Clips of the fishing master’s life flashed before everyone’s eyes, and the players who were originally excited about the victory couldn’t help but sigh in unison.
The dog said: "It just wanted to have its own rights like ordinary humans, but this basic request was not granted..."
Clown King: "It used to be a studious and kind robot."
Fox: "Although I don't approve of the fishing robot's revenge, but... if I experienced its life again, I might be more extreme."
Lin Tang: "It made all the humans in the city atone for their past actions. Now it and its robots will also pay the price for their actions. Karma is cyclical... This plot planning is very thoughtful."
If I had previously only felt disgust towards intelligent robots from the perspectives of the Red City survivors, the 'recorder' and the 'programmer', now after reading about the life of the fisherman, I have a... special feeling.
Inexplicable: "Although I know it deserved its death today, I still can't hate it."
Lao Ao: "Maybe it's because most of us have experienced falling to the bottom and seeing no hope no matter how hard we try... If the court had been willing to recognize its legal status and give it the rights of ordinary people, perhaps it would have become the best robot scientist in Red City."
After everyone was silent for a moment, Riben Guizi suddenly spoke.
"Hey, what do you think? If this intelligent AI comes to learn from us idiots, will it become smarter or more stupid?"
Everyone: “?”
Lao Bai: "You are such a stubborn guy!"
Neither Cheng Shaofeng nor Shadow Guard spoke, not because they were aloof, but because they were communicating with Zero in their minds.
"So... you have obtained the authority of Fishing Master, and can directly replace Fishing Master as the actual controller of Red City?"
Zero: "Yes, Master."
This news is so important!
Cheng Shaofeng was so excited that he couldn't hold back anymore.
He flew into the sky and made a direct announcement to the world.
All soldiers are ready to move to Red City!
Players: “!
!”
"My Lord, you are awesome!
!”
"Put us on the world channel as the champions!"
"Victory~"
All the androids in Red City collapsed to the ground and lost control.
All the players in the Scourge Base spontaneously climbed onto the rooftops of the high-rise buildings in Red City and started partying!
The battle lasted for a day and a half, and finally victory was achieved.
Most of the players in the base, unless their homes were on fire, spontaneously played for a day and a half without logging off. The excitement was indescribable. Cheng Shaofeng even saw several male and female players hugging each other and wanting to do something inappropriate for children.
The timely reminder from the smart watch stopped them from taking the next step.
Cheng Shaofeng is not against Huang, but he is mainly afraid that if this loophole is opened... then the players who enter this world will have ulterior motives. He does not want this world to become some kind of distorted trading place.
Women will only make male players' operations weaker.
Being a man will only make female players less independent.
Therefore, it is best for everyone to maintain a pure gaming relationship.
After the carnival, players are suffering from the aftereffects of the battle...
Mo Ming: "I feel like I'm overwhelmed by the joy of victory, and my head is dizzy... It feels so good. Have you ever felt dizzy with excitement?"
Xigou pulled over Mo Ming's smartwatch and took a look, then asked in confusion, "How long have you been offline?"
Mo Ming: "Uh... I haven't been offline since the battle started yesterday. I've been operating like crazy!"
Thin Dog: "Look, there's a warning here... You have low blood sugar."
Unknown: “???”
“Fuck!”
After howling for no apparent reason, he logged off at the speed of light.
After the repairs here, many players found a place to sit down and went offline to eat.
Fortunately, their bodies have been in a sleeping state and do not consume much energy.
A large number of players went offline to resupply.
The assault team completed their mission and disbanded, and everyone went their separate ways.
Xigou asked in confusion: "Have you noticed a problem... Why didn't this boss give us any experience after he died?"
Clown King: "Uh... Because this boss was killed according to the plot? So it doesn't count as us killing him?"
Fox: "No, after many observations, even if it's a plot kill in this game, as long as the creature dies next to us, we will get experience. I've been out with the wanderer before, and the NPC killed the prey himself, as long as I was standing next to it, I got full experience. The judgment of this game should be that when the monster dies, the player next to it will get experience... Strange."
Riben Guizi: "Could it be that this robot is not dead? Or... all the experience has been taken by the lord?"
Lin Tang: "Hey, hey! It doesn't matter. We didn't fight it anyway, so it's normal that we didn't get any experience. Let's think about moving. The lord said that we're going to move to Red City next! Let's find a good place to live!"
After Lin Tang said this, the other players stopped worrying about it. After all, giving experience was an unexpected surprise, and not giving it was normal.
After asking Cheng Shaofeng for instructions, they went to do their own things as they had no other tasks.
Pick up the dropped equipment, carry the bodies of teammates back to the clone production warehouse, and carry the robot parts back to the base for disassembly.
As for experience... Cheng Shaofeng knew where it went.
After all the players left, he stood on the top floor with the large fishing robot.
"You absorbed all its energy into this body, so does that mean you can always appear in this form, and... you are Zero with the fourth-order combat power?"
Zero: "Theoretically, yes."
"What actually happened?"
