Chapter 1553 - The Fortress (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Strictly speaking, the lunar base was not a base but a covered reinforced and weaponized moon. The natural satellite had turned into a steel fortress after thousands of years of construction. It was suspended in space as it pointed its cannons and guns in the direction of the home planet from afar.

The exiles, who were previously expelled from their home planet, had been watching their home for thousands of years, hoping that one day they could return to the land where they once flourished. But their home planet had now become their enemy.

It was hard for the society of survivors, who were living in such a situation, to have any sense of vitality that a healthy civilization manifested.

The lunar base was a disciplined barracks. Factories and barracks accounted for 70% of all facilities. Mining structures and war machine assembly plants lined the steel surface. It was here that the Executors, the highly-intelligent bionic robots, were mass-produced. After a short period of adaptation and preparation, the bionic robots were sent to the Zenith. And after an even shorter period, over half of these expendable robots would end up in the crusher.

It was almost a miracle for executors like N-4 to have served more than 10 years. More of them were like N-6, after going to a First Born bombing mission and being shot down, they became a pile of debris on the home planet.

Had it not been for Hao Ren appearance, N-6’s existence would have ended when her spacecraft crashed.

N-6 carefully avoided a group of patrol craft flying over the avenue before poking out her head to look around. A strange thought suddenly came to her mind; it was about the world in which she lived, the life of the executors, and her destiny.

N-6 was thinking about her destiny for the first time. But she somehow believed that it was a waste of energy.

Perhaps it was precisely the “problems of the flesh” that the old executors always talked about? N-6 curiously checked her logic circuit. She knew that there would be a big difference between those who have served for a long time and those who have just rolled out from the factory. Even if one did not download any new logic program from the Bibliotheca, this difference would somehow crop up over time. N-4 had once talked about this topic with her and called it experience and emotional development. N-6 could not wrap her brain around it at that time, but now, she felt like she had begun to understand these things.

After some time, the logic circuit would start to generate some codes that were alien to the native program.

“Everything is automatic here.” Lily looked around curiously with the images of the steel structure in the distance reflected in her golden eyes. “It is dead silent.”

“Is it not normal?” Hao Ren said. “This society does not need entertainment nor private enterprises. All we saw on the way were factories and barracks. The newly produced soldiers and war machines are in the warehouses and sent to the frontline by transport planes later. I cannot imagine how such a society could build a bustling city with people hanging out leisurely.”

Vivian’s brows knitted together. “But the Executors have feelings too. At least people like N-4 has emotions, and N-6 is not bad either.”

Y’zaks nodded. “That’s right. They have everything they need to build a normal society except that they could not afford this luxury.”

Hao Ren did not delve into this topic. He looked up and ahead. A hill was right ahead, which was not far away. It was the fortress that N-4 and N-6 had been talking about.

The fortress was round and made of steel. It would look like a round cake with a smooth edge and a slightly sunken center when looking down from above. A series of black cubes adjoined the fortress, and large metal pipes and promenades extended from the cubes connecting to a central point where a cylindrical alloy building of hundreds of meters was. The building that had no doors or windows and was as dark as a prison was the place where humans lived. It was called the Ultimate Palace.

It did not look like a palace for the creators, but it was where the beliefs and faith of the Executors belonged.

The black cubes on the edge of the fortress were part of the Cortex Prime. They were the upper structure of the thirteen computer servers. And the main body of the black cubes and more secondary servers, which were more complex, were beneath the steel earth and also connected to the Ultimate Palace. Just as N-4 said, a server room with thirteen computer servers was in the palace, which was the location of the interactive interface and control center of the Cortex Prime.