The group set out on their journey again, leaving the eerie city of death behind.This world shrouded in darkness always brings a sense of oppression, but fortunately this darkness has faded away.A huge, running plasma engine was right ahead, and its brilliant flames lit up the sky, finally dispelling the gloomy atmosphere that had been felt along the way.Vivien suggested going close to the engines to see what was going on, and Hao Ren asked the car navigation to determine the route for himself, and then turned onto a ramp that gradually ascended the steel ridge.As we get closer to the giant engine, the sprawling facility brings more detail to life.Hao Ren saw that there were actually many rotating ramps like winding roads on its conical shell, some faint light was speeding through those ramps, and there were a large number of steel long bridges at the top of the engine that extended radially and connected to the distant land, but he didn't know what it was for.Just as they were about to reach the halfway point of the engine, the main engine suddenly made a slight beep, and at the same time, Izax frowned: "There seems to be something ahead." ”As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he quickly parked the car on the side of the road, and Lily jumped out and sneaked forward to check the situation, she leaned on the back of a large steel plate and looked outside, and then turned her head and waved to everyone.The others hurriedly followed, and Lily pointed to the other side of the road and whispered, "Look!
Transport convoy!
”Hao Ren was stunned to see that there was a steel avenue leading straight to the upper end of the engine a hundred meters away, and the avenue was paved with traction facilities that emitted a faint blue light like guide rails, and the transport vehicles like tank cages were busy going back and forth on those guide rails, looking orderly."
Lifeless......
Vivien frowned, and suddenly threw a small bat at a transport truck: due to the huge engine, there was an unstable atmosphere in the vicinity, and Vivien's little bat finally came into play.Anyway, the vampire girl's bat detector hasn't been useful for a long time......
The little bat struggled to maintain its direction in the wind, and finally grabbed the shell of a cage truck in the eyes of everyone.It looked around the hull of the car, crawling around looking for the entrance—any zoologist in his or her right mind would have started to doubt life when he saw a bat doing this—but in the end the little bat was disappointed, because the whole car was completely closed except for the back compartment."
There's a hopper in the back of the car, which might be filled with engine fuel or something," Vivien slapped the little bat into her body and frowned, "The car has no entrance, no breath of life, and it should run automatically." ”Hao Ren thought about it for a moment and made a bold decision: keep up with those returning transporters.Lily had the audacity to swing around the transporters, and found that the transporters were still running as usual, and there were no alert robots on the tracks, so everyone decided that the automatic system should be "blind".Hao Ren drove the car behind a transport truck that had left the engine, walked along the long steel avenue for some distance, and after turning a few corners, he saw a place like a steel jungle in front of him.The steel jungle had been blocked by a ridge before, and everyone didn't notice it all the way.Hao Ren cautiously drove into the area, and a loud noise came towards him.It's full of black, throaming machinery or buildings, as noisy and lively as a factory the size of a city.Huge numbers of round tank cages and other types of transport vehicles follow the tracks from the engines to the area, weaving in and out of the steel jungle in an orderly manner, while huge robotic arms and creaking landing platforms work in conjunction with these vehicles, loading and unloading truckloads of goods.A roar came from above, and Nangong May looked up in surprise, she saw a steel cube more than ten meters wide slowly flying through the air under the impetus of the thruster, and tightly combined on a "mountain of cubes" not far away - these things are probably some kind of automatic container system.The entire "factory city" is busy, with the roar of machinery and vehicles, and the various directional lights and high-powered lighting systems make it as bright as daylight, but beyond that......
It's empty.Hao Ren led everyone out of the car, and everyone was agitating and moving forward while exploring this strange place.They weren't worried about any alarm device that would lure the city's defenders out - they were hopeful they would run into someone, and Izax was even planning to pull a meteorite down and blow it up: he hoped to blow up a few locals.However, this idea was violently discouraged by everyone.Lily held her claws of ice and fire, and walked at the front of the line side by side with Hao Ren with a wary expression, she sniffled vigorously: "It's just the smell of steel and oil here......
Everyone passed by a working loading platform, which had a control room-like facility next to it, and the door was open.Nangong Sanba raised his crossbow and went over to check the situation with great vigilance, but after entering the gate, he only saw a bunch of machines flashing lights and making noises."
There's no one here either," Nangong Sanba came out of the control room and shook his head, "All systems run automatically. ”Hao Ren sighed: "Don't look for it, I'm afraid the whole planet is operating automatically." ”But just as he finished speaking, a sharp whistling suddenly came from behind everyone!
Hao Ren immediately turned around vigilantly, only to find a small device in the shape of an inverted triangle rushing towards it like a lightning speed, this small device seemed to be a patrolling robot, it circled around the crowd several times, emitting a series of squeaky electronic sounds, and only after a moment did the normal voice sound: "Found citizens." ”Nangong Sanba subconsciously asked, "What are you talking about?"
”There was a series of gurgling sounds from the body of the small machine: "Citizens are found to be in good health, please follow this guidance device to the checkpoint, and after disinfection, you can go to the shelter on the first floor." ”After speaking, the small device turned around and floated in the other direction, and after floating out a few meters, it turned to look at Hao Ren and his party, who were not moving: "Citizen, please follow this guide device to the checkpoint."
If they do not follow, they will be subject to enforcement measures. ”Itzax had a spell in his hand and didn't know whether to blow it up, and Hao Ren waved his hand to put the magic away: "Follow up and see what this little guy wants to do." ”The group followed behind the inverted triangle robot, turning around in many circles, all the way to the depths of this steel jungle.They passed more factories and large machines that were running autonomously, and saw countless unmanned vehicles and transfer platforms running around, and the scene was so eerie that it was as if the master had died, while the tools he had used in his life were still working in mid-air.Eventually, they were taken to a rectangular building, which finally shut out the noise and chaos outside.The rectangular building is brightly lit and clean, and the first half of the building is a concourse, reminiscent of the airport waiting hall in terms of scale and cleanliness.There are a few high-looking little robots busy in the hall, cleaning or repairing equipment.Lily put away her two claw blades, as if she was worried about scratching such a clean place—from this point she was much more sensible than the average husky: "I really didn't expect there to be a place like this on this planet." ”"Inside a closed man-made facility, it's always easy to ignore the vicissitudes outside," Vivien suddenly sighed thoughtfully, "I once fell asleep in the tombs of ancient dynasties, and when I woke up, I saw that nothing had changed around me, and I thought that the world was still the same, but when I went out, I saw that the whole country had become a pile of rubble in the wilderness......
If someone had lived in this hall for 10,000 years, he would probably not have imagined what the city outside had become. ”Vivien's sighs always made people not know what to say, so Hao Ren could only shrug his shoulders and follow the little robot and continue walking towards the other side of the hall.And just as the group approached the door on the other side of the hall, the wall next to it suddenly brightened, and a figure appeared on the curtain wall!
(To be continued.) )