The Dragon King is weak and helpless but can eat [Interstellar]

After the secret door was opened, it was still a deep corridor, the same as before.

Shen Chaomu discussed with the association and decided to come back after going a little further - at least for now, there is nothing that can cause a frenzy of alien beasts.

They are already nearly a hundred meters below the surface, but the corridor continues to go down.

Another long, silent walk, and 10 minutes later they saw a... elevator.

"Freight Elevator 2" is marked on it.

The holographic projection and control interface have been damaged, only one screen and physical buttons can still be used, and only the downward option is available.

Both things are quite short, and a group of people bent over to look at them.

"This thing is estimated to be thousands of years old." Yang Zhiming carefully observed it and pressed a button tentatively.

To everyone's surprise, the screen and buttons lit up.

It emitted a faint white light, and then a rough voice sounded. It sounded like a dwarf was shouting with his neck pulled, and the terminal automatically translated it into Alliance language:

[Hurry up and check your trucks, there are a lot of things waiting to be done]

Instructions appeared on the screen: [Enter mineral information here]

"It's really amazing. The energy source can maintain the operation here." Yang Zhiming bent down and studied it, "It seems that there was a scanning process here, but now the scanning equipment is probably broken. We There is no mineral entry either."

He pressed a few more buttons, trying to skip the process, but to no avail.

"Can it be repaired?" Shen Chaomu said.

"I don't know much about their mechanical structure." Yang Zhiming said, "It might be possible after a comprehensive scan. But now there is no such condition, so I can only try the traditional method. Brother Shen, if your computer is broken, you can What should I do if I can’t find a cultivator temporarily?”

Shen Chaomu said, "My computer has never been broken."

"Okay." Yang Zhiming turned to Long Shiyu, "Sister-in-law, what will you do?"

Long Shiyu said, "I don't have a computer."

Shen Chaomu rubbed his head: "I'll buy you one later."

Long Shiyu smiled openly.

Yang Zhiming: "..."

He chewed the dog food and said in humiliation: "In short, what I want to say is that often the solution for everyone is to pat it hard, or kick it directly, maybe it will work hard. Miracles. Now I want to do the same Dry."

He kicked the bottom of the screen lightly.

no response.

He kicked hard again, and this time the entire screen immediately turned red: [Warning Warning Violence detected]

A jet of high-pressure water shoots out from the bottom of the screen, sending Yang Zhiming flying two or three meters away——Shen Chaomu's mental power catches him, and there is a rushing rattling sound from the corridor behind him, as if something is coming. Quickly approaching, metal collided with metal.

Looking back, several spider-like eight-legged robots appeared, with strangely shaped heads.

Although Yang Zhiming was in a mess, he recognized it at a glance: "It's a laser and a flamethrower."

In the next second, the golden light flew out, precisely cutting the defense robot in half, exposing the complex core and panels.

After many years, most of them do not have much energy, and it is already very strenuous just to move.After the metal was cut, there was still a little bit of electric light, and an energy source they didn't know.

A voice came from behind: [&cjns22fn-nane//]

After a series of mechanical garbled codes, the elevator door slowly opened.

Everyone: "..."

Yang Zhiming was also silent for a few seconds: "No matter what, just do what works."

It was probably specially designed for transporting goods. Unlike the slightly narrow door, the interior of the elevator is so big that it looks like a small square. The dwarves should have other ways to transport minerals conveniently.

Shen Chaomu threw a small robot into it and tentatively selected the nearest floor.

After the elevator doors closed, there was the sound of machinery running, and the robot's data showed that it was descending rapidly.

50 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters, 500 meters...

After 3 minutes, the data showed that it stopped at 531 meters.

This is already quite a deep place, but Shen Chaomu still chose the uppermost floor.

He pressed the elevator button again, and the robot returned to them.

The elevator still works safely.

Shen Chaomu said: "It's fine for Shiyu and I to go down, don't follow."

There were several other hunters beside them, and they immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

Yang Zhiming immediately said: "I want to go down together too. Of course I will be the first person to witness this great machine."

"The bottom line doesn't know the situation yet," Shen Chaomu said, "You should wait with them."

Yang Zhiming said: "Didn't you ask me about the procedure for blocking the president's novels before, and I will send it to you after I get back."

Shen Chaomu: "..."

Yang Zhiming said: "From the first time I saw my sister-in-law, I felt that you were so well matched."

Shen Chaomu said, "You come together."

Long Shiyu: "?"

Although I don't know why, the three of them finally got into the elevator together.

Still chose the nearest floor, they went all the way down.

The elevator descends smoothly and at high speed.I don't know what method the dwarf used. After entering, he couldn't hear the sound of the machine running at all.

