Chapter 617 Chapter 614 · BE17 · "The Price of Civilization"

   "Okay, Su Ming'an." Dawn said, "It's over. Unfortunately, I really…"

   It sighed softly, with unrepentant regret in its eyes:

   "I like you very much, Doctor."

   "You are the most suitable Asa Akto..."

  The transparent phantom, as soon as it passed through him, hugged him, without weight, without temperature, only a pure phantom.

   is like a reluctant confession, like a sincere regret. At this time, Dawn actually made Su Mingan feel something similar to human emotion.

   It is really pity for him, not from the consideration of calculation and deduction.

  Su Ming'an's brain was running fast, and he said his speculation:

"I understand.

"Dawn password, in addition to shutting you down, it should also be able to check and balance [Hewei]—you, me, Hewei. The three of us have a fairly balanced relationship of checks and balances. Once one side makes a mistake, they will all lose, just like a game. Life and death chess game.

   That night meeting was under the surveillance of [Hewei]. The exposure I just made was discovered by him.

   But why did you kill me for this..."

   His thinking got stuck at this point, lacking clues and unable to deduce.

   "Don't think too much, it's useless." Dawn said: "If you can go to the end, I will tell you everything, but unfortunately..."

  Su Mingan understands that this is the ultimate secret of the world, and it is impossible for him to release it at this stage. No amount of inference is useless, it is better to empty your brain.

   "Must... kill me?" he said.

   Dawn's brows seemed to frown.

   It hesitated.

   There is still a way to live.

   Before the last moment, Su Mingan should seize the opportunity to collect all the clues. It would be valuable if he could have a few more words with Liming.

   He opened his mouth: "Dawn..."

   The next moment, a bullet penetrated his shoulder blade.

  Severe pain came, and he tried his best to move for a moment, so that the bullet shot from the wheelchair failed to penetrate the back of his neck, and only passed through the shoulder blade.

  The wheelchair is at Dawn's control, and it can kill him at any time.

   When behind him, the muzzle like a steel forest was aimed at him, he reluctantly said:

   "—Dawn! Answer my last question at least!"

   Dawn watched him with a sadness in its eyes that he had never seen before.

   "What's wrong with my leg, why is it disabled? What's the matter with me coughing up blood! At least answer me..."

  Bright red blood came out from his shoulder blades, his bones seemed to be broken, and he was sweating coldly in pain.

   Dawn held out his hand.

  It's hand is in front of his eyes, and its five fingers are close together, covering all sight, as if to close his eyelids.

Between   's hazy vision, he vaguely heard the sound of the muzzle turning.

   "This is..." The white-haired **** said:

   "The price of civilization."

   "To bet against [Taiwei], we need to... do our best. Humans are too small, like weeds."

   "The most rare thing for a person is to have a dream that is far away and that he thinks he can reach."

   "This is not a kind of human innocence."

   "You are [the world itself], Doctor, you are [the world]..."

  Su Ming'an was finally able to barely control his body, he bent his fingers with all his strength, the pre-movement of the spatial displacement was completed, and the white cross light gradually flashed—

   His thoughts were interrupted.

  The muzzle on the back of the wheelchair was turned, and it was aimed at him who was close at hand.

   A shot rang out.

"boom!"

   A high-explosive bullet pierced the back of his neck, and his vision twitched.

   In his last consciousness, he saw Dawn lean over, as if to pick up his broken head.

   It seemed to be weeping, his blood-stained head reflected in those eyes under the transparent white lids.

   "I'm so tired, I'm so tired..." It said: "Asa, Lu Shu, Lewis, Su Ming'an... I'm really tired... Why, why couldn't you make a proper wish..."

   It was close to his eyes, looking at him whose eyes were gradually fading.

   "Doctor, in fact, my biggest regret is the separation..."

   It's getting lower and lower.

  Virtual white dots slipped from the corners of his eyes.

   is like a frozen teardrop.

  …

   [Dungeon Open · Day 8 · Early Morning]

  Su Ming'an listened to the night meeting silently, without saying a word from beginning to end.

   At the end of the meeting, he opened his eyes.

  Because he didn't reveal his identity at the meeting, he survived, he was not moved to a basement full of ashes as soon as he opened his eyes, and his body was able to move normally.

  …Last week, what would Dawn do with his corpse?

Is    the same as his predecessors, turning him into a part of the ashes in the basement?

   He leaned back in his chair silently.

  The street lights are dim, like a pair of beast eyes, they stare at the static street scene, like a relic that has been stopped by time.

  There are many ginkgo trees here, maybe Akto liked ginkgo trees during his lifetime.

   He stretched out his hand, and a ginkgo leaf fell in his palm.

   He sat alone in front of the ruined building, looking at this block, comparing the bustling city and the leaping light rail, it was like a freeze-frame color photo, silent to death.

  “…”

   He closed his eyes and opened them again.

   The amount of information that Dawn brought to him last week was too great... It even knew that he didn't have a password.

  The two of them have been playing against each other.

   He is playing and he knows the Dawn code, and Dawn is acting without knowing it knows that he doesn't know the Dawn code, and the two of them are stacking lasagna.

   As a result, dawn is in the atmosphere.

  It reveals a lot of information, but there are generally three points.

  First, because he revealed in the night meeting that he was not Aktor, Dawn was forced to kill him for unknown reasons.

   Second, it says that he is [World], but the meaning of [World] is unknown.

   Third, his disability and coughing up blood are the [price of civilization], the meaning of which is also unknown.

   Overall, the puzzles are not complicated, as long as he finds a suitable information line, he will be able to connect them...

   He looked away and saw the channel of his teammates constantly flashing. These teammates didn't sleep in the middle of the night and were still chatting.

