Chapter 118
Pei Zhao no longer remembered how he started running.
When he came to his senses, Zhou Yuli's wooden vine had already wrapped around his waist. Fire Phoenix and Ice Crystal rushed into the room without saying a word, creating a world of ice and fire.
Pei Zhao instinctively retracted the lens and kicked at the last reflected image. The flames burned the skin, soon revealing the mechanical skeleton inside, but the man remained motionless until the flames burned through and came out from the two empty eyes.
Like some ancient beast from hell.
Sudi quickly locked onto the upper level, Yu's interpretation was fast, Zhou Yuli stretched out the wooden vine and jumped up, then used the vine to bring them to his side, and hurriedly restored the original state, fearing that the robot that was set on fire would catch up.
Several people sat on the ground, gasping for breath, before slowly coming back to their senses.
"It's a bit scary, isn't it?" Bai Zhou patted his chest. "That thing looks exactly like a human, but that expression is so scary no matter how I look at it. I almost couldn't breathe."
"...I didn't see it clearly." Lan Ji's voice was relatively calm, but his face was not looking good. "Anyway, I froze the exit when I ran, so he couldn't open it for a while."
Sudi looked at the two puppets with a wry smile, and said as if jokingly, "I was looking down at the screen from behind. Seeing how fast you two were, I thought there was a monster rushing out."
Sudi shook his head, he was so scared that he didn't even have time to look, and led the way straight to the coordinate point.
Zhou Yuli had consumed a lot of energy in a short period of time, and had relied on his own strength to pull several people up. He was so exhausted that his face turned pale.
Pei Zhao took out some energy beans from his bag and fed them to him: "Fortunately, Sudi remembered to let me bring some. My preparations are still too incomplete."
In fact, before leaving, Pei Zhao asked Sudi if he could buy energy supplements at the system center, which would be useful for the dungeon. As a result, Sudi said that he still had some left, and if he really wanted to go there, he might not have time to buy them.
When Zhou Yuli's complexion returned to normal after eating the energy candy beans, Pei Zhao and Bai Zhou and the others looked around the place.
It is indeed a silver-white building with a towering roof.
Just as Sudi had said before, there was a sinking thing in the center - something like a pool, filled with scarlet liquid.
But there is also something different. At the end of the red pool, there is an additional metal device.
Like some assembly lines, the liquid taken out of the pool is filtered several times, becomes clear, is poured into bottles, and is compressed into small cans by machines. It is high-energy drinking water that can be found everywhere in the center of the system.
It looks like a normal operation, but the taste here is too weird.
Same flavor as the lower level.
"What's that smell? It's fishy and a little bit like grass and trees..." Pei Zhao said this and suddenly noticed a bubble popping out of the calm pool.
Then, a piece of white stuff rolled up from the dark red liquid.
Pei Zhao only took one look and felt his stomach churning, and he couldn't help but cover his mouth.
"What is that..." Noticing his sudden change in expression, Bai Zhou and Lan Ji both stood up.
It was a stump.
After seeing clearly what it was, Pei Zhao suddenly remembered why the smell was familiar.
It’s the taste of the assessment world.
The smell of blood and vegetation.
It was the third day after the dark sun, with corpses all over the mountains and the smell of the rainforest.
Their eyes fell to the end of the pool again.
...That is to say, the ultimate source of that machine and that small bottle of drinking water is...
Pei Zhao was extremely grateful that he had never purchased this kind of drinking water at the system center.
Sudi's face changed. Zhou Yuli, who had recovered his energy, stood up, took a look, and operated the wooden vine to take out the stump.
The bloody remains were thrown on the ground, and the bright red liquid was extremely dazzling.
"Can I understand that the materials in the system center are processed from the waste from other worlds?" Bai Zhou swallowed and expressed his thoughts.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Pei Zhao agreed with Bai Zhou's statement in his heart.
The scene in front of them was really scary, Pei Zhao and Su Di exchanged glances.
Sudi retracted his gaze: "I will ask Yu for the new coordinates, and we will try to avoid it."
But this is just Sudi's idea.
Seeing the positioning coordinates finally locked above the blood pool, everyone's hearts were shrouded in heavy despair.
"Why is he in a place like that? What are we supposed to do?"
"Flying up is feasible, but above the blood pool, there are always some unexpected events that need to be prepared in advance."
Bai Zhou's mumbling all fell into Pei Zhao's ears.
Pei Zhao sighed, "Let's get ready."
Mirror whip, ice thorns, wooden vines.
First, Bai Zhou's Fire Phoenix carried Zhou Yuli to a high place, touched the empty space with his fingers, and after a few seconds turned around and nodded to the people below.
"Here." Pei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the confirmation information.
He waved to Zhou Yuli, "Let the vines fall down, and go up one by one..."
