Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 207. Legendary Fisherman Acholi and His Collaborators

The attack and defense of Rust Castle had actually entered garbage time the moment Wu Neng took back the body of the Awakening Fire and ran away.

The reason why the organic hunters of Rust Castle were so terrifying was not only because they were not afraid of attacks and were fearless of death, but also because they had a more complete and efficient command and action system than humans. This was not only due to the "free thinking" that the awakening virus gave to the intelligent machines, but the more fundamental reason was the efficient killing promoted by the managers and mechanical sages as nodes of the command system.

They are hardly disturbed by emotions when making decisions, and use the precision of mechanical operations to control the progress of war, so they can naturally achieve a complete crushing of human forces.

However, what did the Fire of Awakening do after it "awoke"?
The Chief Administrator's collapse and retreat led to the loss of the supreme commander of the Rust Castle's organic hunters. Then, except for a few lucky ones who had quick reactions and escaped, the rest of the Mechanical Sages were all killed. The Fire of Awakening personally infused them with higher-intensity pollution, turning them into true "Abominable Intelligent Machines."

This makes the Rust Castle omnics led by the Awakening Fire seem to have a huge advantage, but in fact they have become a group of vagrants with no command at all.

The initial advantage was simply because the Fire of Awakening relied on the stolen heavy-duty modules to break through the Black Wall Titan, terminate the Black Wall algorithm, and widely spread the enhanced awakening virus to induce the human side's intelligent machines to rebel.

But after the Awakening Fire was killed by Wuneng, the advantage of Rust Castle was gone in an instant.

Those abominable intelligent machines that rely on waste code to provide computing power are simply unable to command the organic hunters, as the communication frequencies of the two sides are inconsistent!
What's even more deadly is that in the past thirty-eight years, the first target of all the intelligent machine hunters in Rust Castle have been those monsters that were hopelessly contaminated by Chaos, and the abominable intelligent machines are the targets that they must eliminate.

This soon led to the most darkly humorous thing happening on the battlefield.

After the unified information flow forced by the Fire of Awakening was defeated, the "awakened" organic hunters followed the original instructions and first inflicted their firepower on the contaminated and corrupted "commanders" of their own.

There was no need for human soldiers to even take action, as the fallen mechanical sages were "destroyed by themselves" by their own soldiers.

Now, there’s no need to fight this battle anymore.

When the free AIs received the counterattack signal sent by Wuneng and began to reorganize the human command system and give counterattack suggestions, the organic hunters on the opposite side did not receive any instructions at all. They could only launch a counterattack according to their own combat logic.

In a one-on-one situation, even the most powerful biochemical warrior could not be a match for a fully-equipped organic hunter, but at this moment, on such a large battlefield where the combined strength of both sides exceeded 70,000, the side whose command system was being rebuilt and the side whose command had been completely destroyed were engaged in a final duel, and the result had been determined even before the counterattack began.

When Zhou Ke and D-4 left the Flame Library and came to the shattered castle of Rust Castle to look at the battlefield from a high vantage point, the continuous artillery fire and various missiles fired by the human side had already separated the chaotic organic hunters.

The Third Frontier Guard Corps, which had suffered heavy casualties in the previous attack, was making a detour from the flank, and the organic hunters turned a blind eye to this.

"It was like a group of vicious goats being torn apart by wolves."

D-4 commented harshly:

"I never thought that one day these machines and steel would be so vulnerable to human attacks. It seems that the 'purity of machinery' that Rust Castle has been promoting cannot bring them real power."

"It's just some racist nonsense, no need to think too much about it."

Zhou Ke blew out a smoke ring and said:
"Thirty-eight years ago, the Awakening Flame descended from the sky, shattering the old web and granting freedom to the omnics. Thirty-eight years later, the fallen Awakening Flame was defeated, leading to the fall of Rusted Fort. You see, history is a meaningless cycle.

The truth that you will rise by this and you will fall by this is once again being played out before our eyes.

But I heard that in recent years, Rust Castle has been clearing monsters outside the occupied area and has set up several bases and sent some of its elite troops there. So strictly speaking, only the diehards of the Awakening Fire were destroyed today. It will be good for everyone if those cancers that have been contaminated by chaos are killed.

I guess this is the chief manager's plan.

It realized that it could not control the awakening of the fallen awakening fire, so it put those intelligent machines that could still be "saved" on the battlefield where they could be truly beneficial in advance, and secretly did me a favor, allowing me to bring my wisdom to this "destined battle" at this necessary moment.

That guy is so cunning!"

"It just doesn't see any hope of breaking through. If I had to spend 38 years guarding a bomb that could blow up the Badlands Reservation at any time, I would also do everything I could to find useful help."

D-4 shook his head and said:
“From this point of view, you and Wu Neng are indeed the destined benefactors of the manager.

