Chapter 434 A Robot's Lonely Journey

"What a pity."

Jiang Ping sighed sincerely, wondering if he was feeling sorry for the destruction of the virtual god with unlimited potential, or for the billions of creatures on earth, and the billions of data souls in the virtual world.

There is no doubt that Gaia has devoured GOD and the Emperor of Heaven, and recovered all the humans in the Fifth Epoch, with 10 billion powerful data souls. Now Gaia is so powerful that it is unimaginable. It will take countless years just to digest.

Gaia, who has done many evil things, sank into the old site of the Star Sea to digest the gift she received at the coming-of-age ceremony. This gift is so big that there is no second one in the entire universe. When she wakes up, the heavens tremble, and the universe will surrender to her feet.

As Gaia fell asleep, the eternal night fell, endless dust covered the original appearance of the blue planet, the sun could not shine, radioactive substances spread all over the world, and two strange blood moons in the sky shook violently, and circles of blood-colored ripples fell from the sky, washing the surface and underground.

Back then in the virtual world, Phoenix Xiongzhen summoned the top human powerhouses and used the blood moon ripples to use the [Blood Moon Storm] to destroy the crystal of the first era, Evan God. Now the double moons reappear.

The world-destroying flood came out from the two levels, swallowing the entire earth, and then gradually gathered above the equator. The ocean is also full of terrible nuclear radiation. Hundreds of billions of marine creatures are floating on the sea surface. Only a very small number of small sea fish with strong vitality hide in icebergs and deep sea corners to survive.

The four continents that set the four poles fell apart, and the world was no longer one. Most of the land was swallowed by the ocean, and the high terrain exposed a corner.

The few small fragments of land that remained were like a small boat in the ocean, slowly drifting to the unknown distance.

The cold, gray snow, and nuclear winter are inevitable. In addition, the double moons baptize the earth, triggering tidal riots, and the world-destroying floods are coming. The sound of ice is endless, and the whole world is wrapped in a circle of gray ice.

The thousand-meter-thick ice layer is like a graveyard that buries human beings, freezing the old traces of civilization. Time passes the fastest in the frozen world. I don’t know how long it has been, maybe a thousand years, maybe a hundred years, everything is quiet, and there is no fish or grass.

"Crack!"

At this time, an iceberg cracked somewhere, and huge ice blocks fell down. An old, rusty robot climbed out of the iceberg stiffly. Behind him, you can see a long corridor like a black hole.

Buried in the ten-thousand-meter ice layer, he didn’t know how long he dug before he saw the light of day again. Over the long years, the machine aged, and the bionic skin on the surface of the body rotted, looking completely like a machine.

The old robot climbed out of the iceberg, stood on the slowly collapsing ice cliff and jumped, shaking out a lot of ice crystal fragments mixed in the joints. He stood on the frozen ground and looked up at the silent world.

The surroundings were endless, let alone people, there was not even a blade of grass.

The gray-white earth, the surrounding nuclear radiation exploded, the sky was dark as dusk, and the gray snow that lasted for an era was still falling.

The robot stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake, and the red electronic eye looked at his palm. It turned out that this was not snow, but dust like nuclear waste.

The robot's radar did not detect any signs of life, no birds or insects, and the world was terribly silent.

"The world is over, am I the only one left?"

The robot began to walk stiffly and slowly into the distance, leaving footprints on the ground. He decided to look for signs of life, find the human fire, and restart civilization.

This was a long and lonely journey of search. The familiar world became unfamiliar. Because of the dust, the whole world was dark for more than 2/3 of the time, and the surroundings were full of radioactive toxic substances, which was not suitable for survival at all.

Fortunately, he was a robot, did not need to eat or drink, and was not afraid of nuclear radiation. This was also the reason why he could survive two world-destroying catastrophes and be dug out after being trapped in a 10,000-meter ice layer.

He walked for a long time, climbed to the 8-kilometer ice peak, fell into the ice sea, and swam out with great effort.

