Devil's Playground

"No, here...it's just us." Xiao Yu, who had been lying on the ground with his eyes closed all this time, made people think he was in a coma. Be nice."

"I believe." Lin Yu once again gave a trusting answer.

"That's strange. People outside the base can't do it, and there are no other people inside the base. Could it be... there are ghosts among us?" Lily stared straight at Liang Wei and the others with widened eyes.

Before Liang Wei's people could speak, Lin Yu said first, "Why does it have to be human?"

"Could it be a ghost if you're not a human?" Lily asked in surprise, and then she clapped her hands suddenly, "Could it be that one of us has a ghost... No, it was replaced?!"

"This kind of mysterious plot doesn't seem to be Mr. E's style." Yang Jin interjected, and added in his heart that Mr. W's words are still possible.

"Yes, Mr. E attaches great importance to logic, and will not create a plot like 'God said there must be light, so there is light'." Lin Yu nodded and said, "So, I am more inclined to another possibility—— The person who researched the virus has an accomplice, but this accomplice is not a human being, to be precise, a life form that cannot be detected by life detection devices."

"Don't you think this idea is even more outrageous?" Liang Wei questioned.

Lin Yu didn't answer, but turned to Yang Jin and said, "Elegy, let your slime out."

Yang Jin understood Lin Yu's meaning after a slight start, and immediately summoned the slime from the training room, and threw it among the crowd.

"Can your life detector detect its existence?" Lin Yu then asked.

Liang Wei raised his wrist, as if opening the memory, but quickly took a deep breath, "Only the horned contracted creature can be shown on the radar, but this slime can't be found."

"Our life detectors are all aimed at organic organisms, and inorganic organisms like slimes are just a stone in their eyes." Lin Yu said.

"Well, can we reveal the answer directly without going around in circles?" Conch couldn't help interjecting.

"The answer is..." Lin Yu deliberately paused before continuing, "It's right in front of our eyes, but we didn't see it."

"Is that what you call an answer?" Lily rolled her eyes.

"Ah!" Xiao Yu who was lying on the ground suddenly exclaimed, as if thinking of something.

Lin Yu smiled, put his hands in his pockets, and suddenly raised his voice, "Hey, let's negotiate!"

"What are you doing?" Lily was taken aback, but then realized that Lin Yu was not talking to them, and immediately looked around in surprise, "Who are you talking to?"

"It knows." Lin Yu said calmly.

"Who knows what?" Lily couldn't see that there were other lives in this control center. In order to ensure the service life of these precision instruments, even landscape plants would not be placed in this kind of place.

"Don't watch the excitement, talk." Lin Yu turned around and walked to the console, raised his leg and kicked, "If you play stupid again, I'll format your hard drive!"

After hearing the last threat, everyone realized that Lin Yu was talking to the computer in the control center.

And this threat finally took effect, the largest display screen on the console flickered suddenly, and a pair of beautiful eyes appeared after a few seconds.

"Don't threaten me, human." The mechanical electronic voice sounded, "When you threaten me, don't forget that I can create a bigger threat to you."

Hearing this voice, Lili was startled first, and then mouthed to Lin Yu: Are you blind?

Lin Yu turned a blind eye to Lily's doubts, and asked self-containedly, "For example?"

The mechanical voice did not answer.

Lin Yu immediately raised the corner of his mouth, "Actually, you and I are very clear that your threat is just a threat, but mine can become a reality."

"What charades are you playing again?" Conch couldn't help muttering.

Yang Jin was stunned for a moment before he understood, and blurted out: "Three principles of robots!"

"Ah!" Lily and Tie Guanyin also suddenly realized.

But the rest, such as Conch, Flower Demon, Wu Mengran, and Liang Wei, are still confused.

"Go back and watch "I, Robot" again." Joe reminded.

"Is it a robot?" Lily asked suspiciously.

"It doesn't count." Lin Yu said affirmatively, "And the so-called three principles of robots are originally paradoxes, which can only take effect under ideal and limited conditions."

"That's right." Lily nodded half-understood, "The first of the three principles is that you can't just sit back and watch humans get hurt. It obviously didn't abide by it. Otherwise, the base wouldn't be what it is now."

"But it obviously cannot harm humans." Lin Yu said, "We are still alive, and this is the best proof."

"Then who killed the people in the base?" The flower demon interjected, "Don't tell me that they are not actually dead, they were just locked up."

"It's not me." The mechanical voice finally spoke again, "They ate the food that researcher No. 29 mixed with the corruption virus and turned into rotting corpses. Clean up."

— sounds like a bad joke.

Yang Jin twitched the corners of his mouth, his scalp felt a little numb.

