"Is this talking about you?" Akka asked while looking at Black Stone, "Why do I feel like I'm talking about you."
Blackstone: "…"
Blackstone's face was gloomy.
Dr. Callan added: "The Son of God is the only one who can stop the 'Father'. After finding him, you need to listen to his truth and fulfill his orders. My time is running out, I will put my genes The ability is extracted and poured into this tube of vaccine…”
"I hope that when you arrive, the ability of the true eye will still function, and those who have obtained the ability of the vaccine will be able to analyze all structures, assist the Son of God, and enter the core of the astrolabe..."
Akka suddenly realized: "So... this is the vaccine he gave me."
Heishi said: "This is what they stole from the ancient heart. It is an ability that did not belong to him."
Akka said: "He asked me to take you into the core of the astrolabe, great! That way you won't be able to get rid of me."
Hei Shi was speechless for a moment. He grabbed Akka by the collar and glared at him. Akka just smiled. For some reason, he felt that Hei Shi was very kind and a good person. Even the usual expression of keeping strangers away is just for bluffing.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Grizzly said in a low voice: "Something happened."
Blackstone took the chip out of the parser, and handed the two items to Akka, who put it in his carry-on tool bag. Blackstone was silent for a moment, as if thinking about something.
Grizzly knocked on the door again and asked, "Can you hear me? What's going on? I'll knock on the door if you don't open it again."
Blackstone motioned Akka to open the door, Akka let the grizzly in, the grizzly was taller than Blackstone, looked at him condescendingly, and said, "Your friend doesn't want to come over."
Blackstone said: "Reason."
Grizzly said: "He thinks you lied to him because you just let him try to pick up a chip that fell from Maxie in the chaos, but you didn't say you were going to snipe General Maxie, which made him sad. Crime of treason."
Blackstone said: "I just use the most direct and fastest method to complete this task."
Grizzly said: "Then you have to convince him."
Heishi said: "Let me talk to him."
Grizzly said: "I couldn't find him. He told our mercenaries about it and disappeared."
A-Ka said, "I have a solution, what about Pixi? I'll take Pixi to find him."
Blackstone glanced at Akka, hesitated a bit, Grizzly said, "I'll accompany you."
Percy was in a small room, tapping on his transmitter, and when Akka opened the door, Percy stopped immediately. However, after a brief pause, he resumed typing with the code.
"Can you contact him?" Akka asked.
"Okay," said Percy softly, "Aka, are you hurt?"
Akka gave a "hmm", and Peyce asked, "Where is the injury? Is it serious?"
Akka sat down beside him, put his shoulders on him, took his hand and touched his abdomen, the wound had healed, leaving a bullet hole scar. Piecy said: "Filo was very angry and said that he would find a way to save me. He felt that Blackstone lied to him."
Akka said, "Can you convince him?"
Piecy gave a "hmm" and said, "I'll try."
"We have to find a place and talk to him face to face." Akka said, "Let's make an appointment to meet first, just us and the chairman of the Mercenary Association."
Pixi sent a message to the past, this time he hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed.
Akka, Peyce and Grizzly leave the Mercenary Association and head to the meeting place. "You haven't told me yet, what happened?" Pesci asked.
Akka didn't dare to tell him about Blackstone's mission, but only said part of Maxie's control. Peyce nodded without comment.
Standing in the ruins, Fei Luo frowned when he saw Akka coming, and said, "Pacey, come to my side."
Hei Shi appeared behind them silently, and Fei Luo suddenly became furious. He stepped forward to fight with Hei Shi, and said angrily, "Friend, is this your reward to me?!"
Heishi said: "He has been controlled, and he must be removed as soon as possible. I don't know how many of you have the control chip activated by the 'father', so I can't tell you, so as not to leak the news."
"You..." Fei Luo stepped forward, pressed Black Stone against the wall, and raised his fist.
"Don't fight!" Akka rushed forward, he still liked Fei Luo very much, and everyone escaped from the City of Steel together, living and dying together along the way.
Fei Luo gave Akka a stern look, and then to Hei Shi, wanting to say something, but finally held back.
Blackstone: "Give me the chip and take it back, son."
Fei Luo took out the bloody chip and slammed it on Heishi's face.
"You're here to help their humans," Fei Luo said angrily, "you'll kill all the clones, I shouldn't have believed you in the first place!"
Saying that, Fei Luo punched Hei Shijun in the face again, causing Heishi to fall backwards.
"Filuo!" Akka stepped forward and grabbed him.
Fei Luo said: "It will be indefinite in the future."
As he said that, he took Pesy's hand and turned away!
Akka stepped forward to look at Blackstone, who waved his hand to indicate that he was fine. A-Ka looked at his expression and seemed a little lost.
Akka: "Filuo is actually a good person..."
"Nothing to say." Hei Shi said solemnly, "Let's go."
In the meeting room of the Mercenary Association, everyone was silent, all staring at a communicator in the center of the table. Black Stone sat on the main seat of the long table in the conference room, while Akka held Black Stone's weapon and studied it in the corner.
A man's voice suddenly sounded in the communicator: "He agreed to negotiate! Willing to come over in person!"
Only then did several people breathe a sigh of relief. Among them, the Grizzly was the most tired. It is conceivable that he was also the most stressed.
Blackstone: "Let him come alone."
The messenger in the communicator went to convey it. After a while, Akka heard the military song "Black Earth" being sung outside the building of the Mercenary Association.
He leaned over to the window to see that it was almost dusk in Phoenix, the sky was dark, the war was raging everywhere, the streets were bombed and blackened, and there were burning flames everywhere. Mercenaries flocked to the streets, singing "Black Earth," and crowded on both sides of the road.
There was a person coming from the black road, and the mercenaries spontaneously made way for him. The man was wearing a military cap and should be General Angus.
Someone downstairs passed the message, and the Grizzly stepped forward and opened the door of the conference room. A clone came in, took off his military cap, and glanced at everyone in the room.
"Please take a seat." Heishi said.
The atmosphere seemed to freeze, Angus said: "You must prove your identity first."
Blackstone said: "I want you to read a piece of information, and then talk about my identity."
Akka took out the decoder and chip from the bag, turned it on, and the figure and voice of Dr. Karan appeared on the holographic stereo projection.
"… Commander of clones, my offspring…"
For a while, the conference room held its breath in silence until all the content of the chip was played, and Blackstone flicked his finger again. The small controller chip that was taken out of Maxie's brain slid across the long table, slowly and slowly. Stop in front of Angus.
"I am the risk taker, the son of the creator." Blackstone said lightly, "I will judge you."
At that moment, Akay had the illusion that Black Stone was really a god, and his voice was full of majesty and anger, which made people unconsciously suppress it.
Angus picked up the chip and glanced at it.
"Sitting here, there are representatives of human beings and representatives of clones." Blackstone said, "The trial begins."
Everyone's breathing was stagnant.
"In the past 20,000 years, as beings conceived in the astrolabe, you have changed the world. You have consumed the energy in the core of the astrolabe and killed each other. This is the killing of each other between the same races, and the emotions Concrete manifestations of distortion."
