Chapter 1,131 Their Gadgets Are so Fucking Amazing...

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The City of Angels is still very empty. Walking on those magnificent cloud bridges and open-air squares feels like visiting ruins. Alleria walked side by side with me and Sandora, and also mentioned the challenges she faced. Staffing dilemma.

"Only standard apostles can undertake complex and delicate tasks, but they have too few manpower, and the progress of the project has been greatly affected. We have created a large number of elemental craftsmen to assist in the construction, but the mass-produced elemental creatures cannot handle finely calibrated magic energy. The nodes are so delicate and require flexible work. Now all the commanders who are good at creating magic creatures are extracting their souls to create smarter and more useful split organisms... There are already sixteen people who are born due to soul splitting. Commanders who became severely schizophrenic too frequently were sent for maintenance.”

Alleria spoke in a very calm tone about the various problems she was currently facing. The more I listened, the more I felt cold sweat on my forehead. The situation in Tianjie City was not optimistic on the one hand, but more importantly, it was the strong people on the mysterious side. Working method - As Bella Villa said, the apostles of the mysterious side are extremely good at controlling their own inner beings. They control their souls as easily as eating and drinking. I have never heard of anyone who can do this before. They cut their souls into seventeen or eighty pieces and cultivated them in sections - are they earthworms?

Ahem, this idea is too rude, stop it.

About a divided soul. Now that I have said this, perhaps a little explanation is needed. The so-called cutting one's soul into pieces does not mean cutting the invisible and intangible things like dough, but a process of virtual copying. The soul is formless, neither matter nor energy, it is a collection of information. A creature with a soul, after removing the body, has two components: memory. and the "algorithms" that process these memories, of which the soul is actually the latter. If a person is compared to a computer, the soul is the operating system. It is a "formula" for dealing with all the things you "know". For example, when faced with the word "drunk", some thinking processes will immediately come to the conclusion of "telling the truth". Some thought processes immediately think of "promiscuous sex", then the latter has a yd soul... Okay, this is a lame metaphor, and it doesn't quite meet the requirements, but that's basically what it is, the soul decides What conclusions will the same information produce in different individual spiritual worlds. Therefore, the soul can ultimately determine the "reality" of an individual. As long as the formula is certain, no matter what numerical value is filled in for it (memory or life experience, etc.), the same result will be obtained in the end (a person's external behavior, world view, personality, and all the characters that can be expressed). Extracting the soul is to copy a part of this huge set of formulas - the copied small fragment is enough for a dead creature to obtain its own "world view", and then it can build on this world view. Slowly build up a complete soul that truly belongs to you. For the mother body whose soul has been extracted, repeating such an operation many times is absolutely harmful.

why? Anyone who has used a computer knows this. Don’t mess with things on the c drive...

The apostles on the mysterious side are very good at controlling their own souls. They know how to copy things from their system disks without causing blue screen of death and other malfunctions, but this does not mean that they have a stronger system disk. , every time the soul is extracted, a huge operation log will be left in the "system disk". If the extraction is too frequent, it will be too late to delete these logs, which will take a long time. It’s time for people to be tied up and sent to the veteran cadre activity center...

"Let those commanders who are too desperate to pay attention to their health, at least save energy to face other emergencies. In addition, Bellavilla has organized a group of ravens to support you, I bet she should All the ravens who have no tasks for the moment have been summoned. The pressure here should be much less." I told Aurelia about the situation at Bellavilla. "Ravens seem to be very good at fine work. They are idle. Whenever I have nothing to do, I use arcane magic to micro-carve the Imperial Code on my fingernails, and I must be very familiar with things like repairing magic nets."

Alleria stopped in mid-air and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "This will indeed make it a lot easier. But using arcane magic to micro-carve the Imperial Code on your fingernails or something... is not the same thing as repairing magic energy nodes. Forget it, It does not matter."

Under the leadership of Alleria, we came to a very lively place, located... at the back of the Forgotten Garden.

