Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 894: Section 590: The Past (Part 2)_2

Chapter 894: Section 590: The Past (Part 2)_2

Malin also jumped down.

"At the beginning, the Yinsimos biological factory shelter had a total of seventeen thousand people. In the era of the great destruction, this was the safest shelter. Later, they even relied on the scrap metal by the sea and the small factories in the shelter to build a town nearby, accommodating those orcs and sub-humans who survived stubbornly outside, until a... strange guy sneaked in. He looked normal, but he eventually destroyed the ecological core, he even tried to bring in Chaos, I only learned later that the world had really changed." The kid walked in front, and most of the lights came on wherever he went.

"This really is a perfect metal graveyard, even the most luxurious Emperor in my world doesn’t have the right to own such a perfect graveyard, while in your world, this is actually a shelter, unimaginable technology indeed."

Ails looked at this in amazement, his exclamation made Aps turn his head to look at him.

"You clearly have no vocal organs, yet I can hear you speak, are you human or ghost?"

"Good question, to be honest, I’m also not sure. If I say I am human, certainly no one will believe these words of my skeletal frame, but if I say I am a ghost, that gets interesting because I believe there is no other ghost in this world who could deal with human affairs like me."

Ails’s playful words made Malin laugh—it was completely different from when he first met Ails. Seeing the changes in him, Malin felt a bizarre sense of confusion, just like Ails himself said, he was so different from others.

"You have enough sanity, completely different from those of your kind that I have seen here." Aps said this and stopped in front of a large gate, turned his head to Malin: "Lord Malin, I feel you have something to say."

"You said you and Amy were born in the same batch of children, I feel like you were involved in everything from before the great destruction."

"Because I have an electronic brain." The kid smiled, his face full of regret: "Maybe it’s for this reason, Amy can’t hear my singing, and I... also can’t hear my companions’ singing, perhaps that’s why he eventually chose to wither, instead of mutating under the high concentration of Spiritual Energy radiation."

Malin shook his head, looking at the opened gate, and the core tank inside: "Should I call you Aps, or what?"

The tank’s exterior armor was opening, and a small baby covered in various tubes, eyes closed but staring at Malin.

"Bio AI?" Malin frowned.

"Yes, father said, I was in an accident while in my mother’s womb, mother died, and I was going to die, father eventually agreed to transform me into this, I am him, he is me." Aps walked to the front of the tank, he stroked the tank and then turned his head to Malin: "My body, too, was made, this is the last embryo from the shelter’s nursery, when everyone left, no one thought to take it, ultimately, I developed it, but found the child could not withstand the environment on Earth now, I could only transform his brain, but this child still didn’t live past ten, I recycled his body, transformed it into a form I could use... Yinsimos biological factory shelter failed, we could not rebuild civilization..."

The kid placed his hands on the tank, he was crying, though there was no sound, but Malin could feel his pain.

"No, we didn’t fail, my family Hagelberry is said to have emerged from a shelter, just like many nobles from Copenhagen, we all live in this world with the mission of rebuilding civilization." Lulu spoke at this moment.

Her words made the kid turn his head, his face full of tears, but he looked at Lulu, holding the metal plate, and a smile bloomed on his face: "Hagelberry, I remember this surname, it was a young man full of dreams, hanging hope on his lips... Did their branch really make it to Copenhagen, really survived there?"

"Yes, although living somewhat underwhelmingly, we have never forgotten our family’s oath, to recast civilization, even though we all have forgotten what the concept of civilization was eight thousand years ago." Lulu said this, smiling a bit awkwardly.

But Aps didn’t think so, he looked at Lulu and said loudly: "Descendant of Hagelberry, give the command, I am a civilian AI, I have no autonomy, I need someone to give me commands... so, girl, give me the command, let me be able to rebuild the shelter."

Lulu glanced at Malin, and Malin nodded: "Speak, Lulu, maybe this is our destiny. Everyone in every era is born with a mission, it’s just that we do not know what mission we carry. But now, I think you already understand your mission. Give the order."

Lulu nodded, took a deep breath, and then said to Aps, "Aps, let us rebuild civilization together, and the first step to rebuilding civilization is to rebuild the refuge."

The child cheered, in that moment, walls were opening, and mechanical bodies emerged. Under the vigilant gaze of the Ails, they began to clear everything in this hall.

"I will salvage these damaged cabinets, restart the mini-factory, recover war machines from the debris outside, and after repairing them, send out new search teams to find the ecological core. Of course, all this will be in the future, but today is a brand new day for the refuge." Aps said happily.

In his laughter, Malin noticed a wall opening, pushing out a stand with a small crystal sheath.

Aps also noticed the developments in that wall, he walked over, picked up the sheath, and took a small player.

An elderly voice sounded.

"Aps, I am Old Pael, when you discover all this, my surveillance system must have picked up your laughter... Wonderful, Aps, you seem to have regained your spirit. This is the last matrix of our Insectoids, take good care of her. Maybe one day, humans will return to the Holy Nest, and then, let us gather together, and once again help humans rebuild civilization."

Aps’s original smile vanished, just as he was about to weep, the elderly voice sounded again.

"Aps, my surveillance system has picked up your choke. Do not cry, Aps. We are creations of humans, even if some companions have become twisted in destruction, we have always been created by humans, they are our creators, we must help them, even if they have forgotten us now, but there will always be humans who remember us, always humans who need us. Remember, Aps, we were born with a mission."

Aps sniffled, but in the end, he did not cry. He turned his head to look at Malin: "I... I’m really happy."

"I am happy too, Aps. Please work hard to rebuild the refuge, rebuild the Insectoids’ Holy Nest, remember the task entrusted to you by your old friend, we must definitely rebuild civilization," Malin walked to the child, knelt on one knee, and embraced him.

Listening to his sniffles gradually growing louder, Malin smiled and hugged him tighter.

"Do not cry, do not forget your promise with Old Pael," Malin said.

"I am not crying, I, my, my emotion command set is a bit out of control," the child choked in response.

Lulu came over, also knelt on one knee, and embraced both Malin and Aps.

"We will rebuild civilization, don’t cry, this is my command," she said.

Malin smiled and reached out to embrace Lulu.

Every one of us comes to this era with a mission, we are... undoubtedly convinced of