Player Reload
Chapter 349: Amended - 321 The Truth

Chapter 349: Amended: Chapter 321 The Truth

The entire engine room fell into a dead silence, with only the buzzing sound of the gyroscope spinning.

"When I was in the cold storage, I found it strange that all the frozen bodies we found were of noble elites with no signs of labor."

Li Cheng said, "Let’s assume that during the disaster, they were with you and were coaxed into the hibernation chamber by you, so where are the soldiers, doctors, scientists, and other support personnel who should be with these nobles?

It’s impossible that when the disaster struck, the nobles ran off on their own without bringing anyone along, right?

Moreover, the high tower is so conspicuous in the wasteland. Many scavengers must have come to explore it over the years, so where are these scavengers now?

The answer is only one: you killed those nobles who had no value in your eyes except for gene diversity,

and hid the remaining civilians—whether ordinary people before the disaster or scavengers after the disaster—in the high tower’s hibernation chambers.

The crops and artificial meat cultivated in the hydroponic room were originally prepared for these people."

Zhao Zijing hesitated for a moment, "The body that Talisman Nail and Dragon Painter found in the cold storage..."

"Just a clone formed from an accelerated artificial embryo,"

Li Cheng waved his hand and said, "For a scientist who keeps talking about the continuation of human civilization, he wouldn’t put an infected corpse and a healthy embryo that symbolizes the future of humanity in the same room. Even if that corpse was his own.

If you don’t believe me, you can have Talisman Nail and Dragon Painter go back to the cold storage and check carefully for signs of life on the frozen bodies, such as bruises, vaccine scars, tooth tartar, etc.

You can also disassemble a hand or foot, burn it to ashes, and test the bone ash for heavy metal elements accumulated from life and work—cloning technology can’t simulate these.

I know two brothers surnamed Ken and An, who had bad lifestyles before they died and ultimately died from heavy metal poisoning."

Zhao Zijing opened her mouth, turned to the silent spider robot, and asked in a deep voice, "Why?"

Players want to complete the task and get some rewards, while Noah wants to keep the high tower and start the space jump engine. There is no fundamental conflict of interest between them.

As for [Universal Ghost], the Whale Song Guild that was captured and triggered this series of events, it can be resolved through negotiation—

What Noah wants is a player’s qualification, and there just happens to be a mutated snail in the high tower that killed a player and gained that qualification.

There’s no reason and no need to trick players into doing things.

Especially something inexplicable, like killing Noah himself.

"..." The spider robot was silent for a long time before suddenly speaking, "Have you ever seen the starry sky?"

"What?"

Zhao Zijing frowned and, seeing Li Cheng raise an eyebrow, explained, "When we were in the abandoned building, we tried to use a fiber-optic drone to penetrate the clouds for reconnaissance. But we found that even in the stratosphere, there were still large amounts of dust clouds. So we gave up."

The height of the stratosphere ranges from 10 km to 50 km, indeed beyond the general player’s reconnaissance range—unless there is a low-consumption skill similar to Cloud Stepping that allows you to step on your left foot with your right foot and ascend to the sky.

Li Cheng detected a certain emotion from the spider robot’s electronic voice and immediately asked, "What’s outside the starry sky."

"...God. Or in your terms, a supernatural entity."

Noah said softly, "When I was very young, I realized I was different from others. I could see the differential functions in the leaf veins of plants, see the formulas for calculating pi on coins, and the knowledge I read in books automatically compiled themselves in my mind. Whenever I wanted to invent something, inspiration would flow endlessly.

Brain-computer interface, human cryogenic hibernation, gene editing of plants and animals, optical quantum computers...

For me, theoretical and technological breakthroughs are natural, like water flowing to a lower place."

This statement seemed a bit too boastful, and Li Cheng couldn’t help but retort, "Damn, are you Ramanujan or a Whispered?"

Ramanujan is one of the most famous mathematicians in Indian history. He claimed to be inspired by the Hindu Namasujili Goddess and could think of new mathematical formulas in his dreams.

In contrast, the Whispered are characters from the light novel "Full Metal Panic," referred to as those who inherently possess super-modern knowledge and can develop black technology devices.

"In a sense, you’re right."

Noah said calmly, "What I thought was my talent, wisdom, imagination, and innovative thinking, are actually gifts from a supernatural entity.

With the help of these ’gifts,’ I gradually mastered social resources, invented and built the space jump engine, and opened Pandora’s Box for the entire human civilization."

Li Cheng immediately thought of the newspapers he saw when he first started the script task, "The space engine failed?"

"It succeeded. To be precise, it successfully achieved the effect that the supernatural entity desired."

As Noah spoke, he used a mechanical arm to project images taken by near-earth orbit satellites.

A splendid and magnificent nebula, filling the entire night sky, suspended above Earth.

The bright spot in the middle of the nebula, like a dragon absorbing water, continuously and slowly extracts water and soil from Earth.

With the dark universe as a backdrop, it instilled a soul-stirring fear.

Noah continued, "The space engine itself is a trap. Once activated, it draws the supernatural entity close to Earth’s orbit, allowing it to consume the entire planet.

The nature of the collapse is its feeding. And the mutated monsters are people and plants affected by it, who underwent mutations."

"I see, phew,"

Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily, I didn’t get tempted to try a piece of monster meat out of greed; the doctor told me that if I kept eating, the prion disease would act up."

Again? Are you Hannibal or what?

Zhao Zijing didn’t stop to make sarcastic comments, and directly asked Noah, "So you want to atone and take the remaining people to Kepler-22b? If the space engine is a scam, how can you ensure this time will succeed?

Moreover, if that supernatural entity chose you, how have you retained your sanity for so long? And why do you want us to kill you?"

"I’m no exception,"

Noah said softly, "Even if it’s not me, others who receive ’gifts’ will also step by step invent and create until they build the space jump engine.

To the nebula, I’m just a programmed process. Once activated, I operate automatically until the outcome is achieved.

So it doesn’t care about my life or sanity.

As for the engine itself... it can’t reach six hundred light years away. So I’ve repurposed the high tower to direct it to your world."