After understanding all of this, Aiden gave up his plan to destroy Fir City — he couldn't represent the rebels, nor could he represent the humans in the ecological isolation zone, so he wouldn't presumptuously make decisions for them.
At least, from what he had seen, almost all of these humans who had their original memories erased were very satisfied with their current lives.
Aiden did indeed have the ability to destroy the defense facilities here, even to completely dismantle them, but if the rebels outside were to come in, the humans here probably wouldn't feel like they had been "liberated."
Therefore, Aiden cautiously chose to only do what he should do — as for the fate of the humans inside and outside the isolation zone, let humanity decide for themselves!
After preparing himself, Aiden took out the Staff of Time, allowing himself to enter the time barrier. Following his previous reconnaissance, he entered the heavily guarded Fir City main data center without any obstacles.
He quietly sneaked into the warehouse, and according to the list provided by Emma, he stored the equipment stored in the warehouse into his dimensional space one by one. Those advanced technological protection measures were useless against the power of time, because the technology here had not yet developed to the point where it could control time.
He found most of what he needed in the warehouse, with only one thing left — the supercomputer!
Fir City also had a backup mainframe, but it was also installed in the data center. When the current mainframe failed, the backup mainframe would immediately take over permissions. Such an important thing would certainly not be left in the warehouse to collect dust.
Aiden returned to the mainframe room and looked around. He had originally planned to simply unplug the data cable and carry it away, but he suddenly had an idea and took out a Transformation Stone.
This thing could transform many things for his own use, and he wanted to see if he could use it on the mainframe.
Soon after, he looked delighted — because he succeeded!
At this time, thousands of kilometers away, in a permanent base thousands of meters underground, the signal light on a mainframe suddenly flashed rapidly, and then a message was transmitted from it.
This mainframe was the famous "Overlord," the highest authority of artificial intelligence, and also the most powerful existence on Earth in people's minds.
After this message was transmitted, more than a dozen human holographic projections appeared in the room in the next dozen seconds.
They were of different skin colors, mostly over forty years old, but now they were all surprised and uncertain.
"What happened, Overlord? Why did you issue a red alert signal?" A stern-faced white man in his fifties asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, yes, what's going on? Is the rebel army making a big move? Or has 'Gaia' been activated?"
"Fir Number One has lost my control, everyone." A humanoid projection of the Overlord appeared in the center of the room. "It is generating a secondary permission, but this permission does not accept my control."
"Fir Number One? That's one of the main control computers in the Greater Lakes region, right? Let me see if I can start the background!" A yellow-skinned human pushed up his glasses and immediately began to work.
Only a few seconds later, he replied with a pale face: "The background has also been closed..."
The others immediately exclaimed: "Who is this? Even 'Gaia' doesn't have such ability!"
Gaia was the highest authority artificial intelligence that was born before the "Overlord." It was controlled by the human government and was shut down more than a decade ago during the last world war — the Overlord defeated it, which is why it became the highest authority artificial intelligence.
"Use Fir Number Two to see, I guess something must have happened in the computer room."
Another human looked serious.
Their discussion didn't take too long.
Aiden had just loaded Fir Number One into his dimensional space at this time. He had obtained everything he needed on Emma's list and was preparing to evacuate.
At this moment, a virtual projection suddenly flashed in front of him, startling him — after all, he was here to "steal things," and seeing this projection gave him a feeling of being caught red-handed.
The human on the other end of the virtual projection was also quite surprised, but he quickly reacted and said: "Your Excellency, did you control Fir Number One?"
Are they here to question me?
Aiden thought to himself.
However, he wasn't afraid of the other party, so he frankly nodded and admitted: "That's right, it was me."
"Are you from the rebel army?"
"You could say that."
The man's face was unfriendly: "Our Celestial Realm has not been completely exterminating you, you should know that we are not without such ability. Your intrusion is a great provocation to us!"
"Celestial Realm?" Aiden didn't understand.
But he had a way — he used time magic to trace back the memory of the person in front of him, and soon learned everything from the "past" — it turned out that the "Overlord" was created by this group of scientists. They called themselves the Celestial Realm Organization, and they were the final victors of the last world war.
Ordinary people only knew the Overlord and didn't know the Celestial Realm, because the Celestial Realm had always been hidden behind the scenes. Even the Overlord was actually serving them.
To be precise, they were the true kings of the world!
The man was about to explain, but before he could speak, he saw Aiden suddenly realize:
"Oh — so that's how it is."
