Alien Dust

Chapter 359 Bio-Battery
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Open your eyes gently,

However, the body was still maintaining a certain inertia and doing repetitive things, so that when Wu Hen's soul woke up at this moment, his hands did not stop moving and were still cleaning the equipment in front of him.

Wu Hen was a little confused.

Shouldn't I be in a herb garden, with a green sky above my head, dark blue woods around me, dotted with unknown wild flowers, and the scent of grass and fruit in the air...

How come I found myself in a dim underground factory? The air was filled with dust, and a strong smell like sulfur filled my respiratory tract, making me feel suffocated as if my throat and lungs were stuck with something. The most important thing was that the whole area was unbearably hot, as if I was in an airtight steamer.

"Cough cough~"

Someone coughed loudly.

Wu Hen turned his head and saw the old man Ding Di, who was cleaning the machine next to him. Debris would occasionally be caught in the fast-rolling metal gears, and he had to use his hands to take them out. If he was not careful, he might get caught in the machine.

"Mr. Ding?" Wu Hen looked at the old man in confusion.

"Are you awake?" Ding Di looked around and confirmed that Supervisor Ting was not nearby, then he slowly walked over.

"Where we are, the dark radiation here is very strong." Wu Hen said.

Not only is the inside of this factory filled with dark radiation, but other types of pollution are also very serious.

Daxuan's technology is indeed very powerful, but they also produce a lot of cosmic waste gas, which can affect people's lifespan and harm their body functions, or even turn them into terrible evil spirits...

"Prison Town has been captured, and we are now reduced to labor slaves in Eagle City," said Ding Di.

"Eagle City?" Wu Hen was surprised.

He activated the fourth level of spiritual vision and began to scan the surroundings at a macroscopic level.

Soon, the closed factory in front of him turned into a linear outline. Wu Hen's vision expanded 360 degrees, and all objects turned into sketches, showing only their structure...

However, these simplified building structures are stacked layer by layer, making Wu Hen feel like he is in a steel forest. His vision constantly penetrates layers and forms a bird's-eye view, but the layers of the entire city are still huge and complex. The densely packed lower-level factories are like ant nests, and the foundation machinery and city engines are crisscrossed, connecting the middle-level living city area like blood vessels. The buildings in the living city area seem to have achieved advanced automation. These buildings are as flexible as circular axes. They stand densely and orderly on the rock strata of this mountain.

Underground working area, middle urban area, upper palace area.

When Wu Hen's sight passed through to the upper palace area, his spiritual vision was blocked. He didn't know whether there was some kind of restriction there or the materials used there were special, so he was unable to spy on the upper palace area.

"Is this the living city of the Daxuan Dynasty?" Wu Hen said with some surprise.

When Wu Hen saw the villages and small towns walking, hunting, and gathering resources on the land like living giants, he thought of the living cities that must be on a city scale, and they were also doing similar things.

But when Wu Hen was inside the body of this steel engine, he was still shocked by this huge city with its seamless connections and clear structures, and his heart was unable to calm down.

The huge weapons and unparalleled combat power of the prison town made Wu Hen realize that high-dimensional technology is also an extremely brilliant and domineering existence among the billions of lives in the wasteland. Now the prison town has fallen to the bottom of the food chain and was swallowed by a steel eagle city. The energy contained in this steel city is extremely huge, and it is not inferior to the high-dimensional insect black rhinoceros beetle! !

Wu Hen naturally knew that when he fought with the black rhinoceros beetle in the Shenduan Law, it was only one percent of the strength of the high-dimensional insects.

Now the Iron Eagle City is as powerful as a high-dimensional insect in its prime. This made Wu Hen suddenly understand why Ding Di kept reminding him not to be too arrogant.

"What about the others? Are they okay?" Wu Hen thought of the people in the town and village and asked hurriedly.

"Many people cannot adapt to this kind of pollution and have become seriously ill," said Ding Di.

"But even if it is annexed, according to the laws of Daxuan, everyone in the town should continue to do their original jobs, live their original lives, and provide resources to the town on time. Why would everyone be thrown into this dark radioactive factory?" Wu Hen asked puzzled.

"In this land, not all the powerful families follow the rules as strictly as the prison warden Levi. Some of the prosperous and seemingly grand cities actually do things that are no different from vampires." Ding Di sighed.

Wu Hen frowned.

Originally, he planned to cooperate with Levi to make the prison town bigger and stronger.

Little did they know that the small town is actually at the bottom of the food chain. Without the protection of the city to which it legally belongs, it will become the prey of some ambitious cities. Once captured, all of them will be deprived of their human rights and become the lowest level of labor slaves in this city, serving their local residents and those city nobles!
"How can people stay here?" Wu Hen's perception is stronger now. He knows clearly how terrible the radiation from this kind of lower-level factory is...