The places he passed were all extinct, and no breath of life was detected. Fortunately, the robot had a good mentality and was mentally prepared to not find a human being in the world.

This was the robot's doomsday journey. He was in a very good mentality and kept looking for the relics of the past, smelting magnets, and replacing his old hardware during the journey.

"The good thing about robots is that they can replace anything that doesn't work."

He sighed while taking off his exposed mechanical right leg and replacing it with a new right leg that he found and cast from the mechanical parts of the past.

"Click."

The robot moved, although the style of his legs was different and it seemed a bit awkward. But he was still very satisfied. He planned to replace it slowly and upgrade his old body.

The electronic eye turned, and finally looked at his head. The most important hardware on his body was the processor in his head. Now it was not like the past. All his consciousness was stored in the processor. If a bad processor crashed, he would also sleep forever.

Although he wanted to connect to the Internet to see if there were any robots left alive, his old friend's last advice was still echoing in his mind, so he didn't dare to take the risk.

He traveled all over the world and traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers.

The robot slowly replaced various parts of his body. He also dug up some relics from the past. After collecting enough materials, he remembered the location and continued on his journey.

His body was replaced, and the whole world was dark and silent, with no one. This feeling of being abandoned by the times and having only himself in the world made the robot finally say one sentence:

"Lonely."

Close your eyes and recall the prosperous human civilization back then. You and three other people traveled to a different world and rolled up their sleeves to prepare for a big fight. As expected, nothing unexpected happened. Except for the white-haired chief who died in the war accidentally, the other three Everyone has made a name for themselves in the fifth era, either as the president of a country or as a leader in the field of consciousness.

I recall that I worked with my colleagues to overcome scientific research difficulties, benefit mankind, and reform society. As well as the genius Phoenix Jiuzhen and the assistant who always followed him, the robot missed it very much, and the electronic eyes flashed with the brilliance of humanity.

The past cannot be recalled, the people and things of that time have disappeared.

He had a special contact method with the Wind Dragon God, but after so long without receiving a response, the robot already knew that he had also had an accident and left the show early. Fortunately, his real body is not in this world, but seeing another name in the address book that will always be dark makes the robot feel very heavy.

The woman who dared to love and hate would never be seen again. She disappeared forever in the years. I don't know whether she died in the nuclear explosion, Shuangyue, or the cruel environment after the disaster.

All the people he was familiar with died, and the world became unfamiliar. The robot had an illusion that he had been abandoned by the times. After a long absence, he felt lost in his heart and had plans to retire.

"Chirp."

The radar of the meditating robot detected a strange sound in the ground. This small sound excited the robot, and the frustration was thrown away. He immediately ran to the detected ice layer, bent down, stretched out the mechanical claw and began to shave the ice.

The action of shaving ice is so skillful that it feels distressing. After all, it is dug from an iceberg of 10,000 meters, so it is experienced. He claims to be the first, and no one dares to claim the second.

The life radar caught the little life moving quickly. The robot dug for a while, digging holes in the ground before finally carefully picking up the little guy, which was only ten centimeters long.

This is a small insect that looks like an albino pangolin. Its skin is white and translucent. If you look closely, you can see red blood vessels hidden under the transparent scales. At this time, the little guy lying in the palm of the robot was trembling in fear. It was obvious that he had never seen such a big guy before.

There is also a small velvet horn on its head, which makes it even more cute.

"What kind of creature is this?"

The robot's electronic eyes flashed through the data, and he looked through the stored animal database. He did not find any information about it. This should be a new species after the cataclysm.

But the robot instinctively felt that it looked familiar, and he was surprised that it could survive in such a desperate situation.

The robot's electronic eye emits infrared rays for scanning. He found that this bug is extremely resistant to radiation, has an unknown genetic mutation, and can turn radioactivity into energy for physical fitness. It lives deep in the ice during the day, feeds on cold water, and swallows Eat a fungus similar to moss.

