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Chapter 390 There is no such thing as a free lunch

"I understand."

A flash of inspiration flashed in Meng Donglai's mind, and he finally had some clues about some strange rules in the mission world.

"It's no wonder that so many high-level intellectuals who came down from Salem didn't control the regime in Steel City."

"No wonder Dr. Yide has no concept of money and power."

"It turns out that these are just 'things outside the body' for the deserted people of Salem."

"How do you understand?" Neither Ava nor Yuji understood Meng Donglai's self-talk.

"Wait, I'll be right back."

All of this was checked by Meng Donglai through his mental power, and the Yuji and Aiwa hadn't arrived yet.

Taking back the flying meter robot on Qilian, Meng Donglai accelerated and left the city center before she woke up.

After flying in a large circle at low altitude and confirming that he was not being tracked by any signal or monitoring system, Meng Donglai returned to the fruit shop.

"Why didn't you bring Qilian back?"

"There were some accidents." Meng Donglai described what he saw in detail: "That is to say, Qilian's entire brain is actually a biological brain. If you want to cut off Nova's surveillance of the biological brain, at present The only way is to destroy the biological brain."

"Isn't Qilian dead too?" Ava asked.

"That's right." Meng Donglai nodded.

"In other words, Qilian is actually immortal?" Ava grasped the point of the question.

"That's right." Meng Donglai nodded again. Only this reason can explain the two questions Meng Donglai said to himself just now: "This can explain the unreasonable parts in the movie's plot."

"But, at the end of the movie, wasn't Qilian persecuted by Victor, and her body was dismembered into organs and boxed?" Ava asked.

"Victor showed Alita just a pair of hands, a brain and a heart in a box, with some suggestive words on his mouth, which does not prove that it is Qilian inside." Meng Dong replied back and forth.

"It's a bit far-fetched." Jade Paper analyzed.

"There is one more important piece of information." Meng Donglai said.

"what."

"Only if you live forever, will society reject new life. Only in this way will Yide and Qilian be expelled to the ground by Salem because they have a child." Meng Dong replied.

Due to immortality, population growth will only increase the consumption of natural resources.

Children will lose their status as a result. On the contrary, because of the increasing number, it will cause a large consumption of resources and a shortage of resources. Naturally, they will become a threat in the eyes of the immortal class.

"War can catalyze the explosion of technology. The war 300 years ago is very likely to allow humans to master more than one method of immortality. Then the development of society and technology basically stagnated, and was solidified by the 'immortality class' with vested interests." Meng Donglai continued to explain.

"It is very possible that even we have now mastered three methods of immortality." After hearing Meng Donglai's explanation, Ava gradually agreed with his speculation.

The three methods of immortality currently mastered by Meng Donglai are: nanorobots, genetic modification, and consciousness transfer.

"Doesn't that mean that the people living in Salem are not real human beings?" Yudu continued to deduce along Meng Donglai's analysis.

"That's right." Meng Donglai nodded: "Everything in Iron City is a machine, except for the brain; and Sacool is just the opposite, except that the brain is replaced by a chip, everything else is no different from a human being."

There are even more malicious speculations that Meng Donglai didn't say.

They may also try to use technological means to create offspring, and after they are scrapped, they will be thrown into the lower realm—Steel City, and watch them die.

Just like what Nova said at the end of the movie: "The only joy of immortality is to watch others die."

Salem must control the population, so it is impossible for people from Iron City to go up, even those abandoned residents of Salem.

The dignitaries in Salem accidentally produced offspring, and some ordinary people had to be "thrown" to make room for them.

The cycle goes on and on, and there will always be new deserted residents of Salem in the steel city below, and then the dignitaries of Salem at the top will watch them gradually die in the garbage dump.

This is their fun.

As for the indigenous residents of Steel City, in the eyes of Salem's powerful people, they are no different from robots and are simply production tools.

Therefore, it is impossible for the deserted people of Salem to take power in Steel City (the tool must be in their own hands), and it is impossible to have a high-quality life.

Yide saw through this and was willing to dawdle in a small clinic.

Qilian couldn't see through it, and still wanted to go back to Salem, until she was finally "awakened" by Alita.

At the same time, this logic also explains why the enemies that Alita encounters are "weak", and why Alita can participate in the Motorball League.

Because all this is just "fun" for Nova on Salem.

