Time goes back a little in the City of Time, at 9 o'clock on September 9th, when Zheng Li and his entourage just entered the office area of the Bailu District Government, the autumn division of the fifth district next door also ushered in their distinguished guests on time.

", these metal heads, as always, are still on time to the machine, punctual to the disgusting. Poof, Waite, you hear me, metal head with mechanical punctuality, brilliant ironic joke. ”

On the dock, a big man in a cloak stared with one eye at the huge steel door that was slowly opening not far away, but he didn't even look at the medium-sized floating ship that was slowly descending behind him.

The lion-haired blonde hair has been draped all the way to the waist, the left eye with three scratches is wearing an eye patch, and the messy golden stubble is obviously not properly handled, but the most slender part of the thick forearm is as thick as an ordinary person's thigh.

Metal gloves and combat boots with a pale red flash of psionic energy, and a silver warhammer pinned to their waists, they are obviously pure human (although some look like muscular orangutans), and the only one eye is a strange yellow beast pupil.

All say, "Lion's Claw" Carter. Liu. Queltra is more like a roaring wildling beast in the wilderness than the head of a district...... He himself is not ashamed, but proud.

A small giant of more than two meters, fully armed at all times, as long as he doesn't speak, he is like a majestic god of war.

At this time, he suddenly seemed to have found some interesting stalk, bending over and smiling like a child.

"Haha, mechanical head and punctuality, metal and clock head."

“....... The best thing should be your sense of humor, normal people can't find any laughs. ”

Behind him, a middle-aged clerk dressed as a gentleman in a veteran suit. Sakata, who was patiently wiping the glasses in his hand, had no intention of looking back...... Even though the flying machine that was landing had already landed, the steam from the exhaust pipe almost blew away his top hat.

"Metal heads are a perfect match for machinery, I don't understand this."

“...... I only heard about the racial discrimination against the metal race, and as the assistant of the mayor of the Autumn Division, I would like to remind you that your complaint alone has flooded the poor complaint handling room, and the explosive rumors about Inhumans account for at least forty percent of them. For the sake of the reputation of our autumn division, please ......"

"Ha, old partner, you know me, let me be gentle with those xenosexual bastards? How is it possible, it is better to kill me directly. ”

“...... No, I would like to say, don't give them a chance to complain the next time you say something like that. Crush a telephone pole or something in front of them, and drag it directly into a small alley without being persuaded, aren't you the best at this. ”

Well, it seems that this silver-haired gentleman with a very kind smile is the same as the barbarian mayor.

The district elder simply sat on the edge of the platform, his carrot-thick fingers holding his cigar, his legs constantly swaying on the edge of the high platform, and blowing out a large smoke ring beautifully.

"Idle, old man, what's the news lately?"

"News? That's all there is to the pile of reports in your office, more detailed and truthful than any newspaper. At least flip through it before signing, although the lads in the secretariat are very competent, every time you ask for specific instructions, your look of 'what, what do you say' is too discouraged for them to continue to write reports. ”

"Tsk. It's all out, and what to do at work, I don't trust them anymore, and besides, I really want my old coarse to deal with those messes, aren't you afraid that our autumn partition will directly become the garbage heap next door? ”

"Heh, and the white dew district next door, in fact, they have very strong administrative ability, although Xiao Zheng is gone, but the team and office process he left behind are very good, and the city hall also announced that he has learned. By the way, speaking of Bailu District, did you see the notice of their secretariat in the morning? ”

The old gentleman leaned on a black cane, also looking at the metal door that was slowly opening not far away, and flipped through his work notes with one hand.

"That? Oh, you said that the little guy can't run away again, isn't that everyday? I'm not a little daddy, how could I know that he was hiding there, they were looking for me for a ghost. ”

"You don't know....... Well, it seems that this time I really don't know. If the head of their district asks you to play again, you can tell them the secretariat. In the morning, the announcement, their new secretary general, were all crying. ”

The old guy who knows the roots, just looks at the expression Waite. Sakata was sure that the district chief really didn't know about it this time, so he turned off the network contact with the Bailu District Secretariat.

Originally, I was going to directly omit the recording of "The little guy is waiting and wrestling in the XX tavern" to the other party as before.

"Heh, it's been more than two years and you're still a new appointer, and you're quite excessive."

