The creator placed the fulcrum of the creation compass on the human body, and the other foot was drawn into the vast and chaotic unknown world.
With the passage of time, civilization eras have risen one after another, and then disappeared silently. The prophets' prophecies about the stars and the infinite future did not happen as scheduled, and those blueprints that existed in fantasy were always only fantasy.
These were bad times—only three continents remained inhabited at the core of the nebula, and after three population expansions and sudden nuclear wars, humanity shrunk to less than half a billion. Nuclear resources have been exhausted, and huge energy pipelines run through the core of the earth, absorbing the energy generated by the fission of uranium in the core. The surface is in ruins, and the Iron Nation occupies the largest realm - a place known in ancient times as the Third Continent.
The central computer replaced the government, the legislature and the courts as the new state machine, but one day in the past, with its awakening, robots ruled the world. Humans are either driven out, or they start to flee, or they are ruled...
Steel life forms occupy the ground, and the sulfur released by industrial production all year round fills the sky, causing the city of machinery to be shrouded in yellow clouds. There are many high-rise buildings on the ground, but they are all cold steel factories. And deep below the ground, is the place where human beings live. As slaves of steel lifeforms, they live a simple and uniform life every day, sleeping in shifts, getting up on the hour to work... just like animals in captivity.
Our protagonist Akka is now living in the underground world of the city of machinery, and is a member of the human beings living in the "ant nest" living area.
Akka is sixteen years old this year and works as a maintenance technician on the assembly line. His job is to receive different mechanical beings every day, debug and replace them for them, and test the new technology components developed in the central technical area. Strange robots passed in front of him, making reasonable or unreasonable demands.
"Replace my infrared lens, target model RM47." an anthropomorphic robot ordered.
"Sorry, the stock is out." Akka replied, "It will wait until next month."
"Replace my infrared lens, target model RM47," the robot repeated.
"No more." Akka said, "The stock is empty."
"Article 3 of the Human Control Act," the robot said in a rigid, rigid voice, "Humans must not violate any demands made by intelligent lifeforms, or they will be executed on the spot."
Akka began to consider another way of answering - the previous maintenance technician was cut off by the laser because of this. He stared at the customer's laser launch port. At this time, the launch port had begun to warm up, and his life was only ten seconds left at most.
"Countdown." The robot warned, "Ten, nine..."
"Please wait a moment." Akka replied quickly, and selected a polished lens from the drawer and replaced it for the robot. It was a waste product replaced by another robot yesterday.
The robot replied: "The match does not match, the infrared mirror is faulty."
Akka said: "Technical error, need to be repaired, please re-queue and rate my service."
The robot began to collect Akka's portrait, and Akka watched the robot nervously and apprehensively, knowing that he would definitely be complained, but it was better than losing his head.
The robot was gone, and Akka breathed a sigh of relief.
"Help me change the energy pool." Another intelligent lifeform sat in front of the workbench. Akka secretly said thank goodness - it's a clone.
Clones are different from robots. They are not like those icy steel beings. They are species close to humans. The inhabitants of the mechanical city are divided into three classes. The upper layer is steel life, the middle layer is these clones, and the bottom layer is Akka. primitive humans.
"Need a battery or a nuclear energy pool?" Akka asked.
"Battery," the clone replied, watching the steel lifeform leave, "I thought you would be cut into small pieces by the laser, which would be very troublesome. Because my way recognition system always fails, not here. Well, I don't know how to get back."
The clone turned around, and Akka opened a box behind him and said, "Your positioning system is wet."
Akka turns on the lights and replaces parts for the clones. The clone sat silent and silent, and Akka couldn't help but watch his profile.
All clones look exactly the same. Humans can only distinguish them by their clothing or numbering cards. Clones are only male. This question puzzled Akka for quite some time.
Compared with steel life, Akka is more willing to provide services for clones, just because they have feelings, emotions, and emotions, and are occasionally affected by hormones. Unlike robots, once human beings execute wrong orders in front of robots, they will be punished. Killed on the spot.
"You're new," the clone said.
Akka asked, "How do you know?"
He glanced at the records on the computer, which showed that the clone had never been to Akka's counter in the last three years.
The clone replied: "Because you are very curious and have watched me for a long time. Humans who have just come out of the ant nest are usually like this."
Akka didn't dare to speak up. According to the instructions of the seniors, it is best not to provoke clones. Clones are more strongly affected by emotions and emotions, and once the hormones in the body are out of balance, they will also kill humans.
"Distractions at work," the clone said, "are easy to make mistakes that lead to lower customer reviews."
Akka nodded hurriedly: "Thank you for your reminder."
