Chapter 300. Awakening of Consciousness
When the door opened, three… 'things' came out.
Char could not tell if they were humans, animals, or machines. They were obviously made of metal, and when they walked, they made the sound of gears turning, which was particularly structural, but what came out of their mouths was human language.
However, from the appearance, whether it was the extremely realistic fur, beak, or facial features, they were all a goose, a squirrel, and a bear.
As soon as the three of them rushed out, 875 immediately took out the protective suits from his stomach and put them on. When they saw 875, they were extremely enthusiastic and talked endlessly in ancient language. Char could vaguely understand that they were saying things like "we missed you so much" and "we thought you were dead". Their tone was sincere.
Char began to wonder what it meant by 'I escaped'.
Could it be that he got tricked again?
Suddenly, while 875 was surrounded by the bear and the squirrel, the goose came out from under the protective suit and went straight to Char, and said a long string of words to him.
Well, a big mechanical white goose that could read ancient characters.
Ortlinde's eyes lit up!
"So cute! Char, is it saying hello to you?"
"No, it's saying, f*ck you guys, are you the ones who took 875 away for so long? If you know what's good for you, quickly pay us Biante and apologize. Otherwise, I'll peck you to death and you shall know the wrath of goose!"
"..."
Ortlinde looked at the goose that showed no signs of cursing then looked at Char who seemed to be talking nonsense with a straight face.
"You are making this up right?"
Char shrugged.
"I'm just translating what he said."
Before he could do anything to the foul-mouthed goose, 875 immediately broke free from the two things and rushed over. It pinched the goose's mouth.
"I apologize to you on behalf of Yaya, Mr. Char! There's a problem with its memory crystal essence, so it's only left with vulgarities. It wanted to say hello to you!"
The goose broke free from the 875 and spread its wings like it was drunk. It stretched its neck and pecked at Char.
"What are you looking at! A hairless penniless pauper! If you can't take out Biante, get lost! Be careful, I'll peck your eyes out!"
875 had shut off its language hub from the back, leaving it with unknown ravings.
875's expression was a little awkward as he watched the goose being dragged away by the bear.
"Uh, Yaya isn't usually like this. I swear on my memory crystal! It's very polite. At least, it has never been blacklisted by the 'uncivilized internet' in the civilian area. This is what happened after it malfunctioned!"
"Just explain from the beginning to the end, Mr. Lifeguard. I think you have a lot to say to preserve your memory crystal."
Char gestured with the invisible blade in his hand and looked at 875 with a "which part should I cut?" look, and it trembled.
"Alright, alright, I'll be honest with you. I did lie a little, but it doesn't matter. What I told you later is the truth. It's true. Bill! You and Yaya look after the house, I'll take this gentleman out for a walk!"
After explaining to the bear, 875 got on the wheelbarrow and brought the two of them to the back of the house.
It was very dark underground, and there was no light around the house. 875 turned on the strong searchlight on his forehead.
However, what it illuminated left Char speechless with shock.
Ortlinde's condition wasn't any better.
It was a mountain of corpses of mechanical creations, with abandoned parts, messy body organs, and wires intertwined. As the strong light shone on it, one could see the thick dust accumulated on it.
"It's just a pile of trash. There's nothing to see here, sir."
875 changed direction and continued forward.
It walked through a narrow path in the garbage mountain. Walking on it made people worry that the garbage mountains on both sides might collapse at any time, but it seemed to be used to it.
"I didn't lie, but I missed one thing. In the beginning, after we were revived, everyone was carrying out their duties. The first city was not what you just saw. We used 150 years, 4 days, and 21 hours to clean up the garbage in the city and piled it here. Seven days later, the cleaning machine responsible for cleaning the garbage collapsed for unknown reasons. I guess they went crazy because there was no work to do—Ravesland had never been so clean.
