Mou city at 8 p.m.

Various reconstruction sites have been suspended.

The danger is not over yet.

The council asked all residents to stay at home at night as much as possible.

If you have to go out, try to travel in a group, and most importantly avoid androids.

Wandering androids have become a major safety hazard in Mou City.

"There is no fixed home, just like these androids, they can go wherever they want, and sometimes they will be evicted."

"For the sake of the city's beauty, every once in a while, someone will evict the homeless people on the streets, and I have been driven away several times."

"But fortunately, when I got rich, I could rent a small single room to store painting paints, drawing boards, and some clothes and bedding, but in fact, after getting used to it, I prefer that kind of wandering life......"

Jing Le said to himself.

He sat opposite Lu Wen in a pavilion in a park.

Many androids can be seen outside the pavilion.

After the riots, these androids are no longer trusted by their employers, abandoned, and wandering around, waiting to be recycled or run out of power to die.

Only a small number of employers are willing to trust these androids again, but not 100% either.

Jing Le continued: "As a teacher, Zero is actually conscientious and has taught me a lot of things, I know that she is deliberately leading me down the wrong path and making me more sick than those ordinary people, so that it is easy to control, but ...... I don't really have a choice. ”

"If I hadn't chosen to follow her at that time, I would have starved to death on the streets, and I have been too busy to take care of myself these days, there are too many wanderers on the streets, and I look like a child of a rich family, and I rarely get money."

Jing Le laughed to himself.

His appearance is truly impeccable.

A typical mixed-race child, with fair skin, three-dimensional facial features, blond hair, light blue eyes, just standing still, will exude a classical temperament.

The pair of eyes often reveal the artist's melancholy.

Even if he was dressed in tatters, it was hard to believe that he was a real outcast.

It's also a nuisance to look too good.

Wandering on him is more like a show.

"I've spent most of my life on the streets of Mou, and sometimes I've gone to the underground factory she built for me, and the gore can make me forget a lot of things, the more I forget, the better, and sometimes the memories are too clear, but it can be painful."

"There are still many chess pieces like me in her hands, and maybe from the beginning of encounter, to death, will not get rid of her control......"

The city of Mou, where reconstruction was stopped, was quiet at night.

The chirping of insects in summer resounded in the meadows.

The street lights in the distance were bright.

Dilapidated and prosperous are intertwined, and there is a different kind of beauty.

This is what the little painter likes the most, and he chased the beauty of the first half of his life - incomplete.

To put it another way, it's imperfect.

It could also be some kind of regret.

I have a deep regret in my heart.

Lu Wen leaned back on the bench, crossed his fingers, and said: "I just asked Question Zero, and she said that among her many chess pieces, you are a very different one, you have a persistent pursuit of art, your personality is more independent, she uses a lot of brainwashing methods against you, but you always have your own judgment." ”

"Well, it seems that I'm quite special."

Jing Le turned his head to look outside the pavilion.

The shadows of the swaying trees, the quiet waters of the lake, the reflection of the moonlight on the water.

The moon is rarely seen in the city, and the heavy clouds make it feel like the rainy season all year round, and the rain is always non-stop.

All the night scenes are reflected in his pale blue pupils, turning into abstract art.

It is as if the realistic painting has been splashed with brilliant oil paint, and the lines and colors are entwined, hazy.

"I killed people when I was very young, and there was a moon that night, and I still remember the sticky blood flowing in the moonlight, and I remember the frightened and frightened faces of the children around me." Jing Le said.

"I know this, I've heard Zero talk about it." Lu Wen responded.

"It turns out she's been noticing me ever since."

"Maybe sooner." Lu Wen said: "Have you ever thought that you have been arranged by Zero in this life, from birth to abandonment, she has lived long enough, so there is enough time to arrange everything for you." ”

"Of course I thought about it, but it's useless to think about it."

Jing Le smiled, and his smile was flat.

"What about you?" He asked rhetorically, "Aren't you arranged in this life?" ”

"Perhaps."

Lu Wen's life route was indeed formulated by Yin Long.

I don't know if it's the real Yin Long or the mechanical Yin Long.

He turned on the machine in Li Meng's house, and it happened that there was a murder in this family, and within a few days, he got the first clear guiding ideology after turning on the machine, which was said by Li Meng: Everyone should have their own life, even if it is mechanical.

This is to instill in him the idea of freedom.

