Summer's half-snuggled lie on a crystal throne, he was at the highest point of the base overlooking the ruins of the earth, and in the distance, the gray mountains rose and fell, like the spine of a giant beast, and on the top of the mountain stood several rusty towers, the wires between the towers had long been broken and corroded, and countless tiny vines clinging to the rusty towers, twisting and twisting with each other, and more importantly, black shadows soared high in the dusty sky, and they let out a sharp beast-like roar that kept people awake at night.

"How's the trade with Noo going?" Summer raised her hand, and the robot's voice came to her ears, "Everything is ready." ”

Summer shrank back, and since the days of the subway journey, he found that he still liked it even more. The air is fresh, there is no mud, no sweat and smoke, no squeaky gray rats, and no cries and noises from the remnants of Gray River Station.

It's too easy to wear off your will and get tired here, and this is especially true in the summer at the moment.

He pondered why he wanted to go underground, but he couldn't give himself an accurate answer.

Did he really want to find his "friend" Villerie? Not necessarily, he didn't even bother much to find her.

So he is for the development of the base, in order to save the galaxy? Or to dominate the land?

After all, what does the galaxy have to do with him? Even if he put it all under the banner of the Empire, what would it mean to him? What's more, save the galaxy...... As long as anyone with a good brain hears this, they will laugh.

He is not from here, he has not experienced the cruelty of thermonuclear war, nor has he experienced the darkness of the underground society all the year round, he has never been able to integrate here, so he will really be enthusiastic about the rights here?

"Why do you feel so tired?" Summer let out a low moan, stretched and shifted to another position to continue watching into the distance.

"Your Majesty, the first batch of food is ready."

"Then prepare, we are going to transport the goods to the entrance of the square station, can you do that?"

"Of course, Your Majesty, we have gathered enough materials to repair a passing underground transporter, and out of consideration, we have made a makeover, and the compatriots in charge of the transport have also made a camouflage."

The synth presented a stereoscopic image of light particles in front of Summer, "Even so, I think they would be suspicious." ”

"Leave the doubts to them," Summer dismissed, "I just hope they'll give me the money." Still, synths, do you think they're going to play any tricks? ”

"Your Majesty, due to innate limitations, I am not allowed to probe too much into the human psyche, and I think the best thing we can do is to prepare for the worst."

Prepare for the fact that they may regret it, or even plan for other intentions, and Summer feels that it should be so. He just speculated that the webmaster might agree to trade it for food, but he understood that if you're not the smartest person, it's best not to treat the "maybe" option as the final answer, or you'll be disappointed at some point.

So, out of consideration, he wanted to bring the only two security robots with him.

The robot told him that a 6-VBIJ integrated scanning machine gun converted from discarded firearms collected from the surrounding ruins was currently installed in a certain area around the base.

As long as the image transmitted by the base's central monitoring system to the synth or Summer's watch is determined to be an intruder with bad intentions, or a variety of non-intelligent beasts that have strayed in, the machine gun will use high-precision sensing radar to lock on to the enemy and shoot it, unless the synth or Summer miscalculates, it is impossible for a miskill.

At least that's what the robot swears, and Summer can only pray that one day the machine gun won't kill him by mistake.

"The base is currently transformed into an automatic defense system in the most primitive stage of gunpowder weapons, and for the sake of our environment, the current transformation is enough to deal with the invasion of normal small beast herds, or the invasion of light armed forces with less than fifty people, which is enough to support the defense support of the security robots."

"Hopefully, synth, pull things down and make people look good, and I'll be there later." Summer tightened her sleeves, "I need to change my dress." ”

"Your will, Your Majesty."

What a sweet voice, Summer thought as he took off his crystal costume that was so luxurious that it was not to be true, and he carefully took off the old ragged clothes that he had brought from the Feishui Station from the hanger that had automatically slid in, and put them on one by one.

Of course, even such a rag-like costume is quite okay in the world of scarce materials in the underground station, neither high-profile nor low-key, very ordinary.

........

