Chapter 166 "Shall Steam Be Profaned by Common Fire?"
"So you understand what I mean, right? The Mechanical Temple only wrote some prayers and fabricated some procedures out of thin air. They don't meet the relevant requirements of the ritual at all. It will never summon the evil god. You can rest assured that I will not joke about our safety."
"You mean this can't succeed?"
"Yes, I saw that those prayers were written with great care, so I recited them, thinking that maybe they would make the machine spirit happy." Chloe nodded and said confidently.
"Then what is this?" Hughes pointed at the steam engine, which was still roaring and burning pollution, and roaring madly in words that no one could understand.
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Chloe opened her mouth and wanted to say something but got stuck in the end. This was totally inconsistent with her understanding of the mysticism, but the ritual was successful. She really summoned an evil. She summoned some unknown thing down. The roaring steam engine in front of her made it impossible for her to deny it.
The expression on her face wavered, revealing a confused look of self-doubt.
"This shouldn't be the case. I don't think I did anything, right?"
"Could it be that there are too many of us watching and we have reached the required number of people?"
"Do you think it's just to gather numbers? It requires unshakable faith. Do you have unshakable faith?"
"We seem to be watching the fun unwaveringly." Chloe turned around angrily. Hughes scratched his head and walked closer to the steam engine: "So what is it? Where is A Nuo?"
Hearing the word "A-niu", Monica suddenly jumped up and rushed to the steam engine with a horrified expression: "Yes, yes, where is my A-niu? If it's not A-niu, then where is A-niu!?"
Her mouth flattened, tears gathered in her eyes, she walked to Xius, grabbed his hand and swung it back and forth: "Anuo, Lord Anuo, please save Anuo."
Xiu Si raised his hand to stop the other female demons who wanted to come forward, and licked his lips: "I actually want to know too, let me give it a try."
"My Lord! Don't go over there, that steam engine is still very dangerous!" The banshees came over.
"It's okay. If you're worried, just cast a flesh and blood magic on me." The banshees behind him looked at each other and nodded, and one of them put her hand on Zeus' shoulder.
With the magic of flesh and blood, lighter injuries can be ignored. Even if someone like Nini withstands the explosion in the water, she will not die immediately. As long as she is not dead, the symbiotic contract can save her.
Hughes took a deep breath and gently placed his hand on the steel of the steam engine - with the flesh magic, he wouldn't even get burned.
Closing his eyes, his consciousness gradually sank, and Zeus tried to communicate with the soul in the machine, the light existence in the steel, with his heart.
"Where is it!*&"
It was still a meaningless roar, but Zeus seemed to hear some fragments of words, and this existence seemed to be looking for something.
And when He noticed Zeus - no, He did not notice Zeus, He was not thinking, not rational, He was just searching subconsciously, moving forward subconsciously, Zeus inexplicably arose this feeling in his heart.
When Zeus noticed this, He seemed to notice Zeus as well, and some kind of connection was generated between the two.
"If you really are the evil god," Zeus muttered, opening his eyes wide to feel the existence of this connection. Sure enough, the next moment, the roar from the opposite side became more tragic.
It seemed like pollution thrown into a fire, wailing and singing, as if it was crying out in pain, as if it was expressing its pity, but Hughes could not understand its words.
Well, it’s not like the evil god has no response at all. At least he does react when he’s being purified.
Zeus thought of this scene when the two sides were connected just now. Although he didn't know why, all the pollution that came into contact with him would be purified, and now it seems that the evil god's body is no exception.
The evil god in the steam engine wailed for only a moment before being cleared away. This time was too short compared to the body of the worker Zeus. It seemed that Chloe's guess was correct. What appeared in the steam engine was not the evil god himself, but fragments with some connection?
Zeus narrowed his eyes. Chloe summoned the fragments of the evil god through the ritual of the Mechanical Temple?
Are the machines really worshipped in the Mechanical Temple? As the strange existence was cleared away, the pollution in the boiler suddenly became manic, and they madly attacked the four walls of the boiler, and the furnace cover was about to be knocked open.
But the next moment, a huge force pressed them tightly into the boiler, and the furnace cover was closed tightly.
"Ah, long time no see."
Feeling that silent but familiar presence, Zeus smiled from the bottom of his heart. This was the machine soul he was familiar with.
A-Nuo still seemed to dislike this name. Its flywheel spun faster, making a squeaking sound, as if in protest.
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The pollution in the boiler is no longer as docile as before, but the heavy and solid steel keeps it tightly inside, giving people an inexplicable sense of security.
"Okay, say hello to everyone." Hughes patted the steam engine and turned to look at the people in the room.
Chloe showed a somewhat strange expression, and cautiously stepped forward to touch it, feeling the will of the machine soul under the steel. Gaia hid behind the snake tail of a banshee, and poked her head out to look over with some curiosity. Monica burst into tears and rushed over to hug the steam engine.
“Wuwuwu, ah, I thought I would never see you again, I was so scared.” She wiped her tears and snot everywhere. “I almost mistook someone else for you just now. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, wuwuwu, please don’t ignore me in the future, I really don’t want to make a mistake again.”
Big drops of tears hit the outer wall of the scalding combustion chamber and were evaporated into curling steam. Steel does not believe in tears and the machine soul will not be weak or hesitant, but the roaring exhaust sound was eventually a little smaller, as if afraid to scare this crying flesh and blood body.
Would steel also look forward to being hugged? This thought suddenly occurred to Hughes.
"Thinking about it carefully, there are indeed a lot of doubts." Chloe came over and whispered, "Do you still remember what the Mechanical Temple said?"
Which sentence? He seemed to know only one sentence, which Chloe had told him before -
"How can steam be desecrated by mortal fire?" Hughes said slowly.
"Yes." Chloe nodded seriously. "I have seen their machines before. They don't have machine souls, nor do they have those weird things. They are just ordinary steam engines. That made me careless."
She licked her lips. "But look at it—the steam cannot be desecrated by common fire. If not common fire, what are they burning?"
(End of this chapter)