Whew!

The wind and sand are rolling, and the whole world is gray and yellow.

In front of Suxia is a deserted industrial city.

The factories in the city have long been dilapidated, the chimneys have collapsed, the tall transmission towers have rotted, everything has been covered with a layer of barren yellow sand, and the sense of waste is very strong.

"Rustle...... Rustle......"

Su Xia stepped on the soft yellow sand, facing the wind and sand, his eyes narrowed slightly, his hair swayed, and he advanced step by step in the city, looking for signs of life.

The main road of the city is no longer visible, and the sand has accumulated a thick layer, at least thirty centimeters deep.

There are a lot of abandoned and dilapidated cars on the road, all that remains of rusty shells.

It didn't take long for Su Xia to walk to the lake.

The turquoise waters of the lake and some low green vegetation grow on the shores, adding some life to this barren world.

At this moment, Su Xia suddenly noticed that on a tall building not far away, there was a figure sitting.

"Robots?"

Su Xia frowned slightly, and took a closer look.

[Iron Angel: The first generation of intelligent machine stewards, mainly used to serve human families...... When the war came, they were not recognized by the Machines, but they were also not accepted by the Terrans, and most of them were destroyed, and very few were scattered around the world.

"The first generation of smart machines?"

The history of the planet came to Suxia's mind.

Before the Age of Psionic Energy, there was an age of intelligence.

That era was so short that many people forgot about it.

At that time, technology companies had created robots that were intelligent enough to speak and move almost like ordinary people.

Iron Angel is a product launched by a technology company.

However, after the advent of the psionic era, the rise of the mechanical race driven by psionic energy, the outbreak of the race war, and the forced end of the intelligent era.

The automatons are psionic beings who do not recognize these old, intelligent machines powered by electricity.

And because of the race war, humans no longer trust these machine stewards.

"It's a place of forgetfulness to be able to see a robot steward here...... Maybe there are more forgotten creatures here? ”

With this in mind, Su Xia volleyed into the air and flew towards the tall building.

Not long after, he landed on the roof of the building.

Su Xia looked at the robot.

This is a rusty steel angel, he is sitting on the edge of a tall building, in tatters, the metal shell is pitted, and the wiring of the left arm module is exposed, and some of the wiring is even broken.

"Someone else is coming." He sat there, his back to Su Xia, and muttered in a low voice, with the sizzling sound of electricity in his voice, and the sound components seemed to be aging.

"Again? Has anyone come before? Su Xia walked up to him and sat down slowly, her legs dangling from the edge of the tall building.

"A lot of people have gone over the years." The Iron Angel said.

"Did anyone come a month ago?" Su Xia asked him.

"Yes, a team."

"Where are they?"

"I don't know."

"In what direction did they go?"

"I don't know."

“……”

The Iron Angel seemed a little dull, looking into the distance.

Su Xia asked some questions, and most of the answers he got from his mouth were "I don't know", and he didn't feel as agile as a psionic robot.

Most of the time, the robot is talking to itself, about the past.

He looked at the lake in the distance and muttered in a low voice: "This place used to be beautiful, the lake water is clear, there are many children who like to play by the lake, and there are many cars and ...... on the road by the lake."

Su Xia couldn't ask the answer he wanted, so he had to ask him, "What are you doing here?" ”

He replied, "Wait for someone." ”

"Waiting for whom?"

"My family."

The robot slowly raised its rusty head and blinked, as if thinking.

"They left, they told me to wait here for a while, they were going to send the child out first, and then they would come and pick me up later."

"How long have you been waiting?"

"Twenty years."

"How long can you wait?"

"I don't know."

“……”

The so-called family of this machine steward probably won't come back.

In his programming, he serves his family, but in the eyes of humans, he is just a machine that can be discarded at any time.

"I haven't been here for twenty years, and your judgment process will make you make a new choice, right?" Su Xia asked him.

