The Ruins of Magic and Industry Chapter 1 The First Ruins

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The Rongtuo Plain in midsummer is like a wild chrysanthemum dripping with rain and dew, the dazzling sunlight reflects stripes of light on the petal droplets, and the shallow fine rainbow is printed on the sky, flowers and even the side of the path.

The drizzle blew the sparkle on the leaf petals, and bent the half-man-high grass, revealing a chocobo pulling a cart, on which a half-grown boy stretched a big lazy waist.

The young man wore a gray trench coat that did not match the background color of the tender green grassland, with a crimson goggles on his forehead, a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and a giant chopping knife on his back.

But, who cares~ Liu Bai is still in a hurry to do his own things, spring on the grassland or something, don't care at all.

Located in the depths of the Rongtuo Plain, 200 kilometers northeast of Rongtuo Village, there is a small mechanical ruin, which is Liu Bai's target. Since Liu Bai and Huohua discovered this ruin, the two have repeatedly come here for three years to collect the mechanical wreckage and transport it back to the village, smelting and making their secret - a chariot, and subsidizing some daily expenses by the way.

In the past, the two of them came together, but this time, as the production of the chariot is nearing completion, the final stage of production continues in the village. And Liu Bai single-handedly searched for the last piece of machinery in the ruins - at least a medium-sized power furnace, specific to the target, the scavenger machinery in the ruins or the mechanical guards in the depths of the ruins can be, according to Huohua's calculations, the power sources of these two types of machinery are at least medium-sized or above.

In the past three years of exploration, the two have roughly figured out the terrain and distribution of combat power of this small ruin. Among the large and small machines scattered throughout the ruins, only Sniper Type 3 and Plowland Demon need the attention of the two, and the other machines are within the range of the two of them.

Since Liu Bai came alone this time, the target was mainly to lock in the scavengers who were relatively easy to start. Speaking of scavengers, this is an interesting ruin guard, more than 3 meters tall under the medium-sized body is powered by two rows of "boom boom" tracks, on the left hand side is an excavator-like forearm, right hand is a giant square hammer, at first glance it looks like a powerful machine that provides a stunning visual effect, but in fact it is a functional machine in the mechanical ruins to recover broken machinery.

Of course, as a medium-sized mechanical guard, it is not an easy opponent for humans in this dilapidated era.

Another characteristic of scavengers is that they are scarce, and they seem to be functional machines that appear in stages, and unlike ordinary ruin guards, scavengers who are responsible for recycling are more precious than mechanical guards who are guarding them.

The time came to 2 o'clock in the afternoon, which was the hottest time of the day in the plain, and Liu Bai finally came to the border of the ruins. Skillfully, he led Xiao Hei (chocobo Xiao Hei) to a hidden grove on the border of the ruins he and Huohua found, and tied the cart pulled by Xiao Hei to the tree in the back.

Sprinkle some of his food, carrot cubes, and bring some of his own food and water bottle from the cart. Liu Bai is about to start the long road of searching for a scavenger.

The ruins stretch for 15 kilometres, probably due to the perennial tilting of the mechanical guards, the grass in this area is very sparse, revealing the brown landscape under the plains, and the lack of grassy bacon solid soil, which further leads to the partial sandification of the nearby landforms, resulting in a peculiar landform that is different from the plains. "Huohua, the dead fat paper, also said that this landform may be caused by the high mineral content in the vicinity?" Liu Bai muttered in his heart.

However, as a practical school, Liu Bai is different from the fat man of the scholar school, and the terrain is different, so much is useful for analysis, can it be done? "Dry !!" Liu Bai involuntarily spit out such a word in his mouth, and his voice drowned in the bigger wind with the wind.

Silently putting on the bewitching crimson goggles, Liu Bai carried a giant chopping knife and walked towards the depths of the ruins step by step. In the distance, a wandering mechanical soldier with a silver-white body and a height of about 2 meters can be seen. Liu Bai and Huohuaguan, the most mechanical guards in the ruins, are called "swordsmen", and the choppers in the hands of the swordsmen are exactly the same as the giant slashers carried on Liu Bai's back, but they are called slashers in the hands of tall swordsmen, and in the hands of Liu Bai, who is only 175 in size, they are called giant swordsmen.

And it is obvious that Liu Bai's chopping knife was obtained in the hands of a certain swordsman.

In the three years of his ruined career, Liu Bai naturally couldn't be familiar with this kind of swordsman. The power energy level is about 3, and the speed energy level is 1 (PS: The power of the 1 energy level refers to the strength of adult humans, about 100 catties of strength, and the power of energy level 3 is 300 catties of power, and other attributes including speed, defense and intelligence are also based on the energy level), which is a melee type machine that is very suitable for Liu Bai's taste.

