Sunlight shines into this sinkhole hundreds of meters deep.

At the bottom of the pit are countless broken walls.

Dust and ruins.

Burning vehicles, collapsed buildings.

The scarlet steel bars broke and were exposed to sunlight and dust.

From a distance, the steel scaffolds into the darkness, propping up places that have not yet collapsed.

Lu Wen stood on top of the cement bricks, the top of this ruin.

He grabbed the steel pipe and pulled it out with a thud.

The blue blood glows differently in the sunlight.

"Do you think you've succeeded, trying all kinds of ways and making all kinds of plans, just to provoke a war between this city and no man's land?" Lu Wen asked.

The female android was badly injured.

Blue blood kept pouring out from wounds all over her body, and it wouldn't be long before she ran out of power and shut down.

She leaned against the cement pillar, half-lying, her face always calm.

"Panic, to arouse panic in the hearts of the people, that's enough." She did not deny her identity, "Even if the flames of war do not come now, as emotions accumulate, one day, it will come and destroy this rotten world." ”

Zero is right.

Even if the war would not happen for a while, her plan was more than half successful.

Some time ago.

The nine major cities have tacitly put forward the idea of android councillors and put them into action.

These councillors can be a bridge between the city and the no-man's land.

But now.

The android councillor of Baker City became a joke.

People can't contain their fear of androids, and when the android councillors propose improvements to androids, they oppose it, shouting that androids have gotten enough.

That envisioned peaceful future faded away.

"Any idea how you were exposed?" Lu Wen looked at her.

"That question yesterday?" Zero also understood the crux of the matter, "At that time, I blurted out that you and Zero had no intersection, which I ignored. ”

"You see, now we have an intersection." Lu Wen threw away the steel pipe in his hand, and the bloody steel pipe rolled down in the ruins.

"But at the time, you weren't quite sure who I was, so that's why I have today's show." "In your calculations, there is a high probability that I will expand the impact of the battle between the two groups by causing the city to collapse, and during the battle, you find that I have been among the tall buildings...... So you're sure. ”

Zero was watching him.

It seems to want to find some familiar shadow in him.

"Nine, you came from Mowu City, but I dealt with me? But we really didn't have any intersection before......" she thought for a moment, "are you someone's doppelganger?" I killed a lot of people in Mou City some time ago, but most of those people were wanderers and didn't matter. ”

Zero was always calm.

She wasn't annoyed to be discovered, she could throw it away at any time.

So she began to speculate about the true identity of the android in front of her, knowing that the information of her opponent was very important to her, and she needed enough information to make a plan against everyone.

"Are you Lu Wen? Wrong...... Lu Wen is just a little chess piece who goes with the flow, without the little girl surnamed Xia, he can't even make an effective resistance, you are much stronger than him. ”

Zero looked up, and she was observing the change in the android's expression in front of her.

Trying to determine the true identity of Nine through words.

After saying the word 'Lu Wen', the android called No. 9 did not change at all, and his expression was indifferent.

"I caused a lot of chaos in Mowu City, but the casualties among the ordinary people were minimal, so you will not be sent by the council, I think, the council of Mowu City should also thank me, after all, I helped them deal with a lot of homeless people who affected the city's appearance." Zero smiled.

"Is it an old friend?"

Time can bury a lot of people and things in the past.

Zero remembered what Lu Wen said, 'It's finally an official meeting', which indicated that they had met in some way, or had fought each other in the air.

But in the intervening decades, he had just too many opponents.

"Do you think it's fun to guess like that?" Lu Wen looked at her, "This should be your favorite thing to do, never reveal your true purpose, and keep your opponent in anxiety and panic for a long time." ”

"Long-term?"

Zero chews on these two words carefully.

With her memories of the past few decades, she wanted to dig out this possible old friend in time.

"You're hard to get around, and a lot of people have said that, your plan works perfectly." Lu Wen slowly squatted down and looked at her at eye level, "But I suddenly found that the reason why you are difficult is because of poor information." ”

In the information age, but if a person has the vast majority of information, he has the absolute initiative.

can influence the direction of things.

In many histories, the operation of the protagonist can be said to be a manifestation of mental retardation in that era, but since the protagonist is a time-traveler and has information that people did not understand at that time, he can do that.

