Chapter 497: So, ordinary humans are this powerful!?

There is only one reason why A1 appears so passive, even failing to resist the attacks of the Wakaba Unit...

She feels lost regarding her own existence.

As the prototype and test model of the Wakaba Unit, she is actually more powerful than all subsequent models. Because the first model was manufactured without regard for cost or technology to test maximum performance, its strength is overwhelmingly superior to the old-era android resistance armies and the subsequent mass-produced Wakaba Unit models.

And the underlying logical framework upon which she was built has only one purpose...

Protect humanity!

Conduct special operations against mechanical lifeforms on Earth, change the war situation that has persisted for over five thousand years, help the humans on the moon win this desperate war, and finally allow humanity to return to Earth to ensure the glory of humanity lasts forever!

This is the sole meaning of her life.

Yet, in one accident, she discovered a fact that horrified her.

That is, the humans on the moon had already perished thousands of years ago. The so-called Lunar Human Council is actually a facade created by the highest central hub of the androids, a lie fabricated to keep the morale of all androids from collapsing, a curtain covering the truth.

At that moment, A1 lost her motivation to move forward. She didn't even know what the meaning of her existence was, so choosing to face everything passively was her decision—even letting the Wakaba Unit catch up to dispose of her and format her data didn't matter.

Humanity... is already gone!

But in this instant, she saw Su Xing covered in wounds, saw the flesh, internal organs, and bones pulsing within those wounds, saw that pure, flawless physical body without the slightest mechanical structure...

Boom!!

With seven consecutive sonic booms, A1 and the six Wakaba Unit members rushed into the camp area almost faster than thought. Each exploded with their maximum speed, and each condensed the melee weapon best suited to them through their support units. But before they could even reach the battlefield, Su Xing lifted his Broken Heroic Spirit Blade and had already completely dismantled this giant mechanical lifeform.

It looked a thousand meters long and dozens of meters thick, but when Su Xing truly got serious—or rather, he didn't even need to be too serious—the blade light he swung reached a diameter of over thirty meters. Just by circling the monster, this huge mechanical monster began to turn to ash and dissipate.

A1 and the other six members slowed down as they ran, then stopped outside the camp. For a moment, they looked at each other, seeing both doubt and longing in each other's eyes.

One warm-hearted male said: "... Has a human really returned to Earth from the moon? Why didn't the General Command notify us?"

A beautiful woman with twin tails, a super-short skirt, and suspender stockings said: "The key question now is, is he... really a human?"

Everyone was silent. A beautiful woman with long black hair, a super-short skirt, and suspender stockings in the team said: "We indeed all saw his wounded physical body and his insides, but his healing speed was too fast. According to the information we know, humans cannot achieve such a healing speed. The laser sweep just now would have been fatal to a human. And have you noticed?"

"... He didn't use a support unit to fight."

This was the reason why they all stopped. Although the moment they saw Su Xing's wounded body, their underlying logic triggered an unimaginable protective instinct, but with Su Xing's abnormal healing speed and his simply heaven-defying combat power, everyone, including A1, stopped.

Then, the six Wakaba Unit members all looked fiercely at A1. A1's reaction was very direct; she held her cold weapon, which resembled both a spear and a gun, horizontally, and said coldly: "I don't want to be disposed of now. If you want to kill me, then let's fight!"

The six did not act immediately but looked at each other. Then, the beautiful woman with twin tails, a super-short skirt, and suspender stockings took a half-step forward and said: "A1, I am B8. I want to confirm, how did you find this human?"

A1 was silent for a moment and said: "I didn't find him; it was a sudden encounter. I suspect it might be that he found me."

The six looked at each other, and B8 asked again: "Can you confirm he is a human?"

A1 shook her head: "I cannot confirm it, but clearly, he is different from us—different structure, different weapons and power used in combat. At the same time, he is also different from mechanical lifeforms—different structure, and the weapons and power used in combat are also different."

On this Earth, a creature that looks like a human, speaks like a human, has the logic of a human, and has the body structure of a human—neither an android like them nor an alien species like the mechanical lifeforms—isn't such a creature... a human?

At this time, the beautiful woman with long black hair, a super-short skirt, and suspender stockings hesitated and said: "But his body's healing speed is clearly abnormal, and this combat power is also clearly bizarre. I cannot confirm what kind of weapon he is using. Even my calculation hub tells me that all of this is his physical strength... This is definitely not a human!"

