Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 222 The Truth
After the last deep dive, Lapis Lazuli finally spoke again.

It said: "——Song Shi, prepare to dive deep."

Song Shi raised his head and looked at the sphere floating over.

Unexpectedly, the other party's voice was extremely calm, with almost no trace of the shock and trance from last night.

——That is not an emotion simulated by a vocal program.

Song Shi could feel that the other party's mentality was indeed much calmer at this moment.

"I am an omnic who has lived for many years." As if he had guessed what the other party was thinking, Lapis Lazuli paused and directly projected a humanoid interactive interface. The middle-aged man on it looked at the young man and said, "You won't lose your composure for too long."

Is this "figured out"?

Song Shi raised his eyebrows.

He didn't say anything else, stood up and walked towards the workshop.

After clocking in full attendance for eleven consecutive days, both parties were already familiar with the deep diving process. Song Shi lay down in the deep diving chamber, and the lapis lazuli turned into a necklace, wrapped around the former's right hand.

"Wait a moment."

At the moment when the hatch was about to close, Song Shi suddenly spoke.

"Any progress on F052?"

"It knows me. It must know me."

"I heard it and saw it. It said to me 'long time no see'. It was definitely not an illusion." The hatch stopped in mid-air. After a long while, Lapis Lazuli said, "I searched the data. F052 was active for a long time until it was severely damaged in the middle and late stages of the Freedom Revolution and then disappeared."

"It has come into contact with many people and intelligent machines, but none of them match my profile. At least not in the current database. I don't rule out the possibility that someone has specifically cleared it out."

"Your information has been specially cleared." Song Shi nodded thoughtfully, "What about the database of Enlightenment?"

After the conversation on the day when he got "Liaoyuan", Chakoro asked someone to provide a database, which contained all the records and information about "intelligent machines" of the Enlightenment. As a powerful force that dared to confront the corporate alliance head-on and survived defeat, there was no lack of highly confidential intelligence among them.

Song Shi took a quick look at it, took out some information that was not suitable to be exposed, and stuffed the rest to Lapis Lazuli.

"No." Lapis Lazuli had of course already browsed through the database. The "middle-aged man" shook his head, revealing a trace of extremely human fatigue: "It doesn't matter, there's no need to worry about it. The first task at the moment is to conquer the 'Duel Arena', in the last two days."

"Didn't you say that your intuition tells you that the truth lies here? Then let's go."

This dive seemed particularly long.

The long spiral river composed of pixels sparkles brightly, drawing visitors into it. It rolls wildly, with blurred blocks of color overlapping each other, making people dizzy and painful to look at.

A subtle tingling sensation rampaged along the network of nerves and chemical transmitters, and a cold feeling of suffocation rushed into the stiff nasal cavity, setting off a firework, as if it was going to turn the brain into a paste.

Then, a flash of red-gold flame lit up, burning away all the foreign textures!

".call."

Song Shi raised his eyes, the red color in his pupils disappeared in an instant, he looked around: "This is..."

The lapis lazuli next to it paused in the air for a few breaths, and seemed to have finally recovered. The lines on its body began to glow and flow again.

Almost at the moment of waking up, its "sight" - an observation module composed of twelve artificial eyes, was simultaneously directed forward.

The sea of ​​sand remained the same as always, pure golden in color, and dry, hot winds blew up in all directions.

Only this time, there were no blurry audience seats in the sky, nor were there any distorted intelligent machines waiting there.

A single-opening, regular-sized standard alloy door silently floats in the sea of ​​sand.

Right in front of Song Shi and Lapis Lazuli.

"This door is an encrypted springboard program." Lapis Lazuli scanned the door, providing information.

Song Shi flipped his right hand, and the pass he got yesterday appeared between his index and middle fingers, the surface of which was slightly hot. "Then let's go, the other side clearly invites us to go through." Song Shi said briskly, laughing: "We're already here, do we still need to do a risk assessment and then not go in?"

Having said that, without waiting for Lapis Lazuli to say anything else, he took a few steps forward, swiped the pass on the door lock, and the whole door opened silently.

After both parties stepped into the door at the same time, there was a brief blur, and then the surrounding environment suddenly changed.

The original desert disappeared, and in its place was a huge square.

Looking around, there are broken and wind-eroded marble columns, as well as circuit cables broken in two and randomly swept in the corners. The giant display screen suspended in the sky has a shattered, black screen, and is on the verge of collapsing.

Even the ground surface, which was difficult to identify the specific material but was obviously not naturally formed, was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Weird and run-down.

However, at this moment, Song Shi and Lapis Lazuli did not pay any attention to the square.

They raised their heads at the same time and looked forward——

From the very center of the square, a huge silhouette stands.

It was a giant tree made of iron.

The roots of the steel penetrated deeply into the square and spread out in all directions, causing the nearby ground to crack and bulge.

Above the root system, iron branches and leaves stretched out wantonly. They were in disarray, completely entangled and mixed together, growing upwards while devouring and biting each other. Even with Lapis Lazuli's three-dimensional spatial analysis capabilities, it was difficult to completely disassemble them and build a complete model at once.

The lead-gray treetops spread out, continuously scattering iron filings that flew all over the square.

And under the cold color of the metal, these branches looked as hideous as thorns, or even worse.

Just looking at it will give people a subtle tingling sensation.

——But among these thorny branches, there is a human-like outline.

"This is."

Song Shi's pupils opened slightly, as if he was surprised and excited.

"Yao, Yao" Lapis Lazuli's reaction was far beyond this. At this moment, the light patterns all over his body flashed wildly, and even the simulated voice that was theoretically constant began to tremble: "Yao"

On the trunk of the giant tree, wrapped in countless iron thorns, there was a human figure whose body was made entirely of machinery but was mostly broken and missing. It seemed as if it had known everything already. It kept its head raised and stared ahead.

Intelligent machinery.

It was clearly just the first time they met, but the moment they saw each other, the same thought inexplicably arose in Song Shi and Lapis Lazuli's minds.

——The human figure in front of me, this mutilated human figure entangled by iron thorns.

It is, [Yaoxing Three]!
Even with Song Shi's knowledge, he couldn't help but feel shocked the moment he realized this thought.

"first meet."

His gaze first turned to the young man.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Then he paused on the sphere next to him.

finally.

The bound omnic's sight encompasses both parties.

It said:
"——Finally I've waited for you guys."

(End of this chapter)