Astrolab Reboot [Online Version]

Black flowing clouds swept across the sky, and there was a restless shock in the distance. Aka was sprayed out by the roaring mouth opened by the clouds and lightning.

"Ah—" Aka shouted in the strong wind.

"Prepare for the fall impact—" said the grizzly voice.

The grizzly bear spread its arms from the sky, a big figure appeared under the clouds, and shot towards the ground at high speed. The Tsar also shot an unstable time gap, with a huge cannon on his shoulders, and put the scope on his eyebrows, as if he had become He looked like a man, with one hand still in the pocket of the windbreaker, his slender figure shot towards the ground like a straight sword.

"Countdown to impact, twelfth, eleventh..." The Tsar took out a small metal tube from his pocket, pressed the button towards the grizzly bear, and with a buzzing sound, he was entangled in a web like a spider's silk. The bear turned in the air, the net taking on a fluid sheen, and the parachute popped open.

The Tsar flipped over and flew towards Akka. Akka was blown by the wind and screamed. He had no idea that he would fall straight down from a height of ten thousand feet. Facing the steep wind, the Tsar shouted: "I've got you! "

The wind was almost irresistible, and it was about to tear A-Ka away several times. The Tsar held his wrist tightly and pulled him. Just as he was about to open the parachute, suddenly Ugin's light flashed, and the black stone brushed past him. The card has been taken away.

"Ah—" A-Ka shouted.

"You're going deaf." Heishi said coldly, "Can't you be quiet?"

As the words fell, the metal wings on the back of the black stone shook open, covering the sky and covering the earth, like a glider, flying A-Ka to the dark sky. There are electric light and purple clouds on it, forming a vortex.

At that moment, Aka looked at the majestic father in a daze. It was like a probe on the vast land connected to the distant universe, and it was also like a dark god of death. Thousands of intelligent robots were flying around it, like worker bees in a hive. .

"Alternate formatting device label" Heishi reflected the scene of the mechanical city in his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "It's not the same as what I remembered."

"Really?" A-Ka looked sideways at Heishi and asked, "What's different?"

Heishi just hummed, without any further answer, he swooped down and flew to the ground.

This is the west side of the city of machines. The swamp plain exudes nerve gas, suppressing all those who intend to pass through here. The father's regime is located on the east coast, just to prevent humans from escaping.

Heishi landed slowly with Aka in his arms. The white parachute in the sky was like a snow-white dandelion. The two mercenaries flew to the forest at the end of the plain, while Fei Luo opened his hang glider, followed Heishi, and circled down.

A-Ka saw clearly the person under his feet, that was Moran from the past!

Moran's ring faces his palm, and his palm faces the sky. Thousands of strange particle rays emit from the ring, forming a bright connection line with the time tunnel in the sky.

"Is there anyone else?!" Moran yelled against the strong wind.

"No more!" Heishi said loudly.

A-Ka said to him, "Uncle Moran!"

Moran smiled at him and nodded. For some reason, when Aka saw Moran in the past, he felt kind and weird. After they fell to the ground, the Tsar and Grizzly were hanging on the branches at the edge of the forest. .

Half an hour later, several people stood by a lake in the swamp plain, surrounding Molan. After counting the number of people, Molan said seriously: "Mercenaries, replicants, and combatants of unknown origin with prehistoric weapons, I think your identity must be unusual, and this... kid, now, should you introduce yourself?"

"Your Majesty the Pope." Fei Luo said, "I am the Major of the Second Legion under General Li Boer, Fei Luo."

Mo Lan looked at Fei Luo, nodded, and asked, "You used to be from the city of machines?"

"I used to be an undercover agent." Fei Luo pointed to his head and said, "The chip prompted me to contact the rest of my comrades during the clone revolution."

"I know you." Moran said to Grizzly, "Chairman, there is also this... the battle-hardened tsar."

The Tsar smiled and said nothing, and the Grizzly nodded.

"My name is Hei Shi." Hei Shi simply said.

"A-Ka." A-Ka introduced himself with a smile. He was a little strange at first, but now that he thinks about it—the former Moran obviously didn't know himself. meet once.

"I'm an ordinary human being." A-Ka said, "Come to help and take them into the city of machinery, because I used to live here."

Moran smiled and said: "Human beings are not ordinary. My dear friends, tell me about your plans. I don't even know why you came here. I just received a communication from my future self. General Liebler will launch a general offensive the day after tomorrow, and I think we still have a lot of time."

