The smell of blood, rust, engine oil, and fermented take-out food poured into the sensing port.
Joshua activated the eye observation circuit and charged the soul scanning lens. Along with a slight buzzing and a screen of snowflakes, the world became clear in his eyes. The soldier saw the black ceiling, stained walls, and the corpse of an aging man lying in front of him.
He simply pushed aside the six-joyed robot arm that was used for repair. Joshua controlled his current body and walked down from the workbench. The man stood on the floor of the workroom full of sundries and parts. , fell into deep thought.
"Puppet body."
He whispered to himself, and then scanned his whole body: red and black warning paint, a humanoid torso, severely damaged external armor, a large hole in his abdomen, and he could see the chaotic steel parts and flashing sparks inside. It was sensed that there was a strong magic reaction in the damaged areas of the armor.
This is a humanoid puppet that is slightly taller than an ordinary person. It has a smooth body shape and rounded joints, somewhat similar to a mannequin in a biology class.
"Detection of soul core injection completed... The harvesting type infrastructure numbered Snova-21 is seriously damaged and is waiting for maintenance technicians to replace parts. After completing the repairs, proceed to the second section of the defense line in the eastern breeding area for defensive operations."
Weak electromagnetic signals oscillate with strange soul fluctuations and are transmitted from the device built inside the body.
"Now it's fun..." Replacing the so-called 'soul core' of the current puppet with steel fragments, Joshua analyzed the electromagnetic signals and soul fluctuations coming from the body, and couldn't help but feel a little amused: "A mechanical construct actually arrived. On the body?"
Is it possible that Siberia's world will acquiesces that its life form is closest to this kind of steel puppet
This is really too much, I am obviously human.
Thinking of this, Joshua turned his head and looked at the body of an aging man on one side. This man had just died not long ago, and his soul seemed to be dissipating. However, because of his presence, the fragile soul began to gradually approach the soul abyss, and finally disappeared into it. Among Joshua. Skillfully accepting the soul that seemed to be about to be broken, he couldn't help but sigh: "Forget it, robots will be robots."
There was a ready-made male body of humanoid intelligent life next to him, but in the end, his instinct still chose the mechanical body. This proved that his own life form was indeed somewhat beyond human beings, and was different from most carbonyl life forms. The path of legend gradually came to this point. If it reaches the point, there will be such troubles as now.
"But the energy level of this world... doesn't look like a small world."
Using the power given by the fragments of steel, Joshua supported the broken mechanical body and came to the corpse. There is no doubt that the intelligent life in this world, let's call it the "Sibiya", has a soul... and according to Joe Not long ago, Shuya communicated with the old pope and confirmed that the research results showed that the soul is an extraordinary organ that can only appear in a world with extremely abundant free energy.
Moreover, there is a lot of magic emanating from the surrounding air. According to the classification of the world, the world of Siberia is at least a world filled with demons.
There is no doubt that all news about Siberia the Steel Serpent is out of date.
Slowly lifting the body lying in a pool of coagulating blood and placing it on the bed aside, Joshua observed the dead man, and then immediately noticed the large holes on the left and right sides of the man's head, as well as the... The welding gun that never let go. He understood that the man in front of him committed suicide, and the reason was unknown.
"Maintenance technician in the sixth maintenance room. Status: Dead. The soul has dissipated. Move the body to the medical area."
And just when Joshua was carefully observing the corpse in front of him, a weak electromagnetic signal came, which seemed to let the puppet possessed by him complete the task.
Ignoring this information, the warrior shook his head and couldn't help but feel a little regretful... If the fragments of steel came to this body, then Joshua might still be able to rely on his powerful soul to read the memory in the opponent's brain, but now, he possesses If the body is in a construct, then things will be a little troublesome. In order to find information about his current environment, the soldier looked around the entire maintenance room. He noticed the books filled with all the bookcases, and naturally discovered the blood-stained diary on the workbench.
He came to the workbench and began to read the diary.
The language of the diary was recorded in the message transmitted by the Steel Python. It is the language of a small country in the middle of the world of Hyboria. Although there are some vocabulary changes, everything is within an acceptable range. Joshua was just He flipped through the pages quickly like a machine, but when he was halfway through reading, the hand of the mechanical construct paused for a moment. The soldier continued reading, and the construct flipped through the pages slower and slower until finally, Joshua reached the last page. , read this diary thoroughly.
"... Breeding area, garden area... Soul puppets, human beings like puppets, and soul cores."