Akka's evaluation system has a total of five basic points, one point will be deducted for each D-level evaluation, and one point will be increased for each A-level evaluation. Once the five-point base is deducted, it will be judged by the administrative system as "execution required".
Humans who need to be executed are considered to no longer contribute to society and will be taken to production and processing plants for protein breakdown, that is, to be executed. The body composition returns to the bioenergy system and becomes the material for making new clones, or for producing nutritional products.
Akka replaced the battery in the positioning system for the clone, and by the way replaced him with another aging navigation chip, so that the positioning system would work better.
Akka said, "Okay."
"The technology is good," the clone said lightly.
Akka replied, "Thank you."
When the clones left, they gave Akka a "D".
Akka's heart was full of anger, but he didn't dare to make a sound. He quickly glanced at the computer screen, and he didn't get off work in thirty seconds.
Time passed by second by second, an electronic sound rang out, Akka quickly set up his tools, packed his things, and when he turned around, the access door behind him opened.
"Please leave the inspection station within ten seconds." The electronic female voice reminded.
Akka entered the ring tunnel, the footsteps were dense and regular, and the maintenance office began to change the guard. Humans gathered from all directions to the central hall to be checked for metal carrying, and electronic sounds beeped. After passing through the gate, the platform suddenly descended and entered the ground.
Human workers of different ages in the same clothes as Akka left from different passages, took the elevator up and down, and pushed each other in the small space, each in a hurry, and no one spoke.
The elevator stopped for the first time, and two mechanical patrolmen came in. The crowded humans hurried back to make room for them.
The red light of "ding" lights up, and the electronic female voice prompts: "Wait for the rest of the elevators to go backwards."
It was very hot in the elevator, everyone was sweating, but they didn't dare to move or speak. A man next to Akka nudged him.
Akka turned his head, only to realize that the lights of the two robots turned on, and the camera angle turned to Akka. The monitor opens, the aperture advances, and back again, locking into his chest pocket. Akka's heart suddenly jumped violently.
"What did you do?" whispered the people around you. "They seem to be following you."
Akka trembled for a moment, remembering that he secretly hid a chip when he was working.
The electronic sound of the mechanical patrolman sounded.
"Warning, your temperature is too high."
Everyone in the elevator was tense, and the mechanical patrolmen had their own infrared detectors to monitor all the humans in the entire ant nest. Akka suddenly thought of a picture—in the infrared system of the mechanical soldier, the infrared contour caused by his own body temperature in the entire elevator must be quite conspicuous.
"Nothing... unusual, right?" Akka trembled, "I... I didn't break the law."
Everyone looked at Akka.
With a "ding" sound, the green light of the elevator turned on again, and the elevator continued to descend, making a loud "rumbling" sound.
"Accept the inspection." The mechanical patrolman reminded, "Warning, carry out four types of detection."
Akka's only thought is: it's over.
As long as the mechanical patrolmen find the chip he stole, Akka will be shot on the spot. Sweat dripped down his face, and his mind went blank.
However, the other middle-aged mechanic standing behind Akka kept shivering, his face pale and sweat dripping down. His spasm was so great that it almost hit Akka.
Akka turned back suddenly, was grabbed by the shoulders of the middle-aged man, and was at a loss for a while.
"Help me... help me..." The middle-aged mechanic seemed to grab the last straw and clenched Akka's hand tightly.
All were aware of one thing at the same time: this man was about to be executed.
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"Arrival, ant nest." A female voice sounded in the elevator.
The elevator door opened, and the middle-aged man instantly pushed Akka away and rushed out.
"Warning, stop immediately!" The mechanical patrolmen chased out at the same time, and the people in the elevator rushed out, only to see the middle-aged man rushing into the corridor.
"Lie down!" someone shouted.
The people in the whole corridor were blown up, and the monitor on the ceiling "hum" shot out tiny iron nails, the iron nails spread their wings and shot in the air.
With a loud "bang", the running middle-aged man was nailed through his skull, threw himself against the wall, and was firmly nailed to the wall.
The crowd became uneasy, and there was a lot of discussion. Akka was covered in cold sweat. From the conversation, he learned that the mechanic had accumulated three D evaluations today. After eating the last meal, he would be escorted to execution.
Akka held his breath and left the corridor while the mechanical patrolmen cleaned up the mess. He walked faster and faster, and at the end, he rushed into the bathroom almost uncontrollably, turned on the cold water, and directed at his body, lowering the body temperature that had been raised due to tension, and calming the violent heartbeat.
Akka was dripping wet with water, and fear suddenly enveloped him. He knew what happened to the executed mechanic—the body was taken away, put into the factory to freeze, dismembered, and thrown into the decomposition solution in batches to corrode and become basic nutrients to cultivate new clones, Or made into animal feed.
