I thought Hamilton would give a detailed explanation, but the other party just shook his head and replied with three words neatly.

"I don't know."

"This ......" Ji Donghai and the others were dumbfounded.

Seeing the stunned faces of the crowd, Hamilton swallowed the last piece of lean meat and added.

"The light brain just gave the calculation results, Jiayi went to the Siming Mountain refuge, and the Minkowski unit will decline in a huge amount."

"I see......"

A few people muttered, their faces suddenly appearing, obviously aware of the slightly jerky term in Hamilton's mouth.

"But, it's an old man! I want to go to Simingshan Shelter, I want to go to him! ”

Sun Jiayi bit her lip, her face full of resistance.

finally learned the news that Zhang Ning was still alive from Zhang Jike's mouth, and there was a high chance that she would meet her in the Siming Mountain Shelter, but now she was told that she couldn't go, which made her feel happy.

"You're going to die, I won't allow that."

Hamilton's expressionless face showed determination, he could accommodate the girl in other things, but as long as it involved danger, he would only act according to the calculations given by the light brain.

Without exception.

“…… Since the light brain gave the calculation results, Jiayi, you still listen to the old man. ”

Malone thought for a moment, and also opened his mouth to persuade.

Although at first, he had doubts about Hamilton's identity as a cyborg, but after a month of getting along, those doubts have long since disappeared.

Although it is difficult to accept, the facts are in front of you, and it is indeed impossible for Lao Han to be a scientific and technological creation that can be produced in the current era.

So after the logic is smooth, the rest of the trust becomes logical.

"But, but ......"

The girl wanted to say something, but the tears had blurred her eyes, and as soon as she opened her mouth, bean-sized tears fell to the ground.

"You know Jiayi, the highest priority of the escort mission is engraved in the light brain program, this is my innate mission, and I can't go against it."

Sighing softly, Hamilton patted the girl on the back as if he were reassuring.

"Tomorrow I will restart the thermal power station again and calculate it with the highest arithmetic rate."

"Yes, maybe tomorrow the calculation results given by the light brain will be different, after all, everything is constantly changing, isn't it......" Throwing the branch of the meat that had been gnawed away in the fire, Ji Donghai wiped his greasy mouth and said smoothly.

Unexpectedly, Hamilton did not continue the man's words, but a serious 'popular science' way.

"There is very little chance that something that has already formed a development trend will turn around."

Hearing this, Sun Jiayi, who was already depressed, buried her head in the crook of her arm, as if she didn't want to see Hamilton's black face at all.

"However, there is no need to write a story that can often be guessed at a glance, right?"

Lao Zhang squinted his eyes, as if he had taken Hamilton's words, and as if he was just talking to himself to the campfire in front of him.

"It's not a story that's happening around us." The black man raised his eyebrows and slid the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose a little in a meaningful way.

"Well, that's right, it's not a script that's already been written."

Nodding slightly, Lao Zhang did not look at Hamilton, but stretched out his left hand and gently put it on Sun Jiayi's shoulder.

"Don't worry, fate will naturally meet, before that, let's follow the old man's advice, first ensure your own safety, if we meet Zhang Ning in the Siming Mountain Shelter, we will tell him the news that you are still alive, and there is someone to protect you, it is very safe."

"Really?!"

The girl asked sharply with a pair of red eyes.

"Of course it's true, we and that kid are 'comrades-in-arms' who have lived and died together, don't you say, pony?"

As he spoke, Lao Zhang elbowed Ma Long on the side.

"Haha, Lao Zhang is right, I think when we first met in the Blue Moon Garden Community, Zhang Ning, this kid still left a deep impression on us......"

The young soldier laughed, his eyes looking into the distance, as if he had thought of something interesting.

"At that time, he ...... Eh! ”

When Ma Long was about to retell the scene to the girl, he suddenly felt that the skin and flesh on his waist were pinched fiercely, and he exhaled painfully.

"Lao Zhang, you!"

Ma Long, who looked suspicious, was about to ask Lao Zhang for an explanation, but was preempted by the other party, "I saw a fart bug on your back just now, and I strangled it to death, don't say thank you, everyone is an old comrade......"

Ma Long was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood, and immediately stopped talking and stopped talking.

It's just that Ji Donghai on the side reacted slower and picked up the lost topic again.

"Eh, Brother Ma, go on, what did Zhang Ning's kid leave a deep impression on you at that time?"

Ma Long first glanced at Ji Donghai, and then peeked at Zhang Jike, pretending to be dumb very well-behaved.

