Stellaris from the Automata Era

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As for the production lines and force distribution of mechanical life within the factory.

To be honest... he didn't think that the imitation round head could enter such an important area.

Do the mechanical life forms really have a distribution of forces? They simply move around erratically, and as soon as they see a humanoid figure, they call for help through the internal network!

So when Bobo La sent him the storage records of the reconnaissance plane, he just regarded it as a documentary about a "round-headed" struggling to survive.

But...the result was indeed a little unexpected.

"Wait! Is this their production line?"

Pointing at some debris on the projection screen, Yan Luo looked at Boppola who was still in his room.

He still remembered what that thing looked like. After all, when he first broke in, he was really shocked when he saw the production speed of this thing.

Obviously, Bobo La must have read this record in advance, and gave a positive response when Yan Luo turned his gaze to her.

"It is indeed their production line, and the content behind it... I'm not sure if it has any value."

After Bopola finished speaking, Yan Luo looked at the screen again.

Then he saw fire, explosions, and a familiar figure.

"A2!?" Yan Luo was stunned for a moment, then immediately began to deny it. "No! It's not A2."

Although they look similar in appearance, the figure in the picture is wearing the same clothing as 11b.

Combining all the information he knew, he immediately realized that the machine in the picture should be a similar machine improved based on the A2 prototype.

"She's sabotaging the factory?"

The human figure in the picture obviously did not want to get entangled with the round-headed creatures. After destroying the production line, he ran away quickly. Then a group of round-headed creatures entered the picture belatedly.

After looking around, they followed the human figure and continued to chase.

I don’t know what logic led to the scene, but the round-headed creature also started chasing after him.

However, they did not seem to be as fast as humans. All we could see after chasing them were destroyed production lines and the remains of round-headed creatures that tried to resist.

It wasn't until I went out of a certain door that the scene suddenly became clear.

"The sea? The area they're in is the surface of the factory!"

Yan Luo recognized the location almost immediately.

Then he saw on the screen that a huge mechanical life form was fighting with a flying object in the air, and behind it was a figure that gave up flying and rushed straight towards the head of the huge life form.

What follows is the plot that Yan Luo knows. Three super-large mechanical life forms emerge from the sea, surround the wreckage and then explode.

"This...completes some details."

The events in the picture can definitely be seen when they rescued 11b.

Although 11b has always claimed that this was a reconnaissance operation, she has no idea what happened.

After all, she was planning her escape route at the time.

"It looks like the surface has been almost completely dismantled by A2's similar machines."

Maybe it seems like just a few sentences, but for Yan Luo, this broadcast has been quite long.

In the picture, we can see destroyed equipment almost every time during the chase, and it seems that the purpose of the reconnaissance is very clear.

Also because of her destruction, Yan Luo had some other ideas.

"Popoula, do you think we can take the surface position?"

“I feel like I can’t hold on…”

Indeed, the timing of learning the information was too clever.

Recently, Yan Luo is undergoing a comprehensive transformation, and the original machine gun production lines have all been replaced with robots.

However, because of this, his current production capacity has not been fully developed, and the more complex manufacturing system also means that he needs more time to produce armaments.

At his current situation, he produces less than fifty robots a day.

The surface area looked severely damaged, but the factory was indeed very large... He couldn't guarantee whether other areas had been destroyed as well.

He didn't want to get caught up in an endless sea of round heads and fight a brutal 'minced meat' battle for the time being.

"Forget it, let 11b lead the team to find a random staircase and try it out first."

If the results of the 11b test were relatively smooth, he might consider speeding up his production and completely bringing the factory under his control.

After all, he is actually sharing the factory with Round Head.

If we also include the purple round head mentioned by Pascal in the mechanical life village, the world will be divided into three parts, which is outrageous.

This made Yan Luo feel completely insecure.

Even though he is sitting here firmly now, if the old base was not connected to the factory, giving him an escape route, he would not dare to settle here.

Not to mention that he has not given up on the construction of the old base until now, just to deal with any accidents.

So after the basic situation was settled, Bobo La started to notify 11b.

Less than two hours later, 11b came back with a strange message.

"A civil war broke out among the round heads!"

Yan Luo was still a little confused when he heard 11b say this, even Bobo La who was listening in on the conversation was surprised.

After a moment of silence, and after making sure that 11b was not joking, Bobo La asked the first question.

"Civil war? You mean Roundhead fighting himself?"

"It's the purple round-head and the regular round-head fighting."

After 11b's explanation, Yan Luo and the others finally understood the general situation.

11b's exploration of the stairs did not lead to any unexpected events.

When Yan Luo first occupied the lower part of the factory, the stairs leading to the upper part had round-headed handles.

This time, 11b was not blocked. Instead, it was empty. It was not until she explored deeper that she saw the remains of round heads, some purple and some ordinary colors.

Later on, she even witnessed two groups of round heads fighting each other.

