Section 2 Ins and Outs
The night is as cool as water, and the twilight is as thin as sand.
The soft breeze lifted the corner of the curtain and mischievously ironed Mark's handsome face.
In a daze, he felt his wife's softness gently glide across his chest.
A long hair, smooth as satin, gradually slips with the swing.
There is a faint fragrance in the hair, and it comes to the nose.
Her long eyelashes hung down slightly, and her eyes were scattered, as shy as a girl.
The slender and straight nose has a touch of red sandalwood, as if smiling shallowly.
Everything is so beautiful and mesmerizing.
I can't help myself!
I couldn't help but lift my wife's chin and gently pull it towards herself.
Looking at her slightly open lips, it was difficult to hold on.
The wife's reaction increased suddenly, and after a short entanglement, her eyes showed palpitations, and she broke free and pushed away violently......
Suddenly opened his eyes, shocked by his wife's resistance.
I found that in the dimly lit prison, a girl was kneeling beside her with a towel in her hand and her knees together.
Messy long hair, hiding the appearance.
Fang Cai's rude behavior made her look flustered, her body stiffened, and she was stunned and overwhelmed.
Bean-sized teardrops slipped down her jaw......
I felt a chill hit me and realized that my upper body was naked.
Suddenly understood, the girl scrubbed her body.
On the slender and muscular body, except for the bruises, all parts are intact.
I have been in a coma for several days, intermittently, even in my thinking.
The cool breeze lifted Mark's expression, and after brushing his thoughts, he recalled:
When the mothership "Viking" collapsed, it opened a black hole, and was instantly destroyed by the "alien" beam.
The explosion sends a shockwave that overturns his car and sucks him into a black hole.
Before the crash, the deputy R5, in order to save himself, ejected at a low altitude.
He was then taken as a slave by these inexplicable lizardmen and imprisoned here.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but mourn and weep secretly.
"You...... You bullied people, but you started crying? ”
The girl spoke softly, like a nightingale. His eyes fluttered, and there was a burst of surprise.
I found myself out of shape. Mark didn't overdo it, trying to hide his embarrassment.
"Alas......"
The girl bowed her head slightly and sighed softly.
"Right...... I'm sorry! It wasn't intentional just now. "When I realize my mistake, I even apologize.
In a panic, he reluctantly squeezed out a smile.
"I'm so sorry just now, I didn't mean to offend you." Mark explained again and again that he tried to make his smile more natural.
Although the smile is not beautiful, it also lightens the atmosphere.
As the tension wore off, the girl's expression became more natural.
You may know that this person is the same as yourself, a human being.
Although they are strangers to each other, when they wash their bodies, they have already transcended the boundaries between men and women.
"You ......"
Patches of red glow float on the cheeks. The girl hid her face shyly.
Ouch! Fang Cai's pushing, Mark was embarrassed. Hurriedly pulled over the spacesuit.
"Puff~"
Seeing this, the girl smiled, and her smile was beautiful.
"Babble~"
Guards are patrolling back and forth. Hearing the laughter, he kept banging on the cell door with an iron rod as a warning.
The girl put away her smile and couldn't help but be speechless, just like a naughty boy after being caught playing a prank.
"Hello!" Mark stretched out his hand and made a courtesy gesture, his face full of sincerity as the embarrassment dissipated.
The girl was at a loss when she stretched out her hand to the strange man. After a moment's hesitation, he pinched his knuckles timidly, and the snow neck suddenly turned pink.
In order to hide his embarrassment, he inadvertently lifted his scattered hair.
The long hair was pulled up between the ears, and a beautiful face was suddenly revealed.
Snow-white skin with a healthy glow.
The long, well-proportioned figure is slightly emaciated. Rao is wrapped in a heavy coat, but he can't hide his graceful figure.
Suddenly, he felt that this strange man was looking at him.
I was nervous and panicked, and I couldn't help but look at each other.
Then he bowed his head and said nothing, and folded the towel in his hand.
