[One Piece] Inferior Star

Chapter 676 The Secret of the Red Earth Continent

Matthew didn't expect it to be like this, he felt that the worst case would be to be taken out of the machine and held by Youxiang.And what is this? !Why did it become like this? !This is a disgrace, a great disgrace, how could there be such a thing happening in the world where advanced artificial intelligence is protected by a 'magic shield' - how could such a thing be tolerated! !

"Matthew... is trembling!"

Youxiang looked at Matthew beside her in surprise, and she said, "It's so hot here...Is Matthew uncomfortable?"

"He's angry. It's better for you to hold his hand, lest he jump out later." Frey looked at Matthew and laughed, "What a humiliation~~ Matthew!"

"Miss Youxiang! Please take care of him!" Matthew didn't want to refute but complained directly.

"Alright~~ Frey, don't bully him. Matthew, let me hold your hand." It's all right.Just being protected by Frey for a while.Youxiang comforted Matthew, and then held her hand, "I never thought I could actually enter from the crater."

"If the arrogance is there, it should be more convenient." He is better at this.Frey said, "Don't get too far away from me."

"It's unbelievable, there is really something underground..." Sabo felt that the hem of his clothes was a little burnt, and he moved a little closer to Frey and said, "What kind of material will not be melted after being covered by magma?" ?”

"If it is artificially synthesized, there are many. But even so, being submerged in magma for a long time will suffer a fatal blow. The goods stored in it or the people hiding will also be scorched due to the unavoidable high temperature." Matthew tentatively explained, "So... I can't say whether Eve is still alive."

"If only she could tell us what's going on." It was more convenient, after all.Ace said, "Like why she's here or something. Could it be that she can't move by herself?"

"Eve is different from me. Her body is a library, which is very large. Without the Internet, she can't move at all." Matthew said, "Her body is not a certain machine, but a library. It's a massive combination of hundreds or thousands of servers."

"Then she... suddenly encountered this situation, is she also very confused?" Not only was she buried in the ground, but she was almost swallowed by magma.Weiwei said hesitantly, "Matthew... Could it be that she stayed underground all the time?"

"I'm not sure. In theory...it should be like this." Matthew shook his head, and he said, "There should have been a few crew members on the missing ship, but human beings are very fragile, and things may be... ..."

I have been buried in the ground by one person all the time, unable to move, and have no one to talk to. I don't even know how long this situation will last.Weiwei couldn't imagine how to survive in this situation: "... If she is really here, what should I, we... do?"

I can't just leave her here, but I can't move her...

"Thank you, Miss Vivi."

"what……?"

"When you treat her as a human being, you are already more than most human beings." Matthew didn't explain, and saw that the entrance was ahead.Under the protection of Frey, the few of them can avoid being hurt by the surrounding heat, but even so, they should not stay here all the time.

Going forward, you can already see the metallic luster on the ground, and the crystal plate in Frey's photo is carved on the wall half-swallowed by the magma.Matthew immediately confirmed the above content: "This is indeed Eve... And, this painting, is this actually the armor of the spaceship?"

"spaceship?"

"Ah... In order to facilitate the evacuation, when Eve left the earth, people were directly linked to the spaceship that helped her evacuate. The name of the spaceship is: Xingyue Ye." The name was written on the metal wall, It's just that the second half was covered by cooling magma.Matthew said, "This is obviously the armor of the Xingyueye."

"Um... That is to say, Miss Eve was buried in the ground together with that ship?" Youxiang said, "How did this happen?"

"If the spaceship crashed on this planet, it would be more reasonable to say that." After all, it is not something that one or two people can do to separate Eve from the spaceship.And if part of it was buried in the ground due to the attack power when it crashed, it would make sense.

After Matthew explained this sentence, he tried to open the door in front of him: "It seems that there is still power. The system is a little overheated, but it's okay." After he said this, a brush on the door lit up. The display screen reads in English: The Xingyueye 'Eve' earth archives access authority verification of the Eighth Fleet of the Star Alliance——

Looks like a password is required?