It is also to bury the idea of liberating androids for him, and pave the way for him to get the permission of A00 in the future.

After discovering that his desire to liberate androids was not strong, Yin Long set up a bureau to inform him of his true identity, letting him know that he was an android and not a human rebirth.

Once you know it, you won't be swaying between the two races.

There is a certain overlap in the lives of the two, but now there is no threat to Zero, so Jing Le is free.

And before Lu Wen found the real Yin Long, he was not free, and could only be said to be very passive.

Lu Wen asked, "What do you plan to do in the future?" ”

Jing Le just replied: "You don't kill me?" ”

"Why did you want to kill you?"

"I killed someone."

"The city of Mou abolished the death penalty very early."

"You can also bring me back, it's a great credit to you."

Lu Wen shrugged his shoulders and said, "I am now a third-level executive officer, the next councilor, the most trusted android in Mowu City, there is no one, all the residents of Mowu City know me, do you think I still need more credit?" ”

To say credit.

Killing Zero is actually a really big achievement, completely killing that kind of thing, so that there is no trace of Zero in this world.

But Zero is still somewhat useful at the moment.

Keep it for the time being, and don't worry about what she's doing secretly.

"Aren't you going to imprison me?"

"I'm everywhere."

Jing Le was silent and immediately understood.

This Mowu City, as well as other cities, are now under Lu Wen's surveillance.

This planet is his prison.

So Lu Wen can let him go, this is Lu Wen's self-confidence.

If he dares to commit a crime again after he is free, Lu Wen will not show mercy to him, and he will not be able to hide in any corner of the nine cities, unless he runs to a remote no-man's land and stays there for the rest of his life.

But even if you run into no man's land, you may be found by Lu Wen.

"Later...... Maybe I plan to walk around and record the changes in this world, the changes in the nine major cities. ”

"It's best if I can make some money, I will keep what I need for life, and donate everything else to those children's welfare homes."

"When I was very young, I actually wanted to know who my parents were, but that was just a luxury, more often I thought that someone could adopt me, even if I was not rich, just give me food and clothing, and I would give them a ...... for the rest of their lives."

Stray children are the sorrow of the whole city.

But Jing Le is indeed right, most people are too busy to take care of themselves.

Lu Wen tried to trace some of the original news reports and video information, but only saw Jing Le's figure in an illustration of an old news about urban governance, and he was lying with many wanderers, and nothing else could be found.

It's been too long.

It was difficult to find his biological parents.

In fact, even if you find it, it's useless, the moment you left him at the beginning, it doesn't matter anymore, and meeting again is just embarrassing.

Strangers who are related by blood only.

"I suggest you stay in Mou during this time, at least this city is familiar to you, and it is very safe for now, other cities are not even safe in no man's land." Lu Wen reminded.

"Why? Is it because the mastermind behind it hasn't been found yet? ”

"Not only that, but the mastermind behind it should not be one person, but a group of people."

A lot of people thought it was over, and Zero was defeated by A00.

It is possible to start a new life.

So they all let their guard down.

Even many soldiers and commanders thought so, who else could threaten human society except androids?

They thought that the only thing they had to think about at the moment was what to do with the androids.

But Lu Wen always had an inexplicable sense of crisis.

The feeling is intense.

Beneath the surface of the calm world, there seems to be some kind of deadly threat brewing, and if it erupts, it may be far more dangerous than the android riot.

"Something strange happened in Mou today."

Lu Wen talked about the disappearance of people and the explosion of materials in Mowu City.

He couldn't get the thoughts and data of Jing Le's flesh and blood body, so he could only ask Jing Le if he knew anything.

But Jing Le just shook his head.

He said that his news came through Zero, and he also knew part of what Zero knew, and as for what Zero didn't know, he couldn't do anything about it.

However, he also mentioned the contaminated area.

"Zero has brought me some weird creatures before to meet my painting needs, and you saw one last time, but then I didn't think it was enough, so I went deep into some polluted areas myself."

Those deformed creatures fit Jing Le's artistic aesthetic very well.

So he went to the polluted area.

His approach was bold.

Jing Le said he did not prepare any protective equipment, but only brought some radiation measuring instruments.

For most ordinary people.

Even if the radioactivity indicators are normal, they do not dare to enter the contaminated area, which is synonymous with the forbidden zone of life.

