In the narrations of the two robot girls starting with N, Hao Ren's understanding of the "survivor society" in the sky finally changed from a brain-filled brain at the beginning and vague data from Nolan's observations to some more realistic impressions.
According to 4 and 6, the survivor society is composed of two larger "territories", namely the giant Zenith space station located in high orbit, and the large industrial fortress aggregate located on the lunar surface: the lunar base , each of these two territories undertakes different functions.
The role of the giant space station "Zenith" is different from Hao Ren's initial expectation. It is not the base camp of survivors, but an outpost fortress and command center. This huge and ancient space station has been in service for many years. Compared with this space station hanging in high orbit, the lunar base located farther away is obviously safer. Therefore, the real base camp of the survivor society is on the moon. superior. The position of the Zenith determines that it cannot be a stable place to live, but it is an excellent bridgehead. It is responsible for dispatching and commanding the rebel troops who are going to attack the home planet, and provides temporary garrison and Comprehensive repair, supply, and maintenance services, every unit that is rotated to fight on the home planet will regard the Zenith as a temporary "home".
The lunar base is the foundation of the survivor society. It is the source of raw materials and factory clusters for the rebels to survive. In the base that is full of factories, mines, barracks, and ecological domes, a large number of war machines are continuously produced, and the "biomass" needed for human survival is basically synthesized there. It is the production center , and it is also the place where most of the warriors who vowed to take back their home planet were born and lived. General-purpose combat "representatives" such as N-4 and N-6 were produced on the lunar base.
In the long struggle of thousands of years, the survivors dug up almost one-tenth of the natural satellite's material to maintain their seemingly never-ending war wear and tear, which is quite an astonishing figure.
It is said that this continuous consumption has even changed the orbit of the moon and the climate of the parent star.
As for the total number of "actor troops" in these two bases, both N-6 and N-4 chose to keep their mouths shut. Obviously, the "safety level" of Hao Ren and his party in the hearts of these two robot girls has not yet risen enough to talk freely. The degree of their own military secrets.
And on the lunar base, there is another extremely important location—it can be regarded as the "capital" of the survivor society.
N-4 called it a "fortress". She said that it was a fortress built with super alloys and superb technology. The fortress has the strongest structure and layers of protective shields, as well as powerful defensive firepower and combat effectiveness. The unbelievable "Titanium Guard Legion", even if Galactus personally launched an attack, they might not be able to chew off the protective shell of the fortress. The fortress is the most important core of the survivor society. There is a super thinking center called the "Master Brain" placed there. It is the highest command unit of all agents. "In it, live the last human descendants of this civilization.
Obviously, this is more important and sensitive information, but N-4 did not hide this from Hao Ren, because the fortress is completely impossible to hide, it is too huge, and it is extremely eye-catching, just take a look with an astronomical telescope You can know that the "capital" of the survivors is the metal structure built in the center of the lunar base. The specific situation of the agent troops can be kept secret, but the existence of the fortress cannot be concealed, so she simply revealed these things - and at the same time emphasized the strong defense force of the fortress, in order to remind Hao Ren that it is best not to set his mind on that place.
In a way, the thinking of this lady robot is actually quite simple-probably because the enemies she and her compatriots usually deal with don't have such a high IQ at all
The human beings living in the "Final Palace" never leave their sanctuary, but their survival is unquestionable, although ordinary mass-produced agents like N-4 and N-6 are not qualified to meet human beings (The main reason is that there are too many agents, and there seem to be very few humans surviving), but the titanium guard legion in the fortress and the mastermind who uses the fortress as a "pedestal" all maintain direct communication with humans.
As an artificial intelligence group that relies on logic systems and authority systems to maintain social operations, there are no lies and deceit among agents—at least that’s how N-4 described it—so even if they haven’t seen humans, N-6 and N- 4 are also convinced that their Creator still exists, and watching themselves from the high base on the moon.
To be honest, after hearing the description of the human survivors on the moon by the two robot girls, Lily felt a little dismissive. In her opinion, those who launched fire into space thousands of years ago The parent star guards who came down to defend the surface defense line are worthy of awe. The human beings who boarded the ark and shouldered the mission of preserving the fire of civilization are also another kind of warriors, but those of them are huddled on the moon base, and they dare not even step out of the fortress. One step offspring is not so appreciated.
