The group embarked on a 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 gradually faded away. A huge, running plasma engine was just ahead, and the brilliant flames it erupted illuminated the entire sky, finally dispelling the gloomy atmosphere along the way.
Vivienne suggested to go to those engines to check the situation. Hao Ren let the car navigation determine the route by himself, and then turned onto a ramp that gradually went up along the steel ridge. As the distance from the giant engine gets closer, more details of this huge facility are presented to everyone. Hao Ren saw that on its conical shell, there were actually many rotating ramps like winding mountain roads. Some faint lights were passing quickly on those ramps, and there were a lot of radial extensions from the top of the engine. The long steel bridge connected to the distant land, but I don't know what it is for.
When they were about to reach the halfway point of the engine, the on-board host suddenly made a slight beep, and at the same time, Izaks frowned: "There seems to be something in front."
When Hao Ren heard this, he quickly parked the car on the side of the road. Lily jumped out first and sneaked up to check the situation. She lay behind a large steel plate and looked out, then turned her head and waved to everyone.
The others hurriedly followed, and Lily pointed to the opposite side of the road and whispered, "Look! The transport convoy!"
Hao Ren was stunned to see a steel avenue leading straight to the upper end of the engine a hundred meters away. The avenue was paved with traction facilities emitting a faint blue light that looked like guide rails, and the transport vehicles that looked like cage cars were on the road. Busy back and forth on those guide rails, it seems orderly.
"There is no breath of life..." Vivian frowned, and suddenly threw a little bat towards a transport vehicle: Due to the action of the giant engine, there is an unstable atmospheric environment nearby, and Vivian's little bat finally There is a place for it to be used.
By the way, the vampire girl's bat detector hasn't been used for a long time...
The little bat struggled to maintain its direction in the wind, and finally grabbed the shell of a caged car without any risk in the sight of everyone. It looked around on the car shell, and crawled around looking for the entrance—any zoologist with normal three views would probably start to doubt life if he saw a bat doing these actions—but in the end, the little bat could only be disappointed. Return, because the whole car is completely closed except for the rear compartment.
"There is a hopper behind the car. It may contain engine fuel or something," Vivienne frowned as she patted the little bat into her body. "The car has no entrance and no breath of life. It should run automatically."
After thinking about it, Hao Ren made a bold decision: follow the returning transport vehicles.
Lily ventured around those transport vehicles. It was found that the latter was still running as usual without any response, and there were no warning robots on the track, so everyone judged that this automatic system should be "blind". Hao Ren drove behind a transport vehicle that left the engine, and walked along the long steel road for a certain distance. After turning a few bends, he saw a steel jungle-like facility in front of him.
This piece of steel jungle was blocked by a ridge before, and everyone drove all the way without discovering it.
Hao Ren drove into this area cautiously. There was a loud bang. There are huge black machines or buildings that are running loudly here and there. Being in it is as noisy and lively as a factory the size of a whole city. A large number of chubby cage cars and other types of transport vehicles came here from the engine along the tracks, and they shuttled orderly and fast in the steel jungle, while there were huge mechanical arms and creaking takeoffs and landings. The platform works in conjunction with these vehicles, constantly loading and unloading truck after truck of goods.
A roar came from above, Nangong Wuyue looked up in amazement, she saw a steel cube with a width of more than ten meters slowly flying through the air under the propeller, and it was perfectly combined in the not far away On a "mountain of cubes" - these things are probably some kind of autonomous container system.
The entire "factory city" is in a busy state of operation, with the sound of machinery roaring and vehicles roaring everywhere, and various indicator lights and high-power lighting systems make it as bright as day. But other than that...the place is empty.
Hao Ren led everyone out of the car, and they walked forward while exploring this strange place. They don't worry about some alarm device here that will lure the city's defenders out-to be honest, they are eager to meet someone, and Y'zaks has even planned to pull a meteorite down to blow it up: he hopes to blow it up Bring out some locals. But this idea was strongly dissuaded by everyone.
Lily raised her ice and fire claws, and walked side by side with Hao Ren at the front of the line with a vigilant expression. She sniffled hard: "There is only the smell of steel and oil..."
Everyone passed by a working loading and unloading platform. There was a control room-like facility next to the loading and unloading platform, and the door was open. Nangong Sanba went over to check the situation on high alert with his crossbow in hand, but when he entered the gate, he only saw a bunch of machines flashing lights and beeping.
"There's no one here," Nangong Sanba came out of the control room and shook his head. "All systems are autonomous."
Hao Ren sighed: "Don't look for it, I'm afraid the whole planet is working automatically."
But just as he finished speaking, a sharp whistling suddenly came from behind everyone!
Hao Ren turned around vigilantly and looked around, only to find a small device in the shape of an inverted triangle rushing towards him like lightning. This small device seemed to be a patrolling robot. There was a rattling electronic sound, and after a while, a normal speaking voice sounded: "I found the citizen."
Nangong Sanba subconsciously asked, "What did you say?"
A series of gurgling sounds came from inside the small machine: "I found a citizen with good health signs. Please follow this guidance device to the checkpoint. After disinfection, you can go to the first-floor shelter."
After finishing speaking, the small device turned around and floated in another direction. After floating a few meters, it turned and looked at Hao Ren and his party, who had not moved. measure."
Y'zaks held a magic spell in his hand and didn't know whether to blow it up. Hao Ren waved him to put the magic away: "Follow and see what this little guy wants to do."
A group of people followed behind the inverted triangle robot, limping around many circles, walking all the way to the depths of this steel forest. They passed more factories and large machines that were running autonomously, and saw countless unmanned vehicles and transfer platforms running around. The tool is still working continuously in mid-air. Finally, they were brought into a rectangular building, which finally isolated the noise and chaos outside.
The lights in the rectangular building are bright and clean, and the entire front half is a hall, whose scale and cleanliness remind people of the waiting hall of an airport. There are a few small and advanced looking 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 on, she was much more sensible than ordinary huskies: "I really didn't expect there to be such a husky on this planet." place."
"In closed man-made facilities, people can always ignore the vicissitudes of life outside," Vivienne suddenly sighed thoughtfully, "I once fell asleep in the tomb of the ancient dynasty, and when I woke up, I saw nothing around me. Changes, I thought the world was still the same, but when I went out, I only saw that the whole country had become a pile of rubble on the wilderness... If someone has lived in this hall for 10,000 years, I am afraid that he will never think of the city outside What has it become?"
People don't know how to comment on what Vivian laments, so Hao Ren can only shrug his shoulders and continue walking towards the opposite side of the hall behind the little robot. And just as the group approached the gate 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~^~)