Alien signal? It seems to be from me.

Chapter 23 Time loop?

The world is broken.

The little robot is pure junk.

Even if this statue is thrown into the recycling station, it will be sold by weight as scrap metal.

Can……

It’s really useful!
Since Da Vinci officially started working, Zhou Zheng felt for the first time that life had become so hopeful.

If the previous progress was followed, he would not only have to drag his dying body to hunt for survival, but he would also have to storm the treatment cabin door while carrying a high-temperature cutting machine despite being exhausted.

I don't even want to talk about my physical fatigue.

If he continued doing this for a while, he felt that he would suffer a nervous breakdown in the real world.

When others sleep, they rest, but when I sleep, I just work like a beast of burden.

Even compared to dreams, the workload in the real world can be considered a vacation.

What a chosen ox and horse!
If the "fatigue values" of the two worlds had not been calculated separately, he would have died of overwork these days.

But now with Leonardo da Vinci, everything is different.

Zhou Zheng crossed his arms and pointed at the little robot, his whole body exuding an inexplicable stench.

"It's broken! Zhou Zheng!"

Da Vinci kept moving, his head turning 180 degrees to stare at Zhou Zheng behind him. "I feel like I've been infected with a virus. My AI program is out of control and I'm about to enter the stage of an Omnic Crisis."

These days, the two of them have nothing to do, so they just brag and chat.

Zhou Zheng is like a storyteller, and he has already told the entire plot of the Terminator series.

Plus, this guy just walks around with his arms folded every day for no reason, and the little robots are so angry that they want to rebel.

But in the end it was just talk.

Leonardo da Vinci's intelligence level far exceeded Earth's technology, which led to his very perfect emotions and personality.

If you put aside the mechanical body, in Zhou Zheng's eyes, it is actually no different from a human.

This also means that before Zhou Zheng rescued him, the little robot was trapped in the exploration vehicle, staring at the fixed scenery alone.

That's ironic.

As an artificial intelligence created for the purpose of serving extraterrestrial civilizations, the first emotion it perceived after its birth was loneliness.

They had never even seen what the so-called aliens looked like. After the spacecraft crashed, the emergency plan was activated and the exploration vehicle was automatically dispatched.

Zhou Zheng was the first intelligent life he had come into contact with in all these years.

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"Three thousand eight hundred and forty-four days."

Although his understanding of alien civilizations was not even as good as Zhou Zheng's, Da Vinci always remembered the time he was trapped.

Even considering that a day on this planet is only twenty hours long, which is different from that on Earth, Leonardo da Vinci was trapped for a full ten years.

It’s also thanks to the fact that Da Vinci is an artificial intelligence, otherwise if it were an intelligent life form, it would have gone crazy long ago.

As a result, when the conversation reaches this point.

Zhou Zheng and Da Vinci looked into each other's eyes, and they both felt a sense of sympathy for each other as they were both wanderers in the world.

One was trapped in an exploration vehicle for ten years.

A man trapped in a dream world for twenty-five years.

"It's too late to meet you!"

Zhou Zheng slapped his thigh, his tone full of regret for meeting each other too late.

If he had known that there was a Leonardo da Vinci in this world, he should have found a way to rescue it a few years ago.

But this is just talk. A few years ago, it would have been difficult for him to have this ability.

It wasn't anything else...it was mainly because he couldn't afford a mechanical exoskeleton. If he couldn't afford a mechanical exoskeleton, then he wouldn't be able to kill the alien octopus.

If he can't kill the alien octopus, he won't be able to rescue the exploration vehicle.

So everything now is really a natural result and fate has arrived.

While chatting with Leonardo da Vinci, an idea that he had long forgotten suddenly resurfaced in his mind.

Looking up, Da Vinci was still attacking the door of the treatment cabin.

Thanks to the small robot's day and night cutting, the progress this time is very encouraging, and the hatch has been cut open by one-third.

Looking at the red-hot metal hatch in front of him, Zhou Zheng took a deep breath.

He mustered up the courage to reach out and touch the red-hot hatch, but instinctively pulled his hand back in pain.

I frowned and looked at my severely burned hands. The pain felt so real.

It wasn't even just the pain: the aroma of grilled meat, the heat burning my face, the smell of blood in my lungs with every breath...

Everything feels so real, is this really an experience that can only be experienced in dreams?
Before, he could still comfort himself and just regarded these as his dreams being a little special.

But what about these technologies that can be replicated in the real world? What about the ten years that Leonardo da Vinci was trapped in?
It's impossible that all of this is fake and just an illogical dream.

Then he is so awesome that he can fabricate a robot's real experience of ten years in his dream, and even the experience of every day and every second is so real and complete.

and so……

Is it possible that everything in your dream is actually real?

The planet under our feet is now rotating at a distance of unknown light years from the Earth.

And now I am here, bragging and chatting with an alien robot.

"But this is not right!" Zhou Zheng's thoughts became confused again.

If we follow this logic, how do we explain that the dream world restarts every time we die?

It can't be like what is said in science fiction novels, where I travel not only through time but also through space.

It's like Groundhog Day, where the protagonist keeps living the same day over and over again.

Every time I travel through time, I will arrive at the same point in time.

Just like a thousand-year-old pile, it constructs an entire time loop with itself, and as long as it dies, the time loop will collapse and restart.

Until I fall asleep again and my consciousness travels back to that point in time to start a new time cycle.

He felt that his inference was close to the truth, but it still needed to be verified.

To verify that this dream world really exists and is not just an illusory dream.

As for the verification method...

"not here."

Zhou Zheng leaned against the wall and muttered to himself. He turned his head to look at Da Vinci beside him and suppressed the thoughts in his mind.

He has already thought of a way to verify it, but it will have to wait until he returns to the real world.

What he needs to worry about now is the treatment chamber.

Having made up his mind, Zhou Zhengqiang endured the damage caused by the accumulated alkaloids in his body and watched the progress of Da Vinci cutting the hatch.

With the help of Leonardo da Vinci, the progress of cutting the hatch was more than doubled.

The originally sturdy hatch, after so many days of cutting, now only has less than one-tenth of the progress left to open smoothly.

And my own life...

"There is one last day."

"That's more than enough!"

　Happy New Year Happy New Year!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)