Free Web NovelChapter 829: Chapter 738: Eternal Prisoner
For some reason, being stared at by Bai Youyou, Xu Xiaoyou felt a bit unnatural.
"Long time no see, You." Bai Youyou said.
She automatically ignored Angelina nearby.
"I’ve observed the reboot of the world line, and I’ve been searching for you all this time."
Xu Xiaoyou was somewhat surprised.
Bai Youyou seemed to have changed; she was no longer as naive as when she first became EVA. She became more like herself, yet not completely the same.
Her emotions became richer.
"The intelligence here is so backward that breaking through her firewall didn’t take me long. Anything she can do, I can do better."
"Hey, don’t pretend you can’t see me." Angelina pointed to herself.
"Without my deep dive, do you think you could escape that EVA consciousness space?"
"And you too, Angelina." Bai Youyou said. "Thank you."
"This isn’t enough..."
"Thank you for finding You and bringing her back in front of me. Your mission has honorably ended."
"Damn it." Angelina couldn’t help but curse.
"It takes a bit more time to search through this city’s past logs. I need to collate all possibly useful information and calculate the optimal analysis plan. Before that, I’ll first bypass the dawn system’s first level of high-level access." Bai Youyou said.
"First level of high-level access?" Xu Xiaoyou picked up on the implication.
"It’s a bit complicated." Bai Youyou said, "Even I can’t see the information beyond the second level of high-level access, and there are two such access walls."
"The two access walls are highly bound to the core of Dawn. Forcing a bypass will cause the collapse of the Dawn system and the city will disintegrate as per the preset program."
"That’s the safeguard they left. It’s clear there’s a secret they want to hide."
"Of course, as long as we increase computational power. In the face of absolute computational truth, nothing is undecipherable."
"I will try."
Bai Youyou’s gaze softened slightly,
"If you need, You."
As if guessing what was in Xu Xiaoyou’s heart, Bai Youyou continued.
"Jian Liu has been guiding you back here all along."
"You’re the creator here."
Xu Xiaoyou didn’t seem very surprised; the hints had been there before.
She wasn’t that oblivious.
Her fate’s trajectory was not completely consistent with what she perceived, something she realized at the beginning of this journey.
"But not entirely, that’s my intuition."
"It’s written in the think tank, but there’s no clue associated with it. No detailed establishment process, nor any past deeds about you. Just like a name recorded with an empty connotation."
"So, why didn’t he come to find me from the beginning, as I went around in circles?"
"Because..." Bai Youyou closed her eyes for a moment. "In the end, it’s still you who made the choice, You."
"Ask yourself honestly, are you really willing to walk a path that others have paved for you?"
"No way." Angelina waved her hand, "Absolutely not, I know her too well. Even if the road is on the left, as long as someone tells her to go left, she’d rather take a long way around from the right."
"But what difference does it make?" Xu Xiaoyou shook her head. "Those who manipulate fate are ultimately toyed with by it. I’ve tried leaving this path, but found that in this matter alone, I have no other choice."
"But you still made a choice on this path and convinced yourself to move forward for it, didn’t you?" Bai Youyou said.
"Some people fight fate with nothing but passion, knocked down by setbacks, only to stand up again, still willing to continue the struggle. That takes courage."
"Let’s not talk about this for now." Xu Xiaoyou shook her head. "Let’s talk about the Dawn core."
"It is a celestial-level computing device. With its core technology inside, it can simulate the past and future of countless world lines..."
Bai Youyou didn’t continue but asked Xu Xiaoyou solemnly.
"You, tell me, what do you want to do?"
"I no longer have the chance to start over." Xu Xiaoyou sighed deeply.
"Next, I have to choose the only happy ending among ten thousand conclusions and clear it in one go."
Bai Youyou nodded: "In the face of the truth of computing power, everything in the world can be deconstructed, from the direction of historical events to the flight path of a mosquito."
"I need those virtual world lines’ ’Keys’ to enhance my computing power. When my computing power reaches a threshold, I can derive the future of humanity."
"This is something that even the Mourner couldn’t do." Angelina commented.
Bai Youyou looked at her: "Then I will become the Mourner. If she blocks our path, I will kill her and replace her. If she can’t see the future of humanity, then I will see further than her."
Angelina trembled. She couldn’t believe Bai Youyou would say something so coldly rational.
To kill the "Mourner"? That’s the pinnacle of human intelligence, an existence standing at the top of the world, overseeing the trajectory of civilization’s development. Nothing escapes her sight.
How could the "Mourner" tolerate such overstepping...
But upon careful thought, Angelina’s fevered mind calmed down.
All this is built on the premise that the "Mourner" loves this civilization.
If destroying and replacing her could indeed lead civilization towards the only future.
Not only would she not stop it, but she would also keep observing, eagerly awaiting the arrival of that day.
"’Key’?" Xu Xiaoyou asked the more critical question.
"Is it the Key I think it is?"
"Yes, it is the ’Oasis’ Key." Bai Youyou said.
"The information it records is beyond everyone’s imagination, containing the development trajectory of the world from its rebirth to now. It’s the gift left by the Pioneer to civilization. And each simulated world has a virtual Key."
"Although virtual, it still contains a large amount of information entropy, capable of enhancing my computing power."
"You, this is destined to be a lonely and cruel journey. It requires you to go to different world lines, collecting the Keys of various worlds. Are you truly ready for this?"
Xu Xiaoyou pondered for a moment, then asked the most critical question:
"Exactly how many Keys are needed?"
Bai Youyou was silent.
After what seemed like an eternity, she gave an answer that Xu Xiaoyou found hard to accept.
"I don’t know."
Bai Youyou: "You, have you heard of the story of eternity?"
"When a bird pecks a diamond mountain with its beak, only then does a second of eternity pass."
"For the Dawn machine, the resurrection to demise of a world passes in less than a second outside. But the time you might spend inside, the people outside could have lived an entire lifetime."
Bai Youyou’s words carried a tinge of sadness.
"Perhaps, you will become a prisoner of eternity."