"As experimental subjects, you are all unqualified creatures." Blackstone's voice had no emotion, as if he was just explaining a certain reality as a bystander.
"You destroyed the environment in the petri dish, and spied on the creator's intentions, stole the destroyer left by the creator in the ancient heart, and gave birth to it." Black Stone's voice was low and hoarse, "The environment on the astrolabe has already Can no longer provide everything you need to survive, and according to the direction of the experiment, this experiment is meaningless..."
"It's not fair..." Angus' voice trembled.
The top of the Mercenary Association finally reacted, Grizzly said: "This is not fair!"
"No one can decide our fate!" Angus got up excitedly and slammed his fist on the table, "and the faults of our ancestors should not be borne by us!"
Blackstone: "Sit down."
There was silence in the conference room.
Blackstone: "I said, sit down."
Angus did not dare to disobey Blackstone's order and sat down in fear.
"It's not fair," Grizzly said with a wry smile. "No one can decide the fate of humans and clones."
"Yes," Blackstone said, "you have released the Destroyer, and it will determine your future."
"We are not experimental data," Angus stalked his neck and panted, as if trying to prove Black Stone's absurdity, "We are intelligent, self-conscious creatures, and we are equal to the Creator!"
Blackstone said: "This does not constitute a reason to keep the experiment."
"It's not fair!" Angus shouted uncontrollably as if he had lost his mind.
Black Stone immediately spread his hands, and the armbands on his hands quickly assembled and changed, becoming a two-meter-long electromagnetic sniper gun with the muzzle against Angus.
"Three." Blackstone said coldly.
The hall was dead silent.
"two."
"Blackstone." Akka said in a trembling voice.
Angus stepped back, and Blackstone shook the sniper cannon. With the harsh metal friction and rotation, the sniper cannon returned to its original shape and got stuck on his wrist.
In just one second, Angus would be blasted to ashes, and the commander of the clones finally got his life back.
"So we're all going to die?" said the Tsar, laughing. "Have a drink, anyway, the time of death is not far away."
Grizzly stared into Black Stone's eyes, and said word by word, "I don't think you came here to tell us an irreversible result."
Blackstone tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously and said, "I need all the armies of humans and clones to be dispatched to attract the firepower of the 'Father' for me, and a team of people to cover our infiltration into the city of machines."
"I still need a piece of 'Father' core code. According to my investigation, this code has two parts - one part is in Maxie's mind, this is it."
Blackstone showed the chip in his hand.
"And the other part, as expected, should be in your hands, General Angus."
Angus looked at the chip and shivered.
"These two parts of the chip control the two major functions of input and terminal respectively. After they are ready, the underlying core area can be temporarily shut down. After the shutdown, although the 'father' can still attack, it will stop several key external defense modes in the core area. , so that we can smoothly enter the channel connecting the astrolabe. Give it to me."
"Besides, I also need my mechanic to accompany me. You can give me an answer after you think about it."
Everyone in the conference room froze, and Grizzly asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Connect with the nuclear," Blackstone replied, "Save you."
"I won't believe you," Angus said coldly. "All our clone brothers will not bet their futures on you, a stranger!"
"Calm down! General!" Grizzly said solemnly, "Humans and clones must unite. This is our last chance."
Angus roared: "This man is simply a lunatic! I will not accept his conditions!"
Just when Hei Shi was about to say "whatever you want", he accidentally glanced at Akka's eyes for help, and changed his mind, saying lightly, "You can't leave, hand over the terminal chip, I know you have this in your hands. Password, General Angus."
Angus said: "It's nonsense."
Angus got up to leave, but Grizzly said, "Please stay, General!"
Angus turned around suddenly and glanced at the top of the mercenary association in the hall. There was a guard with a gun at the door. Angus roared: "You still want to detain me?!"
The tsar glanced at the grizzly bear, and the grizzly bear said, "Start voting."
"One vote." The tsar raised his hand lazily, and then placed a pistol with the logo of the Mercenary Association on the long table.
"One vote." The red-haired man laughed, took off the gun and put it on the table.
"Yes," said the woman in the wheelchair softly, handing over a gold rose brooch.
"Yes." The bald man agreed.
Grizzly sat at the end of the long table, watching General Angus silently, before speaking after a long time.
"General Angus, for the future of humans and clones, you cannot leave."
No one spoke in the conference room, and the grizzly bear said again: "Give us the shutdown password, the clones can not participate in this operation, and the process is borne by us humans."
Angus took a few steps, his voice full of threats, and said coldly: "Never."
"Take him down," said the woman in the wheelchair. "Son of the Creator, please go back to rest first. We will notify you as soon as there is news."
Blackstone got up, nodded, glanced meaningfully at everyone in the conference room, and turned away with Akka.
In order not to disturb them, the Mercenary Association set aside a hut on the top floor for them. There is a small garden on the roof, which is the residence of the previous presidents. Patrol aircraft came and went in the night sky, the yellow light of the transmitter swept the ground, and there was an inaudible band communication rustling in the distance.
In the middle of the night, Akka woke up for some reason. He glanced at Black Stone who was sleeping beside him, got up lightly, walked out of the hut, took a breath of fresh air, then climbed up to the roof, hugged his knees and sat on a high place, overlooking the entire city of Phoenix. In the distance, the building at the center of the clone regime was brightly lit, reminding him of the day he escaped from the City of Steel.
Black Stone also got up, Akka turned his head and glanced, signaling him to come up too. The two sat side by side on the roof, looked into the distance, and did not talk for a while.
"You can't sleep either?" Akka asked.
Blackstone did not answer.
Akka said to himself, "Filuo and Pai don't know what's going on right now."
He leaned on Hei Shi's body, and the fire in the distance in the dark made the night sky red. No one from the Mercenary Association had come to report, and it was obvious that they had not asked for the shutdown password.
"You don't really have to treat Philo that way," Akka said.
"I don't understand the relationship between you humans and clones." Blackstone replied indifferently.
Akka thought about the scene where Fei Luo beat Blackstone, but Blackstone didn't fight back. For some unknown reason, this little detail has always existed in his heart, and he couldn't help but think about it, and thought about it over and over many times.
Akka always feels that Black Stone is more like a machine left by the creator in the sense of existence. Of course, only he knows this secret. In theory, the messengers of God do not possess many emotions, just like "Father".
"I think..." Akka hesitated.
"What?" Blackstone said.
Akka was a little nervous, looked at Black Stone, and said, "Do you think you have human emotions?"
He couldn't help recalling the time he saw Black Stone for the first time, until he was separated from him, and then reunited. Apart from the purely emotional reaction during the escape, Black Stone had the characteristics of human emotion. And as they got to know each other more and more along the way, this characteristic became more and more obvious.
From the moment he was injured in the sewers, A-Ka clearly felt the nervousness that Blackstone showed. Although this feeling was immediately diluted by some of the things that Blackstone revealed that followed, in retrospect, Blackstone had caring feelings for him.
"No." Blackstone said.
"Yes." Akka insisted, "I think you have, you are actually designed according to the human model."
Blackstone replied indifferently: "When the Creator created me, there were no human beings and no clones. Do you think this is possible?"
