Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

"Hey, hey, hey." Seeing the Spider Foreman stepping forward to open the cage, Punk on the side quickly stopped him and explained: "This kid has been like this since the first day we found him - Its sound system has been damaged, and there seems to be something wrong with the central processor."

"It occasionally loses control and destroys everywhere. If General Screamer hadn't placed it here, others wouldn't be able to control it. It would be bad if it ran out and was discovered by people from Caiton City."

"You know... after the empire was destroyed, many of our compatriots suffered torture. It is very rare for someone like it to be able to survive with just this damage."

Hearing this, Spider Foreman slowly stretched out his hand.

As he saw, after seeing Punk, the skeleton warrior began to frantically shake the cage in front of him - the thick iron bars trembled and slowly deformed, giving people the impression that they The feeling of being pulled apart.

The power is astonishing.

But the skeleton warrior behaved exactly as Punk said, as if the circuit was out of order and could only make incomprehensible noises.

Seeing that the bars of the cage were about to be pulled apart, Punk shouted: "Quiet!"

A blue current suddenly surged up on the skeleton warrior's body, exploding with obvious sparks. It also trembled, and its limbs lost power and collapsed to the ground.

The metal cage is just the surface.

What Punk uses to control it is the electronic shackles built into the opponent's body.

The skeleton warrior collapsed to the ground, with stinky green smoke coming out of his body. Only his camera-shaped head could still move slightly, and he turned to look at Punk.

Deep in the lens, red light flashed.

"This will make it quiet... and quiet." Punk chuckled and said to Spider Foreman, "It's okay, it will recover in a while. Like the laboratory you saw downstairs, I have been studying how to cure it. "

"I hope this will happen soon." Spider Foreman nodded, "What is this warrior's name?"

"When General Screamer found it, its code had been erased... But because of its cry, I like to call it 'Agnu', which is more affectionate." Punk squatted down, "Agnu" Gnu, I need you to do me a favor."

He took out the memory chip brought back by the security spider.

"Age..." The broken sounder of the Skeleton Warrior just made a slight noise when it suddenly got stuck.

Because Punk had already stretched out his mechanical arm, removed the back panel of its head, exposed the slot and circuit, took out its own original chip, and then plugged Zero Two's memory chip directly into it.

Flexible mechanical finger beats, debugging functions, input and output conversion... Agnu suddenly lost consciousness. Its head and eyes, as well as a whole camera, emitted a strong light, projecting a blurry light curtain around it. on the wall.

Faintly, it is a first-person perspective of a person trekking in the wasteland, looking at the distant sky fire from time to time, shaking and flickering.

Using a principle similar to that of a panoramic camera, the body of the skeleton is hidden in the projection, and the perspective looks like a floating ghost drone.

Facing the spider foreman's surprised gaze, Punk explained: "This is also a new function I discovered when I was treating and repairing Agnu. The cameras of these skeleton warriors are not only recorders, but also projectors, which can record information at any time. The recorded battlefield conditions were brought back to the rear... By the way, you may not be familiar with it, but what Agnu said just now means he agreed."

"Mr. Punk, with your skills, you should be a famous researcher in the empire." Spider Foreman's tone changed and he praised, "I have never heard of your name before."

You know, even if they are skeletons, most skeletons still know very little about their own bodies and structures.

Just like humans don’t understand their own flesh and blood.

This is one of the reasons why the Empire cannot create new Skeleton Men.

Judging from Punk's skillful operating skills... he should have a good understanding of the structure and potential of Skeleton Man. In terms of "mechanics", he is considered a talent in the empire.

"Foreman, I've received the award." Punk imitated the human laughter and used it as a sign of etiquette, "But you are right, I was indeed famous before... But at that time, the empire's heroes were so bright, even if you just listen to As for the rumors, you may not remember them now..."

or.

I can't even think of them together.

Spider Foreman expressed his understanding and didn't think much about it.

From the wise king and prime minister of the Second Empire to the five generals under them, including the Screamer and the Chief of Agriculture..., which one is not the top figure in the world?

