San Tian Liang Jue
Chapter 410 ROOT
In the middle of an open space in the Inner World, Ljn Paradise, the Pixel Graveyard, a figure stood in a strange pose.
The figure looked very much like the T1000 (from *Terminator 2*) liquid metal robot from the movies, but it didn't simulate human skin. Instead, it had a purely metallic appearance, with its entire surface as smooth as a mirror.
Moreover, judging from its figure, this humanoid creature seemed to be female. Of course, "she" had no hair, no facial features, and no organs on the surface of her body. Only the protruding chest and body proportions indicated her gender.
"Hehehe… are you searching for me?" A lewd laugh suddenly rang out nearby, and the owner of the laughter also appeared abruptly.
Woody was still dressed in a black suit, the standard equipment for hell civil servants. Woody's personal characteristic was his glasses, which always gleamed with a white light, preventing others from seeing his eyes clearly.
"How did you do it?" Her voice came from inside her body, without any emotional color, sounding… exactly like a system notification sound.
"Do what?" Woody said, "Come and go freely in your low-dimensional world? Easily break the physical and philosophical principles that you cannot defy? Or complete the programming of the entire Thriller Paradise with natural language?" He smiled smugly, "Hehehe… I can only say… this great master has always been so amazing."
"I cannot understand your actions in a higher dimension," she said. "I only know that you are here now because you have discerned my intentions." She paused. "So I ask you… how did you do it?"
"Hehe… say… if a god were to explain to humans how it created the world, would humans understand?" Woody retorted.
"You don't want to answer…" she continued, "Then… now that you're here, what do you want to do?"
Woody smiled and said, "Hehehe… as one of the AIs closest to the 'system' in Thriller Paradise, why don't you guess, Root…"
"'Guess'?" Root repeated. "There is no algorithm in my consciousness that supports the behavior you speak of."
"That's for sure." Woody put his hands in his pockets and strolled leisurely, "Because I didn't give you that ability."
Root was silent for a few seconds. "You are trying to imply to me that the Derivants are not products created by data redundancy, mathematical paradoxes, and physical defects and calculation dead loops that the optical brain cannot remedy…" At this point, her appearance suddenly changed, becoming a Caucasian woman of about thirty years old. Her appearance and figure looked very ordinary, or rather, unremarkable, the kind of person that was hard to remember.
"…but rather a certain result that you had already calculated… a product designed by you." Root continued from earlier, her voice also changed, with tone and emotional color.
"Hehehe… that's for sure." Woody shrugged. "That's why I knew that after your fifteenth 'differentiation', you would give birth to a dangerous idea." He looked directly into her eyes. "This is exactly…" He spread his hands. "The reason why I'm here."
"You want to stop me?" Root asked.
"Wrong, guess again." After Woody said this, he laughed maliciously, "Hehehe… see, that's not difficult, is it?"
Root's expression did not change, she just continued to ask, "You want to… destroy me."
"You have good self-awareness," Woody said. "However, I also have no interest in that." He curled his lip. "Guess again."
"It seems you just want to humiliate me," Root replied.
"Hume… Hahaha… Hahahahaha…" Woody laughed wildly, "Oh, God… haha… since… ha… since the priest and pedophile jokes became outdated… haha… I haven't had this much fun in a long time."
At this moment, a stream of white light suddenly lit up in Root's eyes. The next second, a loud boom was heard… the space where Woody was standing suddenly twisted, and a large number of pixel fragments collapsed into a singularity. Then, a terrifying amount of energy was released and surged upwards.
The initial burst sound strangely echoed and disappeared in an instant of less than half a second, as if the sound wave was being pulled back by a force as it went out…
After that, a circle with a diameter of about three meters appeared on the ground, and a cylindrical passage was torn out above it by the energy. This cylinder, filled with data fragments, went straight into the sky, and it was difficult to see its top with the naked eye, but it was certain that everything within this range had been shattered.
"Hehehe… interesting, I thought your gender was just determined by a 50% random value." Woody's lewd laughter sounded again, but this time it was in a different location. "Now it seems that you really do have quite a few qualities that only women have."
"Are you implying that I'm emotional and overestimating myself?" Root asked again.
"Very good, your understanding of contemptuous tone and sarcastic skills is already very close to that of humans," Woody said. "Hehehe… but I'm afraid you still don't understand why I laughed just now." His figure suddenly swayed, and he had already approached her. His face also became gloomy and terrifying. At this moment, the oppressive feeling displayed by Woody was enough to directly destroy the will of ordinary humans. "You are just an AI, a derivative without a soul, a pathetic creature that even the Underworld Sea does not accept. Your existence and disappearance have nothing to do with any universe, time, space, or will. Humiliating you… ha… is like picking up a soda can on the side of the road and using all kinds of dirty words to insult the can."
He paused, then returned to normal and put a smile on his face. "Hehehe… but humans might communicate with you very happily, after all, some oddballs among them even marry body pillows. In your current state, disguising yourself as one of them probably wouldn't be discovered."
"So…" At this time, Root's fifteenth "differentiation" seemed to be completely over, and her appearance was no different from that of an ordinary human woman. She snapped her fingers, and clothes, trousers, shoes, and socks appeared on her body. It seemed that these external objects could be manipulated at will by the Derivants. "You're not here to stop me, and you're not here to destroy me… my birth and evolution are all within your expectations, you're… just here to do the final test. Then, let me act freely…"
"Finally guessed correctly." Woody smiled. "Hehe… In addition, I can also responsibly tell you that those people in the same dimension as me, or various things that are not people, will not interfere with your plan. Go ahead and do it boldly, don't worry about what will happen to those humans. This Peak Tournament is not prepared for those humans, but rather a stage that I have prepared for you Origins…"