The six nodded. Only A1 showed hesitation. A few seconds later, she suddenly said: "Perhaps... this is what a real human is like?"

The six looked at her. A1 said: "What I am about to say is the reason why I was judged a traitor by the command center and why they want to purge and dispose of me. If you listen, you might also be hunted and disposed of. So... are you sure you still want to hear it?"

The six looked at each other, and B8 asked: "Does it concern humanity?"

A1 nodded. The six looked at each other again, then all nodded firmly to confirm.

A1 said: "The reason I am being hunted is that I inadvertently learned a secret... There are no humans left on the moon. Thousands of years ago, during this war with the mechanical lifeforms, humanity had already perished on the moon!"

"Impossible!"

The six felt dizzy and immediately retorted.

A1 ignored them and continued calmly: "The current Human Council is disguised by the unified information processing hub of the androids. The establishment of our Wakaba Unit is actually to cover up the truth that humans have long since died. This is a curtain covering the truth, and we are the curtain itself—tools to kill any android who might leak the curtain and to continue covering up the truth to boost the morale of all androids in the resistance army... This is the truth I want to tell you!"

The six felt dizzy, and the calculation hubs in their brains were buzzing.

This intelligence completely exceeded their imagination.

The intelligence they received from the Wakaba Unit Command Center was that the pioneer prototype A1 had likely been contaminated by the electronic virus of the mechanical lifeforms, so she had become a traitor. At the same time, she possessed a large amount of core intelligence about the Wakaba Unit. Once she defected to the mechanical lifeforms, it would immediately lead to a massive collapse of the front line.

But the truth they learned from A1 now directly shattered their worldview.

Humanity... actually perished thousands of years ago?

Then what was the meaning of their fighting for these thousands of years?

And what were they protecting!?

"Wrong!"

The gentle warm-hearted male immediately said: "If humans are all dead, then what is he? Why is he not on the moon but on Earth!?"

A1 remained calm and analyzed as she spoke: "This is what I want to say. Humanity perished thousands of years ago, and everything we know was forged by the unified information processing hub of the androids. So... is the human information in our database really what they are like?"

The six vaguely thought of something. The beautiful woman with long black hair, a super-short skirt, and suspender stockings immediately asked: "You mean..."

"Perhaps humans are such powerful creatures!?"

A1 said: "When I inadvertently learned the truth behind the curtain, I lurked and continued to investigate this truth. Then I found some historical records from the bottom of the central network. The extinction of humanity does not seem to have been caused by mechanical lifeforms but was plagued by a disease called the White Salt Plague. But there was no more information... Originally, I was disheartened, but now I recall: you say, if humanity was not exterminated by an alien biological invasion but by a plague, then this explains everything."

The six all looked at her. A1 said: "Humans themselves are such a powerful species. Their physical healing speed is like this, and their physical strength is like this. It's just that the unified information processing hub of the androids, in order to cover up the truth of human extinction, had to fabricate information that humans are very weak. The data in the human information database in our minds is all fake!!"

B8 nodded at this time: "So that's it. According to your logical analysis, this is indeed very possible. Because humanity has long been extinct, the unified information processing hub of the androids set up a curtain to cover up this truth. But if we all knew the true strength and true power of humans, then there would be a serious logical contradiction... Since humans are so powerful and can easily crush mechanical lifeforms, why didn't they return from the moon? And why did they let the mechanical lifeforms ravage the Earth for thousands of years?"

The gentle warm-hearted male's eyes also lit up, and he said urgently: "So that's it! That's why the unified information processing hub of the androids had to fabricate the data that humans are weak. This makes sense logically, because humans are incredibly weak, and once they arrive on Earth, they would be easily killed by mechanical lifeforms, so they had to stay on the moon. Understood, everything is understood..."

A1 and the six members of the Wakaba Unit looked at each other, and they saw the answer in each other's eyes.

"Humanity was exterminated by a plague, the unified information processing hub of the androids set up a curtain to cover up the truth, and at the same time modified the physical fitness of humans, making us think that humans thousands of years ago were very weak, but..."

"How could humans, who were able to become the masters of Earth and be called terrifying upright apes, be weak!?"

The seven looked with fanatical eyes at Su Xing, who was hacking the giant mechanical monster into mechanical meat paste.

"So, ordinary humans are this powerful!?"

(End of chapter)