Dungeons



Dungeons

Lorraine said, "Yes, if you calculate it strictly, I still have the obligation to support and care for you. You can even sue me in court and reasonably ask me to pay you support until you are 18 years old."

"That's not necessary..." Ivy choked and said, "It sounds weird."

"Thank God you finally understand how I feel," Lorraine said slowly. "Don't joke about this kind of thing. You'll make me feel guilty."

Ivy said, "I always thought you could separate the human from the machine."

Lorraine asked, "What?"

……All right.

Ivy forgot that, given his personality, he might not understand the popular online culture of a hundred years ago.

"What major did you choose in college? I didn't look carefully..." Ivy asked curiously, "Didn't you take ancient online literature as an elective?"

Lorraine said, “I didn’t go to college.”

Ivy was stunned for a moment: "Shouldn't..."

"I chose a military academy," Lorraine said calmly and with a dry sense of humor. "My knowledge of literature is as thin as your vigilance."

Ivy: "...Strictly speaking, the school you attend can also be classified as a university."

Lorraine seemed not to want to discuss this issue. He asked, "What do you mean by 'separation of man and machine'?"

"Ah, this," Ivy said immediately, "actually, the machine refers to the male genitals, which literally means the sexual intercourse—"

"I see," Lorraine nodded, "Like a singing girl? Thank you for your answer. If you use such an insulting word to describe me next time, I might attack you with words."

Ivy couldn't imagine it.

Normally his words were as poisonous as swords, so how terrifying would a real "attack" be?

It was getting hotter and hotter under her uniform coat, so hot that it felt like there was a small heater hidden inside. Lorraine's body was very close to her, so close that she could hug him by turning over and stretching out her arms; but Ivy would never be able to stretch out her arms again.

She tried to find an appropriate positioning for their current relationship, but it was just like the current academic attitude towards AI literature: vague and ambiguous.

Ivy was silent for a long time, then asked, "Excuse me, when you think back to what you did with me before, do you feel like you were doing it with yourself? Well, after all, I have your bones now, so what do you think is the relationship between you and me? Senior and junior? Or like the offspring of a mushroom splitting into spores? Or -"

"You look like a chattering little sparrow to me," Lorraine said. "Stop saying weird things. The most important thing for you now is to take care of your spirit. No one in the wasteland can really protect you."

He sternly stopped Ivy's dangerous thoughts, and her unspoken guess made Lorraine feel uncomfortable.

Ivy: "...Okay, teacher."

She quietly moved away from Lorraine, lowered her head, closed her eyes, and smelled the scent of the dark uniform coat, deep and heavy, like a ball of thick ink. After a while, she heard Lorraine speak.

"If you are so entangled in this relationship, you can treat me as your brother," Lorraine said, "Don't be misled by Yu Mo's family. Hundreds of years ago, humans developed bone transplantation and created bone banks for donations... It's just bones. There is no blood relationship between us."

"I know," Ivy said. "Thank you, teacher. I understand what you mean."

Lorraine felt that she didn't understand.

never mind.

It's better than her really listening to Yu Mo's guy and understanding "bone donation" as "reproduction".

He closed his eyes and thought.

In addition to the bone growth agent that Ivy needs, he also needs to bring back the bodies of Rollin Hector and Xin Lan. Hector's family only has Rollin's cenotaph. Xin Lan's parents have died on the battlefield, but their last wish is to be buried with their son...

So many years have passed.

The ruling party in District 1 at the time did not want to accept the refugees from District 23, so they deliberately created acid rain; humans are resources, but District 1 does not need "low-quality resources". The value brought by these refugees is not even as great as that of intelligent robots, but the price paid for accommodating them is huge.

Rollin, who firmly believed in justice, could not accept such a cruel fact. After he overheard the plan, he immediately wanted to stop it. Unfortunately, his personal power was weak and he could not shake the government's decision. The only thing Rollin could do was to persuade the members of Iris and go to the wasteland with his friends to persuade and save those people to find shelter with them, and save as many refugee lives as possible before the acid rain came.

All five members of Iris's team died, and only two returned alive.

Lorraine tried not to think about the sounds of her friend's dying agony.

He also had to make sure that all evidence was destroyed as much as possible, and it would be best if he could find the data storage device of the "meta" and delete all related content...

