From the narration of the two robot girls, Hao Ren's understanding of the "survivor society" in the sky finally changed from the vague data in his head to some more vivid impressions.
According to N-4 and N-6, the survivor society was composed of two larger territories. One was the giant Zenith space station in high orbit, and the other was a large industrial fortress on the moon: the lunar base. Each of the two territories had different functions.
The role of the giant space station, the Zenith, was different from what Hao Ren had expected. It was not a base camp for survivors, but an outpost fortress and command center. This huge and ancient space station had been in service for many years. Compared to the space station hanging in high orbit, the more distant lunar base was obviously safer. Therefore, the real base of the survivor society was on the moon. The location of the Zenith determined that it could not be a stable place to live, but it was an excellent bridgehead. It was responsible for dispatching and commanding the rebel forces to attack the mother planet, providing temporary stationing and comprehensive repair, supply, and maintenance services. Every troop that was sent to fight on the mother planet would regard the Zenith as a temporary "home."
The lunar base was the foundation of the survivor society. It was the source of raw materials and factory clusters for the survival of the rebel forces. In the base, which was full of factories, mines, barracks, and ecological domes, a large number of war machines were continuously produced. The biomass that humans needed for survival was also synthesized there. It was the production center, and also the place where most of the warriors who vowed to retake the mother planet were born and lived. General-Purpose combat "Executors" like the N-4 and N-6 were produced on the lunar base.
In the long struggle of thousands of years, the survivors had dug out almost one-tenth of the natural satellite to maintain their seemingly endless war. It was quite a shocking number.
It was said that this continuous consumption had even changed the orbit of the moon and the climate of the mother planet.
N-6 and N-4 chose to keep their mouths shut about the total number of "Executors" in the two bases. Obviously, the "security level" of Hao Ren and his team had not risen to the level where they could talk about their own military secrets.
There was also a very important place on the lunar base, which could be regarded as the "capital" of the survivor society.
N-4 called it a "fortress." She said that it was a fortress built with superalloys and advanced technology. The fortress had the strongest structure and layers of protective shields, as well as powerful defensive firepower and the incredible "Titanium Guards." Even if the planet devourer launched an attack, it would not necessarily be able to bite through the protective shell of the fortress. The fortress was the most important core of the survivor society. A super-thinking center called the "Cortex" was placed there. It was the highest command unit of all the Executors. In the most heavily guarded "Palace of Destiny" lived the last human descendants of the civilization.
Obviously, this was more important and sensitive information, but N-4 did not hide it from Hao Ren because the fortress could not be hidden at all. It was too huge and eye-catching. Anyone with an astronomical telescope would know that the "capital" of the survivors was the metal structure built in the center of the lunar base. The exact situation of the Executors could be kept a secret, but the existence of the fortress could not be concealed. So, she decided to tell Hao Ren about it. At the same time, she emphasized how powerful the fortress was to remind Hao Ren not to get any ideas about that place.
In a way, the robot lady's thinking was actually quite simple. Perhaps it was because the enemies she and her compatriots usually dealt with did not have such a high IQ.
The humans living in the "Palace of Destiny" never left their shelter, but their survival was undeniable. Although ordinary mass-produced Executors like N-4 and N-6 were not qualified to meet humans (mainly because there were too many Executors and few humans survived), the Titanium Guards in the fortress and the Cortex Prime, which used the fortress as a "base", maintained direct communication with humans.
As an artificial intelligence group that relied on logic and authority systems to maintain the operation of society, there was no lie or deception among the Executors — at least that was how N-4 described it. So even if they had never met humans, N-6 and N-4 were convinced that their creator still existed and was watching them from the high lunar base.
To be honest, after hearing the two robot girls' description of the human survivors on the moon, Lily felt a little disdainful. In her opinion, the guards who launched the tinder into space thousands of years ago and stayed behind to defend the surface were worthy of respect. The humans who boarded the ark and shouldered the mission of preserving the tinder of civilization were also another kind of warrior. But the descendants who hid in the lunar base and did not even dare to take a step out of the fortress were not so admirable.
Although there were First Borns on the surface of the home planet, the First Borns did not hit the moon with cannons and laser beams. Did the surviving humans not even have the courage to come out and take a look at their home?
