Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 979 33. Robot Dream

Do robots dream?

The answer to this question seems obvious.

Robots rely on preset programs and tangible data to think at the logical level of thinking, which is extremely rational.

And dreaming seems to have nothing to do with reason.

It is the extreme embodiment of perceptual thinking in human thinking, and it is a behavior that no amount of data can simulate.

In other words, only living beings with souls dream.

Icarus has a soul, she is special.

At this point, during a confrontation with a tricky foe, her mind was drawn into a dream state.

This is an experience Icarus has never had.

The unknown always creates fear, and fear creates resistance.

She almost subconsciously reorganized the data flow in her mind, to wake herself up from the state of drowsiness, Diana was about to break free...

"If you still want to see Merlin... don't struggle, go to sleep."

The voice from the dream sounded in Icarus' mind.

It was like a hammer coming suddenly, hammering hard on Icarus's heart.

Facing powerful enemies from the outside world and the call of dreams.

The young lady made a choice without hesitation.

She was immersed in a dream.

Consciousness seems to be separated from the body, as if falling from a high altitude, falling towards the spiritual world of the other party.

"boom"

On the square of the Numbani Industrial Park, the demigod, who was suppressed by thousands of omnics with their bodies, exploded with divine power again.

Blue flames shot up into the sky, and those dancing light curtains were like real burning flames, gathering the metal creations that were holding her down into the flames, melting and distorting their bodies.

In the explosion caused by the tumbling flames, the metal cages made by the omnics were completely torn apart.

Fragmented metal limbs danced in the air, like raindrops hitting the ground.

Farther away in the square, there was a steady stream of omnics rushing out of the warehouse, rushing towards where Diana and Icarus were.

The demigod moved her wrists, holding a round shield and a flaming long sword, and walked towards Icarus who was standing not far away.

She is like the most ruthless and ruthless butcher on the battlefield, with the sharp blade in her hand swinging, and between the raising and falling of the knife, those omnics that tried to stop her were cut in two.

The blue divine power of war is rolling.

Representing Diana's rage surging inside, that belligerent frenzy permeated the air.

The Daughter of the Amazons is determined that she will defeat her opponent.

"ended!"

The demigod walked up to Icarus, she looked at the tragic appearance of the omnic lady, and she stared at those sapphire-like eyes.

She swung the flaming Vulcan sword, and in the stream of light brought by the sharp blade, the blade whizzed and slashed down.

But in the end it stopped at the forehead of Icarus.

"Ok?"

Diana looked at the unresponsive omnic in front of her, like a warrior waiting to die with her eyes closed.

The omnics around also stopped charging strangely.

They just stood there, as if they stopped suddenly, like metal sculptures, standing in a row on this messy battlefield.

The battlefield where you were fighting for life and death just now became quiet in an instant.

Quiet as if everything that happened just now was like a dream.

"What the hell? Did you give up resistance?"

Diana frowned and looked around.

She reached out and patted Icarus on the cheek, but he didn't respond.

I don't know if Diana heard it wrong. The omnic in front of me, who looked like a fierce god just now, actually let out a low...

snore?

"Fell asleep?"

The demigod stared at Icarus in surprise.

"Robot? Sleeping?"

"She is dreaming, if the data I observed is correct..."

A voice sounded in the sky behind Diana.

The demigod turned her head and saw a huge suspension chair full of various buttons and mechanical arms floating in mid-air.

Sitting slumped in that chair was a thin man.

Beside the man, there was also a woman in a long black dress with a rather neutral appearance.

Well, the hairstyle is quite trendy.

"Dr. George?"

Diana recognized the doctor on the suspension chair, and she put away her sword and shield.

she asked:

"I haven't seen you since the outbreak of the crisis. I thought you ran away early."

"I'm collecting data."

George did not look at Diana, but stared at the sleeping Icarus, and whispered:

"Some special data... about Icarus, about her evolution, about the soul model she uploaded to the Internet, etc."

