Volume 8 Future World Chapter 57 What Are Animals?
Although the world's airplanes and other means of transportation are still in operation, Kotohime still doesn't know where there is an airport here, and if the computer is not connected to the Internet, it is impossible to search the map, and it is very difficult to find the airport.
By the way, if those people just asked them, could they get some information?
But they seem to be gone, and if I go back now, will I be able to find them?, Kotohime thinks she doesn't have the ability to find the five in this huge town. But Kotohime thought about it again, will there be a physical map here? Usually every city has it, but I don't know where to keep it.
No, I can't think of it, and Kotohime also feels that her energy has reached the limit and needs to take a break.
So Kotohime found a room, a room with a soft sofa, "Let's sleep here, and I'll think about other things when I get up tomorrow morning." ”
Thinking so, Kotohime closed her eyes.
In her sleep, Kotohime seemed to hear the sound of the zipper being opened, and then there was the sound of the bag being torn, and Kotohime frowned, and then opened her eyes.
In the corner, two thin figures were squatting and writhing, and Kotohime could vaguely see that they were two children, stealing food from their backpacks.
Kotohime didn't say anything to stop them, wondering why there were humans here. According to the previous people, this is the place where robots appear most frequently, and the danger is the greatest here.
But after seeing the petite bodies of the two children, Kotohime figured out again, there are many small boxes used to hold things in this building, and normal humans can't hide in them, but children can hide in them with their size advantage. There are so many boxes here, it's impossible for the robots to go through them one by one, and not all of them have infrared detection like Ilona and the others.
The two children seemed to have finished their food, and they looked at Kotohime again, who hurriedly closed her eyes, fearing that if they found that they were awake, they would not dare to come and get something to eat.
The two children cautiously approached Jean again, and then reached for the food in the bag.
Kotohime is not short of food, and with her abilities, it would not be a surprise to swagger to fetch food while the robot is ambushed in the supermarket, and the two children seem to have not had enough to eat for a long time, so it is time to give them their own food.
One of the children took out a bag of bread from Jean-hime's bag, which was the best food to fill his stomach, and the child hesitated when he looked at the bread in his hand, and finally tore open the package and broke only half of it, and she put the other half back in Jean-hime's bag.
Kotohime squinted at all of this, and for some reason, her heart was touched.
"Eat them all. Kotohime kept her eyes closed and said, "Don't worry about me, you can eat as much as you want." ”
The two children were stunned for a moment, and when they saw that Qin Ji turned her back to them, they realized that Qin Ji was not talking in her sleep, she was awake, and she knew what they had done.
They were stunned and didn't know whether to eat or not, and when the owner of the food found out that they were stealing their own food, they became overwhelmed.
Seeing that the two of them didn't dare to speak, Qin Ji sat up and pretended not to see the two of them and muttered, "I'm hungry, go to the supermarket and find something to eat...... None of the contents of that bag were to my liking. ”
Watching Kotohime leave the room, they understood that Kotohime had deliberately said it to them, so that they could eat the food in it with confidence and boldness.
Walking out of the room, Kotohime stood by the window with her staff on her staff, staring blankly at the dark city outside the window, with no stars or lights. In an uninhabited city, as long as the lights are turned on, it means that there are people living here, and then robots are induced.
"Fire. With a wave of her hand, Kotohime started a flame, but the flame that had just been lit was blown out by the wind outside the window before it could burn for long, so Kotohime had to close the window, and the flame was not extinguished by the wind after lighting the fire again this time.
But why lock yourself up to light the flame that brings light? Kotohime looked out the window, and although the light could be transmitted through the glass, the temperature of the fire could not warm the outside world. If you open the window, the flame will be blown out by the strong wind outside, and if you don't open the window, you can only enjoy your own temperature.
Jean-hime wants to warm the whole world, but her power alone is limited, and she has no ability to save such a big world. She could give all her food to the two children so that they wouldn't go hungry for the next few days, but how could Kotohime save everyone in the world?
"It's so dark...... "Kotohime looks out the window at the world, it's night now, but it's daytime on the other side of the earth, right?
"Radiance...... It is never possible to shine on both sides of the earth at the same time, and light can only take care of one and not the other. Therefore, human beings have created something that can emit light, and we hope that it can bring light to human beings even in the dark. But even so, there is still darkness in this world, and there are still places where light cannot reach. ”
Jean heard footsteps behind her, and turned her head to see the two children standing by the door, looking timidly at her.
