The roof of the "Black Crow" building.
Li Liang sat on the edge of the rooftop, clasping his hands on his lap, looking at the newly awakened mechanical city.
The wide upper platform was not far above his head, and the numerous equipment installed at the bottom were humming, mixed with the rustling sounds of small maintenance robots crawling.
He prefers the reality seen with the naked eye compared to the bustling dazzle in the retinal projection.
The high and low metal fortresses have sharp edges and corners, and the silver-gray metallic tones seem to make the morning air a bit colder. There are only androids hurriedly walking on the streets as far as the eye can see, and drones carrying packages in mid-air are like bees. A swarm of people roared past.
However.
Busyness and noise are just appearances, but the fact is that there are not many living people in this mechanical city. If it weren't for the existence of a church, there might not be a single living person.
According to Dr. Xisen, the four upper urban areas have different characteristics. The upper urban area of Zhongjing is like a huge garden, surrounded by winding corridors and pavilions. The upper urban area of Xin'ao gives people the impression of vast fields and grasslands, and the Rocky Mountains. Uptown is a playground for entertainment to death and a capital of art. The biggest feature of Uptown Denali is its large population and the city is as regular as a chessboard.
The upper city on the moon is different, with the most diverse landforms.
Because this was the early "experimental site" for Xi'an to test extraterrestrial ecosystems, including the meteorological system, gravity system, species cultivation system and other technologies that were later widely used, all originated from the moon.
The diverse landforms and climates also make the humans living in urban areas on the moon more dispersed. There are not many places that can truly be called cities.
Among them, this ancient city built by robots is the most inconspicuous. Even its name is very perfunctory, Mechanical City.
However, just before climbing to the top of the building, he learned from Zero One and Two that the earliest name of this city was "Looking into the Fortress", which meant that he could always look at his homeland 400,000 kilometers away. More importantly, the name was derived from Started by twelve android pioneers.
Li Liang understood the implication of Zero One Two's words and the bionic man was worthy of trust.
In fact, he hoped that everything told by the five androids from Sequence Zero was false and was just a trap carefully constructed by Zhuos to deceive his trust in order to achieve a certain purpose.
Unfortunately, he knew very well in his heart that all signs and situations showed from the side that the zero-sequence bionic man could not be a lackey of Zhuos, and Xi'an's power might really fall into the hands of someone else.
It turned out that he had been married a thousand years ago.
Li Liang remembered the video he saw at the weapons base. It turned out that the wedding clip edited together with what he thought was the "Reversal of Heavenly Spirit" scene turned out to be his wedding.
Tam, who has watched the video, thinks that the "Tian Ling Reversal" clip doesn't mean much, and the "Tian Spirit" itself is just a talent and does not have the effect of rejuvenating children, so the order of the clips may be reversed.
What if the "Reversal of Heavenly Spirit" clips are not important, and what the person who left the video really wanted him to see were the clips from the wedding?
Li Liang smiled bitterly.
At that time, everyone's attention was attracted by the weird "reversal of the heavenly spirit", and no one cared about the details of the wedding clips. Now he can't even remember how many clips there were in the wedding, he only remembered that the woman who appeared at the end was putting on makeup.
His thoughts immediately returned to Zhongjing. At this moment, he was on the moon 400,000 kilometers away. He suddenly felt that the world of magic, Taoism and spiritual theory had become far away. The war between gods, "the self who recovered his memory", and even the existence of several consultants were all gone. It has become a little blurry, although everything is far from over. The "New World" still exists, and will become a weapon capable of destroying civilization in the hands of the heroic spirits of Dros. The army of goblins has arrived on the earth, and the war is about to break out.
Li Liang turned his head. From this angle, he could only see a small part of the lower legs of the Twin Gods sculpture.
Perhaps he who recovered his memory is the Twin Gods, and from that falling dream, only "Li Liang" was alive.
At this time, a footsteps sounded.
K lazily approached, sat down on the edge of the rooftop, and handed Li Liang a metal bottle.
Li Liang took a sip from the bottle and found that it was craft beer.
"Zero One and Two said that this beer is made from malt, with a lot of hops added," K took a sip of the wine, raised the bottle to his eyes, and said in a low voice, "After drinking Kirin and Asahi for so many years, I want to say..."
Li Liang glanced at K. Could it be that K was also infected by Dr. Xisen and started to become artistic?
“I’d say the wine is better fucking uptown.”
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Li Liang shook his head helplessly and silently took a sip of beer.
