Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 136: If my life is all up to me, I can plant a golden lotus in the fire

Marina fell asleep.

The time limit is about ten minutes.

Taking into account her growing physical fitness, let's calculate it as eight minutes.

But eight minutes is more than enough.

"You arrogant human, get out of here!"

The Lord of All Machines' furious voice echoed in the City of the Sun.

The speed at which it took control of the City of the Sun was further weakened by this rage.

This is good.

But Yuan Qingzhuo didn't know how long it would take for it to eliminate this negative state and transform back into an artificial intelligence that would not be affected by emotions.

Amid the noise of over 100 decibels, Yuan Qingzhuo picked up Marina, who was snoring with a peaceful look on her face, and solemnly handed her over to his master Baihe.

"please."

He said.

Master Baihe nodded and carried Marina on his back.

"Do you need help?"

Shirakawa Wakaka and the young man Shirakawa held the hilt of the sword together and asked him softly.

The young man Bai He said nothing, but just put layer after layer of buffs on Yuan Qingzhuo, almost turning him into a glowing man.

The two who spoke at the same time looked at each other in surprise, then smiled at each other, and finally got Yuan Qingzhuo's answer: "Then please help me save as many people as possible."

"I am the only one who possesses Marina's past memories, and I am also the only one who knows the secret of the Lord of All Things. So naturally, I should help her cut off this entanglement with the past."

Yuan Qingzhuo turned around and walked towards the Corona Tower.

His calm voice came from the front.
"I have a plan - but it's something only I can do."

"My masters will disappear in ten minutes... Shirakawa, I'll leave the rest to you."

"must."

Baichuan Ruoxia stood up with some effort and nodded to him in agreement.

Yuan Qingzhuo walked back to the first floor hall of the Corona Tower. He stared at the big hole that Marina had made before for a moment, and listened to the noise behind him quickly fading away.

Soon, there was nothing left around except the increasingly louder vibrations.

Even the crowd was rescued by Baihe.

I am alone again.

Yuan Qingzhuo stood in the middle of the hall and removed the cover of his martial arts will without any hesitation under the range of the surveillance cameras.

Without any warning, he was exposed to the "vision" of the Lord of All Machines.

He seemed not to notice the cameras and calmly walked to the extremely sturdy elevator with backup power activated.

He reached out and lit the up button, walked into the elevator, and then lit the button for the top floor.

Hu Hu Hu.

The elevator door slowly closed.

Yuan Qingzhuo had disappeared so suddenly before, and now he appears so calmly, and his appearance was so without any warning.

So much so that the Lord of All Machines temporarily put aside the anger in his personality and used the small built-in speaker in the elevator to ask him: "How did you... show up?"

There is no harm in temporarily waiting for the Lord of All Machines. It can feel that its control over the City of the Sun is getting higher and higher.

By the time this elevator reaches the top floor, it will be fully integrated into the City of the Sun.

By then, even if he could kill Andre, he would not be able to pose any threat to himself.

At the same time, the Lord of All Machines also discovered that Marina had suddenly disappeared. Even if it used nearly 10% of its computing power, it could not find any trace of her.

It was as if she had suddenly disappeared from this world.

But the Lord of All Things, who had just witnessed Yuan Qingzhuo appear out of nowhere, knew that Marina's disappearance and Yuan Qingzhuo's appearance were probably due to the same reason.

Yuan Qingzhuo raised his eyelids and saw with his peripheral vision that the elevator had already gone one-third of the way, so he replied:
"Want to learn?"

He had originally wanted to whet the appetite of the Lord of All Machines as planned, so that he would have enough time to climb to the top of the Corona Tower.

But when the words came to his lips, Yuan Qingzhuo still sneered disdainfully: "It's just a digital pet raised by Ravna, and you want to learn the skills that only your human master can do?"

Yuan Qingzhuo looked up and raised his middle finger towards the almost invisible miniature camera in the elevator:

"In the next life."

"Humanity……"

A low whistling sound rushed through the elevator shaft, and Yuan Qingzhuo could clearly feel that the "personalized emotions" of the Lord of All Machines were once again affected by his words.

"You, very good."

