The moment Bai Yu lifted the conscious barrier on his Heart Sword, Hei Ta, in the real world, widened her eyes, which were as gorgeous and beautiful as amethyst.
On the screen in front of her, the simulated universe's operating system instantly reported a large amount of unknown data.
“What’s going on… wait! System stability is declining! Energy consumption is rapidly increasing! This is impossible, I preset a power limit for the Alpha test version, how did it break through this threshold?”
『Station Master! Station Master!』
Meanwhile, Aisuda also received a report from the space station control center.
『We have detected that Ms. Hei Ta's office has suddenly issued a temporary power overload request. Due to Ms. Hei Ta's highest authority, the request was automatically passed by the space station system, which has resulted in 60% of the space station's power system output being hijacked by Ms. Hei Ta's simulated universe! If this continues, many other necessary systems will be shut down due to insufficient energy!』
“Tsk! Tell them not to worry.” Hei Ta bit her finger, glanced at the report screen that popped up in front of Aisuda, and the man on the screen unconsciously shrank his neck.
“Among the oddities I have in my vault is a ‘Black Hole Trap’, which is said to be related to ‘void’. I haven't figured it out yet, but I can confirm that it can provide a huge amount of energy in a short period of time after the limiter is removed. You tell them to get it and plug it into the energy interface I prepared the other day, then activate the space station's power overload.”
Aisuda decisively issued the order, then closed the communication and asked Hei Ta curiously, “Did you already anticipate this situation?”
“Just in case,” Hei Ta smiled triumphantly, “I’ve been through a lot, what kind of emergencies haven’t I encountered? Although this one is a bit beyond expectations, I’m not without a backup.”
However, the confident smile on Hei Ta's face quickly faded away, her small brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and her eyes constantly swept over the large amount of data that continued to appear on the screen in front of her, the more she looked, the more surprised she became.
“...Unbelievable, if I’m not mistaken, this sudden surge of information can self-construct a self-consistent world? Moreover, it's completely independent of the original system of my simulated universe?”
“Bai Yu, what did you do!?”
Inside the simulated universe, apart from the boundless ocean, on the empty sea, Bai Yu, whose body was translucent and stood in the air, glanced at Fu Xuan and Su Shang, who were on his left and right, then looked up at the sky and said, “Didn't you say that the simulated universe would construct illusions based on my past experiences? I tried opening up some of the memories I had deliberately blocked.”
The process of forging the Heart Sword in the Sword Heart Art is essentially a continuous process of training in the fine control of self-awareness. To this day, it is not difficult for Bai Yu to consciously block parts of his own memory.
“How come I don’t know you've been to a world like this?” Fu Xuan glanced over, “Since you, Bai Yu, came to Luo Fu, I know everything about you, but I’m not completely unaware either. When did this happen?”
Just as Belfast hoped to appear in front of Bai Yu in her true form, or Bai Yu would take the initiative to go there, Bai Yu also hoped that one day he would truly meet the ship girl who had made a contract with him in reality.
Considering this, Belfast would inevitably appear in Luo Fu sooner or later, and her origins would naturally not be able to be concealed from those who knew him well.
Moreover, Bai Yu didn't think that he could handle such a difficult task of crossing worlds by himself.
Why would he bother to fiddle around by himself when he has a genius scholar and beautiful girl (age questionable?) to help him research?
Therefore, Bai Yu answered frankly, “…It was just a few days ago, to be exact, it was the second day after our last meeting.”
“Do you think I’m a three-year-old?” Fu Xuan felt like she was being teased, “You were practicing swordsmanship at Ting Yun’s house all day that day, and after you sent the girl who carried the medicine back home at night, you didn’t go out. Do you think I don’t know?”
Bai Yu: “—?”
After a moment, he patted Fu Xuan’s shoulder with a moved expression, “Good Ah Fu, it turns out that when we were apart, you were also paying attention to my every move?”
“You—!” Fu Xuan instantly blushed and angrily raised her small foot to kick his calf, “Get to the point!”
She wouldn't admit it!
Before Bai Yu could explain, Hei Ta’s voice rang out again:
『I’m going to assume you’re telling the truth, but that doesn’t explain why you can construct a world from scratch based on your memory. Do you know how much underlying code we wrote to build the simulated universe?』
『That's an amount of information that would absolutely burst your brain into soda bean soup. The current situation is that, besides using the simulated universe's basic framework to build the world, everything else comes from you.』
Bai Yu scratched his head and sighed, “Sorry, I don’t understand. Can you speak human?”
『You want to build a house, the construction method is using my simulated universe framework, but all other materials, labor, equipment, you are providing, but theoretically, you don’t even have the ability to provide a screw, at best you provide a grain of sand - understand?』
Bai Yu had no reaction yet, but Fu Xuan’s face changed, “Ms. Hei Ta, do you mean that Bai Yu, based on his own memory, ‘remembered the information of a whole world’?”
『It’s easy to talk to someone in the know.』
Hei Ta didn’t miss the opportunity to mock Bai Yu.
Bai Yu, who also understood, shook his head at Fu Xuan in front of Su Shang’s confused expression of “Are you speaking human?” and denied the guesses of Hei Ta and Fu Xuan: “Unfortunately, although I’m not sure why, I can assure you that your guess is wrong, I could never memorize a world based on my memory, you’re better off comparing it to Fu Li’s ‘memory’. ”
“There must be some reason for this, don’t worry, everything has to start from the night I met Ah Fu...”
Then, Bai Yu slowly explained how he could inexplicably connect with people in other worlds, and even allow his consciousness to cross worlds.
“—In the end, some marks representing people in other worlds who can communicate with me appeared around the Heart Sword in my sea of consciousness.”
“I opened up the relevant memories of one of those worlds, and the rest of you know what happened.”