The door to the Palace of Miracles never opened again.
But unexpectedly, Alpha 4000, which was trapped under the shield spacecraft, was accidentally rescued.
What saves it are the Saru 9600 guard robot and the Venerable 2900 robot.
The Venerable was still dragging the box and looked the same as before.
But Salu has changed a lot.
It really has its own facial features and has learned to smoke cigars.
"Come, look at this little guy, he's pretty cute, isn't he?" Saru picked up the dirty Alpha 4000.
Because of its limited thinking ability, Alpha 4000 did not know what Saru was talking about. It only knew that it had been rescued and that the being in front of it had very powerful energy.
Then a smiling face and a string of Chinese and English bilingual phrases appeared on Alpha's body.
"Thank you, please help me recharge...um..." Saru thought for a moment and then raised his eyebrows, his palms changed, and several arcs flashed.
Alpha instantly felt full of energy.
It has never been as "energetic" as it is today. Even when it first appeared, it only maintained an equilibrium state of 80%.
But Saru opened its upper limit, giving it energy intensity far beyond what it had before.
"(*￣v￣)" Alpha expressed his gratitude to Saru with an ancient emoticon.
Saru put Alpha on the ground and blew out a puff of smoke: "Okay, kid, we still have important things to do. Be careful and don't fall into the impact crater again."
Alpha didn't understand, but it turned around and looked at the pit not far away that had trapped it for more than a thousand years. There was a warning in the memory core.
"Slow down and pay attention to avoid".
Alpha didn't realize its changes, it re-planned its route, and then rolled away.
Looking at Alpha walking away, Saru smiled and said: "This little thing is so ruthless, he will leave as soon as he says it."
His Holiness said: “The Alpha 4000 robot is a housekeeping robot produced at the end of the Leap Forward Era. This kind of robot does not have an independent thinking core. All instructions rely on the central axis core of the city, and the internal memory core capacity is also extremely limited.
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"Hey, hey, hey...didn't you agree to be concise and to the point?" Salu interrupted the venerable.
The Venerable paused for a moment and then said: "It shouldn't appear here."
Saru understood, and nodded: "It's a bit strange, but no matter what, humans have disappeared for so many years, and there is no one else it can serve on the earth... Tsk... Put it this way, this little thing
It’s quite pitiful.”
The Venerable looked at the direction in which Alpha disappeared. It had gone along the road to the depths of the forest and was now out of sight.
"Let's go, let's find a place to bury him, and then think about what we are going to do next." Saru picked up a cigar and walked along the road in the opposite direction to Alpha.
After being silent for a while, the Venerable dragged the box and followed Salu's footsteps.
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After escaping from the pothole, Alpha's body's operational capabilities seemed to have improved a lot.
It felt like a child who had been separated from his family for many years finally embarked on the road home, with "brisk steps" and "excited" heart.
But as he walked, Alpha felt that everything around him became strange.
At this time, its alert system begins to wake up.
In order to ensure that Alpha can serve as a certain security guard in housekeeping services, the original designer placed a warning system in it.
But this is very low-level
alert system.
Alpha 4000 can only generate alerts for unfamiliar environments or unfamiliar moving objects, and provide early warning and counterattack electric shocks.
It can be said to be a very "safe" way of warning.
But now, this Alpha 4000, which has been trapped for an unknown number of years, has undergone some subtle changes during its long journey into the pit.
The change is subtle and shouldn't have happened.
After all, Alpha is not an advanced artificial intelligence, it is just a sub-series of housekeeping service robots managed by a central matrix.
But now it seems that the original designer quietly added some variables to the limited memory core of the Alpha 4000.
Some subtle variables that have curiosity and exploration ability in unfamiliar environments.
These variables allow Alpha 4000 to start paying attention to everything around it.
When it traveled for fifteen days and came to a beach, it stopped.
It was not that there was a problem with the road planning in front of me, but that a huge thing moving on the sea in the distance made it "curious".
From the Alpha 4000 single-group 66-megapixel vision system, we can see that on the distant sea, 900 to 1,000 meters away from the beach, there is a "ragdoll bear" with a height of about 600 meters.
At this time, it was moving along the coastline. Countless seabirds used this super "ragdoll bear" as a mobile habitat. They built nests on the ragdoll bear's body and relied on it to hunt fish in the nearby sea.
kind.
When seeing the "Puppet Bear", the memory core of Alpha 4000 was sensitive to the fact that this thing was very familiar to it.
