Chapter 520

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Wu Pifu learned from the General Command that about 30% of the androids in space had gone missing, while over 95% of the androids in the Earth sphere had already disappeared. According to projections, within three days at most, whether they were the androids in the Earth sphere or those in space, they would all be completely gone.

"Then what about the androids on the moon?"

Wu Pifu asked with confusion, but he did not receive an answer. The androids at the command center did not state the reason, instead waiting for Wu Pifu to confirm it himself once his ship arrived at the General Command.

Upon hearing this, Wu Pifu immediately knew that something had gone wrong on the moon. Although he did not yet know what the problem was, it was certainly more than just simple disappearances.

Lost pollution has various different variant phenomena, and the disappearance phenomenon is likely the mildest among them; Wu Pifu had also received confirmation of this from Beelzebub.

Furthermore, pollution has various different stages of erosion and different manifestations. This is the same for root pollution, curse pollution, bizarre pollution, and so on, and lost pollution is the same. For example, Wu Pifu's previous battle against the lost pollution derivative outside the camp, and his battle against that golden skeleton—these were actually different manifestations shown at different stages of lost pollution.

In short, as Wu Pifu refused the General Command's suggestion without hesitation, and because of his dialogue, the disappearance phenomenon at the General Command decreased significantly. Therefore, the General Command changed its initial human escape plan, and after seriously listening to Wu Pifu's advice, they recorded his voice and image and began broadcasting them throughout the Earth-Moon sphere.

The effect was simply immediate. According to the General Command's big data, in every area where Wu Pifu's image and voice were broadcast, the probability of android disappearances dropped by dozens of times.

These androids saw real humans for the first time since their birth and learned that it was this human who stopped their disappearances. As more and more androids in various areas saw Wu Pifu's existence, and the mechanical lifeforms also intercepted the broadcasted footage, Wu Pifu felt his Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade begin to strengthen, and the magnitude of this strengthening was very large.

It was almost as if the life of the entire world had recognized him. The characteristic of the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade is that the more life in the world recognizes it, the greater its weight becomes. This is a supernatural weight that is only effective against enemies. If he were to fight on the moon next, then this characteristic of the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade would naturally be better the stronger it was.

"... So, will the final enemy be the soul that the Cross-Borderer has been hiding all along?"

With this doubt, Wu Pifu boarded the large space station where the General Command was located... In reality, this could already be called a spaceport. More than a dozen spaceships of various sizes were docked here. When Wu Pifu's ship arrived, it immediately received traction from the General Command. The ship entered the port, and by the time everyone disembarked, over a hundred androids were already waiting at the entrance of the General Command.

As soon as they saw Wu Pifu, they all bowed down immediately. In particular, the beautiful blonde woman leading them bowed with a heaving chest, then stood up, looked at Wu Pifu with a flushed face, and said, "Welcome, my lord. The conditions do not allow it now, otherwise, we would certainly hold a grand welcoming ceremony for you."

Wu Pifu carried the three small animals and held the golden tree bonsai. He walked straight past these androids, saying as he walked, "Don't talk about these useless things. Let's solve the urgent matters first. Tell me about the situation at the command center."

The beautiful blonde woman immediately came to a position two steps behind Wu Pifu, walking alongside him while saying, "My lord, my name is Ain. All subsequent matters will be explained to you by me, and I will assist you in managing everything."

Wu Pifu walked forward on his own, saying, "Fine, tell me about the situation on the moon."

Ain paused for a moment, but immediately caught up to Wu Pifu's pace. She said while walking, "We cannot describe it; it is better for you to see it yourself, my lord."

Wu Pifu turned his head to look at Ain, then strode toward the very center of the command center.

All the androids followed behind him, whether it was the resistance army that followed him, the seven Ruoye troops, or the androids originally stationed here; they all subconsciously followed Wu Pifu.

As they were walking, Ain suddenly shed tears. Although Wu Pifu was walking in front, he felt her abnormality and immediately frowned, saying, "What are you crying for?"

Ain said to Wu Pifu in a low voice, "These are tears of joy, my lord. Your arrival means the fulfillment of the prophecy. I have too many words in my heart that I want to tell you, and this scene before us... doesn't it look like the beginning of creation in mythology? If humanity recovers in the future, this scene will surely be immortal!"

