Nirvana Rebirth

The ship is docked, and the clone army here is not as heavily guarded as the Eastern Continent. Friends on the journey say goodbye to each other after disembarking.

This is a whole new world, and Akka is dizzy just by the seaport city. Fortunately, he always holds Pixi's hand tightly to prevent him from getting lost. The place gave him so many surprises that he realized that most of the news he had heard before was wrong. They say the second continent is home to clones, but it's not - there are more humans than clones here, and they set up businesses along the street, selling cakes, machinery, and even alchemy.

Akka walked all the way along the harbour, and it was not until the afternoon that he crossed a small half of Karoic. In ancient times, it was a port where gold trade was concentrated, and it was also called the port of gold by the people of this continent. People live and work in peace and contentment and live a prosperous life.

"Go away!" the owner of the fruit stand shouted rudely, "you out-of-towners!"

After Akka was yelled at, he shrank a little, he was full of curiosity about everything, and was afraid of violating the rules here. Pei Xi couldn't see, and asked Akka worriedly, "Brother, what's the matter?"

"It's okay." Akka originally wanted to ask the boss if he could give him a piece of fruit for Pixi to eat. But it seems that without currency, it is impossible to move on this continent.

To have money first, to earn money to live. Although it is difficult to make money, Akka has full confidence. He inquired about the direction of Phoenix City from passers-by, and planned to complete the mission sent to him by Fei Luo, send Paixi to Phoenix City, and then find a way to make a living.

However, they had no travel expenses, and seeing that the sky was getting dark, Akka began to be at a loss. Or find a job here first, and then take Pixi on the road after earning the toll? He looked outside a watch shop for a while, and when he was about to ask about it, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.

The bard Moran was coming out of a building across the street, followed by many people.

"What's the matter?" Pacey asked.

Akka said: "I saw Uncle Bard, he seems to..."

Pai Xi said, "Uncle Moran!"

Akka hurriedly put his index finger on Percy's lips, trying to get him to stop shouting, but Moran had heard it and turned to see them.

"Isn't that Piecy?" Moran smiled and said, "What are you doing here?"

Pai Xi said: "My brother is looking for a job and wants to support himself, so he can get some food. How about you?"

Akka saw that there were many people around Moran, and there were still clones, and he was immediately surprised. He didn't know anything like Pixi, and vaguely guessed Moran's background. After all, they had also communicated on the boat, and Moran remembered that their destination was Phoenix City, guessing that the two teenagers should have no travel expenses, so he ordered a few words to the entourage beside him.

"Yes, my lord."

The attendant immediately took out a thin stack of golden cards from his shirt pocket. This is the common coin on this continent. Akka saw the residents who were exchanging materials with copper and silver cards.

Moran handed the card to Akka. Akka understood what he meant and said, "This... No, I can't accept it."

Moran said with a smile: "I lent it to you, unfortunately, I'm about to leave for Dragon Mouth City. Otherwise, I can take you along the way."

Akka said: "Can I go to Dragon Mouth City to find you in the future? I will pay you back the money."

Moran laughed and said, "Of course." After thinking for a while, he opened his travel diary, took out a bookmark, handed it to Akka, and said, "If you have a chance, come to Dragonmaw City. , you can find me in the Castle of the Stars."

"Sir," the follower reminded, "it's getting late."

Moran nodded, said goodbye to Akka and Percy, kissed Percy's forehead gently, and turned to leave.

A-Ka got the toll, and immediately heaved a sigh of relief, and got on the steam train with Percy to Phoenix. He was curious about everything and took the trouble to describe it to Pesci. A teenager took another half-year-old teenager, just like two little idiots, and got the help of many kind people on the way, and finally stumbled to Phoenix City.

When walking out of the Phoenix Steam Station, Akka finally felt like home. Although Phoenix is ​​not a paradise for humans to live and work as described by the traveling companions on the ship, it is still dirty.

This is a large industrial city, with mechanical vehicles coming and going on the streets, and houses with a dark yellow color from industrial pollution, steam and black smoke rising into the sky, and noise filling the surrounding world. However, everything is so alive, and the busy people seem to be welcoming their arrival.

"Get out of the way!" someone shouted rudely.

"What are you doing so fiercely?" the station manager said angrily, "Didn't you see that child is blind?"

Akka hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, sorry."

On the journey, someone always found out that Pai Xi was blind, whether it was good or malicious, Akka always felt a little sad and a little guilty every time he was asked, for fear that Pai Xi would be hurt. However, Pixi was very optimistic and smiled: "I'm sorry, I'm new here."

Akka took Pesie's hand down, confused, and only knew how to follow the crowd. He always misses Blackstone a lot these days, and thinks it would be nice if Blackstone was there. Facing the unknown world, he was dazed and vaguely insecure, and he was even afraid that he would not be able to protect Pesci.

If Blackstone was around, he would at least feel at ease.

"Brother, where are we going now?" Pasey asked.

Akka thought of Fei Luo's instructions that when he arrived in Phoenix, he wanted to send Pai Xi to the Human Remnant Shelter, and felt a little reluctant for a while.

"Go to the shelter first," Akka said.

Moran's travel expenses have been almost spent by Akka. On the journey, he always buys food for Pixi. The two teenagers have suffered too much in the past, they want to eat everything, and they don't think about future problems. When Akka realized the difficulty of money, he was afraid that he had to go to the shelter to stay.

Phoenix is ​​approaching the evening, the sun shines a thin afterglow through the dark clouds, and the sound of the machines filling the city gradually fades away. Akka bought a map and studied it carefully, only then did he know that the city was divided into a human area and a clone area, and these two areas were divided into east and west cities. They looked at the map while asking for directions, and finally reached the Human Remnant Center, but it was already closed and the door was closed.

A staff member came out, listened to Akka's explanation, and pointed the way: "The shelter is in the inner ring city, you can go to rest at night first, and you can go through the formalities again tomorrow."

Akka asked, "Do I need to pay?"

The staff shook his head and said, "No, you don't need to pay. Keep walking along the main road, you may need a ride, or you won't be able to reach the shelter before dark."

Peyce said to him, "Thank you."

Akka nodded and left with Pesy's hand. They were walking along a river full of sewage. Perhaps because the parting was imminent, Akka was in a low mood and kept silent. Pei Xi suddenly asked, "Brother, what's around here?"

Akka turned his head and saw that the ground was full of industrial waste water and domestic waste, he thought for a while, and described to Paixi: "Well, this is a very good city... Specifically..."

Akka described their new home beautifully, but sighed inwardly. He took Percy into the inner ring city to find a shelter for humans. They didn't walk outside an abandoned factory until it was dark. There was a rusty sign on the door saying "Human Orphans Shelter", and there was a layer of barbed wire outside.

"Come in." After listening to Akka's words, the gatekeeper opened the door outside the barbed wire. At the same time, a truck carrying a large amount of cinder rushed into the refining area next to the shelter. The shelter felt like a prison to Akka, but he didn't say anything to Paisi, just explained: "We're going to sleep here for a night today."

Peyce nodded, the two were numbered, and they stayed without even being questioned. The children in the corridor were leading dinner, and a woman said to Akka: "You are over sixteen years old and can't live here anymore."

"I know," Akka said. "I'll be leaving early tomorrow morning."

The woman took Akka and Percy to a room and said, "The door will be locked after nine o'clock in the evening."

Akka looked around, the room was not full, there was only one lamp overhead, there were four double beds in the room, and the other two seemed to be sleeping, but they were not there at the moment. Percy sat quietly in the lower bunk.

The children in the other two beds came back, all of them were in their teens, and one of them was a little taller than Akka, and they glanced at the two of them. The big man asked, "Where did it come from?"

Akka smiled and said, "We are from the city of machines, this is my brother."

Pai Xi said: "Hello."

The big boy understood, nodded and said, "Refugees from the east." After saying that, he stopped commenting and went to bed.

It can be seen that the younger child is very afraid of this big man, the two do not talk to each other, and the other child does not dare to strike up a conversation with Akka and the others, and Akka's mood becomes heavier. He went out to get food for Pixi, took a look, and saw that the shelter's dinner was a kind of gray mixed rice paste. He smelled it, and he could smell oatmeal, wheat, and several kinds of coarse grains, so he didn't bring it to Percy, and came back to eat the snacks they bought.

At nine o'clock at night, the lights in the entire shelter were off, it was raining lightly outside the window, and the pale lights were on in the street, with the occasional roar of a large truck passing by, and the other two children lay in bed doing nothing. Akka watched for a while by the window, and a feeling of daze and unease rose in her heart.

Winter nights are very cold and cold, but compared to the cold, the loneliness in my heart makes Akka more unbearable. He slipped into the icy blanket and hugged Percy, hoping he would warm up a bit. Until now, he has not fully accepted the reality that he has returned to human society - after all, this is too far from the new life he imagined.

