When the Galaxy Wept
Evan Silas didn’t simulate Heath Ledger because he was interested in humans, but because it was convenient. Many years ago, when there was a civil war in the First Machine Civilization, the species in other galaxies swooped in and destroyed their empire. As a famous leader of that time, he needed more than the combat power to lead his warship to dodge the chase of the allied forces and survive. He was a thinker who was keen, resolute, and reserved. He never underestimates any species. Even though he thought humans were weak, he still wanted to learn about the culture and thoughts of humans in the colonized area after the invasion so that he could rule the humans in a more efficient way. He also thought that Kahlil’s words were just bullshit, and he had no interest in humans’ feelings. But it was more convenient to have a human body.On the day when he met Emerald, the leader of the garrison in Freedom City, Major Doyle invited him to come to the hospital and see the results of eliminating the redundancy of the colonized society efficiently. The best simulating human body, Heath Ledger, which was selected by the research institute of symbiotic and fusion technology, was also in the First Hospital in Freedom City. Therefore, when he arrived at the hospital, he didn’t check up on the work of Major Doyle. Instead, he firstly finished the simulation of Heath Ledger. There were two technologies in the research institute: symbiotic and fusion technology. One was a replication, and the other was a simulation. Replication was very easy. Just as Saul Silas did a long time ago, they needed to build a body with organic materials and put the machine man’s chip into the body. This body will never grow old, die or change as long as it is fixed up regularly. Although it looked the same as the human body, it was actually a “fake human.”The simulation was much more complicated. The simulation was similar to the clone but better than it. The simulation includes the replication of humans’ genes and the imitation of their personalities and memories. Simulation technology had given up the low-level chip and applied a crystalloid with high energy and merged it into the human body. They developed this technology because the vanguard in the travels of the machine men were always the strongest marshals or the members of the royal lineage. It would be a great loss if they were killed. Therefore, the research institute developed this technology so that the vanguards of the machine men could “sleep” in human bodies for hundreds of years and live on before they reached a place. If the body died, the program would wake up the machine man and let him find a new target for simulation. Evan Silas now had Heath Ledger’s body and memory and his own energy in the crystalloid. Since it was not necessary to write the program of lurking, the personality of this body still belonged to Evan, and it had the energy of Evan’s crystalloid. But now, Evan’s spine almost broke off, and one arm was cut off. It had been years since he was injured so badly the last time. Besides, he didn’t feel the pain when he was injured before. This time, his consciousness was still in this human body, so he could feel all the pain clearly, which made him extremely miserable. But he still remembered the face of the woman who hurt him. This woman surprised him a lot. Firstly, he was surprised that she showed up in this isolation zone. She kindly comforted him when he wasn’t adapted to the new body at first. Then she even wanted to sacrifice herself and let him go out to deliver the message. However, that was all her disguise. She had found out about his identity. And she was vicious when she attacked him. She wanted to cut off his neck in the first move and cut off his hand in the second move. He must be “dead” now if the crystalloid in his body wasn’t preserving the energy for him. Then, Evan stood up slowly. Major Doyle, who rushed to Evan, didn’t know what to do when he saw Evan’s wounds. However, Evan didn’t care about it because he knew that this body was recovering from the injury at high speed under the radiation of the high-energy crystalloid. “What happened?” He looked at Major Doyle. The Major, who was in charge of Freedom City, also learned some habits of humans, and he said after hesitation, “Commander, the human rebel fighters had attacked the hospital.” Emerald didn’t expect that she could run out of the clinic area without hindrance. She was astonished when she saw a row of fragmented bodies of the machine men outside the clinic room. Now, she finally realized that the gunshot was not for killing the pregnant woman but for attacking the machine men. Her heart was almost at her throat now. She looked up at sunset, feeling excited and nervous. Was it him? Did he bring people to save her? But she hoped that it was not him! Freedom City was the hinterland of the machine man’s garrison. The human soldier’s combat power was much weaker than the machine man individually. Emerald didn’t dare to imagine what would happen if they really came here! Emerald heard the gunshot again, and she hid hastily behind a huge pillar at the entrance of the clinic room. There was a gunshot in the front and the machine men who were chasing her behind. There was no way out for her now! Suddenly, a group of men who were wearing black clothes ran out of the inpatient department, and many pregnant women followed them in a hurry. The men were holding their guns and pointing to the sky.Emerald hesitated at first. But a few minutes later, when she saw a familiar tall figure rush out, she couldn’t move her eyes and started running to that man. This man, like others, had put greasepaint on his face so that no one recognized who he was. He held a gun in the stream of people, and he tried to see clearly the face of a very thin, short pregnant woman who passed him by and even pulled the woman to him to see more clearly. He repeated the move again and again, and everyone could see how anxious and disappointed he was. At that moment, he was not the Commander who shouldered all the responsibility or an arrogant, cruel man. On the contrary, he came here recklessly to find her despite his weak body. This man makes her feel more heartbroken than ever.
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