Molan walked slowly on the plain with his hands behind his back. The Grizzly Bear and the Tsar were like two bodyguards. Fei Luo roughly explained what happened to Molan. When it came to the identity of Black Stone, Molan couldn't help but look more Aka glanced at it.

"So I am a representative of the clone regime." Fei Luo said: "General Angus sent me here to assist in completing this mission."

Molan didn't comment, and Aka said, "Uncle Molan...no, Your Majesty."

"I like this title very much." Mo Lan said with a smile: "You can just call me uncle."

Akka asked, "What are you doing here?"

Moran: "At the request of Lieble, come to purify the father, they let me wait here, but I think that since you have brought the latest news from the future, then this revolution, obviously, the outcome is already doomed. "

He looked up at the sky. At this time, Black Stone was still sleeping in the training cabin, and Aka was resting in the human gathering place in the city of machinery. Li Buer had never led his fleet to crash into his father, and everything was still proceeding in an orderly manner. Presents a strange tranquility.

Aka thought that one day later, there would be hundreds of thousands of replicants, driving their mechas and battleships, rushing towards the father like moths to the flame, and being buried in the sea of ​​flames in this huge steel city, he couldn't help but say something. sad.

At this moment, Moran turned around, bowed slightly towards the black stone, and said, "Please allow me to express this humble gratitude to you in place of a human being, Holy Son."

"No need." Heishi said lightly: "Saving you is not for the entire group."

Fei Luo, Grizzly and Tsar all looked at Black Stone, and Aka couldn't help laughing, knowing that he always looked so good, it made people feel a little angry.

Moran said: "We need to sleep in the forest tonight, and wait for an opportunity to sneak in tomorrow. I haven't got a map of the city until now. Let's discuss it after we rest."

The night fell gently on the land, and a bonfire was raised in the depths of the forest. Moran sat with Grizzly, Tsar, Filo, and Akka, preparing food.Moran brought a lot of food and distributed it to them generously. Aka told him what happened in the next short year after arriving in Phoenix City and Dragonmaw City.

Heishi sat on the tree loungingly, with his back against the trunk, stretched out his foot from the branch, and dangled boredly.

"Finished?" Heishi said from a distance, "You are both long-winded and noisy."

Aka ended with a sentence, got up and said: "That's it, remember not to tell others."

Several people laughed, Grizzly looked at Aka, then at Heishi, and said, "Heishi, if it wasn't necessary, I would never choose to cooperate with you."

Fei Luo said casually: "He's just a hooligan, he can't tolerate other people's opinions on anything."

"Don't say that." A-Ka walked under the tree, then turned to them and said, "Heishi is a very good person."

"I'm not human." Heishi said lazily.

Several people were speechless, Heishi stretched out his leg, let A-Ka hug him, and climbed up the tree.

"You are not a good person." Fei Luo said.

"You're right." Heishi said casually.

Fei Luo said again: "But you are like a human being now, you should thank Aka."

At that moment, A-Ka noticed that there seemed to be a certain change in Hei Shi's expression, as if he was embarrassed, and he stopped continuing this topic, and A-Ka was a little surprised that Hei Shi would be embarrassed?

Heishi just pretended not to see it, and moved a little to the side for Aka to sit. Aka took the food from Moran and distributed most of it to Heishi. Heishi looked into Aka's eyes and said, "You eat Bar."

"You eat." A-Ka said, "You haven't lived a happy life in Phoenix, and you haven't tasted all the delicacies of human beings yet."

"Food." Hei Shi found that his thoughts were always out of touch with A-Ka. He wanted to laugh at him, but after a second thought, he asked seriously, "Food?"

"Pacey loves the freshly baked coconut bread from the corner store," Aka said. "And the coffee jelly outside the political building."

Heishi couldn't understand it at all, so he hummed casually, and A-Ka said again: "After the war is over, I will take you to some places. Let's go together, is that okay?"

"Where are you going?" Heishi asked, "Eating again?"

Akadao: "I have read in books that this world has many steep mountains, islands, beautiful sunshine, clear seas with sandy beaches under the sea, singing forests, and strange things inside. The strange beasts, there are still people in many places, and the power of the father has not yet reached there."

Hei Shi casually hummed his nose in response.

After eating the compressed biscuits, Aka showed the paper to Heishi, on which was printed the clear snow lake behind the eastern ridge, and said, "This is a good place. When I was young, I always wanted to visit it."

"You know this from educational materials?" Heishi asked again.

