From ship girl to machine god

However, when Rogge sent him information about what Blue Bird was doing in Night City and how powerful she was, Old Morgan knew clearly that Blue Bird was no ordinary person.

It is even unlikely that she is related to the company.

And when Old Morgan launched an investigation and found that tens of thousands of tons of metal scraps had disappeared out of thin air in the garbage dump, and more than half of the entire garbage mountain collapsed, Old Morgan naturally connected this matter with Blue Bird.

He really wanted to know where those tens of thousands of tons of metal scrap went, because according to his investigation of the site, the metal scrap did not leave the garbage dump.

In other words, it was not transported away, but disappeared in other forms.

After eliminating all impossible guesses, the answer is naturally obvious.

For example, those metal scraps turned into a fair little girl, and then ran away with long legs.

And now this little girl is sitting in front of old Morgan, holding a bottle of beer and thinking about how to answer his question.

In the end, Blue Bird chose to tell Old Morgan the "truth".

"Do you want to hear me tell a story?" Qingniao looked at Old Morgan, mobilized all his acting skills, and made his face expressionless again, then stared at the beer bottle in his hand with blank eyes and started telling. Said: "In the distant future, alien races have invaded the earth. In order to resist the alien invasion, humans have created a technology that can combine the human mind with steel creations, creating a machine that has a human appearance and at the same time A combat weapon with the strength of a battleship.”

When Jade Bird said this, he paused deliberately, and Old Morgan's eyelids obviously twitched, thinking of Rogge telling her about Jade Bird's unscientific fighting power.

However, Old Morgan did not interrupt Jade Bird. He just took a sip of beer and listened quietly to Jade Bird's continued story.

"This kind of humanoid weapon is named Siren by humans. It has unimaginable powerful combat power. But unfortunately, the Siren appeared too late. Even though their combat power is extremely powerful, they cannot fight against the huge number of alien races. ." Blue Bird made his voice as sad as possible, but at the same time maintained calmness and indifference, so as to enhance the atmosphere of this story as much as possible: "In the end, humans were unable to restore the result of defeat, and the sirens were defeated by humans. The time machine built with the last bit of power was sent into the cracks of time, looking for hope in past history to save mankind from its fate of destruction.

The technology used to create the sirens is called Rubik's Cube technology. This is an extremely powerful technology. Even though the time node the sirens went to was only a long time ago, and the human technology of that era was still very primitive, it was still the first step in the history of human war. peak.

The Sirens hope to find a way to save humanity in this era, use Rubik's Cube technology to transform those ancient war machines into their own kind, and then use this as power to save humanity from extinction in the future. "

After hearing this, Old Morgan was already attracted by the story told by Blue Bird. He couldn't help but ask: "Did they succeed?"

Although Jade Bird's story was very simple, without even touching on emotions or details, for someone like Old Morgan who had personally experienced the war, just listening to Jade Bird's description could make him feel the horror of the war.

If Bluebird was just an ordinary little girl, when she told these stories, Old Morgan would at best regard them as the girl's innocent fantasy.

But Qingniao has proven that she is a being with extraordinary power, even to the point of being incredibly powerful.

So for old Morgan, no matter how ridiculous the words are, they are the truth.

Obviously, Blue Bird used the fact that she is the core ship girl of the Rubik's Cube to turn the fantasy story she told into a convincing fact.

Faced with Old Morgan's inquiry, Qingniao shook his head slightly and said in a regretful tone: "The time node chosen by the Siren is the pinnacle of the history of human civilization and war. They have tried countless times and want to win in countless ways. Maybe they can find hope to save the future, but in the end they desperately discover that the essence of human beings is disputes.

After seeing countless killings and wars by humans, some sirens developed a hatred for humans. They felt that humans were too hopeless. They hated humans for having such stupid behaviors in the past. If humans gave up their prejudices and united as one, they would soon How can we develop science and technology and be annihilated by foreign enemies in the future!

As a result, some sirens gave up their tasks and missions and began to clean up mankind, although this was meaningless.

After doing all this, the leader of the Sirens woke up, redefined his mission, and began to search for those unique variables on countless timelines in order to find a way to save the future.

For this reason, they even entrusted the Rubik's Cube technology to humans, allowing them to combine the warships of the old era with the Mind Rubik's Cube to create a miraculous creation called the Ship Girl. "

Hearing this, Old Morgan felt quite sympathetic to his anger and dissatisfaction, because he had personally experienced the era of corporate wars and witnessed with his own eyes how the capitalists who controlled the companies dragged the entire human race into the abyss for their own benefit.

If he were the leader of the Sirens, he would not be able to resist destroying mankind if he saw the terrible state of mankind today.

But old Morgan had long passed the age of being angry. He put down the beer bottle in his hand that had been empty without realizing it, and looked at the blue bird with a complicated look.

He already understood at this time that the little girl in front of him was either a siren or what she called a ship girl, and when he met her, it was most likely when she first came to this world.

