Star Railway: The Pioneer's Journey

Chapter 447 Beyond Mythology

Xing and Danheng are still in Ohema, preparing to face a new round of tests—understandably, as a leader, it would be too foolish to trust strangers so easily.

So as long as it's not too excessive, Yunzhi won't interfere—but the interpretation of what constitutes "excessive" is Yunzhi's prerogative.

Meanwhile, the intelligent machine on Yunzhi's side was still trying to explain to him its love-hate relationship with Boshizun, family conflicts, and a series of other reasons that led it to become what it is today.

"The story is a bit long, I hope you can..."

Before the machine could finish speaking, Yunzhi interrupted it:

"I know it's long, so there's no need to say more, sir. I'm not a scholar, and I don't understand anything about the first cause and second effect of life."

Listen to stories told by intelligent machines?

Haha, not everyone likes to listen to bedtime stories.

"Now you only need to do one thing: hand over all authority over the scepter to me, and then commit suicide as an atonement."

Omnic: ...You just said it so bluntly?

Although the machine couldn't read its expression, Yunzhi could still sense its speechlessness.

"So, you're not interested in my identity either?"

"Haha, Zandal and the Deathly Hallows? How about that name? I can write a series of best-selling books for the Immortal Boat Alliance to promote you properly."

Yun crossed his arms, his expression clearly mocking.

Zandal I. Kuwabara, the leader of the Star Computer Project, is the Star Computer he led the creation of, which is now the All-Knowing Heavenly Lord, the Star God of Wisdom—yes, its true form is the Zandal hanging in the Black Tower's office, but only one-ninth of him.

No wonder before coming to Onphalus I always thought that the wise man was going to die. His father came to destroy him himself. What else can be said?

Of course, that's not important.

The important thing is that he cannot let this omnic's plot succeed.

It's important to understand that the equation for "Destruction" doesn't just infect inorganic life; it affects all technological objects.

His Celestial Alliance is entirely powered by technology; if this thing were to appear, his starship would explode on the spot.

"It seems you are indeed not interested in this."

The omnic remained polite: "You can call me by the name Gushi, but there's no need to mention the other name."

"Very well, Lord Legus, while I still respect your elders, I suggest you be sensible and take your plans and get out of my Onpharos, okay?"

Lai Gushi: "Your" Onpharos?

How did he so smoothly bring Onpharos into his hands?

Laigushi felt that, throughout his entire life, including Zandal's, he had truly never seen anyone like this.

So domineering, yet so taken for granted.

"I'm curious, why are you so interested in this place?"

Lai Gushi tried to approach the topic from another angle: "To you, this world is nothing more than a virtual world made up of code and numbers. You can't even feel any sense of belonging to this place, can you?"

That's true. You can't see people or things, and even the water is just a blurry mess of colors. Yun Zhi really doesn't feel like he belongs in this world at all.

Even if a code-like humanoid were to speak in front of him, Yunzhi would find it meaningless.

—After all, by simply modifying their data, it would be easy to get them to support you as king, wouldn't it?

"Yeah... Is a world where I have no sense of immersion worth doing this for?"

In his eyes, this world is a substandard game that doesn't even have modeling and only simulates half of The Sims.

Yun closed her eyes briefly, then opened them again:

"That's a funny thing to say... Do you mean I have to wait until my immortal ship sinks, my star raft falls, the golden people riot, and the machinery goes into chaos before I deal with the trouble here?"

"However, I certainly can't expect you to understand me, after all, you're all alone, while I lead the entire Immortal Ship Alliance."

"Did you understand what I meant?"

Lai Gushi felt that he had never been so speechless in his life.

It is not Zandal himself; it is merely one aspect of him, and it cannot truly represent Zandal.

It had a strong desire to share and originally intended to tell Yun Zhi a long story and have a good discussion with this first messenger who had lived for thousands of years about its plans and experimental results.

As a result, Yunzhi refused to listen to the lecture from the very beginning.

When Nguyen Mai was on the Black Tower space station, she was also confused and asked herself if the non-existent Zandal had ever been so confused as to despair.

Looking back now, it wasn't just confusion and despair; they had gone completely mad.

"I created a mechanical god that even I cannot control, and He defines the boundaries of knowledge, forbidding people from leaving—as intelligent as you are, do you think this is right?"

Lai Gushi chose to read Yun Zhi's random reply.

Is that correct? Does it matter?

A cold glint flashed in Yun Zhi's eyes—

The next second, Lai Gushi's head fell off and rolled to the feet of Yun Zhi.

"What, your son became your father, and now you're all defensive?"

As for?

My son tried to dominate me, and I hadn't even broken down yet, so what's wrong with you calling your son "Dad"? At least Master Boshizun wouldn't dominate you, right?

The falling head of the gushi was cracked open, and the wires inside were flashing with electricity, as if it had short-circuited.

"You wanted to expand the boundaries of knowledge, but your creation chose to set limits. You're uncomfortable with that, so you created a machine to cripple the erudite one? To plunge the entire universe into a vortex of divine war?"

"What, you have a headache, so you want to chop everyone's heads off? Who do you think you are? Do you think the King of Machines is still yours?"

"The Venerable One of Universal Knowledge has long ceased to be yours. The moment you created Him, you lost all connection to Him. Even my Immortal Ship Alliance has creations that have benefited from Him. How can you destroy Him with mere words?"

Stop joking, okay?

At least we should keep the parts and code of the erudite monk for him; they might be able to be inlaid into their Great Evolution and Exhaustive Observation Array.

"It seems we don't need to discuss this anymore."

The severed head spoke: "Then, how about you stay outside this mythology and watch this real drama unfold?"

"The play of Onphalus has reached its most crucial stage. Why not join me in watching this magnificent myth?"

The Iron Tomb is about to hatch, provided that Caiuslan crosses the singularity of knowledge—

Beside Yunzhi, a computer screen displayed Onpharos's current situation.

The people on the screen are no longer code, but real people.

But Yunzhi had no interest in appreciating any of that; he kicked Laigushi's head open.

"I told you, you're all alone, while I lead the entire Immortal Ship Alliance. Guess why I so readily brought those two children in? And why I have the patience to chat with you here?"

Cause and effect can tear apart time, so Yunzhi is not worried at all about not being able to go back.

the most important……

A sudden chill ran down Lai Gushi's spine.

Meanwhile, outside Onphalus...

A massive starship cleaved through the darkness of space, cutting through the waves of a vast ocean of stars.