"Is this okay?"

In the halls of the Wasteland's Machine Palace, the murmur, being treated by an ambulance, stretched out its only remaining hand and pulled something shiny from the depths of his shattered mechanical body.

It was also stained with the motor oil in its body, and it looked black.

But the various mechanical runes engraved on its shell, as well as the blue cube gemstone wrapped around its top, show that it is extraordinary.

"The Scepter of Machinery!"

When he saw that thing, the usually calm natural disaster couldn't help but exclaim.

It looked at the miserable murmur, and it said:

"How did you get it?"

"Uh, that's it."

Murmur, a robot that inherited Du Pengde's noisy and had a head convulsion from time to time, was a little embarrassed and a little depressed and said:

"I was broken by Quintasha before, she threw me into the ruins of the temple, and I was alone."

"Then I saw this thing buried under the rubble, I didn't know what it was, but seeing Quintasha so precious it, it must be a fetish."

"I thought, I'm here anyway."

Murmur shrugged his shoulders with difficulty, and it said:

"I can't go for nothing, so I hid it in my body with the only hand I had left. Ms. Icarus, it should help, right? ”

"Of course!"

Icarus reached for the mechanical scepter, which was as tall as herself, and when it landed in her hand, it began to change shape at a rapid pace.

Under the operation of dense micro-mechanical modules, the scepter, which was originally as tall as Icarus, quickly shrank to the point where it was suitable for Icarus to hold.

"The mechanical scepter is a mechanical creation that exists with the leadership module, and there is nothing more suitable than it."

Icarus reached out and took his handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the oil off his scepter.

She handed the scepter to Tony behind her. Stark, she advised:

"This is the best energy medium we can find, gentlemen. My beloved has praised your wisdom countless times, and he believes that in any calamity, your wisdom is enough to save the world. ”

"I'll leave it to you this time."

Icarus looked at the scientists behind him and said:

"Time flows at a different rate in the wasteland than on earth, although in your world, the planet controlled by Quintasha will hit the continental shelf in a matter of minutes. But here, you still have at least 7 hours to splurge..."

"But it's better not to waste it."

"Well, leave it to us, Icarus."

Tony, who has always been prodigal, looks very serious at this moment.

He took the heavy metal scepter and began to assemble a complex set of energy transmission devices with three other companions.

Judging by the gestures linked by these precision devices, it seems that they intend to channel the mechanical energy from the dangerous and mysterious leadership module.

"Ma'am, what do you want?"

Hop glanced back at her companions who had been sent out of the hall, her dreadhammer with purple lightning in her hand, and whispered to Icarus:

"Are you going to use that dangerous thing?"

"Hmm."

The glasses lady brushed her long blue hair, she glanced back in the direction of the throne room, and said:

"Merlin explained me something before leaving."

"The unconscionable guy told me that once the Earth's standing forces were dispersed and things got out of hand, I could try to use the Leadership Module."

"Use it to upgrade my mechanical life and enhance my super power."

"But it's dangerous!"

Hope said in a fierce tone:

"After we got it, we did a lot of contact tests, whether it was a Cybertron or a sapient, as long as they touched it, it would be disintegrated! You can't take any risks just because of a man..."

"I believe that man!"

Icarus raised his hand, interrupting Hope's dissuasion.

She closed her eyes slightly, and said in a light and stubborn tone:

"If he tells me to do it, it means I have to, and I think... If this is the future he has laid out for me, then I will accept it without reservation. ”

"I lived because of him, and I am willing to die for him..."

"IMHO! Love, such an indescribable emotional data, has overwhelmed your thought circuits, ma'am! ”

Adam, another mechanical sage who had returned to the hall at some point, also said in a cold tone:

"Your actions and choices are completely inconsistent with any value optimal, even if the worst-case scenario occurs, even if Quintasha manipulates Cybertron to hit the Earth, causing the Earth to be destroyed..."

"As long as the Divine Monarch Doom remains, this world will still be reshaped to its entirety with time magic that we can't understand."

Adam came to a rather brutal conclusion with the logic of a sapient machine, looking at the four human scientists who were arranging a sophisticated energy device.

A cold glint flashed in its eyes, and it said:

"You don't need to make such sacrifices, we don't even know a little bit about how to use the leadership module, you're not saving the world, you're just looking for death!"

"No, Adam."

Icarus shook his head, and she said:

"In this war, everyone has their own role, Doom has Doom's mission, I also have mine, you don't need to say more."

With that, the leader of the Cult of the Mechanics turned around, and she pointed to a black tome on the table at the edge of the hall, and said:

"What's more, I've learned how to use the leadership module, and that book told me."

"The Dark Book?"

Hope recognized the book with the black cover at a glance.

She knew it was one of the Raven Maharaja's most important emergency collections.

It is said that the book contains the answers to all the questions, but it is also accompanied by some terrifying legends such as being cursed if you read it.

She looked at Icarus worriedly, who rubbed the bridge of her nose a little tiredly, and said:

"It was I who provided the necessary information to the four brains of humanity, and they relied on the answers I got from the Dark Book to design this energy transmission device."

"The success rate is around 75%, as long as I'm not too lucky, I'll be safe and sound, and rely on the leadership module to evolve to a more powerful level, enough to avert all the current mechanical disasters."

Icarus noticed the twinkle in Adam and Hope's eyes, and she said:

"But I don't recommend you to read that book, oh my God, I still have its voice in my head, and it's tempting me to read more forbidden things... Even mechanical thinking can't resist that strange temptation. ”

"Okay."

