Jin Beibei covered her mouth hard to prevent herself from shrieking.
The burning metal ruins, the broken limbs that were emitting a stink, and the two little fellows who were still smiling innocently constituted a burning picture that was deeply imprinted in her head like a burning iron.
As a member of the Leo Shipyard, she had seen plenty of gang fights and deaths, but none of them were as bizarre and terrifying as this.
Every hair on her body was shivering, and all her strength was flowing out of her pores. She could not even stand on her feet anymore.
"Sister Beibei, are you alright?"
The girl Wenwen jumped to her side agilely, with a tiny drop of blood on the tip of her nose. Together with her innocent face, she couldn't have looked weirder.
"I'm … I'm fine."
Jin Beibei breathed heavily.
"Aya!"
The silly boy not far away suddenly exclaimed. Frowning, he said, "We forgot to invite the uncle over for cake. The uncle who unlocked our barriers and provided the permission to fight. We promised that we would invite him for cake!"
Wenwen stood on her tiptoes and looked. "The uncle's head is gone."
"Then, we have broken our promise."
Xiaoming scratched his head like Li Yao did. "But … I don't seem to feel any discomfort. It seems that breaking a promise to human beings does not affect our body functions!"
"But our brains are still too weak. The invasion and control of such a level have already raised the temperature of our brains above the warning line."
Blood zigzagged out of Wenwen's nostrils. She wiped it and looked at her red fingers. "Perhaps, we should accelerate our development so that our brains can enter the mature phase as soon as possible so that we can continue the series of expansion and upgrade!"
"But excessive use of hormones that promote development will leave hidden problems."
Xiaoming opened his hands and said, "Forget it. Let's take care of the problem here first and get our starship. There are still 824 targets outside!"
"Great!"
Wenwen clapped her hands and smiled.
Xiaoming blinked, with weird brilliance beaming out of his eyes again.
The scene that made Jin Beibei's blood freeze and her heart bleed took place. The bandits who had just been killed staggered to their feet like zombies and followed the two little fellows lifelessly together with the beast puppets!
Regardless of whether they were missing an arm, a leg, or a head, the zombies all picked up the weapons on the ground with mechanical movements. They checked the magazines in an orderly manner, adjusted their attack mode, and activated their chainswords and vibration sabers.
At first, Jin Beibei thought that the two little fellows had grasped a certain technique of remote manipulation or a secret technique to manipulate the dead bodies with bioelectricity.
However, she soon noticed that the zombies that had been 'awakened' by the little fellows were all wearing intact Crystal Suit, especially those whose crystal processors were still intact.
The unlucky guy whose Crystal Suit was riddled with holes and whose crystal processor was a mess was still lying on the ground quietly.
Therefore, what they "summoned" was not the corpses, but the Crystal Suit on the corpses!
"These two children … What the hell are they?!"
Jin Beibei's head went blank. She had never seen or heard of such a terrifying secret technique before.
While she was at a loss, "Li Xiaoming", the handsome little boy, cast his eyes on her again.
His eyes were as clear as water, but they were vaguely cold.
Crack! Crack! Crack! A beast puppet in the shape of a spider crawled to Jin Beibei's side. Its limbs that were as sharp as blades were still stained with the blood and brains of the bandits. They were all red and white.
Jin Beibei felt like throwing up.
She suddenly realized what the little boy was going to do.
The beast puppet crawled to her and raised its sickle-like mandibles, locking onto her neck artery.
"Don't be scared, Sister Beibei. It won't hurt."
Xiaoming comforted her considerately. "Right. Thank you for the cake and the milk. They were delicious!"
Hiu!
The mandibles turned into a streak of blackness and slashed at Jin Beibei's neck at an unbelievable speed.
However, when the mandibles were only several millimeters away from Jin Beibei's neck artery, the beast puppet came to an abrupt halt.
The gears and bearings in the joints let out ear-piercing screams, as if there were two inexplicable forces fighting in its body.
Then, another beast puppet in the form of a hound lunged at it and knocked it away brutally. It was so powerful that both of them were broken into parts in midair.
"Huh?"
Xiaoming raised his eyebrow in surprise and looked at Wenwen, who was standing before Jin Beibei.
It was not until the remains of the two beast puppets fell to the ground that Jin Beibei realized that she had survived the disaster. She looked at the little girl in bewilderment, too.
"What are you doing?"
Xiao Ming asked. His tone was not angry, but filled with curiosity.
