After making arrangements for other matters, Qin Chu turned and left the main control room.
Levi followed.
Noah clearly referenced the first starship in this space; everything looked very familiar.
After turning a hidden corner, Qin Chu reached out and pulled Levi over.
I don't know who started it, but the kiss was incredibly intense the moment it touched.
Without thinking, the two of them used all their strength to hold each other tightly and hold each other down.
The taste of blood instantly filled their mouths and tongues, making it seem less like a kiss and more like a brawl in a different setting.
Their breathing lost its composure, becoming rough and heavy, and their pounding heartbeats faithfully revealed their turbulent emotions.
The long-brewing panic, anticipation, and overwhelming joy of regaining what was lost were finally revealed, swirling and expanding freely in this deserted corner.
They had met long ago, but now it felt like a real reunion after a long separation.
"Do you miss me? Do you miss me? How much do you miss me?" Levy asked repeatedly.
They were talking, but they were reluctant to part, and after only a few words, they would peck each other twice.
Qin Chu didn't answer, but gripped his hair tightly with her fingers and kissed him again.
The kiss lasted a long time, and both of them were teetering on the edge of losing control of their emotions.
But this time it was Levy who held back.
"Why are General Qin's hands so restless?"
Levi smiled and pulled Qin Chu's hand out, holding it in his own palm. With his other hand, he pulled up Qin Chu's almost completely open collar.
Qin Chu stared at him with deep, dark eyes, without saying a word.
Levy was adamant. He clicked his tongue and said, "We can't always do this in the virtual world. This time, we must save it for the real world."
At the same time, a line of huge red characters appeared on the ceiling: "This is my space. I know what you're doing. Please behave yourselves!!!"
This is clearly from Noah, whose survival instinct is so strong that he doesn't even dare to send a voice message.
Qin Chu also suppressed his emotions slightly.
He ignored Noah and asked Levi in a low voice, "How did you suddenly regain your memories?"
“You’ll probably have to ask him.” Levi pointed to the ceiling. “My memories should be stored in the android’s chip as special data. When Noah analyzed them, he probably mistook them for part of the world coordinates, so when they were transmitted into this world, I suddenly received these memories.”
Qin Chu felt somewhat fortunate.
When Levi woke up in the real world, his memories had probably just been extracted. It was only thanks to his instincts in directly imprisoning the android impersonating Miss Caroline that those memories survived.
If that android had been allowed to leave at that time, that memory would probably have been completely destroyed and erased.
He and Levy won't part ways because of the loss of a memory, but it will always be a permanent loss for them.
At another corner of the corridor a short distance from this corner, Burke looked up at the time with a helpless expression.
There was a squad leader standing in front of him, who had obviously just come looking for Qin Chu but was stopped by him.
Burke glanced at the time, then peered over there again.
It's been so long, it should be better by now, right?
The squad leader's expression went from confusion to understanding to blankness... He looked at Burke and asked, "Lieutenant General, should I continue to wait, or go back?"
"Forget it, you can go ahead. If you wait another hour, those two will probably still be glued together." Burke pushed him out.
The squad leader carefully walked over, maintaining his mine-clearing posture.
Upon arriving at the destination, he didn't dare to look around. With his eyes closed, he shouted, "Sir, they sent me to ask when we're setting off for the Small World!"
Qin Chu silently rubbed his forehead: "Now."
Levi also said with a smile, "Let's finish this quickly so we can get back soon."
"Yes, sir!"
Hundreds of special squad members were taken by Noah and transported to different virtual worlds.
Their goal this time is different from Qin Chu's; they only need to connect the small world with Noah's main body space in this world.
At that time, the mainframe was in this world, and it could connect to other small worlds through data threads, and even control the life, death, and fate of the human consciousness in them.
Seeing that scene, Qin Chu came up with this idea.
Both Noah and the main brain are artificial intelligences. Although Noah is very weak, with enough external support, it may not be unable to do these things.
This makes everyone's workload much lighter, and they can also communicate with each other through Noah's system.
Qin Chu and Levi were the fastest. After completing their assigned tasks, they even went back several times to assist the others in completing their tasks.
As he was about to return, Levi called out to Qin Chu over the communication channel: "This is my third trip back. I wonder how fast General Qin is going?"
"...Who wants to compete with you? Aren't you afraid of getting caught up in the data stream?" Qin Chu scoffed, but subtly increased his speed.