Aka nodded and said: "Mr. Crankos is a human teacher who taught us general subjects. After he died, we can only study by ourselves. When I was in the city of machines, I and a few good friends I also agreed that if I have the opportunity to go out in the future, I will definitely visit those places. Those places used to be the hometown of human beings, temples, mountains, seas, and prehistoric buildings..."

"I remember you have human friends." Heishi said, "Where you are is a human concentration camp."

"Concentration camp?" asked Akka.

Blackstone didn't say anything more.

A-Ka fell into a long silence.

"When I go back, can I go and see them?" Aka said, "The children in the same living area as me."

Heishi said: "As long as there is enough time, it's up to you."

Aka said: "What will happen if I save them?"

Black Stone: "I don't know, you should ask Moran."

A-Ka glanced at the Pope in front of the bonfire in the distance, and he felt uneasy, but Black Stone guessed what he was thinking, and said, "Don't ask him, because you know it too, no."

Aka fell silent.

"You can save one person, but you can't save many people." Heishi said: "You can't save the people in the entire Mechanic City. Father still holds the winning ticket at this moment, unless you destroy father for Li Boolean, but this is impossible , for the Father was not destroyed when we left the city of machines."

"If possible." A-Ka murmured, "I'd rather in this war...to try my best to destroy Father, so that too many things can be prevented from happening..."

"But in this way." Heishi said: "The world will collapse, and the rules of time and space will be broken. You'd better think carefully and leave directly after getting the code to open the door, otherwise Moran will also be implicated by you. "

A-Ka didn't say any more, he sighed, leaned against Heishi's arms, and fell asleep.At dawn the next day, Blackstone woke him up. Moran shared his breakfast, and a communicator in his hand beeped, sending messages about the replicants in an irregular coded telegram.

"After we get close to the city wall, we should be in the western city." Aka used tree branches to draw the outline of the city of steel on the ground. The city is in the shape of a crown. The point is the tower of the Father.

"From here to here in Xicheng District." Aka circled a large area and said, "It's a gathering place for steel life forms."

"Wait." Grizzly said, "I don't intend to interrupt you, but I have to ask, how do we get in?"

A-Ka looked blankly at Grizzly, then at Molan, and several of them were stuck in a deadlock.

"Go ahead." Heishi said, "Don't even think about going in."

Aka had no choice but to explain: "Assuming everyone has already entered the city, I don't care how I got in... Now we are in Xicheng District, which is the charging area for mechanical life forms, as well as information exchange and collection terminals. There are about 20 replicants, they will provide various services for mechanical lifeforms, just like a small community."

"Robots without missions will be on standby inside the West District." Aka said: "In order to save energy, Father will sometimes wake them up. We can't pass here from the ground anyway. This must be avoided, but along the way Walking outside of Xicheng District, there is a gap."

"Is it here?" Moran pointed his scepter at a point drawn by A-Ka.

Aka nodded and said: "Yes, this is the parts assembly factory, which is controlled by robot guards. There is a conveyor belt inside, which transports semi-processed products such as metal plates and parts through the mold factory. We can go to the mold factory along the conveyor belt. It is the refining and processing area of ​​metal ore.”

Aka led the line to the north of the city, and said: "Find the way from the ground outside the casting field, the biological material synthesis center, and go to the east area. The east area is the gathering place for human beings. After arriving, you can follow the central elevator shaft and sneak into the ground. Pipeline, and then wait for the energy pipeline to go up to the ground, and wait for General Liebler in front of the core area of ​​the father."

"Very well said." The Tsar said: "This speech sounds good, well-organized and solemn. Although I am only a bodyguard, I don't care how you sneaked into the mothership, but I still want to ask, how to contact General Leeble?"

Grizzly and Moran looked at Fei Luo.

Fei Luo said: "General Li Boolean's hiding place will not be notified to any of us, otherwise it will be easily intercepted by my father, but I want to use the chip in my brain to contact him when the war starts. "

"Yeah." Grizzly said, "Should you kill him with a single shot? Or let him open a device so that you can see his brain and hand over the chip by the way?"

Fei Luo also thought of this extremely serious problem, and said, "Perhaps we can let him make a copy..."

Heishi said: "I will be responsible for this matter, and I am very happy, let's go."

Fei Luo said: "This is the task Angus entrusted to me, and you don't need to intervene."

Heishi signaled him that there was no need to say any more. Several people took up their weapons, Moran held a scepter, and led them across the swampy plain, and began to sneak into the city of machines.The walls of this city are not high - after all, most steel life forms have the ability to fly, and the only function of the walls is to prevent humans and replicants from leaving here.

"There are no sentries." Grizzly said from a tree watching the distance.

