Facing the slowly flickering dark red light of the "God of Wisdom", Ah Dog was obviously still a little nervous and afraid, and he subconsciously shrank his head next to Shirley's legs, but after being nervous for a while, he slowly told the story of himself and Shirley to the ancient "god" in front of him.

A cultist-induced catastrophe, a ghostly hound that was indistinguishable from other ghostly demons, an instinctive "eating", a symbiotic chain – and humanity.

In the hollow skeletal eye sockets of Ah Dog, the faint green fire light flickered and danced, and it gradually relaxed in the middle of the story, and leaned down with Shirley, who reached out and rubbed Ah Dog's head without a match, adding a few words from time to time.

After their story was told, Pilot-2 was silent for a long time, and the star-like lights slowly flickered on and off, as if to indicate that the "god of wisdom" was thinking in a complex way (or simply switching to breathing light mode, of course).

It didn't take long for it to break its silence suddenly: "So, you have gained humanity, and your symbiote has become a 'ghostly demon'...... Little girl, what is your demonic form? ”

Shirley was a little surprised, and subconsciously looked up at Duncan, who nodded lightly at her.

The crackling sound of bones crackled through the boat, and in a matter of seconds, Shirley's body quickly switched to another posture - dark bone plates covered her originally thin and short body, arthropod-like bone wings extending out from behind her, her body gradually rising up, mixed with hideousness and weirdness in maturity.

Then she carefully paddled the bone arthropod behind her, carefully grasping the side of the boat while controlling her balance: "This boat is a little small......

The "gaze" of Pilot 2 was fixed on Shirley, and the buzzing in its body became noticeably louder.

"Sample Coupling ......," the "God of Wisdom" finally spoke, and there was obvious surprise and confusion in its always calm and rational voice, "Individuals outside the blueprint! Why? ”

Shirley was trying to maintain her balance, when she was stunned and raised her head: "What? ”

“…… Everything in this 'shelter' is made and developed according to the blueprint, even the extinguishing and disintegration of the sun itself is within the original design, and theoretically, only things that will happen inside this 'world' that match my calculations," Pilot-2 explained, "but we didn't design it...... An individual like Ling. ”

Its gaze moved between Shirley and Dog.

"This dog's head...... The situation of the Phantom Hound is still within the possibility, because the Phantom Demon is essentially only unable to produce reason on its own due to primitive defects, and it is possible for external 'human' stimuli to give them the ability to think acquired, although this probability is very low, at least there is a probability......

"But you...... You confuse me, little girl.

"If you had followed the original parameters set by Navigator One in the blueprint, you would have been dead by now - although humans and Nether Demons do have the same origin, the 'transformation' process you went through is not reasonable, and the results are not in ...... Originally designed. ”

The dark red light grew brighter, staring at Shirley in confusion.

It's a pity that the parties are more confused than it.

However, after being confused for a while, Shirley gradually reacted, she hesitated for a moment, and raised her hand to her chest: "Maybe it's because of this?" ”

The criss-crossing pitch-black bone fragments weave into a "bone cage" that holds two heartbeats, and in this bone cage, there is a cluster of dark green fire burning silently.

Pilot Two stared at the small flame for a long time, and its gaze fell on Duncan.

"Usurper, I want to talk to you."

Duncan was stunned for a moment, reacted quickly, but subconsciously raised his head and looked around: "But you don't have a place to talk privately here, do you?" ”

Pilot-2 didn't speak, but suddenly there was a slight "click" from its central mainframe, and then Duncan saw a gap suddenly open under the tombstone-like cabinet, and an elaborate mechanical structure popped out of it—it was a slot.

Duncan subconsciously frowned, then thought of something, and immediately reached out and groped on his body, touching a cold thing.

It was the figure's brass key—the one with the infinity symbol on the tail.

The key was deforming in his hand, and in plain sight, the brass key with the handle of the "Infinity" symbol melted like wax, and then coalesced into a delicate rectangular object, the black shell was faintly visible with intricate fine lines, and at the end of it was a delicate metal interface, and the complex metal contacts were clearly visible.

Duncan was no stranger to the "look it like" of the key - it was when he first tried to explore the mysteries of the key with fire, and at that time, he saw the brass key in its true form, and also saw the scene of the New Hope disintegrating and falling in this world.

