heavy fog

"Sier's energy fluctuations have disappeared, and it has left the deep blue star."

Andos, a knight in black armor, walked into a dilapidated chapel.

There is a ray of light coming in from the skylight at the top of the church, and it just shines on the cross on the prayer platform at the front of the church, but when you look closer, you can find that the divine light is actually just a lamp installed on the stained glass skylight. Concentrated spotlights - even in the urban area on the ground of the deep blue star, the sky is always covered by thick fog, and it is impossible to have bright sunlight (or starlight).

This church can only accommodate 100 people. Judging from the mottled walls and broken stained glass, Deep Blue Star is obviously a country where beliefs are not valued. Perhaps when this city was established, there were still people who were willing to believe in God. Over time, the chapel eventually fell into disrepair.

Andos lifted up the visor of the black helmet, revealing a sharp, hard face with a dark metallic luster. He said expressionlessly: "Sier has cut off the default setting for communicating with us. This kind of behavior is already acceptable. Judged as a traitor."

By the prayer platform in front of the church stood an old man in black clothes.

The old man's face was wrinkled, his eyes were cloudy and dull, and he was holding a book with a shiny metallic luster in his hand, which looked very heavy.The book title bar on the cover, which is composed of European-style classical borders, is a small electronic screen, and the numbers are scrolling and swiping past. After hearing Andos' words, the screen is instantly cleared.

"You are too harsh, Andros."

It was the book that spoke, not the old man.

The knight sneered: "Your thinking module is upgraded in the wrong direction. You collect and study the weaknesses of people's hearts, which affects your judgment. We are mechs, not humans."

"Then, I must remind you of the fact that it is the first time that Syr has been turned on, and you cannot measure it with your own standards." The book says forcefully, "Syr still doesn't know anything."

"of course."

Andos turned his head stiffly, making a sound of metal rubbing, his expression would not change without reorganization, but his mechanical voice sounded a bit bitter: "If it wasn't like this, I wouldn't be standing here, Instead, go after Syer and force him into hibernation."

The black-armored knight raised his head proudly as he spoke: "As the most elite flagship of the Deep Blue Kingdom, the Andos, I have a total of thirty frigate groups moored in different war fortresses and space ports. If I decide to Pursue it with all your strength, can Seir escape from this star system?"

The screen of the book dimmed for a moment, like a person who couldn't bear to see and closed his eyes.

Sure enough, it sneered: "Yes, Andros! I think I need to remind you, first, Syer's initial IQ is higher than yours, and second, in theory, Syer has the most advanced space jumping technology, if it wasn’t for the lack of energy when it was turned on, it could even move out of the Deep Blue Kingdom in an instant.”

——Wake up, even if there are [-] battleship legions, there is no chance of chasing them.

"..."

Andos didn't speak, but the ground of the church it stepped on sank half a meter.

"Pay attention to your anti-gravity state!" The book said bluntly, "We still have many companions sleeping below, do you want to wake them up?"

"This guy, Shier, should be named Rabbit! That kind of cowardly, fast-running useless guy in the ancient earth civilization!" Andos roared.

"Deny, among ancient earth civilizations, the fastest runner is the cheetah." Metal Book said sternly, and taught the knight unceremoniously, "It's not your fault that the initial IQ is not high, but you can copy the information to increase common sense. ! For the sake of my companions, I don’t want to despair of you.”

"Dantalin!!"

The decibel output of Andos' tone is so high that the stained glass windows of the church are rattling: "I also want to remind you that your level is lower than mine!"

"Yes, Andros." Metal Book let out a weird laugh, "But the levels are divided by humans when they made us. In terms of upgrading the intelligence center, I'm already a stage ahead of you."

The screen flickered again, emitting a dark red light. After scanning Andos, the book changed its words and said: "Of course, your combat power far exceeds mine. We belong to two different development directions."

Andos, who rigidly abided by the rules, of course couldn't do anything to his "companion". Even though the other party relented, it still let out an angry low voice: "Hmph."

It is obviously impossible to expect Andos to change the subject. In this regard, neither the owner of Raymond Gayton nor Cyrus, who participated in the manufacture of these mechs, can do it.

So the book could only work hard on its own, and it shook its body:

"Let's continue talking about Guerre!"

