Once Human, Now a Parasite

Chapter 294

Arthur didn’t linger there anylonger, he vanished from the small party’s view, disappearing into nothingness, startling them for a few seconds before they calmed down when some time has passed . All they did after was stare at the headless dark dragon with awe and fear . . .

. . .

"I actually don’t know what exactly the Great Library is but it’s certain that it exists and it’s locked here . Knowing how the System does its work, I guess there’ll be a few guards at the entrance, however, I’ll take care of them you don’t need to act . "

The copy transmitted his voice to Arthur, who appeared above the center of the Westia continent .

Below was an eery forest with fog covering more than half of it, it reeked of death and was unusually quiet and from what Arthur sensed, he discovered no signs of lives nearby .

Using his [Sixth Sense], Arthur carefully inspected the area, the things under the dirt and the clouds on the sky, leaving nothing uninspected yet he was met with naught but failure .

He couldn’t find anything abnormal or a barrier that can lead him to the location of the library .

"The System doesn’t rely on Barrier and formations like most people, it has its own way of concealing things and it goes beyond what Nether Energy or anything else could do . Leave the rest to me, I’ll find it . "

As he said so, the mysterious cube that was floating above Arthur’s soul, left his consciousness and started spinning in front of him . It emitted a constant flow of red lights to all directions until a distant noise was heard from the East .

The cube started flying toward that direction with incredible speed, fortunately, Arthur was able to follow it without any effort . After a few minutes, they arrived at a normal mountain range, unlike the forest from before, this area was peaceful and full of life .

The cube froze in mid-air for a second before it dived downwards, crashing into the earth at a random location . From then on, the ARK started changing shapes continuously, from a cube to a sphere, then to a triangle . Each shape had a unique color and a number engraved on it .

Finally, the ARK took the shape of a rectangle, it had purple lines and the number ’6’ was on its front . The ARK vertically embedded itself into the ground, which caused the latter to start shaking violently for a few seconds before a path appeared before Arthur .

It was a staircase leading below, lights were illuminating from both sides and what surprised him was the type of illumination . It resembled the ones used on Earth, however, these seemed much, much more advanced .

"There’s nothing to feel surprised about . The System uses Science and Technology rather than ancient methods like cultivation, this is why it’s the biggest universe and the more dominant one . It doesn’t have strong entities like the other two Universes but it definitely has the numbers, and in mind-numbing amounts too . "

Arthur descended the stairs while keeping his guard up for any surprise attack . Although his copy told him that the guards here won’t be strong, he didn’t dare rush in recklessly lest it results in unwanted consequences .

Approximately three-hundred meters underground, the stairs finally stopped and a large, spheric empty room was at the end of Arthur’s path .

Apart from countless small pipes and ropes fixated on all the walls and machine sounds that are constant and monotonous, there was nothing dangerous in this place .

There were no signs of life and his map didn’t show him any red dots, which means this room is clear and devoid of anything . This made him wonder about the existence of this room and why was it constructed .

"See, the way the System works is totally different from the cultivation world or the Heaven and Hell Universe . It doesn’t put a lot of effort into hiding treasures and from the looks of this place, it’s not really a location to hide something but rather an ’office’ . "

Hearing this, Arthur frowned and asked

"Office?"

"Yes, within its Universe, the System built countless ’Offices’ . It designs Artifical intelligence to these ’Offices’ . Usually, each world, no matter how small it is, has an office with an AI inside of it, this AI manages the ’small’ system in that specific world . "

Seeing the still confused look hanging on Arthur’s face, his copy continued:

"It’s like a core . It manages the people who have the system in that world, for example, whenever you hear notifications or see a blue window, it’s managed by the AI in this place . "

"What if I change worlds or Realms?"

"Good question . In most cases, the job gets shifted to a higher-grade AI, one that manages not a world but a solar system or even a Galaxy for they have larger range . Zodiak was, more or less, right, there’s indeed a library here, or more accurately, an old AI that has been shut down . If we can acquire it then there could only be benefits . "

"Why would it be shut down? And why was it not disposed of?"(Arthur)

"They broke rules . Even if it was by mistake, there would be dire consequences, the System is pretty strict regarding its rules and even the main controlling units have to follow them . It’s a pretty complicated process so let’s forget about it and see what’s lurking in this place . "

Arthur nodded in approval and slowly walked toward the end of the room, where there was a closed door that probably leads to the main room of this ’office’ .

"It’s pretty weird that there are no normal guards here but I guess it’s better this way . "

The copy spoke with a regretful tone . Since earlier, he was excited about meeting the System’s guards as he narrated to Arthur how he’ll capture them and make good use of them inside the ARK, unfortunately, they met no such guards and found nothing abnormal .

Contrary to his expectation, the closed door wasn’t locked, in fact, it opened with a small push of his hands . Once the door opened, Arthur a sight that truly astonished him .

He speculated that he’ll see advanced machinery and things like those Sci-Fi movies on Earth but reality was vastly different .

First of all, the room was the definition of the color pink, from the chairs to the bed and paint on the wall . There were six to seven large monitors on the front and dozen of teddy bears on all corners of this place .

Even his copy, who was witnessing this from within the ARK, stood there with mouth agape . No matter how prepared and composed he was, seeing something like this was definitely out of his expectations .

He had seen ’offices’ in the past but it wasn’t remotely close to this one . The pink room wasn’t devoid of life, there was a small girl laying in front of the monitor and eating some snacks as she watched an old movie Arthur remembered watching back in the days .

The little girl didn’t seem to notice his entrance to her ’room’, she had her eyes glued to the big monitor as her hands automatically shoved all kinds of snacks into her mouth .

The only thing that could be heard was her crunching sounds, a headset bigger than her head was worn and apart from a pink blanket was around her, covering the majority of her body .

"T-this is an office?"

Arthur asked his copy after some observation . At first, he wasn’t sure about what he was seeing but after further confirmation, he was sure that this was none other than a small girl’s room situated in a random place underground .

"I, I’m not sure . This girl is definitely not an AI, she couldn’t be more human!"