Chapter 11 Node City
Compared to human homes, robots need much simpler things.
Since they don’t need to excrete, they don’t need bathrooms.
Since they don’t need to eat, kitchens, dining rooms, refrigerators, and the like are also unnecessary.
Since they don’t need to lie down to sleep, even beds can be omitted!
The most important thing in the entire room is the charging station—it occupies the most important space in the room, looking like a large VR device.
“That’s amazing, Mr. tvp, do you usually rest here?”
Although robots don’t have gender, Su Ling couldn’t help but address the robot with a respectful title.
“Yes, this is an 8-interface high-power charging station. It only takes about 3 hours to fully charge me.”
“Then how many hours can you work after a full charge!”
“Ah, that…”
As if asked an embarrassing question, tvp’s reaction was slightly hesitant.
But he still answered honestly and without reservation: “In theory, there should be no problem working continuously for 72 hours. However, my battery is a bit old, and there are some problems with the conversion interface, so I have to come back and charge it once every more than ten hours.”
“Oh, won’t you replace it then?”
“Mmm…”
When asked such a question, the robot seemed even more embarrassed.
It also wanted to replace it, but it had no money!
Although in the past, the kingdom implemented a rationing system, and any damaged working robots would be replaced for free.
But now it’s a purchase system, and everything must be paid for. The work it does is relatively ordinary, and now it can’t even pay taxes, let alone replace the battery.
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“Ah, I’m sorry… Then Mr. Robot, what do you usually play?”
Realizing she had asked something she shouldn’t have, Su Ling quickly changed the subject.
“Play?”
“What do you do for entertainment, Mr. Robot? What do you usually do when you’re not working?”
“So that’s what you mean, it’s this.”
As if a switch had been flipped, the robot’s reaction suddenly became enthusiastic.
It quickly ran to the storage cabinet and took out a bottle of strange liquid.
The glass bottle of this liquid didn’t even have a single word of explanation, and the liquid inside was sticky and very strange.
“This is…”
“This is the high-grade product refined from plants that I mentioned before—cool oil.”
“Cool oil?!”
“Yes, when I work normally and analyze data, my head usually feels very hot… At that time, I would pour a little on the infusion port, and the feeling of the liquid circulating in the CPU heatsink was simply extremely refreshing!”
“Oh, oh…”
“Do you guys want to try it, ah… sorry! I forgot
You are humans, you probably can’t use this kind of thing.”
tvp put the bottle back in the distance, looking a bit regretful.
Lonis roughly understood that for robots, cool oil should be like alcohol, and it’s easy to get addicted to it, right?
And it seems that compared to humans, robots generate heat more easily, and are more likely to crash due to overheating, or even generate various bugs.
…
After that, the robot also introduced the girls to the general operation of the oxygen supply station.
However, these are not particularly bizarre… because at the research station in the boundless land, Lonis had seen similar equipment.
“Well, you’ve worked hard, tvp.”
Elusia nodded and said, “Then, we’re going to the node city next. Could you please guide us?”
“Your Highness, I will guide you as well. You haven’t taken the passage train before, and it might cause some problems for the first time.”
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tvp was really very enthusiastic. It actively led the girls to a place that looked like a small train.
This is the passage connecting the glass buildings. And normally, tvp also uses this tool for transporting materials.
“Wow, it’s amazing… It’s like a roller coaster in a park?”
“Su Ling, Lonis, hold on tight, be careful not to be thrown out.”
“Mhm mhm.”
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The train sped through the underground tunnel, and through the glass passage, many glass buildings could be seen flashing by.
However?
The pale blue Earth had always stood in the distance, as if it hadn’t moved at all.
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Without taking too much time, the train had arrived at its destination.
The girls arrived at a place that looked like a subway station.
There were no station display screens; all information was transmitted through signals.
Various small trains were parked here, and all kinds of robots were loading and unloading goods, apparently to be sold in the city.
“Little Luo, look, that’s a magic gemstone! There’s such a big magic gemstone!”
“Huh… it really is…”
Lonis then noticed a giant steel robot pushing a cart of magic gemstones outwards.
But tvp, as if seeing a ghost, quickly pulled the few people and said, “Guests, don’t get too close to that thing.”
“Huh, why?”
“That thing is a dangerous substance and will have an unavoidable impact on us! Except for special robots that have undergone processing, no one else can approach it, otherwise, it will crash or even be scrapped!”
tvp’s tone was very serious, and it seemed to have suffered from magic gemstones.
However…
“Mr. tvp, it’s okay. We are humans, and magic gemstones will not affect us.”
“Is that so?”
“To be precise, there should be a strong magnetic field around the magic gemstone, right? So basic electronic equipment will be affected by the magic gemstone, which is why most robots cannot reach Earth.”
Elusia smiled faintly, explaining to both tvp and Lonis.
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Exiting the subway station and gradually walking up the gentle slope, the girls arrived at the city on the moon, Mechanical Node City.
There are about a dozen similar cities on the moon, and each is connected to the capital of the Mechanical Kingdom—the Sea of Dreams, and each node city has different functions.
This node city seems to be used for loading and processing plants, so there are many green plants in the city, almost like in an ecosystem.
However, compared to the supply station where tvp lives?
The ground environment here is much more chaotic—because not all robots run on electricity, some even have “oil” inside them. As for every step, black liquid flows onto the floor.
Some robots, like tvp, move on treads, and some resemble humans.
But more robots are not like humans at all.
Some of them are like cars, some are like drills, and some are even just spheres, speeding on the streets—it’s fortunate that robots don’t have cerebellums, otherwise they would definitely get dizzy.
There are also many robots floating in the air, generally about twenty centimeters in size.
They have propellers and welding tools on their bodies—they seem to be the construction robots of this node city.
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This magical scene naturally caused Lonis’s astonishment:
“So, so amazing… I didn’t expect there to be so many robots.”
“Hmph, a little idiot is indeed a little idiot, completely unaware of her own era.”
“Of course I don’t know, because technology wasn’t that advanced when I was in a coma?”
Seeing Elusia looking down on her again, Lonis pouted in dissatisfaction.
In her memory, robots were mostly at the stage of drones. Although artificial intelligence had just emerged, with services like chatap, robots that could think like humans, like tvp, absolutely could not exist.
Because tvp can not only process information but also think, it clearly has its own emotions and is an independent individual… It can be said that besides its appearance resembling a robot, it is essentially no different from Bai Ye.
Well, then it seems…
Can robots be considered a brand new race? Just like elves and dwarves in myths and legends. Perhaps they can also create their own culture?
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Thinking this, Lonis walked forward with her companions.
