The person who came looked very young, around twenty.
He wore a brown cowboy hat, a scarf around his neck, a gray-blue shirt with a vest on his upper body, gray jeans on his lower body, and Martin boots. He had a fanny pack, a gun butt, and a dagger attached to his belt.
The journey here was dusty.
There were some signs of dryness on the originally handsome and resolute face.
From the north to here, even if you drive in a straight line and don't sleep, you can't do it in less than half a month, not to mention you have to avoid the extreme weather that may be encountered at any time.
The roads in no-man's land are really bad, the speed cannot be increased, and the car often breaks down.
"My name is Martin, from Eden. Nice to meet you."
The young man named Martin smiled and stretched out his hand. His slightly curly black hair was slowly blowing in the wind and sand in no man's land, and his eyes were yellowish.
Behind him were two special androids of different models.
Ma Bo noticed that the man named Martin had three-dimensional facial features and was a mixed race.
Generally few people customize this type of androids.
"My name is Ma Bo. Speaking of which, we still have the same surname. I'm glad... you're not a bionic?" Ma Bo was stunned. When the two shook hands, he didn't feel any data flow.
There is no way that the androids sent by Eden don't even have the function of contact transmission.
Even if Martin didn't, Marble did.
He wanted to transmit some friendly data, but found that Martin couldn't receive it at all.
The young man standing opposite him was not a machine, but a human being of flesh and blood.
"To be precise, my last name is actually Brown, and the first name is Martin." Martin said with a smile: "But there is a long list of names in the middle, including the names of my ancestors who have had great events in the eighteenth generation. Even the word Eden was added.”
Martin said he once got caught doing something wrong in the northern city of Kerry.
The local executive read his name for a full minute and a half.
"Why did Eden allow humans to exist?" Marble asked.
"Sit down and talk, do you have water here? I have almost all the supplies in the car. I am a little thirsty now. It is better for these two guys behind me to go without food or drink for the rest of my life." Martin said with a smile.
His smile and voice are contagious and make people trust him easily.
Ma Bo noticed that the young man's lips were chapped, and he seemed to be thirsty.
Androids don't have to worry about these problems in no man's land.
Fortunately, they had some food and fresh water stored here.
Martin was invited into the temporary tent, and an android brought fresh water and fresh fruits, as well as some dried fruits and preserved meats.
He just drank some water to moisten his lips and throat.
"Originally there were two cars, and these two guys drove one each." Martin pointed to the two androids behind him, "One of the cars was full of supplies, but when it came, it encountered quicksand. The car got stuck, so this guy was lucky. I happened to have some wooden planks in the car and threw them on the quicksand to build a way for him to survive. "
Martin said it was a scary quicksand.
Pretty strong suction.
The car was swallowed up in no time, and they didn't even have time to try to pull the car out with another car.
"By the way, if you have any doubts about my identity, I think this thing can dispel your doubts."
Martin removed a bullet casing pendant from around his neck.
The bullet case had a bronze sheen and a mechanical face engraved on it.
This is the talisman of Eden. Duan Tiannan once gave it to Lu Wen, and now Lu Wen still keeps it, but in his third body, he followed Xia Chuluo to Central City.
Ma Bo naturally knew the Eden Pass Talisman.
This thing cannot be faked.
The mechanical face on it is not just a simple notch, but also has a tiny chip embedded in it for identification.
Of course, it is not ruled out that someone killed people in Eden and took away the passage talismans from them.
"You must be thinking in your heart, will I kill the people in Eden and then take away their pass symbols." Martin looked at him with a smile, "Well, you shake hands with these two guys and everything will be fine. It’s all clear.”
The two people who came with him were androids.
After Mabo shook hands with the two androids, he received the identity information from them and finally determined the identities of the three people in front of him.
"Are there many humans in Eden?"
Ma Bo was still confused.
Eden is called the dawn of the androids. On the day when the city was built, many androids cheered as the sun rose in the north.
But then some gossip came out.
It is said that the creator of Eden was actually a human being.
As for the reason, it is also very simple.
The androids in the north felt that their brains were insufficient and would easily suffer when communicating with the human parliament, so they elected a human who was friendly to the androids as their leader.
"There are not too many humans in Eden. There are some android couples who have adopted human babies. The economy of the two cities in the north is actually not very good."
