Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 154 153. There is indeed a different world below (Part )

Several autonomous machines rushed to the damaged area and quickly and efficiently repaired the holes in the buildings, while the remaining machines drove their engines and entered the breach to clean up foreign objects.

It was an engineering machine with no discernible shape. It was a stretch to call it scrap metal. Strictly speaking, it should be called a compressed can.

The autonomous machines didn't care what it was, as foreign objects should be eliminated. They followed logic and were about to move the thing to the garbage dump when the deformed cover suddenly flew into the air with a loud bang!

In the machine that had completely lost power and even had its engine deformed and disabled, Cypher struggled to stand up from the machine without even breaking a few pieces of the skin.

But he was the only one who stood up... After all, there was an essential difference between a body of steel and a body of flesh.

At the moment of landing, Seifer felt that the girl who was smiling gently just now suddenly swayed like a toy doll and disappeared in an instant.

This is because the resurrection array detected the disappearance of the registered crew member's physiological signals and automatically started the recovery procedure... I think.

Before he could go back and activate the resurrection array, Shengnai could only wait.

In short, the current situation is that he does not carry any weapons, only a pistol hidden in the small storage compartment under his ribs, and a dagger as a self-defense weapon.

Although...he himself is a weapon.

The moment he kicked open the cover, Cypher immediately jumped out of the deformed cabin. The autonomous machines around him were far less interested in such "moving" things than the debris on the ground.

Their logic was to clear the rubble. Although some foreign objects moved, this was not the main problem.

First, dismantle the things that don't move.

Sever jumped out of the ruins nimbly, and the autonomous machines immediately began to cut the useless wreckage of the machine with cutting guns - he directly stabbed an autonomous machine in the back with a knife.

Quickly paralyzing the program, Seifer shook his head as he watched the information flowing past him.

No, nothing valuable was found... After all, this kind of autonomous machine that only follows action logic doesn't have any storage units.

The storage unit must at least be used for combat, and now if I encounter a combat autonomous machine with fierce firepower, I will probably die instantly.

Fortunately, the architectural design styles here are mostly flat roofs with windows, which is also the plan left by the renovation agency when they first designed these things. He can easily see the scenery outside.

This is an underground city.

Standing on the rooftop through the window, Sefer didn't choose a good feng shui location... Above his head was a heavy darkness, and he couldn't see how high the sky was. Only a faint light penetrated the dust and covered the ceiling.

But this place is definitely not completely separated from the upper and middle levels, and the autonomous machinery could not have been built only after it fell down - that is to say, the reconstruction agency has long known that there is a large cavity underground.

They want to reclaim the upper and middle areas, open up the passage connecting to the lower areas, and then gradually take back the entire node city.

So, is there any secret worth retrieving here?

Sefer connected the communication and unexpectedly found that the communication was very smooth... That's right, the communication here in the node city is not smooth, and these autonomous devices are probably blind.

He contacted Leica: "Leica, do you have time?"

There was silence for a long time, and then a low and confused voice with a little bubbling sound came: "Well, there is time..."

"Are you resting?" Sefer was a little surprised. Theoretically, she should be online at this point. According to Leica, she should be in the library or the liaison room in the dormitory after getting up.

"Yes...yes, yesterday...I held a birthday party for my friend in the dorm..."

Laika probably cooked the meal herself and took care of all the post-party hygiene, so she overslept—and it was obvious that she had followed through on Cypher's instructions. If necessary, remember to be nicer to someone individually.

Her voice returned to the same tone as before after a moment: "What's wrong, Red Crossbow?"

"I have good news for you. I've reached the lower level of Node City. This place is truly spectacular. I'll send it to you to see."

"Wait a minute, the portable communication can't share your view. I'll check later... Hmm, they reached the lower level so quickly. The mercenaries are really fast."

Cypher continued, "Technically, I fell down, straight from the middle level to here, and now I'm worried about how to get back, like wasting an opportunity and killing myself."

Laika was instantly fully awake.

"Fell down?!"

As a liaison, one must be emotionally stable, but this guy Sefer has never been stable except for the time he spends traveling. It seems that for him, life is just a game.

To explain to her what had just happened, Sefer was also moving on various rooftops. After all, a "foreign object" like him was indeed too strange for this underground city.

Behind him, two autonomous machines in flight mode were chasing him and trying to stuff him into a trash can.

"Anyway, now that I'm down there, I'm definitely going to explore as much as I can. While I'm at it, can you help me find out what experiments the Transformation Agency has conducted here?"

"Okay, I'll check it out. Be careful, Red Crossbow. The technical level of the transformation agency is obviously concealed in some places."

"Because they..." Laika paused for a long time, as if searching for information. "Because they successfully blocked all access routes to the North and South Poles. Until now, no other company has been able to achieve this kind of blocking technology."

How to block it? Use energy nets to surround those areas?

Laika doesn't know how it did it, but the modification agency was able to do it. So their technology is really terrifying to some extent... and there's no way to defeat them.

"If I find the problem first, I'll contact you. Let's focus on escaping now. By the way, as long as the communication is smooth, contact me if you are unsure about something."

"Even when being hunted?"

Cypher glanced back at the assembled autonomous machines, now numbering more than a dozen, armed with welding guns, rope nets, catapult stun guns, and trash cans.

"Well, even when being hunted."

After ending the communication, Sever jumped into the gap in the middle of the house nimbly. The autonomous machines were not paying attention and continued to fly forward, returning after a while.

They were searching for the existence of such a "foreign object", but completely ignored a robot on the outer wall that was using a welding gun to beautify the facade.

That robot was Cypher—strictly speaking, it was Cypher who had obtained the verification key of a maintenance robot.

As for electronic attack and defense warfare, the opponent's system is not rigorous and strict anyway, so there is no problem in using it.

Continuing to hold the welding gun, Seifer looked with regret at the burning silicone leather case in the toolbox beside him, and then added some fuel to it to make it burn more fiercely.

Now, even if I climb up to meet people, most mercenaries will not recognize who I am.

Then I have to ask Dr. Mei if he can make a new one...

　Thanks to the reward from the person whose name is being updated... and thanks to Youyang Qiuye for the 100,000 reward, thank you very much...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)