translator: loop
After being asked by Chu Si, the alarm suddenly stopped, and a thin and continuous scream came from the transmitters. After a few seconds, it suddenly turned into a serious electronic voice: “I seem to have done something wrong, Executive.”
No, why would you, an intelligent system, scream before answering a question?
But in this situation, Chu Si no longer had the time to care about any of that. He rang the doorbells of rooms 3 and 7, and without waiting for the doors to open, was already striding straight towards the surveillance center.
“What did you do?” Chu Si walked through the corridor, asking SkyEye as he went.
The monitors in the various parts of the prison were like the ears of SkyEye. It listened to Chu Si’s question and replied, “A special order was sent directly to my processing center two minutes ago, and I— I— I— I did as I was told.”
“What instructions?!” Chu Si stopped in front of the partition door leading to the dining hall and raised his hand to unlock the door.
“A command of extremely high authority, so high that I automatically execute it,” SkyEye replied. “Releasing all the prisoners.”
“What?” Chu Si almost pressed his thumb in the wrong place when he heard that, unlocking the lock.
The partition door leading to the dining hall was pushed open, and SkyEye was still explaining through the transmitter. “As you know, when the Space Prison is complete, each room can be used as a separate space capsule, which in case of emergency can be ejected from the prison.”
It could only be said that the mentally challenged were still mentally challenged after all. In this situation, it actually breathed a faint sense of pride when explaining the prison’s design.
It was just that when SkyEye got to the last sentence, its serious electronic voice weakened, “So, I ejected them— out— out— out—”
The system once again feigned a jam at a critical moment.
Chu Si couldn’t care less about cursing at this time. Behind the opened partition door, the dining room that should have been filled with cages disappeared entirely.
If the whole dining hall was an egg, the egg’s shell was a layer of wrapped metal skin. Now, the egg was ejected from the prison by the mentally challenged system, banished on the spot, leaving only an empty layer of metal skin.
What golden crows and silver crows, they were all gone.
Chu Si: “…………………”
SkyEye was still infinitely looping the word “out”, and listening to it made Chu Si’s head hurt.
“Was there a landing point when they were ejected?” Chu Si asked.
SkyEye: “No— no— no—”
Chu Si raised an eyebrow: “You still have the face to act jammed? Fish them back up!”
He stepped on the metal skin, through the middle of what should’ve been the dining hall, and pushed open the door to the surveillance center.
The bang of the door startled SkyEye, but it immediately recovered. “Cannot be fished up.”
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SkyEye’s electronic voice was a little cautious, “There were two commands, eject the prisoners… and leave immediately. So after I ejected them, I leaped a small— small— small— small— small distance on the spot.”
Chu Si: “…”
In such a vast universe, even if you only leaped a step, that was still an unimaginable distance. To want to go fish back the ejected prisoners was no longer possible.
In that second, Chu Si’s mind was filled with questions—
Why would there be a sudden command to eject all the prisoners?
Could it be from the part of the Space Prison that had split off? But it was too much for them to eject the prisoners that were already under their control…
Or maybe the person giving the order was on the same side as the prisoners? As soon as the dining hall was ejected, the other side intercepted to receive all the prisoners, and then released them?
Chu Si frowned, and knocked on SkyEye unceremoniously: “Where are the commands sent directly to the central system? Call them out.”
When he gave the command, he glanced at the time. Three hours had passed. Maybe it was because of his dream, but he felt like he had only slept for five minutes.
Ding—
“Display screen has been updated.” At this moment, SkyEye did not dare slack around anymore and was busy putting the commands it received on the screen.
Received command: Eject prisoners
Source: 50001
Level: Red
Permission: S (highest level)
Received command: Leap immediately
Source: 50001
Level: Red
Permission: S (highest level)
There was only a two-second difference between the two commands, and the request was for both to be executed immediately.
Chu Si’s face sank: another 50001, another level marked red… impersonating him again?
This fucker wasn’t finished?!
Brazenly stealing in front of the rightful owner, if he continued to let this go, would even he, the rightful owner, be thrown out?
Chu Si was about to laugh angrily. He rummaged through the messy console, found a black earbud, put it in one ear, and ordered: “Bring up the star map, and relocate the position of 9501.”
