Chapter 217: 217 No matter where you run Chapter 217: 217 No matter where you run At noon, Chen Xu’s maintenance worker level had been promoted to 3. After finishing his tasks, he walked to the closest room, sat at the table, opened the fridge, and glanced inside—it contained seven or eight bags of nutrition als.
With this amount of food, the supply should be sufficient. He took out a bag from his pocket, twisted it open, and started eating.
“By the way, how should I address you?”
The voice ca from the wall beside him, “My codena is Taichu.”
Chen Xu couldn’t help but ask, “Do you know another colleague nad Taiji?”
“Taiji is the codena of a previous generation of super-intelligent computers.”
Indeed, he knew it.
Chen Xu thought to himself, could there be any connection with the previous dream world?
He tentatively asked, “By the way, I forgot to ask, where are we? A secret base? Or sothing else?”
“Your access is too low to disclose that information.”
Chen Xu swallowed the last of the nutrition al, threw away the packaging, and said, “Then let’s think of a way together to upgrade my access.”
“According to the regulations, after a level promotion for maintenance workers, another application can only be submitted after six months,” Taichu responded.
Upon hearing this, Chen Xu furrowed his brow, aning the upgrade path for maintenance workers was temporarily blocked.
He asked, “Is there any other way?”
“There is, by learning more knowledge and mastering more critical skills. After passing an assessnt, you can move to a more critical departnt and gain higher access.”
Chen Xu scratched his head; the ntion of learning reminded him of his experiences during the second dream, where he had spent a lot of ti studying with little effect.
He said, “Learning, how much ti would that take?”
“The learning process can be significantly shortened using a learning machine.”
“Learning machine?” Chen Xu’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing this term. “What is that?”
“The learning machine is a device that assists humans in learning. It uses a technology that, in a state similar to hypnosis, directly infuses knowledge into the brain. It can effectively enable the human brain to morize a significant amount of information in a short period.”
Chen Xu’s heart raced, knowing that his fortune had finally turned. For him, such a learning machine was the most valuable item.
In the dream, he couldn’t take anything out except knowledge. As long as he rembered it, it belonged to him. The problem was, he didn’t have the ability to rember everything he saw, and using precious dream ti on inefficient learning was a waste.
But, with the learning machine, everything would be different.
“However,” Taichu’s tone changed, “using the learning machine costs ten thousand credit points per hour. And your account currently has only seven hundred and twenty-three points.”
Chen Xu knew it wouldn’t be so simple. With the ga’s nature, he would definitely have to complete missions to get rewards. He said, “So, what I need to do now is to make money.”
“Yes.”
Chen Xu said, “Tell , do you have any quick ways to make money?”
“I will sort the missions you can take by hourly wage from high to low,” said Taichu as a light screen appeared on the wall, listing a long inventory.
Chen Xu looked at the first entry, “Cleaning sewer debris, one hundred fifty points per hour? So, even if I worked non-stop for twenty-four hours a day, I could only make three thousand six hundred points?”
“Wrong. Here, we have an eight-hour workday, and you can’t work overti more than five hours per day.”
Chen Xu felt a bit depressed; that was too little. It would take several days to save up ten thousand credit points. He asked, “How much is the overti pay?”
“Double the wage.”
That still wouldn’t make three thousand points. It would take four days to accumulate ten thousand points.
This was already the highest hourly wage job. As for things like cleaning sewers, he didn’t mind them. In his previous few dreams, he had co through battles of corpses and blood; such tasks wouldn’t deter him.
He stood up and said, “Then let’s get started.”
…………
When Chen Xu was struggling in the sewers, several light years away on another planet.
Yang Jinxia woke up, and upon opening her eyes, she found herself no longer in her original room. She sat up, looking around the familiar space, her lips once again curling into a smile.
It was a narrow space, with nothing but a bed, a table, and a large cabinet.
To be precise, it was a carriage.
When she turned her head towards the cabinet and saw that it was empty, she frowned slightly, “Where is everyone?”
After a while, she relaxed, her expression returned to normal, walked to the door, grasped the handle, and pushed hard; with a squeak, the door opened.
“Master.”
Outside, a tallic robot, its body gleaming with a tallic light, and green lights where its eyes should be, saw her erge, bowed, and spoke.
S01, the combat robot whose core chip she had destroyed and later repaired herself.
Seeing it, Yang Jinxia’s suspicion was confird. Stepping down from the carriage, she asked, “How long was I inside?”
“S01 replied, “Seven hours and thirteen minutes.”
“Did anyone go in?” she asked.
“No.”
She nodded and asked further, “What about 2003?”
“He is preparing your breakfast.”
Without asking more, she walked outside, S01 following behind her, keeping a distance of four to five ters.
This place was a hillside with a clear view, surrounded by robots keeping guard.
Yang Jinxia walked to one of the slopes, looked back, and saw a convoy of about a dozen vehicles.
She looked up at the sky, the thick layer of clouds appeared unchanged.
She was back after more than half a year, but here it seed as though only a little over seven hours had passed. Everything was just as she had left it, the convoy was still in its original place.
Except for one thing—Chen Xu was missing.
Originally, Chen Xu should have been lying in that human cryonic freezer, but now he had vanished into thin air.
Where had he gone?
That’s when she noticed a small red dot in the upper right corner of her vision. When she focused on it, a interface popped up, showing her na, a number, and points.
At the end, it ntioned the location of her partner, tens of light years away.
This discovery made her delighted; at last, she knew Chen Xu’s whereabouts. Then, irritation followed, “You’ve gone tens of light years away?”
After a while, as she walked toward the convoy, she thought to herself, “No matter where you run, I will find you.”
PS: Moving is taking up a lot of ti, spent a whole day busy, only had ti to write after dinner. I’ll code the second chapter around midnight.
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