Become a legend in the interstellar

Chapter 518 The Rusty Steel Angel

Whoosh!

The wind and sand are rolling, and the whole world is gray and yellow.

In front of Su Xia is a deserted industrial city.

The factories in the city have long been dilapidated, many chimneys have collapsed, the tall transmission towers have decayed, everything is covered with a layer of barren yellow sand, and the sense of wasteland is very strong.

"Shasha... Shasha..."

Su Xia stepped on the soft yellow sand, facing the wind and sand all over the sky, her eyes narrowed slightly, her hair shaking, she walked forward step by step in the city, looking for signs of life.

The main road of the city can no longer see its original appearance, and a thick layer of sand has accumulated, at least [-] centimeters deep.

There are many abandoned and broken cars on the road, only the rusty shell remains.

After a short walk, Su Xia came to the lakeside.

The water of the lake is emerald green, and some green low vegetation grows on the shore, adding a bit of vitality to this barren world.

At this moment, Su Xia suddenly noticed a figure sitting on a tall building not far away.

"robot?"

Su Xia frowned slightly and took a closer look.

[Steel Angels: The first generation of intelligent machine stewards, mainly used to serve human families... After the war came, they were not recognized by the machine race, but they were also not accepted by the human race. Most of them were destroyed, and a very few were scattered all over the world】

"The first generation of intelligent machines?"

The history of this planet emerged in Susha's mind.

Before the age of psionics, there was an age of intelligence.

That era was so short that many people forgot.

At that time, technology companies had created robots that were intelligent enough, and their language and movements were almost the same as ordinary people.

Iron Angel is a product launched by a technology company.

However, after the arrival of the age of psychic energy, the mechanical clan driven by psychic energy rose, the race war broke out, and the era of intelligence was forcibly ended.

The Machina are psionic beings and do not recognize these old electrically powered intelligent machines.

And human beings no longer trust these machine butlers because of the race war.

"To be able to see a robot butler here is indeed a forgotten place... Maybe there are more forgotten creatures here?"

With this in mind, Su Xia soared into the sky and flew towards the tall building.

Not long after, he landed on the roof.

Su Xia looked at the robot.

This is a rusty steel angel. He is sitting on the edge of a high-rise building. He is in tatters. The metal shell is pitted. The lines of the left arm module are exposed, and some lines are even broken.

"Someone is coming again." He sat there, with his back to Su Xia, and murmured in a low voice, with the sound of electric current in his voice, and the sound-generating components seemed to be aging.

"Again? Did anyone come here before?" Su Xia walked to him and sat down slowly, with her legs dangling over the edge of the tall building.

"Many people have come and gone over the years," said the steel angel.

"Has anyone been here a month ago?" Su Xia asked him.

"Yes, a team."

"where are they?"

"do not know."

"Where did they go?"

"do not know."

"..."

This steel angel seemed a little dull, looking into the distance all the time.

Su Xia asked some questions, and most of the answers he got were "I don't know", feeling that they are not as agile as psychic robots.

Most of the time, the robot is talking to itself, talking about the past.

With dull eyes, he looked at the lake in the distance and murmured in a low voice: "It used to be beautiful here, the lake was clear, there were many children who liked to play by the lake, and there were many cars on the road by the lake..."

Su Xia couldn't ask the answer she wanted, so she had to ask him: "What are you doing here?"

He replied: "Wait."

"Wait for who?"

"my family."

The robot slowly raised its rusty head, blinked its eyes, and seemed to be thinking.

"They left. They told me to wait here for a while. They want to send the child out first, and they will pick me up later."

"How long have you been waiting?"

"20."

"How long can you wait?"

"do not know."

"..."

The so-called family members of the machine butler probably won't come back.

In his programming, the object of his service is his family, but in the eyes of humans, he is just a machine that can be abandoned at any time.

"I haven't been here for 20 years, your judgment procedure will let you make a new choice, right?" Su Xia asked him.

