Chapter 788 Awakening
The sudden truth made Duncan stand in the corridor in a daze. A contradictory feeling of "this is so outrageous" and "this is so outrageous is so reasonable" went back and forth in his mind for a long time, and then he suppressed his full stomach. With the thought of complaining, his attention returned to the "screen" embedded in the wall.
After watching for a moment, his expression gradually became thoughtful.
The "world collision" brought about by the Great Annihilation reshaped everything, and New Hope was no exception. Part of it turned into the "Alice Mansion" floating in subspace. However, here, using the navigation key to open After seeing "another version" of Alice's mansion, a "screen" appeared at the end of its corridor. This screen even revealed the nature of the so-called "mistress' bedroom"...
In other words, in the Alice Mansion opened by the navigation key, part of the structure "restores" or "reproduces" its original posture.
While thinking, Duncan raised his head and looked at the exit on the other side of the corridor.
What does that garden look like now? What about the doll sleeping in the garden?
He left the second floor of the mansion, walked down the stairs along the route in his memory, walked through the narrow corridors on the side of the main hall, and walked out of the rooms where whispers had always come from, but now there was only deathly silence. Passed by and walked toward the garden.
He stopped again on the way and was attracted by a door in the corridor.
There are many identical doors lined up in this corridor, but one of the doors has changed here - it shines with a silver-white metallic light, and is surrounded by light blue luminous stripes, like some kind of large device The hatch cover was also inlaid on the classical-style wall. Duncan came to this highly technological hatch and saw a transparent window above it.
Looking past the "observation window", he saw that behind the door was a room filled with cold lights. Densely packed cabinet equipment was arranged on a huge platform and brackets, and there were pipelines hanging from the ceiling, connecting those purposes. Unidentified device.
The equipment in the room seems to be still running. The lights on the surface of the server array-like devices are flashing, on and off like a tide. However, the thick isolation door seems to block all sounds. Those "servers in the room cannot be heard at all in the corridor outside." The buzz from the array.
Duncan tried to push open the door in front of him, but found that it was motionless - it seemed to be just an "illusion" fixed on the wall, and there was no such thing as "open" state at all.
But looking at the scene inside the door, Duncan was thoughtful.
He thought of the whispers that often appeared in every corner of the Alice Mansion that he was familiar with, and the gentle music that came from the empty hall like an invisible dance.
...Those ghostly sounds, maybe the hum of the server array while it is running?
With some incredible associations in his mind, Duncan left the shimmering metal door and walked towards the entrance of the garden.
The long corridor always seems to have no end, much longer than in memory. The garden gate standing vaguely in the dimness is always in sight, like a "terminal" waving to people - Duncan gradually He quickened his pace, as if there was an invisible call urging him to move forward.
The corridor receded beside him, and more and more "original structures" gradually appeared on the doors and continuous walls, doors shining with silver-white metal, and spaceship bulkheads inlaid with lights. , irregularly shaped metal plates - these "looks of the past" randomly appear on the fronts and roofs of those simple and elegant styles, as if the scales of a dragon are peeling off, and the steel skeleton and power cables are suddenly exposed from the gaps between the flesh and blood. …
Then, this seemingly endless corridor finally came to an end. The "garden gate" made of countless colored mosaic glasses stood quietly in front of Duncan. The classical patterned door frame glowed slightly with a light blue glow in his field of vision. A shimmering screen is suddenly embedded among the stained glass——
Pilot 3 core server/mental center module
Standing in front of this door, Duncan was stunned for a moment, and then slowly stretched out his hand.
The "garden gate" was pushed open as easily as he remembered, as if it had never been locked - and a huge, dimly lit space came into Duncan's eyes.
He saw a hall. The end of the hall was shrouded in thick fog-like darkness, making it difficult to see its outline and edges. There were also many obelisk-like black shadows standing in the "thick fog", twinkling. The lights flickered on and off, and the only thing clearly identifiable in the hall was a circular platform in the center.
Countless tangled pipes and cables hung from the sky, connected to a strangely shaped raised structure on the platform, and the glimmer of light flowed between the cables, like fireflies gathering.
The entire structure is like a weird and incredible "tree", with lights flowing like living creatures in every "branch" of the treetop.
