Soul of Burning Steel

The smell of blood, rust, engine oil, and fermentation of out-of-band food poured into the sensor port.

Joshua activated the eye observation circuit, and the soul scanning lens was charged. With a slight buzzing and snowflake screen, the world became clear in his eyes. The soldier saw the black ceiling, the stained wall, and the corpse of the old man who fell in front of him.

He pushed aside the six sticks neatly and saw that it was a repairing robotic arm. Joshua controlled his body and walked off the workbench. The man stood on the floor of the workshop full of debris and parts. , Lost in thought.

"Puppet body."

He whispered to himself, and then scanned his whole body: red and black warning paint, humanoid torso, severely damaged outer armor, a large hole in the abdomen, you can see the internal disordered steel parts and flashing electric sparks, can It was felt that there was a strong magical response to the damaged armor.

This is a humanoid puppet slightly taller than an ordinary person, with smooth body and rounded joints, which is a bit similar to the human model in the biology class.

"Testing soul core injection is complete... The harvesting infrastructure numbered Snova-21 is seriously damaged, waiting for repair technicians to replace parts. After the repair is completed, go to the second line of defense in the eastern breeding area for defensive operations.

The faint electromagnetic signal oscillated strange soul fluctuations, and it spread from the device built into the body.

"It's fun..." Now that the puppet's so-called'soul core' was replaced with steel shards, Joshua analyzed the electromagnetic signals and soul fluctuations coming from the body, and couldn't help being a little amused: "A mechanical structure unexpectedly descended. The body of the body?"

Could it be that Siboya's world will acquiesce that his life form is the closest to this kind of steel puppet?

This is too much, I am obviously a human being.

Thinking of this, Joshua turned his head and looked at the corpse of an aging man. Not long after this man died, his soul seemed to be dissipating, but because of his existence, the fragile soul began to gradually approach the soul abyss, and finally disappeared. Among Qiao Xiuya. He skillfully accepted the soul that seemed to be about to be broken, he couldn't help sighing: "Forget it, just a robot."

There is a ready-made humanoid intelligent life male body beside him, but instinctively he chose a mechanical body, which proves that his own life form is indeed somewhat superior to humans, and is different from most carbonyl life forms. The legendary road has gradually come to this. At this point, there will be such troubles as it is now.

"But the energy level of this world... doesn't look like a small world."

Using the power conferred by the Shard of Steel, Joshua supported the broken mechanical body and came to the corpse. There is no doubt that the intelligent life of this world, tentatively called the "Sibyan" creature, has a soul... and according to Not long ago, when Joshua communicated with the old pope, he confirmed the research results that the soul is an extraordinary organ that can only appear in a world where the free energy is extremely abundant.

Moreover, there are not a lot of magic powers escaping in the surrounding air. According to the classification of the world, the world of Siberia is at least a world of demons.

There is no doubt that all news about Siboa the Steel Python is out of date.

Slowly lifted the corpse that had fallen in the pool of blood that was coagulating, and placed it on the side of the bed. Joshua observed the dead man, and at a glance noticed the large holes on the left and right of his head, and even if it was in his hands. The welding torch that did not let go. He understands that the man in front of him committed suicide, and the reason is not yet known.

"Maintenance technician in the sixth repair room. Status: Dead. The soul has dissipated. Move the body to the medical area."

And when Joshua carefully observed the corpse in front of him, a weak electromagnetic signal came, seeming to let the puppet he possessed to complete the task.

Ignoring this information, the warrior shook his head, and it was a pity... If the steel fragments descended on this body, then Joshua might be able to rely on a powerful soul to read the memory in the opponent's brain, but now, he Possess a body on a structure, then things are a little troublesome. In order to find information about his current environment, the soldier looked around the entire maintenance room. He noticed the books filled with all the bookcases, and naturally found the blood-stained diary on the workbench.

He came to the workbench and began to read the diary.

The language used to record the diary is recorded in the message transmitted by the Python of Steel. It is a small country language in the middle of the Siberian world. Although there are some vocabulary changes, everything is within an acceptable range. At the beginning, Joshua was just Reading quickly like a machine, but when he was halfway through, the hand of the mechanical construct paused for a moment. The soldier continued to read, and the speed of reading the construct became slower and slower. At the end, Joshua flipped through the last page. , Read this diary thoroughly.

"...Cultivation area, garden area...Soul puppets, humans like puppets, and soul cores."

