MECHANICAL: Mechanism

Yanchi was kicked out of the equipment room, accompanied by Deren's roar: "Get out and stand for punishment!"

Deren is the head of the No.20 Three Corps. Female, 43 years old, with the rank of colonel, serious and rigid, she is the first batch of embryos hatched after the legion is stationed here. Whether it is qualifications or personality, it is well-deserved. father".

This era is completely different from the past, just like the last moment when the wilderness was engulfed by fire, some biological samples were kept nearby in a panic. I don’t know if they can become a new forest, I don’t know what species are there, and I don’t even know whether they are healthy or not. .

Judging from the current expansion of the Legion and the progress of exploration on the New Earth, the reconstruction work is going well. At least young people like Yanchi who are only 19 years old and hatched in the Legion can already have a childhood without too much turmoil. .

This kind of life growing up in the stable army began to make Yanchi have the calmness and leisure of an adult veteran at the same time - after all, he joined the army at the age of fourteen or fifteen, but at the same time he also carried a strange innocence.

It was not the first time for him to be kicked out by Deren.He deliberately staggered two steps, then stood up straight, looked around at his colleagues in the silent corridor, and shrugged with them.Obvious, commonplace.

He obediently walked around the corridor, arrived at the other side of Deren's office, and "stand" against the window sill.It was afternoon, at dusk, and the sky was a large expanse of purple twilight clouds, which were almost light pink when they transitioned to the edge.

Deren answered the communication inside, and at the same time, like an energetic female eagle, watched the banquet pool through the window.It was as if eyes had been born behind him, and he stood in a military posture, with an extremely well-behaved attitude.

Then Deren said a few words, closed the door and went out.

Banquet leaned back as loose and boneless, with one elbow resting on the window sill, and the other hand reaching for his pocket.

He has been in confinement for about three weeks, and they haven't asked him anything.To a certain extent, although new humans do not have parents and families, if you are lucky, the legion you belong to has a strong human touch, and you still don’t lack the feeling of being loved. Therefore, Yanchi is quite confident that he will not be resisted by anything. Cong Yan, go home for the New Year, and by Hanukkah he's still a good lad, everyone loves him.

This is not a good feeling about himself, because Yan Chi saw someone smiling at him from a distance.

Before he was locked up, Yanchi was a captain. He was smart and tenacious. He had completed many missions. His genetic test results were good. If there were no problems, he could even start applying for mecha pilot qualification, and then it would take three to five years. Get a mech and continue to advance.

After the Great Destruction, the technology tree has undergone a certain distortion. There are not many historical data left in the past, and new technologies are still being developed, which is not stable. Therefore, the mechas are currently in short supply, the priority genetic testing is perfect, and the military rank is also at the forefront. For the traditional explorers of ordinary legions, three to five years is already very short.Yanchi clearly has a promising future.

But Deren was really angry that day and simply tore off his epaulets, so now Yanchi is dressed in a relaxed suit, wearing only a pair of camouflage army trousers and a black racerback vest, very unkempt, and even smoking a cigarette.

In the words of those little girls or a certain group of boys, it is simply full of hormones.

He had just suffered a beating, and Delun was still young, so he screamed and rolled around in the equipment room with his head in his arms.After all, he was his great and strict father, and Yanchi couldn't fight back, and he didn't want to get hurt. To make Deren vent his anger, he could only use his strength to dodge with skill and scream loudly.This also consumed a lot of energy on him, and even a thin layer of sweat appeared all over his body. At this moment, it was evenly attached to his sun-tanned and beautiful skin, shining with his breath, almost like a layer of sweat. drill powder.

First, he was locked in a confinement room for a week, and he was interrogated and talked at any time. It has been more than three weeks now, and he has no time to cut his hair. The young people have a strong metabolism, and Yanchi’s hair has grown a lot. The burrs are not docile. After sweating The hair also gave off a faint cold light only when it was soaked, and it was stuck to the temples beside the ears in pitch black.

His pupils are dark and his eyebrows are slightly high. Although he doesn't have too deep eye sockets, he easily reveals a kind of cold wildness. His skin is wheat-colored, a very healthy color, his muscles are firm and his lines are smooth, and his black tight-fitting vest is almost It is used to boost his hormones.Such a young man leaned on the window sill in a daze. He didn't look like he was being punished to stand, but like a soldier waiting to whistle at a passing girl.

