Ark Journey

On the way north, Xue Zhi touched the Pure Origin Stone he had just snatched. He planned to penetrate his mental power into it to see what was inside. The reason why he did not exchange it for another one himself was because he was worried that the information inside would be erased by the system. Besides, there were not many people here, so if an accident really happened, no innocent people would be hurt.

After walking for a while, Xue Zhi dug a hole on the leeward side of a hill. After hiding inside, he took out the pure source stone.

"Come, let me see what secrets this thing hides."

Invisible spiritual tentacles stretched out, wrapped around the Originium, and began to try to enter the inside of this dead object.

Chapter 14: Information stored in Originium

The mental power enters smoothly, and the information obtained from the special perspective is processed in the brain into a pattern that is easy for humans to understand.

It was pitch black.

Floating in pure darkness, Xue Zhi's spirit body muttered to herself: "No, why is there nothing?"

All he got in response was a hollow echo.

However, just as he finished speaking, a few bright lights appeared in the dark world, followed by mechanical voices and a large amount of information directly transmitted.

"Detecting the entry of a strange mental connection, starting judgment... Judgment failed, the target mutated, rebuilding the judgment process... Judgment failed, the target mutated, rebuilding the judgment process..."

A voice whose true form was unknown kept coming, and Xue Zhi could also feel energy sweeping over his spiritual body one after another, but this thing kept failing to make judgments, making him a little overwhelmed.

Just as he was about to say something, a wave that made him feel very special swept over him, and then the mechanical voice changed.

"Starting the underlying information judgment mode, the information filter has been turned on, the judgment is successful, welcome, citizen, the number of people who have awakened so far is 1, the emergency contact line has been established, and we will contact other civilization reconstruction parts for you soon."

Xue Zhi was surprised: "I can be successfully identified even though I come from somewhere else, even outside the universe?"

It must have been the special features of his body that interfered with the identification process, but in essence, or at the underlying information level, he is still a human being, so he was successfully identified and even became a "citizen."

The subsequent sound contains more information.

"Retrieving... Saver... No signal."

"Retrieving... Deep Blue Tree... No signal."

"Retrieving...Heaven's Fulcrum...No signal."

"Retrieving...Stargate...No signal."

Code names were spoken one after another, but there was no response. Xue Zhi couldn't imagine how desperate the real citizens of the former civilization would be if they were awakened and heard this.

The mechanical sound became increasingly quieter, and the light in the distance disappeared as if it had run out of energy.

However, considering what she knew, Xue Zhi felt that many things were wrong.

“Wait, I remember the Preserver was still working, right? Or is he dormant again?

The deep blue trees should be Haisi. They have gone crazy and deviated from their original purpose. It is normal that they cannot respond.

The Heaven's Fulcrum is also running, even playing God in Lateran, why doesn't it reply? Damn it, artificial intelligence is just unreliable!

The Stargate, the one from Sammy, it doesn't seem to have the corresponding personality circuit, it's just a simple device."

While Xue Zhi was analyzing one by one, several locations on this land changed.

Deep in the boundless ocean, some strange creatures stopped moving at the same time. Their alienated organs transmitted the orders of those with higher authority, but no individual could understand what those orders were.

In the basement of Lateran, in the center of a large room decorated with gold and silver, the giant computer that was playing the role of "God" emitted flashes of light. Trillions of data and calculations were used in an instant. Sakota, who was in charge of guarding it, had no idea what their god was doing.

On the Sami Snowfield, a huge portal leading to an alien planet was lit up, but it only lasted for a few seconds before going out again.

In the spiritual world, after analyzing all this, Xue Zhi began to process the information that was directly transmitted to her. However, all she got was garbled code, and the only useful sentence was.

"Warning, the Originium plan has deviated, and the attempt to awaken... awakening failed."

However, based on his understanding of this world and some existing intelligence, he could also piece together some of her original state.

"What a hellish start, I'm sure the doctor is thinking after hearing this. All the backup plans of the previous civilization failed, and some betrayed. It's simply a fantasy to want to revive civilization under such circumstances, not to mention that a new civilization has been born on this land. Most importantly, the Originium that stores information has deviated from the original plan and has become something unknown now."

"Oh, it's really interesting, really interesting."

