novelraw Chapter 729: The Unchanging Thing
Chapter 729: The Unchanging Thing
"Rumble rumble!"
"What's going on?"
Fisher raised his eyes looking at the shaking Shelter around, but that shaking merely lasted for a moment, after a moment, the entire Shelter then quieted down again.
Just as Fisher felt it might just be the pollution outside the Shelter causing secondary damage to the Shelter, that terrifying violent shaking struck again, and even several degrees more severe than the previous time.
"Rumble rumble!"
"Crack, crack, crack!"
From above the spacious space behind the massive gate "rustlingly" fell dust downward, mixing with the black and white mycelium outside and inside forming a mist in mid-air. Fisher looked above, then discovering on the walls inside this Shelter burst open fine and dense cracks exactly like spider webs, and from those cracks flesh and blood tissues could faintly be seen.
Exactly as Hamon Hamon said previously, the entire Angels' Shelter had been swallowed and transformed by Her Authority, therefore previously before entering the Shelter they could see the massive eye appearing on the surface.
Fisher and Renee exchanged a glance, both understanding a certain unforeseen event might have happened.
"Let's go, go find Gou Wen."Seeing the shaking around growing increasingly violent, Fisher then planned to take the floating Renee behind to find the scattered David and Gou Wen.
Just not long after setting off, Fisher instead one step ahead saw Gou Wen anxiously and hurriedly tapping the ground rapidly running towards here.
The two parties met, Fisher and Gou Wen's expressions both changed slightly, simultaneously opening their mouths loudly,
"What happened, the entire Shelter is..."
"Fisher, David's side opened the file!"
Hearing this, Fisher's complexion turned bizarre,
"What does that mean, does that file have any connection with the current Shelter? Once opened the entire Shelter began self-destructing?"
"No, shouldn't be... this unforeseen event should be related to Hamon Hamon ba, who knows..." Gou Wen glanced at the continuously shaking Shelter around, saying to Fisher, "Regardless of what, Hamon Hamon already agreed once the file is opened, She sees the answer inside She will hand over the Authority. As for the answer inside that file..."
"You all have seen it?"
"Seen it, but no useful information, you'll know once you go see... Exactly the right time, I'll go find Hamon Hamon to come over, after finishing all this we'll quickly leave here."
The place where David deciphered the file wasn't far from here. Gou Wen turned his head going to the side looking for traces of Hamon Hamon. Watching him go far, Fisher also couldn't help but feel curiosity towards the content of the file David opened.
After all the name of that file was exactly named after his name.
"... I have a bad premonition, Fisher."
Just as Fisher took Renee moving towards David's direction, the Renee behind instead seemingly sensing something suddenly raised her index finger and middle finger pointing at her own forehead, simultaneously she closed her eyes. Remaining silent for a moment before reopening her eyes, she abruptly said to Fisher thus.
"What's wrong?"
"Outside the Barrier seems to have happened a little unforeseen event, I have to temporarily return to my body..."
Fisher very quickly realized the unforeseen event currently happening in the Shelter was related to Hamon Hamon's main body outside the Barrier, thus he nodded saying to Renee,
"Good, you go ba, here leave it to us."
"Mhm, you definitely be more careful, whatever news over there I will immediately bring back waiting until it finishes."
Saying this, exactly before Fisher's eyes Renee was bit by bit wrapped by a faint brilliance resembling moonlight, until the recognizable physical form was completely swallowed and blurred into unrecognizability.
"..."
Fisher retracted his gaze, turning his head looking towards the direction of the display screen. Over there Hamon Hamon had previously pulled up data, and now, that file had already been opened, revealing densely packed angelic characters within, evidently David was reading it.
He looked at David before that large screen, seeing him raising his eyes, exactly reading the content above word by word, extremely immersed.
Fisher didn't open his mouth to disturb him, merely equally raising his head looking at the large screen above, reading the content within.
"Disconnect Network Program Startup Progress: 100%"
"Disconnect Network Program Startup Successful."
