(I always feel that this month's monthly pass is not very powerful...... So it's good to ask for a monthly pass, comrades still have useless votes to vote, that thing can't be invested in real estate anyway, right...... ）

The City of Angels was still empty, and walking through the majestic bridges and squares felt like visiting the ruins, and Aurelia walked side by side with Sandora and mentioned the manpower dilemma she faced.

"The only ones who can take on complex and delicate tasks are the Standard Apostles, but they are too few people, and the progress of the project has been greatly affected, and we have created a large number of Elemental Craftsmen to assist in the construction, but the mass-produced elemental creatures cannot handle the delicate and flexible work of the Refinement Magic Energy Node. All commanders who are good at making magical creatures are now draining their souls to create smarter and more useful Splints...... Sixteen commanders who have been severely schizophrenic due to the frequency of soul splitting have been sent in for maintenance. ”

Aurelia said in a very calm tone about the various problems I was currently facing, the more I listened, the more I felt a cold sweat on my head, the situation on the Celestial City side is not optimistic on the one hand, but more importantly, it is the way of working of these strongmen on the mysterious side - as Bellavila said, the apostles on the mysterious side are extremely good at controlling their own interiors, and they control their souls as commonplace as eating and drinking, and I have never heard of anyone who can cut their souls into seventeen or eighteen segments before this - are they earthworms?

Ahem, this idea is so rude, stop it.

About splitting souls. Since it is said that it may be necessary to explain a little bit, the so-called splitting one's soul into pieces is not really cutting the invisible and untouchable things like dough, but a process of virtual copying. The soul is formless and insubstantial, neither matter nor energy, it is a collection of information. A creature with a soul consists of two components after it has been removed: memory. and the "algorithms" that process these memories, and the soul is actually the latter. If you compare a person to a computer, the soul is the operating system. It is a "formula" for dealing with all the things you "know", such as the same word "drunk", and some thought processes will immediately come to the conclusion of "telling the truth". Some thought processes immediately think of "disordered sex", then the latter has a YD soul...... Okay, that's a lame metaphor, and it's not quite in line with the requirements, but it's basically what it is, the soul determines what kind of conclusion the same information will come to in different individual spiritual realms. Therefore, the soul can ultimately determine the "truth" of an individual. As long as the formula is fixed, then no matter what kind of value is filled in with it (memory or life experience, etc.), the result will be the same in the end (human external behavior, worldly view). character, and all that can be manifested in character). The extraction of the soul is to copy a part of this huge set of formulas - this small fragment of the copied is enough for a dead thing to obtain its own "worldly view", and then it can slowly establish its own complete soul on the basis of this worldly view. And for the mother body whose soul has been extracted, it is absolutely harmful to repeat this operation multiple times.

For what? Anyone who has ever used a computer knows it. The contents of the C drive should not be moved......

The apostles on the mysterious side are very good at controlling their souls, and they know how to copy things out of their system disk without causing various failures such as the Blue Screen of Death, but this does not mean that they have a stronger system disk, and every time the soul is extracted, a large number of operation logs will be left in the "system disk", and extracting these logs too often will cause these logs to be too late to be deleted, and it will take a long time. People should be tied up and sent to the old cadre activity center.........

"Let the commanders who are too desperate pay attention to their bodies, and at least save the energy to face other unexpected situations. In addition, Bella Vera has already organized a group of ravens to support you, and I bet she should gather all the ravens who don't have a mission for the time being, and you should be much less stressed here," I told Aurelia about Bella Villa's side, "The ravens seem to be very good at delicate work, and they must be very familiar with things like carving the Imperial Codex with arcane miniature on their fingernails and tinkering with magic nets when they are not busy." ”

Aurelia paused in mid-air and seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "It's a lot easier this way." But use arcane to miniature carve the Imperial Codex on your fingernails or something...... It's not the same thing as overhauling a magic node. Forget it, it doesn't matter. ”

Led by Aurelia, we came to a very lively place, which is located in the ...... of the Forgotten Garden Back.

I have always thought that the Garden of Forgetting is the buildings I saw, but I never expected that it actually consists of two parts, one part is the upper city, and the other is the mountain peak below - the floating land is an inverted cone, if it is reversed, then the lower part of the inverted cone is of course a mountain. Before the Garden of Oblivion was torn from its home planet, it was beneath an inverted cone-shaped free-standing structure, which was originally located in a large underground cavern, but now it has resurfaced as the "Reflection Mountain". This strange head-to-foot peak, which was once a backup factory, has been renovated and is working around the clock to produce the Colossus of Gonda. At a time when the base of the standard apostles in the mystic system is insufficient to replenish the population by summoning a large number of puppet creatures, the mass-produced Colossus of Gonda and other magical soldiers are the most stable source of troops that Aurelia can find.

This inverted mountain has its own gravity, so standing halfway up the mountain, looking at the Celestial City gives one a strange sense of dissonance: it is as if the entire world has turned upside down, without feeling that it is actually yourself who is actually heading and foot.

