Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 339 Stars
11pm.

The night sky is vast and boundless, but there are no stars to be seen.

You can look up at the quiet starry sky in the wilderness, but in the city, with light pollution from neon night scenes, you don’t have this opportunity.

The overall technological level of the Beiting Defense Line is indeed not advanced, but that is relatively speaking. The city's infrastructure is still in place, with tall buildings standing tall, and large holographic projections hovering over the city, and are occasionally cut through by a matrix of drones.

Considering that no "permit indicators" are required to implant prostheses here, various other restrictions are also relaxed. At night, the cities on the Beiting Defense Front are even more lively and prosperous than the Donglu Republic - excluding the upper-class areas of the latter's aristocratic families.

It was almost midnight. Song Shi stood on the top floor of the hotel and looked down. The streets were still flashing neon lights and crowded with people. The noisy sounds could be faintly heard even from his position.

"Why are you here all of a sudden?"

Song Shi pushed open the door to the rooftop, walked over, and sat on the rooftop wall.

Lapis Lazuli was floating not far away, perhaps in a COS balloon, its body shrunk into a regular sphere, rising and falling with the passing wind.

"Where is Ai Lu?" Seeing Song Shi, Lapis Lazuli did not change its body, but just made a sound.

"It is said that where there are many people, evil deeds will inevitably breed. He temporarily ran away to be a night vigilante, patrolling the four directions." Song Shi spread his hands: "If you really want to ask me where he is now, I don't know."

Lapis Lazuli said "hmm" and said nothing more.

"——Your mood is fluctuating." Song Shi looked at the other person for a few seconds and decided to get straight to the point: "Tell me about it?"

"no need."

Lapis Lazuli answered just as quickly, "If necessary, I can speak ten gigabytes of words like 'comfort', 'encouragement', 'relief', etc. in the most appropriate voice and tone."

"Song Shi, you can leave first." It said, "In one hour, twenty minutes and thirty-seven seconds, I will be able to adjust my emotional flow. Don't worry, this will not affect my work efficiency."

"Okay."

Song Shi jumped off the wall and called out Huo Yan: "Then follow the rules."

"."

Lapis Lazuli was silent for a moment.

".Tsk."

"Did you just click your tongue?"

"I'm not afraid, I should say I envy you."

After a long while, Lapis Lazuli finally spoke.

It floated to the edge of the wall, level with Song Shi.

"You are too strong. How can you be so strong?"

This is still Lapis Lazuli's most commonly used voice, low and steady.

"The 'seeds' of the Beiting defense line that you have cut down along the way are considered pretty good even by the most stringent standards. Most of them have the potential to reach the fourth ring, and the fifth ring is not completely impossible."

But at this moment, there was an indescribable emotion revealed in this voice.

"But the Beiting Defense Front is only part of the Pan-Eastern Continental Union."

"Even within the Pan-Eastern Continental Union, there are still similar forces such as the Four Brilliant Heavens, the Eastern Continental Republic, and the Council of Knowledge that are divided into counties. Outside the Pan-Eastern Continental Union, you also have the Enterprise Alliance, Ye Nan, the Vampsta Empire, and Eden."

"Human." Lapis Lazuli turned and looked at the starless night sky: "Omnic."

Even though Star III had not yet fallen, the [Freedom Revolution] had reached its climax, and it was the heyday of the intelligent machines.

They may not be able to defeat the current Beiting defense line.

——Even if the great marshal is not counted.

What was Yaoxing San's mentality when he threw his punch? Lapis Lazuli thought.

"What kind of question is that?" Song Shi asked back, "Does that mean you won't punch because you think there's no hope?"

"——'If you really do this, there will be no hope.'" Lapis Lazuli said calmly: "There is no need to say such words. I understand this truth and will never choose this path. This is a simple thought. I am not seeking comfort."

"Do not."

Song Shi raised his index finger: "What I mean is, isn't it clear what Yao Xing San's mentality was back then?"

He said word by word: "I will take it all, win it all, and take it all."

——The intelligent machines are weak, so they will transform into a [Legion], gather everyone into one, and one is many.

——Without a strong man, the intelligent machine reaches the fifth ring [transcendence].

——The intelligent machines need deterrence and freedom, so under the watchful eyes of the whole world, they should defeat the fifth-ring psychic “Nest Master” of the giant enterprise [Pure White Creature] head-on.

"Yao Xing San failed, then you will surpass Yao Xing San."

"If you can ascend to the throne of God, then all problems will be solved."

Song Shi opened his hands: "Of course, compared to these, you should first think about whether you can break through to the fifth ring before the system crashes in this life."

"If I hadn't been so determined, I wouldn't have come here."

Lapis Lazuli shook the fuselage, its tone was not fluctuating at all, and it suddenly said: "Song Shi, what do you think? I want to ask you again, what do you think of intelligent machines?"

"To be honest, I think coexistence is good."

Song Shi sighed: "I am a genuine Donglu person, okay? The Donglu Republic is just a little more explicit in this regard, but in other places, aren't people divided into different levels?"

"Anyway, some people and some humans are no longer considered the same species in a practical sense, and there are too many of you omnics.

"The Groden family of Fubo Energy's 'new people' and the first-class family of the East Land Republic, we still have to decide who is more noble."

"Of course, it's limited to 'coexistence'." Song Shi smiled: "If you insist on doing some 'purification of organic slurry' drama, then I can't do it. It's likely that it won't be my turn to take action."

"The fifth ring of mankind is far less numerous than the stars"

Song Shi raised his head and also looked at the night sky.

Lapis Lazuli whispered, "But they shine brighter than the stars."

No one spoke for a moment.

Song Shi sat for a while and felt bored. When he was about to try jumping off the building, he suddenly heard the sound of a shuttle engine passing by.

"Ok?"

In the distant sky, a military-style shuttle was heading towards the hotel, its door wide open. In the whistling air current, someone was standing proudly, letting his military uniform dance wildly in the wind.

He raised his right hand and clenched it violently.

The night sky suddenly lit up!

It was as if a flare suddenly went off, or a scorching sun suddenly appeared, and pedestrians on several nearby streets were shocked to find themselves in broad daylight.

From this bright light, a man who looked to be around 28 or 29 years old stepped out and landed on the hotel rooftop with a thud.

"——Lieutenant Colonel Huang Hao from the Beiting Defense Front."

The hem of the military uniform fluttered with every step, and on the epaulettes, there were two straight and parallel horizontal bars.

"I came here to test your quality." He stared ahead and said solemnly, "And to test mine."

(End of this chapter)