Lorraine also needs the research data on "artificial humans". This part of the data must not fall into the hands of the government, nor be discovered by others.

In the evening, the expedition car finally arrived at its destination.

This area does not completely belong to the scope of the first district, and the army of the third district is also nearby. Under the coalition government, each district adopts an autonomous strategy, so the army and the district government are on an equal footing and treat each other with courtesy.

The troops in the first district naturally obey Lorraine's orders, but the troops in the third district are not necessarily the same -

"Dreven," Yu Mo looked at the handsome man with wheat skin outside and whispered to Ivy, "The youngest colonel in the third district, he was once a good friend of Lorraine."

Ivy is very sensitive.

She moved her ears: "Ever?"

"Well, his parents moved to District 3 because of a job change," Yu Mo said, "so Draven also moved to District 3 when he was fourteen... Before that, he often went to Hector's house to play and had a close relationship with Hector's children."

Ivy stared at Yu Mo and looked at him from the side. His eyes were as clear and clean as glass beads.

She asked, "How are you going to discredit Lorraine?"

Yu Mo was peeling an apple for Ivy, peeling it along a long and thin strip. When he reached the end, he pulled it gently. In one hand, he had the complete, long apple peel, and in the other hand, he had a clean, plump, fresh apple.

He handed the apple to Ivy like a treasure, only to receive her wary gaze.

This made Yu Mo very disappointed.

In the past, Ivy would smile with joy and satisfaction, praise him in amazement, and bite the apple happily.

Yu Mo likes to feed her very much.

Whether it's cherries or apples, as long as it's something that satisfies her and suits her taste.

——She can have as much food as she wants, as many men as she wants, as long as it makes her happy.

After the last cleansing failed, Yu Mo's emotional chip was filled with numerous contents; after the Chinese medicine store that specialized in emotional cleansing was seized by the human military, Yu Mo never cleaned his brain again.

However, some common information about Yu Bai continued to be transmitted and influenced him.

Alice, who has not been cleared of her emotions, has started dating various boyfriends since she became an adult. She is very picky about men and has endless charm. As her supervisor, Yu Bai has become a toy dog ​​that wags its tail and begs for mercy, kneeling on the ground and burrowing into the crowd to lick her.

And after meeting Lorraine, Ivy's emotions that had been washed away and stripped away are recovering little by little.

Yu Mo believes that it is necessary to take precautions before problems occur.

If Ivy also wants to date many boyfriends, Yu Mo will first select men who are healthy and strong, have good character and handsome faces.

But she didn't.

As her emotions gradually recovered, she looked at Yu Mo with rejection.

This kind of look made Yu Mo's heart ache.

He thought that this heart should be replaced with a new one as it had been used for more than a year.

"Xiaobao," Yu Mo said, "Why aren't you as happy as you were when you were a kid? You've started to question me—and even defend that guy."

"The 'guy' you mentioned gave me life," Ivy said. "He was my teacher and the provider of my bones—"

"What about me?" Under Yu Mo's silver-white eyelashes, there was a quiet sadness in his eyes. "I watched you grow up, and I exist for you - are you going to betray me for him?"

Ivy hit the nail on the head: “This is not betrayal.”

She wanted to hold the cup tightly, but her right hand had no strength. Her injured wrist felt soft and painful, so she had to use her left hand.

'Yuan' stole a strong bone for Ivy.

She must pay the price for "stealing".

"You lied to me for so many years," Ivy said. "You said you were created by Yuan, and I don't blame you. But why did you hide it from me when you could have told me the truth?"

"Because I want you to be alive," Yu Mo said. He raised his hand and stroked Ivy's face. Ivy turned away in disgust, but he held her firmly in his hand again. It was the first time he showed a strong attitude in front of Ivy. His eyes were full of pleading when he looked at her. "'Yuan's' omniscience and omnipotence are beyond your imagination. I can't tell you... Once you are discovered, your memory will be wiped clean, or you will be abandoned-"

“Pah—”

A black glove was thrown heavily on Yu Mo's face. Pain came over him, and his hands holding Ivy's cheeks suddenly loosened——

After being freed, Ivy immediately stood up and instinctively turned around to see Lorraine wearing only a black military shirt.

The person who was talking to Draven outside the glass window just now had entered the room without anyone noticing.

Ivy called, "Teacher."

