Chapter 64: Underground
"Opening" his eyes, the city along the river that Bing Shijue saw was completely different from what he saw this morning. If it is said that in the morning it is still broken and ruined, and the wounded are everywhere. Now it is full of energy and life, and many robots covered in dust are rushing around the road to help build houses.
In a rubble-strewn square, refugees, soldiers, or volunteers wearing hazmat suits were debugging a small machine. Around them were three black pillars with exposed electronic components, and a few wriggling, life-like things. This allows some volunteers to move closer to the machine in the center.
With the faint sound of electricity, the black lifeforms quickly attached to the electronic components, and a careful, colorful film spread out among the three pillars.
The film was unstable, but as it spread, the faint green of the surrounding area was blocked, and after a few minutes, the film fell like a tent's cloth, and the people standing around the center of the machine were in tears, hugging each other carefully but passionately.
"It worked!"
"We made it!" Under the film, the cheers of the people also seemed to be muffled, and they carefully checked the power of the central machine, assembled the solar panels as fast as they could, and stretched out like umbrellas, but added a box of cubes in the center of this "umbrella" that Bing Shijue had never seen before.
It's still night. So there was only the glare white light of the searchlight, and the solar panels obviously couldn't get much energy from it, but the small box began to emit a subtle fan sound, and after a while, the surrounding green gas began to be swept into it, and the power of the machine on the ground began to rise.
"Something that converts picnic gas into energy...... Those refugees brought it, right? Bing Shijue's mood at this time is similar to those scientific researchers who look at each other, although refugees have squeezed the living space of ordinary people, but most refugees are the same as ordinary people, and they can't live in the picnic area for a long time, so they will inevitably have corresponding technology.
"Hey...... It's too cumbersome to use this small camera, and there's no way to transmit the divine thoughts. Bing Shijue controlled the camera and slowly rose into the air, overlooking the entire riverside city. In the midst of some of the ruins began to light up such fires, as bright as the stars in the sky. Small, faint, wind-like cheers were heard below the city.
Looking around, Bing Shijue controlled the other cameras and flew to other cities, which was a similar situation. It seems that these refugees have slowly shared these technologies. Looking at the people in the dungeon, because of the operation of the machines above, they already have a little electricity, which can support the most basic ventilation.
However, no matter how you look at it, Bing Shijue always has a sense of disobedience.
In the middle of the city, a large number of people from around the picnic area live here. Use your own equipment to isolate contamination. They also spontaneously formed teams to help build the city, or to clean up the monsters around the city, as if they were part of the city.
On the other hand, in the dungeon, the residents of the original city lived very aggrieved. After the destruction of the city's black towers, they were forced to live underground, all crammed into small underground squares. The devices that had been blocked were all open.
Thankfully, those who live on the ground have not destroyed the solar power system, or the wind power system. So after these few days, the situation in the dungeon has recovered a lot, but it is still a bit backward compared to before. Adults divide the squares and locations of the dungeon by family, or by familiarity.
The division of the position is also very ancient, and the simple marching bed is made on the ground,
Researchers and maintenance personnel occupy a place where there is light, and continue to look at the drawings with the light to see how to improve the situation underground. In some places, teachers and experienced caregivers are responsible for the children's daily education and life.
Combined with all of this, it's clearly an effort to rebuild, and what is the purpose of opening a picnic area at this time with technology far beyond itself?
"Xiaofang, is there anyone else who has the ability to join us?" The whispered, familiar words suddenly made Bing Shijue's camera adjust its direction, and after a careful search, it was found that in the corner, Zheng Kai and Sun Shifang were talking softly.
"No, after Captain Luo died, most of the capable people joined the camp above." Sun Shifang's left eye was covered with thick gauze, "What they say is even more heartwarming." ”
"It's tempting, but it's actually a battle with the picnic area as cannon fodder." Zheng Kai sneered, "I suspect that many people still want to take this opportunity to defect to the picnic area." ”
"So there will also be rumors that Big Brother Bing has defected too." Sun Shifang sighed.
"Brother Bing won't defect...... His parents are still in Yanjiang City. Zeng Xing's voice came from behind the curtain of the other bed, which made Bing Shijue adjust the angle of the camera in the distance and see Zeng Xing on crutches in the dark.
One of his legs was gone for some unknown reason, and the break was wrapped in thick gauze. The grip of the crutches left deep finger marks.
