"Shunyan? You're still alive!" Shunying was overjoyed when she saw Shunyan before her.
But before she could be happy for long, Shunyan said, "No, I am only an intelligent system. What you see is merely data I entered into the system beforehand."
"Shunyan. What is this?" Shunying had realized that the Shunyan before her was a virtual image, yet she could not help herself.
Shunyan's virtual image said calmly, "Sister, if you can see this file link, it means I am already dead. Unfortunately, I still had so much research I never got to do, especially the research into memory imprint. If it had truly succeeded, our warriors would no longer need to fear sacrifice. Sadly, even after sixty thousand years of research, I still failed to complete it."
"What memory imprint?" Shunying seemed to have forgotten why she had come to the Heavenly Maiden Holy Land and unconsciously followed Shunyan's words.
Shunyan's intelligent projection said, "A very, very long time ago—probably when we first encountered an extragalactic civilization—I began wondering what we would do if one day our warriors could not defeat those civilizations from beyond the galaxy. Although that was almost impossible with our Four-Dimensional Jump capabilities, I could never stop thinking about it."
"In those years, I thought about it every day. Later, I secretly established a research department dedicated to studying matters such as the storage and transmission of our lifeforms' memories. Well, for beings like us, with long lives and an undefeated record in war, such technology might indeed seem useless. But I could never resist researching it. I always felt that it was a technology we ought to possess. I also collected data from other civilizations in the Andromeda Galaxy, and they did not have such technology either. Yet we all knew that two