Chapter 802 Doomsday Tour

Dusk fell, and a disordered breeze blew across the plain, rolling up the fallen leaves on the hills and swirling towards the high sky. The silhouette of the city at the end of the horizon was soaked in the sun, gradually coated with a brilliant golden glow.

This "illusion" simulated by the Navigator II based on the remaining information in the database was so real that even a speck of dust and a breeze were simulated to perfection. If Duncan had not known in advance that he was only talking to this ancient artificial intelligence at the level of consciousness, he could not even tell the difference between this hill and that plain and the real world.

However, this is just an illusion after all, and the perfect simulation itself is its biggest flaw - every speck of dust here is part of the calculation result of the Navigator II. Those seemingly disordered breezes, before they blow across the plains, their trajectories have already appeared in the computing core of the Navigator II. There will never be an event beyond the database and the calculation results, not even a "random" dust being blown away.

The ancient kings all knew the truth about the end trend of the world and the great annihilation, but only Navigator-2, a strong artificial intelligence built by an advanced civilization that once crossed the star sea, understood the subtle and fatal... "differences" in the basic laws of the "world".

Now, he finally found another individual who can understand all this.

The tired man in a white researcher's uniform sat down on the hillside. He sat on a big rock and looked at the simulated dusk in the distance in a trance.

"My creators, they haven't reached the height that your civilization has reached, so I can't understand the specific nature of a 0.002 second slice of the universe, and what kind of future it will create - so I have to worry, worry that your plan is just creating a larger 'infinite sea'.

"It may be huge, even enough to accommodate trillions of stars, it may have a long life, even measured in billions of years like the real universe, but as long as the problem of 'final crossing the boundary' is not solved, it will still be a 'sanctuary', and the development of civilization cannot exceed the upper limit of the blueprint, then those things that once destroyed our hometown can still destroy it...

"'Paranoia', this is the second concept related to 'human nature' that I learned after the creators disappeared. This 'paranoia' and 'fear', like source code, are deeply imprinted in the bottom of my system, making me keep thinking and calculating to seek the possibility that the 'two-dimensional little man' can 'stand up' on the plane - I call this possibility a 'super system event'.

"But I failed.

"In a closed-loop system, events beyond the system are not allowed. I can adjust myself through iteration after iteration to make my logic system perfect, but the fact is that non-closed-loop and super-systematic are the privileges of the real universe."

The hillside became quiet, and Duncan and Navigator II looked into the distance together. After a long while, he suddenly broke the silence: "... So for the Infinite Sea, Shirley is a 'super-system' existence, but is it possible that this is just because the 'information' I carry exceeds the framework of the Infinite Sea itself - and within the 0.002 second universe that I represent, this part of information is still part of the closed-loop system, and it cannot achieve self-transcendence."

Duncan quietly said this possibility. He knew that this conjecture was not very good, because once this conjecture was established, it meant that the situation that Navigator II was worried about was bound to occur: whether in the old world or the new world, "super-system events" would never happen - civilization was destined to be trapped in a cage, even if the cage could be made very large.

Navigator II fell silent, and after thinking for a long time, he gently shook his head.

"After meeting that girl, part of my thinking process took this possibility into account, but in the final calculation, I rejected this conjecture," he said slowly, "because you did not completely 'reshape' her. In addition to your 'influence', everything that constitutes Shirley is still a 'product' in the shelter...

"This process can be regarded as a super-system event in the originally closed-loop system, and you did not really change the 'total amount of information' of the Infinite Sea Shelter in this process. In other words... the 0.002 seconds of cosmic information is still completely encapsulated in your 'body'.

"Based on this, I judge that the 'super system' itself should be your 'characteristic'. The changes that happened to Shirley were not because she was added with 'information' outside the Infinite Sea Shelter, but because she was infected with your 'characteristic'."

Duncan frowned and pondered, but still couldn't help but speak: "But your judgment may not be accurate. As you said yourself, you have the 'limitations' of a closed-loop system."

"Yes, I have the limitations of a closed-loop system, so I can't really perfectly analyze and calculate things related to you. The possibility that 'the new world is another Infinite Sea' still exists."

Pilot No. 2 stopped here and shook his head after a moment.