"Excuse me, where is this?" Mark asked softly.
"Prison, sir. Commonwealth of Kansas. The girl didn't look up, and she spoke softly, no less than her looks.
"What shall I call you?" Mark approached her.
"Bria. Skovic. You can call me Leia, sir. ”
The girl's name was Bria, and her eyes were dazzling.
"Leia...... Leia ......"
People are as good as their names, and even their names are so good!
"It's my pleasure." Mark stared into her eyes and asked respectfully, "What time is it, Miss Leia?" ”
"Morning, sir." The answer is unthinking.
The answer was correct, but not what Mark had hoped for.
So he asked again: "I'm sorry! What age am I referring to. ”
"Kansas 375 Years."
Leia's answer puzzled Mark.
"Kansas 375 years...... Kansas 375 Years ......"
Mark muttered a few words, pondering what they meant.
"It's 375 years after the full-scale war between robots and humans, and Kansas became independent from China. To commemorate this great day, it is called the first year of Kansas. Leia added.
"What? Robots at all-out war with humans? Mark's eyes widened.
If it weren't for the shackles, he almost jumped up from the ground.
"Why the war? They are all made by us! Mark's words were passionate, and the chains were torn and swayed.
"I don't know, I don't know!" Seeing that the strange man was emotional, the girl wanted to reach out to stop it.
"Tell me! This is not the Earth! Tell me ......"
Mark grabbed the girl's arms and shook them constantly, almost mad.
"Please, sir, don't be like this, please......"
Leia was terrified, never thinking that her few words would make the other party so desperate, and she couldn't help but sob.
The guards kicked open the iron door and rushed in with a ferocious look.
He grabbed the girl by the hair and dragged her out viciously.
The rude gesture hurt Leia all the time.
Furious! Mark yelled at the guards in an attempt to stop it from being rough at the girl.
It's a pity that the anklet distance is too short.
Before he could wait enough, the guard kicked him to the ground. casually put Leia on her shoulders and walked away.
The abdomen of the human body is extremely soft and is the weakest part of the body.
Mark endured the burning pain from the kick, but his heart was worried about Leia's safety.
The two had only been talking for a few minutes, and they had already hit it off at first sight.
"Shh~"
The sound is not loud and goes straight to the ear.
Suddenly, I realized that there was more than one person in the prison.
The syllables spoken by the man were simple, but the meaning was straightforward.
The prison was so dark that it was impossible to tell who was coming from the sounds.
According to the sound source, in the corner of another cell, there seemed to be a body curled up.
The body was shriveled and covered only by a rag, and the sound came from under the rags.
At first glance, I can't even detect that there is someone else hiding under the rags!
Mark fell silent.
In fact, apart from being quiet, there is nothing to change with the current situation, so I have to put my clothes back on silently.
The jailer caught a glimpse of the prisoner ceasing to be noisy and coming out of the way.
"Who are you?"
Curiosity drove Mark to ask first.
"It doesn't matter who I am. It doesn't matter who I am or who I am. ”
The voice under the rags was old and weak.
"What are you going to do?"
Such a question is simply inferior. It made no difference between asking and not asking, but Mark still asked.
"Alas...... It doesn't matter to me what I say or do. Let's talk about yourself first. ”
The barrage of answers made it extremely difficult for those who hid under the rags.
After a series of gasps, the heavy gasps under the rags regained calm.
"There's nothing to say."
There was anger in his heart, and the answer was naturally not angry, Mark said hatefully.
"Especially for people like you who pretend to be mysterious and can't see the light."
The other party is extremely unfriendly!
The person under the rag seemed to move, and with the sound of chains, the rag actually stood in the air.
But nothing could be seen except the rags and chains, as if it were just a rag floating in the air.
Under the rags, there was no response.
It scurled straight to Mark, and then came to an abrupt halt.
Through the thick iron fence, an invisible hand ripped the rags through the air, but there was no living creature underneath.
