Vol 2 Chapter 1168 Born to be human (two in one)
“No! Grandpa!”
Bella’s tears burst out, and she cried and threw herself at the elder.
Bella looked thin, but her weight was close to 40 kilograms, and she almost took the elder away.
“Kekeke, the old man isn’t dead yet!”
The elder pushed the crying Bella away, and said weakly, “What are you doing?”
Bella looked at the elder who opened her eyes again and was stunned: “Grandpa, you’re not…”
Bella felt that it was unlucky to say the word “death”, she stared, raised her index finger, and ticked, meaning: fall straight down.
It’s not her fault.
After a long talk, you close your eyes and look like you have “no regrets”. Everyone will think in the direction of your death, right?
Bella blushed, knowing that she had misunderstood.
The two stopped talking.
All that was left in the room was the beeping sound of Neil scanning the historical text.
One drop, another drop, the efficiency is extremely high.
Twenty-four volumes of historical texts were scanned in just over ten minutes, and they were all turned into e-book files, which were properly encrypted and stored.
As I said before, Neil is not responsible for understanding the content of the “historical text”, she is only responsible for translating.
[Two missions. 】
[Task 1, get historical text (√). 】
After completing the main task 1 given to him by his younger brother, Neil stood up without delay, bowed to Bella and the elder respectively, and said goodbye.
“Neil is leaving.”
Really polite child.
Although Alice’s human skeleton is still tattered at the moment, Neil, whose behavior is more and more human-like and polite and reasonable, makes the elder more and more pleasing to the eye.
He looked at the neatly stacked historical texts in the box, hesitated for a moment, and then ordered someone to bring a brazier. He threw each historical text into the brazier with his own hands and burned to ashes.
Bella expressed her incomprehension to the elder’s abnormal behavior. The elder is the “historical guardian” of this generation and is responsible for properly keeping the historical texts. Naturally, the next generation will be Bella. But when Neil scanned the historical text, the elders went crazy and burned them all. Not only Bella, but other people who witnessed the elders throwing ancient books into the brazier with his skinny palms were also puzzled.
to this,
The elder has only one sentence to explain.
“They have accomplished their mission.”
…
Neil performed a simple self-inspection and maintenance on the “Alice Type” with the help of maintenance tools.
She was very stubborn and said that only her younger brother could tear it down, then only her younger brother could tear it down.
No one else can take it apart.
“Humans call this behavior ‘loyalty’.”
Neil has his own understanding and stubbornness.
After the maintenance, Neil came to the surface and first returned to the old site of the Morningstar Mine.
As a former mine owner, other omnics may not know about it, but she knows it best.
There is actually a “black box” under the mine, which records all the operation logs of each mine, including the “resident id” corresponding to each “biological battery” in the illusion world. These data must be backed up, because it involves the allocation of wives and children in the world of illusion.
Once this data is wrong or lost, it will cause chaos in the world of illusion.
For example, a couple gave birth to a child, and then accidentally discovered that the father of the child was actually someone else.
Or the “husband and wife” in the setting, because of the wrong operation, the wife entered the wrong room, recognized the wrong husband, and slept in the wrong bed.
Residents in the world of illusion only think that it is the loss of morality or the distortion of human nature, but in fact, it is the cauldron of the administrator, and it is good fortune to trick people.
He found the passage leading to the black box from the scorched earth. Under the bombardment of the spark, the entrance of the passage was like a pile of high temperature lakes. At this moment, Alice was full of energy, so she directly used the “hot melting knife” to cut out a passage to the secluded. Trail, drill into the channel.
In the dark passage, there was no light. Neil found the “black box”, made a link, and copied all the data in the black box.
The data recorded in the black box is updated every 100 years, which corresponds to a major cycle of the biological battery.
Leaving the Morning Star Mine, Neil embarked on a journey to find other “black boxes” without hesitation.
A very harsh environment for human beings, such as violent snowstorms, severe radiation cold, and air pollution, for Neil, it is just a home. Apart from being too quiet, Neil felt a little lonely during this long journey, and there were no other crises.
During this time, Neil also thought about whether there was a way to “defeat” Nemesis in these black boxes.
But after thinking about it for ten days, Neil gave up angrily.
Because she knew very well that the black box only had records of the operation of the “mine”, and there was no way to defeat Nemesis.
I don’t know what my brother wants these data to do.
In blizzard.
A human-shaped icy kaka cracked open.
Neil walked out of the ice, and Tan Ding brushed the snow off his body.
“Who made my brother like it?”
“If he wants it, give it to him.”
On the barren snow.
Debris everywhere.
Empty.
A lonely omnic, with a long trail behind it, stepped into the darkness.
…
About a month later.
Neil returns.
Fortunately, the surface was flattened by “Spark”, and the simple terrain made Neil’s journey smooth.
After 42 days of jetting and traveling all the way, she finally traveled through all the mines and copied all the information in the black box.