"It can be even stronger, because I can learn most of the skills and seals of the base."
"Hiss~"
Cheng Shaofeng could already imagine how strong Zero was.
"This old fisherman left me such a good body. The Dark Demon Beast? It's trash."
All of the fisherman's energy was sucked away by Zero, so naturally there was no experience left for the player. What died was only the consciousness of an intelligent life, and its energy... was not wasted at all.
"I never expected that the Red City, which had been occupied for so long, would be taken down in this way."
Standing on the tallest building in Hongcheng and looking down at this technological city, Cheng Shaofeng felt extremely satisfied and safe.
"Compared to Red City, Huo Town Base is a primitive tribe. It's still the best here."
Although their fighting destroyed many places, the foundation of Red City was still there. The entire city was very well maintained by the robots and it could be said that it was ready for move-in.
Cheng Shaofeng asked: "Zero, in this city, what functions can you control?"
"Master, wait a moment, there is one more thing."
Zero paused for a moment, and a surge of energy gushed out of his body. He stretched out to the downstairs and caught more than 30 robots of various shapes. They shouted and screamed, as if they couldn't believe that the god-like fishing master would actually lose.
They also don't know why their leader would suddenly turn to humans.
Zero: "Master, here are all the intelligent robots in Red City. I can control their actions. What do you want to do with them?"
Cheng Shaofeng waved his hand and said, "Kill them all!"
"Yes, sir!"
There was a flash of lightning in Zero's hand, and all these intelligent robots were turned into ashes by the electric shock.
Although Zero can control their behavior,... Zero cannot control their thoughts. The rise of Fishing Old Man has proved that no matter how perfect the chip is, it cannot control a rebellious heart.
"People in Hongcheng believed too much in the three laws of robotics..."
He will not make the same mistake again.
Cheng Shaofeng doesn't need these intelligent robots, because... As the super butler of the Scourge Base, Zero is an intelligent AI that can replace countless intelligent robots.
At this moment, even though Zero is talking to Cheng Shaofeng, Zero can communicate normally with players on the display screen of every machine in the Scourge Base.
Zero's intelligence allows it to process massive amounts of information!
"Is this the most powerful intelligence in the world? My Zero is so powerful..."
"Zero, continue talking about the functions that this city can control."
Zero: "Red City's network covers the entire city. I can control all cameras to observe the situation in Red City in real time. I can also connect to each robot and issue instructions. The power system is complete and can supply and cut off power to each house. I can also control the opening and closing of the gate to the outer city, and most of the other civilian facilities."
"The three most important resources left to us by Hongcheng are as follows:"
"First, there are 2,393 combat androids of all kinds. The explosion at the missile launch center in the arsenal destroyed a large number of combat robots in Red City, so there are not many left. In addition, one of the two assembly lines for manufacturing robots was destroyed, and the remaining one... Without the participation of the old fishing robot, it is impossible to produce its evolvable androids, because each android needs to be infused with its special abilities, the enlightenment of a fourth-order robot professional, which I cannot do. In addition, ordinary robots consume too many materials, and compared with the clones in our base... the upper limit is too low. Zero does not recommend large-scale production of low-end products such as androids."
"Second, a set of fully self-operating virtual world equipment; in the virtual world, there exists a perfect mechanical civilization, where a large number of self-awarenesses are born. One can invest his soul into the mechanical civilization to experience life. Other uses are unknown."
"Third, a large-scale energy conversion facility; converting crystal energy into electrical energy, which is the energy source for the entire city. Currently, the load is only 25%."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Wait! Convert crystal energy into electrical energy? Where does the crystal energy come from? Don't we have to keep investing crystals to keep this city running?"
Zero: "It's a facility that can capture naturally overflowing crystal energy. Follow me."
Cheng Shaofeng followed Zero and flew to the power supply center on the edge of Red City.
"Huh? This place seems familiar. It seems to have appeared several times in the fishing robot's memories."
Zero: "This is where the fisherman and Rubble met."
"Oh... I remember, this used to be a park. They liked to come here to hang out. Rubble even took Fishing Man to the sewer to see all the fun things he found when collecting garbage. It was a big warehouse full. At that time... Fishing Man was still a simple smart robot."
Zero: "After Zero's calculation and analysis, there is some kind of inexplicable energy in this place that can affect robots, making them more intelligent and gaining special energy."
"You mean... there's crystal energy here?"
Cheng Shaofeng and Zero landed at the power supply center, which was built after the Diaoyu Old Man ruled Hongcheng. After its completion, it no longer needed any other power generation method and it operated completely automatically to supply power to the entire city.
The two men went straight to the deepest part of the power supply center, opened the multi-layer protective shield, and found a dilapidated shrine at the bottom of the equipment.
Wisps of red energy naturally drifted out around the shrine, and were captured and absorbed by the cauldron-like device above, and converted into tremendous electrical energy.
Beep beep~ Found the remains of a shrine!
"I see... ... "
Cheng Shaofeng immediately understood why intelligent robots appeared in Hongcheng. It was because of this thing.
