Infinity Throne

Ark No. 11.

Overhead, dim light bulbs swayed from time to time, making the light and shadow in the narrow room jitter.

In an old open "biological battery" survival cabin, Tang En suddenly jumped up from the curved cabin, his face full of shock.

Five other people were already standing in the iron house, which was about twenty square meters and the walls were covered with rust. One of them was old, stooped, using a cane, and had ugly scars on his face. This is the "elder" that Tang En referred to when he was talking to the woman before.

The other three people, two men and one woman, leaned coldly in the corner of the room, silent.

The last woman among the five used a small computer. There were many exposed circuits and integrated boards on the computer panel, and it seemed to be assembled from patchwork parts. Many lines were separated from the computer and connected to the "illegal port" where Tang En lay down not long ago.

The woman who was operating the computer was only 1.4 meters tall and thin. She wore tattered clothes that could barely cover her body and looked dry. Her name is Bella. Even though she looks like a minor, her age in the hallucination is already more than thirty years old. Her body cannot grow and develop normally due to long-term malnutrition, and she has been maintaining This gesture.

Bella looked at the black smoke-emitting computer in shock. She looked back at Tang En, who was also lying on the "illegal port" with a confused look on his face.

"How did you get out?"

Bella had a puzzled expression.

"I...I'm out?"

He vaguely remembered the memory before he left.

Bella tells him "high energy ahead."

When he turned around, he saw a perverted predator whose smile made his scalp tingle.

When the punch was struck, he felt nothing and only saw "404" filling the screen.

Then, he logged out of "Phantom Light".

When Tang En told his "terrible" experience with a complicated expression, everyone else in the room quickly shook their heads, indicating that it was impossible.

In other words, he was actually knocked offline by a "predator"?

How can this be?

"Hmph!" In the room, a muscular black man with tattoos sneered: "Shabi, if what you said is true, wouldn't they be able to climb into the Ark along the lines? You are insulting us. IQ, Tang. What you are about to say is true, I immediately drank the expired 'nutrient solution' in your room...and drank it while standing upside down."

"Stop arguing."

In the room, the old man who had been silent and the elder of Ark No. 11 used his hoarse voice to stop the quarrel between Tang En and the black man.

His cloudy eyes looked at Tang En: "Come to my room and I'll ask you, cough, cough, cough..."

After the elder finished speaking, he coughed violently. Another woman hurriedly stepped forward and patted the elder on the back.

"Bella, can we find any abnormal information in the records when Tang En logged out?"

Bella shook the computer, which was still smoking and the screen had been shut down for a long time, and shrugged: "I'll try my best."

…

at the same time.

In the virtual world "Phantom Light".

St. Peter's Street, in front of the Broken Bridge.

Yi Lin frowned and looked at his fist.

He just gave it a try, but he felt like he had "touched something".

Yi Lin would not think that the strange touch he encountered when punching was an "illusion". There are not so many illusions in the world. He believed that under Neil's guidance, he had just tried to send the "Awakened One" out of the virtual world. When punching, Yi Lin added a little "infinite" authority to his fist, and used the "teleportation technique" in the Supreme Style to "After being highly simplified, a strange punch was delivered.

"The barrier between virtuality and reality?"

Yi Lin didn't expect that she really succeeded.

He really had the idea just now that if he didn't succeed, others would be successful.

It’s not bad to try.

"younger brother!"

Neil crashed, and the intelligence came back online.

The conflict between several running priorities caused her running logic to briefly crash for three seconds. But at this critical moment, after Yi Lin rushed out, Neil chose a compromise "operation method"...that is, not to operate. Sure enough, after "not running", after waiting for a while, when Yi Lin solved everything, Neil found that his logic was normal again.

This is an unexpected surprise.

It turns out it still works like this.

Neil himself didn't expect it.

After a few ups and downs in the air, Neil came to Yi Lin's side with clean movements, grabbed Yi Lin's ears and pulled her to the ground.

St. Peter's Avenue was in ruins, with a deep ravine plowing the street into a sunken tunnel that stretched to the other side of the peninsula.

Broken water pipes sprayed fountains over the ruins for free, and exposed wires emitted sparks in the stagnant water.

Neil, who had always seemed emotionless, showed a rare "angry" expression after seeing what his brother had done. She took off her sunglasses and angrily pinched the left and right sides of Yi Lin's face with both hands: "You What did you do?"

