The Whole Country Develops a Different World

At noon, the sun was high, and there was a huge city on a certain plain.

This is a majestic giant city made entirely of alloys. The city wall alone is nearly a hundred meters high, and the cold steel reflects light slightly under the sun's rays.

And above this giant steel city, there is a floating diamond-shaped mechanical device every 100 meters, and the device has blue lines. Countless rhombuses floated above the giant steel city, covering the entire city like a huge lid.

Seeing the city of steel, the deer head man finally relaxed his tense heart, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Great, I finally came back alive."

This steel giant city was the shelter where he lived, and being near this city also meant that he no longer had to be wary of enemies around him suddenly attacking him.

Afterwards, the staghorn wore his broken armor nest that was close to falling apart, and the giant steel city ran wildly. Along the way, convoys of collectors passed by him constantly, the roar of the engine reached his ears, and the diesel directly drilled into his nose.

In this interstellar era, it seems unusually abrupt for collectors to ride on this old-age chemical fuel vehicle, even a little incomprehensible. There is no way around this, and various civilizations also want to equip these collectors with more sophisticated vehicles and use sustainable energy.

But the energy response of the human team is extremely sensitive, and the various equipment carried by the collectors is already at its limit. If another high-energy vehicle is added, it may be sensed by humans as soon as it approaches the human city, and then ascend to heaven on the spot.

At the same time, this is also the reason why major civilizations did not use robots to collect energy. Humans are extremely sensitive to high energy, while robots need huge energy support. Even if they invent a robot that runs on diesel to collect energy, the conversion rate of diesel to energy to support the normal collection of the robot is already the limit, and it is impossible to fight.

The early Erdish civilization took advantage of its mechanical civilization and developed various robots that did not rely on high energy, such as diesel robots, steam machines... for energy harvesting. In the beginning, these robots collected a lot of energy from the earth for the Elder civilization by virtue of their numbers and fearlessness of death.

Other civilizations also began to follow suit, and suddenly the earth was like a steampunk world, full of various rough-looking diesel robots and steam robots. But suddenly one day, I don't know which shameless civilization actually asked its collectors to snatch the energy collected by robots from human cities.

Facing teams carrying all kinds of advanced equipment, these low-energy robots are no match at all. After all, in order to prevent humans from sensing the robot, the setting of the robot itself is to reduce the energy response as much as possible, and it is impossible to carry various energy weapons.

The snatching teams sent by some civilizations are almost one-on-one, snatching a lot of money from those civilizations that use low-energy robots to collect energy. The civilization that was robbed immediately took countermeasures, but to no avail.

For example, sending elite troops to protect the collection robots, but the collection robot team that wins by numbers is already extremely large. If there is another group of well-equipped troops standing guard with various advanced weapons, it will definitely attract the attention of humans. And the long-distance guards gave the looting teams a chance to snatch them, and they could take advantage of the opportunity and run away without warning.

It is even more impossible to send a battleship escort. It is possible that the battleship was shot down by humans not long after it took off from the shelter.

This has led to a dead end. As long as these civilizations still rely on a huge army of low-energy robots for collection, other civilizations can rely on a small group of elite troops to continuously rob them.

In the end, the Erdish civilization, which relied on low-energy robots to collect energy, was completely destroyed by this group of shameless guys, and had to give up this low-cost and high-yield method.

And once these civilizations gave up, other civilizations found that there was nothing to grab, and slowly came up with something similar to low-energy robots. And the next thing can be said to be a turn of events. The Elder civilization, these civilizations that are good at mechanical artificial intelligence, saw that they were doing this, and turned around and hacked all their robots, constantly stealing energy from them.

In this way, all civilizations can only continue to maintain the collector system honestly, with small elite teams mainly collecting energy.

All the gatherers who passed by the staghorn looked at him with gloating eyes. This deer head man's whole body equipment was tattered, and the set of mecha was missing a piece in the east and a piece in the west, just like broken copper and iron. In addition, he was alone, not even a teammate, not even a vehicle.

From all the signs, it is not difficult to guess what happened. This unlucky guy should have encountered a human being, and he should be the only one left in the whole team.

The deer-headed man also noticed the comings and goings around, and collected the eyes of the team, but he didn't pay attention to it, and ran all the way to the steel giant city.