K was not wearing sunglasses, his eyes flickered with light and shadow, and he looked at the city in the distance and said, "I increasingly don't understand why Xi'an did this."
"What?"
"There are actually not many people in Xiacheng District. How many hundreds of millions do they add up?" K picked up the wine bottle and swiped it casually. "This city is not much smaller than Zhongjing. I just asked Zero One and Two, what are inside those iron-shell buildings, robots? A small part is said to be equipment, but most is empty.”
Li Liang didn't say anything. He understood what K meant. Xi'an was fully capable of letting people in Xiacheng District live a life without worries about food and clothing.
"Look there."
Li Liang looked in the direction of K's finger. It was in the corner of a small fortress. There was an android squatting half-crouching, feeding a group of cats with some kind of paste.
"Do you know how much a cat costs in Xiacheng District?" K stared there and took a sip of his beer.
"Forty-seven thousand," Li Liang said casually, "Xini's animal catalog has been out of stock for many years. There is a price but no market."
K was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "I almost forgot, you opened a bionic pet hospital for 47,000 yuan for a cat, but you only get 12,000 yuan for killing an ordinary person. Look, people in Xiacheng District live worse than animals. Forget about people like me, what about Dr. Sisson? He is a well-established scientist from Putnam. He has been studying bionic people all his life, but it turns out that he has been following Xian's ass and eating dust, fuck."
Li Liang remained silent.
He had thought about this issue a long time ago, but he also couldn't understand it. Li Ru, the chairman of the joint meeting, claimed that Xiacheng District was the "tinder of civilization". No matter how you looked at it, it looked like groundless sophistry.
for a long time.
K lit a cigarette and asked: "What do you think House and Mizuno are doing."
"House is probably thinking of a way to kill Wang Shan."
"Did you see it?" K hummed and laughed, exhaling smoke.
"If Wang Shan is not dead, how can he be the chief?" Li Liang reached out and took out a cigarette from the cigarette case next to him, "I asked Whisper to give Shuiye the contact list of Zhongjing so that she could help House take care of his tail. Wang Shan They are Li Ru’s people, and Li Ru is not that easy to fool.”
"House's ambition is more than just the director of the Bureau of Order," K said casually.
Li Liang lit his cigarette and said quietly: "Xiacheng District is small, but the world is very big."
K gave a thumbs up: "I understand, boss, the pattern."
"Fuck you," Li Liang exhaled a puff of smoke, stood up and patted his trouser legs, "Let's go, Zero One and Two said that in three hours, Zhuos Yingling's fleet will fly here."
"So fast?" K stood up at the same time.
When he pushed open the stairwell door, Li Liang paused and said softly: "Where did Sorge and the others go?"
"Should be on the way to the Western Mines."
Outside the Beijing skyline.
The wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see, sandstorms block out the sky, and the air is filled with radiation and toxic chemicals.
The west gate of the canopy was completely closed. Hundreds of super-heavy mining dump trucks and countless large and small transport pontoons were blocked outside. The traffic jam spread along the road for nearly a hundred kilometers.
In the middle of the queue, next to a heavy-duty mining truck, there was a fleet of vehicles parked in the opposite direction, including expensive retro cars, dilapidated pontoons converted into carriers, and even a small bus.
Compared with the giant mining trucks and floating boats, the fleet is inconspicuous.
The leader was a Lincoln tal town car.
At this time, a man wearing a respirator and a rag on his face jumped down from the mine truck gangway, braved the wind and sand and trudged back to the car, threw the sand off his head, opened the door and got into the car.
"Balentine, how are you?" Sorge, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked with a frown.
Balentine pulled off his breathing mask and said with an ugly face: "Fuck, they said a monster crawled out of the sea, occupied the western dock and then moved to the western mine. Now the mine is completely in chaos, and the workers can't contact the mining committee. , the riot started last night, and more cars will flee to Beijing."
In the back seat, Old Tang murmured: "The goblin has come ashore, but what's the use of escaping here? Zhongjing won't open the door. If you escape here, you can only wait for death."
Balentine's eyes were bloodshot, his face flushed, and he shouted: "Defender, what about the Defender?"
"Don't worry," Sorge said in a low voice, "Let our people get out of the car first and borrow some heavy-duty mining trucks."
Balentine took out the egg-shaped weapon from under his feet and said viciously: "Okay." After that, he put on the breathing mask, opened the door and walked out.
After Balentine left, Sorge turned back and whispered: "Mr. Tam, look"
Tam solemnly said: "Oh, I will definitely do what I promised Li Liang. No matter what, we should go to the Defender immediately."
