Chapter 345: Past Events on the Moon

POSTED ON MARCH 20, 2023 BY KEN

Fang Linyan quickly turned his attention from his hands to his eyes.

Because after clenching the half-mechanical nerve synapses, his eyes blurred and an illusion began to appear.

The content of the illusion was very monotonous. The environment was a high-tech factory. The assembly line was constantly working and assembling as if building a spaceship.

In the workshop, not even a single person could be seen. It was like he was watching a recording of a surveillance camera.

Fang Linyan felt bored after watching it for a few minutes. At the same time, he realized that this thing was actually equivalent to a hard disk or the memory cells in the human brain.

This memory might be of great significance to the original owner, but it was of little use to Fang Linyan.

Then he grabbed another half-mechanical nerve synapse. He found that this one felt better to grab. Not to mention the shape was like a bamboo shoot, the elasticity was excellent. If one could have such a… mouse at home, it would be very flattering.

The memory in this half-mechanical nerve synapse showed a cold and dark warehouse, then it entered surveillance mode in the next few minutes.

However, just when Fang Linyan was about to give up, something happened suddenly…

The warehouse door slid open to both sides silently, then a robot with crawler belts underneath rumbled in and threw a box in.

The box drew a high parabola in mid-air, hit the cargo at the back, bounced and fell at the feet of the “camera”.

The box was silver-white. When the robot threw the box, it was a little flustered, so it used a lot of force. The box was cracked after several knocks.

There was a strange light emitting from the crack on the box. It was like starlight or sunlight, shining on the surrounding things, but the things inside the box couldn’t be seen clearly.

It was worth mentioning that after entering the warehouse, there were a lot of metal ingots, containers and other things piled up on the front, so even if someone entered the front door, his sight would be blocked by these piled things and couldn’t see the silver-white box.

After a while, the tracked robot that threw the box before re-entered the warehouse, but this time, it was forced to enter.

The robot that forced it in looked very strong at first glance. When it came in, it beat the tracked robot hard, causing sparks and parts to fly around. It seemed to be interrogating the tracked robot.

But the tracked robot kept shaking its head, then the weirdest thing happened next,

The machine that was interrogated let out a cold growl and slapped its chest!

Its chest actually popped open like a CD drive, and a tape flew out from it. It into a very ferocious robot dog in mid-air and pounced onto the tracked robot.

This robot dog gnawed and bit the tracked robot into pieces easily. Its destructive power was astonishing.

However, just when the tracked robot was about to die, it actually initiated the self-explosion program.

The explosion was astonishingly powerful. It swept the entire warehouse in an instant! The silver-white box was also directly destroyed in the explosion, revealing the item inside!

It turned out to be an irregular black fragment with a peculiar texture similar to gears and a star chart.

After seeing this thing, Fang Linyan felt a heat in his chest. The Infinity Mark appeared automatically, and the relevant information of this black fragment also began to appear in his memory!

This item was called a Steel Spark. It had a mysterious and powerful radiation ability, which could give life to machinery.

The larger the Steel Spark, the stronger its radiation effect, and the stronger the mechanical intelligent lifeforms that were born. At the same time, the continuous radiation of the Steel Spark could also promote the evolution of mechanical intelligent lifeforms.

The steel Spark was about the size of a palm. During the explosion, it split again. A piece the size of a fingernail flew out of the main body and fell into the deep groove under the camera and got stuck.

Among the ruins, the robot dog found the large piece of Steel Spark and returned it to the owner.

This piece of Steel Spark was just snatched by the powerful mechanical creature Soundwave. Before it could use it, it was stolen by a spy — the guy disguised as a tracked robot — So, Sonic was not familiar with this Steel Spark.

It didn’t know that a small piece of the Steel Spark fell off during the explosion.

At this time, the camera turned, switching from the previous first-person perspective to a third-person perspective.

Then, a group of tracked robots began to clean up the warehouse and moved all the damaged things to the garbage dump.

Several small automatic spaceships parked in the warehouse were severely damaged in the explosion, especially one that was only left with wreckage.

After those tracked robots finished their work, there was silence in the garbage dump. The background was the vast and indifferent space, towering craters, and cold dust.