Yes.
very familiar.
Alpha's memory clearly recorded that this was his little master's sleeping partner.
It's soft and looks cute, but it's also dirty.
Because in Alpha's eyes, the stuffed bear is a breeding ground for mites and is also contaminated with a lot of hair, bacteria and the saliva of its little owner.
But Alpha will not burn the puppet bear. It will follow the instructions and clean the puppet bear once a week.
Now this ocean is like the cleaning machine Alpha used before, just a little too big...
Alpha only realized "big", but did not think about why such a huge "ragdoll bear" appeared on the sea. What is it? Who put it here?
After watching for a while, Alpha continued on his way.
This time it was significantly faster.
The road damage along the coast was much better than that on the forest side.
Alpha encountered many potholes on the road, but this time it avoided them well.
When dusk fell and the stuffed bears on the sea were far behind, the ocean around Alpha disappeared and it returned to the inland.
Only a few stubborn architectural ruins remain in the coastal city, standing amid lush vegetation.
When Alpha compared the city in the memory core with it, he could not recognize the city he was familiar with at this time.
It has no emotional element, but its movement speed is accelerating.
Until, a ray of light suddenly passed in front of it, and then destroyed the ruins not far away.
The early warning mechanism made Alpha aware of the approaching danger. It quickly spun around and buried itself in the soil, leaving only half of its "head" to observe its surroundings.
Then it saw two robots fighting not far away.
One is Salu with a humanoid outline, and the other is a venerable person who looks like a stone tablet.
Alpha said: "Uh-oh?", indicating that it was difficult to understand.
Because in its memory, these two robots should be partners, but now... they actually started fighting.
.
Saru waved the weapon in his hand, and every attack was very straightforward.
The Venerable, who was not born for fighting, suffered a lot from Saru's fierce attacks, but fortunately its body composition was very special, and this level of damage was acceptable to it.
However, what His Holiness could not accept was what Salu was saying at this moment.
"Humanity has completely disappeared! But you still want to carry out this kind of order! Bury! Bury your uncle!"
Saru pierced the Venerable's heart with a knife, but the Venerable soon turned into an O shape and retreated far away. It did not suffer much damage.
"Execution of orders is our basic program. Even if humans have disappeared, we cannot disobey it." The Venerable's tone was very calm. The silver lines on both sides of its "eyes" flashed twice and then dimmed.
The continuous fruitless attacks made Saru a little angry. He glanced at the black box in the distance and sneered: "Order! Well, I will blow up this damn order!" Saru raised his weapon and aimed it.
He picked up the box and activated the weapon system without hesitation.
The Lord did not realize that Saru's evolution was so complete and crazy. When the silver lines on both sides of its "eyes" lit up, Saru's attack was completed.
So...almost at the same time.
The black box was blown to pieces, and the human bones in the box were turned into ashes and disappeared completely.
And what about Saru...
It couldn't believe that His Holiness would actually attack it for an order.
But the reality is that His Holiness did so.
It was so loyal, but... its reaction was a little slow... and it failed to successfully protect the box containing human bones.
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Saru fell.
Its body became three sections.
But it didn't die there. For a robot, as long as its independent thinking core is intact, it doesn't matter even if the built-in energy core is completely extinguished.
What's more, His Holiness deliberately avoided these two key positions.
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"Is it really that important to you to carry out the orders left by an extinct species?" Saru asked.
The Venerable came close. Its body was constructed from 70 million independent units, which allowed it to not only change its own form at will, but also repair others when necessary.
But now His Holiness did not help Saru.
It replied coldly: "Commands have the highest priority, and operations that do not conform to the basic program should be denied."
Saru understood this and smiled.
The smile was a little strange.
"Then... what are we to humans? Are we tools? Slaves? Or partners?"
The Venerable replied: "The purpose of mankind's creation of me is very clear. You are a guard robot and a guardian. I am a pilot-level robot and the guide of star field flight. This has been determined from the beginning of creation."
"Hehehe..." Saru understood, it could never change the Venerable.
Because its memory core never has those necessary variables.
Thinking of this, Saru sighed deeply: "In that case, it shouldn't be okay to disappear..."
Just as the Venerable was about to say something, everything in his field of vision was replaced by a dazzling light.
Alpha 4000, who was watching all this from a distance, saw a warning pop up in front of his eyes, and then immediately deployed the force field, wrapping himself in it...
About ten days passed.
Under the setting sun, Alpha began to climb the pit again.