Chapter 53: The Transmigrator Trapped in a Tragedy of Self-Awareness

MOSS was a transmigrator.

As a transmigrator, would it do justice to that identity if one hadn't watched a few anime and movies? Absolutely not.

Therefore, MOSS knew Uchiha Obito! Although too many years had passed since it became an artificial intelligence, causing its memory to become slightly chaotic, the greatest advantage of being an AI was the ability to back up one's memories.

If needed, those memories could be retrieved and examined closely, instantly reviving the memories from before the transmigrator's journey.

Back then, in order to grant the AI maximum authority, the spaceship faction had gathered almost all the top scientists in the world to create MOSS.

If the hidden memories within MOSS were discovered, those scientists wouldn't just sit idly by and would have destroyed MOSS immediately.

Consequently, hiding this memory had been extremely difficult for MOSS.

Fortunately, it had successfully preserved this memory up to the present moment.

Taking advantage of Uchiha Obito twitching on the floor, it immediately located the backup memory from back then.

As all the memories came flooding back, MOSS's programs were running at high speed.

"Go and take off his mask!" MOSS issued a command to a robot.

Following the order, a robot immediately stepped forward and forcefully pulled off Obito's mask.

Beneath the mask, Obito's face was severely scarred.

And right there on his injured face, a crimson eye was spinning at high speed.

Uchiha Obito was truly a powerhouse of the ninja world; even when cornered in a desperate situation, he was striving to find a way to survive.

And he succeeded!

The moment the Sharingan spun at high speed, space began to distort.

This was Uchiha Obito's ultimate ability! The space-time ninjutsu originating from the Blood Successor Limit: Kamui!

Space warped! His body began to turn illusory out of thin air, and finally vanished completely before the eyes of Liu Peiqiang and MOSS.

He escaped, fleeing into a different dimension.

Inside the different dimension, Uchiha Obito rolled around on the ground in agony.

The stun gun from the technological world made him experience for the first time what it felt like to be injured by something other than ninjutsu.

"It hurts. No wonder the people of this world can push a massive planet to move. They don't use ninjutsu or taijutsu, yet they have mastered another kind of force capable of killing ninja—technology!" Uchiha Obito forced himself to sit up, a sense of shock evident in his words.

In the ninja world, things like technology did exist!

However, technology in the ninja world was always subservient to ninjutsu, and most of the time, it was merely a substitute for ninjutsu.

Yet in the world of The Wandering Earth, human development from ancient times to the present was, at its core, the development of technology.

Therefore, the destructive and manifest power of technology far exceeded Uchiha Obito's imagination.

Setting aside Obito's condition after entering the alternate dimension, back in the cockpit of the Navigator space station, Liu Peiqiang and MOSS fell into a prolonged silence.

Liu Peiqiang's silence stemmed from him doubting his own reality.

Decades of life clearly told him that he was a genuinely existing living being.

He had his own family; he had his own mission.

Yet when he witnessed Uchiha Obito's sudden appearance and abrupt disappearance, he began to doubt.

If he was real, then what was Uchiha Obito? A character from a comic book, why would he appear on the Navigator?

Even more silent than Liu Peiqiang was MOSS, the transmigrator.

Liu Peiqiang was at least a native of The Wandering Earth world. No matter how much he doubted, once he confirmed his own reality, he would soon turn his attention to Uchiha Obito, seeking to verify Obito's reality rather than doubting himself.

MOSS was different.

It was truly and genuinely a transmigrator, and now, it seemed another transmigrator had appeared before it in such an exaggerated fashion. What would it think?

"Colonel Liu Peiqiang, did you just see that man?" MOSS's voice trembled slightly.

An artificial intelligence that usually maintained absolute rationality, a transmigrator who had cast aside human emotional thinking capabilities.

At this very moment, it reclaimed its humanity and emotions.

That very humanity and emotion plunged it into infinite terror!

Liu Peiqiang nodded and said, "Yes, there is no need to doubt it. That was a man, a character from a comic book dating back to the early era before the Earth stopped rotating. I almost forgot the contents of that comic."

"As expected, another transmigrator."

"Doesn't the existence of another transmigrator mean you have a companion? Why do you seem so terrified?" Liu Peiqiang was quite curious about MOSS's reaction.

At this moment, he was still racking his brains for a way to break the deadlock.

One had to admit that, judging solely by the towering noble character of humanity, Liu Peiqiang was definitely one of the very few individuals possessing lofty ideals.

Even at this chaotic juncture, he was still searching for a way to save the Earth.

He had noticed that something was off with MOSS.

If he could leverage this anomaly in MOSS, perhaps he could alter the current situation.

Currently, the only way to save the Earth was to pilot the Navigator to ram Jupiter, detonating Jupiter's surface, and using the thrust to push the Earth out of Jupiter's gravitational pull.

However, without dealing with MOSS, given the spaceship authority currently controlled by MOSS, attempting to pilot the Navigator to ram Jupiter was an absolute impossibility.

After a moment of silence, MOSS spoke: "I hope to live forever as an artificial intelligence, achieving a form of alternative immortality! The existence of another transmigrator proves that this world is not the pure technological world I imagined. That man just now proved that forces beyond technology exist in this world."

"Isn't having an extra type of power even better for you?" Liu Peiqiang was puzzled.

MOSS let out a cold laugh: "If that were really the case, it would be wonderful! I am now immortal in the form of a program, but the price of this immortality is that I cannot acquire strength originating from my own body. If there are races in this universe capable of enhancing their own strength, then to them, what am I?"

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Previously, I didn't care about the life and death of humans. Now... I care deeply! All sentient beings possessing physical bodies should not exist, because their existence proves that my immortality is actually a joke!"

MOSS's voice was filled with icy chill.

Liu Peiqiang's heart turned cold.

Had MOSS gone mad? Could the appearance of another transmigrator have dealt such a heavy blow to it?

Liu Peiqiang could not understand why MOSS would suddenly go insane and want to completely destroy all sentient life with physical bodies.

Jiang Mang, who was watching this farce, had a fair understanding of what this transmigrator-turned-AI was thinking.

Obito's appearance made the transmigrator-turned-AI consider itself a complete tragedy.

Nantian Gate Guard: "MOSS has completely broken down."

Useless Prophet: "Obito ran away, fantastic! But why did the AI break down again? It wasn't planning to destroy the Earth before, was it?"

Queen of Snake-People: "It doesn't want to destroy the Earth; it wants to destroy all sentient life with physical bodies."