Scales of Eternal Order

“It doesn’t look like an ordinary warehouse, but rather like a finished product distribution center in a factory.”

Ques transformed into a human juvenile form is used for stacking The slatted boxes and the remnants of the suspected scaffolding patrolled, patiently inspecting every corner of the warehouse.

Finally, under the remnants of the collapsed scaffolding, Ques found a metal riveting track hidden by cement hardened sand and dust. This undoubtedly confirmed part of his speculation.

“If this track is used to transport finished products to the finished product distribution center, then follow this track…”

Combined with my own guesses, stroke the ground little by little The blue dragon boy fumbled to the wall of a corner of this crypt.

Flicking away the dust deposited on this wall, a metal rolling gate painted with text symbols appeared in front of Ques.

The boy searched for a while on the wall in the vicinity, and finally found a combination lock made of a plastic protective box with metal gears embedded in it.

After trying to fiddle with the code lock a few times, Ques found that the gear was rusty. If the estimate is not bad, the latch inside the door should also look like the code lock outside.

In this way, using the spell “knock” specially invented for opening doors may not be effective. In desperation, Ques can only choose to violently demolish this method.

To his surprise, this metal rolling gate made of unknown alloy seemed very strong. Even if Ques returned to the body of a giant dragon and hit with all his strength, it would only create some concave deformation.

Fortunately, the blue dragon boy has a flexible head. He changed his mind in time and did not continue to compete with the metal door. Instead, he tried to create a new passage from the wall next to him.

The building materials here are really strong, I am afraid they are not much better than reinforced concrete. Ques, who is not very proficient in spell, Thor’s Stonewalking technique, didn’t dare to use spell directly through the rock formations. He was worried that if he got stuck in it by mistake, he would be in trouble.

His choice is to rely on the blue dragon’s own digging skills-this is the blue dragon’s masterpiece, to carry out the excavation work.

When he felt that his claws were about to be smoothed out by the concrete-like building material, he finally dug a channel into the space behind the metal rolling gate.

With the spell effect that resists the harsh environment, Ques has no doubt whether this space lacks oxygen, so he walked straight into it.

In this space where no one has set foot for thousands of years, the interior was originally pitch black and there was no light for lighting.

Even though blue dragons are born with dark vision-they can rely on other methods of observation to “see” things when they can’t be seen. But entering such an ancient ruins, being able to observe more carefully, means less danger and more discoveries. Therefore, as soon as Ques set foot on it, summon produced a “lighting orb” as a light source.

The extremely bright rays of light without any temperature instantly dispelled the darkness entrenched here.

Behind the metal rolling gate is a short corridor-shaped aisle, and on the ground there is also a track extending from a deeper level that is suspected to be used to transport goods. It may be the reason for the good airtightness. The wall color of the passage here has not fallen off, and even some text-like symbols still exist on it.

“Kotmann’s thirteenth manufacturing workshop…”

Using the spell of “Speaking Language”, Ques identified the meaning of these symbols. As he speculated, there really is an industrial production workshop named “Kotmann 13th Manufacturing Workshop” hidden inside, and the writing on the wall records the production specifications of this factory.

After carefully studying the text on the wall, Ques entered the factory floor through this passage of goods.

Different from the external distribution warehouse used to store battery packs, this factory workshop only covers an area of ​​twice as much as the former and a little more.

The crates outside containing lead-acid battery products are not piled up in the whole workshop, but some are stacked at the exit of product packaging products.

Occupying the largest area of ​​this workshop is a winding conveyor belt-there is a production line here!

Ques carefully observed this industrial creation that surprised him. He even found some constructions around the conveyor belt that seemed to be used to automatically process products. Near him, that is, near the cargo conveying channel, there are also scattered machines that look similar to those automatic processing structures.

Like a spider, they have eight metal arthropods, six of which are responsible for supporting the body, and the other two stretched near the head have a “three-fingered” structure at the end of the limbs.

The “spider”-shaped structure close to the conveying path should be responsible for the transportation of goods, because their backs have rectangular parallelepiped grooves that can fit the crates in the right size, and there are two other “Font” track metal tires.

