Chapter 060 What kind of things are sneaking around me?
When A and Ah Jing returned with their firewood, Lan Hu had also returned with several deformed worms. It was a bountiful harvest, but he wasn't entirely happy. From a distance, Jiang He spotted the injured blue-eyed worm crouched on Lan Hu's shoulder.
Is the blue eyed worm injured? What happened?
Could it be that he was injured and disabled by Lan Hu?
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Do you have any medicine? Ji Feng is injured." Lan Hu threw the deformed insect aside, picked up the blue-eyed insect on his shoulder, and asked Jiang He, "Medicine, medicine, medicine, give me the medicine quickly."
Jiang He: What happened?
Fortunately, she did have some medicine collected from the guards. Lan Hu applied the medicine to the blue-eyed worm with a distressed look on his face.
Jiang He glanced at the blue tiger and the blue-eyed worm and confirmed one thing: the blue-eyed worm had a name, given by the blue tiger, called Jifeng.
Blue Tiger no longer shouted and shouted to kill the blue-eyed worm. It looked like he had adopted the blue-eyed worm as his adopted son!
"It's injured?" Jiang He asked slowly, "What happened?"
"Jifeng was injured trying to save me." Lan Hu said with heartache, then proudly said, "Jifeng is very capable and smart, and a good boy."
Ji Feng, who was praised as a good child, hummed a few times obediently and softly, then tilted his head slightly and glanced at Jiang He proudly, and a line of subtitles almost floated over his head: Haha, now I am mommy's favorite daughter.
Glancing at A and Ah Jing who were setting up the fire stand, Lan Hu said disdainfully, "I knew these two guys couldn't catch anything. They're totally useless."
He boasted to Jiang He, "My Ji Feng is a hundred times stronger than both of them."
When he looked at Ji Feng, his head was drooping, looking like he was seriously injured and dying, but his tail was raised high and swaying. Whenever Lan Hu praised him, he would take advantage of Lan Hu's inattention to glance at Jiang He, and he couldn't suppress the smug smile on his face.
Jiang He glanced at A. Fortunately, he didn't seem to hear her and ignored Lan Hu. She breathed a sigh of relief and pretended to be confused: "Your Ji Feng?"
"Don't stare at it with such disdain," Lan Hu complained. "Jifeng is very clever. Not only can he lure out the mutants, but he also helps me catch them. I've never seen a more clever mutant."
Jiang He: "Oh..."
Lan Hu: "Jifeng can understand my commands. I will feed it more crystal cores in the future. It will be even more powerful when it evolves to level one."
Jiang He silently glanced at Ji Feng. The guy was groaning weakly in Lan Hu's arms, as if he was seriously injured and in great pain. But when she glanced over, he immediately glared at her proudly, with the arrogant attitude of a female supporting role who had overtaken the opponent and "successfully won favor."
Jiang He: ...Not only can they understand your instructions, they can also use a torture tactic to control you.
Also, the look in Ji Feng's eyes just now gave her a sudden strange idea.
What did Ji Feng take her for?
An imaginary enemy? A vicious sister vying for her mother's love?
A turned around and glared at Lan Hu: "Idiot!"
The dying Ji Feng in Lan Hu's arms jumped up and bit A's neck with bared teeth.
A was processing the flesh of the deformed insect, and the dagger in his hand stabbed towards Ji Feng's throat.
"Don't!"
Jiang He screamed, and even Lan Hu looked furious. He rushed over and hugged A, taking the blow for Ji Feng.
When Jifeng saw the blue tiger being stabbed by A's dagger, it jumped up angrily again, its eyes full of murderous intent, the nails on its claws grew rapidly, and it scratched towards A's neck.
Jiang He hurriedly separated Lan Hu and A, panting. "We've tied our belts together before, why is it so serious?"
But Ji Feng was still biting A's shoulder blade with his teeth, and refused to let go no matter how Jiang He tried to persuade him.
This guy is quite good at biting. Knowing that he can't kill A, he just adds to A's injuries.
Lan Hu praised from the side, "Ji Feng, well done."
Ji Feng bit harder, making a gurgling sound in his throat in response to Lan Hu.
It's like she's saying: Don't worry, Mom, I won't let go until I kill him. Anyone who dares to insult Mom will be killed!
