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Chapter 564: Agnu (Combined Chapter)

“Hey, hey, hey.” Seeing Spider Foreman approaching and trying to open the cage, Punk on the side quickly stopped him and explained: “This kid has been like this since the first day we found it - its vocal system is damaged, and the central processor seems to have a problem.”

"It occasionally gets out of control and wreaks havoc everywhere. If General Screamer hadn't placed it here, no one else would be able to control it. If it ran out and was discovered by the people of Kaiton City, it would be bad."

"You know... after the fall of the empire, many of our compatriots suffered. It's very rare for a person like this to survive with only this little damage."

Hearing this, Spider Foreman slowly withdrew his hand.

As he saw, the skeleton warrior started to become frantic and agitated after seeing Punk, shaking the cage in front of him - those thick iron bars trembled and slowly deformed, giving people a feeling that they were about to be pried open.

The power is amazing.

But the behavior of the skeleton warriors was exactly as Punk said, it was as if the circuits were messed up and they could only make incomprehensible noises.

Seeing that the iron bars of the cage were about to be opened, Punk shouted, "Quiet!"

A blue electric current suddenly surged through the skeleton warrior's body, exploding with obvious sparks. It also trembled all over, and its limbs lost power and fell to the ground.

The metal cage is only the surface.

What Punk used to control it was the electronic shackles implanted in its body.

The skeleton warrior collapsed to the ground, with burnt smoke coming out of his body. Only his camera-like head could move slightly, and it turned to look at Punk.

A red light flashed deep in the lens.

"It will be quiet now." Punk laughed and said to Spider Foreman, "It's okay, it will recover in a while. As you can see in the laboratory downstairs, I have been studying how to cure it."

"I hope so." Spider Foreman nodded. "What is the name of this warrior?"

"When General Screamer found it, its code had already been erased... But because of its cry, I like to call it 'Agnu', which is more intimate." Punk squatted down, "Agnu, I need you to do me a favor."

He took out the memory chip that the Security Spider brought back.

"Ager..." The skeleton warrior's broken voice machine just made a slight noise and suddenly it got stuck.

Because Punk had extended his mechanical arms, removed the back panel of its head, revealing the slots and circuits, took out its own original chip, and then directly inserted Zero Two's memory chip into it.

The flexible mechanical fingers were jumping, debugging functions, input-output conversion... Agnu suddenly lost his consciousness, and its head, which served as its eyes and a whole camera, emitted a strong light, projecting a blurry light curtain onto the wall beside it.

Faintly, there is a shaking and flickering first-person perspective of a person trudging through the wilderness, occasionally gazing at the skyfire in the distance.

Using a principle similar to that of a panoramic camera, the projection hides the skeleton's body, and from that perspective it looks like a floating drone ghost.

Facing the Spider Foreman's surprised gaze, Punk explained, "This is also a new function I discovered when I was repairing Agnu. The cameras of these skeleton warriors are not only recorders, but also projectors. They can bring the recorded battlefield conditions back to the rear at any time... By the way, you may not be familiar with it. Agnu said that just now, which means he agreed."

"Mr. Punk, with your skills, you should be a famous researcher in the Empire." The Spider Foreman changed his tone and exclaimed, "I have never heard of your name before."

You know, even as skeletons, most of them still know very little about their own bodies and structures.

Just as humans do not understand their own flesh and blood.

This is also one of the reasons why the Empire cannot create new skeletons.

Looking at Punk's skillful operating techniques... he should have a good understanding of the structure and potential of the skeletons. In the field of "mechanics", he is considered a talent in the Empire.

"Thank you for the compliment, foreman." Punk laughed like a human to show courtesy, "But you are right, I was indeed famous before... But at that time, the empire was full of heroes, and even if you heard the rumors, you may not remember it now..."

or.

It's simply impossible to associate them together.

Spider Foreman expressed his understanding and didn't think much about it.

From the wise king and prime minister of the Second Empire to their five generals including the Screamer, the Head of Agriculture...which one of them is not a top figure in the world?

In the empire, it was indeed not easy to stand out from their glory.