"I was scared, I just got caught up in it and almost lost my way," Levy said dramatically. "But when I thought about the things I still had to do back home, I immediately came to my senses."
Qin Chu: "...Would you die if you didn't talk nonsense?"
Levy didn't say anything more, but he smiled happily.
After a while, Burke finally couldn't take it anymore and interrupted, "This is a public channel, you two please tone it down!"
Although everyone encountered some minor hiccups, the plan ultimately proceeded smoothly.
After some time, most people successfully returned to the starship simulated by Noah, and the few who didn't return were on their way.
Time flows at different speeds in different worlds. When they returned this time, everyone noticed that the surrounding environment had changed and looked more like the era they lived in.
Furthermore, in order to connect with these smaller worlds, the starship that Noah simulated was actually presented in this world.
This is actually somewhat dangerous, because they were completely hidden before and would not attract the attention of the original data entities in this world. But now, if someone comes to this star field, they will probably find a strange starship docked here.
"Was it like this outside when you left?" Qin Chu asked, standing at the window.
Levi glanced up listlessly, then nuzzled against Qin Chu's neck. He had just woken up, and his voice was still a little languid: "It's different. Back then, it was like playing a game."
At this point, Levi chuckled and whispered in his ear, "General Qin, I know a lot about you. I'm probably the only one in the world who understands you best."
Qin Chu raised an eyebrow at him: "You're wrong, there's one more."
"Who?" Levy narrowed his eyes dangerously immediately. "Burke? Noah?"
He acted as if he would challenge these two to a fight if Qin Chu simply nodded.
“The mastermind,” Qin Chu said, “you learned about me through the scenarios it created. So, who do you think knows more, you or it?”
Levi cursed, his expression like he'd swallowed a fly, wishing he could twist and tear the mainframe apart.
After all the team members returned to the starship, Noah's starship set off, heading towards another point in space.
They have now connected all the virtual worlds and marked the human consciousness within them. Now they need to leave this world and take these human consciousnesses to the safe zone they have drawn in advance.
Due to a shortage of manpower in the external medical system, they could only awaken these human consciousnesses in batches.
However, with so many smaller communities within the Overseas Chinese Federation, Noah's mission has become much more difficult than when he first arrived.
He needs to find a spatial point closest to the safe zone to make a breakthrough.
Although the journey is slow, it is the most familiar work for everyone every day.
In the real world, their daily tasks consist of patrolling the flight path and monitoring the surrounding environment.
The mission suddenly entered a period of relative calm.
But one morning, this period of respite was broken.
"Sir, traces of another starship have been detected within the reconnaissance range!"
Qin Chu looked at the team member in charge of reconnaissance: "What's the size of the starship's insignia on the other side?"
"It's too far away to see the markings clearly. But it's very large, with a main starship and a huge group of spacecraft around it," the team member replied.
"I'll go take a look." Qin Chu walked towards the main control cabin.
Seeing the images on the monitor screen, his brow furrowed even more. He was very familiar with this size; it was standard equipment for warships.
Confronting the forces of this world head-on is not the outcome Qin Chu wants to see.
"Adjust the course and see if we can avoid it," Qin Chu said.
Noah changed course as instructed, but the next day, they still saw the warship in their direction of travel.
And the distance is even closer now.
"Tsk, they've been targeted." Levi was very familiar with this tactic; it was the same troublesome way when the warships chased their pirate ship.
“Damn it, if all else fails, we’ll fight them!” Burke said.
Qin Chu didn't reply, but instead reached out and zoomed in on the image on the screen.
The warship was moving very fast, and the initially blurry image quickly became clear.
Suddenly, an image that everyone present was very familiar with appeared on the screen.
This is a silver-white warship, exuding a cold and sharp aura.
On the ship's hull, which is entirely devoid of any other colors, a group of white lights forms a capital interstellar number "one".
Everyone in the main control cabin froze for a few seconds.
Someone suddenly cursed, "Holy shit?"
This was followed by a sudden surge of fighting spirit.
"Is this a case of counterfeiters coming knocking on our door?"
"Why would I stop myself?"
Several captains swarmed to the screen, staring at the starship with eyes that seemed to want to bore a hole through it.
"The imitation is so realistic!"
"It's not quite like that. The light on our starship is broken, and we haven't fixed it yet because we don't have the money."
"It looks much newer than our starships."
Although there were people from other legions present, the four legions were originally one family, and they were all very excited to see this scene.