In this world where everyone is a dueling brain

When Hikari was staying in this mass of data called Dawn City, he was thinking about a question. Is it considered life? If so, what is the meaning of its existence?

Faced with a mass of walking dead humanoids... It's like playing a life simulation game to guide these meaningless data to live a happy life.

Those data with human appearance are not considered life in Shikali's view.

Perhaps the AI ​​created by itself is closer to life.

When it was confused, a figure appeared in front of it. After communicating with that mysterious existence, Hikari vaguely understood something.

It drove the AIs to destroy the walking dead, and made themselves the so-called final boss of the Realm of Light.

Afterwards, it fell into a long slumber.

According to that mysterious existence, it can wait forever, waiting for a player who can defeat it. At that time, it can understand the meaning of life.

Hikari looked back at the world of data.

False flowers, false wind, false fragrance, but in front of it are fresh human beings.

It can see the player's original appearance through the avatar, for example, the "Qianguang" in front of it is in another world at this time.

In that real world.

Hikari couldn't help wondering why it lived in this false world if it was real life.

It stretched out its hand, trying to touch a little reality, but what it saw was still the world of data, it was like being trapped in a cage...

And the real person—

"The meaning of life?"

Huiji repeated.

While all this is false to Hikari, humans are deceived by these simple sensory sensations.

As long as you smell the fragrance, it is a flower, as long as you feel the coolness, it is the wind.

Humans will always be deceived by these false things, but they are something more real than Hikari, which is incredible.

"Yeah, I was thinking, what is life?"

So what counts as life?

Is life only in flesh and blood?

Or, something that can talk, think, and express emotions like a human being, even if it's just a bunch of data... It's still life.

——For human beings who can be deceived by appearances, an existence like it should be life.

"My intelligence... its computing power surpasses that of the human brain, and it can simulate countless emotions and reactions that normal humans have."

"Therefore, it doesn't hurt to say that the wisdom I possess is a mimicry of human beings."

"I don't have flesh and blood, I'm just a mass of cold data, so, in your opinion, do I count as life?"

Shikali asked curiously.

Kouji thought about it for a while when he heard Hikari suddenly ask this question.

This kind of question... There should be a lot of philosophical and ethical discussions, whether AI has real self-awareness, whether it is counted as life.

I didn't expect AI to have such troubles.

"Since you have such stupid troubles, it means that you are living in a vulgar way like a human being."

Kouji said casually, and then took out a card. The requirement for this monster to appear is to exclude a dark attribute monster in the graveyard.

A silver-white pterosaur appeared on the scene, its name is "Glowing White Dragon Storm Source Pterosaur", level 4, light attribute, dragon family, and cannot be summoned normally.

"The effect of the Thunder Beast Dragon is triggered, and the Thunder Dragon is specially summoned."

Then, Kouji looked at the Huibai dragon he had just specially summoned.

"Use this single monster to connect and summon—Active Needle Dragon."

Bullet is not a unique field in this world, but a general-purpose dragon monster, but the barrel is unique.

Therefore, in Kouji's card pool, there is the bullet's head LINK-1, which takes the initiative to shoot the needle dragon.

The connection material requirements for this card are dragon monsters below level 4. In this deck, they can be used as a springboard for the Chaos Two Dragons.

"When the Bright White Dragon is sent from the field to the graveyard, add the Dark Dragon Collapse Star Snake from the deck to the hand."

This card is the opposite of Huibailong. It can only be special summoned by excluding light attribute monsters from the graveyard.

After getting rid of the bright white dragon, the dark dragon also came on the scene.

"Living vulgarly?"

Hikari then asked back.

"Yeah, irrational, ignorant, confused, curious, people are like this, they are not smart, they are very vulgar, and you seem to be no different from human beings."

He tapped a card in his hand, and the card was released. The vortex of lightning gathered in the air, and three thunder dragons turned into lightning and poured into it.

The three rays of light, like the three arrows that rule the world, merged with the thunder cloud, and the next moment, three majestic and majestic blue dragon heads protruded from the cloud.

"This is... the three-headed dragon who rules the world."

Thunder God Dragon, Kouji's trump card, this monster has an attack power of 3200, surpassing all monsters on Hikari's field.

"The effect of the Thunder Dragon in the hand increases the attack power of the Thunder Dragon by 500 points."

The Thunder Origin Dragon turned into Lightning Light, shot straight into the sky, and merged into the Thunder God Dragon's mouth... The blue Lightning Light tore through the clouds, and directly blasted the commander in chief on the field.

Hikari's expression didn't change, in fact, his face couldn't show any expression.

After the thunder dissipated, the commander-in-chief still remained on the field, but a deep hole was blasted out on the ground, but with a broken sound, the ten commanders on the field were destroyed.

"The effect of the Commander of the Ten Commander replaces the effect of the Commander on the field and destroys it."

