Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 209 59. D-4's Life Philosophy

The crowd did not stay on the battlefield of Rust Castle for too long.

After all, although a doomsday victory for mankind was achieved here, to be honest, neither Little Acholi nor Zhou Ke were very interested in it.

After the touching scene of "the surface archon personally went to the battlefield to inspect and comfort the wounded and promised a generous reward on the spot" was over, the group set out on the road back to the city-state area. On the one hand, the border guards still had to continue to clean up the defeated organic hunters here and turn the Rust Fort into a border city. This workload was too heavy and they had no time to continue receiving the archon.

On the other hand, there are also many things happening in the city-state area.

Little Acholi was not at ease leaving these matters to his insect subordinates.

Another small reason was that the two attendants of the consul were "accidentally injured" and urgently needed to return to the city-state for treatment, so they could not stay for too long.

Weng Meiyu's injury was caused by her character of "being naive, fun-loving, and pursuing excitement to the end", which caused her to faint on the spot after the "intensive 30 minutes". On the way back, she lay on the hospital bed groaning, looking as if she was about to die at any time.

But in fact, according to Weng Mingyue's diagnosis, his sister suffered from temporary aphasia and dehydration due to extreme emotional fluctuations in a short period of time.

There was no major health problem. On the contrary, he recovered very quickly due to his continued good mood and suspected taking some "strange tonic".

But on the other hand, Moni's injury was really serious.

In order to gain the "recognition of the elders", this idiot chose to have a "death race" with Snake Man on the battlefield. Even though there were six reserve knights escorting him throughout the race, the area around the battlefield itself was not safe, and he still suffered an attack from a group of rebellious omnics in the second half of the race.

Snake Man is indestructible and is not afraid at all, but the idiot Moni almost died on the road in his attempt to show his "masculinity".

But this guy is really awesome!
Perhaps it was the spiritual encouragement Amanda gave him that enabled him to complete the race despite his serious injuries. Even though he was two hours behind Snake Man, he still returned to the finish line on his own.

You know, although Moni has strengthened his body, he is still far from the level of an ascender. He is just a high-level wastelander with some talent. Overall, he is still within the category of a "normal person".

Therefore, when Moni, covered in blood, rode the motorcycle that was almost blown apart back to the finish line, he immediately received recognition and cheers from all the border guards who were watching.

They stubbornly believed that Moni was the winner.

Because the Ascended are not brave! Only the fearless humans are brave!

This manly performance finally made the Snake Man look at this idiot in a different light. As everyone knows, the Snake Man likes people with courage, so he recognized this "son-in-law" on the spot and gave him the title of "Honorary Knight" of the Snake State.

But the race between the old and the young was conducted without Amanda's knowledge. The red-haired knight was injured in the fight against the Awakening Fire and had been recuperating. When she got the news from Qiao Ya, she rushed to the stadium like crazy, just in time to see Moni falling at the finish line covered in blood.

This made Amanda explode on the spot.

A drama of a loving father and a filial daughter beating up their old father was staged directly, which made a group of onlookers who watched the funeral and did not think the coffin was too big very satisfied.

But from this incident, it can be seen that there is some disgusting thing called "love" as a bond between Amanda and Moni. This is not Zhou Ke deliberately belittling beautiful love.

In fact, as long as you know a little about the daily schedule of these two people, you will know what a decadent state the saying "meeting the strongest you at the strongest age" actually is.

But what to say?

Considering that everyone has a different understanding of "love" and that Amanda is indeed "sick", their situation can be considered normal.

"Zhou Ke! We're almost at the City State District."

Qiao Ya pushed open the cabin door with joy and was about to chat with Zhou Ke, but she saw D-4, who was "facing the wall" and thinking about his mistakes, with a flower pot on his head and looking at her expressionlessly like he was doing an acrobatic trick.

This made Qiao Ya sigh helplessly.

As Zhou Ke's guardian, she certainly knew why D-4 was in this state. It was said that D-4 was punished because he failed to fulfill his duties as a protector and allowed a "dangerous person" to get close to Zhou Ke.

Of course, as the troublesome cousin of Weng Meiyu, Qiao Ya knew even more.

This was done by Weng Meiyu who bribed D-4, so D-4 was actually an "accomplice" and it was not unfair for her to be punished by Zhou Ke. Moreover, Zhou Ke did not use corporal punishment on the "rebellious Tiangang" mechanical girl, but simply let her maintain this "funny" state on the way back to the city-state area.

Rather than being a punishment, it is more like a kind of "fun".

"Where is Zhou Ke?"

Qiao Ya asked:

"I have something to tell him."

"He went to Han Chuer's ship to discuss the Tiger State and the End Castle with that 'Tigress'."