The production process of the Colossus of Gonda seems to me to be very novel, in those huge "factories" that have hollowed out the mountains and buried deep in the mountains, there are large open spaces, rows of neatly arranged azure balls of light suspended in the air, each of which is "submerged" in a small piece of metal of the Colossus of Gonda. A large number of dots of light shuttled through the ball of light, imprinting complex runes on those metal rings, and every time a piece of metal limb was processed in this way, it would fly out of the ball of light, float to the rune platform at the end of a row of balls of light and automatically assemble with other matching metal segments, and at the same time, new raw materials were also directly sent into the newly emptied ball of light through spatial teleportation, and so on. One by one, the Colossus of Gonda can walk down the rune platform and go to the next stage to receive the infusion of artificial souls and the initial task setting. The Colossus of Gonda wasn't built very quickly, at least during my visit with Sandora. None of the Colossi of Gonda stepped off the rune platform, which means that this kind of Giant of Magical Energy, whose combat power is several times that of ordinary Imperial soldiers, is considered an elite unit - no amount of Colossus Gonda made by Aurelia can fill the lack of grassroots soldiers. In the final analysis, it is still the scarcity of standard apostles of the occult system.

This "factory" of the mysterious department is very different from the technology side factories I have seen. The strange floating orbs of light make it difficult to connect with the production line, but despite the dizzying way of working, everything here still adheres to the principle of efficiency that the entire Xiling Empire collectively pursues, and the appearance of orderly production makes it believed that not a second of time will be wasted here. …,

In the production "workshop" of the Colossus of Gonda, we also saw the elemental craftsmen mentioned by Aurelia, that is, the most basic worker units on the mysterious side, they are a kind of light blue elemental creatures that look like Aladdin's lamp god, the upper body barely shows a human body, and the lower body is a cloud of mist, and it seems that the intelligence is probably similar to the group of self-discipline machines around Gaia. Battle effectiveness...... Probably not. These elemental craftsmen, under the command of several Goodale Icebreakers, are responsible for checking the operation status of each orb of light that is carving runes into the limb parts of the Colossus, and constantly repairing the orbs of light that have stopped or even burned the raw materials due to various accidents - this alone can be seen that the factory that has been operating is not in good shape.

"Thankfully, with the Goodale elementals that Oldumseus had created, they could also take on some of the work that required flexibility. It's still not as good as the high-level golem creatures, but at least it's much smarter than the elementals," Aurelia pointed to a Goodale Iceman who was dropping slag as she walked, "The only problem is that after so many years of degradation, these elemental creatures are no longer able to sustain their entities, except for the brains available. Their own work ability is almost zero, and they dare not let them go to the workshop above the third level of environmental requirements to command on the spot, because ......"

"Because they're scum." I clutched my forehead helplessly, watching the Icecrusher not far away grind to the crotch again—I wonder if this was the same Icecrusher who had brought us to Odemseus in the first place, they all looked like they all looked the same.

"Eh, I wonder if it's a hallucination," I said, pointing to Aurelia's face, "Your resolution seems to be a little higher than it used to be." ”

Everyone knows Aurelia's form, but it's just an unclear light and shadow, and her whole body is shrouded in a layer of fog-like light, and you can only vaguely see the form of a woman, but now I suddenly found that I seemed to distinguish the other party's facial features, and that layer of brilliance became thinner at some point, so I asked this question. Aurelia was stunned for a moment, not understanding what "resolution increases" at first, and then Sandora next to her explained a few words to her with a smile before the latter nodded abruptly: "Oh, it's just gradually recovering." You don't think that the original form of the subordinate is so foggy, do you? ”

My answer was honest: "...... I really thought so. ”

Aurelia was always choked by the words that came out of me, and this time was no exception, she was speechless again for a few seconds before explaining: "The Angel of Xiling is in the form of Lord Alayya, that is the normal state, and the way my subordinates are now is not intentional, but something went wrong in the process of awakening in the Assembly Hall...... In a delirious situation, he mistakenly took the form of his missing body for his original appearance, and forgot what he originally looked like. For energy creatures, the soul determines the appearance, and our appearance depends on what we think we should look like, and the newborn Hiling archangel is the same, and it often takes a few months to have its own unique face, so occasionally we can also use the appearance to distinguish whether the energy body creature is a newborn or not. The subordinate made a mistake at the time to make the memory like this, and now he has regained his memory. But it will take time to slowly undo the effects of that mistake, well, it has paid off - can you see my features? ”

Aurelia said, and I couldn't help but feel a little happy in my usual calm and flat tone, but I suddenly thought of something very sad for me, so I nodded with a sad face: "Ah, congratulations on your ......"

“…… Your Majesty? What are you? ”

Sandora pressed my shoulder and waved at Aurelia, "Don't ask. No face and no skin is a black history for Ah Jun......"...,

I thought sadly that my Void Form was still in a faceless state, and I had worked hard for so many years. The only thing that progressed was to get a nose on the top of his head, and the second form change was quite large, becoming like an awl. Nicknamed Aladdin's lamp god by whom...... Well, yes, it's like a silly X from the elemental craftsman over there. Originally, after knowing Aurelia, I thought to myself that I had finally found a friend who could balance my mind, but I never expected that people would increase the resolution so quickly......

