manynovel Chapter 429 Ark Knights
Chapter 429 Ark Knights
Chapter 429 Ark Knights
The moment the dark blue lightning appeared, Tang Zijun noticed it. He subconsciously thought it was the prelude to an attack by some kind of android, but a familiar feeling quickly made him stop.
The lightning that burst forth in the air where the information stream was transmitted also attracted the attention of the others present. Unlike Tang Zijun, these scavengers who had been wandering in the wasteland for a long time had basically become frightened birds.
Upon noticing the unfamiliar teleportation, they instantly became alert, turning sharply to look in the direction from which the electromagnetic sound came. Even Fang Xin clenched his fists, adopting a defensive fighting stance.
But soon, Tang Zijun protected him behind her.
"Wait a minute, they don't seem to be enemies."
Emerging from the lightning-fast information stream was a beautiful woman with blonde hair, but strangely, she only had a head.
Watching this scene with a strange look, everyone present stopped what they were doing, and the atmosphere became tense. This was not the first time they had fought against omnics, but without weapons at this moment, no one could say for sure that they would survive.
The woman slightly opened her eyes, her gaze flashing with an eerie light.
Followed by.
Splat!
The unsupported head fell directly to the ground from mid-air. Perhaps due to instability, the creature cushioned its fall with its face, and then everyone heard a scream.
"Awoooooo!"
"Damn it, I knew I'd forgotten something!"
Tang Zijun and the others.
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No one moved; they just watched as the woman's head struggled round on the ground, like a turtle that couldn't flip over.
"...Hey, you dark-skinned guy over there, come over and help me up. Can't you see I can't get up?" The woman shouted, her cheeks puffed out, seemingly getting impatient.
"Me?" Tang Zijun was stunned.
He wasn't particularly surprised by the sudden appearance of the woman's head, after all, it wasn't the first time he had seen this guy, and he had spent a lot of resources to buy this woman's head.
What surprised him was why this woman's head was here. He had clearly handed it over to Lao Chang. And most importantly, how did this woman wake up?
"Of course it's you!" the woman said in a harsh voice. "I would never have come back to this godforsaken place if it weren't for finding you!"
Tang Zijun's expression behind the mask was a little stiff, and his lips twitched. He slowly took two steps forward, picked him up from the ground, and held him in front of him.
Tang Zijun had observed the other party up close before, but at that time the other party was still in a state of being turned off. But now, seeing the other party's lively eyes after waking up, Tang Zijun felt a little strange for a moment.
The woman was also observing Tang Zijun's helmet. "Could you not get so close to me? I'm afraid you'll take advantage of me."
"???" Tang Zijun's vision went black. "Do you want to listen to what you're saying? You only have one head, how can I take advantage of you?"
"Who knows? Quite a few wastelanders who have had mental breakdowns have gone on to do pretty wild things. Besides, you're not a wastelander. Who knows what kind of rude things you might be thinking?"
Your rambling, disjointed speech is already quite rude, okay?
Tang Zijun rolled her eyes. "Wait a minute, okay? You just said you came back here to find me?"
"Yes," the woman admitted readily. "You still have some of my information on you, ah, no wonder you always seemed familiar. But it seems my hardware is damaged; I've lost a lot of memory files..."
"Oh right, it was your friends from another world who sent me here. They filled my head with a lot of plasma, hoping I could come over first to check on your safety. But the teleportation anchor point was set wrong. The database still has a template of me with a body, so I was teleported directly into mid-air. How annoying..."
It took Tang Zijun a full five seconds to catch up with the other person's train of thought. At the same time, he was also able to confirm that the reason the other person was here was most likely a plan devised by Chang Lei and Qing Nang.
However, this aroused Tang Zijun's suspicion. "How did you teleport here? Is this one of your abilities?"
"Information transmission..." The woman thought for a moment. "Strictly speaking, this isn't my ability. Perhaps it is, but I seem to have forgotten. I think I've most likely been modified in some way, because in my few backup memory files, this kind of transmission is a technology that only omnipotent machines can use."
Tang Zijun turned to look at Fang Xin, who didn't know much about this.
Fang Xin, however, stared at the woman's head with a scrutinizing gaze and nodded slightly in acknowledgment. "She's right. Currently, only the Gods of the Epoch and their AI subordinates have the ability to freely break through space and teleport in the wasteland."
