Chapter 64: A Mission Not Worth Continuing
In the studio, Hatsu walked over to the table and picked up the instruction manual from the messy tabletop.
EDR robot, if she remembers correctly, the B3068 is this model of robot.
At first, I was not mistaken, the first page of the manual was printed with a model of the EDR robot, and the style of the model was exactly the same as that of the B3068.
It used to be a place where humans used to work, and there was a thing called a computer on the table, which of course had already accumulated dust.
The old desk lamp was bent, and the folders were scattered with all kinds of papers, and she didn't bother to look at them at first, after all, none of them were of any use to her.
After a brief glance at the EDR robot manual in his hand, he was ready to put it down.
But suddenly, she must have seen something and stopped her movements.
Chu's gaze stopped on the last page of the manual, which read:
"EDR robots are designed to find a suitable environment for human survival, and when they find a suitable environment, they will emit a coordinate signal of their current location.
In order to prevent the robot from abnormally leaving the coordinates before the arrival of humans, once the coordinate signal is sent, the robot will automatically shut down, and only retain the positioning function and use it as a fixed coordinate transmitter. ”
In other words, when a suitable environment is found and a position signal is emitted, the B3068 will be turned off by the program and become a dead locator.
When I first looked at the last paragraph of the manual, my slender brow furrowed slightly.
Does B3068 know about this thing, it shouldn't know.
Because it has been looking forward to the return of mankind from the starry sky, to the day when humanity can rebuild the earth, and to the day when it will no longer be lonely.
But now, it seems that all its expectations have been disappointed, and it will never see the return of humanity, nor the rebuilding of the earth, nor will it ever be able to get out of its loneliness.
The task given to it by man is not only to seek it in solitude, but also to die in solitude.
"Sand. When she put down the instructions, she never violated her tasks, and she thought that all tasks should not be violated.
But this time, she seemed to be a little wavering, and she wondered if B3068 should continue its mission.
This may be a task that is not worth continuing on.
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In the factory.
B3068 looked at the bodies of countless compatriots in front of him with a flickering green light in his eyes.
It stood up slowly, and it seemed to it that the bodies of these compatriots were so intact.
They have not been exposed to the elements, and they have been trapped here all year round, which makes their bodies look brand new, at least compared to themselves.
There wasn't much rust, no breakage, no patchwork parts.
Maybe they can be activated.
B3068 had such a thought in his head.
If it could kick off these compatriots, it would not dare to imagine what a wonderful thing it would be.
"Here. ”
B3068 held the weeds in one hand and walked in front of these compatriots.
"Dangdang. ”
It tapped one of them on the head, but the sleeping robots didn't respond.
"Drop-" B3068 scratched at his head in confusion, not knowing how to wake them up.
"Smack. It reached out and slapped it on the face of a robot.
No response.
"Smack. It slapped twice in a row.
Still no response.
"Bang Bang ······" It began to slap in rapid succession.
"Smack!" the robot's head was slapped off.
"Drop!"
B3068 was startled, and in a fazed manner, picked up the robot's head and put it back crookedly.
"Didi. "It's supposed to be apologizing, but the decapitated robot can't hear it.
Because of the breaking of the head of a fellow countryman, B3068 no longer dares to mess with the body of these compatriots.
Maybe there's a button or something.
It thought of a more reasonable idea, and went to the depths of the factory, continuing to look for a way to activate these compatriots.
The factory was really big, and the B3068 went all the way through countless robots and assembly lines before walking in front of an operating station.
"Drop. ”
B3068 paused, looking up at the giant console, the green light in his eyes getting brighter.
Its restless heart began to stir again.
Walking up the stairs to the console in three steps and two steps, B3068 saw a display as wide as the wall and uncountable buttons under the display.
Finding the most obvious one, B3068 pressed it without hesitation.
"Click. ”
It was like something was turned on, and a muffled sound sounded in the factory.
Then, the monitor in front of B3068 lights up, and in the monitor, an electronic female voice begins to speak.
"Ready to start running the program. ”
A progress bar appeared on the monitor, loading slowly.
"The battery is low. The female voice continued: "The backup energy is being started, and the backup energy is successfully activated. ”
The display gradually lights up, and the operator interface appears.
B3068 stared blankly at the monitor, saw that there was no response to the half-ring, and pressed a button at random.
To start reading history, specify the history ······
The electronic female voice reappeared.
"No history specified, random sampling begins. ”
The next moment a video unfolded on the monitor, which appeared to be a recorded video from the past.
