messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 54 The distance beyond one step
what is that?
B3068 stopped walking with his head sideways, standing one step away, staring at the stone on the ground, his eyes were not brightly shining.

It seems to be thinking. Can a robot think? This is a very special question. B3068 thinks it will. On the day it feels that it has opened its eyes, it feels that it has learned to think.It walked among the ruins, thinking about the direction, thinking about its companions, and thinking about the instructions left to it by the creator human beings.

Also because of this kind of thinking, it feels lonely.It finds that there is nothing else around it, it finds that no one or machine can communicate with it, it finds that it is the only robot walking on the ruins.

Perhaps all beings who feel lonely are the same, when they start to think, when they find themselves far away from the group, or when they are out of tune with the group, they feel lonely.

But they just want to find another similar life to talk to each other.

But let's not talk about that now.

B3068 was still looking at the distinctive stone in front of him. It took a step forward, bent down and picked up the stone with its rusty metal arm.

"Are you willing to pay for your sins and summon the apostles, who will serve you and fulfill your wishes."

A sudden voice appeared in its consciousness.

"beep--"

The indicator on B3068's chest lighted up, and there was an electronic audio fluctuating sound.

It sounded like his heart stopped beating.

then.

"Drip drip!"

B3068 was so frightened that he almost jumped up, threw the stone in his hand, and ran to hide behind a street lamp in a panic.

Naturally, the slender lamppost couldn't cover its huge body, and it lay there, trembling with its head hugged.

It was a voice, it heard a voice, it had never heard such a voice, it should be a word, a language.

This is the first time it has heard words outside of its own thinking.

That is to say, this is the first time something is talking to it.

It's no wonder that B3068 was frightened like this. Of course, it would be better if it could find a more appropriate hiding place when it was frightened.

With its size, hiding behind street lights is not a wise choice.

I don't know how long it took before B3068 gradually calmed down.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the street lamp above its head flickered, giving off a faint light.

In this era, among the ruins of the city, there are very few street lights that are still lit at night.

"drop."

The light of the street lamp seemed to give it some courage, and B3068 slowly raised its head.

It hid in its own arm, and its light green eyes secretly looked at the stone it threw on the roadside.

Its intuition told it that there didn't seem to be any danger, and it was sure that when it picked up the stone, it heard someone talking to it.

It wanted to hear the speaking voice again, with which nothing had ever spoken.

B3068 seemed to have made up its mind. It carefully crawled on the ground and slowly crawled towards the stone.

As long as there is a little danger, it hides back, it thinks so.

But it never thought about what effect hiding behind a street lamp could play.

It was getting closer and closer to the stone, and finally, it was one step away.

B3068 sank down, as if taking a deep breath, it slowly stretched out one of its fingers, and tapped on the stone.

"Are you willing to pay for your sins and summon the apostles, who will serve you and fulfill your wishes."

That voice appeared again, as if it was right next to its ear, so close at hand.

As if getting an electric shock, B3068 quickly retracted his fingers.

It stared blankly at the stone, the light in its light green eyes gradually became brighter, and it seemed to have a great interest in it.

"Drip." His fingers touched the stone again.

"Are you willing to pay for your sins and summon the apostles, who will serve you and fulfill your wishes."

Then again, and again.

The voice repeated the same words over and over, but the B3068 never tired of it.

Sound, it heard sound, someone was speaking to it!
B3068 sat up from the ground, touched the stone in his palm, put it in front of his face and looked at it carefully, as if he had found a treasure.

If the voice of the Apostle Wasteland knew that someone used the summoned stone as a toy, it would probably be very depressed.

Anyway, the voice spoke again in B3068's consciousness.

"Are you willing to pay for your sins and summon the apostles, who will serve you and fulfill your wishes."

call?

B3068 doesn't know this vocabulary very well, it's like a human vocabulary, a human language.

It doesn't understand the meaning of the word, but it wants to respond to it, it wants to respond to the sound.

Because it is lonely, it wants to hear more words.

"Didi (summoning)?"

B3068 pronounced the word with its electronic audio.

The next moment, the stone in its hand suddenly shattered.

When it was at a loss, a black mist filled the fragments of the stone.

The mist condensed in the air in front of it, forming a human shape.

B3068 sat there stupidly, it didn't know what happened.

It watched, watched the human figure gradually take shape, like a life created by an unknown existence, a person walked out of the black mist.

She landed on the ground, wearing a tattered black robe and a hood, standing in front of B3068.

The two guys just stood there looking at each other under the street lights.

The person formed by the condensed black mist did not speak or move.

This prevented B3068 from escaping in the first place.

It looked at the person in front of it, it should be a human being, very small, only half of its height, even sitting taller than her.

After looking at it for a long time, B3068 saw that the other party still didn't make any move, so he stretched out a hand tentatively.

Just when its hand was about to touch the opponent, the man in black robe suddenly said.

"At the beginning of the apostles, they followed the call, and they were sent after listening."

"Drip!"

B3068 withdrew his hand suddenly, quickly crawled to the back of the street lamp with hands and feet, and hid with his head in his arms.

The timid robot was frightened again.

Chu stood in place, turned his head sideways, and looked at the robot hiding behind the streetlight.

The summoner who summoned her this time is really special.

But the voice of the wasteland had already given her the requirements of the mission, at least it wouldn't make her completely ignorant of what to do.

"tread."

Chu walked under the streetlight and stopped one step away from the robot. She took off her hood and stretched out her palm towards the robot.

"You summoned me, and I will obey the order and accompany you for the rest of your life."

At this moment, it seemed to be the only sound on this silent planet.

B3068 does not understand human language, but because of the contract, the original meaning was accurately conveyed to it.

It raised its head slowly.

Under the dim light, it saw the person reaching out to it, staring into its eyes with those eyes as bright as the stars.

At night, the lonely street lamp on the ruins illuminates two lonely lives.

Under the starry sky, everything is quiet.

(End of this chapter)