[When the sky was about to get dark, you kept the shape of the transport vehicle and drove near Chunli's bamboo house. 】
[Your body began to deform, retracting all its parts, leaving only the mechanical heart. Chun-Li, who was wrapped in the body, was able to escape. 】
[Chunli breathed fresh air again, but immediately fell to the ground and vomited. It seemed to be a symptom of 'motion sickness'...]
[You send a bottle of sobriety potion to Chunli with a robotic arm. 】
[Chunli picked up the potion and drank it all in one gulp, finally regaining some energy. 】
["Are you okay?" You asked. 】
["No, it's okay..." Chunli lay weakly on her back on the grass nearby, her expression a little dazed. 】
["System Master, how is that robot...?" Chunli asked. 】
【"It has rested in peace."】
Mu You found a way to put it as euphemistically as possible. In fact, the robot had been dismembered into a pile of pieces.
["Did we really...kill a watchman?" Chunli asked dully. 】
Mu You sighed. He really didn't expect that the little girl would show such resistance to killing the robot.
From his perspective, robots are just dead objects, tools made by intelligent creatures. Killing them is no different from disassembling an object.
However, looking at the other party's current behavior, it seems that the robot has been regarded as a real life. To her, what just happened is like a child who has been growing up in a peaceful and stable environment and witnessed the impact of a murder with her own eyes. .
"What happened just now was all done by my will and has nothing to do with you. There is no need to feel pressure." You said. 】
[Chunli smiled reluctantly, did not argue, got up and dragged her tired body towards home. 】
[After entering the bamboo house, Chunli, who had already relaxed, suddenly froze, because at this moment, a figure was already sitting at the table in the bamboo house. 】
["Grandma Yao..." Chunli looked at the old man of the panda tribe in front of her with a guilty conscience. On the table next to the old man, there is a bowl of food made of grass. 】
["Where did you go at night?" The old man stood up, walked to Chunli on crutches, and frowned: "And why do you look so bad? What happened?"]
[Under the old man’s concerned inquiry, the grievance in Chunli’s heart seemed to suddenly burst out. She pursed her lips and her eyes filled with mist: “Grandma Yao, actually, actually I...”]
As soon as Mu You read this text, he felt like he was going to be in trouble, so he hurriedly typed it back.
["Do not reveal the existence of the system to others, otherwise the system will be permanently disconnected." Your reminder sounded in Chunli's head at the right time. 】
[Chunli was stunned, and had to swallow the words that came to her lips. 】
["What's wrong? What happened to you?" Grandma Yao asked hurriedly when she saw Chunli suddenly stopped. 】
["No, it's nothing... I may have blown the wind for too long and caught the wind chill..." Chunli lowered her head and held the corners of her clothes and said. 】
[Grandma Yao took a deep look at Chunli, then sighed after a moment, touched her head and said: "Just rest when you are sick, don't run around, you don't have to go to work tomorrow, sleep well at home, I will help You handle it."]
["Well..." Chunli still lowered her head, not daring to look at the old man. 】
[It wasn't until the old man turned around and left that Chunli breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door, sat back on the bed, and looked at the food on the table beside her, in a daze. 】
["System Master, can you really not tell Granny Yao? She is the best person to me here, and she will definitely not harm us." Chunli asked cautiously. 】
["Heroes are always lonely. Telling the people around you will only involve them in danger." You answered. 】
[Chunli fell silent after hearing this, and then suddenly spoke after a moment. 】
["System Lord, do we really...must fight against robots?"]
"this……"
Mu You was stunned for a moment.
From his point of view, or from the Fool's point of view, the robots sent exterminators to hunt them down, the kind that would not stop until death. At the same time, as a group of lifeless machines, they trapped so many real living races in the Under the abyss, they were deprived of their freedom to leave, and they were planning some ulterior purpose. No matter how you looked at it, it was a perfect villain's behavior.
So from his perspective, fighting against robots is very logical.
However, from the perspective of Chun Li and other pandas, the robots did not seem to have done anything wrong. On the contrary, they saved the lives of these races and allowed these races that should have disappeared long ago to continue to exist for so many years, although they were trapped in the Underground, I lost a certain amount of freedom, but under the protection of robots, I gained peace, stability, and a life free from the world.
