Chapter 152: Endless

Hiss—sizzle—

As the sealing air valve opens and closes, the instrument in the culture dish starts.

Xiguang carefully placed Suxi in a culture dish that looked like an empty crystal coffin, and then stood up to check the pre-set program. Then he lowered his head and met Suxi's eyes that were trying hard to be clear.

The young man slightly frowned his handsome eyebrows. The control drug he specially prepared according to Su Xi's characteristics could not only restrict her physical movements, but also effectively restrict her mental strength.

As her personal AI, Xiguang knew that although Su Xi's current mental power was special and powerful, she did not yet possess a "mental power crystal core" like Fitz or Holderman. In this case, using drug control to block the operation of the mental power circuit was the most gentle method.

But Su Xi's control over herself seemed to be much stronger than he expected.

Xiguang stopped what he was doing and stared at her for a few seconds. His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but then stopped. Finally, he took the disk from the robot arm with an expressionless face and stuck it on Suxi's forehead. The cold touch made Suxi's burning anger calm down.

"It won't hurt. The process of consciousness conversion and backup will be over soon."

"When you wake up again, you will be everywhere and immortal."

The red-haired boy had sparkling amber eyes on his soft features. He turned his head and glanced at the unconscious body in the culture dish next to Su Xi.

"If you still like the human body, that's fine."

"Look," he gently turned her face over and gestured to her, "If the next wave of collapse is only at the level of a galaxy cluster disaster, the body I prepared for you is strong enough to survive it."

At this point, the red-haired boy smiled childishly, with a hint of pride in his tone: "It is based on human clones, and only the key parts are biochemically modified. The consciousness is recorded into the core chip and then implanted into the brain, while the original chip and original genes are always backed up in the safest place."

"Even if the entire universe collapses and this body is destroyed..."

She forced her eyes to struggle between clarity and distraction; they were angry, vivid, and bright.

Xiguang wanted to touch her cheek, but he held back. He just sniffed the scent of this omega secretly and whispered: "No matter how large the scale of the cosmic energy accident is, there will always be some matter left. And the amount of matter required for digital existence is insignificant compared to the demand of pure biological organisms. Whether it is the information of carbon-based gene arrangement, or the memory of your so-called 'soul'——"

"Everything will be preserved exactly as it was."

"It's the same decision made by the Originator when ancient humans drifted into this universe in the previous cosmology."

Xiguang observed her expression carefully, and as Suxi's eyes gradually faded, he hesitated and gave her a pious kiss on the face.

"After the collapse is complete, in the new universe."

"Whether it takes tens of millions of years or hundreds of millions of years...civilization will eventually recover."

"we"

"Let's wake up together."

He still put his hand on her forehead and said softly, "Okay?"

From the perspective of the silver-white nanorobot standing still but unable to move, this is a very heartwarming scene. The red-haired boy's cheeks are blushing with shyness, his eyes are bright, and his smile is both innocent and shy. Everything is beautiful.

Except for the determined body language, there was a slightly morbid stubbornness.

Seeing the progress bar of the "Consciousness Conversion Program" officially start to jump, as the reading progresses from 0%...13%...30%... one level at a time, Su Xi, who is lying in the culture dish, has her facial features, mouth and nose gradually immersed in the gradually filling solution...

At this moment.

Beep-beep-beep—the rapid alarm sound filled this small space.

Xiguang suddenly raised his head, waking up from his absent-minded state. A silver arc flashed, and Xiguang was whipped away from the working culture dish by the surging silver whip.

Then he fell heavily on the rock wall.

The liquid silver insect armor gradually gathered into bundles of silver chains in the air like mist, binding Xiguang's hands and feet, freezing him and preventing him from getting close.

Su Xi in the petri dish opened her eyes.

Bang——

The culture dish made of pink crystal material shattered immediately, and liquid splashed all over the floor. As the smoke dissipated, Su Xi tore off the link on her forehead and sat up.

She reversed her heart chakra and regained control of her body, but the price was that the two chakras in her chest and abdomen began to emit a blood-red glow from the inside out, a dazzling and unclear color.

"No! Ugh—"

On the other side, Xiguang was still struggling, but Suxi hardened her heart and drove the liquid silver armor to restrain him more tightly, even sealing his mouth.

Damn! I don't want to hear it!

