Mechanical Gathering.
As the name suggests, it's a place where machines gather.
Of course.
There are also many people called wanderers.
“They——”
Bronya learned from Clara.
The mining work in the lower district hasn't stopped.
Just now, it was just Svarog's routine equipment maintenance time.
Hearing this, she thought the situation in the lower district was still optimistic.
However, the appearance of so many wanderers shows that the society in the lower district has already collapsed, even the basic mining job can't be kept!
“Bronya-nee-san——”
Clara carefully glanced at the wanderers who respectfully bowed to her:
“These people are residents of the towns swallowed by the Rift. They have lost their homes and can only stay here, receiving protection from Mr. Svarog.”
“Protection......”
As a builder who believes in preservation, Bronya felt a little awkward when she heard this word.
She also had some resistance to the word “Great Guardian.”
The Great Guardian protects the entire Belobog.
And now the lower district is like this, what exactly is the Great Guardian protecting!
“We're here!”
In front of a villa that could be called luxurious, several Automaton-Greybears put Svarog down on the ground.
He still couldn't move, and the energy arc was still jumping on him, obviously he was not lightly hit by A-Xing's stick.
“Mr. Svarog, how are you?”
“The power core is damaged, the logic core is interfered by energy, it's not serious, Clara don't worry.”
“Then what can I do to help?”
“Sizzle~”
Svarog's body emitted an inharmonious sound again.
It seemed that the logic core interfered by energy was forcibly running to calculate how to say it without hurting Clara's feelings.
“I'll do it.”
Xia Ye walked over, first used the Magic Web to absorb the energy arc left on Svarog by A-Xing's strange weapon, then carefully examined it:
“I can repair this kind of damage, of course, if you don't trust me, you can refuse!”
“Mr. Svarog?”
Clara blinked at Svarog.
“Logic analysis in progress, analysis result——”
“Agree to repair.”
I don't know how Svarog calculated it, but he agreed to let Xia Ye repair him.
Xia Ye learned interstellar engineering from Kiana.
Repairing robots like Svarog was still within his capability.
Soon, the damage to the power core was repaired.
Xia Ye also took the opportunity to adjust Svarog's energy circuit and mechanical structure, making it run more smoothly.
Svarog stood up and moved his body, there was even a hint of surprise in his mechanical voice:
“Energy output power increased by thirteen percent, movement performance increased by eleven percent, mechanical redundancy completely cleared, it's like it's back to factory settings!”
“Really, Mr. Svarog?”
Clara knew that Svarog was a robot that existed seven hundred years ago. He often self-checked and repaired, but the aging of parts was still unavoidable. Now after Xia Ye's repair, has he already “recovered”?
“Yes——”
Svarog's huge mechanical hand gently touched Clara's head, looked at Xia Ye, was silent for a moment and said:
“Thank you for your repair.”
“Nothing~”
Xia Ye waved his hand:
“Now we can go through, right?”
“Sizzle——”
A sound of the logic core calculating came from Svarog's body.
“Yes.”
“The blockade of the passage was to protect the residents of the lower district in response to the impending disaster. Now after calculation, the result seems to have changed, and you are the variable.”
Svarog's tone was still that mechanical feel.
Xia Ye shook his head.
Svarog obviously has already developed a mechanical mind.
You can tell from his interaction with Clara.
But when it comes to humanity, he is still in a very primitive stage, only able to analyze things logically—
Adding a variable is indeed a necessary step in the logical calculation of a mechanical life, but what if this variable doesn't join the logical formula at all?
If the train crew didn't intervene.
The change in the result would naturally not be mentioned!
“Mr. Svarog——”
Xia Ye pushed Bronya forward: “This is the next Great Guardian of Belobog, can you show her the information about the Star Core that you store?”
“Star Core......”
Svarog's red monocular observed Bronya from top to bottom:
“Yes!”
“Start playing——”
After a long time, the image projected by Svarog disappeared, Bronya's pretty face was lost in thought, she muttered:
“So the Star Core is really the source of all disasters!”
