"Ah!!"
Cao Ge's head suddenly started to hurt again.
And with that pain, a large chunk of information abruptly flooded into his brain.
This chunk of information slowly pieced together, eventually forming a continuous memory.
A quarter of an hour later, the wrinkles on Cao Ge's forehead gradually smoothed out, he released his right hand that had been tightly clutching his head, and slowly raised his head, he remembered everything.
His name was indeed Cao Ge, a recent college graduate, but that was not his true identity, his real identity was a computer engineer who had transversed to the Three-Body world, now on his second traverse, but due to some irresistible force.
He had directly replaced the identity of the target person, when he just woke up, this body was in the middle of a hibernation operation, and the hibernation program was already half executed.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he intended to escape this state, but at that time, he had no idea where he was, and coupled with his complete exhaustion, he didn't struggle much before he fell asleep again.
This also explained why he had the face of an Asian but bore a Western name, because the system directly obliterated the person who originally owned this identity, just as if that person never existed.
Then, when he woke up, he found himself here.
"Given that the host now has the capacity to carry out tasks, the following missions are hereby issued."
Mission One
Mission Name: Human Seedling Project
Mission Content: Rescue the remaining humans and safely bring them to the target planet.
Mission Two
Mission Name: Clearing Danger
Mission Content: Exterminate the mutant humans
Cao Ge looked at the sudden mission list that appeared before his eyes, he wasn't too surprised.
When he decided to give up the relatively uneventful life in the Three-Body world, he knew what he would face.
It was inevitable that the task system would issue missions, the name of the system being the Savior System did catch Cao Ge off guard, though.
Since he must complete the missions, he has to have a basic understanding of the world background and the events he's in, or else it would equal delivering his head on a platter.
Cao Ge immediately called up the complete task system panel.
Savior System.
Host: Cao Ge (Walker)
Skills: Computer Science Lv1 (30/100) Free Combat Lv0 (10/100)
Functions: Traverse, Enhance
Current Missions: Human Seedling Project (Incomplete), Clearing Threat (Incomplete)
Host's Current Space-Time: Deep Space Amnesia
Ultimate Goal: Change the fate of humanity on Earth.
The character information was simple and clear, the system panel was also minimalist, with no fancy frills.
"Deep Space Amnesia?" Cao Ge frowned and pondered.
At last, he dredged up a bit of information from the depths of his brain. It was a British science fiction mystery film, released in 2009, which he had indeed seen.
But asking him to remember all the details all at once was a bit much for him.
Though he couldn't recall the details of when he had watched the film, he had received some residual information from this body.
The one named Walker was an unlucky soul. His cryo-pod hadn't killed him, but Cao Ge did, and even assumed his identity outright.
More bizarre was that this kind of replacement could even inherit some of the original owner's memory fragments.
For instance, this time, he acquired a memory that was exceedingly helpful in accomplishing his mission.
The space he found himself in seemed enclosed, but in reality, there were hidden passageways.
His authority on the ship was extremely high, and he was responsible for the ship's safety, so there were some passages only he, or someone with higher clearance, would know of.
Without their authorization, no matter what one did, these doors could not be opened.
The ship's systems prioritized the power supply, with the cryo-pods having the highest priority.
Therefore, even if the spaceship crashed and the main computer lost its link, the cryo-pods would still continue to operate, because as long as the small computer and life support system dedicated to the cryo-pods didn't fail, they could keep him in stasis indefinitely.
Now that he knew this world, he also had a clearer understanding of his mission.
This spaceship was called Elysium Space, with sixty thousand people on board, heading for Tanis Planet. But during the journey, a sudden message from Earth announced the extinction of humankind for some reason – they were the last humans in the universe. The ship's bridge computer received this information first and immediately notified the bridge crew. At that time, only three people in the bridge were awake: the captain, the head of the energy department, and Sergeant Galon, the captain's assistant.
Galon, unable to withstand this shock, had a psychological breakdown and killed both the captain and the first officer.
From then on, he was the only person aware of this message; everyone else was in hibernation. In other words, this vast spaceship began to be under his control.
As time passed, Sergeant Galon's mental state became increasingly uncontrollable, and he gradually developed a deep space phobia.
He manipulated the spaceship's systems, awakened a portion of the hibernating people, and then drove them into a confined space without food. Eventually, to survive, they began to eat each other's flesh.
It's true, the spaceship lost control.
Humans carry a virus called the prion virus. Cannibalism can infect people with this virus, making them irate, losing their reason, and slowly turning them into monsters.
After decades passed, Galon, now the self-proclaimed emperor of the ship, grew increasingly violent and less human. Tired of his daily games of tormenting people, he selected a random cryo-pod and went into hibernation.
But those who survived by cannibalism lived on, and they even produced offspring. Centuries went by, and these beings, having lived on the spaceship from birth and never having seen the sun, the moon, the earth, or plants, began to change in appearance. Gradually, they evolved into a different form, perfectly adapted to the colossal spaceship, treating it as their entire world, completely isolated from humans as a species.
Since there was no food on the ship, they fed on humans; when hungry, they would go to the larger cryo-pods to eat people.
Because they had survived by cannibalism for hundreds of years, their moral values were utterly different from those of humans; they never thought there was anything wrong with eating people, much like humans eating pork, duck, or fish, without any psychological barriers, because to them it was perfectly natural.
After centuries or even millennia of mutation and evolution, they had become a completely different species.
They resembled humans, but with more ferocious appearances, stronger and quicker bodies, like wild beasts.
They had lost human language because, in this eternally dark spaceship, they had no need to speak. However, they could emit roars only wild beasts would make.
Because of the extreme darkness in the ship, their eyes gradually degenerated, but their hearing and sense of smell improved significantly.
They were descendants of humans, but due to the selection of their environment, they had gradually diverged from the human species.
If there was any relation between them and humanity, it was that both still belonged to the order of primates.
Beyond that, there was nothing else.