I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

Nico was also staring at the painting, with medium-long white hair and an unusually familiar face.

Except for the different attire, everything seemed to match the existence they met in the bar before.

"That tavern owner?" Nauda said uncertainly.

But then, she nodded and said, "The person in this photo really looks exactly like the tavern owner!"

Nico said nothing because he thought so too.

After a pause, he said, "It's not that they are exactly the same, but they may be the same person. The reason why we came to Sky Island is because he guided us all the way."

Nauda recalled it and nodded, "It seems like this."

"So, Sky Island belongs to him?"

"This tower should be the core of this architectural complex." Nico said, "So, maybe that's the case."

"Then what is his purpose?" Nauda said puzzledly, "Is it just to bring us here?"

Nico also had some doubts in his eyes.

"Or maybe you think it's safer here, so let's hide here for a while?" she said.

After a pause, she made a suggestion and said, "Otherwise, let's go look for those two dwarfs? I don't think they look like bad people."

"Go to other places first to see if there is any other information." Nico said.

They turned around and tried to open the door of the office. With the sound of branches, the door slowly opened.

However, what surprised Nico and Nauda was that behind the door was no longer the corridor they had just entered, but a spiral staircase leading to nowhere.

Nico was very confident in his memory, so there was no doubt that this was the problem here.

"Is there something wrong with my memory?" Nauda said somewhat unconfidently, "It wasn't the case when we came in."

"There's nothing wrong with your memory."

Nico grabbed Nauda's wrist, who had not yet figured out the situation, and pulled her slowly down the spiral staircase.

The stairs had no windows, so it was very dark, but there were oil lamps on both sides. The flickering lights illuminated the path under their feet, but it was impossible to see where they were leading.

Although Nico is calm now, there are ripples in his heart.

He had fantasized about finding Sky Island countless times, and imagined the troubles he would encounter on the way to find Sky Island.

But I never thought that I would land on Sky Island so soon.

Climb onto this miracle that countless people spent all their money trying to find a few years ago.

In order to prove his uncle's innocence, he collected a lot of information about Sky Island.

Some people say that Sky Island contains treasures that are as rich as any country.

Some people also say that Sky Island is the residence of God. If you can reach Sky Island, you can become God's messenger.

Some people say that it is a land of eternal life, and anyone who lands on the island can gain eternity.

Nico didn't know where the information came from, and he didn't quite believe it.

However, what he knows is that if he can land on Sky Island, he will definitely gain something.

At least, if the secret of floating such a huge island can be known, it will definitely be a huge leap for human civilization.

He can now confirm that Sky Island may not be a natural thing, but belongs to a certain existence.

Along the way, Nico observed the traces left by the years in various places in this castle. This place is definitely not something left in the past ten years, but should be counted in hundreds of years.

Therefore, we can also rule out the possibility that after the arrival of the airship era, someone boarded the airship and took it as their own.

Such a castle cannot be built by transporting building materials by airship.

Soon, they saw a light that was not a lamp.

The narrow stairs began to widen, and they came to a doorless doorway.

The scene behind the porch made Nico and Nauda both stand there in confusion.

At that moment, they even thought that they had crossed an era and arrived in the future.

Because everything in front of me is too science fiction.

This is a factory building with a large area that can even park two A380s.

There are many square machines placed in many areas, with wires as thick as water pipes plugged into them. On the wires, bursts of halos representing energy transmission are flashing.

It is a supercomputer based on neuron parallel network technology derived from artificial human neuron technology.

The advantage compared to ordinary computers is that the computing operation of this technology does not generate too much heat because it is not electrically conductive, which means that the computing power can be stacked infinitely.

This is not the research laboratory that White and others came to, but another construction factory, much larger than that research laboratory, used to build some large machinery, which also belongs to Tony.

The most eye-catching thing is the huge machinery in the middle of the factory.

The humanoid structure, about eight meters tall, with recurved legs, the angular hard-core structure, the perfect body proportions, and the unknown weapon on its back, everything is filled with a mechanical beauty.

