Soul of Burning Steel

The smell of blood, rust, engine oil, and fermented food poured into the sensor port.

Joshua activated the eye observation circuit, and the soul scanning lens was charged, accompanied by a slight humming and snowflake screen, the world became clear in his eyes. The warrior saw the black ceiling, the stained walls, and the corpse of an old man who fell in front of him.

Simply and neatly pushed away the six mechanical arms on his side, he knew at a glance that they were used for repairs. Joshua controlled his current body and walked down from the workbench. The man was standing on the floor of the workshop full of sundries and parts. , lost in thought.

"The body of a puppet."

He whispered to himself, and then scanned his whole body: red and black warning paint, humanoid torso, severely damaged outer armor, and a large hole in the abdomen, where he could see the chaotic steel parts and flashing electric sparks inside. It was sensed that there was a strong magical reaction at the damaged part of the armor.

This is a humanoid puppet slightly taller than ordinary people, with a smooth body and rounded joints, somewhat similar to the mannequins in biology class.

"The detection of the soul core injection is complete... The numbered Snova-21 harvesting type infrastructure is seriously damaged, waiting for maintenance technicians to replace parts. After the repair is completed, go to the second line of defense in the eastern breeding area for defensive operations."

The weak electromagnetic signal oscillates with strange soul fluctuations, and it comes out from the built-in device inside the body.

"It's fun now..." Joshua analyzed the electromagnetic signals and soul fluctuations from the puppet by replacing the puppet's so-called 'soul core' with pieces of steel, and couldn't help but feel a little amused: "It actually came to a mechanical structure. In disguise?"

Could it be that Siberia's world will acquiesce that his life form is closest to this kind of steel puppet?

This is too much, I am obviously human.

Thinking of this, Joshua turned his head and looked at the corpse of an aging man on one side. The man had just died not long ago, and his soul seemed to be dissipating. However, because of his existence, the fragile soul began to gradually approach the soul abyss, and finally sank into the abyss. Among Joshua. Skillfully accepting the soul that seemed about to be broken, he couldn't help sighing: "Forget it, the robot is the robot."

There is a ready-made humanoid intelligent life male body next to him, but in the end, he instinctively chose the mechanical body, which proves that his own life form is indeed somewhat superior to human beings, and is different from most carbonyl life forms. The legendary road has gradually reached this point. At this point, there will be trouble like now.

"But the energy level of this world...is not quite like a small world."

Using the power endowed by the shards of steel, Joshua supported the broken mechanical body and came to the corpse. There is no doubt that the intelligent life in this world, let's call it the "Siberian" creature, has a soul... and according to Not long ago, Joshua communicated with the old pope to confirm the research results that the soul is an extraordinary organ that can only appear in a world with a huge surplus of free energy.

Moreover, there is not a lot of magical power overflowing in the surrounding air. According to the classification of the world, the world of Siberia is at least a world that is possessed by demons.

Undoubtedly, all the news about Steel Python Siberia is outdated.

Slowly lifted the body that was lying in a pool of congealed blood, and put it on the bed beside him. Joshua observed the dead man, and then noticed the big holes on the left and right sides of the man's head at a glance, and even the hands in his hands. Death did not let go of the torch. He understood that the person in front of him committed suicide, and the reason was unknown for the time being.

"Maintenance technician in the sixth maintenance room. Status: dead. The soul has dissipated. Move the body to the medical area."

And when Joshua was carefully observing the corpse in front of him, a weak electromagnetic signal came, which seemed to allow the puppet he possessed to complete the task.

Ignoring this information, the soldier shook his head, feeling a little pity... If pieces of steel had descended on this body, then Joshua might still be able to read the memories in the opponent's brain with his powerful soul, but now, he Attached to a construct, then things are a little troublesome. In order to find information about his current environment, the soldier looked around the entire maintenance room. He noticed the books filled with all the bookcases, and naturally found the blood-stained diary on the workbench.

He came to the workbench and began to flip through the diary.

The language used to record the diary is recorded in the information delivered by the steel python. It is a small national language in the middle of the Siberian world. Although there are some vocabulary changes, everything is within the acceptable range. Joshua was just Flipping like a machine, but when he was halfway through the reading, the hand of the mechanical construct paused for a moment, and the soldier continued to read, and the speed of the construct's reading became slower and slower, until finally, Joshua turned to the last page , Read this diary thoroughly.

"...breeding area, garden area...soul puppets, human beings like puppets, and soul cores."