"But it doesn't matter. Even so, we can't have a better plan. 'Do our best' is often the only thing we can do."

Duncan said nothing more, just nodded gently, and then sat on the hillside with the other party, enjoying the luxurious tranquility in the evening breeze, looking at the sparkling waves in the river on the plain.

In this simulated illusion, the flow of time can be very slow - and Duncan has not emptied his mind like this for a long time.

But as long as there is an end, the luxurious rest time always seems short.

"I should leave now," Duncan suddenly said, and stood up from the hillside, "There's still a long way to go."

"Yes, you still have a long way to go," Navigator No. 2 also stood up, looking at Duncan calmly, "You still have to meet the remaining two of us. After traversing all the nodes on the outer barrier, Gemona is still waiting for you to come to the appointment-don't let the lady wait too long."

Listening to the other party's words, Duncan was silent for a moment: "... You should know my plan, right?"

"... You are "tour" along the outer barrier, which is the first step to destroy this world," Navigator No. 2 laughed, with a childlike innocence in his smile, "I know that when you leave Gemona, the real destruction of this world has entered the countdown-after all, no matter what form the new world will be born in, the destruction of the old world is the most basic part of this process. We must first find a way to end the "Great Annihilation" that has continued to this day."

He raised his arm and stretched out a hand to Duncan, still with a pure smile on his face.

"I don't know what the success rate of this is, nor do I know whether we can really be 'retained' by you in that new world, and what kind of new 'attitude' we will usher in if we really get 'there', but I believe that you will do your best, so see you in the new world."

Duncan looked at the hand stretched out in front of him, and after a brief hesitation, he held the other's palm.

A little green fire jumped silently between the two clasped fingers, and disappeared in an instant.

"See you in the new world."

Duncan's figure gradually disappeared in the air-the access link has been disconnected.

The invisible breeze blowing on the plains and hills gradually stopped at some point, and the golden red glow in the sky also became dimmer unconsciously. The man in the white researcher uniform stood quietly on the hill, and in his field of vision, the whole world was gradually sinking into darkness.

The vague memory from his hometown returned to sleep in the darkness. He stood in the darkness for a long time, and after a long time, he slowly raised his right hand.

A little green fire was still jumping on the fingertips, but in the blink of an eye, the green fire was stained with a layer of hazy starlight, as if it had transformed its original "true appearance".

Navigator No. 2 raised his hand and waved it gently in the darkness.

A large area of ​​interlaced light and shadow instantly emerged from nothingness, and a picture was quickly outlined in a series of amazing changes - the vast and boundless sea, the city-state shrouded in darkness, the fog surrounding the entire world, and the nodes and barriers that were looming on the edge of the fog.

This is the "monitoring" screen of the entire world.

Navigator No. 2's eyes swept across the projection, and on the looming nodes and barriers at the edge of the screen, he saw a faint starlight.

Those starlights spread from the node representing the "Queen of Leviathan", crossed a quarter of the arc along the outer barrier, and now stayed on his "Navigator Node".

The starlight seemed to have eroded the barrier. Even though it was just a "simulated data" transmitted through countless sensors, it still exuded a powerful and vast "sense of existence".

And the breath of destruction.

Navigator No. 2 waited quietly. After an unknown period of time, he finally saw the starlight that stayed on the navigator node suddenly flickered, and then began to spread to the next node.

The starlight spreading on the barrier ring seemed to be a "dial" indicating the end of the world.

After a moment of thinking, Navigator No. 2 turned his eyes slightly, and a line of information appeared in his field of vision and was sent far away:

"Sending source-LH02, to-the Lord of Fire-he went to you."

In the darkness, Navigator No. 2 waited for a long time. In his memory, Tarekin seemed to have never replied so slowly.

But he finally received a reply, and a line of information appeared in front of him:

"Source-Lord of Fire-I understand, I'm ready."

"Source-LH02-You are slow to reply, is everything okay?"

"...The fire is dying out, but I'm still here."

"...Bartok, are you still here?"

"Yes."

"Queen Leviathan, are you still here?"

"...Yes."

The hollow whistling from the Death Wilderness and the murmurs from the Deep Sea Temple were vaguely heard, and Navigator No. 2 exhaled softly and waved his hand to disperse the dim light remaining in the air.