Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 801: Chapter 798: The Hardcore Pioneer II Chapter 801: Chapter 798: The Hardcore Pioneer II In fact, the moment Pilot Two spoke, Duncan had already sensed that this “God of Wisdom” was significantly different from the Storm Goddess — this was not due to the “contaminated” state shown by its mainframe arrays, but because it was still maintaining “consciousness”.

Duncan didn’t hide his curiosity: “We have met Gomona, who sealed her ‘death’ and ‘decay’ inside a temple to prevent erosion within the Shelter. I thought you all were in similar situations, but it seems your case is different?”

“We all face similar problems — decay and corrosion spread within our ‘existence’,” came the buzzing vibration from the central computer, “It’s just that we have different methods to slow down the process.

“As the ‘substrate’ of the world, Gomona bears the greatest pressure, so she had no choice but to split herself ‘in two,’ an extreme measure. Tarrikin’s method is to sleep in fire, imprisoning himself in a closed-loop dreamscape to slow corruption. Bartok built a prison for himself, an endless wilderness from which he can never leave…”

“As for me, I am probably the most unique of all — as you see, I am merely a machine constructed by mortals, it’s just that the Great Oblivion has given me the traits of life and decay; Thus, to combat it, my method is ‘iteration’.”

The central computer’s lights flashed, and Duncan’s face showed surprise after hearing these words: “Iteration?”

“I am currently version v16.08.102-beta,” said Pilot Two, calmly and seriously, then noticing the subtle expression on Duncan’s face, explained patiently, “The first number indicates generation, the middle is major version number, and the last number is minor update. Beta version because I recently updated my lighting driver, which is still unstable — those are the lighting effects that flicker continuously on the surface of the secondary servers, now capable of 4096 custom flashing patterns.”

After it explained, Duncan’s face bore an even subtler expression: “…”

A few seconds of stupor later, Duncan finally couldn’t help a twitch of the mouth: “I thought those lights were important status indicators…..”