"Heh, I remembered what Ms. Nina said earlier. Shure squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "I remember you said that Delia's personality is the same as that of Mr. Ryan, once you decide something, you will not look back, and you also said, wasn't that the case last time? ”

"Well, you're right, Mr. Shull. The two old men looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and the old woman patted her husband's leg across her daughter, "Six years ago, as I just said, the virtual space of the fleet was conditionally reset once. ”

"The situation at that time was somewhat similar, although it was a lot more difficult for her because of the absence of you, but this child spent more than forty years preparing, and actually avoided the venting system by means that even surprised us very much, trying to enter the pillar of virtual space from the air, the so-called Supreme Tower. She was only one step away from success, at least the mechs were no longer capable of stopping her, and in desperation, she had no choice but to activate the emergency stagnation command, which caused the virtual world of the same series of ships in the fleet and the Jackdaw to freeze at the same time. ”

"There are usually uncontrollable phenomena, such as a devastating war within the country, or someone who wants to discover the truth, so that the system can be activated, and then the virtual world is reset to make everything start again. It stands to reason that it should be the same this time, because we haven't reached the limit yet, and the Warden doesn't need to be replaced, so we have to reboot the system as an accident, but we're a little ......"

"Heh, I can't bear to ......," Xiuer chuckled, "In the end, it is a child who is connected by blood, even if he knows that it is just a man-made blood relative, but after all, after all, it has been conceived by himself, and this family affection is not at all the so-called reason and truth can be separated." Don't restart the system, although the mother and daughter can't recognize each other, but even if they are separated from the world, they can occasionally look at her appearance, no, no, no, even if you can't see it, as long as you think that she is still living in the virtual space, and she is still thinking about the husband and wife over there, it is a very happy thing for the two of you, and once the system is restarted, the existence of Delia will return to nothingness, and the connection between family and blood will be completely erased, even if you want to be four years, you don't know who to miss. Hehe, if it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't be reluctant. ”

"Well, who's to say it's not. The old woman pinched the smirkling Delia's face dotingly, and hugged the girl in her arms, which was obviously a very warm scene, but with her arms and arms, the old man's tears had already flowed, and her voice began to choke, "We know all the truth, but the truth can't stop our feelings." She was still so young, she was abandoned by us, and every time we watched her struggle at the bottom of society, we couldn't breathe in heartache, watching her continue to take risks for the truth of our death, and disregarding her own comfort in order to avenge us, the more we looked, the more guilty we became. ”

"But like you said, maintain the status quo, at least for a while, and be able to see her with our own eyes, once the background is reset, we don't even have a chance to see her, and we can't bear it anyway, so we are selfish, and after giving up priority to those ships with the same background for a period of time, in exchange for their cooperation, we will work together to rewind the time point of the virtual space to the beginning, that is, the day we entered the pillar, and finally became the modern watchman. ”

"Tsk, that's a strange way you set your internal time. ”

"Well, it's not really about changing time, it's just sending a large number of engineering robots, spending a while to rebuild internal facilities and biochemical bodies, and making the existence time of everything inside look consistent with the real time, theoretically speaking, the people inside can't find the problem, but we didn't expect that the guests would suddenly visit and appear directly inside the virtual space, and we didn't expect that you have more advanced scanning technology, and directly found the timeline anomaly from the brainwave controller left by the two of us。 ”

"Moreover, we really couldn't predict that even if we started again, this kid would still be so persistent that he would come up again. Alas, maybe that's her fate, so good, at least our family can get along for a while. ”

"So, you're really looking for an heir when you give the order to the machines to take the opportunity to release a human? Well, yes, your grade is really ...... It's really time to retire. ”

"It's not our orders, it's the automatic instructions of the central computer, given by the highest authority before the Sleep Plan is executed, even if we don't have the right to change it. When the time is about to begin, the search for an heir must begin, and the heir is not designated by the watchman, but by the central computer according to the actions of everyone in the virtual space, and the most suitable watchman is selected by the central computer. Ryan added, "Of course, if someone relies on his own will to climb to the top of the virtual space during the selection of an heir, then he will automatically be elected, and this is how Nina and I became watchmen in the first place, but I didn't expect Delia to go down the same path as us." ”

"Then why are you stopping her? Moria's head tilted, her eyes sparkling at Delia, "Isn't it good to be a watcher?"

"It's not good, it's bad. Unexpectedly, the two old men shook their heads together without thinking about it, "It's hard for you to imagine what it takes to become a watchman. ”

"The communication between the ships of the fleet is not frequent, only when there is a major event, only occasionally communicate and discuss, and the rest of the time, the watchman of each ship can only live alone in the spaceship. It is true that the life of a watchman is quite good because of the perfection of the self-discipline machinery and the fact that only one or two people need to be supplied, but when you have tried to be alone for ten years or even decades, and you have faced the same circumstances every day, you know how terrible this life is. ”

"The things that need to be decided by us ourselves do not meet one or two things a month, and the rest of the time there is nothing to do at all, monotonous, boring, lonely, these are the whole life of the watchman, oh, why do you think we call ourselves watchmen, because we are no different from the scarecrow in the wheat field recorded in the ancient books, both in our role and fate. ”

"There is also an even more critical issue, once Delia is made a watchman, her death cannot be avoided. ”

"Huh?" the shadowchasers were stunned, "what do you mean?"

"The purpose of our existence now is to keep the vast majority of members alive, so that if they find that faint chance of life and wake up the sleeping people, they can live happily in a safe environment. It can be seen that when the two old men said these words, their eyes were full of longing, and it was obvious that for them, a safe environment and a normal life were the greatest happiness in life, "but when you become a watchman, you will completely lose this opportunity, and you will only die on the way to find life, and even if you really find a safe environment, the watchman will not be able to enjoy the happiness of a new life." ”

"Nina and I know that the Watcher is the responsibility of the members of the Brown Star Civilization, and every member has an obligation to take responsibility, so even if we retain our memories when we are young, we do not hesitate to take it on. But...... We are still selfish, as parents, we always want our children to be happy, maybe someone has to take on this responsibility, but at least ...... Don't be our children. ”