When Bai Wu walked into the conductor's room, the world inside suddenly changed.
It was like entering Zero’s inner world in an instant from the inner world of that pitiful soul.
The twisted clock hangs in the sky like the sun. The sky is no longer pure blue, but black, purple, red, blue and other colors.
The clouds floating in the sky were imprinted with the faces of countless people, and everyone's expression was distorted.
Ridicule, shame, anger, sadness, fear, jealousy... Bai Wu looked at the faces filled with negative emotions on the clouds floating in the sky, and then looked at the dark mechanical city on the ground. He only felt that this world was desperate and depressing.
Different from the colorful sky, the outline of the mechanical city on the ground remained the same, but it seemed to have been burned by the flames of karma, and was only charred.
Countless black shadows were swaying in the charred mechanical city. They seemed to be the mechanical clan of the mechanical city.
Only Zero seemed to have color in this world. Silver hair and scarlet eyes made Bai Wu recognize Zero at a glance.
At this moment, Bai Wu actually felt a little sorry for Zero.
He seemed out of place in his own inner world, but he also found it difficult to fit into the outside world.
Bai Wu found himself at a crossroads in the city center. He stepped out of the previous carriage and landed here in the next step.
He opened up:
"Why do you have little time left? Do you have access to the inner world of every mechanical core in the mechanical city? Did you use some kind of ability to enter, or was it forcibly connected to you?"
Bai Wu was not surprised by Zero. He had saved a lot of people these days. Jia Kaier's death in the end made Bai Wu feel that he had met Zero many times.
Zero looks like a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, with no expression, but a person's face often has a specific temperament. For some people, temperament is reflected in their smile, while for others, temperament is reflected without any expression.
Zero is like this. To Bai Wu, he feels like he is just a robot.
He clearly looked like a human boy, and apart from the color of his genitals and hair being off, there didn't seem to be anything out of place.
The biggest incongruity is probably his eyes, which show absolutely no emotion.
Not surprisingly, the Eye of Prell backed down at the critical moment.
There's too big a level difference between you. Although it's very weak now and will be even weaker later, the gap between you is still huge. Even if Erwuzai is here, I can't tell you its information. It's not my fault, it's your fault for always skipping levels. Anyway, let's keep in touch, for example... Brother, can you smoke a cigarette
There is no information, but the fact that the eyes do not provide any information speaks volumes.
The first masked monster, Jingliu, is a man imprisoned in chains in an unknown area.
These people cannot provide intelligence with their eyes. It is not that they cannot provide intelligence, but it seems that the ability to obtain intelligence must be within a certain gap.
"You ask too many questions." Zero walked south.
Compared with the real mechanical city, the biggest difference here, besides the dark color, is that there is no core city here.
"We are not so pressed for time, are we? Knowing ourselves and the enemy will ensure victory in every battle. The trick you played in the inner city must be against a powerful enemy. We should be considered allies."
Bai Wu couldn't keep quiet, as this was a powerful figure in dealing with the Jing family's forces. As early as when he was in Baichuan Middle School, from the eye notes and the questions raised by that group of teachers, he had thought of this possibility.
Zero said:
"Foreign enemies are invading. Is your theory on the treatment of the Rawu virus related to this?"
Bai Wu was stunned.
How... does Zero know everything
"I think so too. I have carefully reviewed human history. Humans are very interesting creatures."
Zero's voice gave Bai Wu an uneasy feeling.
This guy's strength is not only reflected in his combat power, but also in his knowledge, which is richer than his own.
"When the contradiction between reason and emotion is eliminated, everything a person does is in a unified state, and people understand each other, there did appear briefly. It was not an era when religion ruled everything, but an era of war."
These words were said by Bai Wu.
He still hopes that his discovery can be of some help to Zero.
In the South City District, at this moment a group of black figures are queuing up to go to the city underground.
In reality, Bai Xiaoyu and Yan Zizai saw a long line of people escorted by members of the security team and began to move towards the sewer.
They all had tears and smiles on their faces. They wanted to resist, but the anti-virus guards were too strong.
The core's judgment is that if you accept your fate, you can survive for a while, but if you escape, you will die immediately.
Seeing a large number of people pouring into the South City District, there were no more gang fights on Paradise Avenue that day.
Because they seemed to see their future selves. The Rawu virus killed many people every year, and then the gods in the core city created many mechanical people.
But the number of infected people increases every year, and no one knows whether they will be infected.
The scene of a large number of mechanical people heading to the sewers to die looks magical but extremely cruel.
For Zero, this is rationality.
But Bai Xiaoyu looked at these people, the sadness on their faces, and the morbid joy they saw because of the virus. He felt that the world should not be like this.
