381 Inspiration

◎But I may have a mission for you◎

Immortal Bai Cheng, Zhu Yao didn't have a clear feeling when she heard this name, but the first time she saw how the undead operated, she was already out of the wall.

It was the eleventh day after leaving the wall, and they chose a city to rest temporarily. This city should have been an international metropolis before the end of the world. The office buildings and overpasses were very technological, and the style of the buildings was very close to that of the Federation.

They entered the city at night, trying to find shelter, when they suddenly heard a rustling sound similar to that of an hourglass. By the time they reacted, several cars had already sunk into the desert, the asphalt road had disappeared, and the ground they were standing on was basically sand.

The polluted area merges the desert and the city. After the end of the world, many impossible things come true. Previously, such scenes could only appear in mirages.

The city does not exist at all; it is just another projection, only more real.

The wind and sand were too strong for the flying car to take off smoothly, and there was no water in the desert, so Liu Yu's water-based ability was completely ineffective.

One after another, people fell into the desert, and some died to protect Liu Yu. Death was easy.

Most people hide in the flying car, which is larger and sinks a little slower.

Suddenly, they saw someone getting out of the car in the wind and sand. Bai Cheng unpacked the suitcase she was carrying. She had no more belongings and was occupying a car by herself. There were six mysterious suitcases in the trunk.

After she opened it, others realized that there were Bai Cheng inside. She released three identical versions of herself.

Bai Cheng was not wearing a protective helmet. The desert beneath her feet was golden, and everyone could only see her back in the wind and sand.

Three Bai Chengs stood in the desert, occupying three corners respectively. She was an army by herself, stretching out her arms expressionlessly. Her calves had already sunk into the sand, but she seemed completely unaware of it.

Then, her movements were quick and decisive. The three of them moved in unison, clenching their right hands into fists. The next moment, a corpse in the desert straightened its upper body.

One, two, three, corpses appeared in the desert like mushrooms after rain.

Bai Cheng standing in the desert will no longer be alone. The countless corpses are her kind. Her figure is submerged in the army of the undead. She uses the corpses to build a road for escape, and Liu Yu's team walks towards the road she built.

The three Bai Chengs did not evacuate in time. After seeing the team leave, their eyes were submerged in the wind and sand and gradually sank into the ground.

The first Bai Cheng Zhu Yao saw died in the contaminated area, and the Bai Cheng who left the desert was just a spare item in the suitcase.

After the storm, the team found a suitable shelter. When everyone was resting, Zhu Yao started to get busy. Zhu Yao was half a doctor in the team, and she had become accustomed to the uncertainty of life and death outside the wall.

Zhu Yao was so busy that she felt dizzy, and her assistant reminded her to take a break first.

Zhu Yao agreed without thinking. Most people in the team had some minor habits, such as smoking and eating candy. Zhu Yao didn't have them originally, but after the torture outside the wall, he now has them. He went to breathe oxygen.

Zhu Yao walked to the corner holding the oxygen tank and found that there was already another person there.

Bai Cheng stacked up three suitcases high and sat on them, as if he was traveling and waiting for takeoff at the airport.

The three suitcases were the remaining "inventory". The brand new Bai Cheng was still in the adaptation period, and his movements were so mechanical that they could not be ignored.

The previous commander died, and the current Bai Cheng took over her duties.

Bai Cheng tilted his head, his eyes turning coldly and falling on Zhu Yao.

It's indeed different. The previous Bai Cheng would greet people, but this one is like a complete killer.

The corner was a bit narrow, and Zhu Yao walked to the opposite side of her. The two were less than two meters apart, as if they had met in a smoking room.

Zhu Yao leaned against the wall and took two breaths of oxygen. In fact, the oxygen is not important. What is important is the act of breathing. Deep breathing helps to relax.

Zhu Yao's complexion had improved a bit, and Bai Cheng was sitting across from her, so she naturally asked, "Do you need medical assistance?"

It was a very good opening line, and no one in the team would refuse it, but Bai Cheng refused, and the machine said, "No need."

The atmosphere was a little awkward. Zhu Yao coughed lightly and asked, "How do you deal with your memories?"

Bai Cheng didn't answer immediately. Instead, he looked at Zhu Yao as if he was seeing her for the first time.

Zhu Yao's appearance was very "clean". Although it was difficult to ensure that there were no stains on her body when walking outside the wall, her collar was always the neatest, and her hair was combed meticulously even after she had just taken off her helmet.

Her protective suit always fits her perfectly. She doesn't wear a white coat, but it feels like she has an invisible white coat on her body.

Zhu Yao always carries a pen with her. If she were wearing a white coat, she would put it in her pocket, but she was wearing protective clothing and she actually put it in her chest pocket, where weapons should be placed.

