Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 264 Yuanshen
"...According to the research during this period of time, I think this big circle can indeed serve as the center for regulating the 'virtual environment recycling'."

"This kind of ring is growable. Even if it is not enough to control a virtual environment of the Galaxy level, it is still no problem to be in charge of a broken virtual environment."

"And this kind of growth can also make it gradually become stronger with the growth of the virtual environment, and there will be no problem of overloading..."

"The remaining problem is how to make this ring have the ability to regulate."

"You, or rather, you also know that this ring is just an empty shell full of spiritual energy, and it doesn't have any ability to take action."

"I don't know what used to drive it to act, but now this drive has completely disappeared, and the only way to 'live' it back..."

When explaining how to use the Great Circle, "The Last Ascended" seemed extremely excited, as if she felt that the heavy mission she carried was finally hoped to be completed.

However, when Li Wenyuan asked her how to restore the power of the Great Circle, she replied like this:
"It only needs to let a soul that is heavy enough to blend with the big ring."

"Just like programming a machine and implanting a soul into a body, the easiest way to restart the ring is to let a 'human' control it."

"Our psychic theory has this kind of 'soul implant' related technology. Although it has not been tested on the existence of the Great Circle, I think it can be connected."

"This technology was regarded as one of the taboos in the past, but specific problems need to be analyzed in detail, and there is no more successful method than this."

Although she didn't say who or "what" was filling the big circle, in fact the "soul that is heavy enough" in the request has already given the answer.

What soul is heavier than her soul, which carries the souls of 120 million compatriots, and her soul entrusted by tens of billions of compatriots?

After listening to the words of "The Last Ascender", a question flashed through Li Wenyuan's mind:
Does the soul have weight?
If so, how much would she weigh at this time?

The spacecraft's scans have long shown that this "ascender" is no different from normal creatures, and there is no abnormal "overweight" situation.

But this does not prove that the soul has no weight. Even if the soul is only as heavy as an atom, it still has weight, and this weight obviously will not be reflected in the living body, because there are so many interference factors that it cannot be measured.

No one can tell whether the soul exists, and even the so-called "soul implantation" technology may just be a means of erasing the original memory and then re-injecting it.

The "Ascended" civilization has not come up with any results on this, either philosophically or ethically, which is why this technology is listed as taboo.

However, "The Last Ascended" obviously doesn't care about the nature of this technology. She only hopes to use the big circle to become the "god" of the virtual environment and restart this broken virtual environment.

"...I am the last group of people who were born. I was quickly born from a fertilized egg cell, and then I used spiritual energy to directly implant the required knowledge during the fetal period, becoming a man-made 'one born to know'."

Perhaps interpreting the silence of the "Guardian" as hesitation, the "Last Ascended" suddenly told her story.

"At that time, my group was on the verge of destruction, and our group of people was ordered to be sealed in a freezing device in order to complete the great cause of revival of civilization one day in the future."

"But in fact, I was born inexplicably, inexplicably placed with high hopes, inexplicably stuffed into a cryogenic compartment, and inexplicably dealt with this rotten world."

"You may not be able to understand, but when I carried the long-cherished wish of tens of billions of people and the souls of 120 million people, my first thought was actually to commit suicide and let this place fend for itself."

"I don't understand why I was born to make sure I deal with such a tricky mess. All kinds of good memories are stabilizing my spirit, but those are all implanted. I have never felt the joy in person."

"My vengeful feelings must have been noticed by my compatriots, but in the end they entrusted their entire soul to me without hesitation, leaving me alone."

"They just died with peace of mind, but I have to continue to live with difficulty. Why? Are they not afraid that I will go with them and let them fall short?"

Having said that, she smiled self-deprecatingly.

"In the end they succeeded, and I had to shoulder the burden and walk alone in a tomorrow without a future."

"The emotion called 'responsibility' was driving my soul forward, especially when I was alone, and this emotion became more and more intense, directly dispelling the idea of ​​suicide."

"I began to instigate the fallen to kill each other on a large scale, using my huge soul weight to divert part of their pain as a poison that fascinated them."

"I was also confused, but after I witnessed a fallen person die, cursing why 'God' created such a world, I figured it out."

"Since we are the ones who created this pain, we are also responsible for ending it."

"We are not 'gods', but if all of these are 'created', then we will also shoulder our due responsibilities, even if we want to turn this body into a god of the virtual world."

At this moment, the circle seems to have completed its connection, forming a closed loop.

【...The beginning of this history is you, and the end should be you too】

For no reason, Li Wenyuan suddenly thought of this sentence.

The beginning of the collapse of this galaxy is the "Ascended" civilization, and the end is also the "Ascended" civilization. If he hadn't come here, would this strange cycle continue?

In the end, he agreed with the idea of ​​"the last ascendant", and at this moment, he saw that the burden-carrying forward finally showed a relaxed smile with a heavy burden behind him.

Sometimes living is not necessarily a good thing, and death is not necessarily a punishment. Time will bring the answer.

A large number of psionic beacons were built in elliptical galaxies, serving as a bridge between the early virtual world and the real universe.

The Void that was re-glued by the "Sky Veil Battleship" with "structural equipment" also slowly merged into the void, only the big circle remained motionless.

"The Last Ascendant" landed in the center of the ring, and its galaxy-level diameter made it impossible for her to see the body of the ring with the naked eye at this position, but she could feel that she was at the core of the spiritual energy field .

Her soul began to drift away, and the weight of 120 million people was gradually losing weight.

After unloading this burden, she realized that she could actually be so relaxed.

"Consciousness" is communicating with that huge circle through the bridge built by psionic energy, and it is getting deeper and deeper.

At this moment, she seemed to have seen the beginning and end of the world, and also saw the decline of the void.

All the emotions, thoughts, prayers, and fantasies of the creatures here have become small visible light spots, floating into the void bit by bit, and there is the void.

The big circle in the real universe also began to be faintly visible, as if it had been reactivated, and gradually disappeared in the real universe.

And in this illusory environment of the galaxy, an ethereal ring appeared at this time.

She is far less huge than the one in the Galaxy Void Realm, but she is shining more brilliantly, and... the color of life.

(End of this chapter)