Chapter 201

"Empty, empty, empty!"
The sound of footsteps echoed in the long corridor. The explosions in the distance could no longer be heard, and the passage had come to an end. In front of them was an ivory-white door.
The door is locked.
Black fog poured out from behind the door, like ghost claws stretched out in all directions. Rong Yuan raised his hand and pressed on the door. In an instant, countless wailing, screaming, cursing, crying and painful groans entered his ears, piercing his eardrums like a red-hot iron, and it was like someone was constantly scratching the glass with long, sharp nails.
Rong Yuan frowned, with no more expression on his face. The string force surged out from his palm and instantly spread to the entire door.
“Ka-ka-ka!”
Countless cracks spread outward from his palm in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the door was covered with spider-web-like cracks, but not a single one extended to the wall next to it.
The sturdy metal door instantly turned into countless rice-sized pieces, which scattered and fell in front of Rongyuan.
He walked into the room, stepping on the jade-like fragments on the ground.
In front of me is a honeycomb-like room. Above my head, under my feet, and all around me... the curved walls are covered with hexagonal light golden grids. In each grid, there is a grayish-white object soaked in orange-gold liquid.
Those things… some were walnut-shaped, which Rong Yuan was very familiar with; some were umbrella-shaped; some were spherical; some looked like an octopus; some looked like a bunch of grapes; and some were relatively rare cylindrical…
Although they have different shapes and sizes, they have one thing in common... they are all the brains of intelligent creatures.
There were many hair-thin wires and probes connected around the brains, and blue dots of light were constantly shuttling between the wires, as if signals were interacting. Countless blue dots of light were like falling meteors, forming a magnificent and bizarre scene.
The premise is - ignore the brain placed inside and the horrifying truth behind it.
Rong Yuan only stood there for a moment before he saw a grid suddenly change from light gold to blue, and then the probes and wires in the grid retracted. A metal claw stretched out from the side, grabbed the brain inside, and then replaced it with a new one.
The probe wire stretched and retracted like a snake looking for prey, and soon found its position and quickly inserted into the new brain. A few seconds later, another lovely blue light flashed through here.
Rong Yuan didn't care whether he would alarm the owner behind the black fog. He spread his perception and chased the metal claw. The metal claw grabbed the brain that still had faint fluctuations, and shrunk to a small cabinet like a coffin at the bottom of the room, and threw the brain directly into it. Then flames with a temperature of more than 2,000 degrees spurted out from all around the cabinet, burning the brain into a small pile of silver-white ash in a few seconds.
The flame went out, and a small hole opened on one side of the cabinet. The ashes were sprayed into space at high speed along with a small amount of gas, leaving no trace.
Rong Yuan looked at the dazzlingly colored crystals around him.
There is no doubt that the brains here... are all "alive".
Their potential has been stimulated by some means, and they have been running at a high speed. Once they have exhausted their vitality and started to decay, they will be ruthlessly destroyed.
This period of time should be very, very short, perhaps a few weeks? Or only a few hours? In their short "life", they are constantly urged to work until the energy in the last cell is drained, and then they are burned into a small ball of ash in the flames.
If souls can really be born in these brains and if they can generate perception, then they must be in extreme pain from birth to death, right?
Rong Yuan thought of the wailing and screaming he had just heard at the door. He originally thought that the sound came from those who were killed by the master of the black fog, and the black fog recorded their last sounds. But now that he thought about it, perhaps part of it... came from these seemingly quiet and brilliant brains.
No wonder the central intelligent brain system of such a mere merchant ship can make an existence like Alpha feel difficult... No wonder Ochi would absolutely obey Suka and never raise any objections... It turns out that Ochi's true body is actually the brain of countless intelligent creatures!
"pea."
"Yes, Rongyuan, I'm here!" Pea, who had remained silent all the time, quickly raised her little hand and shouted, and was about to crawl out of Rongyuan's pocket, but he pressed her back with a finger on her head.
Although he knew that Pea was just a spirit, Rong Yuan didn't want it to see this seemingly beautiful but actually extremely miserable scene.
"Can you still contact Alpha now?" Rong Yuan asked.
Pea said: "Since entering the eighteenth floor, the signal has been a little intermittent, but we can still get in touch!"
"Tell it..."
Rong Yuan's voice suddenly paused.
Pea was a little puzzled, but still waited quietly.
After a while, it heard Rong Yuan's calm voice saying, "The ship's intelligent brain, Aoqi, should stop operating soon . Let it take over the entire ship's intelligent system in time, and pay special attention to avoiding problems with transportation and medical care."
Ochi not only controls the navigation and monitoring of the spacecraft, but has also penetrated into every aspect of people's lives. For example, most hovercrafts are now self-driving, simple surgeries are also performed automatically by intelligent medical devices, and the work accepted by the maintenance department is also assigned, managed and evaluated by Ochi. Therefore, if Ochi stops operating for more than three seconds, the entire spacecraft will suffer heavy losses.
"Yes." Pea responded, and after a moment said: "Alpha has received the order!"
"Hmm." Rong Yuan pondered for a moment, then said, "The eighteenth floor... has no need to continue to exist. Let Lao Xia and the others detonate the high-explosive bombs!"
