mechanical court

Due to the time-consuming, Ivan had to give up the mass production plan of the Shenyuan machine, and turned to mass production of mechanical engineers.

Under his frenzied birth at the expense of vitality, the number of mechanical engineers quickly skyrocketed to [-] million, which has exceeded the entire population of the empire.These tireless, unpaid senior technicians are absolutely loyal to Ivan, and they are both spiritual and creative, serving as a solid foundation for the mechanical empire.

The mechanical life created by the immortal class is completely different from the mechanical life he created before, and has already transformed into a new field.

Even the lowest-level mechanical engineer is equivalent to a degraded version of a mechanic, and the comprehensive index completely explodes a human mechanic.

More advanced mechanical life forms, such as the golden clown level, can even undertake the work of scientists and artists, and can completely independently create their own civilization.In this case, the mechanical lifeforms created by Ivan have actually formed a race, a race of symbiotes that was born out of human civilization but is completely different-the mechanical gods.

Because of this, Ivan is determined to separate the Mechanical Empire from the Menes Empire, otherwise the huge production capacity and efficiency of the Mechanical Empire may make human beings lose their aggressiveness and become a vassal of the Mechanical Protoss.

This is an unacceptable situation for Ivan, whose heart is still toward human beings.

At least, before the empire has the ability to compete with it, he does not intend to expose the mechanical empire to the eyes of the human world.What's more, even his closest people don't know this secret... No one knows that in the shadow of the Menesian Empire, a behemoth is rapidly expanding.

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The Lawless Zone, a star system located near the energy center in the northern part of the Federation, has been regarded as useless wasteland for quite a period of time due to the absence of terrestrial planets.Later, it became a place of exile for the most vicious people, so the people who lived there were either criminals or the descendants of criminals.

Under the extremely harsh environment, these sinful people survived with difficulty, and honed their fighting skills based on guns and physical skills.They communicated with the outside world with malice, while absorbing combat skills, they discarded all knowledge they thought was useless.It directly led to the cultural differences between the lawless zone and other regions today hundreds of years later.

On those planets that are not suitable for human survival, the Federation civilization has almost disappeared, leaving only traces of the rough life of the lawless scattered on the desolate land.

Here, people do not feel the grace of civilization, nor do they have the systems and defenses needed to maintain law and order.True to its name, this is an area without laws.In the hearts of the lawless, only fists and weapons are their best protection.

The lawless absorbed the firearms professions abandoned by the Federation, optimized and improved them in combination with fighting techniques, and formed a unique combat system dominated by small firearms.The difficult and rough living environment allows the gunners to master the unique shooting skills that can shoot the enemy in any posture and at any time; they are fast gunners known for their fast-moving attacks, and they are good at using physical skills to find out the enemy's flaws.

The lawless zone is not only a paradise for cultivating excellent shooters, but also a hell for burying them.Any gunman who wants to survive in the lawless zone is actively or passively attached to forces or organizations, ranging from illegal armed forces to small gangs, all silently follow the law of survival in the lawless zone.

……

Lawless Zone, Ardennes.

In the cold night in the rolling mountains, the wind gradually picked up.

The wind blows along the longitudinal distribution of the mountains. It passes through the corridor of the northern ridge of the Ardennes Highlands and passes through the dry Gobi Desert; with the scorching heat of the scorching sun, it lingers among the mountains with scarce vegetation.

Tachibana spiraled up the long and narrow mountain road, and she couldn't help raising her head at this moment, squinting her eyes, letting the wind blow her black hair.

"The long-lost taste." She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said with nostalgia.

"Aren't you afraid to return to this sinful land again?"

Ivan glanced at her, then raised his head, just in time to see that the wind under the night brought a dark cloud covering it from the west, covering a large area of ​​stars.

"I won't be afraid by the master's side." Tangerine Tiantian said.

"Speaking of which, the organization that controlled you before was called the Mafia?"

"Yes, our leader is called Wallon, a mercenary villain."

"Is he the guy who forced you to wear the black shadow mask?" Ivan asked thoughtfully, looking at the town standing on the peak in the distance.