Percy took out a small mechanical device and tapped the send button repeatedly with his hand. Akka knew that this was a transmitter, and asked in a low voice, "To whom?"

"Dad," Pasey whispered, "Tell him we're settled. The transmitter can code our words to the Rebel transit centers in each city, who will contact him."

Akka was a little surprised, Pei Xi actually remembered such a complex signal, it seems very clever. After a while, the green light flashed, and a string of messages came back from there, and Percy laughed.

"Contacted," said Pesci.

"Ask if Black Stone is here." Akka said.

He didn't have high expectations, but Blackstone was his only friend to him now, and maybe he could be regarded as someone who cared about him. Peyce sent a message and replied, "Yes, Blackstone is with my dad."

In unexpectedly good news, Akka asked, "What did he say?"

"Let's take good care of ourselves," Peyce said to Akka. "He heard... Phoenix isn't as good as he thought it would be, but at least we still have freedom."

With the beeping of the transmitter, Blackstone's words seemed to touch a switch in Akka's heart, instantly pulling his thoughts infinitely far away from this rainy night, making him make a certain decision. Until the end, Percy turned off the transmitter and whispered in Akka's ear: "They are going to rescue the rebel hostages, hoping there will be no danger."

Akka nodded and said vaguely, "Go to sleep, I'll talk about it tomorrow if I have something to do."

Far away on another continent, Fei Luo turned off the transmitter and sat silently with Black Stone in the weapons warehouse. Blackstone disassembled it over and over again, and assembled a chip reader.

"You shouldn't tell them." Heishi said solemnly.

"I'm used to telling Piecy everything," Fei Luo said. "That kid has a... special ability since he was a child, you know?"

Fei Luo looked up at Heishi with a warm smile and explained, "Although he is blind, he can see things that are different from ordinary people."

Heishi frowned and said, "What can you see?"

"Foreseeing danger," Fei Luo said thoughtfully, "I don't know if all of you humans have abnormal abilities. Once, the Mechanical Legion approached when our troops were asleep, and he happened to be in the team. Leaving the central area and heading to the southern rainforest, he woke me up in the middle of the night and said, 'Dad, I dreamed that the big cold guys were coming'."

"Fortunately, our troops found out early, only three people were killed, and they evacuated the swamp area at a very small cost," Fei Luo said, "So, I am used to every time I make a major decision, I use the transmitter to ask questions. his opinion."

Hei Shi smiled, and looking at the expression, he didn't seem to agree. Fei Luo didn't explain much, and said, "I know you don't believe it, forget it."

Blackstone said: "If Pai Xi's dream is really predictive, it can let him perceive who copied the key information in the ancient heart."

Fei Luo smiled helplessly and said, "I don't think it's possible. Only things related to him and me can cause him a dream."

Blackstone disassembled and assembled the blasting device in his hand three times, and they were still waiting in the warehouse into the night. After dark, Blackstone will join Philo's team to rescue a group of hostages held by the Iron Corps. Among these hostages, there was one of the guards who guarded the ancient heart three months ago.

"If your guess is correct," Blackstone looked up at Philo, "General Maxey colluded with the Iron Legion, what would happen?"

"It's hard to say," Fei Luo shook his head slowly. "The position of Brigadier General Maxie is very important. He is one of the three initiators of the revolution. If this incident is pierced, it will cause turmoil at the top of the army."

Blackstone gradually came to know the system in the clone army, including Liebull, who led the revolutionary army and died in defeat, and Admiral Angus, who is still sitting in Phoenix, and became the three major clones of the clone regime, alongside Maxy. decision maker.

Among them, the senior military officials were actually sent by the "father" and lurked undercover in the resistance army. Once this incident spread, the consequences would be unimaginable. Fei Luo felt like he was in a big trouble at the moment. Since Black Stone entered the ancient heart, one mystery was wrapped in another mystery, and the matter could not be made public.

"Where is General Maxie at this time?" Blackstone asked again.

"In Phoenix," Philo replied, "meet with Angus, because Liebull has died, they must devise a new strategy to defend against the Iron Legion's counterattack, and will not be back here in about a month. We Since we have to do it, we must do it as soon as possible. Otherwise, once he returns, we will soon know that you and I have entered the ancient heart."

Black Stone nodded, got up and glanced at the window, it was already dark. Fei Luo took his subordinates to assemble the firearms, pushed open the door, and headed towards the dark mountains.

The night passed, and the Phoenix City on the other side of the mainland was full of sunshine. Early in the morning, Akka took Pei Xi out to the shelter's office and explained their current situation to the person in charge.

"I'll find a job." Akka said to the man with Erlang's legs crossed, "As long as we can support ourselves, my brother doesn't need to go to the shelter."

"Okay," said the man absentmindedly, "Go ahead and wish you success."

Akka took Percy's hand and came out of the shelter again. After the last rain last night, the clouds and haze in the sky gradually dissipated, and the sun shone from the clouds. Pai Xi stood in the sunshine and couldn't help crying.

"What's wrong?" Akka asked in shock.

Percy smiled and wiped away tears, shook his head and said, "No... no."

"Find a place to live first." Akka threw his satchel back, put it on another shoulder, and walked into the bustling world of Phoenix.

"We don't accept technicians." The person in charge of the repair shop looked up and down Akka strangely.

Akka took Pesy's hand and said, "It's okay. I'll try my luck elsewhere."

Akka came out with Pixi. This was the fifth company he had found. The factory didn't accept technicians, and Uncle Moran left them with little money left. He used the last remaining money to buy two hot dogs and squatted on the side of the road with Patsy.

"Is it hard to find a job?" Piecy asked worriedly.

Akka replied, "Don't worry, it will be found."

Akka's request is to include room and board, and take in Paisi by the way. Yet most foreman did not trust Akka to repair equipment, no matter how he explained over and over again what he had done. He even tried to apply for a job at some of the clones' technical maintenance centers, but others found out and asked him about his origins.

Akka replied that this was Fei Luo's adopted son, and Fei Luo was a clone, so everyone who heard this explanation laughed together "hahaha".

"Adopted son?" the clone boss greeted. "Hey! Come and see! This kid is the clone's son. You have to keep him."

"Which one is it?" someone asked.

"Numbering?"

Everyone gathered around, Akka instinctively felt the danger, but Pei Xi pulled his hand and whispered, "Don't be afraid, Akka."

Pai Xi took out a military badge and handed it out. It had Fei Luo's military rank, unit, and designation number. Everyone believed it, but a long silence followed.

"Your father owes us a lot of money, a lot of money..." a clone said after a long time.

"What are you going to do?!" Akka kept Paisi behind him, preventing the clones from bullying him. Pei Xi was very at a loss, not knowing how to answer, Akka said, "As for you and Fei Luo, wait for Fei Luo to come back and find him alone."

"You'll be taken away," the clone laughed, "and then have your human organs removed and sold."

"Don't scare him!" Akka said angrily to the clone.

Akka didn't want to talk to them any more, and left with Pai. After wandering around a few places, he found that Fei Luo's reputation was very bad. When he got there, he didn't even dare to mention it. He returned to the gathering place of human beings and tried to find a repair shop.

Pai Xi said, "Do you need to ask Fei Luo?"

"No," Akka said, "don't let them worry."

At least there is still freedom. Blackstone's words make Akka remember very clearly, he has nothing to complain about, and leads Pei Xi from dark to dawn. It was raining again that day, and Percy said, "Let's stay here for the night."

When Akka saw an abandoned factory in front of him, which was the westernmost suburb of Phoenix, he stopped and hid in a huge concrete pipe with Pesci for the night.

In the ruins opposite, a beggar was lighting a fire and looked up at them.

A-Ka was afraid that he would come and snatch his belongings or frighten Pixi, so he kept staring at the beggar who made the fire. After a while in the rain, a man in a trench coat with a black umbrella came over and had a few words with the beggar. Akka suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" Pesci said softly.

"Nothing." Akka whispered.

In the sulphur rain, they hid in a concrete pipe on the construction site, and there was a dirty beggar on the opposite side - all this was normal, but a man of unknown origin found the beggar, this phenomenon made Akka one. Be alert in an instant.

"Go to sleep." Akka hugged Pai Xi and let him lean into his arms, no longer looking at the beggar in the distance, and closed his eyes.

The man didn't seem to leave, talking with the beggar not far away. Akka couldn't hear what they said, and didn't want to pay attention. Gradually, however, Percy moved restlessly, sweat dripping from his body, and then suddenly woke up.

"Pacey?" Akka asked. "Sick?"

Akka touched Paxie's forehead, Paxie woke up, panting softly.

"I had a dream," Pesci whispered. "Is anyone near us?"

Akka said in surprise, "Did you hear footsteps?"

"They noticed us," said Peyce.

Akka was startled, looked up into the distance, and saw the man talking to the beggar, who had been there for nearly half an hour. Akka didn't have time to ask why Peyce said that, so he said, "Get up, let's go."