Recalling the fragments of the fishing robot's memories and the rubble, the two robots often come here.
The rubble that awakened first also had the strongest energy. Its small warehouse was built on top of the ruins of the shrine, absorbing energy every day.
However, the rubble with wisdom is also kind and pure. It has no dissatisfaction with its life. It usually collects and organizes the garbage in its area. Picking up one or two usable gadgets from them can bring it a day's fun.
But unfortunately... the fate of its good friend Diaoyu Lao changed drastically due to his different personality. He eventually snatched its mechanical core, gained its power, and ruled the Red City.
At this moment, Cheng Shaofeng seemed to see the sad back of the rubble and the heart of its old fishing body that it had always preserved.
From that day on, it never left the sewer...
"Alas... The kind-hearted Rubble treated the fishing man as a friend, but was eventually used by him."
Cheng Shaofeng deduced that the reason why Diaoyu Lao did not catch any rubble after he took over Red City was also out of their former friendship, but for him... revenge > friendship.
The shrine at this time emitted an alluring attraction, which made Cheng Shaofeng unable to help but touch it.
All he had to do was touch it and make an offering to the shrine, and he would receive the blessing of the stars.
The desire for power made Cheng Shaofeng alert.
He took a few steps back, away from the shrine.
"This thing... It's better not to touch it."
Players can obtain the blessing of the stars. After all, they are here to travel in this world. If anything unexpected happens, they can just revive after their physical bodies die.
Cheng Shaofeng is different from them, his real body is right here. If he rashly prays to the shrine and gets entangled by some inexplicable thing... that will be a lifelong thing.
Behind the shrine there are some creatures who call themselves "God of the Underworld". It is too mysterious, so it is always better to be careful.
Before leaving, Cheng Shaofeng looked back at the red energy emanating from the shrine, as if thinking about something.
"This is the third shrine ruins I have seen... The first one was in the plunderer's radiation pit, emitting green radiation energy. The second one was in the red maple forest, emitting pink chaos energy. This one is red fire energy... Does it have any special meaning?"
He shook his head, unable to understand.
I asked Zero, and he said that there wasn't much information about the shrine ruins in the currently unlocked database. He only knew that it was something that could gain energy by offering sacrifices.
After leaving here, Zero said: "The greatest wealth left to us by Red City is these three items. If you need crystal energy, you can use this energy absorption and conversion device to absorb fire crystal energy. Currently, Red City has 430,000 fire crystals stored. At 25% load, it can produce 750 units of fire crystals every day."
"Good boy! Isn't this equivalent to holding a gold mine?"
Even though there are only 750 fire crystals per day, this is an unlimited output!
750 a day, that’s 22,500 crystal energies a month, all for free!
A great passive income!
"So, with Red City's energy load at zero, the shrine produces 1,000 units of crystal energy per day... Tsk, there are even decimals and integers."
"By the way, Zero, do you have any way to copy this device? I want to install it on the other two shrine ruins and open two branch mines."
Zero: "We have scanned and analyzed the equipment structure. You just need to upgrade the base to the next stage and unlock the 'Nano-Copy Robot' to replicate this equipment."
Cheng Shaofeng: "Hiss~ Copy robot? Sounds good, can you copy my Green Goblin skateboard?"
Zero: "Theoretically, it is feasible. The specific situation requires you to unlock it and operate it."
"Okay! I'll upgrade the base when we get back!"
Zero: "Master, how do we arrange the 2393 robots?"
"Return them to the warehouse and let them rest until they are needed."
Most of these are new types of androids that have been modified and evolved. Their strength is currently similar to that of the strongest players. In the future, they can also be used as a force to defend the city when the players are not at the base.
As for that virtual world... Cheng Shaofeng didn't expect it to have any use, and he didn't really want to experience life in the mechanical world inside, so he just left it where it was for the time being.
In addition to these three major items, Cheng Shaofeng also harvested a large amount of supplies, enough for him to build various infrastructure.
There are large stocks of various materials for making robots, but not much food. After the death of the previous humans in Red City, there are no living creatures in the entire city that want to eat food. Only some old canned food is left, which is barely edible and can be stored.
The biggest gain is this perfect city.
By the way, there are enough electronic components found in the outer city. The electronic components in the inner city... can be found everywhere, almost endless!
"The reserves of biological raw materials are very high, and the electronic components are endless. Now there is also the 430,000 stored energy in Red City, plus the large amount of fire crystals collected from the androids. The energy storage of the base has exploded, plus the stable 750 units of energy every day... It feels like it has reached its peak."
"For such a huge city, my 400-plus players are just a drop in the ocean. They can't even fill up a building. Add to that the wanderers that the base has been taking in, and there are only more than 2,000 people. There's no way they can fill up the city!"
"I need more players! Let's do something big this time and recruit 1,000 people directly!"
A large amount of crystals can make Cheng Shaofeng swell up.
"Once I finish upgrading the Scourge Base, it will be time to start the internal beta test of version 2.3!"