"Yes, but the black shadow mask does not belong to him. All the black shadow masks belong to General Tara. In addition to my mask, there are nine black shadow masks with different abilities. Legend has it that once ten masks are combined, It can release the ultimate darkness that destroys the world." Tachibana answered carefully.

"..." Ivan nodded, but did not speak.

When he first returned to Hyperion, he spent a lot of time researching the power of the black shadow mask, knowing that it was a prop with magical power.

When a person or animal wears a mask, their physical fitness will be improved in an all-round way, such as physical strength, speed, endurance, defensive power, attack power, vitality, jumping power and other physical abilities, and they can also have special abilities to freely shuttle between virtual and real worlds.

Each mask can correspondingly summon a shadow troop, and the troop types are also different.

But when the mask is worn, the evil thoughts deep in the heart will be slowly eroded by the darkness from the mask, blackening one's original good side and conscience, and eventually completely engulfing the wearer's mind, extinction of humanity, and turning him into a cruel man. A ruthless, evil, terrifying, and outright devil; the stronger the evil thoughts in the heart, the stronger the power to become an evil body, even a kind-hearted, strong-willed upright person cannot resist the evil power of the mask, and can only slow down the process of transforming into a devil speed.

After a long period of brainwashing and training, Tachibana made his personal feelings tend to zero, so that he can barely control the power of the black shadow mask.

But after a long time, he will also lose himself, so he begged Ivan to help him take off the mask, and after that he regarded him as his master and lover.

……

Passing through the rugged mountain road, the two of them came to a market called 'Valley of Flames' located in the urban area.

This market is located in the center of the Ardennes Highlands. All the buildings are made of stones and are divided into three areas: left, middle and right.The bazaar is separated by three iron fences, and there is a gangster thug guarding at intervals to maintain order in the bazaar.

There are many ghost faces and centaurs here, but the main residents are humans, and all kinds of goods are sold in the market - grains, fabrics, some strange plants, fruits, gun bullets, strange ores , and some portable food.

Since the Mafia that manages the Ardennes Heights attaches great importance to business, the goods and materials here are quite rich, and the goods that can be seen in the market are also strange.However, the trading method here is still at the stage of bartering, and the hardest currencies are gold and silver.

Ivan and Tachibana watched a free life-and-death fight in the middle of the market—the Lawless had a bad temper and would draw their guns at each other if they disagreed, so there was a special venue for them to duel.

After that, they went to a weapon shop to buy firearms, and found that the firearms here were generally small and powerful, and some of them even possessed the soul power of terrifying creatures.There are all kinds of bullets, and even Ivan would be surprised by some special-purpose bullets.

The reason why the two hang out here is actually to wait for someone.

Waiting for the real owner of the shadow mask, the unknown creature named Tara.

Before attacking the lawless zone, Ivan needed to know the details of the enemy, so he chose to come here with Tachibana, hoping to use her special identity to lure the snake out of the hole.

……

They deliberately walked around the market, but bought nothing, and finally tasted a few glasses of Ardennes specialty spirits in a bar.This kind of drink is as simple and crude as the people in the outlaw zone, with a hot taste and quite a strong aftertaste.

After taking a sip of Tachibana, a blush appeared on his face.

"Are you ready?" Ivan asked in a low voice as he finished his drink in one gulp.

"Ready!"

While speaking, Tachibana inserted her hands back into her long black hair and let it go—then raised her head and tore off the veil on her face, exposing that delicate and pretty face to everyone's sight.

The noisy voice in the tavern suddenly subsided, and the lawless people who were drinking and having fun here were almost dumbfounded, and some of them even had saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths.After a few seconds of silence, they all whistled at the same time, scrambling to surround them.

"Beautiful lady, can I buy you a drink?"

"One kilogram of gold, sleep with me all night, why don't you?"

"Be my girlfriend, I will cover you from now on!"

These people all spoke the Federal language, but with a strong mountain accent, and each of them drank a lot of alcohol, so it sounded like howling wolves.

"..."

Tachibana raised her slender eyebrows, looked around with a contemptuous look, then raised one exquisite leg, and stepped on the round stool in the tavern:

"Okay, as long as you can beat me, I will go with you."

"On time! Delicious! I like it!"