"The event schedule has not been released yet, and we don't know what the format will be like. We might as well play cards."
"Why, do you still have enough money in your card?"
Turning to look at the Duan Yaojiu madman, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.
"The initial capital of 1,000 points can only support two days of rent at most. There are still more than three full days before the official start of the competition."
"Hmph, I found a job with a high salary in the city."
Ouroboros raised a finger in front of him with a proud look on his face.
"As long as I commute to get off work on time, I have no pressure at all about rent or anything else."
"What job?"
Before Bai Zhi could say anything, Li, a man on the mountainside, suddenly lit up.
In the "Machine City", you need to spend money everywhere, but at the same time, the resources here are also abundant enough. For example, some materials that are priceless in the outside world have clearly marked prices here.
Some of the items on sale would be extremely covetous even by Mountainside Man Li.
… It’s a pity that there’s not enough money.
I don’t know who hit me on the head, but the missions in the "Machine City" began to become more and more complicated. It was really miserable.
In the end, Li He, the mountainside man, wanted to simply go for alms with a purple gold alms bowl...
"It's very simple. Go visit a warehouse. The reward for one hour is 444 mechanical coins."
There was no intention to hide it, Ouroboros announced the news very generously.
"Apart from the fact that it's a little more remote and a little colder than other places, there's nothing unusual there... I've checked it at least several times."
"Isn't there something strange? Maybe something strange has already happened."
After looking up and down at Ouroboros, who looked confused, Bai Zhi focused on his feet.
"Can you please pull up your pants legs?"
"Well… "
Sensing the atmosphere that had obviously become serious, after some inexplicable glance at the mountainside man Li next to him who also had a serious look on his face, Ouroboros thought for a moment and simply stretched out his hand. Got up on its hind legs.
"So, have you discovered anything? I know my own body very well. How could I be hit and not know at all..."
"..."
Bai Zhi said nothing as he looked at the opponent's foot, which had completely transformed from the calf down into a machine with a silvery luster.
Originally, among the three of them, Ouroboros had the least mechanized state, which was almost equivalent to none.
But now...
"... Mechanization?"
After listening to the story of the mountainside man Li, Ouroboros looked down at his feet in astonishment.
But no matter how he looked, he still couldn't see any clues.
"I know it's hard for you to believe this, but that's exactly what happened."
After glancing in Bai Zhi's direction and extending his hand, Li, the mountainside man, simply used himself as an excuse.
"Look, my little finger is in a mechanized state. Now I'll cut it off... and then use the healing skills to repair it... Look, the moment the repair is completed, the cut off little finger becomes... of metal."
"..."
Seeing this extremely hard-core demonstration in front of them, Ouroboros and Nuliang both fell into speechless silence.
"You still don't believe it? If you don't believe it, I'll cut off your feet for you and you'll find out."
Throwing the thumb-thick metal bar back to the mahjong table, the mountainside man Li looked at Ouroboros sincerely.
"Don't worry, I have the skills to help you recover. It's just a pain at most, it doesn't matter."
"Uh... no need, I believe it."
He was so frightened that he quickly pulled his trouser legs down again, and Ouroboros waved his hands repeatedly.
"So it's a phenomenon of mechanization, right? The so-called mechanization means turning people into machines without anyone noticing? The flesh and blood are weak, but the machine ascends?"
While saying this, Ouroboros looked in the direction of Bai Zhi.
"...Although it's a bit wrong, you can understand it this way."
After a moment of pondering, Bai Zhi nodded.
"As for why mechanization occurred, we have found the reason... Wu Lingmeng found it."
- He added an additional sentence.
In the simplest language possible, Bai Zhi told the story of what Hui Lingmeng had discovered.
"Is it the influence of mechanical force..."
After listening to Bai Zhi's story, Ouroboros actually believed 80% of it, and he couldn't help but frown.
"That's right, so for a job like yours, you'd better not do it."
Glancing at the opponent's feet, Bai Zhi shook his head.
"Currently, you are only mechanized below the calf. If you continue to stay in that place, it is likely to continue to spread to your lower body until you are completely mechanized... This is a very terrifying thing. Eroding the means, in the end, you won’t even be able to control your body at all.”
After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi additionally told the two allies in front of him what happened at the "Millennium Dao Sect".
"Even the immortals are controlled by erosion..."
Unconsciously, Ouroboros took a breath of air.
"My teammates were also eroded?"
Unlike Ouroboros, Nuliang frowned slightly, and then looked towards Bai Zhi.
"Yes, the difference is just the size of the erosion."
Recalling the sonorous snow he saw yesterday, Bai Zhi nodded.
"Is there a way to save it?"
"nothing now."
"…Thank you."
After a moment of silence, Nuliang nodded to him.
"You're welcome."
Bai Zhi waved his hand nonchalantly and looked at everyone.
"In short, you all should be careful in the future. In this "Machine City", mechanized pollution is everywhere, and I don't want my allies to be a bunch of robots. "
"...I'm going to quit my job later."
Ouroboros reached out and pressed his forehead, a look of pain on his face.