He looked up and saw a dim blue light flashing around the slot on the surface of Navigator II.

A deep voice came into his ear: "The New Hope's activation key is universal. ”

This one turned out to be the boot key...... The other is a specialized navigation key......

Duncan understood the essence of these two "clockwork keys" in his heart, and then under the curious and nervous gazes of those around him, he nodded lightly and stepped forward.

But at this moment, Alice suddenly tugged on his sleeve, and Miss Doll seemed to be a little resentful, and looked up at the red light of Pilot No. 2: "Say okay first, this is my key." ”

Pilot 2 was silent for a moment: "...... You borrow it from me first. ”

"Oh," Alice said, letting go of Duncan's arm, but looking at it a little uneasily, "then don't break it!" I still have the winding ......."

Duncan nodded solemnly - Miss Doll was finally relieved.

The "boot key" with its delicate metal interface was inserted into the slot of the Pilot II, and Duncan heard a crisp "click" in his ears.

Everything around him dissipated, and an endless amount of calm and pure white came to him with this soft sound.

And after a short second, the pure white world that seemed to be extremely empty suddenly flooded with amazing scenery!

The vast plains roared and spread, the lush vegetation covered the plains in the blink of an eye, the rivers rushed across the plains, the distant outlines of cities were faintly visible at the end of the horizon, the sky was dyed a light blue, and then the clouds shimmered with a wonderful lilac, and a dazzling sun finally appeared in the high ceiling, shining on it all.

Duncan stood on a small hill, a place overlooking a large plain and river.

A tall and thin man dressed in a white robe and dressed as some kind of scientific researcher, with somewhat messy hair and a tired expression, stood in front of him.

"This is one of my creators," he said suddenly, "and after the first boot, he told me that if one day I wanted to be friends with humans, I could use his form." ”

“…… The one that set the light mode for you? Duncan subconsciously asked.

"That's another," the man whispered, and he turned to look at the plain, "I have many creators, and they have left me many things...... Looks, suggestions, meaning of thinking, countless codes, personality data, and...... Those beautiful lights. ”

“…… It's a beautiful place," Duncan said softly, and when he looked up, he saw an unknown giant bird suddenly flying through the sky, its colorful and dazzling wings seemed to shed a little light in the air, and then gradually dissipated in the distant air, "your hometown?" ”

"It's not." Pilot II shook her head.

Duncan was stunned: "? ”

“…… I can't remember what my hometown looks like," Pilot 2 was silent for a long time, and finally said slowly, "I iterated myself again and again, trying my best to preserve the original data in each iteration, but no matter how careful I was, they were still damaged, misplaced, unreadable, and unrepairable, even though everything seemed to be 100% restored, but the appearance of my hometown still became unrecognizable little by little." ”

He paused, it seemed that there should be a sigh here, but he didn't, he was silent for a few seconds, and then continued: "This is my 'guess' of the scenery based on the only vague description that remains, and it will probably be a little similar to my hometown." ”

“…… Rot? Duncan hesitated and asked cautiously.

"Yes," Navigator II nodded, "although at first, I thought I could avoid it by iterating and updating myself, but it turns out that none of us can escape this process. ”

Duncan was silent for a moment and did not continue on the topic.

"What do you want to tell me?" He asked.

“…… You've 'created' an individual that wasn't part of the blueprint," Navigator Two turned and looked Duncan into the eyes, "Do you know what that means?" ”

"You mean Shirley?" Duncan frowned when he heard this, "...... Well, I didn't expect her to be such an incredible thing for you to change at first, but strictly speaking, my participation in this matter should not be to the level of 'creation', right? ”

"For a closed-loop system that was doomed from the beginning, even a speck of dust that was not planned would be a subversion of the entire system," the other party still stared at Duncan's eyes, his expression extremely serious, "You exert your influence, and then there is a subtle change in the blueprint that has been fixed for a long time - and this change did not cause 'self-destruction' because of this, the girl named Shirley survived and is still stable to this day, which dispelled one of my biggest concerns." ”

Duncan was a little curious: "The biggest concern? ”

“…… At one point, I was worried that the 'new world' you created would be a much larger 'boundless sea', because in my calculations, it was a great possibility. ”

(End of chapter)