The group set out on their journey again, leaving the eerie city of death behind.

This world shrouded in darkness always brings a sense of oppression, but fortunately this darkness has faded away. A huge, running plasma engine was right ahead, and its brilliant flames lit up the sky, finally dispelling the gloomy atmosphere that had been felt along the way.

Vivian went to see what was going on close to the engines, and Hao Ren asked the car navigation to determine the route for herself, and then turned onto a ramp that gradually ascended along the steel ridge. As we get closer to the giant engine, the sprawling facility brings more detail to life. Hao Ren saw that there were actually many rotating ramps like winding roads on its conical shell, some faint light was speeding through those ramps, and there were a large number of steel long bridges at the top of the engine that extended radially and connected to the distant land, but he didn't know what it was for.

Just as they were about to reach the halfway point of the engine, the main engine suddenly made a slight beep, and at the same time, Izax frowned: "There seems to be something ahead." ”

As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he quickly parked the car on the side of the road, and Lily jumped out and sneaked forward to check the situation, she leaned on the back of a large steel plate and looked outside, and then turned her head and waved to everyone.

The others hurriedly followed, and Lily pointed to the other side of the road and whispered, "Look! Transport convoy! ”

Hao Ren was stunned to see a steel avenue leading straight to the top of the engine a hundred meters away, and the avenue was paved with traction facilities that emitted a faint blue light, like guide rails, and transport vehicles like tank cages were busy going back and forth on those guide rails. Appear orderly.

"No breath of life...... "Vivien frowned, and suddenly threw a small bat at a transporter: due to the effect of the giant engine. In this vicinity, there is an unstable atmosphere, and Vivien's little bat finally has a place to use.

Anyway, the vampire girl's bat detector hasn't been useful for a long time......

The little bat struggled to maintain its orientation in the wind. In the end, in the eyes of everyone, he grabbed the shell of a tank cage truck without danger. It looked around the hull of the car, crawling around looking for the entrance—any zoologist in his right sense would have begun to doubt life when he saw a bat doing such a thing—but in the end the little bat had to be disappointed, because the whole car was completely enclosed except for the back compartment.

"There's a hopper in the back of the car, which might be filled with engine fuel or something," Vivien slapped the little bat into her body and frowned, "The car has no entrance, no breath of life, and it should run automatically." ”

Hao Ren thought for a moment. Make a bold decision: keep up with the returning transporters.

Lily had the audacity to swing around the transporters, and found that the latter was still running as usual, and there were no warning machines or people on the tracks, so everyone decided that the automatic system should be "blind". Hao Ren drove the car behind a transport truck that had left the engine, walked along the long steel avenue for some distance, and after turning a few corners, he saw a place like a steel jungle in front of him.

The steel jungle had been blocked by a ridge before, and everyone didn't notice it all the way.

Hao Ren cautiously drove into the area, and a loud noise came towards him. It's full of black, throaming machinery or buildings, as noisy and lively as a factory the size of a city. A large number of round tank cages and other types of transport vehicles come here from the engines along the tracks. Weave your way through the steel jungle in an orderly manner, while giant robotic arms and creaking landing platforms work in tandem with these vehicles, loading and unloading truckloads of goods.

A roar came from above, and Nangong May looked up in surprise. She saw a steel cube more than ten meters wide slowly flying through the air under the propulsion of the thrusters, and tightly assembled on a "mountain of cubes" not far away—these things were probably some kind of self-running container system.

The entire "factory city" is in a state of busy operation, and the sound of machinery roaring and vehicles is everywhere. A variety of directional lights and a high-powered lighting system also make the place as bright as daylight, but beyond that...... It's empty.

Hao Ren led everyone out of the car. Everyone was grinning as they explored this strange place. They weren't worried about any alarm device that would lure the city's defenders out - they were hopeful they would run into someone, and Itzhax was even planning to pull a meteorite down and blow it up: he wanted to blow up a few locals. However, this idea was violently discouraged by everyone.

Lily held her claws of fire and ice. Walking at the front of the line side by side with Hao Ren with a wary face, she sniffled vigorously: "There is only the smell of steel and oil here......

The crowd passed by a working loading dock with a control room-like facility next to it, and the door was open. Nangong Sanba raised his crossbow and went over to check the situation with a high degree of vigilance, but after entering the door, he only saw a bunch of machines that were flashing lights and making a sound.

"There's no one here either," Nangong Sanba came out of the control room and shook his head, "All systems run automatically. ”

Hao Ren sighed: "Don't look for it, I'm afraid the whole planet is operating automatically." ”

But just as he finished speaking, a sharp whistling suddenly came from behind everyone!

Hao Ren immediately turned around vigilantly, only to find that a small device in the shape of an inverted triangle rushed towards it like a lightning speed, this small device seemed to be a patrolling machine, it circled around the crowd several times, emitting a series of squeaky electronic sounds, and only after a moment did the normal voice sound: "Found citizens." ”

Nangong Sanba subconsciously asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

There was a series of gurgling sounds in the body of the small machine: "If you find a citizen, your health is good, please follow this guidance device to the checkpoint, and after disinfection, you can go to the shelter on the first floor." ”

After speaking, the small device turned around and floated in the other direction, and after floating out a few meters, it turned to look at Hao Ren and his party, who were not moving: "Citizen, please follow this guide device to the checkpoint." If they do not follow, they will be subject to enforcement measures. ”

Itzax had a spell in his hand and didn't know whether to blow it up, and Hao Ren waved his hand to put the magic away: "Follow up and see what this little guy wants to do." ”

The group followed behind the inverted triangle machine, turning around in many circles, all the way to the depths of this steel jungle. They passed more factories and mainframes that were running autonomously, and saw countless unmanned vehicles and transfer platforms running around, and the scene was so eerie that it was as if the master had died, while the tools he had used in his life were still working in mid-air. Eventually, they were taken to a rectangular building, which finally shut out the noise and chaos outside.

The rectangular building is brightly lit and clean, and the first half of the building is a concourse, reminiscent of the waiting halls of an airport. There are a few high-end looking people busy in the hall, cleaning or repairing equipment.

Lily put away her two claw blades, as if she was worried about scratching out such a clean place—and from this point she was much more sensible than the average husky: "I didn't expect there to be such a place on this planet." ”

"Inside a closed man-made facility, it's always easy to ignore the vicissitudes outside," Vivien suddenly sighed thoughtfully, "I once fell asleep in the tombs of ancient dynasties, and when I woke up, I saw that nothing had changed around me, and I thought that the world was still the same, but when I went out, I saw that the whole country had become a pile of rubble in the wilderness...... If someone had lived in this hall for 10,000 years, he would probably not have imagined what the city outside had become. ”

Vivien's sighs always made people not know what to say, so Hao Ren could only shrug his shoulders and continue walking towards the opposite side of the hall after the little machine. And just as the group approached the door on the other side of the hall, the wall next to it suddenly brightened, and a figure appeared on the curtain wall! (To be continued......)