"Then now?"

Diana looked at the dead battlefield around her and the completely destroyed Numbani Industrial Park. She put her hands on her hips and said:

"What should we do now?"

"Of course it's evacuation, sister."

Dr. Moira, who was sitting next to George, raised her finger and pointed to the sky. She said:

"A 2-ton tungsten gold rod is falling towards this place at supersonic speed, and the kinetic energy generated when it lands is enough to destroy the entire industrial park and everything in it."

"We have 5 minutes left to evacuate... What? Didn't those who fired the Rod of God notify you?"

"No one told me."

Diana pointed to her ear, and she said:

"The communicator was broken at the beginning, and Steve... did you see Steve? He was still here just now, and we are going to take him away."

"He was sent away by an omnic, and he should have reached the safe area by now."

George manipulated the suspension chair and said to Diana:

"Icarus didn't intend to kill you at all, she seemed to be just throwing a temper tantrum, and wanted to teach you a lesson."

"kill me?"

Diana glanced back at the sluggish Icarus, and she ran on the ground following the suspension chair, accelerating.

She said:

"Just this mechanical girl can't do it... Even Merlin can't kill me!"

"Then you are wrong."

George's unhurried voice came from mid-air, and he said:

"Theoretically, every omnic in the industrial area can self-destruct."

"As you saw just now, Icarus can order them to do anything."

"There are more than 5 activated omnics here. If they are arranged and detonated in a special way, the combined explosion kinetic energy is enough to penetrate the continental shelf."

"Yes, Ms. Diana, the power of this explosion may not kill you..."

"But if she wanted to, there's really that close to a 27 percent chance you'd be buried here today."

The super brain said softly:

"So I said it all, Icarus was just throwing a tantrum."

"You could read her as a rebellious teenage girl who would do some sad things but not cross the line."

"She is just evolving after all, she is learning to be a real human being."

"Will she die?"

Diana running like the wind asked:

"Will that rod of God you speak of kill her?"

"Look at the layman you asked..."

This time it was Lady Moira who answered Diana.

She sneered and said:

"Icarus has a soul. Although no one knows how she did it and how she broke through the data limit, her soul is still made up of data."

"Sister Diana, for a robot, the body is like clothes, you can change it if you want, throw it away..."

"You had a great fight with Icarus, but seriously, you can't hurt her at all with just physical means. To put it bluntly, she was just 'playing' with you."

"Do you know how many 'clothes' are in Icarus' 'closet'?"

Diana frowned at Moira's sarcasm.

But she couldn't refute it.

indeed.

Even if she destroyed the mechanical body, for Icarus, it was just a loss of a set of "clothes".

The fight was meaningless from the start.

"The woman next to Merlin... that Carol, plus the current Icarus..."

Diana murmured in a low voice:

"What a bunch of monsters!"

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"boom"

Icarus' consciousness fell rapidly in the dream world.

The speed of the fall did not conform to the laws of physics at all. She was like a falling bird. She fell on a piece of lawn in a disordered time.

No pain, not even a bump.

She quickly got up from the lawn, and she looked around vigilantly.

In front of her was a golden and gorgeous palace, and behind her was a low, ominous tree with countless black vines.

Gentle light fell from the sky, and it was found in this small area, outlining a strange and quiet atmosphere.

Icarus turned her head, and she could see a wall of light behind her, and on the other side of the wall, dim light gathered and flowed.

That's a practical nightmare.

All power in her body was gone.

She came here in a spirit state...

"It's not easy to find you."

The voice that had lulled her to sleep sounded again.

With the opening of the palace gate, wearing a magician's dress, fishnet stockings and high boots, Zatanna with smooth long black hair appeared in front of her eyes.

"Zatana Zatara?"

Icarus recognized the woman immediately.

She knew that Zatana and Merlin had crossed paths.

As Merlin's intelligent assistant, Icarus also knew that Merlin would always be immersed in dreams for a period of time during the week.