"Brother Ma, why don't you speak, Brother Ma?"

I don't know if roasted pig eggs can really reduce EQ value, Ji Donghai didn't see the strangeness in the first place, and continued to ask like a curious baby.

"What impressed us at the time was that the kid talked too much, just like you, he was babbling endlessly......"

Zhang Jike glanced at Ji Donghai as if he was nothing, and there was a hint of coldness in his slightly narrowed eyes.

"Uh...... I see, haha so ......"

Xiao is Ji Donghai is dull no matter how dull, under the hint of this eye knife, he has already understood, and a slightly embarrassed smile immediately appeared on his face, hehe laughed twice.

Fortunately, Sun Jiayi did not find the deep meaning in the conversation between several people, and when she heard Zhang Jike's description of Zhang Ning, she immediately burst into tears and laughed.

"Indeed, he just has a broken mouth, and he doesn't stop talking every day, so he must have caused you a lot of trouble at that time......"

Malone coughed lightly, "On the contrary, he helped us a lot......"

"Peace of mind, live well, and when the disaster passes, you will finally see each other......"

Zhang Jike stood up from the ground and stretched his waist.

"It's not early, I have to get up early tomorrow to hurry, I'll go to sleep first."

Before the words landed, the middle-aged soldier stretched out his right hand and pinched the back of Ji Donghai's neck.

Then, like a chicken, he easily lifted the tall and strong tower man.

"Let's go, sleep together, you help me keep watch for the first half of the night, I'll help you keep watch for the second half of the night......"

"But it's only seven o'clock, and it's still early......

"You said in the afternoon that I was a coffin coffin, so I had to go to bed early?"

"It's obviously Team Zhang, you said it yourself......"

"Huh?"

“……”

In the flickering flames, the two drifted apart until they disappeared into the darkness.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, while most of the survivors in the settlement were still asleep, several figures had been standing at the door of the thermal power plant for a long time.

It was none other than Ji Donghai and the three who were about to leave, as well as Hamilton and Sun Jiayi who came to see them off.

"Be careful on the road."

Stuffing a bag of air-dried pork into Ji Donghai's arms, Sun Jiayi spoke.

"Don't worry, with me, Team Zhang and Brother Ma will be fine."

Ji Donghai, who plans to open a dyeing workshop with a little color, smiled, his face full of confidence.

Zhang Jike and Ma Long, who were on the side, looked at him speechlessly and did not speak.

"After arriving at the shelter, take a good time to recuperate, and don't rush to take on the mission."

Hamilton, who was standing behind Sun Jiayi, suddenly spoke and said without a head.

"Oh?"

The three people who were about to get into the car stopped and turned their heads curiously.

"Old man, did you just make a divination for the three of us?" Ji Donghai asked in a joking tone with a shy face.

He knew that Hamilton had a technological creation far beyond his time, the third generation of light brains, so usually, everyone would listen to the cyborg android's words as accurate predictions.

"Not really." Hamilton was expressionless, apparently hearing the banter in Ji Donghai's dialect.

I saw him stretch out his index finger slowly, and tapped his head slightly stiffly.

"Think with your brain, what you taught me yesterday, the sentence just now, is just a product of the formation of part of my brain tissue in my cranial cavity."

Ji Donghai looked surprised, and then gave a thumbs up to the old man.

"You learn really fast, I believe it won't be long before you become a real person."

Perhaps it was the overly presumptuous smile on Ji Donghai's face that stimulated Sun Jiayi, which made Sun Jiayi, who was still worried about the girl a second, immediately change her face, and she had no good air with her small waist inserted.

"Big stupid pig, the old man is originally a flesh and blood person! If you talk nonsense, the jerky won't be eaten for you! ”

"Hehe, okay, okay, don't say it, thank you for your jerky......"

Raising the bag in his hand, Ji Donghai opened the car door and got in first.

"Then we'll go too." The two men nodded at Hamilton and got into the car back and forth.

Facing the morning sun, the car engine started and slowly drove towards the main road.

Sun Jiayi waved her hand desperately in the direction of the car's departure, and only reluctantly put it down when she was completely out of sight.

With a light sigh, the girl's face showed loss, and she was silent for a long time, and she asked with some reluctance.

"Old man, are we really not going to the Siming Mountain Shelter?"

"Well, I can't go." Hamilton didn't look at the girl, still looking ahead.

"Just because the light brain calculated that my Minkowski unit would drop by a huge amount?"

"Yes, but not all."

This time, the black man lowered his head and glanced at the girl next to him.

