Xiling Empire

Chapter 881 The town

(Zhu Jun, the new month has begun ... so start throwing monthly tickets!)

A little boy named Glick looked at the mechanical artifact floating between his older sister and him with a dull expression. The small-scale self-regulatory machine less than half a meter in diameter was like a naughty pet, turning back and forth in the air Moving forward, it is becoming familiar with this strange world, and changing its body structure and energy cycle to cope with possible working conditions in the local natural environment. This amazing adaptability and pseudo-evolution ability can make it an ordinary civilization. The ultimate robot is superb, but in the various mechanical facilities of the Hilling Empire, it is just a pipe cleaner role, the same value as a wrench.

But it seemed to the little boy that its value was different.

Glick's eyes widened, as if he had never seen such a magical machine, which made me a little worried. Is it something that the elder sister brought out is exactly what this ruined world does not have, which will make us hard to encounter? The local people on the site were scared away, and at this time, the self-discipline machine just completed its "rapid evolution", it adjusted the angles of several of its robotic arms, and then made murky beeps, He briskly executed the order that his elder sister gave him: move closer to his new owner.

"what!"

The little boy, Gick, uttered a terrified shout, and fell to the ground with the self-discipline machine suddenly rushed to the ground. The latter immediately braked in midair and troubledly made two laps around his new owner, sending it to us. There was a bit grieving beep.

These little robots made by Gaia are simply too much fun.

Glick got up awkwardly from the ground, and the self-discipline machine in mid-air immediately stepped forward again, but this time it learned cleverly, instead of jumping at the other side, it stopped at a distance of about one meter from the other side. The beep kept beeping, and the little boy couldn't care about the dust on the pants (in fact, I was curious about whether the pants needed to be beaten, it seemed that it was much dirtier than the floor here), but 愣愣Looking at the shiny new machine in front of me, he turned to look at us again: "A brand new 'big craftsman'? Give me? You must be joking! I know, I heard the old man in the town said, Dacheng People will make fun of this kind of joke in the countryside. If I touch this, I will be beaten ... "

"No, this is yours, as a guide's reward," I breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that this thing also exists in this ruined world, but its value here is probably the same as the machine side in my impression. The array is different, "Of course, in exchange, we have some special requirements: don't ask too much, cooperate with our questioning, and don't talk about us casually with others. Can this be done?"

The little boy Glick looked at my eyes carefully, making sure that there was no sly smile, and then he looked at the self-discipline machine carefully flying around him with some faint eyes, and finally nodded firmly: " The old Glicks are the most trustworthy, and the entire condenser town knows! "

Here again, that weird town name, this world full of ruins, and even a planet piled up with the remains of huge spaceships is so weird, not only does it look like we have never seen it, even its place names are It's also rare. What about the so-called "big city"? What's going on in the town called "Condenser"?

"Condenser Town is the name we gave it," Glick took us on another path, which could bypass the near-90-degree ramp covered with sharp metal fragments and lead The main entrance of the town below is just a little further away. "Most of the temporary settlements have no name, but this settlement has been going on for decades. So the old people in the town decided to name the settlements. They looked up a lot of information disks, and then I found that the large metal plate below the town is a thing called a condenser, so they call it the "condenser" town. I think there must be more condenser towns in the world, because many temporary settlements will be built with our town On metal platforms similar to the ones below, there are always a few of those metal platforms that are also condensers. If those towns can be kept long enough and there are a group of smart old people, they can also be called "condenser" towns ... "

Glick obviously strives to be a qualified tour guide, but maybe he has never done this, or maybe the world has no tourism at all, although he strives to tell us the history of his town in vivid language, but In the end, what was said was messy and rambling, but fortunately we don't care about the origin of this town. What everyone is curious about now is what this ruin-like world is like, its origin, its Residents, it has been a sea of ​​vicissitudes for the past 720,000 years-it is hard to imagine that the indigenous people here will be the survivors of the end of the war of 720,000 years ago. They are still breathing in the ruins so long after the end of the world And living such a strange wasteland life, if it was not for the judgment of the Temple of Life, I would not believe that the residents here would have survived the ruins for hundreds of thousands of years after the end. Everyone came here to find the lost fleet of Huesca, and at the same time to find the truth about the destruction of the Legion by 720,000 years ago, but now these two goals do not seem to be so urgent, and the interest of everyone has begun to shift. Into this ruined world itself.

"Interesting idea, probability statistics."

Lin Xue suddenly glanced at Glick and said in a light tone, "Tell us about the situation in this place. In Ayutthaya, a dirty place like this can't be seen. I'm curious about this place."