He was a rather handsome young man, full of life, with climbing muscles and camouflage army trousers neatly tucked into his army boots.Now he touched another cigarette, and he showed a sly smile to those friends who were worried about him, and then picked up the cigarette. His teeth were white and his eyes were black. He could be called a girl with beautiful fur and charming eyes. Little wolf cub, triumphant, happy for no reason, showing off himself.

He knew he was always liked, so he could do whatever he wanted, but not even Deren could help.What can you do with a handsome, intelligent, healthy young man?He just wants to be alive and make everyone laugh along with him.

Yanchi lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, only then did he feel alive.

The confinement room was probably more terrifying than the so-called water dungeons of the nobles in the past. It was dark, cramped, and silent. No one even brought him food, but broke in through a passage, and then knocked on the door to inform him.

It's almost an insult, and a good way to keep him from interacting with people.This is how Deren conveys a belief: You make me trouble, I will let you suffer, feel it.

Yan Chi felt that life was worse than death, and his head was slumped, so although strictly speaking at this moment he had just gone through a stormy interrogation and beating, and he was still being punished, the fact that he was finally released still Make him happy.

Exhaling a puff of smoke, Yanchi said to himself: "It's strong enough." Then he comfortably put most of his weight on the window sill behind him, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance.

Obviously, he was very popular, and on the way he was brought up to meet Deren, he was given food and drinks.

In front of me is a wilderness stretched with barbed wire. Now it is the harvest season. The turf is golden and has been repaired very short without ups and downs. It looks like a stubble of gold wire that has been cut off.

No.20 The Three Legion is an old legion. I heard that the first legion commander in the early days of establishment was even a soldier in the era of great destruction. Mother's arms.

Yanchi likes this place, his patrolling eyes raised from a distance to the sky, and then found a small black dot.

It was a good thing to grow up in the Legion. He quickly recognized that it was a military airship, the latest model. Generally speaking, at least a lieutenant general had the right to transfer it.A big shot came to their place?

Yanchi didn't quite understand, and then saw the other side of the barbed wire, Deren appeared, and some other members of the legion, basically all had independent offices in the main building.Looks like a really big shot?

The speed of the military airship was very fast, and it could be seen that the pilot was a bit crazy. Even the landing and diving were very fast. It didn't take long for Yanchi to see clearly what words were painted on the dark green coating.

"Romanov".

well.

Yan Chi is a young man with a wide range of knowledge.There is no way, the local specialties he grows include potatoes and military training, and another thing worthy of praise is the huge online library.And on the way to climb mountains and go into water in the wilderness, what entertainment is better than reading those books?

There is a lot of cold knowledge in it. For example, military airships are an idea of ​​the age of destruction, but they really entered the army on a large scale after they migrated from Noah's Ark.The naming rule is, the royal family or the royal family name, the dynasty name is the first class (this class refers to the interior of the airship rather than the user, for people, they never talk about class), then the ancient capital, and then the explorer's legion Name, under normal circumstances, this kind of airship named after the legion is in service with the legion that gave it its name.

By the way, explorers are not the name of a legion, but the collective name of the army that once defended Noah's Ark. Now it has expanded into a huge legion collection, performing higher-level military tasks, such as expansion and killing.

And the No.20 Tri-Army, a new-generation army with both protection and construction responsibilities, looks like a baseless logistics force in front of them.

Or sadder, the potato farmer.

And Yanchi happened to know what the Romanov dynasty meant. He continued to observe the airship, and vaguely felt that he had heard the name before, saying that it was about to enter service... Where did it come from?

The hatch of the airship opened, and he saw a person walking out from inside. He couldn't help but tense up a little, trying to support himself to stand upright and observe.

Military uniform, of course, but his face was a little blurry, Yanchi was already thankful that his eyesight was quite good, otherwise he could only see a barely human figure at this distance.

Well, he saw a pair of eyes, golden ones.

Alwitt.

There is no need to continue reading, Yanchi can be sure.

It's not that the golden eyes are so rare that there is only one person, but that when Yanchi saw those eyes clearly, the other party also glanced in this direction. The feeling of calmness that is almost cruel can only be felt by Elwitt. have.

Elwitt, the head of the three generals of the military, artificial man, the god of war, and the spiritual leader of many people.

Although people now believe in science, Erwitt seems to be a living god, and the army is full of worship complexes for him, so he undertakes part of the propaganda work, which can effectively stabilize the soldiers' emotions, so everyone respects him The image is not unfamiliar.

