Chapter 49 Ocean "Silent sea, only her voice echoes"...
When Xie Shuqin opened her eyes again, she was surrounded by the familiar experimental cabin.
She lay quietly inside, staring blankly at the marble ceiling, and could hardly hear the words the AI was babbling in her ear.
The trembling hands of ten-year-old Yin Xiangrong seemed to be engraved in her mind. When Yin Xiangrong was extremely panicked, she glanced at the data on the computer.
That was the manufacturing data for the bionic man. Even if her theoretical knowledge was poor, she could see that it was clearly written on the computer: the raw material for making a bionic man is human.
They put mechanical hearts into the bodies of dead people, used electric current to simulate the blood flow of the human body, and controlled the so-called heart with a chip, telling them over and over again: "You are human beings."
So over time, they really thought they were human.
Perhaps this was the legendary mechanical childbirth. Only commanders and senior researchers had access to this field, so it was no wonder Xu An had previously accused Ran Yue and Yin Xiangrong of colluding to deceive them.
Xie Shuqin took a deep breath, and her whole body was trembling slightly.
What about Area Zero nineteen years ago? This so-called gathering place for the human race on Earth was actually a place of utter cruelty.
Zone Zero rejects all humanity. All living things must obey the orders of the supreme commander. Infants are sent to a training base for so-called training. Once they develop self-awareness, they face destruction. In a place where truly human beings live like machines, Xie Shuqin suddenly feels fortunate to have been born in the base.
Perhaps it is precisely because everyone obeys the command of Zone Zero that if one wants to break this deadlock and provoke a war against humanity, one needs loyal and unwavering helpers - the androids.
This was probably what Yin Shu had in mind when she created the androids. She set herself up as their supreme commander, teaching them to behave like humans. Then, she disguised herself as a human to stir up unrest, rousing the anger of those who were dissatisfied, and ultimately overthrew Zone Zero and established her base.
But……
"Perhaps because there are so many bionic people, she herself can't tell whether the person in front of her is human or bionic." Xie Shuqin closed her eyes. "If it weren't for this machine, who would be able to tell the difference between humans and bionic people?"
The air suddenly became quiet.
Xie Shuqin suddenly opened her eyes: "Wasn't this machine invented by humans on Earth?"
If humans on Earth had created this machine nineteen years ago, how could they not distinguish between androids and humans? And how could they allow androids to provoke a war against humanity and massacre those who opposed them?
Could it be that by that time, there were not many humans left? And all the high-ranking officials in Area Zero had already been replaced by androids!
"There are two more powerful illusions. Do you want to enter next?"
A mechanical sound interrupted Shuqin's thoughts. She rubbed her temples and slowly focused her attention on the machine again.
There are also two powerful illusions, one is an alien species, and the other is a half-human affected by alien genes.
Xie Shuqin slowly lay down and said, "Go on."
After a series of speculations about bionic people, Xie Shuqin seemed to be able to see the cold, machine-like eyes of those people and the blue dots all over the screen as soon as she closed her eyes.
When she opened her eyes again, she was almost startled awake.
Cold sweat dripped down his forehead. Xie Shuqin stood up with difficulty and was suddenly stunned when he saw these hands.
She quickly got out of bed and ran to the mirror.
A familiar face appeared in the mirror. Her high ponytail was a little messy because of her struggle in bed just now, and some hair was slightly stuck to the tip of her nose.
Xie Shuqin wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and looked quietly at Xu An's face in the mirror.
When she first entered the illusion, she had already imagined this possibility. She always wondered what Xu An's illusion would be like, and what she had experienced that had frightened her all her life.
Every time this happened, she would think of that dark laboratory, the place where Xu An had been imprisoned for countless days and nights. Did Xu An feel hopeless when she was in that place? Or perhaps she had already gotten used to it.
Xie Shuqin took a deep breath and slowly walked to the door.
The rotten iron door made a creaking sound, which was particularly clear in the pitch black vision.
His body involuntarily floated up, and every piece of flesh and blood was filled with an intense feeling of exhaustion. Xie Shuqin didn't understand and almost used all her strength to open her eyes.
She saw the purple sea water continuously pouring into her mouth and nose. Her long hair had already spread out, blocking her vision. Her body sank uncontrollably and fell into the whirlpool on the seabed.
Various purple, unknown objects stuck to her body along the vortex, making her already immobile limbs even worse.
Xie Shuqin watched with her own eyes as those things burrowed into Xu An's body, feeling every tremor. Gradually, the sand and dirt that rose from the bottom enveloped him. The sound of bones breaking pierced through the seawater, muffled in her ears. She felt her head tilt slightly to the right, rubbing against the massive skull lying quietly beside it.
