"It doesn't look like an ordinary warehouse, it's a bit like a finished product distribution center in a factory. ”

In the form of a human teenager, Quest patiently examines every nook and cranny of the warehouse as he weaves between the remnants of what appears to be scaffolding used to stack crates.

Finally, beneath the remains of the collapsed scaffolding, Quest found a metal riveted track hidden by cemented hardened sand. And this undoubtedly confirmed some of his guesses.

"If this track is used to transport finished products to the finished product distribution center, then follow this track ......"

Combined with his own guesses, little by little squeezing the cargo conveyor track on the ground, the blue dragon boy groped his way to the wall of one of the corners of this crypt.

Brushing away the dust deposited on this wall, a metal shutter painted with text symbols appeared in front of Quest.

The boy searched for a few more minutes on a nearby wall, eventually finding a combination lock made of what appeared to be a protective box made of plastic with metal gears embedded inside.

After a few attempts to fiddle with the combination lock, Quest found that the gears were rusty. If the estimate is correct, the latch inside the gate should also be like the combination lock on the outside.

In this way, the use of the spell "percussion", which was invented specifically for opening the door, may not be effective. In desperation, Quest could only choose the method of violent demolition.

To his surprise, the metal shutter made of an unknown alloy seemed to be very strong. Even if Quest reverted to the body of a dragon and slammed it with all his might, it would only create some depressions.

Fortunately, the blue dragon boy had a flexible head, and he changed his mind in time and did not continue to fight against the metal door, but instead tried to make a new passage from the wall next to him.

The materials used in the building are really strong, probably better than reinforced concrete. Queth, who was not very proficient in this spell, did not dare to use the spell to pass directly through the rock formation, and he was worried that if he made a mistake, he would be in trouble.

His choice was to rely on the blue dragon's own burrowing skills, which is the blue dragon's specialty, to carry out the excavation work.

When he felt that his claws were about to be smoothed out by the concrete-like building material, he finally dug a passage through the space behind the metal shutter.

With a spell effect attached to his body that resists the harsh environment, Quis didn't care if there was a lack of oxygen in this space, so he walked straight in.

This space, which has not been set foot in for thousands of years, was originally pitch black, with no light to illuminate.

Even though blue dragons are born with dark vision, they are able to "see" things without being able to see with other means of seeing. But being able to look in more detail in such an ancient ruins means less danger and more discoveries. As a result, Quis summoned a "Illumination Orb" as a light source as soon as he stepped into it.

The light, which was extremely bright without any temperature, instantly dispelled the darkness that entrenched here.

Behind the metal shutter was a small corridor-shaped aisle, and the ground was paved with tracks that stretched from deeper into what appeared to be used to transport goods. Probably because of the good airtightness, the color of the walls of the passage here has not yet fallen off, and even some text-like symbols still exist on it.

"Thirteenth Manufactory ...... Cottmann"

Using the spell of "Knowing Language", Quest recognized the meaning of the symbols. As he speculated, there was indeed an industrial production hall called "Cottmann 13th Manufacturing Workshop", and the text on the wall recorded the production specifications of this factory.

After carefully studying the text on the wall, Quest entered the factory floor through this passage to transport goods.

Unlike the distribution warehouse outside, which is used to store battery packs, this factory floor alone covers more than twice the floor space.

The crates outside containing lead-acid battery products are not piled up in the entire workshop, but only some are stacked at the exit of the product packaging products.

The largest area of the workshop is occupied by a winding conveyor belt – where there is actually an assembly line!

Quest took a closer look at the industrial artifact that surprised him a little, and he even found some of what appeared to be constructed around the conveyor belt that seemed to be used to process the product automatically. Away from him, that is, near the conveyor channel, there are also several machines scattered that look much the same as those of the automatic processing structures.

Like spiders, they have eight metal arthropods, six of which support their bodies, and the other two that stretch out near their heads have a "three-fingered" structure at the ends of their limbs.

The "spider" structures near the delivery lane are supposed to be responsible for transporting the goods, as they have rectangular grooves on the back that fit the crate just right, and two metal tires on the belly that fit the "I-shaped" tracks.

