Chapter 683: Iron Commander
The Mechanical Sage's birthplace is disappointing.
After actually seeing the assembly workshop where the sage was "born", Lao Jiang discovered that it was not a very strange production line. In fact, it was already behind the current technological level of the Alpha Mechanical World.
It feels a bit stupid, big and rough.
It even looks a bit like a large steel furnace in a smelting plant. Under the cauldron of molten metal are several cleaned module slots and some rusty robotic arms that are responsible for assembling the cast mechanical modules.
The only thing worth mentioning was a strange instrument that Lao Jiang had never seen before.
It uses the original energy crystal clusters of the Alpha world as raw materials. Like a grinder, it grinds the crystal clusters into powder, and then smelts them a second time to make a "replicated original circuit board."
According to Metal, it is a relic from the dark days of the Great Schism, a long-outdated technology that has been obsolete for five hundred years.
"In that chaotic era, the birth of new mechanical life relied on copying blueprints to inject thinking. Those blueprints all came from the original machines that preached the stupid theory of bloodline.
They all came from the first naturally born mechanical life forms, had primitive and brutal power, and once called themselves the ruling class, but their rule was very bad.
They made their own thoughts into a blueprint for wisdom, trying to turn the entire Alpha world into the 'pure' era of their imagination.
And because of their desire for ruling power, they reproduced their own copies without restraint, preparing for a war that would sweep the world.
It is because of their reckless behavior that a serious energy crisis has occurred, and this has indirectly triggered the era of stupid division. "
During the visit, Metal continued to describe the greatness of the Mechanical Sage to Boss Jiang, trying to integrate the ancient wisdom into Boss Jiang's faithless and exhausted heart.
But Jiang Xia was only interested in the story itself.
When he visited the birthplace of the Mechanical Sage, he was there with the intention of traveling and watching the fun, but the Metal Seven really came there with the intention of making a "pilgrimage".
Lao Jiang couldn't understand what kind of mechanical wisdom they could draw from the backward technological creations before them.
But the other mechanical life forms that entered the foundry with the Metal Seven also remained silent and solemn.
There were even fanatical followers who kept reaching out their hands, trying to touch the casting table that cast the mechanical sage's mind circuit board.
Of course, as with all the rules for visiting places related to great men, such behavior is not allowed.
After leaving the unremarkable "Birthplace of the Sage", the Metal Seven entered the next tour destination, a "museum" that introduced various major events in the Sage's life.
Of course, the Museum of Mechanical Life is a virtual program built with data, using stereoscopic holographic projection to show the alternation of times five hundred years ago.
Metal looked at the popular stories in the Alpha World, and said to Boss Jiang, who was loaded into his core thinking module in the form of a program, with a feeling from the bottom of his heart:
"The machines admired the Sage's great deeds and wanted to build a monument on Rust Hill to record and pass it down forever, but the Sage refused.
It believes that every resource should be invested in the Oracle of Mekhan.
Therefore, only this workshop is left here as a memorial.
This is probably the last casting system from the previous era preserved in the entire Alpha world. In this era, more advanced mechanical assembly workshops have replaced this antique.
All mechanical life is born from materials smelted in the melting furnace and is distributed to the assembly factories in the outermost ring . They are constantly running every moment, giving birth to new mechanical life and engaging in endless battles.
That is the blazing torch of the entire Alpha world, and the bodies of the losers are its best fuel."
"Can't the body of a mechanical life form be customized?"
Lao Jiang asked:
"Besides looting materials from other machines, is there no official supply channel?"
"have."
Metal responded in detail:
“We have a portable production workshop, just like the mechanical town, which is made into a mobile base vehicle. It can forge special combat modules according to the requirements of the mechanical body.
They can also produce "transformation modules" that can completely transform mechanical bodies, but those are relatively high-end products.
The manufacturing technology of this portable production workshop is in the hands of the 18th War Regiment, which is a real strategic resource. They will regularly deploy some base vehicles and distribute them to the small war groups in each ring.
The more base vehicles you have, the more you can replenish damaged modules for your members, or customize modules to enhance their combat effectiveness, and the stronger your chapter will be.
In the outer wars, in addition to fighting for energy towers and supplies, the main purpose of the war is to seize the base vehicles of other war groups to strengthen their own strength. "
Boss Jiang was silent for a few seconds and asked:
"Is there one in the outermost ring?"
"The outermost ring is where the primary mechanical bodies fight each other. There are no war groups or base vehicles here, but there are many in the twelfth ring, scattered in the hands of those weak new war groups.
They are all old and broken models that can only produce basic reinforcement modules.
If you want to unlock the secondary and multiple transformation capabilities of the mechanical body, you can only move to a higher level."
Metal seemed to have guessed what Boss Jiang was planning, and it suggested:
“Large-scale promotion is impossible for low-level machines, but the group of soul-coded Eden people under your command can upload their consciousness into simple mind chips.
They possess complete thinking logic that low-level mechanical bodies can only dream of. Once they enter here, they can achieve rapid promotion through joint combat tactics.
The power brought by wisdom can give them an advantage in the outer rings of war trials."
