Chapter 378 Exploration and Discovery


    While sending dolls to conduct a carpet-style search on the entire base, Duanmu Huai was bored and began to look at the surroundings.


    Judging from the structure here, this seems to be a very ancient mechanical divine stronghold. At least many of its structures and decorations indicate that it may have originated from the earliest days of the human empire, but... this means that there may be some unknown secret hidden here.


    Well, this is all nonsense. Almost every stronghold of the Mechanical Divine Cult looks like this.


    In fact, in the game, what players dislike the most is the behavior of the Mechanical Divine Cult. They believe that if the religious flavor of the Mechanical Divine Cult is not so strong, the technological development of the human empire may be improved by a few more levels, and will not end up in such a single end.


    The reason is very simple.


    Although the Mechanical God Cult appears to be a scientific and technological research organization on the surface, it is a religious organization at the end of the day. They fanatically believe in the God of All Things and believe that knowledge is a manifestation of sacredness. All creatures or cultural relics with knowledge are also sacred because of knowledge. Those with more knowledge will naturally be worshipped.


    It seems that there is no problem, but it will be very painful to bring it into the religious attributes of the Mechanical Divine Cult.


    Mainly this sentence - knowledge is a manifestation of sacredness. The more knowledge you have, the more worship you will be.


    Under this doctrine, there is no exchange or sharing of knowledge in the Mechanical God Church at all. Of course, it would be fine if it is not very useful or universal and general knowledge, but they are all hiding those truly high-end and sophisticated things. Because according to the teachings of the Mechanical Divine Church, I have obtained these high-end knowledge, and I am closer to the God of Ten Thousand Machines than others. If I want to tell them out, the others have also obtained the same amount of knowledge, and they are also closer to the God of Ten Thousand Machines.


    Therefore, many good things in the Mechanical God Cult are hidden by themselves and do not tell anyone. However, as we all know, once knowledge is not popularized, spread and communicated, then... it is basically equivalent to working behind closed doors and doing whatever it can be.


    Once the hidden secret casting world or mechanical divine stronghold is broken, it means that the entire research results and knowledge system are completely lost and scrapped.


    From this we can see that religion harms people...


    Of course, the human empire is over, and it doesn’t make any sense to liquidate the Mechanical Divine Cult now. However, for players, any place that has something to do with the Mechanical Divine Cult will make them excited - after all, there may be some kind of black technology holy object buried in it.


    For Duanmu Huai, he wished that there was a treasure book of thousands of machines, so he would have just entered a well-off society through running, but unfortunately, the possibility is not high. After all, no player has discovered the STC in the game. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you think about it... After all, everyone has the power of YY, and the judge is no exception. Hahahahahaha...


    "Um?"


    Just as Duanmu Huai fantasized about obtaining the Ten Thousand Machine Book and sweeping across the entire Milky Way, the report from the doll immediately came to his senses.


    According to the dolls'' reaction, there is nothing in this base?


    No threats, no traps?


    Is it really an empty shell that has been abandoned?


    “Go in and take a look.”


    Duanmu Huai held the hammer tightly and walked inside with big strides.


    Just as the puppets'' reconnaissance resulted in the entire base, the entire base was in a mess, and traces of battle could be seen everywhere. It was obvious that there had been battles and attacks here, and basically most of the things had been destroyed. However, the situation of these corpses seems to be somewhat problematic.


    “Well… it’s so strange.”


    Duanmuhuai squatted down and stared at the corpse of an oil man at his feet. Like most oil man, this oil man had transformed his body beyond recognition. There were metal prosthetics everywhere, which looked like alien mechanical bugs, but more like humans. If the Inquisition had not ruled that the symbol of pure humans was the skull, then these things would have been disposed of as aliens long ago.


    Forget it, don''t talk about this.


    Judging from the bodies, these motor oil men died strangely. They just fell to the ground without even picking up weapons. In other words, it was more like an unexpected disaster than an attack, as if some irresistible factor had instantly swept across the entire stronghold, and then these motor oilmen fell to death on the spot without any preparation.


    Sub-space storm? But if the sub-space storm is the entire stronghold not to explode directly on site?


    Or some kind of virus? It''s impossible. After all, this institute is at the foot of the mountain. If the virus really leaked, it would have become a dead place outside.


    Forget it, just go and take a look. These motor oil guys have all kinds of ways to kill themselves. Duanmu Huai couldn''t imagine what they did.


    In fact, the same is true.


    "What did these motor oil guys do..."


    Looking at the scene in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also stunned. He is now in a huge room at the deepest point of the stronghold, which houses a huge, looking like a giant sink that the aquarium would use. The sink has already burst. Judging from the instruments and the corpses of the motor oil man who were knocked away around, this should be the first crime scene.


