Chapter 1 Custody Matrix
Li Wenyuan traveled through time.
The last moment he remembered, he was riding a bicycle and was hit by a meteorite falling from the sky. He successfully experienced what the "power of mass extinction" is.
Then he appeared in this magical place.
"Crossing the tide, is it my turn today?"
Without too much panic, he quickly accepted it and was even quite excited.
Being deeply influenced by Internet literature, it was not unexpected for him to travel through time. After all, who doesn’t want to experience the treatment of being a “child of destiny”?
Then he discovered that he did not have hands or feet.
Not even a body.
It is just a huge program composed of a huge number of "0"s and "1s", responsible for maintaining the operation of the entire system when no one is watching.
In layman's terms, he is an "artificial intelligence".
"...Is there a mistake?" Li Wenyuan looked at the warning data in front of him with a confused face, and suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
[Warning, the core database power supply line has been damaged, please rebuild it as soon as possible]
[Warning, Qingtian Space Station is about to fall into the stellar atmosphere, please restart its anti-gravity system]
[Warning, the e-c34 scientific research area has been invaded by unknown life forms, please deal with it as soon as possible]
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"I'm just an ordinary person! I don't know how to deal with these things!"
Li Wenyuan felt his scalp numb just by looking at the overwhelming red warning. It was conservatively estimated that the number of unexpected situations that required him to deal with immediately exceeded tens of thousands, and this number was still increasing.
Just when he was troubled by the unexpected incident, a sudden "ding" sound made his eyes light up.
【Ding--】
"This voice... could it be the system?" Li Wenyuan was instantly overjoyed. As a time traveler, how could he make it without a golden finger?
Then he heard the continuation of the voice.
[——Warning, the guardianship core has been invaded by unknown life forms, and the damage degree is 15%]
[——Warning, the connection with the guardianship matrix has been lost, and the planet’s self-destruction program is about to start]
These warnings made Li Wenyuan stunned, and then his expression changed drastically.
He had just arrived and didn't know much yet, but he knew one thing.
In this world, his name is "Wenyuan Guardianship Matrix".
Although I haven't had time to think about why this AI is exactly the same as his name, there is no room for thinking about it at this moment.
He doesn't think that if the planet self-destructs, the "artificial intelligence" on his planet will still be alive, but 80% of it will become space junk.
Subconsciously, he shouted in his heart: "Stop self-destruction!"
[Re-establish the connection with the guardianship matrix, the planet's self-destruction program has been interrupted, please deal with the current matter as soon as possible]
It was originally just a human instinct to survive, but it unexpectedly had an effect. This also made Li Wenyuan realize that he could directly control the system with his thoughts.
"Although I can use my mind to issue instructions, my consciousness has not turned into a super brain because I am an AI... It is impossible for me to solve these problems in a short time with my own power."
Li Wenyuan quickly thought about solutions. The rising damage to the guardianship core made him feel that the crisis was imminent.
The core of the guardianship is his "body" in the three-dimensional world, a large ball of light connected by many pipelines. If it is broken, then his "conscious program" will probably suffer along with it.
So he looked at the most eye-catching one among the many warnings:
[Warning, the automatic defense system has insufficient power supply and has stopped operating]
"Calculate current energy usage!" No matter what, let's deal with his own crisis first.
A pie chart appeared in front of him instantly, and there was a lot of data analysis around it. Although he couldn't understand it, it was enough for Li Wenyuan to use.
"Interrupt all energy supply in the scientific research area and industrial area and transfer it to the automatic defense system!"
[The automatic defense system is starting]
[Due to the damage to the main energy supply line, energy will be diverted through backup lines]
[Remaining time to start: 15 minutes]
"Do it!" Li Wenyuan immediately cursed. 15 minutes is not long or short, but judging from the speed of the increase in damage, everyone else will be cold after 15 minutes.
"What else can I do..." He gritted his teeth and thought. Although he didn't have a body, it didn't stop him from feeling like he was doing this.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he saw a group of people who were still intact among a series of damaged data.
It is a group that is in operation but no one controls it.
And this group will be his biggest help now.
"Help me connect to the Synth Control Center—"
Just when Li Wenyuan was trying to save himself, the place where his "body" was was experiencing brutal destruction.
