After staying in the tower for a night, Lu Ye was brought to the interrogation room the next morning.
The staff in the interrogation room led him to a machine. After a scan, the staff said that there was no problem. Then, Lu Ye was brought to the City Lord.
The City Lord was a middle-aged man who looked cultured. From the moment Lu Ye entered the door, his gaze swept over him repeatedly, as if he wanted to find some clues.
"Do you know where this is?" The City Lord asked.
Lu Ye shook his head and said truthfully,"I don't know anything about this place, and I don't know why they killed those kids, but I'm definitely not with them!”
"Them? Killed the child?" The City Lord seemed to be a little puzzled.
Lu Ye recounted what he had seen and heard in the ruins of the city.
The City Lord nodded slightly and said,"I believe that you are not with them. They are raiders, a group of criminals who do all kinds of evil.”
"Why did they kill the cyborgs?”
The City Lord's expression became a little solemn as he said,"In their eyes, the cyborgs are just prey with electricity, and the aliens are the hunters. Hunting their prey and then stealing their electricity was what the aliens had always done.”
"Electricity?" Lu Ye was confused by the City Lord's words and was confused for a moment.
"Humans need to rely on certain energy to sustain their life. I don't know what you call it in your world, but we generally call it electricity.”
Only then did Lu Ye realize that this place was called electricity. In the new world, it was just physical strength. However, he was still very shocked and asked,"You mean, aliens kill people to steal their energy?”
"Although they said that they would only attack the cyborgs, who knows?”
Lu Ye suddenly thought of the alien who had shot at him. Was it because he wasn't a cyborg that he let him go?
"Then, other than stealing other people's electricity, is there no other way to obtain it?”Lu Ye asked in confusion. He still felt very sad when he recalled the faces of the children in the ruins yesterday.
" The expansion of the Imperium has almost controlled all the sectors that can produce electricity. If you don't want to give up your freedom to join the Imperium and don't want to work hard, it seems that there is no other way.”
Empire? What exactly was that thing? Lu Ye asked, because he was suspected to be from the Empire yesterday.
The City Lord thought for a moment and did not know how to answer him, so he said,"How about this? Since you're not familiar with this world, just treat it as me teaching you a lesson. Let me put it this way. This world once experienced a huge disaster, causing the world to be torn into several plates of different sizes.
Some of these plates are fixed, just like the city we are in right now, Suval. They are stable and won't disappear, so they are called fixed plates.
However, some plates are different. They can appear at any time and place and disappear after a period of time. They are called random plates. For example, the city you were in yesterday was a random plate. Everything in it, including the cyborgs, were randomly generated. After a cycle, they would disappear and then reappear in another place. The dead cyborgs would also be resurrected as the plate refreshed.”
"Resurrect? Will they really be resurrected?" Lu Ye asked.
The mayor nodded." That's why the aliens don't think they did anything wrong. After all, the cyborgs will disappear with the refresh of the plate. It's better to contribute the most before they disappear."”
Lu Ye was confused by the alien's thoughts. It seemed that what he said was not completely unreasonable.
The City Lord seemed to have seen through his thoughts and said,"Some of these cyborgs are actually quite intelligent. For example, these people in the city look similar to us. If you have the opportunity to come into contact with them, you will slowly change your mind.”
"Then quickly tell me what an empire is.”
" You should know the general situation of this world by now. As for what an empire is, to put it simply, it's just that some people rely on their powerful strength to control certain fixed plates and establish their own kingdoms. Then, they occupy all the resources. If ordinary people want to survive, they have to be controlled and exploited by them. This result will cause the empire to become stronger and stronger, and the people will have more and more difficulties.”
"You seem to have a lot of opinions about the Empire?”
The City Lord sighed and nodded."Everyone here was forced by the Empire to gather here. It's not just Suval, but other places as well. These are the homes that we exiles desperately defend.”
Hearing this, Lu Ye fell silent. He had never experienced this before, so it was not good for him to express his opinion.
