Hao Ren has always been curious about the "survivor society" living on the Zenith space station and the lunar base, but because he has never been able to directly contact the latter, his understanding of that society can only be based on Nolan's limited knowledge. Observational data, and this level of understanding is obviously far from enough.
The arrival of N-6 brought him a huge surprise, but before he had time to ask N-6 about the situation in the society in the sky, another "information source" took the initiative to send it to the door.
N-4 stated that she knew a lot about Zenith and Lunar Base, and knew more than N-6—because she had a longer service time, although this service time did not allow her to gain more than N-6. 6 The higher comprehensive authority allowed her to know more about the survivor society. But before sharing the information, she also wanted to know the origin of Hao Ren's group of "space visitors" of unknown origin.
Trust is based on the mutual sincerity of both parties—even if what Hao Ren wants to know is only the most basic information about the Zenith and the Moon Base, things that can be understood by flying over there in a spaceship, He also has to exchange with equal chips.
"We come from outside your star system—I mean outside your entire star system," Hao Ren felt that he had nothing to hide, because his origin was meaningless to an indigenous resident who had never left his own star system For N-4, the nobles of kingdoms tens of billions of light years away or the pawns of traffickers are just a distant story, not to mention that there is a world away in between. This galaxy is to find a... very, very old thing, but after entering the galaxy, we crashed into a space disaster, and the spacecraft was severely damaged and had to make an emergency landing on this planet."
"We found traces of civilized civilization on this planet, so we are very curious," Vivienne took over Hao Ren's words, following Hao Ren's travels all these years, and now she is also interested in Hao Ren's "job" Process" and "professional vocabulary" are quite familiar, and can be a qualified examiner spokesperson, "We have traveled in space all year round, dealt with various civilizations or civilization relics, observed and recorded civilization ecology, or Collecting and preserving the relics of civilization is one of our main tasks, so we started to study the native civilization here during the time when the planet was stranded for repairing the spacecraft.”
"Observe the ecology of civilization, collect civilization relics?" N-4, as a high-level artificial intelligence, has relatively rich emotions, so it is natural to show surprise at this time, "Is there such a profession?"
Lily immediately jumped out with a blushing face: "You know who collects corpses, right? That's what our landlord does, but what he deals with is not dead people, but dead civilizations!"
When she said this, her eyes lit up, her ears stood upright, and her tail was wagging vigorously behind her, as if it was a great honor, while Hao Ren covered half of her face by the side: "I clearly remember the work manual That’s not what I said, the censors are not mainly doing this...”
The data terminal next to him lightly bumped his head: "My partner wants to open it up, mainly because you haven't done anything else in the past two years..."
But in any case, Lily's simple and rude way of explaining is the most effective. N-6 and N-4 immediately felt that Hao Ren's work was quite understandable—there are also special recovery troops among the agents, and they can occasionally get out of Wounded and incapacitated soldiers were brought back from the battlefield, but most of the time they recovered some valuable wreckage, such as chips that recorded first-hand battlefield data: in the war against Galactus, wreckage was far more valuable than There were far more wounded.
"So obviously, we are pacifists," Hao Ren spread his hands to N-4, "protecting the achievements of civilization is what we are good at."
N-4 observed the man in front of her, trying to determine the probability of the other party lying by detecting the changes in facial expressions, eye movements, heartbeat and body temperature. Although she has never been in contact with real humans, the physiological parameters of humans are Agents know it. But soon she thought that perhaps those rigid parameters could not be used to judge the "person" in front of her—because this is a visitor from space, he looks very similar to a human being, but God knows what he looks like when he is lying.
"I would like to believe you," N-4 thought for a while, and asked a question, "but I saw that you painted the image of the predator as a totem on the armor of the spaceship. I think this is a way for the warlike nation to express itself —If there is anything wrong with my cognition, please explain it.”
Hao Ren thought for a long time before he realized what the "predator" the other party was talking about... Isn't that Lily's photo
Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue, who were standing behind, laughed out loud on the spot, and even little Elizabeth couldn't hold back the "pooh" out. Lily was furious when she heard the movement, and jumped to defend herself. His racial majesty: "What are you laughing at! Don't I look majestic after my transformation! Hey, aliens can see how powerful my profile picture is at a glance, okay! You guys have a problem with aesthetics of… "
Hao Ren tried his best to hold back a smile: "Ahem, I don't think there is a problem with everyone's aesthetics. After you become a husky, you are actually quite...cute, but we really can't see how powerful you are."
