Doomsday Fast Travel: Kill That Black Butterfly

"System? If you really leave, who will send me to the next world?"

For thousands of years, she has never forgotten what the system said to her when it last appeared.

"...I'm just afraid that you have to ask me for the answer." The voice of the system appeared in the sea of ​​​​consciousness for a long time.

"I am part of your sea of ​​consciousness, and I will not disappear unless you die."

"Then can I treat you as my 'other me'?" Yu Di smiled.

"Yes." The system conjured a ball of light mist out of thin air, "Well, congratulations on completing the mission. This is your reward."

Yu Di did not take it immediately.

"Is this my memory?" she said.

"Yes. This is the third piece."

"How many more are behind?"

"There's one more piece."

"After collecting them all, am I going to go back to my own world?"

The sky above the sea of ​​consciousness gradually turned into a starry sky.

"Yes."

"Okay, then give it to me." She lay back on the ground, closed her eyes and raised her hands, "If you don't do it, time will be stuck here forever, right?"

"...Congratulations on your guess." The system placed the memory fragment in Yu Di's hand, "I hope you won't back down."

"Ha, don't worry." Yu Di chuckled.

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"The uploading progress of the conscious body has been 80.00% completed, and the processing of biological entities is basically synchronized. We should be ready to go in." Yi Hansheng took off his glasses and put them in the chest pocket of his white coat. He looked back at Yu, who had been waiting for him. flute.

"So fast? It seems that the efficiency of the new algorithm is really high." Yu Di heard his own voice say.

"Yes." Yi Hansheng smiled, looking a little tired.He stood up, walked to Yu Di, and looked down at her: "Want to go together?"

Yu Di took a half step back, gently held his arm, lowered his eyes and said, "I'm actually here to discuss something with you."

"What?" Yi Hansheng frowned slightly.To be able to make Yu Di speak in this tone without even daring to look at him, could it be...

"I don't plan to leave." She raised her head and looked into Yi Hansheng's eyes, "You know, I am alone, and it is best to stay as insurance."

Yi Hansheng grabbed Yu Di's hand instead, his voice trembling slightly: "Did you submit the information?"

Yu Di hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "The review has been completed. I..."

Yi Hansheng threw her hand away and said angrily: "Then you said you came to discuss it with me! Have you forgotten what you promised me a week ago?"

"I haven't forgotten!" Yu Di grabbed him, "But you know, we have no future at all! No one will have a future! Someone has to stay here... I am a coward, I want to keep my The consciousness is an independent individual, rather than..."

"You're the one who coaxed me! You lied to me!" Yi Hansheng's already tired eyes turned redder now. He hugged Yu Di, "I don't care, you promised me that you will come with me. I have authority. Take you off the list, I want you to come with me!"

Yu Di did not break away from him.They have worked together for so long, and they already have a tacit understanding that goes without saying - Yi Hansheng does have very high authority, but this is his own choice.Even if you never discuss it with him, he will respect it.

"Can't you not go?" Yi Hansheng asked softly.

"You know me. I don't want to be part of a symbiote."

Yi Hansheng sighed: "You know, how pleasantly surprised I was when you said you were willing to go with me. I was always afraid that you would say that...but if you really said that, I..."

"Yi Hansheng." Yu Di patted his back, "I love you, and it will not be transferred by time and space. But we agree on different paths. Community is what you expect, but not mine. The two of us Isn't it because we respect each other's ideals that we have reached this point? Hmm?"

"..." Yi Hansheng said nothing, but hugged him tighter.He knew that once he connected his consciousness to the community, there would be no chance of him and Yu Di seeing each other again.

In other words, he will become part of a giant to face a more fatal blow to mankind. He will no longer have the concept of "self". Naturally, there will no longer be any sense of "Yudi" as a person. human cognition.

"What you are going to do is the greatest thing among all civilizations in the entire universe. It has never happened in the past and will never happen in the future." Yu Di said softly, "I can do more if I stay."

Yi Hansheng closed his eyes.

He knew that Yu Di was not a cowardly evader. She did this to protect the entire plan and chose to sacrifice herself... After the completion of the community plan, Yu Di, as the last "human being" left in the universe, would only be alone. died in.

"I know." Yi Hansheng hugged her, "I know..."

The memory flickered, and Yi Hansheng in her arms suddenly disappeared. She found herself standing in the communication room above Galaxy City, and the equipment in front of her was alarming frantically, showing the extent of the damage to the community.Yi Hansheng looked at the readings of the collider and muttered - "Try again, try again, we will definitely be able to open it!"

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Yu Di suddenly shed a tear in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The memory ends abruptly here.She knew that going forward would be the real reason why she traveled between worlds.

Tears slipped from the corners of his eyes and fell on the calm water of the sea of ​​consciousness without causing a ripple.

Yu Di sat up, collected his feelings, and reassembled his consciousness into a tight structure.

In the previous world, she spent thousands of years talking to Xu Yi, the conscious being in that world.They exchanged many things, including the principles and application directions of consciousness technology itself.

Yu Di used the method of "reincarnation" to explore the process of forming a part of consciousness and the various changes that will occur when the new consciousness is influenced by the outside world.With this knowledge, the content of the memory that the system just returned to her becomes easier to understand.

She herself is a conscious body carrying an insurance system, traveling through various universes in some way that she has not yet thought of. The purpose is to understand the nature of the "universe" and the laws of the "world".

Suddenly there was a burning pain in her wrist. Yu Di looked down and saw that it was the bracelet Cheng Die had given her.The dragon-shaped pendant on it seemed to be getting heavier - this was a very strange thing. In the sea of ​​consciousness, Yu Di would not feel anything she didn't want to feel.This burning pain can affect her, which means that the bracelet Cheng Die gave her did not enter the sea of ​​consciousness in her own subjective form——

Yu Di held the pendant.

"Master." She murmured, "The essence of the universe...the laws of the world...the consciousness of the world...the master..."

She stood up suddenly.

"I!"

"it's me'!!"

"System, send me to the last world! As long as you find 'me', we will be saved!"