Chapter 1033 Survivor Society

Hao Ren was always curious about the "survivor society" living on the Zenith space station and lunar base, but he had no way to directly contact them. His understanding of that society could only be based on Nolan's limited observation data, and this level of understanding was obviously far from enough.

The arrival of n-6 brought him a huge surprise, but before he had time to inquire about the situation of the society in the sky from n-6, another "source of information" took the initiative to come to his door.

n-4 said that she knew a lot about Zenith and the lunar base, and even more than n-6—because she had a longer service time. Although this service time did not give her higher comprehensive authority than n-6, it allowed her to know more about the survivor society. However, before telling this information, she also wanted to know what kind of people Hao Ren and his group of unidentified "space visitors" were.

Trust is built on the basis of mutual sincerity—even if what Hao Ren wanted to know was only the most basic information about Zenith and the lunar base, something that could be understood by simply flying a spacecraft over there and taking a look, he would have to exchange it with equal value.

"We come from outside your star system—I mean outside your entire solar system," Hao Ren felt that he had nothing to hide, because his origins meant nothing to a native resident who had never left their planetary system. The nobles or peddlers of a kingdom billions of light-years away were just a distant story to n-4, not to mention the distance of an entire world between them. "Coming to your planet was completely an accident. We came to this star system to find a... very, very ancient thing, but after entering the system, we ran into a space disaster, and the spacecraft was severely damaged, so we had to make an emergency landing on this planet."

"We discovered traces of a civilized society on this planet, so we became very curious," Vivian took over Hao Ren's words. After following Hao Ren around for so many years, she was now quite familiar with Hao Ren's "workflow" and "professional vocabulary" and was fully capable of acting as a qualified censor spokesperson. "We travel in space all year round, and we have dealt with all kinds of civilizations or civilization ruins. Observing and recording civilization ecology, or collecting and preserving civilization relics, is one of our main tasks. So during the time we stayed on this planet to repair the spacecraft, we began to study the local civilization here."

"Observing civilization ecology, collecting civilization relics?" As a high-level artificial intelligence, n-4 had relatively rich emotions, so she naturally expressed surprise at this time. "Does this kind of profession exist?"

Lily immediately jumped out with a red face: "You know about undertakers, right? Our landlord does the same thing, except he doesn't deal with dead people, but dead civilizations!"

When she said this, her eyes were shining, her ears were pricked up, and her tail was wagging vigorously behind her, as if this was a great honor, while Hao Ren covered half of his face beside her: "I clearly remember that the work manual doesn't say that. Censors don't mainly do this..."

The data terminal next to him gently bumped his head: "Partner, take it easy. You basically haven't done anything else in the past two years..."

But in any case, Lily's simple and crude explanation was the most effective. n-6 and n-4 immediately felt that Hao Ren's job was still very understandable—there were also special recovery units among the Executors. They could occasionally bring back wounded soldiers who had lost their ability to act from the battlefield, but more often they went to recover some wrecks of great value, such as chips that recorded first-hand battlefield data: in the war with the Planet Devourers, there were far more wrecks than wounded soldiers.

"So obviously, we are pacifists," Hao Ren spread his hands to n-4. "Protecting the achievements of civilization is what we are good at."

n-4 observed the man in front of her, trying to determine the probability of the other party lying by detecting changes in facial expressions, eye movements, heartbeat, body temperature, and other parameters. Although she had never been in contact with real humans, all Executors knew about human physiological parameters. But soon she thought that perhaps those rigid parameters could not be used to judge the "person" in front of her—because this was a space visitor. He looked very similar to humans, but who knew what he looked like when he was lying.

"I'm willing to believe you," n-4 thought for a while and raised a question, "But I saw that you painted the image of a hunter as a totem on the armor of the spacecraft. I think this is a way for a warlike nation to express itself—if there is something wrong with my understanding, please explain it."

It took Hao Ren a long time to realize what the "hunter" in the other party's mouth was... wasn't that Lily's headshot!

Nangong Sanba and Nangong Wuyue, who were standing behind, laughed out loud on the spot in a particularly unrefined manner, and even Little Elizabeth couldn't help but "poof" out. Lily was furious when she heard the noise, jumping up and down to defend her race's dignity: "What are you laughing at! Isn't my transformed appearance majestic! Hey, even the aliens can see how powerful my headshot is! You guys have problems with your aesthetics..."