It was late at night and the streets were empty. Akka wasn't sure where he was going, and he didn't know whether it would be dangerous to go on the road with Pai Xi in this unknown city, but Pai Xi said, "I think we should wait here."

"Why?" Akka asked.

Peyce didn't answer, but the man in the distance, after talking, noticed them and turned towards them. Akka's heart jumped violently for a moment, thinking of what the clone boss said to them today - this city is very dangerous and chaotic. In case you want to…

"Follow him," Pasey whispered in Akka's ear.

"Who are you?" The man in a black trench coat looked up and down Akka.

A-Ka protected Pei Xi behind his back and asked, "What does it have to do with you?"

Paixi pulled Akka's sleeve and reminded him silently, the man said in a low voice: "Don't stay here if you don't want to die, come with me."

Akka hesitated for a moment, the man didn't give him much chance to think, turned and left. Akka looked at Percy, and then at the man who was far away. Finally, he packed up his things, held Percy, got up and left the abandoned construction site.

A man in a black trench coat habitually took out something from his pocket in the middle of the night. Akka thought it was a gun, but when he was about to get nervous, he heard a soft click, the flames were beating, the man was holding a cigarette, and the fire of the cigarette butt Lights up slightly.

"Who are you...?" Akka asked.

"The Tsar," the man replied.

Akka looked up at him, and saw that the man named Tsar had rough skin, the hood of the black trench coat covered half of his gloomy face, the bridge of his nose was hooked, an ear stud was attached to his ear, and there was an inch of his side face. Long scars.

He had a badge pinned to his black trench coat that read "Iron-blooded Team".

"What is the Jagged Team?" Akka asked.

The Tsar pulled up his collar uncomfortably and covered the badge with his arm.

"Name." The Tsar said coldly.

Akka frowned and replied, "My name is Akka, his name is..."

"I know his name is Percy." Tsar said.

"I heard your voice," said Percy softly. "It's in the Yuanneng Power Store."

Akka suddenly remembered that in the morning when he took Pesie to find a job, the clone shop that threatened him to be careful to be taken to sell organs seemed to have this person, but he was not wearing a trench coat.

"I can't see it, but I know it in my heart." The Tsar threw away the cigarette butt, "Are you the son of Philo's bastard?"

Pei Xi stopped and said displeasedly, "You speak ill of my father, I won't go with you."

The Tsar smiled slyly, looked at Pixi from under his hat, and said, "You are petty and have a big temper. Forget it, if I didn't say it."

Only then did Akka and Peyce continue to follow the man. In the dark alley at night, water dripped from the eaves, and a light was on in front of a back door in the alley. The Tsar pushed open the door, walked in, and said, "For Fei Luo's sake, I'll take you in."

"I don't have to be taken in," Akka said. "I can work."

The Tsar turned on the light, and the dim light illuminated the interior of the room. Akka was surprised to find that this was a weapon repair shop, which was great!

"I'll work for you!" Akka said happily, "Just let us eat and live!"

"Can you do it? Don't break my things," the Tsar took off his hat, looked at Akka suspiciously, began to take off his trench coat, and asked again, "Do you understand firearms?"

Akka asked Pai to sit down, went to the counter to look at the Tsar's firearms, took out one, tried to push and pull, made mechanical noises, and acted proficiently and professionally. The Tsar glanced at Akka and nodded.

"It's all old equipment," Akka said.

"A medieval knife can kill people just as well," the tsar said casually, "harvesting life has nothing to do with age."

Akka was keenly aware that the man in front of him might be a killer, and no matter how bad it was, he was someone who often used firearms, with bullet marks and scars on his wrists. The tsar said again: "Sleep behind the counter. Children can go down the stairs to sleep. Starting tomorrow, help me watch the store."

Akka finally found a place to live. Although it is not the same as what he imagined, as long as there is a place to stay, it is the best thing at present. That night, the Tsar threw them two quilts. The quilt smelled damp and musty. Akka spread it on the ground and smiled at Pixi, "Good night, Pixi."

"Well, Akka, good night."

Akara turned on the light, and the room was plunged into darkness, except for the sound of the tsar snoring one after another upstairs.

Just in the middle of the night, in the quiet corner, the transmitter suddenly rang.

Akka immediately found Peyce's transmitter from the bag, connected the data cable, and a line of words appeared on the screen.

This is a decoder he assembled with simple parts on hand. Although the frequency band is unstable, it can barely receive some information.

Percy, I'm Blackrock, and I'm looking for Akka.

Akka immediately lowered his head to enter the message.

I'm Akka, Blackstone, what's the matter?

There was no response there, Akka continued to type a line.

Blackstone, do you have sound recording equipment there? I'll see if I can talk on the radio band of the transmitter.

Blackstone's news is back.

Not necessarily.

Akka was puzzled.

What's wrong?

Akka found the intercom device and connected it to the small transmitter, and started to tune the frequency. There was dead silence in the earphone.

Akka whispered: "Blackstone? Where are you? Can you hear it?"

Akka said to himself, "Is there something wrong with the headphones? Blackstone... eh?"

"I heard." Black Stone said over there.

Akka laughed, retracted into the bed, and asked, "Where are you?"

Heishi said: "Still in the Eastern Continent."

Akka asked again, "When will you be back?"

Hei Shi did not speak, he sat on the dark shore, watching the rolling waves, the breeze blew, with a little salty taste.

"Do you remember the day you picked me up?" Heishi asked.

"What's wrong?" Akka felt that this question was a bit inexplicable, and he didn't know why Hei Shi suddenly contacted him in the middle of the night.

"It's nothing," Heishi whispered, "Suddenly I have a strange feeling, so I want to chat with you."

Akka's smile softened, he lay on the quilt, resting on his side, and asked in a low voice, "How do you feel?"

"I can't tell." Hei Shi replied, looking into the distance.

Akka murmured, "Why do you feel this way?"

"My father." Blackstone replied.

"'Father'?" Akka frowned.

"Not 'father', but... the one who made me." Blackstone said, "My father."

Akka moved in his heart and asked, "Do you remember your life experience?"

Blackstone didn't answer, and Akka asked, "Who created you?"

"Why did you save me?" Blackstone asked.

Akka remembered the day he discovered Blackstone and said, "No... why not, I saw you on the beach, so... By the way, your temper is much better, what happened?"

"I have a bad temper?" Blackstone asked.

"I still remember the first day I saw you." Akka laughed. "You almost strangled me, and you were very impatient with me."

"Hormone." Blackstone said in a low voice, "Memory disorder, the effect of recognizing the master's thinking, and the conflict with aggressive behavior."

"What do you mean?" Akka asked.

Blackstone avoided the topic and asked, "Why did you stand up when the mechanical guard was about to kill me that day?"

Akka said: "I found you, I can't just let you die, because my conscience can't handle it, what's wrong?"

"Nothing." Black Stone said.

Akka said: "Have you found a clue about your father? Who is the father?"

Heishi said: "He has no name and has already left here."

There was silence in the communicator, and Heishi said, "My master is gone."

Akka understood Blackstone's feeling at that moment. He had something on his mind, but no one could tell him. Maybe he was confused. And after so long of confusion, I can't stand it anymore, and I need to find someone to speak out.

Akka whispered: "The feeling in your heart is called loneliness."

"Really?" Hei Shi said indifferently, "This feeling is very strange, I just want to find someone to sit with."

"Where's Philo?" Akka asked.

Blackstone replied, "He's not here."

Akka asked, "When are you coming back?"

Heishi said: "As soon as possible."

Akka: "Will you come and live with us?"

"Life?" Blackstone repeated.

Akka said: "We have found a place to stay, in the shop of a man named Tsar."

Blackstone: "The Tsar..."

Blackstone seemed to be thinking and said, "Do you know the chairman of the Mercenary Association, Grizzly?"

Akka said blankly, "Who is that? Your friend?"

Blackstone: "Fei Luo helped me get in touch, tell me about your current situation."

Akka whispered their story in the bed, and the black stone over there didn't say a word for a long time, just listened quietly, until Akka spoke for nearly ten minutes, when they arrived at the Tsar's repair shop, He was about to fall asleep and asked, "Black Stone?"

"I'm listening." Blackstone replied.

Akka said "um", and Blackstone heard Akka's tiredness and said, "I'll be back soon. Before I come back, try to stay there as much as possible."

"Okay." Akka said, "Blackstone, pay attention to safety and don't do anything dangerous."

Blackstone cut off the communication, and Akka gradually fell asleep amid the rustling sound of electricity.

From the next day, Akka temporarily accepted the job. The Tsar's shop repaired equipment for the mercenaries in the old city, and also operated firearms reselling, most of which were black guns obtained from nowhere. Akka's job is to refurbish them, do some tweaking, and sell them.

