Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Machine City

Mechanical City.

This mechanical city, which has rapidly completed industrialization, modernization and intelligent transformation from a third-tier city in the past ten or twenty years, has quietly ushered in a series of unknown changes with the surging situation in the past few days.

A monstrous rebellion has quietly spread according to the established plan, and a looming invasion has completed its final preparations and is gradually approaching, and no one can find a plot still brewing and preparing in the shadows, waiting for the day when the plot will take root and reap the fruits, while some people have infiltrated the city without knowing it

However, the city is still as it used to be on the surface, because of over-industrialization and environmental pollution, the yellow-brown smog always visits here when the atmospheric flow has calmed down, turning the mechanical urbanization into a veritable fog city shrouded in a dense smog that looms and is difficult to see.

Even though Dr. Hyde and his expert advisory group have adjusted the urban planning several times over the years, reformulated the specifications and requirements for the division and layout of industrial areas, and various emission indicators, and invested a lot of energy and funds to control the problem of environmental pollution, due to the rapid development of industry and the current environmental protection technology restrictions, these have achieved little in environmental pollution control, which can only slow down the speed of environmental pollution, but cannot eradicate pollution, and has always been in a state of inability to catch up with the destruction.

Fortunately, the vast majority of residents living here no longer worry about the smog affecting their health, and most of the people who live in the city are highly remodeled people, either who have undergone full-body mechanical prosthetics, have undergone genetic surgery to make their lungs and nose autonomously able to remove fine particulate matter from the air, or have undergone biomodification surgery and implanted themselves with several lungs to filter the polluted air.

Although it has always been difficult to achieve results in environmental pollution control, whether it is genetic modification technology, mechanical transformation technology, or biological modification technology, it is still very easy to solve the damage of smog to the human body with existing technology, not only very easy, but also very cheap for the people.

But the two outsiders who sneaked in didn't like it very much.

On the roof of a certain building, Wu Ming, who avoided the monitoring probe and hid in the blind spot, let out a series of violent coughs, and it took a while to calm down from the cough: Is this still where people live? Half of the sand is in the breath, and the air pollution is estimated to be much worse than in London back then.

Of course, with Wu Ming's current physique, he will naturally not be afraid of the health hazards caused by air pollution, but as a living being, in an environment where he can still spit out half a mouthful of sand when he takes a breath, this is not a comfortable thing.

However, Zhao Xida, who didn't need to breathe at all, didn't have this problem at all, and the puppet girl glanced at him lightly, and reminded unhurriedly: Administrator, we have entered the mechanical city, and it is recommended to move to Dr. Hyde's location as soon as possible, contact the target as soon as possible, and then return to the settlement immediately. It's been nearly a week since we left Elizabeth, and from what I've observed, any deterrent effect applied to her will quickly decay over time

It seems that compared to the pressure of contact with Dr. Hyde, who has no position and unknown purpose, it is the Elizabeth in the back who makes the doll girl feel more disturbed.

After the environmental purification module was turned on, and the fine particles floating in the air were removed under the action of the module and restored to the most suitable air for the user to breathe, Wu Ming recovered from the choking haze: "Ann La, according to the information given by Leona, Dr. Hyde lives in the tallest mechanical tower in the city, and I have already sent a stealth spy to investigate, or it won't be long before we can enter the Tower of Babel."

Compared to the last time they infiltrated City 11, the mechanical city was larger and full of high-rise buildings, but it was not difficult to find Dr. Hyde's residence, because even if they were just looking out of the city, Wu Ming and Zhao Xida could faintly see the towering mechanical tower through the yellow-brown haze. In terms of order, it is as strict as City 11, and everything in the city is a small cog in a huge precision machine, running according to a predetermined trajectory. Everyone goes through the networked system whenever they have free time

Hiding in the virtual world, handing over the real-world body to Sibylla, or his own anthropomorphic butler for a short period of time, is almost identical to City 11 except for the size of the bust that is so large that anyone who meets it for the first time is enough to gasp, and the haze that can suck out half a mouthful of sand after a gasp.

There is also a lack of vitality, and there is also a lack of vitality.

After learning the lessons of the failure of the last infiltration, Wu Ming was also much more cautious this time, he was not ready to choose to blend into the city like last time, and blend in from the main entrance, but was ready to let the stealth agent go to investigate first, wait for the advance to step on the point, and finally find a blind spot that the monitoring probe could not shoot and directly teleport in to interview Dr. Hyde.