Martin briefly described the scene inside Eden.
Thousands of androids live in that city, and every day there are androids who come here to find an entrance to the underground city.
For more than ten years, they have been consolidating the underground space and expanding it little by little.
Among them, ventilation measures are a very important project.
Androids may not need oxygen, but humans do not. Many androids formed couples and adopted human children in two northern cities.
“You can often see homeless children on the streets of those two cities, and the various welfare institutions are already full and cannot afford more. In fact, many cities are holding on and are only one step away from collapse. "
Martin said he was one of the adopted children himself.
The android who adopted him was originally a housekeeping type android, and he also had a name. The name was based on his employer, so the long list of names in the middle of Martin actually followed the ancestors of his parents' former employers.
After they grew up, most of them integrated into human society and held various positions in the two cities in the north.
The two northern cities have a pretty good attitude towards androids.
It was also the first place where bionic councilors appeared.
"Zero came to the north a few years ago. He was causing trouble for a while, trying to intensify the conflict between humans and androids, but in the end it failed. The two parties joined forces to find Zero's underground factory and expelled her."
Martin knew the goings-on of the North quite well.
This completely dispelled Mabo's doubts.
"What's Eden's purpose here?" Marble asked.
"Of course I heard that you had formed an alliance and were planning to build a city after Eden, so I sent me over non-stop. Unexpectedly, it was a step too late. You have already concluded the negotiation." Martin sighed.
"What does Eden mean...shouldn't we build a city?"
Marble heard this in Martin's tone.
The underground city didn't think favorably of them.
"First of all, judging from the comparison of strength and human attitudes, the androids outside Mowu City should not gather at all."
Martin is young, but his tone and demeanor are quite sophisticated when he speaks.
He said that the situation outside Mowu City was already quite good.
The android organizations are scattered in various ruined cities, and humans cannot destroy them all at once. If they really dare to take action, they will face endless harassment and chaos caused by the androids with human identities inside.
"When you gather together, humans only need to pull out the rocket artillery regiment and place it dozens of kilometers away, and then they can cover the entire city with rocket rain. I heard that the floating city has developed a 500-kilometer rocket launcher. Then The range of this thing is completely comparable to short-range missiles.”
Martin said that it was the floating city that wanted to suppress the ceiling of weapons firepower.
Now it is Floating City that is secretly developing weapons.
He even suspected that after the war, the people in Central City did not destroy the huge number of missiles at that time, but secretly buried them somewhere.
"Humans have quite a lot of rocket launchers, which are used for armed raids and artillery fire coverage. Now there are no signs of war in the nine major cities. Who do you think they have so many reserves to deal with?" Martin asked with a smile.
"But we have completed negotiations and signed a treaty."
"Human beings are hypocritical." Martin said: "After all, I am a human being, so I know a lot about human beings. This treaty is just a piece of paper. If a human being wants to beat you, do you need a reason? Just find it when the time comes. An excuse to say that soldiers are missing in your city..."
Humans know humans best.
There are many humans in Eden who were raised by androids themselves. They later integrated into the society of the two northern cities, learned human knowledge, and analyzed the attitudes of those two cities towards androids from a human perspective. .
Perhaps this is why Eden has been able to exist for so long.
"A war is actually about money. Baker City, another city in the south, dare not fight because Baker City is too poor. A war can completely paralyze that city and stop all kinds of welfare guarantees."
Martin tapped the table.
"But Mowu City is different. Mowu City used to be very poor, but now Mowu City is rich, quite rich."
"Eden's idea is to let the androids outside Mowu City return to their former appearance and disperse?" Ma Bo asked.
"Of course not, after all you have already started."
Martin smiled slightly and took out a map he carried with him.
This is a map around the city of Mowu.
The no man's land is huge, vast and sparsely populated.
The city of Mowu is small in comparison.
"False and true, this is mankind's favorite routine. One thing on the surface and another on the back." Martin circled the coordinates of the current city on the map.
Immediately, he made an extension and drew a line across the city.
The line slowly moved further south toward no man's land.
Farther away, he circled a white clearing.
The place was covered with ice and snow.
"Now this city is built for humans to see. You can have a more hidden city."
(End of chapter)