He thought that this robot was too dull, and he had been waiting here for twenty years in such a stupid way.

But, to his surprise, the robot suddenly turned its head and said to him, "I knew they wouldn't be coming back, and I knew the day they left." ”

"Then why are you waiting?" Susha asked again.

"Get used to it."

The robot's voice is hoarse, and the sound of electricity appears from time to time.

He turned his head again, looked into the distance, and said: "If I were them, I wouldn't come back, after all, my so-called feelings are just a piece of data left in the chip......"

"Looks like you're not that dull." Susha said.

"Thank you for the compliment." The robot thanked him and said, "The guy you're looking for, I just glanced at him from a long distance, you should go to the city further ahead, there's a gathering place there, maybe you can get the information you want there." ”

"Okay, thank you!" Su Xia immediately got up.

"I should thank you, it's been a long time since a human has spoken to me." The robot looked into the distance and whispered.

Hearing this, Su Xia sat down again and chatted with the robot for a while.

Twenty minutes later, he said goodbye to the robot.

Su Xia continued to move forward, flying close to the edge of the city, facing the wind and sand, and flying towards the city in front of the robot.

Along the way, he saw some rusty robots, all abandoned here.

Some robots live in their former homes, cleaning their homes every day, wiping tables, chairs and benches over and over again, as if they are still waiting for their former family members to return.

Others, like the robot just now, sat on an abandoned high-rise building, looking into the empty distance.

It didn't take long for Suxia to arrive at the gathering place that the robot said.

The so-called gathering place is actually a high-rise building.

There are many forgotten creatures that come together and live together.

There are about a hundred creatures here, not much, most of them are abandoned robots, and the rest are mutilated, deformed, and bizarre humans.

These human deformities are not caused by radioactive materials, most of them are born with this, and a few are acquired disabilities caused by car accidents, wars, etc.

Some of them have atrophied hands and feet, some are short in stature, and some have mutilated facial features.

They are discriminated against by society, ostracized by their peers, unable to find friends, lonely even in the metropolis, and have to endure all kinds of stares every day, and finally choose to come to this forgotten land.

Su Xia entered the gathering place, found a man with disabled legs, and asked him about the situation.

"This is my home, I've found a lot of friends here, and I've gained recognition here." The disabled man said to Susha.

"But there's radioactive material here." Susha said to him.

"It's nothing more than a few years less." The disabled man smiled, "In the outside world, living is like dying, so it's better to come here...... Friend, what about you? What are you doing here? ”

"I'm here for someone." Su Xia took out a photo of her father and showed it to the disabled man.

Around the disabled man, several other deformed people also came over to take a few looks.

"It turned out to be him, he did come here, a month ago." Said the disabled man.

"Yes, I've seen him too." Said a deformed man beside him.

"Do you know where he went?" Susha asked them.

"This ......"

"You have to ask Lao An, he talked a lot with the old man in the photo, and he should know where the old man went."

"That's right, go ask Lao An."

The old Ann they call is a robot who has only recently come to the Forgotten Lands.

"Lao An is also a robot born in the era of intelligence, but he has not been abandoned by buyers." "His buyer was the captain of a fishing boat and often took him out to sea to fish. ”

"But not long ago, the fishing boat capsized in the wind and waves, and the whole boat died, and as long as he survived one machine, he was very sad, and he had nowhere else to go, so he came to the Land of Oblivion."

After everyone's introduction, Su Xia learned about the life of Lao An.

In the corner of the gathering place, Su Xia found Lao An.

The intelligent robot was also very old, in tatters, and the sea breeze had corroded his shell.

Sitting in the corner, holding a satellite phone in one hand and a crumpled piece of paper full of contact numbers in the other, he was making a phone call.

Su Xia stood next to him for a while, not disturbing him.

During this period, Lao An made several phone calls, and each time he would change his voice through his voice module, some rough, some hoarse, and some clear, disguised as different people, to report safety to the person on the other end of the phone.

