What's Wrong with an AI Like Me Saving the Galaxy?

Sci-fi + interstellar + artificial intelligence + Warhammer + EVE + Stellaris + a mishmash of various movies (the first 30 chapters are poorly written, please skip directly).

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Chapter 76: Deep into Hell

Of all the people present, only Max needed to breathe constantly. Bai Yi also had a nose, but it was mostly just a decoration. Since he often ran around in a vacuum, he would often simply turn off his breathing function.

Seeing Dr. Max's condition, Bai Yi also activated his lungs. As a slightly turbid air rushed into his nasal cavity, he asked Enol with a slightly changed expression.

"How many people are there on this ship?"

"Normally, there are 16."

Ainol was typing away at his keyboard, not looking up as he answered the questions.

"Then these people will suffer a lot."

Bai Yi sniffed.

"Did you smell something too?"

Dr. Max looked at Bai Yi as if he wanted to prove that his sense of smell was correct.

“It smells of blood.”

Bai Yi pointed in a direction.

"Type B blood, heavy bleeding."

Then he turned around and faced somewhere else.

"This is Type B."

Took a few steps to the side.

"Here's a blood type O."

Then it changed direction again.

"Huo, why is there still tree sap? Are there tree people on your ship?"

Ainor then put down the work in her hands. Although she had tried her best to suppress her emotions, the twitching corners of her mouth still betrayed her.

"Are you a dog? You can even smell blood types."

"The dog is no match for me."

Bai Yi raised his hand and pointed at his nose.

"High-tech, do you understand?"

Ainol rolled his eyes.

"You robots are really good at this."

Bai Yi didn't argue with her and continued his sniffing work. He circled the entire bridge and finally stopped beside Enol.

"I smell something very strange, do you want to know?"

"Not interested."

Aenol glanced at him.

"Although the Apollo server is offline, I have found the locally saved logbook."

As soon as he finished speaking, a big x popped up on the screen.

"Insufficient permissions, access denied."

Ainol was shocked.

"It seems you can't find out."

Bai Yi was enjoying the cool breeze as he pulled out a data cable from his fingers and waved it at Enor.

"How about I help you?"

"don't want."

It was decisively rejected.

"Don't underestimate me. I'm a language expert after all."

“You also have this major.”

Bai Yi expressed his surprise without hiding his feelings.

"That's not the case."

Ainol said this, but she didn't stop working. After a moment, she snapped her fingers.

"Go in, let me see which old man dares to go beyond my authority."

As he spoke, Ainol began to flip through a series of directories rapidly.

"Let me see where the anomaly first appeared... Ah, I found it."

She clicked on the folder she found, but at that moment the entire bridge went dark.

"Did you blow the fuse?"

Bai Yi looked at her speechlessly.

"I swear, absolutely not."

"So what do we do now?"

Ainol's tone was a little nervous, and her body turned into a ball of air and surrounded Bai Yi's neck.

"Are you... afraid of the dark?"

"No."

Ainol's voice was low, and it was obvious that he was guilty.

"How about... the others stay here, and we two go take a look at the energy room."

She suggested to Bai Yi in a low voice.

"don't want."

Bai Yi decisively rejected this proposal. Based on his many years of experience in watching film and television works, if they separated at this time, it would most likely lead to the destruction of the team.

"If we're going to leave, let's go together. Everyone, pack up your equipment. We're going to turn on the power."

No one raised any objection to this, or it would be useless to raise any objection, after all, Bai Yi was the one with the highest power here.

Under Ainor's guidance, the group stumbled forward inside the completely unfamiliar spaceship.

Strangely enough, although the interior of the ship was filled with the smell of blood, it looked unusually tidy. Apart from some personal belongings scattered on the ground, there was no sign of any disturbance.

"Do you want to hear about that weird smell I smell?"

Halfway through the walk, Bai Yi mentioned that taste again.

"What does it smell like?"

Ainol was not stubborn this time. She shrank her body, and the mist around Bai Yi became thicker.

"I don't know how to describe it. It's like a mixture of blood, motor oil, and human excrement, with a little bit of popping candy..."

"What's that adjective? Cocktail?"

Ainol's face was full of black lines.

Two combat robots, one on the left and one on the right, pushed open an isolation door that was tightly closed due to power outage. This was the last barrier to reach the energy room.

Bai Yi stepped in.

“That’s pretty much what it tastes like anyway.”

He carefully looked around.

This is a circular cabin. In the center of the energy room is a cylindrical reactor, with many pipes extending from the roof and the ground, connecting to the two ends of the column.

The power was out here too, with only some dim emergency lights on.

“I call it the taste of madness.”

A bloodthirsty smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What's wrong with you?"

Aenol shrank even tighter, like a large gaseous scarf with a face on it.

Under Ainol's instructions, they found the location of the main circuit breaker and closed it again.

With a snap, everyone returned to the light.

Even the Apollo mainframe, which had been out of service for a long time, resumed operation.

"Hello, Miss Ainol, the secret executor. Hello, Dr. Max. Hello, Border Guard 9527."

The mechanical sound of the Apollo mainframe echoed in the cabin.

"Wow, you have such a chuunibyou name."

Bai Yi sighed.

"climb!"

Ainol jumped off his neck the moment the power was restored.

"You don't understand the meaning behind this name at all."

"Okay."

Bai Yi didn't intend to argue with her on this topic. He looked up at the empty circular room and asked loudly.

"Apollo, tell us what happened to this ship?"

"Everything in the flight log is normal."

"What about the crew?"

"The crew is in the lounge."

Apollo pulled up the surveillance footage. It showed all the crew members entering the crew lounge, but no one emerged from the over ten hours of footage.

A full-ship map was also placed next to the screen, and each red dot on the map represented a crew member's life signal. However, all the red dots disappeared after entering the rest cabin.

"The Apollo should have entered the space bubble not long ago at this time."

Ainol pointed to the time when the first crew member entered the lounge.