Chapter 143: The Secret of the Iron Man (2)
As the ceasefire signal of the Bearers arrived, Elaine, who was piloting the Rand raiders, immediately broke through the impermeable fire network and began to rush straight towards the only entrance to the tower with a tidal wave of iron men.
As they passed through the thick smoke of gunpowder, they entered the interior of the mechanical tower—and the iron men were mercilessly crushed by the RAND raiders like unarmed civilians, and the iron men were crushed into pieces by their thick and wide tracks, and the sturdy body materials and body structure made it impossible for them to stop the RAND raiders.
But even so, the Iron People still rushed forward like living corpses that did not know whether they were alive or dead, and they were constantly crushed by the Iron Riders like wheat.
Gradually, the roaring engine began to fade away, symbolizing Elaine's group gradually sinking deeper into it. At the same time, the external network of fire has returned to its previous level.
As for the scene inside the mechanical tower... It probably fits Elaine's conjecture perfectly.
Although most of the view inside the tower was blocked by the Iron Man's strength, and only a few iconic buildings could be seen, Elaine was able to analyze the general situation inside the massive structure through the many energy readings transmitted by the ornith.
There was no doubt that this was the building she had seen in the subspace that day, and the medieval terrain of the ruined castle inside and the mechanical corpses that were constantly rising slowly all over the mountains all corresponded to what she saw at the time.
As the Rand raiders ran over the mountains of Iron Man corpses, their worn tracks finally touched the ground, the wind-blown terrain often seen in Colchis, or rather, the desert where the tower had been located.
"Wait... It turns out that the building has no foundation at all? ”
"Or... We're in another dimension? Is this the inside of this giant tower? ”
Looking out the porthole at the endless desert in front of him, Karn said with some confusion.
The scene in front of them did not match any elements of the [Inside of the Giant Tower] at all, and it was not so much that they had entered the interior of this building, but rather that they had plunged headlong into subspace.
You know, any huge building needs to have a solid enough foundation to be able to stand, if it is replaced with a similar nest in volume, then I am afraid that the entire plate will be transformed into a foundation that can carry the huge nest capital, and the original landform? Not a single stone or grain of sand will be left in the original landform.
Clearly, the sight was beyond Karn's imagination.
“… No. ”
Elaine shook her head slowly at Karn's doubts, her gaze extremely solemn.
Most of my guesses are correct...
But it's almost the worst outcome.
"This is the interior of this building..."
"No, it's better to say-"
"The inside of the projection of that thing."
As she spoke, her gaze fell on the end of the horizon.
It was a broken, broken, even weird mechanical tower.
It was no doubt the same mechanical tower she had seen in the past, but the huge eyeball on it was long gone, leaving only a hollow trace.
At this moment, Elaine finally knew why the external Tower of Babel always gave her a sense of déjà vu, and there was no doubt that the shape and outline of the external tower were all the products of the mechanical tower in front of her.
It's not so much a copy as a projection.
It is only the projection that can match the results they have observed, and explain why all the weapons of the Human Empire do not work against them.
There is no doubt that the giant tower outside has been a projection from beginning to end - no attack from the real universe can act on it, symbolizing that its existence has far exceeded the dimensional that humans can understand.
Elaine also vaguely remembered the information about the [Iron Man Rebellion].
In that ancient, dark, and crazy era, the attacks of iron men and humans were both acting on the real universe and the subspace dimension at the same time.
The reason for this may be to destroy each other as completely as possible, or it may be to interrupt each other's thoughts of fleeing the battlefield, but when Elaine sees this scene, a simple, yet creepy thought seems to come to mind.
If... Just because you can't attack in the subspace and the real universe at the same time, any attack won't be effective?
This also means that if you want to fight these civilizations with countless ancient technologies, it is pointless to completely destroy them at the planetary level.
In the age of dark technology, it is always so shocking.
And this is enough to show how terrible the Iron Man Rebellion that took place in the Age of Dark Technology was, just a glimpse of that dilapidated era is enough to make the current human empire feel helpless about it.
Moreover, from this strange technology that projects on the real universe and subspace almost at the same time, it can also be seen that the strife in the era of dark technology has spread to an unimaginable level.
However, there were some things that she didn't expect.
First of all, this mechanical tower is definitely not a subspace creation.
On the contrary, Elaine even thought that it could even isolate the influence of subspace - the moment she entered the building, it was obvious that the strength of her psychic connection with her children had been weakened a lot, not so much as entering a building, but like entering the body of an untouchable person.
Wait a minute... Untouchables...?
Thinking of this, Elaine frowned.
It stands to reason that the iron man created by the stone man should have no soul at all, or even a completely isolated existence in the subspace, but the core of the iron man intelligence machine he saw earlier was polluted by the subspace, and even ascended to become a Tzeentch demon.
It's weird.
Since iron men don't have souls at all, they don't have any projections in subspace at all, and naturally they can't be corrupted and degraded - you know, even the [machine soul] that the mechanical priests often mention is also a projection of the soul of a steel creature in subspace to some extent.
It can be said that, with the exception of some extremely rare untouchables, everything in the real universe is fundamentally connected to subspace.
However, the Iron Man created by the Stone Man is among the rare races that are [isolated from subspace].
So, what is the iron man I saw earlier...?
While Elaine was still pondering, a sudden change of events interrupted her thoughts.
An iron man who used his body to stop the advance of the Rand attackers.
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To be honest, at the end of the paragraph, I suddenly thought of the part where FGO2.2 Sigo's first appearance overturned the Chaldetic cart, and the RAND Raider happened to be an iron box (
(End of chapter)