The Mechanic

Zhang Xun felt his scalp go numb at the thought of going directly through the realm of death.

Radiation is something that is immeasurable and invisible, colorless and odorless, and cannot be touched or grasped. You don't even know they're there, they sneak into a small gap in the protective suit, and by the time you realize it's a month later, your hair starts to fall out, your skin starts to fester, and the Every atom is falling apart.

Even robots weren't safe there, gamma rays constantly penetrating everything and billions of neutrons flying randomly in the air would interfere with signals and destroy electronic components. Only robots made of special materials can function there for a long time.

A bomb formed a black shadow on the earth, covered with corpses that could not be digested for hundreds of years. Human beings have created weapons capable of destroying a planet, but they don't know how to restrain their desires. If it weren't for human beings being controlled by Eden now, I am afraid that the earth would have become a dead star after a certain nuclear war.

If all human consciousness is uploaded, there will be no more human beings in the world. Will the planet recover a little bit? Will there be new intelligent life? Will they do better than humans?

Zhang Xun sat on the jeep, squinted his eyes in bewilderment, and breathed hard in the wind and sand that hit his cheeks.

Three hours later, they began to approach the edge of the dead zone. The convoy stopped, and everyone began to put on protective clothing, even Enoch. Everyone is careful to make sure all the gaps are sealed, and the only sound that can be heard inside the mask is their own breathing.

There is a fence around the periphery of the death zone, which is covered with signs and signs such as "nuclear radiation she area", "danger", "no entry", etc. In addition, there are countless faded oil graffiti, written all over the place. Words with apocalyptic flavors such as "the end of the world", "we all deserve to die", and "judgment day has come".

It can be seen how desperate and panic people were at that time.

It was after the war between men and women that the population of the earth dropped sharply. Since then, the fertility rate has been declining, and it has not been stabilized until the past fifty years. But even so, there are fewer than one billion people on Earth today, and many once-prosperous towns are ruins.

In the cities of the ordinary world, you can't feel the desolation of this world, because everything is automating and looks clean and tidy. But when you leave those areas, you will find that the traces of human beings are being swallowed and digested by nature a little bit.

In the dead zone, there is no trace of any living things. There were no birds in the air, nor creeping things on the ground. Only those whitish weeds are scattered on the dry land.

The whole world seems to be dead, a wasteland before the birth of all animals. The motoring sound and smoke of their cars seemed like intruders. Occasionally, animal carcasses and even human bones can be seen on the side of the road. Many rusted giant robots are distributed in the wilderness like dark ghosts, as if frozen in time, quietly waiting for the day of recovery.

Todd's voice came from the headset, "Hansen, take four people and go ahead to see if there is any sign of the mechanical police."

"no problem."

Five riders on motorcycles increased their speed and rushed forward.

After another hour, they passed a town. There they met up with the returning knights, and they reported that there were mechanical policemen approaching ahead, and everyone had better hide in the town. So they hurriedly parked their cars in the back alleys of several houses and hid them, each took their luggage and went into those half-collapsed houses to hide.

Zhang Xun, Enoch, Diego, James, and Todd hid together in a shop that was probably a butcher shop. The remaining hooks for hanging meat hung from the air like a forest, all covered with thick embroidery stains. They found several freezers that were out of power and climbed in one after another.

Zhang Xun and Enuo squatted in the freezer together and closed the door.

Zhang Xun felt that since entering the radiation zone, Enoch had been unusually quiet, and seemed a little...sluggish?

"Are you okay?" Zhang Xun used the call control panel on the arm of the protective suit to turn off the shared channel and open the channel between him and Enuo.

"I'm fine, thank you." Enoch's familiar voice.

But I always feel... as if something is missing.

Zhang Xun frowned, "You seem to be talking less suddenly."

"Sorry. What would you like to talk about? I'd love to talk to you."

A strange dry feeling.

Zhang Xun gave up and fell silent.

Robots don't quarrel, and Enoch's voice doesn't show any trace of deliberation. But Zhang Xun just felt that something was turned off.

Personalization parameters? But he obviously already fixed that part, right?

At this moment, Zhang Xunyue saw a black spot crawling quickly from the inside of Enoch's mask with the dim light above his head in the darkness. But when he looked carefully, there was nothing there.

Is it an illusion?

Why was there a... uneasy feeling?

Immediately afterwards, weird mechanical sounds sounded from a distance, and the mechanical police were passing by on the street outside.

The voice of the mechanical police gradually faded away. They opened the refrigerator lid one after another and prepared to come out, but suddenly they heard an explosion.