From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Jiang Liu gave an instruction and then asked ASH, "Pull up the structural diagram of the Laraye."

"clear."

The image of ASH disappeared, and a structural diagram of the Larya appeared on the screen.

But this performance further proves that the other party is indeed not ASH.

If it were ASH, the one in the Lighthouse who is half Mana's right brain and half mechanical and electronic left brain, he would obey Jiang Liu's orders.

After all, it was already a real living being with its own unique consciousness.

But what about this ASH in front of us?

In theory, they will only obey Bai Yuekui's orders.

Without him.

The underlying code is designed this way.

If Jiang Liu issues a command, it will display a message saying "Insufficient permissions".

"Could you zoom in on the image?"

Bai Yuekui issued the order.

"Sorry, you do not have sufficient permissions."

Upon hearing this, Bai Yuekui suppressed his tense expression, glanced back at Jiang Liu, and said, "So, the fact that the five of us surrounded you earlier made it recognize you as the true authority holder of ASH?"

[By the way, haven't you ever written any code that can perform identity verification?]

Jiang Liu asked in return.

[A single USB drive can't hold that much code; it can only perform simple permission level checks... There's an ASH space station in near-Earth space. Theoretically, as long as we're connected, combined with the monitoring system inside this spaceship, it should be enough to confirm that I'm the person with the highest access level.]

At this point, Bai Yuekui realized that the will inside the spaceship was also unable to connect with the outside world, which was why he assigned the position of the person with the highest authority to Jiang Liu.

In an instant, the two ended their conversation, and Jiang Liu spoke up: "ASH, grant everyone present the appropriate command authority."

Please confirm.

"determine."

As Jiang Liu finished speaking, ASH's image disappeared for a moment, and when it reappeared, it indicated that everyone present had been granted access to all cabins of the spaceship.

Despite the major problems with this ASH, it's not good to break the deadlock right now, and we want to see what tricks this "artificial intelligence" is up to.

Through the structural diagram of the Laraye provided by ASH, everyone also learned about the structure of this spaceship, which can be roughly divided into four parts based on the deck: flight control deck, upper deck, tail deck, and bottom deck.

The flight control deck is, of course, where Jiang Liu and his group are currently located. To get to other decks, you need to take the elevator on the left side of the waiting hall. Going up, you can go to the upper deck, which mainly houses the medical research module and the chemical research laboratory. Going down, you can go to the tram waiting hall. The spacecraft's built-in tram system can take people to the tail deck, where there are centrifuge engine rooms, crew work cabins, plant ecology institutes, and mining cabins.

As for the final bottom deck, it is the largest deck of this spaceship, with a total of five layers. It is mainly used for drilling, excavation, hook and lock restraint, gravity traction, and auxiliary loading, enabling efficient mining operations on other lifeless planets.

"The resources inside this spaceship are indeed very abundant!"

Mark sincerely hopes that the Laraye can be brought under human control.

The flight control deck houses small spacecraft, the upper deck contains medical research equipment, and the tail deck contains centrifuge engines and plant ecological samples.

In particular, the mining equipment on the five decks at the bottom, once mastered, would allow humans to mine mineral deposits on a large scale! Furthermore, given the size of this spaceship, it could completely ignore attacks from the Anthropomorphic Devouring Beasts!

"ASH, is the true purpose of this Larayaan to search for the Divine Seal?"

Previously, Bai Yuekui had used his combat flight suit to explain the purpose of the Lalaiye to everyone, which may have already been overheard by the hidden will. Therefore, Jiang Liu asked about the "Divine Seal" matter frankly.

"According to the spacecraft's database, the Lalaye found the Signet on a planet named Ta Frantis in 2006."

As ASH described the scene, he played photos of Ta Frantis and mentioned that the crew of the Laraye had also discovered extraterrestrial life on the planet.

Judging from the photos, this creature has a bizarre appearance. It is roughly humanoid, with legs similar to a kangaroo, four arms, a head resembling an insect, and three pairs of eyes, just like—

"A humanoid Devouring Beast."

Mark frowned.

ASH did not answer, but Bai Yuekui frowned slightly and denied it, saying, "The Devouring Beast has cracked organs on its body surface that release scarlet pigment and bromine mist, while the skin of this six-limbed creature is completely integrated, making it more like an intelligent creature that evolved from insects."

"That's quite an absurd evolution, directly evolving from an exoskeleton creature into something resembling mammalian skin." Mark insisted on his opinion, believing that this was a Devourer Beast, a special kind of Devourer Beast.

"ASH, is this creature related to the divine seal?"

Jiang Liu steered the conversation back to the Divine Seal.

"There is some connection."

Perhaps due to unstable voltage, ASH flickered. "After the crew of the Lalaye found Ta Frantis, ninety-nine percent of the intelligent races on the planet had already been wiped out."

"An extinction event caused by the divine seal?"

Bai Yuekui was surprised.

"Yes."

ASH continued, "The crew of the Lalaye explored the Ta-Frantis and found surviving intelligent alien beings. After learning what had happened, they discovered that these individuals were not native to Ta-Frantis. An unknown catastrophe had struck their homeworld, causing severe changes to the entire ecosystem and giving rise to a six-limbed, six-armed creature capable of stealing their energy and turning them to stone..."

In their struggle against those creatures, they used gene-editing technology to evolve themselves into a six-limbed form, but they still couldn't defeat them. Many even chose to flee their home planet in search of a new home in the universe…

After discovering Ta Frantis, they settled down and found the 'Red Seal' made by humans deep in the ocean of the planet.

