City of Steel.

After eating the extremely unpalatable liquid food as usual, the deer-headed man walked out of the house and headed for the bar.

Skillfully came to the bar and ordered a bunch of wine, and then began to drink, this is his daily routine in the recent period, waiting for news from the werewolf.

Due to the annihilation of the human team in front of the team, even the various equipment accumulated over the years was completely scrapped, and at the same time, he was listed as a suspect due to the annihilation of the army, and was monitored 24 hours a day. In such a bad situation, there is only one result for someone else.

That is, due to the lack of points, too many points owed on credit are disposed of by the robot. Living in the City of Steel requires a settlement payment, which is paid once a month, and if the credit is owed more than twice, it will be disposed of by the robot to avoid wasting the supplies of the shelter.

Settlement payments and food are the main reasons why gatherers risk their lives to carry out gathering activities. Travel to a human city to collect energy, and you may be killed by humans, or die for other reasons. But if you don't do a gathering activity to earn points, then you will definitely die.

As for rejoining other squads for gathering activities, earning points, and continuing to survive? The odds of success in this kind of thing are very low, and if you want to join other squads, you have to gain the trust of other people, after all, the next step is to live and die. And because of your total annihilation record, the vast majority of the squad is unlikely to accept you.

But he didn't need to worry about this for now, although he didn't get a lot of points for the Human Heritage he took out, at least he got a relatively large number of points, enough for him to squander for a while.

Half an hour later, the deer-headed man's desk was filled with empty jars, and in this short period of time, he had drunk nearly five liters of inferior wine.

Just as the deer-headed man got up to go to the bar to get another batch of drinks, a burly werewolf stopped him.

The werewolf said, "The boss asked you to come over." ”

Hearing this, the deer-headed man's eyes moved slightly, and he knew that the matter had succeeded. But I don't know why, I always feel that this thing is a little too smooth.

With his current status as a suspect, even getting out of town is a problem, and he is constantly monitored by robots. Now apply for a place to be able to leave Earth and enter the space station, and it is successful?! Even if this quota requires one entry into the laboratory, the mortality rate of such a laboratory is as high as 90%, which is not something that a suspect like him can apply for.

The next moment, the deer-headed man's pupils shrank, and then the doubts in his heart that he had just sprinted to disappear without a trace.

The deer-headed man nodded and said, "Lead the way." ”

Follow the werewolf all the way to the door of the room a few days ago. Pushing the door in, he came to the room again, which was still filled with various human objects, but there was an extra display shelf with a brand new human military uniform on it.

And the werewolf boss sat in front of this military uniform, stretched out his furry giant claws, and carefully stroked the military uniform, his eyes were full of joy.

The werewolf boss sighed, "According to the data, this is the clothing that only the toughest human warriors can wear. Humans who don't wear this kind of clothing are already so strong, and I don't know how powerful those humans who are qualified to wear this kind of clothing must be. ”

Although civilizations are well aware of the demise of humanity and the situation of previous generations of humans, for gatherers who live at the bottom of society, they only know that humans are terrible creatures. Even the best of the gatherers like the Werewolf Boss can't know the true history.

Noticing that someone was coming in, the werewolf boss turned his head to see the deer-headed man and said with a smile: "The identity of the test subject you want has been obtained, but since you are on the list of suspects, I will change your identity." ”

As he spoke, the werewolf boss threw out a black metal tag that was only five centimeters wide, which was an identity tag, similar to the ID card of the gatherer.

The deer-headed man stretched out his hand to catch the identity card, looked at the identity card in his hand and said: "Although the identity card can represent our identity, all our identities are stored in the system, and once the iris detection is carried out, I will definitely be discovered." ”

The werewolf boss laughed and said, "It seems that you know a lot, if it's just an identity card, it's really easy to leak." But as long as the iris data in the system is also changed, no. ”

This remark did not solve the doubts in the heart of the deer head, but made his expression more and more confused. Modify the database? This is an exaggeration, because the database is not accessible to collectors, let alone modified.

The Erd civilization is an AI civilization, and modifying the data in the database is dozens of times more serious than killing people in human society. Because the vast majority of Erds are strictly a string of data, modifying the data is equivalent to conducting human experiments.

And now this werewolf boss actually said that the iris detection data in the database was modified, which is simply a fool's dream. The first reaction of the deer-headed people was not to believe it. This kind of thing is like saying that you are an ordinary person who can change the country's nuclear bomb launch code.

Seeing the deerman's disbelieving expression, the werewolf boss explained, "The database I'm talking about is not the database of the Erd civilization, but the database of the breeding factory. All of the data of those of us who collect it is not eligible to be stored in the Erd database, where only the citizens of the Erd civilization are eligible to store data. ”

"All of our data, including iris detection data, is stored in the breeding factory. As long as you spend a few points to buy off the collectors there, the staff can easily modify some of the data, but the action should not be too big to be discovered, but it will be disposed of. ”

At first, the Erd civilization was extremely strict in controlling gatherers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they completely treated gatherers as robots. Every action of the collector, every minute, will be controlled by AI. As an AI civilization, Erd doesn't see any problems with this approach, but they ignore the fact that gatherers are not machines but living beings.

This kind of machine-like life either makes the gatherer completely numb and hopeless for the body, such as encountering humans, which is only a symbolic run. Or a complete collapse and suicide.