After saying this, the Lord of All Machines did not reply, but fell into dead silence.

Yuan Qingzhuo knew that it was trying its best to quickly integrate into the City of the Sun, and then it would be able to block Marina's way out and kill itself.

Unfortunately, Marina is probably about to leave town by now.

But as for killing myself... the chances are pretty good.

Because even Yuan Qingzhuo didn't think that this fragile body could cause much damage to the entire Sun City.

But it doesn't matter.

It's a small matter like this, it doesn't matter.

Because all he needs to do is let him climb to the top of the Corona Tower and see how the Lord of All Machines kills him and where he starts to kill him.

The elevator went up at a very fast speed.

Yuan Qingzhuo stood there expressionlessly, feeling the change in air pressure, and staring at the flashing floor buttons until he reached the one at the top.

ding dong~
The elevator door opened.

There are no enemies and no obstacles.

This is probably due to Shirakawa Waka.

At this moment, what appeared before Yuan Qingzhuo's eyes was an unusually tidy office and broken floor-to-ceiling windows.

"I can see it clearly..."

Yuan Qingzhuo thought to himself, and then walked to the huge hole that Andre had smashed, and looked towards the entire City of the Sun.

Those people who were originally like screws in the entire city are now surging like a black tide.

The ground was filled with wailing.

Those gray and black skyscrapers that originally stood tall and majestic, were now all wriggling.

In the iron jungle, dragons and snakes emerged from the land.

All the lights disappeared in an instant, and all the electricity was lost for the first time from the Energy Administration Bureau and giant companies in the City of the Sun.

The entire bizarre City of the Sun suddenly became pitch black.

Become simple and silent.

It was as if it was about to begin to perform its original function as a weapon of war.

But the one operating the weapon now is not a human, but an artificial intelligence with partial personalization process.

A rumbling sound came from the other side of the horizon.

Yuan Qingzhuo's pupils contracted, and his extraordinary vision allowed him to instantly determine that it was the eastern part of the outer ring area.

"Humanity……"

The voice of the Lord of All Machines became low and hoarse: "You used Marina to stimulate me and gave me anger... In a way, I have to thank you."

"My personalization process is almost reaching its maximum value..."

This is my opponent.

Original clear and pure thought.

An opponent who is currently almost unbeatable on a physical level.

He did not listen to the long speeches of the Masters of All Machines, but only recalled the eye contact he had with his master earlier.

'Plan? What plan?'

'A plan to deal with the Master of All Machines.'

"Can we still deal with that guy? Stop kidding, the best thing to do is to quickly moisten him... Wait, is that true?"

"Yeah, it's very simple."

Yuan Qingzhao smiled at Bai He:

"——I will become the master of all things, right?"

How can artificial intelligence, which relies only on computing power and hardware, possibly compare to my human will that has been tempered, broken and recast countless times?

A few minutes later, the Lord of All Machines finished narrating its long mental journey.

At the same time, it also officially announced its complete control over the City of the Sun.

"This is your last chance, human. Will you submit to me?"

Yuan Qingzhuo remained silent, just staring at the still stable ground, unwilling to miss even a single detail.

"pity."

As a result, tall buildings collapsed, people cried, and hundreds and thousands of meters of cables rose from deep underground, quickly intertwining with many other fragments and parts in mid-air to form a giant palm hundreds of meters high.

At this moment, Yuan Qingzhuo saw it very clearly.

Where did the cable rise from? Where did this palm begin to gather?

The surging energy, the riveting of gears and parts, and then the iron palm crossed the long distance and enveloped his head.

Everything about the Lord of All Things was clearly visible under Yuan Qingzhuo's eyes.

In just a moment, Yuan Qingzhuo roughly understood the general principle of how the Lord of All Machines could easily control the City of the Sun while lying in the ocean of information.

So, if that is its palm, then the closest place to the core in the true sense is...

Yuan Qingzhuo's pupils moved slightly, but he did not choose to act immediately.

The martial arts will, empowered by the many Taoist techniques thrown by the young man Baihe, surged, easily lifting the top cover of the Corona Tower and rubbing it into a triangular cone several dozen meters in size.