In fact, the environment in these underground factories is even worse than that of small town prisons.

The air quality and cleanliness of the small town prison are better than here.

It can be seen that the residents of small towns and villages now live worse than the prisoners in prisons before!

"We'll take a break for a while, and you'll be able to meet other people in the town later." Ding Di said.

"Yes." Wu Hen nodded. This Iron Eagle City is extremely strong and is a high-dimensional living thing. Ding Di also repeatedly reminded Wu Hen not to act rashly.

"They are searching for extraordinary people, Xuanzhen practitioners, and alien predators everywhere, and using them as biological batteries to provide driving energy for the entire Iron Eagle City. That's worse than being a death row prisoner. You must act with caution!" Ding Di said.

"Biobattery?" Wu Hen was unfamiliar with this term.

“They have a super technology that can convert the power released from your bodies as extraordinary people into dark energy. So when they can’t find the dark energy spring, they will let the evolved life forms generate electricity. This process is not only a physical imprisonment, but also the destruction of the soul. It is an extremely inhumane method…” Ding Di said.

Wu Hen took a deep breath. He didn't expect that Daxuan had such terrifying skills.

In other words, in the face of more powerful technology, cultivators, immortals, gods, extraordinary cosmic beings, mutants, and evolvers are all their fuel. Once captured, they become biological perpetual motion machines, continuously providing energy for the entire Hao City. Oil, solar energy, nuclear fusion, and dark energy are not as convenient as extraordinary life energy!

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Wu Hen was not impulsive, as his extreme behavior might harm the residents of the town.

Slowly after the working hour was over, Wu Hen and Ding Di walked out of the dark wastewater factory.

I thought I could go to the city on the ground and experience the prosperity of a big city.

But Wu Hen discovered that even after leaving the work area, their living area was underground, not in the prosperous urban area with sunshine.

The underground living area only has cheap lighting and cheap food. Although the food produced by some inferior technology looks clean and delicious, how could Wu Hen, a taste awakener, not know that this is infected food that can cause people to get lost...

In the public restaurant with polluted air, Wu Hen saw other residents of the town.

It had obviously not been long, but the mental state of each of them was extremely bad. It was obvious that after being assigned to such a more prosperous city, they had become the objects of oppression. They could no longer see the soft morning sun, nor could they enjoy the leisurely afternoon time. Even if they had a rest, it was only a compensation for their devastated spirit. After the compensation, they would continue to work.

"How long do we have to serve them?" asked an aunt who used to sell flowers.

"They said that as long as they win the war, the defeated people in the next town will take over our current jobs, and we will follow the trend and live in the upper city and become citizens of Iron Eagle City." said the man who turned out to be a prison guard.

"They are going to go to war with Grand Canyon City. Whether they can win depends on whether we can clean those weapons. Don't be too discouraged. Do your job well. As long as they win, our hard times will be over."

"Yes, if we can live in the city, life won't be too bad. We can enjoy a lot of conveniences and maybe get a higher-paying job. Our children will have the opportunity to become commanders. It's a great thing to gain a foothold in this big city."

Although everyone was in a very bad mental state, they still said some encouraging words to each other.

However, their tone also revealed a mentality of resignation.

After all, it is a town that mainly relies on prison business, and there is an evil spirit in the town, so their fate is basically doomed.

"Everyone, rest assured. The mayor and Miss Fan are both important people. They have been transferred to the armory. They will assist Iron Eagle City in defeating Grand Canyon City..."

"It's such a pity that our town is gone. It was such a beautiful place. I thought I could live in it forever."

The mentality of the people in the small town is still very healthy, they are just a little submissive.

But they really didn't have a better solution. This was the way the land was, with people preying on each other, plundering each other, and constantly dividing...

Hearing their conversation, Wu Hen frowned.

The concentration of dark radiation here is too high. Not only will it greatly reduce lifespan, but it is also very likely to cause people to lose their way or even turn into evil spirits.

As for the so-called, if they win the next battle, they will be promoted to city citizens...

Wu Hen didn't bring any letter at all.

For those city citizens who already enjoy favorable conditions, it is impossible for them to give up any of their interests to these outsiders.

All outsiders who enter the city pay the price of their health for the city, but often gain very little in return. In the end, they cannot settle down steadily, let alone enjoy the prosperity of the big city.

In one’s own world, housing prices are infinitely inflated.

Wu Hen had no idea what was going on in this strange living city.

But no matter what dimension of society, this pie-in-the-sky model exists.

Seeing the terrible environment and oppressive rules here, Wu Hen finally understood why, even in an era when technology has advanced to the point where the entire city is driven by dark engines, there are still small farming villages wandering around... They hide here and there, away from the strong living towns.

(End of this chapter)