Although there is an eldest son on the surface of the parent star, but the eldest son did not hit the moon with shells and laser beams, do those surviving humans even have the courage to go out and take a look at their homeland
But these thoughts are just going around in Husky girl's mind twice. Although she is two, she is not stupid. She knows how important the position of "creator" is in the minds of the two robot girls. A bad word might make the two of them go berserk.
Hao Ren also had thoughts similar to Lily's, but he didn't get entangled in this kind of issue. He was just an observer of civilization. His job was to observe, record, sort out reports, and transport the coffin back to his superiors for review. Work, as for the development route chosen by these civilizations, it is not something he has to worry about, and he thinks that there should be reasons for those human survivors to choose to lock themselves in the fortress, and it is not just as simple as "fear".
What strange work content seemed to be mixed in just now? Forget it, there's nothing wrong with it...
"I thought humans would act together with you," Hao Ren rubbed his brows and looked at N-6, "because we analyzed the wreckage of your crashed aircraft and found that you are all just the co-pilots of the aircraft... Could it be that the main pilot? Aren't members human?"
N-6 seemed to show a little proud look on his face: "The position of the main driver is always reserved for humans. They just haven't fought with us for the time being, but when the day when they finally regain their homeland, the position next to us will be Someone will sit on it!"
Hao Ren didn't expect such an answer, so he was taken aback for a moment before saying, "...huh?"
"We are agents, a tool to replace the creators to carry out their great will," N-4 nodded lightly, as if with a sense of mission when he said this, "In the initial era, the creators could still When fighting with us, we are their supporters, and this mission will never change. We will sit in the co-pilot position and complete the tasks assigned to us by the creators, until the end The day of victory will come."
Hao Ren looked into N-4's eyes quietly, and the latter also responded with calm eyes—maybe it wasn't quiet eyes, but just a standby expression waiting to receive new information, but Hao Ren seemed to feel some kind of Something called belief really exists deep in the heart of this artificial intelligence.
They are really no different from humans...
"I see." Hao Ren relaxed his body. He turned to N-6 and changed the question. "There are some other details. First, do you call the 'eldest son' on your own planet Galactus?"
"This is the name given by humans," N-6 nodded. "It spreads from the depths of the earth's crust and devours everything on the planet. Naturally, it is called Galactus. You call it 'Eldest Son'? Are there also planets on other planets?" Something like that?"
"Yes, and it exists on almost every ecological planet. The truth about this kind of creature may be quite different from what you know..." Hao Ren sighed helplessly. I don’t know the truth about it, so I decisively ended this topic, “Now is not the time to explain this to you, and I will explain it to you in detail when I have a chance. I want to ask, you and…” Galactus 'Is the war always like this? I mean it just sits on the planet, neither strikes nor surrenders, and you keep sending bombers to deal with its tentacles, can't win Haven't been defeated by it, and the stalemate has been maintained like this?"
This is not something that needs to be kept secret, so N-4 replied simply: "This situation has lasted for at least three thousand years, but it was not like this at first."
Vivian immediately showed an expression of interest: "Isn't that the case at first?"
"According to the data of the big think tank, in the first few thousand years, humans and the mechanical legions led by humans faced catastrophe several times. Galactus used far more power than today to hunt down and kill the survivors who fled the earth. The most serious At that time, the 'Zenith' even had to escape to the depths of the universe, and returned to the orbit of the parent star after five centuries of exile, but three thousand years ago, the situation changed... "
Hao Ren was shocked and realized that the "brain death" of the eldest son was the critical turning point: "What happened at that time? Did Galactus' activity decrease significantly after that?"
"According to the records of the big think tank, it was the time when Zenith was once again facing life and death. The light beam emitted by Galactus penetrated the shield system of the space station, and a huge canyon was opened on the ground, which can almost be seen from space. Galactus is located in the core body of the earth, but suddenly, a meteorite rain fell, and a large number of celestial body fragments of unknown origin fell towards the parent star, just crashing into the canyon—Galactus was severely injured in this way. Although it immediately closed the crust to protect itself, after several days of earthquakes, it lost most of its strength."
The sentences N-4 used when telling this period of history are full of perceptual description words, which is not like the way of speaking of an artificial intelligence at all, because this period of history is not told by her in her own way, but directly from Records in the Great Think Tank - This record comes from human observers three thousand years ago.
Except for the two robot girls, everyone at the scene looked at each other in blank dismay.
Hao Ren muttered to himself: "The eldest son...was turned into an idiot by a meteorite rain? Are you fucking kidding me?"