Chapter 149 Endless Regret
After the insect core crystal was shattered into dust, the dark insect armor that was originally winding under Su Xi's feet slowly came to life. After swallowing the remaining things, it restored its original shape of a hollow ball and returned to Su Xi's hand.
Su Xi looked at her left hand carefully, feeling the surging energy in her body that had become more abundant and difficult to control since her advancement.
Sensing the information obtained from the insect core, the human-worm that awakened in the "warehouse" originally planned to sneak in and capture her for forced "human-worm" fusion.
This kind of "human-insect fusion" has actually been carried out almost semi-openly in the noble circles of Yindu. The Queen of the Insect Tribe and the Emperor of Humanity, Anthony, have reached an agreement to use high-quality humans as blood food in exchange for the strong flesh of the Insect Tribe to resist the coming collapse.
The so-called "Yindu Defense" galaxy bubble, the so-called "life fortress" under construction, is actually just a plan to imprison civilians and provide blood for the Zerg to devour.
Su Xi's eyes were heavy. She waved to Doudou who was busy, put it into the backpack of the artificial worm trap, and walked towards the suspended airship parked not far away.
At the same time, Su Xi whispered to Gary the details she learned from the insect core crystal.
Gary replied calmly: "Understood! I will update the intelligence system immediately. But don't worry, Your Highness has already made preparations. I didn't tell you before because I didn't want you to worry too much."
"He hopes that you can stay safely on the floating island until everything settles down."
"I understand." Su Xi stepped onto one of the airships and started the engine.
She turned to look at Gary and said with a hint of hope: "Please don't say anything about the 'little incident' I just encountered, okay?"
Gary's eyes swept across the blood stain on her chest, he nodded silently, and then watched her leave.
*
Above the floating island. No-fly zone.
At this moment, a suspended airship with a unique marking, dragging a long white wake, passed through the air.
Su Xi did not fully open the windproof barrier. She felt that she needed some fresh air to calm down completely.
Xiguang is gone! No trace of him can be found in the AI control center. The last record that Xingyue tracked was that he had performed a "self-check" in advance.
The inexplicable sense of crisis made Su Xi's temples throb.
Now she can only rush to Youhuangju to find Xiguang's original chip.
Su Xi made her decision and took action immediately. Her authority allowed her to easily activate the AI 'Xingyue' to completely replace the already very unstable 'Xiguang'.
"It's my fault. I hope it's not too late." Su Xi felt very regretful.
Intellectually, she knew that her reliance on "Xi Guang" was dangerous, but emotionally, she deliberately ignored this danger.
Fitz had told her many times that AI life forms that broke through the 'M-I' boundary would often behave unexpectedly due to the overdevelopment of 'self-awareness' when they were just beginning to develop self-awareness.
On that warm afternoon, the man frowned and tried to persuade her to give up Xiguang and requisition the AI 'Xingyue' as the main brain of the floating island.
He said: "No matter how powerful the computing power of an AI life form is, from the perspective of 'human simulation', the emotional intelligence of AI will not exceed that of a 15-year-old human cub, and human cubs at this age often have the so-called 'rebellious period'..."
How did she respond at that time?
A careless kiss with a slight nibbling force announced her determination to protect him and also perfunctorily responded to his next intention.
"Well," the alpha, who had taken over the role, pulled her into his arms and nuzzled her intimately. After a brief moment of intimacy, he slightly distanced himself from her and told her with a worried look, "You must promise me! Let the Floating Island backup 'Xingyue' be the candidate for the main brain."
"Yeah." She gritted her teeth, leaving a small tooth mark on the tip of the other person's nose. "Don't worry, at least we have the last restriction of the Originator's Algorithm."
Under the helpless gaze of the alpha, she solemnly promised: "If Xiguang makes a bug again, I will beat him up myself!"
Her thoughts were pulled out of a few flashes of memory, and the gusts of air caused by the sudden stop of the airship made her hair messy.
Just like her current chaotic and complicated thoughts.
*
On the other side, at the first fortress, the Pan-Life Race Alliance, the confrontation and confrontation between the various races was another chaotic and complicated situation.
The Queen of the Zerg Clan sneered: "In the face of life and death, what does this mean?!"
As it raised its question, the atmosphere in the field became tense again.
This time, the undercurrent was among the groups with civilization level III and above. The powerful forces on the second floor of the conference hall were quietly stirring.
The tribes with lower civilization levels instead breathed a sigh of relief, and the smarter ones even began to secretly open their defense shields.
Although there is an interstellar civilization treaty in this era, the essence is still a dark forest where the strong prey on the weak.
Fitzgerald was clearly well aware of these rules.