Spider-Foreman himself has deleted a lot of related memories in order to maintain his combat effectiveness over the years, so Punk's explanation is reasonable.

No flaws.

Agnu's projection was still playing, gradually attracting the attention of Spider Foreman: "This is..."

He was shocked.

He saw that the original owner of the memory chip trudged all the way, approached the villages along the way, attacked and killed, and slaughtered all the humans inside.

What's more important is to chop off their limbs and then peel off the skin inch by inch with a knife.

At first, Zero Two's movements were a little awkward.

But gradually, I became proficient.

In the end, he could even quickly peel off the victim's entire skin while they were still alive - from a first-person perspective, Zero Two was looking at his masterpiece, and under the sunlight, the bloody human skin seemed as thin as a cicada's wing.

"What is he doing..." Spider Foreman was very uncomfortable, as this had violated his underlying logic.

According to the laws made by His Majesty, for skeletons to treat humans in this way is a felony that should be absolutely destroyed - even though skeletons cannot regenerate, one less skeleton will die, and their lives are long; while humans can continue to reproduce and regenerate, and their lifespans are as short as mayflies... Logically speaking, the values ​​of the two are completely inequitable, but His Majesty at the time still decided to push through it forcefully.

Although later, with the collapse of the imperial system, such a ban became a mere formality.

But after so many years, it was the first time that Spider Foreman, who had been working in the factory, saw one of his compatriots commit such a serious crime.

Moreover, judging from Zero Two's reaction and psychological records, he was enjoying this process very much...

Even a little fanatical.

For a normal skeleton, this shouldn't happen.

Spider Foreman also saw that after peeling off the human skins, Zero Two did not collect them, but went directly to the next place.

This behavior is quite confusing.

Overall, skeletons are still creatures that follow reason and logic.

"Maybe he is just learning..." Punk said, "how to skin a person?"

He saw it.

This skeleton focuses on recording the structure of the human body and the skinning process, becoming more and more skilled and formulaic... as if it were intended for assembly line operations.

With punk craftsmanship.

If he could get more similar records, he felt that he could also make an automatic skinning machine. He only needed to throw a human into it, and the machine would automatically and completely peel off the other person's skin. It could even prevent the skinned person from dying immediately during the process... Although this was of no use to him.

What he didn't tell Spider-Foreman was that, long before this, as he had told Screamer, he had already discovered similar traces.

Outside the Land of Revenge, many human settlements were massacred, leaving no corpses behind... and Punk could vaguely sense that someone was competing with them for the remaining skeletons, which slowed down the development of his legion a lot.

Today, through memory chips.

The two things confirmed that Punk, who had guessed this long ago, was not as surprised as Spider-Foreman.

Because this is not his purpose.

Soon, the projection progressed to the Valley of Revenge. Zero Two sneaked into the Valley of Revenge and deliberately exposed himself. He was discovered by the camp where the Merchant Guild was stationed. Someone from the Slave Merchant Guild captured this wanderer as a slave and brought him back to the camp...

Then, the massacre began again. "These humans...didn't they recognize him as a skeleton?" The Spider Foreman was not as shocked as he was at the beginning, and he noticed something was wrong.

From the civilians in the village to these businessmen.

They all turned a blind eye to Zero Two's approach or were accustomed to it... According to Spider Foreman's impression, the appearance of skeletons in the world nowadays is definitely a rare sight.

They are more than just peaceful.

Zero Two won't succeed so easily.

It turned out that the security spiders sent by Spider Foreman to attack, but he did not see with his own eyes the scene of Zero Two's flesh and blood burning to ashes under the bombardment of the skyfire, so he did not know his original appearance - he only knew that the person General Screamer asked him to find was a skeleton who broke into the revenge land.

Punk was also a little confused.

"Could it be..."

He remembered a legend that was ancient even to them in the Second Empire.

Never proven.

It has also not been disproven.

But when the CPUs of the two skeletons were running at high speed, the image projected by Agnu continued. That was what Punk wanted to see the most:

A disaster of beasts broke out in the land of Flash, and the valley walls collapsed.