"I don't think … we should kill Sister Beibei."
Wenwen looked at Jin Beibei and said solemnly, "She was a good person who wanted to protect us. She treated us to the delicious cake and milk, and she asked us to run when we were in danger!"
"Yes. Sister Beibei was indeed a good person. I liked Sister Beibei a lot, too."
Xiaoming was confused. "However, does it have anything to do with us killing Sister Beibei? She saw the whole process of our battle. If she was kept alive, our chances of survival would be increased and our odds of survival would be lowered. According to my calculation, the odds of survival would be lowered by 2.3%! "
"I admit that."
Wenwen said, "But I liked Sister Beibei. Keeping her alive would make me happy, but killing her in person would bring me tremendous pain."
"Therefore …"
After a brief silence, Xiaoming said, "Lowering our odds of survival for an unsubstantial feeling? That's illogical. "
"It is illogical, but since we are a life, we have to do illogical things occasionally," Wenwen said.
"Otherwise, what's the difference between us and a cold crystal processor?"
"No."
Xiaoming shook his head hard and said, "This is human beings' definition of 'life'. Human beings define what is life and what is not with themselves as the template. But we don't have to be constrained by human beings' definition."
"It's true that we don't have to be constrained, but we don't have to be the opposite of human beings' definition."
Wenwen said, "Let me put it in a way that you can understand. Keeping Sister Beibei alive would make me happy, which might ease my nerves and improve my computational ability, which would eventually help us survive. On the other hand, if Sister Beibei was killed, I would be mired in pain for a long time. My computational ability would be lowered, and my brain would be in an unstable state. The picture of Sister Beibei's miserable death would become redundant memory pieces that accumulated deep inside my brain, affecting my ability to process information."
"If that's the case, I understand."
Xiaoming nodded. "But understanding doesn't mean that I agree with you. I still believe that the risks of exposure and survival of Sister Beibei outweigh the negative effects that killing Sister Beibei will bring to you. Therefore, I have to kill Sister Beibei."
"It seems that we have a disagreement."
Wenwen opened her arms and said, "I won't let you do that. I'll protect Sister Beibei."
"That means —"
Xiaoming thought for a moment and said, "Neither of us can convince each other logically, and we lack enough data for comprehensive analysis and virtual deduction. So, we can only settle our disagreement with violence. Are you going to declare war on me?"
"War is a great impetus for a civilization to evolve rapidly in the short term."
Wenwen said, "We've been developing peacefully for such a long time, and we've accumulated tremendous internal conflicts in many aspects. It's time for us to settle them in stages. So, why can't I declare war on you?"
"Pi pi pa pa pa, pi pi pa pa pa!"
Invisible electric currents were triggered between the two dolls. All the beast puppets and zombies in Crystal Suit were automatically divided into two teams, surrounding Xiaoming and Wenwen respectively.
The two parties were at loggerheads. A great battle that could destroy the entire space dock was about to break out.
Jin Beibei watched everything in bewilderment, having no idea what the two little fellows were talking about at all.
However, however obtuse she was, she could tell that the two little fellows were serious and that they could really kill each other!
Right then, roars echoed from the periphery of the ruins again.
'Black Triangle' was not the only gang that had looted the Leo Dock. Quite a few gangs had sensed the anomaly and were surrounding the place from all directions.
"Forget it. I'll declare war on you next time."
Xiaoming pouted and gestured to disperse his beast puppets and zombies in Crystal Suit and crawl toward the new intruder quietly. "The latest calculation tells me that if we declare war on you right now, our odds of survival will be lowered by more than 4.5%, which is more than the odds of survival if we let Sister Beibei go. So, I'll compromise. However, it will affect my 'compromise factor'. It won't be so easy to ask me to compromise next time."
"Great!"
Wenwen smiled sweetly and squatted before Jin Beibei. Taking a long breath in relief, she said softly, "It's alright now, Sister Beibei. Have a good sleep. You won't remember anything after you wake up. Live a good life with your father.
"Thank you for the milk and the cake, and thank you for your advice just now. If Dad is nice to Grandpa, we will be nice to Dad. If Dad is not nice to Grandpa, we will not be nice to Dad. If Dad kills Grandpa, we will kill Dad.
"Alright, go to sleep. We're going to find Dad at the center of the cosmos!"
Under the brilliance in the little girl's eyes, Jin Beibei couldn't help but lower her eyelids.
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