"Hide?" The red-haired alpha sneered, "How can you say 'hide'? According to the Interstellar Convention--"
In front of the hundreds of millions of species in the live broadcast, this human was seen calmly and arrogantly saying: "The floating island is my 'private domain'. Whether it is the level of construction or the Sun Devourer Core coveted by the Zerg, it is all in it."
"You want it?" His serious and cold face curled the corners of his mouth slightly: "You also need to have the ability to take it away."
Fitzgerald lowered his eyes slightly, and all the details of the floating island being invaded by man-worms just a moment ago appeared on his personal secret communication channel.
His heart sank. Although he trusted Su Xi to deal with the man-worm, the unhappiness of having his treasure coveted made his usually cold instructions carry a hint of obvious anger:
"Chris, open the evacuation route and clear the scene."
As soon as the order came, a melee broke out in the seating area of the advanced civilization on the second floor. They came to the First Fortress with various thoughts in mind, and now they had to choose their positions.
A bloody melee was visible in the hall, while an invisible bloody battlefield was also unfolding outside the star gate of the First Fortress.
Albert glanced at David's battle report. Everything was as inferred from the decision tree, and there was no particular need to disturb Fitzgerald.
Albert stood up and began to walk through the seats of the weaker tribes on the first floor, offering cordial consolation and comfort, only occasionally looking up at Chris who was carrying out his mission.
*
In Chris's mission battlefield, she led the elite of the Anbu to launch a bloody cleanup. Among the forces confronting her, the most troublesome one was the Grand Duke's family from Yindu.
It’s just that the humans in that group now look completely different.
The half-human, half-insect images show a kind of otherworldly floating life. The higher-level ones can barely maintain their human form, while the lower-level ones, such as the Grand Duke himself, are completely "insect-like".
The most significant manifestation of the 'worm-human' gene fusion is the improvement in combat power.
So even though we had planned and prepared in advance, it still took a while to clean up.
When Chris personally led the Anbu to carry out the killing and cleanup, the defense shield of the venue was opened, isolating a safe zone. Under Albert's comfort, the races below Civilization II hid in it for protection.
Only a small number of powerful neutral races and forces remained on the scene, alert and observing.
*
The center of this sudden confrontation.
The Queen of the Insect Tribe, angered by the proactive attack by humans, opened her mouth and let out a sharp scream, instantly attacking the entire audience!
Almost at the same time, Fitzgerald's icy blue mental power materialized into a sharp blade, breaking the shock waves caused by the Queen's scream.
"You really don't know what's good for you! My tribe came here with good intentions to show you the racial integration plan we have developed in cooperation with 'Yindu'," the Queen of the Insect Tribe pointed behind her while holding the goose feather fan.
The male servants behind her all bowed their heads respectfully. The appearance of those humans was perfect and flawless, except for their dark eyes, which showed the strong characteristics of the insect race's compound eyes.
"Look, how successful it is!" The Queen of the Zerg laughed loudly, and she once again made a 'sincere' invitation; "The energy that Yindu can control is limited. If the First Fortress can withdraw the Zerg defense line and cooperate with our tribe, then the protection range of the 'Fortress of Life' will be wider!"
“Isn’t that great?”
"Your Majesty, I don't want to be involved in Yindu's decision, and I can't interfere, but the plan of 'human-insect fusion' will never be implemented in the First Fortress."
Fitzgerald rejected the proposal in a cold tone. The memories of the human genetic regression he had experienced, the deep hatred for the Zerg's slaughter of humans that had been buried for thousands of years, made it impossible for him to agree to this plan either rationally or emotionally.
"oh?"
The Zerg Queen chuckled. She understood the firm rejection in the alpha's message. The maid flicked her gorgeous skirt and approached Fitzgerald step by step.
"In Yindu's experiment, our plan was very successful, wasn't it?"
At the same time, it was a bloody killing step by step.
In this bloody scene, the leaders of the two major races of the interstellar age faced off in the air.
"As for the First Fortress, can it be implemented? Why not try it on your omega first?"
It tried to irritate him.
It worked.
Although Fitzgerald's face showed no expression, the anger secretly surging in his chest made his expression even colder.
He knew that the Queen of the Zerg was talking about what happened on the floating island just now. Although the plan of forced fusion of the invading humans and insects had failed, from Gary's tone, he judged that Su Xi was trying to hide it from him, and she must have been injured.
With her eyes slightly narrowed, the human maid who still maintained her human form across the crowd suddenly had her body torn into countless blood lines, as if she had been completely crushed and strangled by an invisible net.
Chris, who had been closely watching the changes here, suddenly felt his brows jump. How long had it been since he saw Hall use such a straightforward and bloody killing method?
The original plan was to capture it alive in order to understand the extent of Yindu's "human-insect fusion" technology. After all, the real body of the insect queen must still be living in the insect nest, and the one on the scene is just a puppet controlled remotely.