Yi Lin's face was stretched twice as long by Neil, and his mouth was stretched into a sausage shape. Yi Lin said innocently: "This is not what you said, 'try to use the center to process the information in the phantom light, try to construct physical rules and calculate physical volume collisions', or something like that."

Yi Lin crossed his hands and made complicated gestures: "I'm just trying to calculate the scene where a cannonball is dropped on the street, the power of the explosion is highly concentrated, and the street violence is separated from the middle... That's all."

[Open the maintenance area. 】

Neil issued an application and snapped his fingers. With her as the center, the area Yi Lin destroyed was covered by an illusory stream of light.

The swaying firelight, the floating black smoke, the spraying water, the panicked residents of the phantom light, all movement stopped abruptly in the light curtain.

Subsequently, the remaining Hunters crossed the broken bridge and entered the maintenance area, searching the ground for the remains of the "Awakened One".

They seemed not to be surprised by this situation, or perhaps they had no emotions such as "shock" or "surprise" at all, and they faithfully carried out Neil's instructions.

The hunter team searched the maintenance area for a while, and after finding nothing special, the operation was disbanded.

Neil is off work, and the other hunters continue to monitor and maintain the "restart work" of the area.

…

[L-1010, log out of ‘Phantom Light’. 】

The field of view switches, and under the supervision of her sister, Yilin logs out of the world of illusion.

The first thing after logging out, sister Alice took Yi Lin to the maintenance department for a comprehensive inspection without saying a word.

The person responsible for inspecting Yi Lin was still "Alice-101". Taking a lesson from the past, Alice did not dismantle Yi Lin's armor plate and look inside. Instead, she checked the old system on Yi Lin's chip.

Of course, the chip Yi Lin embedded in the armor plate was not intelligent, so he could only use it secretly.

Finally, Alice gave a "passed inspection" report.

A strict omnic, as long as it "passes the inspection", she will no longer doubt it, but she revealed a feeling of joy.

As for how Alice expressed "delight"?

Yi Lin couldn't tell either.

This is just what he thinks.

Because the frequency of Alice's "morning maintenance" has obviously increased.

It used to be once every three days.

Since Yi Lin was allowed to log into the world of illusion, this frequency has become once a day.

Now, Yi Rin can pull off the "Alice type" with her eyes closed.

…

Yi Lin has been at work for more than a month.

For more than a month, Yi Lin was just like ordinary office workers who clocked in to work, logging in to Huanguang with Alice, and Lin Yi and Neil were walking around like they were shopping.

The world of phantom light is very beautiful. Yilin takes Neil and enjoys the delicious food in the phantom light.

"What's this?"

Neil asked.

"Ice cream, strawberry flavor, try it?"

"This is food for humans."

"You're Neil now, not Alice-101."

"...That makes sense." Seeing his younger brother smiling innocently and stuffing the ice cream cone into his mouth, Neil could only open his mouth obediently and take a bite.

Neil frowned.

"Is it tasty?"

Yi Lin asked tentatively.

Beep beep beep.

Neil rolled his tongue, his eyes lit up, and he began to analyze the taste on his tongue.

"Virtual ingredients: drinking water, milk, milk powder, synthetic vegetable oils, sugar, strawberry flavor, bisglyceryl fatty acid esters, xanthan gum, citric acid, carboxymethyl cellulose sodium, phenylalanine..."

She tasted more than a dozen food additives whose taste was impossible for humans to taste.

"No no no."

Yi Lin slapped Neil on the face, making the latter's chest tremble.

"You're wrong, this isn't the taste."

"That's the 'flavor'."

Neil said stubbornly.

"In this way, I will teach you how to taste." Yi Lin recalled the structure and configuration of the "Alice-type" oral cavity: "Turn off the 'component analysis module', turn on the temperature sensor, and increase the tactile sensing module."

Neil heard the instructions and followed them one by one.

"Then, close your eyes." Yi Lin's tone at this moment was like the gray wolf tricking the red wolf into opening the door: "Only with your 'heart' can you taste the taste."

"What is the heart?"

"Close your eyes first."

Neil closed it obediently.

"What does it feel like?"

"ice."

"anything else?"

"soft."

"anything else?"

"sweet."

"That's the 'flavor'."

Neil stuck out his tongue and licked the white cream on his lips, seeming to understand.

…

Alice comes to Yi Lin's place every day for maintenance before going to work.

Yi Lin skillfully disassembled the Alice-shaped armor plates and linings, and cleaned them carefully.

When Yi Lin carefully opened the armor on the back of Alice's neck and observed the "bug" lying on Alice's center, she fell into deep thought.