"Of course, people in Ayutthaya are sometimes curious about various collection stations and workstations, because you don't usually do this ... Oh, I have no other meaning," Glick walked forward briskly, gradually Approaching the lights in front, the tone also relaxed. "Here is a metal station, and it is a secondary recycling station. You can see that there are scrap metal cut into small pieces everywhere. They are all dismantled from the scrapped machine. Everyone knows that the world ’s resources come from the earth under our feet, but not all resources can be used up, and things that have been scrapped must be re-used to avoid waste. This metal station is for all Where all kinds of resources are collected and sorted, every week, a large ship throws a lot of scrap metal and resource metals that need to be disassembled here. Adults sort them on working days and put useful things Sent to a large factory or a small factory-but most of them are sent to a small factory, after all, most of them here are smaller parts, large factories do not Receive them. It ’s different if they are first-level recycle bins, they all deal with big things, there are bigger metal mountains, a piece of things on the mountain is bigger than these small piles around us, and even some first-level recycle bins are still You can dig out resources that can be used directly near the place of residence ... "

Glick talks about what he knows, but these things are a bit unclear to us. I'm not sure to ask him more directly. I can only restore a world in ruins according to his description. Social system in China.

The mercury lamp was lying on my shoulders boringly. She looked at the dilapidated **** dump around, couldn't help shrinking her body, and hugged my head more strongly, feeling that the small and delicate body was moving back and forth on her shoulders. , I patted each other's legs gently: "What's wrong?"

"Stupid man, I don't like it here,"

The mercury lamp whispered, "I ... hate the atmosphere here."

"Want to return to the spacecraft?" I can probably guess the reason for the bad mood of the mercury lamp. This may remind her of some bad things. Although those things have been overcome by her, it will still be a little unpleasant to contact suddenly. "Good, obedient."

"Don't take me as a child," the mercury lamp knocked at my head dissatisfied, but still shook his head firmly, "It's even more boring. There are rigid soldiers on the boat and the scientist who puts up clones everywhere, tell you I can fight with Liliana together ... "

I:"……"

I always feel that the problem of children's education at home has to become a serious problem in front of me.

After walking for a while, we have reached the main entrance of the town called "Condenser" in Glick's mouth, saying that it is the main entrance, but it is actually just a triangular shelf supported by three crooked alloy skeletons. This triangular shelf is welded on The fence, which is more than one meter in height and surrounds the entire residential area, is the only entrance to this fence. The texture of those fences is like the soft metal lining of the corridor inside the spacecraft. The top can be seen faintly. There is no imperial text, and the triangular door may come from a scrapped gun mount bracket, which is five or six meters high, which is a little too large compared to the surrounding wall.

Unexpectedly, there is an automatic access control system on the triangular gate. More than a dozen untidy high-energy gratings are blocked in front of the door. I observed it carefully and found that they came from the two high pillars at the door. The pillars were unknown. The metal wires are tied to many pairs of beam generators, and their energy lines are so rough exposed to the outside, extending from the low wall to the town.

The fence of more than one meter, the completely exposed access control energy, and the crumbling seams everywhere on the fence, I can't help thinking about how many intruders can be stopped by such a security system, in all fairness, At this level of security, the high school students who jumped the wall with me and played games outside the school were able to crack it. They might as well put such a high-tech grating wall in front of the door ...

Glick has become accustomed to the simple facilities here, he just gave us a gesture of waiting a little, and then drew out a small crystal card from his pocket. The crystal card looks rough in workmanship, and does not seem to be empire style. Something, he swiped the gadget on the beam generator in front of the door, and the intercepted beam disappeared.

"Welcome to the town of Condensers-the people in Ayutthaya are here, but the last time we greeted guests from Ayutthaya was three years ago." Glick waved his thin arms happily, apparently after returning home, his Feeling very happy.

We followed each other with a sense of curiosity. The dilapidated and chaotic surroundings may not be so refreshing, but the freshness of this weird world has well diluted the negative impact. I looked around and found that this is really a settlement built on a huge metal plane. The "ground" under my feet is a whole piece of alloy, and the surface of the alloy is already rough. I can hardly see the glorious appearance of the past. It can be seen everywhere It is a pipe interface or a cable interface that extends from under the metal ground. These interfaces are used by waste. After being tied to the rope, it becomes a fixed in the shantytown, which is used to strengthen the roof of the iron plate house everywhere.

When we were on the high ground just now, we already saw the cluttered iron plate house in the settlement far away. At that time, it felt like a run-down, but we took a closer look now-it might as well be a glance.

