Eternal Night

Chapter 494 Humanity is Extinct

Wu Pifu actually took a direct hit from a space-based laser weapon with his bare body.

In terms of power, this space-based laser weapon even surpasses strategic nuclear weapons by a significant margin. According to A1 and others, the destructive range of this space-based weapon is 500,000 square kilometers, which is incomparable to any thermonuclear weapon and can even be called a smaller version of a planet-destroying cannon.

This is a weapon capable of directly altering the surface structure of a planet, and even destroying an asteroid by repeatedly bombarding the same area!

However, Wu Pifu still felt a strong sense of self-confidence regarding his title of "commoner".

Beyond five steps, so far, apart from attacks involving the root level or certain ultimate moves of extremely powerful sublimated beings, he has never seen any other attack that can break his defense beyond five steps.

As for things like using one's body to withstand nuclear bombs or blocking star-destroying cannons at close range, they sound exaggerated, but as long as it's within five steps, he'd actually dare to try it.

As Wu Pifu soared into the sky, the dazzling light overhead grew brighter and brighter, eventually becoming the only ray of light in the sky, illuminating the entire sky and earth in darkness.

At that very moment, at the location that Wu Pifu's martial arts intuition had foreseen, a laser beam with a brightness far exceeding that of the sun fell straight down, landing precisely on the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade that Wu Pifu had already erected. At the same time, the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade was covered with a thick layer of jet-black metallic luster, and flickering currents were constantly condensing.

In this attack, Wu Pifu not only mobilized all his blood and qi, but also poured all his Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki into the Heroic Spirit Shattered Blade. With a single strike, he cleaved through the sky, colliding head-on with the descending space-based weapon's laser beam.

All the androids on the ground, all the intelligent and sophisticated high-level mechanical life forms in the distant universe, and all the android forces outside the universe, stared in disbelief at the unimaginably exaggerated scene before them.

A human, wielding a broken half-sword, slashes at a space-based weapon's laser beam from thousands of meters in the sky.

The scientific calculations did not yield the expected results; the human holding the broken half-sword was not instantly vaporized and annihilated, nor did the laser beam strike him directly to the ground.

Instead, a vast, incomprehensible, and unimaginable force forcefully withstood the impact of the space-based weapon's laser beam, suspending it in mid-air. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the broken half of the sword actually cleaved through the middle of the laser beam. The black sword light was so conspicuous in the bright light. This sword light slowly pushed upwards, initially at a slow speed, but during the stalemate, the black sword light became faster and faster, finally soaring into the sky, straight up from the middle of the laser beam, splitting the approximately ten-meter-thick laser beam in two.

Under the watchful eyes of all beings, and with the monitoring of at least a hundred professional tools, the entire space-based laser cannon was cleaved open from the center. The black blade of light slashed upwards, tearing through the atmosphere and completely splitting it apart. Then, with a horizontal slash, it struck a huge platform in the orbit of a satellite outside the atmosphere. In a flash, the blade of light disappeared into the dark space of space.

The enormous and dazzling laser beam suddenly stopped, its brilliance immediately dimmed, and the laser beam disappeared completely. Only then did Wu Pifu turn around and, carrying half of the Broken Spirit Blade, walk step by step towards the ground.

Just then, a more dazzling light flashed across the sky above Wu Pifu's back, darkening the entire world. However, no sound was heard. The intense light above the sky only flickered for a moment before dimming again, leaving behind a sky full of burning meteor showers, as dazzling as the cloak unfurled behind Wu Pifu.

The seven people on the ground were already stunned.

B8 and the beautiful women with long, straight black hair, wearing miniskirts, suspenders, and stockings, had flushed faces and instinctively clutched their hearts, looking at Wu Pifu with dazed expressions.

A1's voice suddenly said, "Shut down and debug your emotional processing modules. This is the underlying logic that constructs us, which is to make every contribution to the reproduction of humanity. From the hidden network documents of the Wakaba Unit's headquarters that I deciphered, the reason we were designed this way, as well as our combat attire, physique, etc., is to arouse human sexual desire, so as to obtain the maximum amount of human reproductive genes... It's possible, but not now, understand?"