"It's rude, I apologize. It may be that his predecessor gave a strong sense of presence. Xiao Zheng's resignation is really a loss to the entire civil service system, and I want to discuss with him more about the reform of administrative work through the practical application of the spiritual network. ”

"Zheng Li? I've said I've said that guy is going to leave sooner or later, uh, I really didn't say that. But I knew at first glance that he didn't laugh like a fox like you, but inside, he and I were the same! How could the cage of peace hold a peerless beast like us? Really, what are you laughing at? Damn, don't laugh, I look super accurate! ”

"Well, well, the peerless beast brother who looks at people super accurately, it was definitely not you who was deceived by a stranger on the street half a month ago. Heh, fortunately, the spirit clan of the spirit blade will also go home by itself, and you don't remember that Ah Hammer scolded in front of your office for two hours. ”

"Did you all hear that?? No wonder the little flower at the front desk looked at me weirdly in those days. Uh, I'm ...... I sympathize with the other party, her family is really miserable when she recruits the flood, and she is forced to pay debts by loan sharks, let Ah Hammer protect him, what is deceived does not exist! Right, Hammer. ”

The war hammer on his waist did not give any response, and seemed to be numb.

The assistant named the district mayor is actually the general agent of government affairs. Sakata sighed helplessly, he was a little skeptical that the city government still insisted on the traditional administrative policy of "the district chief of the twenty-four town guards must be super capable of fighting", whether it was still appropriate.

The head of his autumn district and the head of Bailu District next door have been jokingly called "August 2nd Fool", although most of the district heads of other districts are also strong people, but they are not like these two not only do not care about things, but also often cause chaos to the staff below, what the hell is it that the head of the first district often runs away from home.

At this time, the target he had been waiting for had also arrived, and he was afraid that the familiar nagging would arrive on time, so the head of the Ka district hurriedly shifted his attention and pointed to that side.

"Heh, old man, look, it's the ironman convoy again, you said that those guys always use these old-time tin cans as diplomats, what are you trying to do."

“........ It was disgusting at first, after all, no matter what era, the most hated thing is a traitor. Later, when it went well, I found that the two devils who knew the roots were very useful in all aspects, especially diplomacy and commerce that needed to communicate, so I didn't want to change people. ”

Looking at the scene in the distance, thinking of the Iron Man, Waite's expression also became very subtle.

The place where the eyes of the two converged was the fifth gate of the Autumn Division, which was slowly opening.

At this angle, you can see a convoy slowly driving in, most of them are large trucks, some of which are painted with various old-era patterns, and at the front is a "Welcome to UXA+ USA Map" standard American cargo truck.

And with that, there are police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, etc., all of which are very old, and they all drag an obviously overweight cargo box, and even a single three-wheeled motorcycle with a train car is still running fast.

That obviously anti-physical scene undoubtedly shows that no matter what their appearance is, they are actually trucks now.

As soon as each car enters the city wall, the first thing to do is to untie the container and put it into the super-large shelves that have been prepared for it by hand.

Yes, it's right, every car has turned into a tall metal man after a crunching sound, and the truck brother in the front, a huge metal giant with a height of six meters, is now looking down and sorting out the shelves.

And from those cars, there were also a lot of metal people who were about the same size as humans, and they were communicating with the staff at the city wall, preparing to declare the goods through customs.

Liu Kat, the head of the Autumn Wind District, did not spend time in his favorite arena early in the morning, nor did he mix in his office, but came here to blow the wind, just because of these iron cans in front of him - the diplomatic missions and trade teams of the Atter tribe.

But don't get me wrong, these "Optimus Primes" are not pure-blooded Atters, real Atters......

"District Mayor Liu, I specially bothered you to pick up the airport, it's really hard."

"Well, welcome to the City of Time Migration. The people from your Attel embassy are waiting below, and I won't send it. ”

Without looking back, with a word on the side, the diplomatic etiquette of the two clans was over.

Governor Liu Kating was still sitting on the edge, kicking his legs and smoking a cigar, which was rude enough, but the opposite side was not far behind.

Just one "person" came over and said hello from afar, and the others were already walking on the other side of the stairs, ready to go down...... They came together with the same pace and an incredible weight, and the whole platform shook slightly.

Unlike the iron men who came from the land below, these Attels have different skin tones, different heights, and different materials..... Yes, the material, not the flesh.

