Witch Special

Facing the control panel that was now intact, Lin Zhenxi was once again in a dilemma. She didn't know how to use this thing...

Although the control panel lit up for a moment after it was repaired, the light on the control panel dimmed after a short while, probably because the panel status did not match the operating status of the energy furnace. Only a round crystal in the corner lit up red.

Then... it should be reporting an error, right?

Lin Zhenxi didn't have the manual the intruders had, so she naturally didn't know how to operate the control panel to restart the energy furnace. However, it shouldn't be a big problem. She didn't know, but someone else did.

A spatial door opened, revealing a red, dimly lit space. In the air above this space, a human figure seemed to be suspended upside down in mid-air.

That was the Silent City's supercomputer Ji, the Silent City's chief steward, and the "Hanged Man" Buffon, one of the few remaining Tarot card cadres in the Silent City.

Buffon is a mechanical lifeform that Lin Zhenxi covets. Not only is his computing power far superior to that of the Heart of the Rising Sun, but his understanding of commands is also far superior to that of the Heart of the Rising Sun, which Lin Zhenxi has to input manually. Since arriving in Silent City, Lin Zhenxi has been trying to abduct Buffon, but Buffon's loyalty to Luke is undeniable. No matter how Lin Zhenxi tries to get close to him, Buffon remains unmoved.

But thanks to Lin Zhenxi's frequent visits, at least her relationship with Buffon is still quite close. Buffon also participated in the drawing of Lin Zhenxi's magic power aggregation magic circle and made great efforts in this process.

In short, Lin Zhenxi was incredibly familiar with Buffon's Sanctuary of Sprawl, so familiar that she could easily open a spatial portal directly in front of him. This was a sign of Buffon's approval; otherwise, Buffon's domain wouldn't allow an outsider to so easily teleport. She was the central processor of Silent City. If someone paralyzed her first, Silent City's powerful defense system and vast robot army would be left without a commander.

Although destroying the energy furnace can also achieve a similar effect, it is much easier than breaking through the Sanctuary of Birth and the Sanctuary of Annihilation to reach the Sanctuary of Spread.

In fact, it was not easy, mainly because the guardian of the energy furnace at that time ran away, otherwise it would have been able to hold off for a while, enough for Buffon to react and command the mechanical army to come and help.

Furthermore, when Lin Zhenxi set up the magic traps in front of the energy furnace, she hadn't considered the possibility of two waves of enemies approaching one after the other. Her magic traps were generally single-use, becoming ineffective after being activated and requiring recharging. This was why, after Lin Zhenxi chased Xilan and Alice, the energy furnace was left defenseless.

Obviously, Lin Zhenxi is responsible for this matter, and it is a great responsibility.

So she is now trying her best to make up for it, snatching back the ring that absorbed Luke's apostle's breath from the sword master named Barn. She is trying her best to mitigate her mistake.

After Lin Zhenxi walked out of the space door, she stood in front of Buffon, but Buffon seemed not to see Lin Zhenxi and remained silent. For a moment, the hall where Buffon was was unusually quiet, as if the drop of a needle would make a loud noise.

Lin Zhenxi was the first one who couldn't hold it in anymore. She didn't know whether Buffon was angry with her or his attention was focused on something else, but what she brought was definitely the good news that Buffon wanted to hear. In that case, why not announce the good news quickly?

"Um, Buffon, waaaaaaa, zaima?"

Lin Zhenxi made a sound, and Buffon's motionless body finally began to move. As the tubes restraining Buffon lowered, his body also lowered, bringing his masked face level with Lin Zhenxi.

"Lin Zhenxi, tell me why you are here." Buffon's electronic voice came from the speaker above his head, and he asked directly to the point.

This was Buffon's usual style. As a mechanical lifeform with a clear sense of self, she lacked the emotions of a human. Her existence seemed to be solely about serving Apostle Luke. Beyond that, any social interactions, any hypocrisy, or intrigue seemed to have nothing to do with her. Given Buffon's status, she didn't need to flatter others; she simply needed to do her job well, and she would be respected.

Lin Zhenxi twirled her hair with her fingers shyly, then said, "Uh, well, bad guys have come to our Silent City. They shut down the energy furnace, and after shutting down the energy furnace, they also destroyed the control panel of the energy furnace, making it impossible to restart the energy furnace. I just repaired the control panel, but I don't know how to use it. Can you teach me how to restart the energy furnace?"

