"You!"

Annoyed by the other party's bad attitude of looking down on people, Zero was a little angry, but he felt that it was boring to quarrel with an inflatable doll waiter, and finally swallowed what he wanted to say. She threw down a thank you and walked out amid the clerk's unrelenting counting.

As soon as he went out, seeing the smile on Ling Mo's face, Zero was a little angry, and couldn't help but complain: "Are all the mechanical demonic beasts of such poor quality?

"Don't mind, even if mechanical creatures are intelligent, their innate rigid nature will make them speak more straightforwardly, whether they like it or dislike it, and they are not as subtle as human society. Ling Mo smiled and explained:

"Moreover, you offended that inflatable doll twice as soon as you opened your mouth. First of all, look at her clothes, she is not a waitress but a proprietress ; secondly, look at the floor, there are traces of the installation of large batteries, indicating that the other party has also thought about the transformation, serving those new energy machinery monsters that respond to the call for energy conservation and emission reduction, but it is obvious that the final transformation failed The equipment was dismantled, and she heard that you wanted to charge, and thought that you were sarcastic about yourself, so naturally there was no good face. ”

“...... Am I so unpleasant?" Zero was speechless, and in all fairness, if she herself was stung twice in a short sentence, it would be difficult to guarantee that she would not fight back, let alone a mechanical inflatable doll that went straight up. After learning the truth, she didn't dwell too much, and instead asked:

"Dad, where is the '* Sinopec' mentioned by the clerk just now?"

"Oh, *Sinopec! This is a great chain restaurant!" Ling Mo responded, and then said with emotion: "From the perspective of mechanical demonic beasts, this is a top-notch multinational restaurant, ordinary gas stations only open stores in the sphere of influence of molten city, and *Sinopec has many branches in the whole continent, known as 'wherever mechanical demonic beasts go, *Sinopec will follow'."

Five-star high-end restaurants like this are generally opened in the city center, as the city's landmark, how spectacular, how extravagant how to come, from this pedestrian street into the inside, walk through two shopping malls about to arrive. ”

Zero's eyes straightened as she listened, and she had a new understanding of the pain of those mechanical monsters in Molten City, and although Pikachu in her arms was weak, her vital signs were still stable at this time, so she was not particularly anxious, and she was in the mood to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the road.

The location they are in now, with the analogy of human society, is probably the location of the business district in the city center, the shops on both sides of the road, selling the most consumed food, use, and wear in daily life, each store is colorful, clean and tidy, low-end and mid-range high-end stores have everything to meet different consumer groups.

For example, the 'Wallace Hardware Store' on the street is full of all kinds of fast fried steel, fried aluminum, baked tires and the like, probably because the banner at the door of the store reads 'New products are on the market and come to buy quickly', so this Wallace is full of people, and there is a long queue of mechanical monsters at the door. A round-headed robot child less than half a person tall was pulling his mother's long steel skirt and crying: Mom, I just want to eat the Wallace fried aluminum strip Big Mac burger! Its mother snatched the edge of her skirt from the bear child's hand, and looked at the black handprints on the edge of her tin skirt in distress and was furious: Eat shit! You unlucky child who picked it up! Mommy doesn't want you anymore!

The Wallace hardware store is doing well, and the 'Watsons Sheet Metal Spray Paint Supplies' in the street is also quite popular. Many slender female mechanical monsters with soft design curves are strolling and shopping in the store, and each mechanical monster is accompanied by a well-spoken shopping guide inflatable doll with thick paint on its face. If you get a little closer, you can hear the shopping guide fooling the customer: Oh, this iron train man beauty, you see that you have been running at high speed for a long time, and the patent leather on your face is a little dry, and there are some fine lines to show that you are old! Try our 'ex-boyfriend mask', which is attached to the patent leather, which can effectively hydrate your skin and make your patent leather look shiny and bright...... What do you ask for the price?Big sale 998! As long as 998, you can take it home!

Of course, the best business is the 'Uniqlo Exterior Armor Store' at the end of the street with a clearance big disposal sign, and the rows of stylishly designed exterior armor are marked with attractive low prices. Through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, you can see many aunt-level mechanical monsters holding several pieces of external armor in one hand, and while gesturing at themselves, they surrounded the cash register three layers inside and three layers outside. The eight cashiers lined up were busy on all fours, and it seemed that they couldn't handle the customers in the store in a few hours, and just like that, the mechanical monsters queuing up outside the door could still circle the store three times.