Akka thought so too, but he still replied: "That's right, but the creators are also intelligent creatures, how do you know that they are not like humans?"
"Impossible," Blackstone replied without thinking, "Logic, connection, identification, judgment, these are rational, and emotions are emotions."
"But you will also be angry and impatient." Akka tried to explain the human soul to Black Stone, but Black Stone didn't even look at him, staring at the distant night sky.
"Basic rationality is judgment and observation, while upper rationality is perception and analysis," explained Blackstone. "Similarly, basic sensibility is the emotional response to external stimuli, including various emotions, which are biological foundations. , is something I don't have."
"What is upper sensibility?" Akka said.
"Upper sensibility," Blackstone thought for a while, and told Akka, "that is your unique human understanding, intuition, remorse, and what is called 'love'."
Akka added: "But when Fei Luo shot at you and wanted to beat you, why didn't you avoid it and didn't fight back?"
Blackstone was startled, Akka observed his face, smiled and said, "So, in fact, you are the same as us humans, with very complicated emotions, and you will still feel lonely and insecure."
Blackstone was only silent for a while, then returned to his indifferent demeanor, and replied, "Because I'm sure that his shot was just to vent his anger, and his motive was not to kill me."
"Then why did you accept his venting of anger?" Akka asked again.
This time, Blackstone had to seriously think about it. He didn't answer and shook his head.
Akka added: "After breaking up with Feilo, did you feel uncomfortable in your heart?"
Blackstone continued to remain silent, but Akka knew that his heart must be thinking right now, thinking about things that he didn't even realize. At this moment, an indistinct explosion sounded in the distance, and Hei Shi immediately became alert and squinted to watch.
"Infrared telescope," Blackstone said.
Akka went back to the room to rummage for the equipment. At this moment, the transmitter in the bag rang, and there was a communication sound of "di di di". He immediately turned on the communicator, and there was the anxious voice of Pixi.
"Aka, I see their troops are being mobilized," Pasey whispered, "I don't know why, there's going to be another war, you guys get out of that building."
Akka said, "Is Philo there?"
"He went to persuade the army not to attack now, why is that?! Isn't there a ceasefire?"
Akka said: "The people from the Mercenary Association detained General Angus, listen to me, Pai, protect yourself, and don't come out no matter what..."
"This is crazy..." said Pesci. "Can't you put him back? Philo was just arguing so loudly with the interim leader that it scared me to death—"
"This kid is sending a message to the enemy!"
"kill him!"
There was a messy sound from the communicator, and Akka immediately changed his face: "Paixi!"
There was a scream from Peyce, as if someone had caught him, the communication was cut off, and Akka knelt in front of the bed, gasping for breath.
Behind Akka, Blackstone heard the whole process of their communication and said, "I'll go notify the Grizzlies."
The war came suddenly, and the second offensive was more ruthless than the first. Phoenix was destined to experience another catastrophe in this sleepless night. Six electromagnetic aircraft rushed from the tall building in the north and flew towards the gathering place of human beings, and the entire western district woke up in an instant.
The building of the Mercenary Association was in chaos. Black Stone rushed down the stairs and asked, "Is Angus willing to hand over the order?"
"Not yet!" Grizzly said, "He won't agree no matter what! We must repel their offensive first! Mercenaries! Pick up your weapons! Prepare to fight!"
There was a loud bang, the whole building vibrated, and the aircraft fired tens of thousands of light bombs, smashing the glass next to the building, and the clones began to attack the building, hoping to rescue the trapped Angus. The scene was chaotic, Black Stone was protecting Akka, and the two rushed out of the building.
In the darkness of the night, the grizzly bear's voice rang out on the radio.
"Brothers of mankind! Please support us!"
"We have found the weakness of the mechanical city, and victory is just around the corner! Now is the most difficult time, Maxey betrayed us, betrayed the United camp..."
Humans and clones have been competing for resources for a long time. When they heard this, they roared, armed with firearms, and went into battle! However, the firepower of the clones was too fierce, and the three rounds of strafing immediately suppressed the human resistance army. Akka put on a mechanical arm, and the arm ring on Blackstone's hand turned into a heavy machine gun, hitting the oncoming aircraft.
The spaceships of humans and clones turned into fireballs and fell to the ground one after another with a bang.
There was nowhere to hide for a while, and when Akka was about to flee to a place where there were few people, a person rushed to the side, covered his mouth, and dragged him away from the building that was about to collapse!
Heishi's face changed, but he found out that it was Fei Luo.
"What are you doing!" Fei Luo roared.
Under the dim sky, Akka loudly explained everything to Fei Luo, Fei Luo let out a restless sigh and looked at Heishi who came over.
"Where's your son?" Blackstone asked.
"I was detained by the rebels, because he passed the news to you," Fei Luo said, "follow me, go."
Philo always had a gloomy face, and took Heishi and Akka around the defense line and approached the resistance base. He came to a vent and said, "Aka, I know you can open the entrance of this pipe, climb up the underground ventilation facility, and you can reach the United Front Work Department."
Akka looked up and looked at the building shrouded in darkness, and there were security planes circling back and forth in the heights. He put on the technician's infrared glasses decisively, rummaged through the package for tools, and tried to disarm the security system here.
Blackstone and Philo stood silently beside them.
Blackstone: "Why did you come back?"
Fei Luo replied bluntly: "Pai Xi was arrested and locked in the United Front Work Department. I have to go in and rescue him."
"The shutdown password is a rewritable disk," Blackstone said. "No surprise, there should be three trillion terabytes of information encoded in it."
Philo pondered for a moment and replied, "I don't know where General Angus put it. In theory, since Libull has it, there should be at least a backup. I'll take you into the building and look for it. Look for their relics, maybe there will be something to gain."
Akka asked in surprise: "Why is this password in the hands of your clones?"
"Do you think the all-out attack on the City of Machines is just a joke?" Fei Luo said, "If it wasn't for Blackstone's mention of the shutdown password, even humans wouldn't know about this secret weapon."
Akka remembered instantly. When he first picked up the black stone, Li Boer made a careful and comprehensive arrangement, mobilized all the troops, and rushed to the city of machines, perhaps relying on the shutdown password in his hand.
"Yes," Akka said. "The Rebel Center must have that backup! Thank you, Philo!"
Fei Luo said coldly: "I don't plan to help him, but based on the current situation, only by obtaining the password can we stop the battle, otherwise we will surely die at the hands of our own people before the Iron Legion can attack."
Hei Shi said lightly, "This is your original sin."
When Fei Luo heard this, he was immediately furious, grabbed Hei Shi's collar, and said angrily, "Say it again!"
"Don't fight!" Akka said, crouching in front of the vent.
Fei Luo gave a stern "hum" and pushed Black Stone away. Black Stone said again, "Libull is still dead."
"The reason why there is no despair," Philo added, "is precisely because Angus knows that the terminal chip that closes the 'Father' is still in our hands."
Blackstone: "Stupid, even if you get both chips, you can only use them once, and briefly stop its core area for three minutes. In addition, the peripheral defense facilities and the Iron Legion are still operating as usual. Doesn't it seem strange at all?"