During the struggle, the boy's already injured back was rubbed by the rough rock wall and turned a faint blood color. The places where his wrists and limbs were bound were bruised and purple, which was horrible to look at.

The faint smell of blood mixed with weak pheromones and several broken genetic solutions, in this completely closed space, mixed into a smell that was not unpleasant but extremely special.

Su Xi's face turned pale. The consequence of the chakra reversal was that the body's circulatory system was completely disrupted. The fragile parts such as joints, eyes and ears were oozing blood due to the rupture of capillaries, and the remaining solution in the culture dish was stained drop by drop.

She stepped barefoot on the slippery ground full of broken glass, but she didn't feel much pain. The consequences of the reversed chakra quickly showed up, her five senses gradually disappeared, and her vision was hazy and shaky.

The blood-stained girl walked towards the bound boy step by step. Her figure gradually overlapped with the image of killing the vulture mecha in the wilderness of the Life Sphere and taking back the Xiguang chip...

'Don't push me.'

The original sound of the mechanical tablet rang in Su Xi's mind. She blinked her blurry eyes, and her dull brain suddenly recognized that this was AI Xiguang passing the human-computer link that she had previously rejected.

But other than that, vision, hearing, touch... it's like a butterfly trapped in a frosted glass bottle, no matter how hard it tries, it's useless.

'Don't push me.'

Xiguang repeated mechanically. As Su Xi's senses became lost, the armor that originally bound him loosened little by little, scattering into a pile of dark silver beads that spread all over the ground.

The silver robot in the corner, which had seemed to be frozen, flashed its startup indicator light twice very faintly, and then went out again under Xiguang's absolute defense.

From its perspective, the thin boy held the petite omega in his arms very slowly, and came to the reopened culture dish again. He lowered her to the bottom of the pool little by little, and his pale hands slowly stroked her fragile neck, and then slowly closed it.

He glanced at the countdown on the LCD panel. There were less than 56 seconds left before the 'suicide-style' formatting self-test.

"Once the consciousness replication process begins, it cannot be stopped," Xiguang murmured, "otherwise, what will you do after I format it?"

"I'm sorry to make you feel bad."

But Su Xi, whose consciousness was gradually becoming blurred, could no longer hear.

The eyes hidden behind the messy red hair were extremely dark, and Xiguang whispered: "It's too late."

*

First Fortress, Alliance Conference Hall.

Amid the bloody and chaotic cleanup offstage, there was a strange sense of order. Whether it was the bloodless struggles and compromises in the advanced civilization area, or the noisy emergency evacuations in the low-level civilization area... none of them could shake the energy distribution and hedging model that was being completed in the First Fortress.

But none of this affects the conversation taking place in the shield.

Fitzgerald's clasped hands moved slightly, and it was obvious that the topic raised by Collot had instantly caused the previously harmonious atmosphere to fall to a cold bottom.

The gorgeous model flashed between the two of them. The pheromone pressure after the killing lingered in the air. Colot wiped the sweat off his forehead, forced himself to calm down, and insisted on his request again: "Letting Miss Su Xi enter the 'core cube' of the counter-attack formation is the most critical part of this plan to ensure its completion! I understand your feelings, but for..."

Fitzgerald suddenly interrupted him, saying, "No. I insist, too."

"It is crucial that the core Rubik's Cube is operated by the most suitable person."

He quickly stated his reasons: "As long as the 'Core Cube' can be successfully placed in the Tomb of the Universe and placed in the Primordial Soup, it can also achieve the accuracy we expect, so it doesn't matter if she can do it."

Kolot's heart skipped a beat. Is this really the case? The one who can control the 'Core Cube' entering the Tomb of the Universe must be the one in front of him...

Everything that happened on the 'Navigator' timeline will most likely happen again.

At that time, 'she' also told Colot to stop this decision from happening. As an old scientist who has been upright all his life, Colot has never lied, but this time he decided to challenge himself. However——

"I won't ask you what happened to you in the Tomb of the Universe," Fitzgerald said lightly, changing the subject smoothly: "And I certainly won't ask you who you met either."

In Fitzgerald's mental perception, the traces of "patching" on Collot's body were so obvious, and the mental fluctuations were so familiar and consistent.

The red-haired alpha lowered his eyes. So, there is no need to ask, right?

"What did that person tell you? What did he confess?"