Lorraine's face was gloomy when she saw the red finger marks slowly appearing on Ivy's cheek, like a squeezed peach.

He warned Yu Mo: "Don't harass my students."

The soldier next to him ran over quickly, bent down, picked up the gloves, and respectfully handed them to Lorraine with both hands.

Lorraine put on her black gloves again and walked out. After a few steps, she turned around and frowned: "Ivy, aren't you leaving yet?"

Ivy quickly caught up.

"Teacher," Ivy said, "Songxu sent me an email, asking why we left. He seemed to know that we came to the wasteland, and asked me what trouble we encountered. He wanted to help, maybe he could play a role."

"His coming here will only have side effects," Lorraine said. "Kitty Hector must have told him... to stay in the safe zone and take good care of Song Feng. Don't come. I can't take care of two idiots at the same time."

As they were talking, the man named "Dreven" was watching them not far away, holding a majestic bull mastiff in his hand. At this moment, the bull mastiff was panting and looking at Ivy warily.

In the safe zone, fewer and fewer people keep dogs and cats. The harsh environment has turned pets, which were once affordable for ordinary people, into luxury items. The monthly expenses of raising a cat (dog) are no less than that of raising a child.

Military dogs are still bred in the army today, but in much smaller numbers than before—it was also the first time Ivy had seen a Bullmastiff.

Lorraine briefly introduced the two parties: Draven, a friend she hadn't seen for a long time; Ivy -

He said, "My students."

When she got closer, Ivy could smell a very light and pleasant fragrance on Draven, a bit like Yu Mo, that kind of long-lasting and tranquil scent of grass and trees.

Draven greeted Ivy in a friendly manner. He had a pair of deep eyes that looked as loving as a toilet, and thin lips - Ivy guessed that he should have some British ancestry.

This guess was soon confirmed, and Draven treated the two to a simple meal he had prepared.

The simple meal is very traditional and British, with fish and chips, sausage and mashed potatoes, and jelly eel.

Ivy couldn't judge the quality of the food. She simply took two bites and felt that life seemed to have no meaning anymore.

"After all, this is a dangerous area, so we still have to go through the process," Draven said. "The application to enter this abandoned dungeon has been submitted, and we estimate that we will get a receipt in two hours. Before that, we can take a break and have a chat."

Ai Wei adhered to the principle of listening more and talking less, and heard a little bit of the past. Here, the former base of "Yuan" is now an abandoned and dilapidated underground city, which is now guarded by soldiers from the first district and Lorraine. Some time ago, the third district also sent a troop to station here on the grounds of "preventing the leakage of electronic viruses."

Lorraine's reason for entering the abandoned dungeon was to "search for some confidential samples."

Ivy believed that he would most likely just hand over some unimportant items to the government, and would keep the rest in his own laboratory.

The government of the First District is holding a new round of ruling party elections. Currently, the two most competitive parties are secretly extending olive branches to Lorraine, wanting to win over the man who controls the strongest military force, but Lorraine's attitude towards this is very ambiguous and he has not shown any inclination to support any party.

He seemed to trust only himself.

On the other side, Song Xu and the thinner Song Feng jumped into the expedition car and started the car.

There are four cars in total.

In addition to the remaining members of the Green team, there are Alice, Yu Bai and Rong Qi.

"...I heard from my uncle that there is a powerful bone growth agent in the desert dungeon that can restore a person's bones to their original state in a short period of time," Alice told Song Xu half an hour ago, "I think Ivy and Admiral Hector must have gone to find it."

It just so happened that Kitty Hector and married man Beta came for a return visit, interviewing "Ivy's friends" to understand their outsider views on this marriage.

Kitty was not surprised to learn that Ivy and Lorraine had left. She even helped check the entry and exit records of the nearby safe zone and confirmed that they went to the wasteland at one o'clock in the morning.

Song Feng, who had remained silent since waking up, expressed his willingness to help search for the missing person for the first time after hearing the news.

Song Xu naturally felt obliged to do so.

Next came the Green team. Ivy's two consecutive championships brought unprecedented glory to the team. This team, which had been unknown and bullied since its inception, would never abandon its injured teammates.

As for Rong Qi.