Akka modified some electromagnetic weapons based on what he had learned in the city of machinery, which made the tsar very satisfied. When the three of them sat together to eat in the morning, the Tsar wore a dirty white shirt, rolled up his sleeves, made three tomato soups, put down a large basket of bread, and the starving Pixi and Akka devoured them.

"I don't see that you still maintain firearms." Tsar said.

"I have learned some things in the kingdom of the 'Father' before." Akka said, "but unless necessary, I rarely touch them."

The Tsar said: "I didn't steal one from the City of Steel, so I defended myself?"

Akka shook his head, the weapons in the City of Steel made a deep memory for him. Mechanical lifeforms use weapons made by humans, and then slaughter humans, which made him have a natural resistance to firearms since he was a child. But since he stayed in the Tsar's shop, it was a job, so he had to do it well, otherwise neither he nor Percy would have food.

Since that night on the ship, Akka was surprised to find that his ability to perceive the outside world seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes. In the past, when I was working without distractions, my attention was only focused on the mechanical device, but now, as soon as I enter the state of self-absorbed work, my perception ability seems to be extended consciously.

It was a very indescribable feeling. A machine gun in his hand, including the scope, handle, barrel and other parts, was instantly decomposed into order and clear by his thoughts. Just like in the boundless sea, when the lightning flashes, the principle of the world is clearly presented in front of him. The foundations of all constructions and operations have a mysterious inner generality.

In a daze, Akka loaded the gun and placed it on the counter.

"That's it?" the mercenary said, "This Storm Eagle can't even be repaired by the precision instrument shop in the East District!"

"Okay," Akka nodded, "There is a problem with the positioning trigger..."

The mercenary said, "Have you seen the blueprint?"

Akka said impatiently: "No, don't you want to repair the gun? It has been repaired, what's the problem?!"

The mercenary tried it and found that it was as good as ever, but he didn't load the bullet. He said to the tsar in surprise: "Hey, buddy, this kid..."

"Storm Eagle?" The Tsar, who was sitting on the side smoking and playing cards, got up, walked over, took the firearm, glanced at it, and said, "Well, the manufacturer has closed down, how did you fix it?"

"I..." Akka was a little disturbed, looking at the tsar, and said, "Structure, find the problem with the structure, it's easy to deal with."

"This kid is very smart." The Tsar laughed, returned the gun to the mercenary, and patted him on the shoulder.

The mercenary could hardly believe that this gun had been abandoned for many years, and it could neither be repaired nor returned to the factory. At first, he just wanted to use it as scrap iron for some money. After a few uses, the gun was repaired!

"Twenty-five gold coins," Akka said.

The mercenaries rushed to pay.

Akka glanced at the tsar sitting in the corner, the tsar just smiled to himself, Akka secretly wondered if the tsar could see his ability, but whether he saw it or not, Akka felt that he couldn't talk too much . There is also Percy's dream - Akka tried to communicate with Percy several times, but couldn't come up with a result, so she had to put it on hold for the time being.

As time passed, Akka and Percy worked in the Tsar's shop for nearly a week. At first, the customers who came to the store were all mercenaries with fierce faces and vicious faces, but they were a little surprised to see Akka and Pai Xi. Their attitude towards Akka was not very good, but they were very polite to Piecy, and they would give Piecy a tip before leaving.

Akka took all the money, and the tsar also paid Akka a little bit according to the turnover every day, and Akka handed all the money to Paisi for him to manage.

The two basically didn't use the money, Akka couldn't help but think of his former treasure, Robot K, while repairing the firearms for the Tsar. At that time, he worked very hard to save parts every day, and finally all of them were gone. From here, Akka thought of the robot that suddenly appeared in front of him when he and Blackstone escaped from the City of Steel that day.

Who controls K? While thinking, Akka handled the repeating machine gun in his hand. After a few repairs, he thought of the Black Stone who escaped with them. Blackstone doesn't know how his life is now, is there any danger?

In the evening, he planned to ask Pai Xi to contact Fei Luo and ask about Blackstone's situation.

It's very cold outside today, and the door is closed by heavy snow. The snow in Phoenix City has a pungent smell of sulfur. The snowflakes that fall to the ground are all gray, and the contaminated snow piles up in front of the door. Akka assembled a small autonomous snowplow robot to clear snow outside the door.

In Phoenix, private research on robots is prohibited. But the boundaries are very blurred. Humans and clones cannot live without mechanical devices. Most of the mechanical bodies that can operate by themselves, the rebel patrols will turn a blind eye.

Akka had nothing to do, so he used the discarded parts in the Tsar's shop to assemble something by himself. If possible, he still wants to make another K. Now it is not for escaping, nor does he need to fight, but the innate yearning for steel and machinery makes him unable to bear these thoughts. Making a robot is like playing with building blocks, it is ever-changing and full of fun, especially when the device made by oneself moves, there is a kind of joy and joy of the creator...

While thinking about this, the bell outside the front door rang.

"It's closed," Akka said. "Come back tomorrow."

The door was pushed open, and a tall man walked in, like a mountain, wearing a military hat of the rebel army, looking down at Akka.

"Where's the Tsar?" When his voice sounded, the whole shop was shaking, and Piecy, who was peeling potatoes in the kitchen, was taken aback, and the cups and plates rattled.

"He..." Akka looked at the man nervously, feeling like he was talking to a giant Ancaros bear. He pointed to the inside and said, "Inside."

"Oh, Grizzly," the Tsar leaned against the door with a glass of whisky and a cigarette in his mouth, "welcome, I thought you were dead in the City of Steel."

Akka frowned slightly, and when he heard the long-lost place name, he couldn't help but glance at the man named Grizzly. Grizzly said: "This damn winter will never end, I'm really fed up!"

Grizzly took off his military coat and threw it down the stairs, landing on Percy's bed, so muscular that he almost burst his shirt. This is the first time Akka has seen such a burly and majestic man, with a height of 190 centimeters, even a strong Black Stone, standing in front of him pales in comparison. A grizzly bear is as burly as two adult men.

Grizzly took a gulp of whiskey and choked red: "A non-party person joined the secret operation team, you don't know what they found in the ancient heart! Although the revolution failed, but according to the information provided by the man," The Father's reign is coming to an end! That man...they call him the 'Savior' and think he is the key to the end of the 'Father' left by the ancient gods, who is in the heart of the ancients..."

Akka couldn't help but craned his neck and listened curiously to the conversation between Grizzly and the Tsar. The door of the room was open, and the Tsar looked out, just in time to see Akka's expression.

"Tsar, can I use your magnet to weld the coil?" Akka asked a little embarrassedly.

"As you wish," the Tsar said lazily. "But don't try your new weapon in my shop. Take it to the river behind the alley if you want it."

Akka nodded and began to assemble his robotic arm, and when he wanted to eavesdrop on something, the tsar went to the door and closed the door, Akka could no longer hear their conversation.

Akka always felt that the atmosphere was a bit wrong recently. The Tsar no longer went out, and the inspection outside gradually became stricter. Early one morning, a mercenary came and said, "Hey, boy, is that kid in Lane 16 your younger brother? He was detained by the guards."

Akka immediately put down the work at hand and went out, and found that there were many more sentries on the street. Peyce raised his head in confusion, holding an electronic crutch for the blind, and a bag of bread in the other.

Akka said: "He is my brother!"

"Don't walk around outside." The clone sentinel glanced at him, returned the bread to Percy, took another epaulette, and asked, "Who gave it to you?"

"My dad," Pasey replied.

The epaulette that Philo gave him has been kept in his close pocket, and the clone sentinel laughed: "Interesting. Are you the son of a clone?"

"Let's go." Akka looked at the sentinel vigilantly and took Pei Xi's hand back. The sentinel said: "General Maxey will be back for inspection in a few days. If you don't want to cause trouble, just stay at home for me and don't go anywhere."

"What happened outside?" Akka asked the Tsar when he returned.

The tsar was lying in a chair with his booted feet on the round table, his hat covering his face, and from under the fedora came a voice: "Maxie is here for a parade, a speech, a pre-war mobilization..."

"Is he the one in power here?" Akka said.

"One of the three in power." The Tsar said lazily, "The clone regime wants to counterattack, mobilize everyone, and attack the city of machines."

Akka said: "I only failed once."

The Tsar said: "People in Phoenix City are panicking. At times like this, we always have to find something to do."

Akka didn't ask any more questions. At night, the tsar hummed the rebel army song "Black Earth", which Akka had heard Philo sing several times. The whole city was under curfew, the lights went out early, and the room was dark. After Akka fell asleep, he heard a knock on the door and got up sleepily, but Pixi groped to open the door first.

"Who?" Akka asked.

The Tsar seemed to have been waiting and said, "Come in."

The man put an object on the counter in the dark, went straight into the Tsar's reception room, and closed the door. Akka turned on the light and saw a long-range sniper rifle on the counter.