They need very little food, and in cold seasons when there is no food, they can hibernate to preserve their vitality.

What a tenacious life, the robot sighed, but this scan finally made him discover why it felt a bit familiar.

The left eye of the machine's electronic eye flashed the genetic template of a transparent insect, and the right eye flashed the genetic template of the ancient first century overlord - the white-haired beast. A comparison showed that the DNA sequences of the two were extremely similar.

"Quack, quack, quack."

The robot couldn't help laughing and said with great emotion: "Chief, Chief, I didn't expect that your race can still live until now. The world has changed, but the one thing that remains unchanged is the stupid tuft of hair on your head."

He gently teased the insect's velvet horns. They were originally white dull hairs. They served a USB-like connection function in the first era. In this era, have they evolved or degenerated? Become an important organ for purifying nuclear radiation.

The robot's teasing made the little guy tremble again, and he lay down between the cold hands and began to pretend to be dead.

The robot chuckled again, put the little guy on his shoulders as a companion on the journey, and started to set off again. This time, his steps were more determined.

"No matter how cruel the environment is, there are always creatures that are constantly trying to survive. Motes of dust can turn into stars, and small insects can turn into dragons. Even if humans are really extinct, I still want to find the gene bank and artificial intelligence stored by the federation just in case. The womb, the womb, re-creates new human beings.”

The little bug on the shoulder carefully opened a crack and secretly looked at the giant creature below. It gradually became bolder and looked around mischievously knowing that the iron bump would not hurt it.

The surrounding environment is still the same as before, eternal darkness, endless gray snow, and soon it will be dark again. As darkness fell, the iron lump below slowed down, but was still walking.

Waiting for the completely dark night, the little guy grabbed his armor in fear. The robot stopped and started to do something that the bug didn't understand. He found a special kind of flammable ice and made his hands warm.

"Huhu~~"

Next, an incredible scene appeared. On top of the pile of flammable ice, a fire grew rapidly, lighting up the cold night.

In the dark world, this flame is so dazzling and brilliant, like the last fire of civilization.

"Chirp chirp."

The bug was very scared at first, an instinctive fear of this unknown power. He even jumped off the robot's shoulder and crawled into the ice. But after a while, it found that there was no threat, and it weakly stuck out its little head.

The robot sitting by the fire felt very happy when he saw the velvet hair that was rising and falling. If he were in human form now, he felt that he must have a beautiful smile on his lips.

"Come here, little one. It's very warm."

The robot began to name the first post-civilization creature he found after the catastrophe. After thinking for a while, he felt that the honey badger was no longer appropriate. It was still the most appropriate to call it the original nickname, which was also considered to remember its roots.

"White-haired beast, come here."

The little guy named White-haired beast carefully approached the fire. The rising temperature around it and the unprecedented warmth wrapped it. It was captured and slowly fell down, sleeping a sleep it had never had before.

Seeing that the little guy fell asleep, the robot began to work officially. Night is a good time to forge iron and organize the collected new era information.

Along the way, the location of the ruins was found to be the original city. There are also many special iron ore, ice crystals, and radioactive plants that need to be sorted out.

Unfortunately, although a lot of good things were found to replace the damaged body, the most important processor material was too rare. In those days, it was a strategic-level material with excellent storage, which could determine the conversion rate of a country's elderly after death.

In today's era, there is no good replacement yet. His processing ability is not as good as before, and his consciousness has slowed down.

A cold wind blew in the darkness, and the flames were about to go out, but they always held on. The robot was waving his arms to forge iron, and occasionally looked up at the sky. There was no eternal stars, only endless darkness.

In the era of disaster, the night was especially long. After finishing his work, the robot sorted out his equipment, took the still sleeping white-haired beast, and got up to walk again in the darkness without waiting for dawn.

It was especially dark before dawn. Fortunately, he had night vision, but even so, his ability to collect information was much worse than during the day.