At this moment, Qiao Xiuya already knew that he had descended, a harvesting soul puppet used to suppress the ‘breeding area’, and the corpse in front of him was the mechanic who repaired the puppet. The soldier frowned and stared at the body of the unknown mechanic. After awakening, this unconscious man waited alone for twenty years as a slave, but even so, he still had hope in his heart. He knew that he was destined to die, but he chose the day he died, and would never let others fake his own destiny.

"warrior."

Reaching out and closing the opponent's unclosed eyes, Joshua placed the diary on the opponent's chest, and then began to summarize the information currently known.

According to the diary, it can be roughly known that he is currently located in an area called the ‘garden area’, and this area is surrounded by a vast ‘breeding area’. In the garden area, there are the best maintenance technicians and doctors, as well as the most elite soul puppets, and all their tasks are to complete their work and take care of the group of "children".

The age of the ‘child’ varies from small to large. The youngest is just born, the eldest is close to sixteen years old, and over sixteen years old, they will be taken away by the soul puppet and sent to the medical area. These children are sent from the breeding area from all directions. The number is small, but there are not many. It should be that not all the young children will be sent to the garden area for training.

It's like an unnamed technician. His work log was in the breeding area at the beginning, and later he entered the garden area because of the improvement in technology.

The garden area is not about production, it is an enshrined existence, and what enshrines it is a vast breeding area. The breeding areas are huge farmlands and pastures, where countless people work and produce huge amounts of grain and meat. Among them, some of the plants are used to enshrine the garden area, while the other part is sent to the distant place.

Speaking of this, Joshua couldn't help thinking of the scene he saw when he was still in the midair of the Siberian continent: The deserted continent was full of sandstone and yellow-green plains, only dots of green dots. Now that I think about it, those green areas may be breeding areas. The green arable land that can be clearly seen from such a high altitude should be enough to feed millions of people.

"Puppetize intelligent life, cultivate souls, separate'super power units'...the rebels who can manipulate magic power, the giant tower in the center of the world...how did this world spend more than a thousand years?"

Whether it is the unknown mechanic or the steel python Siboya, they know very little about the world. Through the damaged puppets sent from time to time by the unknown mechanic, it is speculated that there is a group of rebels outside the breeding area. The mission of the signalling confirmed this, and apart from that, he knew nothing about the world.

But it didn't matter, the warrior eased the joints of his current body. He has the opportunity to observe the world.

Qiao Xiuya is not an unknown mechanic. He doesn’t even have the power to walk out of the pit corridor. The other party has to wait for twenty years. He can only sneak out and observe when the puppet changes shifts. He can walk freely wherever he wants according to his own mind. Places to go.

The goal of the warrior is to find the reason why the will of the world was kicked out. According to Joshua’s intuition, this matter is definitely related to the spiral tower in the center of the world... Even if it doesn’t matter, it is also the most important landmark in the world. It was very important. Most of the food in the breeding area was transported away. He suspected that it was the direction to the giant tower.

Controlling the mechanical body, came to the bookcase. Qiao Xiuya didn't have the slightest discomfort, and even felt very relaxed... Compared to his body, this body was too light, which made the warrior who had been accustomed to the weight of ten million tons feel a kind of floating. With this strange illusion, Joshua pulled out a book from the bookcase, and he rubbed the cover and flipped through the contents.

The records in the book are all about the knowledge of soul puppets. If a certain alchemist came here and read the books in it, you would probably exclaim in excitement, because this is a puppet in the world of Mycroft. It takes a completely different path. It takes another path from the perspective of the soul, creating a highly autonomous and highly intelligent construct. The biggest point of this technology is the soul core.

"Because too many resources are needed to make artificial souls, so we can directly use the souls of living people to transform..."

Just by looking at it roughly, Joshua can understand the true face of the so-called soul core: it is the living souls that have been transformed into mechanical procedures by some special means! The soul is born with powerful computing power, which can replace the brain of a creature, and with a little modification, it can easily be the control center of the puppet!

With Joshua’s mind, he should not be affected by this kind of thing. He has seen countless cultists’ priestly rituals, watched crazy collective suicides, mutual food feasts, he has been to **** and the abyss, he has personally tortured and killed demons, and extracted It is not surprising that even certain evil spirit wizards often do this kind of thing to transform the soul of living people.

But those were all made by chaotic evil **** followers, evil evil spirit wizards, chaotic abyss demons...Those beings did these things only on a whim, but this world has planned and perfected them to form an industrial chain. From the beginning of screening, enshrinement, cultivation, and harvesting, everything is too perfect and logical...This has constituted a society whose main purpose is to harvest souls.