He began to debug the guests, thinking that they were probably some friends of the Tsar, and looked around curiously, wondering if the guests brought news from the mainland. But the tsar shut the door so tightly that nothing could be heard. Akka didn't sleep well that night, and with the interruption from the grizzly bear's visit last night, Akka has not slept well for two consecutive nights. The next morning, at dawn, he was awakened by the noise outside.

People passed the streets in droves, cheering loudly because the leader of the resistance was about to arrive. Akka opened the window and looked out. The streets and alleys were crowded with people, all walking towards the square. Someone with flowers, someone with food, scrambled to the plaza, waiting for the legendary figure to arrive in Phoenix.

Phoenix has never been so crowded as it is today, celebrating a big holiday.

The sound of fireworks was deafening, Akka closed the doors and windows, and the first thing he did was to see the guests who came last night.

The guest was away, and the tsar was still sleeping, and Pixi said, "Are you looking for the man who came yesterday? He brought us something to eat."

There was a box of fresh fruit on the table with water droplets on it. Pesci said, "He got up this morning, after washing the fruit, he told us to eat it and went up to the rooftop."

Akka went up the stairs to look at him, only to find that the door to the roof was locked. Akka knocked on the door and said, "Are you outside?"

The man in the trench coat put the sniper rifle on the railing, wiped the lenses, and glanced back at the locked rooftop door, but didn't answer.

Akka: "Thank you for the fruit, come down for breakfast."

The people on the rooftop remained silent. Akka waited for a while, but got no response, thinking that all the people who came to the Tsar were weirdos, so he ignored him.

Akka and Percy were having breakfast when they heard the singing outside, forming a torrent.

"Unyielding souls, we will eventually return to our homeland..."

"Heroes of destiny, lead us forward..."

"The future is at your feet..."

The town was ignited with enthusiasm, and although Akka was not interested in the rebels and their affairs, it was inevitable that he was also overwhelmed by this emotion. Pai Xi said, "Can I go out and have a look?"

"No." Akka replied without thinking.

A moment later, someone knocked on the door again, the door banged open, and the grizzly appeared at the door.

"Here's Maxie," Grizzly said. "You don't want to go out and see?"

The Tsar said lazily: "Oh no, there are two children at home, but you can take them with you."

Grizzly smiled and asked, "Are you going?"

Pei Xi looked at Akka, Akka didn't want to go, his robotic arm was not assembled yet, the Tsar said, "Pesie, you can follow the grizzly bear, he will protect your safety."

Akka looked at the grizzly and finally said, "Go, come back early."

The Grizzly came over and took Pei Xi's hand and took him out. The Tsar said, "The Grizzly once destroyed a base with his bare hands. Don't worry about your brother."

"Rather than worrying about whether he can protect Percy," Akka said, "I'm more worried about whether he will do anything to Percy."

The Tsar laughed and said, "He doesn't like children, you can rest assured. Now that your bodyguards are here, no one needs to be afraid."

"What?" Akka asked inexplicably.

After breakfast, the Tsar did not answer Akka's words, so he went back to his room and sat down, still lying in his chair, covering his face with his hat, and turning on the radio, which broadcasted the news about General Maxey's tour.

Akka was behind the counter, debugging his robotic arm. He assembled a robotic arm with scraps from the Tsar's shop, held it in his hand, made a "quack" sound when moving, and added A flare gun.

What are the guests above doing? He went up to the rooftop in the morning and never came down.

Akka opened the window and looked out, and saw that the square in front of the station was full of people. The crowd stretched as far as the eye could see. Akka had never seen so many people. They poured in from all directions, as if to witness a historic moment with their own eyes. In the center of the square is the steam station leading to the south. The railway tracks are laid here, as if leading to the barren land of the world, no longer advancing an inch.

The big clock pointed to 9:50, a steam train arrived at Shakespeare, and the crowd boiled when the carriage doors opened.

"Maxie—"

"Maxie, here you are!"

Countless people shouted Maxie's name, and several resistance officers left the carriage, followed by a short middle-aged man.

Akka couldn't help but walked out of the house and climbed up the roof along the ladder outside. Not far away was the rooftop. He saw the man's long black trench coat, his hands in his pockets, quietly in the corner of the rooftop, looking into the distance .

"Hey!" Akka yelled at him.

The man was about the same height as Blackstone and wore a pair of earplugs, and Akka bet he heard it, but didn't look back. Akka stood on tiptoe and looked at the square. He knew that many people in Phoenix were looking forward to Maxie's arrival, and his deeds were widely read among the rebels. The news on the radio said he was involved in that battle too, and single-handedly destroyed two large Annihilators.

He came with orders from the fallen General Liebul to unite the northern resistance forces and lead them into a united front, and now he was back in Phoenix. Human beings are about to start a revolution here and regain their homeland.

The singing of "Black Earth" was loud and ear-piercing, and then gradually faded, and Maxie spoke.

"Today is a historic moment," Maxey said.

With a deep voice, Maxey took off his hat and said: "We have suffered the most painful blow ever, at the cost of the lives of countless soldiers, weakening the majesty of the 'Father' for us, but it is not enough! We will unite… "

Daylight was pale and thin, and it fell silently on every building in Phoenix. On the roof of the machine repair shop, Black Stone bit a bullet, set up his sniper rifle, and faced the podium where Maxie was standing in the center of the square.

He put on an infrared sight and stared at Maxie who was waving excitedly from 400 meters away. He was waving a marshal's military cap to arouse people's enthusiasm.

Seconds later, the killer pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

Like a giant slamming a hammer on the ground, the whole world is shaking.

At that moment, the passage of time seemed to be incomparably slow, Maxie's great head burst open, and blood splashed. In the daylight, Maxie's brains gleamed with chips.

The people in the entire square were stunned. The shock was so great that for nearly five seconds, no one could speak, and watched the headless body of Maxie fall to the ground and roll off the stage.

The gunshots that shook the city left one person dead, but another woke up.

Inside the repair shop, the Tsar was instantly awakened by the sound of gunfire and sat up suddenly.

Outside the store, Akka instantly realized a burst of horror, and he hurriedly jumped down and rushed back into the store. I was colliding with the rushing tsar!

"What did that bastard do!" The Tsar roared, grabbing Akka's collar.

"I don't know!" Akka pushed the Tsar away and shouted, "I just heard the gunshots just now!"

"Damn it!" The Tsar rushed to the roof, kicked the door angrily, and shouted, "You open the door for me! Damn it! What have you done!"

However, the iron door was tightly closed, and the Tsar tried his best to be unable to open it. At this moment, Akara grabbed him, pushed him aside, put on the mechanical arm, and fired a shot against the door.

With a loud bang, the cannon blasted the entire rooftop door. The tsar and Akka rushed to the rooftop and saw the corners of the flying windbreaker, the figure with the sniper jumping out of the railing and jumping down the alley, and his gesture of raising his hand, putting his two fingers together, and waving gently towards Akka. .

At that moment, the blood in Akka's body suddenly solidified.

"Black Rock—" Akka roared as he rushed to the railing.

It was then that Hei Shi jumped down the alley behind the repair shop, raised his head and glanced at Akka when he landed, then ran and disappeared at the end of the alley.

Akka also flipped down, fell on an oil drum, landed on the ground again, rolled in a circle, dizzy, got up and ran after Heishi, shouting: "Wait!"

Maxie's death caused uncontrollable chaos. After nearly 100,000 people in the square recovered their senses, they all uttered unintelligible shouts, mixed with anger, sadness and even despair. Many people rushed to the stage to see his body, and the guards fired warning shots. People rioted, and 100,000 people trampled on each other and crowded the stands.

Akavanwan did not expect such a thing to happen, he chased out of the alley and saw the figure of Black Stone. There was chaos everywhere. Blackstone was running too fast. The patrol planes all over the sky finally found Blackstone, and the clone police began to outflank and intercept the fleeing Blackstone.

Akka took out a monocle locator from his arms and wore it in front of his left eye. He dragged his robotic arm and rushed across the long street. There were soldiers chasing Blackstone and evacuating people everywhere. There was a complete riot in Phoenix, and the rebels began to suppress .

How is this going? Where Akka passed by, he found that many people started a gun battle with the rebels, and most of them were mercenaries!

This desire for destruction spread among the crowd, and some people began to smash glass windows and buildings. In this short half hour, Akka witnessed how history completed its transformation at a critical moment, and how fate forcibly changed the life trajectory of 100,000, 1,000,000 or even 10,000,000 people.

With a roar, two security mechas controlled by clones chased Blackstone away, and the defense facilities rotating in the sky issued a warning.

"Quickly evacuate, ten seconds later, the sixth block begins to block..."

"nineteen… "

Blackstone was running on the road ahead, but realizing the danger, he turned to the side, there was a loud "bang", and two annihilation mechas blocked in front of him. He flicked the sniper rifle in his hand, and in a short while, the sniper rifle automatically disintegrated, reassembled, became a magnetic cannon, and slammed against the mecha.

