Chapter 601: Captive Wasteland: Game of Mechanical Life
The key figure "Mo Jiu" appeared in Lewis' diary, which surprised Lao Jiang, and at the same time he thought, "As expected" and "You are worthy of it."
There were not many traces left by Lord Juzi in Kumu Realm. Before going to the West Sea to look for his ancestors, Lao Jiang did not know much about his former leader.
But the information he left in the outside world was quite eye-catching.
Not to mention the relics left behind in the world of Eden, what we know now is that the appearance of the strange world heart in the world of M is probably also related to the giant.
Now the traces of the giants have also appeared in the wasteland.
Lao Jiang couldn't help but sigh that Lord Juzi really did his best in fighting against the Lord of the Wilderness.
However, new problems also arise.
“There has never been any spiritual energy in the wasteland, which is very similar to the situation in the Red Moon Realm. When the Mohist sages came here, they just left behind a star array and then left.
It means they don't think this world is worth paying attention to.
According to the speed of time in the Wasteland and Bitterwood Realm, what happened here more than fifty years ago is only about ten years ago in our place, and Juzi had already "died" five hundred years ago."
Jiang Xia stroked his chin and looked at the diary in front of him. He said:
"Sure enough, Juzi didn't die in the West Sea Demon Suppression. He survived by some means. But why didn't he stay in the Bitter Wood Realm, but came to the Wasteland instead?"
"There must be a description in the diary ."
Roger turned to the next page again.
Lao Jiang looked carefully and saw that Lewis' diary was almost finished.
"Mo Jiu 's appearance was an accident. He explained his idea to me. It was a crazy plan, but we didn't have much time to think about it.
The fleet of mechanical life came very quickly. Only half a month later, a large number of their signals appeared at the edge of the solar system.
After realizing that war was inevitable, the top leaders immediately made a decision. We put all our efforts into launching several of the most advanced spacecraft we could build into space.
It contained the elite of humanity, numbering less than 500,000 people...
Those are the final seeds we prepare for the end of civilization.
Ironically, the technology for building spacecraft is something we learned from 'metal'.
And I...
The plan I submitted was approved.
I released the special substance that Mo Jiu gave me into the oceans of the earth. He told me that it could help build a "camouflage" for the world.
But it takes time for it to take effect.
We must withstand the first wave of attacks from mechanical life. Many people will die, but at least we can leave some of us behind and survive after the doomsday.
They asked me to go into the shelter, but I refused.
Not only me, but all scientists involved in the research of mechanical life have refused this privilege. Sinners like us are not worthy of living..."
Roger turned to the next page, which contained only a few lines of words:
"I saw them on the night of August 19. In less than ten hours, the Earth's defenses collapsed completely, and in fifteen hours, 74 countries were razed to the ground.
The American continental shelf has been peeling off. Those mechanical life forms have launched weapons into our world that we cannot understand at all. They are not trying to invade here.
They are about dismantling our world.
The end of human civilization has come.
Ah, I saw the scene of nuclear bombs flying into the sky, dragging long tails of flames through the darkness, attacking the giant mechanical fortress in the sky.
Everyone knows that this is useless.
But it can at least bring a sense of tragedy and response, showing these invaders our indomitable spirit...
They seemed to be retreating.
After destroying our civilization, they left with a sense of devastation...
wrong!
They detected something...
Mo Jiu's 'disguise' worked!
These mechanical lives are terrified and they are fleeing...but what's the use?
The world is gone.
It was not the "wilderness" mentioned by the mechanical life that destroyed us , nor was it these invaders that destroyed us, but our ignorance and arrogance that destroyed us.
I am a sinner of this bygone era destined to be forgotten.
I am not in a position to ask for forgiveness.”
The diary ends here.
Rogge's expression was complicated. His grandfather, who was definitely a great man in his heart, had such an unknown story, which made him feel mixed emotions.
But Lao Jiang doesn't have that much time to indulge in this emotion.
He stood up, patted Roger on the shoulder and said:
"Take the key and let's go underground."
"Um?"
Black Fox raised his head and looked at Lao Jiang in confusion. The latter said to him:
"If this is the Red Star Stone Research Institute where Lewis stayed, then according to the description in his diary, the remains of the mechanical life forms they had captured are still sealed in the basement of the institute.
Why did he leave that key behind?
Considering the contents of the diary and the technological explosion that occurred in the wasteland after the nuclear war, don’t you have a complete idea?
The legions summoned by the mechanical life forms that caused the disaster did not complete the destruction and occupation of the Earth. They ran away halfway through the battle.
Those captured guys should still be in the wasteland!"
"Walk."
Rogge immediately took out the mechanical key hanging around his neck. He followed Lao Jiang into the passage outside the door and found an elevator leading to the underground.
This equipment is quite new, and it should have been modified by Emma.
Still usable.
The two people took the elevator all the way down. When they reached the underground, as the elevator door opened, they saw a large, square isolation room.