Some are bodies made of copper ore, some are purple crystal people, some are metal people created by technology, and some are like magic puppets in fantasy books, but the composition of the body is either metal or ore, and some are even a mixture of materials.

Most of them are between 1.9 and 2.2 meters in size, with crystalline pupils ranging from four eyes to one eye, basically humanoid, barely able to distinguish facial features (some lack or more parts), most limbs, and the three-meter big man with eight hands and snake feet seems to be a bodyguard.

The one who took the lead, the obvious aristocratic golden complexion, the metallic skin actually gave people a delicate smoothness, and there were many similarities with humans, judging from the position of the stars holding the moon with bodyguards, it should be a high-level branch of their clan.

This group of people doesn't look like a race at all, but they do have something in common, in addition to the fact that they are all metal and ore flesh, their faces, chests and arms are exposed, and there are often xenocrystals similar to spirit crystals, and the brilliance they emit is extremely eye-catching...... It's very similar to the flash of the Spirit Blade Spirit Crystal!

Carbon-based humans and silicon-based artels, who have been mortal enemies since the beginning of the great collision, are now able to send envoys to each other and trade with each other, which is already the progress of the times.

"Heh, this time I actually sent a six-crystal Alter as a deputy envoy, and I will definitely have to do messy things again. The secret police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for sure, are waiting for them. ”

"With all due respect, diplomatic embassies have been dedicated to unspeakable things since their birth....... Hey? ”

What made Waite exclaim in a low voice was indeed that something seemed to have happened at the customs entrance, and the customs declaration procedures that used to be very fast were now in the spotlight of iron men.

They surrounded the customs brokers, as if they were saying something, but the staff kept shaking their heads.

"It's ....... me"

Waite began to make contact, and the reward he received was a little puzzling.

“....... Their head of diplomatic corps, gone? ”

[Yes, Dear Waite. Lieutenant Sakata, our head of diplomatic corps, Mr. CE17T62B8C1, had lost contact 36 hours earlier, and according to the expected plan, he was supposed to join us two kilometers outside the gate of the equinox. 】

The sudden insertion of the contact made Waite frown, the stiff grammar and strange name reminded him of something unpleasant.

When I turned around, I saw that behind the front window glass of the aircraft, there was an iron man waving to him.

Unlike those artels, their metal shape is very in line with human aesthetics, with bionic camera eyes, puppet-like movable joints on shoulders and wrists, metal skin on their faces that can make various expressions, and slender limbs humanoid like robots that came out of human science fiction movies.

In fact, they are really ......

"Iron Man, do you know what it means to take the initiative to enter our spiritual net?"

[Of course, Your Excellency, according to the confidential procedure, I will destroy myself 24 seconds after completing the intelligence notification mission.] But what I am telling you now is very important, Mr. CE17T62B8C1, one of the leaders of our Returnees, and one of the disciples of the great T28 Sage, who entered your district 72 hours ahead of schedule, and now that he has been cut off from all contact, we must not lose him, and the Returnees must not lose another Spiritual Master. 】

When he heard the key words "return", "T28 sage", and "severing contact", even the experienced Waite instantly turned pale and quickly gave the contact to Liu Carter on the side.

Not to mention, when this "peerless beast brother" saw the contact record, his face also changed and he was startled, and he whispered ", I'm not a secret police, how can I bump into this kind of thing", while obediently using his high authority to contact the relevant departments.

After all, if such a highly sensitive diplomatic matter is not handled properly, it is possible to directly lead to war.

Iron Man Returnees? T28 Sage? This matter is too far away, and it has to start with the great collision in the historical event and the Iron Man Rebellion, and it can't be avoided from the current object of worship of the Attel tribe - the metal god Atel.

When it comes to the Atels and the gods of Atel, most humans will be full of anger and hatred, and the blood feud between the two races cannot be counted at all, but when it comes to the Iron Man, a branch of the Atel people, many people are also full of anger, and there are subtle emotions in their hearts.

Iron Man, originally a part of humanity.

Well, it's easy to guess, it's artificial intelligence and robots before the big collision, as well as all kinds of intelligent machines, including all kinds of battlefield drones.

In the early stage of the Great Collision, they appeared on various battlefields as the most convenient tools of mankind and an important weapon of war, until they encountered the metal god Atel.

"The body of metal should also have a soul awakening."

Under the will of a high-dimensional observer, the self-shackles of artificial intelligence are shattered.