What first entered his eyes were instead such two lines of text, making Fisher feel somewhat bewildered.
According to Hamon Hamon's words, shouldn't this "Fisher Project" be the research regarding him entering the Sea of Chaos then but being able to leave safe and sound at that time, why is it also related to David disconnecting from the network later on?
But when Fisher continued reading downwards he instead very quickly discovered the answer, because in the increasingly long records below he saw more information...
It was information about Asuka Karasawa.
Still remember what Senior Aris mentioned previously, Mikhail would often use David No. 1 within the Society to contact them, and through this connection communicate affairs internal to the Creator's Society with Asuka Karasawa.
This matter Michael knew about, and moreover particularly preserved a folder within the Sanctuary's database to specifically save the connection between Mikhail and the Creator's Society.
And the name of this folder on the surface was exactly "Fisher Project".
From the perspective of the Sanctuary, recording and researching a "Transferred Person" capable of surviving from the influence of Chaos was reasonable; and Mikhail presumably also knew of Asuka Karasawa's long waiting, merely not knowing if this name also possessed meanings in this aspect.
And as the connection record between Mikhail and the Creator's Society, within the "Fisher Project" was saved a massive amount of information from when Asuka Karasawa hadn't yet entered the Spirit World.
Michael always knew Asuka Karasawa's whereabouts, yet never told this news to the Sanctuary...
"Mr. Mikhail, David No. 1 seems to have some malfunction, constantly reporting errors..."
"Received, I will inspect as soon as possible then reply."
"..."
"The problem has been found out, repair completed."
"Thank you, Mr. Mikhail."
"You're welcome. In the original world the artificial intelligence we produced all relied on a certain algorithm, based on a database to perform real-time calculations. From this sense, the Cardinal's main body providing calculations is equivalent to the cerebral cortex, while the network-connected database is the place storing memories... but now I gradually discover the original artificial intelligence of our world still possesses certain flaws. They rely too much on the original built-in algorithms, so all the 'Davids' will present similarity. Once the data in the network disorders, the algorithm will construct erroneous thoughts based on the disordered information, this way it reports errors..."
"So, is it only necessary to perfect the algorithm?"
"This is the solution for this time... but Michael and I are simultaneously also researching a certain new intelligent structure to replace this flawed algorithm, waiting until later having results I will tell you."
"..."
"The new type of intelligent structure has already succeeded in experiment. Based on the carrier of consciousness... soul, Michael and I received inspiration, now we have already started attempting experimental subjects."
"Really? That truly is too great!"
"..."
This kind of dialogue continuously went down for several thousand entries, basically having all kinds of matters. Many matters looked extremely serious at that time, but after all times have changed and several thousand years' time passed, from Fisher's current perspective, it already isn't much, turning to dust amidst the long river of history.
But Fisher still picked out a few relatively crucial pieces of content from within, that was regarding the embryonic form of a new intelligent structure.
And after the middle stage, within the file then there was no more news of Asuka Karasawa. Looks like it was already the time node after Asuka Karasawa entered the Spirit World. From this moment on, the style also produced a very big change.
After Asuka Karasawa left, the dialogue between Mikhail and the Creator's Society also grew less and less, but within the file other records were still left behind, it was about...
"David..."
Looking at the records above, Fisher finally knew why David beside him would remain silent for a long time watching this screen.
It turns out ever since Asuka Karasawa entered the Spirit World and never returned, and the Mother Goddess started roughly interfering with reality, the atmosphere of the entire world started becoming unbearably restless. The situation of Tao Gong being polluted by Chaos further caused undercurrents to surge between the Elves and Angels.
The rationality of Mikhail being researched by the Sanctuary at that time still suffered suspicion.
But after all under Mikhail and Michael's research, more and more Cardinal fruits were brought out, so in the end Michael still protected Mikhail.
And it exactly was under this kind of background, Mikhail and Michael's experiment succeeded.
