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"So, no matter what, that guy is going to die?" Bai Ye was just worried that the guy's knowledge wouldn't be fully stored, meaning he only had one chance.

“A dead brain can be used before it loses its activity, provided it is relatively well preserved, but of course the effect is not as good as that of a living person.”

Bai Ye nodded in agreement:

"Then let us begin."

Chapter 139 Sacrifice Yourself for the Greater Good

With Luna's suggestion, Bai Ye clearly no longer needed to consider the issue further.

He quickly returned to the giant hangar and, after verifying his identity, entered the "Cyclops".

After arriving at the core city, Bai Ye did not transfer Levi Klitschko, because there was no need to.

Upon arrival, he provided the Rainbow Team with disguises and weapons for safekeeping, and then went to Luna to ask how to deal with this extra traveler.

Given this amount of time, it would be better to let Levi Klitschko stay on the aircraft to avoid any accidents during the transfer, and also to avoid having to find a special space to imprison him.

……

Inside the warehouse, Bai Ye saw Levi Klitschko.

The scientist from another world had regained consciousness once more. However, due to his weakened state, he did not open his eyes upon hearing Bai Ye enter the warehouse. Instead, he continued to meditate, reducing the strain on his bodily functions through meditation.

He's probably here to inject himself with drugs again.

Levi Klitschko thought so.

There are usually two types of injected drugs: one is to maintain the body's basic functions by administering nutrients intravenously, and the other is a drug that causes unconsciousness.

The former could be considered a meal, but the latter was somewhat troublesome for Levi Klitschko, as it would force him into a coma, interrupting his thinking.

In this space where all actions were restricted, he could only think. During this not-too-long but not-too-short period of confinement, he had become thoroughly familiar with this sealed warehouse. He had carefully observed every line and groove in the entire warehouse, trying to figure out what kind of world he had entered.

Meanwhile, he was also conducting simulations in his mind to pass the time. Therefore, he didn't actually find it particularly boring; an ordinary person would probably have gone mad by now. However, Levi Klitschko was clearly no ordinary person.

He remained rational and seemed to be fine except for physical weakness; in fact, he was quite energetic.

"This is not bad," Bai Ye muttered in his opinion.

He then walked over to Levi Klitschko.

Contrary to expectations, this time Levi Klitschko discovered that the young man who had grabbed him was no longer injecting him with the drug, but seemed to have other plans.

Then he opened his eyes.

"Have you decided what to do with me?" Levi Klitschko looked up at Bai Ye and asked softly in Russian.

It wasn't because he was a kind person, but simply because he was too weak to raise his voice.

Fortunately, Bai Ye was very familiar with this language.

“Yes, it’s been decided,” Bai Ye replied in standard, but somewhat stiff, Russian.

As one of the main languages ​​of the Earth Federation, Russian is obviously an important part of the language course. However, Bai Ye doesn't use it much usually, so he is a little unaccustomed to using it now.

“I’m going to die, am I? Someone like you wouldn’t let an unstable element like me continue to live,” Levi Klitschko pressed.

However, Bai Ye didn't detect any fear in his tone. Clearly, he had a premonition of his fate and was quite self-aware. Precisely because he was too clever, Bai Ye would never leave him alive.

A guy who had been mentally preparing himself for days was now even feeling a sense of relief. After all, his current state was arguably worse than death.

Bai Ye looked at the scientist in front of him and nodded:

"You will die, but your death will be worthwhile. So, guest from another world, dedicate yourself to your beloved scientific research."

"Please go to your death. Now, it's time to set off."

“I see…” Levi Klitschko suddenly realized. He looked up at Bai Ye and laughed. “If that’s the case, it doesn’t seem so bad. Kid, you’re quite good. I really like that you didn’t judge my actions using so-called ‘morality’ and ‘good and evil’.”

"Perhaps we are all the same kind of people. The lions on the grasslands hunting antelopes is not evil. We all need to make sacrifices for the progress of science. In the past, we were the experimental subjects, and now it's my turn."

Levi Klitschko did not become hysterical or beg for mercy in despair; he simply accepted his death with equanimity.

Bai Ye took a hovering stretcher from a cabinet in the warehouse and then laid Levi Klitschko on it.

Then, Bai Ye slightly raised his head and walked out of the "Cyclops" aircraft with the hovering stretcher.