"yes!"
Rong Yuan waited for a few seconds, and after receiving Alpha's reply, he raised his left hand. Invisible power gathered in his hand. Blue electric light flowed faintly at his fingertips, making slight crackling sounds, and the surrounding space seemed to be slightly distorted.
The diffuse black fog fled away quickly like a frightened rabbit, and then surged timidly at the end of the corridor, as if a person was hiding there in fear and suspicion, peeking over here cautiously.
Rong Yuan knew that he had been discovered by the person behind the scenes. He did not hesitate and clenched his hands hard!
In an instant, all the crystal lattices shattered , and orange-gold liquid flowed out like a heavy rain!
The brains stored in the crystal lattice also died at the same time. Rong Yuan could not give them a complete body or a real life, but at least he could end this painful cycle.
Not only these brains, but the invisible force radiated from this room to the entire 18th floor! Along the way, all the surveillance cameras lost their function after a burst of sparks; in the deeper rooms, the numerous clone machines that "produced" these brains also exploded and became scrapped; countless translucent jars exploded, and immature gray-white tissues flowed out along with the turbid liquid.
Although the pea hidden in Rong Yuan's pocket could not see the scene outside, it seemed to know what was happening. It put its hands on Rong Yuan's chest, put its forehead against his, and whispered: "The Merit Book did not deduct your merits, Rong Yuan, those are not real lives!"
"Yeah, I understand." Rong Yuan forced a smile and said, "Thank you, Wandou."
Pea shook his head slightly, paused for a while, and then said: "Let me see you, okay? I want to see you!"
Rong Yuan sighed: "Pea..."
"Let me see!" said the pea stubbornly.
Rong Yuan moved the fingers that were pressing it away.
Pea crawled out of the pocket, without paying any attention to the surrounding environment and the falling golden liquid. The first thing it looked at was Rong Yuan's arm.
I saw that his left hand and arm, which had originally been fair, moist and shiny, had changed their appearance. Faint dark red lines were all over them, winding and moving like blooming frost flowers on an ice tree, or as if his arm was a piece of glass about to break.
Not only on his arms, Wandou knew that these lines even extended to almost touch Rong Yuan's heart. That was the closest time for Rong Yuan to death in his life. If he had not realized the string force in time, he would have died in the lightning strike.
That was the mark left on his body by the thunder that Wandou had wielded himself.
Heavenly Thunder is the only means of attack that Pea, as the spirit of the Book of Merits, possesses, but the target of attack is not someone else, but its master.
When the contractor kills more than ten people with positive merit, the weapon spirit will unconsciously send down a thunderbolt like a world-destroying disaster to punish the contractor.
The time when Rong Yuan was struck by lightning was the thing that Wandou regretted the most in his life and he could never get over it.
"Well, I've said it many times, this matter is already over."
Rong Yuan patted its head and adjusted the string force to carry out treatment. Not long after, the lines gradually faded and then disappeared.
But in fact, they just disappeared from sight, but they were always there. Even if the wounds from the thunderbolt healed on the surface, they would leave marks that could never be erased. Rong Yuan could use the string force to cover it up, but if the string force he used exceeded a certain limit, these lines would reappear like this time.
Rong Yuan never blamed Wandou for this. In fact, in his opinion, although he almost died under this rule of the "Book of Merits", he still believed that the existence of this rule was necessary and correct.
The contractors of the "Book of Merits" can easily possess enormous wealth and status, master countless advanced knowledge and weapons and tools, obtain powerful strength and the ability to manipulate people's hearts, and have almost endless life. If there are no restrictions, the contractors will inevitably become the most terrible disaster in the world, rather than the saviors.
However, his rationality and objectivity cannot convince the self-blaming Pea. At this point, it is hard to tell who of the two of them is the more emotional human being.
Rong Yuan looked at the place where the black fog retreated in panic, and saw that the end of the corridor had become empty.
"Perhaps I am too cautious, Pea." Rong Yuan said, "I have wasted too much time... Next, I will no longer hide and go straight to Huanglong!"
Pea's fingers trembled, and she grabbed his clothes and said, "Be careful!"
It didn't know how many times it hated its own powerlessness.
As a spirit, the pea cannot be considered a true living being. It essentially does not need to eat, breathe, or absorb things like sunlight. The "Book of Merit" can provide all the energy it needs to survive. Everything about it depends on that book.
In this respect, it is no different from a piece of stone. It does not need to take anything from the outside world, nor does it give anything to the outside world. Even if it is in a vacuum, low temperature, deep sea, radiation, etc., it will not die, nor will it feel sick, fever, hunger, thirst, etc. Even if it dies, it can be resurrected from the "Book of Merits".
But this does not mean that it is indestructible. In fact, the body of Pea is not much stronger than ordinary humans. Before meeting Rong Yuan, it had been killed by the contractors many times, and then lost its memory and consciousness, and returned to the "Book of Merits", waiting to be awakened next time.
Because it could get hurt or even die, Rong Yuan would protect it properly whenever it encountered danger, especially after Pea had slept for ninety years. But Pea had always longed for the day when he would have the power to protect Rong Yuan.
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