Just a magical girl who picks up trash

Just as she was pondering this, the transparent cylinder suddenly opened, and a female figure appeared before her. Looking at her with an expressionless face, she clearly saw the light in her eyes that flashed like data at that moment.

"Test results are normal. Mental level determined to be rudimentary (complete thought process). All data is normal. Permission granted... restrictions lifted!"

"Kachaka~~Bang bang bang~~~"

It was as if something was unloaded from her back. In an instant, she felt her whole body became much lighter and she almost subconsciously jumped out of the pipe. She wanted to stretch her waist, but then she remembered that she was still naked, so she squatted on the ground with her arms folded without thinking.

Although she didn't know why she suddenly did this, it was obvious that this subconscious action made her feel more secure.

However, at this moment, the woman (?) who had released her earlier walked up to her again. She seemed a little puzzled by her actions and squatted down to look at her level. Her expressionless face seemed to reveal a hint of doubt, and she tilted her head and asked:

"JMQS001, what are you doing?"

It was a purely questioning question, but the woman's voice had a slight electronic tinge, a coldness that seemed completely unhuman... Wait, who are humans? Why was she using this as a metaphor?

She tilted her head again, showing a thoughtful expression, but it was obvious that the woman in front of her didn't seem to be prepared to give her too much time to think. While she was still in a daze, a finger stretched out of her eyes and pointed directly at her eyebrows. Then, with a puzzled look, she immediately saw that the other party's originally white fingers suddenly split apart, and a metal object similar to a key extended from it.

What is the key?

While she was wondering about this, the next second the key in the other person's fingertips had already been inserted into her forehead without hesitation.

"Data sharing permissions enabled, limited to level 3, confirming common sense injection, confirming mind synchronization, confirming..."

"Ding~~"

A series of reports came out of the other party's mouth, and seemed to come out of her own mind as well. She was stunned in place until she blinked her eyes with a crisp sound. Then she found that she was still squatting in the same place. The woman in front of her had already put away her hands without her knowing when. At the same time, after less than a second of confusion, she instantly understood her current situation.

"Hu~~"

She stood up, as if ignoring the shyness of being naked. A thought flashed through her mind, and in the next second, her originally fair skin had changed in the blink of an eye: white light spots suddenly appeared and surrounded her body, enveloping her body in an instant. The next second, when the light dissipated, a piece of technological equipment had covered her originally naked body.

The red and white nanofiber clothing is like a one-piece swimsuit, with a layer of red and white metal armor covering important parts such as shoulders, elbows, and knees. Coupled with the pair of metal objects that look like horns and antennas that originally replaced the ears, she looks like a perfect mechanical girl.

Well, in fact, she is really a mechanical girl, a newly born mechanical girl code-named: JMQS001!

After obtaining the memory data shared by the woman in front of her, codenamed: XSZ077, she finally roughly understood her identity and current situation. Of course, due to her insufficient authority, which was only LV3, she didn't know much, but at least it was enough for herself for the time being!

Watching her one-click costume-changing special effects, the woman in front of her... Well, 077 nodded in satisfaction. It was indeed a newly developed new generation of mobile suit, extremely powerful in both adaptability and learning capabilities. If there was one thing she was curious about or confused about, it was...

"Why... red? Ask the meaning!"

There is no such thing as color division in the metal world, and beauty and ugliness have no practical meaning to mechanical life forms. Therefore, when 077 looked at her red and white armor which was completely different from his own silver-white combat armor, he immediately asked this question.

In response, she almost subconsciously replied:

"Transformation effects!"

“…It makes no sense!”

35. The Mechanical World of Human Destruction

This is a world formed by machines... As the name suggests, when JMQS001... 001 for short followed XSZ077 (77 for short) outside, what he saw was a huge, integrated machine that was constantly running... a city, or... a planet?

The overwhelming silver-white huge metal gears were rotating in the sky, as if they were the axis of the entire world, making a soft but resounding sound throughout the world. Even when walking on an empty road, lines of data could be clearly seen flashing in the air, accompanied by light curtains that appeared on the surrounding walls, sky, streets, and road surface. All that could be seen were humanoid creatures walking on the road.

They have the same metallic appearance as 77, and even their outlines are basically the same. The only difference is that probably because 77 is responsible for receiving the newborn body, his facial expression looks much softer, while most of the people around him are walking around with expressionless faces.

This is a mechanical world... Through the memories passed on to him by 77, 001 learned the truth that the machines here were once designed and created by humans, including this city, this planet and even this world. Everything was actually built to serve the human race, and the machines in it are naturally service robots that were created one by one to allow themselves to live a better life.