    However...how did the sink explode?


    "Um?"


    At this moment, Duanmu Huai suddenly felt a gaze coming from the void, and he hurriedly turned his head to look at the place where his gaze was. I saw nothing there, but the next moment, accompanied by a scream of "Ah!", a blonde girl appeared quietly from it, trembling and curled up into a ball, staring at Duanmu Huai uneasy.


    Seeing this scene, Ojis tilted his head curiously.


    "Ghost?"


    "perhaps."


    Duanmu Huai nodded. After all, the other party was floating in the air and his body was translucent. Since he was not a human, he was mostly a ghost. And at this moment, the blonde girl stared at the rose knot on Duanmu Huai''s chest, hesitated for a moment, and then whispered.


    "May I ask...are you the judge?"


    "oh?"


    Hearing the blonde girl''s inquiry, Duanmu Huai''s eyes flashed.


    "Who are you?"


    Duanmuhuai stared at the girl ghost and asked. Although the latter was a little scared, he saw that Duanmuhuai did not seem to be malicious, so he spoke slowly.


    "I am...Experimental Subject No. 28912..."


    "Experimental subject?"


    Hearing this introduction, Duanmu Huai frowned.


    "Sorry, can you tell me what happened here in full?"


    The ghost girl nodded and then began to tell her story - what surprised Duanmu Huai was that this girl was actually an imperialist (yes, that empire of the human empire), and she was also a psychic, but her spiritual ability was not very strong. After being discovered to possess psychic energy, the girl was taken to this base. The girl at that time didn''t know what the motor oil guys here were doing, she only knew that they seemed to be doing experiments, and she was the subject of experiments.


    Then she died.


    Well, the experiment failed and then died.


    It''s not that normal.


    However, she did not die completely, and her soul was bound in this space, and the girl herself didn''t know what was going on, so she had to stay here and observe the experiments of these motor oil guys, and then she slowly discovered what these people were doing.


    "They... seem to have found a special STC, which allows the subspace''s psychic energy to merge with organisms, thus producing perfect psychic creatures... Although I don''t understand most of the things they say, they seem to want to... create another emperor..."


    "hehe."


    Hearing this, Duanmu Huai''s face remained unchanged and he smiled.


    Because he is a motor oil guy, he is not beyond his expectations, he really dares to think about anything.


    Of course, it is understandable that the oil man would have this idea. Judging from the time the girl told her, she should have lived in the middle and late stages of the empire where the emperor sat on the toilet. At that time, there were indeed many factions studying this issue. In fact, even within the court, there are similar differences.


    For example, there are two factions in the Inquisition Court. One is committed to resurrecting the Emperor, and the other is looking for a brand new body to allow the Emperor''s soul to be possessed and reborn and manage the empire.


    Of course, the former was very difficult, and the latter was also denied by many judges at that time.


    After all, you say possession is possession, and you say reincarnation is reincarnation. How can you ensure that the possession is the emperor and not other monsters? There is only one emperor in the human empire. If something goes wrong, we don’t know who to solve it!


    So it is not surprising that there are similar factions in the Mechanical Divine Cult.


    And according to previous records of the truth of the empire, the emperor... seems to have really been made by man?


    Then the experiment kept failing.


    "What happened in the end?"


    "Um………"


    Hearing Duanmuhuai''s inquiry, the ghost girl frowned and recalled for a moment.


    "Those people said... it seemed to be a problem of body shape and could not bear too much subspace energy, so they found a big whale..."


    "oh………"


    Duanmuhuai now knows how the sink came from.


    "Then what?"


    “……It seems like an explosion occurred during the experiment, and then…everyone died.”


    The normal operation of the Mechanical Divine Cult is no surprise.


    As for that STC... I guess it''s over.


    "So what are you going to do now?"


    "I have no idea……"


    Faced with Duanmu Huai''s inquiry, the ghost girl shook her head blankly. She had been sleeping here since then. If it weren''t for Duanmu Huai''s arrival, she would probably not have woken up.


    "I am really worthy of being the master."


    Ojisi''s words are praise or criticism... Duanmu Huai is too lazy to care about them.


    "Speaking of this, how could you suddenly appear?"


    "Hey? That..."


    Hearing Duanmuhuai''s inquiry, the ghost girl was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head with a slightly red face.


    "After being watched by the judge, looking at your eyes, I felt my heart beating faster, and I felt a very strange feeling..."


    "Um………?"


    Looking into my eyes? Heartbeat?


    Could it be...


    Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai thought for a moment and silently reached out his hand.


    “…………Judge, why are you doing with the rope?”


    "I said, are you interested in being my devil?"


    "………Why???"


    (This chapter ends)