The Entire Nation Developing Another World

2020-10-28

  Chapter 245 The City of Steel

At noon, the sun hangs high, and there is a A huge city.

This is a magnificent giant city made entirely of alloy. The city wall alone is nearly hundreds of meters high, and the cold steel is slightly reflective under the sun.

In the sky above this giant steel city, there is a floating diamond-shaped mechanical device every 100 meters, and the device has a pattern of one after another blue. Countless rhombuses floated above the steel giant city, covering the entire city like a huge lid.

Deer headed-man saw this city of steel, his tight heart finally relaxed, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Very good, I finally came back alive."

This giant steel city is the sanctuary where he lives, and coming near this city also means that he doesn’t have to Beware of all around if an enemy suddenly launches an attack on him.

Then the deer headed-man wore the tattered armor nest on his body that was close to falling apart, and the steel giant ran wildly. A convoy of collectors passed by him continuously along the way, the rumbling sound of the engine passed into his ears, and the diesel directly penetrated his nose.

In this Interstellar Era, the collectors riding on this old-age chemical fuel vehicle seemed unusually abrupt and even a little incomprehensible. There is no way for this. Various civilizations also want to equip these collectors with more sophisticated vehicles and use sustainable energy.

But the human team's energy response is extremely sensitive, and the various equipment carried by the collectors are already utmost. If you add a high-energy vehicle, it may be sensed by humans just when it approaches the vicinity of a human city, and then ascend to the sky on the spot.

At the same time, this is also the reason why major civilizations did not use robots to collect energy. Humans are extremely sensitive to high energy, and robots need huge energy support. Even if they invented a diesel-operated robot to collect energy, but with the conversion rate of diesel to energy to support the normal collection of the robot, it is already utmost back and forth, and it is impossible to fight at all.

In the early days, the Erder civilization took advantage of his machine civilization and developed various robots that did not rely on high energy, such as diesel robots, steam machines... for energy harvesting. In the beginning, these robots gathered a lot of Earth energy for the Erd civilization by relying on the advantages of number and fear of death.

Other civilizations have also begun to follow suit. For a while, Earth is like a steampunk world, full of diesel robots and steam robots with rugged appearances. But suddenly one day I didn't know which shameless civilization it was, and let my collectors grab the energy collected by robots from human cities.

Faced with a team carrying a variety of advanced equipment, these low-energy robots are not rivals at all. After all, in order to prevent humans from sensing the robot, the robot itself is set to reduce the energy response as much as possible, and it is basically impossible to carry various energy weapons.

The robbing teams sent by certain civilizations are almost always one-to-one, and they are full of looting from civilizations that use low-energy robots to collect energy. The robbed civilization also immediately made countermeasures, but there was no use for eggs.

For example, dispatching elite troops to protect collection robots, but the team of collection robots that rely on their numbers to win is already extremely large. If there is another group of well-equipped troops with various advanced weapons guarding them, it will definitely attract the attention of mankind. The long-distance guards gave those looting teams a chance to snatch them, and they could completely take advantage of the opportunity and run away.

Sending a battleship to escort is even more impossible. Maybe the battleship was beaten down by humans not long after it took off from the shelter.

This is a dead end. As long as these civilizations rely on huge low-energy robot troops to collect, then other civilizations can rely on small and sophisticated troops to constantly snatch them.

In the end, the Erd civilization, which relies on low-energy robots to collect energy, was completely destroyed by this group of shameless guys and had to give up this low-cost and high-yield method.

As soon as these civilizations gave up, other civilizations found that they had nothing to grab, and slowly came up with something similar to low-energy robots. And the next thing can be said to be the reversal of the wheel of fortune, the Erd civilization, these civilizations that are good at mechanical artificial intelligence, when they see them doing this, they turn their heads and hack all their robots, constantly stealing energy from them.

In this way, all civilizations can only continue to maintain the collector system obediently and honestly, focusing on small-stock elite squads to gather energy.

All the collectors who passed by the deer headed-man looked at him with a happy look. The whole body of this deer headed-man is in tattered equipment. The armor/mecha lacks one piece in the east and one piece in the west. It is no different from the broken copper and broken iron. In addition, he is alone, not even a teammate by his side, not even a vehicle.

There are various signs that it is not difficult to guess what happened. This hapless guy should have encountered a human, and he should be the only one left in the entire squad.

