Surrounded by such things, every second is suffering.

What's more, it's still fully armed.

These guardians are equipped with huge pistols with glittering light in the barrel, long iron walking sticks with bronze and silver gears rotating on the top, and a parchment hanging on them swings in the dusty air in the cold cabin.

There was a four by four square on the parchment with a set of numbers written in it. Lovelace quickly calculated that the total number of numbers in any row and column was the same, no matter how they were combined - vertical, horizontal or diagonal.

More than that, each quadrant, the four squares in the center, the squares in the top corner and many other combinations add up to the same total.

"Thirty four."

She repeated it again.

"Always thirty-four."

This design was very familiar to her, and Lovelace knew that she must have seen information about it before.

As soon as she remembered where she had seen it, the answer jumped into her mind.

"Mental depression."

Lovelace nodded at the parchment.

"What did you say?"

The protector asked that his voice still belonged to human beings, but it echoed under his bronze mask with a harsh metal grinding sound. Lovelace was immediately startled by the other party's response.

"The symbol on your parchment comes from a engraving. I saw it in a Book transcribed two years ago."

"Two years ago? Do you still remember it?"

"Yes."

Lovelace nodded hesitantly.

"I'm good at remembering what I've read and won't forget it."

"This is the symbol of our master."

"It comes from the work of an ancient master."

Lovelace said that when she said these words, her eyes began to become dull, as if she were muttering to herself.

"It's quite old, but everything we copied in the hall at that time was not very old from the discovery fleet."

A picture appeared in her mind. There was a man in the picture. He looked very frustrated, as if he was angry at his inability to invent something exquisite.

Surrounded by all kinds of equipment, several scales, an hourglass and a hammer, his behavior showed that he was very unhappy and seemed unable to turn inspiration into reality.

While Lovelace talked, the guardians exchanged eyes with each other, each holding their own walking sticks.

She noticed their movements and her voice faded.

"What's the matter?"

A protector untied the magnetic lock that fixed him on the deck and walked towards Lovelace.

His sudden move surprised her. She stepped back in a panic and sat down on the floor.

The guardian came to her step by step. His eyes hidden in his tattered hood were shining with dazzling green light.

"I'm beginning to understand why we were sent to take you."

"Really? Then why were you sent to catch me?"

"Yes, violet ADA Lovelace, Avila 12 was sent to take you."

"Elvira 12?"

"This is our name."

"What? All of you?"

"All of us, all of us, are the same."

"Okay, but why were you sent to take me?"

"We were sent to take you back before you were executed."

"Execution?"

Lovelace exclaimed.

"For what?"

"Your supervisor has invoked the law of divine complexity, and any individual accused of this law will be severely punished."

Lovelace thought for a moment, her eyes turning back and forth under her long eyelashes, and then remembered what the law involved.

"Let me see, that law says that the structure and working mode of every machine have been formulated by the God of machinery, so it is sacred, so changing it is... Oh!"

"Now you see why we're here?"

"Not quite. Anyway, what do you want to do to me? I'm just a copywriter in a pile of old papers. I'm just a little person."

The protector shook his head, raised a fist and placed it on the silver and bronze gears at the top of his walking stick.

"You're more important than you think, violet ADA Lovelace. You'll know more when you see our Lord, senior technician Roma hachett."

"Where is he?"

"Nathan four."

The protector said, raising his cane and touching an opaque panel on the vibrating ship.

A flashing light radiated, and the panel began to change and gradually became more and more transparent until it finally became completely transparent.

When the change was complete, violet ADA Lovelace held her breath in surprise at the scene in front of her, and her face was immersed in the fluorescence of the screen.

It was a huge metal structure, the surface was covered with a reddish luster, and it was like a giant lying with his limbs stretched out on the track. The statue and fort on it were bigger than the home in Lovelace's memory. Through some open hatch doors, broken light poured into the void.

"Is this...?"

"An astatic organization, the headquarters of the suffering alliance."

The nurse replied with certainty:

"The mark of victory."

Soshyan did not expect that after waiting for more than ten days, the "expert" was a woman who seemed to faint at any time.

It's not that he has any prejudice against women, but it's a little different from his expectations.

After all, there is no transformation on this person, which means that the other party belongs to the very low class in mechanical education, but Zhao akada's representative said that she is absolutely competent for this job.

Lovelace was also very confused. After a bad trip, she was inexplicably brought to an astat and asked to serve each other.

But it was not only this that surprised soshyan. In fact, when she first saw him, the woman was not as shocked or frightened as other mortals.

She can even look at his power a with interest.

This extraordinary courage made soshyan seem to have a little confidence in her technology.

"What did you do in the past?"

"A scribe."

Lovelace answered readily.

She is not afraid of these Empire Superman. In fact, she almost fainted when she stood on each other, but she has a good and easy to let things go.

Since you can't hide, you can only accept it calmly.

"Scribe, it is said that you have your own unique attainments in the meditator system. Why don't you join those higher-level sects and become a small scribe?"

At that time, Lovelace's answer to soshyan was very unexpected.

"Because I think about my appearance."

The female technician raised her gray face and said to soshyan in a very positive tone:

"As far as I know, the sage in charge of our library was exactly three meters high when she was fully extended. The body she wore for benefit was a monster. It was half longer behind the pelvis connected on the back of her, because it was higher than the clutch driving its mechanical foot. Her helmet face with lenses was wrapped in front of a skull, and this The skull is three times larger than the standard human head, and its weight is twelve times larger. From her occipital bone, a circular crown grows. It consists of data array, short-range transmitter, whole life link, sensor group, divination device, communication syntax parser, thinking shunt, and other common, which are as complex as the sensor kit of the virtual ship Equipment composition. "

When talking about the sage to which she belonged, Lovelace revealed a disgust.

"In view of her deliberately forgotten origin, her second face with lenses was shaped into the shape of a mask - a well proportioned human female face. Her beauty was so carefully considered in art that her gentle eyes and lips were tightly closed, and a trace of cynicism was printed on this mouth."

"Isn't this your doctrine? Closer to the spirit of machinery."

"The doctrine only allows us to understand machinery, not to become machinery. If we become machinery, we must be human first, followed by believers, but she has no residue of human nature. Even if there are physical components on her, they are sealed in her armor and will never be revealed... The sage is obsessed with replacement. Some people say that this practice is against omnisaia But I privately think it's very unhealthy. "

When she received the drink from the flight attendant, it smelled more like crude oil than anything else.

"She can no longer be called a human. She can no longer have any anatomical similarity with a normal human body."

Hearing this, soshyan realized that the man he took over was really a freak.

"So the reason you don't do this is just because you feel ugly?"

"Yes, after all, I'm still so young."

Although it was only a short communication, soshyan saw some very common characteristics in Lovelace - boldness, independence and being comfortable with the situation.

Maybe she is really an "answer".

"So... Try it. We need a new master control system for the meditator array."

"OK, but I want to take a bath first."

"Of course."