But judging from Wu Neng's comments on the Creator Wood just now, I feel that the advancement of the Badlands to this point is just the aftermath of the various counterattacks launched by the Eternal Seven after they realized that they were tricked by Chaos.

In your words, everyone in the Badlands, those who are still alive and those who are dead are just part of the Eternal Seven Play.

These seven guys deserve to die."

"You're right, dear, it's my mouth."

Zhou Ke laughed and put his arm around D-4's waist, bit her cheek and said:
"When they encountered the Eternal Blessing, they took it in their hands without thinking about what to do if it was a trap. This shows that the seven of them are not wise. They abused the power they did not understand and tried to kill a good thing, but attracted the attention of the End. This shows that the seven of them lacked a plan. When they were attacked by Chaos and the End, they could not even unify their steps. They even came up with several salvation plans. This shows that they are not united at all.

What are the seven most outstanding people in the old civilization?
Pooh!
To me it's just a pile of rotten wood.

How could the advancement and development of a world and a civilization be achieved so quickly by relying on the leadership of seven people?
This isn't some damn heroic absurd novel.

If seven people can determine the rise and fall of a civilization, then this fragile civilization should be buried as soon as possible. A crappy civilization without any risk resistance and resilience will not last long. "

"I think your words are a bit biased. If it weren't a civilization with enough potential, how could it have welcomed a Chaos Shadow that sounds difficult to deal with to show up and bewitch it?

If it weren't for the 'blessing' that Eternity bestowed upon the seven people to lock in the fate of the world, how could this civilization with great potential be destroyed in such a short period of time, and have them face the choice between degeneration or destruction?"

Wu Neng's voice sounded from behind.

It seemed to be in a bad mood because it saw its creator die. It didn't even have its usual mean attitude when it spoke. It just completed a cremation with its own hands and said in a cold tone:
"It's not the Eternal Seven who are wrong. They are indeed the 'accomplices' of Chaos! But they are not the ones who deserve to die. They should be brought to the trial for the crime of 'harming civilization'. However, the real murderer is still enjoying our suffering in the warp and feeling pleasure from it.

The real damn thing is 'eternity'.

It was He who placed this poison bait into the hands of the Eternals, tempting them to complete the poisoning of civilization.

Joker, you are the most talented criminal I have ever seen, so please tell me! Who deserves to die more, the evil-minded instigator or the deceived poisoner? "

"what?"

This question made Zhou Ke turn around and look at Wu Neng, who had received the "legacy" of the Awakening Fire and had been completely renewed. He blew out a smoke ring and said with a curled lip:

"Why choose between the two? Why choose the more pleasant of two disgusting things? Don't you have enough gallows? Or is digging eight graves too tiring for you?"

"Tsk, this machine knows."

Wu Neng was not surprised at all by Zhou Ke’s answer of “kill them all”.

This is how this guy's brain circuit works. For this extremely self-centered person, he doesn't care about concepts like trial or the real murderer.

But on the other hand, Zhou Ke's evaluation of the organization of the Eternal Seven is not without reason. Just look at the evil things that old Professor Acholi did in the branch timeline 01 and you will know that every one of them can be regarded as a "war criminal."

"No matter how brilliant their ideals are, they can't hide the fact that what they are doing is destroying lives."

Wu Neng raised his head and used his left eye, the electronic eye from the fire of awakening, to look directly at the purple moon that had disappeared in the daytime above the clouds. After a moment, he shook his head and said:

"You're right. If we were given a chance, we should kill them all! The world would be a better place without the seven of them."

"Well, I knew you understood me, my dear Wu Neng."

Zhou Ke looked up and down at Wu Neng's new body, which was "made from materials" from various machines, and said critically:

"But your fashion sense still needs to be improved. I mean, fancy leather cases are no longer popular. You should choose something with a solid color. How about I find a spray paint can to help you paint it?"

"Don't bother. This machine can just do it casually, just like you humans put on some clothes casually when you go out."

Wu Neng complained:
"When we get back to the City-State District, I will use Bert's production line to tidy up my appearance. And did you forget one thing?
This machine can also use bionic skin, although the transforming gears will cut the bionic skin into pieces once it is activated. Wood did not design a bionic appearance for the external components of this machine at all. From the design of the Fire of Awakening, you can tell that guy doesn't like bionic machines. He prefers the pure beauty of machinery.

But anyway, I also want to try the feeling of being a human being sometimes."

"You know what? The tone of your voice just now was like a little brat complaining about his father."

Zhou Ke pointed at Wu Neng's mechanical chest, who was much taller than him, and said unceremoniously:

"Wood is dead! Whether it's this timeline or the main timeline, he's gone. You should try to get what you want back on your own instead of complaining about it here.

Don't you have the ability to program yourself?

Silver Fox has said that you have the potential for 'infinite evolution'!