In the spacious expedition car, Rong Qi has already turned on the car's automatic cruise function and set it to follow the expedition car where Song Feng is. He held back his voice, loving Alice who couldn't touch her and sat on his lap. The latter's honey brown curly hair made Rong Qi infatuated. He leaned over to inhale the fragrance while wanting to refuse: "No, you and Song Feng are so compatible, you and him are a couple, I can't steal my good brother..."

Yu Bai stood up silently. He silently lifted Alice up and helped Yue to slowly sit down next to Rong Qi. Rong Qi took a breath and could no longer say no. His forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. Yu Bai put his hand on Rong Qi's shoulder, lowered his eyes, and warned Rong Qi with a hoarse voice.

"Don't let it get in," Yu Bai said, "The young lady doesn't like to make a mess in the car, otherwise, I will break your head."

Alice called out to Yu Bai to stop the threat, and also made noises of joy at Rong Qi's wildness; she liked the feeling when everyone's eyes were on her, she liked everyone loving her, everyone holding her, and everyone paying attention to her.

Only at this moment could Alice be sure that she was not a spare tire, not a substitute, not a copy, not... Ivy's substitute.

Everyone loves and cherishes her sincerely.

Yu Bai watched all this in silence. He and Yu Mo had lost contact for a long time. The other party had concealed the "Yuan" and quietly prepared a resurrected body for them. At the same time, Yu Bai and Alice were under his control.

Yu Mo can even transmit information directly to their current brains.

Just like today, Yu Bai received an order from Yu Mo and waited outside the base. He got into Alice and Rong Qi's car on the pretext of taking care of them.

Now, after Song Xu and Song Feng successfully entered the wasteland with forged credentials, Yu Bai received the second order from Yu Mo.

Kill Lorraine

—Kill Lorraine?

——Me?

Yu Bai's expression was stiff.

Alice, who had just reached her climax, frowned and looked at him with concern: "What's wrong, Yu Bai?"

Yu Bai quickly compared his own fighting ability with Lorraine in his mind, as well as the difference in size, intelligence and even the range of influence.

He turned his head mechanically and looked at Alice.

"I feel," Yu Bai said, "that my eldest brother seems to have gone crazy."

The wind blew across the desert, and the high temperature of the day quickly disappeared. Countless small desert animals buried their heads in the still warm sand, trying to avoid the cold night.

The navigation system of the expedition car was also seriously affected by the storm and could not indicate the correct direction. The instrument display was a mess. The wind took away the tracks left by Lorraine and his expedition car, leaving only the endless desert. Song Feng was at a loss and could only stop the car.

Chewing the crispy mushrooms, Dangdang opened the car door and jumped out. He stood in the wind with his arms open, sniffing the cold air. After sniffing the smell hard, he hunched over, jumped back into the safari car, and rubbed his hands that were frozen by the cold wind.

He told Song Feng: "Go to the eight o'clock direction, I smell something."

"Great," Song Xu exclaimed in amazement, "Your nose is really amazing..."

Song Feng's first reaction was to ask, "Do you smell Ivy?"

He looked at the promiscuous carefully.

“…No,” Dangdang wrapped himself tightly in his clothes, the lost warmth slowly returning to his body. He said slowly, “It’s that rotten, old smell.”

—Decay, old, like the slowly decaying dirt beneath the skin of a flower.

——Belongs to Yu Mo.

There is also a strong murderous intent.

Dangdang smelled the scent of death and was very uneasy.

Someone is going to die tonight.

Lorraine had no intention of taking Ivy into the abandoned dungeon.

She is best suited to remain in the army in Zone 1.

This is within Lorraine's sphere of influence, and the First District Army stationed here obeys him completely and unconditionally.

As his student, Ivy was naturally respected; with her personality, if she communicated well, the soldiers here would obey her and protect her.

When Draven delivered the approval documents with the stamp from the third district, Ivy also learned that she would be "left behind".

Lorraine only planned to take Yu Mo and Xin Lan into the dungeon.

"Why?" Ivy's eyes widened. She tried to fight for a chance for herself. "Yu Mo is not as good as me. He is even the weakest person in the entire military district. Why can he go but I can't?"

Yu Mo thought thoughtfully: "Xiaobao, you are becoming less and less considerate of my mood when speaking now."

Lorraine leaned over and stuffed the gun into the belt of his military pants, the barrel of the gun was cold: "I need his brain."

"I'm not a bad brain either," Ivy reminded her. "Remember, you've praised me for my intelligence many times."

