Itamen and the Queen looked at the portal hesitantly, but the current situation did not allow for too much hesitation.
The queen mustered up her courage, closed her eyes tightly, hugged Etamen and passed through the portal. Lu Xiao immediately closed the portal from this side.
"Huh~ Mission accomplished, it's time to go see what Yongzhen and the others are playing."
Lu Xiao disappeared from the palace. When the soldiers arranged by Bahawa arrived at the palace, they could only see eight charred corpses in front of the gate. Itamen and the queen had long since disappeared.
The messy palace no longer had the tight defense that had been used to block the door, so Lu Xiao left the palace easily.
Just when Lu Xiao was about to use Focus to ask about the whereabouts of Yongzhen and Aloy, Consus rushed back at that moment.
"Lu Xiao, I found Bahawa's residence."
Pausing for a moment, Lu Xiao stood on the outer wall of the palace and thought about it.
"Do you want to kill it first... hmm?"
The distant view of the eagle's eyes allowed Lu Xiao to discover something strange in the desert. An army of about a thousand people was approaching the Sunset Castle, raising a large amount of sand and dust. It would take at most 10 minutes to reach the gate.
"Sirius?"
The huge group of machines following the human army made Lu Xiao's pupils shrink.
"Hey... isn't this a joke?"
I don’t know what Sirius wanted to do when he rushed back to Sunset Castle this time. In addition to dozens of Degenerates and hundreds of common mechanical beasts, Lu Xiao also found several Thunderfangs and a dozen Windbacks behind the team.
, and two large war machines that have never been seen before.
"Is that the weapon of war that Orin mentioned?"
Narrowing his eyes, Lu Xiao gave up the idea of assassinating Bahawa. Now is not the time to consider this issue.
The newly emerged war machine does not have the slightest bit of beast form. It is equipped with a huge number of weapons. It has amazing firepower at a glance. The thickness of the military armor is not comparable to that of civilian beast-shaped machines. I am afraid that even Thunder Fang is not its opponent.
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In addition, there are hundreds of lightning eagles flying in the sky, including several giant mechanical birds with a wingspan of more than 10 meters.
This is the Stormbird, the overlord of the sky who can spit out thunder and lightning.
Time was running out, and Lu Xiao couldn't take care of the frail human soldiers around him.
After jumping off the palace wall, Lu Xiao found the vent through which Aloy and Yongzhen entered the ruins, used eagle vision to locate the two people, and accelerated along the path they took.
The gates along the way are blocked by Aletheia's modification program. Consus, who has the same origin as Aletheia, can unlock these blockades.
Due to a serious incident in the palace, most of the soldiers who originally planned to break into the ruins diverted away, leaving only a small number to block the ruins to prevent the intruders from escaping.
When Lu Xiao found Yongzhen and Aloy, they were standing in front of a separate holographic display stage.
"ZD-0-2 image data is not damaged, start initialization playback."
Patting Yongzhen on the shoulder and saying hello from behind, Lu Xiao looked at the holographic image that was gradually taking shape and asked: "I didn't expect there is a ruins here. Have you found any important clues?"
"Shh~"
Yongzhen put his finger in front of his mouth with a serious expression: "Don't talk yet, watch this video."
Displayed on the display stand was a middle-aged woman who was dressed somewhat sloppily. Her appearance looked very similar to Aloy's, but there were some differences in age.
Aloy opened his mouth in surprise: "This person is the person I saw in the Focus left behind by the Eclipse Cult, and he is also the reason why Sirius wants to kill me!"
Yongzhen nodded: "Elizabeth Sobek, the leader of the Zero Dawn project."
'Project Zero Dawn?'
Lu Xiao raised his eyebrows, but at this time Elizabeth's image had begun to speak, so he suppressed his doubts for the time being.
"Being here means that you have learned the truth from General Herres."
Elizabeth looked very tired and her voice was a little hoarse, but she still managed to gather her energy and said: "What he said is true. Faro's mechanical plague is devouring the ecosystem, and all life on earth will eventually become extinct."
"We are unable to save contemporary lives, but we can create a future for life, a hope for mankind to rise again."
"This is the core of the Zero Dawn project, to build a super intelligence that does not age and manage the planet transformation system through it."
"Yes, we need an AI, a true artificial intelligence."
At this point, Elizabeth's tone gradually became passionate: "An artificial intelligence with complete consciousness must have enough ability to handle trillions of choices, transform the planet step by step over a long period of time, and let the lifeless nature
Get a new lease of life.”
Elizabeth raised her hand to signal, and a set of holographic PPT pictures appeared next to her.
"We named it Gaia, the AI version of Mother Earth."
"But Gaia is only the core and coordinator of the entire system. It also needs a large number of supporting subordinate programs to assist it in completing the work of planetary transformation and civilization restart."
"These slave programs are not AI, but the difficulty of making each program exceeds any problem that humans have challenged so far."
Perhaps thinking of the bright future after the plan is completed, Elizabeth's pale face turned red and her mood became excited.
"Illusia, who can preserve and breed hundreds of millions of seeds and embryos, and regenerate life."
"Apollo that preserves the history, culture and knowledge of human civilization."
"Hephaestus who assisted Gaia in designing the planet transformation system and helped her create various mechanical beasts needed to maintain the natural ecology."
"We don't need to complete the entire system, we only need to build a framework for it, and the planet transformation system controlled by Gaia will automatically complete the remaining parts."
Elizabeth ignored whether her future colleagues in the audience could understand and continued to talk: "In the next period of time, you will understand the purpose of these programs, participate in their design, and coordinate the cooperation between various programs."
"Gaia will continue to calculate the cracked codes required to shut down the Faroese war machine after the demise of mankind, with the help of the Minerva subroutine. This process will take about 50-60 years."
"It will build transmission arrays, spread the code, and permanently shut down those damn war machines."
"When all the dust settles, Gaia will let its own mechanical beasts sow cryopreserved plant seeds all over the world to help it restore the earth's vegetation, generate enough oxygen, and rebuild the ecosystem of wild animals."
"When Gaia deems the time is right, it will give birth to a new generation of humans in Ilucia Cradles everywhere."
"The new generation of humans will relearn and inherit human history and culture through the Apollo subroutine, understand the reasons for the demise of the first generation of humans, remember this painful lesson, and avoid making the same mistakes as us."
Elizabeth's physical and mental state was obviously not good when she recorded this video. After the excitement, she fell into fatigue again, and her voice became deeper.
"These ideas are not just fantasy. As long as we work together and do our best for the ultimate goal, I believe that the Zero Dawn plan will definitely come true."
Elizabeth sighed: "We can't prevent the end of life, but if you are willing to help me and help Gaia, we can leave hope for life on earth to rise again."
"Okay...Elizabeth Sobek is done."
Including Lu Xiao, the three of them were speechless for a long time after the images faded.
Such a grand life rebirth plan was actually completed in just sixteen months. Lu Xiao had to admire the creativity displayed by human beings in desperate situations.
'But there is another question, what is the role of Hades?'
Lu Xiao noticed that a series of Gaia's subroutines contained the name Hades, but Elizabeth did not introduce the purpose of Hades, nor did she know why it suddenly lost control and had its own intelligence.
"Let's go."
Lu Xiao patted Yongzhen Aloy on the shoulder, awakening the two of them from their contemplation and shock: "Continue the search, we still have problems that we have not solved."