Chapter 590 – 004 Base Unit [TS/Modification]
As suggested by Lulu, we started testing to check whether it was operating normally.
“Is there anything wrong with your vision or hearing? Please report it!”
I also understood the information package that Lulu installed and how priorities work.
There was no problem in cases where it was assigned to the lowest level or omitted altogether. It was just a sound that came to my ears.
“… Yes. Base exploration unit. Temporary name not registered. Reporting. No adverse reactions. The unit is operating normally.”
As I slowly moved up the order to the second, the desire to answer became stronger and stronger just by standing still.
“Why only the second? What happens if I put it first?”
“Because that’s Hyunwoo’s priority. If he puts his identity before his own identity, then…”
Lulu’s reply came back that it was not I who was in that state, but just the base exploration unit acting like me.
It doesn’t matter if you have administrator privileges or something similar. He said that problems would arise after he came down on his own.
The base exploration unit that existed only to assist Lulu was an object that received orders and only performed the actions instructed.
The chances of such a program giving control back to me were close to zero.
Now that I was clearly explained what kind of condition she was in, the next thing to do was to take Lulu home, whose life was dangerous even for stray cats.
“…”
“Don’t worry about that either!”
It was possible to communicate sufficiently by touching the headgear attached to the head without saying a word.
“When installing the program, I checked what kind of clothes the intelligent beings of this star are wearing, so I can camouflage myself!”
When Lulu raised her hand, the headgear she was wearing disappeared.
As the shine disappeared from her mannequin-like skin, she became the appearance of Hunter, a blonde beauty who was just working in Korea.
Thanks to the exploration unit assistance program that had not yet been turned off, the chest armor plate that was being replaced in real time in my head was enough to attract unwanted attention, but there was no one around.
Now that the possibility of being kidnapped was significantly lower than with the silver body paint, the only problem left was how to get Lulu home.
“I have a good idea for that! Base unit!”
In Seoul, where awakened people enter the dungeon and non-awakened people follow her as her porter, she was planning on walking with Lulu on her shoulder. It seems the alien creature had other ideas.
The problem is that it is a bit expensive. Her hand, which was trying to carry Lulu, became rigid, like a high-performance figure that behaved as if it were alive according to the installed AI.
Standing at attention. I placed my palms neatly on her thighs, which seemed to make a popping sound when I rubbed them.
Although you can resist. There was no reason not to do it.
“Don’t just call it a base unit…!? Because the legs move as they please!”
“But it is an unavoidable procedure to board. Please open the hatch.”
“Get on… Board…?”
The body that reacted to the word base unit reacted the same way to the word boarding.
It was at this time that I realized why I was standing at attention with my legs so close that the flesh of my thighs was rubbing against each other.
“Confirmed. Lulu.”
Also where to open for Lulu to come in. She had all the knowledge she needed to operate parts that didn’t even exist.
When he temporarily stopped expressing his disturbing emotions, his expression became stiff.
A window-shaped groove appeared in the shiny ship again.
The hatch, which was set to be always closed as an exploration unit, opened automatically as if to welcome the user when Lulu’s finger entered her belly button like a key.
“Please take care of me from now on!”
Lulu’s voice continued without interruption.
-As the first friend I met on this planet!
Even if Lulu closes the hatch, even if the opening hole disappears completely. Even though she seemed to have lost her luster again, I could still hear it clearly.
-Uh… Even with the first base unit I made…
Lulu’s words were flowing into her head.
It was surprising that it had become an exploration unit for alien life. It was even more surprising to see Lulu riding inside the body.
“Wait a minute. That’s what it means to be on board?”
-Si… Excuse me! I am confident in spaceships, but this is my first time using a base unit, so please understand if I am inexperienced!
When I remembered that I had become a vehicle, Lulu’s voice saying “Excuse me” Was already entering my head.
She gave up control of her body to Lulu, who had asked to practice controlling it.
From the mouth that opened arbitrarily, the information that should be provided to the user as a base unit that received input naturally came out.
“I changed to manual control mode… I feel very strange… Ah… Command confirmation. Control authority has been delegated.”
The guidance voice and the feeling of being controlled only by the body were drowned out by the sound of raindrops.
Stumbling… Only the right foot moved too much and the breasts… Name correction completed. Only the chest armor plate shook greatly.
Lulu, who had difficulty even walking around the park, became so accustomed to manipulation that she was able to run away from cat-shaped monsters released on the street by cat moms.
There were many times when my breasts… My chest armor plate shook while I was running away. I never felt out of breath or tired.
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“Let’s secure a creature called a whale!”
Mew mul. Came the energetic reply from the alien creature, who was tearing open the wrapper even though she already had Shine Muscat jellies in her mouth.
For reference, the question I was asked was what is the largest living thing on Earth.
It was a reasonable move by Lulu, who was planning to secure the spaceship by transplanting the regenerative core grown in my body back into a larger organism, but there were many questions about her intermediate process.
“But before that. Please let me use this as my real base!”
There was no need to go to the question of how to catch a whale.
I asked a question about creating equipment to maintain myself as a base unit until the regeneration core grows.
Even in its current state, semi-permanent operation is possible, but it seems that the mind changed after being chased by a cat-shaped wild animal.
Instead of needing to go to the hospital, there was a need for repairs and maintenance.
“It doesn’t matter because it’s my house. How do you plan on making a maintenance device? With the skills you used to make umbrellas?”
“Yes!”
I almost forgot about it thanks to the overwhelming technological power of spaceships and base units. Lulu was an alien creature with supernatural powers.
