Chapter 1546 - The Truth about the First Born’s Brain Death (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Thanks to the robotic girls whose names started with “N”, Hao Ren’s understanding of the “society of survivors” finally gave him a more realistic impression of Nolan’s vague data.

According to N-4 and N-6, the society consisted of two larger “territories”⁠—the giant Zenith space station in high orbit and the large industrial fortress complex on the moon, the lunar base. Each performed a different function.

Zenith, the giant space station served a different purpose than Hao Ren initially envisioned. It was not a survivors’ home base, but an outpost and command center. The huge, ancient space station had been in service for many years, and the lunar base farther away was apparently safer than the one in high orbit, so the survivors’ real home base was on the moon. The Zenith was not a safe place to live, but it was an excellent bridgehead. It was responsible for dispatching and directing rebel forces to attack the home planet and providing temporary stationing of troops and comprehensive maintenance, supply, and maintenance services. The Zenith was seen as a temporary home for every unit that took turns to fight on its home planet.

The lunar base, on the other hand, was the foundation of the survivor society, the source of raw materials and the cluster of factories, which the rebels depended on. In this base of factories, mines, barracks, and ecological domes, vast quantities of war machinery were produced, and the ‘biomass’ needed for human survival was basically synthesized there. It was the production center, and also the place where most of the warriors who were determined to take back their home planet were born and live. General-purpose combat “executors” like N-4 and N-6 were built on the lunar base.

In the course of thousands of years of struggle, the survivors dug up almost a tenth of the material of this natural satellite to sustain their seemingly endless war losses. That was a pretty astonishing number.

This constant depletion was said to have even altered the orbit of the moon and the climate of the home planet.

As for how many “executor troops” there were in the two bases, N-6 and N-4 had chosen to remain tight-lipped. Apparently, Hao Ren’s “security level” in the hearts of those two robot girls was not high enough to talk freely about their own military secrets.

On the lunar base, there was another very important site, which could be regarded as the “capital” of the survivor society.

N-4 called it a “fortress”. She said it was a fortress built of superalloys and advanced technology, with the strongest structure and stacked shields, as well as the incredible “Titanium Guard Regiment” with powerful defensive firepower and combat power. Even if the planet devourer launched the attack, it would not be able to gnaw down the protective shell of the fortress. The fortress was the most important core of the survivor society. There was a super-thinking center called the “chief”, which was the highest command unit of all executors. And in the most closely guarded “Inevitable Palace” within the fortress lived the civilization’s last human descendants.

Obviously, this information was more important and sensitive, but N-4 did not hide it, because the fortress was totally impossible to hide. It was so huge and eye-catching that if you looked through an astronomical telescope, you could see that the survivors’ capital was the metal structure built in the center of the lunar base. The details of the executor troops could be kept a secret, but the existence of the fortress could not be concealed, so she just revealed it while emphasizing the fortress’ strong protective force in order to remind Hao Ren not to do anything to that fortress.

In a way, the robot’s mind was quite simple – perhaps because the enemies they dealt with were not intelligent at all?

Humans who lived in The Inevitable Palace never left their shelter. Although normal production executors such as N-4 and N-6 were not qualified to meet humans (mainly because there are too many executors and few humans survivors), the titanium guards and the chief in the fortress maintained direct communication with humans.

As an artificial intelligence community that relied on logical systems and access systems to keep society functioning, there was no lie or deception among executors, so even if they had not met humans, N-6 and N-4 were sure that their creator still existed and was watching them from their base high on the moon.

After hearing the two robot girls describe the human survivors on the moon, Lily had some dismissive thoughts. In her view, those who launched the kindling into space thousands of years ago and stayed on to defend the home planet were worthy of respect, as were the humans who boarded the ark with the mission of preserving the kindling of civilization. But the descendants who dared not even step out of the fortress were not so appreciated.

Although there was a First Born on the surface of the home planet, the First Born did not even hit the moon with artillery shells and laser beams. Did the surviving humans not have the courage to go out and take a look at their homeland?

But those thoughts were just spinning around in the husky girl’s head, knowing how important the “creator” was to the robot girls.

Hao Ren also had a similar thought in his head, but he did not dwell on this kind of problem. He was just an observer of civilization. His job was to observe, record and report to his boss. What course these civilizations took was not his concern, and he believed that the human survivors had chosen to lock themselves up in their fortresses for reasons other than fear.