Especially in the minds of the new generation like Chun Li, robots may be a race that coexists with them. They are both the ones in power and the guardians. In short, they are equal beings to them.
On the contrary, Mu You seemed to be the intruder. He broke in suddenly and broke the peaceful life here. He used this little girl to kill an innocent robot and involved her in danger...
Looking back, Mu You suddenly realized that he seemed to be playing the role of the villain unknowingly.
When Mu You came back to his senses and wanted to explain something, he found that Chunli had fallen asleep.
[Chunli was so sleepy that she lay down on the bamboo bed, her eyelids fighting crazily, and soon she could no longer hold back her sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep...]
Mu You sighed and sent a quilt in.
"Didi..."
Just at this moment, a message sounded.
At this time, the game character is in a special scene and should not receive messages from others.
Mu You cut out and took a look. The message was sent from the forum, from Xiaoya, saying that the goblin Eugene suddenly found her and asked her to help contact Mu You.
"The old goblin said, boss, what you asked me to study has produced results."
"Oh?" Mu You raised an eyebrow.
What he asked Eugene to study was naturally the pile of robot remains he brought before.
Coincidentally, he had just finished dismantling a newly acquired robot, and Eugene had just finished dismantling the results.
The door had been used and could no longer be used in a short period of time, and the game character was trapped under the abyss and unable to move. Mu You had to wake up the herb collector first, synchronized his memory with him, and then asked the herb collector to teleport. Go to Evernight City and see what's going on in Eugene.
Half an hour later, the herb collector arrived at Yongye City.
"I want to confirm first..."
In the factory in Eternal Night City, Eugene pointed at a pile of mechanical fragments on the table that were sorted and stored in some kind of transparent instrument: "These are all the things you brought with you on that robot at that time, right? "
"certainly."
The herb collector nodded naturally.
At that time, he watched with his own eyes that the robot was smashed into pieces. All the fragments were scattered in the nearby sand. Finally, Mu You sifted out every single one. It was impossible to miss anything.
"What's wrong?"
In the pet shop, Mu You noticed that the herb collector quickly frowned after reading the other party's reply.
The herb collector sighed: "Eugene said that it has tried to restore the exterminator. However, in the restored body, all the functions that were needed were found, but only energy accessories were not found..."
"Is that really the case..." Mu You breathed out.
He couldn't find the energy source for his own. It could also be said that he didn't understand alchemy and missed a certain component.
But now that even Eugene, the alchemist master, said this, it was definitely not his problem.
"In other words, these robots from the underground are probably special machines that do not require additional energy supply!" In Eternal Night City, Eugene came to this conclusion.
"But how is this possible?" the herb collector asked.
Whether it is a living thing or a machine, anything that moves always consumes energy. Even in the magical world, energy conservation is an irreversible basic logic.
"Yes, that's impossible!"
Eugene said with some excitement: "The only explanation is that they don't need external energy, they can generate their own energy from within the body!"
"Self-produced energy..."
When the herb collector saw this sentence, he immediately remembered the previous battle in the Wind Erosion Valley.
At that time, they had used the wind unicorn arms to vacuum up the surrounding magic. However, under this situation, the exterminator could still continue to resurrect, but at a slower speed, indicating that there was still energy in the opponent's body.
Now using the explanation that 'the other party can produce their own energy', it finally makes sense.
The issue is……
"Where does self-generated energy occur?" asked the herb collector.
Even if you want to produce your own energy, you must have a power-producing device in your body. However, among the robot parts that Mu You disassembled just now, no device that can produce power was found.
"I'm afraid...it's in body fluids..." Eugene said uncertainly.
"body fluid?"
"Yes."
Eugene said as he took out a glass test tube. At the bottom of the test tube, a layer of milky white semi-solid substance settled.
"What is this?" the herb collector asked.
"This is the 'original liquid', which is the blood of the machine. I collected it from the inner tube wall of the body. However, because the body has been dead for a long time, these original liquids have long solidified into a solid state and have lost their original properties."
"Original liquid... milky white..."
The herb collector looked at these two words and immediately thought of the battle in the Wind Erosion Valley. At that time, they defeated the Exterminator and smashed the robot into pieces. It seemed that there was indeed some milky white liquid flowing out of the opponent's body, and finally seeping into it. In the sand.
"What's wrong with this thing?" the herb collector asked.
