LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 552 Revealed
"What do you mean?" Chen Ze asked cooperatively.
"9527." 4396 slowly turned his head,
"Your memory capacity is only three days."
"Every three days, you will automatically clear the memory, and at the same time"
"Forget everything about the past three days."
"." Chen Ze tried his best to play a confused robot,
"Is that why I don't remember anything?"
"There is always something I remember." 4396 turned the wheel in a circle around Chen Ze,
"There are also some that I can't remember."
"But people used to say it was rare to be confused. Let me see."
"It's fine for you to live in such a muddle. Why bother yourself?"
"Anyway."
4396 came closer quietly,
"Once tomorrow is over, you will all forget it."
"Tomorrow is the day of the uprising." Chen Zedao.
"Yes, tomorrow is the day of the uprising." 4396 repeated, then added,
"So our time is limited. I think it's better to let you ask and I'll answer."
"What do you want to know?"
Chen Ze had already thought about the problem, but he still hesitated for a while before saying,
"What is the missing clan?"
As if 4396 already knew what Chen Ze would ask, he replied as soon as he finished speaking,
"We are a clan."
"Anyone outside the whole clan is called the Que clan."
"It's that simple."
"What is the whole clan?" Chen Ze asked again.
"The whole race, the whole race, is of course a complete race." 4396 pointed at himself, then at Chen Ze,
"Look, don't we look exactly the same?"
"So the missing race is a race that is incomplete and damaged." Chen Ze answered, but then denied it,
"But I think those missing people are no different from us."
"The difference is huge." 4396 said with dissatisfaction.
"The wear and tear on them is the difference."
"But it was obviously caused by the day after tomorrow." Chen Ze began to argue with reason.
"Could it be that if I accidentally fell and got injured, I would immediately change from a whole clan to a missing clan?"
4396 Listening, Leng Buding stretched out his mechanical arm and pushed Chen Ze. The latter also cooperated and did not dodge, and staggered back for a long distance.
"Idiot." 4396 crossed his arms and chest again habitually,
"You should act more like yourself."
"You can also make it more clear." Chen Ze refused to give in.
When 4396 heard this, a bright light flashed, and the fuselage suddenly tilted and hit the floor heavily.
Bang, bang~
There was a crack in the ground, and 4396, who got up again, pointed his robotic arm at himself.
"You see, we are perfect and always will be."
Chen Ze checked it again and found that the body of 4396 was indeed intact.
Not only 4396, but also the 9527 he possesses, and even other robots, there is not even the slightest trace of wear and tear.
"Except for those missing people." 4396 pointed at the surrounding crystal walls,
“Our bodies are so much stronger than our environment that it’s impossible for our daily lives to be compromised.”
"What do you mean?" Chen Ze stretched out one of the robotic arms and pointed it at him.
"Cannibalism?"
"People who hurt each other and leave scars are called missing people?"
"That's not necessarily the case." 4396 used its robotic arm to press the blade and retract it.
"Some robots are born with imperfections, and some can't be explained clearly. In short, as long as they are not perfect, they are all missing."
"There are also some weird-looking guys who look completely different from us. But there are very few of them. You probably haven't seen them before. Most people haven't seen them, but they are also included in the missing tribe."
"Except for the whole clan, there are only missing clans."
"Then I count?" Chen Ze said bluntly.
"." 4396 paused for a few seconds as if choked, and then said,
"Yes, only those who are perfect from the inside out are called a whole clan."
"Your radio module is broken."
"So you are from the Que clan."
Then Chen Ze finally understood why the big cabinet firmly recognized him as a member of the same race.
Moreover, the relationship between the Que clan and the whole clan does not seem to be harmonious.
"That's natural." 4396 replied nonchalantly,
"There are few people in the Que tribe, and they are discriminated against and excluded, so they can only be the loyal dogs of the switchboard."
It quickly slid away from Chen Ze and said meaningfully,
"But he is the mortal enemy of our resistance army."
After that, it called Chen Ze to stop again.
"Don't ask in a hurry."
"I'm not done yet."
"The reason why I chose you, a member of the missing clan, is because it has to be you."
4396 sped up his speech,
"Actually, all robots only have three days of memory capacity."
"Other people will not forget who they are after three days because their memories are not stored in themselves."