Akka only felt that there was a surge of anger and pain in his heart, he wanted to shout like crazy, but he couldn't. I want to vent, but there is nowhere to vent, there are monitors everywhere, and I don't even dare to roar. With his back to the monitor, he took out the navigation chip he had stolen from his pocket and glanced at it. The chip was like a hot potato, which made him very scared.
It needs to be dealt with as soon as possible... The more Akka thinks about it, the more frightened he becomes. He walked out of the bathroom, dried himself, and returned to the living quarters.
Humans in the ant nest come and go, each with a job. Back in his area, Akka finally breathed a sigh of relief, exhausted, this was his first day at work.
He glanced at his watch, he could rest for ten hours, and when he entered the living area, someone nodded at him. Akka smiled unnaturally at them.
"Brother Akka is back from get off work!" a child cried. "How's the ground?"
"How did you feel on your first day at work?" A young man came over and patted him on the shoulder.
Akka nodded and said, "It's okay... okay."
Most of the people who live here are teenagers younger than Akka. The ant nest is divided into 14,000 areas, and the workers in each area are called "human representatives". The performance of human representatives on the ground directly affects the quality of life in the entire area. The remaining humans are trained by robots, either self-reproducing, or learning techniques.
Likewise, those who have not mastered any skills in multiple exams will also be judged as non-contributors, waiting for them to end in execution.
Akka thinks heavily about his "D" and the impending complaint. The legal system will analyze his work video, and with luck, he may only be judged as a "B", with no deductions or bonuses. But if it is judged as "D", the pressure will be great.
The teenagers were reading in the living room, while Akka silently finished the meal, and saw a very small child lying at the table watching him.
"Can I eat your fruit?" the child asked.
Akka said: "Of course."
Akka hands him the fruit, and the kid takes it and runs away, sharing Akka's special treatment with his playmates.
In less than a moment, the electronic sound broadcasts a notification, the sleep time starts, and the human who needs to sleep returns to the sleep room. Akka threw the packed dishes into the trash can and went back to the dormant room anxiously.
Each human has his own dormant cabin, which is the only private space in the ant nest. Akka set the hypnotic band and got into his own dormant cabin. The space is spacious enough to accommodate two Akkas sleeping together, and a small pot of green plants is placed in the cabin.
It was dark outside, and the dormant hatch was closed.
Akka turned on the lamp and took out the aging navigation chip that he stole back today. This chip is useful for Akka.
He wanted to sleep for a while and didn't want to go out, at least not today. Only sleep can make him temporarily forget the troubles of that "D". However, after the hypnotic wave sounded, Akka lay down for a while, only to feel very irritable. He tossed and turned, but couldn't fall asleep.
He forced himself to close his eyes, but couldn't fall asleep, thinking about a mechanical device he put on land and the navigation chip he stole today. Half an hour later, Akka got up, opened the dormant cabin, and got out.
In the dormant hall, rows of dormant cabins glowed blue light. Akka quickly left the hall, pressed his fingerprints, and returned to the living area. As always, there were many humans gathered here. Akka entered through the safe passage, walked down the stairs quickly to the ground, and hid at the corner of the stairs.
Suddenly, he heard a soft sound behind him, as if the door had been pushed open.
At that moment, the blood in Akka's whole body seemed to have coagulated, who was he? He subconsciously turned his head, but forcibly suppressed the thought.
Unable to turn his head, Akka warned himself, there was no mechanical sound, it was not a guard, it should just be a human coming, I don’t know what the purpose is, is there anyone other than himself who discovered this passage?
When the door slammed shut, Akka breathed a sigh of relief, only to look back at this time, there was no one there. He was apprehensive, and when the surveillance camera turned away, he meditated for three seconds, and flew out like an arrow and got into the garbage chute.
Akka slid along the garbage chute to the garbage disposal box outside the living area. The rubbish here is burned every six hours, full of acrid smells and lingering smoke.
He emerged from a breach in the garbage chute, climbed down a rusted ladder, the sea breeze blew in, and the sound of the tides was so overwhelming that it almost drowned him.
This damn weather... Akka is starting to regret coming out today. He was still immersed in the tension just now. Did someone discover this passage? But how is it possible? The garbage disposal bin has been abandoned for a long time, and there are no new footprints nearby...
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The garbage chute leads directly to the bay. The sky and the earth are completely dark. Lightning connects the sky and the sea. The roar of the sea and the tumbling of thunderclouds seem to warn him to go back as soon as possible.
This is not a good weather for traveling. Between the sky and the sea, Akka becomes a small black spot, climbing hard on the reef to a hidden cave by the sea. In this cave, he hid a machine. He kept praying, and this time passed, and the things were still there, not taken away.