"I originally thought this raw liquid had a function similar to 'coolant', but after the experiment, I found that it was not..."
Eugene pinched a handful of iron powder and sprinkled it on the test tube containing the milky white substance. As a result, a weak repulsive force was generated in the test tube, which pushed the iron powder away in several directions. Finally, the iron powder was on the table. The upper row is arranged in a regular spiral pattern.
"These raw liquids are producing a special magnetic field, which affects the surrounding gravity, but it is very weak... Of course, it may have been a very strong magnetic field, but because these raw liquids have 'died', the effect has become weak. Uncheckable..." Eugene explained.
"gravity……"
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention. When the herb collector saw the description of 'affecting gravity', he instinctively thought of the force field in the abyss.
"Besides, after I diluted these original liquid solidifications and magnified them thousands of times with a magic magnifying glass, what do you think I saw?" Eugene suddenly asked excitedly.
It's a pity that no one paid attention to it. The character of the herb collector just looked at it expressionlessly, waiting for his answer.
"I saw...thousands of corpses!" Eugene said with a somewhat fanatical expression.
"Corpse? You mean... microorganisms?" The herb collector was stunned for a moment and asked with a frown.
The 'corpses' that can only be seen after being magnified thousands of times can obviously only be classified as microorganisms.
"Then, what are the properties of these microorganisms?" the herb collector continued to ask.
"Well, the current discoveries only go so far. These microorganisms are too small and dead, so they cannot be studied for the time being..." Eugene said with some embarrassment. It originally thought that the other party should be more surprised by such a major discovery, but it didn't expect that it would pass so easily.
Of course, that's because all it sees is the game character, and of course it doesn't show too many expressions.
In fact, at this moment, the herb collector had told Mu You everything about what had just happened, and the two of them had already had a discussion.
"In other words, these microorganisms are the energy source of these robots..."
Mu You looked at a tube of milky white liquid in his hand.
This tube of liquid was scraped from the body of the robot that had just been dismantled. Most of the original liquid had been lost when it died, and only half a bottle was scraped out from some nooks and crannies.
"Not only that, the exterminator at that time consumed magic power..." the herb collector reminded.
Mu You nodded. So, could it be that the magic power is produced by the microorganisms in these original solutions?
"There are also characteristics of gravity..."
Mu You murmured, suddenly thinking of something, and hurriedly returned to the game.
[You try to call Chunli...]
[Unfortunately, Chunli was too exhausted and slept without knowing anyone else, showing no signs of waking up. 】
Seeing that Chunli could not be woken up, Mu You took out a syringe and sent it into the game. He let the robotic arm operate the syringe and extracted a tube of blood from Chunli. Then he took the syringe out of the game.
"Let Eugene see if there is any of that kind of microorganism in this blood sample." Mu You handed the syringe to the medicine collector.
The medicine collector naturally understood what Mu You wanted to do, nodded, put the syringe into the game, and handed it to Eugene.
It was just a matter of observing the blood sample with a microscope. The operation was not complicated. In just ten minutes, Eugene got the results.
"It's true! I thought this kind of microorganism could only survive in machinery, but it can actually survive in living bodies, and it seems to live better! It's amazing, where did you find this blood?" Eugene asked excitedly .
"What does it mean to live better?" the herb collector asked.
"The microorganisms in this blood sample are more than twice the size of the microorganisms extracted from the mechanical body, and they are significantly plumper!" Eugene said.
"Can we continue the research?" the herb collector asked again.
"Uh, no, because the microorganisms in this blood sample are also in a dead state. They just died not long ago. They should die immediately once they leave the host... So where did you find the blood sample?" Eugene was busy. ask.
The herb collector did not answer. After getting the answer, he and Mu You entered into the discussion again.
"Is that really the case..." Mu You breathed out.
This makes it clear. No wonder so many creatures in the Garden of Eden are not afraid of the gravity of the abyss and can live normally under the abyss. It seems that they have been implanted with this kind of microorganism in their bodies. It is this kind of thing that offsets their A force field that was supposed to withstand.
In addition, Mu You finally understood why Chunli provided him with energy for a whole day without any operation to replenish the magic power, but there was no sign of the magic power in her body running out.
It turns out that it is this kind of microorganism in her body that is continuously producing magic power and replenishing her losses at any time.
(End of chapter)
