All Novel Full Chapter 1347
Chapter 1347: Chapter 1209 “Artificial Buddha Chapter 1347: Chapter 1209 “Artificial Buddha “You’re saying, the person who just walked by is a dead man?”
Yi turned his head to glance at the figure who was slowly disappearing into the crowd and was also a bit puzzled.
People with different identities start with different openings, and naturally followed different storylines; there was nothing surprising about that.
But the problem was, someone who had already died in another storyline had appeared in his own storyline, and that certainly wasn’t without reason.
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Had this person also been brainwashed into becoming a monk?
At the same time, had they played a trick to commit insurance fraud?
That can’t be right, monks aren’t allowed to lie, are they?
If he pulled something like that, wouldn’t the Buddha strike him dead?
Yi was completely baffled, but he still shifted his gaze back to his own business because after all, he wasn’t an employee of Shield Security.
After entering the temple, he stood still for several minutes, waiting to see if anything would change.
Maybe a monk would suddenly come over to start a conversation with him, or his electronic brain would get hacked—in his journey here, he had already noticed that the passersby in this city had a variety of prosthetic modifications.
Among these modifications, the most common were the electronic brains installed behind their ears.
Whether it was the lower-class gangsters, ordinary citizens, or even the well-dressed elite, none were an exception.
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He had even seen two modified humans and a prosthetic human fighting on the street – the modified human who turned into a wolf still retained the mark of an electronic brain interface on one side of his face.
Obviously, the only ones who completely didn’t use this kind of device were probably the “Wanderers” outside the city.
For this reason, Yi suspected that those who had been “brainwashed” were targeted by a highly skilled hacker after they entered the temple, using their electronic brains as a springboard to invade their biological brains.
True hardcore brainwashing!
But after waiting for a while, nothing happened.
Pilgrims came and went, the robot monks in robes finished sweeping the square in front of the main hall and disappeared around the corner, incense smoke curling in the air, and the gentle chanting of sutras wafted around his ears.
All was peaceful.
No strange events occurred.
“Well, maybe they’re only targeting gang members?” Yi guessed.
He started to walk, heading toward the main hall.
The temple was located in the Second Ring of the city, nestled within the bustling urban buildings, and even right across from the temple gate, about 80 meters diagonal, there was a sizeable nightclub.
Every night, the giant hologram of a sensual dancer faced off with the equally impressive hologram of the Big Buddha.
The club’s owner, out of some twisted sense of humor, had even specifically added a segment to the dancer’s routine where she provocatively danced towards the Buddha.
The sky had barely darkened, and that holographic dancer had already started her performance.
A blatant face-riding attack!
Thinking of this, an idea suddenly popped up in Yi’s mind, “That nightclub, it wouldn’t happen to be my cheap father-in-law’s property, or a place they have under their control, would it?”
“If that’s the case, then they truly had it coming!”
“After I finish the task inside the temple, let’s go investigate over there.”
The Room Administrator sarcastically replied, [The abacus beads have flown onto my face!
Are you going to investigate?
It looks to me like you just want to watch the dancing!]
Yi pulled out that piece of equipment the size of a stick of gum, deftly changing the subject, “How do I use this thing?
Does it not require operation, or should I look for the temple’s server room?”
As he was speaking, the device suddenly began to heat up rapidly, becoming somewhat hot to the touch within just a few seconds.
“What’s happening now?” Yi asked, confused.
He waited a few more seconds, but still, nothing happened.
This left him quite frustrated—having a few Great Monks pop out and open fire on him with Gatling guns would be far better than being clueless like this!
His cheap father-in-law hadn’t even given him any information on those bizarre monks, making it impossible to find an approach to contact them.
Was he really supposed to do nothing and twiddle his thumbs for an hour as the task required, then go back the same way to collect a reward and slowly uncover clues and edge closer to the truth bit by bit?
Yi couldn’t accept that.
So, he decided to take an unconventional approach—
“Master, I want to be ordained as a monk.”
“Ah?” The little monk who had been silently reciting scriptures was taken aback, “What did you say?”
“I want to become a monk.
What are the requirements?”
“That…
you need to ask the abbot.”
“Alright then, lead the way.”
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“Now?
But I haven’t finished my studies yet.”
“My eagerness to devote myself to the Buddha is so immediate, I can’t wait a moment longer, Master you help me, which is like helping a confused person convert to Buddhism, it’s of boundless merit!”
Yi employed a skill—[Mouth Escape].
The little monk was persuaded.
Three minutes later, Yi met the abbot of the Wuliang Ultimate Good Deliverance Buddhist Temple.
The abbot looked very standard—white-bearded, smiling, speaking in a gentle tone, a perfect match for the stereotypical image.
The little monk explained Yi’s thoughts to the abbot, who smiled and told him to go back and finish his studies first.
Then he began to discuss with Yi the reasons for becoming a monk, his various information, and what he needed to do if he wanted to join the order, and so on.
The core message was to persuade him not to make a hasty decision and to think it over carefully first.
But Yi remained unmoved.
No matter what the old monk said, he responded with a few cliché phrases:
“I know.”
“I understand.”
“You’re right.”
“I want to become a monk.”
The abbot was so harangued by him that he suggested Yi first experience the life of a monk for several days.
Yi agreed and then tentatively asked about the situation of the monks who had “recently joined the order.”
But the abbot showed no reaction, as if the sudden concentrated conversion of gang members was as normal to him as the wind blowing and the rain falling.
Yi could not find any flaws, so he could only follow another monk, summoned by the abbot, to start experiencing the life.
Receiving the kasaya and scriptures, obeying teachings, and chanting scriptures…
all these regular procedures were almost the same as in an ordinary temple in reality.
Yi patiently went through the process and still found no clue.
Thus, he decided to make his escape.
But twists always occur unexpectedly.
“Next is the daily labor; you don’t yet have the ability to participate in this part, but you can watch from the side first,” the little monk explained.
“Once your understanding of Buddhist theory is deep enough, you can also join in this endeavor that has been continued for over half a century and contribute to the Buddha’s incarnation.”
Yi was taken aback.
“Did you just say, the Buddha’s incarnation?”
The little monk calmly nodded, not feeling he had said anything outrageous.
But Yi immediately felt tense: “The Buddha isn’t fabricated…
I mean, Buddha resides in the Pure Land of Bliss; how could he appear in this world?”
“It’s possible,” said the little monk with certainty.
“And furthermore, the Buddha does not reside in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.”
“The Buddha resides in the human heart.”
“The blending of the highest, the mightiest, the wisest, the strongest, the most benevolent traits within human nature creates the Buddha.”
“Therefore, by extracting these traits and infusing them into a digital intelligence framework based on all the Buddha’s scriptural theories, we can create the ‘Foetus of Buddha.’”
“Foetus of Buddha?” Yi stopped in his tracks, repeating the little monk’s words one syllable at a time.
The little monk placed his hands together, his face compassionate: “Hundreds of thousands of monks have worked hard day by day; after fifty years, the Foetus of Buddha has been achieved.”
Suddenly feeling a dry mouth and tongue, Yi asked, “Are we going to see the Foetus of Buddha now?”
The little monk shook his head.
“What do you mean?”
The little monk explained: “You’ve already seen it.”
“Already seen it?” Yi was stunned.
Could it have been that robot dressed in monk’s robes sweeping the floor?
Just then, the electronic brain at the back of his head suddenly heated up; he felt the gaze of someone watching him.
Following that feeling, Yi looked up towards the upper front of the Main Hall.
There, a colossal holographic Buddha was seated.
And now, this ethereal Big Buddha…
Opened its eyes.
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