Chapter 283

Chapter 283: Chapter 280: "EvolutionXu Yunying’s eyes widened, "Even, even you can’t feel it? Impossible, my conjecture should be correct..."

"In fact, I believe that the bodies we are using now are no longer our original bodies," Su Ming’an said. "For example, if we cut our fingers, they bleed, hurt, but that’s all. If you put the blood under a microscope, you won’t be able to see the cells pulsating. Even if you open up a person’s skull, all you’ll find inside are basic brains and tissues that look similar, but it’s utterly impossible to study them. It’s as if there’s a concept completely separating science from us, and we cannot grasp even a fraction of opportunity to enhance human scientific research. Unless we follow the rules and study those potions, forging techniques, we’ll forever be at a standstill, trapped in this world."

"—It’s like a game," he thought for a moment, then added, "Aside from adding points according to the skill tree and mixing according to the recipes, we have no other means beyond the rules, and we can’t DIY our own skills."

"...That’s true."

Xu Yunying looked somewhat disappointed.

Nevertheless, in front of Su Ming’an, he still mustered up some spirit, "I noticed that too, but I still held onto a sliver of fantasy, unwilling to believe. I originally thought that the Number One Player might tell me a different answer..."

"The Number One Player is just a player after all," Su Ming’an smiled.

"Hmm..." Xu Yunying bowed his head, seemingly deep in thought. He stood still in his spot, suddenly motionless, like a stake suddenly driven into the ground.

Quiet as a maiden, swift as a fleeing rabbit.

...Before this, Su Ming’an could hardly imagine meeting a scientist with such an image.

"Xu Yunying." At this moment, Lv Shu spoke up, "Didn’t you say you had something to give Su Ming’an? His time is precious, where’s your thing?"

"Oh, oh!"

Xu Yunying instantly snapped back to reality, as if suddenly awakening. He immediately turned around, rummaged through boxes piled up together, and then took out something resembling a wristwatch.

He turned around and "whoosh" charged over, "click" a sound, as if with a snap bracelet, the wristwatch was forcefully clasped onto Su Ming’an’s left wrist.

Su Ming’an saw it coming, didn’t dodge; he was mainly curious about what this man wanted to do.

"What is this?" he asked.

Xu Yunying looked very excited. After clasping the device onto Su Ming’an’s hand, the sparkle in his eyes brightened, like a mad scientist who had found his experimental subject.

"In terms you can understand, a portable Artificial Intelligence, also called AI," Xu Yunying’s face turned red, "It’s a masterpiece I created by combining materials from the Main God Store. Although we can’t integrate technology with the world’s game, our original scientific research approach can be continued. We can certainly utilize this way of thinking to build new achievements on the old foundations!"

"I see," Su Ming’an understood.

He had never seen such a thing as AI in the game instances so far, and even in the science fiction background of the Daylight Floating City, it was only the technology of the androids that stood out particularly.

But Xu Yunying, using his original mindset as a scientist, was able to concoct such a device.

...Even though it was completely made from materials of the Main God Space and still needed to be within the bounds of the rules.

But at least it could be seen as an "innovation" under restriction.

It was a breakthrough for mankind, dancing while shackled.

"Does this have any use?" Su Ming’an was interested.

"Look." Xu Yunying, extremely excited, grabbed Su Ming’an’s hand, pressed his right finger on the screen of the wristwatch and pushed a button.

"Fingerprint authenticated."

The wristwatch suddenly emitted a cold mechanical voice, and then a deep blue holographic screen rose from the watch, resembling a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie.

A white light flashed and a virtual silhouette flickered on and off in the display.

"I haven’t set up its information, including gender, appearance, name; you can adjust it now yourself," Xu Yunying said. "After setting it up, it will automatically load the emotion module, and in the future, it can even chat with you..."

Su Ming’an sighed.

"Is there any other function?" he couldn’t help asking.

"Ah...?"

"From a combat significance perspective."