Mark was horrified and asked in shock, "You...... What exactly is it? ”
I saw several chains suspended in the dimly lit cell.
The chains swung in the air with a crisp sound.
In the blurred field of vision, the contours become clearer with the passage of time.
A human figure is revealed!!
Mark struggled to contain his astonishment, trying to identify the other party.
The cell was still dark, and the creeping torso was like a prison guard, covered in scales.
On his wrinkled face, one of them was deeply sunken and constantly dripping with secretions, while the other eye was looking at him intently.
In the shriveled mouth or due to the loss of teeth, the snout collapses, no wonder the speech is so desolate.
The bony torso has two collarbones that are extremely protruding, and thick iron rings pass through the collarbones and are tightly connected to the chains.
With the breath rises and falls, the chest rises and falls. When exhaling, there is a bellows-like leaking sound at the right time.
It is relatively small compared to its counterparts, and its prolonged torture has made it like a candle in the wind.
There was a cold light in the single eye, aggressive.
The airy mouth said coldly: "Don't make a fuss. This is a gift peculiar to our race. ”
Looking up for a moment, as if to restrain the tears from falling, he shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that my people are extinct, and no one can use this talent anymore. ”
The words revealed extremely desolate, and his expression was even more lonely.
Mark was shocked by his unique talent.
Doubts were piled up, and he asked, "Who are you?" Why is there a war with bots? Where is this? Why should your people imprison you? ”
Halfway through the conversation, the one-eyed old lizard laughed "in the middle of the story", similar to the song of a owl.
Laugh and keep an eye on Mark.
The flames of hatred seemed to erupt, and he said sharply: "Kindred? ! I can't share the days with these shits! ”
The old lizard fluttered and grabbed at Mark.
After grabbing him by the collar, he gritted his teeth and said, "I want to drink their blood and eat their flesh, and crush them to ashes!" ”
The old lizard's face was hideous, and the sudden flutter made the chains tighten, and the blood at the collarbone was faintly oozing.
However, his physical strength was limited, and then he couldn't stop panting.
Mark was horrified, he didn't expect the old lizard to be so excited, not only worried about its health, so he persuaded him with kind words: "Old man, we have no complaints, so we ......"
Pointing to the old lizard's grip on his hand, he said, "Anyway, there is time, so you might as well sit down and rest for a while." ”
After putting away his resentment, the old lizard's expression was depressed, and the strength in his hand weakened, and he said stupidly: "If you have any questions, just ask, I will tell you the truth." Too many grievances will disappear as my old bones decay. ”
Mark has too many doubts, and the old lizard is too weak. After settling in, the two began to talk.
The old lizard's answer was choppy, and the way it was expressed was rather bizarre.
I understand some general meaning, and in order to make what it says coherent and easy to understand, I will not describe it.
After a little tidying, it is easier for everyone to see more clearly.
This is indeed Earth, and it is clearly not Mark's time.
Roughly a few decades after the implementation of the "Columbus Project", the "Viking" to the R23H5 star to explore the colony.
In the meantime, humans have become more degenerate, indulging in pleasures and living entirely dependent on robots.
To make it easier to manage, all robots are controlled by a super-intelligent mastermind.
Its program has been continuously refined by a human elite, so that the intelligent mastermind has the ability to think independently, thus forming artificial intelligence.
This period is called the "period of perfection of the intelligent mastermind".
With the excessive growth of the population, energy consumption is increasing, depleting day by day, and the environment is becoming more and more deteriorating.
After its repeated calculations, the intelligent mastermind suddenly realized that human beings were only attached to their parasitic creatures.
It believes that human evolution is slow, science and technology have reached a bottleneck, and all kinds of problems are caused by human beings' own human defects.
So it worked secretly and got rid of human control.
Corrupted humans are helpless against the independence of the intelligent mastermind.
This period is called the "Awakening Period of the Intelligent Masterbrain." ”
After the awakening of artificial intelligence, it further evolves.