Countless lizard-like aliens are plundering here, and at the same time grabbing technological crystals that they cannot understand.
The thinnest among them is only two and a half meters tall. Black scales cover the surface of the body and look extremely hard. Ordinary weapons cannot even cause a single scratch on it.
Their eyes flashed with greed, and their protruding cheeks spit out their forked tongues excitedly, as if they were carefully feeling the wealth of this land.
They are the "Red Tongue Space Pirates", a notorious interstellar group.
"Boss! The material of this wall... seems to be living metal! This seems to be a rare item in the interstellar market worth 200,000 energy coins per kilogram!"
A pirate member was stroking a snow-white wall excitedly, and the passion in his eyes was even more passionate than looking at his lover.
"Then quickly tear it down and take it away! Hasn't your mother-in-law always been looking forward to owning a house in the urban area? Isn't this thing enough for you to live for dozens of generations?" The captain of the pirate team also waved his hand and said very generously.
He gave this living metal wall to his younger brother.
Normally, the value of this wall would be enough to cause the pirate group to fall apart, but their current harvest is really too great. As the captain of the team, he actually looks down on this income at this time.
As he glanced around, he tugged on the iron chain on his hand and said impatiently to the back: "You don't have legs, do you? Do you want me to teach you how to walk?"
Along with his words, a thin figure walked out reluctantly from the shadow of the wall.
It was a completely different species from the lizard people. She had animal ears and tail similar to those of a cat, and her eyes also had vertical pupils. She seemed to be uncomfortable with the bright light here.
Li Wenyuan would be shocked if he saw her, because except for the extra organs outside her body, her image is actually the same as that of a "human being".
To use a familiar phrase from her previous life, she is a "beast mother".
At this time, the beast girl was tied with an iron chain by the lizard pirates and was being led forward.
The pirate team leader only checked the integrity of the chain, and then paid no attention to the prisoner in his hands. Instead, he stared passionately at the large luminous ball in the center of the facility that was entangled with many pipes.
His intuition told him that this thing was the most valuable.
The beast girl, whose hands were bound by iron chains, silently followed the pirate captain forward. Suddenly her sensitive beast ears moved, and something caught her attention.
I saw a synthetic man in the corner slowly stand up, the joints that had not been used for a long time made a sound of mechanical transmission, and the originally dull prosthetic eyes were now flashing with a dangerous red light.
Beast Girl's pupils suddenly shrank, and the hairs on her body stood up. Although it didn't look much different in terms of size, her natural instinct told her that this thing was more terrifying than the most powerful holy beast on her home planet.
The advancing pirate captain also tripped over something.
"What?" He looked down and saw that it was a synthetic human body.
These seem to be robots made by the former civilization of this forgotten planet that imitate the appearance of their own species, and they are spread all over the planet.
Because they had been silent and seemed to be shut down, the pirates ignored these guys and concentrated on searching for wealth.
"Go away, don't come in my way!" The pirate captain kicked the synthetic man in disgust, but he didn't expect that his ankle was caught by the synthetic man in the middle of the kick.
At this time, the prone synthetic man raised his head, with a charming smile on his pale face.
The squad leader suddenly felt something was wrong. He aimed the weapon at the synthesizer and prepared to shout to remind his companions to pay attention.
But what followed was the sound of broken bones and his screams.
"ah--!!!"
The companions who were still searching were startled and all followed the sound.
They saw their captain being lifted up by the ankles by a synthetic man, and his nearly three-meter-long body seemed to be handled at will without any weight.
One of the accomplices reacted first and pulled the trigger on the synthetic man.
This is a standard weapon widely circulated in the interstellar world. It emits a high-energy laser beam and can cut through a 30 cm thick steel plate in an instant.
Their weapons were invincible in those low-level civilizations, but now they were frustrated.
The beam only scorched the surface of the synthetic human's skin, exposing the metal body underneath. There was nothing that could be done about it after that.
Rustling sounds, accompanied by the screams of the pirate squad leader, continued to ring out throughout the facility, and more and more synths came out from everywhere.
Some stood overlooking them from a high place, while others looked at them at eye level, but without exception, their eyes flashed red.
And they also found to their despair that they were surrounded.
Chapter completed!