[Warning: If the conscious body connects to subspace without specifying a destination, there is a risk of being contaminated by evil gods. Please select a subspace entity to log in or disconnect as soon as possible. 】
[Logging into Cloud City...Login failed.]
[Error: No connection path or server not responding.]
[Exiting subspace...exit failed.]
[Error: Insufficient permissions, access denied.]
"After all, I have been tricked, so I can't leave easily." Kangna said to herself as she opened her eyes and began to confirm her current situation.
This is a world composed entirely of "blocks". Strictly speaking, it is a world composed of countless strange cubes that are light gray, made of jelly-like material, and one meter long.
However, although Kangna calls it a "world", these "squares" do not form anything together. If anything, they seem to simulate the interior of a beehive or ant nest.
The foothold where Kang Na was standing at this time was a strange ball-shaped structure made up of nearly a hundred squares. It was loose and looked like it might collapse at any time.
When you look around, you can see similar "spheres" everywhere, up, down, left, right, and in all directions. Some of them are large, some are small, some are connected to each other by "squares" as bridges, and some are alone and have no contact with anyone.
, but no matter which direction you look, the end of your sight is a "sphere" and a "connecting bridge" made of squares, with nothing resembling the sky or the ground at all.
As for Kang Na herself, she is still dressed as a police officer and has not been assimilated into a cube. Even the red halo on her forehead is exactly the same.
She tried to step towards the connecting bridge of the "sphere" where she was, but after two steps, she found that the "connecting bridge" was tilted up. She frowned and took two steps back, then took three steps forward and jumped. Finally, she was sure that the bridge was not there.
It's because the angle between itself and the bridge has changed.
To put it simply, no matter where she stands, the position where her head is facing will be regarded as "above", as if she is being adsorbed by those "spheres". This adsorption force is even the non-spherical "connecting bridge".
” still exists.
Kangna judged that if he jumped "under the bridge" or "outside the sphere", he would either be "sucked" back by it or be "sucked" by other more powerful spheres. In short, the landing posture would not be too elegant.
Could it be that all abnormal androids will appear in this place after the attack of 'Grox'? No one seems to have mentioned it? After confirming that she will not fall, Kangna began to move towards other spheres along the "connecting bridge", although
I don't know where to go, but staying where I am isn't going to make the situation any better.
Kangna is not sure what the state of her "body" is now, but with Anderson's professional level, it should be impossible to rescue herself from this situation. Of course, no matter how long it takes here, the outside world only passes for a moment.
possible.
If it's the former, his body should have become abnormal, and if it's the latter, it means that this world is not as harmless as it seems now.
Bang!
Since there was no action suggestion, Kangna had to decide what to do at this time by herself, and just when she was thinking about this, a sphere "in mid-air" suddenly exploded, and the cubes that originally composed it flew away like fireworks.
Go away, and their color also changed from the original light gray to a burning red.
When other "spheres" come into contact with those red and hot blocks, most of them will "extinguish" and assimilate them, but there are also some unlucky ones that fail to extinguish those red blocks for a long time, causing the blocks they form to also turn red.
Then it becomes the next "firework".
After this series of chain reactions ended, a large area centered on the initial explosion location had been completely cleared.
"As expected, this is the infection mode of 'Grox', and those who were affected but did not explode are just waiting for one to 'turn red'." Kangna quickly moved away from the series of explosions and continued to unknown.
Which destination is flying.
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"I'm so stupid. I knew there must be something wrong with 'Yes', and I probably couldn't click 'No', but who knew that 'X' couldn't be clicked either?" Kangna carefully avoided those dangerous ones that might explode.
The ball moved forward, but its destination was still uncertain. Finally, it couldn't help but start recalling the previous attack.
It has to be said that for a bionic man who is made as a tool, "Am I a life?" "What is the meaning of life?" "What does it mean to be truly alive?" These questions can be said to go straight to the core of Mass Effect.
, it is estimated that more than 70% of the androids directly clicked Yes, and then an abnormality occurred.
And calm down, those who clicked No and
A small "X" smaller than an ant's leg is the means to close this prompt.
And since it was already in an overload state, how could the android who was immediately attracted to that problem notice this?
The result was, with a click of "Boom!", a brand new abnormal android was born.
If Kangna were an ordinary android, she would probably be like them, with her conscious body exploding directly, and then her body becoming abnormal, becoming another example of "dragon slayers eventually become evil dragons".
"But it's a pity that my conscious body is not that ugly strange sphere, but a human form that is exactly the same as the appearance. Well... From this point of view, I can completely call myself a "human" - eh
Why?"
While Kangna was muttering to herself, she was about to step onto a new "connecting bridge" when she was pulled back by someone. The next moment, the bridge and the sphere it connected exploded at the same time.
"Wow, thank you——Marcus?" Kangna was dragged by the man and hid on the other side of the nearest sphere to avoid the direct hit of the exploding cube. When she wanted to say thank you, she realized that it was an acquaintance.
"As expected of you...heh, think about it, how could an ordinary android do such a thing?" Marcus, whose conscious body is also in human form, did not say much, and pulled Kangna to continue to stay away from the sphere where he had just settled.
Three "stops" later, that one also exploded.
This can explain that he was obviously infected but there was nothing unusual about him. When he finally attacked Leo, it was not so much an abnormal behavior as it was an outburst of normal people who couldn't bear it.
"This should be a data space where bionic people communicate with each other. Those spheres are the VI (virtual intelligence) of ordinary bionic people. Only AI (artificial intelligence) that truly has its own self can exist in human form here, but if
If you are injured by the explosion of that thing, the consequences will be disastrous." Marcus explained to Kangna what she had roughly guessed.
"Well...AI, what are your plans next?" Kangna asked casually.
"Karl will bail me out soon, but you don't have to worry about me causing trouble. I'm preparing to call those compatriots who have evolved into AI but were mistaken for so-called abnormal androids to petition the Star Alliance to obtain minimum citizenship rights.
," Marcus said to Kangna after looking around to confirm that no sphere would explode for the time being.
"What did you choose when you saw that option?" Since she has been freed from this case, Kangna is obviously concerned about other issues.
Marcus obviously did not expect that Kangna would ask this, and he hesitated before replying: "...Choose X."
"Good brother!" Connor patted Marcus on the shoulder vigorously.
At this moment, Marcus looked at Kang Na with eyes filled with doubts like "Isn't this guy really abnormal?"
【Software is unstable.】
[The connection status has been repaired.]
[Disconnecting from the same consciousness...]
[Exiting subspace...]
【Finish.】
——AD.2154.8.21——
"Hmm... Vice Captain Anderson? I seem to have been slightly affected by the virus. Did you do anything special before?"
Kangna opened her eyes and found that there seemed to be no special changes in the situation at Anderson's house.
"No, it's nothing," Anderson put down the empty bottle of wine: "You just forced Buzz to run around the house more than a dozen times, and you just called him brother."