We all know that the Forgotten Garden is a complex of buildings built on a floating land. I have always thought that the Forgotten Garden is the buildings I saw, but I never expected that it actually consists of two parts, one is the upper city, Part of it is the mountain below - the floating land is in the shape of an inverse cone. If you turn it around, the lower part of the inverted cone-shaped land will of course be a mountain. Before the Forgotten Garden was torn off from its home planet, there was an inverted cone-shaped independent structure underneath it. Originally, this part was located in a large underground cavity. Now it has been resurfaced and turned into the "Reflection Mountain". This weird peak at the top and bottom was originally a backup factory. Now it has been renovated and is producing the Gunda Colossus day and night. Now that the standard apostle base of the mysterious system is insufficient and it is impossible to replenish the population by summoning a large number of puppet creatures, the mass-produced Colossi of Gunda and other magic soldiers are the most stable sources of soldiers Alleria can find.

This inverted mountain has independent gravity, so standing halfway up the mountain and looking at the Celestial City gives people a weird and inconsistent feeling: it's as if the whole world is upside down, but there is no sense that it is actually real. What's on your head and feet is yourself.

The production process of the Gunda Colossus is very novel in my opinion. In those huge "factories" that are hollowed out and buried deep in the mountains, there are large-scale open spaces with rows of neatly arranged blue light balls suspended in the mountains. In mid-air, each ball of light was "immersed" in a small section of the metal limb of the Gunda Colossus. A large number of dots of light shuttled through the light ball, imprinting complex runes on those metal rings. Whenever a metal limb was processed in this way, it would fly out of the light ball and float to the end of the row of light balls. The rune platform is automatically assembled with other matching metal segments, and at the same time, new raw materials are sent directly into the newly emptied light ball through space transmission, and the cycle starts over and over again. Each Gunda Colossus can step off the rune platform and go to the next link to receive the infusion of artificial soul and initial task setting. The manufacturing speed of the Gunda Colossus was not fast, at least during my inspection with Sandora. Not a single Gundar Colossus stepped off the rune platform, which shows that this kind of magic giant, whose combat power is several times that of ordinary Imperial soldiers, is considered an elite unit - no matter how many Gundar Colossi Alleria makes, it will not be able to fill the base of soldiers. problem of scarcity. In the final analysis, the shortage of standard apostles in the mystery department is still a serious problem.

This "factory" of the mysterious department is very different from the technology-side factories I have seen. Those wonderful floating light balls make it difficult to associate them with the production line. However, despite the dazzling working methods, everything here still adheres to the high-efficiency principle collectively pursued by everyone in the Xiling Empire. The appearance of orderly production makes people believe that in Not a second is wasted here.

In the production "workshop" of the Gunda Colossus, we also saw the elemental craftsmen mentioned by Alleria, which are the most basic worker units on the mysterious side. They are a type of genie that looks like Aladdin's djinn, with the upper body barely showing. It is a light blue elemental creature that is born out of a human body, but its lower body is a cloud of mist. It seems to be as intelligent as the group of self-disciplined machines around Gaia. Combat strength...probably none. Under the command of several Goodel icebreakers, these elemental craftsmen are responsible for checking the operating status of each light ball that is inscribing runes on the body parts of the Colossus soldiers, and constantly repairing those that have stopped running or even stopped due to various accidents. The ball of light that burned the raw materials——This alone can tell that the situation of this factory that is already in operation is not very good.

"Fortunately, there are the Goodel elemental people created by Odysseus. They can also take on some jobs that require flexibility. Although they are still not as good as the advanced puppet creatures, they are at least much smarter than the elemental craftsmen," Alleria Pointing to a Goodell ice-breaker who was dropping debris while walking, "The only problem is that after so many years of degradation, these elemental creatures are no longer capable of maintaining their own entities, except for the use of their brains. Their own working ability is almost zero. And we dare not let them go to workshops with environmental requirements of Level 3 or above to conduct on-site command, because..."