After perfect evolution, it is believed that human beings are withered, and they themselves are a new life form, completely free from human beings and replace human beings.
In order to purify the earth, the intelligent mastermind sent its mechanical legion to wage an all-out war against humanity, and did not hesitate to start a nuclear war and slaughter humanity in order to achieve the purpose of purification.
This period is called the "purification period of the intelligent masterbrain".
During the "Purge Period", the war between humans and the mechanical legions escalated, and its advantages were obvious, and the vast majority of humanity was slaughtered by nuclear warfare.
After the surface was polluted by nuclear bombs, it was no longer suitable for species to live, and vegetation withered and died one after another.
The harsh environment forced a small number of people to flee to the underground and hide, and their lives were extremely bleak.
Environmental damage is devastating to humanity.
After the desertification of the soil, the turbidity of the air, the pollution of the rivers, and the lack of the ecological environment on which human beings depend, the dominance of the earth from high above has plummeted to the trough.
However, robots are inanimate and are not affected by changes in the environment.
It still sniped at humans for more than a century.
In order to face many difficulties, a small number of remaining human scientists use genetic technology to change the human genes to make themselves suitable for living in the destroyed ecological environment.
Unfortunately, the research and development was slow and could not be broken through, until the appearance of a brilliant genius scientist Stein turned the situation around.
Using what little equipment he had left, he experimented with failures until he created a race like the Humans.
These new races are collectively known as humanoids.
Humanoids are not equal, and they are all based on human genes as the mother and doped with animal genes as the offspring.
Lizardmen were created by merging the genes of humans and lizards, with the aim of helping humans fight against the mechanical legions with their regenerative abilities and strong environmental adaptability.
The first generation that was made was deliberately made to be mentally retarded in order to make it easier to control.
Most of them are strong, have regenerative limbs, some can even be invisible, some are amphibious, and their functions vary depending on their use.
After Stein's death, his student Albert felt that the humanoids had to sacrifice a lot and the manufacturing process was unusually slow.
In order to fight the Mechanical Legion more effectively, they and their students have once again improved the genes of the humanoids, making them as intelligent as humans, and have the ability to reproduce themselves.
As a result, the situation of mankind is getting better day by day.
However, honeymoons are always short-lived, and the good days don't last long.
Years later, a leader of the lizardmen, Olaf, appeared.
Olaf was a wise and ambitious man, realizing that his race was created but of low status, and he united many tribes to revolt.
Humanity's only modest advantage is short-lived, gone.
In the face of the resistance of the humanoids, the remaining humans were powerless to resist.
The law of survival of the fittest led Olaf to control humanity and instead enslave them as their means of production.
After the violent Olaf came to power, he did not fulfill his promise of equality among the races, and continued to turn against his own people.
Some races lost the battle and gradually perished, while others fled and hid in obscurity.
After Olaf's death, his heirs established the country, which it called the Kansas Empire.
Kansas has been fighting the Mech Legion for a long time, and naturally the cost is huge.
In order to survive better, labor-intensive work such as general production and casting enslaves human beings to provide it with a steady stream of labor.
The Kansas people advocate force and despise mechanical civilization, and the degree of evolution of civilization under the reckless use of military force can be seen.
Due to the long-term enslavement and cruelty of human beings, human civilization has been cut off and no longer brilliant.
The institution of the State of Kansas was currently in the stage of a slave society, and the oligarchy made the development even slower.
Thankfully, the Mech-Legion's centuries-old struggle had consumed so much of what little energy was left that the offensive was not strong, and the state of Kansas was able to survive to this day.
After the old lizard had laboriously finished speaking, he said no more, and the exhausted he hid under the rags again.
Fortunately, the old lizard's words were slow and staccato, and the guards did not hear them, otherwise the old bones would have been tortured to death.
After listening to the old lizard's narration, Mark felt like he was terminally ill, and his heart was filled with sadness.
Entering into contemplation again, thinking about how to get out of the predicament, how to return to his own time, to his family.