dark moon

Chapter 406 Talks
"Is it ready?"

"Everything is ready." In the early morning, in a corner on the outskirts of the city, Mia straightened up and raised her thumbs in response to Shuer's inquiry. Under her feet, a huge magic circle was glowing faintly, and the light on the magic circuit gradually Faded away, and soon, the ground returned to normal. There was no difference from the surroundings. Only mages who were proficient in magic could sense it. There were faint magic fluctuations all the time. Once activated, there would be a corresponding response. Effect.

"Very good, then the final preparations are completed." Shuer nodded, "You can contact the city hall and get ready to take action."

Around Mia, the other six Shadow Chasers were watching, and even Delia was watching the completion of the magic circle.After spending the past few days with the Shadow Chasers, the little girl no longer expressed surprise. In her heart, it was normal for these strange new friends to flash and get angry. What about the idiots who pick acorns out of their hair and try to trick themselves into trying them? It’s not surprising that they do anything beyond ordinary people’s ability to understand.

Of course, having said that, it is still a very novel experience to witness such a complex magic circle gradually taking shape in front of my eyes. The beautiful and terrifying light blue big sister in the girl's eyes clearly did nothing and just closed her eyes. Standing there with her arms spread out, countless luminous lines extended outward from her feet. Layers of rings, criss-crossing lines, and incomprehensible magical symbols between the lines were automatically generated under her feet. .The girl heard from the uncle that this thing is called a teleportation circle, which allows people to appear directly in the center of the circle from dozens or hundreds of kilometers away. It is everyone's last resort.Delia was not surprised why the Shadow Chasers left an escape route, because she knew that these people were about to take her with them on a big adventure that attracted worldwide attention.

Yes, going deep into the hinterland of the mechanical camp, climbing to the Tower of Babel, looking for lost pre-war technology and information, and trying to find the weaknesses of the mechanical camp. This is the content of the adventure, and it is also the agreement reached in these days of talks.

The cross-world exchange meeting lasted for three days and ended yesterday. This was the result of both parties trying their best to pursue efficiency. If under normal circumstances, it would not have ended in ten days.

Because both sides really don’t understand each other’s situation at all, especially the local side.Shadow chasers can also use the city network to gain a certain understanding of the situation of Brown Star, at least the situation that has been disclosed in the past few decades, but the local side really does not have any channels to understand another place that is so far apart that it cannot be calculated by distance. In this world, it is impossible to negotiate any resolution. Therefore, both sides spent a lot of time introducing each other's situation. This part is the main content of the talks.

During the three days of talks, the Brown Star side showed enough sincerity and revealed almost all the information. In Shuer's words, they wanted to use us. If they succeeded, the information would be completely meaningless. If they failed, , Dead people don’t reveal secrets, of course they are generous.Of course, this is just talk, because the Brown Star attaches great importance to the information and the sincerity of the information. The Shadow Chasers have indeed received it. Unlike the previous meeting with the president, they learned a lot in this meeting. Contents that cannot be understood at all from the city’s open network make many speculations no longer remain in the speculation stage.

Sure enough, just as the shadow chasers had guessed, there was no capital region at all. At first, the Brown Stars did not discover this fact, but as time went by, communication links were re-established between the cities in the sky, and each city sent the After summarizing the allocated resources, it was found that these resources cannot be supported by a so-called capital region. To exploit resources of this type and scale, the area of ​​the capital region must cover at least one-third of the Brown Star. Realize, and if such a large area can be controlled, there will be no need for humans to huddle in the Sky City.

Soon after various cities confirmed this conclusion, the mechanical camp revealed their true colors. They were not as vicious as people thought before, they were just absolutely rational.The mechanical camp knows that although its side is far superior to humans in other aspects, its most fatal weakness is that it does not have the creativity of humans. And if a civilization loses its creativity, it is equivalent to losing its future.

Therefore, in order to make up for its own shortcomings, the mechanical camp captured the remaining humans and asked them to research new knowledge on their behalf. The so-called mechanical invasion was just to put pressure on the human side and allow humans to burst out to their greatest potential on the edge of despair.After the problem was discovered by humans, they simply jumped to the front desk to talk to the human camp, and the two sides reached a tacit understanding of serious inequality.