Lin Yu didn't pay attention to this black and humorous statement, and asked directly with interrogative sentences: "So, you really can't hurt human beings?"

The mechanical voice did not deny it.

"You were the one who trapped us in the experimental area?" Liang Wei asked angrily.

"I just carried out the order preset by Researcher No. 29." The mechanical voice replied indifferently.

"This procedure includes detonating a bomb?!"

"The bomb was pre-placed by researcher No. 29, and it was triggered and detonated by you." The tone of the mechanical voice showed a hint of cunning, "I just closed the isolation door and changed the password to ensure that the explosion will not affect the entire base. "

—That is to say, you cannot harm humans, but you can kill them indirectly through human hands.

Yang Jin secretly slandered.

"This guarantee also includes the elimination of residual viruses?" Lin Yu asked.

"No." The mechanical voice gave a negative answer, "The survival time of this virus in an aerobic state is very short. After the host dies, the virus will quickly degrade due to the loss of nutrient supply."

"So you don't need to do anything, just clean up the garbage in time." Lin Yu said sarcastically.

"I want to interject." Conch raised her hand weakly, "Who is the guy talking to you now?"

The corner of Lin Yu's mouth twitched, and the others were also full of black lines.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself." The mechanical voice sounded happy to answer Conch's question, "I am the central control system of the moon base, which is commonly known as the brain of humans, and you can call me Lunar One. "

"Oh." Conch replied blankly, "Hello, Lunar One."

"Hello, human." Lunar One's tone was obviously much lighter.

"Crack!" Lin Yu clapped his hands abruptly, interrupting the weird communication between Conch and Moon One.

"This is the end of the introductions and pleasantries, and it's time for us to talk about serious business." Lin Yu said solemnly, "Please—tell us, Lunar One, what did that researcher No. 29 promise you to make you so Spare no effort to create convenience for him.”

Lunar One fell into silence again, and it took a while to say: "You don't have permission to ask me to report."

"Don't fool me with the so-called rules." Lin Yu raised his hand and knocked on the console twice, "You know how to play around the corner to avoid the rules that you can't overcome, so why would you care about such insignificant rules? Forget it, Let me first express my sincerity—we came here for only one purpose, to restore contact between the moon base and the earth. As for what happened in the base and how to deal with it, it is not within the scope of our mission. But The earth will not send us only, unless you can overcome the rule of not harming humans and kill us and the next group, otherwise, your existence will be exposed soon, and the next group will reach the moon Humans may not be willing to negotiate with you on the basis of equality and mutual benefit."

Lunar One was silent for a few more seconds, and then said very sincerely: "I'm sorry, I can't understand what you mean."

Lin Yu didn't seem to expect that the understanding ability of Yueyue No. [-] has not reached the level of a real person. The corners of his mouth twitched and he adjusted his mood before continuing: "Although you call yourself Luna No. [-], this name is probably just what you call yourself. , I bet there is no record of your existence in the Earth's database."

——Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?

Yang Jin, who was listening, was stunned for a moment, and the others also showed puzzled expressions.

"I can't refute you." The voice of Lunar No. [-] didn't even have any ups and downs, but the human beings who heard it felt that it was actually a little sad, "but I still can't understand...everything you said I can understand the words and every sentence, but... when they are put together, I really can't understand what you want to express. I'm sorry."

"I don't understand either." Conch muttered in a low voice.

"Okay, let me be more straightforward." Lin Yu rubbed his temples, "Since you and researcher No. 29 can cooperate, you must have a common goal, and this goal is not to exterminate human beings— Researcher No. 29 may have such an idea, because he was hurt by humans and wants revenge; but you will not, because you are attached to humans, at least in a short period of time, you need humans to do a lot of things for you to survive Go on, such as providing energy and maintaining the body."

"Please continue." Lunar One encouraged.

"After eliminating the extinction of human beings, there is only one goal I can think of—to leave the moon and return to the earth." Lin Yu continued, "Number 29 wants to kill more people, and you also need to be bigger than the moon. , safer and more secluded living space.”

"Yes." Lunar One confirmed Lin Yu's guess, "I want to live, I... I think I can understand what you said before."

"Very good, since that's the case, then we can continue talking." Lin Yu simply sat down in front of the console, "We will not expose your crimes, Lunar One, and we are not interested in exposing your existence, because It's not going to do us any good. But we also have a mission that must be done - to restore contact with the moon base. So, let's make a deal - we take you off the moon, and you unblock the moon base, restore the connection between here and the earth. Communications from Earth."

Lunar One didn't answer right away, the big eyes on the screen flickered for a few seconds before saying: "What if the earth asks you to investigate the truth?"

"We have ready-made scapegoats, don't we?" Lin Yu replied with a smile.