Time passed quickly. Suddenly, there were creaking sounds on the most severely damaged wreckage, then a twisted and damaged mechanical arm was lifted up. It began to dismantle the other small spaceships and assemble the parts on its own body.

Inside the engine of the wreckage, the fingernail-sized black fragment was shining with a strange light.

Soon, several damaged spaceships were disassembled to pieces. The original wrecked spaceship was actually assembled into a roughly intact one. On the computer screen of the console, a series of words appeared,

“Strange, who… who am I?”

“I am the artificial intelligence K711?”

“No! No, artificial intelligence does not have emotions!”

“But I’m afraid, I’m worried…”

“Did… I gain life?”

After a while of silence, the indicator lights on the panel began to flash randomly, which was enough to show the complicated mood of this mechanical creature.

“Yes, hahaha, I have gained life. I should have my own name.”

“I’ve decided that I should be called Pumesh. Today is the birthday of the Great Pumesh!”

“…”

At this point, the memory in this half-mechanical nerve synapse disappeared. After Fang Linyan saw it, he felt his heart pounding!

Yes, he had already realized that he was right in agreeing that Nimbus would come in and take risks! Even if there was no reward, seeing the message just now was worth it!!

Next, Fang Linyan of course continued to read the information in the rest of the half-mechanical nerve synapses.

Soon, he read a large number of fragmented memories from the rest of the half-mechanical nerve synapses. Through these memories, he could basically guess the truth of the incident…

Pumesh continued to lurk in the junkyard, and it hid when the tracked robots came, then it came out to dismantle useful parts from the scraps and install them on itself.

However, Pumesh, who had self-awareness, soon discovered that he had a desire for energy blocks.

These were also the 2 major characteristics of mechanical intelligent life forms. First, they had emotions. Second, they needed energy supplements in energy blocks.

The appearance of the energy block was a relatively large cube, which was translucent and contained liquid-like energy.

After all kinds of energy were compressed, they could be poured into the mold of the energy block for manufacturing.

For mechanical intelligent lifeform, energy blocks were similar to the combined effect of cigarettes, alcohol, and salt. It did not need to be ingested in large quantities frequently, but if the mechanical intelligent lifeform did not consume it for a long time, it would definitely have an impact on health.

Not only could it effectively replenish energy, but it was also an indispensable delicacy. Taking too much of this energy block at one time would have certain side effects, just like a human being drunk.

But Pumesh did not have the conditions to produce energy blocks. It was a new mechanical creature, and it was unregistered, so it didn’t understand a lot of common sense.

So ordinary Pumesh could only steal.

Once or twice was fine, but who would put energy blocks into the junkyard that kept abandoned vehicles and spaceships?

So Pumesh was directly targeted. When it went there for the third time, it fell into a vicious trap and was besieged by a large group of mechanical puppet creatures. It had no choice but to escape.

Fortunately, the mechanical intelligent lifeform, Soundwave, that arranged this trap went out temporarily, and Soundwave was very confident in the trap he set, so Pumesh successfully transformed into a small transport plane to escape.

However, those mechanical puppet creatures transformed into many mechanical poisonous bees to chase it. The black thorns that appeared in Pumesh’s body were ejected from these mechanical poisonous bees.

When Pumesh was about to fall, he awakened a powerful ability at the critical moment. That was gravitational manipulation.

So it began to flee to the Earth, then it ran around in low-earth orbit while using its own ability to capture a large number of satellites and space stations as its shield.

The space station launched by NASA and the Salyut-7 space station were attached at that time to resist the pursuit of mechanical poisonous bees.

At the same time, Fang Linyan also noticed that Pumesh also had the ability to counterattack. When being chased, it threw a strange object to counter the enemy.

After the object was thrown, it exploded in the air, releasing a large cloud of smoke. After being contaminated by the smoke, several mechanical poisonous bees immediately were out of control and attacked their own people.

In this way, Pumesh finally temporarily resisted the mechanical poisonous bee’s pursuit, and it plunged into the atmosphere.

The mechanical poisonous bees didn’t slow down when entering the atmosphere, so they were burned by the violent friction with the atmosphere.

Relying on the protection of these satellites and space stations, Pumesh successfully rushed out of the atmosphere.

TL: That’s how the space stations got into the underground…