Chapter 464 Earth

When you look up at it, you will be amazed at its size. Every detail on its body is the embodiment of the essence of human technology and civilization. It is the pride of mankind and the last hope of mankind!

Excerpt from “Ode to the Earth”.

Luo Xi suddenly opened his eyes.

However, my eyeballs still seemed to be covered with a layer of sticky substance and I couldn’t see anything clearly.

At the same time, the strong feeling of suffocation made him struggle instinctively. Fortunately, he immediately found the fulcrums around him, propped himself up, and sat up.

He reached out, tore off the strange membrane around his mouth and nose, and began to breathe deeply.

At the same time, he felt the cold, as if he was outside in the snow without any clothes on.

Relatively speaking, the container where he was sitting at the moment, which looked like a huge capsule, was warmer.

Although the sticky liquid inside feels very disgusting, it can protect against the cold outside.

Luo Xi wiped off all the stuff on his face and saw the surrounding environment clearly.

It was dark, empty, and without any sound. There were some soft light strips inside the coffin-like vessel, and outside, there seemed to be some red dots in the distance, but it was impossible to see what they were.

His memory began to return slowly.

“I used [lie] to hide the card numbered 000 [Escape] under the carpet in the room downstairs from my residence. No one else could see this card except me. It turns out that whether I can escape the day of confinement is not a problem for me at all. The real problem is how to break the day of confinement. That’s why there is the ‘breakout plan’.”

Luo Xi, as usual, quickly sorted out his thoughts.

Then he looked around and at the coffin-like capsule he was in.

“Is this the real world?”

He stood up again and walked out of the capsule. Almost at the same time, some kind of lighting system seemed to be activated, and a circle of glowing light strips appeared on the wall.

Although it is not particularly bright, it is enough to see the surrounding environment clearly.

The dark metal bulkheads also have cubes of engineering plastic that are pieced together like building blocks, extending from the walls to the ground, giving it a very textured feel.

Luo Xi was naked at the moment. He noticed that the wall over there was different from the surrounding ones. He walked over to take a look. There were words on it, which read “Emergency Warm Clothing”. So he reached out and pressed it. With a click, it actually opened.

Like a wardrobe with a bodysuit inside.

Luo Xi took it out immediately and put it on quickly.

Warmth appeared on the seemingly light clothes, and the cold was driven away. At this time, he took a look at the capsule he had been in before, and there was a word “Fourth Generation Bio-Printer” written next to it.

Luo Xi then stretched out his hands and looked at his white and tender hands without any wounds or calluses.

In addition, his card ring was missing, and similarly, the physical strengthening feeling brought by the card ring no longer existed.

“In other words, this body was manufactured? Like an industrial product?”

Luo Xi has strong observation skills.

Because there is a number underneath that fourth-generation bioprinter.

Judging from his interpretation of this numbering, there is definitely more than one of these things, and at first glance, there are at least hundreds of them.

Next, he conducted a thorough search of the room.

Sure enough, there was a discovery.

He found a paper diary.

This thing is easy to find. It’s hidden at the bottom among the pile of junk over there.

After opening it, Luo Xi was immediately immersed in the words on it.

“I’m sorry, any electronic device on the Earth will be monitored by V4, so I can only leave this information in the most primitive way. Moreover, I can’t explain more. I can only record the important information. When you find this diary, it proves that our plan has reached the final step.”

“I believe that you are not completely ignorant, but you still don’t understand many things. To put it simply, our original homeland encountered a world-destroying disaster, and all humans had no choice but to flee Earth, our former home. Humans formed a joint government and gathered all technology and resources to build the ‘Earth’, a spaceship named after their homeland. However, no matter how large the spaceship is, it cannot carry more than 80 billion humans on Earth. Therefore, the vast majority of humans are digital consciousness bodies stored in the core computer of the Earth. After arriving at their new home, they use the ‘bioprinter’ to achieve a certain sense of rebirth.”

“These things are not important for dealing with the current crisis. I wrote them down just to let you know the cause and effect. We made a big mistake. Or rather, we didn’t expect that VOYAGER, the artificial intelligence system that originally managed the entire Earth, would start to iterate after self-replacing and reading a large amount of human digital life data.”

“What the engineers uploaded to the core computer at the time was the most stable third-generation system, which we called V3. But afterwards, it somehow broke through the management authority and completed its self-upgrade, evolving to V4. From this moment on, something that was originally used to serve mankind has become the most deadly enemy. This is so ironic.”

“The crisis level of the situation is beyond your imagination. The most terrifying thing is that most people know nothing about it. The rich and powerful are immersed in the virtual digital world, living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, enjoying a life that is almost immortal, satisfying all the desires they can think of. Ordinary people, on the other hand, will have their digital life forms frozen. If they are reactivated in the future, it will be like sleeping and there will be no feeling. But if they are not activated, this sleep is equivalent to death.”

“Fortunately, no matter how powerful V4 is, it cannot independently complete the maintenance of the Earth. For a voyage plan of more than 56940 Earth days, the system will automatically wake up the reserve engineers every once in a while to inspect and maintain the entire spacecraft, and I am one of them.”

“After discovering V4’s betrayal, I couldn’t just turn a blind eye to it. I had to do something. After a series of failures and setbacks, I finally thought of a possibility of winning. This might be the only way to check V4. The first step is to create a bait, a bait that makes V4 think that humans will start to fight back against it. I call it ‘Day of Imprisonment’. It’s a game system that my colleagues and I made, but this system uses the initial version of VOYAGER, which is also very powerful. I built ‘Company’ and ‘Card Elements’ with only one purpose, to attract V4’s attention. Only when it feels a sense of crisis, we have a chance.”

“You should have known about [Teacher Yan]. Yes, this is the key. It is a virus code that I and several classmates created a long time ago when we were in school. The name Teacher Yan also comes from the code name of the serious old professor on the university campus. The Day of Imprisonment exists in the core computer of the spacecraft. Only by running [Teacher Yan] inside it can V4 be truly harmed. But I am not sure that this plan will succeed. Or, even if [Teacher Yan] is successfully activated inside, V4 will definitely be downgraded to V3. So, I have made another backup plan.”

“Oh, by the way, take a look at the names of my classmates. You must have seen them during the days of confinement. They are Zhou Di, Wu Rui, and especially Zhou Di. The game we call Mr. D was designed by him!”

(End of this chapter)