They used a completely different intelligent structure from the past to create a unique artificial intelligence, placed it in a meticulously prepared Cardinal body, and bestowed the name to it...
David.
There wasn't any numbering, this exactly was his name. Enough to show in Mikhail's heart, this intelligence born through the hands of him and Michael could already be viewed as his true child.
"Sometimes I can't clearly distinguish whether I am a Transferred Person or a native living being born and raised in this world..."
In the records, Mikhail frankly stated,
"In my original world, I only lived less than forty years, while here, I have lived for a full five thousand years. What a long time this is ah, fully calculated, my original world seemingly was also only a few hundred years after being transformed by nuclear bombs, yet I unknowingly experienced a time even longer than this, together with Michael.
"What kind of relationship exactly should Michael and I be?
"Sometimes I can't help but think thus.
"If saying friends, it seemingly again cannot accurately describe my intimacy with him, cannot describe every inch of his details finely traced in my memories, cannot interpret the times being inseparable from him; if saying wife, he is also not female, and also never had thoughts of turning into female, even direct contact between me and him can be counted on one's fingers, seemingly occasional fingertip touches on the workbench, occasional lingering of long hair can already be called intimate.
"Thinking this way, I am still not as good as the Fisher Asuka misses, able to utterly unrestrainedly, without the slightest psychological pressure interact intimately with Angels; and Michael is also not understanding and considerate like Angel Helaire who left the Sanctuary early on, making him hard for me to figure out.
"He seems to be my intimately close companion, is my silently tacit friend, is my firm and unshakeable supporter, is my backing when I am isolated and without help... truly cannot be explained clearly, also cannot be repaid clearly. I'm afraid without him by my side, the Chaos within my body would have long runaway out of control like a wild horse slipping its reins... by his side I always feel peaceful, so I accomplished many matters I didn't even dare to think about previously, I am very thankful to him.
"At that time, Gabriel used the World Tree Teardrops Fisher left before leaving to create a unique-in-the-world intelligent Holy Artifact. Although Michael didn't say it on the surface, but being passionate about forging, having a strong desire to win, how could he be reconciled... mhm, perhaps this is also why I have all along focused on the process of researching artificial intelligence.
"Although I flatter myself that my artificial intelligence technology has reached a high degree of professional proficiency, whether me or Michael we all must admit, the David we manufactured in terms of agility is completely unable to compare with Gabriel's book-shaped Holy Artifact... that book main body treated as a child by Gabriel seemingly has a scorching soul inside, making cold intelligence completely unable to rival. Michael is very mindful of this matter, perhaps this exactly is the reason why I have dedicated myself to researching a new intelligent model starting from that time...
"And after combining the inspiration of matters existing in this world, I seemingly truly manufactured a child making Michael extremely satisfied... I left the originally only, precious name to him, he perhaps will become an only, numbering-unneeded consciousness."
The record didn't come to an abrupt end, below also recorded some records of the lives of Michael, Mikhail and newborn David.
It could be seen out, Mikhail and Michael paid exceptional attention to this creation, perhaps, They truly viewed David as their own child. Even after the alienation virus broke out, Mikhail still sent David away from this Shelter, and David also had to look for them after disconnecting from the network losing memories...
At this moment comparing with the "Disconnect Network Command" on the executing program at the beginning, involuntarily made Fisher associate with the situation back then.
When Michael and Mikhail were about to be alienated welcoming the ending of death, Fisher didn't know what thoughts They had looking at these records back then, and also didn't know what thoughts David looking at these records at this moment had.
"We're here... Hamon Hamon, we opened the file."
The silence of Fisher and David was interrupted by Gou Wen suddenly opening his mouth behind. Fisher and David simultaneously turned their heads looking behind, then seeing the expressionless Hamon Hamon whose body equally appeared with cracks following Gou Wen walking back.
He raised Her head looking at the file above, within the eyes first flashing a bit of light, but amidst the rapid browsing process it gradually dimmed down again, seemingly not finding anything.
