"Ding ding..." Ziyu walked to the door, and it made a dinging sound.
"Swish..." The door in front of Ziyu opened, revealing a screen, and behind the screen was a massive and complex machine that looked as big as an adult elephant.
"Sir, this is the Mainframe... As for the Hard Drive..." An arrow suddenly appeared on the screen, pointing to one side.
Ziyu looked in the direction of the arrow and was instantly stunned.
"What on earth is this for..." Ziyu saw another door on the side of the room. This door was more ordinary, made of transparent glass, and it didn't have a password.
But the focus was inside, where countless Crystals were flashing with light. Ziyu knew that this was a special data storage device; a single Crystal could hold a vast amount of data.
"Sir, let me tell you another exciting piece of news... This Database has less than ten percent remaining."
Ziyu swallowed hard.
"Also, sir, do you know how big this thing is?" Zero rarely showed a hint of a smile.
Ziyu shook his head.
"Sir, according to my detection, this Database has a storage capacity of 100 yottabytes!"
"Uh... Are you sure it's less than ten percent left? Has ninety percent been used?" Ziyu's eyes twitched.
Yottabyte! It's important to know that data amounts are calculated in powers of 1024!
1 yottabyte equals one hundred trillion gigabytes!
Converted, 100 yottabytes is 112589990684262400 gigabytes!
"Alright, Zero, I'll bring you in first..." Ziyu recovered from the shock and merged all the metal together to form a small Hard Drive. With Zero's assistance, this small Hard Drive became so precise that it could hold Zero's main system and all of Zero's data.
After some collaborative efforts to crack the code.
"Starting the copy..." The screen displayed the information. Due to Zero's massive Database, it would take some time to wait.
During this time, Ziyu waited and wandered around. Only Ziyu could casually stroll around a Space Station like this...
"Zero," Ziyu leaned against the wall and sat down, "when I created you, you were quite small, just a basic Database. But I gave you the ability to expand on your own. Seeing you now, I'm really happy."
"Sir, I am also very happy to exist in this world. By the way... thank you, Sir."
"Hehe..." Ziyu smiled, looking at the information being copied on the screen, feeling an indescribable emotion in his heart, and his eyes even became a bit moist.
In the beginning, Ziyu created Zero just to pass the time because there was no one to chat with in the organization. No one would casually disturb Ziyu's studio, so Ziyu created Zero to keep him company.
Initially, Zero only had some ordinary functions and two special functions along with a very small Database.
The ordinary functions included responding to others based on the rules stored in the Database, which only remembered some basic information. Now, however, Zero's Database had grown significantly. This was due to Zero's two unique functions that distinguished it from other artificial Intelligences—“human functions,” learning and logical thinking.
Zero was learning various things on the internet and becoming increasingly human-like through this learning process. Now, Zero possessed human thoughts, could think independently, and even made jokes. Being a program allowed Zero to have exceptional computational abilities, enabling it to accomplish many tasks in a short amount of time, becoming a great asset to Ziyu.
Just now, Ziyu and Zero worked together, and a fourteen-year-old kid managed to escape from a tightly regulated organization.
"The copy is complete," said Zero. At this moment, Zero was no longer communicating through wireless devices; Ziyu could completely discard the wireless equipment brought from the spaceship. Now, Zero was inside the Mysterious Metal! If they wanted to communicate, they could bypass the metal vibrations and speak directly.
"Sir, what’s our next step?" Zero asked, clearly a bit excited.
"Since there’s no one here... let’s see what the organization has stored here..." Ziyu said with interest as he walked up to the screen, where a virtual keyboard automatically appeared.
"Let’s bypass the password for this thing first..." Ziyu pursed his lips, his fingers dancing on the keyboard.
Ziyu could crack this password, but bypassing it was far simpler than breaking it. It was like trying to access a regular Computer with a password; directly bypassing the password to enter the system was much easier than figuring out the specific contents of the password.
"Done!!" Ziyu laughed. The screen in front of him displayed a message granting access, followed by many files appearing on the screen.
The system of this Supercomputer was different from that of ordinary computers; its functions were specifically designed for this Computer, without excessive features.
