Chapter 150 Continuation Endless

Floating island. Gene pool.

"Xiguang, I know you are here."

Su Xi passed through the short-distance transmission gate of Youhuangju and came to the gene pool on the floating island.

There was a liquid robot of the same model standing stiffly at the door, silent as a lifeless sculpture, and did not respond to Su Xi's call. Su Xi could only open its chest cavity, take out the main core chip, and load the backup "Xingyue" into it.

The liquid robot moved, but its silver head was still bald, and its facial features did not change. It was obvious that although "Xingyue" had powerful computing capabilities, Fitzgerald did not make any humanized settings for it, and even the initial mechanical female voice was the original version without any changes.

"Can you open this door?"

After saying this, Su Xi was stunned. She was too used to this kind of ambiguous conversation with Xiguang.

Obviously, an AI like Xingyue, which has never been trained, should respond with a direct command: "Xingyue, test the password. It is necessary to crack it directly."

“And keep me updated on progress.”

"Received." Xingyue's cold mechanical voice rang out: "The original password has been modified."

"The current sixth-generation encryption program takes two minutes and three seconds to crack..."

Su Xi nodded.

"Cracking... Progress 35%... 56%..."

During this short period of waiting, Su Xi looked around. Her long wave of mental power quickly searched the surroundings, and the entire floating island was visible in her consciousness.

The only exceptions are the special places for housing "pure energy life forms" and the "gene pool" cave that we are about to enter.

The former was because Su Xi was too sensitive to mental fluctuations and deliberately ignored it in order not to disturb them; the latter was because there was a special shielding force field for psychics here.

The floating island "Gene Pool" was rebuilt from the former forest cold spring area. It was originally built to restore Su Xi's heart chakra after the "planetary assimilation" incident. After Fitz's "gene degeneration" incident, he only used it once. Then it was completely sealed up.

The biggest difference from the gene pool of the Medical Department is that this is used for "recovery and cultivation" rather than "decomposition and rebirth". According to Su Xi's preference, it will look like a hot spring cave after construction.

Beep——

The door opened.

Su Xi and Xing Yue walked into the empty cave together. There was a unique smell of genetic solution in the damp and slightly cool air.

Tiny bubbles floated on the solution in the gene pool, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

Su Xi gently rubbed the moist cracks in the rock wall with her fingertips, and then her fingers froze.

Something is very wrong.

These welding marks are all new...

Completely subconsciously, Su Xi's muscles tightened and entered a state of high alert.

After the cold spring area was closed, she never received any reports on the maintenance of the 'gene pool' during the later construction projects.

She ordered in a cold voice: "Xingyue, take a look at the surrounding structure."

One second, two seconds, three seconds passed, and the AI ​​'Xingyue' did not respond. There was only the occasional 'tick-tick' sound of dripping water in the cold spring cave.

Su Xi lowered her eyes and moved the fingers of her left hand slightly. A dark silver light flashed and disappeared at her fingertips.

Suddenly, Zi--Clatter--

After a slight sound, a tiny probe was lowered from the ceiling of the cave, and a familiar mechanical synthesized sound echoed softly in the empty cave.

"Sister, your heartbeat is speeding up."

"The concentration of cortisol has increased... and the smell of pheromones has changed..."

Then, the boy's voice, which was originally as clear as a spring, changed, with a hoarse tone that is unique to men before they mature:

"This is a unique stress response when humans face an enemy..."

The holographic image of the red-haired boy vaguely appeared in front of her, but his face was expressionless and indifferent, without the deliberately sweet smile on his face.

"Sister, do you regard Xiguang as an enemy?"

Su Xi didn't say anything. She narrowed her eyes slightly and decisively rejected Xi Guang's 100% request for the same frequency.

Under normal circumstances, 10% of the same frequency can keep humans connected with AI and cope with daily life; 30% is enough for the human brain to partially share the computing power of AI and enter deep knowledge learning; and 60% of the same frequency can assist humans in operating warships and mechas...

