Hao Ren has always been curious about the "survivor society" living on the Zenith space station and the lunar surface base, but he has never been able to directly contact the latter. His understanding of that society can only be based on Nolan's limited knowledge.
Based on observational data, this level of understanding is obviously far from enough.
The arrival of n-6 brought him a huge surprise, but before he could ask n-6 about the situation of the society in the sky, another "intelligence source" took the initiative to deliver it to the door.
n-4 said that she knew a lot about Zenith and the lunar base, and knew more than n-6 because she had a longer service time, although this service time did not make her gain more than n-6
The higher comprehensive authority allowed her to know more about the survivor society. But before telling this information, she also wanted to know the origins of Hao Ren's group of "space visitors" of unknown origin.
Trust is based on the mutual sincerity of both parties. Even if what Hao Ren wants to know is only the most basic information about the Zenith and the lunar base, something that can be understood by just flying over there in a spaceship and taking a look at it, he
You have to use equivalent chips in exchange.
"We are from outside your galaxy, I mean outside your entire star system," Hao Ren felt that he had nothing to hide, because his origin was of little significance to an indigenous resident who had never left his own planetary system.
The nobles of the kingdom or the commoners who are tens of billions of light years away are just a distant story to n-4, not to mention that there is still a world in between. "Coming to your planet is a complete accident. We come here."
The purpose of the galaxy was to find something... very, very old, but after entering the galaxy we hit a space disaster. The spacecraft was severely damaged and had to make an emergency landing on this planet."
"We found traces of civilized civilization on this planet, so we became very curious," Vivian took over Hao Ren's words and followed Hao Ren around all these years. Now she is also interested in Hao Ren's "work"
"Process" and "professional vocabulary" are well understood, and I am fully capable of acting as a qualified censor spokesperson, "We travel in space all year round, have dealt with various civilizations or civilization relics, observed and recorded the ecology of civilization, or
Collecting and preserving civilizational relics is one of our main tasks, so while the spacecraft was stranded on this planet for repairs, we began to study the native civilization here."
"Observe the ecology of civilization and collect cultural relics?" As a high-level artificial intelligence, n-4 has relatively rich emotions, so it is natural to show surprise at this time, "Does such a profession still exist?"
Lily immediately jumped out with a bright red face: "You always know who collects corpses, right? This is what our landlord does, but he is not dealing with dead people, but dead civilizations!"
When she said this, her eyes were bright and her ears were erect, and her tail was wagging vigorously behind her, as if it was a great honor, while Hao Ren was covering half of his face next to him: "I clearly remember the work manual.
That’s not what you’re talking about, that’s not what censors do mainly…”
The data terminal next to him gently bumped his head: "My partner wants to be more open, mainly because you have basically done nothing else in the past two years..."
But no matter what, Lily's simple and crude explanation method was the most effective. N-6 and N-4 immediately felt that Hao Ren's work was quite understandable. Among the agents, there were also specialized recovery troops. They could occasionally recover from the battlefield.
Sometimes they bring back injured and incapacitated soldiers, but more often than not they recover some wreckage of great value, such as chips that record first-hand battlefield data: In the war with Galactus, the wreckage was far more valuable than the wounded.
Much more.
"So obviously, we are pacifists," Hao Ren opened his hands to n-4, "protecting the achievements of civilization is what we are good at."
n-4 observed the man in front of her, trying to determine the probability of the other person lying by detecting changes in facial expressions, eye movements, heartbeat, body temperature and other parameters. Although she has not come into contact with real humans, the physiological parameters of human beings are all
Everyone knows that. But she soon thought that maybe she couldn't use those rigid parameters to judge the "person" in front of her because this was a space visitor. He looked very similar to humans, but God knows when he lied
What does it look like.
"I want to believe you," n-4 thought for a while and asked a question, "but I saw that you drew the image of the predator as a totem on the armor of the spacecraft. I think this is the way of self-expression of a warlike nation.
If there is anything wrong with my understanding, please explain it."
Hao Ren thought for a long time before he realized what the "predator" the other party was talking about was... wasn't it Lily's photo album?
Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue, who were standing behind, burst out laughing very tastelessly on the spot. Even little Elizabeth couldn't hold back the "poof". When Lily heard this, she was furious and jumped to defend herself.
