Free Web NovelChapter 269: Chapter 73: Welcome to the Mechanical Realm
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"You’ve chosen a hell of a job, the kind that’s so difficult it’s virtually a death sentence... Ulaga’s disease is spreading,"
Could these souls be the ones you’re supposed to straighten out, the very question that arises... trapped souls within a mechanical body, broadly understanding the White Fog?
"And yet their soul deficiencies, just the kind you’re faced with, always imply some twisted disease that far surpasses their mechanical capabilities; when you initiate an attack on them, it’s principally these twisted souls that you’re up against,"
: Slokou continued to talk,
"Few people can even handle this job in the entirety of Mechanism City. To repair soul deficiencies, to repair mechanical injuries, you are tasked with the responsibility to repair broken-souled mechanoids, the job of a true twisted soul mechanic,"
: Xie Chengzhi had perhaps already finished his journey through the White Fog, or may have just started but suddenly felt that the White Fog was rather tricky,
It’s a profession that’s priceless, and Han Lang Liu was not the only one worth mentioning among the mechanical city residents.
Like these mechanical city residents, both Xie Chengzhi and the White Fog today could glean information about each other.
Mechanic of twisted souls correction: Profession, Reputation: 0, Original Lifespan: White Fog,
—— It wasn’t long before everyone was able to download their profession upon completion, ready to embark. Xie Chengzhi was startled, as White Fog’s first response was playful laughter,
"Are you teasing me? Don’t you see the great risk in ’high-risk jobs’, being such a smart person? You’re joking with me, White Fog?"
: Xie Chengzhi was momentarily stunned on the spot,
"You know what this job is, I chose twisted soul mechanic, I didn’t have a choice for medic," freeωebnovēl.c૦m
: Xie Chengzhi immediately questioned him, as he hadn’t realized yet what twisted soul mechanic was,
But Xie Chengzhi believed Erleipu’s eyes, that he had chosen a twisted soul mechanic. The phrase ’high-risk job’ was scary enough to make a normal person back off.
High-risk job, in parentheses, twisted soul mechanic was called, the very lowest option in the profession list that was pulled down to him by White Fog,
Little Bai was very afraid of this place, and she chose bodyguard as if she was treating it like a banquet for herself,
While Zheng was very lazy and followed with a five-nine choice as his sidekick, and Xie Chengzhi chose medic,
"I will bring you along to earn some contributions in the future, since you followed me in this choice. You could’ve chosen medic with me. I was having a tough time fixing mechanical arts; I could’ve possibly seen Zero this time. I only ever saw a downgrade of Zero’s system inside the city, my father Old Plank actually said he was the only one who had ever seen Zero. What could you possibly choose, Old Plank?"
: Xie Chengzhi said, having parsed through a lot of the insinuating information from White Fog,
"Eyes giving long several messages clearly this the beginning choice important very is."
]"Enjoy the adventurous Mechanism City, I suggest you pull the occupation list to the very end, my friend."[
"If you can survive leaving here, or maybe you will gain a lot more elevation in Mechanism City, although this place is the creation of Zero numbers. But maybe you can find something over Zero numbers here, and... after all, machines have souls too, you never know what kind of revolution might happen."
"But if you fight through outside methods, as opposed to your basic work, you will get more status points. The higher your status points, the higher your chance of seeing Zero numbers. At the same time, there are some rare commodities which are very demanding."
"Congrats are very important––I’ll just tell you a little detail. You can complete your job within the scope of vocation and earn contribution points by looting or killing—or whatever."
"Machine City doesn’t feed idlers, as they say. Everyone must choose a job, no exceptions. As a new person in Mechanism City about to step into your chosen profession, you’ll open up areas that are different from the zones you’ve encountered before, be it a courier, an old teacher, a company manager, a mercenary, a vigilante, a male prostitute, a gang member, a laborer, a doctor:[Choose your profession]."
"Because of the story of Erleipu’s eyes, I jumped out with a little explanation, there five people are just like this white mist on this side."
"Their brains are filled with strange images."
"At this moment, Bai Yu and Little Bai, Zheng and Five Five, are all in the external zone, three standing."
"You’ll understand it soon enough. We here in this special ecosystem have our own unique system of survival, even carbon-based life forms like us are original life forms in their terminology."
