Bronze door through time and space

Chapter 807 Faith and Cornerstone

It has to be said that faith can often create miracles. In the ruins, a majestic cathedral driven by steam and gears rose from the ground, and was expanded into a factory area with it as the center.

You have to know that this is a blocked quarantine zone. There are no large-scale construction equipment and not enough materials. More importantly, this is America where people never work overtime.

The ones who created the miracle were the believers who longed for mechanical ascension. They voluntarily dedicated everything to the Gear Church. They were devout and fanatical, and they built the miracle before their eyes brick by brick at any cost.

Due to the lack of materials, the main body of the cathedral is made of scrap metal collected from polluted areas. However, with the careful polishing and recasting of the believers, these metals that would have decayed over time have been reborn and built into a whole under the influence of spiritual energy, and they are now operating miraculously.

When it was completed, as the bells rang, the huge gears and steam pipes in every corner of the church seemed to be injected with life. Steam continuously spurted out of the pipes, making a low and powerful roar, like the breathing of the cathedral.

Driven by the incredible steam power, gears of all sizes mesh with each other, driving a series of complex mechanical devices, providing a steady supply of power for the entire factory. Its principle does not take science into account at all. It is the soul of the machine, it is spiritual power, it is the blessing of the God of All Machines.

This is the starting point of miracles, the source of everything, and a holy place in the hearts of believers. Therefore, whenever there are new people joining the religion, there will always be a lot of people gathering here.

Today is the day for the initiation ceremony for new members. Believers with some traces of mechanical modification on their bodies walk into the church in an orderly manner.

The most common things in the cathedral are bronze gears, pure skulls and sacred marks. Under the curling steam and the illumination of candlelight, it looks even more solemn. Therefore, no one speaks and everyone is immersed in the atmosphere of faith, as if feeling the blessing of the God of All Things.

Arriving at the lobby, many believers stood around the huge mechanical altar in the middle and began to recite the Cyber ​​Bible. The sound became low and powerful in the cleverly designed lobby, causing a slight resonance, just like the vibration generated when a top engine is started.

On the altar lit with holy candles lies an ancient book, which is the sacred object in the hearts of all believers, the Cyber ​​Bible.

The heavy and ancient Bible is protected by multiple force fields. At the same time, two cherubim with exposed mechanical parts are flying around the Bible non-stop and chanting the Cyber ​​Bible in binary. Seeing this scene, let alone ordinary people, even Guilliman would be stunned for half a second.

The believers have long been accustomed to this, except for the newcomers who are feeling uneasy. However, this is their last and only hope, so no matter what they encounter, they will not give up. Therefore, they suppress the uneasiness in their hearts and wait for fate to judge them.

Yan Xu now looks more and more like a mechanical sage. Under the shadow of his hood are scarlet mechanical prosthetic eyes, his mouth is an electronic sound generator, and some sensing and scanning devices are implanted in his head, resulting in only a small amount of skin on his appearance to prove that he is a human being.

The crimson robe on his body could not hide the many traces of mechanical modification. The ostentatious mechanical limbs were exposed, connected to various unknown instruments and equipment. But no matter how he moved, these mechanical limbs seemed to be frozen on the same horizontal line, without the slightest shaking, ensuring the unchanged accuracy.

Standing on the altar, the scarlet mechanical prosthetic eye swept across the believers present. No one dared to look at the sage, whom they revered so much, and they all lowered their heads.

Yan Xu did not waste any time. The robotic arm covered with pipelines lifted the gear scepter and inserted it into the altar. As the gears turned, eight workbenches rose from the ground around the altar.

The new recruits had already been told what to do. They took off their robes, revealing their broken and emaciated bodies. They lay on a workbench that looked more like a dissecting table, holding on to their last hope, waiting for the final judgment of fate.

The artificial eye flickered slightly, and the data stream slid across Yan Xu's retina like a waterfall. Without any additional movement, the robotic arm under the workbench stretched out, first injecting a holy anesthetic representing mercy, making it impossible for the person to run away, and then began the wild operation like cutting up pork.

Theoretically, this type of surgery would only make the deceased more fragmented and easier to burn, leaving no hope of survival. However, with the help of psychic power and extraordinary technology, both dissection and mechanical implantation went incredibly smoothly.

When the damaged part is restored by the machine, not to mention the recovery after the operation, you can go out and work right away.

This is why the Gear Church has developed so rapidly. No matter if it is an illness or a disability, as long as you join the church, it can be repaired. Even if you are missing limbs, deaf or blind, or even if you are terminally ill, you can successfully get a new life.

What is this? This is a second life. Moreover, the benefits of joining the church are more than that, which naturally attracts a large number of people to join.

After completing the initiation ceremony, the new recruits who were not yet fully awake received the brain-computer exoskeleton from the old man, which was considered their standard tool.

Since they have all been mechanically modified, they naturally don’t need a brain-computer interface, so they can use it right away. After a brief adaptation, the newcomers began to work hard under the guidance of the old staff.

There is no so-called social welfare in the quarantine zone, let alone humanitarianism and so-called charity. Everything has a price.

The church helped them get rid of diseases and disabilities, provided them with food and water, and most importantly, spiritual faith. Naturally, they had to give back, such as working hard for the church for the rest of their lives.

Yan Xu's slender mechanical fingers tapped the console flexibly, making a crisp metal collision sound, like a unique mechanical melody, and the screen in front of him showed the operation of the entire factory.

If the church is the place where faith is implanted, then the factory is the cornerstone that solidifies faith.

After the cathedral was built and a stable source of power was available, the first things Yan Xu built were a water purification plant and a starch factory.

Almost everything in the quarantine zone is contaminated, the only difference is the degree of contamination.

If you eat these, problems are bound to occur, it's just a matter of time.

But don't underestimate human vitality. Theoretically, even if something goes wrong, it's still longer than the average lifespan of three years for a homeless person on the streets of New York.

But the problem is that almost everyone in the quarantine area is infected with parasites.

This parasite is normal at normal times, but once it absorbs enough radiation, it will break through its growth limits and turn into a giant worm-like monster, gradually taking control of the body and turning the host into a mindless zombie. It will eventually follow its instinct to seek radiation and enter deep into the contaminated area.

Therefore, in the quarantine area, clean food is the guarantee of life.

The question is, do you know why this place is called the quarantine area?

Clean food does exist, but it is a luxury that people who cannot even get enough of contaminated food can only desire.

So Yan Xu first built a water purification plant and a starch factory to solve this problem.

The water purification plant can not only extract uncontaminated water from underground sources, but also purify sewage. Although the latter always has a strange smell, it is cheaper and most importantly, it is provided free of charge to believers.

The starch factory is a bit more troublesome because there is no farmland on the island and no stable food source, so they can only rely on black technology.

The starch factory built by Yan Xu can decompose plants, animals, algae, and fungi, regardless of whether they are poisonous or not, rotten or not, into starch.

Because the finished product is a tasteless starch stick, the wide range of ingredients is often mixed with some that are ubiquitous but not in the recipe.

But no one cares, because this is hell. Everyone is trying their best to survive, and all morals and laws have to give way to this. It’s good enough that they didn’t eat it directly.

Next is the factory that produces radiation-killing nin and power armor.

Xiaofuning can effectively reduce the radiation content in the human body. Theoretically, as long as you continue to take the medicine, you can live to old age.

Power armor is an important guarantee of military force. At least the outside world is still watching after discovering that the Gear Church has mastered incredible technology, thanks to this.

(End of this chapter)