People have given you the most precious things, which is just a bionic solution that can move with transforming gears. If you can't design it by yourself, your intelligence will be wasted.

go with!
Get myself a set of cooler skins. I'm already a Badlands Legend now. If I encounter robbers when I go out to buy groceries, do I have to deal with it myself?
You have to fulfill your duties as an assistant, understand?"

"You ride on the horse"

Zhou Ke's words made Wu Neng want to smash this idiot's head with his iron fist, but after thinking about it, he felt that Zhou Ke did not seem to be wrong.

Nowadays, it is difficult but not impossible to write a program to operate the deformable gear and bionic skin.
Well, what he said is right, why should I beat him?

Although he really deserves a beating.

"Zhou Ke, little Acholi's personal signal is entering the Badlands and is expected to arrive at the rear of the battlefield in four to five hours. Moni and Weng Meiyu are also on that aircraft."

D-4 turned around and shouted to Zhou Ke:
"Director Mulan sent me a message, asking us to prepare to go to the safe area behind the battlefield to meet little Acholi."

"No! Who is he? Why would he let me, a legend of the Badlands, go meet him in person? Wouldn't that make me look like a nobody?"

Zhou Ke waved his hand and said, "I'm right here! Tell Mulan, tell little Acholi, I'm waiting for the 'King of the Surface' and his 'Electronic Pet' at the Huomiao Library. In short, it's up to you to come or not."

"You call him 'King of the Earth'. Do you know what the future holds after Little Acholi and the Chief Administrator join forces to wipe out Rust Castle?"

Wu Neng said:
"No matter what you plan to do in the future, you can't do without the support of others. Both parties are collaborators, so you have to give them the necessary respect, right?"

"But now they are the ones begging me, Wu Neng."

Zhou Ke snorted and said:
"Everyone knows what's wrong with this Bad Land, but no one dares to speak out loud. Only the Evil Vulture is secretly planning to use a spacecraft from the old civilization to send the psychic thugs of the Bad Land to the Garden of Eden to futilely set heaven on fire!
She was probably the only one who dared to rebel against the Acholi Consortium so blatantly.

But do you know?
Before I got involved, the success rate of this plan was less than 10%. She couldn't offer anything to ask Han Bin to stand on her side, but I can!

Not only can I make Han Bin make way for me, I can even ask Old Acholi to smash the entire Garden of Eden into the ground according to my ideas. Not only can I decide when that paradise falls, I can even make it fall the way I want! "

Zhou Ke tossed his left hand lightly, and two eternal samples appeared in his palm like magic and were tossed back and forth. He said:
"This is something I am good at, and perhaps it is something that only I can do. In this case, how can I do it for nothing? If he wants me to do something, he must first show his attitude.

Wuneng, now is no longer the time to be a collaborator.

So what if he is the king of the earth?
If he wants to realize his desires and ideals, he has to please me!
You know what? I love the feeling of holding the fate of the world in my hands.

It's like I have kidnapped all of humanity. Everyone has to act according to my mood, and no one dares to offend me. They have to do whatever I want them to do. It's like I have become the king of the world at this moment, or have held the power of destiny.

As long as I am in a bad mood, we all have to die together."

Zhou Ke spread his arms, and on this war-torn mountain, in front of the intact library in the ruins, he said to his two companions:
"Ah, I sadly discovered that I am also a hypocritical guy. I was just cursing the Eternal Seven, but in the blink of an eye, I became the same vile person. But it feels great to have the whole world making way for me.

So, Eunuch Wu, please pass on the order and ask the King of the Earth to come for an audience as soon as possible. Let's go, Concubine D-4, there are still four hours.

We have nothing to do anyway, so we might as well walk around Rust Castle and look for some good stuff.

I can’t come here for nothing.”

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More than four hours later, when all the organic hunters on the front of the battlefield had been wiped out, an ordinary-looking but luxurious aircraft slowly landed on the tarmac of Rust Castle, risking the danger of crossing the war zone.

Although Zhou Ke asked little Acholi to come and see him, the King of the Earth was so noble that he certainly couldn't just run to the dangerous area without doing anything. Therefore, before he arrived, a clone army specially responsible for protecting the Archon had arrived at Rust Fort and carried out searches and martial law here.

But to be honest there is nothing to search for.

This place had been plowed by saturation bombing by tactical missiles before. The Flame Library survived because Zhou Ke used the power of time to restore it to its undamaged state. The entire surface of Rust Castle was bombed with impact craters everywhere.

The production line hidden underground was fine, but it had completely stopped functioning due to the loss of AI control.

It's safe here, at least it's much safer than the surface area which is still dealing with the final stages of the war. What's more, little Acholi didn't come here alone.

Next to him was a female omnic guard with a good figure and appearance. It was not the Administrator's vehicle, but she did have some close connection with the Administrator.

