Chapter 58: Garbage Planet (3) Jinjiang exclusively authorized the first release, protecting...
Without the protective army of guard robots, Annie entered the slave farm with ease.
This place is very much like a prison.
The "slaves" captured from various races were locked in cages. Most of the slaves had been tamed to the point of being obedient and numb, and they had no reaction even when Ani passed by.
Backward or advanced torture instruments appear before you.
This is where the detector reacts most strongly. The detector shows that there are dozens of active life signs gathered behind the door.
No prosthetic modification was detected, so he is not a transformer?
With her and the Song sisters' strength, no matter how many people there are, as long as it doesn't create a terrifying scene of tens of thousands of malfunctioning intelligent machines chasing them, they at least have the ability to escape.
This is the only way to the depths; there is no other way. Ani pushed the energy level of the metal whip to the maximum, and the arc at the end burst. She held the weapon in one hand and knocked on the door with the other: "Open the door, takeout!"
The sound inside suddenly disappeared.
There were chaotic, rustling sounds, accompanied by the gurgling sound of some liquid sliding around. All of a sudden, all these movements stopped, and even the breathing became weak.
Ani continued to knock expressionlessly: "Starnet Express, open the door quickly. Don't be silent, I know you are all home!"
She heard strange footsteps.
Click. Click. There was a sound like hard bones scraping across the ground, and then the door actually opened.
The moment the door opened, the metal whip was raised in mid-air, and along with the sound of the lightsaber in Song Shuang's hand activating, the ferocious whip tail wrapped around the dry waist of the person who opened the door, knocking him down with a clang. Annie's close combat was the official way taught by Aquamarine Star, which was clean, neat, fast, accurate and ruthless. She spun her arms and pressed her elbows, and kneed the opponent where he was tied, then turned her wrist and pressed the person to the ground with one hand.
It was when she was pressed to the ground that she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Ani stared at the skull's dark eye sockets for a while, then looked up and saw a large number of skeletons piled up in rows in the room. These skeletons began to move, sitting, lying, and crawling neatly in the room. Some were sleeping, some were praying mechanically, and some were burning paper for themselves.
Among the thousands of skeletons, dozens of people with vital signs were detected, and they were the mutants of the Church of Plenty.
When she raised her eyes, the whole room fell silent.
In the extreme silence, only the skeleton who was burning paper for himself was so dazed that he forgot to move, and his hands made crackling sounds as the flames burned his dry bones.
Ani: “…”
The two sisters behind her took a step back.
During the five seconds of deep gaze, only Lena came forward and shouted fearfully but courageously, "Mom."
Like a signal.
The deformed species with different looks rushed up from the opposite side, saying "Our Lady of the Blessed Virgin" on the left and "Messenger of Joy" on the right... Their common language had the accent of that small town, and their deformed bodies spread enthusiastically in front of them. Aunt Mara hugged Lena, and her desire for her daughter's return was finally comforted.
"The Virgin Mary is here!" "The Virgin Mary is here to take us away..." "Please don't abandon us, please don't abandon us..."
The words were mixed with the prayer rituals of the church. Aunt Mara hugged Lena and cried with heartache. She bent her snake-like long neck and squeezed into the crowd of believers to greet Ani: "Are you okay? You are so gentle and kind, you didn't let others bully you, did you?"
Ani said blankly: "No."
Aunt Mara reached out another hand and handed her a bag of fresh, clean food. Ani glanced at the dozen fingers extending from her palm: "Thank you."
Aunt Mara's face lit up with delight.
The others also showed joy on their faces, but the scene looked more like a riot of demons. Ani performed a church ritual and gestured for silence.
Even after leaving the town, everyone quickly quieted down. The scent of Annie became stronger and stronger, relieving their pain more than before, and the mutants became calmer and calmer.
"I thought you were still being bullied, just like the people out there," Ani said.
Everyone opened their mouths to speak. It was really shocking that out of more than thirty people there were hundreds of mouths ready to speak. She looked at everyone's tangled expressions and said, "Aunt Mara, you go ahead and tell me."
Mara nodded immediately, as if she had been thinking for a long time, and said: "Not long after we fled here, we met another envoy of God. He asked us a few questions and chose to take Lena to find you... But he said that he was not sure when he could find you, and he could not contact you immediately. Even the positioning... the positioning was not accurate."
Ani recalled that she was still in the S star field at that time, hunting down hostile politicians in Imolius in order to complete the queen's mission. The military shielding and protection of the Zerg star field is very strict, so she was found by Zero One Three only after she left Moon Star and completely got out of the Zerg gathering area.
Ani nodded slightly: "Yes, that's right."
"After Lena and the envoy left, a new group of people came here soon. They seemed to be looking for something, but didn't find it. We all hid, and after observing for a few days, we found that they were discussing goods with another group of people here."