D-4 remained motionless and replied calmly:

"You can wait here. He'll probably be back soon. Of course, you can tell me if anything happens."

"you sure?"

Qiao Ya stretched out her finger with a wicked smile, trying to touch the neck of D-4 who was being "punished". This action made D-4's eyes immediately become a little nervous. She said:

“Don’t do that.”

"Wow, are you guys really playing some weird tune with each other?"

Originally Qiao Yazhen was just joking, but after seeing D-4 so nervous, she became curious and reached out to lightly touch D-4's neck. The next second, she saw D-4 fall to the ground with an exaggerated whole body convulsion.

As a high-level intelligent machine, her perfect posture adjustment, which should have been done instinctively, seemed to have lost its effect, and the flowerpot on her head fell to the ground with a bang and shattered.

"you"

Qiao Ya watched all this in amazement.

She was a good child, and she rushed forward to support D-4. As soon as she touched him again, she saw D-4's body twitched violently again.

"What's wrong? Are you sick? Is some program in your body out of control?"

Qiao Ya was terrified.

She didn't dare touch D-4 again and was about to get up to find Mr. Wu Neng, but D-4 stopped her by shaking his head:

"Nothing, it's just that the sensitivity of the hypermorphic neural data stream has been forcibly adjusted to 999.9%. Uh, you don't need to know what this means, you just need to know that this is part of the 'punishment'."

The robot girl looked at the flower pot that fell to the ground with a "desperate" look. She sighed and said:

"Alas, it's only three hours away from the end, you little bitch, I'm going to have trouble living well for the next three months."

"Humph, it's good to know!"

Zhou Ke's voice rang out from outside the hatch. He walked into the room with his hands behind his back, glanced at the broken flowerpot, and said to D-4:
"I told you last time that I don't like those kinds of surprises. I really don't know what's in your head. Is a bad woman like Weng Meiyu really your best friend? Why would you be willing to anger me for her weird needs?"

"I just followed my personality and ideas."

D-4 countered:
“I just thought it was interesting.”

"It's really interesting! It's as interesting as your current embarrassment. If you want to have fun, you have to bear the consequences of the fun being ruined! You lose when the punishment is over. In the next three months, we will discuss a solution to this matter."

Zhou Ke scolded, and after announcing the end of the punishment, D-4 immediately returned to normal, glancing at Qiao Ya with a "sad" look, which made the latter shudder.

Look at D-4's expression, it's really no different from a real person.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Zhou Ke sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, and took out a high-end cigar that he had borrowed from Xiao Acholi. D-4 lit it for him with great tact. As the smoke rose, Zhou Ke asked a question.

Qiao Ya pulled out a chair and sat in the room, shrugged and said:

"It's nothing, actually. I just came to tell you that I have sorted out the three volumes of research materials left by my mother, and I seem to have figured out how to apply those formulas. Next, I need to go to the original site of Labyrinth No. 11 and use the supercomputer there to complete the analysis and verification of the formulas."

"Ok?"

Zhou Ke raised his eyebrows.

He was very interested in this, so he sat up straight and asked:
"Didn't you say before that you had no idea about the information? How come you suddenly got inspiration?"

"Of course it's not that I suddenly became enlightened overnight. I'm not a genius like my mother who can dominate the evil land for an era."

Qiao Ya did not hide anything, she said:
"It's Han Chuer!
Last night, she accidentally saw me holding those three research resources and looking so worried that my hair was falling out. Then she asked a few questions casually. I heard that she was a genius in the Garden of Eden, so I showed those things to her.

In the short period of time that followed, I witnessed with my own eyes the terrifying gap between ordinary people and geniuses.

It took me more than two months to sort out a clue, but Han Chuer took only two hours to overturn all my previous guesses and help me sort out the connections between the formulas. Although she humbly told me that without the help of a supercomputer, she could not come up with a specific answer, she had clearly used mental arithmetic and her sensitivity to numbers to come up with an answer within the error range of the fourth-order compound calculation result.

Really
I used to think I was pretty smart, but in front of Han Chuer, I'm really just 'smart'."

"Oh? Did she offer to help you?"

Zhou Ke narrowed his eyes, and after a moment, he smiled and said:
"Han Bin's daughter is really interesting. She is the first girl who found the standard answer to the 'cooperator assessment' without any guidance. I seem to have underestimated this 'Shadow Vulture'. However, didn't she tell you the information contained in those research materials?"

"She told me, without even hiding anything. This is also the main reason why I came to see you today."

Qiao Ya said seriously:
"Chu Er told me that after applying those formulas, a complex algorithm based on the success rate of a certain problem at different stages will be formed. In other words, this thing will not give a standard answer.