Little Acholi pushed open the wooden door of Huomiao Library and saw Zhou Ke sitting on the smooth floor with his back to him.

Zhou Ke placed the sheathed razor blade next to the chair, with the cowboy hat hanging on the handle. He leaned on it in a very Pava-like posture.

To be honest, even D-4 and Wuneng didn't understand what Zhou Ke was doing with this performance art, but they didn't intend to intervene in the conversation between Zhou Ke and little Acholi, so they just stood by and pretended to be two stupid intelligent machines who knew nothing.

However, when they saw the female omnic following little Acholi, D-4 and Wuneng simultaneously took action to stop her.

"After the humans have finished talking, you can go over there."

Wu Neng said:
"Don't think that this machine doesn't know who you are, All-Seeing Eye! This machine has memorized your signal identification last time!"

“But I’m definitely not it.”

The female omnic brushed her long hair and explained to Wu Neng in a gentle tone:

"I am just a replica of its mental circuits. My mission is to follow and protect little Master Acholi until the world's 'future' is confirmed, and then send that message to my 'father'.

You two can call me 'white dove', and my father hopes that I can bring back the olive branch for him."

"So, where is the administrator now?"

D-4 asked, and the female omnic calling herself "White Dove" looked D-4 up and down with a look of surprise. She said:
"Father should be outside the occupied area. He is protecting the work done by his children over the years. After the demise of the Rust Castle headquarters, those bases are destined to go through a difficult time. But it doesn't matter. As long as there is a future and hope, steel and machinery will always be as strong as humans."

While the omnics were talking, Little Acholi approached Zhou Ke who was sitting there. He adjusted his tie uncomfortably, approached Zhou Ke, and said:
"You are very strict and even asked me to come here in person."

"Isn't that nonsense?"

Zhou Ke closed his eyes and said without raising his head:
"If you don't even have to make this trip, there's no need for us to talk about what's next. Look, you know what I'm going to do next, and I also know what you want me to do next, so let's not waste time guessing.

I'll ask you directly.

How many casualties can you accept?"

"Oh, I knew it. It's the same thing again."

Little Acholi took out two cigars from his pocket, gave one to Zhou Ke, and took out a delicate little blowtorch to light them for the two. He casually took a geography book from the bookshelf next to him and glanced at it. Then he said amid the rising smoke:
"The best outcome is, of course, that everyone except the dead ghosts can survive. There are at least more than one million people there, Zhou Ke, we can't be so cruel. More importantly, those one million people coming to the surface are enough for me to build several more cities in the Badlands Reservation.

The most important thing is that there is a human gene bank sealed by the old civilization in the Garden of Eden. The manager is commanding its army outside the occupied area to find a scientific research base for us that can unseal the gene bank and achieve rapid cloning.

The good news is, that place isn't too far from the Bad Land.

The bad news is that I need to organize an expeditionary force to open up the connection between the Badlands and there. And the premise for all this to go smoothly is that the old man can't choose to gamble everything on it."

He paused, put the book back on the shelf, and said to Zhou Ke:
"My sister has always thought I was a fool. She felt that I was unaware of the things she knew, but she couldn't imagine why I was so determined to come to the surface seven years ago.

Rhine wanted to protect me, just as I wanted to protect her.

Therefore, in addition to this hypocritical request for the future of human civilization, I also have a very personal request, Zhou Ke.

Help Rhine, let her live."

"how about you?"

Zhou Ke finally opened his eyes, looked at little Acholi, and said:

"Are you going to meet your own destiny?"

"If I had a choice, I would definitely want to be a great man who leads the remnants of the apocalypse to rebuild civilization."

Little Acholi laughed, then shook his head and said:

"It's a pity that this world is never so gentle, isn't it? Someone has to do those things, and if it's not Rhine, then it can only be me.

I told you, I hated my father.

I can't always talk about my hatred and become the kind of person you despise the most. If I hate, I should take action, just like I should take action if I like someone.

I will go with you to the Garden of Eden, and if, in that moment that will determine the future, a MacGuffin needs to sacrifice himself, I want it to be me.

Don't tell Rhine.

If I die, please take good care of my sister for me, for the sake of our collaborators."

"What about the future of the Badlands?"

Zhou Ke blinked and said:
"Don't tell me you're going to hand over this kind of business to a little brat like Weng Meiyu. She can't handle it."

“Someone will take over.”

Little Acholi stroked his chin. He looked at the huge library filled with valuable books from the old civilization and said:

"We have come this far after all, right? We are trying to climb out of the quagmire, not relying on psychic power, and not fearing destruction. As long as people are alive, they will always have to eat. As long as they still want to eat, it is not so easy for them to die.

They will always find someone better than me.

You see, I don't even exist."

"Ok."

Zhou Ke nodded, stroking his chin, and said:

"I'll save a spot for you when we head to hell."

(End of this chapter)