"God sees all living beings." Meng Donglai sighed, "It's possible that Nova has already noticed everything we do now."

After hearing this sentence, Ava's face became solemn:

"In his long life, Nova discovered these interesting unexpected factors of us, and watched us perform below with great interest?"

This is too pessimistic to say.

Think about the Nova-possessed Victor at the end of the movie who said to Alita before he died: Remember, I can see everything.

Then, Meng Donglai heard Ava growl a little violently: "Fuck, make a big bomb for a moment and blow it up."

"I have mastered the anti-gravity technology, and I must have mastered the energy shield technology." Meng Donglai shook his head.

"Then what should we do? We can't just sit and wait for death." Ava asked.

"of course not."

These were all Meng Donglai's speculations before, and he was not sure how accurate they were.

Perhaps Nova is not as powerful as he said.

"Know yourself and the enemy and you can fight a hundred battles without imperil."

"We have to try how powerful this Nova is first."

Meng Donglai and Yuji said at the same time.

Hundreds of years of tacit understanding, so that the two can always think of together when encountering difficulties.

"How to try?"

"Alita." "Alita"

Meng Donglai and Yuji answered at the same time again.

"Your house is so big!"

Meng Donglai has been apprenticed to Yide for so long, and it is the first time for the junior sister Alita to come to Meng Donglai's house.

"Haha, I think what you should pay attention to is not how big my house is, but these."

Taking Alita to the living room on the first floor, Meng Donglai pointed to a row of fruit plates on the coffee table.

There are seven or eight quasi-categories of fruits, such as oranges, bananas, apples, and watermelons.

"Wow!! Does your family run a fruit shop?" Alita was surprised.

In this steel city, the price of fruit is very expensive. If this table of fruit is bought outside, it will cost at least two months' salary of the nurse in Yide Clinic.

"That's right, the fruit shop you just passed by is mine." Meng Donglai nodded.

The fruit in the fruit shop has gradually begun to be self-sufficient. Yuji has built some artificial sunlight greenhouses underground, with genetically modified super fruit seedlings and super chemical fertilizers. Some short-maturity fruits have already begun to be harvested, such as watermelons.

"You are so happy!"

Alita picked up a piece of watermelon and gnawed it.

"So sweet!"

Meng Donglai looked at this cute little girl with a smile, and said to himself: This is my reward for taking advantage of you. From now on, I guarantee that your appetite will be absolutely satisfied.

"Eat less, or you won't be able to eat dinner in a while."

I had invited Alita to my house for dinner before, and this time it was a fulfillment of my promise.

"I have a little faith in your craftsmanship, do you need me to help?"

"No, just watch TV, I've almost done it."

As soon as the voice fell, a wall-sized TV was automatically turned on, without advertisements, and directly entered the program, the content was the live broadcast of the Motorball Champions League.

Alita's eyes were immediately attracted, and her fast-moving mouth stopped.

The corners of Meng Donglai's mouth turned up slightly, then he turned and walked into the kitchen.

There is no need for Meng Dong to take action. There is an omnic disguised as a human being cooking in the kitchen. Its skill is far superior to Meng Donglai's.

The ingredients were cut into various shapes quickly in its hands, so fast that the light of the knife could not see the pause.

After preparing the ingredients, turn on the fire and start cooking.

The heat, time, seasoning amount, all the key points of cooking are under the control of the omnic who is full of detectors all over the body.

After a while, Meng Dong came to see that the game was coming to an end, and just started to carry the dishes to the restaurant.

Alita never took her eyes off the TV until the plate was full.

"Wow!"

At the end of the top 16, the winner was a cyborg whose legs were transformed into machines. He won the game with his super speed and qualified for the quarterfinals.

"Alita, come over for dinner." Meng Donglai greeted.

"Ok."

At the end of the wonderful game, Alita was not interested in the post-match interview at all, and went straight to the restaurant bouncing around.

"Wow! Wow! Wow! This is... too much!"

Looking at the twelve plates on the dining table, Alita couldn't believe it.

"It's not over yet."

"What else!?" Alita quickly followed Meng Donglai into the kitchen.

Then he watched as Meng Donglai opened the oven, which was one person tall, and took out a huge cake from it.

"cake!!?"

At this time, she remembered what Meng Donglai had said to her when she was in the cake shop: the ones I make myself taste better than this.