Jiang He looked at Lan Hu helplessly: "Ji Feng is injured, let him lie in your arms for a while, the wound will open up after this."
This worked, and Lan Hu called Ji Feng back. Although Ji Feng didn't want to let go, he took Lan Hu's words as his orders. After baring his teeth and demonstrating to A several times, he returned to Lan Hu's arms.
A had a cold face and it was obvious that he was in a bad mood.
Ah Jing comforted him: "Do you want to be Jifeng or Lanhu? It's all fine."
What's so special about these two idiots that he should be?
But Ah Jing still looked serious, and A's face looked even worse.
The meat of the mutated insects was delicious. Jiang He took a look and saw Ji Feng nestled in Lan Hu's arms, humming as Lan Hu fed him.
Lan Hu: "Eat slowly and don't choke."
Lan Hu: "Oh my god, your teeth are quite sharp."
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Jiang He: ...So corny, so corny!
There are many prisoners in the training camp who keep pets and call themselves "Dad" to their pets. She guessed that Lan Hu also regarded Ji Feng as a pet. The animalistic man instantly turned into a male mother in front of the small animal.
Jiang He sat next to A and asked him, "Do you want to have a pet too?"
Only she and A knew Ji Feng's background. She would definitely not tell it, and naturally she didn't want A to tell it either.
A glanced at her and said, "Heh."
He understood what she meant.
He was extremely sarcastic about her warning, and it seemed he had no intention of saying anything.
That’s right, he was attacked by Ji Feng and Lan Hu just now, but he didn’t shout out the truth to humiliate Lan Hu.
I will definitely not tell you again in the future.
Jiang He patted his shoulder and asked, "How's your shoulder blade? Do you want me to take a look?"
A had a cold face and said nothing.
Ah Jing: "He wants you to see it."
Jiang He was a little surprised that A Jing spoke up for A. He didn't expect that A Jing and A could get along together.
After eating and drinking, several people sat together to analyze the current situation.
Lan Hu hadn't experienced much in the ruins, having spent most of his time in a coma. After listening to Jiang He's brief account, he took the transparent crystal that Jiang He had placed on the sand and examined it in his palm. "It's not the crystal core of a deformed object. I can't feel any energy. Are you sure it's the key to the ruins' operation? What's with virtual reality? Scene switching? I don't think the wind is fake. Ruins are ruins. How can there be any falsehood or hypocrisy?"
Jiang He agreed with Lan Hu's words. The deformed snake entangled with the nail-eating green python did not look like a fake animal created with code at all.
Jiang He looked towards A.
A took the transparent crystal thrown by Lan Hu. He was probably used to playing with daggers, so he tossed the transparent crystal back and forth and played with it. "Just ask him and you'll know."
His eyes fell on the sand dunes behind Jiang He.
Jiang He turned his head and was surprised to find that Teacher Song and Team Meng were walking slowly towards them. Their mechanical components were seriously damaged, and they failed to control their center of gravity when going downhill, and rolled down the sand dune.
Perhaps because of the limited materials available, although Teacher Song's head was installed on his neck, it was not installed firmly. When he rolled down, his head fell off again. He used his hands to scratch around, trying to catch his head in his hands.
Captain Meng's situation was even worse. His clothes were like torn fishnet stockings with several pieces hanging off them. The artificial skin under the clothes was torn into pieces and hung on his body, unable to fall off. Under the torn skin were mechanical components.
One of his legs was damaged and he was half-dragging and half-walking. One of his arms was torn off by the deformed worms, and only the upper half of the other was left. One of his artificial eyes was dug out, revealing a pitch-black eye socket.
"Damn it." Lan Hu said with disgust, "This thing is really disgusting."
"Jifeng." Jiang He said to Jifeng in his arms, "Go and pick up that head."
Ji Feng was sleeping with his eyes closed, and seemed not to have heard her words.
Lan Hu patted it and said, "Ji Feng, go get that head..."
Before he could finish his words, a gust of wind rushed out and rushed towards Teacher Song's head.
Lan Hu laughed triumphantly, "Ji Feng only listens to me."
A and Jiang He were not the type to flatter others, so they remained silent. Only Ah Jing looked around, sensing Lan Hu's emotional needs, and nodded in agreement, "You're right."
