Chapter 1535 - 500: Me and ’Me’ (2)

Chapter 1535: Chapter 500: Me and ’Me’ (2)

He seemed to be talking about his own thoughts as he let out a heavy sigh.

"Oh..."

"Do you know how I got here?"

"You mean... through dimensional travel?"

Lin Miao was somewhat surprised. Could this question really be answered?

"Yes, at first I didn’t understand what was happening. I thought I would have to stay in this godforsaken place for ten thousand years. You know, this wasn’t a digital realm in the beginning. This digital space came into being after it interfaced with the human reality network under gravitational influence, receiving a massive influx of data. Built by the world’s network engineers, it became a new world, and only then did I realize there was a human world next to it, almost identical to mine. I was so thrilled, you know."

"Later, I found a white-haired woman. After hearing her explanation, I finally understood the event that brought me was called Celestial Sphere Convergence, where worlds from different dimensions collided, creating connections and allowing interpenetration. As a result, organisms or objects might appear in another world. She said she has a unique talent to traverse worlds and is now looking for a Demon Hunter named Geralt. Anyway, it was a muddle, and she even gave me a sword."

"In essence, perhaps it’s because I hadn’t worshipped properly; my luck was a bit rotten, and I was thrown into this hellhole. Later, I tried everything on the internet to get a body that could visit the human world. I was overjoyed, planning to script something like the Dragon King’s return, but I found this world... wasn’t as great as I imagined..."

His tone shifted from cheerful to heavy, his expression a bit desolate and bewildered. If a data lifeform had physical organs, Lin Miao suspected he might be on the verge of tears.

"In novels, I used to think about survival of the fittest, natural selection, the poor dying being justified, and even in business, I never spared a competitor, always went for the kill."

"But... but... but I just can’t help it... so many have died... Dead on the streets every day... Starved to death... Beaten to death... Overdosed... I saw a little girl, only five years old, curled up by the side of the street, frozen stiff... So pitiful... I can’t help but pity them..."

’Lin Miao’ murmured.

"I know, with my ability, just a flick of the finger can get me into the upper echelons, with endless money, do whatever I want, but... but to get in, I have to become like them... I see them call people pigs and dogs, leading people like animals on the street, discussing what it’s like to play with children of certain ages..."

He showed fear in his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"I don’t want to be like that. I know I’ll never want to be like that. My education, my parents, the world I grew up in all told me that’s wrong."

"People shouldn’t be this way, society shouldn’t be this way..."

He was Lin Miao himself, and the judgment he made, Lin Miao would make as well.

Compared to him, the only difference for Lin Miao is having a bunch of clamoring locals, and these locals were also found with his help...

"Why don’t you try heading east, maybe..."

"I’ve been there."

’Lin Miao’ said.

"It’s chaotic over there too. I wanted to help, but after some people found out, I was advised not to return temporarily..."

"Can you understand that feeling... As if you’re the only odd one in the whole world, and no one can understand you? They don’t understand why you’re kind like a fool, and later people found out you’re AI, which led to bounty hunters worldwide hunting you..."

Lin Miao could feel the deep despair and loneliness in the other’s words.

"Why don’t you try to resist or organize a counterattack? With your power, you should be able to do that."

"That era’s society did not rely on the network as heavily as now, I couldn’t affect normal human bodies, and at that time, I wasn’t as strong as later, many things were learned bit by bit."

"Even after slowly building up a team, they would quickly be overwhelmed by the whole world..."

"Until I met that white-haired woman, I understood, if I can’t save this world alone, I’ll bring more people."

’Lin Miao’ regained his resolve.

"For this purpose, I tried every way possible to gather resources. If I set my eyes on certain technology or resources, I’d seek out those companies to get what I want. If I could buy it, I would; if not, I’d try to persuade the employees, if persuasion didn’t work, I’d steal or rob! Whoever tries to block me, I’ll take them down!"

No wonder...

As the first AI in Cyberspace, he clearly knew how much valuable stuff those companies stored in cloud storage.

Obviously, blatant robbery was not feasible; large-scale technology theft would certainly alert many companies, and playing recklessly would spell disaster. So quietly starting from the bottom was the only choice.

"You’ve got the technology, but how did you make these things?"

Lin Miao was even more curious.

"These things can’t just be made on an improvised assembly line, many companies don’t have such advanced technology, and the stuff was always out of nowhere when I pulled them out of my backpack."

"You haven’t been to Arizona, have you?"

"Um... No, I haven’t."

"There used to be a formidable group over there, the Techno-mancers of one of the Seven Wandering Tribes. They secretly held technologies you couldn’t imagine. There were only a group of a hundred or eighty people, but they built a city named Alpha over there, with the whole city covered by optical camouflage. If they don’t want to be found, no one can find them."