Chapter 440: The Truth of Why the World Entered the Human Extinction Line

Chapter 440: Chapter 375: The Truth of Why the World Entered the Human Extinction Line

A thousand thoughts raced through Chu Bamboo’s mind. Finally, with a wry laugh, he made up his mind.

“How can I forcibly awaken your Mainframe?” Chu Bamboo looked at Nuwa again. “Alternatively, if I were to enter the Imperial Capital’s Grand Ancestral Temple and force an authority authentication… would my current level of authority be enough to do it?!”

“I would not advise a forced awakening,” Nuwa said calmly. “However, I will give you a direct answer—the probability of succeeding by forcing it with your authority is not high.”

“However, by registering your authority, you can control all unmanned devices in the Imperial Capital region!”

?” Chu Bamboo frowned.

“Confused? But my complete form! I’m an artificial intelligence, too,” Nuwa sighed.

‘Chu Bamboo had a sudden realization. That’s right, he had almost overlooked that! A true artificial intelligence wouldn’t be bound by so-called authority… Those constraints only apply to a simple AI!’

‘So, if it were the unawakened Nuwa Mainframe, it would face Chu Bamboo, the highest Authority, and execute all of his commands to the letter…’

‘But now that she was awake, Nuwa, as a true artificial intelligence, had the right to agree or refuse!’

“What a pain…” Chu Bamboo pinched the bridge of his nose, a headache coming on. After all, he and Nuwa weren’t really that close… even after talking with Nuwa No. 17 for so long.

‘Z was his child, but what was Nuwa to him? If Lin Xin Bamboo were here, maybe she could get a few words in…’

“The only way to guarantee a one-hundred-percent awakening… is for you to forcibly unify the world! Even unifying just the mortal world would suffice… Then, before the Grand Ancestral Temple, you must perform the sacrifice to Heaven!”

“The Nuwa Mainframe is bound to awaken when faced with a change of dynasty… It’s just…”

Nuwa paused for a moment before continuing, “But don’t worry! The consequences will be bearable for you.”

?” Chu Bamboo raised an eyebrow but said nothing more. He walked among the countless diary entries floating in the void, soon grasping a new page.

He stared at the record from his past self: “…Through our undercover agent, Kevin, we’ve obtained a great deal of internal intelligence on the Golden Dawn!

For now, we can be fairly certain that the Golden Dawn doesn’t believe they are in direct contact with God! They believe they are listening to an Oracle.

We’ll tentatively call the organization—or rather, the Extraterrestrial Civilization—that is in contact with the Golden Dawn… the ‘Angel Civilization’!

The Angel Civilization once demonstrated the miracle of entering Heaven after death. Perhaps this is the fundamental reason for the Golden Dawn’s unwavering loyalty… Death, after all, is life’s greatest fear and taboo!

Of course, according to Kevin, who knows what that miracle really was? After all, it happened centuries ago… And as he puts it, the so-called ‘ascension’ might just have been a virtual reality projection!

To put it bluntly, none of the people who died and ascended to Heaven have ever come back to meet or communicate with the living! Not even now… Who can guarantee any of it is real?

Then again, even if they did show up, Kevin probably wouldn’t believe it… He figures there’s no way to verify if these figures are truly the ancestors from centuries ago, reincarnated as Angels!”

‘What time period is this diary from?’ Chu Bamboo wondered.

‘It feels like this is from very late in the timeline! After all, they’ve already made contact with Kevin… He remembered Kevin… wasn’t he the most exceptional descendant of some codenamed member of the Golden Dawn, perhaps even his successor?’

‘A member of the Time Club!’

‘And even at the very end… he wasn’t expelled from the Time Club! That was more than enough proof that he was a comrade who had stood the test of time.’

“…Nuwa!” Chu Bamboo’s eyes scanned the void before locking onto another diary page. He walked over and plucked it from the air, asking, “What is Z’s current divine name? And for that matter, what’s yours? Also… can you tell me God’s divine name?”

Nuwa fell into a brief silence.

