Chapter 165 The Evil God in the Steam Engine

The crowd gathered around the steam engine suddenly quieted down. The roar of metal was particularly harsh in the warehouse. Chloe opened her eyes wide and looked at Hughes with confusion and shock.

"Not Anu? But..." Her throat trembled with disbelief. The three of them had clearly successfully communicated with the machine soul. If the machine soul roaring at this moment was not the one they were familiar with, then what had just responded to them? !

Could it be that Hughes was wrong? Chloe thought subconsciously, expecting a definite answer but also fearing the truth that might overturn her cognition.

Several banshees reacted, one rushed to Zeus, and another pulled Zeus over. They looked at the steam engine vigilantly, but the roaring huge machine seemed to have no changes.

Xius felt his heart beating very fast. The moment he touched the machine soul, he felt something strange. This machine soul seemed to be roaring something all the time, which was the exact opposite of the silent A Nuo.

Just the opposite?

As if Xiu Si had grasped some clues to the truth, he suddenly turned around and grabbed Monica's wrist, speaking quickly: "How did you communicate with the machine soul? What did you say and how did it respond? Tell me in detail!"

Monica was a little frightened. She took a step back and whispered, "I, I just told it to control the pollution and use it as fuel. It can't let it escape. It seems that's all it needs to do its job well."

"Did it respond to you?"

Monica bit her lip and said, "It seemed to be saying something, but it was a little vague and I couldn't hear it clearly."

"You've been saying that? You were saying that before you?"

"Yes, it seemed to be saying something to me the moment I touched it. I tried to listen, but I couldn't hear it clearly. Its voice was too strange, like a whisper in my ear."

"No, that's not right. Machine Souls are not like this. Machine Souls are always silent. This endless whispering is more like—"

Zeus turned his head and stared at Chloe. The orange-red-haired girl obviously thought of something. She took a deep breath and said through gritted teeth: "More like an evil god!"

The machine spirit is taciturn, but can receive human words; the evil god chatters incessantly, but will never communicate with mortals.

People stared at Chloe in a daze, shocked by her words. Chloe was also confused. She had clearly followed the steps of the Mechanical Temple. How could she summon the evil god? "Chloe! You have dealt with the evil god before. What should we do?" Zeus notified the other banshees in the mind link and shouted to Chloe. Although he was a little uncertain, it was better to be careful. Who knows if a new evil god was really born in this steel behemoth? "Damn, I don't know either. The Lord of Moths is a bound evil god, which is different from this one! Anyway, retreat first and observe what it is!" After a pause, she continued, "Don't worry, it must not be a new evil god. I even suspect that it is also controlled!"

"Being controlled? What does that mean?"

"The evil god will expand, devour, and grow involuntarily, and it has been running stably for such a long time. This cannot be done by the evil god itself. Only a controlled evil god like the Lord of Moths would be like this!"

"Then how to deal with the controlled evil god?"

“No need to deal with it.”

Chloe gradually calmed down. She bit her nails and thought carefully for a while: "The controlled evil god is safe, as long as he has not lost control."

"Really? I don't have much confidence in your safety standards."

Chloe glared at Hughes fiercely: "There is no such thing as absolute safety when dealing with evil gods. Our control methods are already very stable."

"So you think he is the evil god controlled by the Mechanical Temple? Is he the mechanical spirit they worship?"

"Impossible. The means of controlling the evil god must involve the extraordinary. I am sure that the mechanical priests of the Mechanical Temple are just mortals. It is unlikely that they can cultivate enough extraordinary people in the Rhine under the nose of the Candlelight Society. You can hate the Candlelight Society, but don't underestimate the investigators."

"In short, this machine shouldn't be too dangerous. Although the arrival of the evil god will be accompanied by danger, it will also absorb pollution. The main danger is the evil god itself."

The onlookers finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the incident happened suddenly and it was the first time for most of them to come into contact with an evil god, albeit a safe one.

There were some noises coming from outside the factory, and a group of banshees quickly rushed in. The support that Zeus had called for had arrived. They were stationed at the test site, and the frequency of accidents here was a bit too frequent. The banshees on duty were already familiar with it.

Then they came in and stared at Monica, Gaia and Chloe warily.

Three people: "."

Hughes shrugged. "Look, it's not that I don't trust you. You three are well-known in the most dangerous eastern test site."

"Speaking of which, the evil god was summoned into this machine? It's trapped here?"

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"Not necessarily. I even think that the evil god's real body is not here. Summoning the evil god is a very complicated project. Any mistake may lead to the failure of the ritual. If you are lucky, nothing can be summoned. If you are unlucky, the evil god will come in a different body - usually the summoner."

"So what you were doing before was a ritual to summon the evil god?"

Xiu Si thought back to the prayers that Chloe and the other two had said to please the machine spirit, and suddenly he felt there were many strange things.

For example, the last sentence - "Light the sacred boiler and awaken the soul in the steel!"

Shouldn't this prayer be to please the steam engine? Why does it sound a bit like... summoning the soul to appear? The first sentence is also suspicious - "Father of steam, spirit of steel, listen to our roaring hymn!"

It clearly pointed out the existence of "Father of Steam", and "Spirit of Steel" might be its nickname, but the Mechanical Temple should worship the machine itself, right? Taking a step back, the Mechanical Temple is not a church, so why would it worship a specific existence? At that time, he only felt that something was wrong, but when he thought about it carefully, he found more and more strange things.

"Is your prayer really okay? I feel something is wrong when I hear it. Didn't you notice?"

"It's indeed wrong, but it doesn't conform to the elements of a supernatural ritual at all. For example, if I want to summon the evil god, I must prepare a body, a sacrifice with supernatural power, a precise prayer, and gather enough people. The last point is the most important. Without a strong enough will that runs through reality, the ritual cannot succeed."

(End of this chapter)