the days before i bought the galaxy

"Phew... the air in Area 00 is still as bad as before." Getting off the area switcher, Pipiron shook his head exaggeratedly.

"Don't talk like you need to breathe!" Ingilt taunted.

"Earthlings, how are you? Haven't you been choked to death?" Pipilong asked with "concern".

Warren: "I'm fine."

Since it was detected that the outside air was harmful to the human body, the transparent mask on Warren's protective suit opened automatically.

"Where is... here?" Warren asked in an uncertain tone.

This place looks like an industrial city in the [-]th century, with black smoky chimneys and huge machinery everywhere, countless unknown machines making deafening noises together.A huge red sun hung above the horizon, releasing its last ray of light and heat.

"Area 00, this is the territory of 'Order'." Pipilon explained.

Warren: "Who is 'Order'?"

Ingilt: "He's the oldest of us. He's been around for 5000 million years."

"Is 'Order' that big chimney over there?" Warren asked, pointing to the chimney with the most amazing height.

"No, that's just part of 'Order'. Everything you see is part of 'Order'." Pipiron said in a showy tone, "'Order' is this city!"

"This city? Is 'Order' an intelligent steel city?" Warren murmured.

Ingilt: "5000 million years ago, an unknown civilization built the predecessor of 'Order' - an industrialized metropolis. When this city reached its peak, 'Order' was born. A It was just a weak life at the beginning, but it became stronger day by day. 'Order' witnessed the whole process of the civilization that created him from prosperity to extinction, so he perfected himself and became the world's first intelligent mechanical life."

Warren: "The civilization that built 'order' no longer exists?"

Ingilt: "It has long since ceased to exist, and the existence of non-mechanical civilizations is often not long. According to the research results of 'Order', the more developed civilizations are, the shorter their existence time is, and the races that establish a civilization are shorter. The lower the intelligence, the longer the civilization may exist, the only exception is the Mechanical Republic. We have the highest per capita intelligence in the universe, but we can exist for a long time."

"The more developed the civilization, the shorter the existence time?" Warren wondered, "Why did you come to such a conclusion?"

"This is a conclusion based on a large number of facts." Ingilt explained, "Take the earth as an example. In the prehistory that you don't know, there was a civilization that was comparable to today's people on earth, but it only existed 4000 years. After that, dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years. According to our current standards, the end of the dinosaur society already had the embryonic form of civilization. But because the intelligence of dinosaurs is generally low, even if their civilization develops for about 7 Tens of thousands of years, but there is still not much progress, and finally was completely destroyed by a natural disaster. After that, today's earth civilization, you are smarter than dinosaurs, but you will not exist for a long time, this is the research of "Order" law."

Warren frowned: "You mean Earth civilization won't exist for long?"

Ingilt: "Twelve thousand years, which is the most likely length of your civilization."

"That is to say, as long as I persist for thousands of years, not to mention you, even the people on Earth may cease to exist." Pipilong added, "By that time Lan will never have any attachment to you anymore. .”

Warren pursed her lips: "That's an unpleasant assumption."

"I know you are definitely unwilling to accept it! This is a common problem of all non-mechanical life, even if you know the bad result, you don't want to admit it." Pipiron shook his head triumphantly, "But it doesn't matter, facts are facts. Non-mechanical The more intelligent life is, the more emotional it is, and I think that's why their civilization can't last long. So I've been studying emotions recently."

"Anyway..." Warren shrugged nonchalantly, "Long life is not what people on Earth pursue, although there are indeed one or two fools in human history who dreamed of immortality. We always want to live in a limited life. Beyond ourselves, no matter where our civilization will end up, this spirit of the people on Earth will always exist. By the way, now that we have reached Area 00, where is Lan?"

"Didn't you already see him?" Pipiron asked in surprise, and then suddenly came to his senses, "Oh, by the way, you don't know what he looks like now."

"What happened to Lan? What is he like now? What has he become?!" Warren suddenly became nervous.

