Devouring the Starry Sky begins with the battle of geniuses

Chapter 8 Introspection
"Failed, failed, failed..."

Hun Zhen walked on the street with a dull look in his eyes.

After the Simulator changed his mind and killed the attending doctor, he went through seven more simulations.

Every action of the simulator will have subtle changes.

In the first simulation, the simulator realized that it was impossible to compete with the stellar guards and made a strange move. He chose to take action directly on the spacecraft. In the end, he successfully killed the people on the spacecraft before the chip's explosion function was activated.

But because the biochip was not removed, it didn't take long for the incident to be revealed, and under the company's remote control, his head exploded.

No matter how slim the hope, Sims never give up on their pursuit of life and freedom.

Under pure subjective control, try to delay the opportunity for the simulator to take action, and the result is the best——

The simulator chose to surrender, planning not to kill but to control the attending physician so that he could help remove the chip after he was out of the range of the stellar guard's perception.

This move also failed.

Originally, the company only planned to let the simulator enter the fighting field in advance, but the simulator extremely resolutely chose to die together with his colleagues in the company.

"No, brother...why are you so tough? Am I really such a person? Why don't I know?"

Hun Zhen was tired, so he chose to give up on empathy, closed the door and left.

While wandering around the entertainment facilities, I don’t know why I don’t feel much happiness.

To be honest, the entertainment in recent days has gradually turned into a formality.

He thought that he just had no acquaintances and friends, so as a social animal, he could not obtain social satisfaction.

So he looked for companions with whom he could spend his time.

With his proud assets, generous style, strong skills, and aloof temperament born of having a sharp weapon in his heart, he has received countless praises and adoration in the Night City in just a few days.

It feels a bit like the urban novel Long Aotian.

However, after the novelty wore off, he had no sense of accomplishment and instead lost interest.

It's like a giant dragon showing off how big its fingernails are in front of ants... What's the point of this kind of thing?
It's just...he doesn't know what he wants to do now.

As a warrior, as a company killer, many things become within your reach.

This is just the apprentice level, let alone planet level, star level and even higher level experts.

For a starry sky powerhouse who can control the fate of living things on a planet with a single thought, it is not difficult to experience it no matter how advanced it is purely for entertainment.

At that time, what should we pursue?

Hunzhen was sitting at a barbecue stall on the street, watching the hovercars speeding past in front of her, while happily drinking a skewer, but there was an inexplicable expression on her face.

"Brother, have you fallen out of love? I see you've been here for an hour, all alone! Hey, let me tell you, falling in love is a big deal. What does it look like to be dumped by a woman to death? Bye bye. Just say goodbye, the next one will be better! Xi Liu."

Hearing a man's voice, he didn't stop playing with his skewers. His innocent eyes looked out of focus at the brightly lit street, looking like a salted fish that had just landed on the shore.

Zi Gu replied: "It's not that I'm falling out of love, I'm just thinking, what on earth is this life...?"

Thinking about it carefully, to be honest, in terms of material life alone, his current life is many times better than in his previous life.

Every day I can stay in the best hotels and eat delicious food that I didn't dare to eat in the past.

In his previous life, he was just an ordinary employee of a welfare company, with a low income and a busy schedule. Not to mention having a good meal, he could only go without instant noodles for two days a week.

Unlike now, you can get whatever you want.

If he didn't want to improve his strength faster and chose to cause trouble, he could have waited until the moment when his superiors summoned them.

However, no matter how you think about the outcome after this, it will not be good, it is just the difference between dying early and dying later.

Based on Black Oak Company's urinary behavior, these "slaves", those who entered the star level, should have been thrown into the fighting arena to make money for the company.

Those who stay at the apprentice level will be sent abroad for a period of time, and then they will quietly go on the kill list and become the assassination targets of the next batch of training camp killers.It can be said that everything has been put to good use.

Looking back from the current perspective, if he had not shown his talent and taken the latter path, he would have lived ten or twenty years longer. With better luck, hiding his stupidity more stably, and with the existence of the simulation system, he would have lived several decades longer. It may not be a problem to be hundreds of years old.

Theoretically, you don’t have to go out a few times every month, and your time is basically allocated freely.

Compared to his previous life, although he was a slave, his life was already like a paradise.

Over a hundred years, countless simulations were accumulated, and before being killed by the company, he broke through from the apprentice level to the domain master level in a short period of time, thereby breaking through the control of the chip. This is also a route with a high success rate.

With the simulation system, even for such a long time, he has a very high error tolerance rate.

"Huh? Life? Xiami stuff? Suck it! Brother, happiness is only one day, and unhappy is one day. Don't think about so many things, you have to leave them here to regret the spring and autumn, are you a poet!?"

Hunzhen looked up and saw a man with a moustache and gray hair standing in front of him holding a bowl of noodles, slurping the noodles crazily.There was a faint light in the man's eyes, and the skin flakes on his head fell into the bowl, and he put them into his mouth, and said with a smile: "Nothing else is important, the only important thing is to have a good time, brother!"

Hun Zhen was stunned.

Happy?
Is he happy now?

He can already live a fairy-like life that he dared to imagine but never expected in the past.

but……

Everything has changed and it seems like nothing has changed.

As long as he endured it a little and a little longer, it would only be a short period of time in proportion to his life.

He too can be free.

But do you regret it?

In terms of mental age, he is only a young man in his twenties.

"Why didn't you choose to continue fighting at that time? Instead, you chose to take the initiative to show your sword and walk towards an unknown road?"

Ask yourself honestly.The success rate of the latter must be higher than that of the former?There is actually no basis for this.

A flash of lightning flashed across my heart.

It turned out that very early on, as early as the simulation after completing the first counterattack, his future self had already told him the answer.

Even if it was a day earlier, even if it cost his life, he still wanted to break free from this cage!

If we don't have freedom, if we just live simply, there will certainly be no difference from the past, and no fundamental changes will occur.

That doesn't count as living, and it doesn't make it possible to say openly and without regrets - I have been here.

"Freedom? So we are actually the same. No, we are the same person."

It turns out that deep down in his heart he longs for freedom.

Suddenly, Hun Zhen realized.

The reason why Sims become so violent is simple.

No matter how difficult it was before, there was always a glimmer of hope.

The real threat from the company is unknown, and the unknown is indeed scary, but it does not lead to despair.

But now the simulator already knows that without the plug-in, no matter how much he resists, he probably cannot escape the end of death.

When he was still worrying and sleepy about vain things like life and meaning while eating big fish and meat, the Sim had no such spare time at all.

Just to survive, I have tried my best.

Unlike myself, who can easily break down because of the simulation system, no matter how much I hint, the simulation person will definitely try his best and not let go of any vitality.

He couldn't help but lament his own luxury.

This is arrogance that cannot be changed, but it doesn't matter, the sim will take action for him.

"Live."

"Live."

"Live!"

Hunzhen kept giving psychological hints to herself.

He knew that this was enough.

It is precisely because they subconsciously want to be ruined and want to give up struggling to become a tool for the company to make money that the simulated people will choose to die with the enemy in despair.

But even so, he still fought until the last moment in every simulation.

Then, as long as the will to live is strong enough, even if there is only a glimmer of hope.The sims will all keep walking.

Obviously the goals are completely different, but the end result is the same.

He wants to gain more combat experience and let the sim become a gladiator, while the sim wants to pursue the only chance of survival in the killing.

"Start the simulation."

(End of this chapter)