Link and Dave were walking and suddenly stopped.

After a few seconds, a black shadow burst out of the corner like lightning and crawled down Link's exoskeleton armor.

The treasure hunt rat climbed up to Link's shoulder, stretched out two small paws to make a five, and then pointed to the corner of the shadows. Then he flapped his fan with two small paws and pointed to the position under his feet.

Link suddenly realized, "You mean that the Five Rat Agents are following in the shadows, and the rat colony and the silver marching ants are all moving with us at my feet?" ”

The treasure hunt rat nodded again and again, and even stretched out his little paw to give a thumbs up.

The hole cards are all in place and everything is going according to plan.

"Dave, the energy zone is so big, you always know which building your granddaughter is, right?"

Each human battery energy area covers an area of more than a dozen acres, just like a large commercial area.

And there must be at least dozens of energy centers like this at a glance.

If you don't know the specific location and look for it one by one, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Dave nodded firmly, "When we were caught, our arms were laser-coded, and everyone's nutrition bin was fixed. So after they captured Helen, they must have escorted him to the original nutrition warehouse. I remember the code on Helen's arm: SSNI-826, with the first letters representing the building and the number of floors, and the last number representing the number. ”

"All we need to do is find Building S, S Floor N, Direction I, Section I, No. 826, and that must be Helen's nutrition warehouse."

Link suddenly realized that since he could determine the location, it would be much faster to find a target.

Link shrugged his shoulders and said to the treasure hunter, "Although we are now in a state of camouflage, you still have to be warned, Xiaobao, and someone is approaching to warn you." ”

The treasure hunt rat nodded innocently, and saluted to Link, promising to complete the task!

(￣^￣)ゞ

The little one ran into Link's pocket with a puff of smoke.

Link and Dave move on, each building with a neon letter on the main façade that makes it easier to find.

The entire mechanical city is five kilometers long and five kilometers wide, and if you look at it purely from the perspective of the city, this scale is not as large as the Shenmu City established by Link.

No matter which area you are in, you only need to turn your head slightly to see the forbidden area of Dr. Zhao, a mechanical pioneer in the center of the city, and the huge gears in motion.

The gears, which exude a silver metallic luster, are like a Ferris wheel, taking in the entire mechanical city.

And this huge gear, among the warriors and apostles of the Machine City, has another name - the Pioneer Eye.

Soon, Dave and Link found the energy center of the giant S hanging outside the wall.

The Energy Center is not guarded by mechanical soldiers, as long as you scan the chip in front of the machine at the door to confirm your identity, you can get unimpeded.

Just as soon as he entered the building, Dave stopped.

"President Lin, I'm afraid you'll be the only one who will go to Helen's nutrition warehouse later. Because Helen had already forcibly broken free from a dream, if she continued to break free violently this time, it was very likely that she would erase all her previous memories and even cause damage to brain tissue. I now get the hub cable under the Energy Center, connect my consciousness to the dream, tell her the truth in the dream, and let her wake up on her own initiative. ”

Link frowned slightly, looked at Dave in the scavenger mech, and asked, "If you don't lie down in the nutrition warehouse, how can you connect your consciousness to the dream?" ”

Dave patted his scavenger mecha: "I thought about this problem when I was planning alone, so the scavenger mecha has been enhanced in this regard, I can directly connect the mecha to the cable, and there is a nerve transceiver piercing the spine on the back of the mecha, which can achieve the ability to access consciousness." ”

The setting that rough awakening has the probability of damaging the brain was already known to Link in his previous life.

After all, in the middle and late stages of the previous life, after the player's free alliance forces broke through the mechanical city, there were many examples when the battery people were liberated. At that time, many NPCs lost part of their consciousness and did not remember their own backgrounds or relatives, and there were many tasks similar to returning to their families, finding relatives, or reactivating their memories.

"Then I'll accompany you to the underground of the energy center first, and I'll wait in front of Helen's nutrition warehouse after you successfully connect."

The two hit it off.

With no mechanical warriors, Link and Dave easily went underground and found the hub cable.

"How soon will you find Helen?" Link couldn't help but ask, knowing that there are thousands of people in the virtual world, and there are also virtual characters created by the program, it is not easy to find one.

"I made a pact with Helen that if I could come back one day to save her, I would go to an agreed place with a specific code. It only takes 15 minutes for me to wake her up! ”

"Okay, then you hurry up."