At this time, Joshua already knew that what he descended was a harvesting soul puppet used to suppress the 'breeding area', and the corpse in front of him was the mechanic who repaired the puppet. The soldier frowned and stared at the body of the unknown mechanic. After awakening, this bewildered man waited alone for twenty years as a slave and an animal, but even so, he still had hope. He knew that he was destined to die, but he chose the day of his own death, and he would never let others fake his own destiny.

"warrior."

Stretching out his hand, closing the open eyes of the other party, Joshua placed the diary on the other party's chest, and then began to summarize the known information so far.

According to the diary, it can be roughly known that he is currently located in an area called the 'garden area', and this area is surrounded by a vast 'breeding area'. In the garden area, there are the best maintenance technicians and doctors, as well as the most elite soul puppets, and all their tasks are to complete their work and take good care of the group of 'children'.

The age of the 'children' varies from young to old. The youngest is just born, and the oldest is close to sixteen years old. If they are over sixteen years old, they will be taken away by the soul puppet and sent to the medical area. These children were sent from breeding areas in all directions. There were not many of them, but there were also many. Not all young children would be sent to the garden area for training.

Just like an unknown technician, his work log was in the breeding area at the beginning, and later he entered the garden area to work because of technical improvement.

The garden area is not about production, it is an existence to be enshrined, and what is enshrined in it is the vast breeding area. The breeding area is a huge piece of farmland and pasture, where countless people work and produce a huge amount of grain and meat. Among them, some plants are dedicated to the garden area, while others are sent far away.

Speaking of this, Joshua couldn't help but think of the scene he saw when he was still in the midair of the Siberian continent: the barren continent was full of sandstone and yellow-green plains, only dotted with green dots. Now that I think about it, those greens may be the breeding areas. The green cultivated land that can be clearly seen at such a high altitude should be enough to feed a million-level population.

"Puppetizing intelligent life, cultivating souls, separating 'super power units'... a rebel who can control magic power, a giant tower in the center of the world... how has this world survived for more than a thousand years?"

Whether it is the nameless mechanic or the steel python Siberia, they know very little about this world. The nameless mechanic speculates that there is a group of rebels outside the breeding area through the damaged puppets sent from time to time, and Joshua uses electromagnetic The signaling mission had established that, and he knew nothing of the world beyond that.

But it doesn't matter, the soldier relieved the joints of his current body. He has plenty of opportunities to observe the world.

Joshua is not an unknown mechanic, and he doesn't even have the strength to walk out of the corridor of the maintenance area. The other party has been waiting for twenty years, so he can only sneak out to observe while the puppet is changing shifts. Places to go.

The goal of the warrior is to find the reason why the will of the world was kicked out. According to Joshua's intuition, this incident is definitely related to the giant spiral tower in the center of the world... Even if it has nothing to do with it, it is the most important landmark in the world, for sure It was very important, most of the grain in the breeding area was transported away, and he suspected that it was the direction to the giant tower.

Controlling the mechanical body, he came to the bookcase. Joshua didn't feel any discomfort at all, and even felt very relaxed... Compared with his main body, this body was so much lighter, it made a warrior who was used to the weight of tens of millions of tons feel floating. With this strange illusion, Joshua took out a book from the bookcase, rubbed the cover of the book, and flipped through the contents.

What is recorded in the book is all knowledge about soul puppets. If a certain alchemist comes here and reads the books, he will probably exclaim with excitement, because this is a puppet from the world of Mycroft. It is a completely different path. It takes a different approach from the perspective of the soul, creating a highly autonomous and highly intelligent construct, and the biggest point of this technology is the soul core.

"Because too many resources are needed to create artificial souls, so we directly use the souls of living people to transform..."

With just a cursory glance, Joshua can understand the true face of the so-called soul core: that is the souls of living people who have been transformed into mechanical programs by some special means! The soul is born with powerful computing power and can replace the brain of a creature. With a little modification, it can easily be the control center of a puppet!

With Joshua's mentality, he will not be affected by such things. He has seen countless priestly ceremonies of heretics, seen insane mass suicides, mutual eating feasts, he has been to hell and the abyss, and he has personally tortured and killed demons. Transforming the souls of living people, not to mention demons, even some evil spirit mages often do this kind of thing, he is not surprised.

But it was all done by chaotic evil god believers, evil evil spirit mages, and chaotic abyss demons... Those existences did these things on a whim, but this world has planned them perfectly and formed an industrial chain. From the initial screening, enshrining, cultivating, and picking, everything is too perfect and logical... This has formed a society whose main purpose is to harvest souls.