"Very good, it seems you understand what I want to do."
Lao Jiang praised it and said:
“Then I won’t be polite.
The next task for the seven of you is to find some newly born mechanical bodies in this outermost steel land and collect consciousness carriers for the arrival of Eden players.
I will arrange for the first batch of players to enter here as soon as possible, and set up a permanent commander here."
"What's the mission objective?"
Metal was silent for a moment, and after accepting the task, it asked:
"What does Boss Jiang want to achieve in our world?"
"The goal is simple. We will form a small regiment, advance to the middle and lower levels in the shortest possible time, become a vassal of a large regiment, and gain direct access to the top combat power in the Alpha World."
Lao Jiang said:
“As for my purpose in Alpha, you can rest assured that I have no ill will towards this world.
In fact I want it to be as powerful as possible.
After all, we have a common enemy, and when the final battle comes, it always makes people feel at ease to have a capable ally by their side."
"Is that all?"
Metal asked:
"When the Eden World was used as a blueprint by the Central, I learned from it all the experiences and stories about you, Boss Jiang.
Your experience is legendary even to us mechanical beings.
People like you cause wars in every world you find. To be honest, I don't believe that the purpose of your doing these things in our home world is so simple.
Please tell me more.
Although I am a traitor to the Alpha world, I still have a responsibility to my world.
I don't want to harm or destroy my hometown, so if there is a 'correct enough' reason to convince myself... it will make me and my companions strive to be more perfect when executing your orders.
This is not harmful to your interests.”
The mechanical life force that had passively rebelled and could not turn back said to Jiang Xia in a serious and slightly pleading tone:
"You don't have to worry about us snitching. We are bound by the Central's 'loyalty agreement'. If we have the thought of revealing any dangerous information, we will immediately enter the formatting process.
That would mean complete and eternal death for us."
"Well, the truth is not as serious and scary as you make it out to be."
Jiang Xia curled his lips and said:
"My second goal here, or my ultimate goal, is to go to the second ring of the Doomsday Fortress at a suitable time and meet the 'Mechanical Sage' who you regard as a saint and the spokesperson of the gods.
I feel like there is a lot in common between me and it.
In addition, compared to a 'loyalty agreement', I believe more in your loyalty to your own world, so I will use another method to restrain you."
As he spoke, Lao Jiang encrypted the secrets about the West Sea Sin Abyss in his mind and shared them with Metal in the form of a data information stream.
He said:
"Once you understand the mysterious connection between your world and my world, you will realize that the fate of these two worlds is closely related.
Once the consciousness of the Lord of the Wasteland is separated from the Sin Abyss of the Bitter Wood Realm and returns to its original body, the "Doomsday Battle" that you are trying to carry out will become a joke.
Once the power of this dark star field is regained by their masters, the destruction of the Alpha world will be imminent.
The Lord of the Wilderness, who has become complete again, may only need a small "snap of the fingers" to make all the efforts of the Mechanical Sage in the past five hundred years come to naught.
You will also gain a profound understanding of a truth because of this.
That is, you must help me, and you must help me wholeheartedly. When you help me, you are also helping your own world. "
Having said this, Lao Jiang let out a short laugh.
He told Metal Seven:
“So, don’t stress.
If you can't do it and cause my plan to fail, the end result will be that the Lord of the Wasteland breaks through the Sin Abyss and destroys my world first, and then destroys yours.
Finally, go full throttle and destroy the stars and the universe.
It’s not a big deal, it’s going to die anyway, so don’t stress about it.”
——
After sharing some of his pressure with the Metal Seven, the bad guy Lao Jiang smoothly withdrew his consciousness, returned to his body, and activated his teleporting ability to send himself to the mechanical transformation laboratory in the world of Eden.
A temporary and expedited mechanical transformation is currently underway.
As soon as he came over, he saw a familiar body stored in the bio-capsule. It was from his personal intelligence Nia, who claimed to be Jiang Xia's second secretary.
But Nia can't say those jealous words now.
Her body was placed in a biological cabin, unusually quiet, while her data consciousness was undergoing "camouflage transformation" by the central processing unit.
In addition, in this huge mechanical transformation laboratory, a female mechanical body is being made that is very consistent with the appearance of mechanical life in the Alpha world.
Various modules were assembled by flexible robotic arms according to the production blueprints obtained from the Metal Seven, just like ants moving house, from scratch to create an Alpha machine that was so lifelike that it could be mistaken for a real one.
"It will take another fourteen hours to build Nia's 'Commander' mechanical structure. There are also a series of modifications for combat and signal testing, which will probably take another three or four days."
In the laboratory, Lao Jiang saw Earl, who was holding a list in his hand. He handed it to Jiang Xia and said:
“This is the first sifting through of the elite list of players.”
"Huh? Why is it him again?"
Lao Jiang glanced at the list and found a familiar guy. He turned back to look at Earl and said:
"What's up with this 'Lao Qu'? I remember him being in several DLC tests. Is he a high-quality life form among your Eden people?
Come to think of it, he seems to be dating the 'NPC' in his eyes. This guy is really talented."