Fei Luo forgot his friction with Hei Shi, looked up at his eyes, and asked, "What?"
Akka seemed to have thought of something, and his whole body was shocked.
"The previous Legion action." Blackstone said casually, "It's just a trap set by a 'father' using Maxey himself."
Fei Luo: "!!"
At that moment, Fei Luo's whole body's blood seemed to solidify, but Hei Shi's expression was very natural, explaining: "Maxie was manipulated by 'Father', he got these two primitive chips from the creator's laboratory, thus Learned the core zone shutdown code and deceived Liebull and Angus, telling them that this was the only chance to completely destroy the 'Father'."
Fei Luo said in a trembling voice, "So... including General Libull, the strongest fighting force of the resistance army was tricked into... Steel City."
"Yes." Blackstone said lightly, "Everything is within the preset of that computer. Libull thought that the shutdown password in his hand could save the world, so he launched a general attack, and it failed."
With a "click", the security system outside the vent was disarmed.
Akka got up and said, "Okay."
Philo murmured, "If General Maxey had already set his back, maybe the chips would have been destroyed by him."
"Not necessarily," Blackstone said casually without any emotion in his tone, "'Father' has not completely wiped out you, maybe it will use the original chip to lay the same trap again, but Maxie's plan is only halfway through. , was killed by me."
"Pray," Blackstone said, "for your future."
Said Bi Heishi bowed and got into the vent.
The three of them climbed inside the air vent, and the front was full of criss-crossing lasers. Every time they got close to the laser, Akka took out a self-made card and stuck it on the security sensor system. A sound disappeared.
"When did you become so strong?" Fei Luo asked.
Akka said: "After leaving the city of machinery."
"He's always been like this," Blackstone replied, moving his elbow a little in front of him, "When he was in the City of Machines, he could develop a humanoid mecha himself."
The sound of explosions in the distance continued, and they came to a fork in the road. Fei Luo lowered his head and studied the fluorescent map in the pipeline, and said, "The place where Paisi is being held is on the left. I have to save him immediately, or he will be arrested at dawn. execution."
Akka said: "Let's go together."
However, Fei Luo said, "You guys look for the password and focus on the overall situation."
The three were silent for a moment, but Fei Luo smiled rarely and said, "I will rescue Pai Xi, don't worry."
Hei Shi stretched out a hand in the darkness and looked into Fei Luo's eyes, Fei Luo was silent for a while, then stretched out his hand and pulled him. This action meant that the two were reconciled, and Fei Luo opened the pipe cover and sneaked into the corridor outside.
Blackstone and Akka continued to climb forward, Akka laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Hei Shi seemed to be able to feel any movement of Akka in the dark, invisible passage, Akka smiled and said, "Filuo is a good friend."
"Stop talking nonsense." Black Stone was a little impatient.
At dawn, Akka was thinking about Pesci's life and death, and the sky was getting brighter outside. Blackstone kicked off the bars of the vent.
"Go down later." Heishi said.
The moment Black Stone jumped down, he rotated his body in mid-air, and threw out an electromagnetic whip, which crackled, and all the guard robots collapsed. Only then did Akka come down from the vent, step on Black Stone's shoulder, and land on the desk.
"Come on," Blackstone said. "The guards here are coming soon."
Akka began to crack the combination lock on the table, and Blackstone waited impatiently, so he backed up and shot him against the table!
The gunshots rang loudly, and Akka shouted: "You can't crack it by force! Otherwise, the file will be automatically destroyed!"
This shot alerted more guards, and Heishi said: "It's too late! Look for it! I'll help you block the guards!"
There were footsteps in the corridor, and it was actually a clone soldier. Black Stone rushed out like a gust of wind, leaning back against the door, Akka trembling and rummaging in the drawer, full of documents.
Someone outside shouted: "Who is it!"
Immediately followed by continuous gunshots, a bullet hole was shot through the door, blood seeped in, Akka's heart tightened suddenly, and he shouted, "Blackstone!"
"Take care of your business..." Blackstone's voice came from far and near, obviously jumping. Akka rummaged through the drawers, but there was nothing. Then he inserted the cracked magnetic card into the second drawer and began to decode the combination lock.
Would something as important as a shutdown password be placed in such a place? Akka pondered for a moment, and had to turn to another direction to think about where the disk might be stored. However, Angus's office is the only clue, otherwise finding a small memory in this building is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"You still have three minutes." Hei Shi gasped outside, "The guards here are hard to deal with."
"Don't rush me." Akka said solemnly.
Where exactly? Akka's nervousness has almost reached a critical value, and there are more and more guards. If the key items are not found as soon as possible, he and Blackstone will definitely give their lives here. The blood on his brain made his limbs icy cold, and the gunshots and explosions in the corridor seemed to be dragged infinitely away in an instant.
All the sounds disappeared, and the building structure was very clear, appearing in Akka's eyes, so transparent that every steel bar and every brick and stone were clearly visible, the desk was connected to the ground, there was an electronic opening device, and the circuit led to the wall, Connected to the built-in safe.
There is an extremely sophisticated alarm in front of the safe.
With a loud "bang", the surroundings returned to their original state, and Heishi said, "Isn't it okay?!"
Akka took out the decoding magnetic card, ran to the wall, where there was a bookshelf, and then pondered for a moment, recalling the shape of the lines, and after returning to the desk, turned the knob on the armchair, the bookshelf opened silently, revealing the safe behind.
Blackstone roared: "Aka!"
"Yes!" Akka said loudly, "Don't rush me!"
His hands trembled as he turned the combination lock of the safe. Blackstone rushed into the office, carried the door on his shoulders, and welded a circle with an electromagnetic light gun to seal the iron door. But the clone guards behind the door began to shout and shoot lasers, and the iron door immediately turned red and dented without a sound.
"Hurry up! There are too many people!" Heishi said anxiously.
Akka held his breath, recalling the structure of the safe, Blackstone turned his head, looked at Akka, and said, "Found it?"
"What is the position of the last gear..." Akka had a huge headache, and Blackstone wanted to break it violently again. Akka immediately changed his color and said, "No way! There's a bomb inside!"
The last number was set at 0. Akka turned it to 1 and then to 0. He was extremely anxious, but he could no longer enter the selfless state of snooping on the structure. The whole iron gate was about to be opened. once."
With cold sweat on his back, Akka said, "No... It's too dangerous. There are high-explosive bombs in the safe. If the number is wrong, the disk will be melted and we will be killed."
The future of mankind is like a huge red and black roulette. It begins to turn again at this historic moment. The marbles of fate jump and gallop towards the foggy location. Everything is determined in this short second.
Blackstone couldn't help but press Akka's hand, swirl to the 1 position, and then pressed the button.
"Catch them—" the clone guard shouted.
Akka couldn't help turning his head away and closed his eyes. At that moment, Hei Shi hugged him tightly.
The passage of time seems to be extremely slow. In the noisy world, a soft sound is like the most beautiful movement. The safe pops open, revealing an ancient chip inside.
The safe door opens.
Akka opened his eyes.
