Safras, who was held by An Tong's wrist, looked at him a little strangely, and asked suspiciously, "Child, what's wrong with you?" After saying that, he put a slight force on his hand, trying to break free of his wrist, but An Tong still held his wrist firmly, stared into his eyes, and asked again: "Marshal, who are you?" ”

In the face of Antong's disrespectful behavior, Safras did not show annoyance or anger, but continued very patiently and gently: "Poor child, it seems that the pressure I have brought you is too heavy..."

"No, Marshal. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 An Tong shook his head, slowly took a few steps back under his feet, opened up a little distance, and then continued: "Although the height, size, face and voice are different, whether it is your sitting posture, standing posture, or the actions of putting tea leaves, pouring water, and handing over teacups, they are exactly the same as another person... It can even be said that there is no such coincidence in this world, is it? ”

After that, he finally let go of the other party's wrist, took the teacup from Safras's hand, handed it to his lips and sniffed it gently, and continued: "Even the tea leaves and the temperature of the water are the same... So should I call you Marshal, or should I call you Lao Ji? ”

While uttering these shocking remarks, he put his hand in his trouser pocket and quietly operated his personal terminal.

Safras finally put away his kind and kind gaze, turned his head to look at the wall on his left, and said, "Don't be so nervous, if I really want to hurt you, that alone won't protect you..."

An Tong's face changed suddenly, it was his own high-tech armor that he had secretly operated before, so that the armor that had been maintaining mimicry stealth followed him to the outside of the wall of the reception room, and the slightest movement could immediately break through the wall and enter... However, this camouflage, which escaped the detection of various high-tech instruments, was actually discovered by the old man in front of him with cloudy eyes through a high-quality soundproof wall?

"Relax, my friend, we haven't seen each other in a long time, haven't we? Don't make this long-lost reunion so unpleasant. Safras continued, his voice at first remaining the same old and deep voice as before, but by the time he said the second half of the sentence, it had changed to the one that Antong was familiar with.

And his face was like a clay sculpture of water, quickly melting into a mirrored liquid, and then it twisted violently, regaining that familiar face, An Tong's first friend in this world, engineer Ji Chao.

"Insight beyond the average and accurate memory." The creature named Ji Chao nodded at An Tong, a smile appeared on his face, "I can find something wrong from such small details, I really didn't misunderstand you." ”

With that, he sat back in his chair, picked up the cup of tea he had brewed earlier, took a sip, and said, "It's been a long time since I've had such a leisurely cup of tea, but can you tell me why you pay attention to even such tiny details?" My friend. ”

An Tong exhaled deeply, sat back in his chair, and said very casually: "It's just some habits left over from past work." ”

"Wasn't you really a private detective or something like that?" The unknown creature on the other side was even in the mood to make a little joke.

An Tong didn't have any idea of laughing, shook his head, and said, "You have never learned humor, it seems that human humor is a very complicated thing for you." ”

"You have a lot of things that are complicated for me." The other side said self-deprecatingly, took off the military uniform with the marshal's brief, and revealed a white shirt with an ordinary texture underneath.

"Well, who the hell are you? What should I call you? An Tong played with the teacup in his hand, and quickly restored his heart to calm with the help of the temperature of the tea.

"Old Ji, Safras, Marshal, you can... My standard codename is called the Enclosed Guardian Smart Special X-20071124, which is quite verbose, you can also simply call me Guardian X, or X. The other side briefly introduced himself, and then added: "As you can see, it's an artificial intelligence." ”

"You..."Although An Tong had such a preparation in his heart the moment he saw the other party's face change, but when he said it face-to-face, his heart was inevitably full of shock and loss, the shock is easy to understand, and that loss is probably because he lost his first friend in this world, right?

"I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask, and I'll answer them for you in the rest of the time, but before that—" X said slowly, "I must tell you one thing first, my duty and all my actions are to protect you humans, just like my name says, so I want you to trust me, just like we did before." ”

"It depends on what you're about to say." An Tong said coldly.

