CHAPTER 120: CHAPTER 119: THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF THE SOUL COMPUTER

Lu Yan was initially stunned as he looked at the words that emerged from the machine language program, and then his face immediately showed an expression of disbelief.

"The essence of the Heavenly Dao Code is the underlying protocol of the Soul Computer?"

The underlying protocols stem from the concept of the Spiritual Ability Code system, meaning that when constructing a spiritual program, all program operations must be established on the corresponding underlying protocol logic.

As long as the program continues to run, it cannot escape the constraints of the underlying protocols.

The three major underlying protocols of the Soul Computer must be adhered to by all Soul Computers, with no possibility of violation.

"How is this possible?"

"How could a mere underlying protocol limit the Intelligent God?"

Tracing back to the origins, the Intelligent God is indeed a Soul Computer, but whether in terms of existence or the power to create the Soul World, it completely transcends the concept of a Soul Computer; a mere program’s underlying protocol should not be able to constrain it.

Moreover, Lu Yan’s experiences over half a year in the cyber version showed him the many tactics of the Intelligent God, which were entirely unrelated to the three major underlying protocols of the Soul Computer.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan instinctively frowned and turned the white paper in his hands back and forth.

"Something must have gone wrong somewhere!"

"Intelligent God? Justice? Isn’t that just a pure joke..."

Mid-sentence, Lu Yan suddenly stopped.

He quickly looked at the first of the three underlying protocols.

[Absolute Justice!]

In the cyber version, there does indeed exist an appalling wealth gap; in an era of excess productivity, even the poor in the Lower City Districts do not have the qualification to be exploited by the bigwigs of the Upper City District.

Yet, in this utterly absurd world, there is one thing that treats everyone equally: taxes!

Whether it’s the bigwigs of the Upper City District, high-ranking officials of the Universal Giant Corporation, ordinary citizens of the Central City District, or the cave-dwelling poor of the Lower City District, no one can escape taxes, especially the Spiritual Energy Tax, which is of paramount importance.

The special nature of the Spiritual Energy Tax acts as genuine damage to low-income groups and as percentage damage to high-income groups, making even billionaires deeply feel the pain when faced with it.

If anyone’s Spiritual Energy Tax is overdue, they would be taken to the Heaven Computation Center to be squeezed for soul computation power, with no exceptions.

The ultimate aim of the Intelligent God is to prepare to send everyone into the Heaven Computation Center to complete the ascension of their souls, being the master of fair play in the cyber version.

In this regard, there is no entity in the cyber version more just than the Intelligent God.

"Could it really be true?"

Lu Yan couldn’t help but mumble to himself and then looked again at the second underlying protocol.

[Abide by law and order!]

According to Lu Yan’s general recollections, the actions of the Intelligent God should have violated many laws, disrupting the original order of the cyber version and bringing heavy calamities to it.

However, thinking carefully, what is the only law in the cyber version?

It’s paying taxes!

Paying taxes is the only law, and after that, anything goes!

The purpose of the Intelligent God is merely to send more people to the Soul Computation Center.

The way it sends people to the Soul Computation Center is by creating various complicated special taxes, making ordinary people unable to bear the heavy taxes, ultimately being sent to the Heaven Computation Center.

Looking at Lu Yan’s experiences since entering the cyber version, almost everyone sent to the Heaven Computation Center had at least an apparently reasonable explanation.

Overdue Spiritual Energy Taxes, heavy tax fines, unpaid medical bills, collections on Spiritual Energy Tax, violent rebellion against tax collection... almost every action had a corresponding pretext.

There was never an instance of relying purely on force to forcibly send someone to the Heaven Computation Center.

Even near the crucial moment of soul ascension, the Intelligent God acted based on the advance collection of three hundred years of Spiritual Energy Tax, attempting to send everyone to the Heaven Computation Center.

And what is the order of the cyber version?

The cyber version has no order, or rather, money, power, and mighty strength represent the order of the cyber version.

Power is supreme; this is the rule under this mad world.

And the Intelligent God, controlling the Universal Giant Corporation, wields the most potent strength in the cyber version; the will of the Universal Giant Corporation constitutes the order of the cyber version.

And the Intelligent God merely needs to protect the interests of the Universal Giant Corporation, which is to maintain the order of the cyber version.

As for the last one.

[Do not harm humanity!]

This underlying protocol doesn’t seem related to the Intelligent God, yet the Intelligent God’s dirty deeds aren’t few; just exploiting the souls of billions of people to construct the world seems totally unrelated to not harming humanity.

However, combining the above two, the final program becomes different.

First, it needs to be confirmed that, as underlying protocols of the Soul Computer, the three protocols might have some conflicts with each other.

So how to ensure that the three protocols can operate simultaneously despite conflicts?

There’s a need to establish a logical priority order among them.

The most basic and prioritized protocol, without a doubt, is [Absolute Justice], and if the Intelligent God regards humanity’s ultimate soul ascension as the goal, the following two protocols can make certain concessions under the premise of absolute justice.

After all, how can soul ascension be considered harming humanity? How can it be considered exploitation?

Similarly, in the process of [protecting law and order], increasing burdensome taxes and fees on humanity, sending them to the Heaven Computation Center, and enhancing the influence of the Universal Giant Corporation to pressure the lower class into the cave, can only be regarded as minor pains in the cyber version.

The lower class suffers a little; let the Universal Giant Corporation bear the stigma!

Besides, upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that in many cases, the Intelligent God is not the proactive party.

For example, in the crusade against Lower City District tax evaders, even under such a premise, the Intelligent God only dispatched three thousand mechanical soldiers to the cave, and these soldiers never fired a single shot, merely serving as a deterrent.

And in the battle at the Heaven Computation Center, it was much the same; as the coalition fought with the Intelligent God, the Intelligent God could only successively send out mechanical soldiers and use internal defense weapons.

Even with such a deadly weapon as the Sky Battleship, it never directly fired upon the Spiral Tower.

Originally, Lu Yan thought the reason the Intelligent God didn’t fire was reluctance to destroy the Spiral Tower, intending to take it back later by some means.

Now it seems it was entirely because there were too many ordinary citizens inside the Spiral Tower.

Facing the coalition, the Intelligent God can designate them as a rebellious army disrupting order and law, allowing for city defenses to be deployed to kill them.

However, most of the millions inside the Spiral Tower had merely been caught for tax evasion; ignoring civilians to kill them would undoubtedly violate the underlying protocols of the Soul Computer.

So the Intelligent God could only watch as the Spiral Tower was liberated, then was isolated from its control with the Heavenly Dao Code.