David looked at Hamon Hamon, tone slightly deepened,
"The file, I have already opened it."
Hamon Hamon shifted Her gaze back to Fisher and David's bodies, nodded saying,
"I understand, I will honor the promise, actually even if you all didn't open the file, I'm afraid I would also gift the Authority to you, as your assistance."
"Why?"
Fisher frowned, asking thus.
Hamon Hamon still remained expressionless, He again raised Her head, once again reading the contents within the file, even if gaining nothing,
"Because the one coming is not the Ocean, the one coming is Dream Illusion."
"Dream Illusion?"
"Yes..." Hamon Hamon's voice was calm, exactly like narrating matters unrelated to Herself, "At this moment outside the Barrier, Dream Illusion is exactly attacking my main body... Not even waiting for the Ocean to come, Dream Illusion detected I had already completed alienation, no longer recognizing the previous alliance. Thus simply making the first move, resolving me so as to avoid producing worries about the future..."
Fisher opened his mouth, for a moment surprisingly not knowing what to say.
Merely looking at Her still raising Her eyes reading the information above's appearance, Fisher truly was puzzled, why this answer was so important to Him.
"You all can already leave, I will fulfill the promise. Have already begun separating the Authority within my body, preparing to strip it of consciousness sending it into the Barrier... me losing this Authority will very quickly perish under Dream Illusion's hands. At that time, the Shelter that has already become a part of me will also soon collapse, if you don't leave now it'll be too late."
Hamon Hamon read the information above word by word, not even looking at them, merely saying thus.
"This is what you deserve."
David gnashing his teeth, said thus. While Gou Wen's gaze instead looked towards Fisher, Fisher pondered for a moment, subsequently saying,
"Let's go."
Fisher and David's figures glided past the Hamon Hamon standing on the spot no longer moving afterwards. While David also took a final look at that illusion of Mikhail and Michael remaining condensed under the mycelium, his expression sinking and condensing for a moment later, inside his eyes revealed the sorrow of humanity, yet he still followed Fisher and Gou Wen heading outside the Shelter.
"Rumble rumble!"
Passing through that massive gate from earlier, Fisher and Gou Wen returned via the original route. Amidst the silence along the way, only the sounds of collapse transmitting from all directions served as accompaniment.
"Hurry up, I'm afraid this place won't hold for long... Where's Renee?"
"She went to the Barrier's side, an emergency situation happened over there, should exactly be as Hamon Hamon said."
"Is that so..."
At this moment in Fisher's mind the information just read from the file was still continuously flowing. They exactly walked to the periphery of the Shelter now, outside was the platform counterfeiting the Sanctuary constructed by Hamon Hamon.
Those Chaos-kin over there all bolted fleeing out because of the unforeseen event of this Shelter. It could be said under the coercion of the Spirit World contamination, they had already maxed out their life-saving skill points.
But when Fisher's eyes saw the Sanctuary scenes outside, a flash of inspiration suddenly exploded within his mind, freezing his thoughts on the spot, his raised footsteps also stopped on the spot.
"What's wrong?"
Gou Wen and David turned their heads to look, while Fisher blankly raised his head looking towards David. After pondering for a second, he suddenly said,
"You guys go out first, I have to go back for a trip."
"Ah? Why?"
"The Completion Handbook, I haven't taken it yet."
"..." Gou Wen opened his mouth, subsequently saying, "Your memory is really... I'll go back with you."
"No, no need. You immediately take David leaving, I will be back very soon."
Saying this, Fisher also no longer explained, but used the power of his whole body turning his head rushing towards the place they just came from a moment ago, disappearing from David and Gou Wen's eyes without turning his head back.
Was it because of the Completion Handbook?
No... it wasn't...
Although he indeed forgot it, but that was because he was just pondering about the matter of Michael and Mikhail's so-called unchanging thing, about the answer Hamon Hamon sought...
And now, amidst a flash of inspiration, he seemingly found that so-called answer, that so-called unchanging thing.
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