Faulty Utopia

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"This gel contains the oxygen and water human bodies need, as well as providing enough cushioning; it's the plan I've calculated to have the highest chance of success."

After all the struggles, there was finally a glimpse of hope for survival. Sun Jack didn't care about anything else at that moment and dived right in.

When he turned to let the robot in, he found it walking out. "Where are you going? Have you lost your mind?"

"You stay inside; I'm going to ensure the operation of the impact protection equipment," the robot said as it walked away.

Just as Sun Jack was about to say something, the entire room tilted instantly, and all sorts of mud and debris pressed towards him.

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

His body was weightless, surrounded by sticky, slippery jelly. He was buried, but strangely enough, when the jelly filled his lungs, he could still breathe—this sensation was very peculiar.

However, when the strong shaking sensation came, Sun Jack ignored this feeling, hugged himself as tight as possible, and curled up into a ball.

At that moment, Sun Jack felt like he was on a roller coaster without a safety belt—swaying left and right—but fortunately, the gel cushioned him and he wasn't injured.

He didn't know how long it had passed when the last and most violent impact came, and then everything quieted down.

Feeling no motion outside, Sun Jack used his hands and feet to swim towards the outside of the gel.

But right at the edge of the gel, something blocked him, preventing his exit.

In his anxiety, he turned around and kicked hard. After about a dozen kicks, a beam of light shot through the dark gel.

Sun Jack swam towards the light and the moment he crawled out of the gel, moist air flooded his lungs and the icy rain fell from the sky, washing over his body. At that moment, Sun Jack felt reborn.

The wall of the cultivation pod had been torn open, and Sun Jack just stared at the raindrops falling from the sky, then suddenly laughed. He was back—he had finally made it back to Earth alive!

He had finally escaped death, and Sun Jack was overwhelmed with excitement.

Some things are only appreciated once lost. Once again feeling the pull of Earth's gravity, Sun Jack alternately screamed with joy and kissed the ground.

After the excitement, he tried to calm himself down.

Although the greatest crisis was over, Sun Jack knew he was still in danger.

He looked around and saw that the entire cabin was cracked open, a complete mess, almost unrecognizable from before.

The robot was right; even so, the space station hadn't disintegrated in mid-air but seemed hardly better off—it had just not disintegrated, that's all.

The entire station lay on the ground, turned into a Metal Ruin City. If he hadn't shrunk his entire body into the jelly, he would have been dead beyond doubt.

"Wait, what about that robot? Is it still alive?" This thought suddenly made him tense.

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

Although it was a robot, it felt too human. Sun Jack couldn't help but treat it as a person.

Just as he reached the edge of the corridor, a collapsed and deflated robot head by the door frame made his heart skip a beat.

Sun Jack picked it up and felt a slight tremor in his hands when he realized the robot head had no response.

And just at that moment, footsteps sounded. The robot, with one arm missing, walked in from the outside.

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He faced Sun Jack, who was holding his head, "What are you doing?"

Sun Jack paused for a moment and casually tossed the robot head he was holding, "Nothing much. Just doing some research."

Damn it, I got it wrong.

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

"The impact of the collision was too great, it flung me out, and some of my parts were damaged, so I went to find some for replacement." The robot turned and pulled out a mechanical arm from the side and began to replace it. The robot head from before must have been its own.

"It's good that you're not hurt." Sun Jack patted its arm and looked up at the sky. The sky was a gloomy gray, constantly raining. It seemed that they could only leave this place first to search for other reference points.

"Right, aren't you capable of positioning? Can you figure out our current location?"

Various tools switched out from the robot's fingers, spinning rapidly as it replaced its broken arm. "Wait a moment."

Blue letters started to appear on its display screen, "Connecting to the network..."

As the crisis of survival diminished, the suppressed instinct for survival began to surface. It kept raining, the water continuously streaming in through the cracks everywhere and already forming a layer of rainwater up to the ankles on the ground. Sun Jack, parched and thirsty, scooped up a large mouthful of rainwater while the other was connecting to the network, only to spit it out immediately after tasting it. "This rainwater tastes wrong."

Sun Jack's mood grew heavy. Although his memories were fragmented, he was certain that rainwater should not taste like this. Something was definitely wrong here.

It wasn't long before he saw the robot lift its head, and Sun Jack hurriedly asked, "What's the verdict? Did you connect?"

"I did, but whether I try to sound an alarm or contact Tapai Tech's customer service, it shows no response. I can't even find any information about Tapai Tech online." The robot's answer did not surprise Sun Jack.

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

"Yes, it is Year 721."

"Year 721? Are we no longer using the Anno Domini system? I remember... I remember I should be living in the year 2030." Sun Jack started to develop a headache.

"!!" The robot with two exclamation points in its eyes looked up at Sun Jack, "But my date of manufacture is A.D. 2456. I think you better explain again; it seems we have a discrepancy in our understanding of time."

"I... I don't know." Sun Jack said, looking dejected as he sat down on the ground, still letting the pouring rain wash over him. "I have lost some of my memory."

This feeling of not knowing who he was, nor how much time had passed, was really unpleasant; he was very confused now.

When Sun Jack told the robot about his memories, it began to quickly cross-reference them with online data, soon organizing a timeline.

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

"Fifty years after you were sealed away, humanity obtained nuclear fusion, an almost infinite clean energy source, and technology began to rapidly develop beyond its limits. In the year 2310, Tapai Tech went public."

"In A.D. 2456, I was produced by Tapai, but I was not activated in the same year. What follows is the history now disclosed on the network. On October 23, 2457, the AI Crisis occurred."

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

"Yes, the AI Crisis. At that time, AI had permeated every aspect of human life and survival, with system iterations getting faster and technology ever more advanced, becoming closer and closer to humans."

"Just like you now?" Sun Jack asked.

"Yes, just like me now. Don't interrupt, let me finish."