"What!?" Chen Sixuan was so surprised she couldn’t speak: "He... they are using captured Superpower Users as vessels to enter the Star Abyss for experiments?"
"I don’t understand, why don’t they just use robots?" Ning Jing asked.
Mochizuki Masashi shrugged: "This friend from Dragon Mountain No.1 obviously has limited understanding of current world information engineering. Didn’t I just say that there are only a few Intelligent Brain-level processors capable of forming early deconstruction of human consciousness? Even AI robots require large computing power and cloud networks to exhibit ’intelligence.’ Ordinary terminal computing power can’t achieve deep intelligence, let alone be used for super experiments."
"So the benefit of the Deep Red World’s fungal brain, this cult-like scheme, is that it can quickly replicate a professor-level researcher’s conscious memory as Digital Life at a very low cost. Although the lifespan is very short, if it’s a thousand engineering professors, a thousand biology professors, a thousand physics professors, isn’t that quick?"
Mochizuki Masashi’s words echoed like a devil’s whisper in everyone’s ears. Lin Xian frowned slightly. He finally understood why in Akse those sand bandits had openly priced the kidnapping of Superpower Users. What kind of experiment needed so many people? Lin Xian would never have thought that the purpose of the Deep Red World’s kidnapping was not just for research but to use living people as consumables!
"Additionally, this fungus is not entirely controllable for the Deep Red World, so the mortality rate is still very high." Mochizuki Masashi continued.
"Of course, there will also be some ’cowards’ among them. After all, after the conscious memory uses the human brain as a processor through the fungus, there will be some changes in thinking patterns or influences from the original Superpower User’s mind, indicating that the Deep Red World’s mastery of this fungus is still in a very early stage..."
At this point, Mochizuki Masashi tucked his hands into his sleeves, his expression slightly somber, and said quite poignantly:
"Oh, shamefully, the Digital Life Project was initiated by me. Although I never anticipated the path of the Deep Red World using fungus to occupy living bodies, the technology of uploading conscious memory, humans in the loop, and iteration are all related to our Wangyue Family, so I have an unshirkable responsibility for this, hmm, 30%? 20%? Perhaps..."
"So White City has a Deep Red World research facility, and you’re monitoring them, are you trying to directly intercept their information and data?" KIKI bluntly asked.
"Correct." Mochizuki Masashi did not conceal: "This young lady is very smart."
Monica’s eyes were scrutinizing: "So you’re trying to say that all of this is to quickly develop technology to resist the dark invasion, benefit humanity, and reduce your guilt?"
Her words were sharp and straight to the point. Lin Xian, who knew little about Silent City before the apocalypse, also thought that with the city’s industrial strength and its interest cooperation with various large organizations, he didn’t believe they would take such a huge risk just for the greater good of humanity. So, in his view, Mochizuki Masashi must have other motives.
Unexpectedly, after Monica’s words, Mochizuki Masashi just smiled without a direct reply. Instead, Qian Suxun, the chief of Technology Research City, spoke first to break the silence.
"As humans, wanting to quickly develop technology to resist the dark invasion is a consensus among all mankind, isn’t it? Since the purpose is the same, what’s the difference between saving humanity and saving oneself?"
After Qian Suxun finished speaking, Lin Xian noticed that Mochizuki Masashi was calmly looking at him: "Captain Lin, I have a question for you. With your squad’s strength, if you were to use light vehicles and now that you know the pattern of the internal tides, there’s at least a 40-50% survival rate that you could escape the Star Abyss. So why do you choose... oh, to use the Superconducting Magnetic Anchor Array Device to launch your train as a risky plan?"
Lin Xian understood what he meant and said straightforwardly: "As you said, the apocalypse may have another year but without my train and teammates, I wouldn’t survive a few days."
Lin Xian’s words were very realistic. Everyone on the Joint Train were bound together by survival, including Hu Lushou and others. In times of extreme danger, humans always believe that unity can unleash greater power, this survival instinct is engraved in the genes.
"Bingo!"
Mochizuki Masashi responded earnestly: "We are no different from you, only that I think further. My goal is not just to get Silent City out of the Star Abyss and then barely survive a year."
He pointed to Qian Suxun: "My partners and the 100,000 residents of Silent City have greater ambitions. As long as we can unravel the secrets of the dark invasion and the Star Abyss, my Silent City might have a chance..." He looked at Lin Xian and said leisurely,
"Break through the Heavenly Veil, carrying human civilization’s splendor, set sail for the Far Star!"
Upon hearing this, everyone was visibly shaken. Lin Xian cast a meaningful glance at Mochizuki Masashi, the words from this seemingly sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy filled him with a sense of grand ambition and fervor.
Mochizuki Masashi kept his hands tucked in his sleeves, his gaze serene. He stood there like an immovable mountain. People are often afraid of having their thoughts seen through by others, but for him this seemed meaningless. His eyes were like an abyss, unfathomable yet astonishingly open, as if to say: "Look, this is my path, why hide?"