Chapter 639: Hometown and Ceremony (two-in-one super large chapter please vote for me)
Navigator·The fourth annular cabin
The hot plasma cannon blasted through the narrow door and the wriggling tentacles falling from the ceiling.
"Yusi?"
Yuan Guo, who was sitting in the room, looked up at the door that had been penetrated by the plasma cannon, and at the woman standing behind the door.
And while she was surprised, Shu Gui, who was standing next to Zhang Yusi, kicked open the door, pulled her and ran out.
"What happened?"
Yuan Guo looked at the two of them in shock,
Immediately afterwards, she saw Zhang Yusi turn around and fire a shot, destroying the giant leech-like monster that had been lurking in the corridor.
"Hebu asked us to rescue you."
Zhang Yusi glanced at Yuan Guo. They had socialized on the plane before, "Believe me, it's not an illusion."
Then she looked back at Shu Gui and said, "Back off, let's go back."
Down the dark corridor, a whispering sound gradually sounded.
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Navigator Core Control Room
At this moment, the distance between He Ao and Davila was extremely close.
And almost at the same time as he approached David's body, a bright light burst out from the eyes of the huge robot behind David that had been watching He Ao.
The powerful laser almost flew past He Ao's body, part of it shining on the gate that had not been completely opened, and part of it shining on the steel slope at the gate.
When the laser shines on the gate, a huge energy oscillation jumps out from the depths of the hall. At the same time, some slight energy oscillations also appear at the gate. These energy oscillations interfere with the laser and weaken the laser to a certain extent.
strength.
But the gate, which had originally been opened, was partially melted again.
What melted together with the gate were the stacked steel fragments below. These molten steel were intertwined, and the blazing light blew across He Ao's face with the wind and waves.
David raised the mechanical arm, and a giant mechanical snake with molten steel wrapped around its body emerged from the steel ruins at his feet, pushing him backwards and winding towards He Ao at the same time.
He Ao raised his mechanical sword, activated the flames, and cut off the giant snake with one strike. Pointing his toes on the ground, he suddenly jumped up and chased David in the sky.
At this moment, a giant mechanical palm stretched out from the air and slapped He Ao. At the same time, another giant palm stretched out and grabbed David in the air.
He Ao didn't have any leverage in the air. He held the mechanical sword across his chest to block the slap, then rolled backwards and landed in front of the huge gate still filled with molten flames.
He looked back at the gate, and the weak energy circuits were still reverberating on the gate.
This gate was once part of the energy circuit of the hall, and looks like a nested and strengthened sub-body.
This gate should also have a strong ability to purify pollution.
At this moment, He Ao also completely understood why David went to great lengths to lure Yin Weier here.
Monsters made of pollution cannot break through gates with the ability to purify pollution.
Because they will be eliminated by purification and pollution before they attack, they can only lure a powerful C-level human to break the door.
He Ao lowered his head and glanced at the steel slope at his feet.
After so many twists and turns, the broken steel skeletons in this steel slope still cannot be seen to the end.
During these long years, perhaps countless monsters have been driven here to try to break open this door.
He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked again at the mechanical giant that was half flesh and half machine.
David was standing firmly on the palm of the mechanical giant at this moment.
Although this guy had been steady and motionless just now, when He Ao came closer, he had actually condensed the steel snake under his feet and prepared the mechanical giant to run away once the battle started.
He is very aware of the strength comparison between himself and He Ao.
But at this moment, he and the mechanical giant were dozens of meters away from the gate.
Although the gate was damaged, the main body of the energy circuit behind the gate still maintained the ability to purify pollution. The mechanical giant covered in twisted flesh did not dare to approach the area in front of the gate easily.
He Ao raised his hand and threw the bone sword directly towards David, who was standing in the hand of the mechanical giant.
"Those are the extraordinary beings you saved? How did you do it?"
David controlled the monster to retreat and dodge the bone sword. He raised his head and glanced at the burning ring-shaped cabin.
"There are no communication tools in this spaceship. You are in the core area, and they are in the annular cabin. And the time you are really separated from me is only the distance before you arrive here.
"Even if you have seen my problem, how can you contact those people?"
In such a quiet situation, the distance of tens of meters does not affect the communication between D-level and above extraordinary beings.
While he was talking, the mechanical giant picked up a huge steel wall from the side and smashed it towards He Ao.
"For the answer to this question, maybe you can ask the 'person' who guided you here,"
He Ao flashed past the steel wall and glanced at the microcomputer in David's hand that still maintained the style of the research institute, "Right, A02?"
David's expression froze.
The screen of the microcomputer in his hand flickered, and the image of a silver-haired girl in tights appeared in He Ao's field of vision.