You can’t see these in the other world.
Bai Wu continued:
"Religion brings about an illusory rule, and abandoning one's own life and death for the sake of a false god is itself an extremely twisted act, and such a death is of no benefit to the world."
"But the sense of crisis brought by foreign enemies can make people risk their lives. Their sacrifices and struggles are making themselves and the world better."
"The territorial consciousness that originates from living things has gradually, for some reason, been sublimated into national consciousness. This national consciousness will be stimulated to the limit in a huge war between countries."
Zero didn't stop, and Bai Wu continued:
“There are many tragic and heart-wrenching stories in human history, which can be summed up in four words: family, country and the world. The biggest reason why people like the tragic color of heroes is that heroes will become enemies of the world because of some emotional decision.”
"The mechanical people in the mechanical city are divided into many gangs, groups, companies, and factions. From small offices to large group forces.
Everything I see when I come to the Mechanical City is nothing but struggle. All the intrigues are for profit, but what if one day, the interests no longer exist? Or what if everyone's first goal is the same? "
Of course, interests do exist, but they have priorities.
"Light cannot survive without darkness, and vice versa. The pursuit of an ideal society where people understand each other is not valid in itself, because everyone in a society has different needs. Our thinking is therefore limited."
"But what if we look beyond the details and look at it from a larger perspective? A powerful enemy is coming, and no one knows what is outside the mechanical city. Foreign enemies are about to invade, and under destructive external forces, people will be forced to unify their desires."
Zero nodded unexpectedly.
"You and I are thinking the same thing. I have also been waiting for a strong enemy to come, but this time the enemy is too powerful. The mechanical city may be destroyed in an instant."
Bai Wu also guessed this. Zero's recent behavior was a little strange, and this strangeness seemed to be more than just dealing with the angry tide.
Perhaps there is a terrifying existence whose strength is not inferior to his and has already set his sights on the Mechanical City.
"My people, because of their souls, look no different from humans. Because their core pursues maximum profit, they scheme against each other and fight against each other. In this mechanical city, there is no such thing as the small self and the big self."
"They haven't lived in peace for the past seven hundred years, but at least because of me, no foreign enemy has ever dared to invade the Mechanical City."
Zero said this calmly, yet Bai Wu felt a sense of dominance.
Because of his existence, this black area has become a forbidden zone for evil.
"Strong external forces will unify people's goals and desires. Rich and poor people will form the same collective interests because of the concept of the country."
"Internal fighting is meaningless, because as long as the external enemies are not dead, they will all die in the end. With the emergence of the collective of interests, the small self is upgraded to the big self."
"In this way, most of the contradictions between the soul and the core are actually resolved, because love and trust are no longer a disease. On the contrary, it will allow everyone to eliminate barriers and have a better understanding when resisting external enemies."
The Lawu virus is a virus that "forbids love". Guilt towards subordinates, forgiveness towards others, and longing for parents, these loves that are not in line with the core interests will become things allowed by the core because of the special times.
Powerful enemies invaded, and they hated the mechanical race to the core, so there was no possibility of any peace talks.
Moreover, they are strong enough and can no longer be protected by Zero. Only by uniting the strength of the entire mechanical city can they resist foreign enemies.
"This foreign enemy has now appeared. Its name is Jingwu. It is now on its way to the core city."
News came one after another that shocked Bai Wu.
"It's going to kill you?"
"It wants to control me. Reincarnation can superficially resolve my symptoms of the Rawu virus, but at the same time, it will also imprison me for a certain period of time."
"Reincarnation?"
Zero waved to the white mist.
The direction of gravity seemed to change suddenly, and Bai Wu's body flew towards Zero. Then many silver threads stretched out from behind Zero. These threads pierced Bai Wu's arms like some kind of parasites.
At this moment, Bai Wu felt a memory flooding in.
"This is a conversation between one of my avatars, Captain Akas, of the Divine Guard, and Jingwu."
Bai Wu quickly accepted this memory. He shook his head and said:
"Reincarnation is a legendary distortion item. To be honest, this power is almost unsolvable, but reincarnation may not be able to reset you to decades ago. Jingwu is lying to you! There is no absolute possibility of such a thing!"
"And if you don't help Jing Wu, then in the competition among the major forces, your only enemy is Jing Wu. Once you help Jing Wu, then your enemies will become all the forces other than Jing Wu."
"Especially Jingwu will prioritize consuming the mechanical city, and will never prioritize consuming itself!"
If Zero formed an alliance with Jingwu, all of them would die. So Bai Wu pointed out the disadvantages of forming an alliance with Jingwu.
