Chapter 645 Artificial Angel - Loloria
At the bottom of the valley with dense vegetation, several people moved forward along the cave in the corner of the mountain wall.
Sura walked in the front, because she was the smallest and could easily get into narrow places. In addition, as an iron core species, she could also put down the supporting iron frame along the way to reinforce the passage to prevent collapse.
After that, it was Fran, Shirley, Guy, and Heshia. Fran knew a lot about the ancient knowledge related to the ruins, and could distinguish many facilities along the way, and could also help solve some common problems. Shirley was stronger and was responsible for some battles. Guy supported in the rear, and Heshia was the last insurance, responsible for medical assistance.
The first half of the passage was very humid, and there were many rotten substances here, some of which were caused by rainwater infiltration, and there were also traces of some animals making nests. Some dead small animal remains and bones could be seen, and the smell was not good.
The passage that continued to go down collapsed halfway. Several people dug for a while and fixed it well before they were able to move forward.
The air here was very stuffy, so the five people had to stop for a while to ventilate for a while before continuing to move forward.
"Do you see the chisel marks on this stone wall? It should be left by the previous excavators." Fran pointed to the obvious scratches on the stone on one side of the passage.
"They should have used some kind of mechanical cutting tool to form such a stone cut." Sura touched it and analyzed it.
"With such technology and strength, no wonder you said before that it might have been excavated below." Guy also came over. The place where the five people stood was very spacious, with two huge rocks supporting each other above.
"We can rest here for a while, and determine the direction to go down later." Fran suggested.
After the five people stopped, Fran took out the metal detector he carried with him and started it. Then, according to the feedback from the instrument pointer on it, he quickly outlined the general situation on the cardboard next to him.
"There are a lot of reactions in the south-east, and there are also reactions in the north and southwest corners, but they are not strong."
"Look at the passage in front. The excavation team also moved to the southeast." Fran marked on the paper.
"Let's go to the southwest corner." Heshia suggested. In her perception, the north was dead silent and partly flooded. Although there were many buildings in the southeast corner, most of them were emptied and dilapidated.
"This..." Fran didn't mean to go to the southeast corner, but was just curious why Heshia was so sure.
"I can feel a different reaction in the southwest corner." Heshia had to explain.
"Telepathy?" Sura guessed with her head on her head.
"Many new races have similar abilities, especially some superior species." She felt that Heshia and Ores must be some rare superior species of new races.
Unlike ordinary new races, superior species often shoulder certain management responsibilities and are also nodes for building a consciousness resonance network. Similar to characters like Song Festival, they have more acute and powerful spiritual consciousness, and their genetic expression is also different from that of ordinary new races. If ordinary new races are produced by automated assembly lines, then superior species are carefully debugged and cultivated by the creator, and some are even the painstaking creations of the dark sun, which cost a lot of energy and emotion, just like their own children.
"Since Heshia said so, let's dig in that direction." Guy had no objection.
"We'll go wherever you say, but don't miss out on the reward." Sherry was just a worker and didn't care about the direction.
"Although the southeast corner has a strong reaction, it may have been taken by someone before us, so let's go to the southwest corner." Fran thought about it and agreed with the direction Heshia pointed out.
"But where should we dig in this direction? We don't have the same good tools as our predecessors." Sura looked at the stone wall on one side.
"From this side." In order to reach the room in her perception, Heshia had to expose some of her abilities.
"From the side, not only can we use the stone support on the side, but we won't encounter any obstacles during the digging." She pressed one hand on the stone wall, and a faint halo spread from the surface of the rock and seeped into the ground.
"This?" The others looked at the girl in surprise, not knowing where she got this perception and detection ability, but it was not easy to ask in detail at this time.
After that, it was a slightly boring excavation process. Except for Heshia and Sura, Guy and the other two took turns to dig out the passage slowly, and several hours passed.
"We can only go here today." Looking at the passage with no exit yet, Fran stuck the shovel on the ground to wipe his sweat.
"Thank you for your hard work." Heshia comforted the few people, and then the five people returned to the camp on the ground from the underground passage to rest.
After Meimei finished the dinner made by Heshia and Sura, the three of them lay down to rest, while Heshia and Sura took turns to keep watch.
The next day, after replenishing water and food, the five people set out again, heading towards the passage dug yesterday, and continuing the unfinished project yesterday.
In this way, another day and night passed. In the evening of the third day, with a burst of rubble rolling down, the passage was finally dug through and connected to a room in the ruins.