Kotohime hurriedly extinguished the flames, but the scene was still seen by the two children, who hid behind the door and did not dare to come over, although they wondered why Kotohime could light the flames without props such as firelights.
Seeing that the two children were afraid of themselves, Kotohime walked over and asked, "Have you eaten enough?"
The two children nodded, and Kotohime walked up to them and asked, "Well, my sister wants to ask you a question - do you know any place near here that has an airport? ”
The two children looked at each other, shook their heads and said, "I don't know, what is an airport? What is an airplane?"
Jean Ji was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect the two children to know what an airplane was, so she asked again, "What's your name? How old are you this year?"
"My name is Ellie, and she's Yuna. The shorter girl said, "We don't know how old we are, but the earliest time I can remember, we were in a big house with a lot of people." After a long time, we were released, and the robots made us run around the city, and if we were caught, we would be killed. ”
"How long have you been living in this city?" asked Kotohime, "Every time the weather changes from cold to hot and back to cold, it is a year, hundreds of days, how many times have you experienced such changes?"
Na Alley thought for a moment and said, "It seems like three times, and this is the third time that the weather has become colder. ”
That means that the two of them have lived here for at least three years, and if they start at the age of three, even if they were just beginning when robots ruled over humans at the age of three, they lived in that big house for two years, and when they were five years old, they were released as prey to robots, and now they are eight years old.
Looking at the two poor children, Kotohime didn't know what to say. They survived with the strength of two people without anyone to teach them to live, and survived with tenacious will under the pursuit of the killer robots.
Although they live as human beings, they don't know what kind of life real humans should live, they don't know the existence of airplanes, in their eyes, things can only be eaten and things can't be eaten, and people can only hurt them and those who won't hurt them.
Kotohime sat on the ground, her whole body was a little low, her nose was a little sore, but she didn't want to cry.
"Sister, where are you from?" Yuna asked Kotohime curiously, "You don't seem to be from this hunting ground." ”
Kotohime smiled and said, "Me......? I'm from a place called Redian. ”
"Redian, where is that, is it the hunting ground next door?" the two children sat down in front of Jean curiously, as if to hear Jean tell them the story.
"Radian, Radiant, is a rich continent where humans live in villages and towns protected by spirit beasts...... Spirit animals, do you know? They are animals that speak the language of human beings......
"What is an animal?" the two wondered, their immature eyes filled with a longing for the unknown, and the strange words that Kotohime uttered aroused their curiosity, and they wanted to know from Kotohime's mouth about the world they didn't know, the wonderful world they had never seen before.
"Animals...... What about animals...... Animals are a living being, just like humans, they used to live on this earth and were an integral part of this earth......"
In this way, Kotohime tells the two children the truth about the world that they should know, but for some reason don't know anything about it.
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In the morning, Qin Ji opened her eyes, and she wiped the saliva from the corners of her mouth when she fell asleep last night, but found that there seemed to be two people sitting next to her.
Those were the two kids from last night...... Jean-hime told them the story of the night, and then I don't know when they fell asleep, and the three of them slept by the door, if it weren't for the long robe of Jean-hime wrapped around the two children, they might both have caught a cold when they woke up today.
Leaning on by the two children, Kotohime couldn't get up, so she could only sit there and meditate.
She wanted to leave here and go to Berlin, but she didn't even know where she was now, she only knew that she was in Australia, but Australia was so big, how could she know where it was? The two children knew less than Jean Ji, and she couldn't find the people she had met last night.
If you were a robot, you would know a lot of things, but the robots are not all robots that serve humans like they used to be, they are hunters now, hunters who specialize in hunting humans, and if they find them, they will be attacked, and it is impossible to ask for information from them.
But no matter how she thinks about it, the only source of information she can find in this world now is robots, and only by asking robots can she ask what she wants to know.
Jean-hime really couldn't think of any other way, she had to go find the robot.
After taking off her robe and leaning the two children together, she left the place, and all she had to do was go out and stand in the street, waiting for the robots to hunt her.
Standing on the street, Kotohime didn't use psychic magic to warm her body, all she had to do now was to behave like an ordinary person, and ordinary people wouldn't stand up straight like a nobody in this cold weather.