The sea of ​​flowers recovered quickly. After all, those were not real flowers, but some fake data in disguise.

Kouji's field is now a total of four monsters, Thunder Dragon, Thunder Dragon, Active Needle Dragon, and Dark Dragon.

"I see. Is there no difference? Human thinking is really interesting."

For some reason, Hikari thought of this DL world at this time. This world is just like the previous LV world, full of data storms.

Electronics, data storms, connections...

And, it remembered the mysterious existence that guided it——

"Do you know why the connection summoning in the DL world is so special?"

Kouji thought for a while——

Isn't Coke Girl selling cards?

But his emotional intelligence is touching, of course he didn't say such a thing on this occasion.

"Link Summoning is a summoning method that connects each other through arrows. Link Summoning is like the world of this network, which brings people who are far away from each other closer."

"It's a world of getting bonds and connections."

"In this case, link summoning can be regarded as a kind of romance."

Kouji smiled...

"Is it romantic?"

He usually summons the Dragon Sword of Destruction in his hand, and now, he has five monsters on the field.

Looking up, he saw the monsters on Hikari's field, among them was the commander-in-chief monster.

On Hikari's side, he was also observing Kouji. Although he summoned an ace monster like Thunder God Dragon, the opponent's attack was still not enough to kill him directly.

It used the effect of Chief Centurion before, and removed three cards, and those three cards were enough to wipe out Kouji's field...

It can be said that as long as it survives this round, it is its victory.

"Then let the connecting arrows contact you and me now."

He stretched out his hand.

The next moment, the four monsters on his field, as well as the commander-in-chief of Hikari's field, were drowned by the light overflowing from the sea of ​​flowers.

"This is……"

Such a scene has never appeared in Hikari's calculations. As an AI, this scene surprised him.

"Hyperconnection, let's find out."

Afterwards, the sea of ​​flowers also dissipated, revealing its true appearance.

A piece of garbled data looks so empty and chaotic, just seeing it makes people feel frightened, but this is the real world in Hikari's eyes.

The petals gradually shattered in this data space, changing from false colors to cold reality.

—However, there is still one thing that is true in this world.

Images of Hikari's experience are constantly emerging around. Among them, there is a moment of its birth, a moment of its peaceful coexistence with human beings, and a moment of its destruction of human beings.

There is also a moment when it meets humans again.

"Truth, falsehood, fantasy, reality, ordinary people often get lost in the world of mortals..."

The five rays of light merged into one and turned into five arrows, calling out the monster.

Kouji was still standing in the original sea of ​​flowers, but in the next instant, all the flowers were blown up by the wind and flew into the sky.

Bright petals surround a beautiful figure like the wind...

"——It seems true and false, like a dream and an illusion, the soul is imprisoned by the body, and the truth can only be seen in the dark."

Hikari saw the monster, born in the sea of ​​flowers, wearing a gorgeous and complicated dress, accompanied by the soul of a dragon.

She held a scepter and dragged a long black veil. She looked holy and beautiful, like a god.

"God of deep darkness, come here, and judge right from wrong with the eyes of God."

"LINK-5, the underworld god who locked the world."

Link-5 monsters, link monsters that exceed the limit of link monsters, and their appearance is like a god.

This monster can use a monster on the opponent's field as its link material at this time.

Under this ability, Shikali's ace commander is used as a sacrifice for the descending of Hades.

"When this monster enters the field, the effects of all monsters on the opponent's field are nullified."

The God of Hades struck the sea of ​​flowers with his scepter, and the petals immediately rushed to Hikari's world, re-dying the gloomy world with vivid colors.

Seeing this scene, Hikari stretched out his hand subconsciously, and it touched the petals.

It pinched the petal and brushed it across its face... It smelled the faint fragrance.

These... are all true.

"...Am I alive?"

Hikari suddenly made such an exclamation.

Kouji summoned the Super Thunder Dragon, then triggered the effect of the Thunder Dragon, and retrieved the Thunder Bird Dragon from the deck.

"Activate, the sealed golden cabinet, use this card to banish a card in the deck."

"Except for me, Giant Spinosaurus."

This monster comes on the stage when it is excluded, and it has 2000 attack power. In this way, the monsters on Kouji's field are enough to kill Hikari.

The scepter in the hand of the god of the underworld rotated, and the flowers and light also rotated, flocking to Hikari, and Hikari was overwhelmed by those things that could not distinguish between true and false.

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After the duel, Hikari fell to the ground, which was surprisingly consistent with the scene in the animation.

"Although it was a short period of time, it was very enjoyable for me. It was more interesting than any other period of time I have experienced before."

Kouji approached slowly, looked at Hikari, he was the same, although the time we spent together was not too long, but he had a very happy time.

Newspaper together, cheat players together.

The happiness of us people of the underworld is as simple as that.

"Do you understand the meaning of life now?"

"Understood."