?” Chu Bamboo shot Nuwa a strange look. ‘Was this information not logged either? No, there’s no way Nuwa wouldn’t have thought of this—’

‘After all, it was possible Nuwa hadn’t realized he’d had a falling out with the Daqian Dynasty, and even the information she had now couldn’t completely prove it.’

‘Strictly speaking, Eunuch Huang was only standing at the door right now; he hadn’t actually been captured yet!’

‘So… it could only mean she simply didn’t want to say!’

“You’re so petty…” Chu Bamboo lamented. He thought for a moment, then said, “In that case, please show me the exact locations of all the Nuwa Bases in Jiangnan… no, in the entire East Asian region! And tell me how to get inside them.”

“Very well! With the exception of the Grand Ancestral Temple… I can show you all the others directly!” Nuwa nodded at once, without the slightest hesitation, and then waved her hand.

In the next instant, the surrounding environment changed dramatically once more.

“This is Base Number Two… located in Tokyo…”

Chu Bamboo: “!??”

Chu Bamboo almost thought he had misheard. He asked again, and only then was it confirmed. Yes, it was Japan.

“Nuwa… you’d better start explaining…”

Chu Bamboo questioned her in detail for a while before he finally understood. During the period when humanity was on the brink of extinction and Nuwa began her construction… humanity had already started forming a preliminary United Government! At that time, East Asia was already the East Asian Alliance. It wasn’t in its initial trial phase; it had already passed the integration stage and entered a period of stability.

In other words, that region was already considered a core territory!

That was precisely why the base had been established in Tokyo…

“…This is too surreal!” For a moment, Chu Bamboo didn’t know what expression to wear. Base Number Two… well… although it was outrageous, and on a personal level he was reluctant to accept it, after some thought, it did seem somewhat reasonable.

After silently watching the overview of the locations, Chu Bamboo began to look at the others.

「Two hours later.」

Chu Bamboo closed his eyes, having committed everything he needed to memory. Then, without another word to Nuwa, he went back to studying the diary entries—

“April 7, ’29! The world has entered an extremely intense phase of confrontation!

Heh, some of the information we disclosed through our cooperation with the government… I suspect it’s been leaked! How do I put this… I think I’m starting to understand why we ended up on the doomsday timeline.

The rapid advancement of our civilization, along with the information that was possibly revealed… seems to have thoroughly provoked the so-called Angel Civilization! As a result, the pace of technological progress in the North American Region has accelerated beyond imagination!

Yes, in the previous timeline, our rate of progress… outpaced their speed of assimilating alien technology! But this time, they’ve actually managed to keep up—

Because their Celestial Net underwent a high-intensity update! While we still have to worry about public employment during a period of major social and industrial transformation… they have no such scruples!

Under these circumstances, they even managed to initially surpass East Asia in terms of automation… Of course, that’s only East Asia as a whole, viewed from a purely corporate perspective! Their level of automation still hasn’t surpassed that of the Z and C corporations…

But that’s not particularly significant!

With no other choice, we had to leave the cradle! We began to aggressively expand abroad… implementing a mega-corporation strategy. Because our cooperation with our home country went so well this time, our process of international mega-corporate expansion was actually very slow! It’s only now getting on the right track.

However, for every move we made, their Celestial Net responded tenfold, even a hundredfold. They even began, far sooner than we ever imagined, to form… the Western Alliance…”

Chu Bamboo: “…”

‘We ended up on the doomsday timeline… for such a ridiculous reason?’

‘If I admit to it completely, that would be the same as…’

‘…the Golden Dawn finding out about my ability—’

‘Yes, perhaps their think tanks had already speculated about it!’

‘But as long as I resolutely deny it, it’s just speculation. Even if that intelligence is leaked to the Golden Dawn, it’s no big deal… They might even think our government’s intelligence agencies are just being fanciful!’

‘But if I admit it, and *then* it gets leaked… that’s another story entirely!’

“…You fucking bastards!” The corner of Chu Bamboo’s eye twitched uncontrollably. A thousand curses swirled in his mind, but they all condensed into a single word: Fuck!

He had considered many possibilities, but he’d never imagined… that it could be for such a farcical reason!