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"Stop." A cold electronic sound sounded from not far away.

Since my current posture is climbing on a ladder, facing the wall. With his back to the basement space, he doesn't know anything about everything behind him. I sat motionless on the ladder, indicating that I was not hostile.

"Are you...... Mankind? The electronic voice seemed to be mixed with confusion and surprise: "Now...... How can there still be humans? ”

“......”

I don't know what to say. I'm not sure why the robot was surprised that "I'm a human here".

"How did you find this? What is your purpose? It continued.

Finally got to the point.

"Your companion gave me this, let me come here and hand it over to you." I took out the sheet of metal from my pocket that the Yanshi had given me. "He died in the south......"

“...... Yes. You come down. It was silent for a moment, then spoke.

I climbed down the ladder in twos and threes and closed the secret door.

The layout of the basement in front of me is different from the small, dirty basement under the old castle before. The basement here is neat and exaggerated, and it seems to be quite large, and the walls, floors, and ceilings are full of glowing wall panels, which are very bright. Not only does it appear to be huge at first glance, but there seems to be a corridor entrance to the other rooms in the corner.

There are all kinds of high-end looking instruments displayed here, and all kinds of instrument knobs and touch screens are readily available.

"Give it to me." It stretched out its mechanical arm to me, and said.

I noticed that the other person was not wearing a green robe. Although it was a bit unreasonable to use "whether or not they were wearing a green robe" as a criterion for judging whether a person was a Yanshi, I hesitated.

"Are you...... Yanshi? ”

I asked, without handing over the sheet of metal.

The robot in front of him can be said to be "extraordinary" in appearance, and its whole body is made of silver-white metal - the average intelligent machine is composed of at least two or three colors of metal to make up different parts of itself. And there are even some parts of this robot that have rust on it!

This is an extremely weird situation in intelligent machines, and it should be equivalent to mold on a human body by analogy.

Its cold eye camera device is unfathomable: "Of course I'm not a Yanshi. The last Yanshi here is dead out there, if you're not lying. I'm just a normal person sheltered by them. ”

Isn't it a Yanshi?

Although I don't really know what kind of group the Yanshi are, after all, my knowledge of them is quite limited, I only know that they are opposed to Buddhism, seem to be closely related to "plants", and know a lot of things...... And so on and so forth.

Isn't the one in front of you a Yanshi...... I'm a little disappointed. But maybe what will it know?

I reluctantly accepted its explanation and handed it the metal sheet.

It took the sheet metal and walked down a hallway to the other rooms without looking back, dropping the phrase "I don't know how you got here as a human or what you're for, but it doesn't matter, the Yanshi are gone, you can do whatever you want." ”

It's weird.

I looked at the equipment beside me. I can sort of understand what it means, the most valuable thing here is the instruments - and the instruments are used by the Yanshi - it is not the Yanshi itself - so these things are of little value now, I can investigate and explore them as I like, or even take them with me.

But I don't know how to operate these things......

I looked around, trying to find something I could understand.

But most of the instruments actually seem to me to be lumps of iron, with only some interfaces or special protective materials on them. And I couldn't understand the instrument with the display instrument at all, and the knob didn't dare to touch it. There is a light screen that looks a bit like a TV, projecting the scene outside the castle, which is supposed to be used as surveillance. I dug up a surveillance camera from my small farm, but I didn't really need it, so I got ash in the warehouse.

The instruments all seem to be laughing, and I don't know what they're laughing at. I could feel them smiling, but the emotions were different, some were smiling sadly, some were happy, some were angry, some were disgusted......

It feels very contradictory, as if forgetting to close the window when I went to bed that day caused the cold to enter the house, and I didn't get up and close the window, nor did I not go to sleep.

I also noticed that my headaches and abnormal tinnitus seemed to go away, and it seemed that the castle had some effect on counteracting some kind of outside influence. Maybe it's because of the effectiveness of these instruments.

I found a knob that appeared to be an angle adjustment for the monitor, so I tried to turn it - but failed. Obviously, this isn't a mechanism that I can operate as a human either.

Just like the secret doors in the basement that doctors could easily open before, these instruments should be designed for robots. Well...... That would explain what the lumps of iron are for those with only a few or no data interfaces - only robots can use it, wired or wirelessly connected to their internal devices......

Okay guys, and I can't use it anymore, right?

Then I can't help it, I can only go to the robot just now.

In most cases, asking questions directly is the best way to get information, because it may disturb others.

I walked into the hallway from memory, followed the path into a new room, and saw it sitting in a mechanical chair with its back to me. There is an instrument in front of you, it seems to be in the office?

"Excuse me, the ......"

I stepped forward, and as soon as I spoke, I was surprised to find that it was "slumped" on a table, and seemed to have lost its vital signs as a robot.

I gasped and checked its condition—the forehead had been "lifted" and the delicate structure inside had been burned—and judging by the club-like weapon it was holding, it was supposed to be suicidal.

This......

Good guy, where can I reason with this?

Seeing that the clue was broken again, my scalp was numb. Why is it so difficult to figure something out?

I noticed that the instrument in front of it was showing a chart, and if I was right, it should be the data from the thin sheet of metal that the Yanshi handed me, right?

The structure of the chart is very simple, with the horizontal axis marked "time" and the unit an unreadable symbol. The vertical axis is a value called the "Hume index", which shows a decreasing trend as a concave function. If the time point of the latest data is "just", it can be seen that this "Hume index" is already quite low.

As we all know, charts are made up of individual data points. Except for the last data point, the most recent one from the previous data point was a long time ago (although I don't know the unit of time). In other words, the Yanshi and the robot in front of him must have been here for a long time, and it was only recently that the Yanshi "ventured" out to collect data.

Then they should have a deep relationship...... Then it seems to make sense that it heard that Yanshi had died, felt hopeless, and then committed suicide.

I'm happy with my reasoning, but I'm still barely getting any valid clues. I can only rummage through these rooms again to see if there are any other valuable clues.

But I didn't expect to find something that humans can use normally-

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