Chapter 302

"Sure enough, this is not a simple housekeeper." Kiki landed from the air and stood next to Lin Xian.

Before Kiki's words fell, Grace had already stood up from the thick smoke. The holographic projection on her head flickered constantly, and soon formed the appearance of Chu Yan again, her tone still cold and flat.

"You have already agreed to the negotiation and obtained the conditions. Please leave immediately. The Zero Element honeycomb is connected to the Sky Mushroom Tower fungal thread root system. Once it catches fire, it will trigger an uncontrollable combustion. According to calculations, your survival rate is 0%."

It seemed to be affected by Xiang Xiang Ningjing's punch just now, and the defensive shell on Grace's face was slightly dented and cracked. However, Lin Xian and Xiang Xiang Ningjing looked at this scene with a frown. Lin Xian knew how powerful the punch of Xiang Xiang Ningjing, this strong-woman queen, was. That was an existence that could even smash the head of a Winged Demon directly, but it couldn't cause too much damage to the robot's face. How terrifying must the hardness of this material be!

The mechanical light in Lin Xian's eyes slowly extinguished. Just now, he had controlled all the power components of Grace's whole body, leaving only the most complex quantum computer brain control core. He tried it, and as soon as he touched it, the mechanical scan was like a stone ox entering the sea, with a feeling of powerlessness.

Sure enough, the most powerful productivity is not the engine, but the processor, Lin Xian sighed in his heart. But as long as he could control the power components of Grace's whole body, the threat of this robot had been reduced a lot. He was now very curious about the manufacturing process of this robot. It didn't seem to be a product of the Interstellar Military.

"Who manufactured you, does your image have a prototype?"

Lin Xian asked Grace.

"I don't have information in this regard and cannot answer your question. If you think my holographic image is inappropriate, your permission can order me to change the display image or cancel the holographic display."

"Then how many people are there in this underground research institute in total, who are they, and what is the plan, you must know, right?"

"Sorry." Grace's joints kept pulling, resisting Lin Xian's mechanical control: "I cannot inform you of relevant information. My duty is only to guard the honeycomb center and Crimson members."

Lin Xian looked at her and said: "Then what if this place is gone?"

"As an offline version of the Crimson No. 3 intelligent brain, my quantum volume is 8192, that is (2^{13}) computing power, but I have not undergone 'human-in-the-loop' learning and do not possess too many judgments on categories such as human emotions, lies, sensibility, and game theory. I judge that you seem to have the intention of taking me away as a trophy. Ha, ha."

Lin Xian felt a bit inexplicable upon hearing this: "So what? How do you plan to deal with me?"

Grace's mechanical eyes condensed on Lin Xian: "Since you entered the Crimson Pharmaceutical building, I have taken the following measures against you, including but not limited to: opening all available access controls, releasing laboratory cages, electrifying and stimulating the atrium giant fungal body, Zero Element Center defense system. None of these succeeded. Based on the judgment of you, the success rate of my measures to complete the protection of the Zero Element Center and simultaneously clear the intruders has been infinitely lower than 1%. Your act of taking me away will be regarded as violating my basic protocol of protecting the Zero Element Center and Crimson members. I will initiate resistance against this. If the Zero Element Center and Crimson members are destroyed, meaning my duty has been lost, I will enter a dormant state by myself, waiting for recycling and processing."

"Good guy, it turns out you did it all." Lin Xian's gaze swept coldly over Grace. At this moment, he felt a bit at a loss.

He couldn't scan and control this intelligent brain housekeeper's quantum computing brain. Thinking about it, it seemed that he could only see if Kiki could overwrite its system and then take it on the train. Such powerful computing power could completely help him solve most of the train's problems, and it also possessed quite powerful combat capability. This kind of good thing made him more interested than supplies and the like.

"Lin Xian."

At this moment, Ding Junyi's voice suddenly came: "Come and look."

Lin Xian walked over upon hearing this. He saw Ding Junyi operating a computer in the surveillance center. After she connected directly with the Black Hawk combat armor's connector, she quickly pulled out a large amount of information.

"Look." Ding Junyi pointed to the screen, which showed the personal information and current physical status of the people in each survival cabin.

"About 60% of these people are already in a state of brain death, but because the body is still undergoing external cardiopulmonary blood oxygen circulation, it maintains body temperature and metabolism."

"Brain death?" Lin Xian asked in confusion: "Is that the state after consciousness upload she mentioned?"

"I don't know if consciousness has been uploaded, but their brain tissue has already undergone protein denaturation."