The walls of the steel giant city were 20 meters high. Countless collection teams drove out of the city gate after passing the inspection with their vehicles, and started the collection activities for about a week.

At this time, a robot came to the deer head man, shot a green light, and scanned the deer head man in all directions.

"The damage rate of the equipment has reached 80%, and there are many injuries on the body, which are predicted to be caused by energy weapons." The cold mechanical voice sounded.

The deer head stood quietly, allowing the robot to scan him. Generally, when entering and leaving the shelter, an all-round scan is required to check for abnormal things, mainly to prevent other civilizations from invading the shelter.

Of course, this check has already been completed the moment he passed the gate, but his situation is quite special now. The rest of the team died, and he was the only one left to come back alive. This in itself is very suspicious, and the probability of being a spy from other civilizations is very high, so the strictest inspection must be carried out.

The suspicion of spies in this situation is very high, but it is not uncommon. After all, there are too many dangers on this planet. Hundreds of collectors die every day, and some of them are always lucky to come back alive. In this regard, the Erdish civilization, although knowing that there is a high probability that these returned people are spies, they still chose to accept it.

Because if they don't accept this kind of collectors who miraculously come back alive, then other surviving collectors will not return to the sanctuary in the future. Although the Eldish civilization is not rare for these surviving collectors, after all, the collectors can produce as much as they want, but the Erdish civilization is afraid that these collectors will go to other refuges and sell information in exchange for a chance to survive .

Although the collectors belong to the lowest level of the shelter and don't know too much information about the shelter, they can calculate the general situation inside and outside the shelter by stacking up the energy they carry and various daily routines.

Ten seconds later, the robot used the huge detector at the city gate to scan the whole body of the deer head man, including the bones inside and out.

The robot said with a mechanically unique synthesized voice: "No abnormality, serial number 02200821, please describe what happened to you, why you were the only one returning to the shelter, and whether the rest of the team are still alive."

"Because your personal terminal is completely damaged, we cannot get the collection activity process from it. Please describe the detailed process."

The deer head replied: "At around 13:20 yesterday, we had just collected energy and were about to return to the shelter, but we were suddenly attacked by collection teams from other shelters."

"We started a battle with these attackers, and then due to the excessive energy fluctuations generated by the battle, an ordinary human was attracted. The attacker was instantly blasted into pieces by humans, and our team turned around and ran, and the human also chased come up."

"During this chase, my teammates were blasted to pieces by humans, and I accidentally rolled down a hillside. Humans didn't continue to chase me, so I survived."

The deer head man briefly explained his "true experience".

"The brain waves are normal, and there is no sign of submitting wrong information." Then the robot took out a black collar and handed it to the deer head.

"Given your special situation, you are suspected of being a spy, so you must wear this necklace for a while. In the next seven days, you will be monitored by nanobots 24 hours a day."

The deer-headed man took it without any hesitation and put it on his neck before asking, "May I go to the city to rest?"

"The inspection passed." The robot returned to its post.

After handing in all the completely scrapped equipment on his body, the deer head man dragged his tired body and walked towards the city. Through the gate, he could see the diesel vehicles coming in and out and the collectors who were resting near the city gate and preparing to set off. those.

Looking up to the distance, the past is full of cold steel. All buildings are made of steel, whether it is a building or a road. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but cold steel, not even a little dirt or green.

At the same time, the buildings in the city have a very uniform shape, as if carved out of a mold, without the slightest difference. The whole city is like pasting and copying, steel buildings, roads, steel buildings, roads.

The whole city appears to be very orderly, and this order has reached an extreme, it can even be said to be pathological. Everything is strictly planned by artificial intelligence. Except for the collectors with life, every action of everything in this city has clear regulations, and every minute and every second of them will be carried out strictly according to the program.

The deer head turned and walked towards the right avenue of the city gate. The further he walked, the colder the city of steel became. Half an hour later, the deer-headed man saw his place of residence, a gathering place of gatherers.

All the buildings here, including roads, are made of steel, but the steel here is different from the steel outside. It does not emit a metallic luster, but has a large area of ​​sound.

The small habitation cabins are stacked densely, like a honeycomb, and all kinds of upright life forms walk among these messy living cabins.