In the thunder light, the mechanical body lost its mobility, but after so few seconds, Akka had caught up from behind. At this moment, the encirclement of the entire block has also drawn together, and thousands of clone troopers, armed with firearms, rushed towards Black Rock.

Blackstone turned his head and glanced around. The defensive satellites on the zenith had counted down to "one", and then, a laser shot quickly. It was too late to speak, but Akka had already rushed to the intersection, bowed and knelt on one knee, raised the robotic arm with his left hand, put his right hand behind his back, pulled out the rocket propeller behind the heel of his boot, and stomped on the ground.

In a short time, Akka flew to Blackstone, and the mechanical arm was full of firepower, clearing a path! Black Stone immediately stretched out his hand, the two of them hooked their arms, Black Stone jumped up on the ground, turned over beautifully in mid-air, hugged Akka, and the two rushed into a building like cannonballs!

With a loud "bang bang bang bang", Akka and Blackstone hugged tightly. Akka used the robotic arm to protect the heads of the two and rushed into the glass building, not knowing how many things were crashed, and rushed out from the other side, dazedly unable to discern the direction. Blackstone held Akka and rushed into a basement.

"I will walk by myself..." Akka said.

Blackstone took Akka's hand, and the two ran in the underground parking lot, found the next passage, and got in.

After half an hour, they finally got rid of all the pursuers. Akka lay in the sewer gasping for breath, he felt shot, and in the flank. Gotta get the bullet out asap.

He reached out and touched his ribs, his hands were wet and greasy and covered in blood. But Blackstone didn't know it yet, so he pulled up his jacket and covered the wound.

Black Stone stood tall, standing at the intersection of the sewage pipes, frowning deeply.

"How long are you going to rest?" Blackstone asked impatiently.

"Can you have some conscience!" Akka was instantly furious and said angrily.

Blackstone looked at Akka, who asked inexplicably, "What? Am I weird?"

"Why did you chase it out?" Blackstone asked.

Akka said angrily: "I'm worried about you, why didn't you say hello to me when you came back? You brought the fruit that you gave me and Pixi yesterday? I wonder who will give us something delicious."

Hei Shi casually said "um", his eyebrows seemed to be a little anxious. Akka turned over and struggled, holding the wall of the sewer, walking deep and shallow. Hei Shi was immediately alert and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go on your own." Akka said with anger and sadness, "Don't worry about me."

"It's dangerous outside!" Blackstone chased after him.

Akka finally broke out, turned around and pressed the mechanical arm against Hei Shi's chest, and roared: "Why did you stay! Why did you come back! You didn't tell me anything! I really regarded you as a friend, so I chased you regardless of my life. Come out and save you! What do you think of me!"

Blackstone was startled, Akka was like an angry fighting cock, staring at Blackstone and gasping for breath.

"Is that so?" Blackstone seemed to be amused, "Are you angry?"

"Let's bluff me with what you don't understand about human emotions!" Akka said angrily, "Go away!"

"Wait." Blackstone walked behind Akka and said after thinking for a long time, "I don't want to involve you in this matter."

Akka said: "Go go go! I don't want to hear it!"

Akka walked to the vent, stood for a while, and used the mechanical arm to dismantle the fence in front of the vent, but Hei Shi told him to avoid it and slammed the fence with a fist, making a loud bang.

"Follow me." Blackstone removed the fence and climbed up with Akka's hand.

This is a vast underground space, where many sewers in Phoenix converge. Akka limped in front, clutching his lower abdomen, his feet were covered in blood, and he couldn't stop dizzy before his eyes.

Blackstone finally found out about Akka's abnormality, and immediately said, "What happened? You were shot?! Why didn't you tell me!"

Akka broke away from the black stone, but the black stone rushed forward, hugged him tightly, and shouted: "Don't move! Let me see!"

Akka was bleeding and dizzy, and Blackstone hurriedly flattened him, took off his coat and put it on the ground, let Akka lie down, and uncovered his shirt. The bullet hole was not big, so Black Stone shook his weapon, and with a "sho" sound, the weapon seemed to have life, and it automatically shrank to become a sharp pair of tweezers.

Akka said: "Then... what is that?"

Blackstone didn't answer, he lowered his head to take out the warhead for Akka, Akka screamed in pain, and Heishi said nervously, "Don't move!"

Akka couldn't stop twitching, and Black Stone took out the warhead and threw it on the ground. With a bang, he took off his shirt and pressed it on Akka's abdomen.

"There is no medicine, we have to hurry up..." Hei Shi was at a loss. Akka saw that Hei Shi was so nervous, he just felt very amused and said, "It's okay, I can't die."

Blackstone suddenly hugged Akka, and the force was so strong that Akka hurt. Akka was a little surprised at first, but Blackstone was shaking all over.

"sorry Sorry… "

Akka couldn't believe that these words could come out of Blackstone's mouth.

"What did you say?" Akka seemed to hear a joke.

Hei Shi also noticed that he was a little excited, so he sighed and said, "I'll carry you. I have to go out to find medicine as soon as possible to avoid infection of the wound."

Saying that, Blackstone couldn't allow Akka to refute, so he carried him on his back. Akka was completely exhausted, lying on Black Stone's back like a dead dog.

"You made the weapon yourself?" Blackstone asked suddenly.

"Yeah." Akka was carried by Blackstone, and his footsteps were very firm, which made him feel very comfortable. He turned his head sideways and looked at the dark and deep sewer, as if he had returned to the day when he and Black Stone escaped from the City of Machines.

"What about yours?" Akka muttered. "Where did your weapon come from?"

"I found it in the ruins of the creator," Blackstone replied. "An ancient weapon that can be controlled by thought."

Akka is very interested in this, but he is not in the mood to study it now, so he decides to borrow it from Blackstone when he goes back. He asked again, "What are the ruins of the creator?"

"The place where everything was born," Blackstone said as he walked. "Before the Golden Age, the center of the world. At that time, the Creator created the world."

"Do you remember the past?" Akka asked again.

Heishi said: "I only remembered part of it."

"Your world is called an astrolabe, and it is a world controlled by a preset program." Blackstone explained, "The center that controls the astrolabe world is buried underground, and no one can find it. It is called a 'nuclear'."

Akka: "I... don't quite understand, this seems to be different from what the history books say?"

Blackstone explained: "You can imagine that the world is a huge ecological spaceship, which came from the depths of the universe on an ancient day and stopped in this space for the purpose of studying the origin of life and searching for the space between the universe and the universe. some microscopic laws.”

Akka: "!"

Blackstone: "So after tens of thousands of years, this ecological spaceship has finally become what you see now. The pre-written program regulates and controls the laws of the entire world through the energy underground in the astrolabe, such as earthquakes, Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, hurricanes…”

"The creator did some research and left the astrolabe, an ecological petri dish, and left here. Humans evolved and developed freely. Five thousand years ago, a group of adventurers discovered the laboratory of the ancient heart. , and took some technology from it, including the technology to create clones, and computer technology. In the depths of the Eastern Continent, they copied another laboratory and created the 'Father'."

Akka vaguely felt that the black stone that appeared in front of him might be the key to unlocking all this. He held his breath, not daring to interrupt Blackstone's words. After a long silence, Blackstone said again: "The original role of 'Father' is a mechanical monitoring body in the world where the Creator resides. It reports all experimental data to the Creator and stops experiments that exceed expectations in time."

"Later, the creators felt that the 'Father''s judgment basis was too rigid to retain the data they wanted, so they did not use it in our world. But the adventurers did not know this past, but built a Self-conscious 'Father.' After awakening, the 'Father' continues to extend the ego, docking with the nucleus of the astrolabe, and at the same time proceeding to clear the out-of-control portion of this petri dish."

"So the 'Father' and the clones rebelled, which is the city of machinery you see now. Now, the 'Father' is preparing to make the final docking with the 'Nuclear', and stop this experiment that has lasted for tens of thousands of years, prepare Clear the experimental data to zero and start over."

Akka said, "What about the Creator?"

"They have disappeared," Blackstone said, "leaving the communication range of the 'Father', the 'Father' cannot contact them, but according to its own procedures, it will end the entire experiment, stop all activities of the astrolabe, and shut down to save energy."

"That is to say..." Akka was suddenly terrified.

"In the near future," Heishi said, "after the intelligent life that the world has nurtured is eliminated, the astrolabe will stop all energy supply, and the ground will become a wasteland covered with sand and gravel, becoming a dead world, waiting for the return of the creator."

"When?" Akka whispered.

"Soon, Fei Luo is going to investigate this countdown, it's not more than a year," Blackstone said indifferently, "but before the creator left this world, they also left an emergency system. This system has the priority to decide whether to suspend the experiment or not. But its level is not higher than the 'Father', I don't know when it issues an order to the astrolabe core, whether the core executes the emergency system's order or the 'Father' order."

