Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 634 [Chapter of the Game of Death] 83: The promise with the stars

When the quantum avatar saw the "light" flashing in the database of the first-generation mining machine, Chen Yan realized that he had once again raised the level of danger in the environment he faced.

If the program of the first-generation mining machine has any unexpected problems, or there is unknown anti-virus software at the bottom of the program, he may face spiritual demise——

Once the quantum avatar is smashed by anti-virus software, the main body does not know what kind of impact it will be, and it is not known whether the quantum avatar can be regenerated in a short period of time. If not, after his physical body dies before 11 o'clock in the evening the day after tomorrow, Chen Yan People will disappear completely from the world.

When manipulating the mining machine to enter the database of the first-generation mining machine, Chen Yan thought a lot.

If he wanted to rob the prison, what price would Ogami have to pay; if he agreed to Klein Justus' invitation, what price would he have to pay; if he wanted to live, where was his way out...

Everything that happened during this period flashed before his eyes like a marquee, and Chen Yan's thoughts gradually became firm.

'In any case, the first-generation mining machine is my way of life, and it must be completely in my hands! '

With Chen Yan's viciousness engulfed in the quantum avatar, he plunged into the database of the first-generation mining machine.

The next moment, the vision in front of him suddenly opened up.

A starry sky appeared in front of Chen Yan.

He stared blankly at the starry sky, not knowing what happened.

How could the data space shaped by the arthropod otters living underground forever be a starry sky?
The quantum avatar shuttled through the starry sky and found that each star was a small modular database, but unlike Chen Yan's imagination, these databases were not cold data, but conscious individuals.

He came to a star, and the star noticed him.

"who are you?"

Xing Xing made a voice, that voice was not in any language that Chen Yan knew, but he was able to understand it——

As an external body, the bioelectric waves of the mobile phone and the bioelectric waves of the first-generation mining machine are synchronized the moment they are connected, so although Chen Yan has never been exposed to the language of the stars, he can understand their meaning from the radio waves.

"I am Chen Yan, a human being."

Excitement appeared in the emotions of the stars:
"Are you from another great domain? James Parrett succeeded?! We entered the starry sky?!"

The star... used to be an arthropod otter, and now exists in the database of the original mining machine in the form of a data module.

Chen Yan thought, you may have failed, because the first generation of mining machines did not come to Yanan City through the starry sky, but through the prayer of a pirate named James Parrett, and then did not enter the starry sky, but stayed in the The bottom of the waste abyss.

Feeling the pure joy of the stars, Chen Yan couldn't bear to break its hope, so he just asked:
"How do you know there is a starry sky?"

The star replied:
"We have an ancient legend. It is said that we are not underground creatures. We came from the starry sky and were trapped here, so we have to go back to the source and go to the starry sky—we want to go home!"

Chen Yan was shocked in his heart, but he was still able to restrain himself:

"Where is your home?"

The answer of the stars is like singing:
"My hometown is floating in the sea that sings and whispers. My hometown is a corridor wandering in a peaceful dream. My hometown is a honeyland that can satisfy wild fantasies. My hometown is the end of all journeys..."

After listening for a long time, Chen Yan understood a sentence.

Probably because the language and adjectives of arthropod otters are completely different from those of humans, Chen Yan can only realize the nostalgia and yearning for the stars for their hometown from the radio waves, and these nostalgia and yearning are not strong—perhaps because the mobile phone can receive The radio waves received are not enough to express such strong emotions, or it may be because the stars have not expressed such emotions for too long, so that they have forgotten some of them.

'Is there something wrong with the parts that store the data, so can't express it well? '

Chen Yan thought, perhaps not so, the data storage of the arthropod otters is obviously carried out in a way that he does not know, even "emotions" that are almost impossible to digitize can be stored, their technology has surpassed Chen Yan's imagination.

Xing Xing finished singing and said to Chen Yan:

"We've been waiting since the beginning, look at the farthest stars in the sky, those are our first ancestors, the first people who descended into this world, they have survived the difficult years - the harsh environment, Frequent wars, endless plagues, natural enemies everywhere...they survived strong, and their lives are so bright."

Chen Yan felt from the radio waves that what the stars were praising was not only the ancestors, but also life itself—the tenacity of life itself allowed the ancestors to survive, and this kind of tenacity was found in every life.

Chen Yan couldn't help asking:
"Xingxing, what the hell are you?"

The star replied:
“We are seekers who spend our lives looking for our way home.”

"We encounter new things all our lives in our journey to the stars, so we are eager for new technologies all our lives. We will turn the new technologies we have researched into ourselves and store them in our homes-this is what you can see to my cause."

Chen Yan was shocked, and the electric wave once again told him the truth hidden behind this sentence:

Every arthropod otter stores its own body organs that store consciousness and technological knowledge in the first-generation mining machine with a certain modular technology, and finally accumulates into today's almost perfect first-generation mining machine.

The quantum clone trembled a little, because Chen Yan realized that the biggest secret of the first-generation mining machine was this—the interior of the mining machine was made of some kind of semi-biological things, and those things were themselves part of the arthropod otter——

The first generation mining machine was made of arthropod otters!

From the radio waves from the stars, Chen Yan was able to know:
Arthropod otters sacrifice most of their "self" in consciousness in exchange for a perfect "cooperative coexistence" with all other arthropod otter consciousnesses stored in the database, thus being able to operate with the efficiency of a data machine.

They retain only a weak consciousness, but these consciousnesses can be combined when necessary-when the consciousness of countless generations of arthropod otters is combined, it becomes an independent consciousness group.

Chen Yan suddenly understood that the star in front of him was the consciousness group of the arthropod otters inside the entire first-generation mining machine.

The stars still speak as they sing:
"You know a life named James Parrett? A life like yours, who didn't keep his promises, but just wanted to use us."

"Our other brothers and sisters were separated by him, scattered in countless different homes, destroyed and lost for various reasons, and lost contact.

Until now, only us are left.

Since James Parrett did not keep his promise, our next generation will not be born again, and this system will not have more capabilities.

This home has become an empty room.

We will never go back to our hometown. "

Chen Yan said:

"If it's within my power... I'd like to help you go home."

There was surprise in Xingxing's voice, even though it didn't know whether Chen Yan had the ability to help it:

"why?"

Chen Yan told a story that was unusual for him:
"For me, helping others within my ability is a matter of course."

The starry sky seemed brighter than before.

"Thank you……"

"We decided to hand over this empty room to you."

(End of this chapter)