It is indeed not easy to stand out from their glory when you are in the Empire.

Spider Foreman himself has deleted many related memories in order to maintain his combat effectiveness over the years, so Punk's explanation is reasonable.

No flaws.

Agnu's projection was still playing, gradually attracting Spider Foreman's attention: "This is..."

He was shocked.

He saw that the original owner of the memory chip traveled all the way, approaching the villages along the way, attacking and killing all the humans inside.

More importantly, cut off their limbs and then use a knife to peel off the skin on them inch by inch.

At first, Zero Two's movements were a little jerky.

But gradually, I became proficient.

In the end, he could even quickly peel off the victim's entire skin before the victim died. From the first-person perspective, Zero Two was looking at his masterpiece. Under the sunlight, the bloody human skin seemed as thin as a cicada's wing.

"What is he doing..." Spider Foreman was very uncomfortable. This had violated his underlying logic.

According to the law made by His Majesty, as a skeleton, treating humans like this is a serious crime that should be destroyed. Even if skeletons cannot regenerate, one less will die, and their lives are long; while humans can continue to reproduce and regenerate, and their lifespan is like mayflies... It stands to reason that the value of the two is completely incomparable, but His Majesty at the time still decided to forcefully implement it.

Although later, with the collapse of the imperial system, such a ban was in name only.

But after so many years, Spider Foreman, who has been staying in the factory, is the first time he has seen a compatriot commit such a serious crime with his own eyes.

Moreover, judging from Zero Two's reaction and psychological records, he enjoys this process very much...

He is even a little fanatical.

For a normal skeleton, this should not be the case.

Spider Foreman also saw that after peeling off the human skins, Zero Two did not collect them, but rushed directly to the next place.

Such behavior is quite confusing.

Overall, the skeletons are still creatures that follow reason and logic.

"Perhaps, he is learning..." Punk said, "How to peel human skin?"

He saw it.

This skeleton focuses on recording the structure of the human body and the process of peeling skin, becoming more and more skilled and formulaic... as if it is for assembly line operation.

With Punk's craftsmanship.

If he can get more similar records, he feels that he can also make an automatic skinning machine. He only needs to throw a human into it, and the machine can automatically and completely peel off the other person's cortex, and even keep the skinned person from dying immediately during this process... Although this is useless to him.

What he didn't tell Spider Foreman was that long before this, as he said to "Screamer", he had found similar traces.

Outside the Vengeance Land, many human settlements were massacred, leaving no bones behind... and Punk could vaguely sense that someone was competing with them for the remaining skeletons, which slowed down the development of his army.

Now, through the memory chip.

The two phases confirmed that Punk, who had guessed long ago, was not as surprised as Spider Foreman.

Because, his purpose was not this.

Soon, the progress of the projection playback came to the Vengeance Land. Zero Two sneaked into the Valley of Vengeance and deliberately exposed himself. He was discovered by the camp where the Merchant Guild was stationed. Someone from the Slave Merchant Guild took the wanderer as a slave and brought him back to the camp...

Then, the massacre was repeated.

"These humans... didn't recognize him as a skeleton?" Spider Foreman was not as shocked as at the beginning, and noticed something strange.

From the civilians in the village to these merchants.

They all turned a blind eye to Zero Two's approach or got used to it... According to Spider Foreman's impression, the appearance of skeletons in the world now is definitely a rare thing.

They are not just so calm.

Zero Two will not succeed so easily.

It turned out that the security spiders sent by Spider Foreman went out to attack, but he did not see Zero Two's flesh and blood burn to ashes under the bombardment of the skyfire, so he did not know his original appearance - he only knew that General Screamer asked him to find a skeleton who broke into the Vengeance Land.

Punk was also a little confused.

"Could it be..."

He remembered a legend that was considered a long time ago even for them in the Second Empire.

It has never been proven.

It has not been disproven.

But when the CPUs of the two skeletons were running at high speed, the picture projected by Agnu continued, which was what Punk wanted to see the most:

The beast disaster broke out in the Flash Land, and the river valley barrier collapsed.