If there were no outsiders present, Lily would have gnawed on Hao Ren's head with one bite.
"Your reaction... Is there really something wrong with my cognition?" N-4 looked at the movement of this group of people in a daze.
"The predator you mentioned..." Hao Ren dragged Lily to bring the sulking husky over, pointing at the ear on the latter's head, dumbfounded. "It's actually her, it's not a war totem at all." , That's the decorative painting of the spaceship, this guy asked me to paint it."
N-4 tilted her head—as an artificial intelligence, she made an almost human-like movement that was a little bit beyond her perceptual range to express her doubts: "I think there is nothing wrong with my optical observation module. Her appearance …”
"She has another look," Hao Ren patted the back of Lily's head, and the husky girl immediately retracted her ears as if a switch had been pressed, and even her hair changed into the appearance of short black hair in human form, Hao Ren She patted again, and her ears and hair popped out again. The whole process was in perfect harmony, and it was impossible to tell that the husky spirit was still sulking just now, "She can change her form, you saw two forms , she also has a third form, which is the predator you mentioned. In fact, you should have noticed that her ears are the same as the ears of the creature you saw on the spaceship."
"It's not just her, most of us have more than one form," Y'zaks said in a muffled voice. Red lines appeared on his face like flowing magma, and his skin showed signs of petrification. "Transformation is our basic ability."
N-4 felt that her logic circuit had experienced a high-speed operation that had never been experienced from the factory to now in just a few hours. She opened her mouth, and finally her eyes fell on Lily: "Beyond my Cognitive range... I didn't expect that there would be such a miraculous life in the universe. I saw the creature on the spaceship with majestic eyes and sharp fangs, and thought it was a dangerous predator, but... "
She didn't have the nerve to say the second half of the sentence, because she wanted to say that Lily's dazed look and her eye-to-eye are really a bit... dumbfounded.
Hao Ren scratched his nose and laughed in embarrassment, thinking that huskies have serious eyes... Well, huskies do have serious eyes. Anyone who has raised this kind of creature knows that whenever their eyes become sharp, they usually look like a dog. It means that they have a very sharp idea at the same time, which can also be applied to Lily.
"I think we have initially cleared up the misunderstanding between the two parties." Hao Ren spread his hands, "You got what you wanted to know, now I want to ask what I want to know—when explaining the information blockage that occurred in the Zenith Before, can I ask you an extra question?"
N-4 nodded: "Excuse me."
"I found out that the team members you brought are all...robots just like you." Hao Ren was full of curiosity. "Why didn't you see humans appear? Are there no humans in your shelter at all?"
This is an idea that he couldn't restrain after seeing the team members brought by N-4. Although this kind of conjecture is a bit unbelievable, after several years of exploring the dream plane, he has no doubts about this situation. It was no longer a surprise.
After all, he had witnessed an ark world that was still functioning after the extinction of human beings.
And there is another saying that is good - you have the nerve to be a censor without any brain power
Although according to the pictures on those reliefs at the beginning, the humans on this planet successfully launched an escape spaceship into the sky, and now there are various signs that prove that the escape spaceship was not destroyed by the eldest son, but hung in the sky well, even The people in the spaceship successfully established a base on the moon, but no one can guarantee that there will be no other accidents during this process. Maybe human beings will become extinct during this process? Looking at the N-4 and N-6 in front of us, these artificial intelligences that are almost indistinguishable from humans seem to be fully capable of maintaining that space station and lunar base after their human creators are extinct.
However, facing the question Hao Ren raised, N-4 immediately shook his head and denied it: "No, human beings are not extinct, and they will not be extinct. They live in the lunar base, in the safest 'fortress'."
"Fortress?" Hao Ren repeated the word, and looked at N-6 on the other side.
Another robot girl nodded, and said in the same unquestionable tone: "Humans are not extinct, and they will not be extinct. The fortress is the strongest and strongest fortress in the lunar base. Humans moved there thousands of years ago. , Titanium Guards and the Mastermind protect that place. However, because the surface of the mother star is occupied by the planetary devourers, as long as human beings get close to the mother star, they will trigger a violent attack, so they can only live in the fortress and cannot participate in any activities close to the mother star. action."