Buffon was silent for a moment, and then a girl in a white dress with a rather stiff expression but beautiful ice-blue hair walked out from behind Buffon's massive mechanical base and said to Lin Zhenxi, "Come on, I'll go with you."

This girl had extremely delicate facial features, and although her temperament was a bit cold, she still gave people a bright feeling. However, completely different from her temperament, she had a very stubborn tuft of alopecia on her head, pointing straight up to the ceiling, looking like a very soft antenna.

Moreover, her eyes are different from human eyes. Although they also have whites of the eyes and irises, and are even sky blue and quite beautiful, in the center of these eyes there is not a pupil, but a small round glass. If you look inside at the two small pieces of glass, you will find that they are actually two exquisite cameras.

Well, this blue-haired girl in a white dress is Buffon's stand-in. In some occasions where she needs to attend, Buffon, whose real body cannot move, will use this stand-in to attend.

Buffon's stand looked almost identical to an ordinary human, but there was a bright white circle on the side of her neck, with an inverted triangle drawn within it using slightly thinner lines. This seemed to be the power button for Buffon's stand; whenever the stand stopped moving, the white circle would dim.

Lin Zhenxi had seen Buffon's Stand more than once. When they were conceiving the magic power gathering magic circle together, Buffon used this Stand to participate in the gathering. So she was not surprised to see Buffon's Stand now. Instead, she reached out and grabbed Buffon's Stand's hand.

There is some ice, but the softness is no different from that of ordinary people.

"Let's go, Buffon."

"Yeah." Buffon nodded, and the vocal organ in his throat also produced a sound.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Zhenxi casually opened the space door again and walked directly with Buffon. In a blink of an eye, they came from the bottom of the Silent City to the middle.

When Buffon passed through the space gate, the camera in his eyes quickly expanded and zoomed several times, and the small lens in the center of his eyes also changed several different colors.

"Lin Zhenxi, your spatial manipulation ability has become stronger. Why?"

"Ah...why?" Lin Zhenxi let go of Buffon and scratched his face, not knowing how to describe his bizarre experience today. "I guess it's just that I had a lot of adventures. I'm quite compatible with the dimension."

"There are not enough details to analyze. Please explain in detail," Buffon asked dully.

But this couldn't be explained in a short time, and now was not the time to tell a story, so Lin Zhenxi simply shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it later. Now let's restart the energy furnace. The defense of Silent City is too weak now. If the enemy attacks again, it will be troublesome."

"Then I need to deliver Master Luke's Apostle's Breath to the Mechanical Throne. Teacher Rossello said that as long as she finds the Apostle's Breath, she can resurrect Master Luke. That's the most important thing right now, right?"

What Lin Zhenxi said made a lot of sense. In Buffon's heart, Luke's importance was obviously higher than her curiosity, so she stopped asking Lin Zhenxi questions and followed Lin Zhenxi to the control panel of the energy furnace.

Then Lin Zhenxi saw Buffon's finger flip up, revealing a connector inside. She plugged the connector under the control panel. Lin Zhenxi had never checked that place before, so she didn't know where she connected the connector.

But then, the red light on the control panel disappeared. After a flash of green light, the entire panel returned to normal backlighting. At the same time, the energy furnace in front of them emitted a dull sound, followed by a continuous electromagnetic sound, and the light strips on the energy furnace's outer shell began to glow.

Even though he didn't understand how the energy furnace should be operated, Lin Zhenxi could see that the energy furnace had been restarted.

"Work completed. The energy furnace has entered the pre-startup phase. It's expected to be preheated in three minutes, enter the low-pressure critical state in five minutes, output energy at 10% power in twelve minutes, and reach full power in four hundred and sixty minutes." Buffon finished reporting his work, turned to Lin Zhenxi, and continued, "Lin Zhenxi, go rescue Master Luke. I'll be able to guard this place."

Buffon's Stand was also a powerful combat robot, its combat power comparable to those of larger mechanical life forms. If Buffon hadn't been so difficult to handle, her Stand would have surely been able to become a Tarot Card Officer in the Silent City.