Hei Shi stretched out his hand, grabbed the chip in his hand, and then turned around, holding Akka in one hand and protecting his forehead in the other.
"Ah-"
Akka shouted loudly, "Blackstone, you are crazy!"
The bulletproof glass was smashed into tens of millions of pieces by the black stone, and burst out in the air with a bang, like a crystal wave, drifting away in the first ray of sunlight at dawn. The guards rushed into the office, but Blackstone and Akka had already shot out of the hundred-meter-high building.
At that moment, time seemed to be completely still, and the only thing Akka could clearly feel was the slow heartbeat of himself and Black Stone in the silence.
In the next second, the two of them fell 100 meters into the air like kites with broken strings.
Akka couldn't help but shouted loudly, but Black Stone's armband decomposed into countless metal fragments with a "swoosh", layered on top of each other, combined into silver wings, and then shook with a "hula", like a triangular glider, carrying He and Akka flew into the distance.
"It's crazy!" Akka roared excitedly.
"Shut up." Heishi said coldly, "You are too noisy."
Akka looked up and found that the corner of Heishi's mouth was slightly raised, with an indistinct smile, and the two flew into the distance facing the brilliance of the early morning.
At noon on this day, the display finally came to an end, and the military anthem of "Black Earth" sounded throughout the city. The defeated human captives were escorted to the square, and Heishi leaned over the tall building and looked down.
"Have you tried it?" Blackstone asked.
"Not yet." Akka frowned deeply and said, "This main program chip is very old. If you guessed correctly, it should have been taken directly from the ruins of the creator..."
He spliced the chip in Maxie's mind and the main program chip together, but found that there was another interface.
What does this interface do? Akka has a vague sense of ominous foreboding. Could it be that there is still another piece? !
"This is technology from tens of thousands of years ago." Blackstone said indifferently, "All the computer technology that you humans and clones use now are stolen from the ancient hearts."
Akka didn't bother to study another interface, and connected the main program chip to the data cable, and said helplessly: "I don't agree with the idea of stealing... But okay... Let's see what's in there."
As soon as the voice fell, a dense 256-hexahedron code was projected inside the decoder, like a huge ball glowing red.
Blackstone said: "If you confirm it is it, you must go down and tell the grizzly bear immediately."
Akka's pupils dilated slightly, looking at the encoding ball, his breathing stopped.
"Is there a problem?" Blackstone noticed the abnormality.
Akka fiddled with the code ball with his fingers and turned it in one direction. The red light-emitting code ball was only two-thirds completed, and the remaining one-third of the blank was facing the black stone. Black Stone found it too, and murmured, "What? There's a third piece?!"
"I guess it was another preparation made by 'Father'." Akka trembled. "It was still afraid of leaking the shutdown password, so it deleted this paragraph."
Blackstone said: "Impossible, how could General Libull not find this blank spot? If you delete a paragraph, the entire password cannot be used. How could he mobilize the legion to attack the City of Machines?"
Akka said: "This is the original chip, and Libull has a backup. When he copied it away, the entire shutdown code must be complete. Where is the last chip... Only God knows..."
Blackstone glanced at Akka, the two seemed to have some kind of wonderful tacit understanding, Akka woke up and said with a frown, "Could it be that the last piece is in Angus' mind?!"
"Quick!" Black Stone said.
Akka immediately put away the chip, and the two ran downstairs.
In the evening, the sun shone on the black earth scorched by the fire, and the captured mercenaries were taken out and knelt in a row on the ground.
"Hand over our people." A clone officer pointed a gun at the back of the prisoner's head and said loudly, "Otherwise, in a minute, kill someone."
The mercenaries gathered behind the defense line, and the crowd was surging, but they did not go forward for a while.
After a while, the tsar led Angus out, put the gun to his forehead, and said, "If you kill a man, I will kill him."
The clone officer sneered: "You can shoot. The clones have never had a leader. It's still unclear. We are all one. Kill Angus, and the rest can replace him."
Blackstone and Akka ran through the ruins and ran towards the mercenary camp. Someone spotted them and whispered to each other. Akka looked towards the opposite side and saw Philo, who was kneeling on the ground, holding Paisi in one hand and blocking him with his body.
Percy closed his eyes and leaned on Fei Luo's arms.
"Filuo! Pai Xi!" Akka was about to rush out, but was dragged back by a mercenary with a collar.
The clone officer who gave the order said in a deep voice: "This is our traitor who has colluded with humans. Since we care about them so much, we will kill them first..."
After speaking, the officer walked towards Fei Luo and Pai Xi.
"No!" Akka roared.
"Wait!" Grizzly's voice suddenly sounded.
There was a commotion in the mercenary camp. Grizzly had a few words with Blackstone, and then said, "We accept your conditions, give us a few more minutes."
The clone officer put away his gun and said, "Ten minutes, if you don't hand over General Angus when the time comes, I will kill ten of you."
Akka glanced at him angrily, turned and ran to his own camp, only to see the high-level members of the Mercenary Association gathered together, Angus stood upright in the crowd with an indifferent expression.
"You kill me now, and it won't do anything." Angus replied confidently as if he knew that he was going to die.
"Where is the blank space that was deleted?" Blackstone said coldly, "I don't believe you didn't have a backup."
Angus was silent. As soon as the tsar put away his gun, he stepped forward and grabbed Angus by the collar.
"Don't be impulsive!" Grizzly said anxiously, "No action is allowed now!"
"I guess the code is in this bastard's head." The Tsar put a gun to Angus's head arrogantly and said bluntly, "Saw his brain open and see?"
Heishi said: "Not in his mind."
"I don't think so," said the red-haired man named Gelb. "Give it over, Angus."
"No," Angus said slowly, "this world is destined to perish, and there is no hope."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's breathing stopped briefly, a strange expression appeared on Grizzly's face, and Akka's heart beat very violently, vaguely thinking of a worst-case scenario.
"You can kill me now," Angus said, "kill me, and you can't find the third chip, input, output, terminal, three major programs, we each keep one, the last one, planted into Liebull's mind."
At this moment, everyone's thoughts are: Damn.
A-Ka's mind went blank. Li Boer had already died in the general battle to attack the City of Machines. Where would he find the third chip? !
Black Stone was silent for a moment, and then said, "Prepare for the funeral as soon as possible."
"No!" Akka said, "there is still hope, let's think about it..."
Everyone's faces were ashen, and no one spoke for a while.
"Five minutes." Grizzly glanced at his watch and said, "Give up?"
"There must be a way," Akka said. "Think about it... Maybe Liebull isn't dead..."
"He's dead." Angus said calmly. "The death of each clone brother will be sent back to Phoenix through the sensor system. Admiral Lieble was in the middle of the battle, and the mothership collided with the 'Father'. ' was sacrificed at that moment."
Akka said to them, "I'm familiar with the city of machines. I'll go back and look for it. Maybe I can find the chip."
The mercenaries remained silent, and Grizzly sighed.
Although Akka insisted, he knew in his heart that returning to the City of Machines to find a chip was easier said than done? The final explosion was like an energy hurricane, and even the mothership was blown into powder, and the chips might have been burned. Even if it survived the explosion, the city of machinery must have been leveled and rebuilt by now.
