dark moon

Chapter 446 The Responsibility of the Watcher
"Oh, I remembered what Ms. Nina said before." Shuer squinted his eyes and said with a half-smile, "I remember you said that Delia's character is the same as Mr. Ryan's. Once she decides something, , I won’t look back even after I die, and I also said, wasn’t it like this last time? Haha, it seems that a similar incident has already happened once.”

"Oh, you are right, Mr. Seure." The two old men looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The old woman patted her husband's leg across the distance from her daughter. "Six years ago, as I just said, the virtual space of the fleet , conditionally reset the time."

"The situation at that time was somewhat similar. Although it was a lot more difficult for her because you were not there, this child spent more than 40 years preparing. She actually avoided the venting system and tried to escape from the system through a method that was extremely unexpected to us. The pillar that enters the virtual space from the air is the so-called Supreme Tower. She is only one step away from success. At least the mechanical bodies have no ability to stop her. In desperation, they can only activate the emergency stasis command to calm the interior of the fleet. The virtual worlds of the ships of the same series as the Raven froze at the same time.”

"Generally, when an uncontrollable phenomenon occurs, such as a devastating internal war, or someone discovers the truth, the system can be activated. After that, the virtual world is reset and everything starts again. Logically speaking, it should be the same that time. Because we haven’t reached the limit yet, and the Watchers don’t need to be upgraded yet, we have to classify it as an unexpected situation to restart the system, but we are a bit..."

"Oh, I can't bear to let it go..." Xiure chuckled, "After all, they are children connected by blood. Even if they know that they are just artificial blood relatives, after all, after their own gestation, this family relationship cannot be separated from the so-called reason and truth. . Without restarting the system, although mother and daughter cannot recognize each other, even though they are separated from each other in the world, they can still look at her from time to time. No, no, no, even if they cannot see it, as long as they think that she is still living in the virtual space, she is still there. Missing the couple is a very happy thing for you two. Once the system is restarted, Delia's existence will disappear, and the connection between family ties and blood will be completely erased. Even if you want it for four years, you don't know. Who should I miss? Haha, if it were me, I wouldn’t be able to let him go."

"Oh, who says it's not the case?" The old woman pinched the smiling Delia's face lovingly, and hugged the girl in her arms. It was obviously a very warm scene, but hugging the girl made the old man shed tears. It was already flowing down, and her voice began to choke, "We know all the truth, but the truth can't stop our feelings. She was abandoned by us when she was still so young. Every time we see her struggling at the bottom of society, We were so heartbroken that we couldn't breathe. We watched her constantly taking risks for the truth about our deaths, disregarding her own comfort in order to avenge us. The more we watched, the more guilty we felt."

"But as you said, if we maintain the status quo, at least for a while, we can still see her with our own eyes. Once the background is reset, we won't even have the chance to see her. We can't bear to part with it anyway, so we are selfish. , after giving up priority collection rights to those ships with the same background for a period of time, in exchange for their cooperation, we joined forces to return the time point in the virtual space to the beginning, that is, when we entered the Pillar and finally became the contemporary Watcher. one day."

"Gee, the way you set the internal time is really weird."

"Well, it's not really about changing time. It's just sending a large number of engineering robots to spend a period of time rebuilding the internal facilities and biochemical bodies, and making the existence time of everything inside look consistent with the real time. Theoretically speaking, the time inside People can't find the problem, but we didn't expect that the guests would suddenly visit and appear directly in the virtual space. We didn't expect that you would have more advanced scanning technology and control it directly from the brainwaves we left behind. Anomalies in the timeline were discovered in the device."

"Moreover, we really couldn't predict that even if we start over, this child is still so persistent that she actually comes up again. Alas, maybe this is her fate. That's fine. At least our family can get along for a while."

"So, you gave the order to the robots and asked them to take the opportunity to put a human up. Are you really looking for a successor? Well, that's right. Your grade... it's really time to retire."

"It's not our order, but the automatic instruction of the central computer. It was issued by the person with the highest authority before the Sleeping Plan was executed. Even we have no right to change it. When the time is almost up, we must start looking for an heir. Moreover, since the heir It is not designated by the watchman, but based on the actions of everyone in the virtual space, the central computer evaluates and selects the most suitable watchman.” Ryan added, “Of course, if someone relies on If he climbs to the top of the virtual space with his own will, then he will be automatically selected. That’s how Nina and I became watchers at the beginning. I didn’t expect Delia to walk on the same path as us.” “Eh? Then Why are you trying to stop her?" Moria tilted her head, staring at Delia with sparkling eyes, "Isn't it good to be a watcher?"

"Not good, very bad." Unexpectedly, the two old men shook their heads together without thinking, "It's hard for you to imagine what you have to face when you become a watcher."

"Communications between the fleet's spaceships are not frequent. Only when major events occur, they communicate and discuss occasionally. The rest of the time, the watchmen of each spacecraft can only live alone in the spacecraft. Indeed, due to the perfection of the self-discipline machinery, and only One or two people need to be provided, so the life of a watcher is quite comfortable, but when you have tried to live alone for more than ten or even decades and face the same environment every day, you will know how terrible this life is."

"We only encounter one or two things that require our personal decision in a month. The rest of the time, there is absolutely nothing to do. Monotonous, boring, and lonely. These are the entire lives of the Watchers. Hey, why do you think we call ourselves Watchers? Because No matter our role or destiny, we are no different from the scarecrows in the wheat fields recorded in ancient books."

"There is another more critical issue. Once Delia becomes a watcher, her death will be inevitable."

"Huh?" The Shadow Chasers were stunned, "What do you mean?"

"The purpose of our current existence is to keep the vast majority of our members alive, so that if we find that slim chance of life and wake up the sleeping people, they can live happily in a safe environment." You can watch. It can be seen that when the two old people said these words, their eyes were full of longing. Obviously, for them, a safe environment and a normal life are the greatest happiness in life. "But becoming a watcher means completely If you lose this opportunity, you will only die in search of life. Even if you really find a safe environment, the watcher will not be able to enjoy the happiness of new life."

"Nina and I know that being a watchman is the responsibility of the members of the Brown Star civilization, and every member has an obligation. Therefore, even if we retained our memories when we were young, we took it on without hesitation. But... we still It’s selfish. As parents, we always want our children to be happy. Maybe someone has to bear this responsibility, but at least... it shouldn’t be our children.”

(End of this chapter)