling Wuji strangely and said, "Ling Jun, do you think that the way of survival of artificial humans like us is really meaningful to this world and to mankind?"
"You ask me such a philosophical question..." Ling Wuji thought for a moment and said, "Meaning is something that depends on how the person feels about it, right? Besides, people are not machines or programs that can only live rigidly according to their inherent ideas. You may think that a certain goal is meaningful today and want to fight for it your whole life, but tomorrow you may feel that everything in the world has lost its meaning."
"Like the desire to save all mankind?"
"I don't understand what you are thinking, but no one requires you to fulfill that wish, right?" Ling Wuji said.
"Yes, maybe everything is just our wishful thinking." The smile of the Winter Saint in a snow-white dress was warm and quiet, like ice and snow that was about to melt in the afterglow of summer. "So sometimes I also wonder, if the Greater Holy Grail's actions are meaningless, then the wish to save all mankind, is it also meaningless to the Einzbern family?"
After all, androids are not rigid programs. Although Ling Wuji has always felt that it is outrageous that the family has regarded that wish as the meaning of their existence for such a long time, but if the prototype of the android now has this idea...
"So, you want to become human?"
"Am I not a human now?"
When the silver-haired, red-eyed woman heard Ling Wuji's question, she immediately spread her hands, as if to show him something. Although Ling Wuji could only see from her posture her slender thighs wrapped in a soft long skirt, her slender waist, and her breasts that were so tempting that they were about to burst out...
"so?"
Ling Wuji was not a human purist. To be honest, after he achieved the Golden Core, his life level could not be considered an ordinary human. Of course, the life level of the body given to the Holy Maiden of Winter by the Holy Grail was actually quite high, at least not as weak as her previous body. If we extend this question, whether those servants can be considered human beings after being given bodies by the Holy Grail is also a question worthy of discussion. Even the state of the ruler at that time...
By the way, what happened to Joan of Arc after the Greater Holy Grail was disintegrated?
Ling Wuji only thought of it at this time.
But he quickly put the question behind him.
“So I want them to make their own choice.”
The Winter Saint spoke word by word.
Ling Wuji nodded and said, "But if that's the case..."
He immediately thought of a series of complex questions: If androids can choose their own meaning of existence, then what is the point of continuing to use that technology to create androids? Before, they had the desire to save all mankind as their motivation, but what about later? If they can live and make choices like normal people, then when they reproduce with ordinary people, should they continue to use android technology to produce their own offspring, or leave their own offspring in a normal way? And if android technology can be used to produce offspring, should it be based on the genes of both parents, or should it be based on the parents' own wishes to create a template? But in this case, can this offspring really be considered their offspring?
"There are indeed many problems," the Winter Saint could not help but nod her head when she heard Ling Wuji's words, but she smiled at the boy again, "But isn't this the meaning of human development of society?"
Ling Wuji was a little dazed when he saw her standing there with her back to the sun. Her snow-white dress was now stained with the brilliant golden afterglow of the setting sun, bathing her body in a holy light. Although Ling Wuji had heard her say a long time ago that she had no reason to be called a saint, Ling Wuji still felt that with her current appearance, she was much more qualified than that village girl.
So he didn't worry about anything anymore.
Although according to his original idea, he was going to interview the Einzbern family after the Greater Holy Grail disintegrated, and write a science fiction novel about the survival of the highly intelligent AI created by humans during their lifetime after the extinction of mankind, he was not a person with a strong desire to create. Even if he wrote it, it would probably be a novella or a short novel made up of ideas, and he didn't know if he could earn royalties...
So when he saw Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern's current state, he really couldn't see any problem. In addition, he really wanted to be lazy, so he said to her: "Well, let's see what you can do first."
The Winter Saint was a great magician when she was alive. Apart from the third method of soul materialization, she could also use a lot of other magic. However, what Ling Wu Ji needed was not a role that could personally charge into battle, but a role of a military strategist who could coordinate and dispatch everything. She had served as the AI in the Holy Grail for hundreds of years and seemed to be quite adept at this kind of thing. After thinking about it, Ling Wu Ji asked her directly if she wanted to join his Shinto system.
Of course Ling Wu Ji asked her purely to make things more convenient.
After all, by joining the Shinto system, she would be able to understand the system of the Sky Curtain Barrier more intuitively, and thus be able to employ those believers more efficiently.
The Winter Saint was also very curious about the sky barrier, which was said to be a "miracle" more complicated than the Holy Grail, so she agreed to let Ling Wuji plant the seeds of faith in her.
Volume 4: Where is Penglai: Chapter 43: The Girl's Prayer
Although the process of reorganizing the order of the Japanese mystical side was not smooth sailing, and there were many problems with the scale of execution, because of the joining of the Winter Saint, Irisviel also obeyed her ancestor in a sense, or even her "mother", and joined Ling Wuji's side. Her two servants did not leave her at this time, but kept following her. So after obtaining the consent of the Winter Saint, the Assyrian Queen Semiramis used her pigeon familiar to establish an intelligence network. Although the convenience was far less than Ling Wuji's "Taixujian", it was better to have such an intelligence network than Ling Wuji broadcasting the images of the "Taixujian" to the Winter Saint 24 hours a day, no matter how big or small...
Of course Ling Wuji couldn't understand why the Assyrian queen would get involved in such a thing.
But after getting rid of all the problems, Ling Wu Ji returned to school with peace of mind. After finishing the exams, summer vacation came again.
Although summer vacation is not something to be happy about for Ling Wuji.
But for a otaku like Ling Wu Ji, there is nothing that must be done, so he returns to the way he was when he was in college. The first thing he does after waking up every day is to turn on the computer before washing up. At his current level, he doesn't even need to eat. He just needs to prepare a few cans of Coke in the refrigerator early. Although he is not without people who disturb him, for example, Arisa from the God Temple often wants to help Ling Wu Ji clean up the room.
Show yourself by the way.
Of course, Ling Wuji doesn’t actually need anyone to help him clean his room.
The fact that he messes up his room does not mean that the items in his mind are messy. He can clearly remember that he threw something somewhere and it was covered by something else. It would not take him much time to find it as long as he wants to. Having others help him clean up would only add to his troubles.
However, Arisa of the Shrine Temple felt that after the Winter Saint joined Ling Wuji's Shinto system, her position in this system became increasingly precarious. The sense of crisis as Ling Wuji's first believer made it difficult for her to adapt, so she urgently wanted to show her role to Ling Wuji.
Ling Wuji just sat in front of the computer desk with drooping eyebrows, holding a can of Coke in his hand and a straw in his mouth. Seeing her sitting on the bed with a helpless look, he thought for a moment and slightly reduced the aggressiveness in his words, saying: "Isn't your original wish for me to protect you? Does our current relationship still make you feel uneasy?"
The blonde girl immediately pinched the hem of her bright red dress, lowered her head, and whispered, "Of course."
"why?"
"Because to me, you are indispensable, but to you, I am now just a dispensable vase, or even just a plaything. Whenever you get tired of me, you will just put me aside. I can't play a vital role in your life like the Winter Saint and Miss Awashima, and you can't let go of me. Even that Yukinoshita..."
Her tone rose instantly, then gradually fell: "She does better than me."
"Everyone has limited talents..."