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A part of following scenes can frighten and trouble the most sensitive ones.
However to get in the universe in a better way, we recommend to you to put
the sound to an adequate volume and enable the full screen mode. Bon voyage.
But what is this place?!
Who spoke? Ben? Are you here?
Welcome John.
What? Who are you?
What could my identity offer you?
I exist, that's all.
And you, John Tsony, do you exist?
What do you mean?
I may be not tread upon the ground with my feet
and yet I exist well and truly.
And you?
But of course I exist, or else I would not be speaking with you !
Are you really sure of it?
I'd say yes.
Well, we will see.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
***! What's that?!
Wrong question.
What?
You didn't ask the good question.
What do you mean?
But...
Hi John! How are you?
Who are you?
Oh come on, don't you recognize me ?
What happened to you?
Who are you?!
This is not the good question.
I don't know your damn question!
You know it John, but you can't see it...
like this tree by the way...
Wh...?
John …
Are you afraid?
No, but ...
No.
You are not afraid?!
No!
So you are not ...
That's not what I said, I...
Ah...!
John ?
Wake up! You are hallucinating!
Ben? Is it you?
No, no, it's the were-lemur who stroke down again...
Don't make me laugh it's hurting me...
Come on, get your thoughts sorted.
What did you see? Why did you scream like that?
It would be long to explain.
I'm not doubting it.....Dreams are sometimes very strange.
If only it was just a dream...
and by the way what is this outfit?
Some clothes i found in the city.
Did you go to the sales?
Humm...no !
Come on, go back to sleep, you need it.
Ahhh...hummm...where am I ?
Oh ! What's that ?
Strange.
Ben ? Ben, where are you ?
Do you hear me ?
Ben !
Ah!
Well Ben !
I have to talk with you !
Oh *** !
Awesome!
Yep, like you say, when we crossed
the portal, we arrived in this city.
I didn't see anybody for the moment. I think we are alone.
However I've started to look for
some informations in the database.
And apart from that, did you sleep well? After three days
I hope you feel better.
Hold on! Three days?!
Yes, you had a great break if you don't mind me saying.
Yeah ... that's something at least.
Hello John.
Hey? What ?
It's the VI of the city.
What do you mean? A VI ?
Virtual intelligence, its job is
to take care of the maintenance of survival systems like the
atmosphere or the gravity, and to stock the totality of
of statistical data of the city to spot any possible problems.
Yeaah...Forgive me but
I've some problems with her voice, we could almost say
that this is an old acquaintance.
Indeed. Do you feel better John ?
Might do, but no thanks to you...
I see you already got to know each other
even if I admit I don't really understand how....
Well, better at least show you
this place. You will see it's magnificence.
Come on.
Since I got here and while you were resting,
i discovered many amazing things thanks to
the database of the city.
Including the name of the planet where we were
few days ago: Teluria, from the Arcadian system.
The history of this planet is complex
and the inscriptions on the wall were not accurate...
far from it.
Are you saying that the totality of planets of
the galaxy are indexed in this famous database?
Yes i am! As well as an immeasurable quantity of other things!
That's nuts...And the city? What is its name?
« The center of everything »
At least it could be the best translation
I succeed to get with the translator of the system
and all these data here in.
The problem is that a very huge part of these data
are protected and untouchable for the moment.
It's frustrating! All that knowledge, these technologies
and I don't have the access to it. I know it is there,
but i can't reach it. There is a kind of password,
a code to give and i couldn't find it. I'm stuck...
And the VI ? Can it help us? It would change for a bit...
Bahh...yes...but the last time
I've asked it, it answered …
I can't give this information to you.
It's protected and you don't have
the required security level.
That's right!
Well, we will certainly stay here for a moment.
Especially as the activation system
is included in these famous stucked systems.
It's impossible to leave without the access.
So that means, we should probably
both start to look for a bedroom.
Oh yes! It will take my mind off things.
Well...Start by this one.
Hey it's friendly here.
This one is mine!
I don't agree! Why yours? I like it too !
I got in first. If I was
8 I would say « Dibs », but then, I'll try to be
more distinguished. So it's my room, end of story.
And try to take yours to the other end of the building.
Popopopop ! What are you doing?
Bahh... I'm coming to visit.
Nay! This is MY bedroom,
private, closed, and sheeps will be well guarded.
Little word of advice, to avoid losing
all of your credibility, avoid using this type of quotations.
It's not for you.
Well, when you're finished to sort your things out,
you just have to join me.
That's right and please close the door behind you.
That's strange though.
Is it not surprising you that there is no more people and
all is perfectly tidied, i just wanna say, if you have
to flee you would take some things, no ?