"What’s the play here?"
"Don’t rush, take it easy, we still have about thirty seconds to choose our initial roles."
Xie Zheng looked up and said, "White Fog seems to understand very well."
Bai Yu looked towards Xie Zheng, "In order to gain more contribution points to enter the city. This currency of this world is what we are realizing we need to earn."
"We’re no use, just waste to these mechanical races, as they say. Without energy in our bodies, we don’t have any contribution points, we can’t."
Xie Zheng listened to the first half of the sentence and replied with a half-smile, "This place is not for the vulnerable tower citizens to survive, it’s interesting."
"So we could be attacked just by appearing out of nowhere like this. Could this place be intended to thoroughly purge certain twisted rules or would it be more suitable for human survival than the higher towers?"
Bai Yu’s internal shock was already eager to explore and confront, yet surprisingly contained.
"Although we don’t know whether these mechanical bodies are supposed to have a living soul, this is the largest exosystem beyond the tower that I’ve seen. This city is simply magnificent, hard to imagine. Were you not surprised the first time you came? I was also very shocked."
Xie Zheng, who had been silently watching Bai Yu for a while, said, "Not at all."
Bai Yu quickly sorted his thoughts––this place, if left to face the threats alone, relying solely on his own flesh and blood body, even a small town of Han Lang Liu would be frightening, much less this place.
"This dog that can be picked up by Han Lang Liu’s casual scavengers should arguably be the weakest of all the living creatures in Mechanism City, the smallest advertisement before disease-ridden Carapace Bugs, not to mention Ya Gang pirates who are clearly more dangerous than Han Lang Liu..."
"At the same time, this prompts me to urgently upgrade to even newer equipment. These Mechanism City beings may appear frail... but they’re fearfully allergic to the purest form of flesh and blood, capable of inflicting colossal damage, capable of... beating tech specialists at their own game."
"But the eyes had given him a piece of data — one attack could knock off fourteen percent of his own life value. The rest hadn’t changed; there were no abnormalities in mutation level, no strange terms."
"The best you can do is quickly sell this contribution point for a profit. I mean, you can indeed get yourself a piece of Slokou’s eye equipment — one that possibly might bite fourteen percent off your life value in one go — but Locke, Little Bai, it’s still being roughed up by Han Lang Liu’s stray dogs, although it’s just a shitty mongrel. You really shouldn’t pick on it! But, oh, this damned duress of mine, it looks lush with its mech exterior shell, it’s clearly a quirky Shitzu, but inside, it has the soul of just a mongrel! Really, I won’t tolerate it," Locke scolded.
Not far in front of him was an electrically distorted mechanized dog brain case.
Little Bai quickly came to understand that this place was hugely powerful.
Little Bai smiled. His first exploration into the black zone seemed like it would last longer than expected.
This place was dangerous territory, the black zone, and it was also inhabited by a Mechanism City person...
But he had never ventured beyond the gigantic parameter of the tower’s outer zone, let alone encountering this in his life experiences.
Was this Little Bai’s realization of an old prophecy, amidst the relentless transmissions of the great Pang’s messages?
"To prevent the spread of the Ulaga disease, please refrain from close contact with other mechanoids and do not merge your personal data with strangers. Head to the A3 Hospital every five weeks for Syndicate cleansing, as we are currently checking the presence of the Ulaga disease in humans."
"Mechanical hearts can be remodeled into such monstrous beings as the Carapace Bug, Ulaga disease, and sea robbers! We must welcome the God of Mechanical beings to bless us, and at the Mechanism Church’s gathering, the mighty Mechanism Giants will lead us upward. The weak, the flesh and blood will cheerfully join the Mechanism Church Assembly!"
"You might need our Gemo company’s latest product — the 64ʇ Type Reverse Shield — even more, which is incomparably more powerful than a mere firearm. But if you’ve bought the 64ʇ Type Spiral Particle Cannon already, then others will buy it, too. Aren’t I right? Acknowledge that the 64ʇ weapon is a revolution in itself," said Erloke with a slight implication.