"This place is too shady. I mean, how can such a simple job have such a high salary... Well, now I have to find a job that can make money again. I hate looking for a job."
"To be honest, I hate it too, but I have to find it."
With a slight shrug, Bai Zhi stood up from the mahjong table.
"Okay, let's break up the meeting. That's the goal today. After all, the money in the card is only enough for today's rent. If you can't make any money today, that's fine. Let's finish it together tomorrow."
Everyone: "..."
With an extremely heavy heart, the Mahjong Conference came to an end.
Ouroboros and Nuliang were busy mobilizing their teammates. Li, the mountainside man, took out a purple gold alms bowl and tried to make alms. As for Bai Zhi himself, he went straight to a certain room.
... Then he skillfully wound up a clockwork robot lying dead on the ground.
"Have I fallen into that state again before?"
After regaining consciousness, he glanced at someone standing next to him and subconsciously held his hands in front of his chest. Piaoyu's face couldn't help but turn slightly red.
Because she didn't expect that she would suddenly lose consciousness again, and she was preparing to rest before that, her current situation was not very elegant.
"Ah, that's right. As long as you don't exercise a lot, you have to come to me every six hours. Do you understand?"
Throwing a timer to the other party, Bai Zhi held out a finger in front of the other party with a serious face.
"Also, in order to prevent you from crashing in the middle, it is best to stay with Phalaenopsis when you go out, so as not to leave yourself somewhere."
"...Well, I understand."
Standing up from the ground, Piaoyu nodded with a red face, holding his hands.
Although she said that she was so indecent now, the other party's face remained as usual, and her eyes did not move to a certain place deliberately. This was because she judged a gentleman with a villain's heart.
"Okay, then I'll leave first."
After giving a strange look at the coquettish clockwork robot in front of him, Bai Zhi waved his hand and walked straight out the door.
In the hotel, the rent alone costs 500 mechanical coins every day. After today, he only has more than 200 left in his card, and he has to make money quickly.
But to be honest, with the increase in the number of contestants who have officially passed the assessment, the environment for making money is getting worse and worse.
Often when an exclamation mark pops up over the head of a machine or android on the roadside, a large group of people cheer and cheer around.
As for temporary workers, they are even more popular.
Yesterday he was able to get a job cleaning guest rooms, but by today, someone had already occupied the post.
"Oh, why bother? I kept going around and around, but in the end I ended up hurting myself."
Looking at the crowd of bee pupae, Bai Zhi sighed slightly and walked straight out of the hotel.
After swiping some mechanical coins, he got on a tourist tram around the city.
There is no other way, the hotel and the surrounding area are really busy, so if you want to make money, you still have to travel a little further.
Sitting next to the window, Bai Zhi squinted his eyes slightly and looked out the window.
The "Machine City" is quite large. According to his estimation, the area open to contestants like them so far is less than 1% of the entire city.
But just this 1% is enough for them to explore for a long time.
Soon, as the tram started, the scene outside suddenly started to move quickly. Bai Zhi squinted his eyes slightly as he looked at the fleeting lights and the bustling lights in the distance.
With his understanding of this city, coupled with the previous research results from Huiling Meng, he has become increasingly able to confirm the origin of this city.
In the past era of world guardians, there were many worlds coexisting with each other in the void. Among the thousands of worlds, there were always a few particularly powerful worlds that dominated all realms.
[Fairy World], [God Realm], [Buddha Kingdom], [Ten Thousand Monsters], [Psychic Paradise], [Mechanical Empire], [Rule World]... and so on.
It's just that the prosperous era in the past has been completely buried in the dust of history. In the face of that disaster, these powerful worlds that existed as benchmarks were the first to bear the brunt.
The [Mechanical Empire] was destroyed overnight, the [Ten Thousand Monsters] became a gloomy ghostland, and the [Psychic Paradise] disappeared without a trace...
The history buried in the past is no longer reliable, but some things have been passed down by luck.
—For example, this "Machine City".
Now that the [Mechanical Empire] has been destroyed, this "Mechanical City" that suddenly appeared is most likely the last legacy left by the former "Mechanical Empire".
Only this can explain why tens of thousands of worlds' information is stored in an initial entry test database.
Only this possibility can explain why even as an immortal in this world, he still cannot escape the fate of being controlled by erosion.
But it is obvious that even if the former [Mechanical Empire] has left its own legacy, with the destruction of the [Mechanical Empire], the bad effects of the destruction of the world are also continuing to ferment.
… Just like the contaminated immortal path.
Mechanical power... So the power system practiced by those who lived in the [Mechanical Empire] in the past was "mechanical power"
Bai Zhi reached out and touched his chin, with a thoughtful look on his face.
And while he was deep in thought, a vaguely familiar singing voice came faintly into his ears.
Waking up from his thoughts, Bai Zhi turned his head and looked out the window.
- Vaguely, a flying red scarf came into his eyes.
Volume 2 The Miracle of Improbable Probability: Chapter 1634 Chapter 708 The End of the World Singer (8k)
Earthly rain, doomsday song.