Chapter 2 Copper Sugar and the Dyson Principle
The man who temporarily used the name "Yog" propped up his head with two hands, looked at the world below the garbage mountain, and sighed again.
"I always felt that the world wasn't supposed to be like this."
"Yog" felt that there must be someone crazy between himself and the world.
To his east is a large "farmland" that covers a large area of land in silver-black. It was a dwarf tree, less than two meters tall, with silvery-black leaves and pure blue sap. Each tree has a mechanical device, through which a special person goes every day to collect the sap.
These saps are the "copper sugars".
It is said that the mayor's greatest wish is to lay a set of pipelines to realize the unmanned collection of copper sugar, and firmly hold the copper sugar in the whole town. But it is said that this kind of pipeline is more expensive - it is not difficult to lay a pipeline alone, but the difficulty is how to prevent the townspeople from stealing, and the maintenance cost is too high.
Copper sugar was the staple food of the inhabitants of this era.
Even though "Yog" ingests copper candy himself, mostly through a broken hose opening in his palate, he still thinks it's crazy.
He once left a little bit of copper sugar, and then found combustibles to warm the copper sugar for experiments.
He found that the copper sugar undoubtedly contained copper. Under certain conditions, anhydrous copper sulfate will even be precipitated.
It's weird.
However, no one seems to think that "living beings should not ingest so much copper" except for him.
Black plants are also strange. "Yog" really thinks that plants should be green. But Yuki and Yulia's mother and son swore to him that there were no green plants in the world.
It's really weird.
It's all very, very, very unreasonable.
But what is even more strange is that a part of his heart feels that the current world is logical. It seems that after a long period of change, the world as he knows it has become like this. He even went through this process.
It's a pity that these things seem to have been burned. There are only a few components left in his electronic brain, which may not be a complete chip, and his biological brain may have been crashed - or starved, of course.
"The world ...... What the hell is going on......"
He whispered.
"Hey!" Yuki ran up the garbage mountain: "Yog, why are you still looking at the scenery!" Hurry up and help me! You might be able to get the ingredients for your new body! ”
"Oh." The man was carried by Yuki and ran down the mountain made of scrap metal. The two rolled all the way to a place they hadn't been before.
At this time, in addition to the head, "Yog" already has a skull [although it is changed from a fuel cap, it does not fit the head], two arms [it seems that Yulia used it before, and even Yuki's grandmother used it, but it is too old and can only be sold for scrap iron money, so Yulia left it behind, advocating that "when the arm is broken, it should be used in an emergency"].
Fortunately, although his spine was broken, "the central nervous system is highly metal-based" [what the village chief said, Yuki didn't understand what it meant], and that little bit of spine can be used as a "universal interface". Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to use those two arms.
The mayor of the town showed a rare kindness and helped "Yog" connect two hands.
The man has no shoulders and his two hands are directly attached to the cervical spine. And he walked on the ground with two hands, like a fowl.
To the surprise of even the man himself, he seemed to have a talent for engineering, and seemed to really hope to put together a working body out of parts.
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A month later, Yogg finally got a "shoulder" on himself. Although this is just a section of bearing under the neck, and then two arms are mounted to the bearing.
But at the very least, "Yog" can nod or shake his head.
That's a big step forward. Body language really makes communication more efficient.
After that, Yuki found a battery for "Yog" to hang on the stand. Men feel that the feeling of having a battery is like the "heart" of the old times. With this battery, he was finally able to move a little longer.
At noon that day, the man stayed next to the solar photovoltaic panels, connected the battery to the shared charging port, and then opened the shell of his left arm and used an electromagnetic driver to make minor adjustments.
After realizing that he had an enemy named "Yog", the man fell into a sense of crisis. He didn't know where this sense of crisis came from. It seems that the whole world is associated with this sense of crisis.
He vaguely felt that he had to have a complete prosthetic.
This screwdriver was also found by Yuki a few years ago. This tool for sublimating the era of war is not particularly expensive, but it is particularly practical. Yuki left it behind. The head shape of the electromagnetic screwdriver can be fine-tuned according to the target. If you enter detailed parameters, it can even double as a master key.
Of course, in this day and age, it is difficult to find a mechanical lock.
The man was replacing the old, worn parts of his arms with newer ones. Replacing some of the transmission parts can increase the output of this arm slightly. It's something he's been doing. For him at this stage, there are only these two hands, and if these hands are broken, then he will return to the state of having only one head left.