"'Order' once had a companion." Ingilt said suddenly on Pipiron's wrist, "'Glory' is the fifth or seventh companion discovered by 'Order'. He is an artificial sun, which is considered A wide-ranging lighting fixture! They are in love and have spent almost [-] million years together. 'The Shining' is a very warm-hearted and mischievous guy, and we all like him. The idea of ​​'order' is always deep and difficult. Yes, we sometimes have to use the 'Rainbow' to get some news. Not too long ago, we lost the 'Rainbow' completely, which made everyone very sad. Worse, we found that we lost both and' The way to talk to Order. I don’t know if it’s because of being too sad, but Order refused to talk to us until Lan arrived.”

Warren frowned. "What do you mean?"

"'Order' hopes that Lan can temporarily take over the work of 'Glory', and Lan just needs the knowledge of 'Order' in the field of astronomy." Pipiron explained, "So they quickly reached a consensus. Lan is now The only one among the companions who can directly talk to 'Order'."

"Then where is he now? What has Lan become?" Warren suddenly felt a sense of impatience.

Ingilt: "The sun in Sector 00 isn't really a star, that's what remains of 'Rays'. Now Blue is taking over from 'Rays' to light the area."

Against the backdrop of the steel city and the smoke screen, the red sun in the sky looked particularly feeble.

"You want to tell me that Lan came to the Mechanical Republic to become a super-large light bulb?!" Warren said angrily.

Pipiron didn't care: "It's not a big deal for us to change jobs."

Warren gritted his teeth: "Then does he know I'm coming?"

Pipilong: "I don't know. Lan connected himself to the remains of 'Glory'. Whether he can find us depends on whether the body of 'Glory' has a detection function."

Warren was furious: "Take me up! I'm going to see him! Look what you've done to him?!"

"Ha! With all due respect, Lan Yuan's body has not advanced much! Design robots according to your own image, don't you people on Earth like to play with dolls?" Pipilong looked dismissively.

Warren: "It's none of your business. Are you taking me or not?"

"Of course I'm going! That's why I'm here!" Pipiron turned the wheel excitedly, and the sudden ups and downs of his body almost shook Warren off his arms. He doesn't look like me at all and give up pursuing him!"

"Neither will I!" Warren said through gritted teeth, "Lan is mine, no matter what he becomes, he belongs to me!"

"Ahem... Although I don't want to interrupt the debate between you two, I just received a warning signal." Ingilt said suddenly.

"What signal?" Warren and Pipiron asked simultaneously.

Ingilt: "Signal from 'Order', he doesn't welcome us into Area 00, he wants us to leave in 5 minutes."

"Huh?" Pipiron hesitated for a moment, "How about we come back another day?"

Warren: "Are you that scared of 'order'? Just a warning sign scares the shit out of you?"

"Of course I'm not afraid of him!" Pipiron shouted, "but he doesn't welcome us as guests now, and we can't force our way in."

Warren: "We're just looking for Lan, not 'Order'."

"This..." Pipiron was silent for a while, shaking his head, "I asked him, and he didn't accept this reason. He said he would find time to talk to you alone. Yingji, this is really strange, why 'order' Instead of talking to the two of us, you want to talk to this earthling?"

Ingilt: "'Order' must have his reasons for doing this, and I'm not him, how would I know?"

Warren knew that if he left like this, it might be difficult to see Lan in the future.The guy named "Order" has a high prestige in the Mechanical Republic. He issued a warning and explained that he would have a private conversation with himself, obviously trying to force himself to leave by force and force.

"You say this city is 'order', so he can control everything here?" Warren asked.

"'Order' is only the core system responsible for the operation of the city. Of course, it is impossible for him to control every plant and tree here. Only the equipment connected to him can be controlled by him." Ingilt explained.

"That's good."

Warren jumped off Pipiron's arms suddenly and ran in the direction of the tallest chimney tower.

"Hi! Warren Slim, wait!"

"Pippi, there are only four minutes and 20 seconds left."

"This……"

"Let's go back!"

"What about Warren Slim?"

"Anyway, he ran away too, let 'Order' take care of it!"

"Ok."

Warren ran forward without hesitation.He didn't know where Lan was, but "Tower" was undoubtedly the most likely place.Since "order" can't control some people here, that city may not be able to catch a person [-]%!