Chapter 36: The Rebellion of the Machines (VIII)



While the kitchen staff at the Valley Base were busy serving the dishes, bringing pots of purple porridge and a small plate of green paste to everyone's table, the black-haired boy stood up and coughed lightly, as if he was about to speak. Mr. Claire clapped his hands, then signaled everyone to be quiet and listen to the speech of Mr. Yi, a senior missionary of the Salvation Alliance.

Black-haired boy: "Earlier today, I promised Mrs. Claire that I would borrow the food from your valley base, namely purple algae, and then repay it with other food a day later. This is because: intelligent cabbage can not only control the surrounding machinery but also transform food into each other! In other words, as long as you provide the purple algae in your hands to the intelligent cabbage, they can use their roots to transform into any food you want to eat!" "

Really? Can we give a bowl of purple algae to the intelligent cabbage and it will turn it into a portion of green algae for us?" "

No way? How can purple algae turn into precious green algae!"

The members of the valley base present below were discussing.

At this time, the kitchen served a delicious delicacy to thank Xiaoyi and Huo Li for their careful preparation - mice were also served!

The two survivors who were acting as waiters for the time being each held a large plate with a round lid in both hands, walked up with pride, and respectfully placed the plate in front of the two people. Then they solemnly opened the lid!

The survivors of the valley base sitting below the stage exclaimed loudly as the lid was opened! The two temporary waiters also looked at Huo Li and Xiao Yi's reactions with expectation. The black-haired boy looked at the two white steamed rats in his plate that were carefully arranged in a big letter shape, and tried to squeeze out a smile.

The audience was already furious:

"Wow! Each person got two mice!"

"Five years ago, the five warriors who stole a large amount of fuel and weapons from the oil field each got a mouse leg, and the five of them shared one!"

"Oh my God! The mice this time were steamed! What a time-consuming and fuel-consuming way to eat!"

"Yes, I'm 34 years old this year, and I have never eaten food cooked by any cooking method other than porridge since I was born. I wish I could eat steamed green algae once in my life!" "

Mr. Huo and Mr. Yi are so lucky!"

"Shh! Don't talk nonsense, The two of them saved our entire base!"

But some people still remembered what the black-haired boy had just said about the ability of intelligent cabbage to transform any food: "If I want intelligent cabbage to turn purple algae into steamed rats, can intelligent cabbage do it?"

The black-haired boy listened to the discussions below, took a deep breath, and expressed his helplessness about the poor imagination of the survivors in the valley base about food. Fortunately, he did not let them play freely, otherwise today would have become a steamed rat feast for everyone with his supernatural power!

The black-haired boy was too lazy to explain to the survivors, but directly took all the black silk out of the space, manipulated them along the aisles between the dozens of rows of long tables, and grew rows of intelligent cabbage. Then he said to everyone loudly:

"Now you can pour the purple algae in your bowl directly onto the root system of the smart cabbage, and I will arrange everyone's lunch! Yes, that's it, and then hand the bowls and plates to the silk, so that they can be used to put new lunch later."

Most of the survivors, led by Xiaoyi, began to irrigate the roots of the smart cabbage with purple algae porridge. Some people simply handed the large bowls filled with purple algae porridge directly to the black vines under the cabbage, and then the bowls were wrapped up by the black silk.

Only a very small number of people had doubts about the "food conversion function" of the smart cabbage. They always cherished food and were afraid that something would go wrong in the conversion process and lose their lunch today! But seeing the green algae still well placed on the table, those food lovers were no longer so attached to the purple algae. After hesitating for a while, they still did as they were told.

Two minutes later, all the food was transformed. One by one, the big black balls wrapped in food climbed onto the earthen dining table with their roots. Every survivor in the valley base looked at the black eggs in front of them with some novelty and trepidation. Then more than 4,000 black eggs in the venue simultaneously opened their bowls to reveal the food in the bowls, then quickly removed the dining table, burrowed into the soil and disappeared.

But everyone present was attracted by the bowl of fragrant food in front of them! Everyone's bowl contained a roasted rabbit leg that was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, a piece of fragrant and soft butter bread, and 7 big red and round cherries!

Although there were not many ingredients, in order to avoid spending more than they earned, the lunch that the black-haired boy transformed was very simple. But the appearance of these three things completely broke the perception of food among the survivors in the valley! Even the Claire brothers and sisters sitting on the stage looked at the brown, red and yellow combination in the bowl in amazement, and hesitated to eat it!

Miss Claire stared blankly at the food in the bowl, muttering, "What are these?"