"Don't rush down, let's talk about it after ventilating and exhausting for a while." Fran reminded, so the five people simply came out to have dinner in advance.
After dinner, the five people, who were excited, didn't want to sleep at all. They returned to the underground passage again and jumped into the room in the ruins along the broken hole.
This room is about 30 square meters, not very big. There are corroded metal frames inside, which should have been used to store sundries and accessories in the past. Some old fan blade parts can be seen.
Breaking open the rusty iron door, the five people walked along the passage. Some of the rooms on both sides were completely covered with mud, and some still had some parts left.
"Look, this should be a large computer room. The steel frame is full of chips and heat dissipation devices." Sura turned over one of the broken stones and said excitedly about her discovery.
"Can these still be used?" Guy looked at the rusty and soaked structure.
"Many circuit boards are corroded and aged. Even if the crystal in the chip is not broken, it is estimated that it can't be used." Fran shook his head.
"But if you take these back, the Slami Association will buy them at a high price, because some of the precision parts and chip structures can be recycled." He looked at the broken circuit board in his hand.
"In other words, it is very valuable?" Sherry's eyes were very excited.
"That's right. After all, it is a creation of the ancient advanced technology period. Now many technologies have been lost, so it is naturally very rare."
"Let's look at other places. If there are no new discoveries, we will come back tomorrow and dig this place up." Fran suggested.
After that, the few people continued to explore along the passage and found a hollow hall with several connected passages.
"If the entire ruins are regarded as a human neural network, we probably came in at the end of the nerves. This should be a small central nervous system, similar to the spine."
"From the perspective of architecture and psychology, the most critical and important things are often placed on the central or main lines." Fran sketched on the paper with his fingers, analyzing the terrain and environment here.
While the few people were discussing the location of treasures or important information, Heshia held up a lantern and carefully looked at the facilities on the walls and corners, thinking secretly.
There are no skeletons of any creatures here. Either they were all moved before the ruins were abandoned, or the users of the ruins were not normal creatures.
Combined with the abandoned rooms found along the way, it shows that there are not only no traces of beds here, but even no seats. From this point of view, Heshia feels that this may not be a place for humans to live.
Unfortunately, the technology level in this ruins is quite high, and there are no words or books and paper materials engraved on the surface. Everyone found many crystal screens that were used before, but they can no longer be activated.
According to Fran's calculations, everyone moved towards the central passage, but the gate of the passage here was closed.
"I tried it, but I couldn't break it with a shovel. The material it uses is much stronger than a shovel." Guy shook his head.
"Can we only use explosives?" Sherry rubbed his hair.
"Explosives are also difficult." Sura replied.
"Such an alloy door was built with blasting in mind at the time. Ordinary explosives can't break it at all, and with more explosives, I'm afraid the entire ruins will collapse and bury it." Although he said so, Sura was not worried or frustrated.
"So, at this time, we can only rely on our Miss Heshia."
"Me?" Tilan was a little surprised. She could indeed break this door, even with her bare hands, but she didn't know why Sura believed in her so much.
"Of course, if Heshia uses that sword, she will definitely be able to break it." Sura crossed his shoulders and nodded confidently.
It turned out to be the personality weapon. Tilan almost forgot about the sword, because with her current strength, it didn't matter whether she used the sword or not.
"I know." Since Sura said so, Tilan didn't need to reveal anything extra. She and Sura returned to get the sword box hidden in the camp.
Sherry didn't understand the conversation and actions of the two. Why did they all believe that the weak Heshia could break this solid and thick alloy door?
"Ahahaha, you will know later." Guy patted the other's shoulder.
Soon, Heshia and Sura returned.
The iron sword box was opened, and the heavy dark red broken sword fixed inside was taken out and held in Heshia's hand.
With the injection of her magic power, the sword gradually changed from the dark red stone to the color of metal, and the grid engraved on the sword body also appeared deep red.
Holding the sword, Heshia held it horizontally in the air, clasped her hands, and then walked towards the alloy door step by step, and then slowly inserted it into the alloy door.
Waves of green smoke floated on the alloy door, followed by the sound of metal friction. As the girl slowly cut the door open with her sword, some metal wires overflowed from the gap and twisted into a silver-white curved spiral.
A few minutes later, the elliptical alloy plate fell down, hitting the ground with a heavy echo, and the dark passage behind also appeared in front of several people.
Putting away the sword, Heshia followed the others and checked the rooms along the passage.
Perhaps because of the good sealing protection, the preservation of these rooms is particularly complete.
