Chapter 19: The Moment of Vanity
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When trouble came, I was trying to teach Yu Baiyuan, who was only wrapped in a quilt, how to walk upright in this place that had just been converted into an ordinary house. Her behavior and habits are almost primitive, but her intellect grows faster than she can imagine, and she can learn most things except walking, two or three times. Even though it's only been a few days, Youbaiyuan has gradually learned to speak, but he doesn't speak often. She didn't have much difficulty understanding my language, but it seemed like a problem for her to actually put it into her own thoughts, so she preferred to be silent. Whenever she encounters such a situation, she will lower her head and a pile of data will emerge from her.
If it were me before, it would be hard to imagine what the so-called "popping data" would be like, but in the sub-space where documents can be browsed through the chip at will, data popping up is not a strange phenomenon. Sometimes it's a combination of 0 and 1 that comes out of the body, sometimes there are fragments of images, and sometimes it's the indescribable things I've seen in the sub-crevices before, gas-like, ripple-like, all sorts of things, all sorts of things. The Puma people refer to these things collectively as data.
Since I met her, I have never seen any too vivid expression changes on her face, and the data has become almost the only way for me to observe her emotions, when she is in a happy mood, the data will jump brightly, and when she is annoyed, the data will be jumbled into a mess and keep popping out. And at this moment, the data outside her body is constantly exploding like fireworks.
"Here and here, he is here now, and he will be here in the future."
With Xiao Ming's noisy voice, I saw M6 standing outside the door with a blue face.
"Ah, that, I didn't waitβ"
She slammed her fist against the door frame before I could finish speaking, and the whole room shook, and then I heard crackling sound one after anotherβfrom cups, bowls, saucers, and even the fish tank in the corner with Xiao Ming's little red picture, all the imitation glass or ceramic objects in the room were shattered, and they disappeared in less than three seconds after they became fragments, as if they had never existed.
Xiao Ming Xiaohong was obviously stunned by this formation, and her body solidified into an elongated piece of gummy. I also have to admit that I was a little nervous at that moment.
No one spoke, and M6 lowered her fist and turned away without saying a word, leaving M6-2 behind her still standing.
The alarm was lifted, and Xiao Ming Xiaohong shouted and returned to her normal body shape: "Oh my God, Aya 17, your friend is so rude!" β
"Uh...... "I'm going to say she's not my friend, but M6-2 is still in the room, so it's not polite to her. But when I looked at her, I realized that I was terrified by M6's rage, and didn't notice that M6-2 also had a face.
"Hey, this one is still there." Xiao Ming followed my gaze towards M6-2.
"Hello, I'm Van Xixing's M6-2, M6's personality correction program." She tried her best to restrain her emotions and calmly introduced herself to Xiao Ming, "Can anyone explain the current situation to me?" β
I didn't know how to answer for a while, but fortunately, Xiao Ming took over the conversation very simply.
"Here's the thing, it all started with my miserable job loss."
It rambled on for a long time, and finally made things clear.
"Aya 17 is a guest received by Xiao Ming Xiaohong, Xiao Ming Xiaohong has conducted sufficient data analysis on him, and Xiao Ming Xiaohong trusts him. So you can rest assured that Xiao Ming Xiaohong will never affect Aya 17's needs for dating or mating, and Xiao Ming Xiaohong also promises to absolutely respect Aya 17's privacy, and at a more sensitive moment, Xiao Ming Xiaohong will never appear to disturb Aya 17's Yaxing-"
"Okay, okay, let's talk nonsense, you can stop." I pushed it aside.
"Hmm, Xiao Ming Xiaohong is kind, Aya 17 actually said it was nonsense! It's so sad for Xiao Ming and Xiaohong! That's okay! Do not say! β
I cautiously peeked at M6-2's expression out of the corner of my eye, she looked lost in thought, but it was possible that she was talking to M6 in her head.
After a long time, M6-2's eyes fell back on me.
"Can we talk privately?"
I was stunned for a moment. If she doesn't want our conversation to be heard, she can send a message directly to my chip, and at the moment she seems to want me to provide a space where no one else can disturb her. I nodded to her and led her into the bedroom next door, just as I was about to close the door, there was a sudden "bang" outside. I looked out, and Yu Baiyuan seemed to want to follow, but she had just taken a step before she fell to the ground. She seemed to be frightened by the action of "wrestling", and did not cry or scream, but maintained the position of falling, looking at her feet with a smile.
"Excuse me, wait for me."
I trotted back to the living room in embarrassment, picked up Yu Baiyuan and put her back on the couch.
"Stay here and don't move, okay?" I spoke to Yu Baiyuan as slowly as I could, and she just looked at me without blinking, and I wasn't sure if she understood.
"Xiao Ming Xiaohong, help me stabilize her, don't let her move, I'll be back in a while."
"Oh well, just for a while, if you don't do more, just for a while." Xiao Ming Xiaohong reluctantly twisted away, still angry at being interrupted by me just now.
I went back to my room, closed the door, and sighed deeply.