There would be the mess caused by the crowd,
but there is nothing. All is in order, tidied.
Oh yes ... you aren't here ...
Empty....
This city is deserted!
Is anyone there ?
Well....I should find something interesting now.
Ah voila ... A good thing done!
Where is he again ?
Ben ?
BEN ?
Be-en ?
Ben !?
Classy classy ... Anyways they knew how to party these aliens!
I can only imagine what could happen here.
Hummm ... yeah ...
Ben?
Welcome in the library John Tsony.
There is now one people in the premises.
Have a good day.
Ah! You were well hidden … did you find anything?
He oh!
Euh..what ?
I'm asking you if you found anything!
Hum, look by yourself...
Hummm ...
Are you kidding me ?
How that ?
Wait, you understand this mumbo jumbo
will all these symbols going in all directions
and this kind of reversed « G » here?!
It's nevertheless clear, isn't it?
We don't have the same definition of the word « clear ».
Definitely. But what do you not understand?
Everything!
That's not going to help ...
That's upsetting me isn't that I can't read
but that you are able to!
Already on Teluria you succeeded to decipher these
inscriptions on the wall. Don't you think there is a problem?
You took the aliens option in high school!
You couldn't take Spanish like everybody!
I don't know ! All I can say
is I can read any dialect.
And it's really useful!
Damn, I'm like Batman...
I wasn't there the day of the power's distribution!
Perhaps.
That isn't telling what you found !
I leafed through a mass of books when you were
tidying your room and a big part of them
are poems, admittedly well done
but in our situation they are just -if i dare to say so- completly useless.
Ah...I'd hear you say so …
But then ? Nothing interesting ?
I said « in a big part » but inside the one in your hand
I've discovered some very strange elements about
the old race, or rather, the old races who lived in this city.
Several ?
Yes...Five races to be more precise.
The Dserdyt, the Lighaz, the Nifalnu
who were very close to the nature
at least that's what I understand about them...
So some eco-freaks?
If you want...then the Hyuijk,
a great fighting race with the most powerful fleet...
Ah, I like them !
Fancy that...And finally the Heryabor
but I don't know a lot about them because it seems
they were like deleted on almost all of the totality of the parchments.
Deleted?
Yep ... Like if somebody wants to vanish their existence...
All that is very nice but it doesn't say why the
eco-freaks and their friends were roommates together.
You’re not going to tell me they were doing a Scrabble-game !
No, certainly not....It doesn't exist for them...
Yep ... you may be right ...
Otherwise you apart from that, did you find anything?
Well...hummm...
USERS ALERT !
A leak in the cooling systems
was localized in the scientific area.
An overload is excepted
without the intervention from qualified employees.
Please intervene as quick as possible.
Localisation ?
Unavailable localisation.
It's very nice but i don't really see how
to solve the problem if we don't know where it is!
Searching refinement ....
Localisation : Scientific building,
Floor 2, East wing.
It's better than nothing...so let's go!
Hold on...
What ?
Look at this room !
Is it here ?
No no no...but it looks familiar to me...
Humm...I have a bad feeling...
So do I
but if it's what I'm thinking about we could even learn more ...
How that?
I think it's the thousand-memories room,
a huge database including the totality of the
memories from old residents. It works on the
principle of holograms showing talks, scenes of
life, important moments that have affected the residents
of the city. The Council wanted it to let a mark, to create
a kind of storage that could resist to the passage of time.
And how does it run ?
All you have to do is to stand here and ask a question
with your mind. The engine will show
a reflection answering to your question.
Wait ...
I'll do it.
As you want, go up on the stage
and push this button here.
Apply your question.
Go on !
I want to know more about the races that were living in this city.
There was in total five races represented
by two envoys each.
The Dserdyt, storekeepers at heart,
they carried out the transit of merchandises
and capital between the different systems.
Their commercial fleet was the most
imposing and traveled all the galaxy.
The Lighaz, an asexual species
with a feminine look; impetuous race
endowed with some powerful Evnotech powers and a
great intelligence in scientific fields.
They granted a crucial importance
for the spirit and its control.
Specialized in sciences this species is
at the origin of a great part of the technological
progresses of the Coalition.
The Nifalnu,
people close to the nature and equipped with a
connection between them and vegetable species.
This power enables them to communicate together.
The Hyuijk, a very big race of warriors,
representing the half of the Coalition's army.
Technologically well advanced,
and allied, they were a constant
competition for the Liguaz on different levels.
Research, sciences
and fights were a subject for the competition.
Finally, the Heryabor,
oligarchy of influential families,
heading with an iron hand divided and
unappreciated people by other races.
Their main power remainss the workforce,
the most efficient working class of the galaxy,
And represents almost three fourths of the headcount.
