Chapter 1541 - Unexpected Visitors (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Hao Ren felt that the robot might not have been completely repaired. There was a good chance the lab mainframe forgot to install speakers and microphones for her.

Because she did not move at all except looking around since she woke up, not saying a word. Apparently, something was wrong with the IO device.

But Nolan did not think so.

“She’s observing the environment.” Nolan’s hologram stood next to the workbench. Her eyes were on the robot girl lying on the workbench but she was actually controlling a bunch of monitoring devices in the lab to monitor the flow of signals inside the robot. “Her logic circuit is switched on. She just doesn’t want to talk.”

The robot girl, lying on the platform, immediately turned her eyes to Nolan.

This was not a human, she’s not even real.

N-6 was a little unfamiliar with her own logic circuits at first, but later her thinking gradually became smooth. She looked warily at the woman with the grey ponytail standing beside her. Through various sensors, she felt at least 20 unapproved but unstoppable reading threads being injected into her processor as the gray-haired woman spoke, and she was instantly defenseless in front of her. And the gray-haired woman… She had no body temperature, no heartbeat, no mass, she was not real at all… Nor was it a hologram of any kind N-6 had ever seen.

The robot girl sensed a great threat.

She tried to move her body but soon found that all her movements were being monitored by some more advanced procedure. The program did not stop her from moving, but the monitoring made her immediately give up trying to move her limbs: it was the protective mechanism of the logic circuit at work. She watched her surroundings carefully, but all she saw were machines she did not recognize. She saw crystalline pillars shimmering in blue light, projection floating in the air, neatly-arranged operating platforms, and weird machines with lots of tentacles floating around the ceiling.

It was a spacious lab, or it could be some kind of precision machining center, but the first possibility was higher.

And those around her, they looked like real… humans.

N-6 felt like her mind was a little clearer. She knew about humans. There were humans living in the fortress on the moon. Although executors rarely got a chance to see humans in person, every feature of humans was engraved deep in each executors’ database from the start. But the humans around her did not look very much like the ones in the N-6 database. Everything from body temperature to body features to the energy fluctuations they emitted was different from what was recorded in the database.

The humans in the database did not have fluffy ears and tails. They did not have three or four-meter-long reptile trunks. They did not have a 20-centimeter-long baby girl with a mermaid tail.

But they had heartbeats, at least some of them had heartbeats, and they had many other characteristics of carbon-based organisms… They should be humans.

“What’s your name? At least blink if you understand.”

The ‘human’ with the fluffy ears and tail and the golden eyes was talking to her. N-6 was sure there was no corresponding language in her database, but she still understood exactly what the human meant, which was inexplicable. She went back to check the audio collected by the recording device, but this time she could not understand it.

But N-6 decided to communicate because the one talking to her was a human.

So she blinked and answered, “Current identification code N-6. Factory number E75-3C6215. Universal combat executor. Combat vehicle assist operator. Type-5 airborne computer.”

These humans were not what the database recorded, but they were indeed carbon-based creatures, not substitutes made of metal and biomimetic materials. Perhaps that conjecture was true⁠—that there were humans on the planet, but they had simply mutated under the influence of the planet’s devourer.

“I told you, she must have a speaker and microphone. I remembered to install it.” Nolan raised her chin and looked at Hao Ren triumphantly as if she had fixed the robot girl⁠—though all the lab systems on the spaceship were indeed part of her.

Hao Ren ignored Nolan and looked at the robot girl who was lying on the workbench, who was looking at him curiously. “N-6 and… that E75 or something, which is your name?”

“N-6,” the robot girl blinked, her voice sounded pleasant but flat. She seemed a little curious. “Are you humans?”

Hao Ren was not sure how to answer her question.

“Well, you can say that.” Hao Ren eventually decided not to introduce the ethnic origins of these people one by one, because it meant introducing at least a background story of not less than two million words to N-6. “Because I’m not sure what’s your criteria for a standard human.”

N-6 blinked again and said, “Got it. All of you are humans.”

N-6 thought they were mutated humans on their home planet.

Completely unaware that he has been silently identified as a mutant, Hao Ren was just curious about N-6. “You…”