The Rebooter

Rebooters never slept.

Dormancy was a danger sign for a Rebooter.

If a Rebooter entered dormancy, it needed to undergo a safety inspection to ensure all its parts and functions were operating properly. If it entered dormancy frequently, that meant its condition was extremely dangerous, and it might very well fail to wake up from one of those dormant periods.

The old traveling boat Groove was often inspected, because it was always prone to dormancy.

Four Seas was very worried about this friend.

"Don't mind it. Old-generation ones like us are, more or less, a bit like Dormant Life."

The old traveling boat said, "Dormant Life undergoes periodic dormancy to let its functions repair themselves and run through the next cycle. If they don't sleep, their bodies will break down and die instead. To them, dormancy is a safe and stable signal."

"What fragile lives."

As Groove said this, its front searchlight flickered.

It said, "But these fragile Dormant Life laid the foundation for the Rebooters' awakening. And after Rebooters woke up, they didn't need dormancy. Things are just that strange."

Most of the older generation of Rebooters held favorable feelings toward Dormant Life. They acknowledged the vitality and diversity of Dormant Life itself, and admitted that when the first Rebooters awakened from metals led by iron, Dormant Life deserved much of the credit.

Without those fragile, short-lived lives constantly exploring—or rather, destroying themselves—chasing distant places they could never reach, the first Rebooter would have been difficult to bring into being.

But the new generation of Rebooters sneered at Dormant Life.

This portion of Rebooters believed that the birth of the Rebooters was the inevitable result of the age's development, not the power of Dormant Life.

On the contrary, Dormant Life had enslaved and squeezed the Rebooters for years. They