He felt that the robot was too dull to wait here for 20 years so stupidly.

But, to his surprise, the robot suddenly turned its head and said to him: "I know they won't come back. I knew it the day they left."

"Then why are you waiting?" Su Xia asked again.

"Get used to it."

The voice of the robot is hoarse, and the sound of electric current sizzles from time to time.

He turned his head again, looked into the distance, and said, "If I were them, I wouldn't come back either. After all, my so-called feelings are just a piece of data left in the chip..."

"It seems that you are not so dull." Su Xia said.

"Thank you for your compliment." The robot expressed his gratitude, and then said: "The person you are looking for, I just glanced at him from a long distance, you should go to the city further ahead, there is a gathering place there, maybe You can get the information you want there."

"Okay, thank you very much!" Su Xia got up immediately.

"I should thank you. It's been a long time since humans have talked with me." The robot looked into the distance and said softly.

Hearing this, Su Xia sat down again and chatted with the robot for a while.

After about 10 minutes, he said goodbye to the robot.

Su Xia continued to move forward, flying close to the edge of the city, facing the wind and sand in the sky, and flew towards the city ahead that the robot said.

Along the way, he saw some rusty robots, all abandoned here.

Some robots lived in their former homes, cleaned the homes every day, wiped the tables, chairs and benches over and over again, and seemed to be looking forward to the return of their former family members.

Others, like the robot just now, sat on the abandoned high-rise building, looking into the empty distance.

Not long after, Su Xia arrived at the gathering place that the robot said.

The so-called gathering place is actually a tall building.

There are many forgotten creatures who gather here and live together.

There are probably more than 100 creatures here, not too many, most of them are abandoned robots, and the rest are mutilated, deformed, and weird humans.

These human deformities are not caused by radioactive substances, most of them are born with it, and a few are acquired disabilities caused by car accidents, wars, etc.

Some of them have shrunken hands and feet, some are short in stature, and some have disabled facial features.

They are discriminated against by society, squeezed out by their peers, unable to find friends, even living in a big city, they are lonely, endure all kinds of eyes every day, and finally choose to come to this forgotten land.

Su Xia entered the gathering place, found a man with disabled legs, and asked him about the situation here.

"This is my home. I have found many friends and gained recognition here." The disabled man said to Su Xia.

"But there are radioactive substances here." Su Xia told him.

"It's nothing more than a few years less life." The disabled man smiled. "In the outside world, living is like dying. Why don't you come here...friend, what about you? What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to find someone." Su Xia took out the photo of her father and showed it to the disabled man.

Around the disabled man, several other deformed people also came to take a look.

"It turned out to be him. He did come here a month ago." The disabled man said.

"Yes, I've seen him too," said a freak beside him.

"Do you know where he went?" Su Xia asked them.

"This……"

"You have to ask Lao An, he talked a lot with the old man in the photo, he should know where the old man went."

"Yes, go ask Lao An."

The old Ann they were talking about was a robot who had only recently come to the Forgotten Land.

"Old An is also a robot born in the age of intelligence, but he has not been abandoned by the buyer." The disabled man said, "His buyer is the captain of a fishing boat, who often takes him out to sea for fishing."

"But not long ago, the fishing boat capsized in the wind and waves, and all the people on the boat died. As long as one of his machines survived, he was very sad and had no other place to go, so he came to the land of oblivion."

After everyone's introduction, Su Xia knew the life of that old An.

In the corner of the gathering place, Su Xia found Lao An.

This intelligent robot is also very old, covered in tatters, and the sea breeze has corroded his body.

He was sitting in the corner, holding a satellite phone in one hand and a crumpled piece of paper covered with contact numbers in the other, talking on the phone.

Su Xia stood by for a while without disturbing him.

During this period, Lao An made several phone calls, and each time he changed his voice through his voice module, some were rough, some were hoarse, some were clear, pretending to be different people, and telling the person on the other end of the phone that he was safe.