"That might be a bit awkward for you, Mr. Damara Corporation, since you have to pawn your temporarily worthless Heart Core Mechanoid for some petty advantage in the city. But just by doing so, you could get a one-time body experience test where you’ll receive a small benefit from us, naturally. And since you’ve still got that p series body, which looks good but is embarrassing, and because you can’t find a way to gift a girl who likes you the latest model Mech Walkman from the inner city market, you’re still struggling to scrape enough contribution points, aren’t you?" Jing taunted.
"Hey brothers, why not start the day with a bountiful breakfast, a splendid 12ɔ fuel series, and enjoy life to the fullest right from the start, with a mere 0.70˙ donation points?" Old Plank said cheerfully.
Because of the loud advertisements echoing around, one couldn’t really talk about it here.
Little Bai slowly observed and after confirming his bewilderment, he slowly explained to Ulaga how one should survive in this place.
"After this incident, we’ll slowly learn a lot about Mechanism City’s whole situation, including my old plan — because this place and the inner city are inseparably linked. The real rich people stay here, waiting to reach zero, a place you must visit, because that’s where the actual Core City is," Old Plank admitted.
Little Bai looked up.
"You won’t be seeing zero, not if you don’t have enough contribution points and prestigious points. That machine over there simply offers more, because, after all, you’re going to have to earn contribution and prestigious points if you want to venture into the inner city, see the twisted place of crime and decay, the bustling inner city with all its splendor," the announcement continued.
Little Bai’s gaze shifted toward the towering high-rises of the inner city.
It was quite evident that these places demanded money; they were also about contribution points.
In the end, the white fog referred to these mechanical creatures simply as "they". They need food and energy sources, and there are still huge piles of waste materials where treasures are to be found.
In some dark corners, there are these Mechanism City citizens sitting around, smoking, seemingly engrossed in card games. One could catch glimpses of Heart Core Mechanoids with parts of their mechanical bodies exposed.
["Have you heard the advertisements for Mechanism City? Although this place is a dump site for the production waste of various types within the city, it’s not officially part of Mechanism City’s boundary. But what is a dump site, really? Isn’t this where all the Mechanism City’s edge-dwellers live, depending on the spirits in their memories to build from the random waste, creating something dangerous, making this place an odd, dangerous ghost territory? Haven’t you seen these houses?"
Where there should be spirit fragments, piles accumulate, with the offcast lives of the Mechanism City clinging to them.
White fog does not stop scanning the surroundings and looking far off into the distance, ever vigilant.
This place is an old social district; various mechanical creatures live here in these big city outskirts.
The sight before him felt unsettling, although White Fog had played quite a few sci-fi fantasy games before reaching Mechanism City for the first time.
This world had no moon or sun, a strong energy field enclosing it that allowed no external object to intrude. It was like a separate, standalone world.
Even the busy airborne traffic of the floating megacity one thousand two hundred meters above, including flying vehicles and other strange flying objects, huge advertisements, countless towering buildings, all appeared in the distant line of White Fog’s vision.
The town looked like a painting of a seven-hundred-year-old town, replete with various wall colors from the mixed light tubes, coupled with graffiti of various bizarre shapes. However, these elements only made the abandoned town seem even more like a static painting. These high-rises weren’t just discussing the past; they were presenting it, appearing within White Fog’s immediate view.
It was like the bright fluorescence of the market ruins at the very beginning, now just a scattering of tall and not so tall buildings.
Erloke said, without missing a beat, "Our luck isn’t bad; we’ve found a rather warm village this time."
He slowly opened his eyes.
With the blackness slowly dissipating, White Fog heard a cacophony of metallic scraping noises and boisterous advertisements, clearer than before.
"Don’t fall into an eternal abyss, Mechanism City, your heart’s core is already imprinted with our hotlines’ orders! Hurry up and act, only 8·99 contribution points for a limited sale!"
"Let our 64ʇ Type Spiral Particle Cannon blast those Wang bastards to death and start your mechanical life from the enemy’s demise!"
"Don’t worry! Erloke Street is putting up a new 64ʇ Type Spiral Particle Cannon today, rush to grab a limited time offer, only six small hours! Hurry to use the contribution points."
"Are you still terrified of the Ya Gang pirates’ plunder? Or still suffering from the disease brought by the help of the Carapace Bug, as the day has begun to heat up? Are you all set to welcome the clear morning sun, welcome to Mechanism City?"
(Unusable, white silver great alliance machine stop breaking 31/100 complete progress.)