"The gods of the era sealed off the technology of Earth and interfered with the physical scale here, making it difficult for the wastelanders to develop teleportation devices on their own. At the same time, they will destroy civilizations throughout the universe that have the technological level to develop teleportation devices. It is said that they do not want those civilizations to accidentally wander into the Pocket Universe, but the specific reasons are not very clear."
Hearing Fang Xin's explanation, the woman raised an eyebrow. "See, I was right."
Tang Zijun nodded thoughtfully. "So you found me because you used the technology that the AI used to modify you?"
"We mainly rely on the residual information from our previous email exchanges to locate the location."
"A trust?" Fang Xin's eyes widened, his gaze shifting back and forth between Tang Zijun's and the woman's heads.
Although he couldn't understand it, he was deeply moved.
"Information exchange!" The woman glared at Fang Xin, then looked at Tang Zijun. "You must have seen me before, right? I think I left something very important on you."
As Tang Zijun listened to the woman's mutterings, the scene of her and Grelando being in the illusion before also surfaced in her mind.
After a moment of silence, Tang Zijun asked softly, "You can't remember anything at all?"
"The damage to the memory file is irreparable." The woman pouted, looking somewhat disappointed, but quickly cheered up again. "But I still remember my name. By the way, my name is Suolin. You must remember this name!"
"I am a wolf rider," Tang Zijun said.
"My name is Fang Xin." Fang Xin introduced himself, then, as if remembering something, he tentatively asked, "I've been wanting to ask this for a while now, you...you wouldn't happen to be a member of the Ark Knights, would you?"
"The Knights of the Ark?" Tang Zijun frowned. "What kind of organization is that? Is it also a type of mechanical life form in the wasteland?"
Fang Xin nodded, then shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Yes and no. I only heard about the Ark Knights from some veteran scavengers when they were drunk."
"The Ark Knights are an army established by the Ark Church. This was during a time when the gods of the era had not yet fully ruled the world. At that time, human civilization was suffering repeated defeats, and out of desperation, some outstanding scholars began to initiate a project called 'The Ark.' The Ark Knights were born from this project."
"Hey! Yes, I was created by the Ark Church, but the Ark Knights... I really don't remember them." Zolin exclaimed excitedly.
Tang Zijun then continued, "What exactly do you mean by the Ark Church and the Ark Knights?"
"I don't know the exact details, but I remember one of their lineages practiced mechanical ascension," that sentence resonated with me, so it stuck with me.
Fang Xin scratched his head. With his passion for metal technology, how could he not know the joke about flesh and blood being weak and mechanical ascension? He just didn't expect that someone in another world would actually do that.
"Most of the high-ranking members of the Ark Church are the same group of people who studied the soul back then. They believe that humans cannot defeat the Epoch Gods because the Epoch Gods have evolved to a higher level. If we want to defeat them, humans should also evolve."
"So they integrated previous research reports and confidential information on the human soul, used the information remaining after death to shape it, and preserved and adapted it into computer information, enabling people to be resurrected after death in another identity," thus achieving the goal of preserving humanity while wielding power similar to that of the gods of the era.
Listening quietly to Fang Xin's words, Tang Zijun roughly understood the policy and significance of the establishment of the Ark Church.
Simply put, because there are no supernatural powers in this world and no souls after death, they took advantage of this to analyze and reconstruct the consciousness of the dead using computer language, creating batches of robots that retain human thinking.
No wonder this Suolin looks different from other androids; it turns out there's a living, breathing person inside her mechanical head.
Fang Xin continued, "Their idea was good, but they underestimated the evolutionary speed of the Epoch Gods. As you can see from the current results, the Ark Church failed. Their resistance was valiant, but they were ultimately wiped out by the Epoch Gods."
"What about the other members of the Ark Knights?" Tang Zijun asked.
"They were destroyed in one fell swoop, I think." Fang Xin stroked his chin. "The Ark Knights that are still circulating in the wasteland are all legends now. Almost all of the Ark robots died in the battle to defend the church. The gods of the era would not allow something that could pose a threat to exist."
"Of course, even if some of them survived by chance, they have already hidden among the wastelanders. Haven't you noticed that Zorin looks exactly like a human on the surface? Even if such a being appeared in front of you, most people wouldn't be able to tell that she is a robot."