Mo Ling's thoughts churned endlessly. After circling this cramped, bizarre hotel for so long, he had grown somewhat fed up. Here, his field of vision was restricted, and even movement had to follow the hotel's "rules." This standardized Data World had no freedom whatsoever; it was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.
"Go in."
Instructor's calm voice sounded ahead of him, interrupting Mo Ling's wild thoughts.
In the corridor, the Machine Savior's voice was still pleading bitterly, but both Mo Ling and Instructor automatically filtered it out.
"Okay."
After responding softly, Mo Ling followed Instructor forward at a slow pace.
One step, then two. As he approached the exit, Mo Ling suddenly caught sight of something familiar in the distance through it.
Unable to believe it, he hurriedly quickened his pace. He even passed Instructor and began to run.
Then, as he passed through the exit, he stopped and stared into the distance.
This really was the cockpit. Before the exit stood an enormous sheet of Curved Glass at the front of the spacecraft, allowing those inside the cockpit to look up at the vast universe and see the reality beyond this Data World.
But outside the window was not an endless black void, nor were there beautiful stars glittering across the sky.
There were no terrifying Void Beasts, no dreadful black holes that devoured everything, and no strange cosmic wonders.
What lay beyond that window was something Mo Ling could not have known more intimately...
It was a blue planet.
Standing before the exit, Mo Ling's entire body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Oceans, mountains, clouds... he had seen them not long ago, yet they had never looked as real as they did now.
Blue light fell upon Mo Ling's metal head, tinting him blue.
"Earth... Earth."
"That's