Bionic Era

"Lu Wen, we have lived together for quite a long time."

"Actually, it's less than two months..."

"I'm afraid you were not a badass in your previous life."

"From the point of view of materialism, no matter whether it is a human or a bionic person, there should be no previous life."

"..."

Gray dark clouds gathered below that steel city.

Sitting on the pipe of a low bungalow, looking up, there seems to be a huge monster among the thick clouds, its body is hazy and cannot be seen clearly.

"After the incident with Jiang Xiaonian, I doubted your real identity, but I didn't have accurate evidence at the time, and I at that time...may have been wrong." Xia Chuluo said.

"Actually, I was wrong at the time." Lu Wen replied.

"So you really weren't born again?"

"I'm not, but someone is."

"Yin Long?"

"Um."

Xia Chuluo frowned, resting her chin with her right hand and resting her elbow on her thigh.

The pose of the thinker.

The doctor does not recommend this position, saying that it is best to lie flat, otherwise there will be problems in the wound healing process.

"Yin Long created you and instilled human memory in you, making you think you were reborn?"

"Is such that."

"No wonder that old guy left some of his inheritance to you. You are really lucky. You sit at home and your money comes from the sky. It's a lot of money, right?"

"It's okay... At least the rest of my life will be free from worries."

"You are a bionic person. In theory, you don't have a second life, you are immortal."

"..."

This question has actually troubled Lu Wen for a while.

Living too long is not a good thing either.

Most bionics don't have much thought, they live every day and don't want to fight for anything.

But some androids are different.

Such as the A00 kind.

Yin Long told Lu Wen in the video before his death that A00 single-handedly contributed to the confrontation and competition between the two companies, which led to the over-prosperity of today's bionics, and A00 is still secretly planning bigger things.

This kind of bionic person with complex minds and still evolving may pose a considerable threat to society if they live for too long.

Lu Wen is also one of these bionics.

He occasionally wonders if one day the humans he knows, such as Xia Chuluo, Wei Boan and even Jiang Xiaonian, as well as his countless fans, become gray and white tombstones on the cemetery, will he feel that life is too boring , and then make some dangerous moves that are now incomprehensible?

"You are already a great danger, especially after you know that you are not a real human being." Xia Chuluo suddenly asked, "How many bionics like you did Yin Long create?"

"nine."

Lu Wen answered truthfully.

"Number 8 is now in the organization in my no-man's land. I haven't realized that he is not human, and the threat level is not high. I often miss the hometown in his memory."

The remaining seven are hard to say...

If one of those guys realizes that he is not human, cannot accept it for a while, changes his mentality, becomes distorted or even crazy, and happens to have a lot of resources under him, the consequences will be disastrous.

"So human beings will become irrational when they get old. Whether it is an emperor or a commoner, the old guy Yin Long must know that if there is a problem with the nine of you, you will become nine time bombs, but he still It did."

Xia Chuluo said that after the work here is over, he will go back and check the more powerful people who have suddenly appeared in the past nine years.

It is indeed dangerous to keep the remaining seven.

"When you knew your identity, what were you thinking?" Xia Chuluo asked.

"How else can I think about it? Anyway, it's like this... But at that time, I had a firm idea."

"Give bionics a future?"

"Um."

Lu Wen sat in front of the chapel in the ruined city for a long time.

Before he knew the truth, his biggest goal was to kill No. 0.

After killing No. 0, he will no longer be a threat, and he can enjoy the rest of the endless years.

He even once thought that the appearance of number zero might be a test for him by this world, just like the protagonists in those novels, after time travel, as long as they go through the test and get rid of the final villain, they can live as they want up.

Endless lives... It was indeed very tempting to him at the time.

"Later, I experienced many things. I followed Wei Bo'an to witness the decay of Mowu City, saw the common people at the bottom, participated in the magnificent and luxurious banquets, met many friends on the steel support in Baker City, and even met No. 0 In the end, he followed you to this city.

"After thinking for a long time, I finally figured out that there are no permanent opponents in this world. Life is very complicated. It is not easy to enjoy life after solving all the opponents. There are new opponents born every moment, and there will also be old opponents. become friends."

"Are you enlightened and ready to convert to Buddhism?"

Xia Chuluo looked at him with strange eyes.

The two rarely had this kind of communication, and most of the time they relied on the long-established tacit understanding.