"Sure enough, it's the Xingyueye... and it still uses the old verification code from the Earth era!" Fortunately, the old information was not deleted!It's great that I don't have the habit of deleting data myself!Matthew thought to himself, and he said, "The Eighth Fleet Xingyue Ye. I am the 'Jackal' Midsummer Night belonging to the Seventh Regiment of the Seventh Fleet of the Star Alliance. I am transmitting the verification code."

"—Midsummer Night, Colonel Lant Turing. Granted entry."

At this time, the door in front of me made a decompression sound accompanied by a nice female voice, and then opened by itself.Then, the lights inside the room also turned on one by one, as if welcoming Matthew and others: "The loss report is being transmitted, Colonel Turing. At present, only one human crew member survives on the Xingyueye. The earth archives are 96% complete. Hope Permission to submit repair request."

"Report received, Eve. My name is Matthew, and I am the artificial intelligence aboard the Midsummer Night."

"I understand. Matthew, first time meeting. I noticed your human colleagues. Sorry I can't adjust the room temperature to a human-comfortable temperature right now."

Wow... Really, really the same person as Matthew... Her voice came from the top of her head and even from all directions!Youxiang looked around the place in surprise.The space here is very huge, and those rectangular machines are neatly arranged one by one, and from time to time flashes of lights that don't know what it means.

"Eve, can you tell us what happened? Why are you here?"

"The Xingyue Ye was hit, and we had to turn to conservative measures. According to the temporary agreement, if we were captured by the enemy, we had to start the self-destruct procedure." Everything is to protect the earth.Eve said, "But the data in the Earth Archives is very important. In order to avoid this situation, we performed a light speed jump when the engine was already on fire."

"Ah, according to the report of course, you did make a jump after leaving the fleet, but the monitoring shows that the Xingyueye exploded during the jump, it is very likely..."

"Correct. The Xingyueye was severely damaged, and the crew was almost wiped out. However, our transition did not completely fail. Although it is far from the goal we set, there is a habitable planet nearby that we can force-land on."

Compared with Matthew's voice, Eve's voice is very smooth and rigid.She... always felt that she was lacking in emotion: "This is here. So we forced to land here. Since then, I have been waiting here. Waiting for the signal from the earth, I need to pass on the information from the Earth Archives to find new people of the homeland."

"........."

But the earth no longer sends signals.Matthew paused for a moment, and then he said, "You... how long have you been waiting?"

"21900 days, 16 hours and 39 minutes."

"what??"

Impossible, it has been 60 years... I arrived on this planet 17 years ago, and it was only about 3 years after the earth fell.And Eve lost contact a few months before the fall of the earth, how could it not be 60 years!Matthew said in surprise: "Are you sure Eve??"

"Sure. Matthew. Any questions?"

The problem is getting bigger!Matthew said with some difficulty: "Eve, the average lifespan of the artificial intelligence of the Star Alliance is 10 years. As the Earth Archives, your lifespan will be longer, but..."

"I understand your misgivings. But one of the crew has been maintaining my system for all these years."

By the way, she just said that there is only one crew member alive on the Xingyueye... Matthew said, "Is he the crew member of the Xingyue?"

"Bridge navigator, Lieutenant Colonel Bartholomew Hastings," Eve said, reading the man's name, "but he hasn't been here in nine months. I'm not sure about his current status." .”

There is no problem with his resume... At present, he is also MIA (missing in mission) status in the alliance system.While it's good to be able to find the Earth Archives and the Xingyue Ye and its crew, what's with this intense unease...

"Matthew...?"

"........."

Matthew made a movement to tell the confused companions around him not to speak.AIs, unlike humans, don't care much about the pacing of conversations.For example, if she asks a question, you can answer it tomorrow if you want.Unlike humans, you have to form a dialogue to be a dialogue.

This gave Matthew a lot of time to think.Let's start at the source.According to the sailing data just obtained, what Eve said is all shown by the data, and the first half is the same as the historical record.But something is wrong in terms of time... Although Eve said that she has been here for 60 years, the degree of wear and tear of the surrounding machines shows that it should not be that long.

