Chapter 93 The Secret Chamber

Along the streets of Huadu, there are countless buildings that have been eroded, weathered, and collapsed.

The feather fan cast a purifying and protective spell on Matt, allowing him to release a mental net for a short time to search for possible life forms without being contaminated by the gray-green mist in the air.

However, Matt searched the entire city of Florence but could not find a single living being.

Mao Li fell into despair. He stared blankly at the desolate street, unable to even shed a tear.

"Mao Li, don't be discouraged. We should at least find your father and mother's residence first. We need to see them alive or dead!" Yu Shan gave him a comforting hug.

“Yeah, yeah! You were asleep for over three hundred years, and then the fan found you and took you home. You were almost sold as scrap metal,” panda said.

“You’re right. I shouldn’t give up like this. Perhaps some of my people are sleeping and waiting for me to rescue them.” Mao Li suddenly perked up.

Huadu is not a small town like Cape Wacker; it has a huge square with a pillar carved from celestial jade standing in it.

It is one of the iconic buildings in Huadu.

Tianxing Jade is one of the hardest and most corrosion-resistant minerals in the Flowing Light Galaxy. Its texture is smooth and lustrous, and it can emit a faint silver glow in the dark.

In the past, many people from other planets would come to Huadu for a special trip to take a photo with this 30-meter-tall Tianxing Jade Pillar.

When Mao Li looked up and saw the pillar standing in the distance, it was as if he had found a glimmer of hope in despair. Although the pillar was also covered with moss, it had not fallen down.

Even the model of the mechanical star carved on its top still exists. Based on the location of the dumbbell, Mao Li quickly determined the location of his father and mother's residence.

The once grand mansion is now nothing but ruins, but Mao Li, disregarding his grief, immediately began digging.

Yu Shan and the others also helped, carefully removing the moss and construction debris covering it.

Soon, they unearthed the library.

It's a pity that those priceless ancient books were all destroyed beyond recognition. Only a few ancient books that had already suffered varying degrees of damage were spared because they were packaged in special anti-corrosion outer packaging.

Mao Li hurriedly put them into his spatial storage, not caring about the tens of thousands of ancient books that had been destroyed, and continued to excavate other rooms.

In the nursery, a skeleton that had been completely corroded into scrap metal was unearthed. An apple carved from Tianxing jade was found inside, which identified the owner of the skeleton.

"Teacher Elsa! This must be her body! When I was five years old, I loved watching a cooking show produced by CCTV."

Seeing all the delicious food inside, I really wanted to try it, but I was told that we mechanical people can only absorb energy from energy stones and cannot eat delicious food like humans.

I was very sad at that time, and my tutor, Elsa, comforted me by saying that although I could not taste the food, I could carve delicious fruits or vegetables and make them lifelike forever.

I asked my father for some scraps of Tianxing jade and began to learn carving.

I ruined several pieces of raw material while carving this apple. It was the first finished product I carved, and I gave it to my teacher, Elsa, as a gift for her 1000th birthday.

She promised me she would keep this gift forever, and now it lies here in this pile of rubble, proving that Teacher Elsa's body has been completely corroded, which is why the apple she kept in her personal space rolled out. "Mao Li was extremely saddened.

Throughout his life, his teacher Elsa spent more time with him than his busy father and mother, and her death was a devastating blow to him.

The excavation of the entire mansion took three full days, during which seven piles of remains, suspected to be those of mechanical beings, were unearthed.

Mao Li's heart grew colder and colder. He no longer dared to hope that his father, mother, elder brother, and younger sister were still alive. He only wanted to find their bodies.

The reason we can be sure that none of them are them is because the bodies of the mechanical royal family are made of a high-density metal called Sky Cloud Iron. Even if it rusts and corrodes, it is impossible for it to rust into a pile of slag in just over a hundred years.

Where are they hiding?

Mao Li racked his brains, then opened the database, retrieved his past memories, and searched and analyzed them bit by bit.

Suddenly, he remembered playing hide-and-seek with his sister when he was a child, and accidentally triggering a mechanism in his father's study.

Then he and his sister fell into a secret room where a large instrument they had never seen before was hidden.

Out of curiosity, they went over and pressed the start button, which attracted their father.

They were terrified. Their father was furious and warned them sternly that if they dared to enter this place again before they came of age, they would be punished by being forced to sleep for a year.

This punishment is insignificant to the adults of the machine race, but it is very serious for the children. After such a long time without seeing their relatives and friends, will they forget about them?

Later, when he was older, he subtly inquired about the basement from his mother. His mother told him that it was the core of the mechanical race's survival, and only adult members of the royal family were qualified to enter it.

Mao Li finally found the location of the mechanism; it was an old clock hanging on the wall of his father's study.

The clock was a mechanical clock, and the king loved it very much. He would wind it up every day to keep it running properly.

At this moment, most of the wall where the clock was located had collapsed, but the clock was still hanging firmly on the moss-covered wall.

After the moss covering it was cleaned off, the clock was surprisingly intact, without a trace of corrosion.

Mao Li discovered that there was a thin energy shield around the clock, and it seemed that the energy of the shield was almost depleted.

If he had arrived here a year or two later, the protective shield would probably have been breached.

The moment the chestnut reached out and touched the protective shield, it vanished instantly.

As I recall, my younger sister was curious about the wall clock, so she opened the glass cover and reached out to tug at the pendulum inside.

Following his sister's example, Mao Li reached out and tugged at the pendulum twice. Sure enough, his body felt light and he fell into the secret chamber below.

It's well-sealed here; even the air is as fresh as it was on the old mechanical planet.

Mao Li tested it, and the air here is indeed very pure, with no pollutants.

In the basement, the instrument from back then is still there, and there is also a metal box on the table.

He walked over, opened the box, and there lay his sister Rachel!

Mao Li felt his whole body trembling. He didn't know if his sister was still alive, if she was asleep, or if she had lost consciousness.

He stood there for a full three minutes before finally mustering the courage to walk over.