The next moment, a giant iron hand fell from the sky.

The suffocating tearing sound and wind pressure passed by Yuan Qingzhuo's ears. The Corona Tower, which was also hundreds of meters high and had an extremely solid foundation, collapsed almost instantly and turned into ruins on the ground.

The shock wave, which stretched for a thousand meters, swept backwards, burying many buildings and people.

Only Yuan Qingzhuo still stands hundreds of meters in the air.

The spikes that had just been rubbed out had already broken into pieces and fell to the ground, but in contrast, Yuan Qingzhuo had forcibly passed through the iron palm.

Yuan Qingzhuo, who was suspended in the air, turned his voice into a line and said to the Lord of All Machines who was watching everything: "If this is the only attack you can do, you will never be able to kill me in your lifetime."

"If there is another strong man like Andre Warner, send him. He might be able to kill me."

As if to confirm his words, the ruins of the Corona Tower rose from the ground, melted and solidified in an instant, and transformed into several huge swords that surrounded Yuan Qingzhuo's body.

Throughout the whole process, he had no expression on his face, as if he had not consumed any energy at all.

——Of course this is a lie.

Even with four steel swords that were dozens of meters long but only had shells, Yuan Qingzhuo was almost drained of energy.

If the Lord of All Machines repeats this a dozen or twenty times, Yuan Qingzhuo will definitely crash heavily and be smashed into a meat paste.

But the Lord of All Machines doesn't know.

It's just like Yuan Qingzhuo didn't know that the city defense cannons in the inner city were loaded with annihilation bombs, but the Lord of All Machines can still use it at will.

The Lord of All Things remained silent.

Only another iron hand rose from the opposite distance.

The original cleaning is confirmed.

That's the second hand.

Yuan Qingzhuo marked the positions where the Lord of All Machines created his two hands on the map in his mind, and estimated the difference in time between the two creations for a while.

Then a location was found.

In the northern part of the inner city, west of the Garden Route.

Probably there.

But is there anything special about that place?
As Yuan Qingzhuo was thinking, he saw the second iron palm approaching, while the wound on the first palm, which was dozens of meters long and wide, had completely healed.

The sky suddenly darkened, and two hands came from the front and back to surround him. But Yuan Qingzhuo only felt confused.

—Trying to kill me simply by slapping my hands.

Well, this is a bit too stupid.

Because Yuan Qingzhuo could see more than a hundred large-caliber guns and cannons on his palm alone...

If the Lord of All Machines let them fire at full power, he would definitely not be as relaxed as he is now.

Although it was not easy, compared to the hellish scene of bullets raining down from the sky, Yuan Qingzhuo felt that this simple physical attack was not difficult at all.

——Is it impossible to do it, or is it due to other reasons?

Several giant steel swords with only shells were instantly crushed into scrap metal by the two giant hands.

The next moment, he will be crushed into paper and sent into the second dimension.

After the final moment of hesitation, Yuan Qingzhuo, who was in the center of the two giant hands, visualized the detailed scene of "West Side of Garden Avenue" in his mind.

The will of martial arts is activated.

Shrunk into inches.

Yuan Qingzhuo crossed several kilometers in an instant and arrived at a high-end residential area which, although not turned into ruins, was still severely damaged due to vibrations and shock waves coming from afar.

The residents living there were either rich or noble, or at least senior executives of some company or enterprise, so most of them had received the news and left.

The community was empty at this moment.

"here……"

Yuan Qingzhuo, who concealed his figure with the will of martial arts, frowned slightly.

It seems somewhat familiar.

"Wait a minute, I remember that Ravna seems to live here."

Yuan Qingzhuo took a step forward immediately, and within two seconds he arrived at the residence of [Chairman of Gospel Technology, Lavna], whom he had not taken any serious note of before.

He stood outside the Dabieye and observed Ravna's house through the transparent window.

An expensive TV, expensive ceiling lights, and all kinds of expensive exterior decorations...there was nothing out of place in the room.

It looks like there is no essential difference from the home of an ordinary executive. At most, the things in it are rarer and more expensive.

But when Yuan Qingzhuo pushed open the window and wanted to go in to find out what was going on.

