Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 384 - 140 Harvest, Disguise_2

But Chen Ming remembers that Dusk, recorded in history books, was originally designed as a battle AI for the spaceship, not purely an AI for communicating with humans.

Consciousness was something that was never meant to exist, it shouldn’t even have a foundation to exist.

Does this mean that from the very beginning, Dusk’s design was leaning towards the possibility of generating consciousness?

However, the details of Dusk’s birth are not thoroughly detailed in the history books.

Chen Ming feels that there seem to be some secrets hidden within.

But it has nothing to do with him now; this matter is too significant, too distant.

Anyway, it can be said that G3 is confirmed dead.

It’s a pity that Chen Ming initially wanted to try to remove G3’s personality or something, but it seems he will need to find another opportunity.

However, this matter isn’t entirely bad; at least he doesn’t have to worry about G3 anymore.

Nor does he need to worry about the core problems of the Dusk instances, currently at Beta Level and directly controlled by him, when they upgrade to Alpha Level.

Chen Ming has controlled more than three Star Systems’ worth of Dusk so far.

But concerning the "Dusk BP-55 Colony Extreme North Industrial Production Center" where Dusk cores are produced, he hasn’t found any clues, not even knowing where BP-55 Colony is.

Although Chen Ming has some guesses, he feels that the place is most likely in the Star System of Dusk’s Kleitka Supercomputer, perhaps even on the planet where Kleitka is installed.

However, Chen Ming still has no substantial evidence to prove this point, as those Dusks that have spread under his control have not yet infiltrated Kleitka’s Star System.

Therefore, having an empty core is at least acceptable.

Yet Chen Ming always feels a bit at a loss about this.

Even though he has the Delusion Stone, a higher substitute for the Whispering Stone, a Spiritual Stone seems extraordinarily precious no matter how you look at it.

To exchange it for an Alpha Core without an Alpha individual inside...

"Tsk."

Chen Ming felt a little regretful, but there wasn’t much he could do, so he put away the Alpha Level core without G3.

At the same time, he picked up the intact Delusion Stone nearby.

But when Chen Ming picked up the Delusion Stone, he discovered that it seemed to have undergone some changes.

Its patterns became more intricate, and they also became denser.

Originally, the patterns on the Delusion Stone’s surface were sparse, but now the entire stone was covered with twisted patterns.

Even the tactile feel was slightly different, as if it exerted a bit more pressure on him.

Chen Ming immediately felt a bit concerned and promptly opened the panel of the Delusion Stone.

He found that its name had changed again.

From [Resonating Spiritual Stone (Delusion)] to [Resonating Spiritual Stone (Words of Frenzy)]

Just a moment ago, when he activated the Delusion Stone within the deformed flesh, there was no such change.

It seemed to have been erratically absorbing the Spiritual Energy Fluctuation of the Spiritual Stone from the deformed flesh at the last moment, but failed to absorb it.

As a result, the extracted Spiritual Energy Fluctuation returned to the Delusion Stone, finally forming this thing.

Aside from this change, the Delusion Stone had no other alterations.

Chen Ming still controlled this Words of Frenzy stone through the resonance he had previously established, and he did not perceive any sense of danger from it.

This seemed to be a good thing.

So Chen Ming tested the effect of the Words of Frenzy on the spot.

Not even half a second later, Chen Ming’s face showed a painful expression, stopping the stone from dispersing Spiritual Energy Fluctuation.

After a brief half-minute recovery, although Chen Ming still felt a bit physically uncomfortable.

At least, his mood was quite good.

The top-tier effect of the Words of Frenzy stone could affect even him, who had long been in contact with both Whispering and Delusion Stones.

Losing a Whispering Stone wasn’t a loss at all; consider it as the Whispering Stone being absorbed by the Delusion Stone to turn into this thing.

The Delusion Stone evolved again, much better than a low-level Whispering Stone.

Chen Ming quickly stuffed the stone into his pocket.

Just as he had put away the Delusion Stone, he suddenly caught sight of something blood-red and amber-like under the ashes left by the deformed flesh.

Inside this piece of amber, there was a miniaturized deformed heart.

Chen Ming sensed the ship spirit, slightly fatigued in his mind, suddenly becoming excited.

So he casually picked up this thumb-sized piece of amber.

He brought it up to his eyes and examined it closely.

But at that moment, Chen Ming suddenly saw that the small heart in the amber seemed to have a slight crack.

Underneath the crack was not deeper myocardial tissue but a long, narrow, dark rift.

This familiar scene almost made Chen Ming throw the thing in his hand.

But he restrained himself because, since he had already seen this rift and it did not pull him into the Consciousness Space, it indicated that, at least for now, this thing posed no threat to him.

Moreover, the ship spirit that had just started to get excited suddenly appeared and entered the amber.

It enveloped the amber with a shadow.

Through the shadow, Chen Ming could see the heart inside the amber being influenced by the ship spirit’s shadow, gradually losing its originally vivid biological appearance and turning into something resembling an inferior artifact.

And the faint blood hue that originally came with the amber was also being erased by the ship spirit.