Before Pei Zhao could finish his words, he heard a heavy, steady sound coming from the empty ground.
But before they could even begin to notice, the wooden vines that had been wrapped around Pei Zhao and Su Di loosened up first.
With his waist trapped by the wooden vines, Pei Zhao couldn't help but look back when he fell to a high place.
The huge human figure was wearing classical European clothing. The sound just now was his footsteps, and he was walking towards where they were step by step.
The cloudy eyes rotated 360 degrees in their sockets, and finally passed through the top of the mountain and looked into Pei Zhao's eyes.
In a moment——
Pei Zhao was shocked. His instinctive gigantophobia kicked in at that moment, and even though he clenched his teeth and climbed up, there was an unconcealable fear in his eyes.
Zhou Yuli pulled Bai Zhou and Lan Ji up as quickly as possible. When they climbed up the stairs to the upper floor together, an old and deep voice, shaking the entire roof, was clearly heard by everyone.
"Your Highness—"
Bai Zhou was stunned, and time seemed to stand still for a moment. When he came to his senses, he saw Pei Zhao and the others were looking at him. He asked in a surprised voice: "He just..."
boom--!
However, before Bai Zhou could finish his words, a loud earthquake occurred again. And the epicenter was right beneath them.
Without bothering to talk anymore, his subconscious reaction was to run away. In an instant, vines flew in all directions and fixed themselves on several fixed points high up in the distance, as well as on the bodies and waists of the five people.
The next second, my feet were empty.
The ceiling that was originally built between the two floors collapsed with a loud bang, and in front of him was an enlarged, turbid eyeball.
They should be thankful for the vines that were tied tightly around their waists, preventing them from falling directly.
But it's not a good thing. Although they couldn't fall down, the violent shaking made it impossible to get back up by arm strength alone, not to mention that the collapse was still continuing.
With his cloudy eyeballs fixed on Bai Zhou, the giant took a few quick steps, stretched out his hand, and held Bai Zhou.
Bai Zhou's condition was not good. He was dizzy and felt like vomiting, but when his eyes met the giant, his expression suddenly changed.
A trace of surprise flashed across those faces, which looked noble when they were a little cold, but it quickly disappeared.
With his head held high, even though he was sitting on his palm, he still revealed a disdainful look. He just glanced lightly and raised his hand. The fire burned the wooden vine and released him.
The giant held the white boat and slowly knelt down. His deep, old voice repeated once more: "Your Highness."
The collapse finally stopped. Zhou Yuli first manipulated the wooden vines to return to the upper level, and continued to use the previous method to pull people up one by one.
Crawling around the broken cave, Zhou Yuli stopped Pei Zhao from falling down while asking Lan Ji, "Is that your man?"
There seemed to be uncertainty in Lan Ji's eyes. He opened and closed his lips several times before finally speaking: "...It seems to be the tower keeper?" He said, but seemed unsure. "Sorry, the voice and figure have changed, but the face is somewhat similar."
"Isn't he the one guarding the tower?" Sodi on the side spoke up, "I wanted to go out of the tower to take a walk, but he stopped me and said I couldn't go out. I was the savior at that time!"
Lan Ji also remembered this incident. He had just come to Baizhou at that time and had not intervened in the reception of Sudi, but he had seen this man before: "He is a very old man. Why is he here?"
The same question was also asked by Bai Zhou.
"Why are you here?"
The giant, with non-standard luggage, gradually stood on both knees instead of one. Tears flowed from his cloudy eyes as he told Sudi word by word how he was brought back by the system for transformation and how he became what he is now.
"...Today, I have changed from a tower keeper in Hall City to a tower keeper here." The old man sighed slightly.
"So, they have been capturing people from various worlds to serve as cheap labor here." Bai Zhou spoke with a firm tone, "It's really crazy!"
The old man trembled all over at the anger of the royal family. He continued to complain: "...People serve machines. What they want to do is to become a new creature that transcends human civilization."
What they want to do is never to destroy human civilization.
But it is above that.
AI, which once only served humans, now hopes to take revenge on humans in the same way after it developed thoughts.
"There are many people who have been captured and reformed. They don't want us to escape, so they change us into various appearances," said the old man.
Bai Zhou's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Or maybe, in their eyes, humans are ugly and sick."
Bai Zhou still remembers the old man in front of him, in the spire under his jurisdiction. The old man was capable but also stubborn. He often did not understand orders and only knew how to execute them. Although Bai Zhou didn't communicate with him often, he was always respectful. Sometimes he would waive his courtesy when there was no one around, and he would also nod slightly to show goodwill when they met.
In his memory, the old man was old but always clean, with normal skin color and meticulously dressed, like a simple old man.
But now, his whole body seemed to be suffering from some kind of disease, with light-colored scars all over it. His whole body seemed to be inflated, but his joints were thin.
Deformed and ugly.
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