Chapter 117: A War That Lasted for a Thousand Years
Deep beneath Garda, there is a unique celestial vault.
But it was not so much a celestial dome as a semi-oval wall of steel, covered with cracks and a dark red shimmer.
Perhaps due to the perennial biological activities and the high frequency of war, the smoke of gunpowder, poisonous gases and even water vapor that could not be dispersed accumulated in this steel zenith, under the reflection of the residual emergency lights, formed such a red lead cloud like a shimmering dusk, constantly twisting and rolling, as if it was about to collapse.
To be exact, it has already collapsed once a while ago...
The most direct result was that the terrifying flow of seawater poured into the hole in the heavenly dome, forming a large waterfall and falling straight down.
And under this 'heavenly dome' is a vast plain of ruins that has been completely destroyed by the war to the point where it is impossible to see its former appearance.
Around the plains, from time to time, a large number of strangely shaped mechanical bodies would pour out from all directions of the ground.
Most of these robots are humanoid robots, and their hands can be switched from arm to machine gun at any moment, tirelessly moving towards the center of the plain.
In these robot armies, there are also service-oriented autonomous robots that are only half the height of ordinary people, and even some mechanical pet dogs, but the outermost decorative artificial skin bag is missing, and in the dim light, it is no longer cute, but it looks a little hideous.
The reason why they are said to be strange shapes is that most of their models are normal, but it may be because several of these processes are missing during production on the assembly line, resulting in most of their shapes are not so complete, and even look a little distorted.
If someone sees them as if they are endless, they may wonder, where did they come from?
At this moment, there was a violent tremor on the originally empty ground, and then a prismatic pillar-like mechanical creature poked out of the ground.
Originally, with its speed and power, it could theoretically even be launched directly into the outer space of Garda, but when it was on the ground, it seemed to be restrained by another invisible force, revealing the head of the prismatic column, and then it bounced back into the ground weakly, and then it deformed and opened like petals, and countless boxy pieces of metal were thrown out.
These metal blocks, which still carry the steam on the assembly line, are rapidly deformed in mid-air, and most of them are still conventional multi-functional combat robots, service autonomous robots, and mechanical pet dogs.
Of course, there are also small unmanned fighters that suddenly open their wings, glide a few laps in the sky, and begin to glide along the mechanical army towards the depths of the plains.
Along the way, there were mechanical bodies that began to assemble like an army, and from the sky they looked like silver-black specks that were still spreading.
Most of them stood still, waiting for some order to forbid them not to move, but some small units had already begun to march in, firing shells along the way.
Meteor shower-like cannonballs cut parabolas across the sky, leaping through a lead cloud filled with radiation and poisonous fog to a city of unprecedented scale.
However, he encountered an invisible force field barrier that suddenly appeared halfway, and it was like being pressed the slow motion button, and then it was exploded by bullets or laser volleys flying from the city.
After all, no matter how slow the shell flies under the defensive field, if you don't intercept it, it will still fall into the city.
It's a dilapidated, chaotic, dirty, crumbling city that looks like it's going to fall at any moment, yet it's been standing here for more than 1,200 years.
And the war with the outside of the city, too, lasted for more than 1,200 years...
If it weren't for the abrupt interruption of the entire underground world's energy supply every few months, plunging everything into a decades-long sleep, I'm afraid this place would have been bulldozed by the seemingly endless army of machines.
Even so, it doesn't seem to be going to last long.
Because this time, the mechanical army, it seems that because of the early awakening of that 'Ancestor Saint', both in quantity and quality, it has reached an unprecedented terrifying scale.
Through the dim lighting, you can faintly see the large number of buildings stacked on top of each other in the city, as if ants are trying to build larger nests in the limited living space.
On the outermost wall, you can even see a large circle of detachable and improvised tin houses, most of which are clearly newly built, winding along the entire circular city wall.
In the middle of the house is a steel track that has been laid long ago, and countless simple train wagons run on it.
The walls were full of busy figures, most of whom were large men over two meters tall.
Although he seems to have been suffering from a lack of adequate nutrition for a long time, his body is mostly strong, every muscle is full and open, and his muscles are knotted like a giant python, like a group of people who were born to fight.
Most of the heavy arms and food boxes that were half a meter square and hundreds of kilograms were as light as empty in their hands.
Even in the cold wind that was full of cold and radiation, many of them still wore their shirts open or simply naked, and some of them shook their muscles at the soldiers who were much shorter than them, and occasionally pointed at some rookies who could not move a single arms box together.
The laughter is not malicious, but rather novel.
Since the sky dome above his head collapsed not long ago, the waterfall just fell into the city of shimmering, and brought these big-headed soldiers from the outside world who drifted down the waterfall with them.
After discovering that these guys did not threaten their roots, the city's administrators naturally accepted the outsiders.
For them, who are extremely scarce in terms of resources and manpower compared to those reapers, any living force is worth cherishing and wooing.
Anyway, since they are here, they are destined to not be able to get out, so it is better to resist the mechanical army of the outside world together, I believe that under the real force field and the threat of life and death, they will understand their own situation.
Therefore, there are often new rookie chickens in shabby military uniforms and soaked all over the carriage thrown from the carriage together, and are caught by several big men in white coats and inspected on the spot.
"You can't get some heart when you salvage it, this one has been out of breath for at least a few hours! Do you expect me to resurrect him? Send it directly to the incinerator, what a waste of transportation resources! ”
"Wow, this one is almost thin into ribs, don't they all say that the outside world is a paradise? How did I lose weight to such virtue, I always feel that my dream is disillusioned, or I will find a war to die in battle. ”
"Don't pick and choose, at least these guys look like they've undergone some military training, inject some holy water, and they can still pull them out to fight those mechanical monsters."
These smoke-covered guys didn't even look for a cleaner place, so they just sat on the ammunition box and performed ECG resuscitation on these unlucky guys, most of whom had been in a coma and shocked by too much water.
As if he didn't care at all, if there were really shells that penetrated the fire net overhead and landed on these ammunition boxes that had not had time to be stored in the bomb shelter, the impact after the explosion could directly lift them dozens of meters into the air.
"Hey! How many times have I said it, you big men with muscles in your head, can't you move a little lightly! They're all my soldiers! Do you understand, my soldiers? ”
At this moment, there was a small commotion on the periphery, and several indifferent but resolute soldiers were seen approaching around a beautiful woman in a general's uniform with her trademark fiery red hair.