“Xia Ye......”
March 7th nudged Xia Ye's waist, winked at him, and motioned him to comfort Bronya.
Maybe he could take advantage of the situation and capture the young girl's heart!
Xia Ye rolled his eyes at March 7th in annoyance.
As for Bronya, he just looked at her black silk thighs, he had no other thoughts.
He has a heavenly appointed childhood sweetheart waiting to meet, there are so many beautiful women in the galaxy, why break up a pair of lilies?
Besides, Bronya doesn't need comfort now, what she needs is to figure it out herself, after all, her situation now is a collapse of faith, she can only rely on herself to recover!
“Let her think about it by herself!”
A thousand years ago, the Star Core descended on Yarilo-VI.
The ruling power at the time discovered its strangeness, so they hid it. The Star Core did not erupt for three hundred years after that.
Seven hundred years ago.
The Anti-Matter Legion invaded.
Yarilo-VI fought back desperately.
And with the funding of the Interstellar Peace Company, the Mechanical Legion was built.
However, the Anti-Matter Legion was not something that a small planet could resist.
The cities on Yarilo-VI fell one after another.
In desperation, the first Great Guardian, Alisa Rand, heard the voice of the Star Core and made a wish to the Star Core to eliminate the Anti-Matter Legion.
Then, the descending snowstorm directly destroyed the Anti-Matter Legion on this planet, and incidentally completely froze Yarilo-VI except for Belobog!
Since then, the Great Guardians of each generation have been experiencing the Star Core's temptation throughout their lives, and it has never stopped in seven hundred years!
However, the human will can be as fragile as paper, and it can also be as strong as steel.
Over seven hundred years, even the most incompetent one in history, known as the useless Great Guardian, persisted to the end under the whispers of the Star Core.
Until Cocolia Rand, the eighteenth Great Guardian!
“Mother, she was influenced by the Star Core......”
Bronya recalled the past, starting from a certain period of time, Cocolia's policies became more and more radical.
Not to mention closing the passages between the upper and lower districts, withdrawing the Silvermane Guards from the lower district.
Just talking about sending the Silvermane Guards to fight against the Rift creatures outside the city, how many young Silvermane Guards have died over the years!
Originally, Bronya still comforted herself, this was a necessary sacrifice to counterattack the Rift, but now it seems, Mother seems to be sending them to their death!
“Not just influenced!”
Xia Ye gently shook his head, the words he said were even more piercing:
“She's almost a puppet of the Star Core now!”
“If she goes any further, there's no turning back!”
“I'm going back to confront her!”
Bronya turned around to run, but Xia Ye grabbed her:
“What's the point of you going back alone?”
“You can't stop the power of the Star Core, you're going to die if you go back, after all, your mother may not even recognize you as her daughter now!”
“......”
Bronya stopped and stared at Xia Ye with her silver-gray eyes for a long time, then bit her lip and said:
“I understand, let's go to the gathering place in the lower district, and find the answer you want!”
...
When the train crew and Bronya were going to the Rock Ridge Town.
In the upper district, the Klippe Fortress.
The Silvermane Guards who woke up from their coma at the underground cable station reported to Cocolia the news of Bronya going to the lower district!
“Bronya......”
Cocolia pressed her temples, temporarily resisting the increasingly frequent whispers of the Star Core.
However, since she has already let go of her mind to the Star Core, it is almost impossible to resist now.
Those beautiful eyes that were once full of majesty were sometimes chaotic, sometimes cold, sometimes affectionate, obviously she was using her affection for Bronya to resist the will of destruction brought by the Star Core!
“Are you still hesitating? In the new era after destruction, your daughter will enjoy a happier life, and so will your people!”
“New era......”
“Yes, new era!”
“New era, new era——”
Cocolia repeated the word, her beautiful eyes gradually became clear and pure, but this purity was chilling, because it was a pure destruction without any malice!