The majesty of his own race: "Why are you laughing! Don't I look majestic after my transformation! Hey, aliens can see how majestic my avatar is at a glance, okay! You guys have something wrong with your aesthetic sense.
of……"
Hao Ren tried his best to hold back his laughter: "Ahem, I think everyone's aesthetic sense is fine. You are actually quite... cute after you turned into a husky, but we really can't see how powerful you are."
If there were no outsiders present, Lily would have chewed on Hao Ren's head.
"Your reaction...is there really something wrong with my cognition?" n-4 looked at the movements of this group of people and was confused.
"The predator you are talking about..." Hao Ren, dumbfounded, dragged Lily over to the sulking husky and pointed to the ears on the latter's head, "Actually, it was her. It was not a war at all.
The totem, that’s the decorative painting of the spaceship, this guy forced me to paint it on it.”
n-4 tilted her head. As an artificial intelligence, she made an almost human action that was almost beyond the scope of her sensibility to express her doubts: "I think there is nothing wrong with my optical observation module. Her appearance...
…”
"She has another look," Hao Ren patted Lily on the back of the head. The husky girl immediately retracted her ears as if a switch was pressed, and even her hair changed into the short black hair she had in her human form. Hao Ren
She patted it again, and her ears and hair popped out again. The whole process was coordinated so well that it was impossible to tell that the husky spirit was still sulking just now. "She can change her form. You saw two forms."
, she also has a third form, which is the predator you mentioned. In fact, you should have noticed that her ears are the same as the ears of the creature you saw on the spaceship."
"It's not just her, most of us have more than one form," Yzaks said in a sullen voice. Red lines appeared on his face like flowing lava, and his skin also showed signs of petrification.
"Changing forms is our basic ability."
n-4 felt that her logic circuit had experienced a high-speed operation in just a few hours since it left the factory. She opened her mouth, and finally her eyes fell on Lily: "It's beyond me.
Scope of cognition... I didn't expect that there would be such magical life in the universe. I saw the creature on the spaceship with majestic eyes and sharp fangs, and thought it was a dangerous predator, but...
"
She was embarrassed to say the second half of the sentence, because she wanted to say that the way Lily was staring blankly into her eyes was really a bit...dumb.
Hao Ren scratched his nose and laughed awkwardly, thinking that the husky's serious eyes...well, the huskies do have serious eyes. Anyone who has raised this kind of creature knows that whenever their eyes become sharp, they usually look sharp.
It means that they had a very sharp idea at the same time, and this can also be applied to Lily.
"I think we have initially eliminated the misunderstanding between the two parties," Hao Ren spread his hands, "You got what you wanted to know, and now I want to ask what I want to know before explaining the intelligence blockade that occurred in the Zenith constellation.
,can I ask you an additional question?”
n-4 nodded: "Excuse me."
"I found that all the action team members you brought are the same as you... robots," Hao Ren said with curiosity on his face, "Why didn't you see humans appearing? Are there no humans in your shelter at all?"
This was an idea that came to him uncontrollably after seeing the team members brought by n-4. Although this conjecture was a bit unbelievable, after several years of exploring the dream plane, he had no idea about this situation.
It's no longer a surprise.
After all, he once witnessed with his own eyes an Arkworld that was still functioning after the extinction of mankind.
And there is a saying that is so good that you have no brain power to be a censor?
Although according to the scenes on the original reliefs, the humans of this planet successfully launched an escape spacecraft into the sky, and now various signs have proved that the escape spacecraft was not destroyed by the eldest son, but hung in the sky, even
The people in the spacecraft also successfully established a base on the moon, but no one can guarantee that no other accidents occurred during the process. Maybe humanity will become extinct in the process? Look at the n-4 in front of you.
and n-6, these artificial intelligences that are almost indistinguishable from humans seem to be fully capable of maintaining the space station and lunar base after the extinction of their human creators.
However, when faced with the question raised by Hao Ren, n-4 immediately shook his head and denied it: "No, human beings are not extinct and will not become extinct. They live in the lunar base, in the safest 'fortress'."
"Fortress?" Hao Ren repeated the word and looked at n-6 on the other side.
Another robot girl nodded and said in the same unquestionable tone: "Humanity has not become extinct and will not become extinct. The fortress is the most powerful and solid fortress on the lunar base. Humanity moved there thousands of years ago.
, the Tau Guards and the Mastermind protect that place. However, because the surface of the home planet is occupied by Galactus, humans will be violently attacked as long as they approach the home star. Therefore, they can only live in the fortress and cannot participate in any activities close to the home star.