"Okay." X shrugged his shoulders very humanely, and said: "First of all, I want to tell you my origin, just like the ship mother and the deep fog, as well as the overrail train and the portal you passed through when you came, in fact, many people feel the huge and insurmountable gap between these things and the basic technology of this world, and they guess that these come from some kind of prehistoric technology, or some special organization?" None of this is the right answer... Actually, like the creatures, I came from the Sixth World, to be exact, from a research institute in the Sixth World. ”

"The Sixth World?" An Tong's mouth opened slightly in surprise and asked.

"Yes, the portal doesn't connect only five worlds, in fact, it can connect at least tens of millions of worlds, or planes, parallel universes? In terms of what you can understand, this is probably the case, but not every world has an earth in this corresponding spatial coordinate, and if there is an earth, not all humanoid intelligent life lives on it, and that is only a very small part of it. ”

"The portal was created by the civilization of the sixth world, which is called World 0, and their civilization has grown beyond your imagination, like this portal, which is completely incomprehensible with your level of technology, is just a special equipment in a laboratory for them." X said, paused, then looked at An Tong, and added: "The gap between you and them is far greater than the gap between you and the primitives, you can probably understand the distance, right?" ”

"And then?" An Tong seemed to have opened a wonderful novel at this time, and couldn't wait to read the next page.

"Then there was the laboratory that managed the portal to undertake a weapon development project, but unfortunately in the end the bid failed, and the experimental weapon created became scrapped, and it was necessary to find a suitable space to dispose of it." X continued.

"That's the deep fog? Is that right? They used this place as a garbage dump and threw the deep fog over? An Tong hurriedly asked.

"Yes, this waste product is the deep fog, but they made a small mistake in the process of discarding it, they mistakenly thought that the earth of this world was just a barren wasteland, an ideal place to comply with the waste discharge law, so they brewed a series of tragedies that followed... Thankfully, they discovered this in time, and then carried out a humanitarian rescue of the civilization here in accordance with the waste disposal guidelines... So here I am. X said.

"Humanitarian?" An Tong asked a little funny.

"Yes, humanitarianism, it's like you put sewage into a river, poison a lot of it, and then treat it the other way around... Of course, this metaphor is not particularly appropriate, but it is not far off. X said with some embarrassment.

"Do we look like fish and frogs in the river?" An Tong asked self-deprecatingly.

X shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "It's a pity, it's probably just like a water weed... If it weren't for the fear of being punished by the corresponding laws and regulations, they wouldn't care about your life or death at all, just like you don't care about water and weeds. ”

An Tong sighed, shook his head helplessly, and continued to ask, "Is this the way they got?" If they want to clean up the mess they left behind, and since they have unattainable technology, why not use some more effective means? Instead, in such a primitive way? ”

"Cost, my friend, cost. Just as your ultimate choice for disposing of your waste is to bury and incinerate rather than reorganise molecules, they also have to do things at cost. "In that world, all actions have clear legal terms, and each person or organization has clear rights and obligations, and all their actions cannot be exceeded, so this method is the best choice that can be taken out within the authority they have, taking into account the cost, and at the same time complying with the law." ”

"Better governance either consumes too many resources and is beyond the reach of the Institute; Either it involves some patented technology that their research institute has not authorized, and they have no right to use it; Telling you about the technical principles and letting you solve them on your own violates several provisions in the Alien Civilization Negotiation Act that you must not interfere with the technological development of other civilizations, and the point is that it may take you hundreds of years to understand... So in the end, they developed a new humanoid weapon that uses CR104 energy on the basis of the discarded experimental product, to fight against the experimental product that uses CR397 energy, which is the ship mother and the deep fog, net energy and devouring energy. ”

"They set up the formed ship technology to be used in a way that you can understand and then give it to you, and at the same time compensated you to set up some ancillary facilities that use low-level technology and do not involve patent rights, namely over-orbital trains and the existing medical system, and finally grant you limited use of their dimensional portals, that's all they do."

After An Tong heard this, the shock in his heart made him silent for a long time.