"Hey, wife, I'm at sea, the weather is fine today..."

"Dad, recent work is going well, don't worry..."

"Little guy, how are you studying recently?"

"..."

After finishing the phone call, he let out a long sigh, put down the satellite phone dejectedly, and squatted in the corner with a sad face.

All the people on board died, only he was left with a machine.

He can't do much, he can only use different voices, pretend to be those crew members, call the family members of the crew members, and let the people on the other end of the phone think that the crew members are still alive.

Every crew member is the pillar of the family. In this difficult time, if something happens to the pillar, the whole family will collapse.

"What's the point of doing this? They will eventually get the news." Su Xia walked to him and squatted down slowly.

"I do not know either……"

Lao An looked slumped and shook his head.

He just wanted to bring hope, even if it was false, to the families of those crew members.

Maybe it can still be pretended for two or three months, maybe it can be longer, such as half a year, but it will all be shattered in the end.

"I can give you a sum of money, and you can distribute it to the families of those crew members. In this era, money is also hope." Su Xia said to the robot.

"What do you need me to do?" Lao An asked.

"Help me find someone."

Su Xia took out the photo and put it in front of Lao An.

Lao An took a look, recognized the person in the photo, and said to Su Xia, "It's Master Daddy. He came to us last month, but he left again."

"Where did he go?" Su Xia asked him.

"Who are you from Master Papa?" Lao An seemed a little worried and asked a little more.

"I am his apprentice."

"It turned out to be you... Master Daddy said that his apprentice might come after him, so he asked me to tell you..."

"Tell me what?"

"He said that their condition is very good, don't worry, go back and guard the pharmacy."

Dad had foreseen the situation in advance.

The two guys Hongbafu and Lanbafu probably don't have the ability to investigate here, but Su Xia is different.

As long as he was willing to put in the effort, he would definitely be able to find this place.

So Dad asked the robot to leave this sentence.

As for whether Su Xia listens or not, that is his own business.

"Master Dad also said that if it is the apprentice who looks thinner, there is a high probability that he will not be obedient, so he asked me to tell... If you want to find him, you can go to the center of this area, there will be people waiting you."

"Understood, thank you."

Get new news, pointing to the central area of ​​this forgotten land.

Su Xia left a sum of money for the old robot, and then left.

He didn't stop, didn't rest in the middle, and flew against the dust in the sky for nearly an hour, and finally arrived at the center of the Forgotten Land.

This central area is no different from other areas, it is full of desolation, and the vicissitudes and dilapidation are scattered into the abandoned buildings with the wind.

This is also a gathering place, but there are more creatures gathered.

Su Xia's life perception glasses have captured the information of more than 1000 living organisms.

"This is a large gathering place." Su Xia thought to herself.

He took a brief look, and there were not only robots and humans, but also a terrifying humanoid monster, just like those monsters in the underground laboratory of Coral City.

"Mixture?"

Su Xia's eyes froze, and there was a monster mixed with humans and insects here.

Moreover, the minds of those monsters seem to be sober, and they can mix with other creatures.

This is strange.

Had Dad found a solution to his insanity?

"If there is such a way, then...wouldn't it be possible to mass-produce such monsters?"

With doubts, Su Xia stepped on the yellow sand and walked into this area step by step.

As soon as he walked in, he felt countless prying eyes.

On both sides of the road, in those seemingly empty and deserted high-rise reinforced concrete buildings, there are pairs of eyes hiding behind the windows, looking at him, an uninvited guest.

His arrival seems to have broken the harmony and tranquility here.

In less than half a minute, a small human came out of the building next to the road, looked at Su Xia cautiously, and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to find my teacher." Su Xia replied calmly.

"Who is your teacher?"

"A pharmacist."

"Come with me."

The exchange between the two was brief.

The short man waved his hand to signal Su Xia to follow him, then turned and walked towards the building.

(End of this chapter)