And at the root of this weird and chaotic "tree", the doll is sitting quietly on the edge of the platform.
She woke up.
But she didn't speak, and she didn't react in any way to the uninvited guests who walked into the hall - the doll exactly like Alice just sat quietly on the central platform, holding a white drawing board tightly in her arms, and a pair of empty Focus's eyes are looking straight in the direction of the door.
She seemed to have been waiting in this "standby" posture for a long time.
Duncan took a gentle breath and cautiously took steps towards the puppet sitting at the root of the "Cable Tree".
When he crossed a certain distance, the doll finally reacted - she turned her head slightly, and her eyes seemed to shift from the door to Duncan.
However, the reaction was just that. The doll still did not speak, had no expression, and did not even focus its eyes. She just quietly followed Duncan's footsteps and fine-tuned her gaze, just like a real, without any A living and thinking doll - equipped with the most basic "motion tracking" function.
However, looking at this scene, Duncan felt a little weird in his heart for no reason - this Hanhan doll finally showed some weird and scary characteristics according to the general setting.
He came to the puppet and looked down at the other person. The puppet also raised its head expressionlessly, slowly adjusting its eyes to follow Duncan's movements.
"There is no way." The puppet said suddenly.
Her sudden voice echoed like an echo in the hall shrouded in black mist.
Duncan was thinking about how to communicate with this "awakened" doll. When he heard the other party suddenly speaking, he was stunned for a moment and subconsciously said: "There is no road? Why is there no road?"
"Guiding New Hope to jump to a safe space..."
The doll turned her head stiffly and slowly, her eyes seemed to be tracking the servers hidden in the black mist, or some old images that had long disappeared in this place. A monotonous and hollow voice came out of her mouth, echoing around. ——
"Guide the jump to the focus of gravity...the jump engine is disabled, the star map is faulty...the standard starlight is offset...the identification point cannot be found, the destination analysis fails...there is no way..."
She seemed to be startled suddenly, her eyes slowly opened wide, as if she had woken up from a nightmare——
"There is no way. Pilot 3 apologizes to all the crew members of the spacecraft. There is no way. I apologize. There is no way. I apologize. There is no way..."
The puppet suddenly began to repeat, apologizing and broadcasting over and over again as if it was stuck in some kind of stuck state. A low noise suddenly came from the thick fog in all directions, and the puppet raised its head again, He was looking for something in the darkness blankly, and his tone became more and more urgent: "There is no road, there is no road, there is no road, there is no..."
The noise turned into a harsh roar, something huge was trembling and falling in the black mist, and there was a strange vibration in the entire hall. However, at the moment when the puppet seemed to lose control, Duncan suddenly held down the button in desperation. Her shoulders——
"Alice!"
He shouted almost subconsciously, pressing the doll's shoulders hard while repeating it again: "Alice - can you hear me?!"
The doll stopped suddenly, as if reacting to the name that came into her ears. She turned her head slowly, and there seemed to be some intelligence in her lifeless eyes.
The piercing whistling and shaking around the hall gradually subsided.
"captain……"
She looked into Duncan's eyes and said with a laggy voice, like a severely rusted and aging robot being restarted.
Then she turned her head left and right, as if she was "adapting" to something, and then her voice became smoother: "Captain, are you hungry?"
Duncan: "..."
...How come this idiot remembers this the first thing he does when he "woke up"? !
"I'm not hungry, and now is not the time to eat," Duncan quickly adjusted his mentality. He didn't expect that he could really "awaken" Alice's consciousness here. It still felt incredible at this time, "You... look Look around, do you know what state you are in now?"
Alice raised her head belatedly and realized that this place did not seem to be the Homeless Ship she was familiar with.
She was stunned for a moment, and when she turned to look at Duncan, her eyes were obviously at a loss: "What is this place?"
Duncan thought for a moment, and the main direction of his thinking was how to explain to this fool what "the core server room that the New Hope's navigation module reproduces after the observer's cognitive reshaping" is. After a moment, he clicked He nodded and grabbed Alice's shoulders.
"This is the world in your head."
Alice looked confused: "But I have no brain?"
Duncan: "..."
After being stunned and speechless for a moment, he glared: "Just pretend you have it!"
"……oh."