'Mercury Spider Street' can be regarded as a neighborhood in the city-state of Muya that is famous for its "food". As for why "food" is used instead of "food", it is because there are many types of intelligent beings in the city-state, and their diets are not quite the same as each other's, so many foods cannot be defined as "food" or not.

Barrett used ten copper coins to buy two 'frog skewers' in front of a snake man's stall. The skewers are quite rich, with a skinned frog the size of a normal palm, a diamond-shaped potato, two Brussels sprouts, a green pepper, and a small tomato.

The skewers are smeared with red hot sauce and sprinkled with green bay leaves, which looks quite attractive and smells fragrant.

Barrett bit off the frog's thigh and chewed the meat in his mouth along with the bone. The skewers taste good, and the sparkled animal fat and the rich and stimulating hot sauce will not be unpalatable.

The 'meat ball' on his shoulder grabbed the brute's clothes with his little paws, and his whole body leaned out, "Is it delicious? Master, is it delicious?" asked it incessantly.

"Here you will taste. Barrett plucked one of the brussels sprouts from the skewer and stuffed it into the meatball's mouth. After the little guy squirmed twice, he spit out the cabbage with a "poof", "This is not delicious." "Joey wants to taste the fleshy one." ”

"You can't eat this. Barrett refused without thinking.

"Oh......" Meatball fell back into frustration.

The fallen Brussels Sprouts jumped twice on the ground before tumbling to the edge of a shadow. There, a small spider resembling fluid silver poked out its two front paws from the shadows. It grabbed the brussels sprouts on the ground and quickly retracted into the shadows.

Barrett and a few other pedestrians in the vicinity saw it, but they were not surprised.

'Mercury Spider Street' was not originally called this name, but it was later because there were many small spiders with silky silver appearances that had just appeared, that people habitually changed their words.

These ultra-small constructs, which help people clean up their neighborhoods for free, are not owned by the Guild, but belong to the shop in the center of the street called "Heart of the Gears".

The owner of the shop is a strange-looking 'Wanderer of the Mozuna', who has heard that it comes from the 'Machine Realm', the clock plane full of gears.

The 'Demon Mound' is an absolutely orderly creature, the guardian of the mechanical plane. They maintain the axles, polish the cogs, and keep the entire plane running. Like other creatures of absolute order, the Mozuka also has an extremely strict hierarchy, and the supreme one who rules all the Mozuka is called the 'Singularity', and is the creator of the laws of the entire Mozuka Kingdom.

There are many strange creatures living in the vast multiverse, but when it comes to the level of weirdness, the 'Demon Mound' is definitely at the top. This creature looks similar to a normal constructor mob on the outside, but there are many essential differences.

First of all, the mound needs food, and it also needs to breathe and sleep like a normal creature. Of course, its internal metabolism must be very different from that of ordinary organisms.

Second, they can "reproduce" on their own. When a Demon Tomb dies, its Life Essence returns to the central energy pool within the Demon Tomb Realm, and in the next order Demon Tomb, an individual will be immediately promoted to fill the void it created.

Of course, this will cause a vacancy in the second-tier Mokaka, so a higher-tier Motsuka will continue to be promoted. This process continues until the lowest 'unit mound'. Since there is no lower level than the unit mound, when the unit mound generates a vacancy, the new mound is replenished by another unit mound through fission, and the energy required for fission is extracted from the central energy pool.

The Mozuka is a typical brood mentality, unable to understand feelings, and has no concept of 'self', but there are still some individuals who gradually have their own unique personalities because they often come into contact with plane travelers who go to the mechanical realm, and by subconsciously imitating the emotions of those travelers, they stand out from the 'one face of a thousand people' group.

Such individuals will generally no longer endure the dull life of the past, and will break away from the race and follow a plane traveler through the multiverse until they die of natural aging, or find a satisfying place to settle down and live forever.

The owner of the 'Heart of Gears' shop is one of the latter.

Barrett on Crystal Spider Street asks for a few oysters in front of a 'snail man' stall after eating all two frog skewers. The kind-hearted fish-man skillfully pried open the fresh oysters one by one with a knife, and then asked Barritt, "Do you need lemon juice, hot sauce, or plum wine?"

"Lemon juice. ”

After receiving the barbarian's affirmative answer, the fishman cut a green lemon, and the fresh, sweet and sour smell instantly diffused in the surrounding air. The fishman squeezed a few drops of lemon on top of each oyster, and then motioned for the brute to enjoy.

Barrett picked up one of the oysters and poured it whole into her mouth. A creamy and tender taste, carrying the original smell of seawater and salty and umami, filled the barbarian's mouth, making him involuntarily sigh with satisfaction.

