Ashes Of Deep Sea

Chapter 804: Chapter 801: Pilgrimage of the Doomsday

Dusk had fallen, with disordered breezes blowing across the plains, whisking the fallen leaves atop the small hills into whirls that soared towards the high heavens, while the silhouette of the city at the horizon soaked in the sunlight, gradually gilded in a resplendent golden glow.

This “illusion” created by Navigator II, based on the residual information in its database, was terrifyingly realistic—so much so that even a speck of dust, a wisp of wind here was simulated to perfection. If Duncan hadn’t known beforehand that he was only conversing with this ancient AI on a conscious level, he would have been unable to distinguish the small hill from the plains from the real world.

Yet this was but an illusion after all, the perfection of its simulation being its most substantial flaw. Every speck of dust here was part of the calculation results of Navigator II. Those seemingly disordered breezes had their trajectories set within Navigator II’s computational core before they even crossed the plains—nothing could ever occur here beyond the database and calculated results, not even a “random” speck of dust blown by the wind.

The ancient kings all knew the trend toward the world’s end and the truth of the great oblivion, but only Navigator II, this mighty artificial intelligence constructed by an advanced civilization and that once crossed the starry seas, truly grasped those subtle yet fatal “differences” in the fundamental laws of the “world.”

Now, he had finally found another being capable of understanding it all.

The weary man in the white researcher’s uniform sat down on the hillside, perched on a large rock, somewhat absentmindedly gazing at the simulated dusk in the distance.

“My creators, they haven’t touched the heights that your civilization achieved, so I also can’t comprehend the nature of a 0.002-second slice of the universe or the kind of future it would create—that’s why I can’t help but worry, worried that your plan is only creating a larger ‘Endless Sea.’

“It might be vast, even capable of harboring trillions of stars; it could have a long life, even measured in billions of years like the real universe, but as long as the issue of ‘ultimately transcending boundaries’ isn’t solved, it remains a ‘Shelter.’ Civilization can’t develop beyond the blueprint’s limits; thus, the very things that once destroyed our homeland could still obliterate it…

“‘Paranoia’ is the second concept related to ‘humanity’ that I learned after the creators disappeared. This ‘paranoia’ coupled with ‘fear,’ just like source code, is deeply etched into my foundational system, keeping me constantly thinking and calculating, seeking the possibility that could allow ‘two-dimensional beings’ to ‘stand up’ on a flat surface—I refer to this possibility as a ‘supersystem event.’