In either case, it is impossible to breed an experienced gatherer who can quickly rely on his intuition to find a way out of this unpredictable earth. Memory skills can be transmitted through technology, but intuition, experience, and improvisation cannot be replicated.

After seeing the gatherers of other civilizations, completely releasing their desires and gathering more energy, the Erd civilization gradually relaxed the restrictions on gatherers.

It turns out that easing restrictions on gatherers does increase the efficiency of gathering energy, and the reason for this is calculated by the Erd civilization to be due to the strong intuition of gatherers.

It is not technology that restricts civilizations from harvesting Earth's energy, but human beings. Under the gatherer system, it is precisely how to survive in front of humans.

The deer-headed man hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to believe the werewolf boss, got the identity card, and turned to leave the room. After all, even if he didn't believe it, he couldn't really do anything with werewolves.

The werewolf brother, who had been standing silently next to him after the deer-headed man left, asked, "Boss, we can eat black and eat this guy's human relics directly, why do you have to go to such great lengths to help him get a fake identity?" ”

Obtaining this false identity requires various channels of dots and purchases, and the points consumed are no less than buying human relics directly, if not more. And you also need to run the risk of being exposed at any time and then being disposed of. This is clearly a loss-making transaction, and the cost and risk far outweigh the gains.

And when did the boss become so kind, and actually fulfilled his promise to this deer-headed man, why did it become like this? It's kind of weird.

Being mentioned by the younger brother, the werewolf boss scratched his head and said, "yes, why should I help this guy?" ”

Obviously, he was going to eat black from the beginning, why did he suddenly agree to this guy's request again, and he took such a big risk to complete it?

The younger brother said: "Boss, it can't be that there is a problem with the things recorded in the human recipe, so it causes your brain to suddenly become stupid?" ”

Boom!

The werewolf boss punched the little brother's dog on the head and said, "You are stupid, boss, I do what I say, honest business." And don't call me boss in the future, call my name Big Big Wolf. ”

According to the old human data, a wolf called the gray wolf is very popular with humans, and the wolf that even humans love monsters should be the most powerful wolf.

"Okay boss, got it, boss."

……

An unknown library, the area of the library is very large, the reading area on the first floor alone is a thousand square meters, and this is only one of the reading areas. The entire library used to be filled with shelves made of dark sandalwood, with books made of special paper one after another.

This is the crystallization of human civilization and the treasure of mankind.

In the interstellar age, human beings seemed to be so backward that a small memory card could hold all the books in the entire library. But every city of mankind has built this kind of museum, full of books full of knowledge that cannot be quickly and accurately obtained through search engines.

In the old days, the library was more symbolic than practical, or the library itself was a spiritual symbol of humanity.

And even in this era of human disappearance, the library is still very neat and tidy. However, humanity has disappeared, and no one will come here to read books quietly, and this neatness will only make the library more desolate.

The corner of a reading area in the library, which was now full of books, and countless books were scattered on the ground, and the rustling sound of writing was constantly coming from behind these mountains of books.

When I arrived, the figure sat on a chair, holding a strangely shaped pen, constantly writing something.

[The wolf boss has some human emotions due to his years of studying various human cultures, and this time in the face of the request of the deer-headed people, he suddenly wants to sit back on the honest people in the mouth of humans. Even if you risk your life, you have to help the deer-headed man change his identity, send him out of this chaotic hell, and go to the space station to see the outside world and the universe. 】

[The deer-headed man himself has been on the list of suspects of the Erd civilization, even if he has the identity card given by the wolf boss, in the face of the strict inspection before the landing of the energy spaceship, the truth was quickly exposed, so the punishment robot disposed of it. 】

At this point, the figure stopped what he was doing, and gently tapped the solid wood table with his left hand.

"It's Kavin again, how can we get the deer-headed people to mix up with the space station reasonably? How to evade the strict monitoring of an AI civilization like Elder, board a transport spaceship, and successfully enter space? ”

The figure kept scratching his hair, looking very distressed.

"This kind of AI civilization has no emotions at all, and it operates completely according to the rules of program or basic logic. If you want to write a story about them, you can only achieve it through logic and rationality. It would be nice if they had emotions, so that I could channel them from different angles. ”

"Wait for the mood! I remember that several main intelligences of this AA civilization should have absorbed a large amount of high-dimensional energy, so that their consciousness has transformed into a soul. Although it does not produce too many emotions by its characteristics, it at least exists, at least it exists greed. ”

Speaking of this, the figure lowered his head again and worked hard to write, the pen in his hand kept falling on the book, and the rustling sound sounded again.

……

An unknown city on the eastern continent of the earth, this city is different from other human cities, although it is overgrown with various vegetation, but it does not appear to be barren.

Green grass grows all over the city's floor, and all kinds of vines entangle the tall buildings, and the vines are covered with all kinds of colorful flowers. All kinds of wild animals run in the city, and they seem to be not afraid of humans sitting in buildings, and some animals even live directly with humans.

Compared to other human cities, this city is full of life and makes you feel a sense of tranquility. The animals here are not very afraid of humans as other places, but they are extremely close to humans, which may be the real man and nature.

Suddenly, all the humans in the city looked up slightly, and at the same time looked in a certain direction.

Somewhere on the road in the city, a black hole made of ink suddenly appeared. This black hole resembles an irregular circle formed by ink accidentally dripping onto the white paper.

The next moment, a beautiful young man in a blue and white tracksuit stepped out of the black hole, followed by one after another armored pioneers.

"This is a city of fantasy and forests."