"Did you make an agreement with Ling Mei...Why are you taking turns showing me your collection?"
"Does this kind of thing still need to be said? She can show it but I can't show it? Am I not your dear? Is it wrong to share my hobbies?"
"Of course you are, that's not what I meant!"
"Then why do you look so reluctant?"
"I just feel strange why you and Lingmei got together to show me the collection..."
"How can we get together? I just want to show you, can't I?"
"Sister, are you really jealous?"
"Absolutely not! Boy, do you want to be beaten?"
"That's definitely what you look like when you're so angry!"
"Ding-ding-dong!"
"Ah! Sister, you actually hit me!"
"What I'm going to fight is you, a straight man who doesn't know how to give girls face!"
"Female...girl? Sister, you actually call yourself a girl?"
"You brat! Go to hell!"
"Ah, sister, please put down the ship-cutting sword! I was wrong, I was wrong! You are a girl! You are a pure and lovely beautiful girl!"
"Hmph, you are a smart kid! I'll let you go for now! Come on, follow me to see the collection. You will definitely be eye-opened!"
"Sister, you are very confident~?"
"Nonsense, this young lady has always had excessive self-confidence, okay?"
"This...this lady?"
"Um?"
"Nothing! You are just a handsome, strong and strong lady, hahahaha~~~!"
"Forget it, if you don't complain, you won't be a brat. Get out of here!"
"Ah~~~!"
Sister Aini raised her long legs and kicked me into the collection room door in the back room of her room. There was another world inside, an infinite space just like Lingmei's office.
"How about it boy, my collection is spectacular, isn't it? Do you feel like you're having a cardiac arrest?"
Sister Aini hugged me carelessly, with pride written all over her face.
"Sister, have you brought all the machines in the world..."
Looking at the various machines neatly stacked into categories and forming a great metal wall, I felt like all I was breathing was rust and engine oil. I didn’t feel a cardiac arrest, but I did feel a respiratory arrest.
"That's right~ I have all the machines in the known world so far here. I specially arranged this kind of collection task for the lower-level goddesses, so there is no chance of missing anything!"
"Is it really necessary to collect them all... That one over there is the so-called Goldberg Machine... Do you also collect such things?"
"Nonsense! Even a machine that takes off its pants and farts has its meaning. It represents the spirit of a civilization that dares to explore and innovate! Although this kind of thing looks bloated and painful, every part of it is exquisite and delicate.
The designs, when put together, are even more incredible! If you don’t have a certain technical level, you can’t even build it! If I ask you to build a complex machine that opens the door, can you do it?”
"It can't be made..."
"That's it!"
"That said, sister, your interests are still a bit strange~~~ You call yourself a girl but..."
"Huh? What's wrong with girls? Girls can't like steel and motor oil? Where's the gender bias? Beautiful girls and giant robots are a perfect match, do you understand? Men's stuff can only be used to make soy sauce!"
"I was wrong, I was wrong! I just asked casually, don't be angry~~~"
"Besides, is this your understanding of machinery? Look..."
Sister Aini waved her hand and displayed a row of humanoid machines in front of me. At first, these machines were just simple metal skeletons. Later, they became more complex and more exquisite. In the later stage, they were even the same as real people.
In the last display position, where there was no mechanical earwax, there was a metal coffin-like thing with the words "The Last Guardian" written in unseen words on it.
"What is this, sister? Is it the development history of a certain civilized robot?"
There are thousands of these robots, and they are neatly arranged in front of me and look like a wall.
"No, this is the civilization itself. Their main body is machinery. This is their evolutionary history."
"Hey~~~!?"
When Sister Aini said this, I immediately felt horrified! What kind of robot sample was this? It was completely a corpse sample! Why did Sister Aini still collect corpses?
"Sister, why are you collecting other people's corpses?"
"Look, these things are obviously robots, but you regard them as human beings in the sense of life. When did your thinking change to this?"
"Huh? Yes, why do I think they are all real people? They are obviously machines?"
I looked at the robot skeletons again, and they seemed to have nothing to do with real people. But after Sister Aini said it, I felt that these were human corpses.
"Because you have actually accepted my theory in your heart. All machines are alive, and all life can also be regarded as machines."
Sister Aini patted my shoulder, looked at me thoughtfully and said.
"Is that so... It turns out that I have already thought so... But sister, I still don't understand why you want to collect them. According to your theory, you should also collect a large number of natural creatures, but there is none here."
"Precisely because they are 'natural' creatures, I don't collect them, and everything here is man-made. As I said, I admire the spirit of mortals who have the courage to challenge nature, and machinery is the embodiment of this spirit."
"Wait a minute, didn't you say that these robots are the subjects of a civilization? Aren't they silicon-based life forms or something like that?"
"Of course not, they are the successors of a civilization. Their creator is also a natural life like human beings, but due to some kind of disaster it is difficult to continue. So they created these robots, hoping that these robots can inherit their own civilization. Out of respect for
Due to the nostalgia of the Creator, these robots are getting closer and closer to natural humans in the process of continuous self-development, and finally become completely human. However, when they become the Creator, they also inherit the fatal weakness of the Creator, and in the end they are all destroyed by that disaster.
...In that coffin are the successors of the last generation of electronic mechanical structures. They have not forgotten their mission and have always opposed the transformation of all races into carbon-based biological structures."
"Ah? If all the robots that turned into humans are dead, these real robots should still exist, right? Aren't they just created to resist that kind of disaster?"
"Unfortunately, in addition to natural disasters, there are also man-made disasters in the world. Although this civilization did not have an AI rebellion, more ridiculous things happened. Those evolvers who transformed themselves into humans because they were obsessed with the Creator regarded these adherents as
As aliens, they think they have hindered the progress of civilization. When the evolvers acquired flesh and blood, they also acquired the shortcomings of human pride and arrogance. They thought they could handle that kind of disaster, and the advice of the adherents was just sensational. In disasters
One month before the attack again, the last defender was disabled by the evolver, and this coffin contains his remains..."
"This is really a...sad story...so sister, are you collecting their bodies to commemorate them?"
"It is evidence to commemorate the existence of this civilization. Behind every kind of machinery, there is a story that may be magnificent, unknown, or even ridiculous. But these stories are all part of a certain civilization, and they are the stories that mortals try to escape from.
Efforts made due to the constraints of nature. Amy, you know, no matter how small a machine is, it is as heavy as a mountain in my opinion, because it is the weight of a civilization."