In other words - it's an order.

Joshua closed the book, not because he didn't want to continue reading, but because the wound on his body's abdomen was bursting with electricity, and the sound of reminding and reporting errors came one after another.

"Before exploring the world, repair your carrier first. Without enough force, everything is empty talk."

The warrior sank his spirit into the steel shards, began to mobilize the power within, and scanned his current body thoroughly.

This body is made of a unique inert metal alloy, which has strong corrosion resistance and flexibility. In contrast, the melting point of this alloy can only be said to be okay, and its strength is also above average. The overall design of the soul puppet is perfect and its performance is excellent. It can be used as a design reference when it is brought back to the Mycroft Continent. But now its abdomen has been pierced by some kind of magic attack, causing most of its functions to be damaged. Joshua used his own power to force it. Only support can act.

"It's very troublesome and needs to be repaired carefully." Joshua mobilized his power. Although his body is not there, his soul can also control part of the power of steel. With the steel fragments of Siberia, the metal that makes up the workbench is distorted and deformed immediately. , as if coming alive, it turned into balls of metal balls the size of basketballs and rolled to the body of the soldier.

"If I don't come and this puppet is not repaired, the leak of soul energy will create an explosion, at least destroy everything in this maintenance room... I don't know if it was prepared by the unknown mechanic himself, or it was an accident. "

After all, Joshua is a strong man who has mastered the creation of the power of steel, and repairing a structure is extremely easy for him.

Through the control of his soul, he made the metals that meet the requirements in the surrounding space spontaneously gather in front of him, and then directly extracted substances from basketball-sized metal balls to shape parts. The power of steel was running, and Joshua even began to absorb these metals, and began to fuse them into a new, stronger alloy for repairing and strengthening the body.

It can be seen that as the metal balls turned into parts and merged into the body, the soul puppet, which was only a little taller than ordinary people at around 1890, began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming tall and burly.

The body was constructed smoothly, and began to be covered with a layer of strong and heavy armor. The rounded body joints were added with sharp and brutal horns. The round head that resembled a human head began to dissimilate and deform, and finally became like a helmet. Ordinary steel structure, a red prismatic chip across the center of the helmet, that is the new observation port, red light flashes inside.

Not long after, the strengthened Joshua was already over 2.2 meters tall, and his weight almost doubled. As for the original wound, it had already been repaired, and Joshua even completely remodeled the internal structure and energy engine of the puppet so that he could use his strength better.

At this point, the original soul puppet has completely turned into a ferocious, burly, black-red giant construct that exudes coercion from the first look. His elbows have raised horns, and his arms are shining sharply. According to the habits of a certain warrior, his body has completely become a killing machine for combat, which is quite different from the original puppet. ①

It took only a few minutes to complete this series of modifications. Joshua sensed the thick energy from the steel shards running through his body, and this puppet body was already capable of displaying good combat effectiveness.

"It's time to look outside."

Having made all the preparations, Joshua shook hands, and the strength enough to easily break the steel and iron pillars gathered in layers. He felt that his current body should have gold-level combat power, and it should be enough to deal with most of the troubles in this world.

Walking to the door of the maintenance room, before opening the door, Joshua turned his head and glanced at the unnamed mechanic who was put on the bed by him. Then, Joshua turned his head, opened the door, and walked out.

The pure white light shone into the dark workshop, and the pure air blew away the smell of blood and rust. Joshua came to the corridor, and the door behind him was slowly closed behind him. The soldier looked up, observing the small world that had trapped the mechanic for twenty years.

This is a pure white tiled corridor, the left side is a dead end, the right side leads to the exit, the corridor is topped with bright incandescent lights, there are eight doors on both sides of the corridor, and he is located at the sixth door near the outside .

At the exit on the right side of the corridor, there are four puppets holding weapons in the shape of welding torches, which are probably the 'furnace ray generator' that the mechanic said. They seem to have noticed something. They all turned their heads and looked in the direction of Joshua. Joshua sensed the waves of souls released by these puppets, and scanned his whole body. Not long after, the two puppets started to move towards Joshua. The mechanical tone said: "Number Snova-21, you have not completed the repair, immediately return to the sixth dimension..."

click.

Silently, two huge hands raised and pressed on the tops of the two soul puppets. The thick palms were clenched casually, causing the sharp noise of steel rubbing against steel to resound immediately... followed by the crisp sound of metal breaking. There was a 'click' sound, and the sharp twisting sound of steel deforming.

