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"We did find a lot of common ground, as you said." First Tooth smiled and said, "What are you here for?" ”

"The Empress of the Machine." As soon as Wu Chen's words came out, he suddenly became nervous with anger.

"What did you find?" First Tooth asked.

"I found out that she was working on her next plan, and the target seemed to be 01 City."

As one of the nine most important management procedures, the "01 City ......" machine qì council must have experienced the complete history of 01 City.

"What's wrong with 01 City?" Wu Chen asked.

"City 01 is our utopia. When the sky was not yet obscured by dark clouds, there was the Garden of Eden of the Jiqì people. The city is efficient and orderly, and the companions are courteous. The city is clockwork precise and passionate. It was our golden age. ”

Wu Chen understood: "So, abandoning her is because of energy depletion?" ”

"That's one of the reasons." First Tooth looked at his companions and continued, "Another important reason is that the area is too narrow to allow for large-scale access to the parent body. ”

The first implication is that there is not enough place in 01 City for the people of Jiqì to open up battery farms.

"One more important point." The first tooth revealed the ultimate secret: "The older generation of people in 01 City have incomprehensible emotions towards humans, so they would rather run out of energy and die and be disassembled into parts, rather than recharge with human brains. ”

"So compared to the new city, the life in the city of 01 is all old antiques." Wu Chen sighed secretly.

"Nope. To be exact. Mountains of garbage piled up in the Red Sea. It's all old antiques that ran out of energy and were dismantled and cleaned out of 01 City. ”

It's the same as humans, and those who die are thrown out of the city. Even though the dead people didn't emit a foul smell, weren't broken down by microbes, and didn't become a source of infection, the people still threw them out of the city. In this way, the garbage mountain that once gave birth to the Qì people of Unit 01 is not the same as the garbage mountain that now fills the Red Sea.

The former garbage mountain is the remains of a machine that was forcibly dismantled by humans.

And the current garbage mountain is the batch of 'old antiques' that would rather 'starve to death' than recharge with human brains in the later stage of the Doomsday Warriors, after humans shaded the sun with poisonous fog.

So, the machine qì people who threw off their burdens went on the road lightly. Wipe out humanity and push it into a corner.

If those old antiques are still alive and can carry out the change of power in a slow and orderly manner like a normal civilization, and the new generation grows up under the influence and protection of the older generation, the outcome of human beings and machine people may be different.

However, a brutal doomsday war wiped out all the older generation of fighters, so the giant ship that lost its helmsman began to rampage, crushing and blocking together. The people and machines that have made them today.

Who is to blame?

Wu Chen didn't want to think about this boring question anymore.

What he wanted to ask most was: "What is in City 01?" ”

The question is very general, but the councillor has enough wisdom to understand what it means: "a strange machine that can be used by Her Majesty the Empress......"

Nine MPs think collectively. And then finally there was a catch: "Rubic 360." ”

"Rubic balls?" The Rubic ball that Wu Chen knows is a third-order Rubik's cube.

However, it must be different from what he knows.

"That's right. That's a backup plan. If we lose the Doomsday War, this plan will be activated. ”

"And then?" Sure enough, the machine qì people also have two hands to prepare.

"Send the urban core and the most important 01 to 09 people into space." The first tooth set his eyes on Wu Chen: "So, Her Majesty the Empress is going to flee to space?" ”

Wu Chen smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If it's really a run, then let her escape." But my fear is that she's not on the run, but on the offshore! Go and settle the human settlers on Europa, Titan, Mars, and even Earth 2.0, and then agitate them to return to Earth! ”

"What are we supposed to do?"

"Stop her, if it doesn't work, we'll go to space too!" Wu Chen said solemnly.

"You are our leader, and we follow you." The first tooth to speak on behalf of all the parliamentarians.

After agreeing on the details, Wu Chen immediately disconnected.

However, what awaited him was Speaker Morpheus's frowning face.

"Wu Chen, the Awakened want to see you, see you alone."

"Okay." Wu Chen already knew why.

Morpheus re-executed a program on the console and motioned for Wu Chen to lie down again.

Entering the Zion console again, the scene has changed to the Council of the Awoken that Wu Chen is familiar with. It's exactly the same as the towering buildings that stand inside the city of Zion. It's just that one is real and the other is virtual.

Moreover, there were many more awakened people who came to meet him than before. Wu Chen even saw faces that had appeared in feature films.

"They call you the seventh. So, we would like to start this conversation with that title as well. Morpheus's former female speaker spoke with a blank face.

"Agreed." Wu Chen looked at her calmly.

"We want to know where you stand, which side you're on."

"I'm on the side of humans and machines." Wu Chen said the answer that he had already thought of.

Obviously, this seemingly 'sleek' answer provoked the anger of many people. Waving her hand to stop the crowd that was about to attack, the Speaker of the House asked again: "I must remind you that the seventh son, the human race and the machine are two opposing sides. ”

"Really?" Wu Chen asked rhetorically: "Haven't the human beings and the machine people already signed a peace agreement and will never fight again?" ”

The speaker of the parliament was unmoved: "Everyone knows what the peace agreement is and why we signed it, and you know it." ”

Wu Chen nodded: "I also have a question." ”

The Speaker motioned for him to continue.

