PNB Chapter 371 Restarting the World
Chapter 371 Restarting the World
"Damn final producer."
Lin Xuan moved his numb arm. The nanobots had been activated and were beginning to repair his injured body.
This kind of restart is really not a pleasant experience, and every time he is restarted, he feels like something is missing from his memory.
"Are you ok?"
Seeing Lin Xuan's pale face, Himothers couldn't help but step forward and ask her what was wrong.
Lin Xuan waved her hand to indicate that she was fine.
"Simonses, how many people does Starfire have left?"
Simothers was taken aback, but quickly became alert and couldn't help but take two steps back.
"What do you ask for this?"
Lin Xuan looked at Simothers' wary eyes and couldn't help but facepalm.
"I almost forgot, you don't know me yet."
"What do you mean?"
Simothers was puzzled. He just felt that the guy in front of him was acting strangely and was alone in this desolate place. Could he have taken too many drugs?
But what Lin Xuan said next shocked Himothers.
"There's no time. Listen to me. Your name is Simothers, and you're 23 years old. On the surface, you're the leader of the underground anti-government organization Spark, but many people don't know your true identity. You're actually the sole legal heir to Enwan Technology, one of the three giant corporations. Am I right?"
Simothers's expression shifted from shock to a hint of fear.
"how do you……"
"Don't speak yet, listen to me first." Lin Xuan spoke very quickly.
“I know you can’t accept this, but actually this isn’t the first time we’ve met. To be precise, this is the eighth time.”
"Someone wants to kill you, and this person can mobilize the world's resources to kill you. You have two things to do now. First, you cannot trust anyone except me. Second, never try to activate the main core. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
Simothers nodded as if he understood, feeling as if his brain had crashed, unable to process so much complex information.
"Ming... I don't understand, who exactly are you? And what is the core of the machine?"
Simothers looked bewildered. He felt that what had happened today was too surreal, but the man in front of him didn't seem to be lying.
Before Lin Xuan could offer any further explanation, a booming sound suddenly echoed in the distant sky, as if something was rapidly approaching them.
"Walk."
Lin Xuan immediately pulled Himothers up and spread her fingers forward.
"Structural Reorganization: The Chariot!"
In the next instant, extremely fine silver threads emerged from his body, gradually detaching from his palm and forming metal plates in front of the two of them, which were then assembled and pieced together.
In a few moments, a fully armed silver off-road vehicle was assembled by nanobots. Simothers looked at this futuristic scene and remained silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"It seems I really should go home and visit. After all these years of wandering, has technology really advanced to this extent?"
Lin Xuan was too lazy to waste words with him. She simply tossed him into the passenger seat like a package, then got into the driver's seat herself and disappeared without a trace with a tap on the gas.
"Who in the Starfire organization is still alive? Hope, Felix, or WALL-E?"
While driving, Lin Xuan tried to talk to Simothers, hoping to get information about the situation after the restart as soon as possible, but Simothers looked completely bewildered.
"These people you're talking about... I don't know any of them. Are you sure you haven't got the wrong people?"
Simothers' first thought was that the other party had contacted the wrong person, but upon closer inspection, it seemed that he was the only one in the Starfire Organization. Could it be that someone else had created the Starfire Organization in a place he didn't know about?
Seeing the other person's blank expression, Lin Xuan couldn't help but sigh.
"It seems that the final producers have completed the assimilation of their data."
"What do you mean?"
Himothers had actually wanted to get off the vehicle, but looking at the shuttles that were closely following them behind, he thought it would be safer to stay on the vehicle.
Lin Xuan also saw the tails chasing behind him, so when he passed an abandoned tunnel, he suddenly turned the steering wheel sharply, causing the entire car to plunge directly into the abandoned industrial tunnel.
The lights inside the tunnel were damaged due to years of disrepair. Lin Xuan raised his hand, and a lighting drone was quickly set up in his hand. Then, he threw it out of the car to provide lighting.
Then, he handed over the driving to the AI and turned to look at Himothers.
Listen to me, you are not alone.
Upon hearing this, Simothers remained silent for a few seconds.
"How do you curse?"
Lin Xuan: "..."
“That’s not what I meant. I meant that you used to have many companions, and together you founded the Spark Organization, but your memories have been reset, so you can’t remember these people at all.”
"Memory reboot? You mean someone has tampered with my memories?"
Lin Xuan shook her head.
"No, it's not tampering, it's rebooting. The entire mechanical Earth is actually just a program. All your memories, all the things you have to do, all the lives you experience have been pre-programmed. You are just a cog in this massive machine."
"How can this be?"
Simothers was both amused and exasperated. He thought the man in front of him was talking nonsense, and if he hadn't felt that he might not be able to beat him, he would have run away just now.
"I know very well who I am and what I do every day. According to your logic, every thought of mine is actually pre-programmed?"
Lin Xuan nodded.
"Then how do you know all this?"
"I do not belong to your planet."
Himothers sighed deeply.
"It's a very imaginative story, but I have to remind you that Mechanical Earth is not an isolated diplomatic entity. I've met many people from Mind Earth and Gene Earth, but none of them have the situation you described."
Lin Xuan was helpless.
"I don't know how to explain this to you now, but I have not been restarted, and I have no way to be restarted. That's why I've been able to find you again and again."
"What do you want from me?"
“You are special, but I don’t know exactly how you are special.”
“Originally, you and I had many companions around us, but they were all being rebooted and assimilated by the consciousness of the End Producer. Although you also lost your memory, I don’t know why, but every time you reboot, you are carrying out the same purpose. It seems that the End Producer has no way to completely reset you.”
"Or rather, the whole world seems to have been built for you."
Upon hearing this, Himothers couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"You mean I'm the protagonist of this world, and everyone else is just an NPC in my world?"
"Correct!"
"I stopped believing that nonsense when I was seven and almost got whipped into a spinning top by my dad for getting the worst grade in my class."