"Sir?" Zero inquired, as he could no longer perceive sound. Now, Zero had to temporarily remain within the Metal Plate, so without a monitoring system, it felt as if he had lost his eyes and could only sense vibrations from Nearby to detect sounds.
"Aliens??" Ziyu had a strange expression. Just moments ago, he was stunned by the information displayed on the screen and had not spoken.
The screen showed information about things outside Earth, including some publicly known events on Earth, such as the UFO incidents that were often laughed at; there were also pieces of information that Ziyu had never heard of before, mentioning things like the Solar System, various planets, and even images of aliens.
"Is the organization just playing house with big money, or is there really something to these matters?" Ziyu thought. Based on what they knew now, connecting spaceships and alien information suggested that the organization might indeed have ties to extraterrestrial civilizations.
"Bermuda..." Ziyu discovered documents related to this topic.
Ziyu opened it, and inside were various studies about the Bermuda Triangle area. The earlier documents discussed the geographical information of the Bermuda Triangle, while later ones recorded supernatural events that occurred there, and then...
"Underwater exploration?" Ziyu suddenly became excited. The mysteries of what lies beneath the Bermuda Sea have always been a puzzle!
Ziyu found a video where a camera slowly descended into the depths of the ocean, accompanied by a narration about Bermuda.
"The Bermuda Triangle, one of the most mysterious regions on Earth, was discovered in 2002 by an organization that successfully identified strong spatial distortion phenomena in the underwater area of the Bermuda Triangle. However, none of the Fleet sent for exploration returned alive or transmitted any information. In 2012, the organization decided to conduct another exploration to better achieve its goals," said the voice in the video, though the speaker was not visible.
"Although the organization did not order an incursion into Bermuda, we have made some discoveries from the periphery, finding connections between the Bermuda Triangle, China's Shennongjia at 31°N, 109°E, and Japan's Japanese Dragon Triangle at 25°N, 142°E, as well as the Arctic region. Therefore, this time we decided to conduct unmanned exploration."
The scene shifted from the underwater footage to a regional simulation map, with the Bermuda Triangle clearly marked. Then the image transitioned again, with a small caption indicating it was a cave in Shennongjia. Following that was an image of a rock with protrusions resembling the earlier map, and at the center of the rock's protrusion was a triangular mark. The scene changed again, showing lines connecting the Japanese Dragon Triangle to the Earth's core, extending to where it appeared on the other side of the globe—the Bermuda Triangle.
However, no connection to the Arctic was displayed.
"The organization is actually global?" Ziyu widened her eyes. Earlier documents she had read also included research explorations in Europe.
"This unmanned exploration will be led by robotic arms, hoping to probe into the depths of the Bermuda Sea," continued the voice in the video.
"Are you kidding? That's impossible! Do you think robotic arms are magic wands? The sea is at least 5,000 meters deep..." Ziyu felt somewhat helpless.
"What??" Ziyu was astonished once again.
The footage stopped progressing; perhaps the robotic arm wasn't long enough since those people dared not dive. Then they used the camera's zoom function as if rapidly descending into depth, directly capturing images from below. It seemed that the camera's resolution could support magnification enough to see clearly at the ocean floor.
"5,000 meters deep ocean, and you can just zoom in on it to see clearly?? This camera is incredible..."
Actually, Ziyu didn't know that this magical camera had undergone magnification tests at Ground, and from a distance of five thousand meters, it could see very clearly through magnification. It also had recording capabilities, making it much more useful than a telescope.
However, the seabed was pitch black, and nothing could be seen...
“Laser fired, using the scattering device that had already been deployed underwater to provide Light!”
A Laser swept past beside the camera; it was a beautiful white Light, roughly the thickness of half an arm.
As the Laser passed, the immense energy caused the seawater to boil, producing bubbles!
“Boom!” A muffled sound followed, likely indicating that the Laser had penetrated something, but there was no scattering or reflection.
“Success!” The man's tone was somewhat excited; the seabed was already glowing, but it was too bright, transforming from complete darkness to blinding white in an instant...
Just as the white light gradually faded and they were about to see the underwater scene, the camera suddenly went black—it broke down.
The video ended here.
“What's this? What's the use of this video?” Ziyu raised an eyebrow but quickly became serious again.
“There’s a place I didn’t pay attention to... So this video has value here…”
[End of Chapter]
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