Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 661 Mewtwo
As soon as he finished speaking, the core brain, which was originally in a "sleeping state", slowly opened its eyes.
Those were two huge, cloudy, and terrifying eyeballs, with grayish-white pupils like the eyes of a patient with severe cataracts... The two eyeballs slowly turned a few circles, and then the focus of their vision stayed on Ke Lan.
Although the burning white pupil had no sense of focus at all, Ke Lan could still feel the fixed gaze - this head was staring at him. An inexplicable sense of tension made Ke Lan's muscles tense up.
"Are you nervous?" Aphrodite noticed Ke Lan's change and asked.
"It's nonsense to say I'm not nervous when being stared at by a head that is a thousand times the normal size," said Ke Lan.
"I thought that as a relic hunter, you should have been used to seeing similar things." Aphrodite said, "Don't those experienced relic hunters always remain calm when facing danger or powerful enemies?"
"Psychological tension and physical tension are two different things." Ke Lan shook his head. "Or, in other words, they are completely opposite things. The stronger the relic hunter, the faster the body will enter a state of tension when facing sudden danger. This is a survival instinct that humans, as a biological organism, have evolved in an environment of survival of the fittest for tens of thousands of years. The body in a state of tension has a faster reaction speed and stronger explosive power... As for the kind of tension that makes the mind go blank and the hands and feet lose control, it is enough to be fatal to a relic hunter."
Ke Lan paused, and added: "If I met such a guy during a mission, I would only advise him to change his career... Even if it is to tighten screws in a factory, it is better than losing his life in the ruins."
At this moment, the core mastermind spoke -
"Welcome, the fifth seat of the crew, His Excellency Chiron, the 'Pope', and the sixth seat, His Excellency Aphrodite, the 'Lover'."
This voice was exactly the same mechanical female voice that had previously guided Ke Lan into the Black Well and that Ke Lan had complained about for its retro style.
"You can ask the core mastermind directly. Except for those things that require a vote by all crew members to be 'unsealed', the core mastermind will answer all questions." Aphrodite said to Ke Lan.
Ke Lan immediately wanted to ask why all the files of the 499th year disappeared, but she thought that this matter must be one of those secrets that "requires a vote by all crew members to decide whether to unseal it". It would be useless to ask, so she might as well focus on her original purpose.
"I want to know the detailed information about the last mission of the 776th Special Forces Team. The more detailed the better." Ke Lan said, "It's the mission numbered Special A-902-6-133517, and the goal is to destroy the wreckage of Engine No. 92."
"If you need detailed information about the task, you can choose to experience the task process yourself." The core mastermind said slowly.
"Experience it yourself? How do you experience it?"
"Mewtwo." A word that was somewhat familiar yet unfamiliar to Ke Lan popped out from the core brain's mouth.
"Mewtwo... what is it?" A purple-pink image of an artificial creature popped up in Ke Lan's mind subconsciously... As a veteran gamer, it is impossible for Ke Lan not to know about this psychic Pokémon numbered 150 in the illustrated book. But it is obvious that the "Mewtwo" in his impression and the "Mewtwo" in the mouth of the core mastermind are completely different concepts.
"Among the members of the 776 Special Forces Team who are carrying out the mission, there is a Type β replicant who has an empathy chip implanted in his brain that is directly controlled by the core brain. This empathy chip can collect all the information collected by the Type β replicant's body senses and send it to the core brain. The Mewtwo program can restore and materialize this information, allowing the experiencer to re-experience the mission process from the first-person perspective of the chip implanter." Aphrodite explained to Ke Lan, "I think if you want to get enough clues, any text, sound or image data cannot compare to the level of detail of the information in 'Mewtwo'. After all, the recorded files may have omissions, but the scenes seen by the eyes of the witnesses will not."
She was right... Even if some details were overlooked by the experiencer, they would still be able to find them out when they "watched" the Super Dream video for the second, third, or even more times. Moreover, in terms of realism, the first-person perspective of the experiencer could not be compared with dry text files.
"Okay, but how do we experience this thing?" Ke Lan asked.
"Please take a seat." said the core mastermind.
Almost at the same time when the core brain said these two words, the floor behind Ke Lan moved to both sides, and a chair with a metal base and a thick layer of "meat blanket" on the surface rose from the ground.
Ke Lan immediately recognized that the seat was a replica of the driver's seat of the Blasphemer mecha, but he was not too surprised. After all, from those "mass-produced fallen angels", it can be seen that the technology related to the Blasphemer mecha has been almost completely digested by the Ark.
In fact, the virtual trial that Ke Lan had undergone in the bottomless pit was essentially almost the same as the "Super Dream Experience". It seems that this system was developed based on the neural connection technology and scene virtual technology of the Blasphemer mecha.
"The connection process may cause some pain. If you need painkillers, please ask in advance." The core mastermind said in an emotionless tone, "However, the use of painkillers may cause a certain degree of distortion in the super dream scene. In the worst case, it may cause the connection to be interrupted. Please use your own discretion."
"No need for painkillers." Ke Lan said, then took off his coat and shirt and sat on the squirming seat.
The feeling was almost exactly the same as when he boarded the Blasphemer mecha. Countless tiny fleshy tentacles pierced his skin and muscles, penetrating deep into the gaps between the vertebrae and connecting with the nerves in the spinal cord.
With a paralyzing feeling like an electric shock, Ke Lan's vision suddenly fell into darkness...
