Chapter 16 Junkyard
After returning home, Zero recalled this D-level afforestation mission, and was only afraid.
As far as her weak hand/gun is concerned, the enemy does not move and let her fight without distinction, let alone close. The next time I encounter a powerful deformer, I am afraid that the other party can kick her off with one kick.
Melee combat is a weakness, and a lack of long-range firepower is also a big problem.
The point is that there is no money.
Zero sighed deeply, being a social person is really hard.
Just then someone knocked on the door.
"Good afternoon, FedEx is here for you."
Sid went out to meet the logistics robot at the door, and quickly returned with the express box: "Zero, someone sent you a package."
"Mine?" She sat up from the chair.
"Yes, the recipient wrote 'to the great lady zero', is that your friend?" The
question is, except for Lunan Jesse, no one knows that she lives here, and it doesn't look like a maid. Soldiers' handwriting.
When I opened it with no doubts, I saw that the exquisite wooden box was padded with flannel, and there was a beautiful silver watch in the center. The style was simple and neutral, and it was new at first glance.
After observing it for a long time, she didn't dare to touch it. She is half a black family in this society... The only thing that has a connection is the hidden weapon used by the Third Research Institute to kill her, right? !
After a stalemate for a moment, the Bubble Bobble watch on his wrist suddenly rang.
"Don't you like it?"
Ling pondered for a while and then came back to his senses: "Dabao, could it be that you sent this package?" The
other party replied very quickly, with a hint of urgency in his tone: "Yes, this is me. Zero you Don't you like it?"
She ignored the second half of the sentence.
this is me.
Ling Zhi was stunned for a moment before reacting: "You mean, this is your doppelganger!"
In the artificial intelligence of the modern sci-fi world, is the entity actually separable? !
The voice fell, the silver watch flashed, and an unfamiliar male voice came out. It was very pleasant and magnetic, and it sounded not too old.
"First meeting, Zero. Next time I meet danger, I will be by your side."
She really couldn't control her expression this time.
Dabao turned out to be a boy, but she always thought he was a virtual idol, just like Xiaobai in Baisha City.
She happily buckled the silver watch on her wrist, the tentacles were cool, and the delicate metal buckles were automatically arranged to adjust the tightness, as if a machine had come alive.
The first time Zero saw it, he couldn't help but be surprised: "It's amazing, what material is this made of?"
"The latest microscopic technology of the Federation: the ninth generation of nano-robots, which can be combined at will." An Ling said lightly, as if he was not introducing himself. itself.
"Leaving a part/body with Zero, I can provide more comprehensive protection, and can also be used as a terminal and a phone."
"Zero, please rest assured, I will not disturb your life, I will automatically turn on the standby protection mode. , there will be no eavesdropping, and there will be no hidden danger of invasion of privacy. If you are still uneasy, you can choose to turn off the power when you are at home."
Zero was surprised by Dabao's thoughtfulness and understanding, "Thank you, I am not worried. However, Dabao, do you have any other styles? I prefer the previous bubble dragon..." The
silver trendy watch on the wrist was silent.
After a while, An Ling didn't say a word, and transformed into the appearance of the former Bubble Dragon watch, but it was completely new.
Zero's eyes lit up, and he almost jumped up: "Dabao, you are amazing!! I'm impressed by you! It's amazing, not only a super hacker but also deformed at will, your voice is also very nice, your body must be very handsome..."
His master controller, which is far away, seems to be hot, and even all the hosts start to calculate frantically, and strings of meaningless codes are swept across the screen.
An Ling: I gradually lost myself in the loud voices and praises.
Two days after returning home, the task of going out has not been settled yet, and Zero can no longer sit still.
The mechanical corgi was seriously injured in the previous battle. Originally, he only lost an ear, and now even the internal system is beginning to be disordered.
She sighed and looked at Dongdong, who was chasing Sid around in the living room, and even started to learn how to croak "giggle" and run around in anxiety.
It has forgotten that it is a dog, and it is urgent to repair it, but she has no money!
So Zero racked his brains and suddenly thought of a place.
She tapped the watch on her wrist with her finger, leaned closer and whispered: "Dabao asks you something, the dismantling center... Can I go in and visit?"
Anling cut off his body consciousness almost as soon as he felt the touch. come over.
"The dismantling factory does not allow outsiders to enter, and has a very strict access control system. But the garbage dump at the rear is completely open."
But in an instant, he reasoned out her wishes.
"Zero wants mechanical parts, and I can provide you with better ones."
She waved her hand: "It is illegal to embezzle public funds! I just want to visit the dismantling center and pick up garbage. I mean if, in case, If there is something they don’t want, how can we use it?”
An Ling wanted to say that this possibility is extremely low, he was silent for a moment, and finally said: “Don’t take risks, the safest route has been planned for you and sent to In the terminal, if any danger is detected, I will take action."
Zero patted her chest: "Don't worry, treasure."
She said she was going to pick up trash, but she didn't want to compete with those homeless people for business, and wanted to be more covert.
So I waited until it was completely dark, wearing a turtleneck trench coat, a hat, a mask and a flashlight, and went fully armed with a pocket on my back.
She didn't bring Sid with her, and the mechanical housekeeper was walking with a bang, and the movement was too loud. Zero steps briskly ran towards the dismantling center. When passing through the back door of the community, he saw a thin, tall shadow hovering stiffly. It was the security robot without an arm.
This is an old acquaintance, the only security robot that survived the scissor man incident, and is still serving. It saw Zero approaching, raising the intact arm motionless, as if to say hello.
Zero recognized it immediately and waved her hand: "Hi No. 3386, good evening, you are on duty today!"
She didn't expect the robot to reply to the greeting, and ran out of the community quickly after speaking.