"The distortion of time and space when the space-time jump tester is started causes the surrounding light to be distorted, which in turn causes the stars to flicker and shift. By continuously starting and shutting down the space-time jump tester, it is possible to pass the flicker of the stars with simple telegrams.
method of transmitting information.”
A02's voice sounded slowly,
"It's a very smart move. These codes should transmit the institute's standard code code. You added the symbol group numbered 009 at the beginning. The symbol group means that the code prefix of this paragraph is a non-conventional prefix.
This symbol group is often used when there is no agreed prefix in advance.
"But in actual use, this symbol group is often used as a reminder to remind the person receiving the code word to use some rarely used but pre-agreed backup prefix that both parties know.
"Judging from your expression when you heard David mention the standard code words, you actually don't use the standard code words frequently. Combined with your fighting habits, the possibility that you and your companions have agreed on the code words in advance is less than 1%.
"So if your companions want to decipher this code word, they can only make guesses based on their mutual understanding with you.
"But the time you spend with your companion is actually very short. Depending on how well you understand each other, in order to facilitate understanding, the prefix you convey to your companion will not be complicated.
"I tested all the 'prefixes' related to your name and position, and finally found that using the two prefixes 'river' and 'esoteric' can decode the code words into understandable sentences.
"It means, 'Beware of foreign monsters, don't leave the safe house, and wait for the ruins to end'."
Speaking of this, A02 also had some doubts in his voice,
"Logically speaking, your companions cannot analyze the message of 'rescuing Yuan Guo' from this secret phrase, unless you use more complex prefixes that are difficult to associate and can decode this secret phrase into different meanings.
"But complex and difficult-to-associate prefixes will greatly increase the difficulty for your companions to guess the correct answer. How did you do it?"
Hearing this question, He Ao raised his hand, used telekinesis to take the bone sword back into his hand, and replied, "Maybe it's just luck."
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In the bright elevator area, Shu Gui destroyed the switch on the other side, and then closed the gate of the elevator area from this side of the elevator.
Accompanied by the sounds of monsters hitting the gate, the three people who were running away finally took a breath.
"Hebu asked us not to stay outside and go back as soon as possible."
Zhang Yusi slammed the huge plasma cannon, which was about the same height as her, onto the ground, took a deep breath, and then picked up the plasma cannon again.
"good,"
Shu Gui nodded, straightened up, and led Yuan Guo forward, and soon arrived at the gate on the other side.
As he opened the gate, he asked curiously, "Yusi, how on earth did you know that the code words started with 'mountains', 'blood', and 'turn back'?"
"ah?"
When asked this question, Zhang Yusi, who was walking at the end and holding the plasma cannon pad, was stunned.
She looked back at Shu Gui and stuttered slightly, "This is..."
“This is the label of Minister He’s popular post.”
Yuan Guo on the side took a breath and answered.
"Ah! That's right, I happened to see that post too," Zhang Yusi nodded quickly, "I remembered it in a flash, a flash of inspiration."
Yuan Guo glanced at the microcomputer screen that Zhang Yusi accidentally touched during the battle and lit up, but said nothing.
The screen is showing the screen wallpaper set by Zhang Yusi.
It was a photo of a young man covered in blood, looking back at the vast collapsing mountains.
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core control room
"It seems that you used some kind of information that I don't understand, that your companions can associate with you even if they are not familiar with you, and used this information to construct the prefix of the code word.
"It seems that at that time, you already had doubts about me."
A02 still had a gentle and approachable smile on his face, "Sir, please allow me to admire your wisdom. I believe that if our Lord knew what you did, he would also be surprised by you."
"Then thank your 'Lord' for me in advance."
He Ao also responded with a gentle and calm smile.
A02 actually didn't show many doubts, but the biggest doubt was revealed from the beginning.
Almost all the smart devices that could be seen in this ship had been destroyed. The more places there were human resistance, the more so.
One or two computers were destroyed, possibly by accidental damage, but if all the computers along the route were destroyed, there must be some common reason.
Among this series of destroyed smart devices, A02, the self-proclaimed master artificial intelligence of the Navigator, and the fact that it still maintains stable operation is itself questionable.
And in fact, He Ao was reminded when he first entered the spacecraft.
On the cover of the main console in the original hall, someone wrote in blood, 'Don't trust Chi...'
Although He Ao didn't recognize the word He Ao at the end, as his exploration gradually deepened, the only thing that could be related to the word "wisdom" was "artificial intelligence".
So the full meaning of that sentence should be 'Don't believe in intelligence'. This 'intelligence' may be followed by suffixes such as 'machine' and 'equipment', but the person who wrote that sentence may have been too late to write it.
