What if the greatest and noblest cause to which we devote our entire lives, even the efforts of several generations, is actually just a lie and a scam?
Then the originally brilliant life instantly lost its original color.
Dr. Zhao Tao in the holographic projection was clearly experiencing all of this. Even though it was just a virtual projection, Li Ke could see the emptiness in his eyes...
And powerlessness.
"Since the so-called moon landing in 1969, humankind's exploration of the universe has been a joke for centuries."
"All astronomy is false. To be more precise, all scholars related to astronomy have been deceived and misled."
"They... no, the spirits of all mankind have been disturbed. It has been like this since ancient times."
"The data we measure tells us that the Earth is round, and the starry sky we observe tells us that there are different galaxies and stars in the universe."
"But what if... what we see with our naked eyes, what we measure with our data, what our instruments observe, are all deliberately simulated scenes... It's like virtual reality, when the mind is completely immersed in the network, no one can distinguish between reality and virtuality."
"Right... What is reality? What is false? Yes... The line is indeed unclear, but at least we have been deceived in the past..."
Zhao Tao in the holographic projection had a calm expression at first, but later on he became a little hysterical.
Bang bang bang——
There were more and more huge palm prints on the special alloy door, and the sound of collision became louder and louder, even covering up Zhao Tao's voice.
Dr. Zhao Tao glanced at the door, swallowed with some difficulty, and turned his gaze back. He stared at Li Ke as if he could see through time and space at a glance.
He spoke slowly and deeply, "We humans, and indeed everything on Earth, are merely experimental subjects kept in captivity and regularly harvested. The worst predictions made back then have indeed become a reality."
"This destructive war is not accidental, but inevitable. Every country that participates in it is the biggest loser."
"From the age of the dinosaurs to the present day, the biological civilizations on Earth have had no control over their birth and death, and the same is true for human civilization. Every once in a while, there are recurring wars of extinction. It's like the pigs in a pig farm: when the number exceeds a certain limit, they are dragged out and slaughtered and sold."
"Our secret 'True Vision' project uncovered these clues, and the subsequent findings have become increasingly unacceptable and unbearable to me. And as the research progresses, it has even attracted monsters that bring death and darkness, subverting science and physics."
When Zhao Tao mentioned the word "monster", he couldn't help but tremble. Even though he could still bear it mentally, the fear came from the biological instinct.
As he spoke, he took out a metal necklace inlaid with diamond-shaped fragments from the transparent energy table next to him with trembling hands.
"Now, I'll store all the data sources for the True Vision project in this necklace." Zhao Tao placed the necklace in a specially made box. "Perhaps this information will be discovered one day, but by then, I wonder if humanity will have vanished into the long river of time like the dinosaurs."
At this point, the projection began to shake violently, as if something was interfering. Dr. Zhao Tao, struck by a powerful blow, collapsed onto the table and began vomiting blood.
"If...hiss...humanity...still existed at that time...hiss..."
At this time, a horrible thing happened. The blood Zhao Tao vomited began to turn colorful. The amount became larger and larger, but the color became brighter and brighter. A large bulge began to form under his white uniform.
Even his voice became like the hissing of a snake or insect.
"Dr. Zhao Tao..."
Li Ke witnessed all this and seemed to have anticipated something. His expression became extremely heavy and he called out in a low voice.
In the projection, Zhao Tao was covering his right eye, but his left eye was already beginning to glow with color. Furthermore, his skin was becoming transparent, revealing his internal organs. Even his internal organs were beginning to take on a strange color.
The holographic projection began to flicker rapidly, its structure flickering, becoming extremely unstable. Zhao Tao was already slumped over the table, his entire body trembling, as if he was trying desperately to suppress something.
Snap——
The bulge on the opponent's back instantly burst through his clothes, and from the hole stretched out a strangely thick arm, about two meters long, taller than Zhao Tao himself. His whole body was dark red, and his skin was covered with dense fleshy lumps. Every pore was breathing in magma-like liquid.
"Tell them... I love this... hiss... world... hiss... hiss... help me save... hiss... human civilization... ah!"
Bang——
With the loud bang of the special alloy door exploding and Dr. Zhao Tao's screams, the entire holographic projection dimmed, then turned into a beam of light in mid-air and transmitted back to the black ring.
Things had returned to normal for the lion-headed robot, Li Ke, but deep down, he couldn't calm down for a long time. Although he was manufactured on an assembly line, he had been given a personality by humans, and his thinking was still more human.
Especially Dr. Zhao Tao's screams, the mutated red arm, and the unknown enemy, made him feel inexplicably panic.
He could understand the other person's emotions at that time.
For Zhao Tao, a biologist engaged in scientific research, the concept of the nation is far less important than the entire human civilization, which is above all individual and collective emotions.
After a long time, Zhao Tao took a deep breath, suppressed his emotions with the core module in his brain, opened the small storage room in his chest, and put the black ring in it.
"Don't worry, Dr. Zhao Tao. Hundreds of years have passed, and humans are still surviving." Li Ke was a mechanical soldier after all, and he had a basic sense of responsibility. He then scanned the other side with his metallic eyes, "I just don't know where the necklace that records the data is..."
It is very difficult to find a palm-sized necklace in a laboratory that has suffered devastating damage.
But about twenty minutes later, Li Ke scanned another high-energy reaction inside this mountain of junk metal.
"There's also a high-energy reaction here, and the recognition is similar to the ring from before. It might be the necklace that records data." Li Ke stretched out his mechanical arm and was about to explore inside when he suddenly stopped, "Uh..."
Because when he touched the surface of the metal garbage, he saw the surrounding metal garbage began to roll.
Then...
A dark red arm covered with dense fleshy lumps suddenly broke out from inside.
The lion-headed robot's vision was shrouded in shadow at this moment.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com