The imitation of Cybertronâs Energy Pillar, the Energy Tower, is in place.
Thanks to the equipment sent by Rocksen, Lille can skip the gradual process of studying how to efficiently use this energy.
According to the design, the purer the energy, the less intake design is required in the engine, meaning that itâs not the oil thatâs breaking dimensions, nor is it fossil fuel providing energy beyond theoretical values...
Itâs just that igniting such a thing requires high temperatures and high pressure.
[Optimus Prime: Imitating the Energy Pillar is a technical task. I canât guarantee that this technology will succeed, and if it fails, it might cause a very violent explosion.]
[Optimus Prime: I hope youâre prepared.]
Lille stood in front of the Energy Pillar. The mountain camp was undergoing the final round of evacuation. It used to hide people escaping Vladimirâs tyranny; now they no longer have to hide.
The last group of evacuees included Maya.
"Lille..."
Maya never thought this day would come.
She had returned to Latovia, her son had returned to Latovia, and even... become the King!
When she saw her compatriots who no longer had shadows in their hearts, dancing and singing happily in the square, freely expressing their emotions instead of suppressing pain and forgetting sorrow, it felt like a dream.
Itâs just... she really never thought this day would come, and seeing Lille standing alone under the high tower, she couldnât help feeling worried...
The founder of a company is one thing, but being King is another matter entirely. For Maya, itâs easier to understand the heavy responsibilities of a king.
"Mom, you should leave now."
Lilleâs voice had more humanity than before.
Maya smiled and wiped away her tears, "Why do you always try to send me away?"
This made Lille pause for a moment.
Such scenes were not uncommon in his past life...
He could only reunite briefly with his family between one heavy task and project after another, then hurriedly depart again...
"I..." Lille paused, "I want to rest quietly for a while too, but..."
"I know." Maya gently touched Lilleâs forehead with her hand, "I know you have a lot to do. I just wanted to talk more with you, but I know thereâs plenty of time in the future.
Go, do what you have to doâI have something I want to do too. I want to visit our old home; maybe I can find some of your grandfatherâs relics there.
The King wouldnât refuse his mother such a small request, right?"
Lille smiled: This is different from before; he could somewhat fulfill his motherâs wishes now.
"Go ahead, Mom; here is already free. You can go wherever you want."
Under Christopherâs escort, Maya rode on horseback, waving to Lille as she left the mountains, heading towards her hometown.
[Johnny: You actually have a mom, and a good one at that.]
[Johnny: Iâd say she made this request just to make you feel better, at least now... you can fulfill family needs.]
[Johnny: But your damn metal shell really does waste your momâs genes.]
"So talkative... jealous?"
[Johnny: A little.]
Unusually, Johnny didnât retort, but stood under the tower, looking up at it.
[Johnny: Do you think only those with a good family background can live clearly?]
Lille took off his robe, transforming into four Octopus Arms, and continued to make final adjustments to the tower.
"...Starting to blame your upbringing now?" Lille said as he walked, "If imperfect things were to die, the world would have exploded long ago."
[Johnny: This world certainly should explode.]
"But it hasnât." Lille adjusted all the equipment, "Moreover, if it did, you wouldnât have big boobs to play with..."
[Johnny: Are you trying to persuade me to take it easy, to be an optimistic fool?]
"Iâm saying... thatâs the reality, whether to accept it or not, the choice is yours."
Ka!
The Kingâs Blade was unsheathed again.
[External energy of the body remaining: 14%]
[After external energy is depleted, it will enter low energy consumption mode, shutting down most weapon and tool systems, unable to transform.]
"After all... if you want to do well, to live well... youâll find that no matter how much you do, itâs never enough."
With that, the Kingâs Blade pierced into the prepared "fuse" device!
Thousands of degrees Celsius of super high temperature detonated the high energy concentrated oil inside the machine; in the engine room, a fierce chain explosion quickly started...
The power generated by this massive explosion even exceeded Lilleâs imagination; the energy, matter, and other things produced by the explosion continuously accumulated along the pipes, ultimately reaching the high tower, advancing and compressing along the line...
And eventually exceeded the carrying capacity limits of these metals and machines!
