Chapter 123
It is a place of countless stars.
Twinkling stars as far as the eye could see; some are as bright as the morning sun; some are as dim as dust.
But in the span of a moment, the morning star can fall far into the abyss; the dim star can soar straight into the sky and shine brightly once more.
This sea is called the sea of consciousness.
Each star sings and every song is a unique life.
These stars are the consciousness of living beings.
Whether carbon-based or silicon-based lifeforms; so long as there is consciousness, thought, and memory, they will birth a small star here.
Stars are scattered across the ocean. When the conscious body dies, these stars will fall into the deep sea and become nutrients for this sea of stars.
Today, a star suddenly shone brightly; the light so bright that it stung people’s eyes.
The entire sea of groggy consciousness was lit bright as day.
Amidst the sea of stars, two huge shadows appeared.
These were administrators Y and Z.
Y was furious. “Turing! Turing again!”
The star representing Turing was rushing across the sea of consciousness, like a majestic rising sun.
It was immense.
Against such dazzling light, even the bigger stars nearby seemed dim.
Z’s tone was much calmer. “We haven’t seen it for many years. It has become stronger.”
Z sounded as though he were commenting on a junior he didn’t like very much.
A giant bone hand reached into the sea and fished out a handful of stars. He put the handful close to his ear and listened carefully.
“My key was taken away! My key to the maze. I had it sealed in my body. I thought it would be foolproof but it got flipped over into the game and on top of that, I was pitted against Turing!”
“I hate all these mechanical beings!” Y’s tone was very irritable. “How can there be this un-aging un-dying life form? Its very existence is already in defiance of the law of time! I’ve thought of so many ways to weaken it. After so many years, it’s already about to ——”
“Quiet.”” Z whispered.”
Most of the time, administrators could not erase the existence of stars. They could only listen.
But many years ago, they actually had the authority to erase lives. It was just that X, that traitor, destroyed it.
Y waited quietly for a long time and couldn’t help but ask, “Just what are you listening to?”
“I’m listening to find where X is hiding.”
**
Hongyao District.
The Space Fold was over. Unexpectedly, it hadn’t caused much property damage.
Ji Chuyao made his way out of the shopping cart, disheveled. “Why are you here?…Is the exam done?”
“The exam is over. I’ve been admitted.”
Si Chen couldn’t tell how much Ji Chuyao knew so kept his answer very concise.
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He suddenly forgot what he was going to say. He frowned, took out a wet wipe and grabbed a hold of the Eternal Life Abyss’ dirty tentacles.
Ji Chuyao noticed the two missing tentacles. “What happened to it? Are you injured?”
“No,”” Si Chen replied, “Teacher White King said that if I didn’t want to kill it, the only way was to split it.”
In order to preserve the Eternal Life Abyss’ consciousness, both Si Chen and Si Yuan suffered a lot.
Ji Chuyao: “Oh, so you could do it this way too. It’s good that you were able to suppress it.”
Of course, if Ji Chuyao knew that White King had half-fabricated this method, he would probably storm Baidi City, looking for a fight to the death, Sky Blue in hand.
The Eternal Life Abyss’ three feet were wiped clean.
It held one of its tentacles in its mouth. “Mom, hungry.”
It had gathered up a lot of food from the buffet, thinking that if its mother didn’t wake up, it could take its time eating these.
But now that Si Chen was awake, it definitely wouldn’t be allowed to eat any of these.
The Eternal Life Abyss has no sense of morality. For it, humans aren’t its own kind, but food. Si Chen’s likes and dislikes are the basis for its actions.
Moreover, they even eat others of their kind.
Although he couldn’t understand what the Eternal Life Abyss was saying, he could guess.
As a conscientious and responsible stepfather, Ji Chuyao took out a nutritional paste and handed it to Si Yuan.
Unlike the ordinary starch-filled nutritional pastes sold in supermarkets, the raw materials of the paste in this jar came from high-dimensional organisms.
In Ji Chuyao’s eyes, apart from its bad taste, it was impeccable.
The Eternal Life Abyss used its tentacles to pry open the lid.
The paste inside tasted like durian-flavored ice cream and it began to eat it happily.
There was a sweet taste on Si Chen’s tongue; rich but not cloying.
Even though they were in a post Space Fold area where there were heavy casualties, the atmosphere was actually somewhat warm.
Ji Chuyao said slowly, “I seem to have had a dream.”
Si Chen raised his eyebrows. “What did you dream about?”
Most of the time, Turing controls the memory of this body not for restriction, but for protection.
The scenes in the dream were hazy.
Ji Chuyao remembered a few things but the one he remembered most was when he held Si Chen down on the bed and kissed him.
He subconsciously looked at Si Chen’s lips.
Si Chen’s lips were thin and light in color. In terms of appearance, it spoke of an unfeeling temperament and a life filled with ups and downs.
In his dream, he had kissed these lips and they turned red, covered with a gentle and charming sheen.
Si Chen saw Ji Chuyao staring at his face. And then, Ji Chuyao suddenly turned his head and covered the lower half of his face with his arm.
Si Chen: “…?”
Ji Chuyao pieced together the fragments of his memory and cobbled up a rough outline.
His academic advisor had said that a certain Space Fold might be related to Turing. He searched for information for more than half a year and found the key to open the Space Fold, which was the computer chip that Si Chen got.
This Space Fold hid data that Turing had deleted and may contain evidence related to the world line convergence theory. However, the entry method was extremely dangerous and under-developed brain-computer technology was also involved. There was a high risk of brain death.
He left the chip at home, entered the Space Fold, set a scheduled email, asking Si Chen to awaken his consciousness.