Bai Cheng: "Why do you bring a pen?"

Zhu Yao glanced down and said, "Oh, this... these little quirks represent human civilization."

The polluted world is barbaric and believes in the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest. Carrying a pen can remind yourself that no matter what the situation is, you must stick to the bottom line and not lose human civilization.

Bai Cheng thought it was so boring and childish, not bringing a weapon but just a pen, and the atmosphere fell silent again.

Zhu Yao felt that the other party didn't want to talk to her, probably because she didn't say hello to Bai Cheng last time. After a while, Bai Cheng suddenly said, "It can't be stored. It will disappear naturally."

Was she answering her own previous question? Zhu Yao listened attentively, finding it increasingly amusing. Bai Cheng's brain could actually decide for itself which parts to delete.

If there is not enough storage space, this is indeed a necessary step, otherwise the whole system will "freeze".

If Bai Cheng was formed naturally, it would be the most perfect work of the Creator.

Zhu Yao asked: "So you have no memory of the past?"

Zhu Yao couldn't imagine how such a person lived. Even a slight loss of memory had a huge impact on his life. He was losing his memory all the time. Didn't that mean there was a monster in his brain that was constantly devouring his memory?

How should Bai Cheng adapt to society? However, Bai Cheng has lived outside the wall for many years, so she doesn't need to adapt to society.

Bai Cheng nodded.

Zhu Yao suddenly understood. This kind of person was willing to sacrifice countless times to be their guide. Was he actually looking for his memories?

Does Bai Cheng have his own unique purpose in going to Utopia?

Zhu Yao asked: "So you're going to Utopia?"

Bai Cheng didn't answer, but instead gave him a warning look. She couldn't control her eyelids, so her expression looked sinister.

Zhu Yao felt rejected and changed the question directly: "Who among you will decide who will sacrifice?"

So many people asked this question that Bai Cheng answered without hesitation: "Whoever benefits will sacrifice."

Zhu Yao asked, "What if they are all the same?"

Bai Cheng looked at her in confusion, as if Zhu Yao was stupid, and retorted: "You think like a computer."

Only computer programs need to be designed in this way, with priorities sorted. Bai Cheng claims that she is a more advanced species. She is just a mechanical body, but her mind is very active.

Zhu Yao didn't feel offended, but nodded: "Yes, that's what I want."

Bai Cheng had never worked closely with researchers before. She was afraid of being captured for research, so she usually stayed away. Zhu Yao was like someone from another world to her. Bai Cheng asked stiffly, "What are you researching?"

"Yes," Zhu Yao admitted. After thinking for a moment, he said in a language that ordinary people could understand, "I want to create a combination of living things, pollutants, and machinery."

"Can they be combined?" The more Bai Cheng looked at Zhu Yao, the more he looked like an idiot. Scientists were indeed all crazy. "What's the point of combining them?"

"Purify the world." Zhu Yao gave these four words with great certainty.

Bai Cheng went to see Zhu Yao. Zhu Yao had always left a distant impression on her. He was not close to anyone and was like an aloof scientist.

But there seemed to be light in her eyes when she talked about this topic. She was talking about her ideal, which was to create a combination of pollutants and machinery, and use the rationality of machinery to control the chaos and disorder of pollutants.

She was an idealist, Bai Cheng simply labeled her as such, and one of the most prolific people of that era.

Various thoughts collide, various talents emerge, and the world is new every day.

Zhu Yao is interesting, but not uncommon. Too many people want to save the world.

Bai Cheng: "Very impressive."

Although I don't understand, I don't think Zhu Yao is stupid this time.

"I didn't come up with it," Zhu Yao said. "This idea is no longer trendy. Many people have this idea, and some have even tried it. In our world, inspiration isn't valuable; it's the realization that counts. And history only remembers the successful."

Bai Cheng asked: "What's the difficulty?"

"Memory," Zhu Yao said. "This is what I want to learn from you. To understand how your memories work together. Even though you're losing your memory, it surprisingly hasn't affected you."

Bai Cheng was not good at social relationships, and now he understood the main intention. It turned out that Zhu Yao approached him because of this.

After all, Zhu Yao had no interest in him before, and didn't even respond to his first greeting. He only took the initiative to talk to him after seeing the truth about the suitcase.

Bai Cheng is still learning human manners, but this Zhu Yao, although seemingly polite, is actually a bit rude.

Zhu Yao sensed Bai Cheng's rejection when she said this. She didn't mind exchanges. If both parties benefited, it was called cooperation. She explained, "Don't worry, I'm not studying you. This is just an inspiration."

The fundamental reason why Zhu Yao was willing to go out of the wall was that she had reached a bottleneck in her experiment. She needed to look for inspiration everywhere, just like a painter needs to go to the forest to collect inspiration.