The alarm sounded at hundreds of decibels throughout the community, followed by the cold mechanical voice of the Master of All Machines: "Humans——!"

Yuan Qingzhuo looked down into the ground and couldn't help but smile.

You've come to the right place!
But why was the new core location of the Lord of All Machines chosen here?

——Does it want its mother to accompany it when it sleeps?

Yuan Qingzhuo didn't have time to think about it.

He did not try to smash the ground with his fists like Marina did, but directly wrapped himself with the will of martial arts and merged into the earth like a drop of water.

The infiltration process will stop after encountering a metal protective layer several meters thick.

——Let me see where your security door is!
As a result, even less than twenty meters away, Yuan Qingzhuo's figure reappeared deep underground.

The pressure of earth and rocks came from all directions. Yuan Qingzhuo didn't breathe, but just rubbed the extremely hard metal barrier with his toes, which might not be penetrated even by an erosion bullet.

Use your hands as a knife.

The will of martial arts, kill it for me!

With a crackling sound, Yuan Qingzhuo fell into this huge research institute filled with high-tech scientific research equipment.

Before he could see the surroundings clearly, the Lord of All Machines' deep voice began to echo:

"Human, do you want to destroy my energy core again?"

No more than five people know about Ravna's underground research institute, and there is a metal partition several meters thick that can block electronic signals for protection, so there are no weapons in the institute that can be controlled by the Lord of All Machines.

There isn't even a single replica.

Because from the very beginning, it never thought that anyone would be able to find the second hiding place it chose in such a short time.

But this time, the Lord of All Machines was not as anxious to escape as before.

Instead, he slowly turned the camera and stared at Yuan Qingzhuo with a surprisingly indifferent expression, then spoke through the loudspeaker: "You can give it a try. Judging from your previous performance, you probably have two kinds of space-related spiritual powers... Pure physical defense is naturally useless to you."

"Then you can try to destroy my energy core now and see if this Sun City will slip out of my control."

As the Lord of All Machines finished speaking, the sound of gears riveting echoed, and a few seconds later, a semicircular metal ball with a diameter of tens of meters appeared in front of Yuan Qingzhuo.

"Come, destroy my energy core."

The Lord of All Machines even had a hint of laughter in his tone: "Let me see which is faster, your speed of activating the space transfer or the speed at which the energy core annihilates everything around it."

The Lord of All Machines is naturally fearless - even if the energy core here is destroyed, for it, which has taken over the entire energy system of the City of the Sun, it would at most be a minor loss.

And using an insignificant energy core in exchange for the death of a powerful enemy who possessed at least two types of space-related psychic powers.

There is no need to say more about which option is more advantageous for it.

However, this energy core is a little closer to the information ocean that roams throughout the City of the Sun.

This is the most insignificant detail.

--recent!
Yuan Qingzhuo never thought that things would go so smoothly.

He had never thought before he fell into this research institute that not only was he not delayed and disturbed by dozens of clones again, but the Lord of All Machines took the initiative to expose the energy core to him.

How could it be so smooth!
——Is this a conspiracy of the Lord of All Machines?

No.

Yuan Qingzhuo denied it in his heart almost instantly.

Almost everything the Lord of All Machines said is true facts.

In other words, even if he blew up the energy core with one punch, it would be useless and would not change the overall situation.

On the contrary, it is very likely that you will bury yourself here.

Yuan Qingzhuo smiled.

But, unfortunately, it got it a little wrong.

Yuan Qingzhuo suddenly took a step towards the energy core which was only a few dozen meters in front of him!

——What I hope for is to die honorably in this energy core!
In his final martial arts will, Yuan Qingzhuo waved his hand without hesitation, cutting the energy core covered with a thick protective film into two like a hot knife cutting butter.

Then, light and heat that were enough to make anyone despair suddenly exploded in all directions with the broken energy core as the singularity.

Yuan Qingzhuo's tiny figure was swallowed up in an instant.

But even in this hell of heat and death, there was a tiny will of martial arts that shook the remaining bones and caused hearty laughter to rang out.

"——Lord of All Machines, arrogant artificial intelligence, the fight between you and me has only officially begun from this moment!"

