Chapter 112 The Mechanical Era That kiss was fierce, it even made Shi Yu a little...
Since the beginning of the Mechanical Age, there has been no longer a distinction between day and night, nor between sunny and rainy days, nor between natural weather phenomena such as wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. A day still lasts for twenty-four hours, but at all times the sky and the earth are a hazy blue, and the weather no longer changes.
A persistent blue mist hangs over the distant horizon, growing thicker and thinner as you ascend. Deep within the mist lies a corrosive liquid that would instantly dissolve both humans and robots.
Only by traveling in a military spaceship can one break through that layer of blue mist and reach the outside world.
Currently, only a few scientists from the Empire have been there. According to the scientists, the cosmic civilization outside the Blue Mist has disappeared, which also explains why Earth lost its day and night, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning after the great war.
That corrosive blue fog is actually protecting the Earth.
The entire city was built like a giant maze, with houses built haphazardly, not only on the ground but also in the air, each with a different style and size. Moreover, not all buildings were built upright; some were built upside down, with roofs facing downwards. They could even be moved at will, which was permitted by the empire, but those responsible for any accidents would bear the consequences themselves.
On her way home, Eve came across a villa that was "moving".
The villa was moving very fast; from a distance, it looked like a giant monster flying towards them.
Although Eve was not yet very familiar with her new body, she was very agile and skillfully dodged the attack, while several aircraft following behind her were unable to avoid it in time and crashed into it.
In fact, such accidents are not uncommon, because the Empire does not care about these matters and has not promulgated any relevant laws. After all the accidents occur, individuals are responsible, so the robots that cause the accidents start fighting at the drop of a hat.
The destructive power of robots fighting is naturally very high; they can easily blow up surrounding buildings or blast their opponents into the air.
Of course, this doesn't mean that robots don't value life. Generally, robots have their own genetic backups at home. Even if they die, their family members can take their genetic backups to the Imperial Genetic Management Bureau, fill out some information, and apply for resurrection. As long as the robot isn't an irredeemable villain, the Genetic Management Bureau usually agrees.
This also makes the robots fearless when they fight.
Eve encountered a total of five fights on her way home from the auction. One of them was in front of her house, where two groups of people were fighting over some trivial matter. They ended up knocking off the gold trim on the giant European-style square pillar at the entrance of her manor.
Seeing that the two groups were about to engage in a fierce battle, Eve decided to personally intervene and mediate.
Eventually, Eve intervened and the two groups stopped fighting.
Actually, they were all seriously injured and lying on the ground unable to move.
The gold trim on the pillars at the entrance of Eve's manor wasn't knocked off; instead, the pillars snapped in half...
Yes.
Eve smashed it herself.
Eve stood silently in front of the broken pillar for a while, then went home covered in blood.
The servants she encountered along the way bowed to her as if nothing was amiss, seemingly unfazed by Eve's appearance.
As soon as Eve entered the living room, she saw three cages on display. The staff who delivered the items from the auction were waiting and came forward to hand her a form to sign as she entered.
Eve licked the blood from her fingertip, took the form, signed it, and casually asked, "Do you give away free gifts when you order something?"
"No." The staff member took the form, walked over and lifted the lid of two of the cages. Inside were two fair-skinned, slender boys. Although their looks were not as good as Shi Yu's, they were still quite handsome. The staff member smiled and said, "This is a gift from Lieutenant Colonel Karen."
This is quite intriguing.
Eve leaned back on the sofa, stroking her chin in thought. According to the original owner's memories, she had no prior interaction with this Lieutenant Colonel Karen. Why would she inexplicably give her something?
That Lieutenant Colonel Karen is a B-rank warrior, and this body of hers is an A-rank warrior. Could it be... that she's trying to curry favor?
Eve hates social niceties and complicated, brain-draining things, and she's too lazy to maintain a relationship with an annoying NPC.