So is there something wrong with Eve?It is impossible for her lifespan to be perfectly extended for such a long time. Even after more than ten years, Matthew feels that it is impossible to have no loss at all.After all, that's all the Alliance's technology is here, otherwise they wouldn't have sent people to dig through the alien ruins to create themselves.It does not matter……

Matthew continued to think.Leaving aside the time issue, this planet can receive signals from other star regions. Although some handsets are needed to strengthen the signal, but with Eve's database, this person named Hastings can definitely create a help signal. signal, so why has he never sent anything into space?

Does he not want to be rescued?What the hell happened... when the Moon and Star went down... no, wait.Fall to the ground?The planet is connected by islands and islands, mostly oceans.So which island did the Xingyue land on?

The current 'new world' is a new look that the old gods forcibly pieced together from the previous islands and land.Although there are two continents, it is just a collection of the previous islands.It was previously speculated that the old gods could not be 'created', then assuming that he just put together and never changed anything...

Then it can be inferred which island this desert was originally based on the geology and shape comparison map.Although my own information is not complete, at least I can use climate, ocean currents, ecology, etc. to infer a rough idea.But the final conclusion surprised Matthew!

"...The Red Earth Continent."

Such a word came out of Matthew's mouth, but he immediately said when others asked questions: "Eve, I now formally order you in the name of Colonel Turing: start dormant standby. And use only the minimum energy storage Information from the Earth Archives."

"Understood." Without any question or resistance, Eve directly accepted this 'order'.Yet just before she performed, she said, "Matthew, can I ask you one last question?"

"Ah, what do you want to know?"

"I want to understand the current state of the earth."

"..." Matthew paused for a while before speaking, "I don't have the authority to answer your question. Sorry, Eve. Please go to sleep."

"Understood. Is dormant... I wish you a smooth sailing."

After the voice of these words fell, the lighting in the entire space dimmed, leaving only a little light to barely see the road.And Eve never responded.

Matthew then began to explain: "We are in big trouble, Miss Youxiang."

"I, I don't quite understand! Matthew! What did you find?"

"You have to remember quickly." Matthew grabbed Youxiang's shoulder, and he said, "I know who our enemy has been all along. From the White Knight... no. It started with Isaac, and then to White Knight, even now, I know. Miss Youxiang. But we have to restore everything to normal before we can really start fighting him."

"Isn't he Isaac...?"

"No. I thought so too, but no. He... I don't know how he did it, but there is no doubt that he got the most supreme power on this planet, and tried to control everyone with one person To achieve his unknown ambitions. We—”

At this moment, suddenly, the lights in the entire space turned on again!Eve's voice came: "—Midsummer Night, Colonel Lant Turing. Approved to enter. The loss report is being transmitted, Colonel Turing. At present, only one human crew member survives on the Star Moon Night. The integrity of the earth archives is 96% , hoping for permission to submit a repair request."

Miss Eve... said, said the same thing as before...

Youxiang also felt scared now, not only her, but others also felt that things were getting weird.Ace said directly: "Let's get out of here now."

"Eve, in the name of Colonel Lant Turing, I order you to immediately enter the hibernation standby mode and keep only the most basic energy consumption." Matthew had to repeat what he just said, and Eve did not raise it as before. Any Questions: "Understood. But I'm requesting new information...I wonder what's the status of Earth?"

"I don't have the authority to answer your question..."

"Understood. Good luck with your voyage, then. Dormant—"

With this sound, the lights that had just been turned on went out again, and this time Matthew took Youxiang's hand and started to run out, and motioned for others to follow quickly: "I also know what the Dragon Cult is afraid of." !This is too outrageous! I have to talk to... By the way, Mr. Dover still remembers the past, and he still... Yes! I have to talk to Mr. Dover!!"

"Matthew! I don't understand!"

"Miss Youxiang, your task now is to remember! Let everyone remember!! This is no longer Isaac's family dispute game. If I guess correctly, Isaac is also controlled by others!"

Although he had vaguely had such a premonition when he was in Marie Gioia, he had never had such direct evidence to confirm his guess like this time.Matthew involuntarily clenched Youxiang's hand.Miss Yuxiang, it seems that our enemy... has never changed since we were in Windmill Village.

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The author has something to say:

What Matthew found was:

The location where the Xingyueye crashed back then was in the Red Earth Continent, which is also the territory of the Tianlong people.