Although the cake in front of me doesn't look as good as the one in the bakery, it smells delicious, but I don't know if it's good or not.

"Strictly speaking, this is just a cake embryo." Meng Dong said back and forth.

"What do you mean?" Alita asked.

"It's just an undecorated cake."

Meng Donglai began to add materials to the cake embryo while talking, at a very fast speed.

Refined cream, fruits of various shapes, and finally, on the sixteen-inch cake, Meng Donglai used various materials to piece together an Alita running fast with a mobile ball.

"This is so beautiful." Alita was stunned.

If she hadn't watched Meng Donglai make it with her own eyes, even if she was killed, she would not believe that Meng Donglai had this skill.

"Do you like it?" Meng Donglai asked.

"I like it, I like it very much." Alita emphasized, and then pursed her mouth: "But, it's so beautiful, how can I eat it?"

"Hahaha, this is your problem."

Meng Donglai didn't answer this question, but put the cake on a trolley and pushed it to the restaurant.

"Eat first, the cake has been given to you, it is up to you to decide whether to eat or not."

"Oh."

Sitting back at the dining table, Alita kept turning her head to look at the heroic "little Alita".

Not only because of the good looks, but also because of its costumes and motor balls.

Alita especially wants to be like the villain on the cake, wearing beautiful clothes to participate in professional games.

"Hurry up and eat the vegetables, it won't taste good when it's cold."

"Ok."

Meng Donglai looked curiously at her mechanical body covered by clothes.

The world's research on life support is really at its peak. Even if the whole body is mechanical from the lower abdomen, Alita can still rely on daily eating to maintain the energy requirements of the mechanical body.

By the way, you can also enjoy delicious food.

"Oh! This is delicious."

"This is also delicious!".
As if discovering a treasure, Alita quickly tasted all the dishes on the table.

Sour, sweet, spicy, all kinds of flavors are available.

For Alita, this table of dishes is almost equivalent to a "man-han banquet".

While eating food, the girl temporarily tossed the cake and the motor ball aside, wiped out a small portion of the dishes on the table like a storm, and then couldn't eat anymore.

"There's a lot more, but I'm so full."

"I thought you could eat a lot." Meng Donglai said.

"No, I can't eat anymore." Alita touched her still flat belly.

The utilization rate of food in the mechanical stomach far exceeds that of the original human stomach. For the same meal, an ordinary person can last half a day, but a robot can last a day or two.

Therefore, the cyborg is not only hungry, but also eats less.

"Okay, let's take a break and then try the cake."

Meng Donglai called the omnic to come and take away the leftovers. These leftovers will not be wasted, and the clones also need to eat.

"I really want to keep it forever." Alita looked at the beautiful cake.

"Let me take a picture of you and it."

"Okay."

Meng Donglai brought the camera and took some photos of Alita, and then the two cut a small piece from the bottom of the huge cake and brought it to the living room to eat while continuing to watch TV.

"Brother Donglai, you are so rich, why do you still want to study medicine?" Alita asked.

"Hobby."

"Hobby?"

"Yes, hobbies are things you like to do." Meng Dong said back and forth: "Most people in Iron City do things just to survive. Only when the conditions are very good and there is no pressure to survive will they devote time to their hobbies."

"Why do you like medicine?" Alita was puzzled.

"My hobby is not medical treatment, but the mechanical body modification technology mastered by Dr. Yide." Meng Dong replied: "But I don't think he will easily teach me the skills of being under pressure, so I can only learn some basic medical knowledge first. .”

"Oh. Dr. Yide is very good at this?" Alita asked.

"It's very powerful. In the entire Iron City, Dr. Yide's skills should be at the forefront." Meng Dong said back and forth.

"It's so powerful." Alita touched her mechanical arm. This body is really useful and beautiful.

"Your body was prepared by Dr. Yide for his daughter. He used the best material he could get. You may not feel it, because you have never used a poor mechanical body."

Meng Donglai held Alita's hand:

"Whether this body is in terms of strength and speed, or strength and reaction, it is one of the few in the Iron City."

Gruishka is Nova's thug. When he fought Alita for the first time, an arm was easily removed by this body.

Nicia and Romo's mechanical bodies are not bad, but they were easily killed by Alita.

This is not only because Alita knows mecha fighting skills, but also because of the excellent performance of this mechanical body.

(End of this chapter)