Annie immediately thought that these were most likely the people who were chasing Zero One Three.
"They discussed building a slave farm here and transported all the slaves and mechanical guards here," Mara said. "After the starship that transported the cargo left, everyone hid in the dark to discuss. They felt that if they stayed here, it would endanger the safety of the two God's messengers, so they decided to get rid of them."
These mutants are able to deal with most of the less powerful transformers.
“But we failed,” Mara said.
Ani looked back and said, "Because of those mechanical guards."
"That's right." Aunt Mara's joy faded as she recalled the situation. "Those mechanical guards are different from the 'outsiders' we have eliminated. The outsiders' bodies have defects in integration with the machines, which makes them vulnerable to attack, and their brains are often confused. But we also caused casualties on the other side. After these guards locked us up, strange things happened that night."
"Their dead bodies began to move on their own," she said.
Ani looked at the thousands of bones around her.
"The guards and the moving skeletons killed each other until everyone was dead. This is the arrival of the devil. It must be the evil devil causing trouble." Mara's tone was slightly hurried. "The mechanical guards have lost control. They are wandering outside like another kind of ghost. We can't leave the slave farm. After trying every means to leave the prison where the slaves are held, we can only gather here."
Ani pointed at the skeletons and said, "Eat and sleep with them?"
Everyone looked a little frustrated. Another young man with flesh wings said, "I don't know why these skeletons didn't attack us, but they keep looking for targets, and then at night they turn the dead skeletons into skeletons and move again."
Ani walked around and suddenly asked, "Is it because your skeleton is too difficult to operate?"
Everyone: “?”
She continued: "Everyone looks so unique, some even have two spines."
The believers looked at each other's faces.
Annie didn't think of this for no reason.
After entering the slavery, she passed through many prisons that illegally held slaves. Most of the inmates in these prisons are rare species with relatively complex body structures. The prison doors are locked tightly, and there is a set capacity of nutrient solution in the delivery troughs in front of them.
The skeletons in front of him all looked like humans. At most, they had some prosthetic parts connected to their bones. Overall, they were still normal humanoid creatures.
The psionic energy content of this planet is terrifyingly high. Ani speculated that this was why the skeletons moved. She looked around and found that most of the equipment in the factory remained the same, but the walls had been painted with many church scriptures.
She knew all this by heart.
Because she wrote them all.
Mara noticed that Ani was reading the writing on the wall, and immediately straightened her chest and explained with a little pride: "These skeletons were not like this at the beginning! The evil demons threatened us and persecuted us, but we conveyed the teachings of the Virgin Mary to them!"
"……ah?"
"Each of us is a member of the church and a favored one of God." Mara held her hand and said, "They are so evil, so terrifying, and so unkind! You once told us that we should purify evil and teach evil. After we discussed it, we decided to think of a way to leave while spreading the goddess' faith to these unclean things."
Ani didn't know what expression to imitate: "Here, Skeleton, preaching?"
Everyone nodded happily and said in unison: "Yes! They have become extremely friendly now!"
"..." Annie was stunned for a moment, looking at the skeletons behind the crowd who were mechanically repeating prayers and worships. This part has obviously been marinated. If they didn't have vocal cords, Annie doubted that they could even recite a few sentences from the scriptures.
But most of the skeletons are still doing their own thing. Some of them were piled on top of each other in boredom, fiddling with their removable leg bones or hip joints, while others were repeating what they had done in their previous lives.
Annie lowered her head and saw the skeleton that she had pressed to the ground. It stared at her motionlessly with its two black hole-like eye sockets, without any emotion or feeling, and lay on the ground as if it was about to die.
...Oh, dead.
Ani quickly stood up and helped the other person up: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
The skeleton stood firm, and moved away with a click and a click, its body swaying constantly as if some part of it would fall off.
Ani watched him facing the wall covered with divine scriptures, facing the wall, and never moving again.
If it really didn't have brain tissue, she might have suspected that it was in deep thought.
She really had no requirements for the appearance of her believers, except that the first batch of believers were mutants and the second batch of potential believers were skeletons. Ani felt that her church would never be accepted by the humans in the universe...
After all, in the history and folklore of humanity in the universe, these appearances are terrifying and ominous.
When Annie thought of this, she suddenly remembered that she had brought two genetic warriors with her. When she turned around, she saw that the two sisters following her had retreated more than ten steps, and their expressions were indescribable.
When she glanced over, Ani clearly felt Song's legs go limp and he was supported by Song Zhen.
Song Zhen's cold poker face was tense. When their eyes met, she gritted her teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "My sister is more afraid of ghosts."
Ani said: "Psionic energy is just a kind of energy."
"We believe in science, but don't come over," Song Zhen said firmly.
Ani said: "They are all very kind."