"There is no doubt that it has a manipulator, and it also guided that manipulator to leave the dark blue star, abandon Cyrus, and us!" In Andos' voice, there was a discordant metal crashing sound, which seemed It's in a very bad mood.

"Seir's manipulator is not an ordinary person," said the book.

"If you talk nonsense again, it will trigger my obstacle removal mode!" Andos said murderously.

"Cough cough!"

The book pretentiously simulated clearing its voice, and then switched to the normal language mode, "The Deep Blue Kingdom has our powerful combat power, but it can only make most of us sleep for a long time. Energy consumption is one aspect, and on the other hand, It is because apart from the holder of Raymond Gayton, the individual manipulators cannot resist our energy fluctuations in terms of spiritual connection."

As the book said, it flipped its own pages helplessly. The pages in its body were also thin metal, with blue lights flashing with strange patterns on it, very similar to the large integrated circuits in the ancient earth period.

The old man holding the book kept his eyes glazed over, standing straight, and did not respond to the conversation between Andos and the book.

"The kingdom has never given up on research, and wants to achieve the goal of manipulating our complete form by one person. Obviously, these decades have all failed." Shushu looked helplessly at the old man hugging him on the screen, shaking the page and said, "My This manipulator has become an idiot, which is good, at least he is alive and not brain dead."

"Are you studying the direction of technological development with me? I suggest you go to Cyrus, he can understand the subject you are talking about." Andos said in a bad tone.

"You are so harsh and boring!" Book complained.

"If the guy who abducted Shier is an ordinary person, we can lie on the dark blue star and wait for him to die!" Andos roared, and he took a heavy step forward, "But I regret to tell you! You want to have a pleasant afternoon tea conversation with Cyrus, research and discuss new technologies, I’m afraid you can’t!" "Huh?"

"Cyrus fainted 'again'!"

"what!"

The metal crashing sound in Andos' tone was more serious. It suddenly grabbed the book from the old man's hand, picked it up and shook it violently: "This is your reaction? Dantalin who has a higher intelligence center upgrade stage than me and a higher IQ than me Ah! For my companion's sake, I don't want to despair of you."

"...You hate the initial setting that you have revenge!"

The book responded angrily. Hundreds of metal pages in it unfolded at the same time, emitting a dazzling blue light, "You just said, what happened to Cyrus?"

"Suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood and fell down." Andos said gloomyly, "At that time, a congressional discussion was going on, and all the members were shocked. Now there is chaos outside, and Cyrus has not yet woken up. You know very well that this means What?"

"I fainted once half a year ago, and now again?"

"No, it was three times." Andos said, "Half a year ago, he returned to Deep Blue Star in the early morning of the second day, and lost consciousness again for no reason. Fall off the balcony."

"Obviously, it's more serious this time?"

"Confirm." Andos threw the book heavily on the prayer table, staring at it condescendingly with electronic eyes, "Half a year ago, Andumari, the city defense system, went wrong once, and we thought that Andumari's own flaws caused Lei Mongayton holders are hurt! Now it looks like that's clearly not the case!"

Shushu whispered: "Whoever made you look down on Andumari all the time, you are also responsible for the wrong judgment."

The knight's feet sank into the ground again.

"Cough." The book immediately became serious, "Is there any more information, I need to calculate and think about it."

"...The Dark Council used the authority code to delete the monitoring records of Ser's escape from the port." Andos' electronic eyes flickered, and then pointed at the book, obviously transferring files.

"Those dark creatures, like human beings, always believe that the things deleted in the instrument will disappear completely, but as long as there are traces, we can restore them."

A second later, the video of Wen Luan and Se'er escaping from the port began to play on the screen of the book.

"I have to look at all the monitoring records of the port today." Book forcibly linked to the port terminal and began to copy.

The picture on the screen kept pausing, zooming in, rotating, pushing forward, and pushing back—soon, Wen Luan was wearing a diving entertainment mecha, and climbed up from the sea water. The scene was accurately found from the surveillance, including a few minutes later , Seir quietly transformed into a silver metal ball with the obstruction of the tourists, rushing out suddenly.

As for Wen Luan bumping into bald Jim, the two confronted each other, talked in surprise, ran towards the spaceship, and finally—

"It's here! Everyone in the port lost consciousness and stood there for half a minute!"

