Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 280 274. Heart from the Underground

Chu Jianlai walked slowly in the passage of the holy land full of radiation and high temperature.His skin was constantly being burned, and his internal organs were slowly festering, and then healed quickly.

The closer he was to the center of the Holy Land, the faster his body disintegrated, but he felt the mechanical engine in his heart beating up for a long time.

The core of the earth has an unimaginably huge energy reserve, but it yearns for more energy like a bottomless pit, even human flesh and blood.

Chu Jianlai could even feel that the core of the earth wanted to come out of his chest and jump into the nuclear reactor to feast on it.

He tapped his chest lightly, signaling his mechanical heart to calm down.And before he knew it, he had already reached the end of the passage in the Holy Land.

It was a small, dark room covered with thick metal walls.There is also a huge metal partition door on the opposite side of the room, but this door is still closed and seems to be impassable.

"This is." When Chu Jianlai's eyes fell on the center of the room, he stared at him for a moment, and then his eyeballs were scalded by the surrounding high-temperature air, causing him to close his eyes again in pain.

As Chen Entropy said, there really is a "sacred sword" here.

This is a Gremel sword nearly two meters high, unpretentiously inserted upside down on a stone pier.

The material used to make this sword is difficult to judge, but it can withstand the harsh environment where high temperature and radiation coexist, and the blade still stubbornly exudes a metallic luster.

"Good sword!" These were the two words Chu Jianlai subconsciously squirmed his Adam's apple after seeing the great sword.

People in Kunlun District favor martial arts, so Chu Jianlai has been exposed to various cold weapons since he was a child, so he can easily identify the quality of weapons.

He still remembers when he first started learning martial arts, his father took him to the family's armory to pick out the weapons at hand.

That day, looking at the dazzling array of weapons, he suddenly asked on a whim:
"Father, if one day I get the most powerful weapon in the world, will I be able to become a world-famous knight?"

His father smiled.He remembered his father patting his shoulder with his callused palm and replying:

"My son is right. If you find the strongest weapon in the world one day, you will become an unrivaled knight."

Chu Jianlai stared at the sword stuck on the stone pier in front of him, and for some reason recalled that period of past memories.

This sword that has been nourished by nuclear radiation for decades but is indestructible and indestructible, is it not the "strongest weapon" he was looking for?

He once dreamed of cutting off three thousand threads of troubles and walking around the world alone with a sword.Seeing injustice on the road, he will kill rape and eliminate evil, and have a panoramic view of all the splendor in the world.Enjoy the joy of carefree, praised by thousands of people.

He knew that this dream was not very realistic, because he was a rising star in the family, and his father would definitely inherit the position of head of the family to him.

But he still has a dream of becoming a knight in his heart.At least before he inherited the family, before he was forced to become an "adult", he wanted to go out and roam free for a few years.

Perhaps because of this dream, he has been working hard.He kept practicing and improving his martial arts, and at the same time, he was also looking for ways to become stronger and powerful weapons. At a young age, he became a well-known powerful warrior in Kunlun District.

If it weren't for the tragedy of extermination that year, Chu Jianlai might have become a well-known "former knight" and the current head of the Chu family in Kunlun District.

It's just that the disaster came too suddenly and shattered everything about him.To this day, Chu Jianlai still believes that all these tragedies were caused by himself.

——If I hadn't been so greedy then
Chu Jianlai often had such thoughts when he was meditating.And whenever such a thought arises in his mind, he regrets it so much that he almost grinds his teeth.

In fact, it was not purely accidental that he got the core of the earth back then.

Ten years ago, the three sects in Kunlun District jointly issued a reward notice.They claim that there is a treasure left before the nuclear war in a "secret realm" outside Yeshu City. As long as someone can take out this treasure from the secret realm and hand it over to them, they will receive a high reward of 100 million yuan.

In Kunlun District, "secret realm" means ruins, usually some post-war ruins that are extremely difficult to explore.There are usually a large number of deadly traps in this kind of ruins, and they are usually full of strong radiation or occupied by terrible mutant beasts as lairs.