When these three words are mentioned, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is death and despair, corpses everywhere, life withering, and so on......

"A lot of the polluted areas are quite beautiful, after all, they were abandoned more than 200 years ago, few people dare to go in, many cities have grown green vegetation, there are water sources and small animals, and they are rarely hit by extreme weather, those places are actually ...... It is very suitable for human habitation. ”

The premise of dwelling is that there are no strange creatures.

Jing Le took out a few USB flash drives from his pocket and handed them to Lu Wen.

"These are all videos I took when I went into the polluted area, and there are some strange things in them, animals and plants, and some creatures are like corals, and I can't even tell whether to say it's animals or plants."

"Actually, polyps are animals, and corals are just bones." Lu Wen said.

"I don't know much about that."

Jing Le was very calm.

He had not been systematically studied at all.

In Lu Wen's biological database, some organisms are more controversial, such as euglena, which are directly classified into protists, although the chlorophyte sea slug is green enough, but the division is an animal, and the Venus flytrap is movable, but the division is a plant, which is generally clearer.

There are very few creatures that resemble both animals and plants.

Jing Le reminded: "I marked the geographical coordinates on each video, and the third video is special, you can take a serious look, I photographed human footprints, very clear, and barefoot, the wind and sand in that city are more serious......"

Where the wind and sand are severe, the sand will bury everything, and a footprint will not last long.

That's why that's what remained.

Jing Le's meaning is obvious, there are traces of human activity in that city.

"It's unlikely that androids are there, it's very remote, and androids generally can't go that far, most of them are in the ruined cities around Mowu City, and those footprints have relatively obvious toe fingerprints."

"Got it, I'll find time to take a closer look."

Lu Wen put away a few USB flash drives.

He thought about some safer areas, and was going to tell Jing Le to stay there.

But before the words could be spoken, a frown suddenly furrowed.

Inexplicably, some special images began to appear in front of me.

He propped his head in his hands and frowned.

Dark.

It was his first impression of those images.

It looks like a deep cave with cold stone walls on both sides.

The stone walls are inlaid with iron doors.

Dark, damp.

The iron gates were marked with red numbers, zero to nine, and many more were marked with red crosses.

The images are sometimes clear.

Sometimes blurry.

In front of Lu Wen's eyes, the dark night of Mowu City flashed alternately, like a film with insufficient frames.

Just when he wanted to try to see better.

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

"Da ......"

"Da ......"

Very heavy footsteps.

With the smell of danger.

With icy droplets of water falling.

Behind Lu Wen.

He snapped into his eyes and looked back, but behind him was only a night view of Mowu City.

Gone.

Those flashes of darkness, and that heavy pace.

Everything is back to the way it was.

It was a brief memory.

The android should not have memories, it can only be said that some kind of program in the Lu style has been triggered.

As for the triggering conditions...... Lu Wen remembered Huang Liang's reaction a few hours ago, and could probably tell that after this special dream, a certain restriction in their body was opened.

Huang Liang has no confidence in his own abilities, and he can't bear some memories, so he will take the initiative to fall into a deep sleep.

But Lu Wen can't be like him.

He had to find out the truth.

"What's wrong with you?"

Jing Le sensed that something was wrong with Lu Wen.

He was a little confused.

With Lu Wen's current ability and identity, there shouldn't be too many things to worry about.

It was quite abnormal to turn your head to look behind you just now.

"Something that gets in trouble, little things."

Lu Wen waved his hand.

This kind of thing can't be mixed with Jing Le, and this young man finally got rid of Zero's control.

……

At the same time.

Northern Underground, Eden.

The one who noticed that Lu Wen was wrong was Xia Chuluo.

She looked at Lu Wen suspiciously, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Nothing."

"The two of us have known each other for so long, do you think there is anything you can hide from me?"

“……”

Lu Wen was silent for a long time, and he really couldn't hide it.

There is no need to hide such a thing.

He straightened out his thoughts, took a light breath, sat in front of Xia Chuluo, and asked slowly: "If I say that the two of us met and met each other, are we arranged, do you believe it?" ”

"Is it Yin Long?"

“……”

Miss Xia's sentence of 'Is it Yin Long' directly ended the topic.

Many of the complicated and verbose middle parts are omitted.

But Lu Wen still told everything that had happened as it was.

After Xia Chuluo listened, he just said calmly: "That's it?" ”