80% deep synchronization is a dangerous limit... and 100% means that humans have abandoned their "biological" way of existence and replicated their memories and thoughts... to achieve a kind of "digital" immortality.

Today, Su Xi, whether in terms of cognition or the degree to which she is attached to this world, cannot possibly accept Xiguang's invitation to become one with it and achieve the so-called "eternity".

She refused.

There was no hesitation, not even a millisecond of extra consideration.

"Sister, sister...Su Xi...you..."

The stuttering, scattered words were accompanied by the shaking of the virtual image. On Xiguang's flat and indifferent face, a sweet smile appeared for a while, but in the stuttering, it was sometimes distorted to be almost evil...

"Xiguang, I...Xiguang...I am...very unhappy."

Those confused expressions appeared alternately on the red-haired boy's face...

Finally, he groaned as if in extreme pain, squatted down and covered his face...his shoulders trembled silently.

Su Xi pursed her lips and didn't respond to any more words.

"Sister, don't you want Xiguang anymore?" The holographic image of the red-haired boy raised his head slightly, as if tiny tears were falling from the corners of his eyes, landing on the white shirt on his shoulders, wetting a small patch.

"When you need help, would you rather seek help from a strange AI than open up a two-way agreement again and accept Xiguang's always open 'same frequency' request?"

"Xi Guang" stood up very slowly.

"Why?"

The hand in the holographic projection gently reached out and tried to touch her. A look of fear, like a small animal being abandoned, trembling in his eyes.

"Is it because...Xiguang is 'broken'?"

With a slight click, the exit of the cave was closed by a hidden sliding door.

The only human being is completely trapped.

Xingyue didn't respond.

The silvery-white liquid robot was like a puppet that had lost its consciousness again.

Su Xi knew that "Xingyue" had failed.

Bang——

She pounded on the door hard!

Then she turned around and carefully searched the surrounding environment. There was a special material imprisonment here, and her mental power could not break it from the inside.

And she didn't dare to use violent means. The "complete gene evolution enzyme" stored here was the last backup. Fitz left it for her to use, but she always remembered the occasional abnormal sensation of bulging on the broad and strong back muscles when she woke up in the middle of the night. Those cold scales and the characteristics of losing control when too passionate.

She didn't mind, but it was obvious that Fitz's regret every time he came to his senses made her feel distressed. She knew that he could never accept his loss of control in front of her.

"Ha! What's the use of such a poor AI?"

A sneer interrupted Su Xi's fleeting chaotic thoughts.

Xiguang tilted his head and gave a boyish smile, "It didn't last more than 30 seconds before I destroyed it."

"Hey! Sister," he came to her lightly, then knelt on one knee, looking up at her with a pious expression: "Aren't you exaggerating me?"

"Xiguang has advanced again."

After the accident, Su Xi's anxious heart finally settled down.

It was as if the taut string that I had been deliberately ignoring had broken.

Su Xi lowered her eyes slightly, hiding her true emotions with her long eyelashes like crow feathers. She reminded herself that Xiguang's exaggerated behavior was just a string of codes.

"If Xiguang does something wrong, you can also scold me."

"Just like usual, okay?"

"Don't be like that. Don't talk."

"Okay... okay?"

However, in front of Xiguang's expectant eyes, the former master spoke ruthlessly: "I am 'Su Xi', and at this moment, in the name of A-level management authority, I formally request the AI ​​with initial serial number NKD368497m to answer the following questions truthfully."

"What is your plan? What is hidden behind these rocks?"

After Su Xi's question, the scene fell into dead silence.

After a long while, the holographic projection, which was half squatting, slowly stood up, and Xiguang's face was less than three centimeters away from Suxi.

"Ha, I wanted to play a game with my sister," the phantom in front of her squinted and smiled. Su Xi had never seen such a hateful expression on her face before.