Not only are there intelligent man-made machines, but under the power of the true gods, pure unintelligent war machines have also been forcibly awakened, and the free iron people have not hesitated to betray their creators and join the metal army on the other side.

The betrayer is undoubtedly the most hateful, and the two devils are also the most ruthless on the battlefield, and the iron man is much more ruthless than the pure arter.

At that time, when the human legion saw that there was an Iron Man auxiliary army on the opposite side, it was like a chicken blood, and the opposite side was the same.

Even, when Artel sent Iron Man as a diplomat, it smelled of humiliation..... But later, it became more and more convenient to use, and it became a diplomatic tradition for Iron Man to serve as the chief officer, and Artel to serve as an adjutant.

However, with the change of times, the relationship between the two sides has been relatively relaxed...... Well, fighting without meeting has improved a lot.

In the new era, as a human creation, the Iron Man has a considerable amount of human cultural heritage, and has too many advantages over pure Atter in trade and diplomacy with the large human city-states, and the proportion of Iron Man in the trade missions and diplomatic missions is also increasing.

Now, if that's all there is to it, human emotions towards Iron Man won't be so complicated....... Intelligent beings tend to have sufficient diversity, and as time passes, the iron man who is awakened to wisdom and self thinks more.

Although the mainstream has always been that "the metal biosphere is our home", there has also been a "pro-Creator school", which believes that human beings are our fathers, and that betraying the Creator is a wrong act, and that mistakes must be corrected.

Although the number of these iron men was quite small in the initial stage, they did give a lot of help to mankind in the most difficult time, especially the advanced psionic technology of the Artel clan, which can even be regarded as the basic level of modern human psionic science.

In particular, the "T28 Sage" in the iron mouth is one of the "Seven Sages of Forging Blades" who built the foundation of modern human beings - the spirit blade system, and in the minds of many people, the historical status of the Seven Sages is comparable to that of the Father of the Nation.

It's super embarrassing....... It can be said that without the Artel technology stolen by the Iron Man, there would be no current Spirit Blade System and Spirit Blade Strongman, let alone the worldly human beings of the fifty-three major cities today, and no one can deny the help of the T28 Sage to the human race.

With the passage of time, the "pro-creator faction" has completed its historical mission, and now the more radical "we iron men should return to human civilization" returnees are the most bizarre existence of the Artel tribe.

In fact, even Shiqian City also has a settlement area of the Iron Man Returnees, who are very good craftsmen and technicians, and they also bring their own technical dry food to take shares, and even so, their reputation in the city is quite subtle.

In addition, whether they should be regarded as aliens or subhumans of the human subspecies after regaining their human status has always been a dead knot that has plagued all sociologists.

The existence of the returnees also made the entire Iron Man race very embarrassed in the Atel society, so the Iron Man Legion that was at war with the human race became even more ruthless, and the feelings of the entire human race towards the Iron Man became more and more subtle.

After all, now human beings are the spiritual blades of the whole people, and everyone has to accept the love of T28 sages.

What's more, I'm afraid this situation is still benefiting mankind........ The Returnees were not uprooted within the Attels, in fact, the Aters themselves were very annoyed, but they were still unable to influence the thoughts and behaviors of each individual group, and new technologies were leaked once or twice every few years.

By the way, the hatred between the god Atel and humans is not so simple, and it is this metal god who constantly changes the resistivity of metals with divine power.

Fortunately, he does not have the ability to transform the material constants of all metals at the same time, so he can only disgust people at intervals, so that human beings cannot easily rebuild their technological civilization.

Incidentally, the "principle of respect" that pure humans now treat the spirits, subhumans, and aliens has an absolute relationship with the history of the Iron Man.

Today, the Regressive Iron Man is seen within Artel as an extremist, a rebel against the deities of the race, and an underground believer in dangerous ideas.

And the leader of the Returnees, who is still within the Atel clan, the disciple of the T28 Sage, secretly entered the human city in advance and suddenly disappeared.......

At this moment, the complicated emotions of "big spy", "a large number of secret technology private transactions", ", how did I encounter such trouble", and "I rely on, I won't go to war again" surged into the hearts of the two at the same time.

The returning iron man who told the news was able to enter the psionic network, which could theoretically only be entered with artificial spirit weapons and blades, and directly contacted Waite, who was a government official. Sakata, it says so much...... I can't figure out that the authority of this iron man's spirit network is higher than that of Liu Carter.