Unsurprisingly, his appearance is simply beyond the imagination of human beings. Many people even claim to not know how the original designer created such an appearance, but Elwitt's lofty status does not come from this.

He is a war machine long before the destruction of the earth, and his only mission since his birth is to win, be invincible and invincible.As the mastermind of war, he boarded Noah's Ark, wandered with all the hopes of mankind, and found the new earth, but his mission has not yet ended.

He has served longer than everyone else, and the existing military system basically comes from his definition, and he is also the highest officer of the current explorers. Simply put, there is no way not to admire him.

But after a short thought, Yanchi realized that he was really in big trouble this time.

The atmosphere of the No.20 Three Army Corps is peaceful and peaceful. Except for the basket he poked, nothing major happened during this period, so even though it sounds unbelievable, Your Excellency the Marshal came to the No.20 Three Army Corps , there is no doubt that it is here to deal with him.

This is really...

Banquet is no stranger to Alwitt.

He was familiar with the iconic golden pupils, black hair, expressionless, perfectly symmetrical face.

To be honest, at the beginning, Yanchi didn't quite understand where his resistance and creepy perception of this face came from. Then he stared at it for several days, and finally found: his facial features are completely symmetrical, Only the eyebrows, slightly longer and higher on the left than on the right, break the perfect balance.

Normal people cannot achieve complete symmetry, no matter where.

Yanchi keenly realized with his instinct that what he committed this time was really serious, and it actually alarmed Alwitt, the most well-known war machine among the artificial humans, the leader of the three generals of the military department, the idol of the entire army, and Alwitt. Corvette.

Then, with a cigarette in his mouth, with a dull expression and a rogue posture, he faced Erwitt's emotionless and indifferent gaze.He can be sure that compared to the subconscious inspection just now, this time he really "saw" the banquet pool.

Bathed in Deren's worried gaze, Yanchi stood up straight in bewilderment, thinking, it's over.

Now that he has met the real person, he can admit that Alwitt is worthy of the title of idol of the people.

Hold.

After the airship landed, Deren straightened her spine and stepped forward. When she saw the figure, she raised her hands in salute: "Deren, Commander of the No. 20 Army, come and report!"

She does not squint, straight and standard, like cedar, but also like a reinforced concrete building.A man who was not unfamiliar, Alwitt, appeared in his field of vision.

The marshal's military uniform was different, with a black cross and thorn wreath on his collar, and an olive branch medal on his neckline, which made him look simple and rather unkind, just as Deren expected.And his face may be more vivid than the video product, his complexion is quite pale, and his black hair is tied into a ponytail, which is the only thing that is out of line on him, but against his golden eyes, it is very uniform-inhuman, not even Too human.

And this unkind marshal first inspected all the saluting people present, and then raised his hand to return the salute: "It's a pleasure to meet you, everyone."

Very standard wording, but also a very standard accent.

Of course, due to historical reasons, the language they use now is a rather chaotic, fragmented language mixed with many language families, so the accent is just a distinction made over the years.This is because they lived on Noah's Ark for so long that they communicated with each other and merged.

Le Lunay calls this "the language that broke the Tower of Babel."

Erwitt saw Yanchi, even more subtle than Yanchi's line of sight, even the subtle shadows on his forehead and throat, the slowly condensed sweat oozing out, and the fine hairs that instinctively stood up in the evening breeze I can see clearly.

He had read the information and remembered this face, a 19-year-old young captain with a youthful look, one of the main targets of this investigation.

Deren was very nervous: "Your Excellency Alwitt."

Artificial people do not have surnames, which is one of the many differences between them and natural people, so no matter how much they respect each other, they can only be called by their first names.

This remote station has almost never had the corresponding experience of welcoming a big person of this level, especially since Erwitt came eight hours earlier than the time on the notice, Deren was unprepared, and didn't even ask any questions from the banquet. Doubtful, she couldn't help feeling the sense of loss of control that she hadn't seen for a long time.

Erwitt, as well as she knew, didn't seem to have any reason to continue asking: "Is this him?"

Deren put down her hands and was about to introduce the basic situation of the legion, or go straight to the point and start reporting the cause and effect of the incident, but Alwitt had already started.

Deren also saw the banquet pool in the distance, and replied: "Yes."

Alwitt frowned.This was his first human action, but Deren was not relieved by his human-like expression, but even more nervous.

