When Yongzhen rushed from Meridian City to the vicinity of the obelisk, he saw Lu Xiao standing near the cliff with a golden sword in his hand at a glance.

At this time, Xuanyuan Sword's sword body had begun to glow with a hazy golden light, and Lu Xiao was looking at the forest west of Meridian City in the distance.

In this technological world where aura is lacking, the Xuanyuan Sword cannot absorb the spiritual power of the outside world independently, and it is difficult to exert its full power on its own, so it can only be replaced by Lu Xiao infusing his own magic power into this holy sword.

The total amount of spiritual power that the Xuanyuan Sword can absorb is very large, and in order to make it explode at full power, Lu Xiao needs to spend several days slowly recuperating.

Although this process is not uninterruptable, considering the upcoming Armageddon, Lu Xiao still hopes to prepare for it once and for all at once before the battle.

Coming to Lu Xiao's side to stand still, Yongzhen tried to call out to Alethea with Focus, but couldn't get any response.

"Haven't Alethea and Consus finished their search yet?"

Lu Xiao, who continued to infuse energy into the Xuanyuan Sword, shook his head: "No." ”

"With the help of the obelisk's augmentation, they searched the entire North American continent and found no clues."

"I speculate ......"

Looking up at the sky that had begun to darken, Lu Xiao said thoughtfully: "Maybe Ted Farrow's electronic consciousness body is not inside the earth at all. ”

Yongzhen's face moved, and she looked up at the sky full of sunset red glow as she followed Lu Xiao's movements.

"You mean...... Space? ”

"Hmm."

Lu Xiao transferred a part of the record from his Focus to Yongzhen: "This is the information that Alethea obtained and sorted out in the ruins of Gaia, according to the data, the human race has prepared two plans in the last 16 months. ”

"One is Project Dawn Zero, led by Elizabeth."

"The other is the Odyssey program as an alternative."

The Odyssey program was originally established in 2040 and officially launched in 2041.

The plan was funded by the P5 and was originally intended to send human embryos to extraterrestrial as a backup, as an early attempt at interstellar colonization.

According to records at the time, the public was very disgusted with the plan to prioritize the wealthy, and a protracted wave of revolts broke out in many countries, greatly slowing down the efficiency of the entire plan.

After a long period of coordination and discussion, the estimated launch time of the Odyssey far exceeded the expectations of the P5, and the cost increased significantly.

Seeing this, Lu Xiao guessed the ending of the Odyssey plan.

Sure enough, amid the cheers of some people who thought they were victorious, the Odyssey project was put on hold in 2057.

Just as the protesters began to cheer, a capital group called Yuanfeng announced the acceptance of the Odyssey program, pouring cold water on the heads of those who cheered.

The Yuanfeng Group is a mysterious organization of 77 world-class billionaires, and their powerful capital has allowed them to take over the plans that the P5 decided to shelve.

The Odyssey has gone from a formal plan prepared by the government to a toy of the capital group, and the result of this reversal has left the protesters collectively silent, and they do not know for a moment what the meaning of their struggle is.

By the year 2064, the Odyssey program was still in intensive preparations, but by this time the threat of the Faro fleet had begun to erupt.

Under the strong intervention of various governments, Yuanfeng Group changed the purpose of the playful plan, and continued to prepare the Odyssey plan as a parallel plan of the dawn of zero according to the requirements of various countries.

According to the sources, the Odyssey ships at that time were equipped with a lot of advanced technology, including a huge database called Homer.

The Homeric repository is roughly equivalent to Gaia's Apollo subprogram, which stores most of the history and knowledge of human civilization.

At the same time, the Odyssey spacecraft also retains an in vitro culture chamber for breeding new humans, the only problem is that these devices are not managed by an artificial intelligence program like Gaia.

In April 2065, the Odyssey spacecraft was completed in a hurry, and it was launched in July of the same year.

At this time, most of the humans still alive on Earth were hiding in underground shelters, and there were only sporadic resistance forces on the ground to fight the Faro group.

According to the records, the launch plan of the Odyssey spacecraft failed, but it is not mentioned how it failed, only that the spacecraft carrying the hope of mankind is still floating in low-earth orbit.

Yongzhen gradually frowned in the process of reading the materials, especially when she saw that Yuanfeng Group was composed of 77 world-class billionaires, and the doubts in her heart reached the peak.

"Is it ......?"

Noticing Yongzhen's uncertain flickering eyes, Lu Xiao nodded in affirmation of her guess: "I think so too." ”

"Ted Farrow may be one of the 77 richest people, he knows the whole process of the Odyssey plan, and the bizarre report of failure at the end also makes me suspicious."

"Perhaps, the Odyssey plan did not fail completely, but the Yuanfeng Group deliberately lied about the situation for some purpose."

Lu Xiao shrugged his shoulders and said, "In the chaotic situation at that time, it was impossible for governments to spare energy to focus on a failed project, and they pinned all their hopes on the final Zero Dawn plan. ”

In light of this speculation, Lu Xiao asked Alethea and Consus to expand their exploration to low-Earth orbit with the help of the amplification of the signal tower, capturing the Odyssey spacecraft that was still drifting in a vacuum.

"Lu Xiao, we have a harvest."

Aletheia's solemn voice sounded at this moment: "There are traces of life in that spaceship called Odyssey, and the main control computer also has feedback similar to artificial intelligence. ”

Lu Xiao raised her eyebrows: "So?" What is your and Consus' conclusion? ”

Consus: "I think Ted Farrow had some kind of problem uploading his consciousness to the network, most likely because of his misconduct. ”

"In short, Ted Farrow's human intellect has diminished dramatically, and he has become a semi-artificial intelligence that only knows how to think logically."

"It was he who sent a signal from the universe and gave Hades a part of his construction code, giving Gaia's subroutines intelligence."

Lu Xiao touched his chin suddenly realized: "Sure enough, that's the case." ”

The act of smothering Team Alpha made a deep impression on Ted Farrow, and in the process of uploading his consciousness, he convinced Team Alpha that his theories were electronized as a true creed of life.

After waking up from a long slumber of adjustments, the semi-intelligent Farrow discovers the strange development of civilization on Earth.

The "pure" new humans he hoped for did not appear, and a large number of ancient ruins left underground were excavated, and the new humans began to develop technology along the old path of their predecessors, and the Oseran were the most representative race.

Farrow's logic was that this development did not fit into the vision of a "pure" human, and he conceived of Hades' process of destroying the world, intending to remove life from the surface once again, and then replant the seeds of life stored in the Odyssey spaceship into the earth.

He sees himself as the god of the new world, intending to guide these truly "pure" new new humans on the "right" path.

"Heh~"

Lu Xiao couldn't help but shake his head and laughed: "Sure enough, even if a fool becomes an electronic consciousness body, he is still a fool, and he really can't change his eating shit." ”

According to the preserved materials from the old era, Farrow Ted was just a scrap man who liked to talk about it, and he didn't know how to run the company at all, and a series of subsequent smart operations proved the correctness of this assessment.

But the irony is that such a waste wood has become the only human being to survive from the old era...... Although his principle of existence has changed a lot.

The corners of Lu Xiao's mouth hooked up a sarcastic smile: "This kind of fool who has committed the great crime of exterminating the earth's civilization can only be destroyed in the lighthouse country of democracy and freedom." ”

"It's a real eye-opener for white capitalists."