Reusing the spell mimicry to transform himself into a human form, Quest first touched the mechanical structures with a light touch and found that there was no response, and then randomly stroked and found that the surface of the metal objects was not covered with any dust.

After a closer look, the blue dragon boy Quest couldn't suppress his curiosity, and saw that the number of various types of constructs was not small, so he started to disassemble the shell of a metal spider, wanting to see what it was.

When he opened the shell, he found that the metal spiders actually had a circuit board-like control system organized by gears and copper wires, and this control system connected the various parts of the body by cables.

The power system that drives this structure is powered by a lead-acid battery of the kind that was discovered before. It's just that because their battery packs have not been replaced for tens of millions of years, there are some rust and leakage, so they stop working.

These are very different from the design principles of most of the intelligent constructs in this world that are created by spell-infused elemental spirits, and are more like some of the technological creations that Ques was once more familiar with.

"Isn't this the intelligent robot used to transport materials and produce finished products in a fully automated production workshop? Or the guards of the factory. ”

Quest dismantled another, slightly larger metal spider, whose shell was a multi-layered composite armor structure with no gaps in the cracks.

Quest could only unscrew one of its knuckles, little by little, to pry open the armor that protected its internal control panel.

As if to confirm his suspicions, the metal spider's armor concealed a completely different functional module from the previous structure used as a means of transport—a ballista structure that could fire continuously, and a special circle structure that could be used to hold the staff and automatically drive its casting.

"Sure enough, that ancient civilization also has considerable attainments in the field of spell skills," Quis rubbed his fingers against the magic circle runes that had not been damaged for thousands of years under the protection of the outer armor, and then looked at the repeating ballista that had been tightened with the bowstring and bolts: "Thanks to the leakage of the batteries of these constructs, they have lost their mobility, otherwise they may have to fight again, and it will take some effort." ”

After examining a few metal spiders, Quest took a closer look at the rest of the fully automated production workshop of the ancient civilization buried underground.

The floor of the entire production hall is covered with metal plates with wavy anti-slip stripes, which make a sonorous footstep as Ques steps on them.

Lighting fixtures hang above the dome of the workshop, but they are all extinguished due to the lack of energy supply, like useless decorations.

Before Quiss traveled, he had visited the production workshops of some automated factories for work reasons. In this kind of workshop, where machines replace manpower, "man-machine separation" is an important safety measure.

However, in order to overhaul or regulate those production machinery, when designing and building such factories, an operating compartment will be reserved in the factory for senior engineers.

Even in different worlds, the basic ideas of industrial production should be the same. In this automated assembly workshop of an ancient civilization that clearly surpasses the level of productivity in this world, there should also be a design similar to that of operation compartment.

Quith believes that as long as he finds this kind of place for professionals to operate the machinery on the production floor, he will get the most out of his adventure.

The wiring in the metal spiders was intact, and the parts were intact, but they couldn't start because of the battery leakage. The technical principle of processing or remanufacturing some lead-acid batteries is not complicated, and with the help of spells, Quest is confident that he can independently create a batch of the same energy modules.

If we find an operation room that can control these machines, this production workshop will not continue to be silent like this, and an automated processing factory with far more productivity than the current world can bring great wealth and power to the blue dragon boy.

After tirelessly groping around every corner of the entire production hall two or three times, Quest finally found the entrance to the suspected operation room at a similar egg-shaped grille.

Until he found it, Quest had thought it was one of the other ventilators of the same shape, but he eventually found a gap in the side of the fence that had been clogged by the cement of dust that had accumulated there—the one that looked like the other vents were completely identical.

The cemented dust could not stop the strength of the blue dragon boy, but as soon as he pulled the fence door hard, he tore the shackles of the "dust cement". Crucially, there is also a pneumatic gate leading to the operator's room, made of materials as robust as the roller shutter encountered earlier.

This forced Quest to transform into a blue dragon form again, clawing at a large section of the wall before dismantling it completely.

It was only then that the Blue Dragon Boy was finally able to step into the core manipulation room known as the "Thirteenth Crafting Workshop of the Cottman".