The next morning, we were in action.

In addition to Ian, we were joined by Mira, Farakin and Klee who had other tasks to do—and they would work in concert with our actions.

Last night we discussed our situation at length, and in the end, we found that we had only one option left – to help the rebels fight against the Machine King, and find and destroy the legendary Dream Maker.

And to enter the palace, we must first pass through the foundry.

"It's an extremely dangerous area, and we'll send someone to help you get through." Farakin said so.

The Resistance provided a guide to help us navigate through this dangerous area - the people in charge of this were Mira and Raya at first, but Ian was very keen to continue our journey, and eventually, with my support, she replaced Raya.

The reason why I spoke up for Ian is very simple, I think Ian is obviously more determined than Raya when it comes to rebelling against the will of the Machine King, I have always been the most annoying to those who are full of "human rights, against violence", whether it is opportunistic, wall-riding, stupid, I don't want to participate in these people.

On the other hand, Ian was able to relay a message to me in the real world at the time, and I concluded that she must have some secrets in her, and the last reason was that she was the person we knew best, after all.

From inside the mines, we can follow a hidden tunnel all the way to the edge of the foundry, and from this point of view, the Farakin and their plans to resist have been in place for a long time.

At the exit of the tunnel, Farakin and the others said goodbye to us, leaving Ian and Mira to take care of us.

"Good luck to you."

With that, Farakin shook hands with each of us, then turned away.

We walked out of the tunnel while there was no one around, but we just got close to the foundry when we felt a wave of heat hit us.

The old knife wiped the sweat from his forehead, took off his coat and rested it on his arm: "Aji, this ghost place is so hot, you see, it's like a flaming mountain......"

In the foundry area, there are hundreds of huge chimneys, which constantly spew tongues of fire into the air, like an eternal man-made volcano.

The red of the flames and the black of soot became all the colors that filled the sky above us, and waves of heat were coming.

Turning a corner, there was the entrance to the foundry, and there were four or five overseers and two Warden machines standing in the doorway, and the two mechanical monsters surveyed everything around them like hunting dogs, dozens of cameras turning above their heads, flashing red light.

Ian says that the biggest danger in this area is the presence of a terrifying mechanical monster called the Forge Giant, whose body is made up of red, red-hot semi-liquid metal blocks, and once attacked by the Forge Giant, the general outcome is to evaporate like mercury into a black scum - so it's best not to take a hard way, and it's best to be able to pass in disguise.

"I'll go first with the kids."

Ian, as originally planned, took the three children first, and normally the guards would not interrogate them.

We nervously watched as they passed through the entrance and collectively breathed a sigh of relief...... It got off to a good start.

"It's our turn." Mira was the first to walk towards the entrance of the foundry, "Follow me, pretend to be a worker who is going to work, and don't speak." ”

We all covered our mouths and noses with pre-prepared white towels, and then pretended to bow our heads intentionally or unintentionally, when just as we were about to pass, one of the overseers suddenly stretched out his hand to me and shouted in a mechanical voice:

"You, stop!"

The old knife and I suddenly stopped, and Kirishima on the side walked behind the overseers, ready to break in.

"Don't mess around." Shen Tangzhi pulled me and said in a low voice, "Keep going, I didn't call you." ”

"Huh?"

Just as the old knife general and I were in doubt, the overseer passed between us menacingly, and with a wave of the leather whip in his hand, he knocked a ragged worker to the ground with a "snap".

The overseer kicked the worker who had fallen to the ground and shouted, "Go back to the workers' hut, no beggars are allowed in the foundry!" ”

"This dog thing ......"

The old knife clenched his fists, a little ready to move.

As soon as I grabbed him, I left, and said in a deep voice: "If we save them one by one, we will never succeed in changing the world." ”

The foundry in this dream world is similar to the factories in other places in the dream world, and the sound of metal machinery hitting each other is constantly echoing, which is somewhat deafening, but here, there is a strong smell of sulfur, and the air is even more hot, and the temperature is scorching.

After a while, all of us had to take off our coats, and even then, the hot sweat quickly covered our bodies, and the feeling of being in a steamer surrounded each of us.

At the same time, we faintly heard a loud rhythmic sound, the sound of metal being hit hard, which became clearer as we entered the foundry.

The foundry's main workshop is a towering building that Ian says is second only in size and complexity to the palace where the King of Machines is located.

"Smell the sulfur, right? Sometimes there is even deadly gas. Mira whispered in a gritted tooth tone, her eyes lowered and her eyes full of hatred, "My youngest son, Barcel, died here. ”

I saw that this huge and terrifying structure was filled with countless huge high-temperature furnaces used to melt and stir refined metal minerals.

Beneath our feet lay dense and complex cobweb-like train tracks that wind their way to the hills of hot furnaces, which then gather like bouquets of flowers in the direction of the mines.

Crowds of workers toiled in front of the huge furnaces, their figures twisting in the churning heat.

Workers push carts full of refined ore onto a mechanical platform next to the furnace to put the ore into the furnace, while others dump the hot metal liquefied from the furnace into a rough sand mold, which is then transported by a metal conveyor belt to the next processing stage.

These crude processing processes are accompanied by a large number of toxic and harmful gases, which are tumbling in the processing plant in various colors.

The workers had to be extremely vigilant to avoid these clouds of death, and the only protection they had on them was a wet towel that covered their mouths and noses – and we realized that the white towel that had been prepared in advance was the best tool to disguise their identity.

"The ore that comes from the mine is refined here into ingots – especially gold nuggets. The king hoarded them for no particular reason, just to satisfy his arrogant **. Ian said in disgust.

