Chapter 1548 The Truth About the Eldest Son Shi Lezhi

In the narration of the two robot girls starting with N, Hao Ren's understanding of the "survivor society" in the sky finally changed from a head full of imagination and vague data observed by Nolan into some more real impressions.

According to 4 and 6, the survivor society consists of two larger "territories", namely the giant Zenith space station located in high orbit, and the large industrial fortress complex located on the moon: the lunar surface base , these two territories each perform different functions.

The role of the giant space station "Zenith" is different from what Hao Ren originally expected. It is not a base camp for survivors, but an outpost and command center. This huge and ancient space station has been in service for many years. Compared with this space station hanging in a high orbit, the lunar base located further away is obviously safer. Therefore, the real base camp of the survivor society is on the moon. superior. The location of the Zenith constellation 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 go to attack the mother star, and provides temporary garrisoning of the troops 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 that the resistance relies on for survival. In that base dotted with factories, mines, barracks, and ecological domes, a large number of war machines are continuously manufactured, 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 regain their home planet were born and lived. Common models of combat "agent" like the 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 material of this natural satellite to maintain the losses of their seemingly never-ending war. This is a quite astonishing number.

This continuous consumption is said to have even changed the moon's orbit and the climate of its parent star.

As for the total number of "agent troops" in these two bases, N-6 and N-4 both chose to remain tight-lipped. Apparently, the "security level" of Hao Ren and his party in the hearts of these two robot girls has not risen enough to talk freely. The extent of its own military secrets.

There is also an extremely important location on the lunar base - 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 alloy and high-tech technology. The fortress had the strongest structure and layers of protective shields, as well as powerful defensive firepower and combat effectiveness. The incredible "Tau Guard Legion", even if Galactus personally launches an attack, may not be able to chew through 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 the fortress, the most heavily protected "Final Palace" "Here, the last human descendants of this civilization live.

Obviously, this is more important and sensitive information, but N-4 did not hide this from Hao Ren, because the fortress cannot be hidden at all. It is too huge and 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 agents' troops could be kept secret, but the existence of the fortress could not be concealed, so she simply told these things - and at the same time emphasized the strong protective power of the fortress, in order to remind Hao Ren that it was best not to pursue that place. .

In a way, this robot lady’s thinking is actually quite simple—perhaps because the enemies she and her compatriots usually have to deal with don’t have that high an IQ at all?

The humans living in the "Palace of the End" never leave their shelter, but their survival is certain, although ordinary mass-produced agents like N-4 and N-6 are not qualified to meet humans. (Mainly because there are too many agents, and few humans survive.) However, the Tau Guards Corps in the fortress and the mastermind who uses the fortress as a "base" 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 or deceptions among agents - at least that's how N-4 describes it - so even if they have never seen humans, N-6 and N-6 N-4 are also convinced that their creator still exists and is watching them from that high lunar base.

To be honest, after hearing the descriptions of the two robot girls about the human survivors on the moon, Lily had some disdainful thoughts. In her opinion, those who launched fire into space thousands of years ago and left their own The home planet defense troops who come down to defend the surface defense line are worthy of awe. The humans who board the Ark and shoulder the mission of preserving the fire of civilization are also another kind of warriors. However, they huddle on the lunar base and do not even dare to step out of the fortress. One-step descendants are not so admirable.

Although there is an eldest son on the surface of the mother planet, the eldest son did not hit the moon with cannonballs and laser beams. Do the surviving humans not even have the courage to step out and take a look at their homeland?

However, these thoughts only went around twice in the Husky girl's mind. Although she was stupid, she was not stupid. She knew how important the position of "creator" was in the minds of the two robot ladies, so she rashly said that humans If you say anything bad, I'm afraid they will both go berserk.

Hao Ren also had thoughts similar to Lily's, but he didn't struggle with this issue. He was just a civilized observer. Observing, recording, compiling reports, and transporting the coffin back to his superiors were his duties. Work, as for what development route these civilizations have chosen, that is not what he has to worry about, and he believes that there should be a reason why those human survivors chose to lock themselves in the fortress, and it is not just as simple as "fear".