When he walked out of the base in the summer and stepped into the ruins, he found that there were more beast corpses on the ruins of the ruins. It was a thin, slender, clawed creature with a wolf-like head, an upturned snout, two dagger-like fangs flipped outward, blue-gray hair darkened over the drowsy ruins, and blood spread like snowflakes on the rotting earth.

They lay in hundreds of crevices in tall buildings and in the crevices of the walls, some of their corpses were rotting, and some of them were newly dead deformed beasts, their eyes like blood-red gems, which made people's hearts chill.

Summer swore that if he was left alone to face such a beast, he would be so frightened that his hands and feet would tremble and he would not dare to move.

Suddenly, a burst of gunfire rang out, like a sudden rainstorm, and suddenly it returned to tranquility. In summer, you can only see a flash of orange-red firelight, and the ensuing smoke and blood.

Summer sniffed.

"Another fool who doesn't have long eyes has been sent to the door, Your Majesty, don't worry."

"The beast is getting more and more manic, how can I not be worried, and there have been too many attacks like this in recent days."

"Your Majesty, this is only because of the boundary wormhole, psionic energy is some more primitive power, it changes the surrounding environment, and naturally makes the creatures restless, rest assured, soon they will adapt to the changes and regain their peace."

The same rhetoric, and unconvincing, Summer pouted, the truth is that they have become more aggressive than ever.

When they arrived at the tunnel, eight sapper robots were wearing fur coats, masks, and rifles, looking as if they were going to cover themselves alive in their clothes.

One of the two safety robots is responsible for observing the surrounding environment to ensure that there is a crisis that may arise at any time, and the other is attached to the summer as usual, like a fluttering shirt.

Summer didn't know if this thin layer of armor would be able to withstand the deadly damage of a bullet or a missile, and he could only pray that he would never know.

"Your Majesty, someone is coming this way, the horizontal line of the 0 grid standard axis is 15 degrees, and the distance is four hundred and fifty-three meters........ Sixteen people........ Micro-armed, threat level: None. ”

Someone who is not a threat? Summer wasn't sure what level of threat it was, but he didn't think the other party would send sixteen babies over.

Soon, he saw the so-called non-threatening standard. Sixteen soldiers dressed in black, with a small box of military-grade bullets behind them, and at the forefront was a wild man wrapped in a soldier's uniform.

It turns out that this level is not a threat, Summer doesn't know if his gang can go against a station, and he doesn't want to try, if killing people can make people work for their base in a happy and surrenderful way, he doesn't need to say it, and the synths will have already spoken.

"You didn't mean you weren't armed with anything," Noo couldn't help but ask, "don't say their guns are toys." ”

"Stationmaster, you have more people than me," Summer blinked, "I'm just just in case, you also know that the underground world is very dangerous, and the Gray River Station not long ago is a lesson from the past, please forgive me, I also trust you, but I can't trust those evil monsters, they are too dangerous." ”

The stationmaster snorted coldly, "Did you bring anything?" ”

"Naturally, or why am I here," Summer, stepping out of the way, a sapper robot pulled the long tin wagon behind him.

It was a long cart full of wooden crates of specially cured meat, and although it didn't taste good because it was made quickly, it was considered much better in the summer than the wild mushrooms of the ground, the roasted rats, or the pale lean pigs that tasted like chewing wax, and it was enough to boost the morale of the hungry inhabitants.

The meat comes from the radioactive creatures on the ground, but thanks to the radiation filtering equipment, he can remove some of the radiation hazards of these mutant creatures, which others can't do.

And best of all, it's not expensive.

"If you need it, we can pull ten times as many as every day."

The stationmaster of Noo didn't say anything, he just cautiously surrounded the iron car. The wagons were rusty, the welds didn't look so sturdy anymore, the car was a few years old, and even the tires were rags removed from some old cars.

The meat in the big box was neatly stacked one by one, the meat was dark red, because it was a freshly produced product, the wild man smelled a spicy smell of meat, so greasy that it made people salivate, and fat is always a good thing underground.

He first asked a soldier to bring in a radiation detector to measure the radiation index of the food, and the monitor beeped and he looked at the index.

"It's close to the ground around here," Summer explained with a smile, "and it's normal for it to ring." ”

Wild Man asks a man to walk deep into the tunnel with a meat and radiation counter, and he stares at Summer with an unkind face, like a summer day.

