Chapter 4: What About Humans?
[The current planetary energy output is about: 100,000 units of energy]
[Energy consumption of automatic defense system: 800 units of energy]
["Data Corruption" Energy Consumption: 72,000 Unit Energy]
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[The current energy income is about: 50 units of energy]
Looking at the string of unknown things that consume a lot of energy, Li Wenyuan felt a headache.
It was the energy that kept the entire planetary system running right now, and he had to keep the energy income positive to ensure that the planet didn't have too many problems, even if it required shutting down some other facilities.
He also tried to shut down the "data corrupted" facilities, only to be told that the permissions were insufficient, which left him speechless.
"We have to find a way to increase the planet's energy output, and at least get the closed facilities back up and running." He pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered the origin of this group of pirates.
They're chasing a cargo ship that has crashed here, and the cargo ship is ...... There should be something that can be used, right?
Thinking so, Li Wenyuan called up a picture.
A broken spaceship was still billowing with smoke and landed in an artificial forest, and there was no telling how much was left to be salvaged.
After letting the synth handle the matter, he turned the screen back to his "body".
The corpses of the lizardmen pirates have been disposed of, and in addition to the robots that are being repaired here, there is a special presence that is also staying here.
It was a humanoid creature with cat ears and a cat's tail, kneeling reverently in front of a large glowing orb, clasped hands, as if praying.
She was the beast girl who had been captured by the pirates before, and according to the pirates who were tortured, she was the target of their trip, a "cargo" hidden on a cargo ship.
She managed to escape before the cargo spaceship crashed, but she was still caught by pirates, but she was saved by Li Wenyuan by mistake, and now she seems to think that there is a "god" on this planet who is protecting her.
Li Wenyuan in the virtual world thought about it for a while and asked a synth to bring a small prop.
"Put it on her." With his command, the synth put an earmuff-like object in his hand on the beast girl's head.
It was supposedly a "brainwave converter" that translated brainwaves to directly read the thoughts of the person being translated.
The pirates had been using it to get the information they wanted, but after Li Wenyuan easily cracked it, it was used on themselves.
Now this beast girl is the second user.
The synth's movements did not elicit any reaction from her, and she continued to pray religiously, completely unmoved by external objects.
And Li Wenyuan also heard her thoughts at this time:
"God bless, God bless......"
Are you really praying?
Li Wenyuan was a little speechless, but he had something he wanted to know through this beast girl, so he coughed directly: "Cough-"
The beast lady who was praying suddenly widened her eyes, pressed her hands on her earcups, and looked left and right in shock, as if she had heard something.
This is the second function of the "brainwave converter", which can also convert the received signals into brainwaves, allowing the user to "hear" the thoughts of others directly in their minds.
Under Li Wenyuan's operation, the "brainwave converter" can already convert the digital signals he sends into information that can be understood by the brain to carry out conversations between different species.
"Is God the voice of God?" The beast girl understands the voice she hears directly in her head as the word of the gods, a situation that only the gods can be fortunate enough to encounter in her home planet.
Li Wenyuan was silent for a while, lamenting that she had not seen the world, and decided to correct her thoughts a little.
If he could arouse the awe of an idealistic person, he would be able to get more information, right?
“…… God has been swept into the dustbin of history, and now there are only guardians here. Li Wenyuan's voice was normal, but when it was transmitted to the beast girl's heart, it had already changed.
What she heard was a loud sound like thunder in the sky. The owner of the voice seems to come from another world, witnessing the beginning and end of the universe, with a dullness that ignores everything.
Such a majestic voice even made her lower her body directly, her whole body tense, and she didn't dare to make any movements that might overstep.
Originally, she wanted to try to pray for God's help, but now these superfluous thoughts were all left behind her, and only fear remained.
And this is exactly what Li Wenyuan wants, and it is in vain that he slightly added some "special effects" to his voice signal to make it sound very grandiose.
“…… God, oh no, Lord Guardian...... Thank you for your redemption ...... Lillian"
In the face of this unknown existence with a mysterious identity but as powerful as a god, a beast girl named Lilian, her voice was already trembling with fear.
And Li Wenyuan was already thinking in his heart at this time:
"Is it called Lillian? But this pronunciation ...... It's a little different from English...... Is it iterating over a long period of time? ”
After thinking for a while, Li Wenyuan stared at the nervous Lilian through the synthetic's field of vision, and slowly asked the question he was most concerned about:
"Do you know ...... 'humans'?"
Listening to Lilian, who came from the guardian "Oracle", a blank expression gradually appeared on her face.
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After letting the synthesizer take Lilian to find a place to live, Li Wenyuan in the virtual world quickly flipped up the large red alerts that were still arranged.
Lillian, a human-looking beast girl, is unaware of the existence of humans.
In other words, everything that Li Wenyuan is familiar with and related to human beings, this beast girl knows nothing.
She seems to resemble a human only in appearance, but on the inside, she is a different species entirely.
So where have humanity gone on this planet, which is the future Earth from all sides?
"Could it be that there are other monkeys in this universe who have also evolved?" Li Wenyuan thought so, but looking at Lilian's cat ears and tail that shook from time to time, he quickly dispelled this idea.
He prefers to believe that it is a genetically modified organism rather than an evolved one.
"Let me see...... Got it! He pulled a red alert in front of him, and Li Wenyuan had heard the content on it in a flash.
[Warning, the power supply line of the core database has been damaged, please rebuild it as soon as possible]
This core database stores all the secrets of the planet, but now it has lost connection with Li Wenyuan due to the interruption of its energy supply, and its energy consumption is also astronomical.
"If I can fully activate it, I might be able to understand everything, right?" Li Wenyuan's eyes flashed, and he put this warning in a conspicuous position on the side.
Now there is nothing he can do about it, and he needs to shift his focus elsewhere.
"Hopefully the synths will bring me some good news......"
The image in front of me kept turning, and soon stopped under a sky obscured by thick smoke.
A huge spaceship covering more than twenty football fields crashed here, and since it fell apart in mid-air, there were many wrecks scattered in a radius of hundreds of kilometers, making it easy for synths to find it.
And with the actions of the synthesizers, the spaceship that was torn apart was gradually extracted with valuable things.