Chapter 105: The Dark Age (3)
The middle-aged man sat in the dark, the hum of the exhaust fan floating in the air, the dust with static electricity vibrated slightly with the sound, the cracks in the computer cabinet flashed with a dense blue light like a blind, and the grating fell on the man's face, and a sharp scar was clearly visible.
Fine lines at the corners of the eyes are equally clear.
The man is old, and the years are a carving knife, leaving jagged scars on his face, but unable to polish the edges and corners of his face. In this world, some people are older and more sleek, and some people are older and harder, and men belong to the latter, just like stones in a dung pit, after soaking for a long time, they are naturally smelly and hard.
He took out a cigarette and a lighter from his jacket pocket, put the crumpled cigarette in his mouth, and then lowered his head to light the cigarette, a small fire jumped, and an alarm suddenly sounded in the computer room.
The blinding red light flickered, and within ten seconds the fire extinguishing robot would rush up and spray carbon dioxide towards the source of the fire, and the man sat still, he put the lighter in his jacket pocket, and then took a deep puff of his cigarette.
"Quiet." The girl's faint voice sounded in the computer room, and the alarm was immediately interrupted.
The fire-extinguishing robot that rushed to the floor froze in place, not understanding why the central computer suddenly disarmed the fire, and its round head looked around blankly, trying to search for the source of the fire that had suddenly disappeared.
The girl in the white dress landed in front of it, bent down and gently patted the robot's head, smiling, "Go back."
The robot looked up at the girl stunned, blinking its eyes, its head drooping in disbelief, it slowly turned away, the motor making a subtle humming sound, and quickly disappeared at the end of the hallway.
The girl stood in the hallway with her feet cushioned and watched it leave, her illusory skirt and hair swaying slightly, the edges of her body glowing like a fluffy white.
"What an interesting little thing." The man smiled, "If you don't stop it, what will it do next?" ”
Omega turned, "It's going to spray high-pressure carbon dioxide in your face." ”
"It's horrible." The middle-aged man shrugged.
"There's been no alarm here in years, so it's exciting." Omega whispered, "It hasn't really burned since the day it was made." ”
"Like a firefighter whose knife is not old but has not been unsheathed for a long time?" The man asked.
"Nope." The girl shook her head, "It's just a child, everything here has been sleeping for so many years, and for it, birth was only a matter of yesterday." ”
"Everything?" The middle-aged man looked around, his gaze sweeping over the server cabinets around him.
"yes...... Except for me. Omega turned around and stood five meters away staring at the man, and the two looked at each other for a long time before the man suddenly grabbed his hair.
I said...... Can you change your clothes? The middle-aged man asked, "Every time you come here, you wear this white dress, in fact, I think you look good if you change your clothes." ”
"Change your clothes?" Omega was stunned.
"Yes!" The man slapped his face, "It's more tempting to change your body!" Like bikinis or something......"
Omega's face sank suddenly, "I can be like your mom and change into a bikini." ”
"Calm down, calm girl, calm down!" The middle-aged man's hand shook, and the cigarette between his fingers almost fell, "My mother has been dead for many years, and her arms are thicker than your waist...... Don't remind me of my perverted old lady, she's a strange woman who once hammered my daddy's head with a rolling pin. ”
Omega raised an eyebrow, "So violent? ”
"yes...... Pretty violent, right? The middle-aged man took a puff of cigarette, "But do you know, my mother used to be a Buddhist who believed in Buddhism, usually even a cockroach can't bear to step on it, and carries a string of prayer beads all day long to persuade people to be kind, but then the doomsday virus broke out, my dad was accidentally infected but no one knows, one day in the middle of the night he suddenly mutated, got up from the bed and rushed into my bedroom to bite me, my mother heard the cry for help, picked up a rolling pin and caught up, and smashed my father's head with a hammer...... I still remember her blocking the bedroom door with a rolling pin, turning her head and shouting at me, 'Abel!' Abel, run away! Go to the police! I was half scared and ran out of the house...... That was the last time I saw her. ”
"What do you think makes a Buddhist pick up a rolling pin and fight a zombie? The zombie was her former husband. The middle-aged man took a deep puff of his cigarette, "Now that I think about it, I think my wife is the most awesome person in the world." ”
Omega's eyes drooped, and she stepped forward to stroke the man's cheek, her fingers running over the scar on the latter's face.
Her fingers didn't really touch the man's skin, the girl couldn't feel the body temperature of a middle-aged person, she was just a shadow.
"I'm just a computer...... What's the point of changing clothes or not? Omega slowly crouched down and looked up at the man's face, "I can't even do something as simple as touching your face." ”
The middle-aged man shook off the ashes of his cigarette and smiled, "Are you a princess, the princess should be dressed up." ”
"In a place like this?" Omega narrowed his eyes and smiled, "There's no one here. ”
The middle-aged man raised his head and looked around, there were only rows of servers in the darkness around him, and there was no second person here, he rubbed his chin, "Hmm...... Can't you cast two more people to accompany you? ”
The girl got up and spun around, tilting her head, "No matter how many people vote, it's just me." ”
The middle-aged man was silent, he could understand the loneliness of this girl, in the past so many years, there had never been a second person who had stepped through the door here, Omega was alone in this dead silence and darkness, you can imagine this girl pacing back and forth on the floor, walking through the dense cabinets, leaning against the pillar and staring at the darkness above her head in a daze, humming an unknown song softly in her mouth, she was jumping up and down here and standing and lying on her stomach, crying and laughing and shouting at the empty darkness.
There was never a sound.
If she hadn't opened the door of the computer room again, this girl might have survived alone like this, and the energy of the central computer could continue to work for many years, no one knew that deep underground in this ruin, there was a girl sitting on the floor waiting quietly.
It's frighteningly long.
The middle-aged man stretched out his hand, and Omega gently placed his hand on his palm, "The academy should be busy, right?" You should go back. ”
"Princess."
"Huh?"
"At the bottom of your database, is there a response plan for the 'total extinction of humanity'?" The middle-aged man asked.
Omega was taken aback and looked up, "What are you asking this for?" Is the situation getting this serious? ”
"Nope." The middle-aged man shook his head, "I believe in those young people, even though the current situation is very bad, as long as those children haven't given up, we still have hope...... I'm just wondering, did they foresee what is going on when they designed you? Did they leave anything behind? ”
Omega looked at him blankly, and after a while, nodded slowly.