At this time, Joshua already knew that what he had arrived was a harvesting soul puppet used to suppress the 'breeding area', and the corpse in front of him was the technician who repaired the puppet. The soldier frowned and stared at the body of the unknown mechanic. After awakening, this confused man waited alone for twenty years as a slave and an animal, but even so, he still had hope. He knew that he was destined to die, but he chose the day of his death and never let others control his fate.
"warrior."
Reaching out his hand and closing the other person's open eyes, Joshua placed the diary on the other person's chest, and then began to summarize the currently known information.
According to the diary, it can be roughly understood that he is currently located in an area called the 'Garden Area', and this area is surrounded by a vast 'breeding area'. In the garden area, there are the best maintenance technicians and doctors, as well as the most elite soul puppets, and all their tasks are to complete their work and take good care of those 'children'.
The age of the 'children' ranges from young to old. The youngest is just born and the oldest is close to sixteen years old. If they are over sixteen years old, they will be taken away by the soul puppet and sent to the medical area. These children were sent from breeding areas in all directions. The number was not large, but there were also quite a few. Not all young children would be sent to the garden area for cultivation.
Just like the unknown technician, his work log started in the breeding area. Later, due to his improved skills, he moved to the garden area to work.
The garden area is not for production, it is an existence that is enshrined, and what is enshrined in it is the vast breeding area. The breeding area is a huge piece of farmland and pastureland, where countless people work and produce huge amounts of grain and meat. Some of the plants are dedicated to the garden area, while others are sent to distant locations.
Speaking of this, Joshua couldn't help but think of the scene he saw when he was still in mid-air in the Hyboria continent: the barren continent was full of sandstone and yellow-green plains, with only dots of green embellishments. Now that I think about it, those green areas may be the breeding areas. The green farmland that can be clearly seen from such a high altitude should be enough to support a population of millions.
"Puppetizing intelligent life, cultivating souls, separating 'superpower units'... Rebels who can control magic, the giant tower at the center of the world... How has this world spent more than a thousand years?"
Whether it is the unknown mechanic or the steel python Siberia, they know very little about this world. The unknown mechanic speculates that there is a group of resisters outside the breeding area through the damaged puppets sent from time to time, while Joshua uses electromagnetic The signaling mission had established this, but beyond that he knew nothing about the world.
But it doesn't matter. The warrior relaxed the joints of his current body. He has plenty of opportunities to observe the world.
Joshua is not an unknown mechanic. He does not even have the strength to walk out of the corridor of the maintenance area. The other party has been waiting for twenty years and can only sneak out to observe when the puppet changes shifts. However, he can walk freely wherever he wants according to his own wishes. Places to go.
The goal of the warrior is to find the reason why the will of the world was kicked out. According to Joshua's intuition, this matter is definitely related to the spiral tower in the center of the world... Even if it doesn't matter, it is the most important landmark building in the world, and it must be very important. Importantly, most of the food in the breeding area was transported away, and he suspected that it was sent in the direction of the giant tower.
Controlling the mechanical body, he came to the bookcase. Joshua didn't feel any discomfort at all, and even felt very relaxed... This body was much lighter than his real body, which made a warrior who was used to a weight of tens of millions of tons feel like he was floating. With this strange illusion, Joshua took out a book from the bookcase. He rubbed the cover and flipped through the contents.
What is recorded in the book is all about the knowledge about soul puppets. If an alchemical engineering warlock came here and read the books, he would probably exclaim in excitement, because this is a puppet from the world of Mycroft. It is a completely different path. It takes a new approach from the perspective of the soul and creates a highly autonomous and highly intelligent construct. The most important point of this technology is the core of the soul.
"Because making artificial souls requires too many resources, we directly use the souls of living people to transform..."
After just a cursory glance, Joshua could understand the true face of the so-called soul core: they were living souls transformed into mechanical programs by some special means! The soul is born with powerful computing power and can replace the brain of a living thing. With a little modification, it can easily serve as the control center of the puppet!
With Joshua's mind, he would not be affected by this kind of thing. He has seen countless priestly rituals of cultists, crazy mass suicides, and mutual eating feasts. He has been to hell and abyss, tortured demons with his own hands, and extracted Transforming the souls of living people, not to mention demons, even some evil wizards often do this, so he is not surprised.
But those were all done by the followers of the evil god of chaos, the evil evil wizards, and the chaotic abyss demons... Those beings did these things just on a whim, but this world has planned and perfected them to form an industrial chain. The selection, worship, cultivation, and harvesting from the beginning were all too perfect and logical... This has formed a society whose main purpose is to harvest souls.
