Eternal Night

Chapter 492 Ordinary people are actually this powerful!?

The reason why A1 appears so passive, even failing to resist Wakaba's attack, is for only one reason...

She felt lost about her own existence.

As the first and test model of the Wakaba Unit, she was actually more powerful than the subsequent models of the Wakaba Unit. Because it was the first model manufactured, no cost or technology was spared in order to test its maximum performance. Compared with the old-era android resistance forces and the subsequent mass-produced models of the Wakaba Unit, her strength was overwhelmingly powerful.

And its underlying logical structure is only one...

Protect humanity!

To conduct special operations against mechanical life forms on Earth, change the course of the war that has lasted for more than five thousand years, help humanity on the moon win this desperate war, and finally allow humanity to return to Earth so that human glory can last forever!

That was the only meaning of her life.

But in an unexpected turn of events, she discovered a fact that shocked her to the core.

That is, the lunar humans died out thousands of years ago. The so-called lunar human council is actually a facade created by the highest center of the artificial humans. It is a lie fabricated to prevent the morale of all artificial humans from collapsing, a veil to cover up the truth.

At that moment, A1 lost her motivation to move forward. She didn't even know what the meaning of her existence was, so facing everything passively became her choice. She didn't even care if the Wakaba unit caught up with her and disposed of her information.

Humanity... is gone!
But in that instant, she saw Wu Pifu covered in wounds, saw the flesh, organs, and bones throbbing within those wounds, saw that pure, flawless body without any mechanical structure...

Bang! !

With seven consecutive sonic booms, A1 and the six members of the Wakaba Squad rushed into the camp almost without thinking. Each of them unleashed their maximum speed and used their auxiliary machines to conjure the most suitable melee weapons for them. However, before they could even reach the battlefield, Wu Pifu had already completely disintegrated the giant mechanical life form by raising the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade.

It may appear to be a thousand meters long and tens of meters thick, but when Wu Pifu gets serious, he doesn't even need to be too serious. The blade light he wields reaches a diameter of more than thirty meters. Just by circling around the monster, the huge mechanical monster begins to turn to ashes.

A1 and the other six members slowed down as they ran, then stopped outside the camp. They looked at each other and saw questions and longing in each other's eyes.

One of the warm-hearted men asked, "...Have humans really returned to Earth from the moon? Why didn't headquarters notify us?"

A beautiful woman with pigtails, wearing a miniskirt, suspenders, and stockings said, "The crucial question now is, is he... really human?"

Everyone fell silent. A beautiful woman in the group, with long, straight black hair, wearing a miniskirt and stockings, said, "We did see his injured body and internal organs, but his healing speed is too fast. According to the information we have, it is impossible for a human to heal at such a speed. The laser attack just now would be fatal to a human. Did you notice that?"

"...He doesn't use support units to fight."

This is why they all stopped in their tracks. Although their underlying logic immediately triggered an unimaginable urge to protect Wu Pifu upon seeing his injured body, everyone, including A1, stopped in their tracks due to Wu Pifu's abnormally fast healing speed and his almost heaven-defying combat power.

Then all six members of the Wakaba Squad suddenly looked at A1, and A1's reaction was direct. He brandished a cold weapon that resembled both a spear and a gun and said coldly, "I don't want to be dealt with now. If you want to kill me, then let's fight!"

The six people didn't attack immediately, but instead looked at each other. Then, the woman with twin ponytails, a miniskirt, suspenders, and stockings stepped forward and said, "A1, I'm B8. I want to confirm how you found this human?"

A1 paused for a moment and said, "It wasn't me who found him, but a sudden chance encounter. I suspect that he might have found me."

The six looked at each other, and B8 asked again, "Can you confirm that he is human?"

A1 shook his head and said, "I can't confirm it, but it's obvious that he's different from us. His structure is different, and the weapons and powers he uses in combat are different. At the same time, he's also different from mechanical lifeforms. His structure is different, and the weapons and powers he uses in combat are also different."

On this Earth, an alien species that looks like a human, speaks like a human, has human logic, and a human-like physical structure, but is neither an artificial human like them nor a mechanical life form... isn't that human?

At this moment, the beautiful woman with long, straight black hair, wearing a miniskirt and stockings hesitated and said, "But his body's healing speed is obviously abnormal, and his combat power is also obviously strange. I can't confirm what kind of weapon he is using. In fact, my calculation center tells me that all of this is his physical strength... This is definitely not human!"

