Bionic Era

Mowu City at eight o'clock in the evening.

All reconstruction sites have been shut down.

The danger is not over yet.

The council is asking all residents to stay home as much as possible at night.

If you have to go out, try to go with a companion, and the most important thing is to avoid bionic people.

The homeless bionics have become a major safety hazard in Mowu City.

There is no fixed home, just like these androids, they can go wherever they want, and sometimes they will be evicted.

For the sake of the city's beauty, every once in a while, someone will drive out the homeless on the street. I have also been driven out several times.

But fortunately, when I have money later, I can rent a small single room to store paints, drawing boards, and some clothes and bedding, but after I get used to it, I prefer that kind of wandering life...

Jing Le said to himself.

He sat opposite Lu Wen in a pavilion in a park.

Many androids can be seen outside the pavilion.

After the riots, these androids were no longer trusted by their employers, abandoned, wandering around, waiting to be recycled or died of exhaustion.

Only a small number of employers are willing to trust these androids again, but not 100%.

Jing Le continued: As a teacher, Number Zero is actually conscientious and has taught me a lot. I know that she is deliberately leading me on the wrong path, making me more sick than ordinary people, so that it is easy to control , but... I actually have no choice.

If I didn't choose to follow her at that time, I might have starved to death on the street. These days, everyone can't take care of themselves. There are too many homeless people on the street, and I look like a child of a rich family. I rarely get money.

Jing Le laughed at herself.

His appearance was truly impeccable.

A typical mixed-race child, with fair skin, three-dimensional facial features, blond hair, and light blue eyes, will exude a classical temperament just by standing still.

Those eyes often reveal the artist's melancholy.

Even in his rags, it was hard to believe he was a real waif.

Looking too good-looking is also a kind of trouble.

Roaming is more of a show on him.

I spent most of my life on the streets of Mowu City, and sometimes I would go to the underground factory she built for me. Bloody blood can make me forget a lot of things. The more I forget, the better. Sometimes the memories are too Clarity, on the contrary, causes pain.”

There are still many pawns like me in her hands. Maybe from the first meeting to the death, they will not get rid of her control...

Mowu City, which has stopped rebuilding, is quiet at night.

Summer insects sang in the grass.

The street lights in the distance are bright.

Dilapidation and prosperity are intertwined, and there is a different kind of beauty.

This is the beauty that the little painter likes most and pursues in the first half of his life - incompleteness.

In other words, it can be said that it is not perfect.

It could also be some kind of regret.

It is a deep regret hidden in my heart.

Lu Wen leaned on the bench, crossed his fingers, and said, I just asked No. 0, and she said that among her many chess pieces, you are a very different one. You have a persistent pursuit of art. Your She has a more independent personality, she has used a lot of brainwashing methods on you, but you always have your own judgment.

Is that so, it seems that I am quite special.

Jing Le turned to look outside the pavilion.

The swaying tree shadows, the quiet lake, and the moonlight reflection on the water.

The city rarely sees the moon, and the thick clouds make it feel like the rainy season all year round, and the rain never stops.

All night scenes are reflected in his light blue pupils, turning them into abstract art.

As if a realistic painting has been splashed with gorgeous oil paint, the lines and colors are intertwined and hazy.

I killed people when I was very young, and there was a moon at that night. I still remember the way the sticky blood flowed under the moonlight, and I also remember the fearful and terrified faces of the children beside me. Jing Le said.

I know this, I've heard about Zero. Lu Wen responded.

It turns out that she has noticed me since then.

Maybe earlier. Lu Wen said: Have you ever thought that your whole life has been arranged by number zero, from being abandoned at birth to now, she has lived long enough, so she has enough time to arrange your life? everything.

Of course I thought about it, but it's useless to think about it.

Jing Le smiled, very flatly.

What about you? He asked back, Isn't your life arranged?

Maybe so.

Lu Wen's life path was indeed formulated by Yin Long.

I don't know if it is the real Yin Long or the mechanical Yin Long.

He was at Li Meng's house when he turned on the phone, and a murder case happened in this home. Within a few days, he got the first relatively clear guiding ideology after turning on the phone, which was said by Li Meng: Everyone should have their own life, even if It is mechanical.

It was instilling in him the idea of ​​freedom.