We are surrounded by houses like this: crooked shantytowns connected by shabby metal plates. The most messy shacks are directly **** with metal wires and rivets. The gap exposed between the metal plates is enough to let people see the scene from the outside at a glance. The slightly better shacks have signs of welding. The disassembled metal plates on the Empire battleship were not easy to weld. Maybe they used the laser gun focusing tube that they picked up from the garbage dump, because I do n’t remember that the Schilling Technician would also use a welding torch when repairing the spacecraft. Of course, it is also possible that they found a self-disciplined machine that could be used to repair the spacecraft's pipelines (according to Glick, it seems that it should be called a "big craftsman" here). These self-disciplined machines can learn any kind of work. , Including turning yourself into a welding torch.

The best houses in view were some neat large metal boxes. I saw them for a long time before I could tell that they were living quarters for soldiers on large spaceships, but they were stripped from the hull section. There is only one potty shell left.

The arrival of these strangers seems to have caught the attention of the town's residents. Some grown-ups and children dressed as greek and messy look out of the nearby metal houses or "streets" corners, far away. Looking at this side, their expressions were tense, with vigilance in their eyes. After seeing Glick standing beside us and waving around, some people mumbled and returned to the house, more people were bigger. The courage came out, but no one was still approaching, as if they saw a heavily armed tank suddenly appearing in the village of the peaceful mountain village, and they remained full of vigilance and curiosity to us outsiders, but nevertheless, always Not dare to ask a few words.

Sandora was, of course, impatient with the situation of being watched. She looked around and hummed suddenly, then everyone looked blank, and turned back to home.

Glick didn't feel any change in the atmosphere around him, and he began to introduce us to the most important part of the town, which is the disc square in the center of the town. It seems that the short contact has made him confirm this. Helping those who don't seem to get along is actually very easy-going, and the seemingly invaluable "big craftsman" as a gift has made this 13-year-old boy relax his vigilance, he pointed at the not far ahead An empty lot tells us that it is the best and most worth seeing place in condenser town: the disc square.

In fact, it is just a round open space. It is quite clean, and the area is smaller than a basketball court. It has four lampposts around it, and the crystals on the lampposts are emitting bright lights. All this looks very simple. However, in this messy and poor place, it seems that such a clean and clean square with plenty of light is a quite amazing center for residents' activities.

"Look, this is our square. Every week off, adults will sing praises on this square. Children can play on the edge of the square and get a piece of sugar cake or two," Grick pulled excitedly. I (it seems he has seen that I am the leader and the best speaker in this group), walked towards the center of the square, "Today is a rest day, but there is still some time before the party begins, adults are preparing, I ’m going to take my sister out today. I can still receive sugar cakes six times, and then I ’m not a kid. Of course, I ’m not an adult. Food quota, but this is a trivial matter for the old Glick's son. I was able to support myself two years ago! "

"Do you have a sister?"

I asked casually, and then my eyes fell on the ground.

In the middle of this so-called disk square is a circular area that protrudes from the ground about ten centimeters. This circular small table with a diameter of one meter has a clearly identifiable symbol, which is particularly noticeable.

A blood red triangle emblem.

Wisconsin's cat-like blood-red vertical pupil crossed a slight brilliance, and her pupil narrowed into two narrow slits. She squatted down and gently stroked the triangular blood-colored emblem on the ground for a long time. , Took out a piece of chalk and drew a chessboard on it ...

"The ground here is very clean. Who plays with me backgammon?"

Cat pupil Loli joyfully invited everyone, and we were stunned: "..."

Okay ~ www.readwn.com ~ It seems that the pictures just now are my hallucinations. This girl didn't have any feelings when she saw her army logo!

Before waiting for my shot, Veska had been dragged by Pandora's ears and tutored, and Sandora touched my arm: "This is the wreckage of those old men in Veska's day."

"Maybe before we can understand the status of this space, we should find a way to find out who Waska was fighting in," I whispered. "Let the mother ship put some stealth probes down and conduct a comprehensive search in this space. Ancient wreck ... By the way, Sandora, if it was the legion emblem of another emperor, would you recognize it? "

"If the Empire Database is still there, it's a shame now," Sandola shook her head with regret. "The demobilization of the Empire's area was vast, and I didn't care much about other emperors. I never recorded them The emblem of the Legion. I think the situation of Pandora is worse than mine. I'm afraid she didn't even remember the name of the emperor next door ... "

I once again: "..."

You said that under what circumstances these two war madmen survived!

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