Ding Junyi's tone was flat. She wanted to habitually tuck her hands, but because she was wearing Black Hawk combat armor, her two hands slid twice on her waist. Not reacting, she simply tucked her hands into Lin Xian's clothes pocket.

"What is protein denaturation?" Lin Xian asked.

Ding Junyi looked at him: "It means the brain has been cooked."

Lin Xian: "..."

"The human brain is similar to a precise biological processor. The higher the intensity of the calculation, the more it overheats. You remember when we were hallucinated in that lobby before? The faster the brain calculates, the more realistic the rendered scene is, and you will also feel that time passes very quickly." Ding Junyi said: "Two hours is enough to overload the brain and mental power of several Violent-level ability users to the point of pain, so you can imagine."

Lin Xian looked at the honeycomb pit under the glass curtain wall upon hearing this: "So these people want to use the characteristics of fungal threads to enter hallucination hibernation, actually it's very likely that they burned their brains?"

Ding Junyi shrugged and said meaningfully: "If the brain wants to maintain the high-intensity pleasure calculation of 10 times sexual intercourse, if it lasts for 5 seconds, you will be very happy, but if it lasts for 5 minutes..."

Lin Xian couldn't help but frown upon hearing this. Ding Junyi's description made him feel a chill down his spine for no reason.

Immediately, he turned his head to look at Grace: "Is this the safety you are responsible for? People are already dead."

Grace still had a calm expression and said in a mechanical female voice: "I said, regarding death, my view is a bit different. Consciousness as the core of life, any body is just a carrier. The human brain as a consciousness carrier cannot perform higher computing power calculations. Changing the carrier and me changing the quantum computer hardware is essentially no different. My duty is to guard the body safety of Crimson members. As for their consciousness core in the Star Abyss fungal thread network, it is not within my supervision range. Strictly speaking, it belongs to intruders."

"Ah?" Lin Xian felt a bit unable to turn around when he heard this: "You mean, as long as the flesh of these people lying here is still alive, it's fine?"

"It can be understood this way. The protocol program I was written with is like this."

Ding Junyi pulled her hand out of Lin Xian's pocket and said in a deep voice:

"I understand what she means. Logically speaking, there is no problem."

She looked at Lin Xian: "The so-called digital life of consciousness upload is essentially a copy rather than a resurrection. In our biological field, this has always been a field subject to social ethical controversy, and research on any digital life has been strictly regulated."

"Why?" Lin Xian asked.

"Because if you upload your consciousness to another body before you die, for yourself, actually you are already dead. You yourself will not open your eyes and live again. The consciousness you upload is just a 'successor' of yours. I'll give you an example and you'll understand. If I copy your consciousness to a cloned body exactly like you, but you yourself haven't died, now there are two of you in the world. Then the person who was copied, does it count as your consciousness inheritance, or a new person?"

After Ding Junyi finished speaking, she looked at Grace: "So from her perspective, the copied consciousness does not belong to the Crimson members within her supervision range. This logic is completely correct."

"Yes." Grace responded mechanically.

Lin Xian nodded with a desolate expression. He quickly understood Ding Junyi's meaning: "So those people lying there, whether they can live or not is unknown. Crimson World actually doesn't know the feasibility of this plan either. They just researched the characteristics of these fungal threads, and then packaged a concept of eternal life, and then tricked these rich people into being white mice."

"Should be." Ding Junyi said: "Perhaps their consciousness really exists in the fungal thread network, but this form of life existence..."

"Flesh is weak, consciousness ascends. If it's true, it's not a way to escape the doomsday." Lin Xian said.

"Alright, you're right."

Lin Xian took a breath and chuckled: "But if it weren't for the trouble of these fungal threads, I would definitely burn them all with a fire. Maybe I could burn out a few fake sarira beads and give them to the Hell Black Chrysanthemum as nutrients."

*Rumble. *

At this moment, the Zero Element Center suddenly had a weak vibration coming from time to time. Lin Xian constricted his gaze and immediately said to Ding Junyi: "It should be the joint train coming. Let's go out and see."

After speaking, Lin Xian led Ding Junyi to walk out.

But just as he walked two steps, a bizarre sound suddenly came from behind.

"Lin Xian, you must not leave the city at this time. I suggest you hibernate underground to rest and wait for the next fungal thread active cycle to leave."

Lin Xian stopped and turned his head suddenly. The intelligent brain-Grace was standing 5 meters away from him at this moment. The holographic projection of Chu Yan on her head stared at him and said:

"The Corpse Collector of Star Abyss No. 5 appeared in this area during the last tide cycle. If you act rashly and get infected with a dark mark, attracting the Corpse Collector, you won't be able to escape!"