Suddenly, there were one exclamation after another from the store, and a large group of mechanical demonic beasts ran out of Hulala, almost squeezing the door, and some unknown Zero hurriedly grabbed an aunt and asked what was going on inside. The aunt looked at the few clothes she had taken advantage of the chaos to walk away from the store, pouted her lips when she heard the words, and said disdainfully: It's nothing, the two young people in the fitting room did that kind of thing, and they were too selfless to make a big move, and they knocked down the door of the fitting room. Speaking of this, the aunt robot smiled obscenely: Hey! A little young is a little young, and the hydraulic pipe is quite thick!

Standing on the overpass, listening to the cries of 'Jiangnan Tire Factory collapsed, the boss followed his sister-in-law and all goods were reduced at a reduced price', looking at the peaceful scene in front of him, and looking at the smiles on the faces of the mechanical monsters, Zero felt that he was completely at a loss, and had a sense of time and space confusion that he didn't know where he was.

After hesitating for a while, Zero still asked Ling Mo: "Dad, can these mechanical beings really be called 'Monsters'? How do I feel, in some ways, they are more civilized than us humans?

Ling Mo didn't think so much, it was holding a vanilla ice cream-flavored frozen steel bar in its hand, it was eating happily, it looked at Zero's eyes straight, hearing her question, Ling Mo quickly chewed the things in his mouth, swallowed it in one gulp, and then said slowly:

"After life has evolved a certain amount of intelligence, it will inevitably form a society. The energy and energy of an individual are limited, and it is impossible for a humanoid person like me to spin threads, make clothes, strike iron, or cook utensils by myself. That's why when I'm in the Beasts Rainforest, I have to wear skins and eat raw or roasted food. The higher the productivity, the clearer the division of labor in society, and the higher the quality of the individual; conversely, the lower the productivity, the more complicated the tasks that the individual needs to undertake, and the more barbaric the performance. ”

"And mechanical demonic beasts are different, their wisdom and knowledge are possessed immediately after birth, except for a very few individuals who can evolve, the vast majority of mechanical demonic beasts are impossible to break through their own 'factory settings' in this life, and they can't even do things outside the program, let alone evolve. In order to keep their society from a pool of stagnant water, after tens of thousands of years of the planned rationing system was in vogue, in the face of a lower and lower rate of evolution, the mechanical monsters decided to imitate human society and open the era of market economy. ”

"It's normal for you to have a strong sense of déjà vu and confusion in the city of mechanical monsters, after all, they are originally imitating human society of the same era. Of course, this imitation effect is very significant, I heard Meng Po say that six or seven hundred years ago, when the mechanical demonic beast imitated the human medieval society, the evolution rate had increased by 1.4%, and in the last one or two hundred years, after imitating the modern society of humans, the evolution rate has increased to an astonishing 9%!"

Hearing this, Zero had already understood, and she said thoughtfully, "No wonder...... If this is the case, then it is not wrong for these mechanical beings to still be called 'Warcraft'. They don't really need or like to live this life, they just follow the arrangement of the Molten City and 'act' according to the arrangement above, right?"

"That's right, the hot scene you see is just that in the core of the thinking of these mechanical monsters, they received the 'task' from the upper hair, and then lived their lives according to the mission guide. In essence, it's the same as those mechanical monsters that received the mobilization for war, lined up in a torrent of steel, and crushed everything else. ”

Ling Mo smiled and sighed with some regret:

"Not every mechanical monster is as interesting as that ragdoll bear, most of them have no good or evil, no right and wrong, no what they like and what they hate, and some models don't even feel pain. Human beings are accustomed to emotions, as long as these mechanical monsters can understand one aspect, they will greatly promote the evolution of the ontology. Last time I was in Molten City, I heard some Warcraft that have evolved say that in the process of 'acting', as long as you suddenly feel that you really like something, the door of evolution will slowly open to you. ”

"It's like a ragdoll bear likes food?" Zero immediately understood what Ling Mo meant, and asked, "I see that there are a lot of interesting things in this city, and those mechanical monsters, it shouldn't be difficult to find what they are interested in, right?"

"It's hard, it's very hard. Ling Mo denied Zero's speculation in one bite and said:

"I just said that the evolution rate is 9%, but it is actually a conclusion based on the data of pure mechanical and cyborgic Warcraft. If only pure mechanical demonic beasts are counted, then the evolution rate is only three percent of that of a poor baba! Although cold metal is stronger than flesh and blood in many aspects, such as hardness, toughness, performance, etc., in terms of change and evolution, it is hundreds of streets behind flesh and blood! Pure mechanical demonic beasts are ten times more difficult to evolve than cyborgic demonic beasts, you must admit that this is an objective fact, from this point of view, it is understandable and correct for the Golden Fortress to support cyborgic demonic beasts and suppress pure mechanical demonic beasts. ”

"Understandable?!Quite right?!"