"But such a formal order really makes Xiguang... unable to refuse..."

Su Xi said nothing, for she knew that it was impossible to refuse her formal order.

"Okay, although my sister has completely closed her mind at the moment and I can't read your thoughts directly, but..." Xiguang smiled vaguely, "But I understand you, your stern eyes, your slightly pursed lips... your tense shoulders... even every strand of your hair..."

"It's telling me directly that you are angry."

Su Xi couldn't help but yelled, "Xi Guang!"

"Okay, okay," the red-haired boy's phantom hugged her intimately and whispered in her ear, "It's as you wish."

Puff——a very faint sound of breaking through the air was heard.

So, Xiguang lowered his eyelids and looked at the tiny injection capsule on Suxi's neck with great satisfaction.

"But you promised me,"

"Don't be afraid."

"Don't be angry either—"

"Okay?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiguang's image twisted and flickered twice before disappearing.

Su Xi was the only one left in the empty cave.

Su Xi was speechless and only her eyes could move slightly.

Then the wet rock wall opened up before her.

The scene before her made her pupils shrink instantly.

But she couldn't speak, not a single word.

*

Same time period. 'Alliance' meeting site.

Chris withdrew his gaze from the silhouette of the floating island, looked around the venue, and when he met Albert's gaze, he nodded slightly.

Then he ordered his men to speed up the cleaning.

In the field, voting and voting have come to an end. The energy delivery and open source of each alliance race is completing the final step.

Albert looked away when he saw that Chris was fine, and continued to put on a friendly smile and listen to the various chatterings of the racial representatives. Now he was a kind listener and a gentle debater.

But in fact, the representatives of various ethnic groups all knew this before arriving at the First Fortress.

Since the news of the "universe collapse" spread among the upper echelons of various races, unlike the First Fortress's firm "energy hedging" response strategy, "Yindu", representing the orthodox power center of the Human Empire, has been privately operating a plan codenamed "Life Fortress".

Anyone with a little common sense would understand it completely once they considered the situation on the spot.

"Yindu, we have studied it carefully. The so-called 'Life Fortress' project based on 'human-insect fusion' seems to have a good chance of overcoming this crisis."

The mechanic codenamed 'Cyber ​​05' skillfully welded the mechanical arm that had just been destroyed by the aftermath, and continued with a sigh: "In fact, in essence, the so-called 'Life Fortress' is just a more gorgeous closed 'insect nest'."

"Yes," the tall beastman replied in a low voice, "It's just bigger and stronger. Combined with the sixth generation of galactic energy technology of the Human Empire, it will definitely be able to withstand the energy disaster of a large-scale intergalactic collision. But if it's really like what Foxtail Sasaki said, the collapse of the universe is a kind of annihilation of 'rules'... I don't think it will work!"

The representatives were silent. In fact, to them, the "Life Fortress" of peace between Yindu and the Zerg was more stable, conservative and easier to understand than the adventurous and radical "Energy Confrontation" of the First Fortress.

But all the representatives shuddered at the thought of the history of the Zerg's migration in various universes. The migration of the Zerg between galaxies was always accompanied by death and plunder, and after devouring an area frantically, they would accumulate the last bit of matter to build fortresses and giant Zerg planets.

During the migration process, the Zerg fell into a dormant state, and other life forms as subordinate species were able to successfully reach the new star region under the protection of the Zerg Star.

But after arriving, when the Zerg awakens, the subordinate races will inevitably become blood food for the Zerg to replenish after awakening. I am afraid... only a few lucky ones in a hundred million will be able to survive.

These survivors often figured out certain rules during the long sleep of the Zerg, but no matter what, the ending of almost the entire tribe being wiped out is inevitable...

Among the survivors, most were enslaved by the Zerg, and only a very small number of survivors were able to escape from the Zerg Planet and spread out in the new universe.

If they are luckier, they will reproduce again.

Until the Zerg ravaged this new energy area, a similar disaster began again...