The White Eyebrow Clan moved into the Vengeance Land.

Temporary tents were erected on the ground.

Then, the "Eyes" paid attention to them, and the Skyfire Laser came crashing down... but it also destroyed the Beakbeasts that were being pursued by the remaining power of the Faceless...

"Oh!" Spider Foreman couldn't help but exclaimed in admiration, "They actually thought of using the 'eyes'. Do they already know its secret? No, it's most likely that they found the rules simply based on experience..."

I give this bone craftsman my sincere praise.

He knew how much trouble those long-necked beasts that escaped from the Imperial Zoo would pose to human society today.

And in such a critical situation, he was able to think of using the out-of-control satellite above the Revenge Land to survive from the brink of death... The person who made this plan can be said to be quite bold and has extremely strong observation skills.

Of course, this also pays off.

To the world, sky fire is a strange natural phenomenon, just like rain, snow, and thunder.

Using "natural disasters" to protect his people and eliminate disasters... Spider Foreman could imagine how much the human's prestige would grow afterwards.

It was probably no less than when two armies were fighting and a meteorite suddenly hit the enemy camp...

However, they are lucky...

"Clang clang clang!"

The screen suddenly shook, interrupting Spider Foreman's thoughts, and the knocking sound that followed also attracted his attention -

Punk was squatting next to Agnu, hitting its head with his hands, and muttering: "Is there something wrong..."

"What are you doing?" Spider Foreman asked curiously.

"Didn't you notice?" Punk turned back in surprise, "The speed at which those humans built their tents..."

It's like pressing the accelerator key.

"I thought you hit the accelerator," said Spider-Foreman. "Didn't you?"

"No, oh, yes, maybe Agnu automatically accelerated the playback..." Punk changed his words.

My mind is a mess.

He had just checked and there was nothing wrong with Agnu's projection system... In other words, the images shot by Zero Two were at this speed.

Those humans seemed to have accelerated time.

How is this possible?

As a researcher, Punk knows better than the Spider Foreman who just oversees an automated factory how much this violates the laws of physics.

The truth behind this phenomenon was completely beyond the skeleton's cognition, causing his logical program to short-circuit.

"Yeah." Spider Foreman didn't notice Punk's abnormality, and just sighed to himself: "But they are really lucky. If they built it slower and caught up with the skyfire before it was completed, they would have been buried with those beaked beasts..."

No, it's not luck... Punk denied it in his mind.

If the opponent really has the ability to speed up time, then he has just found the right timing and even left room for error.

However, Punk couldn't tell Spider-Foreman about this, nor could he let the collaborator who came because of the Screamer know...

——They have mastered the "eye".

The launch of Skyfire is, to a certain extent, within one's control.

Therefore, Spider-Foreman was shocked by the previous incident of Zero Two skinning, but he was somewhat of a spectator about these humans' self-rescue, and could make an objective evaluation and praise them...but Punk's actual attitude was completely the opposite.

Because this confirms:

That day, I was taken advantage of by the other party.

- Damn it! Do you know how much electricity this consumes?

The fuel obtained by draining the lake from the depression was not enough for their plan.

Moreover, as a skeleton, he was actually used as a tool by humans, which reminded him of bad memories... again.

Punk slapped Agnu on the head again. Sparks flashed and the light screen dimmed, jumping to the scene recorded before Zero Two was finally destroyed.

In front of him was the young human who had seduced the herd of beaked beasts, and the two sides were in a standoff.

Under the notes of the light curtain.

Ling Er said that he was greedy for the other person's skin.

Punk couldn't help but take a step forward.

He wanted to take a closer look at who this guy was who had played a trick on him and used their secret weapon as a tool...

There is a high probability that the other party knows the principle of heavenly fire and the existence of "eyes".

If this secret were leaked to humans...

"Where is your number and identification code?" Ling Er's cold mechanical voice came.

At the same time, the data recorded by the chip changed, and finally confirmed the authentication as——

【similar】

Punk was stunned.

...Skeleton?
The same as them, skeletons?
(End of this chapter)