"What did you say?!" Lin Xian looked surprised upon hearing this, not only because of the information about the Corpse Collector mentioned by the other party, but more importantly, Lin Xian felt at this moment that Grace didn't look like a robot at all!

Who would have thought that as soon as his words fell, Grace looked at him with a puzzled expression and returned to the mechanical, cold female voice just now:

"I don't understand what you mean. Do you need me to repeat the view on death?"

"Didn't you just tell me about the Corpse Collector of Star Abyss No. 5?"

Grace was silent for a while, then said: "I retrieved a keyword trigger voice command in the system circuit. This command was generated 6 hours and 12 minutes ago. The information has been destroyed. I judge it to be a malicious intrusion. To ensure system security, I need to perform a system restart."

*Hiss, hiss. *

As soon as the words fell, the holographic transparency of Grace's face extinguished quickly, and all the mechanical units of her whole body also stopped. Lin Xian's mechanical ability probed that she should have entered the restart command.

"What's going on? Her words just now?" Ding Junyi also walked over at this moment and asked in confusion.

Lin Xian frowned, his mind running at extreme speed.

6 hours and 12 minutes ago, someone implanted a trigger command into Grace, and this voice command clearly informed that the target was Lin Xian, indicating that this information was prepared for him.

That is to say, someone already knew that Lin Xian would come to this place 6 hours ago.

And 6 hours ago, Lin Xian was still sleeping in the Infinite train carriage in the night!

(End of chapter)

And as these people approached, it was as if a rapid screening was taking place. Those slim women with fair, tender skin gradually became the mainstream. The hair, bones, and hair color on their bodies gradually changed into the types Lin Xian liked best or found most pleasing. And the most bizarre thing was that the appearance of the screened women gradually changed toward beauties Lin Xian had deep impressions of, such as Chen Sixuan, Kiki, Ding Junyi, and even Mo Nika.

Before long, hundreds of stunning 'Chen Laoshi', 'Kiki', 'Mo Nika'... had already arrived at Lin Xian's side, surrounding him. These beauties were not wearing a stitch, and the luster of their skin was full of the seductive aura of reproductive sex. They looked at Lin Xian with clear eyes, either smiling, serious, cunning, or shy, almost invading all of Lin Xian's senses.

At the same time, the crowd began to open up, and the naked beauties walking up from behind were holding all kinds of delicacies: steak, roast duck, hot pot, fresh fruit, tempting desserts, and exquisite, mellow wine.

They didn't speak, but kept offering various delicacies, or posing in various postures of desire, or expressing their loyalty to be dominated.

Suddenly, more men began to appear, crawling and kneeling on the ground toward Lin Xian on the periphery of the beauties, seemingly expressing submission and respect.

For a time, Lin Xian's front was filled with all kinds of delicacies and fragrances, the human bodies of beauties constantly twisting their figures, and the dense crowd of men kneeling and bowing to him, like a bizarre Shura field of human desire, pulling at all his senses and psychology, pulling frantically.

*Click. *

At this moment, Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart finally captured something. He immediately took a deep breath, raised his left hand to deploy the AT field shield, and at the same time, his right hand gripped hard!

*Empty, empty! *

A huge, strange sound echoed in the lobby. The woman in uniform in the distance suddenly had her face distorted, and then a chain reaction occurred with the women around Lin Xian who were twisting and begging for intercourse. Some postures were twisted too much, actually turning into anti-joint movements, instantly breaking people's normal cognition and making the originally extremely erotic scene become bizarre.

And these women didn't seem to notice. With the tearing of Lin Xian's ability in his hand, the movements of these women began to become more and more bizarre, as if an AI drawing had an abnormality. Some people silently grew an extra arm, some women grew 7 or 8 fingers on their hands, and some even had the terrifying scene of genital displacement, like a hell of female bodies!

"Eternal living body is... the final solution to life reproduction. Hello, hello... I understand you. The escape along the way is inevitably exhausting. You must be tired. Don't be afraid..." The woman in uniform was still saying some logically bizarre words incoherently at this moment.

*Hiss, hiss! Hiss, hiss! *

Lin Xian's ability surged rapidly, and the elevator door of the central elevator behind the woman began to be constrained by his ability and opened. The elevator car door seemed to have encountered a huge obstacle, and the opening process became extremely slow. Lin Xian drove with all his might, and the elevator motor made a *woo, woo, woo* sound. The next instant, the car door seemed to tear something apart.