Shen Tangzhi said to me: "If this king is indeed the down-and-out inventor St Hemdal, all this is understandable. ”

I nodded.

St Hemdal lived a tragic life and eventually died in poverty and depression...... And many of the human beings, there is nothing peculiar about their origins, they generally want what they want.

In this respect, there is essentially no difference between a child looking eagerly at the beautiful toys on the counter and an adult showing a hideous and ugly face in pursuit of fame and fortune.

"Boom!"

The sound of a loud metal crash was close to our ears, and we felt a slight vibration of the ground.

A shocking sight appeared in front of us -

A mechanical shelf, tens of meters high, stands tall like a bridge with hanging beams, and on the shelf, a huge steam hammer like a train car slams into the sand mold containing the metal castings.

"Boom!"

Dozens of sand molds arranged like a checkerboard were smashed in an instant, revealing the white-hot metal castings that had been formed inside.

The hammer was so large that it had to be dragged by dozens of workers at the same time—I counted more than forty workers in total.

And just a little closer, you can see that the workers' skin is blistered because of the heat.

Every time the hammer rises to its highest point, it starts to tremble, as if it is excited to enjoy the scenery from this commanding height.

Then, the hammer fell heavily and slammed into the metal ingots brought in by the sweaty workers.

"Hey, aren't all the power sources here all those gigantic steam engines? Why use manpower? The old knife said suspiciously.

I looked up and saw that chimneys had been set up on top of each furnace to keep the workshop ventilated, but the top of the workshop was still filled with a large cloud of poisonous gases mixed into strange colors, surging in the hot air.

"It's too hot here, and if you put a steam engine, the chances of the workers getting burned will be greatly increased—the probability of being disabled would make it impossible for the kingdom of countless mechanical factories to function properly, and the king can't afford to do that." I explained.

"You have a wise and sharp eye, the Chosen One." Mira approving.

"Be careful."

At this point, Ian issued a warning, motioning for us to look at the other side of the hammer: "That's the Forge Giant." ”

We've finally seen the biggest threat in the foundry, the unique and deadly mechanical monster Forge Giant.

The Forge Giant is about 5 meters tall, and its entire body looks like a monster called "Slime" that is common in Japanese RPGs, except that the bodies of those slimes are a slimy green slime, but the Forge Giant's body is made up of hot metal liquid.

It was flushed red, moving by the flow of its melted body, and the air around it was distorted and twisted by the scorching heat.

"You guys, why don't you work?"

As our eyes were drawn to the forged giant, a bald overseer wearing a mechanical mask suddenly appeared in front of us.

Mira forced her composure and said, "I—We're going to work......"

"Take off the towel!" The overseer commanded, raising his whip in his hand.

"Good ......"

We had to take off all the towels that covered half of our faces.

The overseer looked at our faces and suddenly shouted, "No, I've never seen you!" Quick, catch them! ”

"you!"

The old knife was already ready to do it, but before the other party's words fell, he was directly kicked down by the old knife, and Kirishima took the opportunity to snatch the leather whip from the overseer's hand.

Ian hurriedly said: "There are a lot of them......"

Sure enough, hearing that there was a problem here, the nearby overseers quickly gathered around.

Just then, I happened to see a minecart rumbling along the tracks from a nearby furnace.

I immediately shouted, "Jump into the minecart!" ”

The ore in the minecart has been poured into the furnace, so it is empty.

We first threw a few children into the minecart, and then Shen Tangzhi and the others also climbed into the minecart, and a few overseers who were close to Kirishima Fumikashi also caught up and jumped into the minecart.

"Whew-"

A shrill whistle sounded like a whistle.

"Oh no, the Overseers are going to summon the Forge Giants to attack us!" Ian's face changed dramatically.

Needless to say, the forged giant in the distance was rolling towards us like a flaming red plasticine, and the workers along the way were all wrapped in liquid metal, and only had time to let out a brief scream before turning into a humanoid black mark on the ground.

"Fuck it!" The old knife gritted his teeth and hammered it heavily on the minecart.

I stared at the forged giant who was chasing after us and asked Ian and Mira, "What are the weaknesses of the forged giant?" How can you break it? ”

"I—we can't destroy that...... It's just a lump of metal......" Ian looked bad.

Mira's answer was similar: "At least we haven't heard of a precedent......"

"Po-"

A fiery red metal solution flew over our heads and landed on the ground to one side, and suddenly a burst of heat rose up, and we immediately smelled the smell of burnt hair.

The forged giant was able to use a part of his body as a weapon to shoot it out......

"Boom!"

At this point, the hammer falls on the metal ingot again.

Hearing this voice, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I immediately had a plan.

"You don't have to wait for me, just go through here...... Ian, you come with me! ”

Without waiting for anyone to respond, I put Ian on my back and jumped off the minecart that rumbled along the tracks.

Shen Tangzhi shouted at me: "Pay attention to the timing! ”

"I know!"

This clever woman saw through my plan in an instant.

The plan is simple –

Since this molten giant doesn't have a significant mechanical disadvantage like other mechanical giants due to its liquid metal composition, I can lure this mass of molten hot metal underneath that giant steam hammer......

If this strategy should be successful, the Forge Giant will be instantly hammered into a normal piece of metal by the Vapor Hammer.

But the danger of this strategy is that the person in charge of luring needs to stay under the hammer long enough to lure the molten giant and then dodge before the hammer hits him.

If I fail, Ian and I will be two flat corpses.