On the main street, Liu Yunzhuo put away his smile and turned to look behind him, “Did you sense the signal?”
A team member took out the detector from his pocket, “No.”
Liu Yunzhuo frowned slightly, “Can the instrument detect Su Zheyan?”
“No, but when he was fighting, I saw a pouch hanging from his waist.”
“It’s hard to judge the situation. They may be carrying the black stones on them. 9799. Go and feel out the situation tonight.”
Another team member was called out suddenly, and he raised his head and shrank back, “I’m a clone, so I can’t touch the Black Stones.”
“Even if you really have a black stone in your hand, who would hit someone with a stone?”
9799 still didn’t dare to raise his head, “Please, I’m scared. I was born just a week ago, and I don’t want to die yet. You also said that they might not have Black Stones. And if there are Black Stones, why not let ordinary members go.”
Liu Yunzhuo patted him on the shoulder, “Don’t be afraid, Mother attaches great importance to this task. Every year there is a quota for being a citizen. When the time comes, I will give you a recommendation and you will be a legal citizen.”
Seeing that 9799 didn’t speak any more, Liu Yunzhuo waved for the team members to follow.
Passing by an alley, he saw something the size of a palm lying in the shadows out of the corner of his eye. It’s a dusty robot, probably a waste product thrown here.
When they entered the hotel, the robot got up from the ground.
He poked his head around to look around, popped off his wheels and flew into the depths of the alley.
In the alley two streets away, Su Zheyan sat on an alpha’s corpse in silence.
Chu Shici said that he wanted to turn into a robot and eavesdrop in the corner. This time he really wanted to turn back into a robot, not because of an inferiority complex, nor because of a compromise.
Su Zheyan didn’t stop him.
They agreed that they must come back within three minutes, otherwise Su Zheyan will go to look for him, and now it’s only been a minute.
He looked down at the clothes in his arms, his cheeks flushed slightly.
When Ah Ci comes back later and puts on his clothes in front of him, should he turn around?
It’s too dangerous here, in order to prevent other people from seeing Ah Ci’s body, he should still monitor from the side, which is more safe.
Not long after, the robot came back, calling Yan-ge while running.
Su Zheyan stretched out his hands to hold him up, Chu Shici didn’t intend to change his appearance immediately, but instead happily gestured around in his hands.
He played the role of the entire group alone, and relayed all the things he overheard.
Su Zheyan frowned slightly, and he emptied the pouch at his waist.
There is nothing in it except gold coins.
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All currency in circulation on the Desolate Star, whether it is national currency or private currency, flows out of the hands of Eternal Life Technology employees.
Shopkeepers buy goods from them, criminals work for them to make money, and criminals compete with each other, which will also promote currency circulation.
When Chu Shici came out of the hotel bathroom, Su Zheyan was lying on the bed playing with gold coins.
One of the gold coins was turned around in his hands, between his fingers was the shine of the gold plating, and with human eyes alone, nothing abnormal could be seen inside.
Hearing footsteps, Su Zheyan turned his head to look.
Chu Shici wiped his wet blond hair, and water droplets flowed from the ends of his hair to his neck. Sliding over the delicate collarbone, his pale pink chest, and finally got into the bath towel around the waist.
He had a bad limp, and the towel faltered as he walked. He had to keep one hand free to keep it from falling.
Su Zheyan watched this scene with a calm expression, and the blush spread from his cheeks to his neck.
Chu Shici had just finished taking a hot bath, so he was already terribly hot. Being stared at by him like this made him even more irritable.
He raised his head and said in a slightly hoarse voice: “Yan-ge, I have changed the water. The water temperature is just right, so go in and relax.”
Su Zheyan stood up silently, walked past him without even looking at him.
The bathroom door slammed shut, and Chu Shici said to the system: ‘I’ve tried the method you said, and the allure after getting out of the bath didn’t work. ‘
While knitting the hat, the system sighed, [All I see here are mosaics, and I don’t know if you look good now. He was so thin-skinned, how could he not respond.]
Chu Shici sat on the bed, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the gold coin broken in two.
Half of the piece of gold coin that Su Zheyan played with in his hand had an extra finger print on it.