The destroyed host equipment that may have been running artificial intelligence, as well as the mechanical and flesh-and-blood monsters in the spacecraft, also confirmed his conjecture from the side.
In the hall where He Ao first entered the spacecraft, a group of survivors had gathered, and the reason for their survival may be related to this 'prompt'.
Inferring backwards, one of the reasons for the destruction of this spacecraft may be 'artificial intelligence'.
And if artificial intelligence is really one of the reasons for the destruction of the spacecraft, there are no eggs left in the nest. How can A02, the largest main intelligence, have no problems at all?
In fact, the 'echoes' left by those who died in vain in that train also gave He Ao a hint.
After He Ao awakened A02, the people in the 'echo' ended their escape and turned to look at He Ao.
At that time, He Ao was reaching out to disconnect the front car from the rear carriage, and was standing on the central axis of the tram, and A02 was also on that line, right behind He Ao.
Those echoes were probably not just looking at He Ao, but also the blocked 'A02' behind He Ao.
As for the 'echoes', they are just the solidified obsessions of those who died in vain. In theory, they no longer have emotions. They will only react to things that can cause fluctuations in their obsessions.
For example, people who see the echo by chance,
Another example is the executioner who created the killing.
Among all areas of the entire tram, only the front where A02 is located has no trace of reverberation, and the instruments are also well preserved.
The moment the destruction broke out, the door that separated the front of the car from other compartments was probably tightly closed under control.
And the 'person' who created all of this in the front of the car, quietly looked through the door with transparent windows, watching the desperate cries of the passengers who were imprisoned in the carriage, watching the blood-stained hanging
Handle in the air.
The host equipment in the front of the tram was the best-preserved equipment that He Ao had ever seen. It had not been destroyed by anyone, so He Ao met A02 there.
He Ao looked back at the dodecahedron crystal in the middle of the hall, which seemed to be the core of the control room.
But inside that crystal, there are not necessarily only densely packed computing units.
Because under the gaze of spiritual consciousness, the energy circulation circuit of the mold lake inside the crystal can be seen.
An energy circulation circuit that barely maintains a 'human form'.
And at the moment when he cast his sight, He Ao also activated his super memory.
In fact, when he was fighting Yin Weir before, he should have glanced at this place several times, but he deliberately avoided this dodecahedron crystal and did not need to look at it with super memory.
One is to avoid alerting the enemy, and the other is to prevent seeing something that shouldn't be seen and affecting the state in a fierce battle.
But this time, under his gaze, the 'soul' of this dodecahedron crystal finally appeared in front of He Ao.
A twisted, indescribable gray shadow mist coiled over the entire crystal. It seemed to have fallen into some kind of long sleep, expanding and contracting rhythmically, just like breathing.
This is the source of the 'shadow fog' that enveloped the entire core axis that Ho Ao saw in the annular cabin before.
Combining the scenes seen with his spiritual consciousness, He Ao was able to see the truth of this 'breathing'.
Whenever the shadow mist coiled around the crystal wants to expand outward, the huge energy in the hall will converge on the golden bracelet along the entire energy circuit.
Then the expanded mist will be absorbed and suppressed by the gold bracelet, changing from expansion to contraction.
It appears as if the mist is 'breathing'.
The energy circuit of this entire hall is actually a 'seal' with a gold bracelet as its core, a seal whose purpose is to suppress the pollution of the twelve-sided crystal in the center.
All the lines connecting this room to the outside have been 'cut off', probably to prevent the pollution from spreading further.
And almost the moment he saw this shadowy mist, endless twisted murmurs exploded in He Ao's mind again.
"Sir, theoretically, you should not pry into things beyond your level."
A02's gentle voice came.
Accompanied by this gentle voice, there is also a flashing laser.
However, He Ao was already prepared. Almost as soon as he turned his head, his body made a dodge movement.
The shining laser did not hit him, but it melted part of the gate and steel again.
He Ao stabilized his body, skillfully wiped the nosebleed caused by the impact of pollution, looked at A02, and said thoughtfully, "Is that your 'body'? The 'body' you created for yourself?
"
Walking all the way from the ring-shaped cabin, He Ao actually discovered a phenomenon. The more powerful the mechanical monster is, the more 'human' it is.
The strongest mechanical monster He Ao has encountered so far is the monkey.
This phenomenon is like these machines striving to 'evolve' in the direction of 'human beings'.
Judging from what has been observed so far, Ho Ao has no doubt that there is a complete human body inside the dodecahedron crystal.
And it's most likely made of flesh and blood.
On this spaceship, except for the flesh and blood entangled on some monsters and the bones behind the glass curtain wall, He Ao did not see any traces of flesh, flesh and bones.
But the dried blood stains along the road reminded him countless times that many, many people died here.