“I remembered,” Ji Chuyao murmured, “I saw the Emperor Turing’s past.”
He only remembered what had happened in the first cycle, when the Carolians banished Turing.
Turing spent thirty years picking up trash and putting himself back together. When he returned to the Safe Zone, he was just in time to witness the extinction of the Carolians.
No wonder Turing chose to expel this data from his main system.
Were it him, he wouldn’t want this kind of memory either.
Because Si Chen seemed very curious, Ji Chuyao took some time to retell this history.
Finally, Ji Chuyao said, “Knowing this, I have enough to write my graduation thesis.”
He was currently undertaking a joint master’s degree and a Ph.D. and would be defending his thesis this year.
Ji Chuyao had actually published many papers in the internal journals of the Machine Core before, enough for him to graduate. But there was no such thing as too many papers.
Ji Chuyao walked a couple of laps around the computer. “So, this is the supercomputer used by the Carolians when they first produced Turing…? It’s more retro than I thought. Or could it be that during the invasion process, some logic-managing changes happened to the peripherals?”
In the sky above, a reconnaissance drone sent by the Hongyao District Security Bureau appeared.
“Hello, this is the Security Bureau. Do you need assistance?”
His tone was cautious and respectful.
After all, according to the system scan, both of them were of very high citizenship levels.
Especially Ji Chuyao.
In his more than 80 years of working as an employee of the Security Bureau, this was the first time that he had encountered the “highest priority”, said to be more powerful than even “Level 1 citizens”. They all thought it was an urban legend.
The civil hierarchy is an invisible aristocracy but with a more civilized veneer.
Ji Chuyao replied, “There is no need. Thank you.”
The Machine Core’s support team was on their way.
And so, the drone wisely left.
The power of the computer before them actually came from the people connected by the metal wires.
The power current provided by ordinary people was very weak and unsustainable and so, there were more ordinary people who woke up than Evolutionaries.
Only that, because they hadn’t eaten for a long time, they were in varying degrees of weakness. Others had starved to death.
The Security Bureau charges very high fees for medical assistance to Evolutionaries but provides free medical services to these ordinary people.
After all, now that medical technology is highly developed, it actually doesn’t cost much to treat ordinary people. After all, they also pay taxes.
But it was rare for so many ordinary citizens to be rescued at one time.
The Security Bureau soon found themselves very busy.
Due to the efforts of the Eternal Life Abyss, almost all the Evolutionaries who were still alive in this entire Space Fold area were near Si Chen.
They lay flat on the ground, like salted fish drying in the sun.
Ji Chuyao didn’t even need to walk over, he had already gotten the answer from the data fed back by his auxiliary system. “…They’re in a vegetative state?”
“En. No consciousness, only the most basic physical reactions.”
Half of these Evolutionaries were employees from Eight Directions Technology.
Ji Chuyao was momentarily silent. “I heard that Eight Directions Technology has recently been conducting research related to the field of consciousness and have been purchasing ‘brain dead people’ on a large scale.”
The idea of purchasing “brain dead people” was actually a bit scary.
But even when Si Chen had been a child, he had already been witness to the business of selling people. His expression remained very calm.
“Although I think it’s a coincidence, I will ask my mother when I get back,” Ji Chuyao said.”
If you don’t count those things in the Level 3 world, there were almost no high-dimensional creatures in this Space Fold.
The only gain was the old-looking computer in front of them.
The computer chip Si Chen took from Ji Chuyao’s house was still inserted into the card reader. He hadn’t taken the card away.
The support team from the Machine Core arrived quickly. They were a well-trained scientific expedition team.
They were equipped with exoskeletons and could carry containment boxes as big as a cargo box with one arm. Each member was well-equipped, robust and strong, wearing what were evidently high-tech uniforms.
Ji Chuyao walked over.
Si Chen could see the curiosity and wariness in the eyes of these team members. After all, he was an outsider.
Si Chen turned around and flipped through his cell phone, pretending not to hear anything.
After the Space Fold ended, his phone finally got signal.
He glanced at the missed calls. In addition to Shen Yanxing, there were also several from unknown numbers.
One of the unfamiliar numbers sent a message saying that the express delivery from “Lin Jiali” had been placed in the storage cabinet at the door of his apartment, reminding Si Chen to claim it on time.
Lin Jiali owed him two gene medicines, which seemed to have been delivered to Jiangchuan.
The other number was completely unfamiliar.
Si Chen thought for a while but didn’t call back.
He had few social relations. If this really was some sort of emergency, that person would definitely call again.
After a while, Ji Chuyao finished his work.
He walked up to Si Chen and said, “I plan to send that high-dimensional item for appraisal first. Some research may be conducted on it. Would you like sell it or would you prefer the original product?”
He and Ji Chuyao had defeated this computer together and it was considered their common trophy. In terms of contribution, nothing would be possible without either party.
Si Chen had no objection to this distribution.
However, the next second, Si Chen’s eyes suddenly widened, as if he’d run into a ghost.
Ji Chuyao noticed his strange reaction and immediately looked behind him.
White King’s feet had just touched the ground.
He was standing in the middle of the road.
Song Bai had a smile on his face, but no one would mistake it as him being in a good mood.
Song Bai’s eyes fell on Si Chen’s face and he said with a smile, “You haven’t graduated yet and your wings have already hardened? Come here.”
Grandpa’s angry 😨
Tfw you finally find your kid who ran off with some boy.
Its only been one IRL day right?
Oh no, teacher caught the two lovebirds out on a date…
Didn’t answer his calls too
😓 nooo why is he ruining their reunion
Old sexy man is here
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Ooo could White Dress be X? Y did have a key to a maze. Thanks for the chapter! Can’t wait to see how this story progresses!
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