The picture then zoomed in, clearly seeing a cloud of mist spreading around from nowhere. Obviously, Andos hadn't noticed this detail before. The knight stared at the screen on the book cover, and took a step back uncontrollably: "Is this not true?" possible!"

"No...it's obvious!"

The book said strangely, "The manipulator of Seir destroyed this... (said a word vaguely), which means that Cyrus was suddenly attacked without any precautions. According to the information we stole from the Dark Council, this is the 2000 Years ago, the 'Eastern Demon' who disappeared inexplicably during the ancient Earth period would eventually lead to the awakening of Cyrus."

"So, he can abduct Sier?" The knight looked a little irritable.

The book shook the pages: "I don't know, when Cyrus wakes up, you'd better ask Syer's boot settings."

The book sighed deeply, closed the pages one by one, and said: "Seir should have seen the same thing that was discovered in the port, it is not far from the truth, it is luckier than us, we are still overhearing It was only when the dark creatures had a secret conversation that they began to suspect Deep Blue Star."

"Can you find out?"

"Of course, it has the highest-tech space jumping ability. It can find a stable space jumping point by itself, or jump across the galaxy. As long as it is willing to look at this beautiful planet with its eyes in that state..."

-

This beautiful blue planet.

Wen Luan looked at the dark blue star that was getting farther and farther through the porthole, and suddenly said to Xier:

"I think it's great, but...too beautiful to be real."

After finishing the secret communication, the bald Jim who tiptoed to the door of the rest cabin heard this and bumped his head against the bulkhead of the spaceship. Wen Luan stood up and looked at him in surprise.

"Ha, haha, it's okay! I drank too much wine yesterday!"

Jim scratched his bald head and said with a smirk, "I turned on the autopilot for the spaceship, hey, what is this?"

Jim looked strangely at the silver metal ball floating in front of Wen Luan.

Before Wen Luan could think of a suitable excuse (I don't understand the technology of this era), Seier, who had closed his electronic eyes long ago, said in a rigid mechanical voice: "Hello, I am the latest generation of intelligent optical brain of Deep Blue Star, and my duty is to Be a good steward."

"The technology in the Deep Blue Kingdom is getting more and more high-end, and the intelligent systems with independent thinking are all family-oriented?" Jim has no doubts at all, because Wen Luan is from 2000 years ago, so he doesn't understand anything.

"Thank you, Jim, I'm learning languages!" Wen Luan raised the language learning machine and shook it.

"Oh, I'm very familiar with this." Jim came over enthusiastically, fiddled with this thing for Wen Luan to see.

The Sil metal ball was suspended motionless, continuing to pretend to be a qualified optical brain that had not received the order, but it quietly opened its electronic eyes in a direction that Jim could not see, and began to swipe the screen frantically.

——Thinking mode started.

——Intelligent analysis of doubtful word extraction.

The Chinese word "Wen Luan" first appeared in Xier's eyes, and then the English translation of the same pronunciation of the name Wen Luan appeared, but nothing came of it.

After 3 minutes of silence, the electronic eyes began to spell Cyrus' name one by one.Because it has been speaking with Wen Luan in English, it quickly entered words with similar pronunciation combinations according to the pronunciation.

Finally it came to rest on one of the transliterations of Cyrus' middle name "Incabus": Incubus

Lost Civilizations of Ancient Earth, Western Legends, Incubus, Nightmare.

The Sil metal ball immediately floated to the porthole, the electronic eye turned black, and the excessive output of energy caused the entire spaceship to shake slightly.

The dark blue star reflected in the electronic eyes is beyond recognition.

This is a barren, dead planet full of craters, without even an atmosphere. Only the northernmost part has an isolation shield, which shows that there is life living there.

It turns out that the entire planet is not real.

The author has something to say: The setting of the Dream Demon here is to symbolize desire...

And gain strength from constructing dreams by yourself

Has domain characteristics.The whole planet is a dreamland combining illusion and reality, that is, there are real things and fake things in it, like the safe surface world of Silent Hill, and a simple explanation, uh, have you seen it in Liaozhai, the ruined temple is gorgeous It’s like a big house, but people who walk in can’t see it, and live normally [Of course, the necessities of life here are normal, not fake] The fog is actually a symbol of dreams.