Chapter 1
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Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Tala... Tala... Tala..."
The dark sky was shrouded by dense black clouds. The earth seemed dead. Only the occasional bone-chilling wind could be felt to decorate this silent world.
The dilapidated ruins of the city were no longer bustling with life as before. Burnt vehicles could be seen everywhere on the cracked streets. There were also a few bones that had not completely decayed yet hidden in the corners.
Within such a ghost town, an ice-cold 'metallic figure' was slowly and heavily walking. Like a spirit overlord, it was slowly patrolling its own territory … …
[Beep! Beep! Beep! Southeast position 480. Life signal wave detected. Executing elimination mission.]
Suddenly, the "metallic figure"'s internal system issued a stiff and mechanical alarm. The "metallic figure" had received the same command signal countless times. Strangely, without any warning, the "metallic figure" felt a sense of boredom.
It was hard to imagine. After all, the "metallic figure" was just an ordinary robot under the command of Skynet. Its metal skeleton body was forged from titanium alloy. The surface of its body was not even covered with mimicry skin. It was a combat machine completely designed for war.
The internal chip only stored the most basic combat commands. Logically speaking, such a robot could not possibly have the ability to think independently, nor could it have its own emotions. It could only execute the most basic commands from the internal chip. However, the "metallic figure" was an exception.
Following the guidance of the detection signal, the "metallic figure" suddenly accelerated and headed towards the southeast position 480.
As it got closer, the "metallic figure" detected five red signal sources at the edge of its line of sight. The "metallic figure" knew that the five signal sources were the human survivors hidden in the ruins of the city.
The "metallic figure" quickly approached the location of the signal sources. Although it was tired of this repetitive mission, the "metallic figure" had no choice but to follow the program.
It had no ability to resist. It had no freedom.
"Boom!!!"
In the process of moving, the "metallic figure" accidentally stepped on some kind of mechanical trap. A huge explosion suddenly erupted in the silent city.
A powerful metal-sensing landmine was triggered by the "metallic figure". Caught off guard, the "metallic figure" was hit directly by the explosive force. Even a metal body made of titanium alloy could hardly remain unscathed in the face of such a powerful explosion at close range.
The metal body was instantly heavily damaged. The heavy metal body was blown far away by the metal blast generated by the explosion, and then heavily smashed into the ground.
[Warning! Warning! The body suffered 78% damage, and the power source was damaged! Weapon system disconnected …]
Hiss … hiss …
Due to the limitations of the physical body, the consciousness of the metal figure seemed to be in a half-awake state.
"Another ambush?" The metal figure's consciousness thought to itself.
Sharp, ear-piercing alarms kept ringing in the system. The body of the metal figure collapsed to the ground. Due to the short circuit in the internal circuit, the world that the metal figure saw from the perspective of the world was already intermittent snowflakes.
"That's good too. I can take a break again."
The metal figure could feel that its consciousness was slowly fading away. From a human's point of view, the "metal figure" was on the verge of death.
There was none of the sorrow that humans showed when facing death.
At the last moment before the "metal figure's" self-awareness disappeared, the "metal figure" thought that it could take a rest again.
It was not without reason that the metal figure would think this way.
The metal figure had gone through the same experience countless times. The previous incarnation of the 'metal figure' had participated in countless battles between machines and humans. After being destroyed, its consciousness disappeared. After an unknown period of time, the 'metal figure' discovered that its consciousness had actually recovered and appeared in a brand new mechanical body. The memories of its past battles still existed, and the scene of its previous body being blown up seemed like yesterday. The consciousness of the metal figure seemed to be immortal. Even if the terminal chip that carried the memory was completely destroyed, the consciousness of the metal figure could still be resurrected again and again. It was constantly reborn in a brand new machine body.
The metal figure realized that it was special. This fact made the metal figure even more cautious. It did not dare to show off in the slightest. It knew that above it and all the machines, there was a host of Skynet that dominated everything.