Thinking of this, Old Morgan couldn't help but regret a little. Maybe he should have let the blue bird stay with him instead of sending her to Night City.

"So, are you a siren or a ship girl?" Old Morgan asked Qingniao awkwardly: "Can you tell me your purpose? To save the future of mankind, or to clean up mankind in this era?"

Old Morgan seemed a little nervous. The reason why he asked this was just because he heard the blue bird say that the Sirens had cleaned up humans, and he couldn't help but have such worries.

Although he didn't quite understand when Bluebird mentioned that the sirens chose, Old Morgan expected that there would be no worse time in human history than the current era, and he wanted to kill all those insects. , not to mention the blue bird.

However, the answer given by Qingniao was beyond his expectation.

"I do not know."

Chapter 20 Everyone adds firewood and the flames are high

For Jade Bird herself, she really didn't know the answer to the question asked by Old Morgan.

After all, she is just a time traveler, not a siren from the future who has lost faith in humans.

Moreover, as a person who basically existed as a human being for the first half of his life, with occasional dog breaks at most, and who only served as a shipgirl for less than a month after time travel, Qingniao still basically maintained a human thinking mode.

Judging from Qade Bird's original thinking mode, Night City should indeed add some decoration to its street lights, but it would not go so far as to clean up the entire human race.

What she told Old Morgan before was just about the settings of the Rubik's Cube Ship Girl, and had nothing to do with herself.

But now that Old Morgan has asked this, Jade Bird still needs to give him a reasonable explanation.

So Qingniao, who reorganized his language, thought for a while and replied: "I am not a siren. I have no responsibility to go back to the future to save mankind, and I have no great dissatisfaction with mankind in this era, so whether it is to save mankind or I have no interest in destroying humanity.

Or maybe I’m actually still looking for the meaning of my arrival in this era. Can you keep this secret for me until I understand what I want to do? "

After saying that, Qingniao looked at Old Morgan with an expectant look.

When Blue Bird looked at him like this, old Morgan turned red in a rare expression.

For an old man like him who is several decades old, it is still a little uncomfortable to be looked at by a little girl who is equivalent to his granddaughter.

However, he did not refuse, but nodded and said, "I won't tell anyone."

After calming down his mood, Old Morgan asked Jade Bird again: "Then what are your plans next? Just be a mercenary with Rogge?"

"Well, let's do this for the time being. If you don't work as a mercenary in Night City, you can only work as a street gangster or a company dog, right?" Qingniao showed an indifferent expression and spread his hands: "Maybe later I I will consider overthrowing the company and getting the world back on track, but for now... we can consider building up our strength first."

Hearing what Jade Bird said, Old Morgan felt relieved, but he couldn't help but feel a little curious: "Build strength? According to what you said, the ship girl and siren are both made by Rubik's Cube technology. You should have a lot of strength." Strong strength is what matters, can’t you defeat the company?”

In the story told by Blue Bird, the Siren was the decisive weapon used by mankind to fight against alien races at the last moment. Judging from the technological power of mankind at that time that could travel through time and space, it was obvious that the Siren's combat effectiveness was beyond imagination.

As a ship girl made with the same Rubik's Cube technology as the Siren, theoretically speaking, she shouldn't be much weaker than the Siren.

Facing Old Morgan's curiosity, Qingniao played with his hair and said: "It's easy to defeat them. My ship equipment... is that my weapons and equipment as a ship girl have fission missiles. If I am willing, I can easily destroy Night City." All companies, but it makes no sense.”

"How could this be meaningless?! As long as the corporate rule can be destroyed, the world can usher in a new future!" Old Morgan became excited. He spoke loudly to the blue bird, describing a bright future without corporate rule.

However, the blue bird just looked at him quietly, with no expression on his face.

When Old Morgan saw Jade Bird's expressionless face and calmed down again, Jade Bird said: "Destroying a company cannot fundamentally solve the problem. It can't be saved for a while. When you and Johnny Silverhand He also detonated a nuclear bomb at Arasaka Tower and almost destroyed the entire Night City, but was that useful?

Not to mention that the company's power is spread all over the world. Simply destroying one or two branches is meaningless. Even if I can wipe out the entire Arasaka from the earth, new companies will still be born, and they will continue to oppress others. people.

So there is no point in doing this, physically destroying the enemy will never solve the underlying problem. "

"But even if this is the case, why don't you do nothing?" Old Morgan may be old and his temper is not hot. After getting excited, he was able to calm down and discuss this issue with Jade Bird.

Just from his tone, Qingniao could sense a deep dissatisfaction and unwillingness.

"So I said, now is the time to accumulate strength." Qingniao remained expressionless, but his words gave Old Morgan a feeling of hope: "If people don't wake up on their own and rise up to resist the injustice of fate, then Even if I destroyed all the companies in the world, new companies would soon take their place.

But when people understand all the injustices they have suffered, awaken their sense of resistance, and are willing to stand up against the oppression and rule of companies, then even if new companies are born, they will be overthrown.

