Yu Qingxue woke up with a strong sense of thirst, and felt the blade-like wind and sand blowing past her cheeks.
The scorching sun shines high above your head, and you can see the endless desert all around.
Why is this happening?
She suspected that she had fallen into a dream or hallucination, so she pinched her thigh flesh hard.
The strong pain tells that everything in front of me is reality.
"What's going on...where is this?" Yu Qingxue stood blankly with her back to the direction of the wind and sand, looking into the distance and seeing nothing but sand dunes.
She remembered that she confronted Cheng Heyang and Zhang Wenchuan at the port of Paradise Island, and met Claire again. After that, something very bad happened...
Claire was probably controlled by Cheng Heyang. The small capsule void must have taken effect successfully, but why was she sent to this ghost place?
Obviously the other world she saw in Yu Zhesen's memory was not like this. There was a huge research institute there...
Could it be that... the world outside the institute is so barren? Yu Qingxue suddenly thought of this possibility.
Then where did Cheng Heyang and Zhang Wenchuan go? Why were they left here alone?
If Cheng Heyang's purpose is to kill himself, he can just let Zhang Wenchuan or the controlled Claire do it when he is at the port. Why bother?
Could that madman deliberately torture himself and let himself wait for death in a desert without any survival resources?
In her impression, Cheng Heyang, who received telepathy training with her, was not such a person, but Cheng Heyang, who did all kinds of extreme things after coming to Qidao City, looked very much like such a perverted lunatic.
Even so, Yu Qingxue doesn't want to sit still and wait for death.
She began to walk aimlessly in the desert wasteland.
According to the information in Yu Zhesen's memory, the world connected by the void is the original place of survival of human civilization, and carries the mother planet of the entire old era, the earth.
Even if the old era is eventually destroyed by high-intensity wars and pollution caused by destructive weapons, it is impossible to turn the entire planet into a desert.
The old era was so glorious, and there are still countless literary and artistic film and television works left behind. How can all traces of civilization be erased?
That research institute must not be the only man-made building left, Yu Qingxue firmly believes.
With this belief in mind, she walked for more than ten minutes, and suddenly realized in her mind that her expectations were ridiculous.
What am I looking for? Even a renaissance city like Wall Shabak was built in a desert oasis. The wasteland here is barren of grass. Where can there be an oasis?
And even if you find a civilized city from the old era, what can you do? Do you expect it to contain the wartime emergency dry food and pollution-free pure water that were preserved seventy years ago?
There are no intelligent creatures that can think in this hellish place, and her powers are useless.
Yu Qingxue felt desperate about her situation.
She could feel that as she acted almost suicidal, the water in her body was rapidly losing.
Finally, in a fit of dizziness, Yu Qingxue stumbled and fell onto the hot sand.
It would be great if I were a highly cybernetic cybernetic. I would be able to survive in such a harsh environment for longer...
Due to the instinct of survival, Yu Qingxue thought meaninglessly before falling into coma for the second time.
Through the slits of her eyes, which were narrowed due to weakness, she could vaguely see a figure reflecting the metallic luster walking towards her.
It's just a hallucination before death. Sure enough, the human brain can deceive itself...
Yu Qingxue, in the end you still accomplished nothing, neither benefiting yourself nor benefiting the world.
I couldn't help Yu Zhesen, and I didn't finish my career well and move to a higher place...
Even death is so ungenerous and tragic, dying in an unknown place and in an unknown way.
It’s so ugly, she laughed at herself in her heart.
"Wake up, Qingxue."
"Don't give up! Wake up!"
In the haze, she was surprised to find that she heard An He's call. She opened her eyes with force and saw a shining golden figure shaking her shoulders vigorously.
A stream of cold, sweet water poured into her mouth, saving her dying life.
Yu Qingxue tightly grasped the bottle next to her mouth with her hands, greedily drinking more water until the bottle was completely empty.
She knelt on the sand, raised her head, opened her mouth, raised her arms high, and let the remaining water droplets in the bottle fall on her tongue.
The sunlight refracted through the bottle and fell on Qingxue's face. A slight burning sensation made her suddenly wake up.
Yu Qingxue looked at the empty bottle in despair for two seconds, and then suddenly let out a panicked "Yeah".
After realizing what she had just done, she instantly showed an expression of shame.
"Ah...I...I'm sorry...An'an...I, I drank all the water..."
Yu Qingxue turned to look at the person next to her, and was stunned for the next second.
After seeing the figure clearly, a flash of fear flashed in her eyes. She changed from a kneeling posture to a paralyzed position, and stepped back several meters on her hands and feet.
There's nothing wrong here... It's clearly a bionic robot covered in metal.
It was the metal figure approaching her that she had vaguely seen after falling.
This bionic robot is obviously a very ancient product created by the civilization of the old era. In today's Iron Dome era, it does not even deserve the word "bionic".
The reason why I say this is because its appearance is very simple, which is very different from the bionic robots in the Iron Dome era that can be fake or even more real than real people.
Yu Qingxue looked at the bionic robot carefully. The robot's body surface had no decorative hair and artificial silicone skin. The silver-white metal shell covered most of the body. Exposed drive shafts and pipelines could even be seen in the joints of the limbs. But even though the decoration of this thing is simple, you can still judge that it is a "female" robot from its bumpy figure.
There are spray-painted characters on the left chest of the bionic robot - "Android-1001".
"Android 1001, is that your name?" After observing for a moment and basically confirming that the bionic robot had no ill intentions towards her, she tried to communicate with it.
"Yes, Android 1001 is my name." The bionic robot responded very quickly and answered Yu Qingxue's question almost instantly.
Its voice is a computer-synthesized female artificial intelligence voice, probably in the style of the "sweet customer service lady" commonly used by major communication service manufacturers, but the degree of realism is much inferior to the artificial intelligence customer service in the Iron Dome era.<
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This is different from the cold and serious electronic sounds deliberately used by the military or weapons manufacturers, which can be heard as AI. The voice of this ancient bionic robot sounds like a kind of technical force that wants to make people think it is a real person.
The feeling of being discovered in less than a second.
However, this kind of voice that is not realistic enough fits its simple appearance better, and Yu Qingxue even sounds reassuring.
This is called common sense. If a thing that looks like a robot can make sounds like a real person, or a thing that looks like a living person can only make rough electronic sounds, it will be a very scary and terrifying existence.
"Did you give me that bottle of water just now? Thank you... Why did you save me?" Yu Qingxue tried to ask.
Android 1001 replied readily: "You're welcome, protecting human beings is our innate mission."
Yu Qingxue was stunned for a moment, and then an uncontrollable emotion surged from the bottom of her heart.
She stood up again, walked towards Android 1001 with her exhausted body, and opened her arms to embrace its hard body.
Android 1001 seemed to fully understand her emotions and symbolically raised his arms to wrap around her in response.
"The desert wasteland environment is very dangerous for you, please follow me out of here." Android 1001 said actively after the hug ended.