The pupils of his eyes dilate and shrink, adjusting their focus. A few days ago, the man was surprised to find that his eyes seemed to be something very good. It is directly connected to the nerves, can be scaled freely, and can see things thousands of meters away. The man also doesn't know the exact parameters of the eyes, but whenever he sets the eye's visual ability to a higher setting, the cheap chip in his brain will warn him of overheating, and sometimes even cause his vision to drop frames.
He did now understand why there was such a thing as a "metal eyelid". These eyes are indeed high-end goods, and they deserve to be protected by a special structure.
"Okay......" The man quickly finished his repairs and prepared to put his arm in order.
"Didi!" The horn sounded for a long time. A cloud of sand and dust rolled in. The man was startled, and immediately closed the shell of his left arm, pressed his left arm with his head, and then slapped his right hand on the ground as fast as he could, covering the screws that fixed the shell.
Then, the wind and sand whistled by. He almost thought he was caught up in a sandstorm.
In this day and age, plants seem to be a rare thing. In the town, at least, Yog has seen the bushes that produce copper sugar. He hadn't seen a single plant—not even a single grass—other than that.
After the storm passed, the man looked at the screws on the ground for the first time. If there are a few less screws at this time, then he is really miserable.
There was a loud rumble in front of the man. A huge truck was coming in reverse. The front of the car is decoupled from the body, approaching the man, and the camera is condescending: "Yo, Yog, it's you!" Excuse me! I really didn't see you, after all, you're ...... right now Hahaha, it's really small! The screws aren't missing, are they? ”
The voice sounded rough, like the throat of an old man who smoked and drank alcohol that had been poisoned by nicotine and alcohol for thirty years. Obviously, this guy is more willing to spend money than Yulia and is willing to buy himself a voiceprint package.
"Neurotic?" "Yog" was a little annoyed: "Enoch, if you like Yulia, go to Yulia?" What does it mean to make things happen in front of me? ”
Enoch is also the construction machinery of this village. It seems that when he was a teenager, he was infected by silver germs and had to give up his body and sell his spine in exchange for construction machinery. This guy has been working as a construction machinery in the recycling station town for more than ten years, and he has a lot of income, but most of them have no savings because of the lavish relationship.
He has a crush on Yulia, the only female construction mechanic in the village.
Yulia wasn't particularly averse to this person. However, the concept of family has long been absent from her mind. The concept of "family" is sacred, it is a mark of human origin and genes. It is the duty of each individual to label their genes with "family" and "name" to ensure that the lord can better take into account genetic diversity when building the human gene pool. And both of them have only brains left, and there is no need to start a family at all.
It's better to say that Enoch's style of scratching from time to time is very disgusting to Yulia. Both of them are heavy machines, and if one is not good, they will crash themselves. Every time Enoch leaned over with a dead face, Yulia was terrified. Even if Enoch was skilled, the anti-rust paint rubbed off Yulia's body needed money to make up for it.
And now, "Yog" lives in Yulia's son's house. This made Enoch look at him very unpleasantly.
"Yog" was baffled. He really didn't know how to fall in love with construction machines - looking at Enoch's appearance, he didn't seem to be attracted to Yulia's "funny soul".
Enoch's tires almost all rubbed against Yog's face, and the engine roared, "Hybrid, listen to me." For the sake of you being a piece of waste now, I pity you, that's why I gave you a chance. You've been at Yulia's son's house for so many days, haven't you? Now there are prosthetic limbs as well...... You should get out too, right? ”
The man almost thought that the tire was going to run over his body. At this moment, a thought popped up irrepressibly in his mind.
- Just fall forward and fall on the inside of the tire......
- He didn't have time to turn ......
- Grasp the axis of rotation......
- Loosen the screws with vibration......
A lot of mechanical compositions......
More strategic combinations......
Moves......
There was a "buzzing" sound in the man's head. The ventilation fan that had just been put in was already working. Cheap civilian chips can't support this level of computing. The man almost shuddered.
- What the hell is wrong with me? What the hell is this......
Enoch noticed that the man did not respond, only his arms trembling slightly. He thought this guy was scared stupid, and disdainfully spewed out a puff of black exhaust fumes from the exhaust pipe. After all, he didn't dare to really run over "Yog" like this. The second prohibition of the "Dyson Principle" is to "kill humans". Whatever the reason, if an individual kills a human being and destroys the biological brain of another person, he loses all the protection that comes from civilization.
Enoch's tires shook twice: "I warn you, you'd better move away from Yulia's son's house quickly." You have up to three months left...... No, it's two months! Got it? Before the next Gene Tax! Otherwise, I have 10,000 ways to make it impossible for you to live! ”