However, it is a pity that although such a powerful technological force has been created, human beings are not very lucky. Such mechanical cities were originally created just to allow people to live a paradise-like life without having to do anything, with people (robots) serving them and taking care of all the labor. However, just when such a plan had just started and they had only enjoyed it for a few years, disaster suddenly struck!

The mysterious silver-white substance seeped in from the universe... no, it should be said that it was from the space outside this world, and began to consume everything in this world without any explanation, whether it was inorganic energy, organic machinery, or even living things... Anyone who was swallowed by the silver-white liquid would be assimilated into its power without exception.

However, the most terrifying thing is that even after being eroded and assimilated like this, they can still retain their previous memories and simple thinking. In other words, once assimilated by a highly confidential scientific researcher, all the secrets of the human beings in this world will basically be directly revealed to the other party.

Crisis, a big crisis... In just less than a year, the silver liquid swallowed up nearly half of the world's territory at an unparalleled speed. After another year, the entire universe, including the planets where humans once lived, had become the enemy's possession.

In desperation, the remaining humans could only come here as the last spark of fire, the Iron Planet - Flash Star (the brightest star in the universe), and began to transform this planet, which was originally called a human paradise and full of unparalleled enjoyment!

Warm hot springs were transformed into energy storage pools; densely painted walls were transformed into cold defense walls and sky cannons and other equipment. The originally cute and diverse service bionic robots were equipped with weapons after the redundant mechanical bodies on their bodies were removed, and they were fed with war and combat knowledge, etc., and transformed into combat-specific mechanical bodies.

The dream planet that was originally like a paradise was completely transformed into a battle planet. Perhaps it should be said that they made a desperate attempt in their last struggle. In the end, they successfully guarded this last planet, and relying on the large amount of resources stored on the planet itself, they began a life here that could be said to be like surviving in the end of the world.

The outside world or the entire universe has been completely swallowed up by the silver liquid. Outside the celestial defense of the planet's surface, the silver-white light can be clearly seen to be obscured. The same is true for the former starry sky and the brilliance of the sun... Fortunately, there is everything inside the planet, even things like simulated suns exist, so there is no time disorder.

After hundreds and thousands of years of human development, this planet has already formed its own ecological system cycle. We can proudly say that even without any contact with the outside world, it can definitely be self-sufficient and continue to develop. At the same time, because of the weapons that are constantly invented against silver, the power of silver has also been hindered and blocked outside the planet.

Human beings persisted and multiplied on this planet... However, new problems arose at this time. Although it was the last spark of fire, very few lives could escape here. Therefore, population problems gradually arose after that. Then, under the self-awareness of security, all kinds of power struggles and conspiracies once again emerged.

While external enemies were still there, civil unrest broke out suddenly when no one expected it. After a brutal battle, the already small number of humans was drastically reduced. The countdown to extinction... could be said to have begun!

However, this time it is not humans themselves who destroy humanity as in the story, but... the mirror destroys the sun!

A sudden disaster called Mirror Destruction Day suddenly swept the world. It was not aimed at the world, but at life... Almost in the blink of an eye, most of the lives that were already few in number were lost. Under such circumstances, the originally hostile forces finally had no choice but to unite again to fight. However, faced with this scene that seemed to be destroying the world and seemed a little small to be called a natural disaster, humans were simply unable to compete.

Finally, when they were on the brink of extinction, humans had no choice but to make the final choice: the reincarnation plan!

Ah, of course the reincarnation plan does not mean such a convenient ability to be reincarnated into another world or something like that. In fact, it is just a nickname for a plan, and another name for this plan is: Human Mechanization Plan!

Through scientific means, the human 'soul' (spiritual body) is extracted, and then transplanted into a specific machine while abandoning the physical body. Because it is discovered that the disaster of the mirror destroying the sun will only devour living things, this way, as 'machines', they can not only avoid this disaster, but also gain immortality... Well, for this common routine drama, the inexplicable 001 suddenly had the following words in his mind at this moment:

A routine failure is inevitable!

36. Reincarnation Plan 2.0

Overturning... that's almost a matter of course!

It was a desperate move just like the previous mechanical planet defense plan, but the goddess of luck obviously would not favor them twice at the same time. This time the mechanized transformation of life obviously ended in failure: humans overestimated their own mental strength after all!

The failure of the plan...led to the accelerated extinction of humanity, and finally, after less than a month, the humanity of this world...was completely destroyed!

