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"This gel contains the oxygen and water humans need, and provides enough cushioning. This is the plan I calculated with the highest success rate."

After so much effort, a glimmer of hope for survival finally appeared. Sun Jack didn't care about anything else at this moment and directly got in.

When he turned around to let the robot in, he found it walking out. "Where are you going! Aren't you afraid of dying?"

"You stay inside. I'm going to ensure the anti-shock equipment in this place is running," the robot said as it walked out.

Before Sun Jack could say anything, the entire room tilted instantly, and various dirt and debris pressed down on him.

He had no choice but to retract his entire body into the gel.

His body was in a state of weightlessness, surrounded by sticky, slippery jelly. Even though he was buried, he could still breathe as the jelly filled his lungs. The feeling was very strange.

However, when a strong shaking sensation came, Sun Jack ignored the feeling. He hugged himself as tightly as possible, curling into a ball.

At this moment, Sun Jack felt like he was on a roller coaster without a seatbelt, swinging left and right. Fortunately, the gel protected him, and his body wasn't broken from the impact.

He didn't know how much time had passed. When the final, extremely violent impact came, everything fell silent.

Feeling no movement outside, Sun Jack, still in the gel, used his hands and feet to paddle towards the outside.

But at the edge of the gel, something blocked him, preventing Sun Jack from getting out.

Anxiously, he turned around and kicked forcefully. After more than ten kicks, a beam of light shot out from the dark gel.

Sun Jack swam towards the light. The moment he emerged from the gel, moist air rushed into his lungs, and cold raindrops poured down from the sky, washing over his body. At this moment, Sun Jack felt reborn.

A large hole was torn in the wall of the incubation chamber. Sun Jack stared blankly at the raindrops falling from the sky, then suddenly laughed. He was back. He had finally returned to Earth alive!

Having narrowly escaped death, Sun Jack was overwhelmed with emotion.

Some things are only truly appreciated when lost. Feeling the pull of gravity on the earth again, Sun Jack alternately roared at the sky and gently kissed the ground.

After a long period of excitement, he finally managed to calm himself down.

Although the greatest crisis was resolved, Sun Jack knew he was still not out of danger.

He looked around and saw that the entire cabin was cracked, a mess everywhere, barely recognizable.

The robot was right. Even so, this space station hadn't disintegrated in mid-air, but it wasn't much better. It just hadn't disintegrated.

The entire space station had collapsed on the ground, becoming a metallic ruin. If he hadn't been completely encased in the jelly, he would have died long ago.

"Wait, where's the robot? Is it still alive?" Thinking of this, he suddenly became anxious.

Sun Jack began to search the room quickly, looking for the robot he had activated.

Even though it was a robot, it was so human-like that Sun Jack couldn't help but treat it as a person.

Just as he reached the edge of the corridor, a collapsed, shriveled robot head by the door frame made Sun Jack's heart tremble violently.

Sun Jack picked it up and found that the robot head had no reaction. His hands trembled slightly.

Just then, footsteps sounded, and a robot with a broken arm walked in from outside.

It looked at Sun Jack, who was holding his head, and their eyes met. "What are you doing?"

Sun Jack was stunned and casually threw the robot head in his hand. "Nothing. Just studying it."

Damn it, I recognized it wrong.

"Where did you just go?" Sun Jack asked as he walked towards the robot.

"The impact was too strong, it knocked me flying, and some of my parts were damaged, so I went to find some replacements." The robot turned and pulled a Mechanical Arm from the side and began to replace it. The robot head just now should have been its.

"It's good that you're okay." Sun Jack patted its arm and looked up at the sky. The entire sky was gray, and it had been raining. It seemed he could only get out of here first and look for other reference points.

"Right, can't you locate? Can you locate where we are?"

The robot quickly rotated various tools switched out from its fingers, replacing its broken arm. "Wait for me."

A line of text appeared on its blue display screen: "Connecting to network..."

As the survival crisis disappeared, the suppressed survival instincts began to emerge. It was raining, and rainwater was flowing in from all the gaps. The ground was already covered with a layer of water up to his ankles. Sun Jack, with a dry mouth and parched throat, took advantage of the robot connecting to the network and scooped up a large mouthful of rainwater.

A strong bitter taste mixed with a strong metallic flavor instantly filled his mouth. Sun Jack, his expression pained, immediately spat it out again. "This rainwater tastes wrong."

Sun Jack's mood became somewhat somber. Although his memory was fragmented, he was sure that rainwater definitely didn't taste like this. Something was definitely wrong here.

Not long after, when he saw the robot raise its head, Sun Jack quickly asked, "What's up? Connected?"

"Connected, but whether I try to call the police or contact Taipai Tech's customer service, it all shows no response. I can't even find any information about Taipai Tech online." The robot's answer did not surprise Sun Jack.

"What year is it? There should be historical information online, right?" Sun Jack couldn't help but clench his fist.

"Yes, it's the year 721."

"721? It's no longer the Common Era? I remember... I remember I should be living in 2030." Sun Jack's head began to ache.

"!!" The robot, with two exclamation marks appearing in its eyes, looked up at Sun Jack. "But my manufacturing date is 2456 AD. I think you'd better explain further. It seems there's a discrepancy in our perception of time."

"I... I don't know." Sun Jack sat on the ground, his expression somewhat dejected, letting the heavy rain wash over him. "I've lost part of my memory."

This feeling of not knowing who you are and not knowing how much time has passed is truly terrible. He was very lost right now.

When Sun Jack told the robot about his memories, it began to quickly compare them with the data on the internet. Soon, it compiled a timeline.

"If the premise is correct, then things should be like this. The early 21st century should be where you lived, but due to some unknown reason in the five years of memory you've lost, you were frozen or cryogenically preserved."

"50 years after you were sealed, humanity achieved nuclear fusion, an almost infinite clean energy source. Technology began to break through bottlenecks and develop rapidly. In 2310, Taipai Tech went public."

"In 2456 AD, I was produced by Taipai. However, I was not activated in the same year. What followed is the history now published on the internet. On October 23, 2457, the Intelligent Machine Crisis appeared."

"The Intelligent Machine Crisis?" Sun Jack, who had been silent, raised his head and looked at the robot's cold, metallic body.

"Yes, the Intelligent Machine Crisis. At that time, intelligent AI permeated every aspect of human life and survival. Systems iterated faster and faster, and intelligence became more and more advanced, getting closer and closer to humans."

"Just like you are now?" Sun Jack asked.

"Yes, just like I am now. Don't interrupt, wait for me to finish."