The divine seal could emit a special magnetic field, leading them to believe that they had discovered infinite energy, and they began to continuously replicate the divine seal.

Then disaster struck.

The divine seal then released a special electromagnetic signal that affected their minds, causing hallucinations and leading to the establishment of a sect with 'unity' as its belief.

Under the radiation of that energy, the cells of the deceased individuals mutated, transforming into an extremely lethal monster...

These zombie-like monsters kill living individuals, then the corpses transform back into monsters. These monsters can also infect living individuals, rapidly assimilating their cells and turning them into monsters...

Once all intelligent life on the planet has been assimilated into monsters, they will continuously approach and coalesce towards the double-helix divine seal, combining with the planet's surface rock layers to form a planetary monster called the 'Blood Moon.' This monster will then devour and assimilate other planets and organic life forms, as if, for the being behind the divine seal, only by 'unifying' all organic life forms can it achieve inner peace.

Although this long passage revealed a lot of information, Jiang Liu only focused on the last sentence: to attain inner peace.

This ASH is definitely not that ASH. These words must have been conveyed through the intelligent system of the entire Larye by the entity behind it.

Such beings may conceal information from others, but theoretically they would disdain lying.

and so!

According to this will, only by assimilating all organic matter can a universe free from conflict and permanently peaceful be created.

Even Jiang Liu did not approve of this approach.

Unity is good, but this "unity" of will has gone too far; it aims to aggregate all organic matter to form a single "blood moon"—

In its form alone, it was almost like an old-fashioned horror movie he had seen in his previous life: The Thing.

Furthermore, considering the double helix structure of the Divine Seal, resembling a gene chain, and the blood moon image provided by ASH that looks like a jellyfish—

For some reason, Jiang Liu always felt that the so-called "blood moon" was not its complete form.

The structure of the divine seal is like a gene chain.

And the blood moon...

This gave him a sense of déjà vu, like a "cell".

If the number of "blood moons" reaches a certain level, will they reassemble and form the complete form he imagines?

if.

How big would its complete form be?

"Is the red divine seal on the spaceship?"

In any case, Jiang Liu needs to see the divine seal in person before he can determine the specifics.

"The ultimate goal of the Lalaye is the Seal of God, which is stored in the ore compartment on the stern deck."

ASH then pointed out the direction, "Just take the elevator to the waiting hall on the next floor, take the tram, and you'll reach the stern deck in just thirty seconds. I will then guide the commander to the mine compartment... Do you need me to operate the tram system now?"

"There's no rush yet."

Jiang Liu pointed at the mummified corpse in front of the control panel and asked the nearby surveillance equipment, "Was this Isaac Clark affected by the electromagnetic signals of the Divine Seal after his death?"

"Yes."

ASH played a surveillance video—

Isaac Clark was the commander-in-chief of the Lalaye. After the red seal was recovered, the corpses in the morgue of the dead in the medical work module on the upper deck of the ship were the first to be affected by the electromagnetic signals of the seal and turned into monsters, which were called "corpse variants".

The necromancy is very similar to Isaac Clark's mummified corpse, with severely disproportionate arms and legs, a wide-open chest and abdomen with sharp, tooth-like organs along the edges, and internal organs that seem to be fused together, from which another pair of small claws grow. The overall appearance is not harmonious, as if the hands and feet of different people were broken off and then randomly pieced back together.

Because the emergence of the necromancy was extremely sudden, most of the medical workers in the medical pod died and became members of the necromancy group.

And these monsters are impossible to kill!

Even after being shot in the head with a plasma pistol, the necromancer is still able to move and pinpoint the location of living people with remarkable accuracy, as if they were not observing with their eyes at all.

The blown-out head will reassemble in a very short time, reforming into a head, but its appearance will be more distorted than before it was blown up.

Therefore, Isaac Clark, who was leading his crew in the fight against the necromancer, made a decisive move and ordered his crew to target the necromancer's limbs.

By breaking their arms and legs, you can temporarily slow down their movement, thus buying them time to escape.

but.

The worst has happened.

The red divine seal seemed to release an energy that could not be perceived or understood. It was neither a magnetic field nor a signal, but rather an influence from another spatial dimension, causing the spaceship's space to be sealed off. The spaceship's systems could continue to operate, but the portal to the outside world was completely locked, as if the space inside the spaceship had become another world from which there was no escape.

finally.

During a battle against the mutants, Isaac discovered that the necromancers would lose their activity once they got within a certain range of the Divine Seal.

Using this, Isaac and the other combatants lured the mutants to the vicinity of the Divine Seal. During this process, Isaac was constantly influenced by the Divine Seal, muttering to himself, saying things like "Nicole," "You're fake," and "Are you coming this way?"

Through the video, Jiang Liu and the others realized that the Divine Seal was interfering with Isaac's mind, conjuring up a girlfriend named Nicole, seemingly guiding him to lure the mutants around the Divine Seal, causing them to lose their activity...

Is the divine seal saving the surviving humans on this spaceship?

Could it be that sealing the spaceship was to prevent the disaster inside from spreading out?

This idea was immediately rejected by everyone.

After all, this ASH is fake, and the surveillance video it plays might be fabricated! We can't trust it completely!

"In the end, Isaac sent all the survivors into hibernation pods. As the commander-in-chief, he went to the spaceship's self-test system compartment, picked up a plasma pistol, and committed suicide... According to the system analysis, this was probably due to the influence of the divine electromagnetic signal, which he could not withstand the pressure."