“Send them back…” Eve stopped mid-sentence, a smile slowly spreading across her face as she seemed to remember something. Her blue eyes blinked, and her voice was sweet and clear. “Never mind, let them stay. Please thank Lieutenant Colonel Karen for me.”
After the staff left, Eve instructed the maid to move the three cages to a place against the wall and place them side by side. Then she covered them with a black cloth, pointing to each cage in turn, her smile growing wider and wider.
"one two three……"
"Fun!"
After dinner, Eve lay on the sofa, comfortably eating fruit and waiting for Mo Rugui to arrive.
She didn't believe Mo Rugui wouldn't return.
As expected, Mo Rugui entered the room at 8:10.
"How about we play a game?"
Although the words implied a desire to solicit the other party's opinion, no action was taken.
Eve jumped up from the sofa, walked around the three cages, turned to face Mo Rugui, and said, "The person you want is in one of these three cages. You get one chance. If you choose correctly, you can take him away. How about it?"
Mo Rugui remained silent. He looked at Eve for a while, then turned to look at the three cages, scanning them one by one before finally pointing to the leftmost cage.
"this."
"So agreeable?" Eve skipped around Mo Rugui, her smile both innocent and malicious, making it impossible to tell whether she had made the right choice or the wrong one. "Are you sure?"
Mo Rugui: "Confirmed."
"Oh, what a pity..." Eve sighed as she slowly pulled down a corner of the black cloth with her fingers. When two-thirds of the cloth was pulled down, she finished her sentence, "You guessed right."
When she said the word "了" (le), Eve's smile froze on her face, and then her expression changed drastically, "How could this be..."
The cage was empty.
Eve rushed forward two steps to check the lock on the cage, then turned around and quickly lifted the other two black cloths. The boys that Lieutenant Colonel Karen had given her were in both cages, but Shi Yu was nowhere to be seen.
"Is it fun?" Mo Rugui looked at her expressionlessly, clearly thinking she was teasing him.
"No, I'm not joking with you. The auctioneers sent three cages in total, saying that these two people were a gift from Karen, so I only saw these two. I haven't lifted the black cloth covering this cage since it arrived, so I don't know when he disappeared..."
"Could he have escaped on his own?"
Eve couldn't hide her emotions; she looked bewildered and annoyed as she spoke, and her expression didn't seem like she was lying.
Mo Rugui temporarily believed her explanation and analyzed, "All of the player's items are ineffective in this instance, so the possibility of him escaping on his own is very small, wait..." Mo Rugui suddenly looked at Eve, "You mean, Lieutenant Colonel Karen? The other two little boys were sent by Lieutenant Colonel Karen?"
“Yes, I don’t know what he’s thinking either. Could it be…” Eve’s eyes suddenly lit up. She looked up at Mo Rugui, and the two exchanged a glance—they had the same idea!
"Walk!"
The two left in a hurry.
The official live stream of Automata –
【Um, do you guys want to analyze this again? While your logic is sound, this isn't the reason this time!】
[Hilarious! How can this be analyzed? Even I, with my God-like perspective, couldn't have come up with this reason!]
[Lieutenant Colonel Karen was hosting a private pool party at her home when two people inexplicably barged in and beat her up. Lieutenant Colonel Karen: ?]
[The buyer who took the picture of Yuyu even questioned him about where Yuyu was. Lieutenant Colonel Karen: You took the picture yourself and are now asking me where she is? Does that make any sense?!]
[And the tone actually sounded convincing! Lieutenant Colonel Karen was enjoying a wonderful evening with two beautiful women on either side of her, and you barged in and questioned her. Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Karen was angry! Can't Lieutenant Colonel Karen be angry?]
[He can get angry! So he got beaten up even worse, hahaha—(laughs very loudly)]
[Lieutenant Colonel Karen: I'm the biggest culprit.]
...
Where is Shi Yu?
Shi Yu herself didn't know either.