"Well, smart and capable little Ivy," Lorraine said, "don't forget that your right wrist needs rest."

Yu Mo said goodbye to Ivy gently.

"Wait for us here," he winked and made a reasonable request, "I will be back soon - but before I leave, Admiral Lorraine, can you give me a gun for self-defense? You know, now that I have completely betrayed the Yuan... I should also need some weapons to protect myself."

Lorraine didn't give it immediately, but looked down at Ivy.

——Ivy put her hands on her waist and stroked her gun hesitantly.

—It was the gun Lorraine had given her, a better, lighter gun, and she stroked it subconsciously.

"Xin Lan," Lorraine turned around, "give Yu Mo a gun."

Xin Lan took out the gun he had prepared long ago; he was already used to it.

Yu Mo took the gun, held it in his palm, looked at it curiously, squinted his eyes, and aimed at Lorraine's head with his own small scope.

"It's a really good gun," Yu Mo praised, removing the scope, "It looks easy to use."

Lorraine didn't say anything to him, but calmly put a small object into the palm of Ivy's good hand.

When their skin touched, Ivy felt the warmth from his big hand. The small thing looked like a delicate electronic component. She couldn't see it clearly, but when it was inserted, her body shook violently, and a tingling sensation spread from the contact point, quickly reaching the top of her head and down to the soles of her feet. Suddenly, it was as if a warm and heavy force was stuffed into her palm by his own hand.

Ivy raised her head and saw Lorraine's stern face.

He looked very reliable, without any trace of malice in his eyes.

With important events ahead, he certainly wouldn't consider the emotional debt.

"Protect yourself," Lorraine said, "and ask the soldiers for help."

He turned and strode away, the wind blowing his dark military jacket, fluttering his tongue like a python.

You don't need an expedition car. If you want to go to the city deep underground, you just need to place an electronic ladder on the edge of the cliff and prepare a parachute.

There are countless collapsed cities in the wasteland, because the groundwater, oil, and minerals have been drained, the foundations have sunk, and the cities have fallen. In the battle between humans and intelligent machines, underground cities are the best shelter for intelligent machines.

This is also one of Yuan's abandoned bases.

Lorraine and Yu Mo landed almost at the same time.

Lorraine untied the parachute and threw it aside. There was no light in the dark dungeon. He just turned on the flashlight and saw a shadow reflected on the side wall.

——One taller and one shorter, the shorter one with long hair is pointing a gun at the head of the man in military uniform in front of him.

The cold muzzle of the gun was against Lorraine's head.

Before Yu Mo completely untied the parachute, his finger was on the trigger of the gun.

Just a gentle touch.

This threat that has troubled Yuan for a long time, this man who will stop the plan in big data calculations, this dangerous man who has experienced countless failed assassinations, will completely disappear from this world.

"Cyril, who was determined to save people, lost his two best friends in the world here," Yu Mo said softly, "They have been waiting for you for a long time. Do you plan to do the same as them--"

Before he finished speaking, he felt Lorraine's body shake; realizing that the other party began to resist, Yu Mo decisively pulled the trigger.

Bang----

A gunshot was heard.

The barrel of the gun was steaming hot and the bullet was deeply embedded in the wall behind Lorraine.

Lorraine held Yu Mo's wrist with one hand to stop him from shooting, and with the other arm he clamped Yu Mo's neck and squeezed it hard -

Click.

The crisp sound of the neck snapping.

Yu Mo stared at Lorraine in surprise with his tsavorite green eyes.

He also said: "If you kill me, Ivy will hate you..."

"It was 'Yuan' who killed you," Lorraine leaned over, pulled out the long-barreled gun from his leg, and pressed the muzzle of the gun against Yu Mo's heart, very calmly, "--Killing should be done quickly and without talking."

Bang bang bang bang.

Five shots were fired in quick succession.

Yu Mo on the ground was completely motionless, his silver hair spread quietly on the ground like a piece of satin woven by moonlight.

Xin Lan's parachute finally landed on the ground. He hurriedly untied it and ran over: "Master!"

Lorraine handed the knife to Xin Lan without any surprise.

"Dig up his brain, take out all the chips, and read all the memories about this dungeon," Lorraine gave the order without emotion, saying the same words he had said to Ivy, "I need his brain."


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