In other words-this is an order.

Qiao Xiuya closed the book, not because he didn't want to read it any more, but because the wound in his abdomen was bursting with electric currents, and voices reminding him of the error continued to be heard.

"Before exploring the world, repair your own carrier. Without sufficient force, everything is empty talk."

The warrior sank his spirit into the shards of steel, began to mobilize the power in it, and scanned his current body thoroughly.

The body is made of a unique inert metal alloy, which has strong corrosion resistance and flexibility. Relatively, the melting point of this alloy can only be said to be good, and the strength is also above the middle. The overall design of the soul puppet is perfect and its performance is excellent. It can be used as a design reference when it is brought back to Mycroft. But now its abdomen is pierced by some kind of magical attack, causing most of its functions to be damaged. It was Joshua who forced it with her own power. Support can act.

"It's very troublesome and needs to be repaired carefully." Joshua adjusted the power. Although his body was not there, the soul could also control part of the steel power. With Siboya's steel shards, the metal that formed the workbench was suddenly distorted. , As if it had come alive, turned into a ball of big metal basketball balls, rolling in front of the soldier's body.

"If I don't come and the puppet is not repaired, the soul energy leak will create an explosion, at least it can destroy everything in this repair room...I don't know if it was prepared by the unknown mechanic himself, or it was an accident. "

After all, Qiao Xiu is a strong man who has mastered the power of steel creation, and repairing a structure is extremely easy for him.

Through the control of the soul, he makes the metal that meets the requirements in the surrounding space spontaneously gather in front of him, and then directly extracts the substance from the large metal **** of the basketball to shape the parts. With the power of steel running, Joshua even began to absorb these metals and began to fuse them into a new and stronger alloy for repairing and strengthening the body.

It can be seen that with the metal **** turning into parts and blending into the body, the soul puppets that were originally only a little bit taller than ordinary people began to grow bigger and taller and burly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The smoothly constructed body began to be covered with a layer of sturdy and heavy armor. The round body joints were added with sharp and brutal ram angles. The round head resembling a human head began to alienate, deform, and finally became like a helmet. With a general steel structure, a red prismatic chip slashed across the center of the helmet. It was a new observation port with red light shining inside.

Not long after, Qiao Xiuya, who had completed the strengthening, was already over two meters tall, and his weight nearly doubled. As for the original wound, it had been repaired a long time ago, and Joshua even completely remodeled the puppet's internal structure and energy engine so that he could use his power better.

At this point, the original soul puppet has completely turned into a hideous, burly, black-red giant structure that seems to be escaping coercion. His elbows are raised and horns, and his arms are shining sharply. According to the habit of a certain soldier, his body has completely become a killing machine for combat, which is very different from the original puppet. ①

It didn't take a few minutes to complete this series of modifications. Joshua sensed the vigorous energy from the shards of steel running through his body, and this puppet body was already able to exert a good combat effectiveness.

"It's time to take a look outside."

After making all preparations, Joshua shook his hand, and the strength that was enough to easily break the steel and iron pillars gathered in layers. He felt that his current body should have a golden level of combat power, and it should be sufficient to deal with most of the troubles in this world.

Before walking to the door of the maintenance room, before opening the door, Joshua turned his head and glanced at the unknown mechanic who was placed on the bed by him. Then, Joshua turned around, opened the door, and walked out.

The pure white light shone into the dark working room, and the pure air blew away the smell of blood and rust. Joshua came to the corridor, and the door behind him slowly closed behind him. The soldier looked up, observing the small world that had trapped the mechanic for twenty years.

This is an extremely white tiled corridor. The left side is a dead end, and the right side leads to the exit. The ceiling of the corridor is bright incandescent lamps. There are a total of eight doors on both sides of the corridor, and he is located near the sixth door outside. .

At the exit on the right side of the corridor, there were four puppets holding weapons in the shape of welding guns, probably the ‘furnace ray generator’ in the mechanic’s mouth. They seemed to have noticed something. They all turned their heads and looked in the direction of Joshua. Joshua sensed a wave of soul fluctuations being released by these puppets, and scanned his whole body. Soon after, the two puppets began to move towards Joshua. They held the ray generator and came to the warrior with a kind of emotionlessness. 'S mechanical tone said: "No. Snova-21, you have not completed the repair, immediately return to the sixth dimension..."

