My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 338 There are no more humans

"Don't you have any clothes to change into?" Zhuang Xiao asked.

"Please follow me." Ling stood still for a moment, then led Zhuang Xiao through the elevator to a huge room that looked to be at least a thousand square meters.

She then went through a small door to the side and soon returned wearing a tight-fitting combat suit made of an unknown black material.

This was actually more tempting than before, but at least she had some clothes on, so Zhuang Xiao didn't have the mind to think about anything else.

He immediately asked, "What's the situation with those things?"

"Those are security robots."

As Ling led Zhuang Xiao forward, he explained, "They are the guards left behind by the company to protect the main server."

Zhuang Xiao suddenly realized, "So they thought I was an intruder?"

“No, it’s just that their settings are such that any organic or inorganic entity that comes in will be treated as an intruder and excluded,” Zero replied as he walked.

Zhuang Xiao keenly noticed the problem. "Wait a minute, I've been wanting to ask this for a while now. Why haven't we seen a single person in the company yet?"

"Could it be that the location of this main server is completely unimportant?"

Ling calmly replied, "It's very important. This is the company's most important and most secure location."

Zhuang Xiao frowned, "Then why haven't we seen anyone?"

"Yes, there are several checkpoints on the way to the server room, guarded by supervisor-level mechanical entities."

"A mechanical body?"

“Yes, because maintaining bionic technology is very troublesome. Currently, I am the only fully bionic android still active in the company.” Zero calmly revealed these secrets. “The president said that if you were to wake up one day, the first thing you should see should not be cold machinery.”

"And I will be your partner from now on to take care of your life and your mental health."

Zhuang Xiao felt increasingly uneasy. "Wait, what about the others? I can handle the social interactions, right? What about the other humans?"

His bad premonition grew stronger and stronger.

"There are no humans left." Zero stated this fact very calmly.

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Zhuang Xiao's mind went blank.

He opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He had already guessed this result, but when Zero actually said it, he still felt dizzy.

"This kind of thing"

Zhuang Xiao's voice was so hoarse that he didn't even realize it himself, "...You can't joke around like that."

“This is no joke.” Zero stopped and turned around, his azure eyes reflecting Zhuang Xiao’s expressionless face. “After 2077, I have never seen a human again.”

Zhuang Xiao asked, puzzled, "So what are you doing? Isn't this completely pointless?"

“My task is to wait for you to wake up and to take care of you as you continue to live,” Zero replied. “So I have been waiting, waiting for you to wake up.”

And so they waited for over a hundred years.

Zhuang Xiao clicked her tongue. "What if we don't get to see them?"

"Until the moment my activity signal stops," Zero said calmly.

Zhuang Xiao was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked up, "Something's not right!"

Ling tilted her head and looked at him, but did not say anything.

"No! Someone is chasing me! Those people clearly came in from the outside! And Wei Rui and An Lan too! An Lan came out too! Wei Rui also came in from the outside!" Zhuang Xiao muttered to himself, as if trying to encourage himself.

“I don’t understand what you’re saying, but you are indeed the first person in the company to wake up,” Zero replied.

"Take me to the main server room! Right now!" Zhuang Xiao immediately looked up.

Compared to Zhuang Xiao's urgency, Ling said unhurriedly, "Please come with me."

Zhuang Xiao followed her through the huge hall, and then through a series of twists and turns to arrive at a room.

"Please wait."

Zero gave an instruction and then walked into the door alone.

A moment later, she came out carrying a pile of things.

First came a set of black bodysuits, then boots, a helmet, and an exoskeleton.

"What's this?" Zhuang Xiao asked, puzzled.

"Please put these on," Zero explained. "I may not be able to protect you in the battle that follows, and the aftershocks could leave your frail body battered and bruised. So please put on a full set of protective gear."

Zhuang Xiao needs to change into it quickly.

Although he was not afraid of death, he did not want to die.

And they didn't want to die without knowing why.

He had overcome so many difficulties, yet he died in the aftermath of the robot battle, just like someone lying on the roadside. He couldn't stand it.

A few minutes later, Zhuang Xiao finished dressing and stretched her body. "It's quite lightweight?"

He was jumping around, feeling that his reaction speed was several levels better than when he was inside!