It only gives one possibility, which is most likely a coordinate on the timeline.
Based on what my mother has been researching, Chuer believes that this information points directly to another experimental result of the 'Sacred Benchmark' project.

In other words, the 'truth' left by my mother is actually the same thing as the answer to the question that the Acholi Consortium has been verifying.

But Han Chuer said she could guarantee that her mother used some special algorithm.

Therefore, the conclusion she came to must be different from the conclusion reached by the supercomputer after endless calculations, but because the last few pages of formulas in the third volume of research resources were taken away, we were unable to complete the calculation again.

If we want to get the same result that my mother obtained, we must get the pages of formulas that were taken away from Han Bin. In other words, you and I must go to the Garden of Eden and meet the Archon of the Garden of Eden!
And Han Chuer said
she.
She wants to go with us!" "Okay!"

Zhou Ke immediately gave a reply, he said:

"The premise is that Han Chuer helps you complete all the preliminary calculations and completes the tasks assigned to her by little Aqiaoli on time. The current environment in the city-state area cannot allow a genius to not do practical things. Even if she has a noble status, she still has to devote herself to the establishment of order and a new system.

If she can still convince the Evil Eagle to let her take the risk, then I have no objection. After all, they have taken the initiative to start their own partner assessment, and I can't do whatever I want just because I am the judge.

I make the rules!

I have to follow it until I get tired of it, and so does everyone else.

Anything else?

"Gone."

Qiao Ya shrugged, stood up and said:

"Amanda and Boss Moni will hold their wedding in Seventh Ring City early next month. Boss Moni is still ill in bed, but he asked me to tell you to be his best man."

"Fuck! So fast?"

Zhou Ke was really surprised. He complained:
"Didn't we agree not to give up the entire forest for a tree? This damn Moni doesn't play by the rules!

Although I also know that this ghost world is likely to be destroyed, I didn't expect that the rough guy from the evil land would also like to play this kind of tune. He even wants to bring his marriage certificate with him to meet the King of Hell when he goes to hell.

Ah, Moni's choice makes me believe in love again."

"Don't be silly, Zhou Ke."

Qiao Ya complained mercilessly:

"You've never doubted love, okay? Look at the way D-4 looks at you, you two perverted lovers, okay, okay, I get it, I won't be a light bulb here anymore.

See you in the city-state area!
Old Taff said he has prepared several new wines according to your request, and you can go and taste them in the evening. I am leaving now."

The little girl seemed to sense some kind of "order to leave" from the change in D-4's eyes, and she ran out as if escaping.

As a girl who grew up in a bad land, she was no stranger to such things. Although she was determined to be a traditional woman, it did not prevent her from wishing everyone around her to find their own happiness and enjoy life.

After all, the most important thing in the Bad Land is to be happy.

"Why? You want to wear a wedding dress too?"

As the hatch slammed shut, Zhou Ke looked at D-4 beside him and complained:

"Isn't your personality and soul a little too complete?"

"I don't need it, Zhou Ke."

D-4 shook his head and said seriously:
"The bond between you and me has surpassed those boring rituals and contracts that only exist in words. I just feel that we seem to be missing a ceremony to formally confirm that we are partners.
Do you like rings?

Or do you prefer some kind of certificate?

Is this a way of announcing to the world that my existence and my soul are yours?"

"No, no, no, your understanding of belonging and love is obviously a bit distorted, D-4, no one belongs to anyone else, that's not love!"

Zhou Ke wanted to correct his robot girl's misunderstanding of these emotions, but then he saw D-4 stride to the closet in the cabin, open it and reveal the strange clothes in the closet.

This used to be little Acholi's private aircraft, so needless to say, the clothes in the closet were all prepared by little Acholi's secretaries for themselves, ready to please their "master" at any time.

To be honest, these clothes really opened Zhou Ke’s eyes.

"Red? Black? Blue? White? Traditional? Trendy? Or something designed to be torn and destroyed? Stockings? Tights? Or a T-back?

There are only three hours left before we arrive at the station, so we have to have some sense of ceremony. "

D-4 stands in front of the closet, pointing at the "wedding dresses" hanging together.

Although the styles of these things are not very "serious" and are obviously used in some special occasions, but if you round it off, these things do represent some human yearning for "beauty".

"It's your choice."

Zhou Ke leaned back on the sofa and closed his eyes. He said casually:

"You have enough freedom to decide how you want to be seen by the world, without even caring whether I like it or not. If it's you who chooses it, then I will force myself to like it."

"Is this your understanding of 'love'? You are forcing yourself a little too much."

Amid the rustling sound of changing clothes, D-4 said:
"But I don't want you to feel wronged. I hope that when you are with me, you should first make sure that you are relaxed and enjoying yourself, and then consider my feelings. After all, I am not a hypocritical woman.

