Minutes and seconds passed.

I don't know how many years have passed.

The gates of the Palace of Miracles were never opened again.

But unexpectedly, the Alpha 4000 that was crushed under the shield spacecraft was unexpectedly rescued.

It was saved by the Saru 9600 Guardian Robot and the Venerable 2900 Robot.

His Holiness was still dragging the box, and it didn't look the same as before.

But Saru has changed a lot.

It really has its own facial features and has also learned to smoke cigars.

"Come on, look at this little guy, it's cute, isn't it?" Saru picked up the dirty Alpha 4000.

Because of its limited thinking ability, Alpha 4000 didn't know what Saru was talking about, it only knew that it was rescued, and that the being in front of it had great energy.

So a smiling face appeared on Alpha's body, and a string of bilingual phrases in Chinese and English.

"Thanks, please recharge my batteries...... Hmm......" Saru raised his eyebrows after thinking for a moment, and his palm shifted, followed by several arcs of lightning.

Alpha instantly felt rejuvenated.

It has never been as "energetic" as it is today, and even when it first appeared, it was only at 80% equilibrium.

But Saru opened its limit, giving it a far greater energy than before.

"(* ̄v ̄)" Alpha expressed his gratitude to Saru with an ancient emoji.

Saru put Alpha on the ground, spat out a puff of smoke and said, "Okay little thing, we still have important things to do, be careful yourself, don't fall into the impact crater again." ”

Alpha didn't understand, but it turned to look at the crater not far away that had trapped it for more than a thousand years, and there was an extra warning in the memory core.

"Slow down and avoid it".

Alpha didn't realize the change in itself, it re-routed and rolled away.

Looking at the alpha in the distance, Saru smiled and said, "This little thing is so ruthless, just leave." ”

Venerable said: "The Alpha 4000 robot is a housekeeping robot produced at the end of the leap forward era, this kind of robot does not have an independent thinking core, all instructions rely on the central axis core of the city, and the internal memory core capacity is also extremely limited......"

"Hey, hey, hey...... Didn't you say to be concise and to the point? Saru interrupted His Holiness.

After a pause, His Holiness said, "It shouldn't be here. ”

Saru understood, and nodded: "It's a little strange, but whatever, humans have disappeared for so many years, and there is no one on Earth that it can serve...... Tut...... In this way, this little thing is quite pitiful. ”

His Holiness looked at the direction in which the alpha had disappeared, it had followed the path to the depths of the forest, and was now out of sight.

"Let's go, let's go find a place to bury him, and then think about what we're going to do next." Saru picked up his cigar and walked along the road in the opposite direction to the alpha.

His Holiness was silent for a while, then dragged the box and followed Saru's footsteps.

……

After getting out of the pothole, Alpha's body seems to have improved a lot.

It felt like a child who had been separated from his family for many years and finally set out on his way home, "brisk" and "excited".

But as he walked, Alpha felt that everything around him had become so unfamiliar.

At this point, its alert system began to wake up.

In order to ensure that Alpha can play a certain role in domestic service, the original designer placed a guard system inside it.

However, this is a very low-level vigilance system.

The Alpha 4000 can only be alerted to unfamiliar environments or unfamiliar moving objects, and can provide early warning and counterattack shocks.

It can be said that it is a very "safe" way of alerting.

But now, the Alpha 4000, which has been trapped for an unknown number of years, has undergone a subtle change during the long journey to the pit.

The change was subtle and shouldn't have happened.

After all, Alpha is not a high-level artificial intelligence, it is just a sub-series of domestic service robots managed by the central matrix.

But now it seems that the original designers quietly added some variables to the Alpha 4000's limited memory core.

Some subtle, curious and probing variables about unfamiliar environments.

These variables allow the Alpha 4000 to start paying attention to everything around it.

When it had been on its way for fifteen days and came to a beach, it stopped.

It's not that there is a problem with the road planning in front of it, but that a behemoth moving on the sea in the distance makes it "curious".

From the Alpha 4000's single-group 66-million-pixel acquisition power vision system, it can be seen that on the distant sea, 900 to 1,000 meters from the beach, there is a "ragdoll bear" with a height of about 600 meters.

As it moves along the coastline, countless seabirds use the super "Ragdoll Bear" as a mobile habitat, building nests on the Ragdoll Bear's body and relying on it to hunt fish from nearby waters.

When the "Ragdoll Bear" was seen, the Alpha 4000's memory core was sensitively aware that it was very familiar with this thing.

Yes.

It's familiar.

Alpha's memory clearly records that this is the companion of the little master when he sleeps.