The soul puppets struggled hard, waving their hands and feet and hitting the opponent's arms, but after a few seconds, their hands hung down without moving, causing the furnace ray generator to fall to the ground.

Pressing the enemy's observation port with one palm, Joshua, whose energy destroyed the soul core, threw the two soul puppets that had been turned into garbage on the ground, and the broken head parts were scattered all over the ground. He picked up the furnace ray generator from the ground, and the other two soul puppets in the distance had already discovered the abnormality at this time, and turned around.

"Number Snova-21, you are attacking the guards in the corridor of the maintenance room in the garden area. Number Tbeta-34, number Tbeta-35 has been destroyed. Confirm that the number Snova-21 soul core program is out of order, and apply for destruction authority."

"The authority is issued, the destruction operation is started, and the attack begins."

It only takes a short moment for the soul puppet to transmit the authority. No matter how complicated the information is, it is many times faster than humans. At the moment when the attack is confirmed, they have already raised the ray generator in their hands. The port of the lens It began to turn red and hot rapidly.

However, a black shadow crossed the space, galloped past at a speed that even machines could hardly react to, and then ruthlessly hit the soul puppet on the left.

Boom!

The huge impact force even destroyed the chest armor of this puppet, the metal deformed, fragments scattered, and the terrifying force even hit it and floated in mid-air. At the same time, a large amount of energy in the soul core of the puppet's chest overflowed, electromagnetic In the blink of an eye, a violent explosion occurred in mid-air—the silver-blue strong energy flow mixed with high-heat shock waves reverberated in the small corridor, producing a roar that surpassed that of thunder.

At this time, the real body of the shadow can be seen: it is a distorted ray generator. The holder did not choose to use it, but threw it out as a 'weapon'.

Even the soul puppet couldn't aim in this situation. The only remaining soul puppet quickly adjusted its observation window and balance meter during the explosion, but before it rolled sideways according to the combat procedure, it performed the first During the second round of attacks, a tall and burly figure had already appeared in front of it.

The mechanical construct painted in black and red raised its hand to shake off the shock wave brought by the explosion. Joshua turned slightly to avoid a golden-red furnace ray, which landed on the ceiling of the corridor and melted out. A hole, golden-red liquid flows on the edge of the hole, dripping lava and molten steel.

Joshua was unmoved, he stretched out his left hand, grabbed the right hand of the soul puppet, and then crushed the ray generator in the opponent's hand. The next moment, the soldier raised his right hand, and the soul puppet's head was lifted from his body by him. Unplug it, electric sparks and silver-blue soul energy flicker at the wound on the neck.

Joshua grabbed the puppet's headless shoulder with one hand, and then removed the other's limbs during the opponent's resistance. The movements were smooth and neat, as if he had dismantled it countless times.

Through self-transformation, the soldier has long been very familiar with the structure of the soul puppet, and can see that lubricating oil flows out from the wounds of the puppet's limbs, and the black machine oil is spilled on the ground, like a pool of blood.

Putting the puppet that was unable to continue moving on the ground, Joshua squatted halfway. He stretched out an index finger. The finger made of black metal changed like a liquid and turned into a sharp silver blade. On the chest armor, he saw a soul core shining with silver-blue light.

It was a silver-blue flame placed in a hexagonal translucent prism. It seemed to be burning and pulsating, like a heart. The soul core circulated the collected energy to the whole body through the energy extraction device that comes with the soul puppet. , at the same time, it is also the control center of the entire puppet. Joshua stretched out his hand, he took out the soul core, and observed it carefully for a while.

"Beautiful, perfect, this method of transformation and control is simply art...not to mention these programs that are engraved in the soul."

He sighed softly, then shook his head, crushing the hexagonal prism. The silver-blue soul fire floated out of it, and then slowly dissipated in mid-air. Joshua stood up, and he walked towards the end of the corridor where the unknown mechanic had been trapped for twenty years. There was light in front of him, and a garden in front of him.

He walked out.

With his back facing the exit of the corridor full of explosion marks, and stepping on the white tiled avenue, Joshua raised his head, the red observation port flickered, he scanned everything around him, the soldier who had seen all the big scenes thought he was not be affected by anything.

But he was wrong.

There was an unstable light flickering in the observation mouth of the burly construct, which meant that his mood fluctuated.

What comes into view is unbelievable.

①The shape refers to the cover, which is almost like that.

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