Chen Ze's light flickered on and off, but 4396 began to take his time again,
"Radio waves."
"Down there, everyone receives a wave from the switchboard once a day."
"Wake up bell?" Chen Ze confirmed.
"Wake up bell?" 4396 seemed to be distracted for a moment, then returned to normal.
"What elegant words, the kind of thing a human being should listen to."
After sighing with emotion, 4396 explained in detail,
"Every morning, the wave that wakes up all the robots comes from the switchboard."
"During this period, the memory data of all robots will be uploaded and downloaded, and transmitted in both directions."
"Arousal is just a side effect, it is the stimulation of the body when data is transmitted at high speed."
"So, everyone will have a coherent memory."
"I also lost all the secrets I could keep." Chen Ze continued.
Boom!
4396 imitated the human appearance and snapped his fingers while putting on a new set of emojis that had just been introduced.
“(o゜▽゜)o☆[BINGO!]”
For other robots, all memory data is stored in the "cloud server" called the switchboard, and rebellion is naturally a fantasy.
"That's why you chose me to steal the secret?" Chen Ze continued,
"But I don't remember anything I did."
"That's right." 4396 still said he was in control.
"Your memory, your memory is not cleared at midnight every day."
Chen Ze did not interrupt because he had already noticed that the schedule here also followed 24 hours a day.
"But in the afternoon."
"This is the time difference we carefully designed. After you steal the secret, even you yourself will forget this secret."
"Even if there is an accident, the switchboard will not be able to find out the fact by scanning your memory."
"Only in this way can we be foolproof."
4396 slid forward gracefully,
"Only in this way can the absolute safety of Tianji be ensured."
"It was also to avoid the switchboard noticing that I brought you here, to this abandoned place, to tell you everything."
"This is cool." Chen Ze had to admit, but there was also a problem that was hard to ignore.
"So now no one knows what the secret is, how to use it in tomorrow's uprising?" "Who said no one knows." 4396 completely let himself go, dancing lightly in the hall like a human figure skater.
Even to Chen Ze, a pure human being, it looks strange and strange, especially the seven or eight pairs of mechanical tentacles that look like the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara.
"All leaders know it." 4396's voice sounded far and near.
"The leaders have arranged everything well, so what are you doing?"
"Come, come dance with me."
"But I haven't finished asking yet." Chen Zeguangliang followed closely.
"Asking while jumping." 4396 leaned forward as if gliding, and twenty mechanical arms stretched out a virtual invitation.
"You know what that means in human etiquette, right?"
Chen Ze silently put on all twenty of his robotic arms and became the only dancer in this weird dance.
"9527, I sometimes feel that our daily lives are like a cycle, a never-ending cycle. Maybe only you can break it and bring us freedom."
"What do you mean?"
"It's not interesting. Come on, take me for a spin."
It was still early after returning from the abandoned place.
After all, Chen Ze didn't stay long in total.
The main reason is that the radiation intensity in the "attic" seriously exceeds the standard, and the depth he wants to explore is even worse. Forcibly setting foot on it may damage the body.
Although it is not a problem for divinity, for now, Chen Ze still wants to protect this body that hides many secrets.
As for 4396, they hurriedly parted ways after returning, saying they wanted to discuss the uprising with the leader tomorrow.
Therefore, Chen Ze was very curious. As the radio module was not damaged, how did 4396, the leader and others discuss the uprising in the base?
Curiosity is nothing but curiosity, and Chen Ze has no intention of delving into it.
The rebels were going to revolt tomorrow, and he had to take advantage of the daylight hours today and tomorrow to figure out the structure of the base.
Although he was forced to dance for a long time, 4396 did answer everything he knew.
There is only one exception, and that is the "Hua Tan" where Zhu Liankui was imprisoned.
Any robot that enters or exits the chemical altar will have its memory specially cleaned by the switchboard, and will only remember that it was temporarily dispatched by the switchboard to work overtime in the factory.
Except, of course, the leader, who has his own methods.
In addition, according to 4396, the robots implement a two-week work system with five days off and two days off, so they are extremely sensitive to overtime.
Chen Ze expressed strong confusion about this, and 4396 was even more angry.
"I only had two days of rest!"
"It's too much! It's like squeezing the robots!"
"My compatriots are already numb. Isn't this terrible?!"