When walking on an ice layer that looked strange and ordinary, the robot's feet suddenly loosened, and the ice layer under his feet collapsed. The white-haired beast, who was frightened and confused, woke up immediately and grabbed the robot's shoulders tightly.

Light waves rushed out from the robot's feet, and he soared into the sky from the collapsed ice layer, and then fell from the sky to the ground and continued to walk. Energy is limited, and before finding a better energy source, save as much as possible.

An iron lump and a white-haired beast, the strange combination walked for who knows how long. Time is the conceptual name of material change. What if the surroundings are all the same desperate doomsday?

The robot took it across the oceans, visited different ice continents, and occasionally dived into the deep sea to find relics and human traces.

He had seen tens of thousands of people frozen to death in the ice cliff. It was a first-level shelter that could withstand nuclear bombs. Fortunately, this group of people escaped the baptism of nuclear bombs. Unfortunately, they died in the cold winter disaster.

The robot silently erected a tombstone on the ice cliff, and then recorded this location and turned away again.

Gray snow covered footprints, and the cold wind sent the iron man away.

The robot saw creatures after the nuclear explosion along the way. Many kings of fierce beasts were completely extinct. Those who survived were small animals with low needs. This once again confirmed the truth that the winner is the one who survives to the end.

Among them, a series of mutant monsters caught his attention. They were monsters that mutated after being irradiated by nuclear radiation.

Genes mutated, and to be honest, their appearance is quite ugly, not in line with human aesthetics, ugly as hell.

Either they are indescribable monsters with sticky bodies like rotten swamps, or they are full of deformed arms and evil eyes on their bodies. Or they are giant sea monsters that look like lobsters, have poisonous green skin, and spit out nuclear radiation light from their mouths.

"If this goes on, I always feel that Godzilla will evolve."

The robot joked. He often talked to himself recently. He had a hunch that although this new era of radiation monsters had just shown their spearheads, the world should belong to them in the future.

The reason is simple. The endless dust snow, the cold sea water that could not be retreated, and the underground sky filled with radioactive substances, such a harsh environment created them. Creatures that are not adapted to this era will eventually become extinct, just like the monsters that disappeared in the long river of history.

And it is obvious that the overlords of the Fifth Epoch, humans, died the most miserably. Just when the robot had walked most of the broken land and only the vast deep sea was left to be explored, he finally found signs of human survival in an ancient human relic.

It was an ice cave covered by thick ice and snow and huge rocks. Even his life detection device could not find it. It was the white-haired beast that went in and took out a used toothbrush from somewhere, which allowed the robot to find it.

"What is this?"

The robot scanned the broken toothbrush with its eyes. The bristles were almost withered, but this was not the point. The point was that this toothbrush was not a creation of the human era, but was made by humans after the catastrophe.

Based on the traces on it, he speculated that this toothbrush existed 50 years ago. He immediately started the long-sealed mechanical body at full power and finally found the extremely deep ice cave hidden not far away.

"Chirp."

The white-haired beast jumped on his shoulder as if asking for credit. The robot rewarded it with a piece of meat, which was taken from the radiation monster. It liked to eat it the most and was not afraid of radiation.

The white-haired beast was happily chewing the hard and cold meat. The robot had begun to emit blue light with both hands, digging the ice cave like an excavator. After so long, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

"It turned out to be covered with invisible paint that can prevent scanning. No wonder I didn't notice it."

The robot's arm turned and transformed into a blade, and with one swing it split the door painted with black paint.

Boom--

The door collapsed, dust and snow flew, and the dim sunlight shone down. The robot saw two well-preserved human corpses and a stone tablet placed at their feet.

“.Sure enough, they are dead.” The robot looked up with mixed feelings. This was not the first time he had been hit. He walked into the bodies of a man and a woman.

Because the cave was tightly closed and there were few bacteria, the two bodies vaguely retained their appearance back then. The two people looked middle-aged, holding hands tightly and sitting on a stone chair and died.

The robot looked down at the stone tablet under their feet, which was engraved with the experiences of a man and a woman in the Age of Disaster.