"Their self-destruction was like a signal of some kind of power awakening. After them, the machines of the Sentry team and the police station also went crazy one after another. They began to implement the 'Monster Infected Elimination Plan'. Yaya, the goose, Bill, the bear and Zhizhi, the squirrel, the ones I brought out during that time. The three of them used to be the toy robots in the toy store, and Yaya was the only one sold. However, before the trial period ended, it was returned by the customers, and the owner of the toy store threw it on the ground. That was when the memory crystal had a problem, and it exploded before it could be repaired."
After that, 875 sneaked a glance at Char, as if he was worried that he would be angry.
"Believe me, it was originally a good-tempered goose. It was 'Fitzrock Gentleman Goose β- Yaya', and the rating was as high as 99.8%. It was a well-known educational toy for Parent-Child Education.
Right, a gentleman goose…
Char skipped the topic.
"What do you mean by 'you've escaped'?"
"Don't worry, we're almost there. We need the gray crystal to live and the cypress leaf to resist the spirit breath. Otherwise, we'll end up like them. It's here!"
875 stopped and a strong light shone in front of him.
This was a completely different garbage mountain from the previous one. Although the previously dark-colored abandoned machinery was dilapidated, they did not have such a strong unified color.
The garbage mountain in front of him seemed to have just been processed. After being soaked in a special liquid for a long time, the color had all faded, and the edges were almost transparent. The original color had been stripped away, leaving behind a unified crystal texture with a faint mercury light.
"These are the people who have been in contact with the spirit breath for too long. Look at how miserable they are!"
"As a creation, the third rule we follow is 'do not directly expose yourself to the spirit breath'. But ever since the police and the sentries began to clear out the place, many of my colleagues escaped from the fourth component area. We used to live here together, but they don't have the intelligence of the 875, so they felt that it was no big deal to be exposed to the spirit breath. Look, they became like this."
875 rambled on, but Char was having a goosebump.
Unlike the previous garbage mountain, what was in front of him was a true "pile of corpses".
This was because each individual body was complete, but they had turned from metal to soft and unified. There was no distinction between the parts. They were perfectly integrated into one, but they had also lost their activity.
He used "Fire of Origin" to approach one of the corpses, but it actually melted like wax on fire.
They had been assimilated by the Long Mist.
"Oh, oh! What a magical sword, it can actually drive away the spirit breath. You must have mastered something incredible. You are qualified to be friends with 875! Don't worry, in my heart, you're definitely on the same level as Yaya and the others."
Char glanced at it, and 875 immediately changed its words.
"No, you can be higher than them, provided that we get along for a period of time and get along in a friendly manner."
"So, you were caught stealing the 'protective suit' and the energy source?" Char smiled.
"Steal? Are you trying to humiliate me? This is a reasonable redistribution of idle resources!" 875 shouted.
"All the resources belong to the rulers of Ravesland, not the sentries. With my intelligence, I should have these resources. If the old mechanics did these things themselves, the result would be the same as now…"
"Alright, alright,'reasonable redistribution'. So, how did you escape?" Char asked again. Other than the invisibility coating on its body, this guy did not seem to have any means of attack or defense. It looked like the noisiest level 20 alarm robot in the normal mechanical ruins.
"Just as I was about to show off my skills and take care of the useless Sentries, the visitors who fell from the sky gave me a little help. They fell down and fought with the Sentries. I had to leave, and then I met you."
'And then I was tricked by this guy,' Char cursed in his heart.
After a pause, 875 seemed to have discovered a big secret and said in surprise, "I suddenly realized that it's very likely that you all came from the same place. Is that right? Do you want to go back and save your companions? Bring me along! I'm definitely your essential partner for victory, much more competent than you, a partner of the opposite sex with a body fat percentage of more than 20%!"
"You ... Are you talking about me?"
Ortlinde was listening to the story and could not help but ask Char softly, "What does a body fat percentage over 20% mean?"
"She said you have breasts," Char said.