Icarus persuaded his left and right protectors with irrefutable ideas, and Hope nodded somewhat reluctantly, but then, she looked at the Dread Warhammer in her hand and asked:

"So, is there anything we can do for you?"

"Yes!"

Icarus snapped his fingers and sent the coordinates of something into the minds of Hope and Adam in the form of data, and she said:

"The leadership module allows the mechanical body to evolve endlessly, with the ability to change all of my current data parameters, but it follows the law of conservation of energy."

"There's a limit to the amount of energy it can convert, and I don't want to waste it on shaping weapons."

"In .B's secret warehouse, there happens to be a weapon I need, a weapon that can crush Cybertron head-on..."

The glasses lady said to her left and right protectors:

"Go, as fast as you can, bring it back!"

Adam nodded, clenching the hammer and leaving, Hope thought more, and she asked in a whisper:

"What if. What about B's agents not handing it over? ”

Faced with Hope's question, Icarus replied:

"We're running out of time."

"Hmm."

Hope nodded.

She quickly followed Adam and rushed to the earth with two horror hammers.

These two weapons were used by the Serpent to drain the power of fear, and they were captured by the Mechanicus during Ghidorah's battle to break the seal.

Theoretically, these two weapons can affect the mentality and will of the life that holds them.

The problem is that the serpent's magic can't affect two robots that don't have real feelings.

In order to influence Hope and Adam with the power of fear, the serpent must first encode his magic spell into a data form and implant it into the mind of the intelligence machine in the form of a virus.

Believe me, it's a very, very complicated process.

Merlin may be able to do it, but the old man who still thinks in the Middle Ages will never be able to do it.

After Hope and Adam left, Icarus glanced at the busy scientists, and quietly exited the hall with the Book of Darkness and entered the throne room, where Merlin was staying.

She put the Dark Book back on the shelf and chained it up.

She noticed that Merlin's desk was very messy, and it was still the same as before the raven left, she smiled, leaned down as usual, and patiently and very orderly arranged Merlin's desk.

"Mom..."

The voice of the little red queen sounded from the shadows of the throne room, and Icarus, who was helping Merlin tidy up his desk, turned around and saw his "daughter" running over with an anxious face and stopping in front of her.

"What's wrong? Alicia. ”

Icarus' eyes widened after looking at Little Red, and she asked:

"Is something wrong?"

"I hear them say... They say you're going on an adventure. ”

Xiaohong gritted her teeth and looked at her mother, she said:

"Are you going to fight for that man again? He doesn't care about you at all! He doesn't love you at all... Don't go! Mom. ”

"Where did you hear about that?"

Icarus frowned and crouched down, eye level with Queen Red.

Stroking her daughter's long, realistic hair, she said:

"You should call him 'Daddy' and be respectful to him, even though he may not need it, but you have to be respectful."

"Why!"

Alicia reached out and hugged Icarus, who could feel the little girl's body trembling.

Lying in Icarus's arms, Little Red said to her mother:

"He just treats you, and us as tools, and lets us die for him when we need it."

"I just look like a kid on the surface, Mom, I'm going to learn, and I definitely know more than 99.99% of humans."

"Besides, if he really loves you, why does he still have those flesh-and-blood women by his side?"

"You've done enough for him, you've been paying silently, but he doesn't pay attention at all, he doesn't pay attention at all!"

Alicia said in a fierce tone:

"He has a lot of women and a lot of lovers besides you. But we'll just have you... Don't go, Mom, don't go on any adventures, please. ”

Hearing Alicia's words, Icarus' frown relaxed little by little.

She took a deep breath, and with a gentle gesture that she had never felt before, she picked up Xiaohonghou and sat on Merlin's chair, like a mother holding her child.

She followed the movements of the human women in her memory, gently patted Alicia's head, and she whispered:

"It's different, Alicia."

"You have a lot of people besides me, the entire Cult of the Mechanics is your relatives, Adam, Hope, all the machines in the entire wasteland, are your relatives."

"But do you know why we were born?"

The glasses lady leaned back in her chair, and she whispered:

"We, all the sapient machines, we were born because of Merlin."

"If we are also a civilization, then Merlin is our Creator. As for me, like you, I'm just a cold machine, and I don't know what love is. ”

"He taught me, he taught me what it was like to be human, he gave me a real life, a real life, he gave me a real... Heart. ”

"Listen to me, kid."

Icarus lowered his head and looked at Xiaohong, who was holding her tightly in his arms, and said:

"He gave it to me, and I'm willing to give it to him again. My heart beats only for him. ”

"You can interpret it as an offering to 'God,' but I believe that He also loves me as I love Him, and that His heart is wide enough to accommodate the love of a humble and intelligent machine."

"You will be like me in the future, you will be hopelessly caught in a relationship like a moth to a fire, and you will make the same choice as me, my daughter."

The glasses lady chuckled, she pointed to the chest of the little red queen, and she said:

"We are robots, but who stipulates that under the cold body, there can't be a warm heart that knows how to love others?"

"Will you come back, then?"

Xiaohong looked at her mother pitifully, she learned the way a human child sobbed, and asked pitifully:

"You promised me that you would come back... I swear, when you get back, I'll call him Daddy..."

"You've got to come back, okay?"

Icarus looked at her daughter, and although there could not have been tears in the bionic eyes, at this moment, she really seemed to see tears blooming in Alicia's eyes.

She shook her head softly, hugged her daughter in her arms tighter, she put her chin on her daughter's hair, and said:

"Okay."

"I promise you, I'll definitely come back."