"Uh..." Xu Yunying thought for a moment: "It has a built-in natural language processing module, which can translate in real-time..."

Although the function for emotional communication was nonsense and useless, the "real-time translation" function that Xu Yunying mentioned just then was something that made Su Ming’an’s eyes light up:

"Real-time translation? Can it translate languages within game instances?" he asked.

If it could translate languages within game instances in real-time, then he wouldn’t have to deduct ten points for translation before every instance activation, which would be somewhat useful to him.

"It can’t..." Xu Yunying coughed somewhat embarrassingly: "It only has a built-in translation function for currently existing human languages, covering dialects from many regions..."

Su Ming’an reached out to take the watch.

"Hey, wait, wait!" Xu Yunying hastily stopped him: "There’s another function, which is the voice recognition system!"

"That is, when you need some information in a game instance, you can ask it, and it can immediately search through the stored text to find information that can help you..."

Su Ming’an withdrew his hand.

"This is somewhat useful." he said.

Although it still couldn’t access the internet in real-time, it was like having a built-in Baidu, accessible to search for needed information at any time.

After all, he was just a student before, with limited knowledge. Having a Baidu with him would make handling some emergencies much more convenient in the future.

Xu Yunying wiped off some sweat: "I’ve already installed some basic information and common knowledge, as well as a collection of materials from the World Forum. It’s just that the information isn’t updated in real-time. Every time you return, come to me, and I’ll help you update it once."

"What do you need me to do?" Su Ming’an said.

He knew Xu Yunying wasn’t that kind of organization person and certainly didn’t come just to invest in him.

Scholars purely focused on scientific research would need compensation for giving him something they had focused on creating.

"It’s just, just the emotional module I just mentioned..." Xu Yunying coughed: "Actually, its original purpose wasn’t for emotional communication, but for ’evolution’."

"Evolution?"

"Evolution, and learning." Xu Yunying’s tone became somewhat serious: "Learning has always been an instinct of humans, as is emotion. And now, I want to try something—whether so-called artificial intelligence can spontaneously combine these two human instincts. To put it more specifically—I hope you can carry it with you, let it follow you. You don’t need to interact with it specifically; just wearing it and experiencing each new instance world would be enough. Then, when you return, let me observe its new changes."

Su Ming’an thought it over.

To be honest, the watch wasn’t useless; in fact, the information built into it was very comprehensive.

"No problem." Su Ming’an said.

Xu Yunying reached out and tapped in front of him.

A system prompt appeared.

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Self-Made Type III Artificial Intelligence Module Watch (Red Level)

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Durability: 5/5

Function: Instant translation, search system, emotional evolution module

Selling Price: 100 Points (System Priced)]

Just as Su Ming’an was about to click "Agree" on the trade, he heard Lv Shu next to him speak:

"Sell it to me, I’ll hold onto it first," said Lv Shu. "I’ll give it to Su Ming’an directly when we form a team for the Seventh World."

The Main God World did not allow direct gifting, only possible within instance worlds. Lv Shu was intending to pay the hundred points for him.

Xu Yunying looked at Su Ming’an with an inquiring gaze.

"Okay."

Su Ming’an didn’t offer any words of refusal.

Since Lv Shu was willing to save him the points, he naturally wouldn’t disappoint the other party’s expectations.

At this moment, concentrating resources on himself seemed to be the best choice anyway.

Xu Yunying traded the item to Lv Shu then turned to leave decisively.

Her staggering walk suggested she hadn’t slept for days, as if she might collapse at any moment.

Su Ming’an looked down at the image on the watch.

It was a blurry human figure, everything in an initialized state, as if waiting for his command.

He didn’t move, nor did he interfere with the growth of this thing, he had no interest in shaping personalities, he’d just wait for it to develop on its own.

In his mind, he only saw this device as a sort of Baidu, certainly not intending to converse with a machine.

"The auction... Will you go?" Lv Shu asked from beside him.