At this same time, Su Zheyan was taking a cold shower covering his face.
The Eternal Life Technology under the control of the Mastermind has a strong desire to control. There may be chips in the gold coin to track the location of the owner, or it may even contain some special element that can be detected by the machines.
After coming to Desolate Star for so long, Su Zheyan has not seen any criminals collecting black stones. Black stones are worthless to ordinary people.
Chu Shici sat next to him and watched him record the logical timeline in his diary.
Gold coins are provided by Eternal Life Technology, the machine can detect the existence of gold coins, and carrying black stones will block the detection. The main purpose of the gold coins is to locate the groups, criminals do not have the habit of collecting black stones.
Chu Shici looked at it for a while, “The first time we came into contact with the Black Stones was in that capsule. You went in with a bag on your back, but they were able to track you before you went in.”
Su Zheyan shook his head slightly, “The thing in the gold coin should only be able to send out a weak signal. The people who talked to you just now wanted to have close contact with you for a long time. According to Liu Qinglong, the Mastermind announced that they want to capture us. But the few waves of teams we met in the wilderness before did not conflict with us. It shows that their priority is to explore the potholes in the southeast rather than to catch us.”
Chu Shici looked at him, “So when we ran into Liu Yunzhuo’s team in the wilderness, they happened to be using detection equipment and found that there was no fluctuation on our body, so they took the initiative to approach us as they felt we were suspicious?”
Su Zheyan hummed, “Why did the Mastermind do this?”
“Yan-ge, do you think she knows something? Didn’t she travel through time and space many times? Is it possible that she knew that Eve left something that could destroy her before she died, but she only knew that it was in a wasteland in Desolate Star but is not sure about the exact location? There are the most criminals on the Desolate Star, so she gets these kinds of gold coins for criminals, to look for that stone using criminals as a guise?”
Su Zheyan didn’t answer right away, he frowned at Chu Shici, his eyes gradually became weird.
Chu Shici hesitated and said, “Yan-ge?”
Su Zheyan picked up the black stone, and looked straight at him with his blue eyes, “The premise of what you said is that the Mastermind knew that Eve left something that could destroy her. If so, why didn’t she just go back to the past again? At that time, Eve was not dead yet, and nothing that could have killed her has appeared yet.”
He shook the black stone in his hand, with a puzzled look on his face.
Chu Shici was also confused.
He faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn’t tell what was wrong.
The two looked at each other in blank dismay, neither of them could think of a reason.
At this time, the diary has lost its original function, and it is full of information recorded by Su Zheyan.
But among all kinds of information, it seems that a crucial link is missing.
A huge roar was faintly heard outside the window, Su Zheyan suddenly got up, walked to the window with a few steps, and looked at the sky.
Spaceships landed from the sky one after another, and the black hulls were connected into a single piece, which looked like a large black cloud from a distance.
This is the empire’s expeditionary force, this should be the day.
Standing beside Su Zheyan, Chu Shici heard his slightly puzzled voice, “So many?”
Chu Shici thought for a while, “Eternal Life Technology is not easy to deal with, the empire is very careful this time.”
Su Zheyan turned his head, his blue eyes were full of bewilderment.
“Desolate Star is a high-tech grave. Mechs and amphibious warships cannot function on Desolate Star. A large number of people gathering in the wilderness will attract monsters and thick fog. Battle suits cannot resist the bite of monsters at all. They landed in the wilderness outside the city. I thought they would go straight to the Desolate Star Branch of Eternal Life Technology.”
It was the first time Chu Shici saw this expression on him.
Shocked, worried, uneasy. The former imperial general changed instantly after seeing the national army in danger.
He seemed to have forgotten his identity as a criminal, wishing he could just jump out the window and run to the army to urge them to leave quickly.
If Chu Shici hadn’t hugged him tightly, Su Zheyan would have already run out of the hotel.
He was dragged to the bed by Chu Shici, his eyes fixed on the window. The muscles on his body were tense, he was like a completely different person.
Chu Shici could see that Su Zheyan’s mood was fluctuating violently.
