"My name is Lazar and I live at 2, Building 13, Genting District 4...... Today is the 73,901st day of the fall of the 'Morning Star'.

"The name 'Lazar' was chosen by His Majesty Evans, the great 'Emperor of the Machines', when I was a baby, and it is said that it once belonged to the Emperor's dear friend, and it contains his hope that I too would be a great alchemist...... But unfortunately, I let the Emperor down.

"—I was so honored because my parents died during a pathfinder to cover for other companions.

"Hehe, it's still the familiar beginning...... If anyone can get their hands on my diary in the future, please don't dislike me for being verbose, after all, for an old 'person' who is over 250 years old, the soul is close to decay, and it is easy to forget who you are by writing this information down from time to time. ”

In a mechanical house, a "man" named Lazar turned his rusty wrist and temporarily put down the pen inserted in the connection slot.

The main part of his body is made entirely of brass, and the rest of his limbs and head are made of various metal panels...... Even the broken parts of the brass torso were mostly barely sealed with pig iron, which did not expose the sealing system inside to the air.

From a distance, he looked like a patched ragged robot.

But this broken robot is completely dominated by the human soul, and the metal parts are all the result of mechanical modification.

At this moment, with the sound of "crunching", Lazar stood up with some difficulty, stepped forward with his right foot, drove the four wheels at the bottom of his left leg, and slowly walked towards the cabinet on the other side of the house.

- The suit below the calf of his left leg was damaged during an expedition to "Afternoon Town" about thirty years ago, and the sensing and drive systems were completely paralyzed and irreparable, so he had to install wheels and barely move with the help of another thigh with the drive intact.

At first, Lazar was very uncomfortable, but after so many years, he has become accustomed to this wheel, even if he goes up and down the stairs...... It's just that I can't join the exploration team anymore......

This is also the reason why he lives in Genting District, where land is the most expensive, but the economy is not very good.

Due to the shortage of materials, his pension is only enough to pay for the annual property insurance and maintenance of the house...... Fortunately, he had already completed the mechanical transformation of his whole body, and the energy intake required was not too much without carrying out energy-consuming projects...... What's more, Morningstar City provides a minimum level of subsistence energy to the residents of Genting District free of charge every month.

"I've accumulated fourteen units of energy this month, and I can open a reactor and repair a batch of equipment for the guys on the exploration team...... I also took the opportunity to earn some money and went for a physiotherapy to dispel negative emotions......

"The last time I had 'physiotherapy' was ten years ago, although I kept a good mood through writing a diary, but I have accumulated a lot of emotions over the years, although it is still far from the threshold, and once it is close to the border, I can still have free 'physiotherapy'...... But it was not pleasant, and the mental damage caused was irreversible......"

Lazar, who seemed to be babbling to himself, walked to the cabinet, took out a small bottle of engine oil from it, poured out some of the slots that had been applied to his hands, and then he controlled the bearings inside to rotate a few times, and after confirming that there were no jams, he put the oil bottle back in its place, and he himself returned to the table, inserted the charcoal pen into the connecting slot of his hand again, and continued:

"It's not surprising that the price of a stack of paper has recently increased by 2 energy points, after all, just last week, a newborn left the 'breeding hall'.

"This means that the planting structure of the plant base must be adjusted to grow edible crops to produce more organic food for the newborn.

"And the 'gray dwarf grass' used to make paper, which is not important, is naturally deprived of the qualification to survive.

"After all, since the 'Machine Emperor' fell asleep and the rebellion of the Four Popes caused Morning Star City to fall into this strange town, only the 'Night Barrier' of the four major systems of the Floating City can still operate normally, and it is the last remnant of the Emperor that has protected the 10,000 surviving residents of the city, so that everyone is not attacked by those monsters in the darkness in the 'Strange Afternoon Town'.

"Unfortunately, because of the need for resources, every few years, we have to organize people to go to the town in the afternoon to explore and find all the available resources such as minerals...... And whenever this happens, the Night Barrier is temporarily closed...... Hey, every exploration is the most dangerous time for Morningstar City......