Wu Ming also thought of a way out in advance, as long as he found that something was wrong, or if Dr. Hyde had already reached a cooperation with the unknown force and had set a trap waiting for them to step on, then the stealth detectors that had been released early and were now all over the world would immediately become navigation beacons, and they could evacuate from the Longtan tiger's den at any time.

At this time, the roaring noise of the drone flying was heard again in the distance.

The manager didn't know when, Zhao Xida quietly stretched out more than a dozen transparent silk threads in her hand, and she stood on the rooftop facing the direction of the mechanical tower: the drone was detected, and the target was us.

Wu Ming squinted his eyes, and through the information transmitted back by the stealth detection plane, he also saw that more drones were flying towards them in an encirclement situation, and there were even many silent drones that were painted with a camouflage color close to haze, although I don't know how we were discovered, but let's clean it up as soon as possible! Immediately after the settlement of the vanguard, we do not consume energy here

Command received, start fighting.

The Tower of Babel, located in the underground space that has almost hollowed out half of the city and is almost hundreds of meters deep, has a mechanical structure with a scale beyond ordinary people's imagination, this electromechanical structure is like some kind of magnificent and magnificent wonder in ancient times, and the silver-white metal joints flash from time to time.

Hundreds of small robots work around the clock to maintain this huge machine, and every moment you can see busy little machines with small tail flames, constantly devouring the surrounding soil and rock formations, like industrious bees up and down to maintain, repair, and expand the scale of this machine.

This is the brain of the super-artificial intelligence Sibylla and the place where she was born.

It's good to finally catch your tail

The excruciating pain of the reshaping of his body once again tore apart Jekyll's spirit.

How many times have you died? How many times did they die together in order not to be captured by drones?

During this time, he basically lived a life of resurrection from the secret research rooms hidden in various places, taking out the weapons stored in the arsenal near the research room to arrange battlefields and traps, actively contacting and fighting with the drone group, and quickly committing suicide and self-destructing after making a fuss, and then resurrecting in the new research room, continuing to start a new round of life.

In the first few encounters with the drones, Jekyll had already determined the other party's intention to capture him alive, and he was also well aware of the reasons why Sibylla behind the drone swarm, as well as Dr. Hyde's reluctance to give up on capturing him and instead attack the Tiehua group.

Hostages are of value only when they are alive, and the partners of the Tiehua Regiment, as well as the residents living in the settlement, are not only the pillars of his childish ideals, but also his bonds, his restraints, and his bottom line. And Hyde just calculated that as long as these people are alive, Jekyll will never be able to abandon the bottom line and work hard regardless of the cost and consequences.

Just as he didn't want his fellow Ironclad and the inhabitants of the colony to be killed, Dr. Hyde didn't want to see his business threatened by a mad and dangerous lone wolf, a madman who could be resurrected without knowing where to come out of nowhere to wreak havoc was much harder to do than a leader with a team who was constantly constrained by the loss of the team, so the two sides had been deterring each other ever since the threat was issued.

Jekyll must take the initiative to jump out to attract the attention of the drone swarm

, and even block the group of drones that find the place to enter, and have to ensure that they are not captured by the drones, so as to delay the Tiehua Regiment to delay enough time to retreat, and Dr. Hyde and Sibylla must always maintain this oppressive posture, and constantly make actions to approach the coordinates where the Tiehua Regiment is located, in order to transform all the staff as a threat, and prevent Jekyll from finding an unknown corner to hide in order to delay time.

The orange nutrient solution in the container was drained as Jekyll's body was built, and after Jekyll was dressed in the research room and set the self-destruction program, he left the research room and prepared to head to the arsenal down the hallway.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dull explosion like thunder suddenly came from the outer layer of the building, and the corridor shook violently in the dull explosion, and Jekyll, who had just rebuilt his body and was still a little out of strength, fell directly to the ground under the violent shaking, and then there were terrifying cracks in the ceiling one after another, and a large amount of sand, dust, and gravel continued to fall from the air.

After the attack on the outside, a sharp and piercing alarm sounded in the corridor, and the red alarm light immediately dyed the entire passage red.

Alert! Alert! The base is under attack! An unknown number of drone swarms have been detected!

The weapons depot in the eastern sector has been breached, the weapons depot has been attacked and detonated, and a large number of drones have been detected invading!

The scale of the drone invasion is unstoppable, and this base will immediately self-destruct according to the protocol! Please transfer as soon as possible!

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