Lan Hu: ...These guys who have never seen the world must not know how difficult it is to tame mutant beasts.
Jifeng ran back with Teacher Song's head in its mouth. It ran really fast and didn't care at all that it bit off a piece of simulated meat from Teacher Song's face.
"0112." Teacher Song looked at Jiang He, his jaw, revealing mechanical components, opening and closing as he spoke. His voice was halting, like a stuck machine. "0112, you, give me the core."
Lan Hu held Ji Feng in his arms and scratched its neck. "We worked so hard to get this, why should we give it to you?"
Hearing his bad tone, Ji Feng, who was enjoying the massage, stuck his head out and hummed at Teacher Song's head with his teeth bared. If Lan Hu hadn't been holding him, he would have pounced on him and bit Teacher Song's head to pieces.
"I can take you away from Planet A62," Teacher Song said, "except for me, no one else has the ability to take you away."
"Who gave you that confidence?" Lan Hu asked him. "Oh, I get it. You must be stupid to say that."
Teacher Song ignored him. He couldn't move his head and could only stare at Jiang He. "0112, give me the core."
Jiang He: "Why should I give it to you?"
Teacher Song: "Only I can take you away from Planet A62."
Jiang He: "Why?"
Teacher Song's eyes rolled slowly, "I can't tell you."
Jiang He, "Oh."
Lan Hu threw Teacher Song's head away and patted Ji Feng's head in his arms, "Go, pick it up."
Jifeng rushed out and quickly brought back Teacher Song's head. He wagged his tail very fast and looked at Lanhu happily.
Lan Hu patted its head and said, "The wind is really strong."
He threw Teacher Song's head out again, "Jifeng, pick it up."
Jifeng really likes this parent-child game that only he and his mother participate in. He can grab Teacher Song's head before it hits the ground and run back happily.
It was so painful to the eyes. Jiang He silently turned his head to look at Captain Meng who was dragging his legs towards them from a distance. Captain Meng's speed was really touching, and he was still some distance away from them.
Teacher Song's head was covered with Ji Feng's saliva. He rolled wetly in the sand. Layer after layer of sand stuck to his head. Now his head was like a sand ball. Teacher Song, with a head full of sand, protested loudly.
"0112, what exactly do you want to do? This approach won't solve any problems. Please be rational."
Lan Hu didn't throw him out again. "Why are you the only one who can take us away from Planet A62?"
Teacher Song really wanted to roll his eyes. Only words like these could keep a prisoner who was determined to escape from prison. Otherwise, what else could he say?
"I am now the most powerful person on Planet A62, and my flying ship does not have a criminal identification system installed..."
Lan Hu: "Are you fucking crazy? You're fooling us with this kind of talk. Do you think I'm a fool?"
After all, he had escaped from prison once, and he knew that even if he boarded the flying ship, he would not be able to fly out of Planet A62.
"No, don't throw me, don't throw me again." Teacher Song has been traumatized by being thrown around like a ball.
His jaws clashed with each other as he kept saying, "I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying to you."
"You're just fucking lying to me, thinking I'm a fool." Lan Hu threw him high and far, and when Ji Feng picked him up again, his voice was almost crying.
"I lied to you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The prisoners in the training camp can't leave Planet A62. I shouldn't have lied..."
His voice was stuttering, as if the machine would freeze at any moment. Lan Hu frowned impatiently and interrupted him, asking fiercely, "Where's the core? What's going on?"
Teacher Song was afraid of being thrown out again, so he quickly replied, "The core is the concentrated technology of our ancestors. As long as you get the core, you can understand the civilization and technology of our ancestors."
Jiang He asked him, "Have any pioneer remains been discovered on other planets?"
"No." He knew the answer to this question. Teacher Song's voice became more normal due to his confidence. "After the Cataclysm, civilization was disrupted, and all the remains of our ancestors were destroyed. The core of the Pioneer ruins discovered on Planet A62 is vital to humanity. I hope you can give it to me. I will petition the higher-ups to allow you to leave Planet A62 in recognition of your significant contributions."
Jiang He stared at him and said slowly, "You are not an official, how can you apply to the higher-ups?"
Her tone was firm, a statement, not a question.