Bai Cheng said "oh", she really didn't like being used as a research subject.

Bai Cheng thought for a moment and asked, "Is it difficult to remember?"

Zhu Yao actually started chatting with her, "Whether in theory or practice, there's no way to solve the problem of memory. It's easy to discover it's fake. Assuming such a combination really exists, how should it view itself? Should it be given an independent personality? And so on."

Bai Cheng wondered why this was so troublesome and asked, "Can't you just keep the memory blank?"

A sweeping robot has no memory, it just needs to be able to sweep the floor, and similarly it just needs to perform tasks.

It's hard for outsiders to understand the hard work involved. Zhu Yao probably really wants to get something from Bai Cheng, so she patiently explains, "With a blank memory, we won't be able to control this subject's personality. Is it good or bad? How can it serve us?"

Bai Cheng was confused, "Are you afraid it will destroy the world?"

"We may create a savior, but we may also create a devil." Zhu Yao's eyes gradually became complicated.

If it was a demon that destroyed the world, Zhu Yao couldn't even be held responsible for it.

Bai Cheng sensed Zhu Yao's ambition, "You want to be the mother of the savior?"

There was nothing wrong with admitting it, so Zhu Yao asked, "Can't I?"

Yes, Bai Cheng had the impression that there were some titles that he learned from old textbooks. Generally, people who had great success would be given similar titles, such as the father of artificial intelligence. Zhu Yao wanted to be the mother of XX.

If scientists want to achieve something that will have an impact on the world in a certain field, they need to be ambitious.

Ambitious people adapt more easily to the world and take for granted all the fame, fortune and prestige that comes their way.

Zhu Yao was very arrogant, and Bai Cheng sensed this. She didn't even try to hide it, and showed her arrogance generously.

Bai Cheng concluded: "So it must have memories, an independent personality, and at the same time, conform to human definitions of kindness? And it must also be able to serve you?"

"almost."

Bai Cheng sneered, feeling that the humans within the wall were all greedy, "Then isn't it pitiful?"

Every memory is carefully woven and is required to be human-like and to serve humanity.

Although Bai Cheng has memory problems and always loses her memory, at least the parts she can recall belong to her, and they are all what she has experienced.

Zhu Yao fell silent. The question of whether the experimental subjects were pitiful was a complicated one and could not be explained in a few words. Do you feel that the sweeping robot was pitiful?

Normal people would have stopped talking at this stage. Bai Cheng, unable to read people's expressions, said, "Then how should you treat it? Treat it like your precious child?"

Zhu Yao firmly denied, "No, we can't have feelings."

After the mission is completed, the product must be scrapped. As long as there is peace, the human world will no longer need such power, otherwise it will trigger a new war.

Bai Cheng has her own judgment about human beings. Zhu Yao is the kind of person she doesn't like to get close to. Bai Cheng is "congenitally deficient", but Zhu Yao's indifference is almost ingrained in her bones.

Someone in the distance called Zhu Yao over. As the team doctor, she needed to continue helping.

Zhu Yao agreed, put down the device in his hand, and said casually: "By the way, can I leave your contact information?"

Bai Cheng said coldly, "I'm a guide."

What she meant was that she would not cooperate with any experiments, and Zhu Yao didn't seem to need a bounty hunter.

Zhu Yao: "I know, but I may have a mission to find you."

No one can predict what will happen in the future. If Zhu Yao can return safely after leaving the wall this time, it will be a huge opportunity. Connections are also a resource.

You need to know the children of noble families, the people from the north, and also the excellent bounty hunters.

Bai Cheng felt at that time that this researcher was not limited to the laboratory, nor did she just obey Liu Yu's orders. She was completely different from others.

Zhu Yao has a strength that only pioneers have. In this era, if researchers want to succeed, it is not enough to just have strong scientific research capabilities; they must be like product managers.

Forcing myself to attend social events just to raise experimental funds, lobbying hard in various departments, and leading the experimental team is the most basic.

Similarly, Zhu Yao also has his own plan and is gathering all available forces for it, Bai Cheng being one of them.

In Zhu Yao's eyes, his own undead attributes and special memory form have been listed with precise prices.

Bai Cheng hesitated for a moment and gave Zhu Yao her contact information, which was the number she used to accept tasks.

Perhaps because of Zhu Yao's description of the combined entity, Bai Cheng was curious about whether the so-called combined entity could actually be realized, and what role she would play in it. Could Zhu Yao really use the inspiration from Bai Cheng?

Zhu Yao turned and left, saying, "Looking forward to working with you."

This was a polite closing remark, so Bai Cheng had no choice but to say, "Looking forward to working with you."

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