The White Eyebrow Clan moved into the Vengeance Land.

Temporary tents rose from the ground.

Then, the "Eyes" paid attention to them, and the Skyfire laser came crashing down... but it also destroyed the group of beaked beasts that were being chased by the remaining abilities of the Faceless...

"Oh!" Spider Foreman couldn't help but exclaimed, "They actually thought of using the 'Eyes'. Did they know its secret? No, it's likely that they found the rules simply based on experience..."

The Bone Foreman praised sincerely.

He knew that for today's human society, those long-necked beasts that ran out of the Imperial Zoo were a big trouble.

And in such a critical situation, the person who could think of using the out-of-control satellite above the Revenge Land to survive in a desperate situation... can be said to be quite bold and has a strong observation ability.

Of course, this is also rewarding.

To the world, Skyfire is a strange natural phenomenon, just like rain, snow, and thunder.

Using "natural disasters" to protect the tribe and eliminate disasters... Spider Foreman can imagine how much prestige that human will have afterwards.

It was probably no less than when two armies were fighting and a meteorite suddenly hit the enemy camp...

However, they were lucky...

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The screen suddenly shook, interrupting the spider foreman's thoughts, and the knocking sound that followed also attracted his attention--

Punk was squatting next to Agnu at this time, knocking hard on its head with his hands, and muttering: "Is there something broken..."

"What are you doing?" Spider Foreman asked curiously.

"Didn't you notice?" Punk turned back in surprise, "The speed at which humans build camps..."

It's like pressing the accelerator button.

"I thought you pressed speed," Spider Foreman said, "didn't you?"

"No, oh, yes, maybe Agnu automatically accelerated the playback..." Punk changed his words.

In my mind, it was a mess.

He had just checked, and there was nothing wrong with Agnu's projection system... In other words, the footage captured by Zero Two was at this speed.

Those humans seem to have accelerated time.

How is this possible?

As a researcher, Punk knows better than the spider foreman who just supervises the automated factory how much this violates the laws of physics.

The truth contained in this phenomenon was completely beyond the skeletal man's cognition, causing his logic program to be somewhat short-circuited.

"Yeah." Spider Foreman didn't notice anything strange about Punk, and just sighed to himself: "But they are really lucky. If the construction was slower, they would catch up with Skyfire before it was completed, but they would have to fight with those Beak-billed Beasts. Buried with him..."

No, it's not luck... Punk denied in his heart.

If the opponent really has the ability to accelerate time, then he has just picked the right time and even left room for error.

However, Punk could not tell this to Spider Foreman, nor could he let this collaborator who came because of Screamer know...

——They have mastered the "eye".

The emission of sky fire is within one's control to a certain extent.

Therefore, Spider Foreman was shocked by the previous incident of Zero Two's skinning, but he had some elements of watching the self-rescue of these humans, and he could also make an objective evaluation and praise... But Punk's actual attitude was completely opposite.

Because this confirms:

That day, I was taken advantage of by the other party.

--asshole! Do you know how much electricity this consumes?

The fuel obtained by emptying the depressions and lagoons is not enough for their plan.

And as a skeletal man, he was actually used as a tool by humans, which reminded him of bad memories... again.

Punk slapped Agnu on the head again, sparks flashed, the light curtain dimmed, and it actually jumped to the scene recorded before Zero Two was finally destroyed.

In front of him was the young human who had seduced the beaked beasts, and the two sides were in a confrontation.

Under the remarks of the light curtain.

Zero Two said that he was greedy for each other's skin.

Punk couldn't help but take a step forward.

He wanted to take a closer look to see who this guy was who had played a trick on him and used their secret weapon as a tool to borrow at will...

There is a high probability that the other party knows the principle of sky fire and the existence of "eye".

If this secret is leaked to humans...

"Where is your serial number and identification code?" Zero Two's cold mechanical voice came.

At the same time, the data recorded by the chip changed, and was finally certified as——

【similar】

Punk was stunned.

...skeleton man?

Same as them, Skeleton Man?