All six nodded, except for A1, who hesitated for a few seconds before suddenly saying, "Perhaps... this is what real humans are like?" The six looked at her, and A1 said, "What I'm about to say is why I was judged a traitor by the command center and is being purged. If you listen to this, you might also be hunted down and killed. So... are you sure you want to continue listening?"

The six looked at each other, and B8 asked, "Does this relate to humanity?"

A1 nodded, and the six of them looked at each other again before giving her a firm nod in confirmation.

A1 said, "The reason I'm being hunted down is because I accidentally learned a secret... There isn't a single human left on the moon. Thousands of years ago, during the ongoing war against mechanical lifeforms, humanity was wiped out on the moon!"

"impossible!"

All six felt dizzy and immediately refuted each other.

A1 ignored them and calmly continued, "The current Human Council is a disguised information processing center controlled by androids. The establishment of our Wakaba Unit is actually to cover up the truth that humanity is already dead. This is a veil covering the truth, and we are the veil itself. We are tools to kill all androids who might leak the veil and to continue to cover up the truth, thereby boosting the morale of all androids in the Resistance Army... This is the truth I want to tell you!"

All six of them felt dizzy and their brains were buzzing.

This intelligence was completely beyond their imagination.

The intelligence they received from the Wakaba Force command center indicated that the advance unit A1 had likely been contaminated by the electronic virus of the mechanical lifeforms, making her a traitor. Furthermore, she possessed a large amount of core intelligence about the Wakaba Force, and if she defected to the mechanical lifeforms, it would immediately lead to a major collapse of the battle line.

But the truth they learned from A1 is shattering their worldview.

Humanity... actually went extinct thousands of years ago?
What was the meaning of their battles over these thousands of years?

What are they protecting?
"wrong!"

The gentle and warm-hearted man immediately said, "If humanity has all perished, then what is he? Why isn't he on the moon, but on Earth?!"

A1 remained calm as she analyzed, saying, "This is what I wanted to say: humanity has been extinct for thousands of years, and everything we know is fabricated by the unified information processing center of the artificial humans. So... is the humanity in our database really like that?"

All six of them vaguely realized something, and the beautiful woman with long, straight black hair, a miniskirt, and stockings immediately asked, "You mean..."

"Maybe humans are just that powerful creatures!?"

A1 said, "When I accidentally learned the truth behind the veil, I went undercover to continue investigating it. Then I found some historical records from the bottom of the central network. It seems that the extinction of mankind was not caused by mechanical life forms, but by a disease called the White Salt Plague. But there was no more information... I was originally disheartened, but now I think back to it. You say, if mankind was not wiped out by alien invasion, but by a plague, then that explains everything."

All six looked at her. A1 said, "Humans are inherently such a powerful species. Their physical healing speed and strength are just like that. It's just that the unified information processing center of the artificial humans had to fabricate information that humans are very weak in order to cover up the truth of humanity's extinction. All the data in the human information database in our minds is false!!"

B8 nodded and said, "I see. According to your logic, this is indeed very possible. Since humanity has long been extinct, the unified information processing center of the artificial humans set up a veil to cover up this truth. But if we knew the true strength and power of humanity, then there would be a serious logical contradiction... Since humanity is so powerful that it can easily crush mechanical life forms, why don't they return from the moon? Instead, they allowed mechanical life forms to ravage the earth for thousands of years?"

The gentle and warm-hearted man's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "I see! That's why the unified information processing center of the artificial humans had to fabricate data about the weakness of humans. This makes sense, because humans are extremely weak and would be easily killed by mechanical life forms if they arrived on Earth. That's why they had to stay on the moon. I understand, I understand everything..."

The six members of A1 and Wakaba's unit looked at each other, and they all saw the answer in each other's eyes.

"Humanity was wiped out by a plague. To cover up the truth, the unified information processing center of the androids set up a veil and modified human physical attributes, making us believe that humans thousands of years ago were very weak, but..."

"How could humans, who can become the dominant species on Earth, who can be called terrifying upright apes, possibly be weak!?"

All seven of them stared with fanatical eyes at Wu Pifu, who was hacking the giant mechanical monster into a pulp.

"Ordinary people are so powerful!?"

(End of this chapter)