One of them is the purple round-headed people that Yan Luo once mentioned, those religious fanatics.

"This is getting complicated." Although Yan Luo didn't know how the civil war among the mechanical lifeforms had broken out, he keenly sensed that this might be an opportunity. "Popola, how many of our original machine gun units are left?"

"Because there are not enough robots, there are still a lot of original machine guns. What do you mean, sir?"

"Whatever the reason, let's circle the land above first."

The civil war between mechanical life forms... was a natural opportunity to give up, although reason told him to play it safe...

But his instincts told him that now was the time to claim full sovereignty over the factory.

Chapter 2: A's journey home is not smooth

Just when Yan Luo and the round-headed people were working together to create a better future.

In the desert on the other side, several figures were moving forward with difficulty.

After the spectacular rainstorms a few months ago, we saw another sandstorm today.

Naturally, A2 wanted to complain about the hardships he had experienced along the way, but considering his character settings, he decided not to describe it.

Yes, there is a2 marching in the desert now.

After she received the task entrusted to her by Yan Luo, she safely threw several disguised round heads into the factory, and then advanced into the forest, determined to take revenge and completely draw a line with the past.

In her earlier exploration, she actually already knew that the enemy who killed her comrades was a mechanical life form that became the king of the round-headed people in the area on the other side of the forest and even established a country.

So when she came back this time, she naturally wanted to avenge her past grudges.

But...the forest is indeed quite big, and there are indeed quite a lot of round heads.

After hacking with a knife for seven days and lurking for a month, she still couldn't get close to the core area of the round-headed people in the Forest Kingdom, and she couldn't kill her enemies in person for the time being.

Then she remembered that she seemed to have other jobs... like a human...

The source of the dolls' affection for humans is so inexplicable. They simply have a fondness for humans, the difference being between a fanatical fondness and an even more fanatical one...

a2 may have been an accident before, after all, it had experienced a lot of things, but after being in contact with Yan Luo for a period of time, the threshold in the system collapsed again.

After wandering around for so long, it’s time to go back. That’s what she thought and what she did.

Given the choice between killing her enemy and returning to see humanity, she chose the latter without hesitation.

After all, the enemy is in the forest and has a big target. He won't run away, so there's always a chance to defeat him.

But Yan Luo is always surrounded by round heads! He always needs someone to protect him. To put it bluntly, he doesn't trust the fighting ability of the twins.

So she returned the same way.

When passing by the ruins of the central city, he unexpectedly encountered three rebellious humanoids who also came from YoRHa.

To be honest, when they first met, both sides thought they were members of a pursuit unit (A2 got new clothes from Yan Luo), and they drew their swords directly.

It was not until they had fought for a while that they realized from the words exchanged between swords that they were both wanderers in this world.

Then...the basic trust was established like making friends with a knife.

Later on, we learned from the conversation that A2 was a senior in YoRHa's rebellion world, and had been hiding from YoRHa for almost four years!

This made them stand in awe.

In order to learn some survival knowledge for the future, the three rebellious rising stars 8b, 22b, and 64b naturally followed a2.

A2 thought about the power around humans... and finally decided to take them away and dedicate them... to humans.

What? Loyalty issues?

A2 said from his own experience that when humanoids meet humans, their systems, settings, and underlying protocols will help lock their loyalty.

Then they came to the place where A2 and Yan Luo first met...the desert.

In fact, Yan Luo's idea of becoming famous in the resistance camp and attracting A2's attention was a bit unnecessary.

Not to mention that A2 would never hang out in places where there were a lot of people. Even if he was forced to go there... based on A2's thinking circuit, he would not go there to inquire about intelligence, let alone pay attention to other information.

It is more likely that you will encounter the twins in the camp.

Therefore, she had passed Yan Luo perfectly when passing by the resistance camp in the central city.

A2, who naturally had no idea that he had taken a long detour, had just escaped from the influence of the sandstorm with his new companions.

"Where are we going?" It was only at this time that 8b, the former team leader, thought of asking about the destination.

"Our base."

A2 told her coldly that the three younger Hyundais had already fully adapted to her personality.

Rather... her behavior actually gives the three Dolls a unique sense of security. See! This is the way for a rebellious Doll to survive and conduct themselves! Learn more!

"You're building a base in the desert!?"

22b and 64b have already aroused curiosity.

That uninhabited place...seems like a good place to hide.

"It's not me. You'll know when you go there."

So the rest of the trip was relatively silent.

After crossing another marking point, they finally stopped in a scattered ruin.

Following the incredible gazes of the other humanoids, he walked straight into the hidden passage. Finally, A2's eyes changed.

"Something's wrong."

"What's wrong?" 8b asked, looking at a2's alert.

"It's so quiet."

Indeed...the noisy sound of the production line in a2's memory is gone.

The simple robots that usually guarded the passage were also gone.