He waited for a long time in that dimly lit room. The robots came in several times. Qinglan was taken away before him. When it was his turn, all the cages around him were empty. Before leaving, the robot lifted the black cloth and injected him with a syringe. He didn't know what the syringe was. Not long after the injection, his mind began to feel dizzy and his strength gradually disappeared.
He had previously obtained some antidote potions from the reward boxes given after completing dungeons, but in this dungeon, all items were grayed out and unusable.
Shi Yu remembered being taken to a brightly lit place, probably the auction venue. He couldn't see the scene in front of him clearly; the light was so bright it was as if the sun was shining directly into his eyes, and the noisy, bustling sounds exploded in his ears like thunder.
In the end, it seems he was photographed by someone named Eve?
When Shi Yu regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a bed. The bed was very wide and large. He was sleeping in the center of the bed. The surrounding light was dim, and he could only vaguely see a tall figure sitting on the side of the bed.
Shi Yu also saw a little girl named Eve carrying a chainsaw in the Platinum Supermarket instance.
But she wasn't that tall.
Or is it that the Eve who photographed him wasn't the Eve he knew?
Shi Yu noticed that he had regained some strength. He propped himself up on the bed and slowly sat up. The person beside the bed moved when he heard the sound and slowly turned his head.
The bedside lamp was turned on, its warm orange light illuminating the man's handsome face.
Shi Yu was stunned on the spot.
It took several seconds for him to come to his senses, "Shen Su?"
Shen Su's face was expressionless; he looked at him with a very calm gaze.
But the calmer Shen Su was, the more uneasy Shi Yu felt. Shen Su's expression before entering the dungeon was still in his mind. He originally thought that Shen Su would settle accounts with him after the dungeon was over, but who knew that Shen Su would actually come in as well.
Shi Yu couldn't help but shrink back, swallowed hard, and asked, "How did you get here?"
Shen Su remained silent, staring at him for a while before suddenly grabbing his chin and kissing him.
That kiss was fierce.
The kiss was so intense that Shi Yu felt a little pain.
Shi Yu tried to struggle, raising his hand and then letting it fall again. Thinking about it from another perspective, if he were Shen Su, he would also be angry. In the end, he let Shen Su kiss him with a sense of punishment, his slender wrist resting on the edge of the bed, occasionally gripping the sheets.
I don't know how long the kiss lasted before Shen Su stopped and let go of him.
"How did you..." Shi Yu's breathing quickened, her slightly parted lips were red and moist, and her dark eyes glistened with tears, with a hint of rouge at the corners. Her voice was a little hoarse, "You came in?"
Shen Su's eyes showed a bit more warmth, indicating that he had calmed down somewhat.
"I spent six hours helping Qiu Xiaoyuan clear the dungeon and got a guest ticket." Shen Su sat back on the bed. They had just kissed for a long time. Shi Yu was breathing heavily and looked very disheveled, while Shen Su was nonchalant and his breathing was not disordered.
Shi Yu nodded. He sat up straight, straightened his clothes, and gathered his thoughts, preparing to share what he knew about the dungeon with Shen Su: "The system provides almost no information about this dungeon; players have to explore it themselves. I was locked in a cage when I entered, and I got some information about the dungeon's background from an NPC who was also locked in a cage..."
"No rush," Shen Su interrupted calmly.
He pushed Shi Yu back onto the bed, his movements slow but irresistible.
"Open the game panel and make it visible to me," Shen Su commanded.
Shi Yu lay on the bed, not understanding what Shen Su was going to do, but he did as he was told.
Shen Su operated his own game panel with one hand and Shi Yu's game panel with the other. Then, Shi Yu saw a familiar system message pop up, accompanied by a screen full of red roses—
Congratulations! You and player Chensu have become the 4546th couple in the entire server!
Shen Su took off his shirt and threw it aside, then pressed down on him with his powerful body.
"Let's build up our favorability first."
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