dark moon

Chapter 413 Mental Preparation
After descending to the ground, they heard human voices for the first time except for their own people. The shadow chasers froze. No one was mentally prepared. No one expected that voices would suddenly appear around them.

No one noticed the existence of mechanical beasts around them, not even Safu had any warning. Her hearing was enough to distinguish the faint energy resonance sound in the body of a stationary mechanical beast within ten meters. However, this time, she heard nothing.

Looking at the sound, everyone smiled helplessly. No wonder no one noticed it, because there was no mechanical puppet at the door of the factory. There was just a device that Wei called a speaker. The person who made the sound did not know how far away it was. , of course not aware of its existence.

Xiuer didn't take any unnecessary action. He nodded expressionlessly at the factory gate, turned around and walked back to the road. The other shadow chasers followed him closely, as if they were a group of people who had accidentally deviated from the fixed route. The same patrol team.

The humanoids in the factory obviously did not suspect them. Similar things were common, and this was the third time in just two hours.

In fact, the patrol team of the abandoned city does not go out often, so they are not familiar with the roads around the abandoned city. This time it was because the guide rail elevator of the Sky City suddenly ran, but no humans were found coming down. I suspected that the humans had some conspiracy. Manual patrols have only been strengthened. If it were normal, only ordinary mechanical puppets would be patrolling, and there would be system navigation guidance, but such low-level errors would not occur.

Therefore, the supervisors in the factory did not care, not to mention that Shuuer's reaction was no different from those humanoid puppets whose minds were uploaded incompletely. Under the influence of the power of integration, the supervisors did not notice at all. What they saw through the monitor was Several humans instead of one's own mechanical companions.

"It was so dangerous." The Shadow Chasers didn't let out a sigh of relief until they were dozens of meters away from the factory. Moback wiped off a cold sweat and said with lingering fear, "It scared me. I thought I was discovered, and I almost got an axe." It just hit them. Fortunately, captain, you are alert. If you attack rashly, they will definitely find you."

"Theoretically, this is the case. The power of integration is not omnipotent." Several people maintained normal actions to avoid arousing the suspicion of possible monitors. Shuer looked forward and said without looking back, "Di Leah, can you understand what they're saying?"

"I understand." The girl felt that her heart was still beating violently. The sudden situation just now scared her and made her weak. She really admired the people around her. She didn't know how tough they were. Will can be used to deal with this situation calmly as if nothing happened.The frightened girl was stunned for a while before she understood Xiure's question. She lowered her voice and said, "They speak standard Brown Star language, and they have no accent at all. What's wrong, uncle? Is there any problem?"

"No, no." Shuer nodded thoughtfully, "It can basically be confirmed that some of the puppets here do have human thinking. Not only do they retain human reactions, but they can also use the language that represents civilization. I doubt it. They were originally humans, but for some reason, they were transformed into machines."

"Huh? Boss, what's the reason?" the halfling asked curiously, "Is there really any reason why they should not be good humans and have to turn themselves into machines?"

"Of course there is, otherwise how could the mechanical apocalypse break out?" Xiuer sneered, "Even now, such people still exist, for example..."

"Cultists who worship the Mechanicus." Mia said coldly, "No wonder they worship machines and even betray humans for the sake of machines. It turns out that it is because they have the opportunity to be transformed into machines." "Well, I started to listen to people in the black market talking about it. When these believers, I felt a little strange. Pure despair may not be enough to make these believers crazy enough to betray their own race. There must be other reasons. Ha, as expected, being transformed into a machine does not require They live in fear all day long under the pressure of machinery, and the mechanical body can also get rid of the troubles of life, old age, illness and death. Compared with the fragile body, mechanization is obviously more acceptable to them. In this way, it is not surprising that they turn to the enemy. "

"Huh, every time I hear this kind of thing, I don't feel very good." Militty took a deep breath and curled her lips and said, "But how can they be sure that the machine will not destroy their thinking like the legend says? What about fusion?"

"I'm afraid they can't be sure, at least the first batch must be helpless." Until then, Xiuer turned his head and looked at the factory just now. He was so far away, and there were no buildings around that could hide the image acquisition system. As for arousing the enemy's suspicion, "I guess the earliest group of believers were indeed driven by madness to the mechanical camp. They wanted to die wholeheartedly. Death may not be a relief for them in despair. As a result, not only did they not die, but they got a new life, which strengthened their belief in machinery. If there is no accident, some of them were transformed into machines, and the other part maintained their human form, and then sneaked back to the floating city to develop in secret. New believers.”

"As a result, a steady stream of new blood has joined the mechanical camp, and the mechanical camp has a good understanding of the internal situation in the city." Shuer thought for a while and then said, "I even doubt that the city's senior officials would have known about it a long time ago. This matter is just kept hidden from us because we are worried that we will fall into the mechanical camp."

"It shouldn't be possible." Mia shook her head expressionlessly. "They really hope that we will succeed. This is not fake, because they are even willing to bet on the voices of hundreds of thousands of people. And they want to It is unlikely that they will conceal such important information if they are successful."

"I hope so." Xiuer smiled noncommittally. He was always willing to speculate on others with the greatest malice, so he was not as sure as Mia.However, now that the facts have been inferred, it is no longer important whether the top management of the floating city knew about it in advance. The most important thing now is another problem, Delia's problem.

"Delia." Shuer hesitated for a moment, but finally made up his mind, "I'll give you a piece of advice. You'd better be mentally prepared from now on."

"Ah?" The girl is invisible, so her expression cannot be seen, but her confusion can be heard in her voice, "What are you mentally prepared for?"

"Oh, do you still remember in what name your parents left you to perform undercover missions?"

"Uncle...what do you mean?" Only Moriah could feel that the girl sitting behind her started to tremble violently after being stunned for a few seconds, obviously thinking of something bad, "You are Said, my parents might..."

"Oh, I don't rule out the chance that you will meet them." Shuer sighed deeply, "Of course, this meeting is not something worth looking forward to."

(End of this chapter)