When the Galaxy Wept

Chapter 68 Reshape The Land

Harrison Gates looked around solemnly, and Patrick nodded lightly. Harrison raised his hand to press a button on the giant LCD screen. “It’s the basement of the palace,” Harrison explained. Everyone’s focus was on the dark, narrow underpass on the screen. Then, guided by a searchlight from a mercenary to the end of the pass, there was a huge, brightly lit place. After the camera finally reached the place, everyone’s expression turned from interested to solemn. The basement was huge, with metal layered walls made with high-quality alloy, still looking brand new. Boxes of metal components were piled up in one end of the room, and about a dozen human-like bodies were lying in a freezer at the other end of the room.A silver metal production line with meticulous textures and delicate style, indicating its perfection, connected the two ends. “Fuck…” A loud course came from one of the captains said, and inhaled a puff of smoke. “Robotic humans exist...” “Harrison, if they are robot humans….” Another one doubted, “...why are they not civilized and can be defeated by only one of your fleets in a minute?” Harrison didn’t answer the question directly. Instead, he took out a light blue crystal, as big as a thumb, from his pocket and gave it to Patrick before he explained. “Look at this. Do you know what this is? It’s a crystal found in the robot’s brain. This one,” he pointed at the biggest crystal, “Was extracted from the man killed by the Commander yesterday, is the biggest. I guess this is their energy resource. Its small size is amazing.” Patrick took the light blue crystal and stared at it, feeling a glow of colorful clouds and flowing water in that small thing, but he couldn’t see what was in it. Harrison explained his deduction thoughtfully. “When we first landed, some robots could beat us one against three, a combat ability beyond human capabilities ...At last, we found something horrible.” He took a disc from the table and inserted it into the computer in front of him. “This is the first robot drone that showed up to attack us that day. We found lots of records in the airborne cameras.” Everyone nodded, as taking video recordings was habitual among all of them. It was a basic rule for space flight in both the alliance and the mercenaries that airborne cameras must be turned on during the flight to record the whole flight, analyze the pilot’s operations and avoid accidents. When a white nebula and a lonely, blue planet appeared in the LCD, Harrison raised his eyebrows in respect. “Commander, I have to say, although the tough woman in the incinerator, apart from you, she is the one that I respect the most.”He looked solemn, “She was a fucking lunatic and idiot, but I just like this kind of people, I mean, robots.” The planet on the screen was quite different from the one outside the cabin. The land shape was completely different, with half of the ocean and some land covered by ice layers. When the blood hawks landed on the fluffy lawn, a man appeared in front of the static camera. It was a silver metal robotic human with an oval, streamlined head, long arms and legs, and athletic body. His whole body was delicate and shiny in the sunlight. The crimson eyes looked so clear and innocent as if they were made with the purest ruby. He stood on the lawn for a while, looking around, then he seemed frustrated and sat down. While setting the video on fast forward, Harrison continued. “According to the time of the camera, he sat there alone for thirty years. It must be fucking good to be immortal, and you can use thirty years to do fucking nothing.” Finally, the video was on again. A blood hawk was flying at a low level in the atmospheric layer. Many blood hawks were flying busily in the sky, and several robots appeared on the ground, naked, looking just like a human. Once the blood hawks stopped in front of everyone, the silver robot went back into the camera. He was holding several pages of old blueprints, saying something, then he put the blueprint in front of the blood hawk. Everyone was confused at the sight of the many different lines in the blueprints. Patrick suddenly said. “That used to be the shape of the land. According to the blueprint, he let the blood hawks transport the soil and fill in the ocean to reshape the land.” Everyone was speechlessly surprised. “Reshape the land?”Harrison glanced at Patrick with surprise and admiration, “...fuck, you really are a boss. You understand what they are doing without understanding their language. It’s right. I have compared the blueprints with the land, and it is the shape of the current land.” Everyone was shocked. Reshape the land? Was this robot crazy? Was it necessary? Harrison smiled, pointing to the little shadow of a man in the corner of the scene. “Can you recognize who this is?” The captains squinted, looking carefully. Someone exclaimed, “Oh, that man was in the picture you played just now...” Patrick glanced leisurely at Harrison, “That’s the man I shot.” These high-ranking officers had heard the rumors that the Commander had angrily killed a man for a woman. They all remained silent.Harrison didn’t dare to talk about it further and became more serious. “Do you know how long it took to reshape the land?” He inhaled deeply and continued. “One thousand years.... It took them one thousand years!” The story that followed in the next video was scrappy. The blood hawks flew to other distant galaxies to exploit resources and transported them to this planet to make nuclear bombs flatten and reshape the land. The robots used their iron arms to build many ancient palaces, and the blood hawks carried huge machines, busily exploiting the organic resources in the ocean and on land to create the skin and bones of the robots. Except for the Tang Dynasty, all other places were dead from overexploitation and nuclear pollution. At last, the silver robot from the first video walked in and softly touched the cold and hard surface of the blood hawks as he said something. Then he raised his hands without warning, inserting his metal fingers into his head.

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