"If you have anything else you want to know, feel free to ask. We'll be happy to tell you everything we know. Now, tell me your story. How did you come here? It's hard to imagine what kind of world there is outside of this world.”
Lu Ye could only half-conceal how he accidentally entered the Waste Bin from the new world and roughly described the process of coming here.
However, the City Lord's brows furrowed more and more, as if Lu Ye's words were a fantasy to him. Then, he said, It's really incredible. From your description, your world is very similar to Tirste City. It's also full of colors, but Tirste City isn't something we can enter.
"Where is that place? Why can't you go?" Lu Ye asked.
"Tirste City is said to be a very dreamlike city. We don't know the exact information. After all, no one has been there. Due to the outdated code version, we didn't even have the qualifications to take the train to Tirste City.”
"Code version?"
"That's why Tirste City is so colorful. The code there is a bit higher than ours, so we won't have the chance to see those beautiful scenes in our lives.”
Lu Ye suddenly understood. Wasn't Tirste just a testing area? In other words, the reason why this world was black and white was because the catastrophe happened before the update.
'What kind of catastrophe caused the world to become like this? he asked curiously.
The city lord shook his head." No one remembers what happened before the catastrophe, but perhaps the people of Tirste City will know. Everything there is too mysterious for us."”
"Then how can I get to Tirste City?”Lu Ye asked.
"I'm not sure if you can get on the bus, but if you want to try your luck, you can wait for the rescue team to come back. They've just received a rescue request and have already set off. When the time comes, let them send you out of Suval and take you directly to the station.”
Lu Ye thanked him gratefully.
"Then stay in the city for the time being. If you have any needs, just tell the people in the tower.”
Lu Ye thanked him again, so the city lord asked someone to bring him back to the tower.
Near noon, a five or six-year-old boy came to the tower with a plate of food that looked like nuts. He looked at Lu Ye timidly at the door, then lowered his head and walked to the table. He put the plate down and prepared to leave.
Lu Ye looked at his cute appearance and could not help but think of the children from yesterday. He called out to him,"Brother, what's your name?"
The little boy looked at Lu Ye blankly, unsure if he was asking him.
Lu Ye walked to his side and patted his head. When he was his age, Luther also liked to pat his head like this.
"Rui Yi, my name is Rui Yi!" the little boy said shyly.
"Who asked you to bring me food?”Lu Ye asked.
Rui Yi raised his head and looked at Lu Ye. He frowned slightly as if he was thinking. His dark eyes rolled around and then he suddenly thought,"It's the City Lord! He said you must be hungry! If you're hungry, you have to replenish your battery. Otherwise, you'll die!”
Rui Yi's cute action made Lu Ye's tense mood melt a lot. He touched Rui Yi's head again and said,"You can call me Brother Little Ye."
" Brother Xiao Ye…" Rui Yi lowered his head and called out softly. Suddenly, he raised his head and asked expectantly,""Then is Brother Xiao Ye also considered a family member of Rui Yi?”
Lu Ye was a little curious why Rui Yi would ask this, so he asked where his parents went.
" Rui Yi's parents were killed, killed by the raiders…" Rui Yi's voice sounded like he was about to cry, and his big eyes were misty.
Lu Ye then realized that Rui Yi was also a cyborg. He suddenly understood what the City Lord said. Sure enough, cyborgs were not much different from them.
Lu Ye took Rui Yi into his arms and said firmly, Of course, I'm your biological brother now!
What was a biological brother? Rui Yi asked in confusion.
Lu Ye could not explain to him what human blood relations were, so he said,""The best family!"
Hearing this, Rui Yi was extremely happy and hugged Lu Ye tightly.
From that day on, Rui Yi often came to the tower to find Lu Ye and ask him all kinds of questions. Lu Ye was not stingy with sharing the outside world with him and promised that he would bring him to find his parents if he had the chance in the future.
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