Xingtetsu: Why is the captain on the train?

The mortal Akivali drove the first star train in the universe out of the isolated world of Pegana, and in the process, Akivali had already passed away.

Who was it that truly broke out of the isolated world of Pegana, was it Akivali or the [Pioneer] Star God?

No one knows, it just depends on which one people who have seen the history and heard the legends are willing to believe.

"You are going to die." The Star Core Spirit walked slowly to the virtual digital life with a sad expression.

“But I finally fulfilled my dream, leaving my hometown and seeing the outside world.”

"Is it really okay?"

Xing pursed her lips. No matter what happened in the real world when Akivali broke out of the isolated world of Pegana, what was happening in the simulated universe at this moment would be...

Akivalli dies.

[Pioneering] Star God, broke out of the isolated world of Pegana.

What is lost is digital life, and what rushes out of Pegana is oneself.

"I don't regret it." Akiveli smiled. He tried his best to support his almost collapsing body and narrated his thoughts word by word. "I don't care where my thoughts come from, even if they are not necessarily from my heart, but are external and implanted..."

“However, we can endure the [unknown], but we will never succumb to the [unknowable].”

"[When countless shooting stars streak across the night sky, if you choose the right one, it will carry your wishes to thousands of worlds]......"

"Isn't this very romantic..."

The figures of digital life dissipated, turning into spots of light and merging into this primitive, narrow star train.

Xing stood in the train carriage, listening to the roar of the train wheels on the silver tracks beside his ears.

He exhaled softly, closed his eyes, and raised his hand to his chest.

“May you make great strides forward on your path of exploration.”

“A tribute to the digital being called Akivalli.”

"You are already a genuine [Nameless Guest]."

No one responded.

The train roared forward along the predetermined trajectory.

Carrying the only passenger, rushing to witness the fall of another life.

Chapter 178: Simulated Universe·Final Test·Quest (20)

"Virtual Star God?"

"That doesn't match what I know."

Tesla, who had changed out of his cool dancer outfit, crossed his legs and sat on the small spaceship provided by the City Builder, squinting his eyes. "Yuexia, the virtual star gods you mentioned all claim to be artificially created digital life forms, whose identities and powers were added later."

"This, shouldn't be possible." Yuexia blinked in confusion.

【...】

[Ms. Black Tower? ]

【...】

I don’t know when, the voices of Black Tower and Screw Gumu disappeared from my mind.

Yuexia narrowed her eyes and felt something was wrong.

"If you say they are powerful in this world, then they are indeed strong, but if you say they can match the [Star Gods] in the real world, then they are definitely not comparable." Tesla held a terminal screen, tapping the screen with his fingers rapidly, and muttered, "What level are the [Star Gods] outside? The existence of [Star Gods] directly symbolizes and even represents the laws of the operation of the universe."

"For example, [destruction] symbolizes the existence of 'entropy', and Nanook represents a concept after being upgraded."

"Another example is [Nothingness]. Its existence itself is a black hole that devours everything. According to the 'data' I collected from some data worlds, [Organization IX] is speculated to be related to the concept of [antimatter], and even has concepts that cannot be explained by science. The [Nothingness] star god itself seems to be the entrance to a certain [realm] that ordinary people cannot observe."

"How could these things be compiled using completely known data?"

"How can the known be written about the unknown?" Tesla looked at Yuexia, whose brain was about to boil, and sighed, "As expected of Theresa..."

"What did Theresa do to you!" Yuexia glared at Dr. Tesla with dissatisfaction.

"Put another way." Tesla put down the tablet in his hand and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "You know the formula for the equation, right?"

"Of course I know!" The twin ponytails under the moon were about to stand up because of being looked down upon.

"When calculating basic equations, we often have unknown variables X and Y, right?"

"Hmm?" Yuexia nodded.

"Use the known to solve the unknown X, this is the basic application of the equation. 1+1=X, so X is naturally equal to 2." Tesla looked at the moon, "Now, upgrade the formula, then I ask you, X=Y, find Y."

"......" Yuexia was speechless, "Dr. Tesla, I am more than 10,000 years old, please don't make fun of me."

