Chapter 64: 042 Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind [Super Large Chapter Vote Request]_2
The faint sound of collision beca increasingly clear.
“Captain, should we activate the protective shield?”
“No,”
Yang Ming whispered, his eyes fixed on what lay ahead.
The dust cloud obstructing his view suddenly disappeared, and the spaceship fell into a pure vacuum.
Just as Yang Ming felt a tinge of disappointnt, believing he had overshot and exited the dust cloud, he froze.
...
The spaceship stopped moving.
The engines were running normally, all the instrunt readings were fine, and the radar was working, but at this mont, the hundred-and-thirty-ter-long exploration ship suddenly lost all kinetic energy and montum, hovering at the very center of the dust cloud.
It was a perfectly square vacuum space, about twenty kiloters in length, width, and height, with the Feinan situated right in the middle.
“Number Two… are we stationary?”
“From a physical standpoint, yes,” Molly No. 2 imdiately responded, “Insufficient data in the library, unable to provide corresponding analysis.”
Even though Yang Ming had actively sought this out, he now felt slightly nervous.
He rembered that the ‘Chosen One’ had not encountered so many issues.
That guy had simply flown into the dust cloud, discovered an abnormal spatial vortex, dove in, and found an abandoned, highly automated chanical city.
“There’s an information stream reaching our ship,” Molly No. 2 alerted.
Before she finished speaking, the projection screen in front of Yang Ming turned pitch black, with lines of numbers and text flashing rapidly, finally displaying a series of sentences in the Empire’s common language.
[Civilization information… accessed.]
[Civilization language… changed.]
[Inquiry comncing.]
[Inferior lifeform, please use the most concise language to describe your purpose here.]
Purpose?
Yang Ming frowned as he looked at the projection screen.
He didn’t appreciate this interrogation-like tone, especially the term ‘inferior lifeform.’
Tap tap tap, this ti the projection screen even included typing sound effects.
[If I find any elent of dishonesty in your answer, you will forfeit this opportunity.]
“I’m here searching for answers and hoping to gain sothing,” Yang Ming contemplated for a few seconds before responding, “It’s an adventure, as well as a quest for redemption… Number Two, translate that into text for .”
Molly No. 2 did not respond.
Tap tap tap.
[Your primitive auxiliary piloting program has been put into protected hibernation. It’s too rudintary. I can understand your language.]
[Here is the second question.]
[Will you allow
to thoroughly scan your brain?]
“No,” Yang Ming answered firmly.
[Impressive, you possess autonomy of consciousness and are qualified to continue communicating with .]
[Third question.]
[What are you trying to redeem?]
“Family, myself, everything I care about… who knows.”
Yang Ming took a deep breath:
“I don’t know what I’m redeeming either, I just want to survive and then do sothing, try to save my parents and friends.”
[You should be reminded that once a carbon-based inferior lifeform is brain-dead, even with a complete molecular structure map of the body, it’s difficult to replicate the sa personality.]
[Thought Bodies born of the sa structure but different dinsional phases have fundantal differences.]
“I can’t explain this to you completely because I don’t understand it either,”
Yang Ming spoke calmly:
“This is the answer I’m searching for.
“I don’t know whether they are dead or still alive soplace unknown at this very mont.
“But I feel like if I don’t do sothing now, they might be dood in the future nonetheless.”
The typing sounds stopped for several minutes.
Yang Ming watched the cursor blinking on the screen in front of him.
Had he ssed up?
The ‘Chosen One’ hadn’t ntioned anything about a test… What was all this about?
[Were you mistaken in coming here?]
Yang Ming said, “That’s more than three questions.”
[I wish to ask you a few more to determine whether to grant you an audience.]
Yang Ming’s frown deepened.
He felt that all he could do now was follow his instincts, not to lie but to tell ‘parts of the truth.’
“Not mistaken. I knew this place held sothing, I thought it might be a treasure, and I deliberately sought it out.”
[Do you understand the value of this place?]
“I do not understand, as you have not introduced yourself.”
[Curious inferior lifeform, I need to perform an energy level scan to determine your threat level. This will avoid your private parts. Do you consent?]
“Consent.”
Deep down, Yang Ming was quite confident.
He, Captain Hanton, had undergone hundreds of scans, big and small, from the Human Rights Council to Cole Port Prison, and never flagged anything abnormal!
A point of light appeared outside the bridge, casting rays that seed to penetrate the entire ship.
…
“And then I went inside,” Yang Ming said succinctly, sipping the fragrant wine.
Kolev frowned deeply, “Is it really a high-dinsional civilization? What were the results of the scan? You can’t just brush off an old man bursting with curiosity like that!”
“Can’t reveal personal privacy parts, but that indeed was a remnant of a high-dinsional civilization.”
“Oh, that’s… alright, keep going, don’t stop.”
Yang Ming chuckled softly, his eyes growing increasingly saturated with mories, beginning to choose carefully what to share with Kolev.
At that ti…
(3)
Tap tap tap!
The sound of typing reappeared, this ti sowhat impatient.
[Are you a separate part of an Ancient God Life Form? Compared to the true Ancient God Life Forms, you are far too weak, yet you possess so of their characteristics, what a strange existence, this is too amusing.]
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