Although machines can often show fast and powerful strength, only flesh and blood life can be promoted using the 'Talent Sequence'.
A02, trying to transform from machine to ‘human’.
The person who created this seal saw her plan and sealed her body and computing core here.
Judging from the degree of pollution she showed, there were 'footprints' of gods left in her body.
Not an angel, but almost an angel.
Once you completely become a flesh and blood life, you will most likely be directly promoted to an angel.
This is why she wanted to lure He Ao and Yin Weir over to break the seal.
"Sir, you seem to know more about occult science than I expected."
A02 looked at He Ao, "If I hadn't met you this time, I would have tried to make you listen to the gospel of God."
"Forget it,"
He Ao shrugged, remembering the nonsense he had just heard, "That god of yours has an unpleasant voice. Although I have heard a lot of unpleasant ones, she is still one of the more unpleasant ones."
David:······
A02:······
A02's cheek, which had always had no obvious expression, stiffened for a moment.
"He Ao, I admit that you are very smart,"
David looked at He Ao and sighed, "But in the face of absolute power, all wisdom is false. You successfully saved the little girl, but you can't change her fate of death. She will fight with those of you."
Those companions, together with you, will go to the end of death together."
His mechanical left hand was shattered bit by bit, "I know you can answer our questions with peace of mind. I want to prolong the time as much as possible, until the ruins are over, and until you and your companions can safely return to the main world.
"
The huge mechanical giant began to squirm with flesh and blood, spreading to David's feet, "But actually I told you from the beginning, you can't go back. Do you think this is a ruins?"
He shook his head, "This is not a ruins!"
He raised his hands, and a huge overlapping gear pattern was generated under his feet. The dazzling gray light illuminated the area under the dome, and also illuminated the starry sky outside the dome.
"I know that flesh and blood are weak and miserable, but I can only see the eternity of machines!"
Accompanied by the ancient and vast chanting, the dodecahedron crystal in the control room behind He Ao suddenly began to vibrate.
The surging and terrifying pollution swept through the entire space at this moment, and endless gibbering filled He Ao's mind, and then exploded.
The blazing gray light instantly enveloped David, as well as the huge mechanical giant.
Just staring at that light, He Aodu felt as if his mind was about to burst.
This is a 'ceremony', a ceremony of 'praying' to the gods.
And the gods also sent down ‘gifts’.
In previous dungeon worlds, He Ao had seen similar rituals.
The god that David believes in is the same god that Naja, who used the prosthetic body in the previous copy of the old man, believed in.
This 'gift' was very short-lived, and the gray light quickly gathered up.
After the light dissipated, the huge mechanical giant still stood there, but the half of his cheeks that were originally irregular and crawling with flesh gradually took on a human shape.
If you look closely, it happens to be David's cheek.
David, who was originally standing on the robot's hand, has disappeared.
Huge and terrifying pressure came from the mechanical giant.
Through the twisted ritual just now, David seemed to have completed the fusion with the mechanical giant, and his strength had also been strengthened and improved.
Although Yin Weier has not yet reached the point where he was at his strongest, He Ao is also injured at the moment.
"Heao, everything is over."
The huge mechanical giant stared at He Ao, made a mechanical sound with a slight friction sound, raised its steps, and walked forward.
The energy circuits in the hall suddenly lit up, trying to purify the pollution from the approaching giant monster.
But the effect is not very obvious.
The purification and pollution effect of this hall is only effective against polluted monsters, and is not so effective against polluted 'human beings'.
Although Yin Weier was suppressed in the hall before, he was not suppressed that strongly.
David should have figured out this loophole and fused himself with the mechanical giant, giving the mechanical giant the ability to enter the energy circuit.
"Looks like I have no choice."
He Ao laughed and raised his sword.
At this moment, he is standing in front of this gate. If he does not stop David, who has merged with the mechanical giant, David will most likely try to destroy the energy circle and release the sealed A02.
At that time, He Ao will most likely face an angel.
"He Ao, why are you so persistent?"
David opened his palms,
"You can't go back. Even if you survive under my hand, you can't go back. This place is full of powerful monsters and there is no food. Even if you survive the attack of the monsters, you and your companions will not be able to go back."
After you finish eating the solid food, you will still die of despair.
"In this boundless deep space, have you ever missed your friends or your hometown for a moment? As long as you agree to cooperate with me, I can weave the illusion of your hometown for you, so that you and your friends can
Wouldn't it be nice to die in a sweet dream?"
"It's because of my hometown,"
He Ao raised his mechanical sword and faced the towering giant who couldn't see the whole picture, "That's why I stand here."
He looked at David,
"You went to great lengths to get us on this ship, arouse everyone's homesickness, and then let them die missing their hometown. I don't think it's just for fun.
