Chapter 517: Rusty Steel Angel
Whoosh!
The wind and sand rolled, and the whole world was gray and yellow.
In front of Suxia is a deserted industrial city.
The factories in the city have long been dilapidated, many chimneys have collapsed, and the tall transmission towers have decayed. Everything is covered with a layer of barren yellow sand, giving it a strong sense of wasteland.
“Rustle…rustle…”
Su Xia stepped on the soft yellow sand, facing the wind and sand, with her eyes slightly narrowed and her hair shaking, she moved forward step by step in the city, looking for signs of life.
The main roads in the city no longer resemble their original appearance, with a thick layer of sand at least thirty centimeters deep.
There are many abandoned and dilapidated cars on the road, with only rusty shells left.
Not long after walking, Su Xia arrived at the lakeside.
The lake water is emerald green, and there are some low green vegetation growing on the shore, adding a bit of vitality to this desolate world.
At this moment, Su Xia suddenly noticed that there was a figure sitting on a tall building not far away.
"robot?"
Su Xia frowned slightly and looked at it carefully.
[Steel Angels: The first generation of intelligent machine butlers, mainly used to serve human families... After the war, they were not recognized by the mechanical race, but also not accepted by the human race. Most of them were destroyed, and a few were scattered around the world.]
"The first generation of intelligent machines?"
The history of this planet emerged in Su Xia's mind.
Before the Age of Psionic Powers, there was the Age of Intelligent Powers.
That era was so short that many people have forgotten it.
At that time, technology companies had already created robots that were intelligent enough, and their language, movements, and other aspects were almost the same as those of ordinary humans.
Iron Angel is a product launched by a certain technology company.
However, after the advent of the Psionic Age, the mechanical race driven by psychic power rose up, racial war broke out, and the Intelligent Age was forcibly ended.
The mechanical race are all psychic creatures and do not recognize these old, electricity-driven intelligent machines.
And because of the racial war, humans no longer trust these machine butlers.
"To see a robot butler here is indeed a forgotten land... Perhaps there are more forgotten creatures here?"
With this thought in mind, Su Xia took off into the air and flew towards the tall building.
Soon, he landed on the roof.
Su Xia looked at the robot.
This is a rusty steel angel, sitting on the edge of a tall building. His body is in tatters, his metal shell is full of pits, and the wires of the left arm module are exposed, some of which are even broken.
"Someone's coming again." He sat there with his back to Su Xia, muttering softly. There was a crackling sound of electricity in his voice, and the sound-generating components seemed to have aged.
"Again? Has anyone come here before?" Su Xia walked to his side and slowly sat down, with her legs dangling over the edge of the tall building.
"Many people have come and gone over the years," said the Iron Angel.
"Has anyone come here a month ago?" Su Xia asked him.
"Yes, a team."
"where are they?"
"have no idea."
"Which direction did they go?"
"have no idea."
“…”
This steel angel seemed a little dull, staring into the distance.
Su Xia asked some questions, and most of the answers he got from him were "I don't know". It seemed that he was not as smart as the psychic robot.
Most of the time, the robot talks to itself, talking about past events.
With a dull look in his eyes, he stared at the lake in the distance and murmured in a low voice: "This place used to be very beautiful, the lake water was clear, there were many children who liked to play by the lake, and there were many cars on the road by the lake..."
Su Xia couldn't get the answer she wanted, so she had to ask him, "What are you doing here?"
He replied: "Waiting for others."
"Who are you waiting for?"
"my family."
The robot slowly raised its rusty head and blinked, as if thinking.
"They left and asked me to wait here for a while. They had to send the child out first and come to pick me up later."
"How long have you been waiting?"
"Twenty years."
"How long can you wait?"
"have no idea."
“…”
The so-called family of this machine butler probably won't come back.
In his programming, the people he serves are his family, but in the eyes of humans, he is just a machine that can be discarded at any time.