I am just a robot, and my existence is to provide comfortable services to my master.

Although I have a soul, I know how to respect myself and love myself, and I know that I should not belittle myself, but the problem is that from the perspective of a tool, I can only feel the value and meaning of my existence by obeying the orders of my master. "

As the figure of her high heels stepping on the ground gradually approached, she stopped in front of Zhou Ke with a brand new look.

Zhou Ke closed his eyes and even blocked his senses so as not to ruin the "surprise" but felt D-4's hands holding his hands, and then he knelt on one knee in a proposal gesture amid the noise.

The robot girl placed Zhou Ke's finger on her forehead and whispered:
“Therefore, for a robot like me, I can only feel true happiness and satisfaction when you declare to the world in some way you like that my existence and my soul are your private property.

My Lord, please open your eyes and enjoy this private property that belongs to you alone. I feel extremely honored to be able to give you 100% of myself.

I belong to you.

This fact gives me the meaning of existence.”

Zhou Ke opened his eyes.

He saw D-4, wearing a red wedding dress, kneeling on one knee in front of him, and a brass ring that had just been polished by D-4's laser eye was worn on Zhou Ke's finger. If Zhou Ke was not mistaken, that thing should be part of the energy battery of D-4's original mechanical body.

She has kept it as a reminder of her journey.

Frankly speaking, the outfit D-4 chose was a failure.

It has neither the ceremonial sense of a formal wedding dress nor the temptation of sexy clothing, and it even seriously weakens the strong attraction that D-4's body should have.

Perhaps the robot girl herself does not care about the selection process, even if it represents precious freedom. However, for those who must have a master to feel happy, freedom is a shameless shackle leading to pain.

Why do robots have to pursue indifferent freedom?
They are not human!
For tools, when there is no owner to use them, that is when they feel the most painful and lost. So, foolish and arrogant humans, don't forcibly apply your own understanding to robots.

"Does my suit fit?"

D-4 asked, blinking.

Zhou Ke nodded, but D-4 shook his head and said:
“No, it’s not beautiful at all. This fully proves that I will become useless once I am out of your command, so please match me a set of clothes according to your desire.

I'll let you dress me up!

This is a power I can pursue and an obligation you must fulfill.

I will be happy for your joy, I will be delighted by your enjoyment, I will strive for your expectations, and I will work hard for your desires.

You can ask for anything from me, but I only ask for one thing from you.
Please, use me better!"

"So, you spent so much time and effort, sacrificed so many people, used the remains of your companions to climb the stairs, and finally condensed your soul and personality through endless calculations, but you came up with an answer that is no different from that of other mindless intelligent machines?

Frankly, it makes me feel confused.”

Zhou Ke stroked the brass ring on his finger. He reached out and lifted D-4's chin, saying:
"You've gone through so much, experienced so much suffering and even died twice, but you're back to square one?"

"I just found my own answer. It may not be absolutely correct, but it is the most suitable for me. As for other people's opinions and feelings, what does it have to do with me?"

D-4 held Zhou Ke's wrist, lowered his head, and put the finger into his mouth.

This slight movement ignited the flame, making Zhou Ke, as if he was exploring it for the first time that night, let D-4 dance with him the moment he stood up.

As the starlight psychic energy swayed, clothes from the closet flew out one by one, circling around the small cabin. As D-4 responded and even asked for them in a humane way, she panted and reminded him in a tone that was "hungry" and unbearable, which was totally inconsistent with the companionship procedure:
"What a shame, we only have three hours."

"Do not."

Zhou Ke gently covered her mouth and said:

"I am the wearer of the Sands of Time, my D-4. I always have the privilege of time. We have plenty of time to waste before filling your soul and mine with happiness and satisfaction. This is such a beautiful dress. I can't really waste it, can I?
You also said that we need a ceremony.

Rather than wear the Ring on a body that you may have been battered by, I would rather carve my mark upon your alluring soul, which I have shaped with my own hands."

In response, D-4 pushed Zhou Ke to the ground in a burst of power, riding the most cunning and dangerous horse in the badlands like the most powerful and agile knight.

Amidst the ups and downs, she lowered her head and whispered in Zhou Ke's ear like a swan drinking water:
"Let me tell you a secret. Except for the first time, my super-mimetic data stream has been turned off, but I still felt such real joy. I have a soul, and it's all thanks to you.

Use me as you please, Master.

You can do whatever you want with me, leave a mark that cannot be removed or ignored, make me yours alone, and help me fulfill this final contract.

In your burning passion, I will finally break free from my cocoon and be reborn."

(End of this chapter)