Chapter 27: I Am a Legend (Part I)

Although she couldn't tell the cause of Richard's abnormality, in her real name's opinion, he was in a state very similar to her not so long ago: when she was going to do something, it was essentially processing data. The presence of a stream of light green numbers in the pupil is a symbol of this state.

And now Richard seems to be in a similar state. But unlike himself, who is a transcendent-level AI, the chief is just an ordinary person. The human brain cannot be compared to machinery and circuitry, at least in common sense. There is a high chance that the overwhelmed human brain will be destroyed by an overstimulation response.

"It's my fault."

Real name thinks.

Because this is the first time she has taken the action of violating the rules, using the authority of the central system to transfer other people's files and systems to another person's name.

The real name was unaware of the consequences of doing so, and even if the chief would not have been punished by the laws of thousands of years ago, it would probably have a detrimental effect on his body or mind. But she felt that she had an obligation to persuade and stop, but it was she who was persuaded in reverse. She wanted to take responsibility and decided to share some of the complicated data processing for the chief. But even she didn't know how far she could go.

In the process, Real Name felt more and more that it was impossible to use the identity authentication system to replace someone, even if it was a deceased who could not resist. It's not that there are limitations, it's that normal human bodies simply can't withstand two "interfaces" connected to the virtual world.

Even among the armies and armed groups of the Earth government in the previous generation, some people with specific constitutions could not do it, because it was not the human body that received the "interface", but the consciousness level born from the integration of the brain and the body.

Is it a miracle?

…… No, no, there is a more plausible explanation.

She realized that the human beings in this world had indeed become very different from the past, even if they woke up from "hibernation", they turned out to be just ordinary people's chiefs, and they had only been here for a year, and "a certain part" of their bodies had changed.

It could be a nerve in the brain, a hormone secretion system, or even a genetic change. This is not surprising, for example, because some of the different kinds of microscopic particle streams released by radiation can damage the structure of DNA and induce genetic mutations. It is best known as "nuclear radiation", which causes ionization or excitation of matter, and has often been a source of panic in the past.

The object of suspicion is the world's ubiquitous universal machines - now, their name is "Magic" - and the third generation of ultra-micromachines has no effect on the human body, even if it is inhaled into the body or injected into the blood vessels.

This "harmlessness" is not just theoretical, it has been proven in practice in the following decades.

However, the biggest difference between the third-generation universal machine and the previous two generations is that it has the function of self-division and intelligent evolution, and will continue to adapt to the environment to produce subspecies in the process of proliferation.

Thousands of years have passed, and no one can guarantee that it will not undergo some changes, or that the ultra-micro universal machine is indeed harmless, but there is some kind of modification factor in the natural environment that has been transformed by them.

"Is this the 'wizard'?"

Real name mood. According to the Chief, in addition to the "wizards", there are other similar groups of people in the new world, such as the "knights" who are more inclined to individual strengthening, what are the unusual things about them?

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Richard's pupils rolled upward, revealing the whites of his eyes. His whole body was shaking, and his hands and feet were shaking like Parkinson's patients, and he looked really bad. However, with the help of his real name and the efforts of his own self-awareness, the youth is slowly recovering. The irrepressible nervous tremors were subsided, and his pupils gradually returned to a clear color.

Richard's eyes were closed, and it took a while to slowly open them, his face still very weak, as pale as paper. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and let out a long breath.

"Thank you, real name...... You saved me. ”

Richard looked at her.

"That's what I'm supposed to do."

The brunette girl replied with a blank face.

In the depths of her real name's heart, she was actually a little happy, because this was the first time she had been praised sincerely.

In the past, communication with human beings was based on commanding and being ordered. Although both sides are intelligent and emotional beings, this formulaic daily communication makes both sides indistinguishable from cold machines.

……

Putting aside Miss AI's subtle emotional changes, Richard only felt scared for a while when he learned what had happened before from his real name. It was a thrilling day, and he might be really lucky to survive like this, Richard thought to himself, worthy of a man who could still crawl out of the hibernation machine thousands of years later.

In addition, his real name's judgment of his own physique also made him very concerned. Richard felt that her idea was very reasonable, and that the humans in this world were indeed fundamentally different from those in the past.

The "fantasy" of the Mayan world is based on the "superscience" of the old world, but this does not mean that the latter can completely replace the former. Wizards and knights, these transcendents, are perhaps the biggest difference.

To prove it, he decided to try a spell. Upon awakening, he found that he had mastered Raspuchin's "authority", or "rank".

In the past, Richard had mastered only a few tricks and an apprentice-rank spell, but now he inherited all the intellectual wealth of a legendary wizard. Through his "vision", he could see that in his meditations, a large number of spell archetypes had appeared that he had never seen before.

If the prototype (instruction) required for an apprentice spell is a book, then a higher-level spell may be a whole bookshelf of books, and no matter how high it is, it must be loaded with a hard disk, and the complexity in the middle increases exponentially.

Richard thought for a moment. Because of the hard lesson he had just learned, he didn't dare to try high-level spells again, though he was intrigued by the two most structurally complex instruction models that existed in Raspuchin's knowledge.

He closed his eyes and was engrossed, focusing on a full-fledged spell archetype.

If he was still an apprentice, he would not have been able to cast a spell successfully. But it's a breeze for a legendary wizard, it's even easier than breathing.

When his mind touched the archetype, Richard snapped open his eyes and muttered a mantra.

……

For a long time, nothing happened in front of him.