This huge amount of information filled her to the brim, and she couldn’t hold anything else.
The influence of “formatting” is very thorough. Neil can be sure that on this planet, there are only thirty-six people left in the main base of Ark No. 11.
They are the last humans to survive in this world.
buzzing
There are still dozens of kilometers from the entrance of the main base of Ark No. 11.
The sound of the reconnaissance-type omnic’s wings vibrating came from the sky.
Neil just raised his hand, ejected the gun barrel, turned on the radar scan, searched for the enemy plane, and prepared to shoot down the reconnaissance type.
At this moment, her brother’s teaching sounded in her mind.
This is the way to be a human being.
“The way of being human.”
Neil made a quick decision, put down his arms, hid in the shadows, and turned on the anti-detection device.
Drop drop drop.
Pieces of red light were cast in the sky, and they seemed to be searching for something.
The “egg”-shaped cabins broke through the atmosphere and entered this dead planet. In mid-air, the capsule disintegrated into countless reconnaissance models that spread out in all directions.
“It’s the “Reconnaissance Parent H-008 Type”. ”
Neil analyzed the functions and functions of those “egg-shaped” cabins. Their role is mainly responsible for transporting batches of “reconnaissance planes”. After completing their purpose, they will disintegrate on their own, giving birth to small planes like descendants.
In just one hour, the “reconnaissance parent bodies” like meteors came here.
Neil secretly said that fortunately, thanks to his brother’s training, he knew how to deal with these situations calmly.
Due to the interference of the reconnaissance aircraft, Neil took three times longer than planned to return to the main base of the Ark.
The pipeline leading to the main base of the Ark is a passage converted from an “abandoned subway” in the previous generation, and it is guarded.
Neil’s appearance shocked them, but only thirty-six people were still alive in the Ark. Everyone had seen Neil. After Neil reported his identity, Neil returned to the Ark smoothly.
Unexpectedly, the separation is half a year. When I returned to the Ark, the whole base was filled with a depressing atmosphere.
The news of Neil’s return seemed a little uneventful, and only Bella came to greet him.
Bella’s slender body was wrapped in a cloak made of rags, her whole body looked dirty, her face was full of dirt, and her eyes couldn’t hide the melancholy.
“You’re very sad, Bella.”
Drop drop drop.
Neil can interpret human expressions and hormone levels. “Human emotions” have no secrets in front of Neil.
“It’s been half a year, and we can’t find more food. Grandpa fell ill.”
As for an omnic, Neil instead expressed his true feelings: “Grandpa, he may not be able to survive it.”
“Is he going to die?”
Neil went to the first two books, with a cold humanoid skeleton, lowered his head and stroked Bella’s short hair: “My condolences.”
Bella sighed softly: “I don’t know why, but you came to comfort me at such a time, but it made me feel even more sad.”
“why?”
Neil tilted his head and asked.
“You do not understand.”
Bella’s lips moved. After she said a sentence, she forced out a reluctant smile: “Is your task completed?”
Neil nodded: “It’s done.”
Bella’s eyes lit up: “We humans, are we saved?”
“I don’t know.” Honest omnic said the truth: “Neil found the ‘reconnaissance parent h-008 type’ entering area 11 again on his way back. According to speculation, they have a 45.1% probability of preparing for the final cleaning work. , 50.3% chance of rebuilding, 4.6% chance…unknown.” Neil expressed her thoughts: “Their systems are all equipped with ‘thermal induction’, they are more like looking for survivors… looking for you .”
“Bad!”
Bella’s face turned pale when she heard this, and she quickly dragged Neil to the elder’s room.
In the dimly lit room, the elder was lying on the bed, breathing smoothly, with a square folded towel on his forehead.
“Body temperature: 39.2°C, heart rate: 123 beats/min. He has a fever…” Neil’s eyes lit up: “It’s pneumonia, he needs ‘antibiotics’.”
“Um.”
Even if Neil didn’t say it, Bella knew about the elder’s current situation, but Neil’s analysis was more data-based. After the omnic took control of the universe, “antibiotics” became a luxury that was more precious than energy. “Bio batteries” lived and died in the life-sustaining capsule for life, eating, drinking, and laughing. Under the systematic monitoring, they rarely got sick, and once they got sick They will not go to treatment, and will directly throw them at the waste disposal station to “discard”. Antibiotics are “treasures” that only human beings can use, and cannot be obtained in this world.
The elder was already old and frail, and after the spark came, the earth turned into a scorched earth, food and water were scarce, and multiple blows caused the old man to fall.
On the hospital bed, the elder opened his eyes slightly, his dry lips twitched to the sides, and it was a relaxed smile: “Neil, this old man hopes to hear good news.”
Neil nodded: “I have completed the task of ‘l’, and I am ready to log in to the phantom to join with ‘l’.”
The elder smiled even more.
“grandfather!”
