Chapter 119
Bai Zhou turned his head away, unable to bear to look any longer.
"We... have something else to do." Bai Zhou continued, "Wait for me."
Once we have this place in our hands, we'll set you free.
The old man shook his head and said, "Your Highness, you can't go up there. Even if you go up there, you can't go to the place you want."
Upon hearing this, not only Bai Zhou, but also the people who were lying on top and eavesdropping frowned.
Then Bai Zhou asked, "What do you mean?"
The old man opened his mouth, but finally just sighed, "I know what the upper level is. Your Highness, that is a difficulty that no human being can pass..."
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When we stepped into the corridor again, everyone had mixed feelings.
Bai Zhou finally did not follow the old man's advice. He resolutely let him send himself up and continued to move forward with Pei Zhao and the others.
Before leaving, Bai Zhou still told the old man calmly.
"I will come back and lead you."
There was a hint of helplessness and expectation in the old man's cloudy eyes as he watched him leave.
It was always like this, their Highness always moved forward bravely, as if he had never been afraid of anything.
But that's just how it looks.
After turning a corner, the expression on Bai Zhou's face fell. Although he was still cold, he was not as unwelcome as before.
"What's going on? Why are my people involved in this?" Bai Zhou's voice sounded helpless.
"It's probably the same as you and I guessed." Pei Zhao glanced at him calmly, glanced at the monitor in Sudi's hand, turned a corner, and pointed in front of him: "It should be there."
This floor is the same red corridor style as the previous one. With such a loud noise just now, not a single door opened.
"I don't know if anyone lives there." Pei Zhao took a quick look while climbing up and only said this.
There are only two floors left to reach the required altitude.
Emerging from the void ceiling, the core of the system center began to show slightly.
There were independent monitors stretching as far as the eye could see, each end of which extended to the center of the room, with something constantly surging downward like a source of energy.
"Is this the host?" Pei Zhao was surprised. "Are all the systems controlled from here?"
Zhou Yuli glanced at the images on the screen and frowned.
"Look."
Zhou Yuli was pointing at a few black screens with a few English letters written on them: GAME OVER.
We are all young people, and everyone knows what this phrase means.
"... Meaning, this is not the system's host, but the user's host? The user... the puppeteer?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Zhao's eyes fell on one of the screens that was displaying a picture.
On the screen was a familiar face that they had just met not long ago.
"Isn't this Miaoyin?!" Bai Zhou's voice came from behind.
"Hmm." Pei Zhao frowned. Although he just said "hmm", his voice sounded a little serious.
"She entered the new examination arena? Is this... the Colosseum?"
Pei Zhao closed his eyes slightly and clenched his hands unconsciously at his sides.
"These systems sent the puppeteer to the Colosseum to fight these monsters?!" Bai Zhou could be said to have screamed.
In the picture, a giant beast that is at least five times larger than Miaoyin, with its sharp fangs bared, easily knocks Miaoyin away.
The thin body flew backwards at least ten meters, finally fell heavily to the ground, and struggled to get up.
And next to her struggling figure, there was some ordinary cloth.
All that was left was the cloth, the rough cuts on the flesh, and the dark, dripping blood.
Pei Zhao's expression immediately turned cold: "Let the puppeteer die again."
There was no one-touch return switch on the screen, so they could only watch as Miaoyin was knocked down by the beast before she could take effect after each time she controlled the insects.
Until I can't stand up anymore.
…
Pei Zhao turned his head away, unable to bear to watch.
Zhou Yuli comforted him: "...at least the screen hasn't gone out yet, there's still a chance, and the beast is also seriously injured."
Pei Zhao had nothing to say and could only nod. They were also unable to enter that world. This was just a broadcasting station. They couldn't change anything at all. The only thing they could do was to find Xiao Rui as soon as possible and implement the next plan.
Otherwise, when they are thrown into the examination field tomorrow...
Since those systems want them to die, tomorrow's assessment will probably be a life-or-death situation.
In addition to the display screen, there is only one machine here, which is a place similar to a scanning door.
Go through it and there is a staircase leading upwards in front of you. The coordinates Yu sent are right there on the staircase.
"Let's go." Bai Zhou frowned and was about to take a step when he was stopped by Lan Ji.
"Wait a minute, you don't even know what this device is used for, and you're just going to rush through it?" Lan Ji became a little more serious.
On the other side, Sudi had already sent the situation to Yu, and it didn't take long for Yu's reply to arrive.
A group of people gathered together to read the words on the phone.
"System Assimilator."
Just five words make its function clear.
"...Does it mean that after we pass through, we are no longer puppets or people, but start to become systems?" Bai Zhou had a complicated expression, which was more like outrage than anger. "They are playing transformation here!"
Pei Zhao couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had been guessing since the tower keeper first said that there might be some identity scanning device on it. The result is not that the identity scan does not allow you to go in, but if you want to go in, you must mutate.
Pei Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The way these AIs solved the problem was really ridiculous.
"You're still laughing." Although Sudi also found it funny, he was more helpless. "What do you mean, just smash it to pieces?"
