Chapter 639 Death City

The group embarked on the journey again, leaving the eerie city of death behind.

This world shrouded in darkness always gives people a sense of depression, but fortunately this darkness has gradually gone away. A huge, running plasma engine was right in front, and the brilliant flames it erupted lit up the entire sky, finally dispelling the gloomy atmosphere along the way.

Vivian suggested going to the engines to check the situation. Hao Ren let the car navigation system determine the route by itself, and then turned onto a slope that gradually went upwards along the steel ridge. As we get closer to the giant engine, more details of this huge facility are revealed to everyone. Hao Ren saw that its tapered shell was actually dotted with many rotating ramps that looked like winding mountain roads. Some faint lights were traveling quickly on those ramps, and there were a large number of radial extensions from the top of the engine. The long steel bridge connecting to the distant land, but I don’t know what it is used for.

When they were about to reach the halfway point of the engine, the vehicle's host computer suddenly made a slight chirp. At the same time, Yzaks also frowned: "There seems to be something ahead."

When Hao Ren heard this, he quickly parked the car on the side of the road. Lily jumped out and sneaked up to check the situation. She lay behind a large steel plate and peered outside, then turned around and waved to everyone.

Others hurriedly followed, and Lily pointed to the other side of the road and whispered: "Look! The transport convoy!"

Hao Ren was dumbfounded when he saw a steel avenue leading straight to the top of the engine a hundred meters away. The avenue was paved with guide rail-like traction facilities that emitted a faint blue light, and transport vehicles that looked like cage trucks were on the way. Busy going back and forth on those guide rails, it looks very orderly.

"There is no breath of life..." Vivian frowned, and suddenly threw a small bat towards a transport truck: due to the effect of the giant engine, there is an unstable atmospheric environment nearby, Vivian's little bat Finally it has a use.

By the way, the vampire girl's bat detector hasn't been used for a long time...

The little bat struggled to maintain its direction in the wind, and finally managed to grab the shell of a cage truck in full view of everyone. It looked around on the car casing and crawled around to find the entrance. Any zoologist with a normal outlook would probably start to doubt life if he saw a bat doing these things. But in the end, the little bat could only I came back disappointed because the entire car was completely closed except for the rear compartment.

"There is a hopper behind the car, which may contain things like engine fuel." Vivian patted the little bat into her body and frowned, "The car has no entrance and no breath of life. It should run automatically."

Hao Ren thought about it and made a bold decision: follow the returning transport trucks.

Lily bravely walked around the transport vehicles and found that the latter were still running as usual without any response, and there were no warning robots or the like on the tracks, so everyone concluded that the automatic system should be "blind" . Hao Ren drove behind a transport truck that left the engine and walked for a distance along the long steel avenue. After turning a few corners, he saw a steel jungle-like place lined with facilities ahead.

This steel jungle was previously blocked by a ridge, and no one noticed it as they drove all the way.

Hao Ren carefully drove into this area and was greeted by a loud noise. There are huge, dark, roaring machines or buildings everywhere, and it is as noisy and lively as a factory the size of an entire city. A large number of round tank trucks and other types of transport vehicles came here from the engine along the tracks, moving quickly and orderly through the steel jungle, while there were also huge mechanical arms and creaking take-offs and landings. The platform operates in conjunction with these vehicles, constantly loading and unloading one vehicle after another.

A roar came from above, and Nangong Wuyue looked up in surprise. She saw a steel cube with a width of more than ten meters slowly flying through the air driven by a propeller, and was perfectly assembled on the ground not far away. On a "mountain of blocks" - these things are probably some kind of self-operating container system.

The entire "factory city" is in a busy state, with the roar of machinery and the sound of vehicles everywhere. Various indicator lights and high-power lighting systems also make the place as bright as day, but other than that... there is no one here. .

Hao Ren led everyone out of the car, and everyone walked carelessly while exploring this strange place. They were not worried about any alarm device here that would draw out the city's defenders - to be honest, they were looking forward to meeting someone. Yzaks had even planned to pull down a meteorite and blow it up: he hoped that Blast out a few locals. However, this idea was strongly discouraged by everyone.

Lily held up her claws of ice and fire and walked alongside Hao Ren at the front of the team with a wary look on her face. She sniffed hard: "This place only smells of steel and oil..."

Everyone passed by a loading and unloading platform that was in operation. There was a control room-like facility next to the loading and unloading platform, and the door was open. Nangong Sanba held a crossbow and went over to check the situation on high alert. However, after walking through the door, he only saw a bunch of machines with flashing lights and beeping.

"There is no one here," Nangong Sanba came out of the control room and shook his head, "All systems run automatically."

Hao Ren sighed: "Don't look for it. I'm afraid the whole planet is operating automatically."

But just as he finished speaking, a sharp roar suddenly came from behind everyone!

Hao Ren immediately turned around and looked warily, only to find a small device in the shape of an inverted triangle rushing over like lightning. This small device seemed to be a patrolling robot. It quickly circled around the crowd and made a series of squeaks. There was a squeaking electronic sound, and after a moment, a normal voice sounded: "Citizen discovered."

Nangong Sanba asked subconsciously: "What did you say?"

A series of chirping sounds came from the small machine: "Citizen found, health status is good. Please follow this guidance device to the checkpoint. After disinfection, you can go to the first-floor shelter."

After saying that, the small device turned around and floated in another direction. After floating a few meters away, it turned around and looked at Hao Ren and his party who had not moved: "Citizens, please follow this guidance device to the checkpoint. If you do not follow, enforcement will be taken." measure."

Yzaks held a magic spell in his hand and wondered whether he should blow it up. Hao Ren waved his hand and told him to put the magic away: "Follow me and see what this little guy wants to do."

The group of people followed the inverted triangular robot, making many twists and turns, and walked all the way into the depths of this steel jungle. They passed more factories and large machines that were running automatically, and saw countless driverless vehicles and transfer platforms running around. This scene was so weird, it was as if the owner died and the machine he was using during his lifetime was The tool is still working in mid-air. Finally, they were taken to a rectangular building, which finally isolated them from the noise and chaos outside.

The rectangular building is brightly lit, clean and tidy, and the entire first half is a lobby. Its size and neatness are reminiscent of an airport terminal. There are a few high-end-looking small robots busy in the hall, cleaning or repairing equipment.

Lily put away her two claw blades, as if she was worried about scratching such a clean place. From this point of view, she was much more sensible than ordinary huskies: "I didn't expect that there is such a thing on this planet." The place."

"In closed man-made facilities, people can always ignore the vicissitudes of life outside," Vivian suddenly sighed thoughtfully, "I once fell asleep in the tomb of the ancient dynasty, and when I woke up, I saw nothing around me. Changes, I thought the world was still the same, but when I went out, I only saw that the entire country had turned into a pile of rubble in the wilderness... If someone has lived in this hall for ten thousand years, I am afraid he will never think about what is outside. What has the city become?"

People always don't know how to evaluate the things Vivian lamented, so Hao Ren could only shrug and continue walking towards the opposite side of the hall after the little robot. And just as a group of people approached the door on the other side of the hall, the wall next to it suddenly lit up, and a figure appeared on the curtain wall!