Chapter 200 Chapter 200: The Observers
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Renji knew about Zero's intention to transform him into a mechanical giant at the Sea Sand Bar, but from Lena's recent words, it was clear she was not referring to that.
The succubus didn't play any tricks and simply waved her hand, the lights and shadows shifting around them. The dream's scenery rapidly reconstructed, and when Renji came back to his senses, he found himself floating high in the air above the Blackhole Plains, the place he had first arrived in this world.
Lena didn't explain much but just accompanied Renji, signaling him to quietly observe below.
Soon, in the pitch-black night sky above the Blackhole Plains, a meteor-like light appeared, its trajectory so conspicuous, trailing a long white tail.
It seemed slow at first, as if merely wriggling in the sky, but within just a minute or two, the meteor transformed into a blazing fireball, filling Renji's entire field of vision and finally... crashing into the southeastern corner of the Blackhole Plains.
A fraction of a second later, the powerful shockwave from the explosion, like a tsunami's roaring waves, destroyed every building in the Blackhole Plains. Beneath the hellish sea of fire, a gigantic mushroom cloud rose and expanded.
Even from a god-like perspective high in the sky, Renji's vision was filled with blinding light. After several seconds of temporary blindness, when he looked down again, the Blackhole Plains were almost leveled to the ground, a description like "ruins" being too generous.
"TS-283 medium tactical nuclear bomb, produced by Kael Technology. There are at least five digits worth of nuclear bombs with this kind of power within the Mechanical Alliance... Well, countless more of the smaller ones." Lena's voice resounded again after everything ended.
"The Observer you encountered in the Blackhole Plains had a relatively low level of pollution, and the world's deviation value wasn't that significant at the time. That's why she stopped just in time. Otherwise, she would have dropped a nuclear bomb just to eliminate a small gang group like Callewa."
"But if we consider now, with the Observers around the world waking up, I'm sure you can imagine what this world would become, right?"
With another wave of her hand, the inferno below and the ghastly scene dissipated, and the scenery within the dream transformed again.
They are not scrapped. On the contrary, it is because they are still functional and retain most of their capabilities that they have become a significant threat after going out of control and have been forcibly "put to sleep."
"So the deviation value you mentioned earlier refers to the impact I have on this world after my return"
"From my experiences using the Dream these past few days, given the computing power of the 'Observers,' even if they are not as powerful as 86, they should still be able to project scenarios for the next few years, or even a decade. And if the actual events in the world significantly deviate from their calculated future scenarios, it would trigger some kind of error-
correction mechanism, causing them to awaken forcibly from their sleep?"
Even when a person is asleep and dreaming, it's not that all the neurons in the brain are resting. Some are still active, what is often referred to as the subconscious.
So, if there are footsteps at night, or if someone approaches, anything that the brain deems as "abnormal" will trigger the subconscious to pull the person out of sleep, effectively waking them up.
After the succubus across from him nodded in confirmation, Renji fully understood the initial question of why Lena didn't meet him. It had nothing to do with superficial reasons like being tsundere.
For an entity like Lena, any movement she makes would cause a far greater deviation value than others. So, this would mean...
'Wait a minute...'
Renji suddenly realized a serious issue. If Lena couldn't move, then by the same logic, were Nova and Suthia also...
He quickly asked, "Lena, how close are we to the critical deviation value now?"
"Unfortunately after my calculations, we are nearly at the critical value. The concept here is that whether I come to find you, or you actively bring Nova and Suthia to find me, especially the latter, the deviation value it brings, due to the cumulative effect, is equivalent to more than twice the former. It will immediately trigger a widespread awakening of the 'Observers' around the world."
"By then, even if Zero, as the mother body, can re-establish a contract with you, but as you can see from Suthia, pollution is not so easily resolved. Before Zero can regain control of these 'Observers,' the world might have already been... annihilated by them, right?"