In other words - it's an order.
Joshua closed the book, not because he didn't want to continue reading, but because the wounds on his body and abdomen were bursting out with bursts of electricity, and the sounds of error warnings came one after another.
"Before exploring the world, repair your own carrier first. Without enough force, everything is empty talk."
The warrior sank his spirit into the fragment of steel, began to mobilize the power within it, and took a thorough look at his current body.
This body is made of a unique inert metal alloy that has strong corrosion resistance and flexibility. On the other hand, the melting point of this alloy can only be said to be okay, and its strength is above average. The overall design of the Soul Puppet is very complete and its performance is excellent. It can be used as a design reference when brought back to Mycroft Continent. However, now its abdomen has been pierced by some kind of magical attack, causing most of its functions to be damaged. Joshua used his own power to force it. Action requires support.
"It's very troublesome and needs to be repaired carefully." Joshua mobilized his power. Although his body was not there, his soul could also control part of the power of steel. With Siberia's steel fragments, the metal that made up the workbench immediately twisted and deformed. , as if coming to life, turned into balls of basketball-sized metal balls, rolling in front of the warrior's body.
"If I don't come and this puppet is not repaired, the leakage of soul energy will create an explosion, which can at least destroy everything in this maintenance room... I don't know if it was prepared by the unknown technician himself, or it was an accident."
After all, Joshua is a strong man who has mastered the creation of steel power. It is extremely easy for him to repair a construct.
Through the control of his soul, he caused metals that met the requirements in the surrounding space to spontaneously gather in front of him, and then directly extracted materials from basketball-sized metal balls to shape parts. With the power of steel operating, Joshua even began to absorb these metals and began to fuse them into a new, stronger alloy for repairing and strengthening the body.
It can be seen that as the metal balls turn into parts and integrate into the body, the soul puppet, which was originally around 189 and only slightly taller than an ordinary person, begins to grow in size at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming tall and burly.
The smooth constructed body began to be covered with a layer of solid and thick armor. The round body joints were added with sharp and brutal collision angles. The round head that resembled a human head began to alienate and deform, and finally turned into something like a helmet. It is made of ordinary steel, with a red prism-shaped chip running through the center of the helmet. It is the new observation port, and red light shines inside.
Not long after, after completing the enhancement, Joshua's height exceeded 2.2 meters, and his weight nearly doubled. As for the original wounds, they have been repaired long ago. Joshua even completely transformed the puppet's internal structure and energy engine so that he can better use his power.
At this point, the original soul puppet has completely transformed into a ferocious, burly, black-red giant structure that exudes coercion at first glance. His elbows have protruding corners, and his arms are shining with sharp edges. The metal blade shines brightly, and according to the habit of a certain warrior, his body has completely become a killing machine for combat, which is very different from the original puppet. ①
It took less than a few minutes to complete this series of modifications. Joshua felt the thick energy from the steel fragments running through his body. This puppet body was already able to exert good combat effectiveness.
"It's time to go outside and take a look."
After being prepared for everything, Joshua shook hands. The strength that was enough to easily break steel bars and iron pillars gathered together. He felt that his current body should have gold-level combat power and should be enough to deal with most of the troubles in this world.
Walking to the door of the maintenance room, before opening the door, Joshua turned his head and glanced at the unknown technician who was placed on the bed. Then, Joshua turned back, opened the door, and walked out.
Pure white light shone into the dark workshop, and the pure air blew away the smell of blood and rust. Joshua came to the corridor, and the door behind him slowly closed behind him. The soldier looked up and observed the small world that had trapped the mechanic for twenty years.
This is a pure white tiled corridor, with a dead end on the left and an exit on the right. The top of the corridor is brightly lit with incandescent lights. There are eight doors on both sides of the corridor, and he is at the sixth door near the outside. .
At the exit on the right side of the corridor, there were four puppets holding weapons that looked like welding torches, probably the 'furnace ray generators' the technicians called them. They seemed to have noticed something. They all turned their heads and looked in the direction of Joshua. Joshua sensed soul waves being released by these puppets and scanned his whole body. Soon after, two puppets began to move towards Joshua. They held ray generators and came to the warrior with an emotionless expression. The mechanical tone said: "No. Snova-21, you have not completed the repair and will return to the sixth dimension immediately..."
Click.
Silently, two huge hands were raised, and then they were pressed on the heads of the two soul puppets. The thick palms were clenched casually, causing the sharp sound of steel rubbing against steel to sound immediately... followed by the crisp sound of metal breaking. There was a clicking sound, and the sharp twisting sound of steel deforming.