Reuse the spell mimicry to transform itself into a human form. Ques first touched these mechanical structures lightly and found out what reaction was not at all, and randomly touched and found these metal creations. The surface is not covered with any dust.

A closer look, the blue dragon teenager Ques could not restrain his curiosity, and saw that the number of various types of constructs was not too small, so he took apart the shell of a metal spider, thinking Have a look.

Opening the shell, he discovered that the inside of these metal spiders actually has a circuit board-like control system organized by gears and copper wires, and this control system is connected to various parts of the body through cables. .

The power system that drives this structure is powered by the lead-acid battery previously discovered. Only because their battery packs have not been replaced for tens of thousands of years, there have been some rust and leakage, so they stopped working.

These are very different from the design principles of intelligent constructs created by spell-infused elements in this World. Instead, they are more like some technological creations that Ques was more familiar with.

“Isn’t this an intelligent robot used to transport materials and produce finished products in a fully automated production workshop? Or a factory guard.”

Ques opened another A metal spider with a slightly larger appearance. The shell of this metal spider is a multi-layer composite armor structure without a trace of cracks.

Ques can only unscrew one of its branches forcefully, prying open the armor protecting its internal control panel little by little.

It seems to confirm his guess that inside the armor of this metal spider is hidden a functional module that is completely different from the previous construction as a means of transportation-a ballista structure that can be fired continuously, and A special array structure that can be used to fix the staff and automatically drive its casting.

“Sure enough, that ancient civilization also had considerable accomplishments in the field of spell skills,” Ques rubbed his fingers on the array rune, which was protected by the outer armor and remained undamaged for thousands of years. Looking at the repeated ballistas that have tightened their bowstrings and put on the arrows: “Thanks to the leakage of the batteries of these constructs, they have lost their mobility. Otherwise, they may have to fight a game. It will take some effort.”

After inspecting a few metal spiders, Ques carefully observed other places in this ancient civilization’s fully automatic production workshop buried underground.

The floor of the entire production workshop is covered with metal plates with wavy anti-skid stripes, and the sound of clanging footsteps is made as Ques steps on it.

There are lighting fixtures hanging above the dome of the workshop, but because there is no energy supply, they are all in a state of extinguishing, just like some useless decorations.

Before Ques, I visited the production workshops of some automated factories for work reasons. In this kind of workshop where machinery replaces manpower, “human-machine separation” is an important safety measure.

However, in order to overhaul or regulate those production machinery, when designing and constructing such a factory, an operating compartment is reserved inside the plant for senior engineers.

Even in different worlds, the basic concepts of industrial production should be the same. This ancient civilization automated flow shop, which has a productivity level that clearly surpasses this World, should also have a design similar to that kind of operating compartment.

Ques believes that as long as he finds this kind of place for professionals to control the machinery of the production workshop, he can take his own risk to get the most reward.

The wiring of those metal spiders within the body is intact, and all the parts are intact. It can’t start because of battery leakage. The technical principles of processing or remanufacturing some lead-acid batteries are not complicated. With the help of spell, Ques is confident to independently manufacture a batch of the same energy modules.

If an operating room that can control these machines is found again, this production workshop will no longer remain silent like this. An automated processing factory with a productivity far beyond the current this World can bring huge amounts to the blue dragon boy Wealth and power.

There is always a reward for paying. After tirelessly exploring every corner of the entire production workshop two or three times, Ques finally found a suspected operation room in a grid with a similar egg-shaped structure. Entrance.

Before finding it, Ques had always thought it was one of the other ventilation devices with the same shape. Fortunately, he finally found it on the side of the net fence, which was blocked by the cementation of the dust deposited here. The gaps-the blocked gaps seem to be completely integrated with other ventilation openings.

The cemented dust can’t stop the blue dragon boy’s strength, just pulling the fence door hard to tear the fetters of the “dust glue”. The key is that there is a pneumatic gate leading to the operation room, the material of which is as strong as the rolling gate encountered before.

This forced Ques to change into a blue dragon form again, scratching a large wall with its claws before dismantling it completely.

After that, the Blue Dragon boy finally was able to step into this core operating room called “Kotmann’s 13th Manufacturing Workshop”.