The smell of blood, rust, oil, and the fermentation of takeaway food poured into the induction port.

Joshua activated the eye observation loop, the soul scanning lens was charged, and with a slight buzz and snowflake screen, the world became clear to his eyes. The warrior saw the black ceiling, the smudged walls, and the corpse of the aging man who had fallen in front of him.

Simply pushing away the mechanical arm on his side, which he knew at a glance was for repair, Joshua controlled his current body and walked down from the workbench, and the man stood on the floor of the workshop full of debris and parts, lost in thought.

"The body of a puppet."

He muttered to himself, and then scanned his body: red-black vigilance livery, humanoid torso, badly damaged external armor, a large hole in his abdomen, he could see the internal deranged steel parts and flashing electric sparks, and he could sense a strong magical reaction where the armor was broken.

It is a humanoid puppet that is slightly taller than the average person, with a smooth body shape and rounded joints, somewhat similar to a mannequin from a biology class.

"Soul core injection completed...... The Reaper Substructure of the Serial Snova-21 is badly damaged and awaiting a replacement of parts by a maintenance mechanic. After completing the repairs, go to the second section of the defense line in the eastern breeding area for defensive operations. ”

A faint electromagnetic signal vibrated strange soul fluctuations, emanating from the device built into the body.

"It's fun now...... replacing the so-called 'soul core' of this puppet with steel fragments, Joshua analyzed the electromagnetic signals and soul fluctuations coming from his body, and couldn't help but be a little funny: "It actually fell on the body of a mechanical structure?" ”

Could it be that Sibeya's will to the world acquiesces that his life form is closest to this steel puppet?

That's too much, I'm obviously human.

Thinking of this, Joshua turned his head and looked at the corpse of the aging man on the side, this man had just died, and his soul seemed to be dissipating, but because of his presence, the fragile soul began to gradually approach the soul abyss, and finally submerged into Joshua. Skillfully accepting the soul that seemed to be about to break, he couldn't help but sigh: "Forget it, the robot is the robot." ”

There is a ready-made humanoid intelligent life male body next to it, but as a result, he instinctively chooses a mechanical body, which proves that his own life form is indeed somewhat surpassing that of humans, and it is not the same as most carbonyl life forms.

"But the energy level of this world ...... Not quite like a small world. ”

Using the power bestowed by the shards of steel, Joshua supported the broken mechanical body to the corpse, and there was no doubt that the intelligent beings of this world, the creatures known as the 'Siberias', had souls...... According to the research results confirmed by Joshua during his communication with the old Pope not long ago, the soul is a transcendent organ that can only appear in a world with a great surplus of free energy.

Moreover, there is not a lot of magic overflowing from the surrounding air, and according to the classification of the world, the world of Xiboya is at least a world of demons.

There is no doubt that all the news of Steelpython Siboya is outdated.

Slowly lifting the body that had fallen into a pool of congealing blood and placing it on the bed beside him, Joshua observed the dead man, and then noticed at a glance the large hole in the other's head that was transparent to the left and right, and the welding torch in his hand that did not let go even if he died. He understood that the person in front of him had committed suicide, and the reason was unknown.

"Maintenance mechanic in the sixth maintenance room. Status: Deceased. The soul has dissipated, and the body is transported to the medical area. ”

And just as Joshua was carefully observing the corpse in front of him, a faint electromagnetic signal came, which seemed to let the puppet he possessed complete the task.

Ignoring this information, the warrior shook his head at this, and couldn't help but feel a little pity...... If the shards of steel had landed on this body, then Joshua might have been able to rely on a powerful soul to read the memories in the other person's brain, but now that he was possessed by a construct, things would be a bit of a problem. In search of information about the environment he was in, the warrior looked around the maintenance room, and he noticed the books that filled all the bookcases, and naturally found the blood-stained diary on the workbench.

He went to his workbench and began to flip through the diary.

The language in which the diary was recorded, recorded in the message transmitted by the steel python, was a small Chinese language in the middle of the Sibeya world, although there were some word changes in it, but everything was within an acceptable range, Joshua at first just flipped through it as quickly as a machine, but when he was halfway through it, the hand of the mechanical construct paused for a moment, and the warrior continued to read, and the speed of the constructor flipping through it became slower and slower, until finally, Joshua flipped to the last page and read the diary thoroughly.

“…… Breeding area, garden area...... Soul golems, humans like golems, and, soul cores. ”

At this time, Joshua already knew that what he had descended was a harvesting soul puppet used to suppress the 'breeding area', and the corpse in front of him was the mechanic who repaired the puppet. The warrior frowned and stared at the corpse of the nameless mechanic, this muddy man had waited alone for twenty years of slavery after awakening, but even so, he still had hope. He knew that he was destined to die, but he chose the day he died, and would never let others pretend to control his fate.

"Warriors."

Reaching out and closing the other's unclosed eyes, Joshua placed the journal on the other's chest and began to summarize the information that was known so far.

According to the diary, it is generally known that he is currently located in an area called the 'Garden Zone', which is surrounded by a vast 'farming area'. The Garden District is home to the best maintenance mechanics and doctors, as well as the most elite soul golems, and all their tasks are to do their jobs and take care of the 'children'.

The age of the 'children' ranges from small to large, the youngest has just been born, the oldest is close to sixteen years old, and more than sixteen years old, they will be taken away by the soul puppet and sent to the medical area. These children are sent from all over the breeding area, not many of them, but there are also many of them, and it is not possible that all young children will be sent to the garden area to be raised.

It's like an unnamed mechanic, his work log was in the breeding area at the beginning, and then because of the improvement of his skills, he entered the garden area to work.

The garden area is not producing, it is enshrined, and it is enshrined in the vast breeding area. The farming area is a vast field of farmland and pasture, in which countless people work and produce huge quantities of grain and meat. Some of the plants are used to enshrine the garden area, while the other part is sent into the distance.

Speaking of this, Joshua couldn't help but think of the scene he had seen when he was still in the middle of the sea on the Siberian continent: the barren continent was full of sandstone and yellow-green plains, with only dots of green. Now that I think about it, those greens may be the breeding area. The green arable land, which can be clearly seen at such a high altitude, should be enough to feed a million people.

"Puppet intelligent life, cultivate souls, and separate 'super energy units'...... A rebel who can control magic, a giant tower at the center of the world...... How has the world been spent for more than a thousand years? ”

Neither the Nameless Mechanic nor the Steel Python Siboya knew very little about the world, and the Nameless Mechanic had speculated about the existence of a group of rebels outside the breeding area through the damaged golems sent from time to time, and Joshua had confirmed this through the mission of the electromagnetic signal, but he knew nothing about the world.

But it didn't matter, and the warrior soothed the joints of his current body. What he had was the opportunity to observe the world.

Joshua is not a nameless mechanic, he doesn't even have the strength to get out of the pit corridor, the other party has waited for twenty years, and can only sneak out to observe while the puppet changes shifts, and he can walk freely wherever he wants to go according to his own heart.

The goal of the warrior is to find out why the will of the world was kicked out, and according to Joshua's intuition, this matter is definitely related to the spiral tower in the center of the world...... Even if it didn't matter, it was the most important landmark in the world, and it must be very important, and most of the grain in the farming area was taken away, and he suspected that it was sent in the direction of the giant tower.

Controlling the mechanical body, he came to the bookcase. Joshua didn't feel the slightest discomfort, and even felt very relaxed...... This body was too light compared to his body, which made the warriors who were accustomed to tens of millions of tons of weight feel like they were floating. With this strange illusion in mind, Joshua pulled a book from the bookcase, rubbed the cover of the book, and flipped through its contents.

If an alchemy engineer comes here and reads the books, he is likely to exclaim excitedly, because this is a completely different path from the puppets in the Microf world, it has found a new way from the perspective of the soul, and has created a highly autonomous, highly intelligent construct, and the biggest point of this technology is the soul core.

"Because it takes too many resources to create artificial souls, I directly use the souls of living people to transform ......"

Just by taking a cursory look, Joshua could understand the true face of the so-called soul core: it was a living soul that had been transformed into a mechanical program by some special means! Souls are born with powerful computing powers, which can replace the brains of living beings, and with a little modification, they can easily become the control center of a puppet!

With Joshua's mind, he was not affected by this kind of thing, he had seen countless cultists' priestly rituals, he had seen crazy collective suicides, mutual eating feasts, he had been to hell and abyss, he had tortured and killed demons with his own hands, extracted and transformed the souls of living people, not to mention demons, even some evil spirit mages often did it, he was not surprised.