In the darkness, Xue Zhi kept talking to herself.

Although he is a human being, he treats the previous civilization and the current civilization equally. In fact, the current civilization is more important to him. After all, W is there. What he cares more about is the huge threat hidden in the starry sky. If he doesn't avoid this, all civilizations will be useless. However, he currently has no understanding of these things.

"Forget it. These are not things I should think about. Let nature take its course. Anyway, the Apocalypse will ensure that this civilization will continue for hundreds of years. And that thing in the starry sky can't be a disaster like the Lord of Madness that sweeps across the entire universe, right? That's useless."

With these last words, Xue Zhi exited the spiritual space. When he saw the colorful real world again, the source stone in his hand quietly turned into dust.

"Is the energy exhausted?"

As his mental power withdrew, the abnormalities in various parts of Terra returned to normal. The Hai Si continued their actions, and the Heaven's Fulcrum Computer also stopped the calculations that were almost making it smoke.

"There are so many things hidden on this planet. I wonder if there are any in low-Earth orbit. But it's also the proper reaction of a civilization that is about to face doomsday."

Standing up, Xue Zhi brushed off the snowflakes on her body.

On the way to the mobile city, he kept muttering to himself the information he had summarized or guessed.

"The former civilization... is worthy of admiration. The Originium stores information, the Sea Si transforms the environment, the Heaven's Fulcrum and the Preserver record knowledge, and they will restore everything after the disaster. They were well prepared, but unfortunately none of them succeeded."

Speaking of this, Xue Zhi suddenly thought of a person, or you could just call him God.

"Zhomu? The blood tide devoured everything, leaving only souls and information to reshape the ecosystem. It's really like that. It's a pity that the previous civilization didn't have such a strong power, and their research on the soul didn't seem to be very in-depth. It's still a question whether Originium can store souls, or preserve the souls of short-lived races for a long time. Maybe the mutated Haisi can, but they no longer have brains."

"If it were me, what would I do?"

"Merge myself with the Deep Blue Tree and use my mental power to control Haisi? Then turn into a small Zoro to preserve all the souls, and then let the Originium fill the earth until the disaster is over and then rebuild civilization."

"..."

"..."

"Hahahaha, how can I have such powerful strength? How can I be such a noble person?"

"..."

"It's easy to sit on the golden toilet, but it's hard to get off."

Chapter 15: The Ultimate True Body

Finally, Xue Zhi summarized the current situation. Life begins with worry and knowing too much will not make you happy.

“This land is really plagued by internal and external troubles.”

High in the sky, the Alpha that was released in advance had already flown hundreds of kilometers away. Unfortunately, the signal transmission over this distance was not something that the simple equipment on it could do. After circling over the mobile city for a few times, it returned in the direction it came from.

Xue Zhi is still on her way here.

The further north you go, the less the snow melts, the whiter and more solemn the land becomes, and the reflected sunlight becomes more and more dazzling.

"As for the sunglasses, they won't cause snow blindness, but they're too bright and uncomfortable."

He changed into a pair of sunglasses, and just when Xue Zhi was about to put them on, the row of race in the system panel quietly changed.

Stabilizing → Stabilized.

"Varied..."

An indescribable feeling instantly spread throughout Xue Zhi's body. The sunglasses in his hand fell into the snow, and his figure disappeared on the spot, leaving only a set of footprints.

In the sky, right above where Xue Zhi was standing, a regular sphere appeared out of thin air, mainly black and purple, decorated with endless golden lines.

A sphere about one meter tall was floating quietly, without any movement or release of any energy, just like a cold black and gold sun descending into the world.

A few little heads popped out from the snow, and some unknown wild animals looked at the strange scene that suddenly appeared in the sky. Their wild animal instincts told them that this thing was not dangerous.

The black-gold sun, which had been quiet all this time, suddenly shook slightly a few times, and extremely tiny black cracks immediately appeared in the surrounding air.

At this moment, a large amount of environmental information and readings were stuffed into Xue Zhi's brain as if they were free, but they were not the five senses commonly used by humans, and the realization that he could not control his limbs made him a little panicked.

"'Todai Swearword', what have I become!?"

As he moved, more information came to him, and he even knew that the space around him was collapsing inwards.

This information appeared in his mind as if instinctively.