Hao Ren tried hard to hold back his laughter: "Ahem, I don't think there's anything wrong with everyone's aesthetics. You're actually quite... cute after transforming into a husky, but we really can't see your might."

If there hadn't been outsiders present, Lily would have taken a bite out of Hao Ren's head.

"Your reaction... is there really something wrong with my understanding?" n-4 looked at the movements of this group of people in a daze.

"The hunter you're talking about..." Hao Ren dragged Lily over with a wry smile, pulling over this husky who was sulking, and pointed to the ears on the latter's head, "It's actually her. It's not a war totem at all. It's a decoration on the spacecraft. This guy pestered me to paint it on."

n-4 tilted her head—as an artificial intelligence, she made an almost human-like action that was somewhat beyond her emotional range to express her doubts: "I don't think there's anything wrong with my optical observation module. Her appearance..."

"She has another appearance," Hao Ren patted Lily on the back of the head. The husky girl immediately retracted her ears in an instant as if she had been turned on, and even her hair turned into the appearance of short black hair in human form. Hao Ren patted her again, and her ears and hair reappeared. The whole process was so perfectly coordinated that it was impossible to see that this husky spirit had been sulking just now. "She can change her form. You saw two forms. She has a third form, which is the hunter you're talking about. Actually, you should have seen it too. Her ears are the same as the ears of the creature you saw on the spacecraft."

"Not just her, most of us have more than one form," Izhaks said in a muffled voice. Red patterns like flowing lava appeared on his face, and his skin faintly revealed signs of petrification. "Changing forms is our basic ability."

n-4 felt that her logic circuits had experienced a high-speed operation that she had never experienced since leaving the factory in these short few hours. She opened her mouth, and finally her gaze fell on Lily: "It's beyond my cognitive range... I didn't expect that there would be such magical life in the universe. I saw that the creature on the spacecraft had a majestic look and sharp fangs, and thought it was a dangerous hunting creature, but..."

She was too embarrassed to say the second half of the sentence, because she wanted to say that Lily's current silly look with her eyes facing her was really a bit... dull.

Hao Ren scratched his nose and laughed awkwardly, thinking that the husky had a serious look... well, the husky did have a serious look. Anyone who had raised this kind of creature knew that when their eyes became sharp, it usually meant that they also had a very sharp idea at the same time. This also applies to Lily.

"I think we have initially eliminated the misunderstanding between us," Hao Ren spread his hands. "You got what you wanted to know, and now I want to ask what I want to know—before explaining the information blockade that happened at Zenith, can I ask you an extra question?"

n-4 nodded: "Please ask."

"I found that the action team members you brought are all... robots like you," Hao Ren said with a curious expression. "Why didn't I see any humans? Could it be that there are no humans in your shelter at all?"

This was an idea that he couldn't help but come up with after seeing the team members brought by n-4. Although this conjecture was a bit bizarre, after experiencing several years of Dream Plane exploration, he was no longer surprised by this situation.

After all, he had personally witnessed an Ark world that was still operating after the extinction of mankind.

And there's a saying that goes—you'd be too embarrassed to be a Censor if you didn't have the ability to imagine things?

Although according to the pictures on those reliefs, the humans of this planet successfully launched an escape spacecraft into the sky, and now all the signs also proved that the escape spacecraft had not been destroyed by the First Born, but was hanging in the sky properly, and even the people in the spacecraft had successfully established a base on the moon, but no one could guarantee that there had been no other accidents in this process. Maybe humans had become extinct in this process? Looking at n-4 and n-6 in front of him, these artificial intelligences that were almost indistinguishable from humans seemed to be fully capable of maintaining the space station and lunar base—after the extinction of their human creators.

However, in the face of the question raised by Hao Ren, n-4 immediately shook her head and denied it: "No, humans have not become extinct, and they will not become extinct. They live on the lunar base, inside the safest 'fortress'."

"Fortress?" Hao Ren repeated the word and looked at n-6 on the other side.

The other robot girl nodded and said in an equally unquestionable tone: "Humans have not become extinct and will not become extinct. The fortress is the most powerful and strongest fortress on the lunar base. Humans moved there thousands of years ago. Titanium Guards and the Mainframe protect that place. However, because the surface of the mother planet is occupied by Planet Devourers, humans will trigger fierce attacks as long as they approach the mother planet, so they can only live in the fortress and cannot participate in any actions that approach the mother planet."