"I'm sorry, but I'm sorry to talk to me in a different place. The data around the girl was so chaotic that I couldn't concentrate if I got too close to her. β
"Shall we go outside and find a place to talk?"
"No, no, it's much better here. Can I sit here? M6-2 gestured to the bed behind him. In fact, this room has not had time to be furnished, and there is only one bed.
"Of course." I made a "sit-down" gesture for her.
M6-2's mood didn't seem to improve because of Xiao Ming's explanation just now, she sat in the middle of the edge of the bed, her eyes didn't look at me, I stood cramped by the door, waited for a while, and didn't see her start a conversation.
Probably I'll have to speak first, it seems. I rubbed my forehead with my hand as I struggled with the wording, this was the first time I had spoken to M6-2 alone, and it made me a little nervous, "Uh...... I guess this shouldn't be a pleasant thing for you? Maybe I should apologize or something? β
"There is no point in apologizing." M6-2 said, "You should have been there waiting for us to show up. No, forget it, I'm sorry, it's time not to dwell on things that are in the past. I'd like to hear first about your reasons for making this decision now. β
"Okay, okay," I'm always glad that M6 has M6-2 by his side. "I got lost in the psyche passage, and I saw a girl before I was about to lose consciousness, and I was sure that the girl wanted to say something to me, but I was sucked into the sub-chasm before I could finish it. I've always wanted to know who that girl is, why she's there, and what I'm trying to say, but strangely enough, no one seems to know that she exists. β
"So she's the girl?"
"yes, I think she should know something."
"But she's just a big baby in her current state, how long are you going to take care of her? Do you know when you will be able to communicate with her normally? What's more, how many things do you think she remembers in her current state? Even if she remembers, will she tell you the truth? β
"You're right, but I can't just give up because it has the possibility that it will be meaningless in the end. And I don't want to see her thrown to creatures on other planets. β
"I just analyzed her, and she's not even a living thing, maybe she's just a program." This time, M6-2 had a hint of anger in his eyes.
"I don't think she's a program, I think she's a life, just like you, and I've never seen you as a program."
I saw M6-2's body tremble slightly, and she looked away in some panic.
"My thoughts are...... Now I don't give you the leisure to do good deeds. β
A reminder popped up in my chip:
[M6-2 sends you a request to encrypt the conversation.]
Do you want to agree? γ
"I'm not sure if the door here can block out information interference, but it should be fine, it's an additional feature that I and the M6 have adapted ourselves." M6-2 explained.
I nodded and agreed.
"I think that since the chip is a technology developed by the Puma people, we can listen to our calls at any time as long as they want." I finished speaking, startled by my own echo. After agreeing to the request to encrypt the conversation, I speak as if it were coming from inside my brain, and that's how I usually feel when I'm talking to someone through the chip.
"All of our calls are protected with extra encryption, so you don't have to worry about that."
"Oh......" I couldn't help but secretly admire the caution of the Van Xi people.
"Now that you've made your decision, I don't think words of persuasion will convince you. So let's move on with the process first. In the short time since you returned to Earth and had a failed passage to the Psionic Body, M6 and I felt the breath of R5. β
I was stunned for a moment.
"Where is he?"
This is big news. I tried to get more information from M6-2's facial expressions, but she seemed very calm, with neither the urgency nor the comfort of finally finding her head.
"It's not clear yet. The R5's breath is so thin that it is impossible to make out the direction, which has never happened before. β
"Breath? You mean the taste? Or ......"
It's not an unfamiliar word to me, I've seen it in too many anime and manga, but I'm not sure if it means the same thing in this context, and what M6-2 says next confirms my guess.
"You can interpret it as mental fluctuations. The composition of the planet is very special, and if humans are given the opportunity to visit the planet, they will only think that there is nothing there after landing, not only because of the limited number of life forms on our planet, but also because most of the time our existence is not a substance, but a skull, or something similar to fluctuations. I won't go into too much detail, for example, if M6 and I are red ink on a white piece of paper, if R5 appears, we will be able to see the blue ink on the paper. The current situation is that the paper is showing a very pale and small blue ink, which is natural evidence of the existence of R5, but it is not normal. β
"Does the appearance of R5 have anything to do with the closure of the Psionic Passage?"
"We don't know yet, but at present, it is the girl who caused the problem in the passage. We were investigating this matter before, so we asked you to wait for us at the entrance, and we originally planned to tell you as soon as the results of the investigation were out, and then plan the next action, but who knew that you disappeared directly for a few days...... Now that the shuttle is repaired, there is no clue about the repair, and M6 and I have asked for help from all the creatures of the planet that pass by and we can recognize, and it is still not optimistic. The builder of our shuttle is R5, and he builds something that no other life can handle. In fact, M6 and I are both worried about the appearance of R5 and hope that R5 will appear, but we can't find his specific location now. What's more, there is no direction in the matter of finding your biological father now...... Go on like this...... In short, we want you to understand that we are in a very bad situation, we don't know where the R5 is, we don't know who your father is, we don't know where this is, we don't know what's going to happen here, we can only do what we can at this stage, even if it may not be positive at all. M6-2 paused, as if thinking about what to say next, and the calm and composed M6-2 now seemed like a little girl who had done something wrong and didn't know how to save it.