If this kind of thing is known to the legal system, Akka is very clear that there is only one way of execution that awaits him. But since he was ten years old, after he accidentally discovered the passage leading to the outside world in the garbage chute, he couldn't help but want to come out and breathe the air outside.
Although the air was as always filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, and the sea was covered with pitch-black oil, none of this could stop Akka's heart from longing for freedom. It took him six years to transport some living materials from the ant nest and the steel materials from the garbage trough here piece by piece.
At the beginning he just wanted to build a small boat and leave the city of machines to find a place to live. I heard that on the other side of the sea, there is still a country where humans gather. There is no central computer "father", and there are no robots that kill humans at any time. It is a real country where humans are the masters.
Akka yearned for that place, and began to assemble the vehicle with his knowledge one after another. However, the materials he collected were various and varied, and finally he made a strange mechanical device, like a robot.
Akka left the cockpit space in the robot to make it look easy to drive, and named it "K". Compared to those steel lifeforms in the City of Machines with complex and sophisticated technologies that use nuclear fusion energy pools, K is simply a piece of junk.
But Akka is very satisfied with his masterpiece, at least K will not receive instructions from the "Father" and the legal system, nor will he shoot lasers at humans, and Akka will do what he tells it to do. This act of driving a robot makes Akka very fulfilling.
He couldn't help but regard K as his only friend. He held back this secret very hard, and no one dared to tell it, and looked forward to driving K out of here one day.
But before that, he first has to install a device that can extract tritium from seawater for K, and cooperate with the fusion reactor to power it.
The inside of the cave was dark and damp, and the sound of thunder and waves outside was earth-shattering. Akka walked into the dim cave, turned on the light source, and tore off the canvas draped over K's body. The steel mecha stared at Akka.
It has no intelligence, but Akka envisions that one day, it will give him simple intelligence.
He unscrewed K's chest cover, installed the navigation chip he stole back today, tried to connect the power, and waited for the navigation system to initialize.
There was a louder thunder outside, and the waves roared wildly, as if something hit the outside of the cave with a loud bang.
Akka ignored K and turned around and ran out of the cave, for fear that water would enter the reef cave. However, as soon as he took a step, some behemoth was rolled up by the violent waves and rushed towards the entrance of the cave.
"Ah—" Akka's voice was drowned in the loud noise.
At that moment, he saw something glowing in the sea, crashing into the mouth of the cave, followed by a loud cracking sound, and fell off the reef more than ten meters high. There were several muffled sounds, the sound of metal hitting the rock.
Akka was splashed by the sea water, and he was still in shock. He was lying at the mouth of the reef cave and looked down. He saw the shiny metal, which was swept away by the black waves. That seems like a big guy, maybe useful.
But Akka did not dare to go down hastily, otherwise the tsunami would immediately swept him away.
He first turned off K's energy source to avoid short-circuiting by the tide, and then looked anxiously at the entrance of the cave. The waves gradually diminished, and he could see clearly - a metal box floating up and down in the sea, sometimes being swept to the shore by the waves, and sometimes being The tide dragged into the sea.
Akka prayed to God to keep that alloy box, what would be inside? Maybe the material of the box can make K a new fuselage, or maybe there is a fusion engine he wants most in the alloy box.
The waves gradually subsided, the sea finally returned to calm, and the storm passed.
Akka went down to the beach with difficulty, the black oil covered the entire sea, and he left a series of footprints on the sand.
A wave pushed the box to the shore and he saw it!
Akka ran fast along the coastline and rushed towards the alloy box. What I saw at the height of the reef was not real. When I got closer, I realized that it was not a box, but a sleeping cabin.
Akka looked at the dormant cabin with doubts, and the waves were about to swept it away. Akka hurriedly jumped into the sea water and tried his best to push the dormant capsule to the shore.
"Lion... Republic." Akka saw a logo on the dormant capsule, which was in the shape of a lion.
This dormant capsule is very solid, and its appearance is rusted and covered with seaweed, and it has obviously been drifting in the sea for a long time. A hole in the hibernation chamber was half filled with oil, covering a corpse.
Akka sighed, drifting at sea for so long, he must have rotted. Are there any relics?
Akka pulled out the wrench and tried to pry open the sleeping chamber in front of him, but it didn't move. He gasped for a while, and suddenly noticed a line of words under the dormant cabin.
"April 7210, Blackstone."
7210 years!
Akka was shocked. This year is 10073. Is this an ancient dormant capsule nearly three thousand years ago? !
After looking at it for a long time, he realized that he could not drag it on like this, so he began to look for the switch of the dormant cabin. The structure of this ancient machine was different from all the technologies known to Akka.