The soul puppets struggled hard, waving their hands and feet to hit the opponent's arms, but after a few seconds, their hands dropped and stopped moving, causing the furnace ray generator to fall to the ground.
Joshua, who destroyed the enemy's observation port with one palm and destroyed the core of his soul with energy, threw the two soul puppets that had turned into garbage in his hands on the ground, with broken head parts scattered all over the ground. He picked up the furnace ray generator from the ground, and the other two soul puppets in the distance had already discovered the abnormality and turned around.
"No. Snova-21, you are attacking the guard in the maintenance room corridor of the garden area. No. Tbeta-34, No. Tbeta-35 has been destroyed. It is confirmed that the soul core program of No. Snova-21 is disordered, and requests permission for destruction."
"Authority is granted, destruction operations begin, and the attack begins."
It only takes a short moment for soul puppets to transmit permissions. No matter how complex the information is, it is many times faster than humans. The moment they confirm that the attack will begin, they have already raised the ray generator and lens port in their hands. It begins to turn red and hot rapidly.
However, a black shadow crossed the space, flew past at a speed that was difficult for machines to react, and then slammed into the soul puppet on the left.
Boom!
The huge impact destroyed the puppet's chest armor, the metal deformed, fragments scattered, and the terrifying force even caused it to float in the air. At the same time, a large amount of energy in the soul core of the puppet's chest overflowed, electromagnetism In the blink of an eye, a violent explosion occurred in mid-air - a powerful flow of silver-blue energy mixed with high-heat shock waves reverberated in the small corridor, creating a roar that was stronger than thunder.
At this time, the true form of the black shadow can be seen: it is a distorted ray generator. The wielder did not choose to use it, but threw it as a 'weapon'.
Even the soul puppet couldn't aim in this situation. The only remaining soul puppet quickly adjusted its observation window and balance meter during the explosion, but before it could roll sideways according to the combat procedure, it carried out the first attack. During the second round of attacks, a tall and burly figure had appeared in front of it.
The black-red painted mechanical structure raised its hand and shook away the shock wave caused by the explosion. Joshua turned slightly sideways to avoid a golden-red furnace ray. The ray fell on the ceiling of the corridor and melted through. A hole, golden red liquid flowing on the edge of the hole, dripping little bits of lava and molten steel.
Joshua was unmoved. He stretched out his left hand, grabbed the soul puppet's right hand, and then crushed the ray generator in the opponent's hand. The next moment, the warrior raised his right hand, and the soul puppet's head was removed from his body. Pulling it off, electric sparks and silver-blue soul energy flickered at the wound on the neck.
Joshua grabbed the headless shoulder of the puppet with one hand, and then removed the opponent's limbs during the opponent's resistance. The movements were smooth and neat, as if he had disassembled it countless times.
Through self-transformation, the warrior has long been familiar with the structure of the soul puppet. He can see lubricating oil flowing out of the wounds on the puppet's limbs, causing black oil to spill on the ground, like a pool of blood.
Putting the puppet that was no longer able to move on the ground, Joshua squatted half-crouched. He stretched out an index finger. The finger made of black metal changed like liquid and turned into a sharp silver blade. He used the blade to swipe the puppet's... On the chest armor, he saw a soul core flashing with silver-blue light.
It was a silver-blue flame placed in a hexagonal translucent prism. It seemed to be burning and pulsating, like a heart. The soul core circulated the collected energy throughout the body through the soul puppet's own energy extraction device. , at the same time, it is also the control center of the entire puppet. Joshua stretched out his hand, took out the soul core, and then observed it carefully for a while.
"Beautiful, perfect, this method of transformation and control is simply art... not to mention these programs that are engraved in the soul."
He praised softly, then shook his head and crushed the hexagonal prism. Silver-blue soul fire floated out from it, and then slowly dissipated in mid-air. Joshua stood up and walked towards the end of the corridor where the unknown mechanic had been trapped for twenty years. In front of him was the light and the garden.
He walked out.
With his back facing the exit of the corridor full of explosion traces and his feet on the white tiled avenue, Joshua raised his head, his red observation mouth flashing with light. He scanned everything around him. The soldier who had seen all the big scenes thought he was not Can be affected by anything.
But he was wrong.
The burly construct's observation mouth flashed with an unstable light, which meant that his mood was ups and downs.
What you see is incredible.
①The shape refers to the cover, it’s almost like that.
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