"In a few decades, I think you should have controlled many people and androids in the nine major cities, and there is your shadow in every large force, and the information of the whole world is constantly flowing to you." Lu Wen said.

"I think you know I'm not alone."

"Yes, you're not the only one."

Lu Wen raised his hand and killed a member of the underground force who was aiming at him from a distance.

These guys, this time, are actually underground.

"But yesterday, after being reminded by the Ark, I found that you don't have a bottom line, and a bottom line like morality is the key to restraining many people's actions, but you don't, so you have no scruples."

"Androids actually talk about the bottom line, you're a human?"

Zero was still speculating about the identity of the android in front of him.

An opponent who suddenly appears will make him fall into passivity.

Passivity is a feeling he doesn't like, he just likes to let others fall into that feeling.

"What about you? Are you human? Lu Wen opened his mouth and said, "I don't think you're not, the behavior you showed is not." ”

"There's no point in going on like this, Nine, you're a good opponent, we'll see you again." Zero looked down at the blue blood that was slowly draining from her body.

She chose to actively hibernate, and the blue light on the bracelet gradually faded.

In between conversations, many androids looked at this.

If it weren't for Nine, they might never have known that their organization was mixed with the androids controlled by Zero, and that they were also the owners of the twelve numbers.

"No, we'll see you again soon."

Lu Wen smiled.

Zero saw his smile before he went to sleep completely.

"Bang!"

The female android's brain suddenly exploded.

Self-destructed.

She didn't plan to leave the four chips to Lu Wen and them.

……

Outside Baker.

A deserted no-man's land, thousands of miles of red land, and the wind and sand roar.

Deserted cities are decaying over the years.

The underground of a certain city.

The huge sky supports the space underground.

Winding lines hung beneath the firmament, sophisticated instruments shimmered, and countless screens displayed images of the entire Baker City.

Darkness is the leitmotif of this space.

The screen is the only source of light.

One of the screens shows what is happening at the bottom of the sinkhole, with the female android blowing herself in the head.

Sitting in front of the screen, she bowed slightly.

She didn't feel sorry for the loss of a clone with a very high status in the android organization outside of Baker City.

To accomplish something, sacrifice is necessary.

"Shelley said that if you take great care of your feathers and do not damage them in the slightest, then you will lose two wings and will never be able to fly in the air."

Low words echoed in the empty underground.

She was the only one here.

There was never only one.

Eternal loneliness was with her, ten years, or more.

The night made her feel safe, her

"The years are as heavy as iron chains, and the soul that is pressed is the same as you, proud, elegant, and not inferior." The old man's voice came from the other side of the underground, "This sentence was also said by Shelley, and I think it is very suitable to describe you, long time no see." ”

The seated shadow stood up suddenly.

Her face changed.

The familiar tone, even after so many years, she will not forget.

"Doctor, how did you find me?"

"This is Baker City, I've been waiting for you for many years, it's good that you don't show up, since you appear, there's no reason not to find it."

Dr. Jiang stepped out of the darkness.

This is the world that belongs to Zero, the underground fortress she has painstakingly laid out.

But from beginning to end, until Dr. Jiang took the initiative to speak out, the fortress did not raise any alarm.

Zero knew that the initiative of this fortress was no longer in her own hands, and even all the information might have been silently copied by Dr. Jiang.

"Sit down, you haven't seen you for so long, don't you want to talk to me?"

Dr. Jiang walked over to the console and pulled a chair in front of him.

This underground fortress is almost a copy of his institute.

The design idea is similar.

The only difference may be that it can't be deformed as a whole.

"I remember many years ago, when you came to the institute for the second time, sneaked in, and I found out, got rid of your doppelganger, and tracked you all the way to your lair, I told you at that time,......" Dr. Jiang looked at Zero, "The whole of Baker City is my eye, including no man's land. ”

Zero remembers that conversation.

Before the giant mechanical monster smashes her doppelganger, he said that if she comes back one day, she will still be found.

Decades of time.

Zero is growing, and Dr. Jiang is not idle.

"You have made a big name outside, and my name has been publicized for decades."

"Doctor, have you found my true identity?"

Zero didn't have the idea of greetings.

The underground fortress kept a lot of information, and she was so confident in herself that she ignored her former teacher.

"I guess I've found it."