"Because they slag." I helplessly covered my forehead and watched the ice-breaker not far away scratching my crotch again - I don't know if this was the ice-breaker who took us to see Odyssey. People, they all look the same.

"Hey, I don't know if it's an illusion," I suddenly noticed something and pointed at Alleria's face and said, "Your resolution seems to be higher than before."

Everyone knows Alleria's form. It's just an unclear light and shadow. The whole body is shrouded in a dense fog-like light. Only the female form can be vaguely seen. But now I suddenly found that I seemed to be able to distinguish When the opponent's facial features were exposed, the light became thinner at some point, so he asked this question. Alleria was stunned for a moment. She didn't understand what "higher resolution" meant at first. Then Shandora beside her explained a few words to her in a dumbfounded way before she nodded suddenly: "Oh, it's just gradually improving." It’s just recovery. You don’t think that my subordinate’s original form was so foggy, do you?”

My answer was very honest: "...I really thought so."

Alleria was always choked to death by my words, and this time was no exception. She was speechless again for a few seconds before explaining: "The Xiling Angel is in the form of Sir Alaya, and that is the normal state. , This subordinate's current appearance was not intentional, but something went wrong during the awakening process in the assembly hall... In a state of unconsciousness, he mistakenly regarded the form of the missing body as his original appearance, and I have forgotten what I originally looked like. For energy creatures, the soul determines the appearance, and our appearance depends on what we think we should look like. The newborn Xiling Angels all look the same, and it often takes a few months to look good. It has its own unique face, so occasionally it can be used to distinguish whether an energy body creature is a newborn. The subordinate made a mistake in his memory at the time, and now he has regained his memory. But it takes time to slowly eliminate that mistake. The influence, well, has been fruitful - can you see my facial features?"

Alleria said, her always calm and plain tone couldn't help but have a hint of happiness, but I suddenly thought of something that made me very sad, so I nodded with a sad face: "Ah, congratulations... …”

"...Your Majesty? What are you doing?"

Sandora pressed my shoulders and waved to Alleria: "Don't ask. Being shameless is a dark history for Arjun..."

I thought sadly that my void form is still in a shameless state after so many years of hard work. The only progress was to get a nose on the top of the head. The second form change was quite big, becoming like an awl. Being jokingly called Aladdin by so and so... Well, yes, he looks just like the silly element craftsman over there. After meeting Alleria, I thought that I had finally found a fellow prisoner who could keep me mentally balanced, but I never expected that they would improve the resolution so quickly...

Alleria, the kite angel, said something unclear and led us to continue to visit the remaining parts of the arsenal. However, there was nothing interesting to see in other places, or in other words, it was completely to the point that I could not understand it, so I mentioned another thing that concerned me a lot: "I heard Bella Villa say that you found information about the glowing circle?"

Alleria nodded: "Yes. But I haven't had time to report to you yet. The Heart of the World ring you retrieved from the North Icefield, after our inspection, we found that in addition to being the host of the Heart of the World, it is also A storage device that integrates a large amount of technical information about high-level weapons. Reki-sama must have foreseen that the capital universe would still be torn apart by shock waves. Therefore, the most important technical information was backed up in the heart of the world. We We are working hard to sort out the information, and have begun to build the Star Shaping Pool and the Magic Energy Tower. However, to create a high-level space battleship of the level of Glow Circle, even with the empire's highest efficiency, I am afraid..."

"I know, Bella Vera has already complained about this to me once, so we can't rush this."

"But we still have some finished products that you can take a look at in advance - something on a small scale." Alleria seemed to smile - I interpreted her momentary pause as a smile. Then she took us to the second half of the magic puppet production factory, where there is another completely different set of production facilities.