"And what's the reason?" Sun Jiayi was curious about how the old man's statement was a little different from last night.

Faced with her question, Hamilton remained silent, as if he had no intention of telling the truth.

Looking at the other party's performance, Sun Jiayi's face suddenly sank, and he unconsciously raised his voice, and asked again in an almost stern tone.

"Hamilton! I command you as your guardian and tell me the truth! ”

As soon as these words came out, I could see a twitch coming from the black man's body, and then he turned his head in a daze and replied mechanically.

"The results of the optical brain calculation show that not only the Minkowski unit of the guard target Sun Jiayi has dropped a lot, but the other Minkowski units that are potentially close to the target have decreased......"

"What?!"

The girl's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at the man in front of her.

"In other words, Uncle Zhang guessed correctly last night, not only was my life in danger, but something was going to happen near the Siming Mountain Shelter!"

"That's right, I lied."

At this time, Hamilton's eyes had regained their brightness, and he said slightly apologetically to Sun Jiayi.

"No! I'm going to tell them! ”

Anxious emotions rose to the girl's brow, and if it weren't for Hamilton's pull, she would have chased her out along the road.

"It's too late, they're already far away, and with your running speed, it's impossible to catch up."

"You know it, why don't you tell them in advance!"

After struggling for a while, Sun Jiayi half-knelt on the ground, her voice choked.

"They're going to die! All because you didn't remind them! What could have been avoided, what could have been avoided, you know!! ”

In the end, the girl's whole body became hysterical, loud, but not the slightest deterrent.

On the contrary, in this hoarse shout, her weakness is even more highlighted.

"According to the first of the three laws of robots, I cannot stand idly by as an individual human is in danger;"

"However, the disclosure of key information greatly affects the development trend of the incident, and after analysis, it is not conducive to the completion of the escort mission."

"To sum up, in order to meet the first priority, I choose to abandon some human lives."

Hamilton still had no expression on his face, like a cold-blooded machine, and spoke indifferently.

Hearing this, the girl completely knelt on the ground, and the whole person imagined that her strength was instantly drained.

"You shouldn't be like this, old man......"

"My highest priority is you, and other lives can only follow the trend, which is predestined."

"Including Zhang Ning?!"

Raising her head in disbelief, Sun Jiayi looked at Hamilton with the eyes of a stranger.

This time, the black man did not answer immediately, and met the girl's gaze for a long time before finally nodding slowly.

"Including Zhang Ning."

"You bastard!!"

Sun Jiayi swooped up from the ground, picked up his fist, and smashed it into the man's chest.

The latter did not dodge or dodge, allowing the weak fist to fall sporadically.

After fighting for a while, perhaps thinking that her attack had not had any effect, the girl wiped a handful of tears with hatred, turned and walked towards the thermal power plant.

Hamilton tilted his head and followed in silence.

Without saying a word all the way, Sun Jiayi soon came to their temporary place and began to pack food and water.

"What are you going to do?" Hamilton, who was standing in the doorway, wondered.

"I'm going to save them! I'm going to the Siming Mountain Shelter! ”

"You can't drive."

"I'll go!"

"There will be a lot of danger on the road, and the probability of your death will skyrocket."

"Then it's better to die, it's not fun to live alone in this terrible world!"

After a cold word, Sun Jiayi began to pack her luggage, and she looked like she would never talk to Hamilton again.

After that, the old man spoke a few more words of persuasion, but he didn't get a response from the girl, as if in Sun Jiayi's eyes, he had become an almost transparent existence, except for the necessary bypass, Sun Jiayi almost didn't look at him with his eyes anymore.

Eventually, Hamilton sighed heavily, as if he had compromised.

"If you really want to go, it's not impossible."

Hearing this, the movement in the girl's hand finally stopped, and she stared at a pair of red eyes and looked at her aggrievedly.

"You don't lie to me?"

"I don't lie to you, but for your safety, I'll have to do another full-power operation."

Hamilton made the final compromise, which was also the result of his 'humanity' and 'calculations' against each other.

After all, if he had completely referred to the guidance given by the light brain, it would have been impossible for him to take Sun Jiayi to the Siming Mountain Refuge.

Machines can stay sane forever, but humans cannot.

"Okay, let's hurry!"

Not in a hurry to pack up the things in his hand, Sun Jiayi stepped forward in two steps and hugged Hamilton's arm.

"Hurry up and go to the steam turbine to recharge, and then turn on the full power computing ......"

The morning sun climbs up the hill to signal the beginning of a new day, and the breeze blows through the town, bringing up a slightly hot and dry grain of sand.