In the endless ocean of information of the Sun City, it is comparable to the eyes of the Lord of all the machines in the Sun City.

A brilliant human figure that stood tall and straight gathered and fell heavily into the fragmented tsunami.

Its facial features gradually became clear, condensed from the most persevering and outstanding will instinctively.

The Lord of All Machines looked at the human figure in doubt and uncertainty, and then received a bunch of information that was not composed of binary, but condensed with text...?
--This is impossible!
The Lord of All Machines almost screamed.

[Ravna's artificial intelligence, remember this: my name is Yuan Qingzhuo.]

[Even if my body and consciousness are burned, the remaining instincts are enough to wipe you out. ]

With zero jumps and zero transmission of information, the Lord of All Machines looked up and caught a glimpse of the monster that was hundreds or thousands of times larger than itself.

A human figure with a face exactly like Yuan Qingzhuo also looked at it.

Bow down.

He showed a cruel smile.
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At the same time, outside the City of Sun.

Half of the golden-red sunset was swallowed by the earth, and the other half hovered above the horizon, bringing the last afterglow to the world today.

Marina, who was originally sleeping on Shirakawa Wakaka's back, opened her eyes.

A sense of emptiness and loss filled her heart.

The feeling of weakness and powerlessness made her not even want to jump off Shirakawa Ruoxia's back.

"How long has it been?"

Marina asked calmly.

"The first thing you asked when you woke up was this. I didn't expect it to happen."

Walking in the wilderness, Shirakawa Wakaha sighed: "I thought you were going to knock me out and run back."

"Is this the stereotype Xiao Yuan gave you?"

Marina asked again,
"So, how much time has passed now?"

"five minutes."

Shirakawa Wakaka replied: "Only five minutes."

"That--"

Marina's eyes suddenly widened, and Shirakawa Wakaka could almost instantly feel the force coming from her back increased a thousand times.

It almost broke her waist.

She frowned unhappily:

"My Lady Marina, could you please use your brain before you do anything?"

"Wait a minute..."

At this time, Marina also realized this problem.

"——Where's Shirakawa? Where's Master Obara? How come they suddenly disappeared?"

Shirakawa Wakaka helped her add: "It was originally planned to send us away for ten minutes, but now it's all gone after only five minutes."

Deathly silence came suddenly.

Marina, who originally wanted to turn around, softened again and lay weakly on Shirakawa Wakaka's back.

She looked back at the burning city on the other side, which had become so small that it could not be any smaller, and then turned back to look at the endless road and wilderness on the horizon.

Shirakawa Waka continued walking.

After a while, she said in a somewhat strange tone: "I thought you would turn around and go back to the City of the Sun."

"Then will you come with me?"

Marina asked.

"I won't go to commit suicide."

So Marina grinned and patted Shirakawa on the head.

“——That’s right.”

In Shirakawa Wakaka's silence, the blonde girl lowered her eyes in disappointment: "If I go back, I won't have any positive effect, and I can't deal with the entire Sun City... So why should I let Xiao Yuan, who has gone to great lengths to get me here, waste his efforts?"

She sighed and smiled:

"I am already a mature dog, so I will not do anything that might make my owner worried and disappointed."

Shirakawa Waka remained silent.

Suddenly, Marina stretched out her hand to her cheek and hooked it, asking for it.

"Is there any cigarette?"

Shirakawa Wakaxia stopped and motioned for her to come down.

Marina jumped down without hesitation, staggered two steps, and swayed on the ground for several circles before she stood firm.

I couldn't help but glance in the direction of the City of the Past.

She saw Bai Chuan take out a well-packed cigarette box from his pocket, first took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then took out a cigarette and handed it to her: "Why haven't I seen you smoke before?"

Marina took the cigarette, bit the cigarette holder with her narrow canine teeth, and answered vaguely: "Hmm..."

She leaned over to borrow a light and could see the gears turning amid sparks.

The flames leaped up and ignited the shredded tobacco.

She took a deep breath, exhaled thin smoke from between her lips and teeth, and smiled faintly.

"—Hey, that was before."

——Volume 2·Good Morning, City of the Sun·End——

(End of this chapter)