Deer headed-man also noticed the surrounding to-and-fro and collected the team’s gaze, but he did not pay attention and rushed all the way to the steel giant city.

The city wall of the steel giant city is 20 meters high. Numerous collection squads made their own vehicles and drove out of the city gate after passing the inspection, and began the collection activity for about a week.

At this time, a robot came to the deer headed-man, shot a green light, and scanned the deer headed-man in all directions.

"The damage rate of equipment has reached 80%, and there are multiple injuries on the body, which are predicted to be caused by energy weapons." The cold machine sounded.

deer headed-man stands quietly, letting the robot scan itself. Generally, a full-scale scan is required to enter and exit the shelter to check for abnormal things, mainly to prevent other civilizations from invading the shelter.

Of course, this check was completed the moment he passed the gate, but now his situation is quite special. The squad everyone else is dead, and he is the only one left to come back alive. This is very suspicious in itself. The probability of being a spy of other civilizations is very high, and the strictest inspection must be carried out.

In this case, the suspicion of spies is very high, but it is not uncommon. After all, there are too many dangers on this planet. Everyday all hundreds of collectors die, and some of them are always lucky and come back alive. . In this regard, the Erd civilization, although it is highly probable that these returning people are spies, it still chose to accept it.

Because if they don't accept this kind of gatherers who miraculously returned alive, then other surviving gatherers will not return to the shelter in the future. Although the surviving collectors are not rare in the Erd civilization, after all they can produce as much as they want, but the Erd civilization is afraid that these collectors will go to other refuges to sell information in exchange for a chance to survive. .

Although the collectors belong to the bottom of the shelter and don’t know much about the shelter’s information, the energy they carry daily and the various daily stacks can be used to figure out the inner and outer layers of the shelter. The general situation.

More than ten seconds later, the robot used the huge detector of the city gate to scan the whole body of the deer headed-man, scanning the bones inside and out.

The robot said with a mechanically unique synthetic sound: "Nothing abnormal, No. 0 2200821, please describe what you have encountered, and explain why you alone returned to the shelter, the other people in the squad Are you still alive."

"Because your personal terminal has been completely damaged, we can't get the collection activity process from it, please tell me the detailed process."

deer headed-man replied: "Yesterday at around 13:20, we had just collected energy and prepared to return to the shelter, but we were suddenly attacked by other shelters collecting squads."

"We fought these attackers. , And then due to the excessive energy fluctuations generated by the battle, an ordinary person was attracted. The attacker was instantly blasted to pieces by humans, and our squad turned around and ran away, and the human chased after him."

"In this chase, my teammates were blasted to pieces by humans, and I accidentally rolled down a hillside. Humans did not continue chasing me, so I survived."

deer headed-man briefly explained his "real experience".

"The brain waves are normal, and no signs of submitting wrong information have been detected so far." Then the robot took out a black collar and handed it to the deer head.

"In view of your special circumstances, you are suspected of being a spy, so you must wear this necklace for a while to live. In the next seven days, you will be exposed to nanobot for twenty-four hours Monitoring."

The deer headed-man took it forward and put it on his neck without any hesitation, and asked: "May I go to the city to rest?"

"Inspection passed." The robot returned to his post.

After deer headed-man turned in all the equipment that had been completely scrapped on his body, he dragged his exhausted body to the city. Through the gate, the diesel vehicle and the Collectors who rest near the city gate and are ready to go.

I looked up and looked into the distance. I saw that it was all cold steel. All the buildings were made of steel, whether they were buildings or roads. Looking at the past, it is full of cold steel, even the bit by bit mud and bit by bit green can't be seen.

At the same time, the buildings in the city have a very uniform appearance, like a mold carved out, without the slightest difference. The whole city is just like pasted and copied, steel buildings, roads, steel buildings, roads.

The entire city appears to be very orderly. This order has reached an extreme, and it can even be said to be pathological. Everything is strictly planned by artificial intelligence. Except for the collectors who have life, every action of everything in this city has clear regulations. They will strictly follow the procedures every minute and every second.

deer headed-man turned around and moved towards city gate and walked on the road on the right. The more you go this way, the ice cold aura of this city of steel becomes lighter. Half an hour later, the deer headed-man saw his residence, the gathering place of collectors.

All buildings here, including roads, are made of steel, but the steel here is different from the steel outside. It does not emit the metallic luster, but has a large area of ​​sound.