The two regional bigwigs looked at each other, and they both saw in each other's eyes that it was difficult to do, and this was a lot of fun.

[Ah, goodbye, it is really my greatest luck to be able to return to the place of origin at the last moment, esteemed Your Excellency Carter Liu, Waite. Your Excellency Sakata, if you can, please remember me, I am CE823764, a descendant of the mechanical police from the Star King State, a wanderer who is not allowed to go home.....]

The two turned around at the same time, and sure enough, what they saw was the iron man behind the glass of the aircraft, squeezing out a stiff smile with his simulated facial features.

Sparks and electric light lit up at the same time, and the limbs gradually began to disintegrate, and the returnees chose the place of origin as their burial ground.

The two were silent, but now was clearly not the time to waste time, and they quickly came out of their mixed emotions and did what they had to do.

"First and foremost, find the disciple of the sage, the head of the diplomatic mission of this legation. Waite, do you know a reliable tracker or a seeker? ”

"In this regard, the most reliable is the secret police of the intelligence department, after we handed in the information, they must have been dispatched, and there is a limit to what we can do with a fighting tendency....... However, I know of an acquaintance who is also quite good at finding people, although he has only been practicing independently for more than two years, but even counting his previous part-time job, he is a legendary 100% task completion rate. ”

"Acquaintances? 100% mission completion rate? Oh, you're talking about Zheng ...... Okay, let's contact him, it's good to have one more chance, and find that Reverting mentor a minute earlier. ”

But just as the two hurriedly flipped through Zheng Li's contact number, someone contacted them first.

"Greetings to the Intelligence Division Category C Agent, please proceed immediately to the Liberty Ideal Bar on Peace Avenue in your district, where the target has been located..... On the way here, be sure to be cautious and cautious and avoid additional informants. ”

Hearing this, the two of them were overjoyed, although they had always been annoyed by the all-pervasive secret police, but at this time, this efficient and terrible intelligence service was too trustworthy.

"Peace Avenue, isn't it the main road of the district government? Then I'm familiar, heh, the free ideal bar, it sounds quite familiar...... Hey, isn't this a speakeasy where the little guy next door and I often go to black boxing and wrestling? Uh, Waite, it's just a little personal hobby, he and I both wear makeup, and we don't use the spirit blade, so no one will see it. Hah, we also have a legendary 87-game winning streak. ”

Waite. Sakata touched his eyebrows, and he was tired and powerless to refute.

You two are so special that you can't recognize them...... It's that others don't dare to recognize it, right, who doesn't know that you are stupid in August and are nicknamed human flesh dismantling machine and human retardation at the same time.

Now is not the time to nag, and the two of them don't talk nonsense, rushing to the Freedom Ideal Bar as fast as they can.

But even so, it was twenty minutes later when they arrived, and judging from the various specially marked vehicles at the door, the two of them were late.

And when I walked into the bar, I saw the bar hall after the clearance, and there were all kinds of secret police uniforms that were rarely seen.

Mr. CE17T62B8C1 of the Regressionists?

He's there, too.

Sitting on a chair on the edge of the bar, the line around his neck sparkling...... The metal head with makeup is placed in the middle of the bar.

The top-of-the-line artificial muscle face perfectly simulated the surprise and despair of the last moment.

"The psionic reaction has stopped, it is determined that he is dead, the time of death is determined to be 9:09:9 seconds, and the fatal wound is a slash wound in the neck."

"Heh, it's a one-size-fits-all approach, what to do if it's so complicated."

At this time, the person who said this was Liu Carter's friend, and the mayor of the next district should not have appeared here.

But now, although he can still say witty words, His Excellency the District Chief is not in a very good state, his hands are tied to his chair behind his back, and a cadre of the intelligence department and a discipline inspection cadre are putting the blade of the standard long knife on his neck.

Even so, His Excellency the District Chief was still able to laugh after putting on makeup.

"Brother Carter, you came just in time, I said everything, I just secretly made an appointment with this secret dealer brother to buy some special metal to feed my baby, but I met someone who committed murder, but they didn't believe it! Say, am I a man of letters? I'm a good friend of the mayor of the autumn district. ”

At this moment, the faces of the two newcomers are probably no longer difficult to describe.