Unwilling to be lonely, the meat ball jumped down his arm to the long table on the spread, and stared at the remaining oysters with two small eyes. Barrett smiled and ignored it, instead picking up another oyster and drinking it down.

With each oyster, the ball involuntarily rubs a step forward and continues to move closer to the next one. Sometimes it stared at the food, sometimes it looked up at Barrett pitifully, and although it didn't say anything, it was self-evident what it wanted to say.

When the last one remained, Barrett mercilessly picked up the oyster and brought it to his mouth. The ball stared at the last oyster and opened its mouth wide at the same time as its owner, as if it were eating it.

"Here you go. The brute smiled and handed the oyster to the meat ball, which opened its mouth like a snake to the extreme and swallowed the whole oyster with its shell. The hideous movement frightened the fishman stall owner back a few steps.

After eating two more baked pies filled with beef, potatoes and onions, and a smoked minced chicken nugget mixed with diced pickled cucumbers, Barrett arrived at Heart of the Gears' shop.

He looked up at the store's sign, which was a heart made of gears of different sizes. Although the mechanical heart does not beat like a normal heart, the gears inside it continue to rotate for a moment.

The brute pushed the door open and entered, and entered the interior of the store with the pleasant sound of the bell.

There are a wide variety of products inside, and most of them are related to machinery. Clocks, music boxes, clockwork dolls, and a number of creeping super-small constructs, mostly small arthropods and insects.

"Hello, what do you need to buy?" asked the shopkeeper with a smile as he put down his work and smiled.

The 'Demon Grave Wanderer' was about the same height as Barrit, and its body was a brass-colored metal cube nearly a meter long, with two arms of the same length, two thin legs, and a pair of somewhat torn metal wings behind it. The thing didn't have a head, and the part of it that spoke and smiled, it was the humanoid face that grew in front of the cube's body.

One of the eyes of the humanoid face also has a pair of unilateral glasses, and the temples of the eyes are directly fixed to the face with screws, which is much more convenient than ordinary people.

"I would venture to ask, ...... you Is it called 'Fulbin'?" Barrett asked. The name was heard from the little mage.

The mounds don't have names, they are only divided according to their own class, unit mounds, binary mounds, ternary mounds, etc. However, the wanderer in front of him who had broken away from the group was clearly not among them.

"You've heard my name before, and that's an honor!" the mound creature said happily, "the name was given to me by the plane traveler who took me out of the Machine Realm, meaning "beans planted in the spring". ”

"Good name. "Barrett said sincerely, at least better than my name meant.

"Is there anything that can help you?" asked Fulbinen, "how about a pocket watch?" I'm sure most adventurers need it. The Mozuka Wanderer pulled out several beautifully crafted pocket watches from the counter, "See if you like that." Given that you've heard my name before, I'll give you a nine-percent discount, and for just one hundred and eighty gold coins, it's yours. ”

I'm sure most adventurers can't afford it. Barrett took the pocket watch in her hand and looked at it carefully. If he hadn't raided a lich's lair in the Dark Realm and found a large amount of magical materials, he wouldn't have the money to buy this thing right now.

However, that's not what he's here for.

"Aren't these little ones crawling around like this using energy?" he asked, pointing to the ultra-small structures next to them.

"The motion of any object consumes energy (regardless of the uniformity in the ideal state). The mouth in front of the cube opened and closed, "However, due to their small size, they consume very little energy. Are you interested in these things?"

"I used to have a constructed raven, and that big metal bird consumed so much that it had to eat a piece of a smash crystal almost every week. Barrett said, "What about you?"

Raven 'Corn' was cut off from the Red Curtain in San Nino, and now I don't know what happened.

"The cost of construct creatures increases exponentially with their size, so my constructs here are cute little creatures that only need a small amount of magic crystal dust to keep them moving for a year. The shopkeeper held out his hand, and several small insects jumped into his hand.

It placed the metal grasshoppers, ants, and dragonflies in front of Barrett, "If I'm not mistaken, the raven you're talking about must be a creation of the Magic Guild." ”

After receiving the barbarian's affirmative answer, the Wanderer of the Demon Tomb said, "The structure built by the guild has many functions, and some types also have a lot of intelligence, so the consumption will increase exponentially. I've got these toys here for the entertainment of kids and construct-lovers, with a little bit of cleaning at best. ”

"I've heard that not all of the constructs are made of metal, some of them are made of rock, clay, or flesh, right?" Barrett asked.

"Yes, you're right. "The essence of the constructs is not these material materials, but the spark of life obtained from the alchemy circle. Makizuka lightly touched the metal dragonfly's wings with his fingers and watched it fly into the air. "These weak sparks of life are extracted from the elemental plane, and have no consciousness or memory. Of course, mages occasionally use something more specific when creating their constructs, such as injecting souls that erase their memories directly. ”

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