"Three minutes." Grizzly said.
"Surrender." The Tsar put away his gun and let out a long sigh. There was endless hesitation and despair in that sigh.
The setting sun dragged everyone's figures long and fell on the blackened square.
"I'll go back with Akka." Blackstone said.
"I can't find the chip anymore," Angus said. "Don't place hopeless hope. With hope, there will be eternal despair."
There were tears in Akka's eyes. At this moment, he was looking forward to a miracle. He looked at Blackstone and felt that he must have a solution, but even Blackstone couldn't do anything.
In the square, the clone officer reminded: "There are still forty seconds."
"Come on, Angus." The Tsar said, "Your mission is complete."
Angus walked towards the center of the square, but at this moment, a loud noise sounded in the distance, as if something broke through the space and charged towards Phoenix City without a sound!
"Iron Corps!"
"The Iron Legion has invaded!"
"Not the Iron Legion! Be careful!"
A huge shadow shrouded the entire square, a golden spaceship galloped, and the clones retreated one after another. It was too late to kill the hostages.
"Pixi!" Akka risked being shot, bowed, activated the rocket propeller in his boot, and flew towards Pixi and Fei Luo, Fei Luo shouted, "Be careful!"
In an instant, the golden spaceship sent out an electromagnetic halo in the rain-like light bullets, and the sound of "hum" spread to the ground, and all the firearms made a sound of electric current, and they all failed!
Blackstone's strong arm grabbed Akka, and then dragged Philo and Percy back to the human camp.
The clones retreated one after another, and Angus also took the opportunity to run back to his own camp. The golden spaceship stopped in the middle of the two camps, the hatch opened, and a middle-aged man stepped down and looked around.
The middle-aged man said, "General Angus, you have violated the sixth treaty."
"This is a provocation initiated by humans!" Angus roared.
The human camp was very quiet, and Akka asked in a low voice, "Who is this?"
"The Holy See asks you to cease fire immediately," the middle-aged man said solemnly, "If we violate the treaty again, we will withdraw all the humans in Phoenix City to Dragonmaw City in batches."
Angus sneered: "Notify the Pope for me, I'd be happy for him to do so."
The middle-aged man said again: "Angus, you should know who made the peace treaty, the ancestors gave you clones a place to live in Phoenix City, lightly start the war, what the consequences will be, you should be very clear ."
"We didn't invite a fight." Grizzly, who had been silent, said, "Maxie was activated by the 'father' to control the chip and became the undercover agent of the City of Mechanics in the United camp. Our brother launched the second moth attack on him. Stopped him with an assassination attempt before the battle of Fire."
"The Pope has already learned about the incident." The middle-aged man said, "The Holy See requires General Angus, the head of the mercenary association Grizzly, and all the parties involved in this incident to arrive at Dragonmaw City and accept mediation. Please board the boat."
The middle-aged man turned around and boarded the boat. The two camps were silent for a minute. The Grizzlies came out first and said, "Let's go."
Pixi whispered close to Philo's ear and said, "Dad, let's go, they're not bad people."
Akka once heard the bard Moran mention on the ship that he came to the western continent that the Holy See believed in the god of the astrolabe, the alien creator who created this world. With Black Stone there, there shouldn't be any danger. Black Stone walked onto the boat, and Akka followed. Angus and Grizzly got on the spaceship, and both sides ordered their armies to temporarily stop fighting. The spaceship slowly lifted into the air, heading towards the Dragonmaw City in the south of the Western Continent.
The spaceship has been flying at a low altitude, and from the porthole, you can see the devastated land under your feet and the burning Phoenix city. After Black Stone got on the ship, he stood on the deck and looked at the earth through the transparent glass.
"Aka," Pesci whispered.
"Pacey." After the two met, Akka finally had time to talk to Pacey. He lowered his head to examine the scars on Pacey's hands bound by the rope, and asked, "Are you alright?"
Percy smiled and said, "I just sent a telegram to Uncle Moran to tell him about our place. He said that if there is any difficulty in the future, I can find him."
No wonder, Akka finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fei Luo wiped Pei Xi's face and said, "You met an official of the Holy See on the boat? Why didn't you say anything?"
"I don't know his position," Akka said. "He told us he was just a traveling poet."
However, thinking about it now, Akka can feel that Moran left the Eastern Continent to board the ship during the Battle of Father Killing. He would appear in the rebel camp at that time and place, board the big ship, and say Possibly also inextricably linked with General Libull.
What does the Holy See do, Akka does not have too many ideas. He saw Black Stone, Grizzly Bear, Angus and the middle-aged man sent by the Holy See standing and talking, so he got up and walked towards them.
"… The last chip is destroyed," Grizzly said, "in General Lieble's hands."
"The Pope has received the news of General Maxey's rebellion," the middle-aged man said, bowing politely to Blackstone, "He asked me to bring you greetings."
Blackstone's expression was calm, and he asked, "Does he still have a backup?"
The middle-aged man pondered, then shook his head and said, "Maybe there will be a way, don't give up hope."
Grizzly sighed, leaned against the railing, and said, "Judging from the current situation, the only hope is to return to the Holy See."
Akka asked, "Are you Uncle Moran's friends?"
The middle-aged man turned around and said politely, "I'm Archbishop Igor, my friend, greeting you on behalf of the Pope. He has 100,000 respect for your courage and efforts."
Akka waved his hand, indicating that you don't have to be polite. Blackstone explained to Akka: "The predecessor of the Holy See was established by one of the four great adventurers back then."
It was only then that Akka understood that the four adventurers who entered the Ancient Heart back then, after leaving the Creator's laboratory, parted ways and established their own forces. Among them, Dr. Karan obtained the technology of human cloning, and took himself as the father, and cloned the cloned human race, which was called the father of cloned human beings.
General Glow led the human beings, using the technology of the creator, to establish the Phoenix City, allowing humans and clones to coexist peacefully, and established the first republic. Professor Likar brought out computer technology and the core program chip of the Creator, and made a large primitive computer. After the derivation and evolution of the program itself, that computer became the "father".
The last adventurer came to Dragonmaw City, recruited believers, and spread the doctrine of faith in the Creator to them.
"Is there any way for the Pope to restore this chip?" A-Ka's heart moved, and in the situation where the mountains and rivers were exhausted, he saw a glimmer of hope. Bishop Igor sighed and said: "It's very difficult, except for a small amount of transportation and defense systems, the Holy See does not use any computer technology to avoid being invaded by the 'Father', but the church retains a lot of documents, maybe Other solutions to the 'Father' can be found."
Akka took out the chip and showed it to Igor. Igor didn't know anything about this, so he could only reply: "When you see the Pope, you can discuss it with him in person, we will be there soon."
The spaceship is constantly approaching Dragonmaw City, which is a land full of flowers. On the way from Phoenix City to Dragonmaw City, the barren and barren ground gradually turns green. This is a real paradise. Fei Luo whispered the following scene in Paisi's ear, and Bishop Igor explained to everyone: "Dragonmaw City has never recruited any human or clone who grew up in modern scientific and technological civilization as believers since its establishment. Welcome to the kingdom of God."