"Of course," Su Ming’an replied, still looking down.

With 691 points, he would undoubtedly be the protagonist at that auction.

Considering that the Fifth World had left him with a considerable amount of points, plus the most difficult route to clear in the Sixth World, he was almost certain no one had more points than him.

"Then I won’t go," said Lv Shu.

"Why not?"

"If Noel goes with you, it’s not suitable for me," Lv Shu said. "For some reason, I feel he really dislikes me."

Lv Shu had always been sensitive.

He was adept at discerning people’s immediate emotions from their gaze, naturally detecting whether their intentions were friendly or hostile.

However, previously, he had begun to doubt this ability for the first time.

The information he could grasp was still too little.

In the Fifth World, when Su Ming’an said, "You still haven’t understood anything," he pondered over his own direction. He studied Su Ming’an’s words many times without understanding the other’s true beliefs and thoughts. He watched the world forum crowd’s so-called "Holy Land check-ins" and "classic scenes" of Su Ming’an’s play recordings multiple times, still unable to grasp the deeper meaning behind those words.

What was the other person really thinking? He didn’t know and couldn’t ask.

He was a person stubborn to the extreme, once set on something, he wouldn’t change. He just knew how to read a person’s eyes. Ever since the First World, he had always believed in his judgment, and he still did now.

Yet sometimes, he often felt confused. He felt like an outsider being blocked, always unable to comprehend Su Ming’an’s actual thoughts, even Noel who suddenly appeared seemed to understand better than he did.

"By the way, our team still has one spot left, doesn’t it?" Lv Shu suddenly said.

"Yes, one spot left. Do you have someone in mind?"

"I do. His name is Mo Wen, an Adventurer Player, perfect for filling the reconnaissance gap in our team. I’ll bring him into the team when the Seventh World begins."

Su Ming’an nodded.

"About the incident a few days ago..." Lv Shu started, and Su Ming’an already understood.

"You understood?"

"I understood," Lv Shu said. "From all the candidates, they chose you."

"Right, so I’m guessing, in the upcoming auction, they will certainly take some action," said Su Ming’an. "I’ve made my stance very clear, but they won’t easily give up, they’ll at least send someone to talk to me... Including other organizations, they should also be considering contacting me. After all, my influence is too significant, and that wave of frenzy really raised the discussion..."

"So what will you do?"

"If they want to send someone to talk to me, they must send someone who can reach me." Su Ming’an said indifferently. "In the auction area, to get access to my location... at least someone on Edward’s level would suffice."

"He’s worthy?" Lv Shu clenched his teeth at the mention of Edward.

"Don’t speak like that, you are both Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons," said Su Ming’an.

Lv Shu: "..."

Lv Shu: "The dog... do you still want it?"

Su Ming’an: "Keep it for yourself."

The fifteen-day process in the Sixth World had completely ended, and all the Adventurer Players returned.

However, probably because of effective public opinion control, the Main God World did not experience much upheaval.

The streets inevitably saw fewer people; many shops were closed, leading people to speculate that this depressed state might continue for a while before improving.

...Yet today, the usually quiet streets were unusually lively.

As if some global celebration had suddenly been announced, resembling New Year’s festivities for all players, the streets, typically empty, were now packed, people flooding out of their homes while even the closed businesses reopened with lights and decorations.

Among them, particularly noticeable was the announcement from the system in the sky. This voice, like a mall PA system, repeated over and over above, as if alerting them to something.

"...The world-class auction will officially begin tonight at eight o’clock sharp. Players are asked to enter two hours in advance, heading to the specially opened ’Main God World Zone 0’. This zone is a temporarily opened world-class service area, capable of accommodating ten billion players. Players can enter through one hundred thousand opened teleportation channels... Additionally, this auction will also be broadcast globally. Players can also open the official streaming room to watch..."

Inside his personal space, after checking his props, Su Ming’an donned a cloak, pulling the brim of the hood low.

It had begun.