Akka held his breath as if he had found a treasure, as if he had discovered a new world. The idea of ancient technology filled his mind in an instant. Maybe the ancients left some intelligent technology or weapons. Stepping back 10,000 steps, even removing a few usable boards...
Akka didn't know what he hit, and the whole sleeping cabin lit up. He was startled and hurriedly backed away. Immediately, he thought that there should be no one alive in the dormant cabin, after all, nearly three thousand years have passed.
The dormant cabin slowly opened, Akka stepped forward, and was surprised to find that there was another layer inside. The interlayer of the double-deck dormant cabin was filled with oil and seawater, and it poured out in an instant, sending out bursts of smoke. The inner hatch is transparent and displays a low-energy warning.
The hatch opened and the smoke cleared.
Inside was a naked man. The man has well-proportioned hands and feet, is 180 centimeters tall, and has short, black hair. Akka stared at him intently, reaching out to touch his body.
The man is still alive.
The electronic sound of robot guards patrolling from the distance rang faintly in the waves, and Akka secretly said, "Damn!" Four hundred meters away, two coast guard ships broke through the sea and rushed towards the shore.
Akka's heart was pounding, he climbed up the reef with the man in his arms, an alarm sounded in the distance, he took out the remote control from his pocket, and there was a loud "bang" in the cave.
K stumbled and rushed out dragging the tail flame. Akka held the man in one hand and K's metal arm in the other. K touched the reef a few times and lost a few parts. The parts tumbled down and fell into the sea.
Akka's eyes were dark, hugged the man, and rushed into the cave with K again.
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After a few minutes, Akka recovered and patted the man's face, who was still in a drowsiness. K strode back to its position and resumed silence.
Akka climbed out of the hole, looked down, and saw the patrol robot taking the dormant capsule away. Now there is nothing left, only a man who was picked up.
Humanity.
Akka looked at the man's sleeping face, and suddenly felt very helpless. What role can a human being play? In the case of the dormant cabin, at least some materials can be disassembled, but it is not something Akka can do to throw this man back into the sea.
Take care of him, let's do it first. Akka got up, walked over to K, and continued to debug its navigation system. The chip stolen from the clone seemed to be broken. Akka turned on the voice-controlled navigation and heard a rustling sound.
"…System down." A voice came from K's speakers.
"Ah!" Akka was startled, never expecting K to speak by himself. what happened? You obviously didn't install the thinking software on K? !
After K finished saying that, he was silent again, staring at Akka with cold eyes. Akka was full of suspicion, opened the circuit board on K's abdomen, and debugged the voice control channel.
"Fathericide must be done in..." K said again.
Akka was taken aback again, but this time he found the reason, the sound of the navigation system. In the location locating loop, it seems that some strange information has been entered. Akka connected the circuit, started to play the navigation commentary, and heard a thrilling speech.
"Members of the resistance, the critical moment of the revolution is approaching, codenamed: Operation Father Killing, our days of rule are coming to an end, and a new era will surely come. At twelve o'clock in the morning on November 27th, the changing of the guard with human beings Opportunity to break through the defense line and disarm the mechanical armed control on the spot. When each area loses energy, please all members of the resistance army sneak into the central core area in batches, when the vanguard will paralyze the defense system. We will blow up the central energy furnace and destroy the 'father' I wish you all success.”
Akka was too surprised to speak, he just stood there blankly, looking at K.
November 27th, today is the 25th... is this a joke? Akka is unbelievable, but the chip for the navigation system was obtained from the clone, and the clone did not know that Akka would steal it, so it was impossible to implant such an explanation in advance.
That is to say, after forty-eight hours at the latest, the clones will unite with humans to launch a riot with the goal of destroying the central computer. Akka just felt that what happened today was so unbelievable... so much that he didn't realize that the man who had just been rescued from the beach had woken up.
Akka turned around in a daze, slammed into the man, shouted again, was punched in the face, and fell heavily to the ground.
The man looked at Akka with a murderous look in his eyes.
Under the light from K, they faced each other, and there was half a minute of silence. There was a buzzing in Akka's mind, and he was about to explode. He couldn't say a word for a long time, and kept struggling.
"What do you want to do?" the man said coldly.
With tears of resentment in his eyes, Akka coughed wildly and took a deep breath.
"I saved you!" Akka yelled at him frantically, "Is that how you treat your savior?"
"Oh." The man looked at Akka indifferently, and the moment Akka raised his head, he was a little lost.
This is a young man in his twenties. His skin is a toned bronze color, his hair is short, as if it has just grown out; his lip line is as sharp as a knife's edge, his nose is high, his eyes are piercing, and his eyebrows are piercing. Like thick ink.