Looking up they could see a depth gauge, and a small vertical map blinking with a cursor showing where they had reached.

That number soared to the point of tingling.

From a small glass window on the side, the outside scene can be seen, but it is pitch black, occasionally flashing through the gaps between interlaced brackets.

Three minutes later, the elevator doors opened.

It was still dark outside, Shen Chaomu lit up the area with his mental power, and saw another long black corridor.

When Long Shiyu stepped out, lights lit up from under his feet.

Then every inch of the wall lit up, and the soft white light rhythmically spread into the distance.The rough dwarf voice appeared again: [Hurry up, hurry up, a day is not complete without blacksmithing and sweating]

Walking down the promenade and turning a few corners, what appeared before their eyes was an even bigger space.

The world was covered in twisting black conveyor belts, covered with strange metals that still glisten to this day.

Dense heat dissipation pipes passed over the top of the head, and the hundred-ton mechanical arms were staggered.Numerous gears are engaged with each other. The largest gear is silver and embedded in the wall not far away. It is roughly estimated to be as high as a hundred people.

Metal walkways pass through it, intertwined and interconnected with each other, making people dizzy for a while.

If you lean on the railing and look down, you will see more conveyor belts and bottomless pits, and you don't know how deep it is.

At the end where all the corridors meet, there is a huge black "pillar".

The pillars have a diameter of about 500 meters, and there is also no end in sight, and the surrounding cooling vents are all closed.

Countless pipes connect its surroundings, like thick blood vessels connecting the heart.

"Forging furnace." Yang Zhiming murmured, "This is the forging furnace of the dwarves in the legend. It turns out that they hid the forging furnace underground... No wonder, only a forging furnace of this level can produce such perfect metal... ..."

This world made of pure metal is hidden underground, an unimaginable world.

But now all machinery is silent.

There is no longer any energy to run.

This is the dead city of metal.

They walked through the aisle, Long Shiyu poked his head and looked down.

Shen Chaomu pulled him back: "Be careful of falling."

Long Shiyu said, "But I can fly."

Shen Chaomu: "...In short, pay attention to safety."

When their steps landed on another aisle, Shen Chaomu stopped abruptly.

Mental power caressed the corridor carefully, and he said, "Someone came here not long ago."

However, something seemed to sense their footsteps, and the rough voice shouted in the next second: [My metal babies are starting to work]

There is the sound of a gear turning—

Crisp and cold.

Then two or three small gears were driven to rotate, and in just a few seconds, the gears on the entire wall woke up.

They staggered and intertwined, driving each other, making a happy metal friction sound.Finally, all the gears are rotating, driving the conveyor belt forward slowly.

At the beginning, the transport belt still has a subtle sense of stagnation.

But as the speed of the gears increases, they run more smoothly.The unknown metal was thrown into the forging furnace in this way, the red light faintly lit up, and the huge body of the forging furnace trembled slightly.

There was a sharp and loud cry.

That was the first ray of steam from which to break the bondage.

It was like a clarion call, and the next thing the steel forest came to life.

The crane lifts up hundreds of kilograms of minerals and makes a dull roar when it is in operation.The mechanical arm runs at high speed and puts the minerals on the conveyor belt. The frequency of each other is different, but they cooperate perfectly, and there will be no idle time.

A gust of wind rose from nowhere, blowing the fan blades at the bottom.Thunder and lightning flashed in electric circles, and coal and other unknown fuels were dumped into forges by carloads.

"Crack-"

The cooling vent of the forging furnace was opened suddenly, the air was scorched to the point of twisting, and the flame gushed out a little enthusiastically.When they jump, they can feel the heat in their faces, even when they are far apart.

And all of this is a gear moving slightly.

Perhaps this is the romance of machinery alone.

Yang Zhiming couldn't move his eyes from looking at it. After a long time, he murmured: "...It's so perfect."

Shen Chaomu looked around calmly: "Since there are indeed people underground, let's look down."

Long Shiyu asked: "Are you going to call the other hunters down?"

"Let's wait first, there is too much movement here, and the other party has probably already discovered our intrusion."

"So you're acting on your own right now?"

"Yeah." Shen Chaomu rubbed his head, "It's really smart."

Going down the aisle, through the black exterior of the forging furnace, you can faintly feel the terrible heat.

At the end of the other place, they returned to the corridor and circled back to the elevator.

Shen Chaomu selected the next floor.

The descent of the elevator lasted for a long time this time, a full seven or eight minutes.

The small window next to them could see new things. It was the mechanical kingdom they had just seen. Countless crawlers flashed in front of them. Only the forging furnace like a pillar did not know where it was going.

A few minutes later, it was dark outside the window.