At this moment, all the twisted female hell bodies in front of Lin Xian disappeared, and the image reflected on his retina began to gradually become clear.

Suddenly, the smell of rot and mold churned in his nasal cavity. In his line of sight, his two drones were falling onto a bizarre fungal mountain like a small hill in front. The floodlights flickered. In Lin Xian's current line of sight, the vertical elevator in the central lobby was covered by a huge fungal mat. The fungal mat presented a bewitching color and grew bizarrely, like an exposed human internal organ, looking just like a living creature.

At the same time, a large number of white fungal threads had already spread from under his feet to his body, beginning to cover his lower body. All kinds of stimulating energy kept coming, and the alarm sound of the TRP combat armor in his ears gradually changed from blurred to clear.

*Beep, beep, beep, beep. *

【Pilot heart rate abnormality warning】

【Pilot brain wave signal abnormality warning】

"This thing can cause hallucinations, gas masks are useless!"

*Crack. * At this moment, Ding Junyi, wearing the Black Hawk combat armor, walked over and pulled the fungal vines off Lin Xian's feet. She saw Lin Xian turn his head to look at her and immediately said: "You're awake?"

"How long?" Lin Xian asked immediately.

"2 hours."

"So long?" Lin Xian said in surprise: "Why do I feel like only 5 minutes have passed?"

Ding Junyi immediately responded: "Just now, your brain underwent 200% overload, and your body's senses and dopamine pleasure information were all mobilized, so you saw scenes that were enough to be taken for real. Those were all rendered by your brain!"

"How do you know?"

"The Black Hawk combat armor's physical monitoring system told me. If you feel dizzy, it's normal; incontinence is also normal. It's just that we don't have time to change pants now."

After Ding Junyi finished speaking, she immediately turned and walked toward Kiki and the others behind. At this moment, these people were all like Lin Xian just now, standing in place, with a large amount of white fungal threads covering them.

"When did we get hit? Why do I have no impression at all?" Lin Xian felt a bit of lingering fear at this moment and hurried over to rescue the others with Ding Junyi. At this moment, Kiki, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Ah Bai, Luo Yang, and Fire Brother were all closing their eyes, their eyeballs constantly turning. It was obvious that they had fallen into some kind of intense hallucinatory scene.

Lin Xian was the first to tear off all the fungal threads on Kiki's body and checked that she had no injuries, feeling slightly relieved. Just as he was about to wake this girl up, he found that the girl's mouth was opening and closing, seemingly shouting something in the hallucination. Lin Xian frowned and hurriedly leaned his ear over.

"Yes, kneel down for this lady and say you were wrong!"

"Lin Xian, sing me a song and perform a show!"

"Don't laugh, slap your mouth!"

"Is 'girl' something you can call me? You should call me Queen!"

"You dare to touch me? Come over. Sister Chen isn't here, hurry up and let this lady kiss you~"

"Come, come, come, take off all your pants and let this lady..."

"Wake up!" The more Lin Xian heard, the more he felt something was wrong, so he reached out and pinched Kiki's nose to wake her up.

Kiki felt the pain suddenly and opened her eyes immediately. Seeing Lin Xian in front of her, her big eyes blinked in astonishment. It took a long time for her to finally react, and she hurriedly said:

"Why is this hallucination so real? I... didn't we already return to the train and safely escape the Polar Night? Why are we still here?"

Lin Xian glanced at her: "Are you okay?"

"No... nothing."

"Ouch~"

Seeing Lin Xian's gaze, Kiki suddenly remembered something. Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly covered her head and looked around: "Ouch~ my head hurts so much."

Seeing that Kiki was fine, Lin Xian felt slightly relieved. The situation of the others was about the same. The hallucinations caused by these fungal threads would constantly make one generate intense desires, thereby activating the human body's pleasure factors and constantly developing, eventually causing people to be completely frozen in place and covered by fungal threads.

In just two short hours, the fungal threads had almost covered more than half of himself, which was simply terrifying.

"Mom, what happened?" Luo Yang kept scratching his head, feeling a splitting headache.

Xiang Xiang Ningjing and the others also had bizarre expressions. Only Fire Brother frowned slightly at this moment, with an expression that was a bit nostalgic and a bit self-reproachful.

"This hallucination is truly hateful. It actually made me walk the path of becoming a god and ascending to immortality in vain. Alas, it seems this one was too obsessed..."

Lin Xian took a look and then said in a deep voice: "Everyone, pay attention. We must speed up. There are some things our gas masks can't prevent. We must be more vigilant."