Wu Pifu looked at Ain speechlessly. He felt that this beautiful blonde woman seemed to have something wrong with her.

After walking for a while, everyone arrived at the central hall of the General Command. Along the way, androids joined them, and by the time they reached the hall, the number of androids was in the hundreds. However, all the androids remained extremely quiet, not even making a sound of breathing... Well, they didn't need to breathe in the first place.

Wu Pifu stood still in the hall and immediately asked Ain, "Enough, tell me, what exactly is the situation on the moon?"

Ain did not answer. She and all the commander-type androids at the scene bowed again simultaneously, each android's expression serious and pious. Only then did Ain say, "Before watching the current situation on the moon, we have some important content that we need to tell you, my lord. This is important information concerning the demise, survival, and future of humanity!"

Wu Pifu nodded, signaling Ain to speak.

Ain looked around, then said to Wu Pifu, "This is the supreme top secret of us androids, top-secret information that belongs to the category of never being decrypted unless conditions are met. In the entire android population, only the Android Unified Information Processing Hub and no more than ten androids like me know this information..."

"We androids are the children of humanity."

Wu Pifu was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what was so top-secret about this, so he asked, "What the hell? You were definitely made by humans, otherwise, could you have popped out of a rock?"

Ain shook her head. She held her heart with her hand and said, "My lord might have misunderstood. What I mean is that we androids are not purely mechanical bodies, nor are we the pure composition of matter and programs like mechanical lifeforms... We androids were born thanks to the gift of human souls... We are the children of humanity!"

Next, Ain described a peculiar phenomenon, a phenomenon that belonged only to the androids of this world.

When the initial Android Unified Information Processing Hub was built, humanity had actually already perished. Those who built the Android Unified Information Processing Hub were not the original humans, but clones of human bodies. Without souls, their intelligence would fade over time, eventually turning into chaotic monsters. But before that, they inherited all the wisdom and memories of their soul's original owners, and they also had a fear of complete extinction. Therefore, in order to fight against the fading of intelligence, they planned to use the power of science to reverse all of this.

Transforming themselves into androids was the method for this idea.

However, this plan failed because even with chips and programs to assist intelligence, lacking souls, they still inevitably lost all characteristics belonging to "humans." The best result was just turning into chaotic mechanical monsters; it was impossible to retain their wisdom and intelligence at all.

And just when these initial androids fell into despair, the perished humans who only had souls left communicated with them through unknown means.

"... The specific content of the dialogue can no longer be verified, but the result was recorded in the Android Unified Information Processing Hub."

Ain said seriously, "The souls of the perished humans made a pact with the initial androids. They were willing to scatter their souls into fragments and then integrate them into every android born. But in this process, androids still could not break through the creation to reach true life; they only possessed fragments of human souls. And these fragments were chaotic and disorderly, a collection of countless human souls, not the reincarnation of individual humans."

"In that information record, there was a sublimated holy soul among the human soul group. It used itself as the core to carry the mixture and reincarnation of all human souls. At the same time, it was also the witness of the contract between the perished human souls and the cloned-body androids."

Speaking of this, Ain looked at the group of androids behind her. These androids all bowed to Wu Pifu and said, "My lord, we are the androids responsible for scientific research, extraterrestrial exploration, mechanical lifeform research, and human reincarnation research. Over the past thousands of years, we have continuously researched how to revive humanity, including cloning the cells left behind by past humans, cloning human life factors, reshaping the gene map, etc., but all this research has been declared ineffective."

"Any cloned human individual would deform in a short time, turning into a twisted, amorphous monster. The reshaping of all human life factors and gene maps was also declared a complete failure, just like..."

"It's as if the whole world is rejecting the reappearance of humanity!"

Only then did Ain continue to say to Wu Pifu, "And in the Android Unified Information Processing Hub, there is a final piece of information preserved regarding this top-secret information, like a prophecy. This is also why we set up a curtain to cover up the fact that humans had long since perished, creating the lie that humans were still alive on the moon... When a true human reappears in the world, he will bring intelligence and life to all androids. At that time..."

"Children of human souls, you will become true humans!"

Speaking of this, Ain shed tears again, and many androids nearby shed tears. They bowed to Wu Pifu simultaneously, burying their heads deeply.

"Now, you, who are in the prophecy, have appeared, so..."

"Please bring humanity back to us, and let us become true humans too!"

(End of chapter)