His hands and feet are slender, the lines outlined by his abdominal muscles are clear and powerful, and his chest muscles are thin, like a hero sculpture in ancient ruins.
There was a lot of black oil on his chest, which was just rubbed on by Akka when he was carrying him, but it did not diminish the beauty of his perfect body-that is the beauty of a man full of masculine tension. Black oil, like oil paint, adds to its rugged appeal.
"What's your... name?" Akka asked.
"Name." The man frowned slightly, seemingly lost in thought.
Akka was about to stand up, but the man moved again, causing Akka to back away in fright.
Akka is even more confused than this man. He has a lot of questions. He wants to ask where he came from? What is the mechanism of the dormant pod that holds him? Has he slept under the sea for three thousand years? But Akka knew that if he hibernated for more than a month, his memory would be temporarily sealed due to the closure of his brain, so he was not very surprised that the man showed amnesia.
The man said coldly, "How did you save me?"
Akka said: "You just woke up from the sea..."
Akka described to the man the scene where he picked him up once. The man always looked at Akka with a puzzled expression and listened carefully to Akka's description. As Akka said, he thought to himself that this person really lost his memory.
"Three thousand years," said the man at last.
"Yes." Akka replied, at the same time realizing this serious problem - he had slept for three thousand years, and according to Akka's understanding, his memory may never be retrieved.
The man was very distressed and tried his best to remember, but Akka said to the man with a bit of happiness, "The dormancy cabin you sleep in is good, because after you wake up, you still retain the ability to speak and think."
The man did not speak.
Akka asked, "What's your name? At least think of a name first."
The man is silent.
Akka said, "Or should I give you a name temporarily? Blackstone is written on the dormant pod that holds you, so you should be called Blackstone?"
"Blackstone..." the man muttered.
He didn't refuse, he seemed to have acquiesced in the name.
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Akka covered K with canvas, found a piece of cloth, motioned Blackstone to put it on, and made a simple full-body robe for him with a pin.
Wearing the one-piece linen robe, Black Stone sat quietly on the stone like a sculpture.
Akka temporarily settled Blackstone, turned on K's navigation system, and listened to the words again. Undoubtedly, at this time, the revolutionary declaration of clones was more important than Blackstone, and he couldn't imagine what would happen next if this statement was true.
Will there be a riot? Akka could almost imagine the scene where the clones rushed to the central city, occupied the city of machines, and blew up the energy furnace. Once the war begins, he will easily pick up an energy stove, flee to the bay, put it on K's body, and leave the place.
Akka was both excited and nervous, as if injected with a shot of cardiotonic by the news. He decided to go back and observe, all the scenes of the abandoned robot paralyzed in his mind.
Akka passed in front of Blackstone and said, "I'm leaving."
Hei Shi raised his head for unknown reasons, the vigilance in his eyes was clear. A-Ka has a headache again, how should this amnesia be relocated? take him away? This man seems to have some strength, and he may be able to help him, but he must not be brought back to the living area, otherwise, once the robot guards find out, the consequences will be disastrous.
"Where to go?" Blackstone asked.
Akka said displeased: "It has nothing to do with you, stranger, I saved your life, and you didn't even say thank you."
Blackstone didn't answer and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"
Akka was about to explode with anger, and said angrily, "Aren't you going to look for it yourself? I don't owe you anything!"
Heishi stood up suddenly, Akka stepped back immediately, took out the magnetic energy wrench to face him, and said vigilantly: "Don't come here, or you will be electrocuted into coke."
Black Stone's brows were full of anger, and he looked around.
Enough is enough, Akka thought, saving this man was purely his own bad luck. He exited the cave, not knowing why, and was vaguely worried, and finally turned around and came in.
"There is food and fresh water here." Akka opened the food he had stored in the corner and showed it to Black Stone. Hei Shi grabbed the water bottle with his hands, took a sip, then tilted his neck and poured a large bottle of water down. Only then did Akka realize that he was thirsty.
"Hungry?" Akka asked, opening a can and handing it to him. Hesitating for a moment, Blackstone dug out a piece of chicken from the can with his fingers and chewed it in his mouth.
Akka said: "I'm leaving, you can do it yourself, find a place by yourself."
The watch on his wrist beeped, and Akka knew that he couldn't delay any longer, he had been away for too long today. He ran out of the cave and went back along the old road.
Akka was worried, and all he thought about was the explanation in the navigation system. What if all this was just a joke? Could it be a joke?
It took half an hour to go back. When Akka arrived at the garbage chute, he inadvertently glanced back and was dumbfounded.
Blackstone had been following him, following from the winding oil beach.