Aurelia, the kite angel, let out a sigh of confusion and led us on to the rest of the Arsenal, but the rest of the place was not much to see, or rather, it was completely beyond my comprehension, so I mentioned another thing that I was very concerned about: "I heard Bella Vera say that you found the information on the glow ring?" ”

Aurelia nodded, "Yes." I just haven't had time to report back to you yet. The Heart of the World Realm Ring that you retrieved from the Northland Ice Field, after our inspection, found that it was not only the host of the Heart of the World Realm, but also a storage device, and a large number of technical materials related to high-level armament were integrated inside. Therefore, the most important technical data is backed up in the hearts of the world. We're working hard to sort out that information, and we've already started building the Sculptor Pool and the Tower of Magical Energy. However, to create a high-grade space battleship of the level of the Glow Ring, even with the highest efficiency of the Empire, I am afraid that it will ......"

"I know that Bellavila has already complained about me once, and I can't be anxious about this."

"But we still have some finished products that you can see in advance – a little bit of something on a small scale." Aurelia seemed to smile - I understood her momentary pause as a smile. She then takes us to the second half of the Magic Golem production plant, where there is a completely different production facility.

Large arrays of runes suspended in the air, as well as crystal sheets arranged in a symmetrical octagonal shape, were placed in a hall with a radius of about fifty meters, and in the center of this group of mysterious devices, a strange thing more than three meters high and shaped like a water droplet was suspended.

"This is the testing area, where we are trying to restore the various industrial infrastructures that are not currently available in Celestial City, but which were widely used during the old imperial period, and what you see now is the individual combat module, and on the outside this thing is an assembly unit, and the rest of the production facilities are being tested in other rooms. This teardrop-shaped thing is the result of a few days of work. ”

Aurelia pointed us to the drop-shaped object called the Soldier Combat Pod, and then clicked on the nearest crystal plate a few times, and the eight crystal plates quickly sank to the ground, and the "water droplets" floated in front of us.

Curious, I reached out and touched it, and found that it had a hard, cold, and smooth surface, but strangely enough, although it had a silvery white shell that looked like a reflective smooth shell, it did not reflect my shadow at all, not even a little blurry image, and its surface was an absolutely uniform luster. This is clearly not a property that the average material should have – it doesn't even quite conform to optics. Up to now, these things on the mysterious side have given me the impression that every one of them is a bit out of common sense, and you can always find in them something more or less incompatible with the current world's view of the world, which is really wonderful.

"Looks a lot smaller than a single fighter, with the longest axis of only three meters," I tapped on the shell of the water droplet, which made a crisp sound, "Soldiers are engaged in space battles in this?" ”…,

"No, maybe it's not quite what you think......" Aurelia reached out and touched the surface of the droplet, and then a strange scene occurred: the latter began to soften, twist, and fall to the ground like melted butter, and then its volume began to shrink uncharacteristically, and slowly re-solidified and bulged from a large puddle of liquid, a process reminiscent of the slimes who often appear in the game and are responsible for showing the Warrior the path in life - and then the thing really becomes a slime.

The three-meter-tall hard water droplet changed into a slime-like creature that was only half a human tall and looked like a jelly after just a few seconds, and the latter kept purring, it seemed to pay homage to me and Sandora, and then the form continued to change, first to Oldum Hughes, then to me, then to a girl we had never seen before, but eventually, this "slime" turned into a puddle of jelly, As if he was extremely tired, he kept swaying up and down, as if he was panting.

I was stunned by the scene in front of me, which was full of complaints.

"The individual combat module is a transformation process, and its essence is a set of runic devices that can change the form of matter. Instead of 'driving' inside, the soldier fused directly with the rune group in the fighting compartment. The Solo Combat Pod can only be used by the elemental creatures nicknamed the Arcane Peewein, as their bodies are decomposable and can merge with anything that has magical reactions without hindrance, and you can think of the little 'pilot' as a liquid, so it can flow through the arcane veins of the Solo Combat Pod. When the combat status is removed, the fighting module will be absorbed into the body by its symbiotic soldiers, and stored in the form of a rune array, like this. Aurelia said, bending down and turning the crawling "Arcane Bean" (in fact, I really want to call it a slime, although this thing is definitely stronger than the slime) turned over, revealing a large sparkling and beautiful rune under the latter's "belly", after careful inspection, I realized that these runes were all in the other party's body, and it was only because the belly of the "Arcane Bean" was completely transparent that I could see it so clearly.

"One of the important reasons for the small size of the individual combat compartment is that it does not carry any conventional weapons - individual fighters have artillery, missile launchers, and space mines, but there are no individual fighting compartments. It is in fact an amplification device that can be used to amplify the force of its symbiont, so it is actually a ......"

Aurelia paused, it seemed to feel quite indescribable, and finally held back a few words: "It's a combat suit......"

I looked at the "Arcane Douding", which had begun to simulate itself as a crystal clear Chinese pastoral dog, and I felt ......

The mysterious side of the stuff is really TM amazing...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )