Volume 3 Chapter 137 I Caught You
The smell of rust and motor oil filled my nostrils.
Violent coughing sounds were heard from all around from time to time.
You can tell without even looking that they are the poorest people at the bottom of society who have never undergone any respiratory modification.
Lin Xu has now stopped normal lung breathing and instead uses nanorobots to transport oxygen into the body and participate in blood oxygen activities in the body.
Miss Qiu, Nanzhu, Mu Xiyue, Lu Yao and others all did the same, thus avoiding the harmful air and continued damage to their bodies.
"The flesh and blood body is so fragile. You have just come here and don't understand the greatness of machinery. Believe me, it won't be long before you will gradually begin to dislike your flesh and blood bodies." The bald man who led Lin Xu and others said to them in a muffled voice.
The bald man was a black real estate agent for renting houses that Lin Xu met in the black market.
Although there are high-end hotels on the Capital Star, Lin Xu and his companions who sneaked in by special means naturally cannot stay in the hotel. The black intermediaries in the black market are the best choice.
The most important thing is that they don’t care about your identity. As long as you pay, they can find you a place to live.
The bald man is also a cyborg. One of his arms and thighs have been modified and is a completely mechanical body. The lower part of his face is also completely mechanical.
Looking at the appearance of Lin Xu and the others, one could tell that they were probably outsiders who had just arrived in the Capital Star not long ago.
After all, who else could he be if he has money and has not undergone much transformation, except for an outsider who has just arrived at the capital planet?
Lin Xu and his companions did not comment and followed the bald man, turning through the corridors connecting the high-rise buildings and passing through the narrow alleys with flashing neon lights and full of dancers and special service industries.
Soon they arrived at an equally narrow stairwell.
I walked up a few floors along the stairwell, and from time to time I could see people lying on the ground with numb looks in their eyes.
Some of them were drooling, some were twitching all over, and no one knew if they had taken any drugs.
"What's going on with them?" Lin Xu asked curiously.
"Oh, they tried the ecstasy potion in the Mechanical Heaven, and this is the result." The bald man said with a malicious smile in his tone.
"Can taking potions in the Mechanical Heaven still affect reality?" Lu Yao was puzzled.
This time, Nanzhu knew it without the bald man explaining.
"Of course they can. Some bad drugs rely on drugs to stimulate the brain. Since drugs can stimulate, then electric current can also stimulate. The addictiveness is no less than that of real drugs."
"This lady really understands. The ecstasy potion is usually only prepared for the big shots who have completed the uploading of their consciousness. After all, the big shots no longer have bodies, so no matter how much stimulation they get, it only acts on the consciousness. But some people who haven't completed the uploading of their consciousness insist on trying it, and as a result, the side effects affect the body where the consciousness is hosted! What else can we say except that they deserve it?" The bald man shrugged, gloating.
Just like that, under the leadership of the bald man, they soon arrived at the door of a room on the first floor of an equally narrow corridor.
When the bald man opened the door, he could see a person lying on the ground not far away, whose life or death was unknown.
The bald man seemed to be afraid that Lin Xu and his friends would mind, which would result in the business not being done, so he walked over and kicked them twice, driving them away.
"Okay, take a look, this is the room. If the five of you squeeze together, there's still room for you to sleep." The bald man said, giving Lin Xu a smile that all men understand.
However, when Lin Xu went in and took a look, he found that the high-end residence that the bald man had mentioned before, which was fashionable and stylish, large in area and finely decorated, was actually a shabby house of more than ten square meters without a bathroom.
But Lin Xu didn't care. It wasn't originally intended for living. He just needed a place to log into the Mechanical Heaven Consciousness Internet.
In the high dimension, Lin Xu has already seen that the high-dimensional object is hidden in the network of the Mechanical Heaven, hiding its own huge high-dimensional information in the network.
This made it impossible for even Lin Xu to accurately catch it in this huge network.
You can only search deep on the Internet.
This is also the main reason why Lin Xu wants to log into the consciousness network.
"Okay." Lin Xu nodded.
The bald man was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Lin Xu to be so straightforward.
But he was also very happy to be able to make a deal so smoothly.
"Great! Since you are so straightforward, let me give you a reminder. Judging from your appearance, you must have smuggled into the Capital Star! Then you can go find the boss DuPont in this area. He can help you get your identities. This is the price. Haha." After saying that, the bald man collected the money and left.
Lin Xu didn't care. After closing the door, he consciously connected with the nanorobots around him.
Through the transit of nanorobots, it is connected to the mechanical heaven and consciousness Internet spread throughout the entire capital star.
As early as when he got the chip from the black market, Lin Xu had already sent the chip to the Earth in his portable space. Zhenxing quickly disassembled and analyzed the chip and found the frequency band for connecting the chip to the Capital Star Consciousness Internet, as well as the format of the Internet access protocol.
Therefore, as long as he has these analysis results, Lin Xu does not need to insert a chip into himself. He can directly access the Internet of Consciousness by using nanorobots.
Afterwards, with the interaction of consciousness and the Mechanical Heaven Internet, Lin Xu only felt that the scene around him changed in an instant.
He came from the shabby little house where he was originally living to a luxurious villa above the clouds.
Lin Xu reached out and touched the soft sofa he was sitting on. Everything seemed real.
But Lin Xu knew that this was actually the consciousness internet feeding back to Lin Xu's sense of touch through electrical signals, giving him the feeling.
Including what you see now and the fresh air you smell, they are all hallucinations caused by electrical signals stimulating your vision and sense of smell.
But the illusion was so real that when Lin Xu walked out of the villa, he saw the bustling skyscrapers and lush forests outside, coexisting in great harmony.
Everything here is so beautiful, like a fairyland.
Especially for those who live in the hellish world on the capital planet, such a fairyland is even more tempting.
Lin Xu suddenly had a feeling that the reason why the capital planet of the Mechanical Empire was so dilapidated was probably the result of the deliberate indulgence of the Mechanical Emperor.
Is the purpose to make the reality miserable and make people yearn for the mechanical paradise even more?
"Lord Lin Xu, what's going on inside?" Nanzhu's voice came to my ears.
At this time, Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu and Lu Yao had not yet connected to the Mechanical Heaven. Lin Xu was the first to come in.
Normally, when the consciousness is connected to the mechanical heaven, all the senses in reality will be blocked.
People cannot hear the sounds coming from reality.
But Lin Xu is naturally different. He is connected to the mechanical heaven through nanorobots, not chips, so his senses in reality will naturally not be blocked by the chips.
"It feels pretty good. You can come in and take a look." Lin Xu replied.
So after a while, Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu and Lu Yao entered the Mechanical Heaven one after another and appeared beside Lin Xu.
"Is this place really virtual? It feels so real." Lu Yao, who was trying this experience for the first time, reached out and touched the clouds under her feet.
She often lay on the clouds and drank, so she was very familiar with the feeling.
However, every time she did this in the past, she relied on the anti-gravity created by the nanorobots in her body to keep herself above the clouds.
But here, the clouds inexplicably have enough lifting power to hold everything above the clouds.
Of course, this is just a virtual network, so it does not need to follow the real physical rules. No matter what strange scenes there are, they are all reasonable.
"We seem to be able to control everything here." Lin Xu observed the skyscrapers in the distance and realized something based on the data fed back by the Mechanical Heaven Network.
So he stretched out his hand and aimed at the skyscrapers in the distance. Sure enough, as Lin Xu's palm moved, the skyscrapers also moved.
Lin Xu can place those skyscrapers at will, even in the void.
This scene reminded Lin Xu of the game Minecraft that he had played before, in which one could build his own world at will.
The only difference is that that game was just made up of blocks, while this is a virtual reality that is exactly the same as the real thing.
"Let's go over there and take a look." Lin Xu said as a speeding car drove over from a distance.
After a few people got in the car, it quickly drove towards a group of skyscrapers not far away.
Soon the car arrived at a group of skyscrapers.
Only when you are there do you realize that this is an extremely modern metropolis. The streets are crowded with people, and all kinds of fashionable women who share Lin Xu's aesthetic taste and are dressed beautifully are flowing on the streets.
At the same time, the feedback data was constantly telling Lin Xu that these were just NPCs and Lin Xu could do whatever he wanted to them.
He is the master of this city and he controls everything here.
If Lin Xu hadn't already experienced scenes countless times larger than this in real life.
An ordinary lower-class person suddenly becomes the master of a city. Even though he knows that all this is just virtual reality, the sense of touch is real, the vision is real, and all the senses are real.
What is the difference between virtual and real? Who can resist this temptation?
"No wonder everyone on the Capital Planet is so obsessed with the Mechanical Heaven." Lin Xu sighed.
“If the virtual reality on the fairy ship back then had dared to tempt people to fall into depravity like this, the person responsible would have been thrown directly into prison,” Mu Xiyue commented.
Everyone who first enters the virtual reality of the Mechanical Heaven will be assigned to a cloud city of their own. The NPCs in this cloud city are all designed according to the aesthetics of that person's race.
Therefore, at this time, Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nanzhu and Lu Yao also had a Cloud City of their own, but they did not even go to their own Cloud City, but came directly to Lin Xu.
Yuncheng floats in the boundless sea of clouds, and from time to time he would encounter the Yuncheng of other people.
In addition, everyone can choose to continue floating the Cloud City until it reaches the world above the clouds.
That is where countless cities of domination gather.
You can choose to dock your city in the Cloud Realm, communicate with others in the Cloud Realm, or enjoy some fun that you cannot enjoy in your own cloud city.
For example, various arenas, casinos, and many strange ways of entertainment.
And above the world above the clouds is the starry sky.
It is not a place that can be visited by those beings who are still restricted by the physical body.
That is the place where those great men who are favored by the Mechanical Emperor, have left their bodies, uploaded their consciousness, and achieved immortality, live.
Of course, these big shots would occasionally come to the Cloud Realm to have fun with the people.
These big shots are generous every time and are sought after by countless people.
Lin Xu had exchanged all this information with another Cloud City Lord whom he had just met at the cost of half of his own city.
"Have you finished asking?"
At the border where the two cloud cities temporarily met, the ruler of the cloud city on the opposite side looked at Lin Xu impatiently.
"I've finished asking." Lin Xu nodded.
"Then half of your city will belong to me." The Lord of Cloud City, who has a semi-mechanical appearance and a face almost covered in machinery, spoke with indescribable joy in his tone.
How can I not be happy? I met a sucker as soon as I went out today.
Just some information was exchanged for half of the other party's basic cloud city.
Although his current cloud city is several times the size of the basic cloud city, the increase of half a basic cloud city is also a small help.
It's really a huge profit.
"As long as we float Cloud City up, we can reach the world above the clouds." Lin Xu confirmed .
"That's right." The cyborg that had already taken away half of Lin Xu's Cloud City looked very excited, even with the little bit of his face that was blocked by the machine.
"Are there any immortal big shots there now?" Lin Xu asked finally.
"There are always immortal big shots having fun there. I know what you are thinking. You just want to get close to the big shots. In fact, I used to be like you, but reality has taught me that such big shots are not something we can get close to, so I advise you to give up this unrealistic idea." The cyborg who took half of Lin Xu's Basic Cloud City said kindly.
"That's good. Bye." Lin Xu smiled without comment.
Then the cloud city began to float up.
The cyborg looked at the girls who always followed Lin Xu. He knew that these were not NPCs, but he didn't quite understand the relationship between them, especially when he saw the intimate interaction between the girls and Lin Xu.
So I was even more confused. How could a rookie who was obviously entering Yuncheng for the first time and knew nothing have so many girls following him?
Moreover, these girls did not stay in their own Cloud City, but ran to his Cloud City.
Could it be that he is actually a wealthy man who just came to the capital planet from outer space?
No wonder he was so generous. He gave away half of the basic Cloud City without blinking an eye.
If you are a wealthy person and are willing to spend money, you can buy it in Yuncheng!
Maybe you can really get close to the big shots whose consciousness has been uploaded by spending money.
Thinking of this, the cyborg looked at the half of the basic cloud city that was still slowly floating up, and immediately began to float up and chased after it.
"Why are you here again?" Lin Xu asked puzzledly as he looked at the cyborg that was chasing him.
"From the looks of you, this should be your first time entering the Mechanical Heaven Network, right? I just collected half of Cloud City's reward from you, and I feel like it's too much. I feel a little guilty about it. How about I be your guide as compensation?" The expression on the remaining half of the cyborg's face softened.
This was in stark contrast to the cold look on Lin Xu's face when he asked the question just now.
"Okay, I just want to find a big shot who has achieved immortality, but I don't know where to find him. Why don't you take me there?" Lin Xu didn't mind someone offering to help him.
"No problem, it's a small matter, leave it to me!" The cyborg assured, patting his chest.
Then he took the opportunity to introduce himself, his name was Kaili.
This was also the first time he introduced himself in front of Lin Xu.
I just paid him half of Yuncheng, but he didn't even tell Lin Xu his name.
"If I remember correctly, there is a big shot recently, who lives in the East Eleventh District, and has lived there for a long time. Let's go there! You don't know, although there are often big shots who stay in the World of Clouds for fun, the World of Clouds is too big. If there is no special person to lead you, it will take you a long time to find him." Kaili took the opportunity to show off to Lin Xu.
"Really? It's all thanks to you." Lin Xu didn't mind saying a few nice words, so he smiled cooperatively.
"It's okay, it's okay. As long as you can remember what we did, that's all." Kaili was very happy. In his imagination, he seemed to have hooked up with the rich man Lin Xu.
Although everything was just his imagination, judging from Lin Xu's behavior, he felt more and more that Lin Xu should be a rich man.
In this way, the cloud city continued to float up and soon entered the place where countless cloud cities gathered.
The dense and boundless cloud cities gathered together to form the world above the clouds.
Those who arrive first are closest to the center, while those who come later can only stay on the periphery.
It is said that Yuncheng, the most central area, has not moved for hundreds of years.
I’m just afraid that after I move away, someone else will take my place.
It is said that even a location close to the central area has already been priced sky-high.
Therefore, the people who would really move around Cloud City at will are basically just ordinary people in the marginal and worthless areas.
Just like Lin Xu and Kaili.
"Okay, we can just stop here in Yuncheng. Next we have to teleport. But teleportation is also charged. The farther the distance, the more expensive it is. If we want to teleport directly to the central area of East District 11, it will be even more expensive." Kaili explained as he took Lin Xu out of Yuncheng and came to the teleportation point.
Then he generously paid the transportation fee for Lin Xu and others.
Although this made Kaili feel very painful, he could only pretend to be generous in front of Lin Xu.
Lin Xu found it a little funny, but let him do as he pleased.
Soon, several people were teleported directly to the central area of East District 11. Kaili and Lin Xu quickly found out that the big shot whose consciousness had been uploaded was playing chess.
So after crossing the distance of several cloud cities to the east, we saw dozens of cities in the clouds. They were constantly moving under the command of two higher clouds.
Whenever a city collides with an enemy city, the ruler of that city will immediately command his NPCs to fight with the NPCs of the other city. In the end, the loser will lose his city and the qualification to be the ruler, and will be completely expelled from the mechanical kingdom.
The winner will swallow up everything of the loser, and then continue to fight under the command of the big man on high until the big man wins the game.
The big shot who wins the game of chess will naturally reward the chess pieces when he is happy.
But no one will sympathize with the losers who have been expelled from the Mechanical Heaven forever.
After all, it is rare to be a pawn of a big shot, and you actually lost. Don't you deserve it?
"Look, those two people on the high ground are all big shots whose consciousnesses have been uploaded. I suggest that if you want to make friends with them, you'd better make friends with them when someone is in a good mood after winning a game of chess." Kaili gave Lin Xu some advice.
However, Lin Xu was just looking at the two so-called big shots whose consciousness had been uploaded, and then a smile appeared on his face.
"Lord Lin Xu, have you found it?" Nanzhu asked from the side.
"Yes, I found it." Lin Xu nodded.
Through nanorobots and quantum computers that had been upgraded countless times, Lin Xu quickly retrieved the information stream belonging to the two "big shots".
Then, by tracking the information of these two big figures, Lin Xu quickly found clues of high-dimensional information from a high-dimensional perspective.
Then, following the clues, Zhenxing followed the information flow related to high-dimensional information and quickly tracked and located it deep into the consciousness network.
Finally, it touched the periphery of the huge high-dimensional information entanglement point.
In an instant, the high-dimensional information entanglement point lurking deep in the consciousness network responded all of a sudden.
Directly destroy the information flow of Zhenxing tracking.
Then, as if it knew it was being followed, the counterattack came in the blink of an eye.
But it's all meaningless now.
Because at this time the high-dimensional information entanglement point, that is, the high-dimensional object, does not know what is tracking it, nor does it know what it is resisting.
It’s just that those two “big guys” who were just above the clouds, looked down on all living beings and used all living beings chess pieces.
At this moment, their faces changed at the same time and they all looked towards where Lin Xu was.
Then they took action.
The two of them reached out to grab Lin Xu, and in an instant, endless clouds gathered towards Lin Xu's position.
Including the boundless city in the clouds, it was also collapsing towards where Lin Xu was.
The two "big shots" didn't care about the safety of the "masters" who were originally playing with them. They just wanted to destroy Lin Xu's consciousness here.
To destroy all enemies who dare to fight against the Mechanical Emperor is their mission of survival.
Following the actions of the two "big shots", Kaili, who had just been fantasizing about whether he could get close to the "big shots" with the help of Lin Xu, suddenly froze in expression.
He watched countless cities collapse, watched the collapse converge towards where he was, watched the two "big shots" turn their murderous eyes towards Lin Xu beside him.
I just felt so regretful.
"It's all his fault. He forced me to do it. I'm innocent." Kairi wanted to run, but it was too late.
"Just kill him, I'm innocent." Kaili burst into tears.
Lin Xu just glanced at him helplessly, looking at the endless city collapse rushing towards him.
He also took action.