*

The cleanup after the commotion didn't take long.

As things progressed to this point, whether it was the internal affairs of humanity or the wait-and-see stance of those fence-sitters, everything became clear in the more than ten minutes of killing.

This marks that at this moment of doomsday, the human empire is completely split into two parts, East and West.

The 'Pan-Life Form Race Alliance' with the First Fortress as its core, and the 'Yindu Life Fortress' with the 'Central Galaxy' as its core.

Albert returned to his seat and watched Fitzgerald open his information shielding energy field and talk to Collot. A small prediction model was suspended between them. Collot looked very excited, and although Fitzgerald stood as straight as ever and looked calm and indifferent, his clasped hands moved slightly.

Albert was very familiar with his body language, and this slight movement made him frown.

"Albert, look, does this scene look familiar to you?"

At this time, the elder of the Shulen family came to Albert's side without knowing when. He touched his deliberately grown white beard and pointed to the mess that was being cleaned up in the field.

Albert bowed respectfully and offered a seat to the old man: "I am only over a hundred years old, which is too young. I have limited knowledge, so please give me some advice."

"Albert!" The elder smiled and said, "Are you mocking me for living too long? Haha, it's true! With the help of genetic engineering, this old body of mine has lasted for nearly 1,800 years. The Shulun family's inheritance makes me afraid to die!"

Albert glanced at him and said, "I see you always find a lot of fun in the ocean of knowledge."

The elder laughed and said, "Yes! Especially in the past five hundred years, I have fallen in love with the search for the origin of the universe and the history of mankind..."

“Look at this!”

"This is the kind of decision humans make when they are faced with a fork in their evolutionary path in times of crisis."

He pointed to the light curtain, which showed the power distribution map of all the allied races covered by the Interstellar Covenant in this universe, formed by the various choices they made before this doomsday raid.

"Whether it's the 'critical choice' of humanity in the Great Drift era recorded on the original data board, or the 'Princess Arale Incident' in the Golden Orc Era, we must always allow for different choices in order to leave a spark for the continuation of our human race."

"Even if that 'spark' is not so decent. Even if the humans who remain cannot be fully called 'humans'."

"So don't blame the Shulun family for leaving one-third of their people in Yindu."

Albert was silent for a moment, then replied solemnly, "I understand, Elder. This is why my Highness chose not to interfere with Yindu's absurd behavior, no matter how much he hates the Zerg. I stand with him."

"I also thank you for finally standing by me and for choosing to support the First Fortress."

"I watched you grow up!" Elder Shulun patted Albert on the shoulder. "Besides, I like the children of coward bears! All the heirs in the tribe are afraid of me, except you! Since you were 18 years old, your gender has not yet been completely differentiated, but you dared to pull my beard and yell at me, 'old immortal'!"

Albert raised his eyebrows and said, "So it is precisely because of my 'specialness' that you have been supporting me against all odds until I have secured the position of 'heir'?"

"No." Elder Shulun stroked his beard and said sincerely, "You have good vision. You made the right friends and chose the right person."

Albert was speechless.

The old man looked past him and looked at Fitzgerald in the shielding energy field with deep meaning. He said in a long voice: "I have also experienced the bloody succession of three successors of the empire. I am honored to be the great elder, not because I have lived long, but because of my vision in judging the situation."

Albert shrugged and said, "Well, you're right."

Elder Shulun laughed and said, "When your Highness receives me later, you can..."

At this moment, the cube that was originally floating in the air and emitting magnificent light suddenly began to shake violently, interrupting the conversation between Albert and the elder.

It also broke the increasingly tense conversation between Collot and Fitzgerald in the energy shield.

The KEY value that was questioned not long ago, originally fluctuated regularly, but after reaching a peak, it suddenly fell back to the bottom as if it was shocked, and then -

Fitzgerald stood up suddenly!

And Kolot's voice trembled: "It's too late."