There seems to be some strange work content that got mixed up just now? Forget it, there's nothing wrong...

"I thought humans would act with you before," Hao Ren rubbed his brows and looked at N-6, "Because we analyzed the wreckage of your crashed aircraft and found that you were just the co-pilot of the aircraft... Could it be that the master Isn’t the driver human?”

N-6 seemed to have a look of pride on his face: "The position of the main driver is always reserved for humans. They just don't fight side by side with us for the time being, but when we finally regain our homeland, the position next to us will be Someone will sit on it!”

Hao Ren didn't expect such an answer. He was stunned for a moment before speaking: "...Huh?"

"We are agents, tools to carry out their great will on behalf of the creators." N-4 nodded slightly, as if with a sense of mission when he said this, "In the early days, the creators could still When they fight side by side with us, we are their assistants, and this mission will never change. We will sit in the co-pilot position, completing the tasks assigned to us by the creators under the watchful eye, until the end The day of victory will come.”

Hao Ren looked into N-4's eyes quietly, and the latter also responded with a calm look - maybe it was not a calm look, but just a look on standby, waiting to receive new information, but Hao Ren seemed to feel something Something called belief does indeed exist deep in the heart of this artificial intelligence.

They are really no different from humans...

"I understand," Hao Ren relaxed. He turned to N-6 and changed the question, "There are also some minor things. First of all, you call the 'eldest son' on your own planet Galactus?"

"This is a name given by humans," N-6 nodded. "It spreads out from the depths of the earth's crust and devours everything on the planet. It is naturally called Planet Devourer. You call it 'Eldest Son'? Could it be that it exists on other planets as well?" Something like that?”

"Yes, and it exists on almost every ecological planet. The truth about this kind of creature is probably very different from what you know..." Hao Ren sighed helplessly, realizing that the indigenous people of this planet had no regard for He didn't know the truth about the eldest son, so he ended the topic decisively, "Now is not the time to explain this to you. I will explain it to you in detail when I have the opportunity. I want to ask, you and...' Planet Has Galactus' war always been like this? What I mean is that it stays on the planet, neither taking the initiative nor raising its hands to surrender, and you keep sending bombers to deal with its tentacles, and there is nothing you can do. Even though we won and were not defeated by it, we still maintained a stalemate like this?"

This is not something that needs to be kept secret, so N-4 answered simply: "This situation has lasted for at least three thousand years, but it was not like this at first."

Vivian immediately showed an interested expression: "Isn't it like this at first?"

"According to information from a large think tank, in the first few thousand years, humans and the mechanical legions led by humans faced catastrophe several times. The planet devourer used power far beyond today's to hunt down the survivors who fled the earth. The most serious At that time, the 'Zenith' even had to escape far into the depths of the universe. After five centuries of exile, it returned to the orbit of its parent star. But three thousand years ago, the situation changed..."

Hao Ren suddenly realized that the "brain death" of his eldest son was the key turning point: "What happened at that time? Did the activity of Galactus decrease significantly after that?"

"According to the records of the big think tank, it was the time when Zenith was once again facing a life-or-death moment. The beam emitted by Galactus penetrated the shield system of the space station, and a huge canyon opened in the earth, which can almost be seen from space. The body of Galactus is located in the core of the earth, but suddenly, a meteorite rain came, and a large number of celestial fragments of unknown origin fell towards the mother star, and happened to crash into the canyon - Galactus was hit hard like this. . Although it immediately closed its crust to protect itself, after several days of earthquakes, it lost most of its strength."

The sentences used by N-4 when telling this history are full of emotional descriptive words, which are completely unlike the way an artificial intelligence speaks, because this history is not told in her own way, but comes directly from Records in the Great Think Tank - This record comes from human observers three thousand years ago.

Except for the two robot ladies, everyone at the scene looked at each other.

Hao Ren murmured to himself: "The eldest son... was smashed into an idiot by a meteor shower? Are you kidding me?"