bookandnovel Chapter 62 Besides ZMD, they also need to run electrical wires?!
Chapter 62 Besides ZMD, they also need to run electrical wires?!
Chapter 62 Besides ZMD, they also need to run electrical wires?!
The road to the energy hub is not smooth.
This area is no longer within Ohm's complete control of the safe zone, and deep claw marks can be seen everywhere on the rusty metal floor.
The passageway was lined with twisted metal debris.
Some resemble the ribs of a giant beast, piercing straight into the dome.
Some resembled a tangled swarm of snakes, blocking the passage.
The floor beneath my feet was gridded, and through the gaps I could see a bottomless dark abyss below.
Faintly, one could hear the creaking of gears turning and the roar of some unknown creature.
Lorraine walked at the front, her omniscient vision activated to its limit.
Countless streams of red data scrolled across his retina.
[Warning: The structure on the left is unstable]
[Warning: High-energy reaction detected 300 meters ahead]
He raised his hand and made a stop gesture.
The three witches behind him immediately stopped and formed a defensive formation back to back.
That's what tacit understanding is.
No need for nonsense, no need for explanation.
There's something there.
Lorraine lowered his voice, his eyes fixed on the pile of abandoned shipping containers in front of him.
The air suddenly became eerily quiet.
Even the distant grinding sound of gears had disappeared.
Only the light bulb overhead, about to go out, emitted a buzzing sound of electricity.
"Tick-tock".
A drop of black engine oil dripped from the ceiling.
The moment the engine oil hit the ground.
Lorraine instinctively raised his left hand, and a flash of purple light appeared in the air, causing a semi-transparent shield covering his entire body to unfold out of thin air.
With a loud bang, a large-caliber explosive shell slammed into the surface of the shield, creating a violent ripple.
"Enemy attack! Three o'clock!"
A Tier 3 "Hunter" mech that had been lying in wait sprang out of the shadows. Its paintwork had peeled off, revealing the dark red base coat underneath, making it look like a skinned beast.
It gave everyone no chance to catch their breath, and the secondary gun on its shoulder quickly rotated, locking onto Lyra, who was standing on the outermost side.
Leila's heterochromatic pupils contracted sharply, but instead of looking away, she instinctively glanced at the dark muzzle of the cannon.
That was the gaze of fate.
"Zi"
Just as the mech was about to fire, its shoulder cannon's rotating mechanism got stuck in some foreign object, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound.
Immediately afterwards, the flames of the barrel explosion burst open inside the cannon, and half of his shoulder was sheared off by flying parts.
"court death!"
Anna's angry roar followed immediately.
This mech dared to ambush her young master.
boom!
A thick fire dragon spewed from her fingertips.
If the mechs want to retreat, they should use their high mobility to create distance.
But it couldn't move.
The seemingly harmless weeds on the ground have grown wildly into vines as thick as a wrist.
That was Olivia's masterpiece.
Wiregrass.
Hard as iron, yet incredibly resilient.
The vines tightly wrapped around the mech's legs, pinning it to the spot.
"Turn me into fertilizer!"
Olivia waved her hand, cursing.
The vines suddenly tightened, making a sickening metallic squeaking sound.
The next second, the fire dragon devoured the mech.
Boom!
The violent explosion echoed through the narrow passage.
The flames died down.
That once invincible Tier 3 mech has been reduced to a pile of black smoke and scrap metal.
Just then, the wall next to them suddenly lit up.
The originally black GG screen flickered a few times, and a pixelated face popped up.
The pixelated face yawned widely and even stretched.
【（。）.zZ】
[Yawn—Big brother, you guys made quite a commotion, but with me here, don't worry about attracting more mechs.]
Ohm's unique code, composed of 0s and 1s, was translated into a languid loli voice through the secret code.
Lorraine looked at Ohm on the screen.
"We're clearing the passageway and also heading to the relay mana hub to connect the mana pipeline."
[Connect to the magic energy pipeline?]
Ohm tilted his head and blinked his pixelated eyes twice.
Are you going to that big iron tower over there? Don't waste your energy.
She extended a pixelated finger and pointed ahead.
[I know you can draw those strange magic runes, but magic runes can't reconnect broken power cables, right?]
[The magic power pipeline at the relay hub is physically severed; there's a gap of about twenty meters. Simply drawing magic runes won't be enough to reconnect it.]
[A large amount of mithril and an alchemy level of three or higher are required to connect these cables.]
Lorraine smiled.
"Who said I was going to use mithril to connect the cables?"
Ohm paused for a moment.
How can magical energy be transferred without connecting pipes?
"Don't worry about that, just open up the road."
Lorraine pointed to the tightly closed blast door in front of her.
Hmph, what a charade.
Despite his grumbling, the several airtight doors in front of him still slowly opened with a hissing sound. [The shortcut's been opened for you. But since you're going to the Magic Relay Hub, could you do me a favor?]
Lorraine stopped in her tracks.
"What kind of help?"
Next to that hub, there's a small house.
That's the control room.
My true self is inside.
Ohm's pixelated face is no longer funny, but instead shows a rare hint of loneliness.
There are no cameras or sensors over there. Even the mechs I control can't get in because of the protocol.
I've lived this long—and I've never seen what I look like.
Big brother, could you go check on it for me?
I want to know—am I a machine, or a monster?
Lorraine was silent for a moment.
He looked at the seemingly carefree, yet actually lonely, machine spirit on the screen, guarding the legacy of the Golden Age for thousands of years.
She had never even seen what she looked like.
"it is good."
He nodded in agreement.
"Let me take a picture for you."
Ohm's eyes lit up instantly, turning into two hearts.
[Big brother is the best!]
The screen went out.
The passage is open.
Lorraine took a deep breath and turned to look at the three witches behind her.
"Let's go."
"The hub is just ahead."
Standing before the broken cable at the Magic Relay Hub, humans appear as insignificant as ants.
It was a huge gap, five meters wide and twenty meters long.
The main cable that originally connected the energy hub and the output end is now exposed to the air, like a blood vessel that has been forcibly torn off by a giant.
Traces of high-energy particle ablation remain at the fracture site.
This level of physical damage is almost synonymous with despair in this wasteland era devoid of heavy construction machinery.
No wonder Ohm thought it was impossible to fix.
There was no crane, no materials, and no spare cables.
What can we use to fix it?
How about I fix it?
The surrounding screens lit up again, and Ohm squatted in the corner with his knees drawn up, looking like he knew it.
See? I told you it was hopeless.
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She sighed.
Even the engineering teams of the Golden Age would need half a month to repair this level of damage.