Ding—
“Target movement has changed, 4 hours to zone 1, unable to pinpoint at this time.”
This was obviously a deliberate dilly-dallying side trip, and who knew how long it would take to wait for it to actually enter zone 1.
“No more waiting, I’ll manually locate it.” Chu Si readjusted his earbuds, “Put out the waveform conversion results.”
Generally speaking, intelligent system positioning was much more convenient and accurate than manual positioning. But some people who had been performing space missions for years were extremely experienced in manual positioning and were not worse than a system, and some predictions were even more reliable than a system’s.
Chu Si could be counted as one, except the positioning process hurt the ears a bit, and most people would not use it.
After he gave the order, SkyEye obeyed, and all kinds of sounds transformed from waveforms sounded in the earbud, intermingled together, almost giving him a toothache.
Chu Si hadn’t used manual positioning for a long time, and when he suddenly heard the noise of thousands of arrows being fired, the corner of his mouth twitched. He adjusted his earbud again, carefully listening to the sounds, while staring at the star map with his eyes motionless.
Ten seconds later, he took off his earbud and dropped it on the console, reporting the coordinates corresponding to the star map: “0.741, 261, in-chart leap, cloaking shield on, straight over.”
Ding—
“Command received, preparing for in-chart leap, countdown to 5 seconds.”
“Try jamming at a time like this.” Chu Si glanced at SkyEye.
“Wait, wait, wait, let me make it up to you.” After SkyEye finished speaking, it skipped the countdown. “The leap has started, the cloaking shield is on, a warm reminder to hold onto the console, this leap is a little different from a normal leap, it may be a little bumpy— bumpy— bumpy—”
The sentence was shattered by a jolt. How was this a little bumpy, this was the same as being blown up with an antimatter galactic missile.
Chu Si: “…” The sandwich he had was about to be knocked out of him.
Ding—
“The leap is complete, have a nice day.”
Fuck your nice day.
Chu Si held the console for a second to calm down and was about to give another command when the muffled sound of something heavy hitting the ground came from behind him.
“Who?” He jerked back and saw a young man standing up holding the door.
He didn’t even look thirty, and his long blond hair was tied in a braid at the back of his head, which didn’t match the prison guard uniform he was wearing. He raised his hand to reveal an extremely innocent expression and said, “It’s me it’s me it’s me, don’t be nervous, I just came over to see what happened. There was another alarm and everything turned upside down.“
He spoke and couldn’t help but glance back and scratch his head, “Where’s that dining hall? Why’s it gone?”
Chu Si looked him up and down and said with a complicated face, “You are the… mop?”
Blond man: “…”
He said with a paralyzed face, “If you mean ‘you’re the partner I dodged suffocation with’, then yes. You can’t give me a nickname like that just because I haven’t showered in six months.”
As he spoke and stood up, a small girl with dark brown hair and big eyes also stuck her head out from behind him, staring unblinkingly at Chu Si.
Alright, both mops were here.
It was unheard of for a shower to produce a full-body facelift.
“I have a name, Jin Fergus, call me what you want. So what happened?”
Chu Si said, “In short, someone impersonated me three times under my nose, so I came to explore their lair.”
He paused for two seconds and added an adjective: “Suspected lair.”
No sooner had he said those two words than he suddenly remembered something and frowned, “Where’s Sa’e Yang?”
Alarms and bumps, he should’ve been awake. Sa’e wouldn’t be less alert than the two mops, so how come he hadn’t shown up by now?
“I haven’t seen him, maybe he’s not awake yet?” Jin replied.
Chu Si lifted his feet and headed out the door, heading straight for guard room 3. He rang the bell three times in a row, but there was still no response.
“SkyEye! Open up Room 3! What criteria are you following to eject prisoners?” He stared at the surveillance device in the corner and suddenly asked out loud.
Clicking, the door of room 3 opened, revealing the scene inside.
It was empty…
Ding—
SkyEye’s answer followed: “Anyone with a controller is ejected!”
Chu Si: “…………………are you stupid?”
After cursing, he laughed coldly: “Oh right, you really are.”
SkyEye: “…”
I could feel Chu Si’s frustration.. On the bright side we have a name for the Mop! (Finally)
lmao the skyeye even ejected sae’yang. good luck dealing with angry sa’e~~