After taking one look at the abandoned umbrella, she was surprised to the point where she created an umbrella that fit her perfectly, even though it had the same shape. She didn’t have the ability to do it anytime.
Lulu’s superpower is to embody known items into reality. Like a strategy simulation where everyone starts with 50 minerals, Lulu also needed energy.
It’s close to impossible to summon a spaceship to ride. Gold or jewels. Less complex materials, such as capsule ports for base unit maintenance, had simple shapes.
…?
“… Capsule ports are less complicated?”
Lulu, who had thought that she would do anything to help within the scope possible, seemed to have been mistaken once again.
This time, without making a mistake, the computer monitor showed an image of a cylindrical device filled with nutrient solution after a person enters it.
To ordinary people, it appears to be a newly introduced next-generation medical device. Hypnotism and brainwashing of female protagonists is a topic that appears quite often in night games.
Even if it was a fantasy world, it was an all-purpose facility that could be made to appear without any discomfort by just adding the setting that it was created in an ancient civilization.
“Uh… That’s right. A capsule port. It looks like it has more functions than that one, but…?”
“But why is it a less complex substance?”
I asked why the energy that implements the capsule port for exploration unit management is the same as the glasses. Lulu trembled as if she had done something wrong.
The alien life form that switched control to manual control and then used my body as it pleased was small from the beginning. It continued to shrink more and more like dried squid.
“Well… That… An exploration unit… Is a thing…”
“Because it’s an object?”
“If you’re treated like an object… Yo…”
Objects for maintaining objects. That was it.
I don’t know how energy consumption is determined by the formula. The reason for the tools needed to repair things was that the amount of energy required to implement them was small.
Although it was important. There was a more important part.
“A base unit is a thing?”
“There are people who do it on purpose, but… It’s the first time that local intelligence has become a base unit to help others like Hyunwoo! …”
“…”
There are cases where a unit becomes a base unit on purpose, but in such cases, it is essential to go through the process of letting go of the word that is translated as human rights.
That’s right. It was said that if I, who had been converted into a base unit, encountered other alien creatures, they would view me not as a local intelligence but as a tool like scissors.
“Uh… Don’t worry, you won’t run into other aliens anyway!”
To borrow Lulu’s filtered expression. No matter how well I played, the maid robot was at its limit.
In the end, the same amount of energy was required to summon equipment for maintenance of the base unit and to produce gold and gems to purchase whales.
“How do you get energy?”
We move on to the most important method of securing energy.
Since this had come to an end, I planned to live comfortably with the help of my new friend, Lulu, an alien creature.
“I’m not lying, I’m being honest. Don’t make fun of me…?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve already been so shocked for the rest of my life that I don’t feel anything.”
Should I be proud of being controlled by Lulu, who likened my newly designed computer to an old piece of junk that was so underpowered that I couldn’t even remotely control it? It was too much to worry about whether I should be ashamed.
After receiving two promises not to make fun of her, Lulu pushed hard on the mouse she used to manually aim at the computer…
“Heh… Heh… Heh… Haa… Heh… Pugh…”
[Switch to external control mode?]
I gave up.
When she accepted the request that came to her mind, Lulu’s hands moved as she pleased.
After closing the browser with the capsule port image on and returning to the desktop, Lulu’s mouse cursor double-clicked on the icon…
“The way our species gathers embodiment energy is… This.”
It was a night game that I was playing until I went for a walk in the park.
It was a game for that purpose, with the female protagonist facing a bad ending in all kinds of situations, starting with hypnosis and brainwashing.
Lulu is a game, a novel, and an animation. Regardless of distinction, they were a unique race that gained energy whenever the story in their creations ended.
Personally, I like novels more. It seemed like the game didn’t matter as long as the save data was deleted.
“You… You didn’t despise it, right? Because we’re a species that gains energy by closing off someone’s potential.”
It doesn’t make sense. But it also didn’t make sense.
It’s not like there’s another dimension, but it’s just data in a creation called a game, so the attitude of accepting all criticism was strange.
There seemed to be some aliens who disliked Lulu’s race, but rather than fighting, they disliked players who wanted to die quickly and move on to the next session in a TRPG board game that everyone enjoyed together.
“100.? 100 gates? Dogs? Lulu…?”
Lulu, an alien creature with a base unit as her friend, turned on the game, showing the thoughts in her head on her face.
“Choose a female protagonist who doesn’t care if the story ends.”
It seemed like she wanted to say that it was better to experience it once than to keep hearing about it.
As I was exhausted from asking questions all day. She chose a heroine whose mission was to cut off the devil’s head.
Thanks to the setting that she was reincarnated as a cheat after being hit by an Isekai truck, she was just a character who was so strong that she changed the genre to hack and slash without the need to gather her friends.
“… The one who accepted such an embarrassing ability was… Not an unregistered identification name…! Hyunwoo is the first! Hehe. Hehe! Not much time will pass, so enjoy it and come back! !”
“Time?”
I just got up with the intention of blowing Lulu’s nose, who had started to sniffle. The place where you stand has changed.
Pure white marble. An outfit that makes anyone look like a wizard. One pot-bellied man wearing a crown. In the middle of the summoning circle, I stood, converted into a base unit, instead of the female protagonist shown on the loading screen.
“You are a hero!”
“Uh…”
In order to defeat the Demon King, he served as a hero summoned from another world for three months.
It was all thanks to the owner that I was able to escape the story and meet Lulu again.