With no outsiders, Bella directly called the elder “Grandpa”. She lay in front of the bed and told the elder what Neil saw on the way.
After the elder heard the news of the “Reconnaissance Matrix” landing, his pale face did not show too much surprise. He struggled to get up, coughed violently, and waved his hand: “Bella, hurry up, let Neil log in to Mirage. .”
“But…”
“Go, it doesn’t matter to me.”
The elder smiled weakly.
…
At this time.
There was a quarrel outside the house.
Vaguely, several young people were arguing about the “corpse”.
“The body of the companion must be cremated, this is the order of the elders!”
a woman shouted loudly.
“Elder? That old man is dying of starvation! He still adheres to these ancient dogmas!” A man sneered, but his words contained undisguised anger and contempt: “We are the last survivors, only us Only by living can we leave fire for mankind! Now that the food is gone, what’s the use of just guarding these broken dogmas? He wants all of us to be buried with him before he dies! Damn it!”
Another angry man gritted his teeth and agreed: “Tang, don’t talk nonsense with these rotten guys! I have been hungry for half a month! I have eaten the dried bark, and I have finished drinking the expired nutrient solution, and I even Even the ashes of the ‘historical texts’ were flushed and drank! The ancestors said it well, people die like lights out, they starved to death, that’s life! If they are still alive, knowing their corpses can keep us alive Go down, and you will wake up laughing when you die!”
Listening to the quarrel outside the door.
Bella’s teeth were clenched, and blood was oozing between her teeth. She shoved the rifle standing in the corner on her back, couldn’t help it, and was about to rush out.
“Wait, Bella…cough cough!”
The elder was on the bed and stopped Bella.
“grandfather?”
“Help me out.”
“But grandpa…”
“Don’t worry,” the elder hid the blood-stained towel behind him, and in a reassuringly calm tone, seemed to tell an unbreakable fact: “They won’t do anything to me.”
Bella helped the elder out of the residence.
Bella carried a heavy assembled rifle on her thin shoulders.
“The elder is here.”
“The elder has recovered?”
“Shh! It’s the elder…”
“The elder actually woke up!”
On the square of the base, a group of people surrounded them, and two groups of people stood in two factions.
Like water and fire, when viewed from a height, the difference between Jing and Wei is clear.
A tall and thin middle-aged woman held a rifle in her hand, but she did not dare to point the muzzle at her “companion” and pressed it to the ground, her face flushed in the quarrel.
Behind the middle-aged woman is a house on the main base of Ark No. 11, with no windows on all sides. In the past, after the death of the companions, they would hold a simple “mourning meeting” here to express their thoughts and sadness for the companions.
Neil watched quietly, the pestle in the distance, like a model, motionless.
It is not difficult to guess the cause of the incident. In the past month or so that Neil traveled, the main base of Ark No. 11, the food was too expensive, and even the basic food and clothing of the mere thirty-six people could not be satisfied. Hungry, hungry, sick, sick, dead.
One month later, among the thirty-six survivors, three elderly people died of starvation and disease.
The first two old men are old friends of the elder.
According to the custom, the elders saw them off by “cremation”.
The third deceased, who died two days ago, was named Moxie, a 56-year-old lame old man.
starved to death.
His body was temporarily placed in the “Mourning Hall”.
The group of thorns headed by Tang En were so hungry that they couldn’t bear it, and they thought of corpses.
With the help of Bella, the elder came to the crowd.
“Old man, I can understand your thoughts.”
“The leaves, after withering, will fall beside the roots of the big tree, moisturizing the soil of the big tree, becoming ‘nutrient’, and in this form, becoming ‘eternal’.”
Tang En and the others looked happy, listening to this, it seemed that there was a drama.
“Cuckoo”
In the quiet square, there was the sound of peristalsis of the intestines, like drums and bells.
“But ah…”
The elder smiled, and under Bella’s astonished gaze, he broke away Bella’s hand, trembled, and sat alone in front of the mourning hall.
“A leaf is a leaf, and a big tree is a big tree.”
“Even if it is starved to death, beaten to death by omnics, or frozen to death.”
“We are human.”
“Born to be human,”
“When we die, at least we have to die like a human being.”
The elder was sitting on the steps in front of the door, leaning heavily on crutches in both hands, as if he would fall if he didn’t do it.
“If you are too hungry to bear, then eat the old man.”
…
To Neil, the quarrel in the square was like a farce.
She is an omnic.
She couldn’t understand, let alone empathize.
She actually agreed with Dunn’s statement.
When human beings die, they will be decomposed into the purest biomass.
In the factory, bio-batteries are also manufactured in this way.
Therefore, she couldn’t understand what the elder said.
“Is this a human being?”
Neil thought, although she didn’t understand, she was still faithfully preparing to complete the task given by her brother, and came to the previous room by herself.
The illegal port was still in place, Neil skillfully connected the wiring and lay down in the cabin.
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