Click.

Silently, two huge hands were raised, and then pressed on top of the two soul puppets. The heavy palms were clenched carelessly, and the sharp noise of steel rubbing against steel immediately sounded... and then the metal snapped crisply. The sound of'click', and the sharp distortion of steel deformation.

The soul puppets struggled hard, waving their hands and feet and hitting the opponent's arm, but after a few seconds they dropped their hands and stopped moving, causing the furnace ray generator to fall to the ground.

Pressing the enemy’s observation port with a palm, Joshua, whose energy destroys the core of the soul, threw the two soul puppets that had been turned into **** on the ground. He picked up the furnace ray generator from the ground, and the other two soul puppets in the distance. When he found the abnormality, he turned around.

"No. Snova-21, you are attacking the corridor guard in the maintenance room in the garden area. No. Tbeta-34, No. Tbeta-35 has been destroyed. Confirm that the soul core program of No. Snova-21 is out of order, and apply for destruction permission."

"The authority is granted, the destruction operation begins, and the offensive begins."

Soul puppets only need a short moment to transmit authority. No matter how complicated the information is, it is many times faster than human beings. At the moment when the attack is confirmed, they have already raised the ray generator and lens port in their hands. It started to turn red and hot rapidly.

However, a black shadow straddled the space, galloping past at a speed that was difficult for machines to react, and then slammed into the soul puppet on the left.

Boom!

The huge impact force destroyed the puppet’s chest armor, and even floated it in mid-air. At the same time, a large amount of energy in the soul core of the puppet’s chest overflowed, and the electromagnetic flicker caused a violent explosion in mid-air. Produced-The silver-blue strong energy flow mixed with high thermal shock waves echoed in the small corridor, producing a roar that surpassed the thunder.

At this moment, the real body of the black shadow can be seen: it is a distorted ray generator. The holder did not choose to use it, but threw it out as a ‘weapon’.

Even the soul puppet can’t aim in this situation. The only soul puppet left hastily adjusted its observation window and balancer during the explosion, but it hasn’t waited for it to roll over according to the combat procedure and proceed to the first. In the second round of attack, a tall and burly figure appeared in front of it.

The black-red painted mechanical structure raised his hand and shook off the shock wave brought by the explosion. Qiao Xiuya turned sideways slightly, avoiding a golden-red furnace ray. The ray fell on the ceiling of the corridor and melted out. In a hole, gold-red liquid flows on the edge of the hole, dripping lava and molten steel.

Qiao Xiuya was unmoved. He stretched out his left hand and grabbed the soul puppet's right hand, and then crushed the ray generator in the opponent's hand. The next moment, the warrior raised his right hand, and the soul puppet's head was removed from his body. Unplug it, electric sparks and silver-blue soul energy flickered at the wound on the neck.

Qiao Xiu grabbed the headless shoulder of the puppet with one hand, and then removed the opponent's limbs during the opponent's resistance, moving smoothly and neatly, as if he had disassembled it countless times.

Through self-improvement, the warrior has long been familiar with the structure of the soul puppet.

Placed the puppet, who was unable to move on, on the ground, Joshua squatted halfway. He stretched out an index finger. The finger shaped by black metal changed like a liquid and turned into a sharp silver blade. He swept the puppet with the blade. In the chest armor, he saw a soul core flashing with silver-blue light.

It is a silver-blue flame placed in a hexagonal translucent prism. It seems to be burning and beating like a heart. The soul core uses the energy extraction device of the soul puppet to circulate the collected energy to the whole body. At the same time, it is also the control center of the entire puppet. Qiao Xiu reached out his hand~www.novelmtl.com~ He took out this soul core and observed it carefully for a while.

"Beautiful, perfect, this method of transformation and control is simply art...not to mention the procedures that are engraved in the soul."

He exclaimed softly, then shook his head, crushing the hexagonal prism. The silver-blue soul fire floated out from it, and then slowly dissipated in the air. Qiao Xiu stood up and walked towards the end of the corridor that had trapped the unknown artisan for twenty years. The front was the light and the front was the garden.

He went out.

With his back facing the exit of the corridor full of explosion marks, and his feet on the white tiled avenue, Joshua raised his head, the red observation port flashed light, he scanned everything around him, and the soldier who had seen all the big scenes thought he was not. Will be affected by anything.

But he was wrong.

There was an unstable light flashing in the observation mouth of the burly structure, which meant that his mood was fluctuating.

What enters the eye is incredible.