Chapter 41 Variants
(Thanks to Yibo's Soul Da for his reward and support)
Mechanical life forms are weapons created by aliens, and the only command they receive is to [destroy the enemy]. Even though mechanical life forms later evolved through their own evolution and in turn destroyed their creator, they ultimately failed to escape the shackles of this command, and just expanded the definition of "enemy".
But it is precisely because of the existence of this command that the mechanical life forms that have long been able to completely eradicate artificial humans in terms of strength have not driven out all the artificial humans. Mechanical life forms need to [eliminate the enemy], but to eliminate the enemy, it is necessary to [existence the enemy] to - their enemies, that is, artificial humans, cannot be completely eliminated. Once this happens, mechanical life forms have no instructions to implement.
In the eyes of humans, this is not a problem at all. After fighting the enemy to death, you will develop happily. It would be a pleasure to have a happy development~ but you can't always look at it from a "human perspective". If you can't do it, you can't do it.
Of course, the mechanical living organisms that discovered this paradox are also working hard. The mechanical living organism network began to deliberately disconnect the network links of some mechanical living organisms and let them evolve themselves, intending to use them as a model in the future to break their own destiny... There are many mechanical living organisms that have been disconnected from the Internet around the world, but in the end, not many of them seem different from others. There are very few who can break free from the order of [Destroy the Enemy] to find a new way out. The "King of Forests" in the Forest Kingdom is one of them.
"...Is this the 'King of the Forest'?" Adam pointed to the mechanical living body lying in the stroller, with an unexpected expression.
While Leeds was sitting in Gundam for trouble with the top leaders of artificial humans, Adam, who was guided by Leeds (spoofed by Leeds), came to the Forest Kingdom to seek the "King of the Forest". The process went smoothly. The soldiers of the Forest Kingdom did not make things difficult for Adam, who was both mechanical and polite. He even realized that Adam's wisdom was far beyond his own. He took him to the castle deep in the kingdom without even taking any precautions, so that Adam could see the king at the first time.
only!
The king has no hands and feet, he will not even say anything?!
"King, dead." Among the personal guards gathered in the hall, a mechanical life body suspected to be the captain of the personal guards walked forward and gently shook the stroller made of rusty metal pieces. "We will back up the king's information and put it on the baby."
"...That's the case." Adam finally understood.
Mechanical living organisms only need to replace parts regularly to survive forever. Even if they don’t replace parts, they can live until the day when there is a problem with key parts. The survival needs are very low. As long as they are not artificial people from heaven, they can continue to maintain the status quo. In this sense, it doesn’t matter that the king will always be half-dead.
"But why..." With the sound of 'Yayi', all mechanical living organisms looked at the king in the stroller, "Why can't the king still grow up after hundreds of years?"
"It will never grow up because we are mechanical living beings, not humans." Adam was not surprised. This is a common phenomenon in which mechanical living beings imitate humans. They will not be able to see their objective conditions clearly and will not be applicable to their own human consciousness thinking at all.
As for Adam himself? It cannot be said that there is no such problem at all, but his IQ is far superior to that of ordinary mechanical life bodies and he will not make such a low-level mistake.
"Ah, speaking of it, we don't seem to grow up..." The baby carriage stopped. The problem that so many mechanical living organisms have spent hundreds of years unaware of was answered, which seems to have caused their logic to be crashed for a moment.
"..." Adam pondered.
He was considering helping them create a qualified mechanical body and then transfer the king's information to it. However... the "Romeo and Juliet" watched in the theater made him have some concerns about such operations.
Is the mechanical living organism created in this way really the original "king of the forest"?
"Ah..." The guards who seemed to think of something turned their attention to Adam, "But how did you grow up?"
Adam shook his head and chuckled, "I? I am a mutated evolution of mechanical life, and the situation is a bit special."
The captain of the personal guard who had previously shaken the stroller came over and asked again: "...How did you be born?"
"It is probably a large number of mechanical living organisms with the same wish. They choose to sacrifice themselves to let me be born in the life and death?" Adam, as the person involved, couldn't explain this clearly, let alone the principle.
This is not a thing in ‘common sense’. Whether it is the common sense of humans, the common sense of artificial humans, or the common sense of mechanical living bodies, it is the same. Because there is no precedent before myself and Eve.
but,
“—Yes, that’s it.”
There seems to be an example next time.
"There will be no danger on my brother's side, right... I'm so worried." Eve came to the ruins of the amusement park when he was also "instructed" by Leeds, who was traveling far away.
Although this place brings them very unfriendly memories and there are no evolutions like the "King of the Forests", it is also a special data collection place created by the network consciousness of mechanical living organisms deliberately cut off the Internet. It is necessary to continue to observe their changes - in fact, the changes are obvious.
After that battle, n seemed to have tampered with the mechanical living organisms in the amusement park. It should have spread some kind of virus? Most of the mechanical living organisms in the park no longer shouted "Share happiness", but just stood there blankly, uttering some words of unknown significance in their mouths.
"……………” Even Eve, who was devoted to Adam, seemed a little heavy after exploring carefully in the garden for a while.
He is also a mechanical life form, and he has also suffered from n's harm.
"Hmm?" Eve noticed a small mechanical life body running over in the distance, and subconsciously raised the warning because of the previous incident.
But this small mechanical life body is normal. It stopped when it ran to Eve, "Brother, brother, play with me, play with me~~"
"Ha?" Eve finally let go of his guard.
"I went out to play in Pasca village before, but after I came back, everyone else became very strange. No one played with me... Brother, can you play with me?" I already know how it escaped.
"No." Eve just wanted to play with his brother because he was a brother.
"Isn't it possible... Is it because we are different?" The small mechanical life body seemed a little sad.
Eve said impatiently, "Ah, that's it."
Then,
"—Then how can I become like my brother?"
This side also has a subsequent example.
Chapter completed!