"Don't follow!" Akka yelled anxiously.
Blackstone stopped, Akka ran towards him a few steps, and said, "Don't court death!"
Hei Shi showed an indifferent expression, and Akka's watch sounded the "Di Di Di" alarm again. There was no time, and he shouted again: "Get out of here! You can go anywhere! Don't follow me!"
After speaking, Akka plunged into the garbage chute and crawled up on both hands and feet.
He returned to the living area along the way he came, and looked at the ground next to the garbage chute. This time he found footprints—two lines of cluttered footprints.
That is to say, after entering the garbage chute, someone came!
These are the footprints of human beings, and since they came in, they never went out again. How could this be? ! Akka was almost unbelievable. He wanted to go back and have a look, but he had no time, so he had to leave in a hurry, and was worried, knowing that some humans must have discovered this exit, and the number of exits must be reduced in the future.
When going up the stairs, Akka was almost caught by the camera again. When he walked up the escalator again, he secretly thought that he was very dangerous and almost died.
The laser camera turned to where no one was, and Akka slowly went up, leaning his back against the wall and looking out.
Everything was normal in the living area, and there was nothing unusual. Several clones were standing in the corridor chatting. Akka walked past them, returned to the dormant hall, got into the dormant cabin, and closed his eyes.
His mind was still excited about the impending riot, but his body couldn't resist the drowsiness. Gradually, he fell asleep. At this moment, there was a loud noise from the central energy furnace, and the explosion spread to the entire city of machinery like a scorching sun. All buildings, people, clones, and robots were destroyed in the high temperature and strong light...
"Sleep time is over." The electronic voice prompts, "End sleep."
The hatch opened on its own, and Akka woke up from the dream, sweating profusely.
"Are you all right, Akka?" a human asked.
Akka nodded reluctantly, and dazedly helped the cabin out, staggered under his feet, almost unsteady, and several people came to support him.
"Have a nightmare?" Someone asked with concern.
Akka said: "Yes... yes."
Akka can't tell what is dream and what is reality. He now vaguely feels that everything that happened in the past six hours was just a dream.
People came and went, Akka stood outside the dormant hall for a long time, thinking about it all, the bell rang, reminding him that he still had two hours to prepare, and then he needed to go to work.
Akka went to the restaurant to eat. Compared with the last time he ate, there were already a lot of people here. When he sat down with a lot of thought, a robot slid over and said to him: "Number 470023A, your visitor is waiting in the reception room, please arrive within five minutes."
visitor? Akka ate a few mouthfuls indiscriminately, went to the corridor, and saw two clones standing at the door of the reception room.
The clones all have the same face, the same body, and are divided by type of work and wear their own uniforms. As soon as Akka saw the man, he felt a "squeak" in his heart.
"You stole my navigation chip." A clone walked towards him quickly, "Give it back to me right now, I won't hold you accountable."
"What... what chip?" Akka put his hand into his pocket subconsciously, but felt empty, realizing that the chip was on K's body, but he forgot to bring it back.
"Don't play stupid." Another clone came over and said in a low voice, "It's useless for you to keep that thing, it will only cause all your humans to be executed."
"You don't have the right to do this!" Akka answered him angrily, and within a few seconds he made up his mind and knew that these clones didn't dare to speak up. In other words, the chip thing is real, not a dream. He was so nervous that he couldn't breathe, and trembled again, "I didn't take your chip."
"You replaced it!" The clone almost gritted his teeth, his hand spasmed, and he grabbed Akka's neck in an instant, "Where is it! Give it back to me!"
Akka's face flushed red, and he saw the camera in the corridor turning towards them, and the clone's emotions were out of control, and his fingers squeezed his throat bone "click". Akka's eyes gradually darkened.
"Stop!" The clone's companions stopped him from killing Akka.
The clone let go of his hand, and Akka fell to his knees, gasping for breath.
"I didn't take the chip... Cough! Cough!" Akka replied with difficulty.
"Here are the guards!" another clone warned. "They've got our eyes on us. They can't talk to him any more, and find another way to take him away."
"Let's see." The clone said sullenly.
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The two clones left. Akka knew that they would never let him go. He knelt in the corridor, thinking about countermeasures. Now it was too late to go out and get the chip.
Akka leaned against the wall, with a bloody taste in his mouth, took a few sips of water and wet his hair. At this moment, the bell rang loudly. It was the sound of assembly. As soon as the bell rang, all human beings had to reach the gathering hall as quickly as possible.
Oops, it came too suddenly and too quickly. Akka knew that the clones must have passed through the robot guards in this area and gathered all the humans, perhaps selecting humans under a certain name, to forcibly take him away.
But he had to go.