"Far from it...... Well, I don't know if I wrote in my diary before, but in short, only the 'Night Barrier' system of the four major systems is intact, and the rest of the 'Storm Engine', 'Sun God Furnace', and 'Purification Cocoon' are all on the verge of paralysis.

"The Storm Engine is in the worst situation, as it is the flight power and part of the energy source for Morning Star City, it can only maintain the lowest power output right now, keeping Morning Star City's center of gravity stable and preventing it from rolling over......

"In fact, before the Fall Calendar, when the belief in the 'True Creator' began to be set off in the city, there were already problems, and many people whose spiritual pollution was not too serious had problems after being treated by the 'Purification Cocoon', some of them directly turned into monsters, and some of them inexplicably became evil god believers......

"After falling into this nightmare town, the system has become even more problematic, and now we have to clean up the 'contamination' left in the food...... However, this is for newborns, and people like me who have completed the whole body transformation are not needed.

"In the end, as the main source of energy for Morning Star City, the 'Sun God Furnace' can provide not even one ten-thousandth of the original energy after the Morning Star falls...... Therefore, the only three remaining 'alchemy masters' had to create a lot of auxiliary energy sources to maintain the functions of everyone's breeding equipment and the operation of important facilities such as the 'breeding hall' and the 'botanical garden'.

"But even then, the botanical garden could not be expanded, so every time a newborn was born, the remaining tool crops had to be squeezed out and planted with food crops.

"Heh, more than two hundred years ago, in the era when the Machine Emperor protected us, the birth of every newborn in the 'Reproduction Hall' would actually hold a celebration...... After all, it represents wonder and hope in this dark world.

"But now...... But it will never be able to return to that grandeur...... Because of the limited resources, the total number of residents of Morningstar City, or the total number of energy rations, is limited!

"The birth of a newborn baby means that an old guy like me must die completely......

"Hey, it would be nice if the 'Machine Emperor' was still here!

"Although the rulers of the upper echelons always told the inhabitants of the middle and lower regions that the Emperor had prophesied that He would return in hundreds of years......

"And when he returns, the morning star will shine, and evil will be far away......

He said that when He returns, He will go out of the realm of darkness into the world of light......

"But I know it's probably a lie!

"After all, when the colonization technology was initially mature, the emperor was already too old, but there was an accident during the transformation, and an energy furnace suddenly short-circuited, causing a big explosion.

"The Emperor fell because of this...... His students and followers agreed that it was the result of an assassination by believers in the 'True Creator'......

"A big war broke out between the two sides that have long been incompatible!

"Although the Four Great Popes and the cultists of the Evil God were eventually exterminated, this caused the Morning Star to fall, not only did the Floating City enter this strange town and it was impossible to leave, but also the extremely important Mechanical Sacred Book was lost in the battle.

"This caused Morningstar City to lose the Sage's formula, and a new 'alchemist' was never born since.

"Hey, it's really old, I just flipped through the previous diary, and found that there was a lot of repetitive content...... I don't know how long I can last......

"The Great ...... Will you really come back? ”

Lazar wanted to sigh when he wrote this, but then remembered that the colonization suit on his head did not have this function, and could only consume half a point of energy to pass through compressed air, simulating this effect.

After doing this, Lazar, who had a strong sense of ritual since hundreds of years ago, stood up again, put on a completely useless "Kars grass" coat, and put on a top hat refined from "blood thorns", and then left his home, strolled to the statue of the "Machine Emperor" in front of the central tower, and prayed silently.

It's something he repeats every day.

But at this moment, Lazar's eyes suddenly became brighter, and he was stunned to turn one of his cameras 360 degrees, only to find that all the lights in the entire "Morning Star City" were lit up, illuminating this dark area as if it were day!

This sight was both familiar and unfamiliar, and Lazar felt as if he was in the Morning Star City more than two hundred years ago, when the Machine Emperor was still alive.

"It's ...... The morning star shines, and the calamity is far away?

"Emperor, are you back?"

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