Many people are very curious about the "treasures" mentioned by the three sects.Many people think that this treasure must be a priceless treasure, and its value is definitely much higher than 100 million.

However, these people did not continue to speculate on the true identity of the "treasure", because the implication of the reward offered by the three sects was: We have already set our sights on this treasure, and if you want to take it for yourself, you will be an enemy of the whole Kunlun District.

As a result, everyone in Kunlun District did not expect that the treasure was found by Chu Jianlai, a dazed young man.

Chu Jianlai happened to be sent by his master to practice in a secret place outside the city, so he put on a chemical-resistant suit and followed other Kunlun warriors out of the city.

I don't know if it was because of good luck, or because he happened to know some Feng Shui, but he broke into an abandoned underground laboratory by accident.

The laboratory was full of rusty research equipment. After rummaging through boxes and cabinets, he found a mysterious iron box, and found a mechanical artifact the size of a heart inside.

This mechanical creation looks like a small engine, but its shape is indescribably weird. It seems that it is not just an engine.

Although the reward announcement of the three sects did not give the actual appearance of the "treasure", according to the description in the announcement, Chu Jianlai realized that this mechanical engine was the "treasure" they were looking for.

Chu Jianlai knew that the three sects were willing to offer a reward of 100 million yuan, which proved that the price of this thing was definitely more than 100 million yuan, and he could definitely make more money by secretly selling it on the black market.

But Chu Jianlai has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, he doesn't care about money, and he doesn't need to take risks just to make money.On the contrary, stealing this treasure will cause the Chu family to be hated by the three sects and cause unnecessary trouble.

So he originally decided to hand over the mechanical engine, until after searching in the abandoned laboratory, he found a well-preserved and usable recording machine.

After Chu Jianlai turned on the recorder, he heard a young woman's voice.

The woman's voice was haggard and weak, and the background sound was so quiet that it made one's back chill, which sounded quite scary.

According to the recorder, this mechanical engine is called "The Heart of the Earth's Core", and it was originally a secret weapon developed by a certain country during the nuclear war.

In the era of nuclear warfare, technologies such as "individual bulletproof energy shield" and "anti-missile stand barrier" have become more and more mature, and the deployment of robots on the battlefield has become common, so ordinary thermal weapons can no longer be used on the battlefield. cause too many casualties.

The special feature of the core of the earth is that once this weapon is attached to any technological equipment that needs energy, it can quickly absorb the energy on it, and transfer these energy to the ground, making them useless.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the core of the earth sticks to a fully armed soldier, the energy shield on him can be quickly invalidated, making him a living target that can be killed with a single bullet.

And if the core of the earth sticks to the robot, it can be turned into an immobile empty shell in an instant.

For this reason, the research institute also equipped this weapon with simple AI, so that they can flexibly select the enemy for dialysis according to the battlefield situation, so as to cause greater losses to the enemy.

However, just as this weapon experiment was about to be completed, the country was defeated in the war.The country lost a lot of land, including this research room.

Since it was too late to transfer researchers, in order to prevent these research results from falling into the hands of enemy countries, the country decisively launched a nuclear strike on this confidential research institute, trying to destroy all research.

These scientists who have dedicated their lives to the country never imagined that they would be baptized by their own country with a nuclear bomb, and the entire research laboratory would be demolished to the ground in an instant under the blast of the nuclear bomb.

All the researchers were turned into smoke in the explosion of the nuclear bomb, and only one female scientist escaped the catastrophe and was not directly killed because she happened to be conducting personal research in the lowest underground laboratory.

But that doesn't mean she will survive.The entire laboratory was blown to ruins, and the passage back to the ground was also blown up.And even if she can dig a way back to the surface, she will be greeted by a harsh environment full of nuclear radiation, and she may not be able to survive even 10 minutes.

She was thus trapped in the underground laboratory.The food and emergency energy sources here are limited, and the oxygen is gradually decreasing. She can only live for half a month if she is strangled to death. She has no choice but to wait for death.