In the video, more than a dozen humans in white lab coats are gathered around a robot to record something.
That robot was a model that the B3068 had never seen before.
B3068 watched the video and sat down with a weed tray in his hand, it looked like it was watching a movie, just a glass of Coke and popcorn.
At this time, a middle-aged man appeared in the video, he should be facing the camera, held his glasses, and said with an excited face.
"The J4000 robot soldier test, this soldier robot has a strong individual combat ability, enough to replace the role of human soldiers in the war, I believe, they will change this war. ”
The middle-aged man said, and the robot in the video began to test.
Its agility in action, both in strength and speed, is far from being comparable to ordinary people. At the same time, it is equipped with several individual thermal weapons, it can be said that the middle-aged man is very modest, this soldier robot can not only replace human soldiers, but even has far more capabilities than them.
B3068 watched in amazement, it had never imagined that the robot could have such a variety of attacks, and if it had such a ability, the chaos robot would not be his opponent.
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The test is over, the next video begins, and the B3068 looks forward to reading on.
This time, it seems that a new type of robot is being tested, and the test site is in the wild.
In the video, B3068 sees the earth in the past, with the sky, rivers, meadows, and mountains and forests, all of which seem almost dreamlike to it.
The middle-aged man appeared in front of the camera again, this time he was much older, he could already see obvious wrinkles on his face, and he also had a lot of gray hair on his head.
His eyes looked tired, and they weren't as hot as they were in the first video.
He looked at the camera and said in a heavy voice.
"The TL200 war robot test, as expected, this model of war robot already has strategic power, and they will end this damn war. ”
As the middle-aged man's voice fell, a heavily armed robot walked towards the frame, its body was several meters tall, its body was covered with heavy armor, and the ground seemed to tremble with every step.
The war robot stopped, a cannon rising from its shoulder, aiming at a hillside not far away.
"Boom!"
The sound of artillery firing and blasting rang out at the same time, and the small hill where it had been standing was turned into a pit in the smoke and rubble.
"Didi. ”
B3068 shrank back in fright, its eyes full of horror and questions, wondering what humans were making such a horrible thing.
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And by this time, the third video had already started to play.
The video shows a battlefield with an overcast sky and artillery fire.
Countless flames, bullets, and robots wreaked havoc across the land, destroying everything they came across.
Smoke was so dark that there was no sunlight in sight, no other colors in sight, only ruins and flames.
The middle-aged man didn't appear in the camera this time, he may just be holding the camera, silently recording all this.
He was supposed to be on the winning side, but the trembling camera didn't feel that.
B3068 looked at the scene in the video, it never thought that its creator would be like this.
It never thought that human beings were so terrible.
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After the war, the camera switches to the fourth video.
This time there are no tests, there is no war, and the picture is an office.
An old man sat at his desk, and from his appearance, he could vaguely identify him as the middle-aged man in the previous video.
At this time, he was already full of gray hair, his figure was rickety, and his face had been left with indelible traces by time.
"Ahem. The old man coughed and sat feebly at his desk, his old eyes seeming to be welling up with tears.
"The war is not over, a nuclear war has broken out, and by the time humanity realizes what happened, it is too late, everything is over. ”
At this, the old man's palms clenched, and tears flowed from his eyes again.
"We were wrong, we were so wrong. Countries ceased wars, and all factories began to manufacture EDR robots. ”
"We hope that the Earth will give us another chance. ”
"Here. ”
B3068 was lying in front of the monitor, observing behind the old man and out of the office window. The sky was no longer clear, it had become its familiar gray-yellow, and there was no longer any life in the world.
Humanity has destroyed the planet, and it seems to understand that.
It was humans who betrayed their mother.
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The fifth video unfolds, and this time outside, the world has become what B3068 always sees, ruins, dust, and tatters.
The old man sat on the roof of the factory, and he no longer saw any life in his body, and it seemed that he would die at any moment.
He looked up at the dazzling sunlight in the sky, his eyes dim and said.
"There is no news about the EDR robots in the various radiation areas, in fact, it should have been expected to be this result a long time ago. The radiation is spreading, and the Earth is no longer able to keep the rest of humanity alive. ”
"They are ready to make a desperate gamble in search of a new planet to habit. ”
A trance-like smile appeared on the old man's face, and he closed his eyes.
"I'm not going to leave, I want to stay here and atone for my mother's sins. ”
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From the very beginning, humanity was the cause of everything, not because they left the earth, but because they were exiled from the earth.