"It's useless to say this, we know Bing Shijue, but these capable people don't know." Zheng Kai said, "And it is not a widow but an uneven situation, although Bing Shijue saved many people before leaving the city." But people are always greedy and easy to change, and after a long time, they will wonder why Bing Shijue didn't save them earlier, or why didn't they do better. ”
"Not to mention, the world above, the world of the picnic area, is too tempting for the able." "All the troublesome work is done by robots, and people just need to be free to do their own thing." Even when I hear this, I still feel a little touched. ”
"Moreover, this move in the picnic area was very good and completely restricted our movements. Clogging up cities with a lot of cannon fodder and refugees consumes our living resources. Because those who live in the city are also ordinary people, they are just driven out before. Therefore, it stands to reason that we cannot carry out a second eviction. ”
"The biggest headache is that these people who live above the city really don't do anything drastic. What they do is commendable. Zheng Kai pressed his temple, "But from the perspective of war, this act is really a plan, our army can't send troops, we have to maintain the safety of the residents in large numbers, and second, the army can't go to the picnic area at all." ”
"Even though we have missiles, in the picnic area, the signal is still not transmitted, and we have to rely on the transmitter to locate it. But the deliverers will be more willing to join the picnic area than join us. ”
"But I remember, Director Ren, General Fu told us before he died in battle." Zeng Xing tried to recall, "It seems to be ......"
"Director Ren and General Fu died in battle?" Bing Shijue was like falling into an ice cave in the basement in the distance for a moment, and he was able to leave Yanjiang City with peace of mind before, because of the existence of these two middle-aged people, and they promised to protect their families. But now that they were actually killed in battle, then his parents ......
"No...... You can't think of it that way. Bing Shijue's mind was agitated, and the picture in front of him began to blur, and it was the dim and warm light that appeared, instead of the injured old friends. After forcibly calming the mood swings with his divine thoughts, Bing Shijue heard Zheng Kai add Zeng Xing's words.
"The purpose of the people in the picnic area is to explore the heartland, and this is the news that Ma Bingshi revealed to us. But the core is dangerous, and they need enough cannon fodder to fill it, like stepping on a mine to find a safe route. Zheng Kai said, "And we, the old humans in their mouths, are of no use at all." ”
"Those refugees, those exiles, their war is actually more like a war for power, they have lived in the picnic area for so many years, they have taken everything in the picnic area. What they want is to live in a picnic area and then not as cannon fodder. ”
"And we have to survive under the pressure of these two forces."
"The first thing to overcome is the dependence on robots!" Zheng Kai said quietly but passionately, his words also attracted some people around him to listen, and the soldiers on the side also slightly adjusted their posture to protect him after catching a glimpse of Zheng Kai's face, "It's not that you don't use it at all, but you can't slack off while using it." ”
"This is what Ma Bingshi told us, in the picnic area, robots can be said to be omnipresent. As a result, people do not do their jobs and do not do the most basic work of life. This is of course a good thing, but we ordinary humans are incapable, and the people in the picnic area have. ”
"In this way, we old humans will be the first to be eliminated." Zheng Kai still remembered the way several of his superiors seriously explained these topics to him, and in the next second, thousands of shrapnel pierced their bodies directly, leaving only corpses like sieves.
"It's the same with the people in the picnic area, who now have the ability to talk across thousands of miles, with infinite power, or the ability to manipulate objects. But these abilities are not the strength of us humans themselves, they are given to us by this gas in the picnic area. In the unlikely event that after a few years, decades, this gas is dissolved by the Earth's atmospheric action, and humans can no longer produce such gas. ”
"In such a situation, the intelligence level of robots is completely developed by alien technology, and human beings have not made any progress in the past few decades, in case one day the ability returns to the original level, and the robots are far more than humans."
"Then robots will be the gravediggers of human beings, and the earth will become a site for the development and self-proliferation of alien robots. This kind of species with backward brains, incomplete physical development, which cannot be replaced, and low production efficiency, will only be quickly resolved. ”
"Robots can be used, but they can only stay in infrastructure and low intelligence, replacing repetitive work. It is necessary to wait until people can restore the state of the planet before they can use the robots in the warehouse. ”
"But ......" Speaking of this, Zheng Kai choked up a little, and the people around him also silently turned their eyes and looked at the darkness in one direction. Bing Shijue controlled the camera and turned on the night vision mode.
At the end of the darkness was the door of the warehouse, which seemed to be torn open by paper, and there were countless traces of tracks and footprints walking out.
"So what do we do?" One father looked at his children in the distance who were reading in the dim light, "We can't go to the ground unless we join them to get hazmat suits." We don't have the ability to compare with them, so we have to live underground for the rest of our lives? ”