"Hey~Little knife knife, this way~" Liu Bai shouted enthusiastically at the knifeman, like an old friend who hadn't seen him for a long time. Noticing that Liu Bai's swordsman electronic eyes kept flickering, the humanoid legs rushed towards Liu Bai at a stable speed of uniform acceleration, and the manipulator held the chopper in his hand obliquely with both hands, and the 2-meter-3 long chopper ploughed a deep mark on the sand, bringing up a gray smoke and sand.

"Drag the knife and chop, I'll come too!" On the straight line corresponding to the swordsman, Liu Bai, who was more than one size smaller, also stopped the same chopping knife in his hand, plowing out a more huge layer of smoke, "Oh oh oh oh ~ roar~" It was like cheering himself up, the roar in his mouth, the chopping knife in his hand, and the layer of smoke behind him, Liu Bai aroused a greater momentum to face the knife man.

The distance of 150 meters was in just 10 seconds, and a person and a machine collided together, and the sand and gravel brought up by the dragging knife crackled and smashed on the steel body of the knife man in the center of the collision at this moment, leaving only shallow scratches. However, the smoke and sand brought up by the sand and gravel blinded the swordsman's mechanical eyes, causing it to be unable to judge Liu Bai's position at this time.

Liu Bai was very thief, and the knife in his hand deliberately brought the knife upwards at the moment of collision, and the person used huge kinetic energy to slash through the side of the knifeman. The 2.3-meter-long knife was deeply inserted into the sand, and the forefoot and back of the right foot turned into a straight 60-degree angle, ready to jump forward, and the strength of Liu Bai's whole body exploded with his right foot as the center at this moment, poof, and his body was half a meter above the ground!

Due to the huge inertia, the chopping knife into the ground took Liu Bai as the axis, and drew a circle between the electric light and flint, and the white light flashed, and the end of the tip of the knife as the pen smashed heavily and accurately on the back of the knifeman's head. Half of the knifeman's head split in half, emitting a thick black smoke.

The slasher in the swordsman's hand fell to dust weakly, accompanied by the roar of his huge body, and within a few seconds, the red glow in his electronic eyes also lost its luster. Liu Bai, who was panting next to him, also sat on the ground without any image. The huge momentum brought a huge inertia, and it also brought a huge burden to Liu Bai's body.

"I wipe, pull out the knife and cut it is still too reluctant, and the polishing of the body in the past few years is still not enough. After resting for a while, Liu Bai got up and knocked on the iron armor on the swordsman's chest, and inside was a black energy block the size of a steamed bun. In addition to the giant chopping knife, it is the second most valuable thing on the swordsman.

In normal times, in addition to knives and energy blocks, Liu Bai would also transport the remains of the swordsman back to smelt the iron blocks, but this time it was different, the power furnace was the target, and the nearly completed chariot did not need anything else for them to collect.

The energy block was pinned to the belt around his waist, and the slasher that the swordsman fell to the ground was also inserted horizontally into the steel structure on his back by Liu Bai. Every time he came to the ruins, Liu Bai could more or less bring back a few chopping knives, so the steel structure on his back was specially strengthened by Huohua for Liu Bai, and he could put up to three of these giant chopping knives.

The harvest is good, this knife man should have just been produced, so the energy block is still relatively complete in size. The various machines in the ruins, including the facilities, have complete systems. Just like the mechanical guards who are on duty, the scavengers who are responsible for recycling, and the snipers and plowdemons who are responsible for fighting, Huohua has guessed that there should be machinery in the center of the ruins that produces and supplies energy, but the mechanical density of that piece is too great, and neither of them has penetrated deeply.

The machinery around the ruins is enough for the two of them to complete their chariots, of course, I didn't think that there would be good things in the center of the ruins, but my life still needs to be protected!

Throwing his miscellaneous thoughts out of his mind, Liu Bai continued to slowly grope into the depths of the ruins, looking forward to finding the scavenger as soon as possible and getting the power furnace back to complete the chariot of his dreams.

The scenery in the ruins is naturally more than a grade worse than that of the plains, and the degree of danger is also much greater. Ever since he entered the ruins, Liu Bai has always been wearing that bewitching goggles. Goggles were found from an abandoned basement in this ruin, possibly a legacy of the industrial age hundreds of years ago.

In addition to the special rubber used for fixing on both sides of the fully enclosed goggles, there is only one lens connected to the entire goggles, and two folded smaller lenses are stuck at special angles on both sides of the translucent lens, which can provide Liu Bai with a larger field of vision, except for the discomfort during the adaptation period, and he is used to the wide-angle capture of the goggles, so that Liu Bai likes this goggles abnormally, although the color does not match his dress, but who cares.

"Huh?" With the wide-angle capture of the goggles, Liu Bai noticed that some inexplicable layers of smoke appeared in the southeast corner of the ruins, and it stands to reason that no one else should have discovered this small ruin except Liu Bai and Huohua. In this dilapidated era, the land is vast and sparsely populated, not to mention that there is no one for a hundred miles, even if there is no one for thousands of miles, it is possible.

"Could it be the hunting group?" With a question, Liu Bai quickly ran to the southeast corner of the smoke-filled area.

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