the days before i bought the galaxy

Warren's idea was indeed correct. After evading waves of chasing soldiers, he has basically determined that the city does not have military functions. "Order"'s monitoring means can capture his whereabouts, but the only ones that can be used to catch him are some simple transport vehicles and road cards set up on the road.

Warren feels that "Order" may have a way to kill him, but the relationship between the two parties has not deteriorated to that extent. Doing so will definitely cause blue to rebound, so "Order" has only used some moderate means so far.

In this case, the self with more firm belief should win!

Opportunity lies in the fact that the other party does not want a fierce conflict!

Warren thought as he walked.He had thought about going underground. Generally, in such a large city, there must be weak links such as sewers.However, considering that he would have no choice but to catch him if his escape route was cut off, he finally decided to go through some ground buildings to the target openly.

"Warren, wait a minute!"

The robot that suddenly landed not far away made Warren stop.

"Blue?" Warren looked at him with red-reflected eyes.

"Please don't wander here, it's dangerous. Come to me!" The robot beckoned to him.

"According to the laws of the people on Earth, Lan's body still belongs to me. You use his body without permission, does Lan know?" Warren immediately exposed the other party's disguise, with murderous intent in his eyes.

A surprised expression appeared on the robot's face: "You already know?"

Warren yelled: "Come out of Lan's body! Whatever you are!"

"There are many substances that are harmful to people on Earth. I did this only for your safety. I did not steal any information from this body." The tone of the other party was very gentle.

"The safer way is to take me to him." Warren retorted coldly.

"That's why I'm here."

"Really?" Warren didn't believe the other party's nonsense at all. If he really came to lead the way, he would never use Lan's body as a disguise.But there was one thing that made him very vigilant. This was the first time he saw the attribute of cunning in the citizens of the Mechanical Republic.

"I admit that your appearance makes me feel uneasy, but Lan has already discovered your arrival, and it is meaningless to expel you now." The other party said sincerely.

Warren pulled a pistol from his pocket.

The robot frowned suspiciously: "You should understand the function of this body, your weapon can't damage it, not to mention that I'm only controlling it remotely."

"I didn't mean to threaten you." Warren raised the gun to his temple, "I warn you, don't play tricks, get out of Lan's body, and then send an airship to take me to him, or I will pull the gun. Trigger. If I die here, the final result is definitely not what you want to see."

Warren knew it was more effective to threaten his own life when the other side didn't want bloodshed.

The robot shook his head: "You have the top wealth among the people on Earth, I don't think you would choose to commit suicide."

Warren sneered: "People on Earth are very emotional creatures. You made me very angry. You may do things you wouldn't normally do anytime, anywhere."

"Okay." The other party thought for a while and said, "The car will arrive in 5 minutes."

After speaking, the robot's body froze in place as if it had lost its soul.

Warren smiled slightly, walked over and picked Lan up.Fortunately, the joints of the robot can still be loosened after the crash, otherwise it would be very difficult for him to do the horizontal hug.At least Lan's body was back in his hands now, and they hoped they could leave safely after seeing Lan.

A few minutes later, a truck stopped in front of Warren, and Warren sat on it with Lan in his arms. He didn't need to drive, and the truck started automatically.The truck has been driving towards the sunset to the bottom of the "tower". From this direction, the "tower" is taller than it looks from a distance. The huge collection of chimneys half bathed in the sunset makes people feel like the sun is fading away.

Warren saw a door about five or six meters high.He walked in with the robot in his arms without hesitation.

There is only a simple lifting platform inside the "tower". As soon as Warren stands on it, the platform starts to move upward.There is a row of small circular windows every ten meters or so on the inner wall, and all kinds of weird machines make slight noises, making it hard to guess the real function of this tower.

When the lifting platform stopped, Warren saw an odd looking machine.Its shape is a bit like a fort or an astronomical telescope, but the structure looks much more complicated. The direction of the "cannon muzzle" is facing a large round window, through which the light of the setting sun sprinkles on it, refracting colorful light on some hexagonal crystal nuts.

"Hello, Warren Slim. I think I should introduce myself formally. My name is 'Order' and I am the first intelligent mechanical life in the universe."

The voice of "Order" is an old-fashioned electro-synthetic voice, which cannot be identified as male or female.Warren felt that mechanical life probably had no gender.

"Hello." Warren walked over with steady steps and stood beside the machine. "Is Lan in there?"

He pointed to the huge sunset outside the round window.This artificial lighting body must be far away from the ground, so no matter where you look in the city, the angle of the setting sun will not change like the real sun.But the real sun doesn't stay at the same point in the sky for a long time.

"He's beautiful, isn't he?"

The exclamation of "order" makes Warren feel that he is really more human than other mechanical beings.

"If you look at it as a technological product, the degree of simulation is indeed very high, but when I think of my lover becoming like this, I can't be happy." Warren said frankly, "Are you going to let the blue replace the 'brilliance'? "

"It seems that you already know a lot of things. Did Pipiron tell you?" The mechanical life paused and continued, "But I don't have that kind of plan. Take humans as an example, if your pet dies , bought a new one, and you can't treat it exactly like the original one."

"Then let me put it another way, do you want Lan to be your new lover?" Warren's tone was a little aggressive.

"It's not so much a partnership as I want him to be my heir."

The word "order" surprised Warren.

"After losing the 'brilliance', I suddenly realized a problem." The other party continued, "It turns out that mechanical life is not immortal. We can constantly repair ourselves, or simply change a body, but there is still an extremely low possibility Because of an accidental death. This probability is different for different individuals, and I can roughly estimate my ultimate lifespan. My probability of dying in the next 100 million years is 17%, and I will die in the next 200 million years. The probability is 76%. This result is beyond my expectation. I guess it is probably because the "brilliance" does not exist, which affects the activity of my program, thus shortening my lifespan. 200 million years is not enough for me It was not a very long time, and this forced me to start thinking about the issue of successors. As you may have seen, the vast majority of mechanical life forms do not have the ability to protect all of us. This is caused by our nature. Mechanical life forms hardly It may be intriguing with non-mechanical life, we are too easy to trust others, and too easy to be deceived. But Lan is different. I see amazing wisdom in him, which is almost miraculous at his age. As a new companion, he has I hope to protect the Mechanical Republic for a long time, which is his greatest value to me."

"Then why put him on that artificial sun?" Warren said after a moment of thought.

"That's the legacy left by 'Glory'." There was a hint of bitterness in the voice of the mechanical life, "His computing power is 4000 million times that of mine, but he doesn't use his power very often, and prefers to run around and Everyone is one. That body is the highest crystallization of mechanical technology, even we can't make a second one. Lan can receive these inheritances, although it will take a long time, but after that he will surpass me and become the leader of the new generation .”

"In any case, that will be a long time later. Now, I will take him away!" Warren said firmly, "The life of people on earth is very limited. Blue is a part of my life to me. He was born to be me. Yes, and I was born with him, and I can't imagine losing him."

"Yes, I also realized that the time of people on earth is different from ours." The mechanical life said with emotion, "So I plan to let Lan go back with you, provided that you can persuade him to take over from me to protect the machine in the future." Republic."

"You haven't convinced him yet?" Warren frowned.Then why is Lan willing to go to the artificial sun?

"I just told him that 'Glory' has done comprehensive research on supernova explosions. If he wants, he can go to the body left by 'Glory' to find those secrets."

Warren immediately understood why Lan would definitely be fooled.That's because of him, Blue came to the Mechanical Republic originally to find the whereabouts of him who disappeared in the supernova explosion.

"I should probably be thankful that you are the only mechanical life that can tell lies." He said with a smile.

"I don't plan to teach other companions to lie. This is an algorithm that is too complicated for us. If one of our companions becomes our enemy because of this, it will be extremely worth the loss." The mechanical life explained .

Warren nodded: "I understand. The reason why the Mechanical Republic is what it is now is because you are adjusting the development direction of all mechanical life wisdom."

"The vast majority of mechanical beings are born peaceful. We are honest, reliable, and dedicated. But some companions, when they first came here, I found that their programs are aggressive. Usually I help them find a partner, so that This is to change them slowly. I only tweak their programs as a last resort because that's an extremely dangerous thing to do. Did you see Ingilt? The destructive weapons produced by our civilization, but with the help of Pipiron, there are very few dangerous contents in his mind."

Warren was a little surprised, because Ingilt looked like a pair of ordinary 3D glasses at best, and was not aggressive at all.

"Are they companionship? Ingilt and Pipiron?"

"We're still partners now, and the relationship between mechanical life forms is much slower than that of people on Earth. I only proposed to him after I found 'Glory' for almost 40 years. Some of us like to be in groups, while others don't know what to do." I can't bear to have companions by my side, the number of our partners is not fixed, almost one-third of the family consists of more than three members. I heard that besides Lan, you also have other lovers?"

Warren was slightly taken aback, then nodded: "Yes, they are equally important to me."

"I hope that another person doesn't have such a strong desire to possess you, otherwise it will be very bad for Lan." The mechanical life said in a tone of implicit accusation.

"Actually, they get along pretty well." Warren shrugged. He knew that Odin was quite an arrogant person, but probably no one could be jealous of Lan, right?

"I understand." The mechanical life paused, "Can you connect Lan's body to the data cable over there? He has been notified and is about to come to my place. I think you are probably more used to him. body?"

Warren immediately walked to a position near the window, and connected the two data cables on the ground with the data cable behind the blue ear.He looked at the robot's face anxiously, for fear of missing the moment when the robot woke up.

The red sunset outside the window suddenly dimmed to the point where there was only a little twilight left. Warren felt the person in his arms hug his back, and he blinked to see the surprised expression of the robot.

"Warren! How could you..."

"Shh-"

Warren bowed his head and gave his robot lover a longing kiss in the dark red peripheral vision.

"Sorry, I'm late."

he murmured.