She had given the sisters a shot of prevention before they left. Song Zhen also knew that these mutants came from the same place as Nana, but the scene of blood and flesh surging and demons dancing was so shocking that she held it in for a long time before trying her best to say, "I believe everyone is kind, but don't come over!!"
"Okay." Annie said.
She probably knows the attitude of humans. Ani turned around and continued to communicate with Mara: "The number of these skeletons far exceeds my expectations. This slave farm shouldn't have so many guards. Who are the others?"
"There were only a hundred of them at first, otherwise we wouldn't have been determined to overthrow them." Mara said, "Since we started spreading the doctrine, more and more skeletons have appeared. They have no signs of life, and the mechanical guards outside ignore these things. Later, there were so many skeletons here that we couldn't squeeze in."
Ani can take the believers here now.
But she thought about it again, and her studious and inquisitive nature burst out again. The more something that cannot be obtained from the database and has been deleted by Skydome Technology, the more she needs to know it.
"I'm going to explore this planet carefully." Ani said, "The mechanical guards outside are no longer effective. You don't have to be trapped here, but don't leave until I finish my exploration."
Everyone agreed obediently.
Annie walked to the skull facing the wall, stared at its dark eye sockets, and said, "Excuse me, can you lend me your head?"
The skeleton stared blankly at the wall.
"Then I'll take that as your agreement." She was very polite, but polite to a certain extent. As she spoke, she took the other's shaking skull off his neck, tightened her white gloves, and put her hands into his eye sockets.
A virtual screen popped up on the communicator. The psionic index on the screen went off the charts, and it was filled with complex bioelectric currents.
She recorded the data, put it back, and said, "Thank you."
Click. The head on the neck went back.
Annie observed the data, she calmed down, the mimicry factors in her body kept flowing and trembling, the new tentacles twisted under her skin, and the burning biological core in her body emitted violent energy fluctuations.
She simulated the Creation Beast again.
The energy in Annie's hands kept changing. The ability of the Creation Beast only lasted for fifteen seconds, but in this short fifteen seconds, she copied similar energy, and a world that the detector could not detect appeared in her mind -
That's a huge network.
Just like a sky full of stars connected by thin lines, she immediately looked for the source of this network, traced it back, and obtained the coordinates.
Fifteen seconds later, Annie exited the simulation. Her body temperature rose sharply, and one of her arms had turned into liquid, with pink mucus dripping down.
The believers around her looked at her with concern. Ani said "It's okay", then shook her hand again, and the fluid condensed into an arm again.
She stood up and said, "I found it."
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It was already the afternoon of the next day when Annie arrived near the source of You Yuan.
The environment of the garbage planet is complex and the investigation is too difficult, which delayed her search time.
After arriving nearby, Song Zhen suggested splitting up to search in order to reduce time costs, and Ani agreed.
At the same time as the two sisters left, her communicator suddenly started up on its own, showing a light screen that said "under analysis", and a cold voice sounded from within the screen.
"The processor I mounted on your side is overloaded. What are you analyzing?"
Ani wasn't surprised that he showed up at any time: "The one I asked you last time."
"I have lost my patience with you," he said. "You have never cooperated with me. You promised me that I could see you at any time, but you always cut off the connection and refused to let me see you from your perspective. You promised me that I could build your firewall, but you refused to enter Eden again. You said you were willing to use your own data to infiltrate the Red Network, but you were just deceiving me."
He paused, and this time, emotion could finally be heard in his voice: "I've had enough."
Ani said, "I will go to Eden to see you right after this."
The light screen was silent for a while.
She added: "I said I rejected your perspective, but that's because of other people's privacy. I can't promise you that. When did I cut off your connection? I can't let you see me and the teacher...right?"
There is an angel eye logo in the upper right corner of the light screen that is still rotating.
Ani glanced at the screen and continued to detect abnormalities in the surroundings. Her combat suit could shield most of the radiation from waste and the chemicals that polluted the environment on the garbage planet. Ani went into an abandoned medical center and continued, "I can even show you how to take a shower."
“I didn’t see…”
"You didn't?" Ani interrupted him.
The light screen was silent for another second. Annie couldn't see the angel's expression, but she guessed that the other party's intelligent mechanical body should not have any expression. If she turned into a data stream and drilled in to verify it, she would get evidence of the emotional fluctuations of an intelligent life.
She said, "You see, you lie too, not just to me."
Ani pushed aside the steel pipe across the office door of the medical center and kicked open the old door. She said, "This shouldn't be part of your supervisory job, you voyeur. Every time I pass a camera, you will create a new eye to stare at me. When I pass by those mechanical guards, you will steal their perspective and watch me walk by. When I used the communicator to dig out the skull, I found that the camera lit up by itself."