After hours of work, Hamilton had all the power generation equipment in place, the turbine was running, and his hands were holding the cable, ready to insert it into his chest to power the optical brain.

However, at this juncture, there was a rush of footsteps outside the factory!

"Chief, chief, it's not good, it's not good!"

Hamilton, who was about to plug in the phone, frowned and looked into the distance.

The person who came was the woman who brought the wild vegetables last night, in her thirties, with a mediocre appearance but a provocative figure.

"Something happened."

Putting the cable aside for a moment, Hamilton asked.

Although he does not admit that he is the leader of a temporary settlement, he cannot stand by the three laws of robots engraved in the light brain, and he cannot stand by while the human body is in danger.

On the premise of not conflicting with the escort mission, he will still protect the safety of the people around him as much as possible.

"There is a strange man who claims to be looking for his parents and wants to enter the residential area behind the thermal power plant!"

The woman was out of breath, but she reluctantly described the matter again.

"To get into the residential area behind the thermal power plant? Didn't you tell him about the danger there? ”

"We said it! But he just didn't listen, and when we stopped him, he started to break in! ”

"Break in? Isn't he afraid of death......"

Sun Jiayi blinked, as if she was puzzled by the strange man's behavior.

"Perhaps, his mood is exactly the same as you are now."

Hamilton glanced at the girl beside him with a complicated look on his face, and spoke.

"Take me to see it."

"Eh, aren't you charged?"

Seeing that Hamilton had already followed the woman and walked out, Sun Jiayi immediately reacted and trotted to follow.

"Let's talk about it when we're done with it, so as to avoid complications."

Hamilton's brow furrowed, obviously, he didn't improve the arithmetic of the light brain a little, and it was still part of the brain tissue in the cranial cavity that controlled the behavior.

This is also the behavior pattern he has learned in the past month, after all, using the light brain requires energy, and using the brain tissue to think, the biological energy supply in the body is completely sufficient.

The three of them soon arrived at the entrance of the power plant, and saw a large group of survivors in the distance, huddled in a chaotic group.

It's not a group fight, but it's pretty much the same.

Everyone was working in one direction to stop the uninvited guest in the center of the crowd.

During this time, the screams of survivors were constantly heard, either anxious or angry.

"It's said that there are no living people there, why don't you young man listen to persuasion!"

"There are monsters in the building, you will definitely die if you go!"

"I understand your eagerness, but your parents are really not in the building, and it's useless for you to go, you will only lose your life in vain......"

"Don't fucking talk nonsense with him, just knock out and tie it up! If we really let him into that building, if we mess with those monsters, we'll all die!! ”

"Yes, yes, knock him out, you must not let him enter the building, you don't want to live, we still want to live! Don't drag us into the water......"

I don't know who found out about Hamilton's arrival and roared.

"The leader is here!"

"Chief...... Here comes the chief......"

The crowd that was still chaotic before immediately stopped making noise, and all of them consciously retreated to the side.

The crowd dispersed, revealing one of the emaciated young men.

At this time, he was curled up on the ground, as if he had been 'served' by the fists and kicks of the survivors.

But despite this, there was an unchangeable stubbornness in his eyes, and he struggled to crawl in the direction of the residential building.

Two steps forward, Hamilton half-knelt in the way of the man's crawl.

"There are no living people in the residential buildings, and it will be dangerous for you to go."

Hamilton's tone was flat.

"You're lying, you're lying!! My mom and dad are there, I'm going to find them, I'm going to find them! ”

The young man raised his head, and a few bruises appeared on his thin face.

I don't know if he was beaten by the survivors, or if he did it himself on the way here.

Because Hamilton found that the clothes on the man's body were also tattered, especially the hands and feet, which had been broken into strips of cloth, and completely lost the proper function of clothing.

Even the most down-and-out homeless man will give a certain degree of sympathy when he sees it.

And the man's skin was also scarred, and it could be seen that he had not had an easy journey all the way.

However, what made Hamilton curious was that this person had already turned into this ghost, and he could still reach Yunlong Town alive, and still be able to walk through the town unharmed to the thermal power station to the west.

It's a miracle!

Holding back the thought of using his light brain, Hamilton continued to speak calmly.

"I didn't lie to you, although it's hard to accept, but your parents are really not in the building, if you force your way in, maybe everyone here will be killed."

When the words landed, a chorus of echoes sounded around them.

"yes, yes, your parents are definitely not in the building......"

"If you mess with the monster inside, you'll kill us all......"

"Mourning, young man......"