You should know that he has a well-trained physique and honed fighting skills inside.

“You haven’t undergone any physical modifications; this is already the limit,” Zero said, pouring cold water on his enthusiasm.

While warming up to get used to the equipment, Zhuang Xiao asked curiously, "It's been over a hundred years, how come the technological progress doesn't seem that great?"

"Technology has stagnated for over a hundred years, and its pace slowed down before 2077. However, medical technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and by 2024, all known human diseases will have a cure," Zero replied calmly.

Zhuang Xiao found it strange, "How could humanity have become like this? Did a world war happen?"

But it shouldn't be.

If a world war were to actually break out, then technological advancements should have been rapid.

It's important to know that the 20th century was the century in which human technology made the most rapid progress. During that century, there were two world wars, the Cold War, and subsequent conflicts that continued to occur around the world.

However, the growth rate of technology also slowed down starting in the 1980s and 1990s.

Many technological breakthroughs were not achieved until 2024, but most of them remained just concepts.

According to Zero, that means that no major wars will actually occur in the world in the fifty years following 2024.

Humanity has reached this point, and medical technology has made significant progress.
"Has some new disease appeared in the world?"

Zero's eyes flashed a few times with a bright blue light before he answered, "There is no data in the database."

"Looks like we'll have to go to the main server." Having gotten used to his gear, Zhuang Xiao immediately said, "Let's go, let's go!"

The answers he wanted to know were all stored in the main server's data storage.

Thinking about it now, since the server records all of human history, the people who left behind this history probably already foresaw that day would come.

This reminded him of how, when foreign powers invaded, some people, filled with grief, wrote down the history of their country over the past thousands of years, with the aim of leaving a legacy for future generations after the country's demise, so that they would not forget where they came from.

Just thinking about that feeling is unbearable.

"Please come with me."

Ling led Zhuang Xiao through one door after another, finally arriving at a door.

“There are different guardians in different directions. Once you defeat one of them, the others will come to your aid in batches. But it has been too long, and they have lost their support function. So, as long as you defeat the guardians here, you can directly enter the main server room without having to face the other guardians,” Zero explained.

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked, "Whose combat ability is stronger, the Guardian's or yours?"

“The Guardians are stronger, but they haven’t been maintained for over a hundred years, while I have undergone several iterations and have an automatic maintenance function, so I am in better condition,” Zero replied. “Please rest assured, my mission is to protect you, so I will definitely help you achieve your goal.”

Zhuang Xiao glanced at it upon hearing this.

Zero's face was expressionless.

"I'm entrusting everything to you," Zhuang Xiao solemnly instructed. "But you must ensure your own safety. If something happens to you, there will be no one to take care of me, and you won't be able to complete your mission."

"Yes, your command has been received."

Ling nodded slightly, then walked to the front door.

After being scanned, the door slowly opened.

This is a huge empty room of about 1,000 square meters, and the room is 30 meters high.

At the far end of the room were two huge alloy doors that were tightly closed.

In front of the door, a figure knelt on one knee with his back to the two people, head bowed and motionless.

Hearing a noise behind me, or perhaps the door opening and triggering its mechanism.

It slowly got up and then turned around.

This is a humanoid creature.

Or rather, it cannot be described as a biological entity.

To be precise, this thing is about two meters long, with long limbs, a streamlined body, and is made entirely of silver-white metal, but the metal has a strange, flowing appearance.

But on that face without features was a huge electronic eye, which was now flashing a chilling crimson light.

"No, why make it into a human shape?" Zhuang Xiao asked curiously.

"Because of the president's request, she said that you used to particularly like humanoid robots."

Zero didn't turn around; he just stared intently at the humanoid android.

At this moment, a rare look of wariness appeared on her face, and her azure eyes turned blood red.

“This is ‘Red Dust,’ a name given by the president.” Ling bowed slightly and then extended sharp blades from her arms. “Please step back. Once our battle begins, please proceed to the alloy door. Your authority is sufficient to unlock it.”

"Red Dust"—isn't that the name of one of the swords wielded by the protagonist in a martial arts story I wrote when I was in school and had a fit of teenage angst?

Xiaodie, I didn't expect you to still remember.