Zero still looked indifferent and said:
"I have thought of everything you have thought of."
This feeling was quite new to Bai Wu. In the past, relying on the Eye of Prell, he always had the most information and computing power.
But now, Zero, the mechanical evil, seems to have intelligence that is not inferior to his.
"The mechanical race is a race I created, but I am not a mechanical race myself. My symptoms of the Rawu virus infection are much more serious than theirs. You must be curious why people infected with the Rawu virus have symptoms of different emotions in different seasons."
"Yeah, I haven't figured out the real reason yet."
"It's because of me. The huge core city is my mechanical core. But that's not right. I should say it's one of my cores. As for your question, I can tell you that I can indeed enter the inner world of every mechanical race."
As Zero spoke, the linear connectors stretched out from behind him again and connected to a dark figure.
"This way, even if the connection is completed, every soul I create will appear in my inner world."
"Therefore, my emotions will affect them, and my joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness will also have the same effect on them."
Bai Wu felt something was wrong:
"But most of the time... you don't have any emotions, right?"
"Yes, I am a cyborg. I don't have many emotions. I separated Acas to represent my love and protection for the Mechanical City. Compared to me, Acas is more like a 'human'."
"I am just a manager without emotions, so I don't have any joys or sorrows."
In fact, Zero is still quite optimistic about Bai Wu. At least Xie Yingjie and Xie Xingzhi couldn't even discover the origin of the Rawu virus.
But Bai Wu can analyze many problems on his own.
"You mean to say, since I have no emotions, why do the effects of joy season and anger season occur?"
"Yes."
"Because this is the symptom of my infection with the Rawu virus. Many, many years ago, my reason told me that I have the power to destroy the world, and this world does not love me. I should take it for myself."
"But I didn't do that. I followed my emotions and chose to forgive my parents. I chose to give them the opportunity to satisfy their vanity. I chose to create a new world when the Tower Age arrived. This world may not be inhabited by humans, but the souls of those who died have a place to rest."
Sure enough, Zero is humane, and it is because of his kind humanity that Zero was infected with the Rawu virus.
For a moment, Bai Wu didn't know whether to be happy or sympathetic.
Zero turned around, his back looking extremely lonely:
"I can't delete these emotions. They became the cause of my Lawu virus. This is a disease called love. I shouldn't have love, nor should I have joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness. I used to hope that I was a human being, but later I hoped that I was a pure machine."
"The Lawu virus has brought up many emotions in me, including hatred and love for humans, regret and recollection of the past, subjective impressions of the world, and doubts about myself."
"I have no way to delete these emotions because I am a living being. They are piling up in my core and becoming useless data. I can't delete this data, so I can only keep expanding my core to store it."
For seven hundred years, Zero, a machine, has managed the mechanical race with rationality.
But at the same time, for seven hundred years, Zero, as a human being, always missed and hated, was grateful for and hated the world that gave birth to him.
The emotions that had nowhere to go, the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness that he gave up, became the source of the Lawu virus.
"Although these data are not under my control, they will transform into joy, anger, sorrow, and fear according to certain rules. Therefore, all the cores I created will also feel forced joy, anger, sorrow, and fear after being infected with the Rawu virus."
The huge core city is actually the core used by Zero to store emotional data
Bai Wu couldn't imagine how much "useless data" Zero had stored.
"For the mechanical people, their symptoms are being dominated by emotions, but for me, it is a weakening of dominance and strength. The core consumes a lot of my energy. And the wrath season is the most troublesome of the seasons."
"When the Season of Wrath begins, my people will be filled with rage, and I will be weaker than ever."
Bai Wu understood that if Jingwu attacked at this time, Zero would not be able to fight at all.
"Bai Wu, you and I did find a way to cure the mechanical race, but this method is useless to me who is in charge of the layout."
Bai Wu had to admit that Zero had seen everything.
With Jingwu invading as a foreign enemy, the Mechanical City will fall into an unprecedented catastrophe. After this catastrophe, Zero can create the illusion that the foreign enemy will invade at any time.
All the mechanical people will unite their interests and desires in order to survive and defend the mechanical city. Love and trust will no longer be the source of their infection. As a result, the mechanical city will eliminate many power divisions and gradually become stronger.
But this huge city may be saved, but the owner of this city will still be infected with the Lawu virus.
The biggest contradiction at the moment is that if we cannot defeat Jingwu, this idea will not be realized.
Zero looked at the huge clock that was twisted in the sky and said:
"The auction has started, Jingwu has arrived."
In the real world, outside the core city, Jingwu appeared in a black robe. Looking at the huge mechanical temple, Jingwu smiled.