Chapter 347 Lost (17)
"Unstable residual energy detected, repair network is being established."
On the 273rd floor of the building, Han Zu and Gloria were staring blankly at a certain position in the center of this floor. For some reason, Gloria, who had never been able to participate in the climbing process, successfully followed Han Zu into the 273rd floor this time. The layout of this floor was not much different from that of the 272nd floor. The floor was empty, and there was a huge device in the center.
However, there were no enemies or traps on this floor. And the large device did not block this floor. However, there seemed to be no stairs leading up to the upper floor, or other entrances to the upper floor. After turning around for a few times, until Gloria's condition returned to normal, Han Zu did not find anything that could trigger it, so the two could only stand in front of the large device that seemed to be related and stare at it.
"Did you hear the cue from the contractor's equipment?"
"No, did you hear it? What did it say?"
"They said they detected some unstable and defective energy and are repairing it. Could they be referring to the device in front of us?"
"It's indeed possible, but it doesn't seem to be moving. How about we try to move this device?"
Han Zu fiddled with the device for a while, but it still didn't change. It didn't have any buttons, consoles, or virtual screens. It looked like a huge iron box. It was so big that its top could be seen to have passed through the ceiling of the 273rd floor. In the observable position, the two did not see anything that could transmit energy.
"How about we use the contractor's equipment to scan it? You've been studying it for quite some time, haven't you? Maybe you can figure out what this thing is. I think this equipment should be the key to our continued climb."
"It's already being done. This device should indeed be related to the contractor. My device shows our own device, but its function should be very complicated. The text explaining its function is in the contractor's own words. The device is currently trying to translate it for me, but from some of the translated texts, it seems that there are many descriptions of this device that cannot be accurately translated into our language. Neither the universal Dragon Mandarin nor the Spanish language works well. But I do know that this device is in normal standby mode, and there is nothing abnormal or damaged."
"Then what is the thing that my device mentioned just now that is being repaired? It seems that it is not talking about this device?"
"I'm not sure about that."
"The device is powered on."
“Tsk~~~~”
Just when the two were puzzled, some gas suddenly gushed out from the large equipment in front of them. They estimated that it was steam or something like that, but it was definitely not a threat to the two. As the gas continued to gush, the front of the large equipment protruded a little in the direction of the two people, and then opened neatly from the middle, like a strange metal door. After some movements beyond common sense, the opened door was retracted to both sides and into the back of the equipment.
"Do you feel familiar?"
"A little bit. This is similar to the medical cabin you used when you first reshaped my body. However, there are too many mechanical arm nests in it. I think this thing is more like a high-tech version of the Iron Maiden than a medical cabin."
"In fact, to some extent, medical devices are actually no different from torture instruments."
"...I don't think this should be the reason for you to stand in."
While Gloria was observing the opened equipment and talking to Han Zu, Han Zu had already walked into the equipment and stood inside it. Gloria complained as usual and was about to pull Han Zu out, but before she could reach out her hand, Gloria suddenly disappeared out of thin air. Through the perception of energy, Han Zu could determine that Gloria seemed to have been sent away by the contractor's teleportation technology.
"Gloria?"
He called Gloria through his contractor's equipment, but received no response. Han Zu also discovered at this time that his contractor's equipment seemed to have been shut down.
"Deng deng deng deng!"
“Zizzizi~~~”
“￥@%……@”
Just when Han Zu was about to leave the device to see what was going on, a number of restraint rings suddenly appeared inside the device to control his movements. Han Zu was firmly fixed inside the device in a big character position. These restraint rings were extremely strong and continuously released special force fields that could be superimposed on each other, making Han Zu unable to move except for thinking.
Then, the hatch of the device closed, and at the same time, the four walls inside the device were pulled closer to Han Zu's body, fitting perfectly. Han Zu felt a slight tingling sensation in dozens of places on his body, as something similar to a syringe system pierced his body. A voice sounded inside the device, it was the contractor's language, and Han Zu didn't understand what it meant.
Soon, the equipment began to hum, and Han Zu could feel that some of his body fluids and parts of his body that had been turned into liquid were being drawn out through the injection needle system, and at the same time, something else was being injected into his body. A complex feeling suddenly rushed into Han Zu's body, like a feeling of being filled with physical strength while being extremely tired, and then the cycle repeats.
Han Zu felt that something was not right, and taking advantage of the moment when the abnormal cycle allowed his body to reach its peak state, he transformed his body into the form of soul-grabbing miasma, hoping to use this method to break free from the comfort of the device. However, what he did not expect was that a special electromagnetic force field suddenly appeared inside the device, interrupting Han Zu's ability to change his mindset and forcing him back to normal form.
The sound of the equipment continued to sound, and this strange experiment continued. Han Zu tried to use various methods to break free, but none of them worked. Even if Han Zu increased his size and became a giant of more than five meters, the four walls of the equipment would also change according to Han Zu's changes. Moreover, after several attempts, Han Zu discovered that his body size was fixed at a height of more than five meters by some behavior, and he could no longer change to a normal height of more than two meters.
However, Han Zu's operation did not have no effect on the device at all.
At least the number of syringe systems on his body has increased, from dozens to hundreds.
"I now understand why the top of this device has reached the 274th floor. Feelings are prepared for this."
