After descending to the ground, hearing human voices for the first time except for their own people, the shadow-chasers froze, and everyone was unprepared for no one's thoughts, and no one expected that there would be a sudden sound of talking around them.

No one noticed the existence of a mechanical beast around her, not even Saf did not warn, her hearing was enough to discern the faint energy resonance in the body of a stationary mechanical beast within ten meters, but this time, she did not hear anything.

Looking at the sound of the past, everyone smiled helplessly, no wonder no one noticed it, because there was no mechanical puppet at the entrance of the factory, just a device that was turned into a speaker by Wei hung there, and the person who made the sound didn't know how far away, of course he couldn't detect its existence.

Shul didn't make any extra moves, nodded blankly at the factory gate, turned and walked back down the road, the other shadow chasers following him closely, like a real patrol that had inadvertently deviated from its fixed route.

The figures in the factory apparently didn't suspect them, something like this was common, and this was the third time in just two hours.

In fact, the patrol team of the ruined city is not often dispatched, so it is not familiar with the roads around the ruined city, this time it is because the guide rail elevator of the sky city suddenly operated, but did not find that there are humans down, suspecting that there is any conspiracy of humans, so the manual patrol has been strengthened, if it is usual, only ordinary mechanical puppets patrol, there is a system navigation guide, but there will be no such low-level mistakes.

Therefore, the Overseers in the factory did not care, not to mention that Shuer's reaction was no different from those humanoid golems whose minds were incomplete, and under the effect of the power of integration, the Overseers did not realize that they were seeing several humans through the monitor, not their mechanical companions.

"It's dangerous. It wasn't until a few dozen meters away from the factory that the shadowchasers breathed a sigh of relief, and Mobuck wiped a cold sweat and said with palpitations, "Startled me, I thought I was discovered, and I almost chopped it with an axe." Fortunately, the captain is alert, and if you attack rashly, you will definitely be discovered by them. ”

"Theoretically, the power of integration is not a panacea. Keeping their movements normal to avoid arousing the suspicions of the possible monitors, Shure looked ahead and said without looking back, "Delia, do you understand them?"

"I understand. The girl felt that her heart was still beating violently, and the sudden situation just now scared her all over, she really admired these people around her, and she didn't know how tenacious they had to be in order to deal with it calmly in this situation. The scared girl was stunned for a while before she understood Xiu'er's question, lowered her voice and said, "They speak the standard brown star language, and they don't have any accent at all, what's wrong uncle, is there any problem?"

"No, no. Shuer nodded thoughtfully, "It's basically confirmed, some of the puppets here do have human minds, they not only retain human reactions, but also can use the language that represents civilization, I suspect that they were originally humans, and for some reason, they were transformed into machines." ”

"Huh, boss, what's the reason?" the halfling asked curiously, "Is there really any reason for them to behave like humans and turn themselves into machines?"

"Of course there is, otherwise the mechanical apocalypse would have erupted. Shur sneered, "Even now, such people still exist, such as ......"

"Mechanicians. Mia said coldly, "No wonder they worship machines, and even betray humans for the sake of machines, because they have the opportunity to be transformed into machines." ”

"Well, when I started to hear people on the black market talk about these cultists, I thought it was a little strange, pure despair was probably not enough to make these cultists crazy enough to betray their own race, there must be some other reason. Oh, sure enough, if it is transformed into a machine, there is no need to be afraid of the pressure of the machine, and the mechanical body can also get rid of the troubles of birth, old age, sickness and death, compared to the fragile body, it is obvious that mechanization is more acceptable to them. In this way, it is not surprising that they fall to the enemy. ”

"Phew, every time I hear about this kind of thing, I don't feel very good. Miridy let out a sigh of relief and pouted, "But how can they be sure that the machines won't merge their minds like the legend suggests?"

"I'm afraid they can't be sure, at least the first batch will definitely not be able to. It was only then that Shure turned his head and looked at the factory just now, so far away, and there were no buildings around to hide the image acquisition system, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the enemy, "I guess the first group of cultists, indeed driven by madness, threw themselves into the camp of the machine, they are bent on death, death may not be a relief for them in despair." As a result, not only did they not die, but they were reborn, which strengthened their belief in machines, and if nothing else, some of them were transformed into machines, while others remained in human form, and then sneaked back to the Floating City to secretly develop new cultists. ”

As a result, there is a steady stream of new blood to join the mechanical camp, which also makes the mechanical camp know the internal situation of the city well. Shuer thought for a moment before saying, "I even doubt that the city's higher-ups will know about this a long time ago, but they are worried that we will fall into the mechanical camp, so they will always hide it from us." ”

"It should be unlikely. Mia shook her head expressionlessly, "They are really looking forward to our success, which doesn't seem like a fake, because they don't even hesitate to bet on the voices of hundreds of thousands of people." And in order to succeed, such important information, they are unlikely to hide. ”

"I hope so. Shul smiled noncommittally, he had always been afraid to guess others with the greatest malice, so he was not as sure as Mia. However, now that the facts have been speculated, it doesn't matter whether the high-level leaders of the Floating City know in advance or not, and the most important thing now is another question, Delia's question.

"Delia. Shuer hesitated for a moment, but finally made up his mind, "I'll give you a piece of advice, you'd better start now and be mentally prepared." ”

"Huh?" the girl was invisible, and she couldn't see her expression, but she could hear her dazedness in her voice, "What kind of mental preparation?"

"Heh, do you remember what your parents did when they left you on an undercover mission?"

"Uncle...... What do you mean. Only Moria could feel that the girl sitting behind her was stunned for a few seconds, and her body began to tremble violently, obviously thinking of something bad, "You mean, my parents may ......"

"Oh, I don't rule out that you still have the opportunity to meet them. Shul sighed deeply, "Of course, this meeting is not something to look forward to. ”