The story of Pandora ends here, but I know that the story is far from that simple.
The substitute puppets created by the "Indestructible" plan are shells without sanity, and before their mother dies, these bodies will be in an eternal dormant state, and the Viska I met has not only awakened, but also has his own body. The insanity—although that insanity is already very crazy—suggests that something happened after the termination of the project, which led to the emergence of Visca.
Pandora didn't let my doubts persist for long. She sorted out the memories that had been quite long and somewhat difficult to mobilize, and then told me the regrettable second half of the story.
"Fifty years after the plan was forced to be suspended, the colonial galaxy where I was stationed encountered the largest abyss erosion in history. Hundreds of stars became extremely dangerous critical stars under the disturbance of the abyss. Thousands of Tens of thousands of large and small asteroids are rampaging in the sky area, and the power of the abyss has even invaded the colony's parent star, making the originally stable planet become manic and on the verge of collapse. Tens of millions of Xiling apostles participated in the battle against the planet's runaway We destroyed dozens of stars that were completely out of control, but an accident happened when destroying a giant critical star. Due to the violent disturbance of the critical star formation, we fell into the trap of the abyss, and all the troops I led were sacrificed In the intersecting energy field between the entrance of the abyss and the black hole of the universe, I was the only one who managed to survive... "
I have been completely shocked by the grand war told by Pandora, what kind of battlefield is this! It turned out to be a battle with a runaway planet!
I stared at the cute little Pandora like a doll in my arms with incredible eyes. I couldn't believe that this little girl had led such a terrifying war of galaxy destruction. Compared with the star-level battles in the heyday of the Empire, the world of Azeroth is now facing The crisis is really as insignificant as an infantryman's gun jammed on the battlefield. No wonder Sandora and the others have never shown any concern about the battle situation. In the eyes of those big men who have already seen the ultimate war, this small Small regional disturbances are really nothing to worry about...
However, there is still one thing to note. Although the crisis in the world of Azeroth is not a big deal to Sandora and Pandora, the military strength we have now is even less comparable to the heyday of the empire...
Pandora’s narration is still going on. The storytelling ability of this little iceberg is really unsatisfactory. The completely plain water account description definitely possesses unprecedented hypnotic power. However, due to the shocking content of the story, I am still deeply moved. Attracted the past: "... in that ambush, we lost most of the high-level Xiling generals, but fortunately, due to the soul preservation technology, most of the generals have a chance to be reborn, but here I am But there was an accident—I was seriously injured at the time, and even lost the spiritual connection with the base for a while, under such circumstances, the 'Indestructible' system was activated."
"According to the system settings, when the mother dies, a random substitute puppet will be activated at the same time, and then my soul data will be transmitted to this substitute puppet by the time-space transmission device, but I was still alive at the time, so I was activated The stand-in puppet still remained static, so the system made a wrong judgment, thinking that the first activation was unsuccessful, and activated the second body... In this way, in a short period of time, all my spare bodies were activated Yes, and confusion also arose at the same time, because there was such a setting at the beginning of the design of the "Indestructible" system: only one Pandora can remain active at the same time. This was originally to prevent several spare bodies from My soul could not be accurately placed due to waking up, but because my soul was not uploaded at all, all the replicas had serious system errors, and they actually started to actively implement the original setting: within the same period of time, only There is a Pandora…”
"Thousands of replicas started to fight frantically. They have no sanity, but the program makes them identify the sisters around them as bugs that break the rules of the system. What they have to do is to destroy every one with the Pandora logo in front of them. When I woke up in the base and sensed the chaos between my replicas, it was too late, and the Death Star, which was used as a testing ground, was already replicating They were torn apart in the battle, fragmented wreckage was floating everywhere in the universe, and none of the replicas that were used as backup bodies were left... "
"It looks like there's only one left..."
I tried my best to suppress my confused mind, then shook my head helplessly and smiled wryly.
This is a very depressing story. I didn't expect that Pandora would experience such a thing. Although those replicas are unconscious puppets, there are thousands of replicas that can be called their "sisters" Just fighting to death under a program error, such a thing is really not acceptable to ordinary people, especially when it is now learned that a clone has produced its own personality and escaped, the psychological pressure it brings to oneself The shock definitely couldn't be concealed by Pandora's superficial calm.
