Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1553 "Observer of the City-State World"

"Anticus's mainframe core is so large... No wonder you put the mainframe data tower in a separate space."

Lin Lan and the ship girls followed the fantasy and continued to advance in the broken steel ruins. His ship girls also expressed their feelings.

"In fact, our data core space has now completed lightweight iteration and upgrade, and this old hardware data storage method has long been eliminated."

In response to this, Miss D enthusiastically gave everyone some scientific knowledge.

Whether it is the arbitration agency or the experimental agency, although their host data towers have large spaces, in fact most of the hardware are insignificant performance and data transmission devices.

In fact, the real core area of ​​their minds had long been stored independently by Ling in a mirror space, and was commanded by Tova, who led a large army of arbitration agencies.

In this way, even if the mainframe data tower space of the builders is destroyed like in the game, Ling can revive them at any time with the most recently updated mental data.

After all, after the destruction of the original world, Antix's cube technology has been continuously developing in order to fight against X.

Early design clues that exposed weaknesses like this have been optimized by Anticus.

"Here we are."

Not long after Miss D finished her explanation, everyone finally arrived at the end of the road.

It was a huge columnar Rubik's Cube mechanical device connected to the ceiling, and it was also the only Rubik's Cube device still in operation here.

"This is the Goddess Host."

Fantasy turned around and spoke softly to everyone.

But when Lin Lan looked at the huge mechanical equipment in front of him, he felt a sense of familiarity.

This sense of familiarity does not come solely from memories of the original world.

Before he could speak, Akashi opened his eyes wide, pointed at the mainframe of the experimental device in front of him and exclaimed:

"Commander, this Siren mechanical device is exactly the same as the Ariel mainframe core we saw in Orlan, meow!"

After being reminded by Mingshi, Lin Lan finally realized where this sense of familiarity came from.

The Ariel host that he and the White Eagle ship girls saw in Oran Hengyue City and the old host core of the experimental agency in front of them were almost carved from the same mold.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, this is normal.

The experiment that the experimental agency conducted in Orlan was to test whether humans from another world and the Rubik's Cube artificial intelligence could live in harmony.

Using the obsolete old model Anticus host design as Ariel's host core is in line with Anticus's consistent style.

"Ding ding, the signal source has been detected and the activation process has started."

While he and the girls beside him were observing, the Teminalu in the hand of the little sailing loli Vida, which had originally entered the charging mode, suddenly emitted an emotionless female synthesized voice.

"Woooo, Teminalu, you finally woke up!"

Seeing a blue beam of light projected on Terminalu's screen connecting to the core of the experimental machine's host, Vida joyfully raised the "Magic Book" Terminalu and shouted.

As if it was really affected by Terminalu's activation program, the core of the experimental machine illuminated by the blue beam emitted a low humming sound.

"Hoohoo~ Look who's here, His Majesty the Divine Emperor, long time no see~"

Just as Lin Lan and the girls were waiting for the experimental machine's host to respond, a playful and mischievous loli voice that was extremely familiar to him suddenly sounded out of nowhere.

As the voice sounded, a light curtain shone from the projection device in the core of the mainframe, converging into the figure of an old friend that everyone present knew except Harmony, Portsmouth Adventure, and Dolphin.

A petite, golden-eyed, black lolita in a black Gothic lace dress with black fox ears and flowing silver hair——

observer.

"It's you, Observer!"

Facing the appearance of this cunning old rival, all the Iris and Sardinia ship girls instinctively stepped back with caution.

The observer had a bright smile on his face at this time, and his pair of golden eyes were fixed on Lin Lan who was protected by the girls behind them.

But after looking at the observer's projection for a while, Miss D said with certainty: "She is not the observer in your experimental field β."

Mai Jisha also nodded and explained to everyone:
"Her mental data has not been synchronized to the Antix host, so she has no mental memory of Experimental Site β."

After hearing the two arbitrators speak confidently, Iris and the Sardinian ship girls finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked curiously at this observer who had the same face but was meeting them for the first time.

Fantasy and Gangishava were already half-kneeling in front of the observer with pious expressions.

For the two sailing ship girls, the observer is the god they believe in.

Lin Lan didn't mind this.

He looked at the observer and smiled.
"Long time no see, so should I call you Opez or Observer?"

"Hehe~ Long time no see. As for what to call me, it's entirely up to you how you prefer to call me~"

As the observer spoke, he looked at the meta-ship girls and arbitrators beside him, and his golden eyes revealed a few human memories:
"In addition to new faces, I was able to see old friends after waking up... What a pleasant surprise~"

Hearing the observer's exclamation, Lin Lan always felt that something was strange.

The observer's enthusiastic and cheerful attitude made him even mistake him for a moment as the observer who confessed to him in the Xinghai Base before.

"Why are you the only one here? Where are the Tester, Builder, Clearer, and Purifier? The Tester has already woken up once before, right?"

Thinking that this observer had been waiting for him in the city-state for hundreds of years, it was normal for him to be enthusiastic and excited when they met again, so he did not think about it too much and asked the observer directly.

"I have packaged and stored their mental data."

The observer smiled and answered frankly:

"Rather than wasting energy by protecting five hardware devices at the same time, it is definitely more appropriate to focus on protecting one first."

Lin Lan nodded. What the observer said made sense.

On the way here, they had seen the extent of the damage caused by X. Even the core space of the host was not safe.

If the five Antiks from the experimental agency want to survive as long as possible under the threat of X, they naturally have to concentrate the cube energy to protect the most critical host core.

As long as the observer's host core is not compromised, one day in the future, the mental data of the other four girls in the experimental agency will be used to resurrect them all.

"Wait! If that's what you said, why did the test subject, Tista, appear in the Fountain of Youth and summon the Gray Wolves to attack us?"

Royal Fortune, with the support of him and his companions at this time, boldly asked loudly to the observer.

"That's because the containment facility had been severely corroded, and the entire offline system of the agency began to collapse uncontrollably. Her mental data was temporarily activated in the mass-produced machine due to a malfunction.

"I think you have also discovered that the test subject's mental state was very confused at the time. He was just fooling around~"

After the observer said this, Lin Lan and several other sailing ship girls including Royal Fortune and Golden Deer all showed expressions of sudden enlightenment.

Indeed, at that time, whether it was Tista's fleet command ability, language ability or the purpose of the action he mentioned, they were all extremely abstract, and it did not seem like they were activated normally.

"Okay, let's get back to business, Observer."

Lin Lan took a deep breath, looked at the observer's young face, and said word by word with a tone of sadness that he was unwilling to face:
"Tell me, Cole...when did she become X?"

When he finished speaking, all the ship girls around him, except for Mai Jisha who had guessed everything long ago and the two newly joined sailing ship girls, Fantasy and Gang Yishava, widened their eyes and looked at him in disbelief.

Helophon and Miss D also turned their heads away, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

That's right.

The mysterious X-source that suddenly erupted from the city-state world...

It was the genius cube scientist who was rescued from the oligarchs of the original world by him and sent here with cross-border technology and experimental machinery.

Cole.

(End of this chapter)