Chapter 310: The Five Brothers

Chapter 310: The Five Brothers: Resurrection

Xi Kai didn’t take too long this time. He contacted Cillin not long after “Return” was founded.

The meeting location was set in Black Viper’s “vanished” zone, but unlike last time it was slightly further away from the center. There, Cillin found a small planet that was almost pletely covered in electronic equipment and machines. It was Xi Kai, or more accurately the Xi Family’s main base.

Cillin sensed a powerful but unusual machine signal the moment the spaceplane got close to the planet. It felt similar to Sigma’s signal, but it was also very different in some ways.

“There’s a huge AI control center here. It controlled almost the entire planet.” Even Wheeze had stopped “arguing” on the forum to focus on the present. The planet gave off a strange, even friendly feeling to Wheeze. The gray cat quickly identified it as the AI’s emotion.

That’s right, emotion. Unlike the rigid emotions most robots displayed, this one felt closer to a human and met the standards to be called an “Original”.

Almost the whole planet was crawling with robots and machines. The only humans here were the members of the Xi Family.

“Wele, my dear friends,” a voice came through the spaceplane’s munications system. It sounded like something a kindly elderly would say.

“Who are you?” Wheeze asked.

“My name is Chip. Xi Kai told me that you know Sigma.”

“Eh? Do you know Sigma too?” Wheeze curled its tail and looked around, but couldn’t find a Sigma-like robot anywhere. Still, the voice reminded Wheeze strongly of its acquaintance, Sigma.

“We are old friends. You may even call us brothers.”

“Are you one of the five Original robots?” Cillin asked.

“Yes, I am.”

He followed the directions displayed on the screen and flew the spaceplane into a mechanical fortress. The structure looked like the core of the “web” of mechanical structures that sprawled across the entire planet.

Cillin saw Xi Kai not long after he entered the fortress. He was acpanied by two human strangers—probably Xi family members—and several robots clad in human appearances.

Xi Kai had proven his sincerity by inviting them to this planet. If he had to venture a guess, the number of high level Black Viper personnel who were invited to this planet could be counted on one hand.

“Where’s Chip?” Wheeze looked left and right impatiently.

Xi Kai smiled at the gray cat and said, “e with me.”

Motioning the others to stay where they were, Xi Kai personally led Cillin and Wheeze to a wide location inside the fortress. Cillin noticed a lot of guarded entrances along the way, but they didn’t need to swipe an access card or identification card to pass through all of them. All the doors had opened on their own as if someone was watching them. As Wheeze said, this whole place was managed by an AI control center.

When they arrived at their destination, a wide door opened to admit Cillin, Xi Kai and Wheeze. The first thing they saw was a huge mechanical structure and many plicated-looking circuit boards and wires. Somewhere above the structure hung a flashing round screen.

When the group approached the structure, the round screen moved down until it was at eye level. Then, the face of an old man appeared on the screen.

“Nice to meet you.”

“You’re Chip?!” Wheeze rose to its feet on Cillin’s shoulder and examined the human face closely. “If you have a face, then why not Sigma?”

“Sure it has.” The human face on the screen turned into Sigma’s signature wavy blue line “face”. “This is its face.”