Zero frowned, and expressed his objection in a fierce tone: "How can this be called correct? Analogous to human society, green-skinned humans have a low average IQ due to problems left over from history, can I classify greenskins as inferior and even genocide them because the IQ of ordinary-skinned people is generally higher than that of green-skinned humans? If this can also be called correct, then we obey the sect back then, thinking that the all-powerful lord is a human being, and those who do not believe are pagan demons. It's right that you should be burned to death?"

"I'm telling you that the facts are correct, and you don't want to talk to me about political correctness. ”

Ling Mo knocked on Zero's head, pointed his finger in the direction of the Molten City, and said, "You have also been a saint, you should understand that political correctness can only be talked about in an era of peace and prosperity, and once there is any emergency, there is no doubt that people will choose the path of 'factual correctness'. It is impossible for the Golden Fortress not to understand this, it is so hard and so urgent to promote the development of cyborg life, there is a great possibility that there is a crisis brewing in a place we don't know, so that the mighty Molten City is not sure to withstand it!"

“......”

Zero was frightened by Ling Mo for a moment, and shrugged after coming back to his senses: "This thing sounds quite terrifying, but it really has nothing to do with a little shrimp like me, if you can't bear it with the terrifying strength of Molten City, then all the people in human society will be dead! Oh yes, the terrible crisis, is it the 'Fifth Holy War' against the abyss that the Golden Fortress said just now?"

Andersen once told me that the battle with the Abyss was a regular battle, and it would happen every once in a while. Ling Mo guessed irresponsibly: "Actually, there is no need to be so pessimistic, the crisis in the Molten City may not be a crisis in human society, and if you are lucky, you may be able to pick up some leaks...... Well, * Sinopec has arrived. ”

In fact, there is no need for Ling Mo to say, Zero also noticed that he had entered the territory of Sinopec. It's just that she didn't expect that Ling Mo would be so ...... when she heard what kind of "five-star" restaurant it was Tattered.

Yes, tattered and rotten.

First of all, it is a good high square canopy, the side of the canopy on the red background is printed with four big characters of white * Sinopec, and below is a very large, but potholed gray square, two rows of boxy gas islands on the square are lined up in turn, where they are dilapidated, and many equipment are mottled everywhere, and they have begun to lose paint.

Is this a five-star street?!Are the fly restaurants on the street cleaner and cleaner than it?

Zero complained in her heart, but she actually knew that what Ling Mo said was true, because next to every refueling island, there were at least hundreds of mechanical demonic beasts around!

grabbed the refueling gun and stuffed the barrel into his oil port, with a look of enjoyment like a soul; The one who didn't grab it looked envious, and he was impatient to urge desperately on the side: Okay, okay, okay? Is it Lao Tzu's turn to be cool?

The refueling island is very lively, and the charging pile in the corner of the square is deserted to death, only two or three big cats and kittens, which is not too much to describe as a door. Zero hugged Pikachu and walked around the charging pile a few times, but he couldn't find where the socket was, so he couldn't help but turn his eyes to Ling Mo for help.

Ling Mo stepped forward a few steps, didn't even look at the charging pile, but took out a cigarette from his arms, handed two to a guy who looked like a fishman next to him, and said:

"Hey, brother, your equipment is also charged? Doesn't it mean that charging is cheaper than refueling? Brother has been making a lot of money lately, right?"

The white-covered fish-man was also a self-cooked, so he took the cigarette without much politeness, lit both of them, and stuffed them into the gill eyes on both sides of his cheeks. After listening to Ling Mo's words, he depressedly slapped the car he was charging and scolded:

"Niang Xipi! Make a fart! I just believe in the evil of the high-level energy-saving and emission reduction new energy strategy, and I bought such a broken car! Big and small problems continue, the battery life is still poor, and the driving time is not as long as the time to serve this car!"

After scolding, the fishman took a deep breath, spit out a smoke ring on the left and right gill eyes, looked Ling Mo up and down, his eyes lit up, he threw the trident in his hand, stepped forward and shook hands and said:

"Brother looks at the face! Is it a new customer? If you have a long-distance business, you can consider contacting me! By the way, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Fitz, nicknamed Tidal Sea Spirit, I don't know what my brother is called?"