The top management of the human side must keep secrets for the mechanical side, try their best to convince the public that the capital area does exist, try their best to maintain the past cooperation model, and exchange new research results for all necessary supplies, while the mechanical side needs to reduce the pressure on the human side and weaken the mechanical side. The intensity of the invasion ensures the safety of each sky city to the greatest extent. The few sky cities that have been lost in the recent period are actually those cities that have accumulated a large number of troops and launched active attacks on the mechanical side. As a result, They underestimated the strength of the mechanical camp and instead captured the city, causing the city to fall and hundreds of thousands of people to die. The way these people took the initiative was to try to capture the Tower of Babel.The Tower of Babel is the common lifeblood of machines and humans. Humans need the energy provided by the Tower of Babel to support the operation of the floating city. In addition to the mechanical camp also needing the energy of the floating city, they cover almost the entire planet's signal transmission. , are also transmitted by the Tower of Babel.Once the Tower of Babel in a certain place is destroyed, the activity of the mechanical camp individuals in this area will be reduced, and the combat capabilities will be greatly reduced. And if some destructive data are directly imported into the system of the Tower of Babel, then these data It will spread to the global mechanical camp immediately, which will have a serious impact on the mechanical camp and may even cause fatal damage.

In fact, in recent years, the city in the sky where the Shadow Chasers are located has been under increasing pressure from mechanical invasion, which is also directly related to the risk of sending spies to try to infiltrate the Tower of Babel a few years ago. If the two sides had not started a direct war, , I am afraid that what Xiure and the others saw was already the ruins of a city.

But even so, the city's top officials still refused to give up and continued to try to invade the Tower of Babel.Because the statement that the Tower of Babel is the biggest weakness of the mechanical camp has long been a well-known secret, and high-level people in every city know it.Of course, no one has succeeded so far, so no one can be sure whether this is a target deliberately exposed by the mechanical camp to divert attention, but this is the only hope that humans can see. If the status quo continues, The technological level of the machine side continues to improve, and the gap between the two sides is getting wider and wider. Human beings will always become captive animals. It is better to give it a try. If it succeeds, maybe human beings can still have a future.

Only the officials attending the meeting in Sky City knew about this information. Others, including senior officials from the municipal government and the military, did not know about it. They felt that every day was as normal as usual, which also affected their judgment.So, when the Shadow Chasers appeared, in view of the conflict between the military and the municipal government, other senior military officials directly issued attack instructions to the Shadow Chasers who were suspected of being high-level members of the black market. As a result, the war broke out and the city suffered another blow. hit hard.

However, for the city's top leaders, this actually made them overjoyed, especially from the news brought back by the black market president, who was also the head of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, they saw the greatest hope since the mechanical apocalypse.

These aliens are simply the best candidates to invade the Tower of Babel. Their terrifying personal combat capabilities are enough to crush the entire city's combat troops. They must be able to protect themselves even in the face of the mechanical tide on the ground, not to mention they still have There are many strange abilities that are beyond the scope of understanding, such as disappearing inexplicably in front of the surveillance personnel. The city's top officials unanimously believe that if anyone can resist the mechanical camp and counterattack into the Tower of Babel, it must be them. A few, so as the meeting progressed, the more they learned about the strength of the Shadow Chasers, the more enthusiastic the attitude of the world's top leaders was, especially in the city below. In the end, the attitude could even be described as flattering. The Shadow Chasers It can be seen that in order to get their side to agree to help humans invade Babel TC City, the high-level officials may agree to any request, except of course the scientific and technological information that is the lifeblood of the city.

These scientific and technological data are not only the currency for cities to exchange resources, but also contain human resistance against the mechanical camp. All cities have unified their views, and the results reported every year are selectively reported, even if the resources allocated next year are insufficient. Some sensitive results must also be hidden to prevent the machine camp from growing infinitely and leaving the human combat power far behind.Therefore, even with the Shadow Chasers, the city's top management still maintained the greatest degree of caution to prevent the leakage of scientific and technological data. Unfortunately, they did not know that almost all the scientific and technological data in the city had been copied to Wei's equipment.

Not only are they very strict, they even hope to obtain more technology from the shadow chasers, so they do not hesitate to ask for technology exchange, but unfortunately, the shadow chasers are absolutely impossible to accept this condition.

Are you kidding? Although Wei's memory contains a large amount of high-end technological information from her original world, the problem is that those are too high-end. For this world, most of them are castles in the air with no possibility of application at all, and low-level Some technologies are not worth storing records in that world, so even if the Shadow Chasers have not successfully copied the civilization records of the native world, it is impossible to meet their requirements.

As a result, the hope of technology exchange was shattered, but the attempt to commission the Shadow Chasers to invade was unexpectedly successful.

(End of this chapter)