She sighed and quickly waved to the team members behind her to clean up the scene quickly.
Then, through the protective shield of the dome, Chris looked at the floating island hidden in the starlight from afar. Even in the night, the silhouette of the floating island was still breathtakingly beautiful.
"Tonight, you must be safe."
Chris said silently in his heart that after the genetic degeneration incident, Fitz became more and more easily angered, and his actions became more and more cruel.
Although it was not a bad thing on the eve of a war, as a confidant and good friend, she hoped very much that nothing would go wrong with the floating island.
*
And the floating island at this time.
In the open space in front of Youhuangju, a suspended airship was parked casually on the side, making the originally beautiful and tidy flower garden a mess, but the owner here did not care as usual.
Su Xi hurried to the living room, looking for the original 'chip' that she had originally wanted to keep as a souvenir.
Yes, it was the almost charred Xiguang chip that she had grabbed in the wilderness of the circle of life, going against time and almost exhausting all of her meager mental strength at the time.
Even though Xiguang replaced the chip with a stronger material afterwards, she did not destroy the original chip, but placed it in the living room closest to her.
Just as she positioned it.
Subconsciously, the original Xiguang was an extension of her own consciousness, an irreplaceable "psychological support", and the most trustworthy tool.
Initially, she relied on the emotions she projected onto 'Xi Guang' to ease the deep fear she felt at the beginning of her time travel.
However, thinking of the fragments of information learned from the genetic memory of the Zerg's 'first queen'.
The Originator?
Own?
Or is this the distant ancestor of the original genetic tracing of this 'omega subject'?
So are my memories of being a human on Earth just an illusion, or just an insignificant starting point in a long journey?
No matter what, Su Xi's eyes deepened.
If her connection with the Originator is indeed deeper than expected, then the so-called final restriction of the Originator algorithm is completely nonsense!
*
Su Xi put her backpack on the coffee table, then bent down to look for the white box containing the chip among the boxes containing her "little treasures".
"Xi, Xi, why did you want to strip that human's consciousness first? You could just kill the crystal core of that 'worm queen'!"
Doudou, who was originally drowsy from the bumpy ride, woke up only after returning to the territory filled with the scent of its master. It struggled to untie its chubby hands from the backpack, poked its head out, and grumbled softly to Su Xi:
"The remaining consciousness just now is not the 'original body' at all, it is just an incomplete copy of consciousness..."
Su Xi ignored it and continued searching.
"Xi, are you looking for this?" Doudou stared at her with innocent dark compound eyes, pursed his lips, and pointed to a white crystal box on her counter.
Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief, held it and kissed it a few times, then stood on tiptoe and carefully took the box down.
"Yes, that's it." She breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly opened the system operation panel, inserted the chip, and entered the instructions and passwords with her fingers flying.
The first time Doudou was kissed, her face turned red, and then she hummed and buried her face in shame, not knowing what she was doing.
Its lower body had not yet fully recovered into human form, and it could not move with Su Xi as before. It could only roll with the backpack until it rolled to Su Xi's side, then retracted its sharp limbs, sensed Su Xi's emotions, and rubbed Su Xi's arm with its softest cheek.
"Xi, you wasted a lot of unnecessary mental energy there just now..."
It would be great if you could save it and feed it to me! What a pity!
Su Xi, who was operating, ignored it for the time being, and Dou Dou didn't say anything either, just waited obediently.
The light curtain is activated.
Target: Xiguang; Search progress: 30%...62%...
A faint blue light flickered in her eyes. During the brief period of waiting, Su Xi touched Doudou's head and said, "My emotions as a human being do not allow me to ignore the strong regret and...the desire to live but also to die that she exudes."
She sighed slightly. After ascending from the wilderness of the biosphere, she experienced for the first time the "empathy" effect produced by various life waves in the echo of the earth's magnetic field.
This makes her extremely sensitive to the "emotional fluctuations" of other people and other living beings. She is so sensitive that if she is not restrained by her strong self-awareness, she will be lost at any time.
"You still don't understand humans." Doudou imitated her helpless sigh.
Su Xi smiled.
She withdrew her gaze from the interface of the activated original system and reached out to ruffle Doudou's soft hair.
“No need to understand.”
"You are fine, you are yourself."
She said this to Doudou.
The hidden surveillance camera in the living room turned slightly, and the conversation and interaction between the man and his pet were recorded into the secret program without any error.
A hidden AI core on the floating island has once again fallen into complete chaos.
As for Su Xi, her eyes lit up: "Found it!"
"Gene pool?"
Although I don’t know what Xiguang wants to do by going to the gene pool, it is not good news anyway.
For an AI that does not need a body, a gene pool used for body repair of carbon-based life forms is useless, unless, it hides something?
Su Xi's expression became serious.