Uplifting Journey

The closer he got to the metalized earth, the more shocked Cheng Bin felt.

In the distance, the round and dark metal land looks like a whole. When you get closer, you can find that it is composed of vertical and horizontal metal square pillars, connecting various metal platforms and raised pillars, layered like a grid. stacked up.

Since the human beings in the Inner Domain have accumulated all the productivity of transforming nature since their birth, it is estimated that they will not be able to create a corner of the metal earth below.

Cheng Bin, who drove the stealth module, flew at a high speed without causing air fluctuations, and quickly approached the surface of the metal planet.

No matter what the actual situation in this world is, the profound contradiction between intelligent programs and humans should remain unchanged. With intelligent programs occupying an absolute advantage, as a human being, I should try my best to conduct investigations covertly and find intelligent life to communicate face-to-face. is a secondary option”

While thinking, Cheng Bin slowed down and flew close to a metal square pillar comparable to a horizontal skyscraper. He raised his hand to face the metal surface at a very close distance, and slowly infiltrated it with his thoughts.

Under the circumstances that all situations are unknown, it is much safer to use Nian Qi, which is essentially high-dimensional interference, to investigate than to use electromagnetic waves. Although in terms of depth of perception, the Nian Qi used for material identification based on memory is synchronized with the panorama, but Active use of electromagnetic fields may cause reactions from various induction devices. Although Nianqi has a small range and slow penetration, there is basically no possibility of being discovered.

The slowly infiltrating thought energy fed back the constituent elements of the metal pillar and the internal scene to the panorama. Cheng Bin was relieved to see the element composition analysis of this building material. At least the ordinary building materials in this place are no stronger than those in the inner domain. The world is too advanced, at least it is still in the same dimension.

As for the internal structure of the huge metal pillar, Cheng Bin can only recognize the transmission pipes for energy, communication, materials, etc., and the multi-clawed octopus-shaped robots that exist at intervals and shrink like sculptures. Other things Cheng Bin I have no idea what it's for.

Is this the kind of electronic octopus in the movie? It seems to be called a sentinel? I didn't expect that the outside and the inside have the same shape. Cheng Bin looked at the statue-like hideous mechanical octopuses in the building with interest, his gaze Swept over the ends of the ten tentacles of the octopus, and then looked at its head, Drills, radars, cutting knives, square claws, multiple photosensitive... and high-energy laser emitters, they are really excellent workers with complete tools. The world's construction robots are much more versatile.

It's a pity that Cheng Bin doesn't intend to disturb these things now, otherwise we can see how their internal energy and mobile modules work when they actually act.

Flying away from the huge metal square pillar, Cheng Bin continued to go deep into the metal earth below. He switched the panorama to the sniffer module which he rarely used to screen the molecules in the surrounding air, and according to the concentration change and diffusion direction paints a strange picture.

After flying the sniffing module for a long distance in the cobweb-like metal earth, Cheng Bin found what he wanted.

In the current mechanical environment of pure metal, if there are organic odor molecules, it may only be related to the human beings confined by the intelligent program.

Cheng Bin flew up and down, left and right, and after confirming that the real source of the organic molecules was obliquely downward, he increased his speed and flew in that direction.

Bypassing countless metal buildings, Cheng Bin, who went all the way down, came to a depth of tens of kilometers from the surface of the earth, which felt close to the mantle layer. He finally discovered the source of the diffusion of organic molecules——

A huge, circular pool filled with a pale orange-red thick liquid connected to countless pipes.

There is more than one huge pool. After Cheng Bin flew out of the layered metal dense forest, he saw countless orange-red dots in the vast space in front of him, extending from large to small to the limit of his sight.

And in each pool filled with unknown organic liquid, there is a towering mechanical cylinder with a diameter of one hundred meters erected in the center, and its surface is covered with densely packed translucent flat cabins like rice grains, each cabin is lying A naked human body with pipes stuck all over its body and no hair at all.

Numerous mechanical octopuses are working and parading among the dense metal cylinders. The appearance model is slightly different from the one Cheng Bin encountered before, and it appears to be more slender.

So it's magnetic levitation? Cheng Bin approached slowly. He carefully observed the mechanical octopuses flying in the air and performing various tasks, and found that they were electromagnetically linked with the electromagnetic generators densely covered with various metal buildings. Like Spiderman, switch the electromagnetic spider silk and fly in the metal space.

Carefully avoiding the flying mechanical octopuses and the electromagnetic track they are attached to, Cheng Bin approached a metal cylinder erected in the center of the organic solution pool, and looked at the humans on the surface of the cylinder sealed by translucent cabins.

Even though he has seen it in movies, when Cheng Bin really faced the scene of human beings being raised as some kind of resource, he still couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

At this time, there was a sound of mechanical changes and bites coming from the side. Cheng Bin looked sideways and saw that the hatch of a cabin containing humans had been raised next to him, and skinny humans with various lines disconnected slipped in together with a large amount of liquid. The nozzle opened at the joint between the cabin and the cylinder, and then the nozzle was quickly closed.

A mechanical octopus flew there precisely after the hatch was fully opened, put the human larva held in several mechanical claws into it, and connected the various circuits buried deep on the larva with the circuits in the cabin one by one. butt.

With trembling fingers, Cheng Bin lowered his head and looked down. A skinny figure with a large amount of mucus slipped from the opening at the bottom of the cylinder into the inner circle of the orange-red solution pool. in the organic solution.

The orange-red viscous organic solution was extracted from the pool and transported along the pipes inside the cylinder to all corners of the cylinder surface. The lid of the chamber where the larvae were placed before has been closed, and a large amount of orange-red liquid filled the inside again. space.

Cheng Bin watched this scene speechlessly, watching the machine recycle the organic matter group called human beings with frightening efficiency, and only relying on a small amount of additional chemical materials and energy supply, the metal forest was successfully maintained The time does not know how many billions of human beings survive.

Should I do something? Cheng Bin, who is also a human being, felt pity for these same kind who were kept in mechanical captivity, but after looking around, he could only shake his head helplessly—compared to the current human beings. A metal planet that cannot survive at all, is indeed a virtual world used by intelligent programs to confine human beings, it is better.

How big are the human beings in captivity in this world? Cheng Bin sighed looking at the star-like human storage compartment, Forget it, first achieve your goal, and try to do something else until the end.

After scanning around, Cheng Bin flew to the nearest translucent cabin filled with adult men.