The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 1172 Digital Colonialism
The Faceless Ones resolved the immediate crisis.

As soon as he stepped out of the house, he quickly received a message from Dr. Bell II into his mind.

[Meeting.]

The faceless crowd rejoiced.

My initial slight apprehension subsided.

We are all digital beings.

Although there is no internet here, I was worried that one of Bell Labs' major advantages would be lost.

But it's estimated that Dr. Bell II also quickly activated his ability card, restoring one of his abilities—
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[Name]: Digital Colonialism
[Type]: Passive Skill

[Quality]: Legendary
【Effect】:
(1) Dr. Bell has the ability to digitize living beings, but only if the target has signed a “digital consent agreement”.

All cyborgs, digital beings with implanted Bell chips, and those whose consciousness has been uploaded are considered "consented digital objects," which are open systems that can be read, overwritten, accessed, and forcibly managed.

(2) Those who are digitized will become “botnet nodes” in the Bell Labs system, and these nodes will collectively form Bell Labs’ vast digital network.

In fact, its brain function can be mobilized as edge computing power, its nervous system can serve as a signal relay, and its memories and emotions will be continuously uploaded, split, and archived for training the doctoral brain cluster.

(3) Dr. Bell can continue to expand the colonial borders through the digitalizers.

Each person who is connected can become a new colony node by promoting services such as Bell Chips, personality backup, digital immortality, consciousness upload, and Bell Pro followers.

For each living being that successfully signs a "digital consent agreement" and digitizes it, the node will receive an additional month of Pro believer services.

(4) Full takeover: Dr. Bell can take full control of the digitized targets.

After a successful takeover, the target's original personality is permanently deleted, and all original social identities, permissions, contacts, device access rights, and physical access rights are inherited by Bell.

note:

The prerequisite for takeover is that the target is connected to the network, has a signal, or can be detected by Bell Labs.

[Consumption]: Excessive digital colonization will increase the maintenance burden on the underlying layer. Redundant personalities, inefficient clones and erroneous samples need to be cleaned up regularly to prevent the formation of "mind waste" that accumulates at the bottom of the collective brain.

[Review]: I have so much junk!
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Detailed information about his abilities is naturally unknown to outsiders.

But everyone knows one thing—

As long as Dr. Bell II exists, the digital network will not truly be severed.

As for being digitally colonized or completely taken over, I won't care from the moment I agree to digitalization.

They even felt honored to be a node in the Bell Digital Network, or an embodiment of Dr. Bell.

The same goes for "Sister Oaths" Adele.

Since the fall of the Izetta Foundation, her original surname no longer exists.

However, she wasn't originally named Izetta.

She couldn't remember how many families she had moved to over the years.

She even considered whether or not to join the New World.

Since even the "Spirit of Childbirth" has fallen into the hands of the "New World," Adele just wants to live; bloodline and loyalty aren't that important.

However, the new world rejected her.

I heard that the "Spirit of Fertility" has also been imprisoned.

The opponent did not use the powerful properties of "Spirit of Pregnancy," which Adele considered a complete waste.

But that's just how the new world is; it still retains a kind of innocence and romance that seems to come from ancient times.

Perhaps only when they encounter a desperate situation where they must abandon their naive fantasies to survive will they understand what is truly important.

So she ultimately chose to abandon her physical body and join Bell Labs. As for how to continue her vow to stitch skin, it became simpler after being digitized.

All you need to do is embed the vow between her code.

It's all written language, which is much simpler and more efficient.

Even so, the pain still exists, only it has transformed from the original physical pain into another kind of pain.

It can even hurt more.

Since they are both languages, they should be the same size.

Having an oath embedded in the code is like embedding the muscle fibers of another creature in the middle of your own muscle fibers. How comfortable is that?

However, this is only a small price to pay.

Following the strong will only make you stronger.

So Adele heard Dr. Bell II's summons, the joyful program started, and the next second, the streetlights on the street, which had been plunged into the cold night, suddenly lit up. One by one, the dim yellow lights illuminated the snow falling like ashes in the darkness.

The screens, neon lights, and billboards that had long been turned off along the street were also turned on again at the same moment.

Music started playing, and people were noisy, as if we had suddenly returned to the time before the cold night fell.

There was no one in sight.

Adele was overjoyed. Originally, she was trapped in the same place—in that old television set—because she had no electronic devices or power source.

It's different now.

It really is Dr. Bell II.

He has found a solution.

This is the downside of digital life arriving in the cold night, but of course there are also advantages—in terms of surviving, probably no one is stronger than them.

As long as these strange creatures don't discover you, just destroy the device hiding the true form.

And now there's even less to worry about.

She can switch between so many devices at will.

And so, Adele, like a ghost, flitted among the city's electronic devices.

It flashed by amidst the repeated news reports that "**colonies are in economic crisis."

It flew over a golden wheat field with the words "*** Group's Space Farm Achieves a Bumper Harvest, Gene Editing Results Are Delightful" on it.

Then, they stumbled upon an advertisement showcasing the latest drug developed by the **consortium.

"Take ***2.0, and you'll become as strong as me!"

The man in the advertisement smiled brightly at Adele, his bronze muscles gleaming in the light reflecting off his snow-white teeth.

But Adele didn't notice that after she passed by, all the screens switched to showing the same man raising his arms to flex his muscles, with the exact same smile, saying the same words:
"Take ***2.0, and you'll become as strong as me!"

She even winked at the camera.

But her eyes followed Adele closely, almost popping out of their sockets to reveal her pure white skin.

And that raised, muscular arm stretched out longer and longer, gradually reaching towards Adele...

It peeks out from the display screen.

Then it passed through the next display screen.

Then wear the third one...

Adele finally realized something was wrong.

But it was too late.

The arm reached across several monitors, almost catching up to her.

With five fingers spread wide, it lunged at her, grabbing hard—

Right now!

Several monitors in the middle suddenly went out.

The man in the advertisement let out a sharp scream.

His hand was severed at the wrist and fell to the bottom of the monitor with a thud, blood splattering across the entire screen and turning the advertising slogan into a glaring red.

After several monitors, he could only hug his severed arm and roll around inside the box.

Adele turned around.

Fear is not in her code.

He merely coldly examined the crisis that had just brushed past him.

At this moment, the monitors in the middle that had been off lit up again.

Countless identical cartoon characters appeared on the screen.

With just a few strokes, a middle-aged man wearing glasses, with a shiny bald head, and dressed in a black turtleneck sweater is depicted.

The cartoon character adjusted his glasses with a serious expression.

"terribly sorry."

"You do not have permission to access our nodes."