The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 210 - 148 Eve

Chapter 210: Chapter 148 Eve

They walked down the stairs all the way to the fifth basement level of the villa.

The heavy metal door opened, revealing a long corridor.

After passing through several sterilization procedures, the door at the end of the corridor automatically opened.

A massive underground laboratory appeared before everyone.

At the center of the laboratory was a huge monitoring hub, with hundreds of screens clustered together, presenting a dizzying array of images, like a giant tree.

Satellite cloud maps, weather data, earthquake monitoring, television programs, live streams, real-time surveillance of Night City, images of other cities beyond Night City, and countless other parameters and data that were indecipherable.

It was as if they were observing the entire world.

Underneath the colossal tree of screens was a chair facing everyone. Sitting on it was a girl around Weiwei’s age, though her body was clearly mechanical, with countless cables connected to the core hub extending from the back of her head.

This was a meticulously crafted mechanical body, not a victim of a mechanization plague, driven by a cold will.

[LV72·Yi]

Zhou Yuan was dumbfounded.

Never mind anything else, you are a level 72? Isn’t that a bit overpowered?

"Yi." Weiwei quickly said, "They can cure the mechanization plague..."

But Yi raised her hand to stop her, her tone cold and mechanical, "The matter of the mechanization plague can wait.

Congratulations on passing the test.

Having passed the third test, I have collected enough personality data to determine that you are suitable partners to collaborate with and trust, so next, I will explain everything."

Yi showed no malice, so everyone relaxed slightly.

Jiang Wuming scratched the back of his head, "This is ridiculous, a teenage girl monitoring the entire world, even a science fiction writer wouldn’t dare to use such a setting.

And... is that place Demon King Mountain?"

"It is Demon King Mountain." Yi nodded, "However, it wasn’t called Demon King Mountain three years ago; it was transformed into Demon King Mountain after the Demon King awakened."

She lifted her finger, and several corresponding screens descended slowly. The image of Demon King Mountain continually enlarged on them.

"Princess Amy is imprisoned in this tower, guarded by the dragon named Ghidora."

Yi waved her hand, and the screens floated back to their original positions.

She scrutinized everyone and then revealed her true intentions:

"Outsiders, I want to cooperate with you."

Everyone’s hearts raced; indeed... she knew their true identities.

But, why?

Under the influence of corrective forces, the native NPCs of this world shouldn’t be aware that they were not from this world.

"Let me tell you a story."

Yi lightly raised her finger, and five chairs rose from the ground, but no one sat down. Who knew if there were any traps, or if spikes would suddenly shoot out from under them?

"We’ve been sitting tired; we’ll just stand and listen." Jiang Wuming said.

Yi didn’t care whether they sat or not and began her explanation, "The formula in the second test was proposed by my father.

He was a super genius, with remarkable achievements in computers, artificial intelligence, genetics, aerospace, and medicine; he even had the title of Great Sage in the field of magic.

After establishing enough merits for the kingdom, he set his sights on the sky, on the mysterious universe.

With his influence, he quickly gathered enough funds and built a moon rocket, preparing to venture to the moon.

But when the rocket was halfway through its flight, it seemed to hit something and exploded on the spot.

Everyone was puzzled, for there shouldn’t have been anything there. The aerospace agency launched a satellite seven days later to verify, and when the satellite reached the same distance as the rocket, it also exploded.

It was then that my father fearfully realized—since Night City had the technology to launch satellites, all the satellites launched had only orbited the planet, never venturing further into space."

"After that, he locked himself in his room, researching day and night. Two years later, he restarted the space exploration program, using technology and magic to create a more agile spaceship.

This time, he personally boarded the ship to uncover the truth.

The spaceship had the capability for short-distance space jumps, and before long, he reached the area where the rocket and satellite had exploded.

Wearing a spacesuit, he cautiously advanced outside the spaceship, then reached out and touched an invisible wall in the void of space.

He explored over two hundred meters in all directions, then piloted the spaceship to different locations for a month and discovered that these invisible walls formed a circle, tightly enclosing and sealing our world.

He launched nuclear bombs and cast forbidden curse magic at these walls but could not cause any damage. It was like an ant trying to shake a mountain; no matter how it battered itself to pieces, it couldn’t budge the peak an inch.

When he returned, to avoid causing panic, he permanently sealed the related information and began contemplating the nature of the world, the truth of the universe, and other profound questions.

Years later, he proposed that formula.

But he couldn’t solve it, so he created an artificial intelligence to assist in the calculations."

The crowd listened without much expression on their faces.

How surprising.