As soon as he opened the pneumatic gate that sealed the operation room, Quis could feel a strange smell wafting from the inside of the room.

Dragons have a super keen sense of smell, and with the exception of the black dragon, who likes to roll in the swamp and mud and have no carrion, all other dragons have a strong aversion to the smell.

Quest was no exception, and when he re-transformed into a human, he covered his mouth and nose with his hand as he smelled the scent. If he hadn't been worried about accidentally destroying some of the equipment inside due to rapid oxidation, he would have poured fresh air into a wind-making technique to "scrub" it.

It's like in a third-rate horror movie, the strange smell of the room and the cramped dark space must be accompanied by death as a fierce medicine to set off the atmosphere.

When our protagonist, the Blue Dragon Boy, Quis, walks into the heart of the automaton factory, he finds a shriveled corpse sitting in a chair glancing with his empty eyes toward the exit of the room.

If it were before the time crossing, such a scene appeared in front of him, Quest would definitely scream in fright, and then immediately turn around and run. But as a blue dragon, even if it is still a juvenile dragon, it will not be frightened by a mere mummy, unless it is a demigod mummy.

And this is impossible, the shriveled corpse is just the result of a normal humanoid creature dehydrating after death, and has nothing to do with the undead of the legendary level.

So the "gaze of the dead" didn't attract much attention from Quest, but it was the machine lying in front of the dry corpse at the console that piqued Quest's interest.

The central control center of the operation room of this ancient civilization manufacturing factory is actually quite familiar to him: the instrument panel, the operation keyboard, and the screen.

In this fantasy side world, you can actually see a "computer" form creation that is common in the science and technology side world, which makes the blue dragon boy feel a trace of disobedience.

This control room is cramped, compared with the outside production workshop, it has an area of dozens of square meters, living room, washroom, and workshop. It appears that the arrangement was made to facilitate the staff on duty inside to monitor for a long time.

Out of respect for the deceased, Quest first moved the humanoid remains that had been turned into mummified corpses into the living room before examining the complex instruments on the table.

In the same way that a novice with no prior experience with electronic devices can quickly find the power button, Quest quickly found the conspicuous button.

Unexpectedly, when he pressed the "power button", the screen in front of the console actually reacted, and a piece of text appeared. With the help of the spell "Knowing Language", Quest understood the meaning of these words.

"The equipment is out of energy, and it needs to be recharged with emergency energy......" As Quest recognized the words, two connections on the console that were used as emergency energy supplements popped up.

One of the connectors has a structure that can hold the cube, which is obviously adapted to the battery, while the other pops out of a prismatic crystal.

This crystal is embedded with complex spell runes, although it is slightly different from the existing spell system, but it can still be identified by comparing to find some commonalities. By identifying the runes, Quis was able to identify some runic structures that represented mana drain.

"There are two interface modes, one is to plug in the battery, and the other is to instill the power of spells...... This is in line with the setting of the fantasy side......"

If a lead-acid battery can provide energy for this machine, then the consumption as another way of mana charging is not too much consumption for Quis. Therefore, the blue dragon boy thought about it for a moment, and then grasped the crystal prism as a charging interface with his hand - he didn't want to run outside and rummage through it to see if there were any batteries that could still be used.

As expected, as soon as he grasped it, the crystal prism began to automatically draw energy from the blue dragon boy's body, and the screen in front of the console also appeared with a reminder screen of the charging progress bar.

Quest estimated that after consuming the spell energy of a "secondary lightning chain" cast by himself, the charge of the manipulating machine was almost complete, and a new text prompt appeared on the screen:

"The energy required for start-up and operation has been satisfied, and the energy supply unit of the automatic detection plant has lost connection, and the automatic control production system cannot be used at present, whether it will be transferred to the personal application system?"

Of course, choose "yes", otherwise the energy instilled before will not be wasted.

Following the instructions, he found the keyboard button that he chose to enter, and when he pressed it, he felt a little sluggish, probably because it had been too long, so he increased his strength.

"Huh?"

The subtle pain irritated his skin, and Quest lifted his hand to see a tiny pinhole that had healed - the thin needle that had just popped out of the surface of the button and then retracted back pierced the Blue Dragon Boy's finger and collected a sample of his blood.

"Alert! Genetic material test results: not the previous operator. The machine self-locking drive will be activated and the countdown will start ......"

Before Quis could react otherwise, the text on the light screen in front of him became new again.

"Detection result correction verdict: has advanced modifier genetic information, has advanced permissions, alarm dismissed. ”

This sudden change made Quest fall into a fog, but he still had a rough guess in his mind - it may have something to do with the fact that his dragon egg was found from this ancient ruin, and it may have undergone some genetic modification before he was born, so he was judged and beaten by this advanced industrial production central control "computer" to "advanced authority".

The most intuitive manifestation of the benefit of this "advanced permission" is that after it is turned on, all the records of the previous operator are directly set to the retrieval mode for Quess to access.

The first document that popped up was the detailed information about the former operator of this central control "computer", "Honorary Engineer" Cottman.

It turned out that the words "Jointmann 13th Manufactory Workshop" seen on the wall of the outside passage referred to the family to which the "Honorary Engineer" belonged.

