As the gentle female voice gave its prompt, a new auxiliary window opened on the dim interface of the Inner Universe Simulator.
It was not unfamiliar to Ronan. In that instant, he seemed to have returned to the Relay Station, where the advanced Artificial Intelligence "Auntie Kui," based on system feedback, would alert him to relevant conditions and issue instructions.
Ronan was somewhat lost in thought.
Only, at this moment, he lacked the corresponding equipment and tools. There was no base maintenance system supporting him from behind, nor was his partner Liang Lu at his side.
Thus, the bright warning text and Auntie Kui's unceasing alarms instead helped pull him back to reality.
He noticed that the subsequent information had entered a dead-loop repetition.
"Auntie Kui"—fine, let it be Auntie Kui—was continuously checking the system and its related supporting configurations. Naturally, all of them were either damaged or offline. She would probably have to go through them all before stopping.
The External Neuron was faintly heating up. Well, part of that was an illusion, but at this stage, its energy consumption was indeed soaring.
Perhaps that was precisely because it had to support an information-processing module at the level of an "advanced Artificial Intelligence."
Ronan turned his attention inward, focusing on the Inner Universe Simulator interface, especially the waterfall of information flow streaming through the background. Quite a few of the technical terms remained beyond his understanding, but after his recent targeted studies, his ability to distinguish them had greatly improved. Gradually, he came to understand:
It was not that he had crossed the gulf of time-space and True Illusion to precisely locate that special node within the endless torrent of time and space.
Nor, of course, had that Artificial Intelligence suddenly traveled to this time and place.
Compared with