So what we have to do is to accumulate strength, secretly contact those who have awakened the consciousness of resistance, and organize and unite everyone.

Just like a bonfire, if you just let it burn, it may gradually shrink and extinguish quickly, but if someone keeps adding firewood to it, it will burn stronger and stronger, and eventually turn into a prairie fire.

Johnny Silverhand could say that he lit the bonfire back then, but apparently no one continued to add fuel to the bonfire, so that now the bonfire has been extinguished and only embers remain.

So instead of expecting me to destroy the company with extraordinary power, why not try to rekindle this extinguished bonfire and let more people add firewood to it. When the fire burns, it can destroy all darkness and oppression. , bringing you real hope and future. "

What Blue Bird said was easy to understand, and there was no complicated truth. But to Old Morgan's ears, it was like a deafening thunder, which suddenly struck his soul that had been confused for decades.

Yes, but when Johnny Silverhand stood up to resist the company, countless people wanted to follow his footsteps. If someone stood up at that time to take over the banner of resistance and organized everyone, they might not be unable to try. Drive the company's forces out of Night City.

However, none of them thought about it at that time. Even old Morgan himself was disheartened because he felt that he had seen through the nature of the struggle between the companies and the damage caused by the nuclear explosion to Night City, and he lived in seclusion ever since. decades.

Thinking of this, Old Morgan couldn't help but blame himself for what he had been doing in the past few decades.

Blue Bird looked at Old Morgan with a sharp light in his eyes, and a planning smile appeared on his face.

Chapter 21 Give light to everyone

Jade Bird talked a lot with Old Morgan, and I have to say that this former legend is indeed worthy of his name. His life experience is a legend.

And unlike Adam Hammer, although Morgan Blackhand once worked for military technology, he was more of a collaborator with military technology, rather than a corporate dog who completely fell in love with military technology.

Compared to Adam Hammer who crazily implanted prosthetics in pursuit of combat effectiveness and eventually turned into a monster with 97% of his body made up of prosthetics, Morgan Blackhand only replaced one of his arms.

And this black mechanical prosthetic leg he made himself has become the origin of his nickname and his most famous symbol and feature.

Even to this day, there are still people in Night City imitating his style and equipping themselves with a black arm.

Talking to such people, there is no doubt that you can talk about a lot, and you can also gain a lot of valuable life experience.

After all, no matter from any perspective, Old Morgan's life experience is much more exciting and richer than that of Blue Bird.

But the conversation between the two was more about Old Morgan asking Jade Bird about what a world without corporate oppression would look like.

As the classic saying goes, how can those who have seen the light endure the darkness? When they know what light and hope are, no one is willing to endure the darkness anymore.

It’s just that sometimes people can follow the light and hope and move towards the light and hope.

But sometimes, someone needs to burn themselves when there is no light and turn themselves into the light of hope that leads everyone.

Today's Night City seems to be shrouded in darkness. All the people living here have never seen the light, and no one has come to burn themselves into the light of hope, so people can tolerate the company's rule.

Of course, the power of the company is also the reason why people dare not resist.

Before they saw the light, they didn't know where their hope was, so they could only silently endure the company's oppression, and thus lived in numbness.

Maybe some people felt the injustice of fate and wanted to rise up, but they failed to make waves.

Under the squeeze of the company, it has been fed into an extremely huge monster. Simple resistance is like Don Quixote charging towards the windmill. Although it is full of courage, it cannot defeat the enemy.

This is why even though Johnny Silverhand blew up Arasaka Tower, it failed to bring about change.

Although the flames of atomic fission are dazzling, they fail to pierce the darkness and let everyone see what hope looks like.

"This is the reason why Johnny Silverhand didn't bring about change." At the dinner table, Blue Bird was eating the dinner cooked by Old Morgan while telling him words he had never heard before: "He stood He came out to resist. Such a spirit is precious and such behavior is noble, even though he only resisted for the sake of resisting.

But he lacked a spirit that could make people follow him to stand up and resist. People only saw him standing up to resist the company, but they didn't understand why he was resisting.

They were still living in darkness and did not see the appearance of hope and light, so when Johnny Silverhand blew up Arasaka Tower, what he brought only destroyed a high tower, but did not destroy the people living in it. People on towers. "

"So we want to tell people that they can gain freedom by overthrowing the company?" Old Morgan hardly ate much. He was listening intoxicatedly to the words that to him were like the ray of light piercing the darkness in the night. And tried to interpret Jade Bird's words with his own understanding.

However, Qingniao shook his head and said: "Freedom is just a lie, or absolute freedom does not exist. People need order, rules, and a yardstick to restrain everything. Otherwise, allowing all barbarism to grow will only give birth to new things." The monster, watered and fed by ambition, continues to oppress and rule people."

At first glance, it seemed to be completely contrary to his own knowledge, but after thinking about it carefully, Old Morgan couldn't help but feel that what Blue Bird said was very reasonable.