"Hey, sister."

"Huh? Brother, isn't sister unclean inside?"

Alice asked worriedly.

She didn't want her brother to see the dirt inside her.

What a shame.

Through words and deeds, Yilin gradually helped Alice understand many human concepts.

"Shame", "worry", "happiness", "sadness", etc.

Even if Alice cannot understand many concepts, she can at least simulate them through the "personification module".

"Can I have an Alice model?"

"Can't."

Alice shook her head subconsciously and refused. A snowflake appeared inexplicably in her vision, but she quickly returned to normal: "Brother, you can only dismantle 'Alice 101'."

"No, no, no, sister, you misunderstood." Yi Lin noticed Alice's reluctance and explained: "I want a factory model that has not yet loaded any 'personification module'."

"Oh!" Alice understood: "It turns out you want to be 'Alice'. It turns out that what you like is 'Alice XO Alice'."

Alice-101 didn't know what information she associated with it. Her faceplate was hot and red, and gave off a burning smell.

"..."

Yi Lin decided not to explain.

But since it was an "Alice blank machine without any anthropomorphic module", my sister readily agreed.

In the concept of omnics, the ontology of omnics is "intelligence", not "machine". They regard the body as a "part" that can be discarded at any time once it gets old. This is fundamentally different from the human thinking model.

In the concept of omnics, a blank "Alice type" is no different from new clothes. If you, brother, like to wear women's clothes, what if your sister agrees to it?

Alice thinks this is what humans call "pampering".

The elder sister dotes on the younger brother.

Then, you might as well be "Alice".

Alice thought happily.

Looking forward to a happy life in the future where two Alices can be plugged in and charge each other in reverse directions.

She didn't notice that after her brother finished speaking, he didn't speak anymore, and even his usual skilled maintenance skills were a little slower.

…

In this universe, time is like rust on an armor plate, growing on it unknowingly and being worn away unknowingly.

It has been three months since Yi Lin became a "younger brother".

A mysterious "awakened one" appears in the world of illusion.

His name is "L".

Morning.

It's always hazy.

After the daily maintenance, Alice was polished and shiny.

Moisten where it should be moistened, polish where it should be polished, and look stunning.

The current "Alice-101", standing together with other "Alice-types", can still see obvious newness. This is the difference between having someone take care of it and having no one take care of it.

She habitually invites Yi Lin to log in to Huanguang, go to eat delicious food... no, clock in and go to work.

Yi Lin found the reason of "need to upgrade the system version" to refuse.

Alice had no doubts and hurriedly logged into the world of illusion.

After Alice left.

Yi Lin took the time to sneak into the mine again.

This month, apart from clocking in to work, Yi Lin did nothing.

He found the opportunity and "infected" all the patrol equipment in a certain area, turning them into his own machines.

Now, as long as Yilin is not too arrogant and arrogant, he opens the lid of the life-saving cabin and gets in. He can secretly log into the world of illusion as a "resident" without any patrolling omnics coming to disturb him.

After being familiar with driving, Yi Lin arrived at the life-saving cabin of "Rhode".

Log in to the virtual world "Phantom Light".

Becoming "Rhode" again, Yi Lin's mind briefly fell into a trance, and he loaded Rhode's memory.

It turned out that during this period, Rhode's life had undergone earth-shaking changes.

A month ago, "Rhode" blatantly contradicted his superiors and was taken into consideration by his superiors. Sure enough, a week later, he received a letter of dismissal as he wished.

He lost his job.

What made Rhodes even more unbelievable was that his wife seemed to have changed into a completely different person, acting mysteriously all day long and divorcing him at the speed of light.

Now Rhodes is alone and drinking at home to drown his sorrows.

On the table, the ashtray was filled to the brim with cigarette holders.

There were many empty beer bottles scattered on the ground.

in the kitchen,

The dishes and chopsticks that hadn't been washed for several days, and the "takeaway food boxes" placed all over the floor, exuded an unpleasant smell.

Buzz buzz——

Yilin snapped her fingers, used a few toothpicks to pin a few noisy flies to the wall, and then came to the mirror.

There was a layer of dust on the mirror, and Yi Lin reached out to wipe it away. In the mirror, a face of a middle-aged man with stubble, sunken eye sockets, and desolation was reflected.

"There are still 12 hours and 8 minutes until Alice logs out."

Yi Lin clocked a countdown on her watch, briefly washed her face and shaved, then left Luo Zhai and walked onto the street.