At this moment, she noticed a mechanical engine extending four mechanical claws, slowly moving towards her, like a deformed and cute little turtle.

Only then did she remember that she was a researcher in charge of AI intelligence, so she was assigned to test the performance of AI in the core of the earth to ensure that they could operate normally on the battlefield.

In general, the AI ​​in Core of the Earth is extremely sluggish.They are like a group of mentally handicapped children who can only execute simple single-threaded instructions, and will stand still when they do not receive orders.

However, among these earth core hearts implanted with simple AI, there is one earth core heart that behaves very abnormally.

It is very active, jumping around like a child.Maybe it's because she is usually gentle when checking the AI ​​of the core of the earth, and the core of the earth will take the initiative to stick to her when it sees it, just like a cute puppy.

"That day, I felt as if I suddenly met a very cute child who I wanted to take good care of." The woman in the recorder said, her tone became a little calmer:
"I could have destroyed this self-awakened AI, or handed it over to the superior. But I didn't do that, but kept it a secret. In the days to come, on the one hand, I will The AI ​​in the heart of the core is used as a research object to test how far it can be awakened. On the other hand, I also regard it as a friend, one who likes to crawl on me and act like a baby, and will hand me tissues when I cry friend."

Under the training of that female researcher, the AI ​​in the core of the earth has learned a lot, and can even write a novel with mechanical claws.

In this nuclear explosion, all the cores of the earth's core were destroyed. Only this core of the earth's core escaped by chance because it accompanied the female researcher to the underground research room.

But the battery capacity of the core of the earth is limited, the longest standby time is only [-] days, and the emergency energy of the underground research institute can only keep it going for three years.If the core of the earth completely loses energy, the AI ​​stored in the memory chip will also completely dissipate.

The core of the earth seemed to be aware of this, and desperately asked the female researcher for help.

At first, the desperate female researcher ignored its pleas.However, perhaps aware of the hopelessness of survival, after spending five days in despair in the underground research room, she finally decided to start helping the core of the earth.

She worked with the core AI, first rewriting the energy circuit in its body, changing it from "transfer the absorbed energy to the ground" to "transfer the absorbed energy to its own battery and store it ".

Immediately afterwards, she helped replace the core of the earth with a better energy storage device.

It is a top-notch technological product called an "infinite battery" by industry insiders. It claims to be able to store almost unlimited energy, and it was supposed to show its talents in the new energy industry.

However, the cost of "infinite battery" is too high, and there are still many flaws that need to be improved.Coupled with the outbreak of nuclear war, the government invested a large amount of research funds in the research and development of weapons, so this invention, which is theoretically enough to be recorded in the annals of human history, was delayed and never had a chance to come out.

Since the female researcher's boss happened to be an old classmate with the inventor of the "infinite battery", the boss happened to have an infinite battery as a souvenir in his hand, and put it in a private locker in the underground research room.

The female researcher who found the infinite battery was overjoyed, and couldn't wait to install it in the core of the earth.

Since then, a monster-level weapon that can theoretically quickly drain the surrounding energy and store it in an infinite capacity battery was born.

After finishing all this, the female researcher knew that she was running out of time, so she continued to modify the core of the earth non-stop, as if she wanted to pin all her hopes on this self-awakening weapon AI.

With her almost desperate efforts, she finally installed the "biological energy extraction function" on the core of the earth before she died.In short, the core of the earth is now able to extract the flesh and blood of living things, and absorb energy from it.

It's a pity that in this isolated basement, this invention that shocked the whole world is destined to be neglected.

And after she completed this modification, she weakly recorded this voice with a tape recorder, and gave the last command to the core of the earth:
"Little guy, please accompany me to complete the last experimental test now."

"Experiment number 907, experiment project. The bioenergy conversion test No. 60 of the core of the earth's core is now starting six tests!"

"I would like to offer my body, please suck me dry as much as possible, and then live!"

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After listening to the recording, Chu Jianlai at that time felt mixed feelings in his heart.