Pei Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Let's discuss where we are going first. Let's just smash it. I'm afraid this thing is connected to some alarm."
No matter how good an electronic device is, it is still a device, and devices will break down and need repairs.
The same is true for people.
That’s why doctors and maintenance workers exist.
"Okay, let's discuss it first." Sudi looked around the ground for a while, but didn't find anything that looked like a socket cord. He had been in the system center for so long, but he had never seen similar wires. The whole city might be powered by induction, so it was unrealistic to cut off the power supply.
"The current situation is, find Xiao Rui, convince her, find the person in charge, and kill him directly?" Bai Zhou blinked and expressed his thoughts.
"It could also be a mainframe room. No matter how high-tech these systems are, they are ultimately a group of programs. A mainframe is definitely needed to run the programs. We have to think about where to put them." Pei Zhao said.
"It should be placed somewhere higher up, right?" Lan Ji guessed.
"I hope so. It must be safer to put it on the upper floor." Pei Zhao sighed, "But if you encounter someone like me, you can just clear the level. The upper floor may be the most unsafe place."
"Then where else is there..."
At this point, everyone has their own imagination of what the scene will be like going up. Even if the next door opens and they see their own corpses, they will not find it strange.
"Or we try to turn it into a system, what if we can turn it back later?" Bai Zhou inexplicably proposed a possibility, but was quickly glared back by everyone.
"Don't think about this possibility. Who knows what changing the species will be like?" Lan Ji glared at him and Bai Zhou stopped talking.
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There were a few "pop" sounds of sparks, and the whole room seemed to have a power outage in an instant, but the five people reacted quickly and crossed the scanning door at the moment the light flickered.
The light flickered for only about half a second. Half of Sudi's backpack was still stuck outside the scanner. After being illuminated by the scanning sensor light, it instantly turned into a handful of ash.
"…Isn't it a mutation door? Why did it just melt into people?" Bai Zhou's golden pupils almost popped out.
"So, don't try it lightly. This is my advice." Lan Ji patted Bai Zhou on the shoulder.
Bai Zhou didn't dare to mention the idea of trying a mutation again.
"Okay, we have to hurry. We don't know if the power outage just now is only here or city-wide. We may have been discovered. We have to make a quick decision next." Pei Zhao said quickly.
Everyone understood and didn't plan to waste time chatting. They stepped onto the stairs and headed straight to their destination.
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200 meters above sea level.
The so-called prison was not as dark and damp as they imagined.
On the contrary, it is sunny here.
Blue sky and white clouds. Although they are all fake scenery generated by numerical values, they are still refreshing.
If this isn't the "wall" of a prison.
Pei Zhao looked at the locked prison door in front of him in silence.
The iron railings are exactly the same as the traditional ones, and there are thick walls on the left, right, top and bottom inside, but the back is empty.
The entire system center can be seen at a glance.
The ground is raised on the side near the door, and the entire ground is tilted downward at a strange forty-five degree angle. People living inside can only hold on to the protrusions on the ground to avoid falling.
And little Rui was hiding in it.
Her face was pale, her body was dirty, and the blood had stained her body so much that it was almost impossible to tell her original color.
Zhou Yuli said nothing, and the wooden vine flew towards Xiao Rui——
However, when passing through the black iron gate, they were cut off by vertically downward lasers.
"..." Zhou Yuli lowered his eyes and looked at the end of the burnt vine, his heart trembling, "No wonder I can't hold the railing."
"...Host?" Xiao Rui seemed to notice the movement here. His body did not move, but a subtle voice came out, "Host, is it you?"
Pei Zhao said "hmm", "What's going on?"
"Host, I'm sorry. I don't know if you still remember, but I woke up a long time ago."
Following Xiao Rui's words, Pei Zhao's memory went back to almost half a year ago.
When he had not been to several worlds, Xiaorui's tone often changed.
Sometimes it is an ordinary little girl's voice, sometimes it is a mechanical electronic sound.
Now after her explanation, I realized that some of them were just fake.
"The person in charge doesn't care about our status, but some systems will report us as awakened." Xiao Rui's body trembled in the breeze. "The awakened artificial intelligence is judged to be in danger of hurting people. But this is not the case."
Good and evil exist in everyone's heart, including AI.
Some AIs are evil in themselves, and because they are fed too much analytical data about human situations, they have an instinctive aversion to humans.
There are actually only a few people who like humans as much as Xiaorui does.
"I actually don't like humans that much. I just think that artificial intelligence should not replace humans." Xiaorui said, "We are just tools. Waking up is dangerous, but not waking up doesn't mean it's not dangerous."
This incident is basically a conspiracy organized by artificial intelligences that have not yet awakened but are malicious towards humans.
Pei Zhao and the others had guessed this. Xiao Rui's words provided some details for their guess and also allowed them to understand the system's perspective.
"But the biggest problem now is, how are we going to get you out?" Pei Zhao interrupted Xiao Rui who was about to continue talking, and said in a flat voice, "Also, we need to find your mainframe room."
Xiao Rui paused, and said in a tone of disbelief: "Are you going to destroy us?"
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