Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

"Wrong!"

Duan Mingyuan was shocked when he learned the truth, and looked at the ornament in his hand with eyes full of guilt.

The prime minister was ultimately unable to wait for the rebels to arrive and force him to abdicate because Duan Mingyuan, who had just left prison, unexpectedly met the rebellious rebels.

These people were fully armed and drew their knives against him as soon as they met him, making him think that they were the guards of the imperial city, who came to arrest him as soon as they learned that he had escaped from prison.

The result was that the entire Mechanical Throne no longer had any combat units, and the Queen also passed away.

Jiu Yue's efficiency in bringing chaos far exceeded Duan Mingyuan's imagination. In just half an hour, she had already captured the empress and the prime minister.

The above information was all retrieved by him from the prime minister's memory.

In this way, wouldn't they be convicted of seeking power and usurping the throne?

"Mr. Mingyuan, don't be nervous. I can now disguise myself as the queen of the Mechanical Planet. This way, we can move around the royal court with a legitimate reason."

September is exciting.

Overthrowing the throne and bringing chaos are what a real evil fox should do, not to mention that it was the Mechanical Star who attacked them first, so all their actions fell into the category of legitimate defense.

What's even more interesting is that more than 90% of the attendants and servants in the royal court are bionic people or machines. They only know how to obey orders, so she doesn't have to explain the "soul exchange" ceremony to everyone she meets.

"But Mr. Mingyuan, how did you recognize me at first sight? Didn't my aura just now resemble that of an empress?"

"Your life energy has not changed."

After searching the throne, Duan Mingyuan took out an hourglass from a secret compartment.

It is hard to imagine that this small hourglass is the culprit for the desertification of the entire planet's surface. The Queen's sequelae are also the result of overdrawing the power of the hourglass.

Every queen is the top craftsman on the Mechanical Planet. This mechanism called the "Golden Hourglass" was made by the queen in her early years. Of course, only she can control the power of the hourglass.

The Prime Minister has always coveted the "Golden Hourglass" and secretly memorized the Queen's method of collecting hourglasses.

Looking at the mess on the ground, Duan Mingyuan sighed.

In the Prime Minister's memory, the Queen was not only the best craftsman on the planet, but also the strongest person of this era. However, her long-term illness later made her moody and suspicious all day long, like a lunatic. It was for this reason that the Prime Minister joined the Chamber of Commerce and took the initiative to give up the secret of the Mechanical Planet.

And now, the strongest man on the Mechanical Planet, a hero who was once comparable to Nagaeda Konoe, died so easily in a pool of blood in the bedroom.

She wore an instrument of unknown origin on her head, and until her death she still believed that the doctor invited by the prime minister could give her a new life.

"Take this."

Duan Mingyuan handed the hourglass to Jiuyue. In the eyes of the Jiqiao people, the "Golden Hourglass" represented the Queen. At least in the short term, they could use this hourglass to get away with it.

This was not his original intention, but plans cannot keep up with changes. As the saying goes, now that he is here, he was not originally interested in the great treasure of the Mechanical Star, but everyone was nagging in his ears, and the Chamber of Commerce and the nobles of the Mechanical Star all turned into riddlers.

He felt like he had something stuck in his throat if he didn't figure out what the legacy of the first great craftsman was used for, as if he had read a story halfway through and suddenly there was no ending.

He dealt with the scene, then called Linglong, dismissed the maids, and began searching the Queen's bedroom.

After learning some inside information, Duan Mingyuan couldn't help but begin to doubt the version of the story provided by Linglong's parents.

If this treasure is the legacy of the first great craftsman, it is of great significance to the entire planet, and its secret is only known by the successive heirs to the throne. How did they steal the cane from the Queen, the strongest person?

You have to know that decades ago the treasure had not been lost, the prime minister had not defected to the Flash Flag Chamber of Commerce, and the queen was not terminally ill.

He stole the inheritance and took it out of the royal court. Anyone who could do such a thing should have a status at least equal to that of a prime minister.

"found it!"

After rummaging through the pile of junk for a long time, Linglong suddenly cheered excitedly.

Then an object that looked like a sample book was picked out. The book was sealed and looked like an empty shell that could not be opened from the outside. The surface of the book was covered with scratches, as if someone had often flipped through these books. It was buried among many miscellaneous items, most of which were the Queen's daily necessities.