The chain explosion of the high-energy concentrated oil seemed to purify the high-dimensional matter inside, and as the concentration increased, the explosive powerâs growth far surpassed exponential growthâ
The strength of these military supplies is simply not enough to withstand the explosion...
Or rather, the explosion that even the dimension canât withstand, how can the matter in this dimension withstand it?!
As Lille thought about this, he instantly increased the energy output of the ark reactor, releasing all the Spark Energy at once. Before the material devices for diversion completely collapsed, it followed the pipeline and rushed toward the explosive object with an energy level that could no longer be detected!
All vibration, light, radiation, heat...
disappeared.
[First main control cross-dimensional transport completed.]
[Looks like youâve found a way to open the dimension channel, albeit still very basic and rough, but youâve indeed discovered the knack.]
[The directional dimension rift was briefly opened by you; cherish this time.]
[Reward Technology Points: 20000]
[Current Technology Points: 42000]
...
In the moment of losing all perception, Lille was left with only his thoughts still running...
Or rather, he thought it was still running.
But soon, he realized it wasnât him at that moment still thinking, but the transfer process had already been completed...
He also suddenly understood why the system needed a so-called "anchor point"...
In the Cyberpunk World, the international fugitive code-named "Burger King" Lille no longer had any traceable body.
A strand of drifting code, losing contact with "himself", would only gradually change in the frenzied cyberspace...
Just like Theseusâ Ship, forever becoming something different, and even if Theseusâ Ship, as long as it continues sailing with the crew, the crew will still think that this ship is still connected to them...
If the soul is seen as a higher-dimensional "crew", if this ship has completely changed without sailing with the crew, then for the crew, thereâs no reason to consider it the original ship.
Johnnyâs existence is a kind of miraculous anchor point...
Because Johnny himself doesnât know, but he actually always maintains a connection with another world, and at the same time experiences everything with Lille.
This connection manifests as when Lille once again feels the cyberspace, Johnny suddenly wakes up:
As if his and Lilleâs experiences in two other worlds were just an illusion brought by writing into his soul imprint code, when actually he has never left this world.
Though all this, Johnny himself has no feeling: although a digital life, he doesnât understand technology.
[Johnny: Yeah... if you want to live a better life, you have to work hard, but no matter how hard you try, there will always be accidents reminding you... youâre still not enough.]
[Johnny: But if you donât want to live, death is the endpoint.]
[Johnny: It was like that before that damned Arasaka appeared in this world.]
Lille opened his eyes in cyberspace; the reconstructed "underlying logic" allowed him to genuinely perceive this world from the perspective of AI, while simultaneously maintaining a peculiar rationality!
This cyberspace is an endless ice field.
Munemasa sat cross-legged on the ice field, but Lille was surprised to find that this guy seemed somewhat angry...
AI can still get angry?
[Lille: Where is this?]
[Munemasa: Li-san... You damn fool, youâre like a pig teammate who randomly acts on impulse.]
[Johnny: Oh, whatâs this thing? AI? Can AI learn to bark like dogs?]
Americans began to discriminate against and attack Japanese AI, making Lille a bit helpless, and he immediately prepared to explore the surroundings...
Upon this exploration, he realized that his form in cyberspace was actually residing on Johnnyâs soul imprint, just like how Johnny resided in his head in another world.
The difference being, though he was the one residing here...
He was still in control.
Munemasa glanced at Lille:
[Munemasa: Luckily, we didnât transfer to a war zone.]
[Munemasa: This is Antarctica, weâve entered an endless server.]
As soon as the words fell, the ice field began to dissolve, the sky of cyberspace started to tremble, colors and lines danced lively as if having life, the ocean surged, fish leaped over the waves!
Such a vast-scale change seemed like several top hackers were fighting in a web domain, but only Lille inside it knew:
Even putting all the hackers worldwide into a domain to fight wouldnât be possible like now...
Because hackers are merely mobilizing resources, creating the illusion of cyberspace trembling.
But now, cyberspace truly... Cyberspace itself is moving!
Splosh.
After the intense tremor, Lille and Munemasa, who sat on the ice field, suddenly uncontrollably turned into two penguins.
[Much cuter this way.]
[Welcome to my sector. Do you have any new stories to tell?]