"Yeah, that's what I meant."

"[Star God] is unknown variable X, where can you find unknown variable Y to make the equation complete?" Tesla almost raised his eyebrows, his tone was helpless and speechless.

"Using known numbers to infer unknown numbers is simply unrealistic. [Star God] is the unknown number X. It exists there and is self-consistent. It has its own laws of operation. But all of this is unknown to us. It is X. You use all known numbers to calculate. Why do you think that the result of your calculation is [equal to X]?"

"The equation can be calculated only under the absolute premise that the formula is valid." Tesla looked at the moon, "But there is no formula at present, but it requires the derivation of an unknown number. How can the simulated universe, a simulated world based on everything known, calculate an unknown X?"

"Let's take a step back and say that even if it was really calculated, it would not be the unknown number X that the creator of this place needed, but a bug that occurred during the operation. Not to mention that there are seven such bugs."

"So there is no [Simulated Star God] as you think it exists. The real [Star God] in the outside world is an unexplainable existence, a god that mortals cannot understand. Before scientific research touches the absolute truth of the world, gods are absolutely unknown. But in the [Simulated Universe], the [Simulated Star God] you think of can be called [powerful life]. Everything that makes up them is 'known'. Do you understand what I mean?"

"So, there is no [Virtual Star God] at all. Everything that happens in the simulated universe is actually under the control of the Black Tower?" Yuexia exhaled hard, accepting what Dr. Tesla said. However, the same doubts as those of the Star Core Spirit who knew the truth came to her mind. "Why? What is the purpose of the Black Tower doing this?"

"I don't know about that." Tesla shook his head.

I sighed softly under the moon. It was a pity that the captain was not there, otherwise he would definitely be able to come up with some reliable guesses.

only.......

Yuexia looked at Tesla, "Dr. Tesla, you know a lot of things."

"Yeah." Tesla nodded and responded nonchalantly, "I love to learn. Besides, it took me more than ten years to actually cross the 'sea' and float to this world, and get rid of the confusion caused by [Consciousness Projection]. Now, it has been several decades. This amount of time is enough for me to go from knowing nothing to learning enough to join the [Education Society]."

"Doctor, about the Quantum Sea..." Yuexia opened her mouth, "and the ferryman..."

"Don't talk about this. I don't want to listen to it now. It affects my mood." Tesla raised his eyes and looked at Yuexia.

Yuexia saw panic and evasion in Tesla's beautiful burgundy eyes.

"A lot of things happened." Yuexia insisted, "good, bad, confrontations, things like that..."

He said he didn't want to listen, but in the cabin of the spacecraft, Tesla, holding the terminal tablet, fell into silence and listened quietly.

"Anyway, the result is good." Yuexia chuckled.

Just like Tesla just mentioned the story of her many years in this world.

Yuexia also had a lot to tell Tesla, but she also glossed over it.

Because none of that matters.

"The ferryman fell, but the captain succeeded."

For Tesla, this is the only sentence that really matters.

"That is also the success of the ferryman." Tesla's voice was a little muffled. He looked away under the moonlight and did not look at Tesla who took off his glasses and carefully wiped his eye sockets.

"Yes, they are two sides of the same coin." This is actually the driest and even most insincere consolation.

Because I ask myself under the moon.

She can give everything for the captain because the captain is a special person to her.

If the person he met back then was the ferryman, then could the vampire that ran wild under the moonlight that year have the same bond with the ferryman as he had with the captain?

It's impossible.

Are they the same person?

how is this possible.

They are completely different.

It is impossible for the ferryman to replace the captain's position in his heart.

The captain naturally could not replace the ferryman's position in Tesla's heart.

"I've already said it. I don't want to listen now. It affects my mood."

She seemed to be crying, but also seemed not to be, she was just sighing.

I don’t dare to go to see Tesla under the moon.

I can only guess in my heart.

Chapter 179: Simulated Universe · Final Test · Start! (Twenty-one)

"Communications are completely lost."

In the Black Tower office, the stream of data light in ScrewGum's eyes subsided.

The omnic noble turned his gaze towards the black tower, "Is everything ok?"