It also planted a thought for him to liberate the bionic man, paving the way for him to get the A00 authority in the future.

After discovering that his desire to liberate the bionics was not strong, Yin Long set up a scheme to inform him of his true identity, letting him know that he was a bionics, not a rebirth of a human being.

After knowing it, there will be no wavering between the two races.

The lives of the two have a certain degree of overlap, but now the number zero is no longer a threat, so Jing Le can be regarded as free.

Before Lu Wen found the real Yin Long, he wasn't free, he could only be said to be passive.

Lu Wen asked, What do you plan to do in the future?

Jing Le just replied: Aren't you going to kill me?

Why did you kill you?

I killed people.

Mowu City abolished the death penalty very early.

You can also take me back, which is a great credit to you.

Lu Wen shrugged and said: I am now a third-level executive officer, the next member of parliament, the most trusted bionic person in Mowu City, no one, all residents of Mowu City know me, do you think I still need More credit?

To give credit.

Killing No. 0 is actually a great credit, killing that kind completely, so that there is no trace of No. 0 in this world.

But number zero is still somewhat useful.

Keep it for the time being, and don't worry about what she does secretly.

Aren't you going to imprison me?

I'm everywhere.

Jing Le was silent, and suddenly understood.

This Mowu City, as well as other cities, are now under Lu Wen's surveillance.

This planet is his prison.

So Lu Wen can let him go, this is Lu Wen's confidence.

If he dares to commit crimes after he is free, Lu Wen will not show mercy to him, and he will not be able to hide in any corner of the nine cities, unless he goes to a remote no-man's land and stays there for the rest of his life.

But even if you go to no man's land, you may be found by Lu Wen.

In the future... maybe I plan to walk around and record the changes in this world, the changes in the nine major cities.

It's best if I can earn some money. I will keep what I need for living, and donate everything else to those children's welfare homes.

When I was very young, I really wanted to know who my parents were, but that was just a wish. Most of the time, I thought that someone could adopt me. Even if I was not rich, just give me food and clothing, and I would give them End of life...

Street children are the tragedy of the whole city.

But Jing Le is indeed right, most people are too busy to take care of themselves.

Lu Wen tried to trace some of the original news reports and video information, but only saw Jing Le in an illustration of an old news about urban governance. He was lying with many homeless people, and nothing else Can't find it.

Too much time has passed.

It is difficult to find his biological parents.

In fact, even if you find it, it's useless. The moment you left him, it doesn't matter anymore. Meeting him again will only increase the embarrassment.

Strangers who are related by blood.

I suggest you stay in Mowu City during this time, at least you are familiar with this city, and it is considered safe at present, other cities or even no-man's land may not be safe. Lu Wen reminded.

Why? Is it because the man behind the scenes hasn't been found yet?

Not only that, the black hand behind the scenes should not be one person, but a group of people.

Many people thought it was over, Zero was defeated by A00.

You can start a new life.

So everyone relaxed their vigilance.

Even many soldiers and commanders think so, besides bionics, who else can threaten human society?

They think that the only thing that needs to be considered at present is what to do with the androids.

But Lu Wen always had an inexplicable sense of crisis.

This feeling is very strong.

Under the surface of the calm world, there seems to be some kind of deadly threat brewing. Once this threat breaks out, the degree of danger may be much higher than the bionic riot.

Some strange things happened in Mowu City today.

Lu Wen talked about the missing persons and the material explosion in Mowu City.

He couldn't get the thoughts and data of Jing Le's flesh and blood body, so he could only ask Jing Le if he knew anything.

But Jing Le just shook his head.

He said that all his news came through No. 0, and he knew part of what No. 0 knew. As for what No. 0 didn't know, he had nothing to do.

But he also mentioned contaminated areas.

Number Zero brought me some weird creatures before, which met my painting needs. You also saw one last time. Later, I felt that it was not enough, so I went deep into some polluted areas by myself.

Those deformed creatures are in line with Jing Le's artistic aesthetics.

So he went to the polluted area.

What he did was bold.

Jing Le said that he did not prepare any protective equipment, but only brought some radiation measuring instruments.

For most ordinary people.

Even if the radioactive index is normal, they dare not enter the contaminated area, which is synonymous with the restricted area of ​​life.

When these three words are mentioned, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is death and despair, corpses everywhere, life withered, etc...