Teacher Song's eyes froze and his mouth opened and closed. Perhaps he was too frightened to utter a single syllable.
But Jiang He didn't care about his reaction. She glanced at A, and A threw the crystal in his hand in front of Teacher Song.
Jiang He asked him: "Is this the core of what you are talking about?"
Teacher Song, who was originally extremely panicked, felt like he was on a thrilling roller coaster. From being terrified to now being extremely excited, his eyes were fixed on the transparent crystal with excitement, and he repeated in a stuttering voice, "I, I need to use the equipment on my body to test. I can't get the data with my eyes."
Lan Hu shouted and rushed in front of Teacher Song's slow-crawling body, biting the other's neck and rushed back.
He is very fast, like two extremes compared to the slow Captain Meng.
A piece of the neck was bitten off by Ji Feng, and Jiang He suspected that it was intentional. Therefore, Teacher Song could not press the head back onto the neck, and had to keep the head and the body separated.
While Teacher Song was controlling his body to check the crystal, Captain Meng finally walked behind Jiang He.
He raised half his arm and slapped Jiang He on the head, his voice making a "buzzing" noise, "Don't hurt Teacher Song."
A next to him threw a dagger, cutting off the remaining half of his arm.
Ah Jing picked up his dagger. A glanced at him and said, "Have you learned it?"
Ah Jing nodded and shook his head. He said, "I don't harm living things."
Even though Golden Thorn turned into a human, he did not learn the cruelty and choices of humans. He naively wanted to not harm anything as he did before, and perhaps he even wanted to save everything.
A sneered, unwilling to pay any more attention to him. He stood up and walked to Captain Meng, using a dagger to pry open the mechanical shell under his simulated skin.
Captain Meng tried to dodge, but most of his mechanical elements were damaged. No matter how hard he resisted, he was easily subdued by A. He could only warn with a buzzing voice: "Let me go! Do you know who I am? You bastard, let me go!"
Teacher Song ignored his companions' predicament. He concentrated on studying the crystal, muttering in confusion, "No, this is not the core. It doesn't have any energy."
After confirming again, his voice turned cold: "Give me the real core."
His eyes rolled and he looked at Jiang He, "0112, I need the real core. Don't try to fool me with this useless thing."
The mechanical hand that was holding the crystal tightened in anger. With his strength, the crystal would be crushed into powder in an instant.
"Bang!" The crystal slipped out of Teacher Song's mechanical hand and fell in front of Jiang He.
Teacher Song's five fingers were all deformed and damaged because he squeezed them too hard.
A pried out a few small silver balls from Captain Meng.
"It's a micro-bullet." Lan Hu frowned. "Damn it, how could this guy bring in a micro-bullet?"
"They are not human." Jiang He picked up the crystal in front of him and put it into his pocket. Although everyone said that this thing was ordinary and no different from ordinary stones, Jiang He always felt that it was different from stones.
She explained to the bewildered Lan Hu, "Teacher Song and his men are robots. They disguised themselves as robots and impersonated the real Teacher Song to sneak into the training camp. The energy from their cores can make the ruins work, and it's extremely rare and valuable to robots."
Although there is only one letter difference between robot and mechanical man, their meanings are very different. Mechanical man is still human, but robot is a machine.
The Federation does not allow robots to be covered with artificial skin, nor does it allow robots to be humanoid. Most robots on the market are single-channel service robots, and they look strange in shape.
Everything is evolving, including robots. Although the Federation has extremely strict control over robots and does not allow advanced technology to run on robots, it does not allow robots to be made to resemble humans.
But it still can't stop the robots from awakening their self-awareness.
"Damn, I was wondering who the hell would transform themselves into this ugly mess." Lan Hu suddenly realized: "It turns out they're not human at all."
Jiang He turned her head to look at A. She could tell that Teacher Song was not a robot because she had fought against Brother Huo and had some basic knowledge about robots. She was completely sure after she tricked Teacher Song. But what about A? How did he guess that?
Suddenly, Jifeng in Lan Hu's arms rolled up, looked at the sand dunes in the distance, and made a gurgling sound of anxiety.
Jiang He and A stood up together, looking solemn.
The next moment, dense swarms of deformed insects surged over the hills like a tide and rushed towards their location.