As a well-known engineer family, Kotman's biography and personal habits are meticulously documented in this document, even his personal hobby of smoking cigars and collecting antique guns.

After this document was published, the rest of the content included "Kotman's" personal diary and the operation guide of the automated system, which intrigued Queth.

So I first clicked on the document icon representing "Cottman's" personal diary, and according to the instructions, some research materials and daily records of any user were stored inside:

"Imaska New Ephemeris 4523, March 11.

Today I celebrated my 135th birthday and mourned my deceased wife, and the reason why I have so much free time is because the equipment in the factory is being upgraded with artificial magic nets.

The Grand Wizard met with the ruler of Netherreel, though the Council of Elders didn't think it was a good idea, as our civilization had long since disappeared from the world of Torrell.

In essence, we can no longer be counted as the same race, and in the thousands of years of colonization in the astral plane, we have developed a completely different development path and cultural customs from the original race.

......

June 13, 4525 Ephemeris Imaskar New Ephemeris

Three colonies have been attacked and destroyed!

The enemy is not a bad embryo from the bottomless abyss and Bato's hell, but is actually created by the Imaska people themselves, just like the destruction of the ancient Imaska civilization.

Self-inflicted, completely self-inflicted. Just a year ago, the Great Mechanic and the people of the Spell Council claimed to have created a new type of spell instrument that was safer and more efficient than the Ancient Seven Secret Weapons—

A blockade that can use Curse to weaken the Crystal Wall, leading the Imaska out of a universe hostile to gods and ancient evils.

It's a pity that this spell creation has just been created, and before it has reached the boundary of the crystal wall system, it has been disturbed and activated by the chaotic rules that escaped from the chaotic sea of path.

Why don't you believe in the power of technology? Why don't you trust the Council of Elders? Why keep trying to create dangerous spell creations that you can't control?

......

November 11, 4535 Ephemeris Imaska

Ten years, finally everything is coming to an end.

Netheril's Grand Arcanist allies have sent their most advanced Floating City into battle;

The caster and the scientist have joined forces, and the "adaptive" anti-curse biomorphization experiment has been carried out by bringing together all the researchers of the Mage Council and the Council of Elders, and is nearing completion;

Even some good gods have thrown themselves into the fight against the evil creature that exudes the power of chaos and curse.

While we can't undo our mistakes, all the Imasca people have their part.

The "Ships of Annihilation" produced by the Altori family carry warriors from all over the multiverse to fight against the evil creatures, and the Quartman family, the factory of our people, provides these warriors with the best weapons and equipment for free—laser guns that don't require spell enchantment at all, but are more effective, electromagnetic energy shields, and so on.

......

June 8, 4536 in the new ephemeris of Imasca

I know! I know!

There is nothing new under the sun, and all natural disasters are actually blamed on man-made disasters.

It turned out that this catastrophe was directed by the shameless Great Mechanic, the sinner who brought shame to all the Imasca.

The creature was not created to enable the Imaska to have a better life in the New World, but to satisfy his evil and greedy ambition to weaken all the gods and steal their glory.

......

Imaskar New Ephemeris 4537 January 1

The Great Mechanic, no, should have just called him by his filthy name, Polyrossak, and was eventually wiped out by the gods.

He and the creation of his ambition were destroyed at the same time, and the calamity was finally averted, but the karmic consequences were borne by all the Imaskans.

Most of the gods who fought against Polyrosak fell into eternal sleep, bringing with them the dislike of the Imasca in the multiverse itself.

Coupled with the curse of the evil creature before it died, it turned the place where all the Imaska people lived into a desert unsuitable for survival, and all the Imaska people were inexplicably infected with an unknown plague.

Hordes of Imasca are dying of weakness and death, and we have no way to return......"

After reading the diary left by Mr. Cottman of Imasca, and looking back at the dried corpse that had been placed in the living room of the operating room, Quiz was lost in thought as he gently rubbed his neck, which had been a little sore from staring at the screen for a long time.

Although Cottman's diary is only a few words, there is still a glimmer of information in the decades-long record.

Now he can confirm that the civilization that has been lost in this land is indeed the creation of the remnants of the ancient Imaska people.

However, they were tragically wiped out due to the plot of the evil great magician to die, and even the place where they lived became a desert, which is probably the origin of the name of this world as the Ash World.

In the second half of Kotman's narrative, it is mentioned that in order to fight against the "evil that spreads curse and chaos", the mages and scientists of the remnants of Imaska have collaborated in order to create reformed warriors who can resist the effects of the "curse" "with their own adaptability".

The dragon eggs found by the legendary dragon Salotta while exploring the ruins are likely to be the material for this experiment, and may even be the product of a phased experiment.

If this speculation is true, it would explain why the "computer" passed the permission verification after taking a blood sample when it was turned on, and the fact that its innate "adaptive" evolutionary ability exceeds that of the average dragon

However, this is not absolute, after all, the diary still provides too little information, and this is only a factory for the production of energy parts for the Gottman family, not the technological core of an ancient civilization.

After a moment of thinking, Quest continued to hurry up and start looking for useful information from the "computer".

It would be perfect if he could find some maps with the buildings of the Imasca civilization, so that he could follow the map and slowly explore the other ruins of the civilization in the future, so as to piece together more and more complete information.