  【Lu Shu (2:19): Su Mingan. Why is Dawn kissing you on the live stream today during the day? I see a lot of netizens talking about this, isn't it an AI without emotion? 】

  【Luna (2:19): Your first reaction is this? 】

  【Yamada-choichi (2:20): Lu Shu’s focus is really strange. Without thinking about the next strategic move, come up and ask this. 】

  【Lu Shu (2:20): ? ? What's your business? 】

  【Lu (2:20): It’s two o’clock, everyone, still not sleeping. 】

  【Yamadachoichi (2:20): I want to eat sweet potatoes roasted by Lu Shu himself, come, Shubao, sweet potatoes are delivered to Constellation University, I want to eat, eat big ones. 】

  【Lu Shu (2:21): Get out! stick! Roll! sew! Gon! Gun! 】

  …

  Su Mingan laughed.

When    laughed, he didn't expect that he could laugh because of such a simple happiness. Looking at these people chatting, his mood would be so relaxed.

   He had just experienced a feeling of stiffness in his body and separation of his head, but now he can laugh calmly.

   He seemed increasingly numb to death.

   He suddenly heard a "click" from behind, and a white figure appeared at the door of the building.

   Watching Dawn appear like a ghost before his eyes, his heart skipped a beat.

   It killed him so decisively last week.

   "Aren't you coming in?" Dawn tilted his head: "I see you have been sitting outside for a long time, it's late at night, come in and rest."

   "No, I'm going to find Treya and the others." Su Ming'an said.

   Living in this empty and ruined building, next to Dawn, he always felt panic. Except for the Holy Revelation, no one can take his life at any time like Dawn.

  Dawn is a smart brain, it has no favorability, and the power-holder skills are ineffective against it, which is the most frightening place. He didn't know when it would strike him decisively.

   Only the central city laboratory at the beginning is the place where he feels most secure.

The students there are very kind. The android named Faith asked him to call her "Mom", the assistant Terea would share desserts for him, Dong Xuxudong's two treasures always brought joy, and the biochemical doctor Meera was kind. And kind, reminds him of his grandmother who passed away.

   He likes to be there, where he feels comfortable and relaxed. Instead of... being with an icy AI that's going to cut off its head at every turn.

   Dawn's figure approached him: "Don't go, it's a blocked dungeon, you can't find it on the surface."

   "Then I'll ask Xike to help me teleport in." Su Mingan looked at his watch to the right.

   "Why don't you live in my building?" Dawn's expression was confused: "I obviously prepared the best bed for you, the best food..."

   "I'm not used to being watched." Su Mingan said.

   "I didn't..." Dawn retorted after hearing this.

   "The room you prepared for me has a full twelve cameras, I've already counted them." Su Mingan sullen.

   When he found out that there were twelve cameras in the room, he collapsed at that moment.

   Dawn's voyeuristic nature has been further deepened, is it to peep at him 360 degrees?

   "Under normal circumstances, in order to save energy, I shield most of the cameras and will not deliberately spy on other people's privacy. Especially you, I respect you." Liming explained.

   "Including cameras in every corner of the city-state?"

   "Of course." Dawn said, "As long as it's not a big deal, I don't usually stare at it all the time."

   "I'd better go back to the laboratory." Su Ming'an still said the same.

   Dawn did not persuade him any more.

   It just sighed inaudibly, and its figure gradually dissipated.

   When the space ring was ready, Xike sent Su Mingan back to the Central City Laboratory.

   Returning to the familiar place, Su Mingan relaxed a lot.

   He didn't sleep this night, and pushed the [Artificial Intelligence] to level 9. He was only one level away, and he could reach the full level of [Mechanical], [Biochemical], and [Artificial Intelligence].

   "Doctor, are you still asleep?" While he was busy, the assistant Terea in pajamas came over, she yawned, her beige hair was slightly curled, and she wore a beautiful light makeup on her face.

   "Well." Su Mingan glanced at the information in his hand.

   When he looked up, he found that Trea was indeed very similar to the second woman in the meeting, almost carved out of a mold, but Trea was much younger and had a completely different temperament.

   "Terea, do you have any sisters, or mothers, or anything like you?" he asked.

   "...Huh?" Terea rolled her eyes, and after thinking, she said, "No."

  The thread is broken.

  Su Mingan gave a soft "tsk".

   He didn't know where the eight people who participated in the night meeting came from, and there was no information about this group of people even on the file.

   "Doctor, Doctor~ Since you don't sleep at night, I'll make you a strawberry cake, okay? Fresh strawberries, there's no outside~" Seeing him distracted, Terea immediately hit the snake stick and began to brush his favorability.

   "Didn't you eat it again? Goodbye, you go to bed..." Su Mingan drove her away.

  As soon as Trea left, an old lady with gray hair knocked on the door and entered.

  The old lady is energetic, her eyes are bright, and she wears the nameplate of [Dr. Biochemistry Mela] on her chest. This is a leading figure in the laboratory, and she is a person of the same era as Akto.

   It's just that she is old, but he is still so young.

   "Asa, I wanted to find you tomorrow night, but you didn't sleep tonight, so I came here." Mera sat beside him.

  Su Mingan put down the information in his hand.

  Meera didn't speak, she stared at him carefully for a long time.

   After a while, the corners of her mouth twitched and she smiled slightly, the smile was a bit bitter:

   "You are still so young, but unfortunately, our bodies are too weak to be as youthful as you are."

   She stretched out her wrinkled hand and took his hand:

   "Asa, those of us, can't accompany you until decades later. I think, keep some people who accompany you through the battle of dawn and let them hibernate until decades later."

   She lowered her eyelids:

   "In this way, when we all die and go to the grave, at least there are people around you who remember that war.

   That history, since it cannot be passed down on paper, at least must be remembered by the human mind. "

   (end of this chapter)