Yanchi was the child she watched growing up, she couldn't fully control it, nor could she fully understand it, but this didn't prevent her from wanting to protect him.But now it seems that Yanchi's behavior has completely crossed an invisible boundary.

Like Alwitt, the artificial humans who protected the original Noah's Ark fleet from rushing out of the galaxy to gain a chance of life have a specific name, "they", that is, "mechanical gods".

This is not to say how superstitious the new humans are, nor is it to say that these artificial humans who have integrated their main brains into a powerful human-like shell have any superpowers. Their power comes from science and the civilization destroyed by humans themselves.It's just that the new human beings whose civilization has been turned into ruins need faith, and they just exist, with extraordinary significance, representing the intersection of the past and the future, the pinnacle of a lost science and technology, and, in the true sense, guardians.

Deren admitted that even in her own heart, she also believed that "they" existed, and this was the ultimate sense of security.

For these later hatched embryos, the mechanical gods are almost their idols, and the incubators, especially Elwitt, are almost equal to the four words "invincible" for soldiers.He is the de facto and nominal leader of the Legion, practically and spiritually.

Significance.If one day they lose their faith in Elwitt, it will be tantamount to losing their military spirit.

"The wooden man who was let go," Alwitt turned his gaze away from the banquet pool, and continued to ask Deren, "Did you find it?"

Deren shook his head: "Yanchi refused to reveal his characteristics, and the patrol team didn't pay much attention. And...you know that because of our remote location, the boundary between us and Laimuren is not very clear, and even There are also private trading markets, and there are many people coming here, especially in the forest outside the city, there are many hidden places, and it is very difficult to search for them.”

Alwitt nodded noncommittal, "I'll do it."

Deren didn't understand what this sentence meant for a moment.

Is he here to interrogate Yanchi, or is he here to search?

In fact, as we all know, Elwitt is almost a humanoid weapon, whose main function is warfare. His brain is currently the most advanced war mastermind. Although he cannot be seen from the outside, he is a well-deserved commander. catch job?

It is simply overkill.

Deren didn't understand at all, but the soldier's instinct to obey orders made her just put her heels together and raised her hands in salute: "Yes."

The wooden people are the aborigines of the New Earth, with sharp ears and white skin, as pale as paper. These two are the biggest difference between them and the human invaders, and they are also the only basis for judgment.

Their technological development is quite backward. When Noah's Ark came, it was a complete disaster for them.

From the place where the spaceship landed, a steady stream of steel soldiers came out, and the city spread out from there. They brought war, expulsion, tears and blood, burned the forest with flames, felled the giant tree that was regarded as primitive belief, and demanded unrestrained greed. Energy, cut off the umbilical cord that the wooden people depend on to survive and connect with this planet, and connect it to the embryos of another invading race to incubate them.

Humans are hideous monsters who never appeared in any prophecy, but emerged from dark clouds.

They quickly expanded like a plague, driving the Laimu people into the depths of the forest, squeezing their living space, and under Le Lunai's instructions, they showed no mercy or guilt.

Alwitt still remembers that when they first landed, everyone’s faces were as hard as steel. They used fire and blood to prepare for the arrival of a new life. Afterwards, some people began to waver, starting from the parliament, maybe even will cause disintegration.

"Do you think there is any difference between us and them? We are more vulnerable and helpless than them. Survival is predation," Le Rennay said.

She is right.

200 years have passed since then, and Alwitt still remembers Lerenne's expression.She is the hardest one in steel, and the core one among the totems of the gods, until now.

And another kind of person in Le Lunai's prophecy also appeared, and Yan Chi was one of them, he believed, and also the most daring one.

Survival has always been so difficult, whether it was after the big bang, the era of the Galactic Empire, the final war of disintegration, or even now when the Laimu people are being invaded and oppressed, its essence has never changed.You have to fight hard to win the chance.

Nature is generous, but it is also ruthless. Whether human beings are destroyed or not, there is no profit or loss for nature, so it will not protect anyone.Living water is placed within everyone's reach, and that's where the wars begin and never end.

The civilization transplanted on the new land seized all the time to develop crazily, wanting to occupy a place in the future wave and not easily overturned, for this reason they almost exhausted their efforts and burned the sun.

Erwitt is fully aware of this.

But Yan Chi only knew that when he lowered his head, he found a rather long piece of soot lying on the grass.

Tsk, what a pity.