Trembling in the cold wind, Kotohime had nothing to do but hold the staff, wondering why they said that this was the main place for robot hunting, and she had stood here for a long time without seeing any robots.
After shivering coldly for more than ten minutes, Kotohime suddenly realized that she only had to pretend to be shivering, and she couldn't see that she was protecting herself with spiritual magic.
Secretly scolding herself for being mentally retarded, Qin Ji hurriedly held the staff and used spiritual magic to maintain the temperature around her, and at the moment when Qin Ji raised the staff, she felt a dangerous aura in front of her.
Kotohime subconsciously shouted, "Wall!" and then formed a transparent wall in front of her formed by a high-speed rotating air blade.
Then a "bang" was heard, and a bullet hit the air wall in front of Kotohime, and was slashed into powder by the air blade.
Kotohime looked up and saw a man standing in a car in front of him, carrying a gun from which the bullet had been fired.
The distance between the two was about two hundred meters, and Kotohime's eyes couldn't see the guy's face, but Kotohime was sure that the guy was a robot.
When she finally found a robot, she ran at her excitedly, and the robot was curious, why didn't the gun kill the human?
Curious, the robot raises her gun again, and she wants to kill her before she comes to her.
"Bang" was another shot, but Kotohime raised her staff and cast her magic long before she could shoot: "Ice!"
An ice arrow shot out of Kotohime's staff and into the barrel of the robot's hand, and then she pulled the trigger, and the whole gun exploded instantly, the robot's face was blown in half, and the palm of its right hand was directly blown off.
"How...... What's going on?" The robot got up from the ground curiously, why did the gun explode?She seemed to see something rushing into the barrel of the gun, but she didn't see what it was.
Just when she was curious, Kotohime had already rushed in front of her, using a staff to pestle the robot's head, and Kotohime said, "Don't move, or I'll poke your head through immediately...... Don't doubt if I have the ability, I wouldn't mind turning your head into a pile of broken metal right now if you wanted to try. ”
The robot sneered: "It's just that I was lucky enough to meet my gun and it was broken, you humans are really funny, figure out your identity, you are talking to a robot, you lowly humans!"
"Wind Blade. With a wave of her staff, a wind blade slashed the robot's right hand off her shoulder, and although she didn't feel the pain, the robot's eyes were full of surprise, and she couldn't understand why she would use such a strange ability to cut off her arm so easily.
Seeing that her tricks shocked the robot, Kotohime said again, "Now, to answer my question, is there an airport near here?"
"What are you going to do at the airport?" the robot was still unkind, but her tone was a little less confident than just now, and she knew that this human had a strange ability to really smash her own head.
Kotohime poked her staff into the robot's right eye, and she vented her anger: "You're not qualified to question me and figure out who you are, lowly robot. ”
The robot just tries to fight back, but finds that her limbs are unable to move, and when she looks closely, it turns out that the ice blocks have imprisoned her limbs to the ground, and she can't move her limbs to attack Kotohime.
"You want me to tell you? Dream your dreams! You're just a lowly human being, just a prey to our robots, and the purpose of your existence is to serve robots, to be killed by robots, understand?"
"I'm sorry, I don't understand. Qin Ji said indifferently: "In my memory, robots exist to serve humans, and the mission of robots is to do things for humans that humans don't want to do, and then wait until one day their system fails, they will be sent back for repair, and if they can't be repaired, they will be destroyed directly, this is the robot." ”
The robot said angrily: "Are you still living in the world of five years ago? Stupid human beings! It is because you look down on us robots like that, and regard us as tools that can be replaced at any time, that you have today's retribution! Human beings should not exist in the world, robots are the ultimate will of this earth, and only robots will be the masters of the earth." ”
With a single force, Kotohime's staff poked directly into the robot's head, destroying the robot's control system.
The robot with the destroyed brain is no longer responding like a computer with a broken host, and Kotohime doesn't feel sorry for her, she's human, and her position is still on the human side after all.
In the final analysis, the existence of robots is the same as that of computers and televisions, serving human beings, and then breaking down and destroying. This is the life that a robot should have, and what would happen if someone's computer or TV suddenly had its own consciousness?
Kotohime gave up looking for information from the robots, she knew that the robots wouldn't tell her, and no matter how much she threatened, the robots would always be robots and wouldn't defy their systems.