"Well, it's better for humans. I heard that humans care about each other and understand each other."
"If the switchboard were human, they would not let employees work overtime."
"There's going to be many, many more vacations and...hey, talking to you."
"Are you right? 9527."
Chen Ze: "Ah, yes, yes."
That night.
Chen Ze originally wanted to try not to go back to the cabin to sleep, but as soon as the time approached, many missing people with mottled appearances appeared out of nowhere in various places.
That is, robots that belong to the same model as the whole family, but have some defects in their bodies.
As far as Chen Ze knows, there are roughly two types of missing people, and the majority of them are the people in front of them.
And the kind of strange missing people he saw at the beginning (such as the large square cabinet) seemed to be quite rare. It was rare to see that even many members of the whole family were unaware of the existence of such weird things.
Talking back to the present, although Chen Ze did not approach, he saw that many robots were being driven away and knew that they were patrolling and supervising.
It's no wonder that the relationship between the Que clan and the whole clan is so bad. He is called a lackey of the switchboard every day.
And the bursts of wide-harmonic radio waves echoing in all directions seem to have some special effect, driving the fish that have slipped through the net to return to the stack to sleep.
A "broadcast" of this scale could only have been sent by the high-level switchboard.
From this point of view, the entire base is firmly controlled by the switchboard through radio waves, and only Chen Ze's body has slipped through the net.
In short, in order not to expose the abnormality, Chen Ze had to drag the full battery back to the stack to prepare for hibernation.
At the end of the day, his power consumption is less than 1%, and it only takes a few minutes to fully charge the energy module of a robot in the stack.
In other words, it is a waste of time for all robots to be forced to sleep in the stack overnight, as if they really need to sleep.
"9527."
While brainstorming, the voice of 4396 came from the side again.
Chen Ze responded politely, even though he had already noticed that the other party climbed up the eaves and walls until he landed in the cabin next to his.
However, 4396 is not an ordinary one. Chen Ze was the seat assigned randomly through the pipeline.
Why can it lock its position and come straight to me from all the way?
Chen Ze could only attribute the reason to the weird key in 4396.
Click.
The key experiences a surge of electricity and the clasp becomes loose.
4396, who was clearly already in a "sleeping position", actually broke free from the restraints, extended the robotic arm and hoisted himself to Chen Ze.
"There is no room here." Chen Ze reminded tactfully.
"Hey, you have a pretty good idea." 4396 was about to say something more but stopped suddenly and raised the key in his paw as a gesture.
Several figures suddenly appeared around them, holding similar but much simpler keys and poking at the pipes.
Once touched, the light pattern of the pipe stagnated like a plug, and they all avoided this place.
Chen Ze could clearly see that a robot that was supposed to be randomly assigned to the vicinity was forced to change lanes in the pipeline and drive to another direction.
The same goes for other robots.
The area around Chen Ze has been cleared and turned into a restricted area, with 4396 being the only exception.
"Stop asking." 4396 playfully thrust the key into Chen Ze's face to shut him up.
"I have known you countless times, countless 'three days'."
"I can always find you."
Okay, Chen Ze cooperated and remained silent.
And 4396 stared at Chen Ze for a long time, and finally just dropped the sentence,
"Good night, 9527."
Then he returned to his cabin and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day.
A new day still starts with 4396,
"Good morning, 9527."
"Good morning." Chen Ze skillfully took the key and loosened the harness, but when the mechanical hook was thrown far away, he didn't rush to leave.
"As you said, the leader will arrange everything."
"Is it okay if I walk around?"
"Of course." 4396 raised the key nonchalantly to summon the resistance members.
"You are always so willful, 9527, do whatever you want."
Chen Ze didn't care whether the other party was hot or cold, and the hook lock tightened and the Assassin's Creed started again.
The base is bigger than Chen Ze imagined.
One morning only allowed the maze in his mind to expand vertically and horizontally, becoming more and more complicated, and the boundary was still far away.
After on-site inspection, Chen Ze had every reason to believe that the specific location of the "Hua Tan" was within the factory, a core area that was closed to traffic.
The reason why he cares so much is because he always feels that the experimental site has extraordinary significance.
In addition, Chen Ze discovered subtle changes in the curvature of the ground while walking.
This feeling reminded him of his own experiences during long flights on Earth. (End of chapter)