"Brother, the Pandora clone you mentioned should have produced its own intelligence in the process of fighting." Pandora lowered her head and said her analysis calmly, "has a better innate body than ordinary apostles. , it is more likely to develop self-awareness in the future. For us Xiling apostles, the most suitable condition for evolution is naturally fighting. It is very possible for thousands of high-level puppets to produce independent personalities in fierce mutual killing High, Viska's awakening should have happened during that battle."
It turned out to be like this. Since Pandora analyzed it this way, then the truth of this matter must not be much different, because no one can understand his spare body better than Pandora. In this way, Viska's madness also has a certain explanation.
The self-awareness generated in the brutal cannibalism, such a consciousness itself cannot be so normal, I can hardly imagine that when a newborn little girl opened her eyes ignorantly, she found herself standing on the ground. In the field of Shura where corpses are strewn all over the field, when her hands are covered with the blood of countless "sisters" who look exactly like her, what kind of impact will she receive? At that time, Viska may have gone crazy , when she escaped from the death star test site on the verge of collapse and wandered in the universe for tens of thousands of years, this madness will only become more serious, and now I can also confirm that Viska has been captured by the abyss during the wandering process. It also made her mind more confused. From the messy words she said, I can also infer that the system setting of "only one Pandora is allowed to exist" has not disappeared from her mind. , On the contrary, it has completely turned into a deadly endless loop, which is why Viska, who already has self-awareness, still thinks that she is just a backup copy, and her only mission is to destroy Pandora.
But there was still a question in my mind, more puzzling than any of the mysteries.
"Why does Viska treat me as an older brother?"
This is what I am curious about, and it seems that it is not just me, Weiska also calls Qianqian her "sister", and I even guess that, except for Pandora, Weiska regards all of us as her "original" family, It was also under this thought that she had the idea of "taking back" everything that belonged to her from Pandora.
"Because she can share my memory to a certain extent."
Pandora raised her small face, her eyes filled with guilt.
"I thought all the replicas had disappeared, so I never scanned my mind upload port, but Viska actually scanned my memory through this port without my knowledge..."
So it is!
In an instant, many things that troubled us became clear. The leak of our whereabouts has been leaked all the time. At that time, the attacks on Pandora and Sandora in the hermitage of the Dragon Clan became easy to understand. All the secrets , Viska stole it through the springboard of Pandora.
"it's not your fault."
Seeing Pandora's self-blaming expression, I showed a gentle smile, and then rubbed the little guy's head twice: "You were just used, and you also helped me find the channel for information leakage, didn't you? At least for now We can prevent similar situations from happening again—by the way, you have closed that upload port, right?"
Pandora nodded and said, "I've turned it off just now, and I checked the data records of that port. Since my brother met with that Wiska, the data leak has never happened again."
"That's good, but even if Viska can share your memory, she won't think of me as an older brother, right? She's gone crazy... Uh, maybe going crazy is a good explanation..."
Having said that, I actually have a possible explanation in my mind, that is, although Viska is crazy, there may still be a pure land deep in her heart.
I can't put myself in the shoes of myself and imagine what it would be like to experience what Viska would be like, but I know that as a sad girl who was born with the purpose of becoming someone else's soul container, Viska must be very lonely and lost in her heart , she doesn't know what she is living for, and she doesn't know who she should entrust her future to. Her mission to eliminate Pandora is not only because of the program lock, but also a sense of self-hypnosis in it— Eliminating Pandora, that is her meaning, that is the best way to prove her own existence, only by destroying Pandora, can she have her true self—this is the way Viska hypnotizes herself.
I have seen too many novels and movies, and I am really familiar with this kind of example.
But now, Viska suddenly shared the memory of Pandora, and everything changed. She began to be jealous, jealous of Pandora's happiness, but she was more yearning, yearning for a happy life like Pandora—for her, what Pandora experienced Yes, the happiness was far beyond her imagination.
So, under the influence of chaotic thinking, she regarded us as her relatives, and Pandora as the culprit who took everything away from her...