Chapter 500

(PS: Thanks to the Silver Alliance Leader "Shi Fen Wu Nai _ing" for the silver alliance reward, specially exploding ten chapters! Finished!

Thanks again for the support, I hope this book didn't disappoint everyone!!)

(PS2: By the way, I'm so tired, so tired, so tired. I only have four chapters of manuscript. Today I turned into a tentacle monster and wrote six chapters, nearly 20,000 words. Now my fingers are still painful, and my head is swollen and dizzy. Fortunately, I have been energetic recently and am in a manic period. I will ask for leave tomorrow and have one less chapter, just two chapters, at 6 PM and 9 PM. I want to have a big sleep tomorrow.)

"...About 7,000 years ago, in the 30th century AD, a disease called the White Salt Plague broke out in human society."

"The symptoms were that white spots appeared on the body at first, then gradually deepened, the flesh appeared terrifying alienation, and the spirit fell into madness. Most people would die at this stage, but if they could survive this stage and their spiritual consciousness had not gone mad, then the flesh would turn into a white salt pillar, and at the same time, the spirit and soul would be stripped out of the flesh."

Wu Pifu heard this and had already confirmed that this so-called White Salt Plague was the source of pollution in this world and the source of the end of the world. However... this didn't have much to do with the current battlefield of machine lifeforms and androids, right?

This machine lifeform continued: "But we didn't just sit and wait for death. Because of the final symptoms of the White Salt Plague, we began to analyze the existence of spirit and soul. I have to say it's ironic, because this doomsday led to our research progress on spirit and soul by leaps and bounds. If our human civilization had survived this catastrophe, it might have been able to progress to the ranks of spirit and soul civilization, but..."

"Failed?" Wu Pifu asked.

The machine lifeform seemed to sigh, and it continued: "Yes, as you said, we failed. At that time, the remaining humans were very few. We urgently needed self-rescue. There were several plans at that time, one of which was to find a way for all humans to survive the mid-term madness stage of the White Salt Plague until the salt pillar stage afterward. In this way, all human souls would be manifested, so that we humans could at least retain our souls. But it's a pity... the spirit and soul independent of the body are very, very easily polluted by stray information..."

"These souls eventually turned into terrifying monsters, legendary demons, various incomprehensible curses, grudges, etc., which accelerated our human extinction."

"Eventually, we... all remaining humans chose a plan... the Spirit-Flesh Separation Plan!"

Wu Pifu nodded and said: "Before the White Salt Plague broke out, separate the soul from the flesh?"

"Yes!"

The machine lifeform said: "At that time, we used various methods to separate our flesh and soul. The soul was placed in a pure and flawless place to avoid being polluted by stray information, and the flesh had to be abandoned because it was infected with the plague. Therefore, we manufactured replicas of our flesh. This... is actually the origin of androids!"

"According to our plan, the soul is in a pure and flawless place, and then the flesh replica purifies the world's plague. After the plague is completely purified, our soul will return to the flesh and become one with it. In this way, human civilization will be declared reborn, but..."

"The replicated flesh produced self-consciousness!!"

The machine lifeform vibrated violently, and the sound it made was more like a roar: "The replicated flesh produced self-consciousness, refused to fuse with the soul body, and even destroyed the cutting-edge equipment we used to fuse flesh and soul. In this way, our soul's return was hopeless, and the replicated flesh did not possess a soul. The consciousness it produced had no carrier, and most of them would turn into flesh without wisdom after a long time."

"But some of the replicated flesh, whose original owners were people of deep wisdom, also possessed high knowledge and scientific ability. So these flesh bodies modified their own bodies... They clearly knew that their intellect would degenerate, so they used electronic chips and electronic programs to become the source of their intellect. Simply put, before they turned into beasts, they used artificial AI to replace their intellect!"

Wu Pifu was completely silent when he heard this.

The machine lifeform didn't hear Wu Pifu's question, it still continued: "This is also the reason why those androids are so beautiful. When we manufactured replicas of our flesh at the beginning, everyone has a love for beauty, so we carried out tuning ourselves. Then later, the original androids who lost their intellect, wisdom, and memory, under the action of AI, in their few remaining memories, reproduction was their greatest pursuit. So this beauty, sexiness, and tuning with reproduction as the first requirement continued."

"After that, androids began to replicate androids. They cannot reproduce, but they can manufacture. At the same time, the underlying program as artificial intelligence has always been to serve humanity, not to harm humanity, etc. But... they who betrayed humanity have no humans to save at all. And the most original androids knew part of the truth. They covered up this truth and manufactured a false curtain that humans still survived... Long before they retreated to the Moon, humanity had already perished!"