He is worried about the soldiers of the empire, fearing that the inside information is wrong and the whole army will be destroyed.
Even though the empire has long abandoned the general, the general still loves his country deeply in his heart.
Chu Shici took him into his arms and comforted him softly.
The lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers were at stake, and Su Zheyan’s back was soaked in cold sweat.
After a while, he lowered his eyes and said softly: “No, the empire knows about it, and they should have found a way to deal with Desolate Star.”
This time it was Chu Shi’s turn to resign, “Isn’t the future technology mastered by the Mastermind capable of resisting the attack on the Desolate Star? Why did she share the technology with the army?”
The empire will not be stupid enough to improve the army with the technology provided by the Eternal Life Technology, and then use this army to attack the Eternal Life technology.
Most of the talents were recruited by Eternal Life Technology, and the empire was unable to overcome the difficulties in a short period of time and went deep into the Desolate Star.
Now it seems that an all-out war is fake, and the so-called attack is just a cover.
They chose to land in the wilderness as the only valuable thing in the wilderness is the Mastermind who is hidden in the southeast pothole.
The people of Eternal Life Technology on the Desolate Star are still alive and kicking, which shows that the Eternal Life Technology headed by the main brain has not been destroyed by the empire.
There are only two possibilities for this situation.
The empire and Eternal Life Technology teamed up and vow to love each other as a family, and to have a relationship so good that the Mastermind was willing to teach the other party the means of ending her life.
It is obviously unrealistic as one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.
Another possibility is that the upper echelons of the empire have been completely controlled by Eternal Life Technology. The person sitting on the throne now is already a clone.
Chu Shici felt a chill rise behind his back.
Some time ago, Su Zheyan sent Zuo Ting’s clone back to the empire, they thought the empire had won.
In fact, in that silent struggle, the empire was already defeated.
Whether those high-level officials are dead or alive is unknown, but the Mastermind is already in power.
After the Eternal Life Technology, the Mastermind quietly took control of the country.
Su Zheyan also thought of this, he looked very disturbed.
Chu Shici patted him on the back, “It’s okay, there’s still time, didn’t Eve’s suicide note tell us how to destroy the Mastermind? We will go to the wilderness at dawn, find the pothole in the southeast, and insert the stone into the Mastermind…”
In the middle of his speech, he suddenly realised that this would cause space-time conflict.
Destroying the Mastermind of the past, and the Mastermind of the future will also disappear.
There will be no such thing as the Mastermind going back to the past from the future through the space-time bridge to forcibly promote the development of science and technology. The world has already been changed beyond recognition by the Mastermind, she has made things that should only be created in the future appear in the past.
What would the world be like if she disappeared?
Chu Shici was just a punk who dropped out of school to work, he didn’t understand so much.
In his opinion, the most stable thing to do now is to use the space-time bridge to go back to the past, before the Mastermind travels through time and space, let the people in the past destroy the Mastermind and the time-space bridge before anything could happen. This will also lead to space-time conflicts, but at first glance it is more reliable than directly destroying the Mastermind themselves now.
He tried his best to recall Eve’s suicide note, and found that the great scientist did not explain in the suicide note what consequences would result from destroying the Mastermind now.
Does Eve feel that it will not affect it? She is a scientist, she must know more than him, Chu Shici decided to listen to the experts.
Su Zheyan was in a bad state of mind when he suddenly heard the bad news that artificial intelligence controlled the empire.
He lay in Chu Shici’s arms, his face buried on his shoulder, motionless.
Chu Shici felt that his shoulders were a little wet, and Su Zheyan cried, and he could see that he was very sad.
However, not only did the vitality value not drop, but it rose to 95 unsteadily.
Chu Shici was very relieved. If it had been the time when they first met, Su Zheyan would have been so sad that he would have committed suicide when he learned that the country had been changed.
Now not only did he not want to commit suicide, he also wanted to arrest those people and beat them up.
Su Zheyan raised his head, wiped away his tears and said coldly: “I don’t understand the current situation, I need to ask someone.”
Chu Shici was a little puzzled, “Where are you going? We don’t know anyone here.”
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At one o’clock in the morning, Liu Yunzhuo was talking to the team members in the hotel.