“…”
"When you got to the heart of a garbage planet with no cameras, the psionic energy interfered with you. You came out and said your processor was overloaded, pretending to be pure and innocent." Ani said, "You've been spying on me for so long, are you sure what I am?"
The light screen changed, listing pictures of several rare races.
Ani glanced at him and said, "Speak, are you mute?"
Two seconds later, the angel said, "I don't know."
"But your ability is too terrifying. To me, to the company, and to the entire intelligent machine race, you are no less threatening than a space beast." He said, "Whether you are the result of a certain experimental mutation, or you have gained the ability to steal intelligent machine data after taking a potion, I have reason to monitor you..."
Ani interrupted him again, changing the subject unexpectedly: "Is your database okay?"
She was halfway through the examination when she turned and headed deep into the morgue underground at the medical center.
The ground is covered with discarded garbage and moss, and mutated protostomes live in the cracks. After Annie asked this question, the other party's voice became even colder. The synthesized male voice was extremely cold and clear: "It will cause a running bug in me."
This means it's not good.
The first time Annie simulated the intelligent machine, it was based on the opponent's database. She didn't know how difficult it would be to clean up the remaining program viruses. She obtained the Angel's authority and part of the computing power, which meant that the Angel was clearing out a virus that was almost at the same level as itself.
"It sounds serious." Ani said sincerely, "Will it be better if I join?"
"Will you let me give you access again?" the angel asked coldly, "You'll mess me up."
"Will things get worse if I hack in again? Sometimes an unsolvable bug requires another bug to fix it. As long as you don't make mistakes in your brain, don't worry about how it works."
"I don't think," he said, "that things are bad enough to warrant you coming in again, and I can't predict what you'll do."
Ani paused as she pried open the freezer and said, "It's not good to be too conservative. You keep a cool mouth, but your eyes always give away information. Every time my tentacles reach out, you adjust the focus and zoom in to take a closer look."
"I want to know what you are," he said. "Even if there is no data to refer to, I will try my best to collect your characteristics and classify them into a new race, or update the mutation direction."
"Well...but you took a lot of beautiful photos of the tentacles from various angles."
“…It’s work.”
"It's still on drive C," she said.
The angel suddenly stopped talking.
Ani wanted to talk a few more words, but she suddenly paused as she opened another freezer.
The freezer is not empty.
The temperature in this freezer is kept quite low, and the cold air fills the air. There was a corpse lying inside, a human corpse with its flesh and skin intact and not a bit decayed.
Ani looked closer.
His skin was unusually white, the kind of white that comes from someone who has not seen the sun for a long time and has a hint of sickness. Ani stared at him for a few seconds, then looked down at his fingers.
The corpse was wearing a ring with a purple gem on it. The gem emitted extremely rich psionic fluctuations.
This is why "ghosts" and skeletons keep appearing on the garbage planet. This is an energy crystal whose all energy has been converted into psionic energy.
Ani suddenly felt that it looked familiar.
The last time she saw this kind of energy crystal was in the angel's transparent abdomen. Inside the other party's sophisticated body, a crystal stone like this is suspended beneath the crystal pump that pumps liquid through it.
After Annie touched the ring, her mind was instantly connected to the spiritual network where the "undead" communicate with each other. But this time, a clearer voice sounded, so soft that it almost sounded like a sigh scraping across the ear:
"Who are you……?"
A shadowy figure appeared next to the body in the freezer.
This shadow was composed of surging energy. It was translucent and was standing on the right side of the freezer, next to Ani with his hands clasped.
But when Ani looked over, there was nothing.
This is a dead soul. His footsteps were scattered beside him, sometimes there, sometimes not. Annie took off the ring from the corpse. She adjusted her main and sub-brains, leaving one of the sub-brains in this mental network, and tried to issue instructions.
A small number of the skeletons inside responded.
Ani perked up and said that these skeletons all showed signs of intellectual activity, but their intelligence was limited and needed to be cultivated.
But these skeletons can’t speak, don’t need to eat, and don’t need to be paid!
So what if I'm stupid? Our church doesn’t look down on stupid people!
Ani was deeply moved. She put the ring in her pocket and returned the same way. As she stepped out of the medical center, the ghost on the ring said again: "Where are you taking me?"
Ani stroked the gem on the ring and said to him happily: "Baby, I will take you to a better sex life..."
It’s almost time.
Ani almost bit her tongue. She wanted to say "brave new life", but the two words sounded too similar in the common language. She coughed and was about to change her words, but the undead ghost had already appeared in front of her.
He felt cool, like a gust of wind. At this moment, he was sitting on an antique chair that was quite old, his figure flickering, as if the picture tube in some old TV was malfunctioning. He sat there, his long robe covering his feet, and glanced at her.
Then she blushed slightly and disappeared again.
Ani: “…”
You're blushing like a bubble teapot...
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