After a while, Noo's men returned.

"There are no anomalies."

Noo breathed a sigh of relief, he picked up a piece of meat and tasted it himself. The cured meat was slightly tougher, but it was noticeably better handled than the usual meat, and they added some seasoning to it.

He had to admit that this big box of meat was indeed a good thing. He noticed more, though.

First of all, the soldiers appear to be very disciplined and unusually well equipped. Their posture was clearly centered on the young man's safety.

On the other hand, this tunnel, if he remembers correctly, was obviously impassable in the past. It was blown up decades ago, why did they appear here, and ....... The passage here looked like it had just been dug, and the walls on both sides of the tunnel were smooth, as if some particular tunnel instrument had been opened through it, and he couldn't imagine any force that would still have it.

This guy's origins are more mysterious than he thought. Noo didn't know if it was right to give him the ammunition, and it was as if he was about to bolt the gun he shot at himself and hand it to his opponent with a stupid face.

"I ....... if I need it"

"You can come at any time, we will arrange two people here, and we will stay here every day when the wolf is the ghost, as long as you want, we are waiting for your visit."

Noo nodded stiffly, then turned around, "Take the things away." ”

They left quietly with the tin cart. Summer looked at the row of military-spec bullets and didn't know what to think.

"This is just the beginning........ Synths, they'll need more, and for that, I want more sapper robots. ”

"Your Majesty, if you want an ordinary robot, we will naturally satisfy you. If, however, we are unfortunate enough to encounter some great enemies who are skilled in manipulating machines, they will force your most loyal subordinates to betray your will and use their own unique means. Once this happens, we are afraid that His Majesty's hard work will be ruined, and we don't know when they will appear, so the best thing to do is not to let robots join our empire in the first place. ”

Summer didn't believe it at all, "What about you?" How do you make sure you don't betray me? ”

"Your Majesty, our core is made of some extremely unique nano-active metal fusion, they cannot penetrate our core system, please trust your most loyal servant."

Trust you guys? Summer pondered silently, why should I believe in a bunch of things made of circuits and metal. But who else can I trust besides them? He didn't have any friends here, maybe Villeri was one, but she was missing.

"Tell me, where can I find those nanoactive metals."

"Of course," the synth said, holding out his fingers, and a blue image of light appeared in the darkness.

"The process of making nano-active metals is very complicated, but we have mastered it all, so your majesty need not worry, but the materials needed to make metal are extremely scarce, and at present, on this planet, we have found the raw material for making nano-active metals, Elta Metal, which is enough for us to create another fifty trusty synths."

Fifty, what can you do with that number? This means that if he wants to colonize the planet, he will have to rely on the humans under the subway, as well as the survivors of the ruins who are hiding in remote corners, and his people will be flesh and blood, not steel.

"Where are the raw materials?"

"There's a central railway, my majesty, and it's a continent that runs through the continent, and we just need to follow the railroad to a big mine three thousand kilometers away, where we can find the only Elta metal on the planet, as well as a large number of metal mines."

Three thousand kilometers, I couldn't help but laugh in the summer, this is enough mileage across a third of the continent, damn it, why didn't you just expand the colony there in the first place.

"How are we going to get there?"

"Your Majesty, trains can travel through the Central Railway, and our engineers can find suitable trains and repair them, Empire willing," the synth prayed reverently, "and hopefully they haven't been completely damaged in a few decades." ”

Empire Blessed......

Do these robots have beliefs........

Summer just thinks it's funny, is this still a robot? It's no wonder that the United Empire has made AI research taboo, and anyone who sees such a robot will only feel creepy.

However, at this point, he has long understood that these synths are his real reliance, and if possible, he would rather stay with such a bunch of synths by his side than face the humans who bombed him into the underworld with nuclear bombs.

"Can I count on you?" He asked deeply.

"Your will is our will, Your Majesty, no matter how the years go by, no matter how time passes, until the end of the galaxy, we will remain as loyal as ever."

Nice nonsense, Summer thought, and then had someone bring the bullet back.

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