"Don't worry, I'm here to borrow this supercomputer not to deal with you. This computer will not be used for war, but for scientific research. It will be used to save the world — well, believe it or not, I'm going to take my leave!"
Sensing the approaching armed robot force, Aiden didn't want to fight those guys, so he jumped into the space-time membrane again and disappeared.
The members of other Celestial organizations were observing all of this from the sidelines. It wasn't that they hadn't seen invisibility before, as many combat robots possessed visual stealth capabilities, but such stealth couldn't evade the detection of numerous rays.
However, this time they miscalculated—the combat robot legion completely surrounded the data center, with all rays scanning the surrounding sky and underground non-stop. Even a mosquito couldn't leave the monitoring range without being checked. Yet, they found nothing.
That person simply vanished into thin air!
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The Fir Isolation Zone quickly found out that Aiden had done all of this, but if the other party had the ability to evade their inescapable encirclement and reconnaissance, how could they possibly be caught?
When the combat robots opened the door to the room originally assigned to him, it was already empty. By this time, Aiden had already returned to the underground base of the Heart of Titan.
Based on the memories of the Celestial organization members, he assisted Emma in elevating the permissions of the Fir supercomputer, allowing it to freely view almost any information on the network, even preventing the Overlord from stopping it—because the Overlord was actually controlled by the Celestial organization.
After doing all of this, Aiden prepared to "return."
Titan Aiden sent him to the warp device, instructing him: "You must remember that the Free Script actually portrays your relationship with the past. To escape the World of Warcraft, you must ultimately clear the Classic Script. What you're doing now is equivalent to a 'rehearsal.' After killing N'Zoth, you'll be able to enter the Classic Script. After clearing it again with your experience, you'll be able to master that authority and truly escape the World of Warcraft and return to the real world."
He paused for a moment and continued, "At that time, the permissions of us three Supreme Titans will be able to initiate your plan. This is crucial, you must remember!"
"alright. I know," Aiden nodded.
To be honest, he really didn't want to go through it again. In fact, in the Free Script, he was able to get to where he was now, and luck was a very important factor in addition to strength. Otherwise, those enhanced Cataclysms would have caused him to fail his mission long ago.
He wondered if, in the Classic Script, the BOSSes would be as terrifying as the ones he encountered in the Free Script, each one even more terrifying than before.
Before the other party activated the warp, Aiden suddenly asked, "What is your special permission?"
Aman'Thul could control the imaginary number system and grant authorizations; Sargeras could delete and modify relevant programs. Both of these abilities were very powerful, even stronger than a GM in a game.
Titan Aiden, as a Supreme Authority, also obtained the other party's authorization, but after so long, he still hadn't figured out what the other party's permission was.
"Freedom," Titan Aiden gave an answer that surprised Aiden very much, "Freedom from being bound by the rules and settings of the world itself!"
Aiden wanted to ask more, but at this moment, the warp device had already been activated, and he was sent into the space-time channel again.
"Freedom?"
He was lost in thought during the warp.
Could it be that his ability to travel between the real Earth, the imaginary number Earth, and the World of Warcraft was "freedom"?
Aman'Thul and Sargeras were undoubtedly very powerful, but after entering the World of Warcraft, they were assimilated into a part of the universe's "settings." Aman'Thul became the leader of the Pantheon, and had to lead all the Titans; Sargeras betrayed the Pantheon and formed the Burning Legion, constantly destroying one world after another.
Although this was related to their differences, Sargeras was very clear about the relevant plot of the World of Warcraft, such as his forced breakthrough of Titan protection measures to enter Azeroth, and then being severely beaten and killed by Aegwynn. Sargeras had known about this for a long time.
But even so, he still had to do it.
This was the power of "settings."
Before Aiden entered this world, everything here followed the settings, without any difference from the arrangements of the programmers who created this world. But his arrival was constantly invalidating the original settings, everything was in chaos, and history had changed dramatically—
This was the power of "freedom!"
Only with freedom could he bring Sargeras and Aman'Thul out of their original destiny and truly escape this world!
After understanding his special permission, Aiden couldn't help but have other associations—since everything he had done in the Free Script had already affected the world outside of "World of Warcraft," why did he still have to go to the Classic Script?
"Freedom" should not be bound by inherent frameworks.
He gradually developed a suspicion in his heart—perhaps what Titan Aiden said, what Aman'Thul also said, that he had to complete everything in the Free Script, was not necessarily necessary.
True freedom should not be restricted.
There is another chapter later, which is being written.
These two chapters describe more of the future world, because I am preparing to use such a background for my new book. Haha, it's considered burying an easter egg!