When she tilted her head, Xie Shuqin discovered that the seabed was full of skeletons.
The skeleton of a giant, legendary marine mammal.
And this body actually began to slowly grow a scaly fish tail and a pair of snow-white wings.
So the alien species is actually a mutation of a marine mammal? And Xu An really does have a tail... and wings.
"Okay, go back."
Xie Shuqin suddenly came back to his senses.
The body's mouth did not open, but the voice seemed to come from within its mind.
"I can't control the pain anymore. If you stay any longer, you'll suffocate to death."
This time, Xie Shuqin was sure that this was Xu An.
"How did you know I came in?" The AI had just said that no one would notice her entering the illusion. "Xu An, where are you? Are you okay, Xu An?"
But no matter how she called, there was no other voice in her mind, as if everything was her fantasy.
Her body became light, and her long hair was blown by the water. Xie Shuqin saw the purple sea water gradually becoming transparent, and the bones under her body slowly decayed.
She felt Xu An swimming towards the bottom of the sea, his white wings illuminating the dim seabed with a warm light. Xu An stretched out his hands, his hands faintly emitting a red glow.
The high-frequency mental waves caused circles of water ripples to appear around, and the skeletons decayed faster under the mental waves, and at the last moment, they shattered with a loud bang.
The water surged violently, but the body remained still. Xie Shuqin felt a pang of pain in her eyes, sensing Xu An's gaze lingering on the huge head.
She watched quietly and suddenly understood.
The owner of that head must be Xu An’s mother.
She should have thought of this earlier. As an alien species that feeds on strong human emotions and human blood, how could Xu An be afraid of those nearly insane researchers in the laboratory?
She was just eating that way to strengthen herself.
But Xu An never said that she liked this way of eating. She still maintained the same diet as them, and sometimes even when she was on the verge of death, she would indulge herself in drinking blood.
She hated that she looked like a human, and she also hated that she looked like an alien.
Her body continued to tremble. Pain slowly spread from her fingertips, as if every bone was stained with countless needles, and every breath made them jump on the needles, making her dizzy with pain.
"...So last time I asked you if you had ever seen the sea, and you said no. Is it because you don't want to recall these past events?" Her voice echoed in the 30,000-mile silent sea, while in front of her were colorful little fish swimming around, spitting bubbles, and waves of them were like ribbons floating down from drones in the sky.
"So this is what the seabed is like. Marine life not only has bizarre and 'alien' appearances, but also has colorful tails and scales."
For centuries, they have complained about the aliens taking over the land, forcing them to live a life as precarious as mayflies. Little did they realize that it was they who first destroyed the ocean, the aliens' homes, forcing them to crawl onto the shore in countless struggles and despair, even growing wings, just to escape the radioactive ocean.
However, since Xu An already knew her own background, why did she still try to gain their trust?
Before I had time to think about it, things in front of me slowly changed.
The body gradually grew lighter as its tail and wings folded in. Xie Shuqin felt the human form being carried to the surface by the awakening seawater. Through the rippling water, she could see clusters of blue and pink hydrangeas on the shore.
"Xu An, what on earth do you want to do?"
She subconsciously reached out, wanting to touch the hydrangeas hanging on the shore in the illusion. "You let us know about androids, about humans on Earth, and even about your own life experience, but you seem to have stopped caring about anything..."
Suddenly, the scene before her eyes flashed with a dazzling display of garbled code, akin to a program error. She was thrown back by the violent brainwaves. As soon as she opened her eyes, a surge of heat rushed to her head.
Xie Shuqin instinctively turned over to avoid it, and as soon as she took a step, she heard the sound of the experimental cabin being blown up.
The AI's alarm rang in my ears: "Alert! Automatic destruction mode has been activated!"
"This function is also automatic?! Shouldn't it be locked normally?" Shocked, Xie Shuqin didn't care about these things anymore. She immediately jumped into the gravity body and slid out along the corridor.
Fierce flames filled her back, and the explosion caused her to fall heavily to the ground. The steel protective gear of the gravity body rubbed against the ground, producing dazzling sparks.
After the aftermath of the explosion, Xie Shuqin shook his head and stood up while operating the mecha with lingering fear.
Looking back, the place where I was just now had been blown into a hole, and when the dust settled, there was a pool of blue sea underneath.
Xie Shuqin was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but stop operating the gravity body. "A place like this, isn't the surrounding purple water all around? How can there be a pure sea..."
The sound of waves hitting the water made her voice stop abruptly. Xie Shuqin blinked and rubbed her eyes before she was sure that she had not seen it wrong.
There are fish in that pond.
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The author has something to say: Ahhh, the exam is coming soon, this is the last chapter before the exam, I will update it the day after the exam, okay?
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