With Zatanna.

That was Merlin's little secret, not many people knew about it.

"Yo, a robot soul."

Zatanna looked at Icarus' soul form with strange eyes.

She seemed to be looking at some rare thing, circled around Icarus several times, and made a sound of surprise in her mouth.

"quite pretty."

Zatanna commented.

Icarus's soul form is indeed quite beautiful.

Unlike a human soul, Icarus' soul maintains a robotic appearance.

The silver-white metal is shaped to form the arc of the body, just like real skin, dotted with radiant energy rings on the body, and behind the very anthropomorphic head, there is long hair composed of blue light spots.

This gives Icarus a refined and unreal sci-fi feel.

Just like those sci-fi movies, there are always some weird and erotic Machina.

"Where is this place?"

Icarus didn't care about Zatana's evaluation, she frowned and asked:

"Am I dreaming now? Is this how humans feel when they dream?"

"No no no, don't make a mistake."

Zatanna held out her hand and shook it, explaining:

"You are indeed dreaming, but this scene has nothing to do with the dreams of most human beings."

"This is the dream world that belongs to Merlin and me. It is a solidified dream created by overabsorbed dream sand."

"You may not be able to understand these magical terms. In short, you just treat this place as another real world."

Miss Magician waved her hand, her expression became more serious, and she said to Icarus:

"I took the risk to bring you in to confirm something."

"Something deep in your soul."

Zatanna stretched out her hand, and Icarus felt his soul tremble under her magical appeal.

It felt bad, and she took a few steps back.

"do not move!"

Zatana maintained the spellcasting action, she said:

"You yourself wonder why you suddenly have a soul."

"You yourself are wondering what happened while you were asleep."

"You also want to confirm whether Merlin is still alive? Will he return to this world..."

"If you want to know this, then don't move!"

Icarus' expression changed a little.

Frankly, she didn't trust Zatanna much.

This distrust stems from the first contact, and this weird dream world, and from Icarus' disapproval of Zatanna's secret relationship with Merlin.

in other words...

Hey.

It was a sour emotion, like eating several lemons in one go.

Although Icarus didn't really eat lemons.

But if all of this is related to Merlin's final whereabouts as Miss Magician said...

Then Icarus was willing to take the risk.

"Open your heart!"

Zatanna put her finger on the forehead of Icarus' soul and said:

"Uh, I mean, data streams, those lights, don't let them mess around! I'm dazzled..."

"This is the first time I have checked the soul of a robot. Frankly speaking, this experience is quite novel. Your soul form is indeed completely different from that of humans... Well, I found it!"

After a few seconds of searching, Zatanna let out a pleasant laugh.

With her fingers stretched outward.

Icarus could feel that something hidden in the depths of his soul was extracted.

When she opened her eyes, she saw a black, surging, smoke-like thing jumping in the palm of Zatanna's hand.

"This is?"

asked Icarus.

Zatanna glanced at her, flicked her fingers outward, and the smoke was lifted into the air.

During the injection of magic power, the smoke spread out like an opened projection. Amidst the gathering and dispersing of the smoke, the ethereal Merlin appeared in front of Icarus and Zatana.

"It's Merlin!"

Icarus let out a yelp of surprise.

She opened her arms and rushed towards Merlin in front of her, only to miss.

Between the gathering and dispersing of the smoke, Zatana gathered the broken soul back into the state of the smoke.

"Not Merlin."

Zatanna said to Icarus who was standing still:

"It's his soul, to be precise, a third of his soul."

"You are his Horcrux, Icarus."

"You were one of the people he trusted the most before he died. He entrusted his future to you, even if you didn't know it."

"Come on, follow me."

Zatanna watched the smoke in her hand return to Icarus' soul, and she waved to Machina, saying:

"Let me explain it all to you."

"And, we need to plan..."

"About Merlin's resurrection."

(End of this chapter)