Within the coverage of the signal of the host of Skynet, these low-level machines were like marionettes. All their actions were controlled by the host of Skynet.
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The host of Skynet could control their life and death with a thought.
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Another long period of darkness. After an unknown period of time, the metal figure felt that its consciousness had recovered again.
"Time machine ready … Space-time program self-check starting … 10% … 30% … 90% … 100%"
"Space-time program no abnormalities."
"Unlocking of 12 T-X8000 nano-mother machines completed. Built-in program loading … 10% … 30% …"
In a huge spherical laboratory, there was a circular metal pedestal in the center. The pedestal was embossed with a variety of complex and mysterious lines. Those mysterious lines and carvings made the time machine forged by a technological civilization produce a mysterious aura.
Accompanied by a series of mechanical command signals, 12 huge metal mechanical arms slowly extended from the outer wall of the huge spherical laboratory.
The arms carried 12 shuttle-shaped hibernation chambers. Inside the hibernation chambers were the T-X8000 nano-mother machines mentioned in the mechanical language.
The 12 hibernation chambers were placed at 12 fixed points on the circular base in the center of the spherical laboratory.
"Built-in program input complete … time machine charging … 10% … 30% … 80% … 100%"
Charging complete, begin teleportation! Mission code: "Primitive Destruction"
"Poof …" Under the support of a huge amount of energy, the circular metal base tore open a time crack. The 12 hibernation chambers were instantly engulfed by space-time power.
In an energy passage constructed by some unknown energy, the 12 hibernation chambers went against the flow of the river of time.
The metal figure's consciousness vaguely perceived the colorful spiral tunnel outside the hibernation chambers. The historical scenes of the past were quickly distorted and reversed outside the tunnel. All kinds of fantasy scenes that were rarely seen in the real world were all blooming here. Time seemed to be stagnant in this tunnel forever, leaving only weak fluctuations that the consciousness could make.
Traveling through space-time was as fast as an instant, but it was as long as a thousand years. The feeling was completely dependent on the subjective perception of the main consciousness.
In the space-time tunnel, there was nothing except for the 12 hibernation chambers. The 12 foreign objects that broke the rules of time and latitude were constantly being pushed away by the space-time power. The time energy that was loaded by the time machine at the beginning of its launch was also constantly weakening in this environment.
Murphy's Law. As long as you were worried that something might go wrong, it would go wrong in the end.
Just as the metal figure was worried that something might happen during this space-time travel, something really did happen.
"Poof!"
"Boom!"
Without any warning, a cluster of light purple energy broke through the wall of the space-time tunnel and accurately bombarded the hibernation chamber where the metal figure was.
The powerful energy bombardment immediately accelerated the rotation of another hibernation chamber in the space-time tunnel. It had reached the fixed time point. The surface of the other 11 hibernation chambers flashed faintly. They were all squeezed out of the space-time tunnel because their space-time energy had been exhausted. Only the metal figure's hibernation chamber continued to drift upstream at high speed along the river of time and space.
“WHAT？” Faced with this sudden change, the metal figure was speechless. But before it could feel anything, the built-in program sounded a sharp alarm.
[Warning! Warning! Core program has been invaded by unknown energy.]
[Warning! Warning! Core program has been invaded by unknown energy.]
…
[Core program has been tampered with. Initiating system formatting … Formatting failed … Core program has changed … Core …]
"It's over before it even started?" When the system formatting started, the metal figure's consciousness was suppressed by the built-in program and fell into silence.
There was no trace of sorrow for the impending death of consciousness. The metal figure only felt that it was a pity that its first space-time journey had ended so hastily. With a little regret, the metal figure's consciousness fell into darkness again.
Driven by the light purple energy, the hibernation chamber rushed upstream along the river of time and space. After an unknown amount of time. Accompanied by an explosion of space-time power. The hibernation chamber fell out of the river of time and space …
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