"You haven't been here for twenty years. Your judgment process will make you make a new choice, right?" Su Xia asked him.
He thought this robot was too dull. It had been waiting here foolishly for twenty years.
But, to his surprise, the robot suddenly turned around and said to him: "I know they won't come back. I knew it the day they left."
"Then why are you still waiting?" Su Xia asked again.
"You're used to it."
The robot's voice was hoarse, and a crackling sound of electricity appeared from time to time.
He turned his head and looked into the distance, saying, "If I were them, I wouldn't come back either. After all, my so-called feelings are just a piece of data left in the chip..."
"It seems that you are not that dull." Su Xia said.
“Thank you for your compliment.” The robot expressed its gratitude and then said, “I only saw the person you are looking for from a long distance. You should go to the city further ahead. There is a gathering place there. Perhaps you can get the information you want there.”
"Okay, thank you very much!" Su Xia stood up immediately.
"I should thank you. It's been a long time since I had a human to talk to me." The robot looked into the distance and said softly.
Hearing this, Su Xia sat down again and chatted with the robot for a while.
About twenty minutes later, he said goodbye to the robot.
Su Xia continued to move forward, flying close to the edge of the city, facing the wind and sand, and flew towards the city ahead that the robot mentioned.
Along the way, he saw some rusty robots, all abandoned here.
Some robots live in their former homes, cleaning the house every day and wiping the tables, chairs and benches over and over again, as if they are still looking forward to their former family members coming back.
Others, like the robot just now, sit on an abandoned high-rise building, gazing into the empty distance.
Not long after, Su Xia arrived at the gathering place mentioned by the robot.
The so-called gathering place is actually a high-rise building.
Many forgotten creatures gather here and live together.
There are about a hundred creatures here, which is not a lot. Most of them are abandoned robots, and the rest are humans with mutilated, deformed, and weird limbs.
These human deformities are not caused by radioactive substances. Most of them are congenital, and a few are acquired disabilities caused by car accidents, wars, etc.
Some of them have atrophied hands and feet, some are short in stature, and some have mutilated facial features.
They are discriminated against by society, excluded by their peers, unable to find friends, and feel lonely even if they live in a big city. They have to endure all kinds of looks every day, and finally choose to come to this forgotten land.
Su Xia entered the gathering place and found a man with disabled legs. She asked him about the situation there.
"This is my home. I have found many friends here and gained recognition here." The disabled man said to Su Xia.
"But there are radioactive materials here," Su Xia said to him.
"It's nothing more than living a few years less." The disabled man smiled. "In the outside world, living is the same as being dead. It's better to come here... Friend, what about you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to find someone." Su Xia took out a photo of her father and showed it to the disabled man.
Around the disabled man, several other deformed people also came over to take a look.
"It turns out to be him . He was indeed here, a month ago." said the disabled man.
"Yes, I've seen him too." said a deformed man next to him.
"Do you know where he went?" Su Xia asked them.
"this……"
"You have to ask Lao An. He talked a lot with the old man in the photo. He should know where the old man went."
"Yes, go ask Lao An."
The Lao An they were talking about was a robot who had recently arrived in the Forgotten Land.
"Lao An is also a robot born in the intelligent era, but he was not abandoned by his buyer," said the disabled man. "His buyer is a captain of a fishing boat who often takes him out to sea to fish."
"But not long ago, the fishing boat capsized in the storm. All the people on the boat died. He was the only one who survived. He was very sad and had no other place to go, so he came to the Land of Oblivion."
After everyone's introduction, Su Xia learned about the life of Old An.
In the corner of the gathering place, Su Xia found Lao An.
This intelligent robot is also very old, and its body is in tatters. The sea breeze has corroded its body.
He was sitting in a corner, holding a satellite phone in one hand and a crumpled piece of paper with contact numbers written on it in the other, making a call.
Su Xia stood by for a while without disturbing him.