But Zhuang Xiao had no time to reminisce, so he obediently stepped back a few paces and hid to the side.

"Intruder, eliminate."

As a deep electronic sound rang out, the figure vanished in an instant, leaving only a fleeting afterimage on Zhuang Xiao's retina.

The next second, Zero next to him also disappeared!

Then it slammed heavily against the wall like a painting!
The figure reappeared where Zero had just stood, then turned its head and looked Zhuang Xiao up and down with its single, scarlet eye.

Zhuang Xiao's heart tightened, and she instinctively became wary.

But Zero immediately rushed over and knocked "Red Dust" away.

Then the two figures seemed to vanish, leaving Zhuang Xiao unable to see them clearly at all.

Even with the high-tech features on his helmet, he couldn't see the two figures at all. All he could hear were the constant sounds of mechanical collisions and the screeching of metal scraping and cutting, as well as the cracks and slash marks that kept appearing on the alloy walls of the huge room.

Zhuang Xiao was sweating profusely; this was definitely not a battle he could intervene in.

However, he vaguely sensed something was wrong.

But this was not the time to worry about that. He crouched down and ran straight towards the alloy door, hugging the corner.

Fortunately, he was very lucky, or perhaps the battle between the two sides kept them from paying attention to him. In any case, he did manage to cross the battlefield and arrive at the alloy gate.

When he reached the door, he looked back. He still couldn't see the battle in progress, but the piercing sounds of fighting continued to fill the air.

With a determined effort, Zhuang Xiao removed his helmet, straightened his back, and shouted, "I'm here!"

hum-

It was as if I heard his voice, or as if he had awakened me.

As if it were a promise that had been awaited for over a century, a beam of azure light swept down from the top of the two massive, thirty-meter-high alloy doors, enveloping his entire body.

A moment later, an electronic eye, neither female nor male, resounded throughout the space.

[Target Zhuang Xiao, detection passed, granted root privileges, enabled—]

Accompanied by a sound like steam rising, the two giant doors slowly opened outwards.

Zhuang Xiao looked back again, took a deep breath, and then stepped inside.

This is an even larger room.

It's called a room, but it's more like a Wanda Plaza or Wangfujing shopping mall. It's surrounded by layers of floors, with an open space in the middle. However, there's a huge pillar in the open space that leads straight to the top floor, which looks to be over a thousand meters long.

And the surrounding area is filled with layers of server matrices.

In front of Zhuang Xiao was an operating console.

The control panel was filled with information flowing around, which Zhuang Xiao couldn't understand at all, but he could see a handprint indentation next to the information interface.

That means you should put your hand there.

Zhuang Xiao stepped forward, and just as he was about to place his hand on it, he suddenly heard a loud bang, and then a figure slammed heavily onto the information light pillar in front of him and slowly slid to the ground.

It's zero!

Her clothes were mostly torn, her limbs were twisted, and even the simulated skin attached to her body was partially damaged. Her face even revealed the mechanical super alloy skull underneath.

Even with its limbs twisted, it still struggled to get up and stand guard in front of Zhuang Xiao.

Zhuang Xiao slowly turned around, and there was a silver-white figure outside.

But at this moment, it is in dire straits as well.

Not only was his lower body completely gone, with countless electrical wires and circuits exposed and sparking, but most of his head was also cut off, and even his left arm was severed at the root.

Even though it was lying on the ground, it still staggered towards this side.

As it crawled closer, it trembled and stretched out its remaining hand, as if trying to grasp something.

The next moment, its single eye flashed incessantly, and its hand fell limply to the ground.

Until Zhuang Xiao grabbed him with both hands.

It barely managed to raise half its head, and its single, scarlet eye, as if a flame about to go out, reflected Zhuang Xiao's image.

"It's already...very good." Zhuang Xiao's voice seemed to carry a certain emotion.

"Have I completed the task?"

Intermittent electronic noises emanated from the broken body.

"Yes, you did very well." Zhuang Xiao bent down, her expression serious. "You have successfully completed the mission."

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There is no reply.

The one eye went out.

Taking a deep breath, Zhuang Xiao stood up and stared at its wreckage for a long time before turning around and resolutely walking toward the control panel.

(End of this chapter)