But that's all done by the evil god believers of chaos, evil evil spirit mages, and demons of the chaotic abyss...... Those beings do these things only on a whim, but this world is planning and perfecting it, forming an industrial chain, from the beginning of screening, worshipping, cultivating, and picking, everything is too perfect and logical...... This has constituted a society whose main purpose is to harvest souls.

In other words – it's an order.

Joshua closed the book, not because he didn't want to continue reading, but because the wound in his body and abdomen was bursting with bursts of electricity, and the sound of warning of the error was coming one after another.

"Before exploring the world, fix your own carrier, without enough force, everything is empty talk."

The warrior sank his spirit into the steel shards and began to mobilize the power within, scanning his current body thoroughly.

The body is made of a unique inert metal alloy with strong corrosion resistance and flexibility, and the melting point of this alloy can only be said to be okay, and the strength is also medium to high. The overall design of the soul golem is very perfect, and the performance is excellent, and it can be used as a design reference when brought back to the Microf continent, but now its abdomen has been pierced by some kind of magical attack, causing most of its functions to be damaged, and it is Joshua who can only act by forcibly supporting it with his own strength.

"It's troublesome and needs to be carefully repaired." Joshua mobilized his strength, although his body was not there, but his soul could also control part of the power of steel, and with Sibeya's steel fragments, the metal that formed the workbench on the side suddenly twisted and deformed, as if it had come to life, turning into a ball of metal the size of a basketball, and rolling in front of the warrior's body.

"If I don't come down and this puppet is not repaired, the soul energy leak will create an explosion that will at least destroy everything in this repair room...... I don't know if it was prepared by the nameless mechanic himself, or if it was an accident. ”

After all, Joshua was a powerhouse who had mastered the power of steel, and repairing a structure would be an easy one for him.

Through the control of the soul, he spontaneously gathered the metals in the surrounding space in front of him, and then directly extracted the material from the basketball-sized metal balls to shape the parts. The power of steel worked, and Joshua even began to fuse them into a new, stronger alloy to repair and strengthen his body by absorbing these metals.

It can be seen that as the metal balls turn into parts and merge into the body, the soul puppet, which was originally about 189 or so, only a little taller than ordinary people, began to grow larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming tall and burly.

The smooth structure of the body began to cover a layer of strong and heavy armor, the rounded body joints, were added with sharp and ferocious collision angles, the round head similar to the human head began to alienate, deformed, and finally turned into a helmet-like steel structure, a red prismatic chip crossed the center of the helmet, that is the nascent observation port, red light flashing inside.

In a short time, Joshua, who had completed the reinforcement, was already more than two meters tall, and his weight had nearly doubled. As for the original wound, it had already been repaired, and Joshua had even completely remodeled the puppet's internal structure and energy engine, allowing him to better use his power.

At this point, the original soul puppet has completely turned into a hideous, burly, black-red giant structure that exudes coercion as soon as it looks like it, his elbows are bulging and the corners are flashing, and his arms are flashing with sharp metal blades, according to the habits of a certain warrior, his body has completely become a killing machine for combat, which is very different from the original puppet. ①

It didn't take a few minutes to complete this series of modifications, and Joshua sensed the thick energy from the steel fragments running through his body, and this puppet body was already able to exert good combat power.

"It's time to take a look outside."

Ready for everything, Joshua shook his hand, and the power that was enough to easily break the steel and iron pillars gathered layer by layer, he felt that his current body should have gold-level combat power, which should be enough to deal with most of the troubles in this world.

Before he walked to the door of the maintenance room, before opening the door, Joshua turned his head and glanced at the nameless mechanic he had placed on the bed, and then, Joshua turned around, opened the door, and walked out.

Pure white light shone into the pitch-black workshop, pure air blowing away the smell of blood and rust, and Joshua made his way to the hallway, the door slowly closing behind him. The warrior looked up, observing the small world that had trapped the mechanic for twenty years.

It was a pure white tiled hallway, with a dead end on the left and an exit on the right, with bright incandescent lights on the top, and a total of eight doors on either side of the hallway, and he was at the sixth door near the outside.

At the exit on the right side of the hallway, there were four golems holding weapons that looked like welding torches, presumably the 'furnace ray generator' in the mechanic's mouth, as if sensing something, and they all turned their heads in unison to look in the direction of Joshua. Joshua sensed the soul fluctuations released by these puppets, scanned his whole body, and soon after, the two puppets began to step towards Joshua, they held ray generators, came to the warrior, and said in an emotionless mechanical tone: "Number Snova-21, you have not completed the repair, immediately return to the sixth dimensional ......"