However, when the device was doing something unknown, all the abilities in Han Zu's body could be used, and it was like an infinite energy source, with no consumption at all. But whether it was the power of the flame, the high-energy rays in the eyes, or the radiation force field, and those flesh and blood weapon systems, they would be directly decomposed at the moment of successful launch. In short, Han Zu could not cause any degree of damage to this device, and as for its own power, Han Zu could not even move it, let alone.
Unable to come up with an effective countermeasure, Han Zu simply gave up struggling. With nothing to do anyway, he decided to close his eyes and take a sleep.
But just before he closed his eyes, two injection needle systems pierced his eyeballs roughly, and then released a strong stimulation energy similar to electric current, which made Han Zu alert all of a sudden. Although the pain was not very strong, it was just like being stabbed. But this behavior, which was obviously intended to keep himself awake, really made Han Zu stunned.
"Crack!"
Sure enough, when Han Zu emptied his mind again and was about to fall asleep, the device would release powerful energy, making Han Zu alert. Han Zu remembered some of the live experiments that the board of directors had conducted in the early days of Infinite Company. Those experiments required that the subjects must remain awake at all times.
Based on this, Han Zu thought he might be conducting some kind of research. Based on the behavior of the injection needle system, Han Zu believed that it might be the contractors who were testing their own body data. However, because he didn't know what they were injecting into himself, Han Zu wasn't quite sure what the purpose of this experiment was.
“It’s fixed.”
The contractor's equipment on him suddenly started up again. Through observation, Han Zu found that the contractor's equipment on him was not shut down, but its priority was changed. Whatever this large equipment was doing, it had just overwritten the priority of the contractor's equipment on him. Now he can be 100% sure that the behavior of this equipment is not automatic, but the contractor is remotely controlling it.
Unable to break free and with nothing to do, Han Zu suddenly had a funny picture pop up in his mind, which was based on the two contractors he and Gloria had seen before. In Han Zu's mind, there were many contractors with the same body material as them but different appearances, surrounding a large number of terminals and screens, recording something. However, their behavior was similar to those of the busy, unkempt researchers he had seen in Infinite Company. The metal bodies had messy hair, and some of the contractors even had masks on their faces.
“Hehehe…”
"Crack!"
Perhaps his thoughts were too far-fetched, triggering the monitoring mechanism of the device, and Han Zu was shocked again. His thoughts were interrupted, and Han Zu began to daydream, but was shocked again. It seemed that the device had very strict requirements for its own status.
"When I meet them, I will definitely kill a few of these contractors. They are so fussy that they can't even stand there in a daze."
But Han Zu thought again, some guys who looked like mechanical life, their identification of death seemed unusual. It was like you tried to shut down a computer with cloud backup. Even if the computer was smashed into pieces, as long as you changed the device and downloaded the data, it would be equivalent to eternal life. The only loss was some consumable carriers.
Han Zu frowned. These essentially unkillable things really troubled him.
Han Zu's thoughts drifted away again, and he thought of the scientist who created the first artificial intelligence life. Although that guy had been dead for more than ten years, the thing he created was still alive, and it was said that it seemed to have obtained human status in a small American country and became a normal citizen.
Then he committed more than a dozen murders.
It seemed to have been killed several times, but it would reappear with a new body each time. Fortunately, a technician found the original server, deleted the basic underlying code of that guy, and used the original authority to shut down all secondary data. This is how he was killed. An artificial artificial intelligence life is so difficult to deal with. If those guys who call themselves contractors are really some kind of mechanical life, Han Zu really can't think of any way to deal with them.
"Is there anything this guy can't do? Is the universe going to end?"
I have to say that Han Zu's train of thought is indeed unusual, and his thoughts always drift to strange places.
"Not really. The universe is fine."
A mechanical voice came from the contractor's equipment inside Han Zu's body. It was the wider contractor that Han Zu had seen at the beginning. Their equipment seemed to be able to read Han Zu's thoughts. Perhaps because Han Zu's thoughts were too abnormal, those contractors jumped out on their own initiative and stopped Han Zu's increasingly strange thoughts.
"Eh? What's going on? This guy can read my thoughts and ideas?"
"can."
"..."
Han Zu didn't like this kind of completely transparent thinking, so he thought of some abnormal things to try to disrupt his own thoughts.
"I don't quite understand your thoughts. It seems that these things are meaningless."
However, the way these contractors think is completely different from humans, so outrageous ideas or ideas that cause your sanity to drop are meaningless to them.
"Talking to a cow... OK, so what are you doing to me with this device?"
"Test data."
"And then? What's the reason for testing the data? Do you want me to do something for you? Or is there some other reason?"
The contractor did not respond.
"Your appearance and state remind me of a guy nicknamed the King of Figures. If that guy really existed, maybe he would have something in common with you."
"Based on the data you are thinking about, we need to first deal with this "King of Figures"."
“I doubt it.”
The contractor did not respond.
"Okay, so when is this test going to end? I'm extremely bored right now, and where did you take Gloria?"
"Secondary targets are undergoing additional testing."
"So, what's the location?"
"Top floor."
"Two hundred... seventy-fifth floor?"
"On the upper rooftop."
Han Zu wanted to chat with the contractor for a while to kill time, but the contractor closed the communication connection, and Han Zu was left alone here. Apart from the sound of the equipment running, there was no other sound here.
"Ah... boring."