So numerous but so different …
How did the alliance work?
The Coalition was governed by an
assembly composed with ten councilors.
Each of them had a vote and
took part in the numerous debates
to take decisions about the threats.
Which threat?
The one about the fire riders,
a belligerent race from a galaxy around.
Its disappearance is announced by a prophecy.
They decided that in order to thwart this prophecy,
the plan is to destroy our galaxy supposed
to give birth for a double element,
source of their future decline.
What is the prophecy telling?
The symbiosis and the union of two wholes
will be able to transcend
the shadow and the fire
when the fourth cycle starts
if not the nothingness will wrap the galaxy
and will put an end to its genesis.
A prophecy? I don't like prophecies.
It's blurred.
We need to study it quickly. Particularly as...
When is the fourth cycle starting?
The third cycle is going to expire to
give way to its successor in ...
according to your unit of measurement of time...
One month.
One month!? that's it!
How are we supposed to stop this threat?
Sorry, but the solution to your question
isn't available in this database.
It would have been too good.
And by the way! Why are you in a human form?
Humans wasn't there at that time!
I'm set to put on the appearance
of the species interrogating me.
Ah ... A bit too easy ... well ...
RECALL : USERS ALERT
A leak in the cooling systems is still
active in the scientific area.
An overload is excepted shortly
without the intervention from qualified employees.
YES WE KNOW!
Well, we should solve this problem first of all.
We'll see for this mystery when
we fix the breakdown.
Indeed.
Particularly as it should be easier when rested.
We might be near now. We are exactly where
the VI noticed the problem.
Well. And here, what is it?
Bahhh ...
From what I see here, it looks like the descriptions I could
have read about the medical area. But I don't know more.
What is ...
Did you see what I have seen?
I'm afraid so. What was it?
It's certainly some side effects coming from the
utilisation of the thousand-memories engine.
Ah I should have been more careful!
I read it though I knew it was saying that!
The memory of the residents appears to us
as we were visiting the city during its best.
It's still scary though!
And above all it's probably not the last flash ...
Youhou ...
So if I remember correctly,
it's here where sick persons were nursed.
So an infirmary?
But bigger.
I see.
Did you hear that? It blew up right?
Certainly the overload!
But the advantage is that we know now it's not so far.
But what is this room? There isn't even a door!
Eumm.. there wasn't even a door.
But...What is that?
Bah ... you know.
I'm sure you know nothing about it, I talk to myself.
Ah!
This is an interface of interaction with
the system of cryopreservation.
The device have currently an individual.
It's talking !?
Definitely a basic VI set to
answer to simple questions.
However we know what it is now:
a machine for the cryopreservation.
In other words?
A system allowing a person to be frozen
with the hope to awake them later.
And how do we defrost Mister Freeze?
I'd prefer if you avoid using this sarcastisc tone.
I don't think you do realize the discovery!
This guy if he is alive, can teach us
more than all holograms!
If he is still alive...
We have to hurry up to take him out,
he may not have a long time left to live.
Okay.
Stop! What are you doing!?
Baa ... I'm taking him out.
And how do you intend in doing so? Pushing randomly
on buttons and hoping it won't kill him?
Let me handle it.
As you want.
VI, do you see us?
I'm always watching you Ben Willzora.
Right … Do you know how to free this ice-man?
Manual control asked in the control room.
What? You are not able to do this alone?
I'm not in the ability to
deactivate the system alone.
A safety was set up.
Well we had walked a lot today !
***, ***, *** alien system!
There is no logic in their root files.
That's sure, it's far from Windows 98 ...
Well, I'm really exhausted, I'm going back to sleep.
Particularly as you don't need me for the moment.
Ben? Did you listen to what I was saying?
Yeah, yeah, don't you see I have something else to do?!
Go doze off, I don't need you.
Well, how to get the access to these data ...
Hey, if I push it what does it do?
Oh, what is happenning!?
So Ben ...
any luck finding what you are looking for?
Yes ... euh ...
It's not really what I would say.
Can it be the were-lemur
who stroke down again?
Somebody told me VI has a crappy sens of humor
but it's weird to hear it.
I tried ...
So, any luck?
Ba ... If i succeeded I would be in a better mood!
It's not even complicated!
Really? So you can do it!
I told you I can't.
Yep, but between what you say
and the truth, I expect a big difference.
Do humans judge ...
the omission of some parameters like the lying?
Yes.
So, indeed. But it's to help you.
They all say that.
Obvious sign of easy hotchpotch.
***!
Colloquial language usage.
Are you finished with your study?
Can we come back to our problem?
Because we have a frozen guy in a non-indexed room
waiting for his sit around the campfire to tell his story.
