Alien paradise

Six hours later, Chaoyang and Elodie arrived at an area 20 kilometers away from the capital by plane. The reason they only went to the far suburbs was because they found that mechanical birds had appeared in this area.

Fortunately, angels can also fly, and as long as they have enough willpower, their speed is not much slower than that of airplanes. Elodie took Chaoyang to travel close to the ground and made up the last section of the journey. When the two saw this city in the center of the old continent for the first time, they were shocked by the scene here.

Rather than saying it is a city, it is more like a bug nest.

The mechanical birds hovering in the sky are densely packed, and when they fly in groups, they are like a dark cloud. The number is almost incalculable. On the city walls, branches, and roofs, their figures are lying everywhere. These machines are vigilantly watching the scenes around the city, so Elodie dare not approach easily.

The streets are deserted.

They can't see any traces of pedestrians, and all the shops are closed. It is hard to imagine that this is the richest place in the Laurel Dynasty. Even the Brilliant Castle overseas is more lively than the Royal City.

It seems that the activity of machines has replaced the activity of people.

The city seems to be dying quickly.

"I am beginning to believe what you said..." Elodie murmured, "Machines will grow out of the ground like wheat, and there will be endless harvests."

It has only been a few days...

It has only been about a week since Duke Longjiu was assassinated and Dann withdrew from the Royal City. All the factories of Gaofeng Company combined cannot produce such a large number of finished products - let alone a complete intelligent machine, even the strange devices they carry inside are far from enough.

"I am more curious about... where did the people in the city go." Chaoyang frowned and said. Under the spiritual vision, he could see that the Royal City was full of the same color of wish light pillars, which showed that the city was not as empty as it looked on the outside. Judging from the scale of the wish, there were at least 500,000 or 600,000 people living in the Royal City. But they need to eat and drink, and need to go out to purchase. If all trading activities in the city are stagnant, how can these people stay?

As for the source of these light pillars, it is naturally where the true body of the God of All Machines is.

It was a bright and dazzling yellow-green light pillar, as if it pierced down from the sky and sank into the inner city of the capital. Judging from the general direction, that was also where the Laurel Palace was located. This was consistent with the information provided by Apostle No. 1: Cosmos was located at the bottom of the palace, integrated with the imprisoned goddess of abundance.

"Let's sneak in and look for it." Elodie suggested.

Chaoyang confirmed it again and found that the scope of the Kingdom of the God of All Machines almost overlapped with the palace, which means that as long as you don't enter the palace, you won't be alert to the other party.

However, considering that there are mechanical birds squatting on the roofs of the houses and tree trunks, it is not realistic to walk into the capital in a swagger. He observed for a long time and found that there were still trains running on the rails, and these vehicles would not be disturbed when entering and leaving the city.

Then the next thing to do is much simpler.

He first went with the angel to a place far away from the royal city, personally intercepted a train, walked into the carriage and found that there was indeed no one on it - the train itself had been infected by the God of All Machines and was completely transporting supplies autonomously. Chaoyang asked Elodie to destroy the front of the train, leaving only one carriage, and then created a new world power system for the carriage: this system is powered by the "brain battery", and then converted into rotational power through the pyroxene device developed by the prevention and control center, pushing the wheels forward.

It sounds complicated, but it is actually a large bumper car, without even brakes, and the driving speed will not exceed 15 kilometers per hour.

"Without a fuel engine, use this set of things made in the laboratory, do you think it will not be controlled by the God of All Machines?" Elodie asked curiously.

"I'm not sure. But this thing is a different system from the current machinery. I guess it should have a certain resistance to Cosmos's authority."

In City M, cars were infected almost instantly, cameras were assimilated after a long time, and the induction street lights on the street have not awakened their own souls. This shows that the infection ability of the God of All Machines is not only divided by quantity, but also by order. The biggest difference between the latter two and cars is that they cannot move freely, and the internal electrical structure accounts for a larger proportion. Considering that there is no electricity in this world, such a difference seems reasonable.

There is also the "as long as there are gears, springs and rotors, there is a chance that souls will be born" mentioned by Apostle No. 1, which can also explain the definition of machines by the God of All Machines in disguise.

The new energy found in the Acropolis ruins and the corresponding pyroxene device are obviously taking another route. It is completely different from electrical energy and mechanical energy. It is more like a device that uses the power of thought... Perhaps the ultimate goal of the creator is to bypass the level of God and allow humans to directly use the power of will, but in the end only a few semi-finished products were left.

With the slow push of the pyroxene engine, it took the carriage almost half an hour to enter the Saint Sea Station. As Chaoyang expected, the mechanical birds in the sky, like a swarm of bees, completely ignored this single carriage, and there were no soldiers from the Longjiu Army standing guard in the station. The huge station presented a strange emptiness. Although no one was managing it, the vehicles were running on their own.

"I have a feeling... the future will be like this." Elodie whispered.

Indeed, Chaoyang felt the same way. Although the trains here were all steam locomotives, they were more cyberpunk than on Earth. Even without humans, machines can easily adapt to the environment and survive.

The two walked through the ticket office and waiting room and came to the block outside. There was no one on the road, and occasionally you could see the steam knights of Long Jiujun patrolling the streets. Of course, they were also fully automatic.

Chaoyang found a light column point closest to him and asked Elodie to take him in at the speed of wind - it was a three-story residential building. Judging from the elegant interior decoration, the people living here are already the middle class of the royal capital.

Opening the door of a room on the second floor, they finally saw the first batch of Saint Xia residents.

There were three human-shaped stakes "standing" around the dining table, with their hands clasped together, looking up and praying. They were like stakes because their feet had merged into one and embedded in the floor. And their skin was dark brown, and the material looked like both dry wood and some kind of stone. But apart from that, their upper bodies, arms and heads are relatively intact, and their appearance and age can be distinguished.

For example, it is obvious that these three people are parents and children.

Chaoyang felt a chill creeping up his spine.

If this family is dead, that's fine. But the problem is that they are still alive... Dead people can't provide wish power, but there is a thin silk thread connected to the heads of the three people, proving that they are still praying to the gods in their hearts.

For a moment, Chaoyang thought of a word: human body battery.

Not moving can minimize unnecessary losses, and eating, drinking, defecating and urinating become unimportant. This may also explain why hundreds of thousands of residents can still provide wish power for the gods when the city's operations have stopped. At this point, Cosmos has become a thorough evil god!