"Where is the key?" Akka asked.

Blackstone turned his head sideways and glanced at Akka. Akka thought for a long time, and then said: "What conditions do you need to make the emergency system work?"

"Approach the nucleus of the astrolabe, and give instructions to it. The nucleus itself has no mind, just a storage of energy, and a terminal for executing commands. The only access, just below the 'Father''s tower, has been connected by its computer leads already."

Akka said: "You can try, but this emergency system..."

Akka suddenly remembered something, his breathing stopped suddenly, and he asked, "Is it that chip? Who else knows about this?"

"That chip just records the adventurers' exploration of this matter, and retains the password to enter the nucleus." Blackstone said, "The old man you found under the City of Steel was one of the adventurers who entered the ancient heart. "

"Then why..." Akka remembered Blackstone's assassination.

"There are only four people who know about this," Blackstone said. "You, me, the dead Liebull, and General Maxie. The 'Father' discovered their plan, sent robots, and killed the first Maxie, And made another clone of him, mixed in Phoenix, mobilized legions, launched wars, sent thousands of clones to the city of steel, and then set traps and killed everyone."

"But General Libull didn't know why he discovered the problem," Blackstone said. "Unfortunately, it was too late. He only knew very little about the 'nuclear' secret, and he sacrificed it in the end."

"Now I have killed Maxi as a spy," Blackstone continued. "Next, they will take back control of the upper echelons of Phoenix City. If it goes well, and find the emergency system, there is a 50% chance that the 'Father' will be taken back. Shut down and restart the horoscope."

"Restart the astrolabe, what will happen?" Akka asked.

"It will restore the environment of the golden age," Blackstone said, "release ion energy, give birth to plants on the earth, purify the pollution you have caused to the world over the years, and make the environment and climate more suitable for each species to live in. Do you think it is necessary ?"

Akka once read in books that the world of the Golden Age was a vast green land.

"I like a world like that," Akka said, "like an ecoregion."

"But in a few thousand years, even hundreds of years," Blackstone said, "Humans will still destroy it."

"I won't." Akka whispered, "but I can only represent myself."

Blackstone asked, "Do you really like it?"

"Of course," Akka whispered, "don't you like a world where everything grows in the wind and the sun?"

Blackstone seemed to be thinking about something, so he stopped talking, and Akka said, "Thank you for believing in me."

"I just don't want you to get involved in such a complicated matter." Heishi said solemnly.

Akka said: "I am willing, I am willing to help you."

Blackstone said, "I don't intend to do this."

Akka smiled and said, "If you didn't plan to do this, you wouldn't come to Phoenix."

Blackstone stopped talking, and Akka said, "I see, now, look, wouldn't it be nice? You should tell me something."

"Don't tell anyone about this." Blackstone reminded in a low voice.

Akka knew the seriousness of the incident would cause everyone to panic, especially if the emergency system had not yet been found.

"Anyway," Akka murmured, "there will always be hope."

Heishi finally came to the exit of the sewer, pushed open the iron gate, and a golden sunset shone outside. Akka was stunned, the whole city seemed to be bombarded with smoke, and many places were in ruins.

It was an uphill battle, with clones and humans fighting to the death in Phoenix. Akka didn't realize that the scale of the civil unrest broke out when he didn't know it. Blackstone carried him to the Xicheng District, where the mercenaries were inspecting the incoming human residents.

"What's the matter!" someone shouted.

"Are we going to split up?!" Another mercenary roared, "I've endured those clones for too long! I'll beat them to death!"

The human remnants in the barbed wire responded with a thousand responses, and it was only then that Akka realized that the contradiction between clones and humans was so deep. The racial divide cannot be eliminated at all. Humans in the entire Western District are clamoring to snatch back their resources and oust the last clone ruler, Admiral Angus.

"Who is it?" The mercenary guarded the post in the West District, checking Blackstone.

Blackstone carried Akka on his back and said, "The chest pocket."

Akka took out a card from Blackstone's pocket, the man glanced at it, and immediately said, "Come in, it's too unsafe here!"

Blackstone took Akka into the streets of the West Side, and half of Phoenix has become an area occupied by humans. In front of the highest fifty-two-story building, the mercenary association organization opened its doors, and many people came in and out. Blackstone took Akka in. After coming to Phoenix, Akka was the first time he set foot here.

Blackstone put down Akka, let him sit, and went to look for medicine. Immediately someone discovered him, and several mercenaries surrounded him, asking questions. Blackstone gave Akka a shot of antibiotics to prevent infection, fed him a fast-healing capsule, and had to carry him on his back, Akka said, "I can walk by myself."

"Follow me." Blackstone took Akka into the elevator, went up to the third floor, entered an empty conference room, and said, "You just rest here."

Only then did Akka lie down tiredly. His lower abdomen was aching and itchy, and he could feel that the wound was gradually healing.

Soon after, footsteps woke him up.

"Who is this little boy?" a low voice asked. "Your companion?"

"Comrade-in-arms," ​​Blackstone replied, "My own."

Akka opened his eyes and saw a lot of people in the conference room, Blackstone and an unknown red-haired man, a grizzly bear, a czar, a man in a hat, and a woman in a wheelchair.

"Your brother is very safe, don't worry." The Tsar said lazily.

Akka was relieved when he heard about Pei Xi's situation.

"Let me introduce you," Grizzly said, "I am the president of the Phoenix Mercenary Association."

Akka: "…"

The tsar put his legs crossed, his polished riding boots on the conference table, and said lazily, "I think this kid may have been petrified by us."

Akka: "You... don't you run a weapon shop?!"

"The owner of the weapons store is just his part-time job," the woman explained with a gentle smile. "The Tsar is our little trump card, responsible for delivering intelligence and news of the clone regime in his shop. I'm Lilith, the secretary."

The man in the hat took off his hat, revealing a bald head full of scars, and said politely: "The leader of the mercenary association, Jean Marx."

The red-haired man in a coat held a silver gun in his hand, swirled it, pressed it on the conference table, and said with a smile, "Gelbu, the leader of the gunmen."

On the way to Phoenix, Akka heard a lot of rumors about the coexistence of humans and clones in this city. On the surface, the clones control all the regimes, but in fact the human group sneaks underground and operates secretly. They are more cunning than clones, and better at hiding themselves.

In fact, after several bloody battles with the Iron Legion, in this year, there are not many human beings left, but because of this, most of the survivors are elites. They seem to live in different corners of the city and are content with the status quo, but in fact they are all soldiers and can fight with arms.

"The Mercenary Association is the current underground regime of human beings," Grizzly said solemnly, "As long as they are human beings surviving in Phoenix City, they will accept our dispatch."

Blackstone said indifferently: "I know you guys. When Fei Luo asked me to come back, the first person to introduce to me was to connect with the Tsar. You adopted the mercenary system and participated in the war between clones and 'Father'."

"Yes," Grizzly said again, "but the clone officer is not familiar with us. I think this is a good opportunity for us to get to know each other. Since you are human, the human camp will stand by you at all times. behind you and firmly support you."

Lilith opened a notebook and said, "Filo told me that you are the savior of mankind, and came back with a secret, asking for our help. This secret cannot be revealed until he sees us, and the Tsar has just received you. Above, you shot and killed General Maxey, the clone commander of the Resistance, and I hope you can give us a proper explanation."

"The turmoil is out of control now," Grizzly continued. "The clone corps has surrounded the block. You must prove that you have the ability to save us, otherwise we will not be able to face such a chaotic situation, savior."

"I'll prove it," Blackstone said coldly, "but not now. Has Maxie's chip been found?"

"Stolen by a clone." The red-haired man smiled and said, "Without the chip, we can't prove that he was controlled by the 'father', then you are the murderer of General Maxey."

"That's also my comrade-in-arms," ​​Heishi said. "His name is Fei Luo, send someone out to find him."

Tsar said: "You lied to us, I thought you would use some method to expose Maxi's identity, so this is the way?!"

Blackstone said solemnly, "Bullets are the best way."

The Tsar got up angrily, grabbed Hei Shi's collar, and roared, "You put your son-in-law's little concubine in Lao Tzu's shop just for this to happen?!"

"Who are you calling the concubine!" Akka gave up immediately, pressing his mechanical arm against the back of the Tsar's head, and said angrily, "I had no idea that Black Stone would come back!"

Hei Shi said coldly, "Sit back, your injury is not healed yet."

Akka retracted the robotic arm, and the tsar sneered: "You are not simple, you dare to use the machinery in my shop at my head, do you still want to shoot?"

"Let him go." Akka said.

The Tsar let go in anger and let go of Blackstone's collar.

"Thousands of people died because of your shot." The woman had a threatening taste. "The situation is out of control."