Huo Li, who was sitting next to her, explained the names of the food to the brother and sister competently. The first group of greedy survivors in the audience could not wait to grab the food with their hands and try to put it in their mouths, and then they were immediately conquered by this top-notch delicacy! While sighing vaguely in their mouths, they kept stuffing the remaining food into their mouths with their hands!

After a while, the entire valley hall was filled with the sound of everyone wolfing down their food. No one cared about anything else and was completely dominated by their appetite. They began to eat voraciously!

The black-haired boy, who had no interest in the food, looked worriedly at the two precious steamed rats in his bowl, and turned to Huo Li, who also did not eat anything, and said:

"The seven rats that have been bred in the Valley Base for so many years were slaughtered to entertain us. It would be too rude not to eat them, but... can you eat them?"

Huo Li looked at the black-haired boy and answered objectively: "If it was stir-fried, I wouldn't mind, but these two are steamed, and there's no salt..."

The black-haired boy also stared at the rat and thought: "If it wasn't so rotten because of the steaming, I could still use my supernatural powers to save it, but the DNA of these four has been unwound, so I..."

Huo Li: "It doesn't have to be the original four, right?"

Three minutes later, most people had wolfed down the food in their bowls. After a full meal, the Claire siblings turned their attention back to the two distinguished guests. After eating real food, they were ashamed of their rude behavior of treating steamed rats as treasures. They were about to tell the two distinguished guests not to force themselves to swallow rats in order not to disappoint the residents of the valley! They actually found that Mr. Huo and Mr. Yi's plates had become clean!

Then, the black-haired boy took out four furry little mice from his arms, stood up with both hands, and handed them to Mr. Claire solemnly, saying to everyone:

"Thank you for the hospitality of the Valley Base. We have eaten these four delicious mice. At the same time, in order to repay the efforts of the Valley Base, we decided to return the four mice!" The black-haired boy pointed to the four little mice that were now circling in Mr. Claire's hands and continued: "We, the missioners of the Salvation Alliance, also sincerely hope that you can jointly develop this great cause of raising livestock!"

With the enthusiastic applause and cheers of 4,000 people, everyone ended this happy lunch, and all the representatives unanimously agreed to hand over all the 20 tons of food reserves in the Valley Base in exchange for the same weight of delicious food provided by the intelligent cabbage. The black-haired boy immediately transformed the 20 tons of purple algae he had just obtained into black silk, and then planted the intelligent cabbage all over the mountains and took the time to photosynthesize, and the patrol guards were responsible for guarding it.

After everyone took a short rest, the public trial of the Valley Base was about to be held in the valley in the afternoon. At this time, everyone restrained the excitement and joyful smiles brought by the lunch, and their faces became heavy. After all, today, because of the rebellion of their own people in the valley, a disaster that almost destroyed the entire base was brought about!

Unlike the collective vote in the morning, this time the public trial was attended by not only representatives, but also thousands of valley residents, except for the necessary guards. Alexander and a dozen of his men were tied up with their hands behind their backs and taken to a platform made of huge stones. Amid the crowd's anger, the female leader Claire first read out the charges against the former guard captain Alexander:

"In order to seize control of the Valley Base, the former captain of the Guard, Alexander, instructed a dozen of his men to fabricate the false news that the members of the Death Squad led the armed helicopter to the Valley Base! In the process of inciting the Guard to usurp power, he locked more than 300 wounded members of the Death Squad outside the cave, causing them to be discovered by the reconnaissance aircraft on daily patrols, which almost resulted in the location of the Valley Base being exposed!

If it weren't for the efforts of Mr. Huo, Mr. Yi and Wisdom Cabbage of the Salvation Alliance, the two drones would probably have been shot down by machine guns. All the more than 300 people blocking the way outside were wiped out, and a large number of reinforcements were called in within a short period of time, and the more than 4,000 people in the Valley Base would be wiped out!

For Alexander's numerous crimes, according to the base rules of the Valley Base, he will be sentenced to death! Brothers and sisters who have no objection to this verdict, please raise your right hands! "

The survivors who hated Alexander's actions, especially the anti-mechanical resistance team members and their families, immediately raised their hands, and the majority of craftsmen also raised their hands in agreement in fear of losing the base.

Those guards who once regarded Alexander as their leader and had always been dissatisfied with the Claire brothers saw that most people raised their hands, knowing that the situation was over, and fearing that everyone would regard them as the remnants of a conspiracy to rebel, they also raised their hands. In the end, only a few guards were still insisting, while the number of people who agreed with the verdict had already reached more than 80%.

"I declare that Alexander has been sentenced to death by the public trial of the Valley Base!"

Then the remaining dozen people were taken out one by one, and according to the regulations of the Valley Base, they were sentenced to permanent expulsion!