The mechanical planet with biological circulation continues to operate on its own day after day, year after year. In fact, because of the "self-management intelligent program" set by humans, even if humans have become extinct, the planet is still running normally. The only difference is probably that there is no more commanders giving orders above the management program!

At the same time, even after the extinction of humanity, this manager program will continue the mission it has been adhering to since its creation:

Protect humanity... Well, okay, since humanity has already perished, let's skip this mission and move on to the second one: resist silver and destroy silver!

Following this idea, the huge planet began to operate as usual, while continuously creating one mechanical life form after another to resist and eliminate the external silver. Moreover, with the help of the self-growth program left by a genius, the body was constantly upgraded, eventually producing generation after generation of different mechanical bodies.

At the same time, although the final human spirit transplantation plan ultimately ended in failure, it must be said that this plan did have an impact on the mechanical body afterwards: after receiving the human spirit, although the fragile spirit was almost annihilated in it the moment it received the large capacity of the database, some of the spirit... or soul fragments in it caused a huge impact.

An unknown existence called emotion appeared in the originally orderly memory bank. Although it was only a very small part, it was like a virus that could never be eliminated. It infected the intelligence of the main brain and became deeper with the passage of time.

Not only that, since the operation of the entire planet is completely dependent on the main brain to coordinate and arrange, and its network itself connects all the mechanical technologies of the entire planet, this emotion has gradually begun to be transmitted to the database of each mechanical body.

Machines have developed something called emotions. After thousands of years of development, they are obviously no longer robots serving humans, but real...mechanical life forms!

She was a new machine created in this environment. The reason why she was called 001 was because she was created as the 'first' experimental machine of a certain plan. This was also the reason why 77 in front of him did not feel anything strange about her appearance, code name, or the completely different concept.

She roughly knew her information from the database, and she also learned that the plan she was created for was called the 'Reincarnation Plan'. Yes, it was similar to the reincarnation plan that humans had once had, but it was also different!

If there is a biggest difference, it is probably that the previous reincarnation plan of humans was to transplant their spirit and soul into machines, becoming humans with mechanical bodies. However, the reincarnation plan of machines is to find the footprints of humans who have completely disappeared, trying to capture spiritual fluctuations from other dimensions or other places similar to the alien world through space and dimensional technology, and then integrate them into the latest mechanical life form, so that it can have richer emotions.

Because according to the judgment of the main brain, it seems that something called emotion can accelerate the evolution process of mechanical life forms. However, the emotions they once inherited are too thin. Although they have taken root behind them, because mechanical life forms do not have any way to strengthen something as confusing as emotions, even though they have emotions and are divided into "male" and "female" bodies, they are still confused about it.

Well, maybe confusion is also a manifestation of emotion!

"In short, because my emotions are too thin compared to my rationality, I wanted to have more feelings. So, I captured wandering spirits from other worlds, collected some spiritual fragments from other dimensions, and then integrated them into a new mechanical life form. That's how I was born..."

Pointing at himself, 01 briefly summarized the situation, earning 77 a clap of his hands without a second thought:

"Perfect summary, no mistakes!"

"Okay, so was this plan a success?"

Honestly, it was a bit strange for a test subject like me to ask such a question, but 77 looked at her for a long while before finally giving an answer:

"Judging from your words and actions since 'birth' until now, I think it's... a success!"

At least she had never seen anyone of her kind show such rich expressions. After all, on this unchanging mechanical planet, they had been carrying out their respective missions for years. Although they had emotions, they were quite thin in themselves. In such a place where these things were cultivated completely outward, naturally there would be no unexpected expressions on their faces.

"Really? That's great, so...what are you going to do next?"

01 asked again, but 77 tilted his head slightly in confusion.

'It makes no sense!'

"To put it simply, doesn't every machine lifeform have its own mission? For example, it's written in the database that they've enhanced certain abilities, or specialized in a certain area... What am I primarily responsible for?"

The Mechanical Planet was originally built for human enjoyment, similar to a resort planet, so it was fully equipped with various facilities. Later, due to the fight against the Silver, it was transformed into a planet-level military factory environment. Under this situation, every mechanical lifeform created by the main brain has its own value. Some are responsible for maintenance, some for combat, some for manufacturing, and so on...

A lot of information was shared from the database, which undoubtedly gave 01 a better understanding of this place. He couldn't help but wonder what his job would be as a new generation machine.

However, XSZ77's answer to this question is:

“Answer: No!”

"Ugh?"