"I guess this is the first time you've seen the outside world, right? Take a good look at this world you've come to, a chance to travel through time that you risked your life for."

With that, Bai Ye led Levi Klitschko through the streets and plots of land, heading towards the core city command tower.

This was also the first time the scientist had been exposed to the sunlight in Terra, and the dazzling sunlight made him involuntarily cover his eyes.

“I can’t see anything at all…” Levi Klitschko couldn’t help but complain.

……

The two eventually arrived at the underground entrance in front of the command tower.

"Next, I will inject you with a drug that will allow you to die without pain."

“Is that so?” Levi Klitschko nodded.

"Finally, I want to say that we are not the same kind of people." Bai Ye took out the medicine and syringe from his inventory.

“I have a very basic bottom line, and that’s the difference between us.”

“The bottom line is a stumbling block to technological development. With restrictions, we lose the courage to break through to the most cutting-edge areas,” Levi Klitschko argued.

“That’s not courage, that’s indifference. In your eyes, they are just research subjects, but in my eyes, they are all human beings.” Bai Ye shook his head and then injected the reagent into his body.

"For the greater good, let us sacrifice ourselves."

The White Nights put Levi Klitschko into a state of suspended animation.

He then carried the suspended stretcher into the underground of the command tower.

Here, Luna was ready. They were about to create the first artificially intelligent AI on Terra. Even on Earth, such a test had never been conducted. In other words, this was a prototype from another world, undergoing the first verification experiment on Terra based on Earth-based theoretical research. This was a truly powerful buff; Bai Ye had never seen anything like it before…

Chapter 140 Only the Brain is Sent

"He is ready."

Bai Ye carried Levi Klitschko, who was lying on a suspended stretcher, underground. Then, the surrounding scenery changed, and he entered the Well of Earth.

At this moment, Levi Klitschko had been injected with a specially concocted drug by White Night. In reality, he was already dead; he would never wake up again, nor would he feel any pain. However, White Night had amplified the activity of his brain to ensure that he remained alive until the very end of the experiment.

Luna, on the other hand, had clearly prepared the experimental site.

For the first time, the bottom of the once empty Earth Well now contains all sorts of machines and equipment.

“Unlike real artificial light, this time it’s still based on replicating neural pathways in the human brain to create the core matrix of AI.” Clearly, Luna did not consider this potentially soon-to-be-born individual as one of her own.

The real artificial soul, or artificial light, is a quantum light that directly replicates the cytoskeleton of brain cells and stores it in a container to form the core of a quantum calculation circuit. This thing is almost indistinguishable from the human soul.

It is also through scientific means that a rather magical thing is achieved.

In this field, mysticism, magic, and science begin to intersect.

Therefore, what Bai Ye and Luna are doing now is probably the first step, but even this step is nothing more than a fantasy for many worlds. For Levi Klitschko, sacrificing his life for such an extraordinary experiment is worthwhile. This is why Bai Ye said earlier that he would be content with his death.

……

White Night placed Levi Klitschko into what could barely be called a bed and then secured him.

"First, the brain must be removed while preserving all its activity. At the same time, after the brain is removed, the individual must remain alive and able to continue receiving nutrients for a certain period of time."

"During this period, we need to scan the entire brain tissue and replicate its neural pathways in the core thinking matrix needed to create intelligent AI."

Luna guided Baiye through the operation.

Fortunately, these instruments and devices are all fully automatic, and Bai Ye only needs to make some adjustments to start them.

"Removing the brain?" Bai Ye blinked. As far as he knew, the brain-in-a-vat technology was currently only in an incomplete experimental stage, and it was almost impossible to preserve the activity of the human brain for a long time after the brain tissue was removed.

In other words, regardless of the experiment's outcome, this guy is probably definitely dead. At the very least, even if he's not dead now, he's certain to die later.

He truly sacrificed himself for science.

If he knew this in the afterlife, he would be extremely gratified.

I guess I should say thank you!

"By using ultrathin slicing technology to perform nanoscale manipulations, brain tissue slices are created and then expanded in a super-dimensional space called the Well of the Earth to replicate the structure of human brain neural circuits."

Luna explained the operation she was about to perform, which was how to replicate the neural pathways.

"By the way, your ability to accelerate your thinking is also achieved by constructing neural pathways that surpass the processing speed of the human brain through mental power. This is a specific application of mental power and is currently defined by science as a supernatural phenomenon."