Might as well tell you that with my estimation of the number of years
he spent in his freezer, he might not have a lot of time
before beginning to lose something else than his teeth!
I understand.
I would be amazed if a VI could understand anything.
Who said I was a VI ?
You seem to do so.
Can I take a look at you and tell you you are a plant
and be right about it?
Indeed …
But what are you precisely?
Can you have a look at yourself
and describe yourself impartially?
Neither...
You seem aware of the situation and seem to be clever.
You are more like an AI.
You aren't wrong on this point.
Well it's something at least.
So, what I have to do is to deactivate the cryopreservation.
Listen carefully
because my explainations are complex.
You have to enable the protocol
« Mira » and enter this code …
Welcome in the City John.
Hey?! Who are you?
Welcome in this thousand-facets universe
you walking here and who don't know who you are.
Ben? It's you?
But ...
Do you know what will happen to you?
Do you know what the future have in store for you?
No you don't.
Do you know your destiny?
Do you think you know why you are here?
Do you understand this multitude of ways which led you here?
Probably not.
What are you saying?
So my dear unconscious friend,
welcome again, welcome in the
incarnation of what you can be
and of this road you are tracing for yourself.
I don't understand!
The darkening of the light,
the destruction, the end of everything?
Or on the contrary, the renewal,
the hope of a better life? But tell me ...
Are you afraid?
Yes!!
You are and do you know why?
Because the only thing here you know
is your ignorance. In this absent landscape,
in this *** paper but even so dark.
In this lack of colors amplified by
the anger to not know.
In the void, filled despite everything,
in this will that the human have, to learn everything,
and still have no control.
What do I have to understand?
Light or darkness?
Good or evil?
And if all that was just a mirror with two entrances?
And if you were just looking at yourself in this
huge reflexion of your thoughts.
Go ahead! Go on! Jump in!
Throw yourself into the unknown but remember of one thing ...
The ignorance is the knowledge's mother
because you have to go thougt it to
finally discover THE truth.
Forget, forget all you think is real
though that is just smoke.
Forget these appearances only hiding.
Leave out your certainties.
Walk on your prejudices.
Discover finally what is hidden!
Why all that?
Do you think you can manage it?
I wish for you my old friend,
otherwise everything you known will disappear in a last sparkle.
All will disappear and will never come back.
It will be the end.
And it might be exactly this,
the truth you are looking for.
It's may be the defeat!
Which defeat?
You will find out soon enough.
Know however than you aren't alone in the galaxy.
Expect the worst because the worst
will happen. Be ready for everything, even
to die if to be born again in a better way.
The future will prove to you my talks,
to you who thinks does the best.
Know again that all your choices
are subjectives and than all it's just
a matter of point of view.
I don't understand … I understand nothing...
The defeat? The death? Is it just what will happen?
Ben?? Ben!? Is there a way out?
***! Again a riddle!
I asked a solution! Not a choice!
Well...Let's think...
What the hell?
Back to square one ...
How am I supposed to cross if I always come back!
What did he say? Remember...
Remember: «All is a question of point of view.» ...
What does it mean?
May be …
John!
But what's happening?!
What the hell?
Oh ***! ***! Who are they?
But..but..no! No! No!
Ahhhh!
***, ***, ***, ***, ***, ***!
Give yourselves up! You have no chance of survival!
Your destiny is already traced, your road too.
The death is at the end of the path.
You will never have me ***!
You can keep this destiny for yorself!
So john?
Let's get away ..?
Who are you?
Your worst nightmare my dear.
The one who will give you the coup-de-grâce.
I doubt that!
Well, well, John ...
Everybody knows you will die.
Except you perhaps.
What?
However I look forward to finally cross your path.
You who for years made
the doubt in our books of prophecies.
Are you ready to pass away?
DIE!
John?
You will die!
Haaa! ***....
John do you hear me? John?
Yes, i do!
Great! It means it's working!
I took the control of a part of the system.
I can deactivate the cryopreservation!
Join me in the non-indexed room!
I'm coming ...
So, did you succeed?
Yes, I was waiting for you to deactivate the mechanism.
Go on!
But if I fail ... he won't survive.
So don't fail!
Yes, I will do my best...
Let's go …
Annh!
You *** up!
No no no no, it was just too late i think.
***!
We finally could have our damn answers!
And ***, nothing could be good for once?
Hold on! Look! He had this in his hand...
Show me this ...
It looks like ...
Some coordinates!
What ...?
Coordinates of another planet!
May be all is not over ….
Do you want us to go on this planet?
Well ... if this guy had this paper in his hand,
I think it was important.
It would be stupid to ignore it.
So, are we going?
Yes we are,
And this time I'm decided to not leave without nothing!
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