"Actually, I'm still curious, what is the body of number zero?" Xia Chuluo asked.

"Her body...is very special. It is a toy robot with only a few simple program instructions. Before that war, children of a few years old or in their teens used it to entertain themselves."

"So, she shouldn't exist in this world?"

That kind of machine has no possibility of evolution.

Her body does not have the willingness to actively acquire knowledge from the outside world, and even if she has the will, she does not have the ability.

Unless someone copies the original number zero data and reprograms it to give her higher intelligence.

"Mr. Yin Long also told me that the existence of number zero is more special than me and A00. I didn't understand it at the time. I only understood after seeing her real body."

"Yin Long actually knew what No. 0's body is?"

"No, in the image he left me, he just said his rough guess. If he could find out the body of No. 0, he would have thought of a way to destroy No. 0 before he died."

The summer wind blows over the roof.

Still feeling stuffy.

The dilapidated walls are covered with air-conditioning units.

This city is actually very suitable for filming.

The light yellow and light pink wall paint has been eroded by the years, the moss-stained indigo and the dark red of rust, prosperity and decline are intertwined, scrap iron and bricks and tiles are criss-crossed, no matter which path you walk on, you can feel the passage of time trace.

Children will play on the huge pipes that criss-cross in mid-air.

Day and night, there will be colorful lights with blurred halos.

The old double-decker bus drove slowly into the distance.

"I also have a question." Lu Wen looked at Xia Chuluo.

"What?"

"Can you read minds?"

"..."

Xia Chuluo rolled his eyes at him.

It turned out to be this problem.

"So what if I do? You're a robot and you don't have a heart. Are you afraid that I'll read it?"

"Theoretically, the body structure of a bionic human is to imitate that of a human being, so I actually have a heart."

"..."

The two were chatting when two explosions suddenly sounded in the distance.

Very violent.

Far away, but clearly audible.

The screams and cries from the crowd could be heard in the distance.

People in the Floating Void City like to go out for a stroll, no matter during the day or night. As natives, many people know that after a week, the city will be in chaos, and it will take a long time for it to calm down again.

This week is known by locals as the calm before the storm.

So they all like to get together and walk around.

So he was followed by Luo Ruyan.

"It's Luo Ruyan's team. There were three cars left in their team. Luo Ruyan was at the front. After they drove into the crowd, Luo Ruyan blew up two of them." A voice from a member of the team came from the headset. .

Lu Wen and Xia Chuluo sat here chatting leisurely.

The other members of the team have not been idle, they have been secretly following Luo Ruyan.

"Luo Ruyan, this old guy is really ruthless. There were seven members of his own team in the two cars, and they detonated like this. None of them survived." Fatty Jiang said.

"Luo Ruyan broke the can."

"He knows that he is at a disadvantage now. If there are too many people in the team, he will be exposed. So he detonated the two cars in a crowded place, which can not only reduce the burden on the team, but also create chaos, so that we cannot follow him."

But Luo Ruyan never imagined that there were a few ants lying under his car all the time.

...

After the explosion in the distance, the mechanical deacon quickly rushed to the scene, maintained order, and sent the wounded to the hospital.

Some onlookers also made emergency calls.

But the city is quite congested after all. Most of the streets are two-way single-lane roads, and the concrete pavement was paved a long time ago, full of potholes.

Those classic cars with peeling paint shells and rusty spots are also blocked on the road, driving slowly.

The ambulance came slowly.

Luo Ruyan had already run away.

Now there is only one car left in the team, and there are only him and glasses in the car.

"Just now... the explosion just now was..." Glasses turned pale.

After the two violent explosions, he obviously felt the car he was riding in shake a few times.

At that time, he panicked, thinking that the car would explode after him.

But fortunately, after such a long time, the car is still safe and sound.

"The bombs in their car were unstable, so they exploded one after another just now." Luo Ruyan did not admit that he did it. "But don't worry, our car is quite safe, and the situation just now will not happen."

"Oh...then...that's good." The glasses cooperated and nodded.

This job can't be done!

From the beginning to now, I have not received a penny.

The team members died and only the two of them remained.

Glasses began to miss the stable life of the past, staying at home every day, taking on some projects to make money, and going to those hidden websites to dig the dark side of the world when free, and occasionally playing games.

That was the life of the gods.

He even suspected that the two cars were detonated by Luo Ruyan.

But he dared not speak out.