16 Age of Singularity
Before his consciousness disappeared, he felt like he was falling into the abyss of darkness, and he never imagined that when he woke up again, he would be in a world so bright that it was difficult for him to open his eyes.
The bright light was so dazzling that Zhong Ming couldn't open his eyes at all. After many difficult attempts, he was able to slightly stretch his tight eyelids open a thin slit, and dimly saw a world of white and blue, blue and yellow.
The bright and fantastic scene stimulated Zhong Ming to subconsciously raise his burning arms and block his eyes, but driven by curiosity, he vaguely glimpsed from between his fingers that what he was facing seemed to be a blue sky extending endlessly under the blue sun.
"Is the light too strong?" Just as Zhong Ming was surprised why he had suddenly come out of the dark abyss of hell to the bright sky, a sweet voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
As soon as the soft words fell, Zhong Ming suddenly felt that the sky in front of him softened a lot. After being able to open his eyes, he did not continue to look at the sky, but couldn't help but turn his head, get up, and look at the owner of the voice. This time, it didn't take much effort for him to see a sweet-looking woman in a harmonious military uniform sitting upright beside him, looking at him expressionlessly.
"I..."
"Time is of the essence. Please don't ask questions. Just listen to me. Zhong Ming was about to speak, but was interrupted by a female soldier. Only then did he realize that the rank of a female soldier was ridiculously high compared to her countenance. He confirmed several times, but it was difficult to convince himself that the beautiful girl in front of him, who looked to be in her early 20s at most, actually had the highest rank of marshal in the American army.
The female marshal saw the surprise in Zhong Ming's eyes, but she didn't pay attention to it at all, but said to herself: "From today onwards, you will no longer be a beginner-level professional. You'll leave with Reich later. I want you to protect her. ”
"I protect her?" Thinking of the sassy and heroic posture of Lei Xi leading him through the land and fighting to the death with the armed robots, Zhong Ming couldn't believe his ears.
"Reich was impulsive, reckless, and inconsiderate from a young age. I hope you can be with her and persuade her more in case of trouble. ”
"But me? I was just... ”
"I know you're just a beginner in a robot factory. You may feel very inconspicuous, even humble. But I know that you have the potential to be different from the rest, and that's one of the big reasons why I chose to let you go with Reich. ”
"I..."
"In addition, there is another important reason for choosing you, which is because of all the people who were arrested this time, only you have a life point system embedded in your body. So, your every move is under my control. ”
"You... Who the hell is it? ”
"It doesn't matter. The important thing is that you have to get out of here with Reich now. Remember, you have to protect her. As long as you can do it well. Your Life Points system will no longer be activated. You don't have to worry anymore that your memories will be erased in your sleep. You will have a new life. I've saved all other useful information for you in my armor. Take your time on the way. ”
"Battle armor? Where do you want us to go? Zhong Ming's words did not fall, only to hear the rumbling behind him, turned around, and saw that the curtain wall of the room, which was originally showing a gloomy skyscape, suddenly opened, and three extremely workmanlike, like natural battle armor, and a spaceship immediately appeared on the rooftop with a transparent isolation cover outside the wall, shining in the dazzling sunlight.
Zhong Ming was still in amazement, and one of the battle armors had already disintegrated, and quickly flew towards him, enveloping him. At the same time, the female marshal on the side replied to him in a whisper: "Go to a place that guy can't control." ”
Before the marshal could finish speaking, not far from the bell, the dormant device containing the dormant Lacey had already flown up with a battle armor and entered the spaceship. Then, Zhong Ming followed closely behind, and was forced to fly into the spaceship by the battle armor.
Without waiting for Zhong Ming to ask any more questions, the spaceship quickly closed the hatch, and in the blink of an eye, rushed out of the suddenly opened isolation cover and headed straight for outer space. At the same time, the piercing siren also resounded throughout the heart of harmony.
In the shrill siren, the female marshal, who had been expressionless all the time watching the spaceship disappear into the sky, finally smiled with relief.
She smiled and put on the last of her battle armor, and then, calmly, lifted the electromagnetic shielding ban she had imposed on the emergency ship's cabin.
"You shouldn't do that." As soon as the ban was lifted, the air in front of the female marshal suddenly changed to the face of a young girl.
"Nope. It's the best thing I've done in all these years. The female marshal said with relief.
"She is your daughter and can be pardoned. She deserves to stay and get the best education possible. ”
"Nope. The world should have changed. Let's start with the destruction of the heart of harmony. With that, the marshal picked up an inconspicuous box in the room, and after identifying the marshal's biological information, the box opened widely, revealing a remote control with only one button.
"Nope. This will only plunge the world into chaos. You are the commander-in-chief of the American Human Legion. How can you fail yourself and the fruits of decades of hard work by the world's elites?"
"Nope. I will destroy nothing but the yoke of humanity. Although, destroying the Heart of Beauty cannot completely lift the curse of life points, let alone destroy you. But this. Can be used as a start. The beginning of the human struggle. ”
"If you have to. That's a shame. ”
"I can't escape the blame for the fact that things have come to this point. That's the only thing I can do. As soon as the words fell, the female commander pressed the button, and the dazzling bright light immediately flashed on the curtain wall image that was projecting the picture of the Harmony Center.
In the bright light, which was so strong that people were about to lose their sight, the memory flashed in the female commander's brain. Many years ago, the world of harmony at that time was still called Es.
At that time, artificial intelligence was in the ascendant, and there was no threat to human beings, although the prototype of the "Creation God" had been born, but it was far from the ability to control the world, let alone create a life point system.
At that time, the planet Ace was not unified, and the lifespan of human beings was still limited by nature, and there were endless battles and chaos for interests and different worldviews. Compared to the world of harmony, it is really a world of disordered social order, inefficiency, and instability.
The female commander was disgusted with that kind of world, that kind of chaos, that kind of injustice, and that kind of unreasonableness. But at this moment, she couldn't help but miss the past in that imperfect era. In remembrance of that, the history books of the world of harmony are called the era of the singularity.
In the last few decades of the Singularity Era, she was still a hazy girl who had no experience in the world, and she could not imagine that in the near future, she and the whole of Ess would usher in an unprecedented great change.
In a trance, the memory of the female commander was frozen in the international conference she attended abroad for the first time. To this day, she vividly remembers the theme of the conference, "Science and Technology Make Civilization." ”
That slogan had thrilled her, but after decades of witnessing the new world engraved by the power of technology, she had to put a big question mark on the powerful slogan in her heart.