Crossing the World
XLIV - Shelters (Karen)

After making sure that the virtual world was successfully moved to earth without any problems and the AI-designed vr device was able to function properly, I moved back to the shelter the next day.

"What about the three people previously detected?"

That sentence was the first to come out of my mouth the moment I set foot in the recreation room. To be honest, I was very curious about the three of them in many ways.

"Two people are in a critical condition and one person in a state will reach his limit."

Although the news he delivered was quite heartbreaking, the flat AI tone made the sense of empathy within me also fade away. Well, maybe that's just an excuse I made to cover up the fact that I'm hard to show emotion.

Let's put this matter aside first.

"Please bring me a cup of coffee and cookies. Also, can you display their state in the form of a three-dimensional hologram like before?"

The AI reconstructed a scene more than a hundred kilometers away. There, I saw two people sitting in a doldrums, looking at a miserable woman lying down.

This scene was not much different from what I had seen before.

Through one of the AI-controlled robots, a cup of coffee and pastries are served on the table. However, I ignored him and moved out of my chair.

I walked up to the three-dimensional holographic image that filled an empty space in front of me.

Just like before, I could not hear their voices in the slightest. What I can predict is based on their lip movements that sometimes move to form various patterns. However, due to language limitations, it was impossible for me to understand what they were talking about.

As if realizing that I was curious about what they were talking about, AI offered me a favor.

"Do you want me to predict the word that comes out of their mouth? Maybe the results won't be a hundred percent accurate, but at least I can guarantee the results are quite accountable."

The AI might be able to guess words through the movements of their lips and string them into sentences in a language I could understand. So, I don't think there's any harm in accepting his help.

There are two specific reasons why I didn't activate the language pack to understand their speech directly - which actually requires the ability to guess words just by looking at the lips. First, the distance is still too far from where I am now and the newly created network by AI is not as strong as the earth's internet network. Second, I have used too much of my memory capacity to memorize language on earth and erasing the memory of a language is not as easy as applying it to memory. Therefore, I still could not apply their original language into my brain just like that.

"Then do it."

I was still standing beside those three three three-dimensional holographic Images, only about half a meter away from the three. Both balls of my eyes looked at them curiously, trying to catch every change in expression they showed.

Amidst my focused attention towards them, the AI began translating the incomplete pieces of the word she had managed to predict. Unfortunately, it was still too biased for me to fully understand their conversation.

To be honest, no important information came out of their mouths about the world beyond the scope of the internet network we had built. Their words were mostly mere nonsense. However, seeing the way they interact is one of the advances that reinforce the assumption that the human world is not too much different from the human earth.

Yeah, I've at least gained a little knowledge of their traits. Maybe I can communicate with them in the near future. Obviously after applying this third person language pack.

At the moment when my mind was preoccupied with the steps I was about to take after this, one of them - a woman lying dying - suddenly shifted her gaze, almost straight looking towards where I was standing. A while later, his brown pupils slightly widened, as if finding something unexpected.

Did he see anything behind me?

Well, since the holographic image only displayed the three of them, I was unable to see the scene he was seeing. So, I didn't bother looking back to find out because it would be useless.

The woman's lips began to open again, forming words that were later translated by AI. At that very instant, my heart seemed to stop beating for a while.

"Subject number three said: Time ... it is time .. I saw .. the angel picked me up."

The other two cried even more when they heard those words.

Well, let's put aside his words first. Maybe it was just a hallucination that emerged from the beliefs held by him.

I crouched down in front of the woman just to take a closer look. Who knew I could find something else if I noticed it from a closer distance than before.

Those smelly brown eyes at first looked slightly towards my side. However, when I looked at her up close, her eyes seemed to be staring back at me. Yeah, no mistake, he was actually staring straight at both of my eyes.

"Subject number three says: if, if .... time is up. At least ... save ... "

He spoke to me. No, there's no way something like that could happen. It must be just a coincidence. There's no way he can see me because we're two hundred kilometers away.

"Subject number three says: angel .. same brown eyes. Are you ... ancestor ... green cloth .. form of a child ... "

Ha-just a coincidence. Besides, I wear a green jacket made of carbon primorial fiber, not yarn. Since his eyes were also brown, what he saw during the hallucinations must have been affected as well. Yeah, it was just a coincidence.

I got up from the side and walked around the three of them, just to move out of her line of sight. However, those two brown eyeballs followed me wherever I went.

Isn't that awful?

"Hey, AI ..."

Amidst my astonishment, I spoke to AI.

"Do you need anything?"

"Could subject number three see and talk about me?"

"That's impossible. There's no way for him to see you."

Of course it is, right? I seem to think too much about it. Everything must be just a coincidence.

I turned around and moved away from the three of them to head to my desk earlier. As soon as I sat down, the image of the third hologram also vanished.

"In that case, prepare a procedure for memory removal. I want to make contact with all three of them."

Yeah, I need a new language pack to be able to talk to them. So, there was no other choice for me other than to delete some languages I didn't need.

"The removal procedure will take about three days. Are you sure you'll do it?"

Well, how else. There is no other way than to delete some languages. So three days in a coma was the only option available to me. Since there is no urgent schedule on earth nor here, I think it is okay to do so.

"Yes, prepare the procedure. I'll do it after I finish eating my meal."

"I'll do it."

Alright, it seems that soon I will interact with the original civilization on this planet. I can't wait for that day to come.

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Note :

The more I get here the more busy I get. Time to write so no heu