During this period, Lao An made several phone calls, and each time he changed his voice through his voice module, making it rough, hoarse, or clear, disguising himself as different people to report his safety to the person on the other end of the phone.
"Hey, honey, I'm at sea. It's a nice day today..."
"Dad, my work has been going smoothly recently, don't worry..."
"Little guy, how are your studies going recently?"
“…”
After finishing the call, he sighed deeply, put down the satellite phone dejectedly, squatted in the corner, his face full of sadness.
Everyone on board was dead, leaving him alone as the machine.
He couldn't do much, he could only use different voices, disguise himself as the crew members, call the crew members' families, and make the people on the other end of the phone think that the crew members were still alive.
Every crew member is the backbone of the family . In these difficult times, once something happens to the backbone, the whole family will collapse.
"What's the point of doing this? They will get the news eventually." Su Xia walked to his side and slowly squatted down.
"I don't know either……"
Old An looked dejected and shook his head.
He just wanted to bring hope to the families of those sailors, even if it was false hope.
Maybe you can pretend for two or three months, or maybe even longer, like half a year, but it will eventually be shattered.
"I can give you some money and you can distribute it to the families of those crew members. In this era, money is also hope." Su Xia said to the robot.
"What do you need me to do?" asked Lao An.
"Help me find someone."
Su Xia took out the photo and placed it in front of Lao An.
Lao An took a look and recognized the person in the photo. He said to Su Xia, "It's Master Dad. He came to our place last month, but he left again."
"Where did he go?" Su Xia asked him.
"Who are you to Master Dad?" Lao An seemed a little worried and asked another question.
"I am his apprentice."
"So it's you... Master Dad said that his apprentice might come after us, and he asked me to tell him..."
"What do you want to tell me?"
"He said they are doing well, so don't worry. Go back and guard the pharmacy."
Dad had anticipated the current situation.
Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu probably don't have the ability to investigate here, but Su Xia is different.
As long as he is willing to put in the effort, he will definitely find this place.
So Dad asked the robot to leave this sentence.
As for whether Su Xia listens or not, that is his own business.
"Master Dad also said that if it's the thinner-looking disciple, he's probably not going to be obedient, so he asked me to tell him... If you want to find him, you can go to the center of this area, and someone will be waiting for you there."
"I see. Thank you."
New information has been obtained, pointing to the central area of this forgotten land.
Su Xia left some money to the old robot and then left.
He kept going without rest and flew for nearly an hour in the dusty sky before finally arriving at the center of the Forgotten Land.
This central area is no different from other areas. All you see is desolation, and the vicissitudes and ruins are scattered by the wind among the abandoned buildings.
This is also a gathering place, but there are more creatures gathered here.
Su Xia's life-sensing glasses captured information on more than a thousand living things.
"This must be a large gathering place." Su Xia thought to himself.
He took a quick look and found that there were not only robots and humans, but also a kind of terrifying humanoid monster, just like the monsters in the underground laboratory in Coral City.
"Hybrid?"
Su Xia's eyes narrowed. There was actually a monster that was a hybrid of a human and an insect here.
Moreover, those monsters seemed to be conscious and could live together with other creatures.
That's strange.
Did Dad find a solution to his insanity?
"If there really is such a method, then... wouldn't it be possible to mass-produce these monsters?"
With doubts, Su Xia stepped on the yellow sand and walked into the area step by step.
As soon as he walked in, he felt countless prying eyes.
On both sides of the road, in those seemingly empty and deserted reinforced concrete high-rise buildings, there were pairs of eyes hiding behind the windows, looking at him, the uninvited guest.
His arrival seemed to disrupt the harmony and peace here.
In less than half a minute, a short human walked out of a building beside the road, looked at Su Xia cautiously, and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to see my teacher." Su Xia replied calmly.
"Who is your teacher ?"
"A pharmacist."
"Come with me."
The exchange between the two was brief.
The short man waved his hand, motioning Su Xia to follow him, and then turned and walked into the building.