Nothing to see but feel, they were still descending rapidly.

The sound of fire, steam, and the sound of conveyor belts and mechanical arms became more and more noisy.

And the sound of the furnace running.

As the power increased, the sound became more and more noisy, like the beating heart of a giant.

The elevator trembled slightly, as if resonating with the machine.

The depth displayed on the gauge is constantly changing.

600 meters, 800 meters, 1000 meters... There is still no tendency to stop, as if it is about to fall to the center of the earth.

A certain sense of oppression ensues.

This is different from the deep sea.

The deep sea is an unknown and savage fear, drifting and loneliness that will drown in the next second, but can't shout.And here is a kingdom that has been rigorously developed, everything is well-organized, coupled with the bottomless depth, the sense of oppression is extremely heavy——

The Alliance knows neither too much nor too little about the dwarves, and many legends are just hearsay.Their exquisite forging techniques can only be glimpsed through the occasional yellow sand wreckage and the small mechanical products brought back by the Zhanshu Merchant Association.

And this sudden appearance of the pyramid shows another side of the dwarves.

The forge was hot, and the elevator kept going down.

It seems to be slowly walking into the real core of a dead civilization.

After 2 minutes, the elevator stopped slowly.

The door opened, and there was still a corridor in front of them. At the end of the corridor was a room with a sign hanging on the top: [rest area].

The doors are all open, and there are clean and tidy beds inside.

Shen Chaomu walked over and said, "It is said that the dwarves are unkempt, but here it is quite different."

"It should be because of this." Long Shiyu pointed to the wall.

After the translation, there was a sticker on the wall: [800 yuan will be deducted from wages if you don’t pay attention to hygiene]

[The following is the list of punished personnel, a total of 1009 people in the area, 1011 violators]

[Announcement: Starting from September 9, the new autonomous cleaning robot will be launched]

Shen Chaomu: "...I still overestimated them, but why are there two more violators."

The list was too long to read, and it took a few more steps to see the end.The last two people who were fined seemed to be the cleaners here.

They went straight to work.

Shen Chaomu's mental power swept across and found an anomaly in one of the rooms.

That room is at the end of the corridor, separated from other rooms by a long distance, and there are even a few defensive doors in the middle—now the defensive doors are invalid, Yang Zhiming simply pressed a few times on the console next to him, and he was able to open.

It seems that people in the two areas do not need to move around very often.

To be precise, there were only two or three houses in that area.

Push the door open and go in, there is a bowl of instant noodles that have been soaked in camel, not a bite has been eaten, and the fork is placed next to it.The sheets were crumpled, someone had just been lying there not long ago, and there was an open pornographic magazine on top of it.

Shen Chaomu took a look and got Long Shiyu out of the room.

Long Shiyu said, "Why did you pull me out?"

"There are things inside that you shouldn't see." Shen Chaomu said, "You stay outside first."

Long Shiyu was extremely dissatisfied: "I'm already a hundred-year-old dragon..."

"Anyway, I can't watch it." Shen Chaomu said as he scanned the room, transmitted the data back, and handed it over to others for analysis.

Other than that there was nothing unusual here, and they went back to the elevator.

The sound of mechanical operation came, and they went all the way to the depths of the earth.

Guang Yu seemed to have left something in his consciousness that day.

After that, Shen Chaomu could always see flashback scenes.

So during the 10-minute descent, in the silence of the three of them, something vaguely emerged.

It was a tall palace...

Tall halls, splendid domes, and dragons entrenched.

This is the feast of the dragons, layers of gold and diamonds complement each other, and the wine is warm.

They uttered dull jeers, vile sarcasm, all fangs and teeth directed at the lone challenger—

He is alone and clinging to a bright light, he is a fearless brave man.

The young man sitting on the main seat, with colorful polarized clothes, looks very familiar.

...To be precise, it is exactly the same as Long Shiyu.

When he saw Shen Chaomu, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly ran over barefoot among a group of evil dragons, and then an evil dragon slammed into his arms.

He said, "Did you come here specifically to find me?"

Since the wedding day, he hasn't seen him for many days, and his Union language has improved by leaps and bounds.

Shen Chaomu said, "No, I'm here to slaughter..."

In the next second, his body was suspended in the air.

Long Shiyu was so excited that he didn't listen to what he was talking about. He was hugged by a princess and rushed out of the hall without leaving even a shadow

The bewildered Qunlong and the bewildered Shen Chaomu.

——Isn’t he here to slay the dragon?

Shen Chaomu was frightened sober from the memories.

What the hell is this?

He suddenly turned his head to look at Long Shiyu.

Long Shiyu: "?"

He stole the princess's hand again: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

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