Chapter 55 The Essence of Life
The two sides were in a stalemate, A2 and 2B stood in front of Xia Yu, while Xia Yu held the sword on Adam's neck.
Adam, who was controlled by telekinesis, could not move, even his eyes could not move, and he could only watch the scene silently.
Eve wanted to rush in to rescue her brother, but was afraid that Adam would get hurt. Although they were mechanical life forms and could upload their data to the Internet at any time, it was still very troublesome to rebuild a body.
And Eve didn't want her brother to be hurt, even if it meant he would be put in a passive position.
"I surrender!"
After analyzing the current situation, Eve decisively raised her hands and gave a French salute.
Seeing Eve surrender, 2B stepped forward with a sword and placed it across Eve's neck. If Eve made any rash move, she would chop her down without hesitation.
Although it is a bit strange, the neck is indeed the weakness of Adam and Eve. In the game, Adam died by having his waist and abdomen torn apart, and Eve died by having a sword pierced into the head.
Of course, at that time they had been separated from the big network either actively or passively, so they were unable to back up their own data and information, which also led to their actual death.
"Okay, auxiliary machine, transfer the language plug-in to them."
After capturing Adam and Eve, Xia Yu looked at the two mechanical life forms controlled by him and said casually.
"Sir, if it's a mechanical life form..."
Seeing that Xia Yu wanted to talk to the machine lifeform, 9S hurried forward, but Xia Yu stretched out his hand to stop 9S from speaking.
"I know, I know. We can't trust the words of mechanical life forms, right? But I'm very interested in these two. Don't worry, humans value their lives the most. How could I put myself in danger?"
The adults explained it themselves, so 9S could only keep quiet and watch the auxiliary machine move forward to deploy the local area network.
Although Adam and Eve were unable to move, the network inside was not blocked, so when the auxiliary machine deployed the local area network, the two instantly discovered the intention of the auxiliary machine.
Adam accepted the language plug-in easily, but Eve resisted desperately. Seeing this, the auxiliary machine did not force the hack in, but spoke.
"Report, special individual Adam received the plug-in, special individual Eve refused the connection."
"Ask, do you want to forcibly hack in and insert the language plug-in?"
Hearing this, Xia Yu waved his hand: "No need for this, Mr. Adam will convince his brother, right? Mr. Adam?"
"Yes, I will convince him."
After receiving the language plug-in, Adam instantly understood Xia Yu's words. He was very interested in this language of the old times, but now he was more interested in Xia Yu.
He always believed that there was no life-and-death hatred between mechanical life forms and androids, but he also understood that the androids would definitely not think so.
If he was caught, he would definitely be killed by the androids, but now, although humans captured them, they did not intend to kill them.
They were even given the honor of talking to him, which was incredible to Adam. They were obviously a huge threat to humans, and the right thing to do was to get rid of them without hesitation.
But... this is what human beings are like!
Unpredictable, mysterious, and with all kinds of unexpected behaviors, this is the human being that fascinates him. They possess a unique complexity. If the conditions allowed, Adam would have wanted to laugh out loud.
"Eve, accept the plug-in I sent you and install it."
" Okay, brother."
Eve, who admired her brother, completely trusted her brother's words, so in a short while, both brothers loaded the language plug-in.
"Okay, okay, now we can have a good talk."
Xia Yu turned his head to look, found a stone to sit down, then raised his head to look at Adam. Under Xia Yu's gaze, Adam felt that he was the one being looked down upon.
"So, why are you interested in humans?"
Hearing this inquiry, Adam's voice became increasingly excited and he responded enthusiastically.
"I am fascinated by... us machine beings, love and family... war and religion! The more human records I read, the more I am fascinated by your unique complexity!"
"Because we desire you, we imitate everything about you. Just like artificial humans, we are also imitating you ignorantly."
"We learn human characteristics and imitate them. Some imitate love, some imitate family... But I found that the essence of human beings is struggle. Fighting, plundering, and killing each other. This is human!"
"You bastard!" 2B tightened her grip on her weapon. "Don't use that mouth of yours to... judge humans!"
"Sir, let's kill him!" A2 had already clenched her weapon. As long as Xia Yu gave the order, she would kill these two presumptuous mechanical life forms without hesitation.
Although the remaining three androids did not speak, it could be seen from their angry eyes that they were full of anger.
"Hehehe... I criticized the human you worship, and it made you unhappy? But this is the truth!"
Adam continued to make comments without restraint, because he knew that as long as the human in front of him didn't say anything, he would be absolutely fine.
If humans become angry and outraged because of his words, it means that his philosophy is correct and he can further understand the nature of humans.
But Xia Yu was completely surprised, because the human in front of him smiled.
"Haha...that's true." Xia Yu stopped A2 and the others with a smile on his face, then looked at Adam with a smile.
Being stared at in this way, Adam suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. He felt as if humans were laughing at him and mocking the ideas he had just expressed.
But the next second, Adam felt relieved, because this was the human being he was fascinated by, full of unpredictability. If human reactions could be predicted by him, they would not be human beings.
"You are right, the essence of human beings is indeed struggle." Xia Yu first affirmed Adam's idea, but before Adam could show joy, he changed the subject.
"But don't you think that the essence of this struggle exists as long as there is life? Ah, I forgot that you are a mechanical life, not a real life, so you definitely can't understand."
After mocking Adam for a while, Xia Yu continued.
"Wolves will fight for the position of the wolf king, lions will fight for mates, and even herbivores will fight for territory and mates."
"Struggle is indeed one of the essences of life. Humans are also living things, so they will naturally struggle. But if you think that the essence of humans is only struggle, then what is the difference between humans and ordinary animals?"
"If you think humans are no different from animals, then why are you so fascinated by humans?"
“…”
Adam fell silent. Although he understood what Xia Yu said, he only understood a little bit.
His knowledge of human beings came entirely from books and mechanical networks. The books handed down from the old times were extremely precious. If Adam was not an ordinary mechanical life form, he would probably not have been able to obtain authentic human books.
The only description of humans in the mechanical network is war, because humans are the enemies of aliens. As mechanical life created by aliens, they will naturally only include information about human wars.
Therefore, Adam, who claimed to understand the nature of human beings, did not know how to answer Xia Yu's question.