Many polluted areas are quite beautiful. After all, they began to be deserted more than two hundred years ago. Few people dare to enter. Many cities have grown green vegetation, have water sources and small animals, and are rarely attacked by extreme weather. , Those places are actually... very suitable for human habitation.”

The premise of living is that there are no weird creatures.

Jing Le took out a few USB flash drives from his pocket and handed them to Lu Wen.

This is all the videos I took when I entered the polluted area. There are some weird things in it, including animals and plants, and some creatures are like corals. I can't even tell whether it is an animal or a plant.

In fact, coral polyps are animals, and corals are just bones. Lu Wen said.

I don't know much about that.

Jing Le is very calm.

He has never received systematic study at all.

In Lu Wen's biological database, some creatures are more controversial, such as Euglena, which are directly classified as protists. Although chlorophyll sea slugs are green enough, they are classified as animals. Although flytraps are active, they are classified as Plants are generally clearer.

There are very few creatures that resemble both animals and plants.

Jing Le reminded: I have marked the geographical coordinates on each video. The third video is special. You can watch it carefully. I captured human footprints, which are very clear and barefoot. The wind and sand in that city More serious...

In places with severe wind and sand, the sand will bury everything, and a footprint will not last long.

So that's what's left.

What Jing Le meant was obvious, there were traces of human activities in that city.

The possibility of bionic people is very remote, and bionic people generally can't go that far. Most of them are in the ruined cities around Mowu City, and those footprints have relatively obvious toe fingerprints.

Understood, I will find time to take a closer look.

Lu Wen put away a few USB flash drives.

He thought about some safer areas, and prepared to ask Jing Le to stay there.

But before he could say anything, he suddenly frowned.

Inexplicably, some special pictures began to appear in front of my eyes.

He rested his head on his hands, frowning in silence.

dark.

This is his first impression of those pictures.

It looks like a deep cave with cold stone walls on both sides.

There are iron doors inlaid on the stone wall.

Dark and damp.

There are red numbers on the iron gate, from zero to nine, and more are marked with red crosses.

These images are sometimes clear.

Sometimes blurred.

In front of Lu Wen's eyes, the night of Mowu City flashed alternately, like a movie with insufficient frames.

Just when he was trying to see better.

A voice suddenly sounded.

clatter……

clatter……

Very heavy footsteps.

With a breath of danger.

Accompanied by icy drops of water falling.

Behind Lu Wen.

He was startled suddenly and looked back, but behind him was only the night scene of Mowu City.

Disappeared.

Those flashes of dark images, and that heavy step.

Everything is back to normal.

This is a fleeting memory.

Bionics shouldn't have memories, it can only be said that a certain program in Lu Wen's body was triggered.

As for the triggering conditions... Lu Wen remembered Huang Liang's reaction a few hours ago, and he could probably tell that after this special dream, a certain restriction in their bodies was opened.

Huang Liang has no confidence in his own ability, he can't bear certain memories, so he will take the initiative to fall into a deep sleep.

But Lu Wen can't be like him.

He must find out the truth.

What’s wrong with you?

Jing Le sensed something was wrong with Lu Wen.

He was a little puzzled.

With Lu Wen's current ability and status, there shouldn't be too many things to worry about.

Turning his head suddenly to look behind just now is quite abnormal behavior.

Something troublesome, little thing.

Lu Wen waved his hand.

This kind of thing can't let Jing Le get involved, this young man finally got rid of Zero's control.

...

at the same time.

Underneath the North, Eden.

Xia Chuluo was also aware that something was wrong with Lu Wen.

She glanced at Lu Wen suspiciously, and asked, What's the matter?

nothing.

The two of us have known each other for so long, do you think there is anything you can hide from me?

...

Lu Wen was silent for a while, really couldn't hide it.

There is no need to hide this kind of thing.

He straightened his mind, took a breath, sat in front of Xia Chuluo, and asked slowly: If I say that the meeting and acquaintance of the two of us were arranged, would you believe it?

Is it Yin Long?

...

Miss Xia simply said, Is it Yin Long? and ended the topic immediately.

Many complicated and long-winded middle parts are omitted.

But Lu Wen still told everything that happened.

After Xia Chuluo finished listening, she just said calmly, That's it?