Afterwards, Link watched Dave connect the mecha to the device, and Dave in the mecha twitched for a while, and his consciousness successfully connected to the virtual world created by the mechanical city for the human battery.

Each energy center is a separate virtual world, and one energy center has a capacity of 100,000 nutrient warehouses.

The energy center of the entire mechanical city starts with the letter A and goes all the way to Z, although it is not completely filled, but the regular capacity has reached as much as 2 million.

With the frequent experiments and expansion of the mechanical city in recent years, energy is even more scarce and precious.

Shadu held the main road, and it was difficult for the Cult of the Mechanicus to attack in a big way.

With such an organization as the Wasteland Gang behind it, the Mechanicus Cult is in a dilemma.

No new human batteries can be found, although the previous human batteries are soaked in nutrient solutions, the body cells will still divide and grow, and many human batteries are dying out due to aging.

As a result, the Immortality Project came into being, completely extracting human consciousness, relying on cloning technology to create a new human body, and then injecting consciousness into the new body. Although the plan for eternal life solves the ills caused by aging and death of the human body, it is not omnipotent.

No matter how many experiments he underwent there, Dr. Zhao, a pioneer of the machine, discovered that soul data could only be transferred, from one individual to another, but could not be copied, relying on one data to copy another. In other words, with the immortality plan, the number of existing human batteries can only be maintained, and it cannot be expanded.

After the appearance of the Inhumans, Dr. Zhao, who thought that he could solve the big problem, found that these Inhumans had no consciousness data at all, just like a shell controlled by a remote control.

However, because of the snatching of the energy pillar and the development of the sand, the two former rivals of the Mechanics and the Wasteland Gang can finally sit at the same table calmly and talk about teaming up.

Link made his way to the nutrition room where the code was located as fast as he could, and saw Helen lying in the nutrient solution through the glass.

In Dave's description, his granddaughter Helen is a cute little child with orange hair and a little natural mole on the tip of her nose. But at this time, the person Link saw, judging by his appearance, should be in his teens. However, whether it is the color of the hair or a little mole on the tip of the nose, it is the same person as Dave described.

Link retrieved the armor panel and sent a message to Chasing Wind as soon as possible, [Is it going well? 】

A moment later, Link received a reply from Chasing Wind, "Everything is fine for the time being. 】

If all goes well, then after fifteen minutes Dave has managed to rescue Helen, they will next go to the rendezvous with John, where Link's spy rat will come in handy and steal the plans, programs, or mechanical blueprints of the Cult of the Mechanicus in the lab.

Then, by carrying out the ascension ceremony along the way, the kung fu of the mechanical city parking audit, and left unconsciously with everyone.

Just as Link was imagining, the treasure hunt rat in his pocket suddenly stretched out his little head and issued a warning to Link's chirping.

The Treasure Hunt Rat stretched out two small paws and picked a large circle in the air, then pointed to the location of the front gate of the Energy Center.

Link's heart sank, his brows furrowed, and he walked to the window and looked down......

I saw three containers parked on the transportation track in front of the main entrance of the energy center.

As the door of the first container opened, more than a dozen mechanical warriors appeared in an instant, like foam overflowing from the unstoppable water in the wash basin.

Immediately after that, these mechanical warriors who were good at carrying heavy loads all waited in front of the last two containers.

When the two containers were opened, Link saw that the containers were filled with wooden coffins stacked together!

"Come on, come on, hurry up and move these corpses to the processing room." One of the squad leaders commanded.

The mechanical warrior began to carry the wooden coffin into the energy center and to the processing room on the first floor.

"Let me see if there are any other mechanical warriors nearby, when will these two containers of corpses be unloaded......

Link sees the team leader tinkering with the panel, but the next second his main console buzzes, indicating that there is a higher privilege access system nearby and a video call.

"Robo Warrior, there's a new batch of corpses here at the S Energy Center, they need to be stripped off, you're the closest person in the neighborhood, you've been drafted! Please report to the door of the S Energy Center now. ”

Before Link could say anything, the other party hung up the call.

Link frowned, couldn't help but glance back at the nutrition warehouse where Helen was, and complained: "Sure enough, you never know which comes first, the accident or the surprise." ”

In Machine City, there is no need for a reason for the conscription of superiors to subordinates, and orders must be executed as soon as they are given.