"What should come will always come," said the red-haired man with a smile. "Vice Chairman, this is something that no one can predict. The conflict between humans and clones is not there if you don't mention it."

The grizzly bear said in a loud voice, "Okay, stop arguing."

As soon as Grizzly spoke, the meeting room fell silent, and Akka suddenly asked, "Are you the chairman?"

"Yes." Grizzly glanced at Akka and explained again, "But that's not important. Son of God, I want to hear your opinion."

Grizzly called out a strange name, which Akka had never heard before. He looked at Blackstone suspiciously, and Blackstone pondered for a moment, then said, "Let Angus come to negotiate."

"And then?" said the Tsar. "Do you think he will come?"

"Find Philo, he has the chip dropped by Maxie," Blackstone continued, "Let Angus handle it himself."

Grizzly said: "The situation has changed, we can't be sure whether Angus is also controlled by the 'Father', in case he is also a spy of the 'Father', or there is someone from Maxie beside him..."

"Then you're all done, prepare for the funeral as soon as possible, Chairman." Blackstone didn't care, got up and picked up his coat, stretched out his hand to Akka, and led him out of the conference room.

In a rest room of the Mercenary Association office, Akka sat side by side with Blackstone on the bed, looking over and over with the chip he had given to Blackstone earlier, while Blackstone was playing with the knife in his hand and remained silent.

Akka gradually guessed why Blackstone asked Angus to come in person, so as to avoid leaking rumors. He seemed to know a strange Black Stone. After all, since he rescued him in the City of Steel, he was very indifferent, hardly speaking, and never mentioned his past to Akka.

Now he gradually remembered it, and he became more popular, the feeling of being alive, thinking, taking the initiative to speak, and planning, like a person.

What is he? Is it human? Or an intelligent artificial life made in ancient times?

"What are you looking at?" Blackstone asked inexplicably when he realized that Akka was looking at him.

They sat side by side on the bed, Akka turned his head to look at Heishi, and Heishi also turned his head to look at Akka, their faces were very close, at that moment, Akka felt that Heishi seemed a little uncomfortable.

"No... nothing." Akka said.

Blackstone turned his head away and asked, "Can you make a decoder?"

Akka suddenly remembered that he had fled all the way before, there was no equipment available, and he couldn't read the contents of the chip, but now he can. As long as there are complete materials, you can quickly make a decoder compiled for the chip.

"Yes." Akka said, "I'll look for materials."

Blackstone got up, went out and called someone to take out Akka's list, and soon the materials came. Akka put on the technician's metal glasses and began to assemble the optical circuit board and complex machinery. He first connected the chip with a coil, deciphered the language used by the chip, and then asked without looking up, "Blackstone, are you human?"

Blackstone replied, "Be focused when you're working."

Akka pushed up his glasses and glanced at Hei Shi. He always felt that after the separation, Hei Shi's attitude towards him was much gentler, and he would no longer be fierce towards him.

"I can multitask." Akka looked at him, smiled, and added, "I have seen you bleeding, your blood is red, and you are human."

"That's right." Black Stone said.

Akka asked again: "Why do you know this? About 'nuclear', about that emergency system..."

"Because I am a risk remover left by the creator."

Akka almost electrocuted his finger and said, "What... what?"

Blackstone was still playing with his knife and said without raising his head, "I wasn't originally called 'Blackstone'. Blackstone is the name of a laboratory built by adventurers who once entered the Ancient Heart."

Akka said: "You... do you remember your origins?"

"No." Blackstone said casually, "This memory is not in my mind, but the records in the ancient heart told me. After all, I can't know what happened outside the sleeping cabin while I was sleeping."

"Then what's your name?" Akka asked.

Blackstone replied, "I don't have a name. You named me Blackstone, or you can call me that. The person who created me asked me to rule out all unforeseen changes that occurred on the petri dish caused by accidental processes."

Akka said in surprise: "How long have you lived?"

"Longer than you think." Blackstone said, "I will wake up every five thousand years to see if the ancient heart has been damaged."

At this time, Akka had completely forgotten about the chip, and stared at Black Stone blankly.

"That's why your body is so strong." Akka said, "So you are not human."

Blackstone: "Not only that, but I also know the knowledge that you humans can't master in your life. It's just that those human thieves entered the ancient heart and stole me out. After cutting off the energy, many of my memories were destroyed."

Akka sighed, and Blackstone said again, "So it took me nearly three months to piece together the fragments of my memory. After cutting off the energy, I almost died of exhaustion in the sea."

"Do you remember what the Creator looked like?" Akka asked, "Why did they build a laboratory the size of the astrolabe?"

"Concentrate on being your decoder." Blackstone said indifferently.

Akka had to lower his head and parse the chip symbol on the display against a decoding dictionary. Now he finally fully understands why Blackstone is so strong, it seems that his ability is far more than that...

"... In other words," Akka said as easily as possible, "that emergency system needs to be activated by you."

Blackstone didn't answer.

"Is this mission life-threatening?" Akka asked suddenly.

Hei Shi was stabbed by a knife in his hand, and a little blood flowed out. Akka was startled and was about to get up to look, but Hei Shi's hand had healed. Akara rubbed his fingers and looked up at him again.

Blackstone's eyebrows twitched, "Is this important to you?"

Akka sat back again, assembling his chip reader.

If Black Stone dies, 'Father' will be destroyed, and both humans and clones can get a beautiful home, will he be willing to Black Stone to die? What about Akka himself? Akka pondered the question as he began to decode the chip.

"What is the specific operation process?" Akka couldn't help but ask again.

"I'm only responsible for monitoring, not turning it on," Heishi said. "You guessed wrong, turning on the emergency system has nothing to do with me."

Akka was relieved and nodded, the expression in Heishi's eyes.

"Then... until the 'Father' is eliminated," Akka laughed, "Will you continue to sleep? Or live as a human?"

Heishi said: "The laboratory has been destroyed, and the dormant capsule has been thrown by you. How do you sleep?"

Akka laughed and said, "Thank you."

Blackstone: "?"

Akka said: "Thank you for helping us do all this. If we can accomplish this mission, let's live together. My bed can let you sleep."

Blackstone said lightly: "I haven't planned to do so much yet, I just plan to give the chip to Angus."

"You will." Akka laughed. "You like humans, not mechanical legions. I know you are willing to help us in your heart."

"When the time comes, when you go to turn on the emergency system, can you let me go with you?" Akka asked again.

Blackstone rejected him without even thinking about it: "No way."

Akka said: "I can help you."

Hei Shi said coldly, "That place is under the ground of the 'Father'. It is impossible to take you there. What can you do?"

Akka said stubbornly: "You will know when the time comes."

Blackstone snorted and stopped talking to Akka.

At this time, Akka was really relieved and assembled the decoder. He found that he had indeed acquired an ability. His eyes could see the structure of all mechanical bodies. It seems that the sense of touch can extend at will on inanimate things, which allows him to assemble almost any machine with only one disassembly.

He inserted the chip into the card slot of the decoder, and an image of a person appeared on the holographic stereo projection. It was an old man, and it was the dying Dr. Callan who they had met underground.

The voice was rustling and the figure was very blurred, Karan said: "Commander of the clone army, my descendants..."

Akka suddenly became nervous, Blackstone got up, went to close the door, and stood at the table with Akka, watching the projection.

"You haven't seen it?" Akka whispered.

Blackstone shook his head extremely slowly.

The sound of electricity continued to sound.

"...I am your father Karan..."

Blackstone said: "He was one of the four adventurers who entered the Ancient Heart."

"I believe that you have received my last communication and sent an army to destroy the man-made god. My lifespan has come to an end, and I will no longer be able to assist you..."

"… No matter which commander you are, please remember what I have to say next."

"When I designed the original clone drawings, I left a controllable mechanism. In your brain, there is a place reserved for an abandoned implanted chip. The 'father' took advantage of this and launched radio waves. , and activated them. At first you were not necessarily aware of the presence of the chip, it would significantly increase the control effect with the action of the electric wave…”

Akka said: "Oops..."

Blackstone made a gesture to tell him not to speak.

A series of body structure diagrams appeared on the holographic stereoscopic projection, which began to analyze the weaknesses of clones. Dr. Callan added: "You must be careful, 'Father' ambush spies in the clones. Humans are your eternal allies, They are not under any influence from the 'Father', please ask humanity for help after getting this news."

"And the position of the core of the astrolabe is at the bottom of the 'Father'. It affects the entire continent through the flow of pure energy. The 'Father''s information tube has been continuously extended towards the core over the years. In one hundred days, the 'Father' will have completed the entire process of docking with the nucleus."

"… then it will control the world of the astrolabe forever."

"...Go to find the Son of God in the Blackstone Laboratory. After 100,000 years, he wakes up every 5,000 years. The original destiny of the Son of God is to wake up and save it when the astrolabe world is facing collapse. He loves all living things on the earth..."