A large array of runes suspended in the air and crystal sheets arranged in a symmetrical octagon were placed in a hall with a radius of about fifty meters. In the center of this group of mysterious facilities, there was a three-meter-tall, shaped A strange thing that looks like water droplets.

"This is a test area. We are trying to restore various industrial infrastructures that are not currently available in Celestial City but were widely used in the old empire. What you see now is a single soldier combat cabin. Outside, this set of things is a The assembly unit and other production facilities are being tested in other rooms. This drop-shaped thing is the result of several days of work.”

Alleria pointed out the drop-shaped object called the Individual Combat Cabin to us, and then clicked a few times on the crystal sheet closest to her, and the eight crystal sheets quickly sank to the ground. "Water Drops" It floated in front of us.

I curiously reached out and touched it, and found that it had a hard, cold and smooth surface. But strangely, although it had a silvery-white smooth shell that looked reflective, it did not reflect my shadow at all. , not even a little blurry image is reflected, its surface is an absolutely uniform layer of luster. This is clearly not a property that materials in general should have - it's not even very optical. Up to now, these things on the mysterious side have given me an impression: each of them is a bit inconsistent with common sense. You can always find something in them that is more or less inconsistent with the current world view. In fact, wonderful.

"It looks much smaller than a single-soldier fighter plane. The longest axis is only three meters." I knocked on the shell of the water drop, and the latter made a crisp sound. "Soldiers are participating in space battles inside?"

"No, maybe it's not the same as you imagined..." Alleria reached out and touched the surface of the water drop, and then a wonderful scene appeared: the latter began to soften and twist, falling to the ground like melted butter, and then the rest The volume began to shrink abnormally, and slowly re-solidified and bulged from a large puddle of liquid state. This process made people unable to help but think of those slimes that often appear in games and are responsible for showing the warriors the path of life - and then this guy It really turned into a slime.

The three-meter-high hard water droplet changed in just a few seconds and turned into a "slime"-like creature that was only half a person tall and looked like a jelly-like swaying, and the latter kept making gurgling noises. The voice seemed to be paying tribute to me and Sandora, and then the shape continued to change, first turning into the appearance of Odysseus, then turning into the appearance of me, and then turning into a girl we had never seen before. , but in the end, this "slime" turned into a puddle of jelly, swaying up and down as if it was extremely tired, as if it was breathing heavily.

I was dumbfounded by the scene in front of me that was full of complaints.

"The individual soldier combat cabin is a transformation process. Its essence is a set of rune devices that can change the physical form. The soldier does not 'drive' inside, but is directly integrated with the rune set in the combat cabin. Single Soldier Combat Cabin The soldier battle chamber can only be used by this type of elemental creature, nicknamed Arcane Bean Ding, because their bodies can be decomposed and can be integrated with anything that responds to magic energy without hindrance. You can use this The little 'pilot' is imagined to be in liquid form so that it can flow through the arcane energy-filled veins of the individual combat pod. When combat is over, the combat pod is absorbed into the body of its symbiotic soldier, in the form of an array of runes. The way to store it is like this." Alleria said, bending down to pick up the "Arcane Bean" (actually I really want to call it a slime) that was crawling around, although this thing is definitely smaller than Slime with strong combat power) turned over, revealing a large area of ​​beautiful shining runes under the latter's "belly". After careful observation, I discovered that these runes were all in the opponent's body, but because of " The belly of "Arcane Bean Ding" is completely transparent, so you can see it so clearly.

"The individual combat cabin is very small, and one of the important reasons is that it does not carry any conventional weapons - individual combat aircraft have artillery, missile launchers, and space mine deployment devices, but the individual combat cabin does not have any. It It's actually an amplification device that can be used to amplify the power of its symbiote, so it's actually a..."

Alleria paused, feeling something indescribable, and finally choked out a few words: "It's a combat uniform..."

I looked at "Arcane Bean Ding" who had begun to imitate himself into a crystal-clear Chinese garden dog, and I felt...

The mysterious side of things is really amazing... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)