Nico could swear that this was definitely the most beautiful mechanical creation he had ever seen in his life, bar none.

No engineer would remain calm when seeing something like this.

Even if it doesn't move, just looking at it makes people feel happy.

If this thing could really move, Nico couldn't even imagine how powerful it would be.

He couldn't imagine how much torque a diesel engine would have to drive such a big guy.

This is a mecha, but obviously, Nico does not have the concept of mecha in this era.

He absentmindedly came to the side of the mecha and stretched out his hand to touch its shell.

His brain began to work rapidly, and he tried to dismantle the mecha using the information collected with his naked eyes, and began to understand the design concept and structure of the mecha.

The reverse-curved feet are supposed to allow the machine to run faster, jump higher, have stronger explosive power, and take into account stability on the ground. The wolf also has similar reverse-feet.

In addition, he also saw something deeper. He saw several major joints such as the mechanical knees.

Whether such a humanoid machine can move, the movable structure of the knees and other joints is extremely important.

He saw a special design that was very similar to the structure of a human knee.

To sum it up in words, Nico thinks this should be called a "bionic structure."

His face was a little rosy. There was an airship factory near his home, so he had seen a lot of mechanical structures.

But the technology contained in all those machines is not as good as one ten thousandth of this mechanical creation.

There is at least a few hundred years of generation difference between the two!

This is a creation from the future, Nico thought.

There is no doubt that in this era, no existence can create such a miracle!

Or, it is the technology of a more advanced and developed civilization that is independent of human civilization.

"Click~"

At this time, the sound coming from the top of the mecha interrupted his thoughts.

He slowly raised his head, accompanied by a sound similar to a gush of gas.

The chest of the mechanical creation slowly opened, and a half-hundred-year-old man with gray hair, but whose body and mental state looked to be in his fifties, was lying there - that should be the control cabin of this mechanical creation.

He jumped down from the cockpit, then walked onto the shelf on the side of the mechanical creation, and opened the head of the mechanical creation. He frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something, completely ignoring their existence. .

Then, he looked down at Nico.

"Give me the robotic arm on your right hand."

Nico reacted. He subconsciously looked around and saw a mechanical creation that looked like an "arm" on the table beside him.

He picked it up and handed it to him.

Tony took the robotic arm and put it against his wrist. The robotic arm immediately opened and wrapped his arm.

Then, he stretched the robotic arm in, as if he was repairing something, but Nico couldn't see it from this angle.

As time passed little by little, Nico felt that he could not remain silent like this, so he said, "Did you encounter any problem?"

Tony looked at Nico below, with a playful look on his face, "What, do you want to help me?"

"No, I'm just asking. I know that such technology is far beyond my ability to understand." Nico said.

"You are self-aware," Tony said.

While repairing it, he said, "This mecha has a brain like a human being. It has its own thinking, processing and judgment abilities. It can even speak and can communicate with you.

In a sense, it should be regarded as a kind of life. "

Tony knew the background of Nico's era, so he didn't use any professional terminology such as neurons, but just explained it in words he could understand.

He closed the mecha's head cover.

The mecha's eyes suddenly lit up with a faint light.

"Mark—Dragon Hunter." Tony said to the mecha.

A human voice suddenly came from inside the mecha.

"Yes, master."

"Turn on the body self-check," he said.

The mecha immediately responded.

"The airframe self-inspection has started. The status system is intact, the flight system is intact, the navigation system is intact, the flight stability system has been corrected, the weapon system is complete, and the power system is 76% charged.

The self-inspection of the aircraft body has been completed. The overall perfection of the aircraft body is 89%, and it has complete combat capability. "

Not to mention it has complete intelligence, but it has no intelligence. Such machinery is absolutely advanced for people in the 21st century.

What's more, it's the end of the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution has just begun.

Nico and Nauda could not describe their feelings in words at this moment, and they could not share this shock that seemed to span the ages with anyone.

"Machine. Life." Nico whispered the concept given by Tony, "Isn't creating life a power that only God can have?"

Tony snorted and laughed.

"Science is the process of usurping the power of the gods and replacing them."