“This is the quarantine room that appears in Lewis’ diary.”
Lao Jiang snapped his fingers, and several bee drones flew out of the prosthesis, illuminating the darkness in front of the two people. In front of the door of the isolation room, there was a special lock, whose appearance was exactly the same as the mechanical key in Rogge's hand.
“It hasn’t been opened for a long time. After Lewis’ death, Emma must have tried to open it many times, but she was unable to break through this layer of defense.
But Emma must have the remains of mechanical life for her to study, otherwise there would be no way to explain the deformation pattern of the mechanical body she made for herself.
Maybe it was found from somewhere else?"
Lao Jiang said:
"After all, Lewis also said that there are many research institutes like this in the wasteland. Open it and let us see what those mechanical life forms look like."
"Um."
Rogge nodded, stretched out his hand and inserted the mechanical key into the shrinkage hole. The moment he let go, the key, which had merged with the shrinkage hole, caused the lock to rotate in a complex deformation.
As the low voice echoed, a passage leading into the square isolation room in front of him was opened.
One of them has lights on.
A strip of light guided the two people forward into the isolation room. The room still maintained the same appearance as when the researchers left, with quite sophisticated research equipment placed around.
And on the workbench in the center of the laboratory, there is a huge metal head.
It is three meters high, two meters wide, and square.
It is fixed by four manual robotic arms, with a black cable extending down at the neck, connected to a generator set.
Due to the war outside, there was a power outage here and the generator set has stopped working.
This mechanical head has been mostly disassembled, and many of its internal modules have been taken away. It is difficult to infer its original form from its current appearance.
But judging from its outline, the robot does not have anthropomorphic facial features, nor does it have eyes and a mouth in the conventional sense.
All that was left here were the remains of a corpse.
However, after Lao Jiang used his power to control electricity to reactivate the power generation unit, as the energy was supplied in, the big brain in front of him was still able to function after missing many modules.
It's like a core unit.
As it was activated, various instruments on the surrounding workbenches were also activated. As the jumping data stream jumped on the unfolding optical projections, the chip in Rogge's brain also received a certain signal again.
"Elysian Space..."
Black Fox blinked his eyes and said to Old Jiang who seemed to be thinking about something:
"The Elysium program near Free Citizen City was built with this thing as the hardware foundation. The situation in other city-states must be the same!
In other words, there are such mechanical life remains in every city-state, big or small, in the wasteland.
The post-war civilization of the wasteland was built on the corpses of these robots.
"Huh? Why don't you speak?"
Roger didn't get a response from Lao Jiang, so he looked at Boss Jiang.
The latter stroked his chin and looked at the big robot head in front of him that supported the Elysium program. He looked at the strange modules operating in the big head and the blurry light they emitted.
A few seconds later, Lao Jiang turned around and said:
"The Elysium has data layers, right? According to different permissions, data spaces are built for different classes to use. Have you ever thought about who is guiding the operation of that data world in the deepest layer of the Elysium?
Any data contained in any program has a processing core, and this level of data processing that can support the life of the entire wasteland and entertainment in the Elysium space is impossible to achieve by relying on artificial cores.
Your technological level cannot reach that of the Eden people.
They are indeed still in the wasteland.
But they do not exist in physical form. Rogge and the mechanical lives trapped in the wasteland are still living in that virtual world in the form of data.
They are guiding the establishment, development and prosperity of Elysium.
Use every human brain as a data calculation point to make the world more beautiful and fascinating.
While you are entertaining them, you are also maintaining their existence.
After destroying civilization, those mechanical life forms are still guiding you, teasing you, and exploiting you in this way. No, they are keeping you in captivity!
No wonder the civilization in this wasteland has never developed.
No wonder Emma never went to Elysium.
This kind of "Internet addiction" does not only come from the bad nature of wastelanders. Those people you despise who immerse themselves in the virtual world and escape from reality are all being led to depravity.
After destroying your physical world, these bastards are trying to destroy your spiritual heritage.
Tsk tsk.
What a vicious guy."
Old Jiang moved his hands eagerly, looking at the big mechanical head in front of him, and said:
"Come on, let's catch these bastards from that data world. I've always wanted to find their world, but the stars are so long that I can't find a way.
Now the guide has finally been brought to me.”
"You want to find those hidden mechanical lives in Elysium?"
The black fox stared and said:
“Although I hate them too and wish they would die.
But let's not talk about the issue of authority for now, let's just talk about the difficulty of this matter. The wastelanders have their consciousness uploaded to the Elysium space, and we are the "tourists" there.
They are the masters there.
As my grandfather said, manipulating data is as easy for them as eating and drinking water. We can't catch them there, and we can't even distinguish them. "
"Stay calm."
Boss Jiang waved his hand and opened the passage to the Eden World. He put a cigarette in his mouth and said to Rogge:
"We can't do it, but someone can."
"Stay here and don't move. I'll go get some reinforcements... We'll capture these bastards and kill them today!"