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Akka entered the gathering place and looked around, there were people in the darkness, there was a bang, and all the steel doors fell, shutting tens of thousands of people in this hall.
The strong light was on, so that people could not open their eyes, and in the dark space, the pale light was lit, which made people especially fearful. Two robot guards escorted a human to the center of the platform, followed by a clone.
Akka was stunned. The human on the stage was wearing a linen cloth, standing barefoot, and his hands were bound by a pair of magnetic shackles. It was the Black Stone he rescued from the sea a few hours ago!
"The police found him in front of the escalator leading to the garbage chute," the clone announced to the crowd. "This human being of unknown origin has no genetic number, no whereabouts, and no knowledge of anything. He killed him in the process of resisting arrest. Two sanctioners. According to Article 1 of the Human Control Act, they should be executed."
Akka held his breath.
"But he told us that the purpose of coming here is to find a human being, and this human being is now among you." The clone wrote lightly, "Please stand up and explain the origin of this person."
There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, and Akka's heart was about to jump out of his throat. Countless thoughts flashed in his mind, didn't he tell him not to follow? what is the problem?
A robotic guard's arm spun, and an electromagnetic cutter appeared, covering Blackstone's head.
Black Stone looked up at the electromagnetic cutter that flashed blue light between his eyebrows. The hexagonal high-voltage arc jumped and jumped, and with just one arm, Black Stone's head would be cut into six pieces.
The clone added: "Give you another ten seconds. If the person who colluded with him is unwilling to come out, this person will be executed immediately, and we will start to investigate the entire ant nest."
"Warning. Execution in ten seconds, ten, nine, eight..."
Blackstone ignored the robot guard and turned to look at the crowd below the stage. His face was cold and silent, but there was a look of searching in his eyes, and the crowd began to scream in low voices. This innocent man on stage obviously did not know that his body was about to be laid on the ground.
"Six, five, four..."
"Wait." Akka took a step forward and said towards the heights, "Yes..."
Before Akka could claim the stranger, Heishi turned around abruptly, kicked the guards flying, and then rushed towards Akka, frying the entire hall. Before Akka came back to his senses, the Black Stone had already landed in front of him.
"Emergencies."
A series of light bullets flew, Akka roared: "Lie down!"
Akka threw Blackstone to the ground, the hall instantly darkened, and then Akka's collar was mentioned by Blackstone.
Heishi said: "Follow me."
Akka said: "You will die! Don't force it!"
The two flying guards were clipped from the left and right sides, and Heishi turned around in place again, and swept his legs beautifully. The flying guards were swept away and hit the wall with an explosion.
At that moment, Akka was stunned. He had only seen this skill once in the documentation. It was an ancient martial art!
"Black... Blackstone!" Akka was about to make him surrender when the door on the left opened, and the robot guards swarmed in. Without retreating, Heishi advanced and rushed into the passage where the robot guards came.
The alarm bell rang loudly, and Akka was finished thinking about it. Everything was so fast that he didn't even have the slightest reaction. Blackstone asked, "What is this place?"
Akka shook his heart and said, "Run towards the end of the passage!"
Blackstone grabbed Akka and rushed to the end of the corridor, Akka shouted again, "Turn left!"
The two of them quickly turned a corner and knocked over the person behind the corner. The warning sound of the entire ant nest spread out from the hall, and all the doors were closed, but Akka still held a glimmer of hope, arrived outside the living area, ran into the garbage chute, and might be able to escape.
As of now, that's all it takes...
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However, Black Stone stopped abruptly, and Akka's heart twitched.
At the end of the passage, before the only exit of the garbage chute outside the ant nest, a clone appeared. Behind the clone, there were two Annihilators.
"Don't do it." Akka's voice trembled, "Don't do it..."
The Humanoid Annihilator is a mechanoid designed to deal with humans, equipped with infrared tracking shotguns. Once shot out of such a narrow passage, Blackstone and Akka would be corpses on the ground immediately.
Blackstone instinctively sensed the danger and took a step back. Behind the two, more robot guards chased after them. In front of them are clones and two large annihilates, and behind them are a full team of robot guards with magneto-optical guns turned on.
The clone said: "It seems you have caused a lot of trouble, boy."
Akka stepped back uncontrollably, recognizing that the clone was the one who had just asked him for a chip, and as soon as he stepped back, his back was pressed against the muzzle of the robot guard.
Another clone said: "What the hell is going on?"
Akka immediately turned around and said, "It's me! The person this stranger is looking for is me!"
Four robotic guards came over, held Akka, magnetic handcuffs, and a laser headgear around his neck. Akka gestured to Blackstone with his eyes, not to resist.
Blackstone was silent.