It was also at this time that Chu Jianlai saw the heart of the core of the earth in the box suddenly stretch out a claw and twitched, as if responding to the voice in the tape recorder.

Chu Jianlai quickly took out the portable charger, trying to charge the core of the earth.However, the heart of the core of the earth suddenly jumped up and took a few steps back, as if it was a little wary of Chu Jianlai.

But seeing that the core of the earth is not short of energy for the time being, Chu Jianlai is also relieved.

But then, he fell into a deep entanglement.

Reason told him that such a dangerous weapon must not be handed over to those big sects, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Sensitivity told him that he shouldn't hand over the mechanical AI that survived the nuclear war with the last hope of that lady, and let it become the research material for those adults.

Most importantly, his few greeds told him that this core of the earth is a weapon.This may be the "strongest weapon" he has been looking for since childhood, and he will soon be one step closer to becoming a real knight.

Under the continuous blessing of the three emotions, Chu Jianlai decisively took the heart of the earth's core home secretly, and let him hide it in his room for the time being.

The Heart of the Earth's Core seemed to sense that Chu Jianlai had no malice, so it trusted him like a newborn cub, and reached a friendly consensus with him.

Later, every time Chu Jianlai thought of his original decision, he wished to cut himself into pieces.

Perhaps it was because he was witnessed by others when he entered and left the underground ruins, or because he left some other flaws, the three sects soon began to suspect that Chu Jianlai had embezzled the "treasure".

Some sects wanted to search the Chu family over and over again, but they were all stopped by Chu Jianlai's father forcefully.Realizing that the Chu family was in danger, Chu Jianlai had no choice but to confess to his family, claiming that he had indeed obtained the "treasure" that the three sects wanted.

His father scolded the child for being stupid, but instead of punishing him severely, he was eager to sell the treasure on the black market.

If he directly admitted that Chu Jianlai had embezzled treasures, Chu Jianlai would inevitably be jointly punished by the three sects, and even the entire Chu family would be implicated.Some forces that have a problem with the Chu family will take the opportunity to suppress the Chu family and hurt their vitality.

So Chu Jianlai's father decided to sell the core of the earth to the black market in Yeshu City at a low price.The black market is like an abyss where you can't see your fingers. As long as you sell things there, no one will know who the seller is or who the goods have passed through. Even the chaebol association can't find out why .

Chu Jianlai also realized that he had made a big mistake, so he obediently handed over the core of the earth to his father.

However, before the Chu family could send away the core of the earth in time, the three major sects decided to massacre the city to grab the treasure.And this news eventually reached the ears of many chaebols, perhaps because the temptation of the core of the earth is too great, even the chaebols decided to send people in to participate in the massacre of the city.

What happened later was that Chu Jianlai fled with the core of the earth, and was finally forced to swallow the core, and then merged with the core.

"Is it the strongest weapon?" Looking at the Gremel sword in front of him, Chu Jianlai gave a wry smile with a little sarcasm.

He once thought that the most powerful weapon of a knight is the sword.Later he thought that the most powerful weapon of a knight is the sense of justice for the country and the people, but now he doesn't want to know anything.

"The most powerful weapon in the world" may be on his chest now, but he no longer wants to be a knight, and he is not worthy of being a knight anymore.

He used to have the most romantic dream in the world, until he was ruined by his own pathetic greed and the "most powerful weapon in the whole world" on his chest, making everyone an enemy.

"That's it, draw the sword and let it all end."

Chu Jianlai murmured to himself without emotion, stepped forward and held his hands on the hilt of his sword, with neither sadness nor joy in his eyes.

However, at this moment, the huge metal door in the room suddenly made a harsh friction sound.

"What's wrong?" Chu Jianlai suddenly raised his head.In astonishment, he saw the door slowly opening.

Just when Chu Jianlai was trying to look at the scene behind the door, he found an almost substantive high-temperature heat wave gushing out from the crack of the door and rushing towards him.

The last protective device of the nuclear reactor was disarmed.

(End of this chapter)