Only the slow-reacting robot was left standing there, watching her back disappear into the night.
The dismantling center is not far from the old town, behind which is the garbage dump. This place is the dirtiest and lowest place in the entire Baisha City. It is the base camp for those professional scavengers, and it is also the existence that deals with the dark side of the Federation.
As he walked along the way, he saw many simple shacks, with many daily necessities at the door, and rainwater in the washbasin.
- These people can't even afford to live in the shabby houses of the old town.
Except for the huge factory building that surrounds the power grid, she can't get in, and the garbage dump in the back has no walls at all.
All kinds of unrecoverable rubbish piled up on the open space at will, becoming rotten and rusted hills, and some of them were even covered with thick dust. There are several forklifts parked at the foot of some hills, supposed to be for final treatment.
Zero turned on the flashlight, and carefully buried his head in the garbage mountain to pick and choose. Most of the metals with recycling value have been picked up by the homeless, and the rest are mostly plastic products and synthetics, which cannot be sold for money.
"crunch-"
She stepped on something, and when she looked down, it was the arm of an old robot. The latter looked a bit like Sid, both of which were old-fashioned.
But Sid was waiting at home, but only his upper body was left. The energy source in his chest was dug out, revealing an empty gap, and all valuables disappeared, leaving only the broken and decayed body.
They become the remnants of the growth of the tech tree, the remnants of the advancement of mechanical upgrades.
Zero took a few glances and walked over in silence.
Touring the junkyard for an hour, she picked up some spare parts that could be used, and the cloth pocket she carried with her gradually filled up.
I dug out a chip from a scrapped radio, and blew it in the palm of my hand. I was looking at it under the flashlight, and suddenly I smelled a burning smell on the tip of my nose.
Fire? !
This is a big deal.
She followed the wind direction quickly to find it, and soon saw a bright fire. But it wasn't a fire, it was a bonfire that someone raised.
Zero immediately hid behind the wall to hide himself, and quietly revealed one eye to look at it.
The bonfire didn't burn much, but there were dense figures around it. It turned out to be a large number of scavengers, and among them were many ordinary people who were not homeless. They seemed to be holding some strange ceremony.
Zero is suspicious, but has no clue.
She made up her mind to observe, and crouched down behind the cover. At this moment, the noisy crowd suddenly quieted down, and a thin middle-aged man stepped out of the crowd with his head held high and very confident.
"God—! My great god, I'm finally getting closer to you today!"
"I'm going to you, I hope you can purify us with mighty power, purify the pollution and viruses in the flesh/body!" he shouted, his tone Excited and frantic, he tore his shirt while repeating some incomprehensible sentences.
God? Zero suddenly thought of the mercenary who believed in the God of Machinery on the military card when he went to the desert.
Are they talking about a god?
It's just that before she could guess, the man stripped off his clothes and slammed straight into the fire, screaming and screaming in an instant.
Zero slammed his mouth shut.
"Crackling--"
With the sound of flames burning human flesh, the smell in the air soon changed from the original wood-burning smell to a strange burnt-meat smell.
The people surrounding them not only did not rescue them, but kneeled down reverently and began to kowtow, raising their arms around the bonfire and shouting.
"Abandoning the flesh/mortal body, the machine will eventually become a god!"
"May the gods come to my body and give us real cleansing!"
"Believe in the god of machines can eliminate the sin of genetic diseases!"
What are the fanatical believers shouting , with the figure twisting in the fire, the atmosphere is extremely terrifying.
In a cold sweat, she saw the severely burned person being dragged out after a long while, and she didn't know whether she was dead or alive. Another person came out of the crowd, transformed his arm into a chainsaw, and cut it down at the man's black limbs...
Zero turned back suddenly and didn't dare to look at it again. She gritted her teeth to calm down, and touched her trembling fingertips. to the wrist watch.
A reassuring reply immediately sounded in the earphones: "I'm here." After
hearing the male voice that was always calm, Zero's beating heart calmed down a little. She was short of breath, terrified to be discovered, and dared not speak at all.
An Ling's soothing voice sounded in the earphones: "This is a meeting of the Mechanicus sect, don't worry, these people are very weak, the risk factor is not high, I can handle it. Most of them are the unemployed of the old era, replaced by machines. One of the
three major forces in the Federation, the Church of the Mechanicus has close ties with the government and chaebols, and even has its own pillar industry, which is the most common religion among the lower-class people in the Federation. Belief.
Its teachings are 'abandoning the flesh/mortal body and pursuing the machine to become a god'. Some fanatics remodeled themselves like crazy, and went farther and farther away from the flesh and blood in order to achieve spiritual liberation.
But the fact is that extreme reformers still cannot escape genetic diseases, and more than 80% of the degree of mechanical modification will gradually lose their humanity.
But the believers have been thoroughly brainwashed. They don't pursue the quality and rank of prosthetic limbs, nor do they care about the disappearing human relations. They only blindly pursue a high degree of mechanization and make themselves inhumane.
"No one knows if the God of Machinery really exists, or if it's just a delusion."
Zero remained silent, listening to Dabao briefly explain to her in the earphone, only to feel that the state of his legs was slightly better. The distortion of this society is breaking her lower limit all the time.
"It's time for you to go back, it's getting late, rest early and don't recall." An Ling suggested.
Zero nodded, she really wasn't in the mood to stay any longer, she carried her pockets and walked away cautiously without making any movement.
But she didn't notice that a congregation turned her head when she left.
The other side was inlaid with a pair of see-through mechanical eyes. The man looked towards the direction Zero left, and tilted his neck at a strange angle.
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How did you suddenly find out that Anling has the attribute of a father?