"This is it!" When he opened the door, Fran looked at the large bionic mechanical body in front of him, which was several meters taller than him, in great surprise.
Its appearance is similar to that of a six-legged insect, with a silver metal body, a four-sided flying wing on the back, which can be folded into a thick shell, two pairs of sharp knives in front, and gun barrels that can spray high-temperature heat on both sides of the waist and abdomen. The overall lines are smooth, with a kind of industrial precision and neat beauty.
"Is this a war machine that has not been activated?" Several people observed carefully and cautiously, fearing that this large silver machine would suddenly come alive.
"It should be." Fran took out the lantern, turned the knob on it, and used the principle of Fresnel lens to make its light converge forward.
Under the light, this sleeping silver bionic mechanical body showed its every detail, whether it was the transmission structure of each joint, or the extremely well-processed metal corners, and the riveted plates, all gave people an illusion of coldness and efficiency.
This is definitely not something that ignorant creatures can create, but the crystallization of wisdom and experience.
"It's a pity that such a beautiful thing exists only to kill us." Fran sighed.
"From this point of view, this relic should be left by the Mechanical Council in the past. No wonder there are no humanoid corpses."
Although this bionic mechanical body should not be activated, several people did not touch it up close for the sake of caution, but continued to walk into the inner room.
In the next room, several people saw one cold and intact mechanical body after another. They had different shapes. Some were like mantises, some were like reptiles, some were like bees, but they could be separated and combined. Some were like butterflies, with large and exquisite ultra-thin metal fans on their backs. Everyone guessed that they might be radar or detection mechanical bodies.
"Why are these machines built in the shape of insects?" Sura asked curiously.
"I don't know, but some scholars in the association speculate that it might be that the structure of insects is more compatible with machinery. The bodies of mammals such as humans have a lot of flesh and connective tissue, which is too complicated to simulate with machinery, and there is no need." Fran answered.
Everyone gradually walked towards the last room, which was located at the end of the passage and in the middle.
Heshia used the sword to slowly cut the door open again. As the alloy door fell, the empty and magnificent scene inside appeared in front of several people.
The whole room was like a three-story spherical dome. On the inner wall of the sphere were many stopped mechanical arms. The front ends of these mechanical arms were like scalpels with various drills and interfaces. In addition, some of the mechanical arms had metal accessories that had not been removed. It could be guessed that the mechanical bodies in the room were assembled here. However, at this moment, the eyes of several people were not paying attention to these suspended mechanical arms at all, but all focused on the unfinished mechanical body in the center.
She had a nearly human-like appearance, resembling a human girl around 14-15 years old, especially her face, which looked very gentle, but from the neck down, it was a light white shell like clothes. Her arms drooped naturally, and the mechanical joints of her fingers could be clearly seen. The shape of her legs had the beauty of human curves, slightly fleshy, but did not cover the metal joints and connecting rivets above. Behind her were metal wings that had been spread out but not yet completed. One of the wings only had the root part, and the other was nearly completed, with a faintly visible complex circuit imprint and seven small jet nozzles arranged.
In addition, behind this mechanical girl, there are countless circuit cables, which are connected to the girl's back and the back of her head, connecting the entire spherical space, like the brain of the entire ruins.
When the five people stepped into this room, the cable indicator light behind the mechanical girl began to flash, and the originally static green cursor began to flow again, as if countless information was converging from this ruins to the mechanical girl fixed on the wall.
[Failed, failed, connection failed...]
[Failed, failed, connection failed...]
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[Artificial angel, mechanical life beta sub-terminal, code name: Loramiya, failed to connect to the Aigeka network, unable to obtain final authorization, according to Article 163 of the agreement, will be urgently activated when an invasion occurs...]
[Mission code detection completed, data input 86.25% (stopped), energy remaining (7.2%), protection device retrieval failed...]
A series of characters quickly passed through the girl's eyes, and the deep emerald eyes also changed from the previous dullness to agility.
When she slowly raised her head, the mechanical gaps on her body flowed through the bright emerald light, and then converged and hid. The originally loose body folded up, and the previously clear mechanical gaps closed, forming a smooth and perfect whole. At this time, it is difficult to distinguish it from humans if you don't look closely.
The cables behind her popped out, and the jets on the single-sided wings and the lower half of the skirt armor began to operate. With a slight buzzing sound, the airflow slowly lifted her body.
"The Meliancast system is activated, Loramiya is coming."
The pupils representing intellect and thinking appeared in the emerald eyes, and then invisible electronic pulses spread in all directions, sweeping across the entire underground ruins.
(End of this chapter)
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