Click.

Silently, two huge hands were raised, and then pressed on the top of the heads of the two soul golems, and the heavy palms clenched carelessly, causing the sharp noise of steel grinding against steel to sound immediately...... This was followed by the crisp 'click' of the metal breaking, and the sharp twisting sound of the steel deforming.

The soul golems struggled, swinging their hands and feet against each other's arms, but after a few seconds their hands hung down and did not move, causing the Forge Ray Generator to fall to the ground.

With a palm to destroy the enemy's observation port, Joshua, who had destroyed the soul core with energy, threw the two soul puppets that had turned into garbage in his hands to the ground, and he picked up the furnace ray generator from the ground, while the other two soul puppets in the distance had already discovered the anomaly at this time and turned around.

"Number Snova-21, you're attacking the garden maintenance hall guards. Designation Tbeta-34, designation Tbeta-35 has been destroyed. Confirm that the soul core of Snova-21 is out of order, and request destruction clearance. ”

"Clearance is issued, destruction operations begin, offensive begins."

Soul golems only need a short moment to transmit permissions, no matter how complex the information, it is many times faster than humans, and the moment they are sure that the attack has begun, they have already raised the ray generator in their hands, and the lens port begins to turn red and hot rapidly.

However, a black shadow sped across the space, speeding through at a speed that even a machine could not react to, and then slammed into the soul golem on the left.

Bang!

The huge impact force even destroyed the puppet's chest armor, and even hit it to float in the air, at the same time, a large amount of energy in the puppet's chest soul core overflowed, and in the flash of electromagnetism, a violent explosion was generated in mid-air—a strong flow of silver-blue energy mixed with a high-heat shock wave echoed in the small corridor, producing a roar that was better than thunder.

At this point, the true form of the black shadow can be seen: it is a distorted ray generator. Instead of using it, the wielder threw it away as a 'weapon'.

Even the soul golem could not aim in this situation, and the only remaining soul golem quickly adjusted its observation window and balancer in the explosion, but before it could roll sideways according to the combat procedure and perform the second round of attacks, a tall and burly figure had already appeared in front of it.

The black-and-red painted mechanical structure raised its hand and shook off the shockwave of the explosion, and Joshua turned slightly sideways, avoiding a golden-red furnace ray that fell on the ceiling of the hallway, melting through a hole, and the golden-red liquid flowed at the edge of the hole, dripping with lava and molten steel.

Joshua was unmoved, he stretched out his left hand, grabbed the soul puppet's right hand, and then smashed the ray generator in the opponent's hand, and the next moment, the warrior raised his right hand, and the soul puppet's head was pulled out of his body, and electric sparks and silver-blue soul energy flickered at the wound on his neck.

Joshua grabbed the puppet's headless shoulder with one hand, and then unloaded the opponent's limbs in the process of the other party's resistance, the movements were smooth and neat, as if he had already disassembled it countless times.

Through self-transformation, the warrior has long been familiar with the structure of the soul golem.

Placing the puppet on the ground, Joshua was half-crouching, he stretched out an index finger, the finger shaped of black metal changed like liquid, turning into a sharp silver blade, he slashed the blade through the puppet's chest armor, and he saw a soul core that flashed with silver-blue light.

It was a silver-blue flame placed in a hexagonal translucent prism, it seemed to be burning, pulsating, like a heart, and the soul core used the energy absorbed by the soul puppet to run the collected energy throughout the body, and at the same time, it was also the control center of the entire puppet. Joshua stretched out his hand, he took out the soul core, and then carefully observed it for a while.

"Beautiful, perfect, this means of transformation and control is nothing short of art...... Not to mention these programs that are engraved in the soul. ”

He exclaimed softly, then shook his head, smashing the hexagonal prism into pieces. Silver-blue soul fire floated out of it, and then slowly dissipated in midair. Joshua stood up, and he walked to the end of the corridor that had trapped the nameless mechanic for twenty years, with light in front and a garden in front of him.

He walked out.

With his back to the exit of the corridor full of explosion marks, stepping on the white tiled avenue, Joshua raised his head, the red observation mouth flashing with light, he scanned everything around him, the warrior who had already seen all the big scenes thought that he would not be affected by anything.

But he was wrong.

There was an unstable glow in the burly Construct Observer's mouth, which meant that his mood was fluctuating.

What catches the eye, it's incredible.