Chapter 20 This is a very long story
"Divara, there seems to be an underground building over there. We can go there to take shelter from the rain."
"Well, let's walk faster, Popola."
The twins supported each other as they advanced in the heavy rain. The bandage on Divara's ankle had already been soaked, but her body was waterproof, so she was not afraid of water entering the internal circuit.
But it wouldn't hurt to have a place to shelter from the rain and take a rest for a while.
"Wait, Divara, there are people in that underground base."
Popola suddenly stopped and found Xia Yu standing at the door. Because androids look exactly like humans, Popola mistook Xia Yu at the door for his android companion.
With Popola's reminder, Divara also noticed Xia Yu at the door, and the two hesitated whether to continue entering the underground base.
Although they are the same kind of artificial humans, sometimes the persecution from their own kind is more chilling than a violent storm.
"He is waving to us. Maybe we can trust him."
Divara suddenly said. Hearing this, Bopora squinted and looked carefully. The person in the rain was indeed waving.
Although she wanted to observe for a while longer, Boppola glanced at Diwala's bandaged ankle and without hesitation, she supported Diwala and walked forward.
"Oh? It's actually the two of them?"
As the twins moved forward, the rain covering the sky could not block their figures. The fiery red hair and the identical facial features instantly reminded Xia Yu of the identities of the two artificial humans.
Divala and Popola are twin androids They are one of the first androids to appear in the era when humans still exist. They are also one of the most tragic androids.
Divala and Popola also appeared in the story of NieR: Automata, but in order to atone for their sins, they used their lives to help 9S, one of the protagonists, and finally found relief in death.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu smiled lightly. Since he was here, let him change the tragic future of these two people. The world was already tragic enough, and it would be better if there were fewer tragic stories.
Not long after, the twins walked through the rain and came to the steel passage. Their originally distinctive red hair was now wet into strands, sticking tightly to their cheeks or clothes.
However, the clothes did not stick to the skin like in the anime, and they were not translucent. It would be better to say that the anime was already exaggerated . The kind of wet clothes that stick to the skin can only be seen in anime.
"Thank you for letting us come in to take shelter from the rain, thank you very much."
Xia Yu smiled silently and didn't say anything. He didn't understand what the twins said just now. That's right, after all, this is the future world, it's impossible for them to still be speaking Chinese.
However, this did not affect his body language. Xia Yu casually waved his hand to let the twins follow him, and he walked into the passage first.
As he walked, he was still thinking about how to inadvertently reveal his human identity and then let the twins explain everything to him, otherwise it would be too strange for a human from the old era to know everything.
What's more, he set himself up as an ancient human who was accidentally awakened, and the continuous operation of the hibernation chamber allowed him to successfully survive to the present future.
Well... it's outrageous. After all, how can a hibernation chamber continue to operate for tens of millions of years? But he really can't think of a better excuse than this.
Besides, he really woke up from the hibernation capsule, so he was not just talking nonsense.
The twins behind Xia Yu were exchanging eye contact. Because they had been with each other for a long time, just the changes in their eyes could make them know what the other was thinking.
But no matter how much the two of them guessed, they could not guess that the people in front of them were long-extinct humans.
After a while, the passage came to an end.
"Come, sit wherever you want. My place is a bit shabby, but there are still places to sit."
"?"
Hearing this, Popola and Divara looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
What is the other party...saying?
"Popo La, can you understand what the other person is saying?"
"I searched my memory bank and found that the other party should be speaking ancient Chinese in human civilization, but how could he speak it?"
"We have this language in our language program. We just need to load it."
After listening to what Popola said, Divara quickly searched the memory bank in his mind, and soon, he found the language program.
As artificial humans that appeared in the human era, they have recorded almost all the languages in human civilization. It is impossible that they did not include Chinese, one of the three major languages in the world.
"Ahem, why are you speaking Chinese?"
After the loading was complete, Popola tried to ask her questions in this unfamiliar language.
Hearing this, Xia Yu smiled again. He knew that the other party must have a Chinese program. The artificial humans admired humans so much that it was impossible for them not to preserve all the language programs of humans.
Now, he can reveal his human identity without being noticed.
"Because I am Chinese, I speak Chinese. So where are you from? I have never heard of your language."
"people?"
The moment they heard this word, both Popola and Divara were extremely shocked.
"You...you are human?"
"Is there a problem?" Xia Yu showed some doubts, "Aren't you human?"
"No, that's not right. The human adults had already..." Popola shook her head and denied it. No one knew the truth better than them . She stared at Xia Yu with a stern face and said in a bad tone.
"Why are you pretending to be a human? You are blaspheming the Creator!"
"Wait, Popola!" Just as Popola asked, Divara suddenly pulled her body and pointed to the hibernation capsule in the center of the room.
“Look at that!”
Although the model of the hibernation capsule was not in their records, its structure was not much different. They only took a glance at it and instantly understood the function and principle of the machine.
But precisely because they understand its function and principle, they find it even more unbelievable!
“Excuse me!”
The twins, extremely shocked, suddenly spoke, and then they looked at Xia Yu at the same time. The next moment, two scanning red lights shot .
"Analyzing ingredients..."
"Oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen..."
"Phosphorus, sulfur, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, chlorine..."
“…”
"Analysis completed!"
Soon, the twins retracted their scanning rays, but at the same time their bodies began to tremble and the look in their eyes began to change.
"Three parts excitement, three parts respect, three parts guilt, and one part admiration. Wow, it's another fan-shaped chart."
Xia Yu felt uncomfortable with the twins' fan-shaped gaze, and then waved his hand and said, "I told you I'm a human being, what? Do you believe it now?"
"I'm sorry, great human, we were wrong to have doubted you just now!" Popola and Divara suddenly knelt on one knee at the same time and said loudly.
Xia Yu: "...My dear, please stand up."
"By the way, my name is Xia Yu. You don't have to call me the great human. After all, I'm just an ordinary human being who was lucky enough to come to this era through the hibernation capsule."
"What era is it now? Why do you call me Great Human? What about other humans?"
After hearing these three fatal questions, Divara and Popola shuddered and looked at each other.
Divala: What should we do? Bopola, the human master asked a question. How should we answer?
Popola: Answer the truth. Mistakes cannot be changed. We cannot hide it from you, human.
The two men exchanged glances for a moment, then stood up at the same time, bent down and bowed slightly to Xia Yu.
"My Lord Human, this is a very long story. It all starts with the Gestalt Project."