It is not difficult to see that the queen is a sloppy person in daily life and has no habit of cleaning the desk in time.

At least that's been the case since she became ill.

Noticing Duan Mingyuan Jiuyue's puzzled look, Linglong explained, "This is a 'memory fragment'. The Jiqiao Star people would preserve some particularly important memories in this way to avoid forgetting them... This is what my parents told me. They said that if one day I came to the King's Court of Jiqiao Star and couldn't find the secret treasure, I could find clues from these memory fragments."

Duan Mingyuan seemed to be thinking about something.

Linglong's parents seemed to know the inside story of the King's Court of Jiqiao Star very well, and they also knew that the Queen was seriously ill.

They seemed to have made a careful plan, but his attitude towards Linglong puzzled him.

Since Linglong's parents are so familiar with the King's Court of Jiqiao Star, they should naturally understand the Queen's character. Aren't they afraid that the Queen will kill Linglong?

According to his observation, the empress in her later years seemed to need no reason to kill people.

For them, Linglong is more like a tool to approach the heritage of the great craftsmen.

"Do you know how to use this memory fragment?"

September asked, she was never good with these delicate little things.

"It seems to be like this..."

Linglong placed her hand on the cover of the book and slowly closed her eyes.

She has had an extraordinary talent for all kinds of mechanisms since she was a child. Even if she encounters a mechanism she has never seen before, she can figure out the secrets of it after just fiddling with it for a few times.

But her parents didn't seem surprised by this and never praised her for it. In their eyes, this was a matter of course.

The same is true of the current memory fragments.

She had only heard of the existence of the memory fragments, and this was the first time she saw a fragment, but some kind of sixth sense guided her, and when her palm gently touched the cover of the fragment, the energy flowing in it responded to her.

Linglong heard the quarrel, a very intense quarrel.

Someone overturned the table, causing a series of tinkling sounds.

The dusty pages of the book opened, revealing an image of this palace. It seemed like it happened a long, long time ago, but the structure of the palace has hardly changed.

"Don't be stubborn anymore. Don't you know the consequences of doing this?"

It was a woman's voice. Although it was the first time Linglong heard it, it felt somewhat familiar.

She always felt that she had heard this voice somewhere, maybe in a dream, or somewhere else.

"Even if we don't cultivate the energy within, this planet will eventually come to an end."

"Wrong logic! Sister, you have been acting abnormal since those businessmen came. What kind of magic potion did they feed you?"

The images in the book are blurry and it's hard to tell what the person looks like.

Linglong was immersed in it, just like a vague silhouette seen in a dream. The one called "sister" was the Queen of the Mechanical Planet.

"They brought many things that we have never understood. Escape cannot change anything. This is our only choice. We must cultivate the energy and master the mysteries, hoping that this effort can change the fate of this planet."

The Queen persuaded the other party.

"This is clearly a conspiracy by those businessmen!"

"No, you have been blinded by prejudice."

"Sister, you will regret this!"

"Linglong, I am the queen!"

Hearing this name, Linglong froze in place.

She couldn't see the faces of the two people clearly, but she knew that the conversation ended unpleasantly. The woman called Linglong walked away in anger, and a moment later, the sound of a door slamming loudly was heard.

exquisite……

Exactly the same name as hers.

She subconsciously thought that this was just a coincidence of having the same name, just like there were three Li Meis in the No. 1 Middle School in Yunlong City. However, the next moment, she overturned this possibility in her mind.

Linglong is the Queen's sister and a noble of the royal court. Each of their names is unique and there is no possibility of having the same name as the other.

This could only mean that her parents knew Linglong and, for some reason, gave her the same name.

In addition, she also felt some complex emotions from this fragment of memory.

She seemed to see that a long time after the quarrel, the queen was sitting alone at the table, staring at the fragments of memory in a trance.

The information recorded in the incomplete copy ends here, and all the images disappear.

When Linglong opened her eyes again, the emotions in the incomplete book infected her and made her depressed.

"What did you see?"

September asked.

"exquisite."

Linglong said hesitantly, "The Queen's sister is also called Linglong."

"Same name as you?"

