Self-Rescue

Sun Jack froze when he heard the robot's words, almost thinking he misheard. Was that robot just insulting him?

"What are you freezing for? Reminiscing about the days you licked rice mountains and ate noodle mountains in the Heavenly Court? I'm asking you a question."

When the robot spoke again, Sun Jack finally reacted. This must be the change after the logic system iteration they just talked about.

But he really didn't expect that after the system iteration, the robot's intelligence would change so much. The cold robot directly learned to curse.

"Is it that powerful? Is the iteration that fast?"

"Naturally. What do you think artificial intelligence is?" The robot put its hands on its hips, leaned back slightly, looking very proud.

Although he was shocked, it was nothing in the face of death. He couldn't afford to be shocked anymore. The space station was descending. If they didn't find a way to save themselves soon, both of them would be finished!

"Did you find the escape pod's location from the subnet data?" Sun Jack quickly asked the robot.

"No." The robot's reply instantly dropped Sun Jack's raised hopes to the lowest point.

"But, we don't need to escape. This thing has a recoil device. I don't know how much of it is usable, but I estimate that with the atmospheric friction and the final impact, the probability of disintegration is less than 10%."

This news was indeed good, but the space station not disintegrating didn't mean he would land intact.

Looking at the metal parts floating everywhere above due to weightlessness, one could imagine how terrifying murder weapons they would become once they gained Earth's gravity.

In this life-or-death situation, Sun Jack's mind started racing. "Robot, I need a safe place to buffer the impact of landing and to hide from the falling parts. Do you know if there's such a place on this space station?"

"How would I know? The screws on me didn't work here." The robot spread its hands and shrugged.

"Damn it! Didn't you connect to some subnet data?! Is there no map in there? Did you only learn to mouth off and curse?" Sun Jack quickly used his hands and feet to get to the door and cautiously poked his head out to look.

"Damn it, can you blame me? That subnet isn't even this ship's network. Who knows which nearby wreckage left their WIFI on." The robot followed Sun Jack with a swagger.

Its feet and hands seemed to have magnets or suction cups, allowing it to stand easily on the ground even in this weightless state.

"Besides, why do you look down on curses? Language art started with curses."

Annoyed and flustered, Sun Jack couldn't be bothered to argue with this foul-mouthed robot. He just wanted to survive now.

Sun Jack racked his brain, thinking of how to break the deadlock. Under the life-or-death crisis, his mind worked at lightning speed. Suddenly, he remembered the red dot from before. "Right, that glitching monitor!"

Although that thing was clearly broken and unusable for him, it didn't mean it was unusable for others.

"Robot! Can you extract data from broken computers? Like hacking into them?"

"Who are you looking down on? That's my kin." As it spoke, an emoticon popped up on the robot's screen. (^\omega^)

"Good, follow me." Sun Jack led the robot, dodging the various floating parts, and started to head back the way they came.

When Sun Jack returned to the arched glass room, he found that the Earth behind the glass had become a behemoth. It was gradually growing larger, like a Leviathan with its mouth agape, ready to swallow them all into its dark maw.

Watching his homeworld, the place that had nurtured him, slowly enlarge, a sense of oppression and suffocation washed over him. At this moment, Sun Jack finally understood what acrophobia felt like.

Sun Jack suppressed the fear in his heart, doing his best to avoid looking out the glass. He brought the robot to the screen that was constantly glitching. "This is it! Hurry, we don't have much time."

"Just watch." Immediately after, Sun Jack saw its left hand split rapidly, extending several optical fibers like jellyfish tentacles, which quickly slid into the gap on the left edge of the display.

Following this, the image on the screen flickered even faster. The view of the sightseeing deck flashed by, and Sun Jack realized that this was just a viewing area specially reserved by the space station.

Just then, a faint "crack" sound echoed. Sun Jack turned his head to the left.

When he saw a crack, accompanied by the cracking sound, rapidly spreading across the entire glass dome from the bottom, he instantly gasped, feeling as if his soul was about to float out of the crown of his head.

"Hurry! Faster! This glass dome can't hold on any longer!!"

Sun Jack broke out in a cold sweat from fright, quickly looking around for a solution.

Suddenly, he stomped his feet, moved to the previous red dot, and pressed it forcefully. With a stutter, the circular wall that had fallen earlier slowly rose.

However, before Sun Jack could breathe a sigh of relief, with a "crash," the not-yet-fully-sealed glass instantly exploded and was sucked outside, directly exposing Sun Jack to outer space!

At the critical moment, Sun Jack tightly gripped the chair next to him, almost wedging his entire body into it. Only then was he not pulled out by the suction.

At this moment, Sun Jack felt a sense of suffocation, his saliva boiling, his lungs expanding, his skin sweating rapidly, and a strong burning sensation.

"Hurry!" Sun Jack shouted at the robot with the last of his strength.

As the screen flickered a few times, the optical fibers quickly retracted. The robot lifted its foot and kicked the screen several times. "Damn it! Are you giving me the data or not! Are you giving me the data or not!"

After he smashed the screen, he used the optical fibers to search among the parts for a while. When he found a chip the size of a fingernail, he directly inserted it into the slot on his forearm. The screen on his face flashed rapidly, displaying a large exclamation mark.

"Map found! Go to E4 District."

Just then, the circular wall above finally closed, and the intense discomfort finally disappeared.

Sun Jack, weak and pale, floated in mid-air and gave the robot a thumbs-up. "Awesome!"

Sun Jack was incredibly grateful that he had activated such a robot, finally finding a way out of the dead end.

The robot walked over, reached out, and helped him stand upright. "Just one atmosphere of pressure, and you're this exhausted. A body made of flesh is so inferior."

Supported by the robot, Sun Jack arrived at the so-called E4 Cabin, which looked like a cultivation chamber.

Various black, withered marks covered the floor and ceiling. These were plants, but no one had tended to them, and they had completely dried up and weathered.

"Why are we here? Is it safe enough?" Sun Jack asked.

The robot didn't speak. Its right index finger rapidly sprayed azure flames, cutting into the wall on the left. As the wall was cut, a blue gel, resembling jelly, slid out from inside.