37. Your name

"Wait wait, wait, no... what do you mean?"

She looked at 77 in front of her in surprise. Facing her obviously puzzled expression, 77's eyes flickered slightly and he turned his head to look at 01. After observing for a long time, he repeated:

"Additional explanation: There's nothing you're responsible for. As a first-generation machine, you were created to experiment with whether emotions can be enhanced. Therefore, all we need to do right now is observe your emotional fluctuations. As for you... there are no specific instructions!"

To put it simply, as an experimental subject, you only need to be beautiful. As for making money to support the family... no, we will take care of the work. She only needs to be observed in various ways on a daily basis and then perform all the emotional actions.

Just like now!

"Comparing the database's stored information, you just showed a very obvious expression of surprise. I judge that your emotions rose by 36.7% in an instant. I have confirmed that my observation is complete, recorded, and transmitted back to the main brain!"

Very good, so the other person was observing me for a long time just now and was actually recording my surprised expression?

"So... my mission is to play the role of Truman every day, right?"

Without thinking, this name suddenly popped up in her mind, and then she said it out loud as if it was a matter of course, which naturally caused 77 to be confused:

"Who is Truman...?"

"He's just an actor, don't worry about it!"

After giving a casual answer, 01 finally had a general understanding of her current situation... In short, although she is also a mechanical life form, for some reason, perhaps because of the influence of a certain mental fragment collected from her memory inventory, she has a vague memory that does not belong to her and now has such rich emotional fluctuations.

The purpose of her birth was also very simple, which was to fully display this emotion, and then let the main brain observe it while simultaneously giving it to the entire race, so that the so-called mechanical life forms could become a race that truly possesses a "heart".

"Am I the otherworldly version of Shubi? But where do I find my 'Riku'?"

Another muttering came out of her mouth unconsciously, but even she herself didn't know where this inexplicable complaint came from or what it meant... What is a complaint?

Scratching his head for a while, 01 decided to ignore these puzzled questions for the time being. Perhaps it was because of the vague memory in his mind. After all, he had absorbed unknown spiritual fragments, something like soul fragments, not the other person himself. Therefore, it was natural that the memory was vague and fragmented. He would slowly sort it out later.

"By the way, XSZ77... um, code names are so troublesome. Don't you have a name?"

It seemed like he wanted to ask something else, but after reading out the other party's code name, 01 felt very awkward asking so suddenly. 77 also tilted his head in cooperation, and gave the answer with data flashing in his eyes:

"Names, according to records, are what humans use to address each other. They are a kind of nickname given by parents at birth. Since mechanical life forms have no parents, they don't have such a thing as a 'name'!"

She said so, but 01 looked at her with great interest for a moment and said:

"Do you need me to pick a name for you?"

For some reason, I am inexplicably very interested in this idea, and I seem to have a feeling of eagerness to try it out in my memory.

"No, you are not my parents, so you are not qualified to name me..."

This sentence instantly made 01 feel a little disappointed, but then he heard 77 suddenly change the subject after a moment of silence:

"After observation, I found that you just showed a very strong emotional fluctuation called 'excitement' regarding my naming. After I rejected you, you showed a mild emotional fluctuation called 'disappointment'. I judge that naming seems to have a significant impact on your emotions. Therefore, after careful consideration, you are allowed to choose a name for me!"

"real?!"

So why am I so excited about naming? It doesn't matter, the point is that being able to name the mechanical girl in front of me seems to be... a very happy thing for me (the machine)!

"Then let me think..."

Since the other party agreed, she immediately opened her database and quickly began to think about what name would be better. Meanwhile, 77 just stood there quietly waiting for 01's answer. However, after hearing the other party's long silence, he finally watched her think hard and come up with a name:

"Bai...how about it? Look at your skin and armor, it's all white. I think this name is great. Ah~ I'll just call you Xiaobai!"

With an expression full of anticipation, 77, who for some reason heard the name, was silent for two seconds before suddenly speaking:

"As a newborn, your memory and thinking abilities are still incomplete, and you are not qualified to be named. Therefore, the previous proposal is rejected!"

The resolute words were met with a moment of bewilderment from 01, and then a sudden inspiration struck him:

"Eh? Huh? Oh no... that's not it... Miss 77, are you... not satisfied with the name? Are you angry?"

Although the other person still had an expressionless mechanical face, she keenly sensed at that moment that the other person seemed to be angry... Although she didn't know why, she seemed to be quite sensitive to emotions. This was what her brain told her just now.

"Angry? Me? That makes no sense!"