Chapter 43: Three Commissioners
Morning Star City, in the seventh-floor office of the Central Tower.
"Alchemist" Annick Sprint picked up a cup of hot water soaked in the rhizomes of an unknown plant, and while savoring the unique bitterness and sweetness, he painted something on a piece of paper.
As one of the current supreme members of the Floating City Council, Annick did not undergo a complete mechanical modification, but retained his nose, mouth, esophagus, and corresponding digestive and excretory organs, so he could enjoy the beautiful experience of food.
Of course, the corresponding food also needs to spend energy points to exchange.
However, the reason why he kept these organs was not entirely for the sake of his tongue, but because he was in charge of a "Grade 1" seal in "Morning Star City", "Golon's Stomach Pouch".
- Goron was one of the four rebellious Church Patriarchs of the True Creator, and the only demigod, who was eventually killed by the council members of Morningstar City. But even with many enemies, the Supreme Council paid the price of the fall of the two 'alchemists' to kill them completely...... Later, after the processing of the masters, it was made into this item with relatively small negative effects, but it was a little troublesome to seal.
Not to mention other harsh conditions, it is only said that it must have a real flesh and blood stomach in order to properly "seal", and requires blood food to be fed every once in a while, which is not very friendly to most people who have completed the mechanical transformation of "Morning Star City".
Therefore, at that time, Annick did not have to think about longevity and aging until later, so he retained his eating, digestion, and excretory systems.
As a student of the "Emperor of Machines", he is obliged to make sacrifices.
The only thing to be thankful for is that although the sealing conditions of this seal are very troublesome, its ability also slows down the aging rate of Annick's unmodified parts, so although more than two hundred years have passed, the function of his flesh and blood organs has not been too problematic.
And he also made a significant contribution to the food luxury industry in Morning Star City, along with another member of the Supreme Council, Ms. Eleanor, who had barely been mechanically modified.
It can be said that the two of them alone can feed at least nearly 500 residents in this industrial chain.
-- In order to stimulate domestic demand, revitalize the economy under such limited material conditions, and prevent the inhabitants of the city from becoming numb and degenerate, lest they pray to the evil gods again...... The people of the Supreme Council are also painstaking! Fortunately, when the "Machine Emperor" was alive, he gave his student Annick a rudimentary knowledge of economics and sociology.
The reason why Eleanor was able to survive for more than two hundred years without being completely "mechanically transformed" as an "alchemist" was because she overused another "Honey's Nest", a Tier 1 seal, in the battle with Goron, and finally had to merge with it.
"Honey's Nest" is an item created by the characteristics of "Ancient Alchemist" in Sequence 4 of the "Cultivator", and its original role does not need to be mentioned, but after being integrated with Ms. Eleanor, it can increase crop harvest to a certain extent, and breed and hybridize species with specific functions, produce a kind of honey that can be used as an energy source, and consume honey when it is necessary to fight, so that Eleanor can quickly give birth to a clone that has 10% to 50% of her strength and is controlled by her.
As long as the "honey" accumulates enough, there is theoretically no upper limit to the number of doppelgangers that Ms. Eleanor can have.
Corresponding to these powerful effects, Eleanor became a "plant" after the war, confined to the "breeding hall" and the botanical garden, and suffered from "childbirth" from time to time......
Yes, because after entering the eerie afternoon town, even those who have not undergone any transformation can no longer successfully conceive children...... Therefore, for more than two hundred years, all the newborns that came out of the "breeding hall" were in fact conceived by Ms. Eleanor.
To get back to the point, just as the "alchemist" Annick Sprint moved the charcoal pen in his hand to a certain position and was about to draw it, his inspiration was suddenly touched, and then he sensed through his own detection plug-in that the "Sun God Furnace", one of the four major systems of "Morning Star City", began to run at full power for unknown reasons, filling up the three energy bins in just a few seconds, but there was still no sign of abating.
Annick originally knew the "Helios Furnace" very well, but he hadn't paid attention to it for more than two hundred years, and he couldn't find a way to deal with it for a while.
Seeing that the spare energy bin was about to be filled, Annick gritted his teeth and used the emergency authorization to start all the energy-intensive projects in "Morning Star City".
This includes the lights of all areas of the city......
For a time, the "Morning Star City" was as bright as day.
Half a minute later, two figures broke into the office on the seventh floor, one of them covered in black metal, with four pushers behind it, and six pairs of arms on either side like insects.
Its metal surface is polished to reflect the light, reflecting the figure of a person, like a multi-functional mecha in the science fiction world.
The other is a little girl who looks to be only three or four years old, with thin, transparent wings like a bee on her back...... She was apparently a doppelganger of Lady Eleanor.
"What's going on?" The black mecha man asked in a stiff electronic voice.
"I didn't know ...... 'Helios Furnace' suddenly resumed operation, and there was a serious surplus of energy, so I had to activate emergency clearance and start all the energy-intensive projects in the city." A red light flashed back and forth in Annick's slender eyes, reflecting the unrest in his heart.
"How could the Helios Furnace suddenly work?" After the black mecha man finished speaking, he quickly controlled part of his own assembly into the room where the "Sun God Furnace" was placed, and after a little overhaul, he found nothing, and his electronic voice also revealed a trace of confusion, and said, "There is no problem...... It's just that all of a sudden there's a source of energy......"
At this time, Eleanor, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "When He returns, the morning star will shine, and the calamity will be far away from ......."
Hearing this, Annick's slender "eyes" lit up even more, and he immediately operated the console in front of him, and then the image of the connection between "Morning Star City" and the middle steps of the town in the afternoon was projected onto the wall of the office.
The three of them stared intently, until a minute later, the picture did not change in the slightest, the black mecha spewed out some gas, and the electronic voice sounded again: "Although this 'prophecy' was said by the Emperor himself...... But it should only be used to comfort ......"
Before he finished his words, he suddenly stopped, because in the projected picture, a young man holding the "gear book" was gently crossing the steps of the afternoon town and entering the "Morning Star City" in just one step......
He completely ignored the "Night Barrier" that the Floating City relied on the most!
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