Chapter 294 Machine 33
The statue of the Queen of Stars and Moon once again stands in the center of the central street.
The huge screen was playing images from more than a decade ago.
The Star-Moon Queen, who existed in the stereotype of the people in the Mechanical City, was a debauched person. After peeling off the layers of false cloaks, her true face was revealed, which made everyone feel sad.
It turns out that the nightmare that happened that year was planned by Louis to seize power. He killed countless people's lives for his experiment in human evolution.
And he also tasted the bitter fruit of body modification.
In the leaked video, a giant robot, like a god descending from heaven, saved Miss Jianyue from danger.
Its mechanical paws were like heavy mountains, crushing the mechanical army wherever it stepped. The flames from its two cannons were like nimble dragons, devouring everything in an instant. And the bullets fired from that mechanical right arm, which had made Louis so proud, looked like child's play compared to the bullets fired by the giant robot.
Most astonishing of all, the giant robots have capabilities that surpass human technology by hundreds of times.
In just a few minutes of fighting Louis, it had acquired Louis's built-in program code. Louis had already been injected with a chip, which made him stronger, but also exposed him to a fatal weakness in the face of the giant robot. The giant robot hijacked his program and tampered with his instructions. Louis watched helplessly as his proud right arm was torn away from his body, and those organs that had not yet been transformed also broke apart...
At the end of the video, the giant robot uses itself as armor to block the damage caused by Louis' self-explosion.
Without the giant robot, Louis's self-destruction would have reduced the entire mechanical city to ruins. However, Louis's self-destruction only buried the godlike robot in a pile of scrap metal.
Its figure briefly appeared in the Mechanical City, but it remained forever in the hearts of everyone in the Mechanical City.
With Miss Jianyue's tacit approval, giant robots became the people's belief.
They spontaneously built statues in the image of robots.
The slums have been renovated, and the royal family is planning to transform them into new residential areas. Tech companies are no longer monopolized by Dragon Technology, and with the rise of new businesses, people's welfare is improving...
The Mechanical City is no longer a huge stone weighing on everyone's shoulders, but a beautiful jade that can be carved and polished, and a safe haven where people can rest in the distant future.
The new queen is extremely busy, but for the people, the improvement in their lives has given them time to entertain themselves. Countless rumors have been circulating in the Mechanical City recently, saying that the queen is about to choose a husband, and that she doesn't care about status, only ability.
Boys of appropriate age in every household were given great attention, dressed up, acted coquettishly, and did everything they could to attract attention in various places where the queen might appear. However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that no matter where the queen appeared, she was always accompanied by a man with a ferocious face.
"That's the mechanic from the Royal Research Institute! He's Mr. Yu's apprentice. It's said he and the Queen are childhood sweethearts. He's willing to endure hardships for her, spending years at Dragon Technology! If he also wants to become the Queen's husband, then is there any hope for the rest of us?"
"The way he looks at the Queen is so obvious, how could he follow her everywhere..."
"But, he's dark and strong. The Queen definitely doesn't like his type. After all, the Queen is a young girl in her twenties. She definitely likes boys like me..."
"The Queen should like someone like me!"
“…”
Compared to the Queen's marriage, the news of the Queen's sister's resurrection only circulated for a few days.
Miss Jianxing, who was recorded as having died in an explosion at a young age, had actually been living in the slums. It was said that the giant robot had been Miss Jianxing's nanny.
Many people have doubts about whether Miss Jianxing is the real Miss Jianxing. After all, everyone wants to daydream and imagine that they are the real queen's sister, performing a drama of true and false queen's sister in their minds.
Jiang Chan, the slum girl who was envied and turned into a phoenix, sat with her knees hugged in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. The transparent glass seemed like an insurmountable ravine. Looking from afar, small bronze statues of robots were cast around the royal city, and several mechanical nannies walked on the road with orderly steps.
"Miss, your breakfast is here." The silver robot asked gently.
Jiang Chan's eyelids fluttered, like a candle flickering in the cold wind. She turned and looked at the robot. Made of silver metal, its body was sleek and round, its head slightly rounded. Its metallic eyes flashed red, and her eyes suddenly felt sore. She tilted her head, continued to stare out the window, and said in a muffled voice, "Put it down. You can get out. Thank you."
"It's my honor to serve you, young lady. Please call me if you need anything." The robot turned and left.
The door is closed.
Only Jiang Chan was left.
Jiang Chan sat quietly on the windowsill for a moment, then walked over to the low table and ate a simple breakfast. The robot took the tray away. Next door was the landscape room Ming Jianyue had specially arranged for her. Ming Jianyue knew Jiang Chan's preferences and had invested heavily in it. She had just ascended the throne, and even with the help of her former friends, she was still busy every day. Even so, Ming Jianyue still found time to spend with Jiang Chan.