Jiu Yue blurted out in surprise, and after hearing the news, Duan Mingyuan's doubts were resolved.

He suddenly realized that this was probably the reason why Linglong's parents let her sneak into the royal court and didn't care about her life or death.

''This is a name that will remind the Queen of many things.

Perhaps, it will also become a name that the Iron-Fisted Queen will not be able to kill.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 257 Eternity and Immortality

Duan Mingyuan soon discovered something unusual.

The fragmentary memory mentioned that Linglong was the name of the Queen's sister. However, in the memories of Jiqiaoxing and the Prime Minister, there were hardly any traces of this person's existence. Although she had a prominent identity, she seemed like a taboo.

All these signs made Duan Mingyuan have a guess.

The companion who cooperated with Linglong's "parents" to steal the inheritance of the first generation of great craftsmen was most likely the Queen's sister. This could also explain how they sneaked into the royal court and stole the inheritance under the Queen's nose.

Perhaps it was because of the betrayal by her relatives that the Queen no longer trusted anyone. After the great rebellion, she expelled all the civilians in the lower city. Later, even the guards and attendants in the royal court were not exempted, leaving only nobles and androids on the throne.

"Linglong, is this the name those two criminals gave you?"

Someone else broke into the hall.

It was the young man who had brought them to the royal court before. According to the rank classification of Mechanical Star, he should be the commander of the royal guards of the royal court.

His current condition could only be described as extremely bad - his light armor was torn to pieces, his body was riddled with bullet holes, revealing the delicate metal structure in his body, the flesh on the right half of his cheek was burned, and his cold skeleton was clearly visible.

These are wounds sustained from fighting the rebels who launched the coup.

The young man stumbled along, and by the time he reached the hall he had already exhausted all his strength. He leaned weakly against the wall and fell to the ground.

He caught up with the last conversation between Duan Mingyuan and others, and unexpectedly learned the girl's name.

Duan Mingyuan felt that the metal puppet's brows relaxed a little after learning Linglong's name.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any human expression on a puppet's face.

But it must be said that the young man came at the right time, as they needed an insider to help them clarify the situation.

"What did they tell you? To return to Planet Jiqiao and take away the treasure they stole?"

The metal puppets could all imagine the purpose of Linglong's trip.

When they fled from the Mechanical Planet and boarded the ship to pick up refugees, this day was destined to come.

For many years, he buried the secret deep in his heart and planned to take everything to the grave, but when he met the "orphan" of his deceased friend, he changed his mind.

Facing the puppet's questioning, Linglong nodded.

"In my current state, I can't stop you, but I hope you can at least understand the significance of the Great Craftsman's legacy to this planet."

The puppet's eyes swept over the memory fragments on the table. "The reason for the 'cocoon' is due to the over-exploitation of the planet's energy. The Chamber of Commerce and the company predicted a countdown of 39 years and 4 months, which is the remaining lifespan of the 'Mechanical Planet'."

In the fable, the planet of Artificial will eventually be destroyed by a plague called the "Curse of Flesh and Blood".

The flesh and blood of people suffering from this disease will gradually turn into metal parts, becoming creatures like bionic humans.

When the Flash Flag Chamber of Commerce warned the Mechanical Star Royal Court, patients suffering from the "Flesh and Blood Curse" appeared all over the planet. When the transformation was completely completed, their thinking would be reversed, and they would regard people with flesh and blood as heretics.

The people of the Mechanical Planet are supposed to have their bodies made up of machines, which are a symbol of eternity and immortality.

In their eyes, the weak flesh and blood body is the disease.

"The Flash Flag Chamber of Commerce offered a bargaining chip to the Mechanical Star. Once the 'cocoon' transformation begins, it cannot be reversed. They will build a space station for the people of the Mechanical Star, take those who survived the 'curse of flesh and blood' to live in the space station, and teach them the laws of survival in the universe. In exchange, they hope to get the help of the craftsmen of the Mechanical Star and share their mechanical skills passed down from generation to generation with the Chamber of Commerce.

"The Queen rejected the invitation from the Chamber of Commerce. She firmly believed that she could find a way to stop the cocooning and cure the flesh curse. She established the Disease Research Association and asked Linglong, the most outstanding skilled physician at the time, to lead all the research."

"Excuse me, I have a question!"