novelsite Chapter 560 [Alice]
Chapter 560 [Alice]
Jimmy leaned against the cold wall in despair, trying to recall what happened before he fell into a coma, but his mind only contained books from the big library, and then he soon arrived here. He only remembered that there seemed to be a young girl who could carry him up.
It seemed like he said he was sorry, but why was he locked up again?
The cold door was locked, and one could not see what was happening outside. There was no sign of human life at all, as if no one lived here, and no one was guarding it, nor was they afraid that he would escape.
Without a clock, he could only guess the passage of time by observing the changes in the sky outside. However, he did not feel too weak or hungry, so not much time should have passed.
Although he screamed for help when he just woke up, no one responded to him.
"Captain Shakespeare... Captain Leila... Director Thales..." After calling out to everyone they could think of.
Jimmy also knew that he was probably kidnapped. Although he hoped very much that someone could drop from the sky and rescue him while chatting and laughing, when he thought about it carefully, he suddenly realized that it might be possible to do this.
Apart from the first mate, the Iron Mask, only Bianca and the others who had just arrived on board could have done it.
While Jimmy was still daydreaming, he suddenly heard a familiar sound of footsteps.
"somebody is coming?"
He leaned against the door and heard the key turn, the bolt rotated, and the door slowly opened. The glaring light made it difficult for him to see the person coming, but the slightly pungent smell of engine oil and metal made him a little suspicious.
"You, you are..."
"My name is Alice. I am currently...temporarily managing this place. I'm sure you must be very panicked, teacher. Please follow me and we'll talk while we walk."
A clear girlish voice sounded, and Jimmy's eyes suddenly widened, "Yes, it's you..."
"Sorry, teacher, we don't have much time. Please follow me quickly." After urging, Alice turned around and prepared to leave.
Jimmy knew what he wanted to ask, and although he felt uneasy, he thought this was an opportunity, so he thought about it and decided to follow.
The footsteps of the two people echoed in the corridor, and Jimmy took a closer look at the structure. The surrounding walls were slightly rusted, and there was a faint odor, a bit like the smell of rotten eggs, very pungent.
"This is the doctor's laboratory. The doctor is a maverick. Not only does he rarely go out, his ideas are also very different from those of the people in the city." Alice walked in front, talking to Jimmy about the situation here. "The people in the city don't agree with the social development method advocated by the doctor. They think the doctor is a very dangerous person and expelled him from the country. But the doctor didn't give up. He used his knowledge to trade with all kinds of people outside the city, built this experimental base from scratch, and lived here self-sufficiently."
"But, but, he, is not, what is the doctor's purpose?" Jimmy didn't understand. Since a doctor was rejected by everyone, there must be a reason. It couldn't be so inexplicable.
Alice turned her head and looked at Jimmy. The girl was wearing a Lolita-style dress. The layered lace in pink and light blue outlined the girlish feeling.
The girl's slightly curly brown hair made her look very lovely, but the wound on her face made her look a little scary.
In particular, Jimmy noticed that under the wound on Alice's face was not flesh and blood, but machinery and gears.
What is this? Is it a mechanical puppet that moves on its own?
Although there are many robot civil servants in Skyline, all of them have autonomous thinking modules, but there are some differences in their shapes. For example, there are security robots that look like mailboxes, tour guide robots that look like telephone poles, and library transport robots that look like wine barrels, etc.
But [Alice] looks completely different, Alice looks more like a human being.
"In order to... build a being like me."
"...Build 'you'?" Jimmy's tone was a little doubtful. This doctor seemed a little unserious.
Alice just nodded and said, "Although I look like a human, I am not a human."
"But, but your thinking..." Jimmy looked at Alice, and Alice just turned around, "Teacher, what you see now is just a terminal interface of this machine..."
"...Hmm." Jimmy just followed Alice in silence and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just a terminal interface, it would be easy to understand. It meant that this puppet that looked very similar to a human was really just a puppet, not a robot with the ability to think for itself.
And to Alice, it seemed that Jimmy was just so frightened that he dared not move.
"I know how unbelievable this is, but for some reasons, I am willing to tell you why you were kidnapped."
[Alice] glanced at him, and what made Jimmy a little strange was that Jimmy actually felt that he saw sincerity in the eyes of a robot. Wasn't this too realistic?
Seeing that Jimmy didn't say anything, Alice turned around and continued walking, "But I hope that before you see something... you can be mentally prepared enough."
"Mentally prepared?" Jimmy felt unwell when he heard this. He asked tremblingly, "Where are you taking me?"
"Go to the place in this world that the Doctor is most proud of... which is my brain."
[Alice] still said these horrifying words with an expressionless face, but Jimmy could see the gears working under her skin, which meant that her face could actually show expressions.
"…your…brain…"
While Jimmy was still communicating cautiously with a human-machine, the main crew members of the Caledonia had basically gathered.
Manfred looked at Thales and his men, and Michelangelo apologized when he saw Shakespeare.
Manfred felt that his future was even more hopeless. His plane had already been dismantled, and now the only person who could repair it had been kidnapped. He thought that his plane could never be repaired.
"I'm sorry, we will find him as soon as possible. We have asked Dr. Shang Boliang and her assistant to confirm Mr. Jimmy's scent. There will be news soon. I will also report this matter to the president and ask him to pay attention to it."
"Well, since they are my crew members, I naturally have to take responsibility. I will also go to the City Hall later."
Shakespeare nodded, and Michelangelo also agreed with this statement, and left with Thales.
Bianca followed Champollion and Neut to find Jimmy first.
The Iron-faced Man looked at Li Ming for a few more times, then asked Rita, "Miss Rita, can you lend me your weapon?"
"Well, okay!" Rita readily handed the [Black Iron] to the Iron-masked Man. After noticing something, the Iron-masked Man returned the [Black Iron] to Rita. For some reason, Rita always felt that the Iron-masked Man seemed to have discovered something.
Shakespeare glanced at the Man in the Iron Mask, then looked away from Rita, "Let's go."
"Well, take [Yulandel] with you." The Iron-faced Man followed, and Li Ming also took another look at the Iron-faced Man.
"Here." Shakespeare patted the holy sword on his back. Bianca liked the [Plasma Lance] more than the holy sword, and Bianca did not accept the holy sword.
After the two men caught up with Michelangelo's footsteps, Li Ming also changed direction and left. But he couldn't put all his hopes on the tracking dog!