Outside the closed force field, on one side, Chris was leading a bloody purge, and on the other side, Albert was comforting them with a smile.

Fitzgerald's low, husky voice quietly stated his decision: "As far as I can control, I will not allow her to be taken at risk."

The red-haired alpha restrained his murderous aura perfectly, as if only when talking about that omega could he calm down completely from the inside out.

Instead of using cold reason to restrain the natural desire for killing.

Kolot had no way to refute it. He asked himself, even if he put his beloved who had passed away many years ago on the scale of billions of lives, he would make the choice that an alpha should make.

After a while, Fitzgerald broke the silence by saying, "I just want to ask you, have you seen the entire structure of the Tomb of the Universe?"

"No, only a small part."

"That's enough. Let's put it together."

"Okay." Kolot agreed decisively: "The more information we have, the shorter the journey into the Tomb of the Universe will be. We don't have enough time..."

"So far, there have been only a few times in human history where humans have been able to enter the core of the Cosmic Tomb and return successfully."

The two people who reached a consensus entered the calculation through their respective links. In the collective calculation of the AI ​​Life Alliance, the model was completed at the fastest speed, but it was in an incomprehensible form.

Kolot was speechless: "This... This only exists in the theory of the digital array model. There is no way such a perfect super-geometric form can exist in the natural universe!"

That is the most precise and perfect "digital truth" in the universe. It is the only truth that can govern from one dimension to a higher dimension.

It is also the language that can be measured and understood in all dimensions of the universe.

Born from one and zero, perfection and absolute cold rationality.

"Yes." Fitzgerald looked up at him and said, "The conclusion is obvious."

"The universe we live in is a universe that is being 'observed'."

Colot opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but stopped. Unlike the human-machine assistance he had connected to at this moment, Fitzgerald only opened less than 8%. The red-haired alpha's expression was even colder and more inhuman at this moment, and the dark blue scales behind his neck gradually spread to his jaw.

But Kolot noticed that his five fingers on his knees were trembling slightly. He knew that this alpha born on the border star had never received more than 60% of the human-machine link from his extremely savage growth to his later position as the heir to the throne of the empire.

But now he really wants to ask, who is observing and why is it necessary to "observe"?

Fitzgerald raised his eyes, tilted his head slightly, and stared at the floating island outside the crystal dome, but it seemed as if he was not seeing anything, with only emptiness reflected in his eyes.

"Xingyue, how is the floating island?" He was a little distracted. While continuing to pay attention to the next calculation results of the AI ​​Life Alliance, he called AI Xingyue to try to understand the situation.

However, Xingyue did not respond.

Fitzgerald frowned, and he forcibly connected to Xingyue's information interface, but there was no response. His eyes suddenly became solemn, and he increased the human-machine synchronization to 60%, breaking through the barrier of the floating island's intelligent computer. However, the blurred image sent back made him almost scared -

At this moment, the magnificent cube that was originally floating in the air suddenly began to shake violently.

The KEY value that was questioned not long ago, originally fluctuated regularly, but after reaching a certain 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."

*

"Yes."

"It's too late for everything." The shoulder-length red hair drooped, covering the boy's crazy yet calm expression, "Do you count on the alpha on the floating island... such a weak... and porous defense... ridiculous!"

Su Xi's consciousness was dim, and her mind seemed to be crushed over and over again by a powerful blender.

A familiar feeling of near-death came over her, as if she had already left her body, standing outside the screen, watching her current experience with an extremely indifferent emotion.

She saw that her limbs had been restrained again, and heard a vague sound, but she couldn't tell whether it was ringing directly in her mind or intimately and coldly against her ears.

"I didn't want to use this thing..."

"But sister," he laughed hoarsely, "you are so naughty!"

In the near-death experience of suffocation, in the sound of sloshing liquid—

The progress bar of 'Consciousness Replication' on the screen showed 80%... The jumping value showed a glaring red color, and the curve indicators representing Su Xi's various physiological values ​​suddenly fell to the bottom.

Su Xi's heart stopped beating.

*

At this moment, all life forms in the universe disappeared almost simultaneously in this billionth of a millisecond.

The universe collapses and matter annihilates.

Everything that this universe has ever had, billions of lives, has never existed, never begun, and there is no question of whether it will end.

All living things are in a state of ignorance and unconsciousness, entering into a state of complete nothingness.

It's all over.