The Investiture of the Gods Plan
"Haotian Mirror? Not Haotian?" Feng Xue raised an eyebrow slightly, muttering in surprise. Receiving his question, Haotian Mirror immediately replied:
"Haotian is the code name for the overall commander of the Heavenly Palace Space Station. Haotian -Hong lost vital signs five hundred years ago. According to the contingency plan, this AI will temporarily use management authority to activate the Investiture of the Gods Plan. If all goes well, Haotian will be resurrected in one hundred and twenty-seven years."
"Good heavens... there really is Investiture of the Gods Plan? Tell me about it."
Upon hearing the words "Investiture of the Gods," Feng Xue immediately focused her attention, and Haotian Mirror obediently responded:
"The goal of the Investiture of the Gods Plan is to select humans who can serve as Biological CPU, grant them basic permissions, allow them to participate in the management of the Heavenly Court Space Station, and provide them with corresponding faith elements to assist in Hong's revival."
"Biological CPU?" Upon hearing this term, which clearly didn't sound good, Feng Xue immediately pressed for an answer. Haotian Mirror, having been granted almost every request since his access was revoked, promptly explained:
"The Heavenly Palace Space Station consists of twelve departments: [Heavenly Court Command Department], [Imperial Garden Ecological Realm], [Underworld Consciousness Information Processing Department], [Thunder Department Data Analysis Department], [Fire Department Energy Distribution Department Center], [Water Department Engineering Construction Department], [Plague Department Microbial Macro-control Department], [Pox Department Population Statistics Bureau], [Dipper Department National Defense Committee], [Finance Department Economic Coordination Bureau], [Grand Year Department Inspection Division], and [Ascension Platform Strategic Preparation Department]. Originally, all of these were managed by subordinate agencies of the First Emperor Haotian. However, after Haotian's death, all staff members disappeared. Currently, they are all managed by AI. But as the work continues, bugs have accumulated to the point of being difficult to fix. According to the emergency plan left by the First Emperor Haotian, suitable personnel will be selected based on specific conditions to enter the Space Station to assist the AI in equipment maintenance."
"Then why is it called Biological CPU? Can't we just call it a staff member?" Feng Xue clicked her Hanako, but Haotian Mirror said in a serious tone:
"According to calculations, the vast majority of humans are unable to undertake the maintenance work of the Heavenly Palace Space Station. However, the Space Station's population demand is too large, and there is no way to replenish it all at once. Therefore, as a second-best option, we adopted the Underworld consciousness information processing scheme, setting up the [Investiture of the Gods Platform] consciousness information transmitter to upload the consciousness information of the candidates into the Bionic Human Body to avoid derivative problems. Then, through continuous iteration, the number of personnel who meet the requirements will be gradually increased, and those who are eliminated will be reincarnated according to the Underworld's special personnel welfare standards."
"Good heavens, so those who died to make the list were just Temporary Worker? So becoming a saint in the physical body is what makes a qualified permanent worker?"
Feng Xue took a deep breath, and then said:
How do I obtain Haotian's permissions?
"Haotian's authority is unique and cannot be acquired; it can only be transferred by the administrator Hong." Haotian Mirror's voice turned somewhat cold, but Feng Xue shook her head and said:
"Didn't you say that you're currently using Haotian's authority on his behalf?"
"This AI only has usage rights, not transfer rights." Haotian Mirror's honesty made Feng Xue feel somewhat ashamed, but he still calmly replied:
"Regardless of whether it's just the right to use it or not, first of all, this thing is 'in your hands,' right?"
"Based on human language habits, the management authority of the Heavenly Palace Space Station — Haotian —is indeed in the hands of the AI Haotian Mirror."
Upon hearing this, Feng Xue immediately reached out and slapped her hand, saying, "Give it to me!"
Although there were no physical items, as Feng Xue's Plunder Authority acted on the Haotian Mirror, a series of Garbled Code flashed on the Haotian Mirror's screen. Then, accompanied by a series of "Error," "Error" electronic and audio messages, lines of error codes flashed on all the screens in the entire computer room.
"Holy crap, did I accidentally blow up the Heavenly Palace?" Feng Xue was immediately worried. He turned and crawled into the World Mecha. However, he seemed to have underestimated the technological creations of the Weird Tale -obsessed legend master. About ten minutes later, as a line of self-check code flashed on the screen, the Haotian Mirror immediately emitted a gentle voice—
"Welcome back, Administrator Haotian. How can I help you?"
"Phew..." Feng Xue breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this, but instead of leaving the world, she walked over and spoke through the loudspeaker:
What is the relationship between the Jie Sect, the Chan Sect, and the Heavenly Palace?
"The Jie Sect and the Chan Sect are educational institutions under the Heavenly Palace Space Station. After Hong lost vital signs, they carried out Biological CPU training."
Upon hearing Haotian Mirror's words, Feng Xue's first reaction was--
"That's definitely not what you told the Jie Sect and the Chan Sect!"
"The statement is incorrect. The leaders of the Jie Sect and the Chan Sect were personally recruited by Hong. This AI was not involved and does not have the authority to communicate directly with either side. The Investiture of the Investiture of the Gods Plan was also a plan that was filed before Hong lost vital signs. This AI was only responsible for the Heavenly Palace part."
"Then what are the 'Lingzhu Zi' and the 'demon'? And who is Nuwa?"
Feng Xue sensed something was amiss with Haotian Mirror's words and immediately pressed for clarification. Haotian Mirror paused for a moment upon hearing her question before replying:
"Nuwa is the head of the Bionic Human breeding institution, responsible for the Gene Cultivation and modification project of the Heavenly Palace Space Station. She disappeared 23 seconds after Yu Hong lost vital signs, leaving behind only a computer program codenamed Nuwa, responsible for the screening and reconstruction of Bionic Human Gene Screening. The data codenamed Lingzhu Zi is experimental data from the [Investiture of the Gods Platform] consciousness information transmitter terminal. The Reverse Transmission was used to confirm whether the plan was operating normally, and the transmission was completed ten Earth years ago..."
"Good heavens, so the so-called Vanguard Official didn't refer to the Vanguard Official of the Zhou Dynasty, but rather to the Vanguard Official of the Investiture of the Investiture of the Gods Plan? So Lingzhu Zi is a Bionic Intelligent AI?"
"No, the Lingzhu Zi code was originally a byproduct of the Bionic Human optimization project. It is a piece of Information Code based on the Physical Structure and does not have Personality Program. Accepting the Lingzhu Zi code will not affect the original Personality Data, but it will optimize the body to a certain extent. It was abandoned by the project due to the increased gestation period and was instead used for the early experiments of the Investiture of the Gods Plan."
"Wait a minute, there are too many flaws here, it's making me..." Feng Xue rubbed her head, tossed the salt that had reappeared onto the conference table, and then said:
"Let's leave that aside for now and talk about what the demon race is."
"No information on the demon race exists in the system database. Searching in progress. Search complete. Are you looking for 'Corrupted Code Demonized Body'?"
"Wait a minute, speak slowly, what exactly is this Demonized Body of yours?" Feng Xue felt he had already experienced enough shocks today, but driven by curiosity, he still asked the question.
And the Haotian Mirror truthfully provided the answer--
"The Corrupted Code Demonized Body is a special data stream generated when an individual codenamed [Jun] was subjected to inverse operations and corrupted by an unknown bug. It is classified as Strong Artificial Intelligence with certain intelligent life characteristics. Before losing his vital signs, Hong left behind Domestication Code— [Monster Summoning Banner]—which is controlled by the codenamed [Nuwa]."