Small living cabins are stacked densely packed, like Beehive, all kinds of upright type lifeforms walk in these messy living cabins.

Such a messy, small, rusty residential area makes the deer headed-man feel inexplicably relieved, at least it is not as cold as the outside.

Deer headed-man went all the way back to his living cabin, put his hand on the door lock, fingerprints passed through the cracking sound, and the heavy door slowly opened.

The room inside is very simple, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a family member with four walls. A seven-meter-long steel plate bed, a huge sofa and a steel table, on which there is a huge stainless steel cup and stainless steel rice bowl. There is nothing else but these, this is the living environment of most collectors.

The collectors don’t want to improve their lives, but all kinds of materials are too expensive. It’s already a bit difficult for them to use the points they get from collecting activities every day in the mortal danger to pay for the living expenses. It is basically impossible to buy those expensive furniture and replace the living environment.

Every day collectors can only spend their few remaining points in the bar and virtual reality, and have fun. After all, if you don’t enjoy yourself now, you might die next time you leave.

The living environment is bad, and the materials are extremely scarce. Every day, I still need to risk the mortal danger to go to human cities to collect energy.

Because of the existence of human beings, all civilizations can only rely on Space Leap to transport materials safely into shelters on Earth. It’s not a big deal for these Level 2 civilizations to die several or hundreds of Space transitions, but if they die thousands of times, they won’t be able to bear it.

Especially now that they are far away from the solar system, far away from their own five-star, it is difficult to get sufficient supplies of various energy sources and devices. Coupled with a large amount of energy to be used to guard against humans, it is even more impossible to transport a large amount of materials into the shelter for the collectors.

deer headed-man picked up the rice bowl on the table and walked out of the living cabin, came to the food vending machine downstairs, put his hand on the fingerprint verification, and then put the rice bowl on the delivery port Down.

Since it is now ten o'clock in the morning, it has already passed the meal period, and a new round of collecting operations has begun, no one queued up before the physical goods were sold.

Dí!

The thick pale-yellow fluid flowed out from the injection port and fell into the huge stainless steel rice bowl. These thick fluids are nutrient solutions with extremely high nutritional content. The only drawback is that they are unpalatable and full of disgusting weird taste.

deer headed-man glanced at his own points, sighed, and said: "These points are not enough to go to the bar once. You must sell that thing as soon as possible, hoping to get a good price. "

Next, the deer headed-man, lying on the bed and closing his tired eyes after eating the food, hu hu fell asleep, and under the supervision of nanobot, everything was so normal.

As for what the deer headed-man said? Robots have already been tested, but they are just some old human books. The books of all major civilizations of mankind have long been collected, and there is nothing for them, but for the collectors, these books are invaluable, and the things contained in them may save his life at a critical moment.

For example, collectors know some words that can effectively arouse humans from some human books or other items. As long as they are spoken, they can generally attract human attention, such as the most typical fuck, 666, grass.

Generally, collectors will make some robots to play these sounds. Once they encounter a human, they will throw these robots out, and then turn around and run. These robots that constantly emit words that attract human attention have a certain chance to attract human attention, thereby increasing their chances of escape.

……

Second day, in a bar in the collector’s residential area.

As soon as deer headed-man walked into the door, the strong alcohol assaults the senses, and a large number of collectors were drinking cheap drinks here. Some even the poorer drank directly the "ordinary alcohol" mixed with industrial alcohol and water.

The whole bar feels extremely messy, the arrangement of the wine tables is irregular, one after another gatherers are crazy about alcoholism, imitating the wine table culture of human society. At the same time, some drunk collectors fell asleep directly, the overwhelming majority of them slept on the ground, and many of them slept directly on the aisle.

The chaotic scene here is the same as the residential area of ​​the outside collectors. One outstanding feature is that it is chaotic, as chaotic as it is.

Collecting the chaos and surroundings in disorder and order, the steel forest like pasting and copying forms an extremely sharp contrast. The two sides are clearly close to each other, but they are like two worlds.

Coming all the way to the depths of the bar, the deer headed-man saw a gate with two werewolves standing in front of the gate.

The deer headed-man came to the two werewolves and said: "I want to exchange some things from the human city for points."

A werewolf stared sharply. Glancing at the deer headed-man, he asked: "What exactly is it?"

"Book." The deer headed-man replied.

Hearing what was said, the two werewolves were not blocking them, turned around and opened the door.

(End of this chapter)