Lan Hu held Ji Feng in his arms with one hand, grabbed Jiang He's arm with the other hand and carried him on his shoulder, then turned around and ran away.
Ji Feng raised his head and stared at Jiang He expressionlessly.
Jiang He met its wary and unhappy gaze, and instantly understood its thoughts. This girl wanted to be an only child and wanted to be loved by her male mother.
"Let me down, I can run." Jiang He said to Lan Hu, "The barbecue we're eating is about to get spilled."
Lan Hu: "Shut up."
Jiang He looked at Ji Feng helplessly.
Ji Feng became even angrier, with a ferocious look as if he wanted to eat Jiang He.
Jiang He: ...Doesn't this guy have any natural enemies? Why does he treat her, his "good sister", as an imaginary enemy?
The mutated insects rushed into the tide at a very fast speed and soon caught up with everyone.
Jiang He was surprised to find that these deformed insects had evolved. Their tails had become two, their upper bodies could stand upright, and even the shape of their bodies had changed significantly.
"A Jing." Jiang He called out to A Jing, "Are you scared?"
Others have nowhere to hide, but Ah Jing can return to her body.
"I'm not afraid." Ah Jing said cheerfully, "It's really interesting."
Jiang He: ...Okay, as long as you are happy.
When they were about to be caught up, the group turned around and confronted the deformed insects, fighting hard.
The fight lasted until sunset, when the mutant insects burrowed into the sand and disappeared.
Several people collapsed exhausted in the sand dunes littered with broken limbs, too tired to move at all.
Lan Hu suddenly said, "Hey, there are so many stars here, they look beautiful."
Jiang He totally agreed.
Lan Hu continued, "Could the core in that robot's mouth be these stars?"
He continued, "Such a beautiful sky is definitely not the sky of A62."
This imagination is quite unbeatable.
Jiang He thought Lan Hu was talking to her, so she turned around to respond, but found that Lan Hu and Ji Feng were facing each other, and Ji Feng was shaking his tail and nodding in response.
Jiang He: ...
She turned her head and met A's eyes. When A didn't speak, he was as quiet as a robot.
She asked, "How do you know that Teacher Song and Captain Meng are not robots?"
A: "People have many desires, but they only want the core."
When people encounter danger or difficulties, they adjust their desires in time, and most of them take their own lives as the bottom line. However, even though Teacher Song and Captain Meng looked so broken, they were still obsessed with getting the core.
Jiang He: "If they can even sneak into a place like a training camp, other places in the Federation must have been infiltrated by robots."
A didn't agree, but stared at her quietly.
Jiang He then realized that as a heinous criminal, saying such words was completely contrary to his character.
Violate the character setting?
These four words made her heart skip a beat.
It feels weird, but I can't tell what's weird about it.
The temperature in the desert dropped rapidly at night. Everyone endured the fatigue and got up. They dug a hole, built a simple house with the corpses of the deformed insects around it, and buried sand on top of the deformed insects. They huddled in the simple sand house, barely able to resist the cold.
Ah Jing was on guard first, and the three men and one bug were so tired that they fell into a deep sleep.
In a daze.
Jiang He saw a line of bold and large white words that she could recognize appear again on the transparent screen that had not changed for a long time.
[A sandstorm will appear in five minutes. Do you want to activate the protective shield?]
Below this line of text were options of "Yes" and "No," with the fonts larger and bolder, as if they had been specially enlarged for fear that she would click the wrong one.
Jiang He reached out and clicked the big "yes".
A new line of white text appears:
[The protective shield can only accommodate two people/beasts. Please choose the person/beast that enters the protective shield.]
A box with options appears below the text.
[An orc blue tiger that activates the male mother's nature but will die early]
[Golden Thorn Whale with long golden hair looks like an angel on earth, but will eventually turn evil]
[Gas, the infant form of the Zerg Queen, who seeks exclusive love from her mother but will destroy humanity in the future]
[The robot king Xiaosen, who is cunning, vicious, and good at disguising multiple personalities, is anti-human and anti-federation and wants to destroy the ruins]
Jiang He: ...I recognize all these words, but when they are put together I suddenly don’t understand them. It must be because there are no commas separating them.
Wait, wait, what is this?
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