A gust of fresh air rushed toward the face, the glass cover of the spacecraft was lifted, and it slowly entered the field of Dragon Mouth City, and docked at the outer airport. This is a retro world, with many facilities and vehicles that Akka has only seen in books.
The road is paved with stone slabs, and none of the buildings in the whole journey is higher than 200 meters. The most magnificent building is the temple in the center of Dragon Mouth City, and there is a big bell at the top of the temple.
This strange style seemed to make Akka enter an unknown country. Everything was very novel. A carriage stopped outside the airport and picked them up.
When Angus came here, it became very quiet. The entire Dragonmaw City was shrouded in the last shimmer of light that was about to fall into the night with a strange silence and holiness. Igor took them to the side of the temple and walked in along a passage. The clergymen who passed by bowed to them, but their eyes stopped on Black Stone's face.
"It's very late today," Igor explained. "Everyone, please have a good night's rest. Tomorrow the Pope will invite you to lunch and talk about the current situation by the way."
Akka was still a little worried, but Blackstone signaled him not to worry too much with his eyes. Anyway, so many days have passed, and the world is going to be destroyed. Igor allocated a room for them, and told Blackstone that dinner was being brought over.
"May the god of the stars bless you all." Igor said gracefully, then turned and left.
Akka lay on the bed, let out a long breath, sat up again, took off his backpack and put it aside, climbed to the chair by the window and looked out. In the tranquility, the night has fallen, the garden is full of lilies, and soft music is heard from somewhere, melodiously circulating.
Akka just felt really comfortable. Lying on the bed, seeing Heishi sitting on the edge of the bed, watching him in a trance, he touched Heishi's waist with bare feet.
Blackstone: "?"
Akka said: "It would be great if I could live here all my life. The world I am looking forward to is like this."
Blackstone replied casually, "This is how your human world used to be. There are no robots and no computers. Why do you want to build these?"
Akka thought for a while, then smiled: "Of course, life is also very inconvenient. There is no running water, so I have to go to the river to fetch water. There are no recreational activities. Industrialization also has the benefits of industrialization."
Blackstone added: "If you like this environment, I can tell the Holy See and ask them to allow you to stay in Dragonmaw City."
"Will you stay together?" Akka looked at Black Stone.
Blackstone didn't answer.
Akka added: "It's nice to have a garden, grow flowers, and make small things."
"Let's talk about it." Blackstone replied casually.
The night in Dragonmaw City was a bit cold, Akka and Black Stone slept in the same bed, wrapped in a quilt. Akka looked at the starry sky outside through the window and said, "Black Stone, do you have any memories of your childhood?"
He felt that Black Stone might not have many childhood memories. After all, he has always existed there since he was created by the Creator. Guess Hei Shi replied, "Remember a little."
Akka was a little surprised, and turned his head to look at Black Stone. Black Stone took the initiative to stretch out his hand and put him on the pillow, and the two of them lay so quietly.
"What's it like?" Akka asked.
"What about you?" Blackstone asked instead without answering.
Akka said: "I... In fact, since I was sensible, it has been like that. I have been trained, learned, and cultivated by mechanical life forms, but there is one thing that impressed me a lot, which is about the 'father'."
"What about 'Father'?" Blackstone's tone was calm and without emotion.
"On the last day of adulthood, all human beings must connect with the 'Father' to confirm whether you are loyal or not. That feeling is very uncomfortable," Akka said in a trance, "It's like being forcibly invaded by a monster. ."
Blackstone said: "This is also one of the special abilities of the 'Father'. Since the petri dish is activated, it has the ability to investigate all biological thoughts. As long as the neural mind is connected, it can read anything in your mind."
"Yes," Akka said, "actually I didn't think of rebelling against 'Father' at first."
Hei Shi said: "I'm really a little strange. It stands to reason that people like you can never act under the eyes of the 'Father'. Before you are a minor, you will be destroyed by the 'Father'."
Akka had to admit that Blackstone was right. The lax precautions in the City of Machines did not equal the stupidity of the 'Father'. It was not the omission of the 'Father' that allowed a human like him to sneak out, but under normal circumstances, This is absolutely impossible.
Because the human beings living in the city of machines have their thoughts exposed to the inspection of the 'Father' once or on a regular basis, and those who have a little free spirit and have the idea of escape will be killed in advance. This is also the reason why the clones formed the resistance army in the end, and the call was made from the outside in.
"Clones are also mentally docked by the 'Father,'" Akka said, "just not as often as humans."
"How often?" Blackstone asked.
Akka replied: "About once every ten years, I now understand that it is called screening, which is actually killing humans who have the idea of running away."
Akka also heard when he was a child that many people would disappear during regular screening, but he never thought about this aspect, and now he can finally infer a general idea.
Heishi said: "Cloning has no logic at all, it is emotional, human beings are greedy for life and fear of death, and they become slaves of the 'father'. It's almost the same."
"It's not like that." Akka rolled over and sat up, shaking Hei Shi with his eyes closed. Hei Shi kept his eyes closed, and said lightly, "Go on, I'm listening."
Akka laughed, opened Heishi's eyes with his fingers, and looked at his gem-like pupils. Heishi said solemnly, "Three."
Akka immediately withdrew his hand, for fear of being beaten by Blackstone, he remembered the vast blue light he saw that day when he underwent a mind check.
"It's hard to describe that feeling." Akka murmured, "It's very uncomfortable, as if someone turned your soul upside down..."
"I know." Blackstone said, "a pair of eyes of the gods, looking at you from top to bottom, that's why 'Father' has such a powerful awe. You humans have a saying, 'When you stare into the abyss, The abyss also stares at you'."
Akka said: "But this is not a provocation that I initiated..."
"What do you see in the mind of the 'Father'?" Heishi said.
"How did you know?" Akka was a little surprised that Blackstone had guessed what he was going to say next.
On that day, he really felt something extraordinary from the vast sea of thoughts of his 'father', as if it was brought by a certain core area, the shocking unease, and it seemed to be a secret place that his soul yearned for. At first his brain seemed to be scorched by bright light, causing him to vomit, but gradually, the discomfort disappeared.
In the depths of "Father"'s mind, he discovered a deeply buried soul, and its voice sounded in Akka's ear, as if saying something to him, but Akka was at a loss and could not answer.
"What did it say?" Blackstone asked lightly.
"I don't know," Akka said with a self-deprecating smile, "I don't understand."
Heishi said: "What did you say?"
Akka said: "I... I said I was lonely, I regarded it as the omnipotent 'Father', you know, in the city of machines, human beings say that the 'Father' is omnipotent. God. So, I made a wish to him."
Black Stone said, "What wish?"
"Hope..." Akka thought for a while, then said, "There is a brother who protects me, because I have been kicked and bullied by clones since I was a child."
Hei Shi opened his eyes and looked at Akka, his eyes were bright and gentle, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, and he laughed.
Akash was dumbfounded and said, "You... you're laughing? Blackstone, you're laughing!"
Black Stone's smile was fleeting, and he said solemnly, "Go to sleep."