Bai Ye remained silent. He was neither a professional researcher nor a master of metaphysics. Although he possessed supernatural abilities, he was merely a user. He was adept at using them in combat, but relatively weak in developing and researching them.

He is a master in practical application, but not so professional in theoretical research.

However, watching Luna operate the equipment to cut open Levi Klitschko's brain was somewhat gruesome and horrifying, reminding Bai Ye of a scene from an old novel he had read in the past:

"We only deliver brains."

This was part of Project Ladder. Initially, the plan was to send the entire person there, but it was later discovered that this was impossible, so only the brain was sent. Therefore, humanity removed Yun Tianming's brain tissue from his body and sent it to the Trisolarans.

And surprisingly, he told the truth.

Clearly, Levi Klitschko's body retained excellent vitality after being injected with the drug concocted by Bai Ye; Bai Ye could even see his vibrant brain tissue trembling slightly.

The scene was indeed somewhat bizarre and entertaining. Of course, Luna wouldn't be affected; she continued with her precise operations.

Bai Ye didn't continue watching.

Next came the creation of extremely fine, nanoscale, ultrathin tissue sections, which were then observed from a high-dimensional perspective. To be honest, Bai Ye couldn't see this with the naked eye, and there was no need for him to continue watching.

After staying for a while, Bai Ye left the Well of Earth.

Then he just had to wait for the final result; before that, he had other things to take care of.

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After the bizarre interlude involving the time traveler, Bai Ye prepares to continue his plans, heading to Victoria after resolving matters related to Levi Klitschko and Longspring Town.

Unexpected events disrupted his original plans, but they didn't take too long. At least for now, the situation in Lentinium hadn't reached a point of complete chaos; it was the most eerie calm before the storm.

The dukes have their own considerations, Theresis has her own power to continue, and White Night seems to have nothing, but he has obviously already drawn his cards. The biggest variable on this land—the player—has appeared.

Bai Ye clearly felt that the number of players had surged again after the server reopened, and he also saw quite a few players of other age groups in the core city. It seemed that Luna's plan was very successful, with more and more players being incorporated into the server, and there was already a trend of the game becoming popular with everyone.

This is quite an outrageous thing, and it would certainly not have been possible without Luna's promotion and the energy that covers the entire Earth-Moon system and Mars.

A server size on the scale of a star system is certainly the most basic requirement, but more importantly, it's about making people willing to spend time on a game.

Keep in mind that this is a world two or three hundred years in the future. Although it has experienced a great war, its material and spiritual civilization is very advanced. Humans have a lot of ways to pass the time. No matter how fun a game is, it is still just a game.

However, in the third version, the so-called "Arknights Online" was no longer just a simple game.

"Although it's a game, it's not something to be taken lightly."

Chapter 141 Advice

(I was on a business trip for three days and got home tonight. I'll resume my regular updates tomorrow.)

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The core city has replaced Lungmen as the most popular starting point for players.

Even for new players, since the last version, it doesn't really matter where they set their character creation login location. After all, there are almost no difficulties for players traveling around this land now.

One generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade. Wherever the old players went, they built teleportation crystals. Bai Ye remembers that the earliest players, even when they were almost penniless, would squeeze out the money from their pockets to buy pure source stones and pool their resources to build a teleportation crystal.

At the beginning, players' characters are relatively weak in combat and can only accumulate coins by doing things like mining. Doing these things may delay the time for leveling up and doing other tasks, but most players still participated in laying teleportation crystals to some extent in the early period.

These players are all sentimental.

Of course, Bai Ye suspected that they were also influenced by incentives. First, if the location of the teleportation crystal had a specific place name, then the creator did not have the right to name it, but only the right to leave a message.

For example, the first group of players who followed White Night to the northwestern tundra of Chernobog to support the Reunion Movement left a message on the first teleportation crystal they built along the way:

May your courage, my sword, and our respective missions be with the sun.

This is a rather inspiring message, symbolizing the determination and courage players feel when they take their first step into the distant unknown.

Of course, there are many more comments, jokes, and funny remarks, as well as some suggestions for those who come after, somewhat similar to the advice function in Souls-like games.

The game forum has a dedicated collection and organization of comments, which are quite interesting and frequently featured posts.