"Now, the death row prisoner Alexander will be executed by shooting!" Mr. Claire said in a deep voice.

Under Mr. Claire's order, two soldiers with guns pressed Alexander, whose hands were tied behind his back, onto the stone platform and forced him to kneel on his knees, while a soldier behind him pulled the bolt and aimed his gun.

For decades, the enemies of mankind have always been machines, and they have never turned their guns around to shoot their companions. Some of the soft-hearted survivors in the audience lowered their heads, not wanting to witness this scene with their own eyes. At this moment, a hoarse female voice suddenly disrupted the execution scene:

"Stop! You executioners!"

The eyes of the whole audience were suddenly focused on a woman with golden hair holding a baby in her arms and a little girl of three or four years old in her other hand. She continued to accuse with tears in her eyes:

"My husband Alexander once made such great efforts to defend the valley base! We migrated all the way from the lake, and it was my husband Alexander who chose these mountains as our current home. Later, in order to resist the detection and invasion of machines, he personally formed a guard team! He has guarded us for nearly 20 years! For twenty years, our enemies have always been machines, but today, are you going to turn your guns around and take my husband's life?"

The blonde woman cried here, and her two children also cried and called for daddy!

Many survivors saw this scene of life and death, and they couldn't bear it. The soldier standing behind Alexander also hesitated and half-put down his gun, obviously not wanting to bear the crime of firing the first shot in a fratricide. Alexander, who had been kneeling on the boulder like a dead ashes, now smelled a glimmer of hope. He immediately put on a sad face and shouted to everyone in a trembling voice:

"Today I was just too worried about the safety of the Valley Base! I really didn't know that the reconnaissance plane was not following the brave members of the Suicide Squad, so I made a big mistake! But considering that I have dedicated so many years to the Valley Base, I beg everyone to give me a way out, wuwuwu!

Jess, Tom, Lilith! Have you forgotten that I once saved your lives? Are you going to watch me lose my life today because of this mistake that was rescued in time and no one was hurt?"

Tears flowed down Alexander's dirty cheeks, and he looked so pitiful.

Mr. Clare saw that the situation was about to be taken back under the control of the dramatic couple, and the soldier was reluctant to fire, so he had no choice but to draw his pistol and quickly walked behind Alexander.

The sharp-eyed Mrs. Alexander saw this scene and immediately cried out:

"Claire, as our leader, are you so impatient to kill your former comrades! As the self-proclaimed first person to resist the machines, are you going to fire the first shot at humans now!

Now the human beings on our planet D are only one millionth of the number before the end of the world, and everyone is the hope for the continuation of mankind! Alexander's mistakes have never caused a single death, but now as a leader, are you going to do something to harm humanity?"

At this time, the people in the audience began to discuss, and they hated what Alexander did, but they were unwilling to declare that they wanted to see another human being die. Everyone present hesitated and no one was willing to fire a gun personally.

So the execution, which should have been carried out smoothly, came to a standstill. Alexander on the stage saw this opportunity and wanted to say a few more words to inspire people and get a better sentence for himself, preferably to make up for his crime! Alexander's mind raced, organizing his words...

At the same time, Huo Li's voice rang in the black-haired boy's mind: "Xiaoyi, if we don't take action, Alexander will use the view that Claire and his sister are colluding with machines to harm humans to stir up people's hearts. And now we need to establish the absolute trust of humans in the mechanical warriors controlled by me, so that we can carry out the next salvation work. Do you want me to control Alexander and make him shut up?"

The black-haired boy answered concisely with consciousness:

"No."

Then he jumped onto the platform.

"Has this Alexander been legally sentenced to death by your Valley Base?"

The black-haired boy asked loudly, looking at the Claire brothers and sisters who were riding a tiger and it was difficult to get off. The brother and sister didn't know what it meant, but they nodded in agreement. After getting their approval, the black-haired boy looked at the people in the audience, and the survivors below also answered in confusion:

"Yes, Mr. Yi."

"Really?"

"It's the death penalty."

After receiving a positive answer, the black-haired boy nodded with satisfaction, pulled out a pistol from his waist, and pulled the trigger directly at Alexander's head, who was still organizing his words of provocation!

Bang! After a gunshot, Alexander fell on the stone platform and twitched slightly. Bright red blood mixed with brain matter sprayed and flowed slowly on the uneven stone surface...

The scene suddenly became silent, and everyone was stunned with fear!

The black-haired boy remained calm, as if he had just hit a target. He put the gun back on his waist and said to everyone:

"Okay, now the execution procedure has been successfully completed. Since time is running out, let's start discussing more important things!"


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