B8 and the woman in the black dress with long, straight hair and a miniskirt and stockings were both taken aback. They looked at each other and immediately adjusted their program processing modules as A1 had instructed. Their expressions then improved slightly.

The beautiful woman with long, straight black hair, wearing a mini skirt, suspenders, and stockings said to A1, "I am D7."

After the three beautiful women finished speaking, they all looked up. The remaining four men from the Wakaba unit didn't have so much to think about; they all looked at Wu Pifu with longing eyes.

Wu Pifu had already landed. He glanced at the seven people, then turned around without a word and ran back to where the golden tree had been placed. The seven people looked at each other and then followed closely behind Wu Pifu. The three small animals and the golden tree were all unharmed. Wu Pifu hung the three ornaments on his head and picked up the potted golden tree in his hand before looking at the seven people who had followed him.

The seven of them bowed to Wu Pifu and said at the same time, "Welcome back to Earth, humanity's glory will last forever!"

"...So, the idea that there are no people on the moon doesn't mean it's full of animals, but that all humans on it have been wiped out?"

In a makeshift camp, Wu Pifu was talking to A1 and others, while the other resistance fighters, their faces full of excitement, heavily guarded Wu Pifu in the very center, watching him in the light of the campfire.

A1 nodded and said, "Yes, that's why I'm being hunted down... More than 7,000 years ago, humanity was already on the verge of extinction. The cause of this was a disease called the White Salt Plague. I don't know any more information. Perhaps only the unified information processing center of the artificial humans on the moon has records of it."

Wu Pifu stared blankly at the campfire.

This world was completely different from what he had imagined. He had initially thought it would be some melodramatic internal purge, power struggles, and a tale of traitors and heroes, but who knew it would turn out to be a cyberpunk super-future version, a story about humanity's extinction seven thousand years ago...

Wu Pifu said to A1, "Continue."

"Yes."

A1 respectfully said, "I haven't found the exact time of humanity's extinction, but various data and information indicate that humanity was on the verge of extinction seven thousand years ago due to the White Salt Plague. Then, about five thousand years ago, unknown alien creatures appeared and deployed mechanical life forms on Earth, which are the things that you killed before."

"Mechanical lifeforms have an autonomous evolutionary logic. They will evolve and adjust themselves according to the number and strength of the enemy and the combat mode. At that time, although there were many androids, they were still no match for the mechanical lifeforms. Most of the Earth fell. At the same time, according to the unified information processing center of the androids, humans fled to the moon and established a human council on the moon to command the androids."

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "So, you are all artificial humans?"

Everyone present nodded. What gave Wu Pifu a chill was that these beautiful android women all showed him seductive charms. Although it wasn't as terrifying as lust, one of the seven deadly sins, the display of these seductive charms still made him scream that something was wrong.

"...So, that so-called unified information processing center of the artificial humans decided to execute Project Veil, concealing the truth about the extinction of humanity in order to maintain the morale of the artificial humans...You are artificial humans, do you also possess humanity and intelligence?"

Faced with Wu Pifu's question, the androids looked at each other, their faces showing a hint of confusion.

B8 then said, “Sir, we are merely pseudo-intelligence, a pseudo-intelligence simulated through high-intensity calculations… For example, when we laugh, cry, or feel sad, it’s all just numerical calculations. The true meaning behind it is the same as that mechanical life form; we cannot and do not know its significance…”

At this moment, the red-haired mature woman also said, "Sir, you saw our life when you came to the town. In fact, we don't need to sleep or eat, and farming is meaningless to us, but we still do it. We brew wine, but it has no informational or physiological significance to us. We farm, but we grow flowers. We also do some things that mimic human behavior... but only to the extent of mimicry."

Wu Pifu remained silent. Although he could not sense the emotions of these artificial humans, he always felt that what they were saying was wrong, wrong... very wrong, but he could not put his finger on what was wrong.

After a moment, Wu Pifu suddenly asked, "I have another question. If my identity as a human is known to the mechanical lifeform faction and the android faction on the moon, then..."

What will they do to me?

"And what orders did your superiors give me... and how would you treat me?"

(End of this chapter)