Such a messy and cramped place filled with a smell of rust made the deer head feel inexplicably at ease, at least it is not as cold as outside.

The deer-headed man returned all the way to his living cabin, put his hand on the door lock, and with a click of his fingerprints, the heavy door slowly opened.

The room inside is very simple, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a bare house. A seven-meter-long steel bed, a huge sofa and a steel table with a huge stainless steel cup and a stainless steel rice bowl. Nothing else but this is the environment in which most foragers live.

It's not that the collectors don't want to improve their lives, but all kinds of materials are too expensive. The points they get from collecting activities at the risk of their lives every day are already a bit difficult to pay for living expenses, and it is impossible to buy any more. Those expensive furniture and replacement living environment.

Every day, collectors can only spend their few remaining points in bars and virtual reality, and enjoy themselves to their heart's content. After all, if you don't enjoy it now, you might die next time you set out on a mission.

The living environment is harsh, the materials are extremely scarce, and they need to risk their lives to go to human cities to collect energy every day.

Because of the existence of human beings, various civilizations can only rely on space jumps to safely transport materials into shelters on the earth. Die a few times and hundreds of space jumps are nothing to these second-level civilizations, but if they die thousands of times, even they can't bear it.

Especially now that they are far away in the solar system, very far away from their five stars, it is difficult to get sufficient supplies of various energy sources and devices. In addition, a large amount of energy is used to defend against humans, and it is even more impossible to transport a large amount of materials into the shelter for the collectors.

The deer-headed man picked up the rice bowl on the table and walked out of the living cabin, came to the food vending machine downstairs, put his hand on the fingerprint verification plate, and then put the rice bowl under the slot.

Since it was already ten o'clock in the morning, the dining period had already passed, and a new round of collection operations had already begun, so there was no one queuing up before the physical sale.

beep!

A light yellow thick fluid flowed out of the inlet and fell into the huge stainless steel rice bowl. These thick fluids are nutrient fluids with extremely high nutritional content. The only disadvantage is that they taste unpalatable, full of a disgusting weird smell.

The deer-headed man glanced at his points, couldn't help but sighed, and said: "These points are not enough to go to the bar once, so we must sell that thing as soon as possible, hoping to get a good price."

Next, the deer head man lay on the bed after eating food, closed his tired eyes, and fell into a deep sleep. Under the monitoring of nano-robots, everything was so normal.

As for what the deer head man said? The robot has already detected it, but it is just some books of old-time humans. All human civilizations have already collected all the books, which are nothing to them, but to the collectors, these books are invaluable treasures, and the things contained in them may save his life at a critical moment.

For example, the collectors know some words that can effectively attract human beings from some books or other objects of human beings. As long as they are spoken out, they can generally attract the attention of human beings, such as the most typical trough, 666, grass.

Generally, collectors will make some robots to play these sounds. Once they encounter humans, they will throw these robots out, and then turn around and run away. These robots that constantly emit words that attract human attention have a certain chance of attracting human attention, thereby increasing their chances of escape.

...

The next day, in a bar in the gatherer's residential area.

As soon as the deer head walked into the door, the strong smell of alcohol came to his face, and a large number of collectors were drinking cheap alcohol here. Some of the poorer ones even directly drank "ordinary wine" mixed with industrial alcohol and water.

The whole bar gave people the feeling of being extremely messy, with the wine tables arranged irregularly, and the collectors were crazy about drinking, imitating the wine table culture of human society. At the same time, there were also some drunk collectors who fell asleep directly. Most of the places where they slept were on the ground, and many of them slept directly on the aisles.

The messy scene here is the same as the living area of ​​the collectors outside, with a prominent feature that is chaos, as much chaos as possible.

How is the collection disorderly and chaotic with the surroundings? The steel forest, which is like pasting and copying, forms an extremely sharp contrast. The two sides are clearly close to each other, but they are like two worlds.

All the way to the depths of the bar, the deer head saw a gate, and two werewolves stood in front of the gate.

The deer head came to the two werewolves and said, "I want to exchange some things from human cities for points."

A werewolf glanced at the stag-headed man sharply and asked, "What exactly is it?"

"Book." The deer head man replied.

Hearing this, the two werewolves didn't stop them, they turned around and opened the door.