He ordered the clone number 9799 to get ready and go out to investigate Su Zheyan later.
The alpha who was wandering around in the night market let out a burst of loud shouts. They have been yelling since they saw the spaceships just now.
Liu Yunzhuo didn’t care.
Ten minutes later, the door of the room was kicked open.
Su Zheyan’s face was flushed and his breathing was erratic. The machete in his hand was already red, looking as if he had just killed his way through the crowd.
Chu Shici sauntered behind him, and it seemed that he didn’t get hurt at all.
He closed the door and locked it: “Yan-ge, go in, I will guard the door.”
Before the five people in the room could react, they saw Beta, covered in blood, approaching them step by step with a machete in hand.
With the knife resting on Liu Yunzhuo’s neck, Su Zheyan said with cold eyes: “I’ll ask and you’ll answer. Don’t say anything else. If you dare to lie to me, I will make your life worse than death.”
To be more convincing, he raised his chin out the window.
The five people from Eternal Life Technology looked around, and there was a floor of minced meat on the bustling main street.
Liu Yunzhuo looked at the minced meat, then at Su Zheyan, knelt on the ground with a plop, raised his hands and said, “General, ask anything.”
Although Liu Yunzhuo held a high position and was trusted by Zuo Ting, but he wanted a quick death not a prolonged agony.
From what he said, Su Zheyan learned something that was unacceptable to him.
All betas in the empire have completed gender reassignment surgery, and the Mastermind tampered with their memories, making them and the people around them think that they should have been alphas or omega.
The empire has already entered the era of artificial intelligence, Network is the way to obtain information, and all furniture is intelligently controlled.
Under the deliberate operation of Eternal Life Technology, every family has an artificial intelligence butler and multiple robot nannies.
Without the control of the government, the Mastermind, the most advanced artificial intelligence, is quietly changing the country. After she issued the order, all traces related to betas were erased.
Now there are only alphas and omegas in the empire. Except for the criminals from Desolate Star and some employees of Eternal Life Technology, no one remembers that the empire once had three major categories of gender.
Su Zheyan became the last beta in this world.
He stared blankly at Liu Yunzhuo, “Why do you want to remove Betas from the human race?”
Liu Yunzhuo didn’t know the existence of the Mastermind. He always thought that Eve was the Mastermind behind it, and he also used the pronoun of his mother when speaking.
“Mother didn’t mention it to us, but to be honest, General Su, didn’t you find that betas are generally born ordinary? In the mecha test, very few betas can meet the passing line of physique and mental strength, while alphas all exceed the bottom line. The generals of all dynasties are mostly alphas, and many scientists are alphas. Omega can give birth to more than 70 children in their lifetime, how can betas do the same? Omega’s artistic talents are also top-notch. The best singers, movie stars, dancers and pianists are all omegas.”
“There was gender reassignment surgery in the past, but it was a temporary solution rather than a permanent cure. The gender change my Mother developed was actually modifying the gene to make betas better. Natural selection, survival of the fittest. The empire is too comfortable, humans have not evolved for a long time. All the efforts we have made and all the crimes we bear are for a better tomorrow for mankind. “
Chu Shici limped forward and punched Liu Yunzhuo hard.
Su Zheyan lowered his head, the light in the room was too dim, and his expression became blurred.
Chu Shici hugged him tightly, patted his back over and over again to comfort him, “It’ll be okay after we destroy the Mastermind, as long as we can go back to the past and change everything, you won’t be the only beta left.”
Chu Shici’s hand was painfully gripped by him, and Su Zheyan’s voice held a sadness that couldn’t be concealed.
“I don’t understand what he said, and I don’t accept it. Why should a person be eliminated if they are born ordinary? Why should a person’s right to prove themselves be denied so righteously? I am a beta, but I have won hundreds of wars. Ah Ci, I don’t understand why they should turn a blind eye to my achievements just because…”
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T/N: TAT this is so sad… Also, do tell me if the links are working or not, because I have to manually edit the links (previous and next) myself so sometimes it might not work if I mistype or misclick.
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- I opened a safe house in the Infinite Stream
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