Itamon and the queen looked at the portal with some hesitation, but the current situation did not allow for too much hesitation.

The queen plucked up her courage and closed her eyes tightly and hugged Ita Gate through the portal, and Lu Xiao immediately closed the portal from this side.

"Huh~ Mission complete, it's time to see what Yongzhen and the others are playing."

Lu Xiao disappeared from the palace, and when the soldiers arranged by Bahawa came to the palace, they could only see the eight charred corpses in front of the gate, and Itamon and the queen were long gone.

The messy palace did not have the strict defense strength when blocking the gate before, and Lu Xiao left the palace very easily.

Just as Lu Xiao was about to use Focus to ask where Yongzhen and Aloy were, Consus rushed back at this time.

"Lu Xiao, I've found Bahawa's residence."

With a slight pause at his feet, Lu Xiao stood on the outer wall of the palace and thought about it.

"Do you want to slaughter it first...... Well? ”

The eagle's eyes from a distance made Lu Xiao discover the abnormal movement in the desert, an army of about a thousand people raised a large amount of sand and dust and was approaching Sunset Fort, and it would reach the gate in 10 minutes at most.

"Siris?"

The huge group of machines following behind the human army made Lu Xiao's pupils shrink.

"Hey...... It's not a joke, is it? ”

I don't know what Siris wanted to do when he drove back to the Sun Fort this time, in addition to dozens of degraders and hundreds of common mechanical beasts, Lu Xiao also found a few Thunder Fangs, more than a dozen Windback Beasts, and two large war machines that he had never seen before.

"Is that what Orin said about the weapon of war?"

Squinting his eyes, Lu Xiao gave up the idea of assassinating Bahawa, now is not the time to think about it.

The new war machine does not have the slightest beast form, and it is equipped with a huge number of weapons all over its body, and the firepower is amazing at a glance, and the thickness of military armor is by no means comparable to that of civilian beast-type machines, and I am afraid that even Thunder Fang is no match for it.

In addition, there are hundreds of lightning eagles flying in the sky, including several giant mechanical birds with a wingspan of more than 10 meters.

This is the Storm Bird, the overlord of the sky who can spew thunder and lightning.

Time was pressing, and Lu Xiao couldn't take care of the weak human soldiers around him.

After jumping off the palace wall, Lu Xiao found the vent where Aloy and Yongzhen entered the ruins, used Eagle Vision to lock on to the positions of the two, and accelerated along the path they had walked.

Gates along the way are blocked by Althea's modifiers, which can be unlocked by Consus, who is of the same origin as Althea.

Due to the big incident in the palace, most of the soldiers who had planned to break into the ruins turned around, leaving only a small part of the ruins to block off to prevent the intruders from escaping.

When Lu Xiao found Yongzhen and Aloy to rendezvous, the two were standing in front of a separate hologram display stand.

"The ZD-0-2 video data is not damaged, and the initial playback has begun."

Patting Yongzhen on the shoulder from behind to say hello, Lu Xiao looked at the hologram that was gradually taking shape and asked, "I didn't expect that there is a ruin here, have you found any important clues?" ”

"Shh~"

Yongzhen put his finger in front of his mouth with a serious expression: "Don't talk yet, finish watching this video." ”

The display showed a middle-aged woman dressed a little scruffily, and her appearance looked very similar to Aloy, but with a slight difference in age.

Aloy grew up in surprise, "This person is the person I saw in the Eclipse Cult's Lost Focus, and it's also the reason why Siris wanted to kill me!" ”

Yongzhen nodded: "Elizabeth Sobek, the leader of Project Dawn of Zero. ”

'Project Dawn Zero?' ’

Lu Xiao raised his eyebrows, but at this time, Elizabeth's image had already begun to speak, and he temporarily pressed his doubts.

"Being here means that you have learned the truth from General Herres."

Elizabeth's expression was very tired, and her voice was a little hoarse, but she still bothered and said: "What he said is true, the mechanical plague of Faro is devouring the biosphere, and all life on Earth will eventually become extinct. ”

"We can't save the lives of today, but we can create a future for lives, a hope for humanity to rise again."

"That's the core of Project Zero Dawn, building a super-intelligence that won't age and use it to manage the terraforming system."

"That's right, we need an AI, a real artificial intelligence."

Speaking of this, Elizabeth's tone gradually became impassioned: "An artificial intelligence with full consciousness must have enough ability to process trillions of choices to transform the planet step by step over a long period of time, so that lifeless nature can be reborn." ”

Elizabeth raised her hand to signal, and a set of holographic PPT pictures appeared beside her.

"We named it Gaia, the AI version of Mother Earth."

"But Gaia is only the core and coordinator of the entire system, and it also needs a large number of supporting subordinate programs to assist it in completing the work of planet transformation and civilization restart."

"These slave programs are not AI, but each one is more difficult to produce than any human challenge to date."

Perhaps thinking of the bright future after the completion of the plan, Elizabeth's pale face flushed a little, and her emotions became agitated.

"Illusia, who can preserve and nurture hundreds of millions of seeds and embryos, and regenerate life."

"Apollo who preserves the history, culture, and knowledge of human civilization."

"Assist Gaia in designing the planetary transformation system, and help her create all kinds of mechanical beasts needed to maintain the natural ecology."

"We don't need to complete the whole system, we just need to build a framework for it, and the planetary terraforming system controlled by Gaia will automatically complete the rest."

Elizabeth ignored whether her future colleagues in the audience could understand it, and continued to gush: "In the next period of time, you will understand the purpose of these programs, participate in their design, and coordinate the coordination between the various programs. ”

"Gaia will continue to calculate the cracking code needed to shut down the Faro War Machine with the help of Minerva sub-programs after the destruction of humanity, a process that will take about 50-60 years."

"It's going to build transmission arrays, spread the codes, and shut down the damn war machines for good."

"When the dust settles, Gaia will have her own automatons to sow cryopreserved plant seeds around the world, helping it regain the earth's vegetation and produce enough oxygen to rebuild the ecosystem of wild animals."

"When Gaia thinks the time is right, it will give birth to a new generation of humanity in the cradle of Illusia everywhere."

"The newborn human race will relearn and pass on the history and culture of humanity through the Apollo sub-program, understand the reasons for the demise of the first generation of humans, and remember this painful lesson to avoid repeating our mistakes."

Elizabeth's physical and mental state was noticeably poor when she recorded the video, and after the euphoria, she fell back into exhaustion and her voice became muffled.

"These visions are not just fantasy, as long as we work together and do everything we can for the ultimate goal, I believe that the Zero Dawn Project will be realized."

Elizabeth sighed, "We can't prevent the end of life, but if you are willing to help me and help Gaia, we can leave hope for life on Earth to rise again." ”

"Alright...... Elizabeth Sobek finished. ”

Including Lu Xiao, the three of them were silent for a long time after the image dispersed.

Such a grand plan for the rebirth of life was actually completed in just sixteen months, and Lu Xiao had to admire the creativity shown by human beings in a desperate situation.

But there's another question, what is the role of Hades? ’

Lu Xiao noticed that Gaia's list of subroutines included the name Hades, but Elizabeth did not introduce the purpose of Hades, nor did she know why it suddenly went out of control and had its own intelligence.

"Let's go."

Lu Xiao patted the shoulder of the eternal Aloy, waking the two from their contemplation and shock: "Keep searching, we still have questions that we haven't solved." ”