But these thoughts only lingered in the husky maiden's mind for a while. She might be dumb, but she was not stupid. She knew how important the "creator" was in the hearts of the two robot girls. If she spoke ill of the humans, the two girls would probably go berserk.
Hao Ren also had similar thoughts as Lily, but he did not dwell on this issue. He was just an observer of civilization. His job was to observe, record, sort out reports, and transport the coffins back to his superiors. As for how these civilizations chose to develop, it was not something he had to worry about. And he thought that there must be a reason why the human survivors chose to lock themselves in the fortress. It was not as simple as "fear."
Did I just get mixed up with some weird work? Forget it, there's nothing wrong with it.
"I thought the humans would work with you." Hao Ren rubbed his eyebrows and looked at N-6. "Because we analyzed the wreckage of your crashed spacecraft and found that you were just co-pilots of the spacecraft. Isn't the main pilot a human?"
N-6 seemed to have a little pride on her face. "The main pilot position is always reserved for humans. They just don't fight with us for the time being. But when the day comes when we finally take back our home, someone will sit next to us!"
Hao Ren did not expect such an answer. He was stunned for a moment before he said, "… Huh?"
"We are the executors, the tools to carry out the great will of the creators." N-4 nodded gently, and when she said this, there seemed to be a sense of mission. "In the early days, when the creators could still fight with us, we were their assistants. This mission will never change. We will sit in the co-pilot position and complete the tasks given to us by the creators under their watchful eyes until the day of the final victory. "
Hao Ren quietly looked into N-4's eyes, and the latter responded with the same calm eyes. Perhaps it was not a calm look, but just a look of waiting to receive new information, but Hao Ren seemed to feel that something called faith really existed in the heart of this artificial intelligence.
They were really no different from humans.
"I see," Hao Ren said, relaxing his body. He turned to N-6 and changed the question. "There are still some details. First of all, you call the First Born on your planet a planet devourer? "
"This is the name given by humans," N-6 nodded. "It spreads out from the depths of the crust and devours everything on the planet. Naturally, it is called the planet devourer. You call it the First Born? Are there similar things on other planets? "
"Yes, and almost every eco-planet has them. I am afraid the truth about this creature is very different from what you know." Hao Ren sighed helplessly. He realized that the natives of this planet did not know the truth about the First Born, so he decisively ended the topic. "Now is not the time to explain this to you. I will explain it to you in detail later. I want to ask, has the war between you and the planet devourer always been like this? What I mean is that it stays on the planet without moving, neither taking the initiative to attack nor raising its hands to surrender, and you keep sending bombers to deal with its tentacles. You can neither win nor be defeated by it, and you keep maintaining this stalemate? "
This was not something that needed to be kept secret, so N-4 answered simply, "This situation has been going on for at least 3,000 years, but it was not like this at first."
Vivian immediately showed an expression of interest. "Not like this at first?"
"According to the data of the Great Think Tank, in the first few thousand years, humans and the mechanical army led by humans faced annihilation several times. The planet devourer hunted down the survivors who escaped with power far beyond today. At its worst, the Zenith had to escape to the depths of the universe, and after five centuries of exile, it returned to the orbit of the mother planet. But three thousand years ago, the situation changed."
Hao Ren suddenly realized that the "brain death" of the First Born was the key turning point. "What happened at that time? Did the activity of the planet devourer decrease significantly after that? "
"According to the records of the Great Think Tank, it was a moment of life and death for the Zenith at that time. The beam fired by the planet devourer pierced the shield system of the space station, and the earth cracked open into a huge canyon. From space, the body of the planet devourer could almost be seen in the core of the planet. But suddenly, a meteorite shower came, and a large number of celestial fragments of unknown origin fell into the mother planet and hit the canyon. The planet devourer was severely injured. Although it immediately closed the earth's crust to protect itself, it lost most of its power after several consecutive days of earthquakes. "
The words N-4 used when telling this history were full of emotional descriptive words, not at all like the way an artificial intelligence would speak, because this history was not told in her own way, but directly from the records of the Great Think Tank, which came from human observers three thousand years ago.
Except for the two robot ladies, everyone looked at each other.
Hao Ren muttered to himself, "The First Born … was smashed into an idiot by a meteorite shower? Are you kidding me? "
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