Faulty Utopia

Hearing the robot's words, Sun Jack instantly froze, almost thinking he had heard wrong. Had the robot just cursed at him?

"What are you staring for? Reminiscing about those days on Heavenly Court, at Licking Rice Mountain and Noodle-eating Mountain? I'm asking you a question."

It wasn't until the robot spoke again that Sun Jack came to his senses, realizing this must be the change that had occurred following the logic system iteration.

But he really hadn't anticipated that after the system iteration, the robot's intelligence would change so drastically, as it had suddenly learned how to hurl insults.

"Is it that impressive? It iterated that quickly?"

"Of course, what do you think artificial intelligence is?" The robot placed its hands on its hips, slightly leaned back, exhibiting an extremely proud demeanor.

Though shocked, in the face of death, nothing else mattered, and he couldn't afford to be astonished any longer. The space station was descending, and if they didn't find a way to save themselves soon, both of them were done for!

"Have you found the location of the escape craft in the subnet data?" Sun Jack quickly asked the robot.

"No." The robot's response instantly dropped Sun Jack's hopes to rock bottom.

"But, hey, we don't need to escape. This thing has a recoil device. Although I don't know how much of it can be used, I figure that with the friction from the atmosphere and the final impact, the probability of disintegrating is less than 10%."

This was indeed good news, but just because the space station wouldn't disintegrate, that didn't mean he'd land in one piece.

Looking at the metal parts flying around due to weightlessness, he could imagine how they would become terrifying lethal weapons once subjected to Earth's gravity.

In the face of life and death, Sun Jack's mind rapidly began to calculate. "Robot, I need a safe place to buffer the landing pressure and avoid the parts. Do you know where on this space station such a place is?"

"How should I know? I've never worked a shift with the screws on my body here." The robot spread its hands and shrugged its shoulders.

"Damn it! Aren't you connected to some subnet data?! Don't you have a map or anything? Did you just learn to spout foul language?" Sun Jack hurried to the door and cautiously peeked out.

"Damn it, how is this my fault? That subnet data isn't from this ship's network, who knows which nearby wreckage WIFI is still on." The robot followed behind Sun Jack, talking back in a sly manner.

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

"And another thing, why look down on cursing? The art of language starts with curse words."

Annoyed and worried, Sun Jack couldn't be bothered with the foul-mouthed robot; what he wanted now was to survive.

Wringing his brain, he began thinking of how to turn the situation around. In this life-or-death crisis, his thoughts raced, when suddenly, he remembered the previous red dot. "That's it, the flickering display!"

Although it was clear that the display was broken and he couldn't use it, that didn't mean others couldn't.

"Robot! Can you retrieve data from a broken computer? Like infiltrating a hacker or something."

"Who's underestimating whom now? That's my specialty." As it spoke, the robot's head screen flashed with an emoticon. (^ω^)

"Good, follow me." Sun Jack, dodging various floating parts, began to retrace his path with the robot.

When Sun Jack returned to the arched glass room, he saw that Earth behind the glass had become massive as it gradually grew larger, like a Leviathan Beast opening its maw, ready to swallow them whole with its pitch-black mouth.

Watching Earth, the mother star nurturing him, slowly and gradually enlarge, a sense of oppression and suffocation overwhelmed him. At this moment, Sun Jack finally understood what giantophobia felt like.

Suppressing the fear in his heart, Sun Jack tried his best not to look outside the glass. He came to the flickering screen with the robot, "This is it! Get moving, we don't have much time."

"Watch closely." Then, Sun Jack saw its left hand split quickly, with several optical fibers like jellyfish tentacles extending and swiftly sliding into the edge of the display on the left side.

Following that, images inside the screen began to flicker even more rapidly, with tourist advertisement images flashing by. Only then did Sun Jack realize that this place was just a sightseeing spot deliberately left by the space station.

At that moment, a faint "crack" sound was heard, and Sun Jack turned his head to look to the left.

When he saw a crack accompanying the crack sound quickly climbing up and covering the entire glass cover, he involuntarily took a sharp breath, feeling as if his soul was about to fly out through the top of his head.

"Hurry! Quick! The glass cover is about to give way!!"

Sun Jack was frightened into a cold sweat, and he quickly looked around for a solution.

Suddenly, he stepped down and arrived at the location of the previous red dot, pressing it down hard. Accompanied by a stutter, the previously fallen arc-shaped wall slowly rose.

However, before Sun Jack could catch his breath, with a swoosh, the glass that had not been completely sealed suddenly burst, sucking him outside, directly exposing Sun Jack to outer space!

In the nick of time, Sun Jack clutched the nearby chair for dear life, wedging his entire body onto the chair to avoid being pulled out by the suction force.

At that moment, Sun Jack began to feel a sense of suffocation, his saliva boiling, his lungs beginning to expand, sweat breaking out rapidly on his skin, and a strong burning sensation spreading.

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

As the screen flickered rapidly a few times, the optical fiber retracted quickly, and the robot lifted its foot and kicked the screen furiously. "To hell with this! Are you going to give up the data or not!?"

After smashing the screen, it used the optical fibers to search among the components for a while. When it found a chip the size of a fingernail, it directly inserted it into the slot on its forearm. After the screen on its face flickered rapidly, a big exclamation mark appeared.

"Found the map! Head to E4 Zone."

At the same time, the arc-shaped ceiling finally closed, and that intense feeling of discomfort finally disappeared.

Limp and pale, Sun Jack floated mid-air, giving the robot a thumbs-up. "Awesome!"

Sun Jack was incredibly grateful that he had activated such a robot, finding a way out from a hopeless situation.

The robot walked over and straightened him, "Just a bit of atmospheric pressure, look how tired it got you. Flesh-made bodies are indeed weaker."

With the robot's support, Sun Jack reached the so-called E4 chamber, which looked like a planting chamber.

Traces of black and withered vines covered the floor and ceiling; they were plants that had completely dried up and decayed because no one had taken care of them.

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

The robot didn't speak. Its right index finger quickly shot out a bright blue flame, beginning to cut through the wall on the left. As the wall was being cut, a blue gel, similar to jelly, oozed out from inside the wall.