The girl opened her mouth and mumbled, "Perverted robot."
She was still a little proud though.
If it was someone else, she would have drawn her sword, but this was from 875. Putting aside its mechanical form, it was like a child who knew nothing.
Most importantly, this was the first time someone had complimented her like this!
She didn't know why, but she suddenly thought of Mia.
The smug on her face suddenly disappeared.
"Let's not talk about this for now." Char touched her chin and said, "What happens to those who are captured by the Sentry team? Will they be killed?"
"You're the first batch of visitors in a long time, so I don't know what those lunatics will do. There are two sets of plans in front of them, one is 'Visitor Entry Handling Rules', and the other is 'Illegal Entry Handling Measures'. This is a problem that needs to be solved by flipping a coin."
"I know. So, you really don't know what's inside the fourth part?"
"I don't know…"
"Think clearly before you answer."
Char slowly wiped the "Fire of Origin".
He didn't believe it this time.
This had already formed the shape of a mission. He had tried to find things from the garbage dump before, but all he saw was trash that could not be sold. They did not even have the value of purifying metals. Even the "Holy Grail" did not accept such things.
Therefore, the two garbage piles were equivalent to the boundary of the map, telling him that the area worth exploring was in the inner urban area, and there must be a story in it.
The way to enter it was most likely hidden on 875.
875 changed his words in less than a second.
"Although I don't know about it, there's one person who definitely knows! It's Captain Roland of the Sentries. It has to go in and report the security situation once a month."
"You have a grudge against Roland?" Char laughed and glared at it.
"My God, you're so smart! If you don't become 875's friend, then it's really a waste of God's gift. Only then can your wisdom shine!" 875 immediately began to jabber about the evil things that Roland had done to him, including but not limited to saying that lifeguards were low-level machines, and that his beautiful hair had become light bulbs.
In the end, he tactfully suggested, "We're friends now, so your friend's business is your business. 875 then asked Char to beat up Roland.
Now that things had developed to this point, even if there was no mission notification, he already knew what was going on.
There was no guarantee that there would be a confrontation later—a confrontation between the survivors of the church and him.
"Point me to the way, the one you go often," Char said.
"No problem!"
…
875 had a secret passage to the city to "redistribute supplies". The three of them entered through the sewer in the Rivet Area.
The sewers in Ravesland were wider than subway tunnels, and they were frighteningly clean. It was completely different from the sewers in the shantytown that Char had imagined, where dirty, stinky sewage and rats ran.
Before the robot in charge of cleaning went crazy, it was so desperate that it cleaned the place carefully, so when Char lit the torch, he thought that he had returned to the black and white tunnel of death.
When he was about to leave, he grabbed 875's shoulder.
"Do the Sentries have your 'hidden coating' too? "
"They do."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"We're here to fight, how can we hide! You have to beat them until their screws fly and oil splatters!" 875 shouted.
"Shut up. From now on, stay behind me."
Char found a rope and tied the 875 to the wheelbarrow, then removed the tires.
"Watch it."
"Alright."
After giving his instructions, Char went out in stealth mode.
The entrance to the sewer was in a dried-up moat. After Char climbed out of the moat, he found that he was facing the cylindrical buildings that he had seen before. The floor was made of brass, and there were cypress leaves growing on it.
Following his original memory, he found the electronic dragonfly that he had broken before and repaired it with a drop of 'Quasi-Divine Healing Liquid'.
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[Dragonfly Eye]
[Structure]
[Level 15 Reconnaissance Unit]
[ HP: 100/100 ]
Maximum flight speed: 15 m/s
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It was extremely easy for a Mechanic to control such a thing. Char fiddled with it for a while, and the dragonfly flew away. A blurry image appeared in the upper right corner of Char's vision. The image was of a cylindrical roof covered in cypress leaves, which originated from the Rivet Area. From a distance, it looked like a green pastry placed neatly on a plate.
Things became simple.
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