Interstellar leader

A month later, in Yige's air station.

"Centaur Spiral Arm No Man's Land" Li Qing in casual clothes stood in front of the entrance and asked in surprise.Looking up at the large number of construction team robots outside the air show and the overriding technicians in the carriage, he smiled. "Reconstruction after the war went well."

"Don't interrupt, Yang, why are we going to no man's land."

"Don't you have a friend named Bai Yu? How is he doing now?"

"Thank you for your concern. He is still alive, but he probably won't last long. Adelaide visited him a week ago, and she claimed that he still has a month to talk at most." Li Qing asked. "How do you know him?"

"Since you told him that the only way to survive is to be an Internet ghost, he knows that the existing computers are completely incapable of replicating a human brain, so he has been looking for a corresponding solution. He said that even if he died, he would not let A 'self' with a broken mind lives in the world, and he wants a perfect transformation."

"The new type of computer I designed can do this job. The Star Network cannot bear the huge amount of information in the human brain in an instant, but we can differentiate it and import it little by little."

Li Qing looked back at Yige's terminal again. He remembered that a few years ago, he went to look for Gaia with Jörg, Albert, Adelaide, and Ilois. It was then that everything started All changed.Now Albert is preparing for the next change of government and running for economy minister.Adelaide devoted himself to the work of post-war chemical pollution elimination and biosphere maintenance, and traveled to various planets.Ilois picked up the writing of the ancient dictionary again, hoping to smooth over the grief of his mother's death.

Jörg went the furthest, he went to another universe.

Li Qing thought, could it be his original one?Will he meet Isaac Lancelot there?

Yang's voice brought him back to reality. "Bai Yu told me that you once showed him the idea of ​​the ultimate computer, but it could not be completed due to material limitations."

"Yes, its material requirements are too harsh. You should know that there is a principle of 'perfection does not exist' in material science, and every requirement of mine is on the line of this principle."

Yang looked at him with a half-smile. "What method do you think I used to change my body?"

Li Qing pondered for a while, and the atmosphere around him began to freeze. "What kind of material is there in the no man's land of the centaur spiral arm?"

"Of course." Yang answered succinctly.He turned around and walked into the starship that had already parked. Li Qing followed without hesitation.

On the way to the no-man's land, there was silence in the starship until Li Qing broke the drearily dull atmosphere. "I have a lot of questions I want to ask you, Yang."

"Even if I know the answers, I may not be able to answer all of them." Yang raised his eyes, his pupils seemed to be shrouded in layers of fog, unable to see the true thoughts in his heart.

"Why do you know about the micro-connected world?"

"Lancelot——I don't know what your previous name was. I'll call you by this name for the time being. I hope you don't mind." Yang stood up, his eyes fixed on the cold black space outside the porthole. "You are not the only time traveler."

Li Qing's pupils shrank imperceptibly. "Are you from another universe?"

"It's not just me, there are others." Yang smiled, that smile was vicissitudes and sadness. "You know the guinea pig for experiments? Of course, people use it occasionally now, and most research uses data simulations, but I used to live in a time when people used this little thing for drug experiments."

"The mice were put on a starting line, and those who lost their way were killed, those who ran slowly were killed, and those who refused to serve the experimenter were also killed because they knew too much. Occasionally there were very clever , escaped the butcher's knife by exploiting the loophole, that's me. After a batch of mice was used up, a new batch was moved from other cages—"

"That's us."

A chill rose from his back, Li Qing felt his limbs were icy cold, and his fingers gradually became numb.

"I used to have some special abilities like you, but I didn't master them as well as you. Later, I, a clever little mouse, escaped death. You are probably the best little white mouse ever, Lan Sloat. I guess you won't say no to it."

"it?"

Yang's face turned pale for a moment. "It's 'it'," he said in a low voice. "It has no ability to control the world, but it has always been in control."

The wristband placed on the table suddenly vibrated strongly, Li Qing opened its main interface, and the blood red title caught the eye.

Death: Admiral Ackerman died of natural causes at home.

"This is not a natural death." Yang lowered his head, preventing Li Qing from seeing his expression. "He was expelled by.... He does not belong to this universe, nor can he fully control the world of micro-connections like you, so 'it' can expel his soul, which is the slow-running mouse. Lancelot, Ackerman got here before you and still didn't make it to the finish."

The starship landed on a desolate planet, they put on their spacesuits and stepped into the ground vehicle used on the unexplored planet.This place reminds Li Qing of the Sahara Desert, of Mars, a place of despair and desolation.The atmosphere is very thick, just as the star is almost sinking on the other side of the dunes, the light is scattered into a blood-red color, making this planet particularly terrifying.

"What's that material called?" Li Qing steered the ground vehicle to the sand dune where the pole was erected, and stopped.

"I call it a bug." Yang pointed to the area. "You'll see it soon enough. Remove this dune, it's down there."

Now he understood why Yang called it "bug".

"Twice the atmosphere, four hundred Kelvin, it's the perfect material for what you want," Yang said.

"Why are you helping me? Why are you helping Bai Yu?"

"Olivia. Where is it with you?"

"Richter."

"Yes." Li Qing replied without changing his expression. "Kill you, universe."

"I've been here before." Yang said to Li Qing through the intercom, and he pointed to a towering metal pole in the distance. "The desert here is covered with rocks. It was originally a flag welded to the rocks, but the flag has been torn apart by sandstorms."

Li Qing closed his eyes and began to concentrate on moving the sand above.They were neatly connected and extended downward in the same direction. He changed their gravity, and the sand began to flow faster into the distance in an instant, creating a storm.He opened his eyes again, and the rock that had been covered before was revealed, and a hole was dug in the rock, which was obviously left by Yang when he came last time.

As the night darkened, looking down from the hole, one could see clusters of wriggling neon-blue flashes. He held a cluster in his hand, which was soft and cool, like jelly.It is moving, as if it has its own consciousness and life, very magical.He pressed it with his fingers, and the surface he touched instantly became hard, and he couldn't press down any further.

"Because I want to find a better way to escape." Yang's face was blurred in the looming blue fluorescent light, and his expression was also hidden in the shadows. "Maybe I'm not as afraid of death as I think I am, but I hope that what kills me is a natural process, not some inexplicable consciousness. Also, I thought, maybe—maybe you can stop this, stop This stupid experiment. It took us from another universe to find nature's ultimate secrets, and then killed us halfway."

"It can't do anything to the conscious body of this universe, and it can't control the material world, but it is omniscient. It knows that I have changed my body and connected myself into this universe, although it can't do anything to me now. What, but it's after me, and one day, it's going to get what it wants."

He looked up at the night sky, countless stars were shining, and their light was passing and sensing each other. "Our universe is like a brain. The stars are countless neurons. It's a pity that human beings haven't realized this until the universe really appears in front of us."

"Because of fear." Li Qing said softly. "We dare not conjecture, dare not verify, dare not admit...it is with you, what is its name?"

"We have to think about how to get rid of it." As soon as Li Qing finished speaking, an indifferent voice that could not hear the ups and downs sounded in the depths of his thinking. "Get rid of me?"

That voice is mechanical.Laughed dryly. "I am omniscient. If you come up with any conspiracy to destroy my consciousness, I will see it clearly at the first time. You must know that cooperating with me is the best choice, and I don't want anything. many--"

"So I need to find a way, even if you know what I'm going to do, you can't stop it." Li Qing interrupted it. "Now, I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. Let's find out how to kill each other first."