Xue Zhi stopped talking immediately, and the cracks began to slowly recover.

From his own perspective, it was like being in the same spiritual world as before. It was completely dark all around him, but this time it was purer, without any echo or light, only all kinds of information directly input into his brain.

The black-gold sun hung quietly, and Xue Zhi adapted to this new body at a very fast speed. He could already transform the information into visible numbers that could be understood by humans.

[Let me see what it is. Temperature? Altitude? Gravity? Ultraviolet light? Unknown radiation? Oh, it's caused by Originium, but what the hell is this? Can I measure it directly? ]

Just as Xue Zhi was checking this information, he suddenly saw everything and his vision returned.

However, it is not the range that normal humans can see, but all the ranges of up, down, left, right, front and back are included.

Fortunately, Xue Zhi had the habit of using mental power before, otherwise he might have been knocked unconscious by this. Moreover, he also saw himself, so he was sure that this was him.

Xue Zhi felt very strange as she looked at the black and gold sun from a third-person perspective, as if her soul was leaving her body.

"How did I become this thing?"

Xue Zhi tried to restrain her power to prevent herself from falling into the subspace. After successfully trying to move, she was in trouble.

"How can I change back to human form? I might get knocked down in this form."

A black ball was floating silently in the sky at a very fast speed, but Xue Zhi was sure that if it approached the mobile city in this form, it would be vulnerable to weapons such as city defense cannons.

"Uh, body, I command you to change back to human form!"

After trying to command her body with her own will, the change actually began. And it didn't slowly transform into a human form. Instead, Xue Zhi's body directly appeared in mid-air, and Xue Zhi, who was seeing herself from a third-person perspective, also changed to a first-person perspective as if her soul had returned.

Snowflakes scattered, Xue Zhi slowly stood up, he looked at his hands, muttered to himself:

"This body is more adaptable, but can I change back?"

With a thought, his human form disappeared and he turned into a ball again. This time he could explore the functions of this new body.

"Can the system panel still be called out? Hey, yes, as expected, the racial situation has changed. Has it stabilized..."

This body can fly without magic.

Controlling his new body to fly around in the sky, Xue Zhi also tried to attack. Then he saw a thick beam of pure energy begin to form not far ahead, and then shoot out quickly.

boom!

A huge explosion resounded throughout the wilderness, and a huge crater formed where the beam of light had just landed.

After flying up into the sky and taking a few glances, Xue Zhi sighed:

"'Todai swear words', this is a bit scary."

After flying for a while and trying various magic and the ability to break space, Xue Zhi returned to human form again, and this time she had new feelings.

The problem that had been bothering her now had an answer, and her subconscious mind pointed a clear path for Xue Zhi.

"Which way should we go? The Reunion Movement is in this direction? My feelings won't deceive me, so let's go that way."

After waiting for a while, Xue Zhi caught the falling Alpha and then started walking in a certain direction.

They traveled quickly by flying close to the ground, and hundreds of kilometers passed in the blink of an eye. From a distance, Xue Zhi saw a black structure beginning to emerge on the horizon.

"Can you still see the moving city? But that's normal. The area occupied by this thing is very large."

As he continued forward, the black structure on the horizon slowly rose. Xue Zhi suddenly had another idea. He called Alpha down and held him in his arms, then began to prepare to jump directly onto the black wall.

"You can jump within your sight... Ascension Core, let me see your limits!"

The words disappeared with the wind, and Xue Zhi disappeared along with the bird on her body.

Puff!

On the outer wall of an unknown moving city, a figure suddenly crashed into the wall, and then floated beside the wall. The white clothes on his body were adapting to the color of the outer wall at a fairly fast speed.

"Very good, there are no warning devices, and no sentry devices coming to welcome. Alpha, don't shout."

After pinching Alpha's beak, Xue Zhi held it and slowly flew upwards, while spreading her mental power to explore the surroundings to avoid being discovered.

At the top of the outer wall, a man and a bird cautiously poked their heads out.

"It's so big."

The mobile city stretched as far as the eye could see, with houses of all types lined up densely, and the land they were currently on was an agricultural area, with extremely flat land and crops swaying in the wind.

"Go down first, and then go directly in the direction I determined."

Chapter 16: Leaving Civilization, Galloping into the Wilderness