Chapter 979: Chapter 540: The Wise Being Without Wisdom Chapter 979: Chapter 540: The Wise Being Without Wisdom After setting foot on the soil of the new planet, Pingping still felt a bit uncomfortable.

She had just resurrected from the “hard drive,” and her body had only been created for five minutes, requiring some adjustments in many aspects.

Digital life and physical life are two different types of existence, although it was quite interesting to stay in the battleship’s keyboard, the sensation of having a body was clearly more three-dimensional.

Her legs, long-unused, were a bit itchy, and the new Treasure Prosthetic Body was more sensitive than ordinary prosthetic bodies, producing more vivid sensations.

Walking on the ground covered with fallen leaves, Pingping felt like the Little Mermaid who had just gotten legs, unable to help but sigh that it was indeed good to be alive.

After indulging in her sentiments, she began to observe the environment here.

This was a new star system made public by the expedition commander-in-chief, known as unlucky, and it was one of the few places on their grand expedition route that might host life.

According to unlucky, this place might harbor countless lives, which also meant countless merits.

After scanning the nearby celestial bodies, they discovered no signs of space jumps, indicating that the civilization here had declined and was incapable of interstellar travel.

But strangely, while various structures were detected, there were no signs of biological activity.

Despite the presence of man-made architecture everywhere, they found no traces of life, not even the bones of intelligent beings.

Subsequently, Golden Mother announced a startling fact.

There were traces of the Evil God here.

The presence of the Evil God would interfere with physical Laws, rendering conventional instruments unreliable. Thus, to tap into the Energy Fields of virtue here, unlucky ordered that battleships be distributed across different planets and that bases be established in orbit, then new bodies were crafted for players to start exploring different planets.

Pingping was one of them.

Her main occupation was explorer, and her secondary occupation was mechanic. The former allowed her to acquire a large number of exploration-related skills, while the latter let her use various machines and greatly increased her combat capabilities.

Some time ago, after the introduction of the lottery feature, she spent all her merits on the lottery. Although she didn’t get rich overnight like Gong Gong, she did obtain several legendary machines as her prizes.

As soon as she landed, a large cloud of Nano Machines dispersed, gathering information from within a hundred kilometers and feeding it back to her computer terminal.

Analyzing the data would take several hours, but Pingping was not in a rush.

She chose a rather steep cliff and adjusted the parameters of her arm. Tiny claws, invisible to the naked eye, emerged from her palms, allowing her to firmly adhere to the cliff face.

Climbing the smooth wall, she soon reached the top without much effort.

Above the clouds here, amidst the ocean-like mist, mountaintops floated like islands in the sea of clouds, giving the scenery a romantic and unique charm.

Sitting at the edge of the cliff, Pingping set down her backpack, pulled out a thermos and a sandwich, and ate while enjoying the beautiful view before her.

Although the contents of her backpack could be directly stored in a storage bag, she still preferred this method, as it made her feel as though she was truly journeying in reality, enjoying the pleasure of exploring the unknown.

After filling her belly, she hummed an off-tune song, swung her legs dangling over the edge of the cliff, and watched the distant clouds, feeling extraordinarily peaceful.

She didn’t start a live stream, nor did she invite her in-game friends along. A fitting amount of solitude made her more aware of her own existence, and allowed her to appreciate the freedom of life even more.

Breathing in the moist air, Pingping leisurely spent several hours, before she heard the voice announcing that the data analysis was complete.

Opening her data terminal, Pingping saw that a substantial amount of data had been collated.

Her swarm of Nano Machines was the most valuable item she had won in the lottery.

The size of a fist, this cluster of machines contained millions of nano machines, capable of acting as drones, generators, water heaters, data analyzers, and mechanical repair tools, among other functions.

Its capabilities were exceptionally comprehensive, and it could undergo modular upgrades, making it an equivalent to a Divine Artifact among players who were professional mechanics.

There was even an extravagantly wealthy player who hoped to purchase this item for a price of one hundred and twenty thousand, a price which startled Pingping, but she politely refused the offer.

After all, her main occupation was being a streamer, and with this device, she could take her viewers to more extraordinary places and see more landscapes.

From this perspective, the value of the machine far exceeded its market price.

Through her own device, Pingping discovered signs of life activities not far from where she was.

Looking at the photos sent back by the nano machines, Pingping furrowed her brows.

“Is it really that easy to find clues? Something doesn’t feel right.”

In Pingping’s view, the mission she had taken on was definitely an epic one, and it shouldn’t be so easy to complete.

She would at least need to spend several days here, go through a great deal of danger, and even possibly die a few times, collapse a dozen ruins, kill a few hundred zombies, before she could possibly find these clues.

But now, she had barely arrived and had already discovered clues here; her luck was unbelievably good.

However, after checking the player group she had joined, she found that there were quite a number of players like herself.

As the first batch dispatched here, most of them were explorers or similar professions with their own expertise in scouting and discovery.

And based on the clues they provided, Pingping found that they had also discovered similar signs of biological activity, just in different regions and with different creatures.

The creatures discovered by Pingping were small animals that looked like platypus-like creatures, their eyes sparkling with intelligence.

These yellow platypus-like creatures would walk on two legs, holding tools made from simple stones, and wander aimlessly nearby.

Because their actions were too random, without the analysis of nano machines, Pingping would absolutely not have guessed that they were an intelligent life form.

Besides appearing intellectually challenged, they had another significant trait.

Prone to mischief!

Love to court death!

Ordinary creatures all have their own mechanisms to avoid fatal mistakes, but not only did this mechanism not activate in these platypus-like creatures, it seemed to operate in reverse, doubling down on their tendency to court disaster.

They would see a cliff not as something to avoid, but as somewhere to jump off from.

They would see a river not as something to go around, but as somewhere to run toward the deepest part.

Seeing a fire, they wouldn’t think to put it out, but instead, they would start dancing an incomprehensible dance around the flames until they were consumed by fire.

What’s more outrageous was that these platypus-like creatures seemed to possess an infinite respawn characteristic.

Each time one of the platypus-like creatures died, a new one would appear within a one-kilometer radius from the death spot and inherit all the memories and traits of the previously deceased creature.

Although some areas would cause immediate death upon respawn, due to the randomness of the respawn location, there was always a chance to reach a safe place and then continue courting death.

Having reviewed the analysis of these platypus-like creatures, Pingping fell into deep thought.

This thing…

Does it count as an intelligent life form?