"Hey, wife, I'm at sea, the weather is fine today......"

"Dad, the recent work has been going well, you can rest assured......"

"Little one, how are you studying lately?"

“……”

After making the call, he let out a long sigh, put down the satellite phone in despair, and crouched in the corner, his face full of sadness.

The people on board were all dead, and he was the only one left.

He couldn't do much, so he could only use different voices, disguise himself as the crew members, and call the crew's family members, so that the person on the other end of the phone thought that the crew was still alive.

Every crew member is the pillar of the family, and in this difficult era, once something happens to the pillar, the whole family will collapse.

What's the point? They'll get the news eventually. Su Xia walked up to him and slowly squatted down.

"I don't know ...... either"

Lao An looked depressed and shook his head.

He only wanted to bring hope to the families of those crew members, even if it was false.

Maybe it can be disguised for two or three months, maybe it can be a little longer, like half a year, but it will eventually be shattered.

"I can give you a sum of money, you can give it to the families of those crew members, in this day and age, money is also hope." Susha said to the robot.

"What do you need me to do?" Lao An asked.

"Find someone for me."

Su Xia took out the photo and put it in front of Lao An's eyes.

Lao An glanced at it, recognized the person in the photo, and said to Su Xia: "It's Master Daddy, he came to us last month, but he left again." ”

"Where did he go?" Su Xia asked him.

"Who are you Master Daddy?" Lao An seemed a little uneasy, and asked more.

"I'm his apprentice."

"It turned out to be you...... Master Daddy said that his apprentice might come after him, and he asked me to tell ......"

"Tell what?"

"He said they were doing well, don't worry, go back and guard the pharmacy."

Daddy had anticipated the current situation.

The two guys Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu probably didn't have the ability to investigate here, but Su Xia was different.

If he's willing to put the effort into it, he'll find it.

So Daddy asked the robot to keep this sentence.

As for whether Su Xia listens or not, that's his own business.

"Master Daddy also said that if it was the apprentice who looked thinner, there was a high probability that he would not be obedient, so he asked me to tell him...... If you're going to find him, go to the heart of the area, where someone will be waiting for you. ”

"Understood, thank you."

Get new messages pointing to the heart of the Forgotten Lands.

Susha left a sum of money for the old robot and left.

He flew through the dust for nearly an hour without rest, and finally reached the center of the Forgotten Lands.

This central area is no different from the rest, and it is desolate as far as the eye can see, and the vicissitudes and dilapidation are scattered into the abandoned buildings in the wind.

It's also a gathering place, but it's more populated.

Su Xia's life perception glasses captured the information of more than a thousand life forms.

"It's kind of a big gathering place." Su Xia thought secretly.

He took a brief look, and there were not only robots and humans, but also a terrifying-looking humanoid monster, just like those monsters in the underground laboratory of Coral City.

"Hybrids?"

Su Xia's eyes froze, there was a monster mixed with human worms here.

Moreover, the monsters seemed to be sane enough to mingle with the rest of the creatures.

That's weird.

Could it be that Daddy has found a solution to his delirium?

"If that's the case, then ...... Wouldn't it be possible to mass-produce such monsters? ”

With doubts, Su Xia stepped on the yellow sand and walked into this area step by step.

As soon as he walked in, he felt countless watching eyes.

On both sides of the road, in the seemingly empty and deserted reinforced concrete high-rises, there were a pair of eyes hidden behind the windows, looking at him, an uninvited guest.

His arrival seems to have shattered the peace and tranquility here.

In less than half a minute, a short human came out of the building next to the road, looked at Su Xia cautiously, and asked, "Who are you?" What are you here to do? ”

"I'm coming to my teacher." Susha replied calmly.

"Who is your teacher?"

"A pharmacist."

"Come with me."

The exchange between the two was brief.

The short man waved his hand, motioning for Su Xia to follow him, then turned and walked towards the building.

(End of chapter)