Because Dave's consciousness is connected to the hub at the moment, and the scavenger armor is also in a state of power-off simulated nutrition bin, only Link is scanned and recruited.

"If Helen were to be resurrected in front of these mechanical warriors, it would be completely exposed. For now, only fifteen minutes of moving and stripping can be completed, so that Dave and Helen don't collide with the mechanical warriors. ”

As for taking out these mechanical warriors directly, Link never intended to do so.

Once you make a move, all these mechanical warriors will die, and you will definitely attract the attention of the defense system of the mechanical city, and then you will fight against the entire mechanical army. Whether Dave and Helen can escape is another matter, and John's mission on the other side must also be affected.

Link hurried up and quickly went downstairs.

"The Robowarriors are here to report! Machines do not die, long live the Führer! ”

When the team leader saw Link, a mechanical warrior with an exoskeleton armor, his eyes lit up, and he beat his chest and said in a deep voice: "Pioneers and truth live forever. ”

"How are you in the Energy Center?" The team leader asked.

Link had already thought of his words when he went downstairs, and said indifferently: "I brought a newly revived battery back from the experimental area. As soon as the installation was completed, I saw the captain's call order. ”

The captain had no doubts, after all, the immortality plan had been implemented for a while, and the energy center did often have dead human batteries, which needed to be manually disassembled and brought to the experimental area for recycling.

"That's a coincidence, there's a task to be assigned to you."

As soon as the voice fell, a task prompt appeared in Link's system.

[You triggered the F-Rank Quest [Temporary Request: Energy Center]]

[Mission Hint: The transport team has two containers of corpses that need to be sterilized and stripped away, and you, as a mechanical soldier, have been recruited to join the mission]

[Reward: 150 XP, 50 Wasteland Coins]

Link looked at the long-lost F-class errand task and didn't know how to complain for a while.

After the team leader finished arranging the task for Link, he shouted to the subordinates of his own team behind him: "It's all about work, it must be unloaded in ten minutes, and we have other tasks later!" ”

The other mechanical warriors wailed, "Ten minutes!? Handling disinfection and peeling, how is this enough! ”

Link didn't talk nonsense, and immediately joined the transportation ranks, striving to send away this group of plague gods within ten minutes. Avoid direct contact between Helen, Dave, and the Robo.

When Link carried the first coffin to the processing room, he was immediately stunned by the sight in front of him.

The coffin in front of him was not an ordinary dead person, but mummies, or dried corpses from desert ruins and pyramids.

"Brother, leave the handling to them, you come and help me disinfect and strip together, there are too few people in the processing room!" A nearby mechanical warrior spoke.

Obviously, the disinfection and stripping process is more complex than handling. In addition, the corpses in front of him were dried corpse mummies wrapped in bandages, and the steps required were a little more cumbersome.

Link pried open the coffin, and there was some hay on top, which was removed to reveal a thin, bandaged mummified corpse, and the bottom layer was also covered with hay.

Link searched for his memories and found that there was no news of the Cult of the Mechanicus experimenting with mummified corpses in his previous life.

Boom! This must be the butterfly effect of its own rise, which led to the alliance between the Cult of the Mechanics and the Wasteland Gang.

However, in order to get more information, Link asked while talking, "Speaking of brothers, where did these mummies come from?" Even if you dig in the desert, you can't unearth so much at one time, right? ”

The mechanical warrior next to him smiled: "You don't know this, some time ago we joined forces with the Wasteland Gang, and we signed an agreement to buy a lot of mummified dried corpses. ”

"For the Wasteland Gang, digging up ancient ruins or pyramids for the sole purpose of making a profit on treasure is worthless to them. But for us, these mummies still have cellular activity, as well as spiritual data, and are an excellent product of the immortality project's new human battery! ”

Link suddenly realized, he didn't expect that after the Wasteland Gang and the Mechanics joined forces, they would actually develop such a way to increase energy, and it was no wonder that it actually swelled to the point of launching the Starlink Project and openly provoked.

At this moment, Link easily unwrapped the mummy's bandage, and a golden object suddenly slipped from the mummy's chest, and fell to the ground with a clang!

: Writing until half past three, the community had a power outage in the middle of the night, Wanjun held her mobile phone and wrote until now that she finished this chapter, crying T_T