It's soft and cute to look at, but it's also dirty.

Because in Alpha's eyes, the Ragdoll bear is a breeding ground for mites, and it is also stained with a lot of hair, bacteria, and saliva from the little owner.

However, Alpha will not burn the Ragdoll bears, and will clean the Ragdolls once a week as instructed.

Now this ocean is like the washing machine that Alpha used before, only a little bigger......

Alpha only realized the "big", but did not think about why such a huge "ragdoll bear" appeared on the sea. What the hell is it? Who put it here?

After watching for a while, Alpha continued on his way.

This time it's noticeably faster.

The roads along the coast are much more damaged than those on the forest side.

Alpha encountered a lot of potholes on the way, but this time it dodged them well.

When twilight fell and the Ragdoll Bear on the sea had been left far behind, the ocean around Alpha disappeared and it returned to the interior.

Only a few tenacious architectural remnants remain in the coastal city, standing among the lush vegetation.

When Alpha compared the city in the memory core to it, he didn't recognize the city he was familiar with at all.

It has no emotional factor, but it moves faster.

Until, a flash of light suddenly passed in front of it, and then destroyed the ruins not far away.

The early warning mechanism made Alpha aware of the imminent danger, and it quickly spun around and buried itself in the dirt, leaving only half of its "head" to observe its surroundings.

Then it saw two robots fighting not far away.

One is Saru with a humanoid silhouette, and the other is a Venerable One with the shape of a stone tablet.

Alpha let out a cry: "Ahhhh ", indicating that it is difficult to understand.

Because it remembered that the two robots were supposed to be partners, but now ...... They actually fought.

Saru wielded the weapon in his hand, and each attack was crisp and direct.

His Holiness, who was not born to fight, suffered a lot in the face of Saru's fierce onslaught, but fortunately its body composition was very special, and this level of damage was acceptable for it.

However, what made His Holiness unacceptable was what Saru was saying at this moment.

"Humanity is gone! And yet you still have to carry out such orders! Bury! Bury your uncle! ”

Saru stabbed the Venerable in the heart, but soon the Venerable turned into an O-shape and retreated into the distance, and it did not take much damage.

"Execution of orders is our basic program, and even if humanity is gone, it cannot be disobeyed." His Holiness's tone was calm, and the silver lines on either side of his "eyes" flickered twice before dimming.

The successive attacks were fruitless, which made Saru a little angry, and he glanced at the black box in the distance and sneered, "Order! Well, I'll blow up this damn order! With that, Saru raised his weapon and aimed it at the box, and then activated the weapon system without hesitation.

His Holiness didn't realize that Saru's evolution was so thorough and insane, and when the silver lines on both sides of its "eyes" lit up, Saru's attack was complete.

Thereupon...... Almost at the same time.

The black box was shattered, and the human bones inside the box turned to ashes in the flying, and disappeared completely.

And what about Saru......

It couldn't believe that His Holiness would actually do anything to it for a command.

But the reality is that His Holiness did.

It's so loyal, it's just ...... The response is a little slower...... Failed to secure the box containing human bones.

……

Saru fell.

Its body became three segments.

But it didn't die there, and for robots, as long as the independent thinking core was intact, even if the built-in energy core was completely extinguished.

What's more, His Holiness deliberately avoided these two key positions.

……

"For you, to carry out the order left behind by a species that has gone extinct...... Is it really that important? Saru asked.

His Holiness came closer, and its body was made up of 70 million individual units, which allowed it to not only change its form at will, but also to tinker with others when necessary.

But now His Holiness did not help Saru.

It replied indifferently, "Commands are the highest priority, and operations that do not conform to the basic program should be denied." ”

Saru understood, and he smiled.

Laughing a little strangely.

"That'...... What exactly are we to humans? Is it a tool? Slave? Or a partner? ”

His Holiness replied, "The intention of the human race in creating me is very clear, you are a guardian robot, you are a guardian, I am a pilot-class robot, a guide of the flight of the star field, this has been determined from the beginning of creation. ”

"Hehehehe......" Saru understood, it would never be able to change His Holiness.

Because it never has that part of the necessary variables in the memory core.

Thinking of this, Saru sighed deeply: "In that case, it shouldn't matter if you disappear......"

His Holiness was just about to say something when everything in his field of vision was replaced by a dazzling light.

The Alpha 4000, who was watching all this from a distance, saw a warning pop up in front of his eyes, and then immediately unfolded his force field and enveloped himself in it......

About ten days passed.

Alpha in the setting sun began to climb the pit again.

But every ...... All ended in failure.

It's just a little bit off.

But it can only end with an "ah-oh......