"Excuse me, everyone, am I human?"

"Of course." The female speaker gave the answer directly.

"Excuse me, then, are the Zionites human?"

"Of course."

"So. Transhumans, exorcists, bandits, bounty hunters. Is it human? ”

“…… Calculate. ”

"Okay." Wu Chen nodded: "Then." Are humans on battery farms human? ”

The female speaker seemed to show a hint of a smile, perhaps Wu Chen was mistaken: "All the awakened people are from the place you said." That's why we're called the Awakened. ”

"So do they count?" Wu Chen wanted a positive answer.

The female speaker did not give it to him, but set her eyes on the crowd.

It wasn't until the awakened nodded that the female speaker turned around and replied to Wu Chen: "Count." ”

Wu Chen nodded with relief: "Then, I ask you to change your perspective, these people I just mentioned are in the eyes of those humans who were sent into space." Are you still human? ”

Many people want to speak, but they are lost in thought.

Wu Chen expressed his judgment: "I think, it shouldn't be counted." Otherwise the storm of Jupiter that destroys the entire surface of the earth should not have happened. ”

"Maybe they didn't know there were humans on the ground." Someone began to refute.

"Well, maybe they don't know." Wu Chen shook his head: "Then let's think about it, 600 years have passed, since their technology can turn Jupiter into a weapon, can't they still see the situation on the ground clearly?" The Jupiter storm was launched twice, with an interval of 2,100 seconds between them. The first burned the black clouds that enveloped the earth, and the second burned the surface. I want to ask everyone. This standard attack mode has no possibility of judging the target. ”

"Yes." Someone in the crowd said, "The first time is less intense. The purpose of burning only black clouds is to create conditions for observations. Otherwise, a direct saturation attack is sufficient. ”

"So, in any case, between these two attacks, there is judgment and thinking." Wu Chen's meaning is very clear, after the space humans burned the black clouds and discovered the condition of the ground, they still launched a saturation attack, obviously they thought that the humans planted in the battery farm were no longer humans.

The crowd began to ponder. The Speaker retorted: "But I can't be sure that they didn't miscalculate." After all, the situation of humans being planted in the ground is too terrifying. ”

Wu Chen smiled: "That's why I asked if it was possible." Are we willing to gamble on this possibility? ”

The speaker understood: "So, in order not to gamble on the feasibility of this that we can't control, you have to leave the Empress behind." ”

"That's right. She knows the whole story. Neither human nor machine qì people. If she goes for peace, we have nothing to worry about. But if she goes for war, we must stop it. Wu Chen smiled bitterly: "It's still the same sentence, it may not be possible." ”

War or peace, feasibility 50 against 50.

If Wu Chen is allowed to gamble, the possibility of war is even higher.

But no matter what, he must stop the Scarlet Empress, and at the worst of all, go to space with her.

"What else?" The Speaker spoke suddenly.

This sentence pierced Wu Chen's heart. It's a question he has been avoiding, intentionally or unintentionally.

After struggling for a long time, Wu Chen finally confided in his heart: "I don't want to perish. ”

The female speaker smiled as deep as the sea: "Okay." ”

This is...... What do you mean?

Wu Chen didn't figure it out.

The female speaker walked up to Wu Chen in a stride, stared into his eyes almost against his chin, and said word by word: "Wu Chen, follow your heart and do what you want." ”

"Okay." Wu Chen's solemn promise.

The white light began to overflow. Consciousness slowly returns to the body.

Morpheus, though not in the console, apparently already knew about the conversation. Silently packed up a qiē, led Wu Chen back the same way, and when he saw Wu Chen leave, Morpheus suddenly spoke: "You are a real human being." ”

Although he had a shelter perspective, Wu Chen was still a little moved.

The pursuit of the Crimson Empress does not require the action of a large army. Wu Chen alone is enough.

The most important thing is whether the white swan can fly normally in a hellish environment. Originally, Wu Chen hoped that the crystal teleportation in the Eternal Graveyard would be able to contact the Mother Body 2.0 shrouded in the Red Sea, but the chaotic electromagnetic environment on the surface completely wiped out the transmission. Moreover, the inversion of the earth's magnetic poles has also greatly weakened Wu Chen and Flicker's long-distance teleportation ability inherited from Tianhuo (in fact, as interstellar creatures, Tianhuo's ability has always been there, and the key is that Wu Chen and Flicker have not yet transformed into interstellar creatures).

Now, the only way is to fly over.

Of course, the safe way to do this is to wait until the surface is back to normal. But time waits for no one. Although the spacecraft of space humans in Earth orbit is also waiting, it must be adapted earlier than Zion, where technology has come to a halt. Therefore, Wu Chen wants to use more advanced Cybertron technology to act earlier than space humans.

After many tests, the T160 came to the conclusion that it was safe.

So under the watchful eyes of the few people who knew the details, the White Swan took off from the U-13 deck and embarked on an unknown journey to the Eastern Hemisphere. (To be continued......)