"Hmm......" I nodded blankly at her, wanting to say more, but I felt like I had nothing to say.
In fact, I've always seen M6-2 as the only person I can rely on this journey that doesn't know if there is no end in sight, because she is always incredibly calm, and she is always the best neutralizer when I can't communicate with M6. So, when she also fell into this state of confusion, I couldn't help but be infected and began to feel uneasy, as if I was floating in the astral passage, and there was not a single piece of driftwood that I could grasp. Theoretically, I could disappear at any time without a clue about my biological father, even if it was very surreal, but the fact was real.
The panic struck me along with the silence of the room. I forced myself to adjust and try not to think about the things that were keeping me from feeling positive.
"You can take your time to repair the spaceship, as R5's sister, what he can do, you will definitely be able to do, it's just a matter of time. What's more, now that there is a clue to R5, you can directly ask R5 to help you repair the shuttle in the future. In the worst-case scenario, even if I disappear, as long as R5 is there, you won't be able to go back, so there's nothing to worry about. I barely managed to squeeze a smile out of her.
M6-2 looked at me and tried to say something, but eventually looked away. "You're right," she rubbed the Race Girl outfit on her, "and if we all lose faith, we won't be able to guide you." β
"Hmmm......"
"There's another thing," she said, adjusting her seat, turning her face to me, "are you still used to it?" β
"To be honest, I didn't get used to it. And I think it's a needle in a haystack to follow this pattern, and I don't see the slightest hope of finding a clue or changing the situation on the planet right now. To put it simply, I think it's a waste of time. β
"That's exactly what happened before. Although for us, just finding your biological father and getting him out of the cocoon is enough for us to achieve our goal. We are in the same direction as the probe group's homing behavior, so these days, M6 has also separated a part of 'itself' and set out to find clues about why the Earth has become this state, as well as how it has recovered. Although we didn't find a specific answer, M6 found that the first team had some information that was deliberately hidden, and these things were unknown to the new inhabitants and the Puma people. β
"Something to do with the Earth?"
"Maybe you haven't made a return plan so you don't know, when the members of the detection team determine the location of the inspection, they will receive two reminders from the chip, one is that when making the inspection plan, you can't choose the place where the team has already been, it is said that the purpose is to avoid duplication of work, and the other is that the area marked with a very high danger level is not allowed to enter the general members of the detection team. Therefore, the person who made the plan can only choose the location he intends to return to in the area outside the restricted area at a time. But there are some places that are not marked as extremely dangerous and no one has been there, but it can't be 'reached'. The so-called "unreachable" is not only the area that is not forbidden but cannot be selected, but also the situation where you can choose this area, but you will be sent to another area when you actually carry out the mission, and the area information you get when you make the return plan also belongs to the area you are actually sent to. In this regard, Team 1 will tell you that the original coordinates have become invalid due to changes in the plate structure of the Earth. It is also the first squad that determines whether the area on the map can be selected. β
"So you think there's something wrong with those areas?"
"KC66 was the first to notice this, and Team 5 was always looking for answers, and M6's investigation only accelerated their ability to get answers."
"What can I do if I know the problem? You still can't go to those places, can you? β
"No, you just came back from one of these places."
"You mean, the island I first visited was the place where the first team hid it? Is that why we met the first team there? β
"No, they tracked you to where you went and then followed you back."
"I don't understand why we can get there when these places can't be chosen...... Did you do it? β
M6-2 nodded, "The complete homing procedure is first for each team to submit their own homing plan to the chip system, and the members of the first team read the plan through the chip system, and then remotely place your bio-armor according to the location on the plan, so the actual location you are teleported to is determined by the location of the bio-a-cara." Of all the steps in this series, only placing the creature armor was the easiest for us to control. These bio-armors were pre-dropped by the Puma people in all corners of the earth, and the first team always had some small position errors when controlling them remotely, and we could easily change the direction of movement as long as we gave a little data interference when they were remotely controlled. β
"But we were found almost as soon as we got there, so what's the use?"
"This time it's just an experiment."
"Experiment...... To confirm if there is really something wrong with the first squad? β
"Yes. Based on your experience on this visit, do you think there is anything particularly noteworthy about this operation? β
"I had no idea what a regular inspection should look like, so I lacked anyone to compare to. However, according to you, since we are in an area where we should not be, the first team only ambiguously states that this is a coincidence......"
"Wait for Ji 87's decision, the fifth team has been waiting for this day for a long time."
"Boom!"
There was a muffled sound of something hitting the ground outside, and then Xiao Ming Xiaohong began to scream strangely. It seems that Yu Baiyuan has fallen again.
"Sorry, looks like I'm going to have to look at it again-"
A new message suddenly pops up at this point on the chip.
"Looks like he's come to a conclusion." M6-2 also appears to have received this message.
[Please return to the sleeping pod as soon as possible.] γ