Without even raising his eyes, Heita stared at the battle report posted by the simulated universe. "We can only trust them. They have the control authority to force the escape. The only thing we can do is wait."

ScrewGum nodded, "Unexpected situation..."

What?

ScrewGum stared at the puppet in the black tower and thought for a moment before suddenly speaking, "Question, do you remember the bet I made with you?"

"Of course, you lost me a rare item, the Screw." The puppet in the Black Tower raised its head and looked at Screw Gum.

"So, what do you want me to do to fulfill this bet?"

"It's all right. There's no rush after they come out." Heita retracted his gaze from Screw Gumu, "Or you can just drag it out. I don't mind."

ScrewGum nodded, but did not respond to Black Tower's question. Instead, he turned the topic back to the simulated universe. "So, what period will the simulated universe project cover?"

Without even turning his head, Heita said, "The theme is gold and machinery. Can you guess our goal?"

"Analysis of the Knowledgeable Lord?" Screw Gum stared at the back of the Black Tower Doll in the dim office, and shook his head after thinking. "No, gold and machinery... I see, gold refers to the period after the locust plague, when the [Interstellar Peace Company] rose rapidly and started the credit point war in the border galaxies, and machinery... refers to the intelligent emperor [Rupert] in the First Imperial War, and the Second Anti-Organic War..."

"This is your goal." Screwgum's voice was a little bit amused. "Conclusion: Black Tower, your suspicion that I am Rupert III and my existence will trigger the Third Imperial War."

"The Second Omnic Crisis was strangled by the company with the death of Rupert II, just before the company was about to sign the Omnic Extermination Order..." Black Tower turned back and looked at Screw-Gum, "You appear, the #76 seat of the Genius Club that Boshizun has cast his eyes on, the Omnic noble, Screw-Gum."

"The Interstellar Peace Corporation abandoned the extermination order and instead built the world's first cuckoo clock, which it presented to the leader of Screwstar, the leader of all omnics today, the omnic noble, Screwgum, that is, you."

Black Tower calmly narrated the past history and asked Screw-Gum, "Screw, what do you think the cuckoo clock represents?"

"Peace? Amity? Compromise?" ScrewGum said, shrugging his shoulders in a humane way. "None of them, Black Tower. I am an omnic, but I also have a soul running in mechanical parts. How could I not know that the cuckoo clock is a malicious curse?"

Give someone a clock.

To send someone off to his final resting place.

"But today, collectors consider the limited edition cuckoo clocks jointly produced by Screwstar and [Company] as top-quality products and rush to buy them. You have executed a beautiful counterattack and also led a fashion trend." Black Tower stared at Screwgoom's emerald blue mechanical eyes. "This counterattack proved that you are a successful leader, and the Star Difference Engine also proved that you are an outstanding scholar."

"Thank you for your compliment." ScrewGum nodded with a smile.

"So, don't make yourself the world's public enemy. You know better than anyone how hard it is to get the current status of the Omnics. There is always a tension between the seemingly integrated organic and inorganic. If you do something stupid, I will treat the ScrewGum I know as dead."

"That must be the case." ScrewGum nodded, "So, can we get everything back on track?"

"Nothing is on track." Heita laughed in a low voice, "You don't think that all these 'situations' that happened in the simulated universe were directed and acted out by me, do you?"

"......"

"Of course not. The Virtual Knowledge Master has indeed transcended my control. It is walking on the path of its own choice." Heita narrowed his eyes and saw a briefing that flashed across the screen at a rapid speed. He raised the corners of his mouth, "But there is also good news."

"good news?"

"Captain is in position."

"Good news indeed."

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Simulated universe, unknown coordinates.

Along with the violent distortion of the phase, the captain holding the Skyfire Judge drilled out from the phase hole. At the moment of drilling out of the phase hole, the captain turned around and slashed behind him. The blazing flame instantly poured into the phase hole, and dark purple juice shot out of the hole. As the captain's eyes shifted, the dark purple juice instantly disappeared in front of the captain, and when it reappeared, it was already several kilometers away.

The next second, a blazing stream of light silently illuminated the cold and silent deep space, and the thick stream of light illuminated the captain's face.