Akka was a little carried away, and Blackstone's smile at that moment was extremely handsome, which made him unable to help but admire. That smile instantly brightened the whole night, the fragrance of flowers, the nocturne, as if there were countless things intertwined in the soul, blooming in the depths of the soul in an instant!
Akka looked at Black Stone blankly, but Heishi turned to his side, motioning him to lie behind him, Akka said, "You look so good when you smile, Black Stone."
Blackstone gave a "hmm", and Akka couldn't help but say, "I think I'm a little in love with you, that's how it feels."
Blackstone was a little embarrassed and said, "Don't talk stupid!"
Akka just lay down, got up again, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that... I mean... According to the textbook, between people... just like I love Pixi, Philo loves Pixi too. , and Piecy says he loves Philo."
Blackstone: "…"
Akka felt that he was getting darker and darker, so he had to stop talking and lie quietly behind the black stone. In the darkness, Heishi said again, "You can think of me as your brother."
"Thank you, Black Stone." Akka said quietly, wrapping his arms around Black Stone's waist from behind, turning his head and leaning on his strong and powerful back.
"I will protect you," Blackstone said, "but only for you."
A-Ka said "um" and fell asleep in the aroma of the sea of flowers. This was the most comfortable night he had slept since he left the city of machines. Until the sun came down, A-Kashan felt that he had only slept for a short time. In just a few minutes, a knock on the door woke him up. Hei Shi had disappeared, and his faint body aura remained on the quilt.
"The Pope invites you to have lunch in the Hall of Consecration." The young bishop politely said, "Please take a shower first, you still have plenty of time, and put your clean clothes here."
Akka nodded and said, "Okay... okay."
Akka glanced at his clothes. They were simple technician trousers and a coat. He took off his clothes, walked around the room, pushed open the door of the bathroom, and saw that the large bathtub had been filled with steaming hot water. water.
A-Ka walked into the bathtub, but accidentally stepped on something soft, and suddenly screamed.
"Wow!" Akka was startled, fell into the water, and choked on the hot water. Blackstone immediately dragged his wrist and picked him up. Akka was frightened enough by Blackstone again.
Blackstone asked impatiently, "What?"
Akka was still in shock and said, "Why are you here?"
"Take a bath." Hei Shi said casually, his hair has grown a lot, and after soaking in water, it sticks to his forehead. When he stands up, his muscles are strong, his arms are strong, he hugs Akka, skin-to-skin, and lets Akka sit by the bath.
"You wash first..." A-Ka still didn't regain his senses, but Heishi said, "Come in."
Akka stared blankly at Black Stone, who stood up from the water and walked to the side to get the soap. Akka understood. Hei Shi had been lying in the water just now, but he didn't realize it. He seemed to be stepping on the root of Hei Shi's thigh.
"I'll do it myself." Akka couldn't help peeking at Black Stone. His figure was perfect, just like a human with the golden ratio. There wasn't a lot of extra muscle, and he was 182 centimeters tall. standard human proportions.
His figure is more well-proportioned and good-looking than clones. Compared with mass-produced clones, Black Stone has a kind of intimacy that is unique to human beings. It is the breath of man's skin and the feeling of body temperature.
Akka said: "Did you cultivate according to the golden ratio?"
"I don't know," said Blackstone, "but I'm sure that my father's appearance and size are different from mine."
"I think the Creator should especially favor humans," Akka said with a smile, "perhaps it's a preference, so he made you look like a human."
"Perhaps," Blackstone replied, "but I'm not sure if my father's world once passed through this stage of human beings."
"There should be." Akka replied.
Akka has always felt that humans are a very special race, and their emotions, emotions, and wisdom are different from any species in this world. Perhaps it is because of the Creator's favor for humans that Black Stone's Their friendliness - at least not like the clones.
Akka tucked his knees and sat in the hot water, and Hei Shi and Heishi sat on both ends of the bath. Just sitting there quietly, Akka suddenly had a strong urge to come forward and rely on him.
It felt good to sleep against Blackstone last night, like my father's broad back. Although Akka never had a father, he found a sense of attachment in Blackstone.
"Can I hug you?" Akka asked.
Blackstone didn't speak, and Akka was a little embarrassed. He couldn't help laughing at this sudden strange thought, and said, "Don't take it seriously, just talk about it."
"Okay, come here." Heishi said.
Akka leaned over, and Black Stone opened his arms, touching each other in the warm water. Akka trembled a little, and when his fingers touched Hei Shi's arm, he couldn't help but withdraw it, but Hei Shi held his hand, pulled him towards him, and let Akka put his hand on his chest.
There, there was an undulating heart that was beating firmly and powerfully. Akka was in naked contact with someone else's body for the first time, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.
His breathing became rapid, and he stroked the strong arm of the black stone in the water. His shoulders, arms, chest, abdomen, and legs all had the smooth touch of running water, but the muscles were hard and powerful. Akka came close to him, hugged his waist, and leaned against him.
They were naked against each other, and at that moment, Akka felt that sudden sense of security, as if he had found some kind of destination in his life.
"Father." Akka muttered.
Blackstone didn't speak, and Akka felt it for the second time. The last time was when he was facing the outline of the light shape in the depths of "Father"'s mind.
"It's father..." Akka almost stopped breathing.
Blackstone replied in a low voice, "You feel it."
Akka raised his head in disbelief, and Black Stone reached out his hand, stroked his hair, and said, "This is the effect of the Father of all things, which summons humans through male hormones, heartbeat, and the flow of blood."
"What's the use?" Akka murmured, looking into Black Stone's eyes.
"It's useless," Blackstone said, "it's just the aura he left on me, it has nothing to do with me."
"Can I hold you like this for a while?" Akka asked.
"Yes." Blackstone replied quietly.
Akka hugged him quietly, Heishi opened his arms, leaned back slightly, and put his elbows on the edge of the bath, letting Akka be in his arms, feeling his embrace like a newborn baby.
After a while, Black Stone squeezed a little of the mixed flower liquid from the spice box on one side, spread it with his palm, held Akka with one hand, and pressed his head with the other.
Akka's heart was peaceful, he didn't want to say anything, he felt the warm palm of Black Stone wipe his neck, wiped his back, and smeared the flower liquid all over his body for him. After a while, Black Stone hugged him, sat up, and held him in front of him.
Akka's breathing became rapid, his skin turned red, leaning on Hei Shi, panting rapidly, as if something was sprouting in his heart.
Blackstone cleaned his body and stroked his forehead.
"Thank you." Akka was already a little dizzy, and Hei Shi hugged him out of the water and said, "The blood is surging up, and it's easy to get dizzy."
Akka was taken out of the bathroom, and Blackstone threw him his clothes, let him put them on, and then dressed himself.
When he left the corridor, Akka still had that warm feeling in his heart. He turned his head to look at Black Stone and tried to pull his hand. Black Stone relaxed his fingers and let him pull. When he came to the end of the corridor, Heishi slightly He folded his fingers, held Akka, and pushed open the door.
The music sounded. In the golden hall, Moran was treating Pai Xi's eyes. When he heard the sound, he raised his head and said with a smile, "Welcome, Holy Son."