The royal family held several banquets and activities in the citizen area. Jiang Chan always stayed with Ming Jianyue and got to know many friends. She transferred from the Mechanical College to the Royal College. No one knew her identity. As long as students at the Royal College wanted to conceal their identities, no one would take the initiative to inquire about them.
She lived a fulfilling and busy life every day, her mind was filled with all kinds of things, and every corner was filled with new life, leaving no space for Silver Armor.
Jiang Chan put on her AR glasses, and her vision suddenly changed. A series of dilapidated high-rise buildings rose out of thin air, flies fluttered around a garbage dump, and her nostrils were filled with a familiar yet unpleasant smell. Jiang Chan walked forward, but a metal window blocked her view. She tapped the screen twice, and the iron window disappeared, replaced by a small, narrow house.
An old robot is busy in the kitchen.
It had the most ordinary, clumsy, and outdated appearance, its metal shell covered in dents, and the joints of its arms occasionally made a crackling sound, like the dying struggle of a chain about to break. It had red eyes and straight features, like a silent mountain. Its arms suddenly hovered in mid-air, and then its head rose up with a click, its gaze fixed directly on Jiang Chan outside the iron window. The corners of the robot's mouth opened slightly, and a cold, mechanical voice leaked out:
"Young Master, Silver Armor..."
"...I like you, please consider me as a candidate for your partner!"
Jiang Chan no longer cared about what it said. She clenched her palms tightly, her short fingernails almost digging into her flesh. Tears welled up in her eyes, like a puppy drenched by wind and rain. All the new life that had been forced into her mind collapsed, and memories related to Silver Armor flooded in, occupying her mind and squeezing her heart. Jiang Chan felt her blood slowly and slowly turning cold, so cold that she was trembling all over. She was almost out of strength, but she still held on to the window frame tightly, staring at the virtual phantom that looked exactly like Silver Armor through her glasses.
"Silver Armor..."
"Silver Armor..."
"Silver Armor..."
The voice was sobbing. Suddenly, "bang——" Jiang Chan fell to the ground, and her glasses flew off her face and fell heavily to the ground.
Jiang Chan suddenly looked up. The old, dirty streets vanished, the drunkard sleeping next to the garbage dump vanished, the iron window became a chair that tripped her, and the room emitting warm light vanished, along with the silver armor, vanishing from her sight...
Jiang Chan hurriedly reached out to pick up her glasses, but they were broken. She pressed the restart button until her fingertips became numb, but the silver armor still did not appear.
Jiang Chan couldn't hold it in any longer. Ming Jianxing, the one being talked about by everyone these days, Miss Jianxing, who lived a life of luxury and wealth, the pearl held in the palm of the queen's hand, the younger sister who acted as if nothing had happened in front of her elder sister...
It’s all fake, all fake!
The heart hidden inside her body was gradually cooling down. Although her skin was intact, she was like a walking corpse. That was her silver armor, her support since childhood, and the companion that had long been integrated into her life. She couldn't imagine what she would do without the silver armor, but now she had really lost it, and she felt like she was about to die.
Jiang Chan covered her chest tightly and prostrated herself on the ground. Tears fell like beads, hitting the ground and quickly gathered into a small puddle.
"Silver Armor..."
"Silver Armor..."
"Silver Armor..."
The bright lights in the landscape room suddenly went out, and in the darkness, only Jiang Chan's sobbing could be heard. She was in so much pain that she lost the ability to perceive the environment. Although the royal family's life was more affluent, she had lost weight, and her skinny shoulders were trembling. She curled up like an abandoned cub, letting her mouth be torn apart. There seemed to be the sound of gurgling blood, accompanied by the sound of an electric current flowing.
“Ding——”
The lights in the landscape room were bright, as bright as the glaring sunlight. Jiang Chan's crying stopped and she looked up blankly. The moment she looked up, the lights in the landscape room had already been adjusted to the brightness. Jiang Chan supported herself on the ground with her hands and looked around. A strong feeling of being spied on arose again. Her feet were numb, but after the instinctive trembling disappeared, she felt an inexplicable surprise.
She stood up suddenly and looked around, "Shining Armor? Is that you? Shining Armor, you're still with me, right?"
There was silence all around, and the only response to her was the faint crackling sound of electricity.
Jiang Chan bit her lip tightly and asked again and again, but got no reply. She was unwilling to give up and started searching in the landscaping room. She knew there was nothing in the room, but she didn't know where she got the madness from. She pushed over a chair and hid in a corner. Her eyes turned red from crying. At the same time as the chair fell to the ground with a bang, the computer suddenly went black. After a few seconds, the computer screen slowly lit up.
“Squeak—”
The robot stood at the door with its back to the light: "Miss Jianxing, what's wrong with you?"
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