Wu Pifu heard this and said: "Then what about the aliens, the machine lifeforms, and your current situation?"

"There are aliens!"

The machine lifeform suddenly made a sound similar to sarcasm.

"After humanity perished, nearly 2,000 years passed. In these 2,000 years, even the souls in a pure and flawless environment began to deform, annihilate, and die on a large scale. Most of them turned into vengeful spirits, various strange things, etc., but they were always sealed in a pure and flawless place. This all lasted until the aliens descended..."

"They appeared, but they were not the super-strong civilization colonizing across star systems as imagined. They were either small-scale colonial speculators or interstellar refugees. But their technology and civilization were still far higher than the android society. At the same time, they dropped machine lifeforms, this special combat weapon. The androids were defeated and had to be forced to migrate to the Moon. Just when the aliens intended to eliminate the androids in one go, they opened the pure and flawless place because they explored the history of this planet..."

"The aliens perished, killed by monsters, curses, strange things, various horrors, and us who inadvertently occupied part of the machine lifeforms, soul and it compatible, and completely exterminated them together."

"Time is the best detergent. No matter how big the resentment, how terrifying the curse, under the scouring of thousands of years of time, these monsters and curses gradually annihilated and disappeared. On the contrary, we who fused with machine lifeforms in a peculiar way finally remained..."

Wu Pifu silently thought about what this machine lifeform said. He didn't fully believe it, but he didn't deny it completely. After all, it was just one-sided words. He still lacked information from the android side. Only when information from both sides was gathered could he confirm whether what this machine lifeform said was true.

Wu Pifu asked: "Then what do you want to do by coming to see me?"

The machine lifeform didn't say the purpose immediately, it just continued: "It's a pity that we were sealed for thousands of years. No soul can remain the same. Even me... is the same. After we fused with machine lifeforms, most humans combined with machine lifeforms in a fragmented form, thus giving birth to the so-called 'special individual' units. They themselves possess the authority of the machine life network, and at the same time, their thinking and algorithms carry the memories and traces of human souls, so this leads them to want to know more about humans, want to know more about what is human, and... evolve into humans."

Wu Pifu nodded and said: "Yes, I met one. It asked me the difference between human reading and its reading."

The machine lifeform was silent for a moment, and said sadly: "This is us. We came from humans, but turned into monsters, and now we are thinking about evolving into humans... Repeat it again, although we are the fusion of the souls of past humans, in fact, we are all broken. What is talking to you now is a fusion remnant of a total of 68 souls. Each soul remnant provides a certain intellect. We unite to have logical dialogue with you. Otherwise, what you hear is just various human information inquiries that are upside down."

"Then what do you want to do by coming to see me?" Wu Pifu asked again.

The machine lifeform said: "Help us! You are the last human in this world. We don't know where you came from, and we don't know where you are going. Perhaps it is a cross-time miracle brought by quantum tunneling flashes, or perhaps a traveler from another world, but for the sake of being human, at least being human in the past, help us..."

"Help us catch those original androids! And only if you catch them and give them to us, when you are present, can our scattered and entangled soul fragments gather together and have common consciousness and common wisdom. Otherwise, even if we catch them, we still don't know what to do."

"Flesh, spiritual consciousness, soul, these three are complementary. Our souls are already broken, turning into pieces, but as long as they can return to our own replicas, spiritual consciousness and soul can be slowly nurtured by the flesh, allowing our souls to gradually heal and be complete..."

"This is the only way for humans to reappear, the only one!"

The machine lifeform paused for a long time when it said this. It didn't hear Wu Pifu's promise. It said with regret: "I know, just such language cannot convince you, but we have patience. We who have waited for thousands of years have patience..."

"The Android Unified Information Processing Hub, the original androids... they are the real culprits of human extinction. They are not as advertised, doing everything for the glory of humanity. They just use it as an excuse to control all androids."

"Go to the Moon, go to the Moon..."

"There is the answer you want, and there is the truth that you can see clearly about the original androids..."

"We... will wait for your answer..."

"Forever... forever..."

The machine lifeform's voice tone kept fluctuating and changing, and it seemed that there was a contradiction inside it, unable to form a united state anymore. Eventually, this machine lifeform exploded directly and turned into a pool of rotten meat.

The existence that claimed to be human had disappeared.