"No." A-Ka stood in a gap in the woods, quietly looking at the city wall that spanned thousands of miles: "The entire city wall is a huge sentinel."

The black city wall has criss-cross patterns, and it seems to be inlaid with special weapons. Aka walked out of the woods, and Fei Luo immediately said: "Wait!"

Aka waved his hand, indicating that it was okay, and walked towards the city wall under the protection of the black stone. An extremely shocked look appeared in front of his eyes. The ten-meter-high city wall disintegrated into countless steel structures in an instant, and the structures were further decomposed into individual parts. The individual parts are transformed into particles, and the energy forms bright lines, flowing inside the entire city wall.

"Infrared survey." Aka said: "We need to do a little camouflage, Tsar, is there a ray jammer?"

The Tsar threw over a small anti-infrared jammer, which was mounted on a gun and used to pretend to deceive the steel life form in battle. A-Ka knelt down on one knee and modified it outside the city wall.

After a while, A-Ka threw out the small jammer with the jammer, and the individual machine flew in an arc in the air, then spread its wings with a buzzing sound, and flew around the city wall with a buzzing sound. Kadailu, in his eyes, the city wall is no longer a simple city wall, but presents a network of intertwined and changing infrared rays.

"Follow me." Aka whispered.

"Can you see the trap?" Grizzly asked.

A-Ka nodded, and a group of people followed A-Ka's footsteps, lined up and walked towards the city wall. Heishi raised his head and said, "I didn't find the guard, so what if I was found by the city wall?"

"The terminal here is directly connected to 'Father'." A-Ka said in a low voice, "Don't disturb it."

The city wall was like a dormant black monster, and there was a drizzle of oil-smelling rain in the sky. Aka found a gap and signaled that Heishi could do something. Heishi took the rope and climbed up the city wall, and then brought Akara up. .

"It's much easier to fly up." Heishi said casually.

"The range of your wings is too large." A-Ka said, "You will encounter infrared survey rays that sweep over you."

"Where is it?" Heishi said.

"Everywhere." A-Ka looked at the ground and signaled him to wait a moment, as interlaced rays invisible to the naked eye were sweeping along the ground.

"Okay! Quick!"

Heishi pulled the grizzly bears up, and then they all went up to the city wall one by one. When they turned around and went down from the other side, everyone stood still. Aka motioned for them to follow him. When they turned a corner, everyone stopped suddenly step.

In front of him was a square covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters. Three-meter-high mechanical life forms were neatly lined up in the square. Rows of them reflected Ujin's metal light under the skylight. There was a red dot on his chest, which was in standby mode. .

At the same time, many small robots were shuttling back and forth in the phalanx, overhauling the big robots, and the flying robots were busy coming and going like a colony of ants, both Grizzly and Tsar were shocked.

"Follow me." Aka said in a very low voice: "As long as you don't step into their guard range, you won't be attacked. Be careful."

A group of people walked along the edge of the West District with trepidation. Small robots shuttled around them, as if they would catch this group of uninvited guests at any time. Black Stone followed A-Ka closely until A-Ka stopped outside an assembly factory.

"I can only bring it here." Aka said, "For the rest, I don't know how to trick the guards into it."

There are mechanical guards here. The loading and unloading center is full of robots, and they can communicate with each other through radio waves. Usually, it is impossible to see what they are saying to each other. The czar and the grizzly look at each other.

The Tsar: "Forcibly advancing?"

"No." A-Ka said decisively: "Here, every robot that attacks will alarm Father, and they send emergency signals directly to Father."

"Maybe it's okay to lure them away." Fei Luo said: "I have a special status, so I can lure them away. In this way, I only need to pay a small price and let you enter the factory by pretending to have entered the assembly area by mistake."

"How do you get out?" A-Ka asked, "Identity verification will expose you, and when two identical Fei Luo appear, things will become more and more troublesome."

Fei Luo replied, "I'll get away before then."

"They will obtain your identity verification first." Aka is obviously very familiar with this set in the city of machinery, and said: "Then according to the corresponding code, they will find you in the past. Before the start of the Revolutionary War, you were found by robots. Any trouble?"

Fei Luo said: "We have to take risks. We have no choice. I will try to escape when they get the verification. Don't forget, I also stayed in this city once."

"You will be caught." A-Ka said, "Because you have lived here too, you should be more aware of the strength of the Iron Legion. I am not afraid that the plan will change. I promised Pai Xi that you will be safe." go back."

Fei Luo was silent.In fact, he knows better than anyone that when the revolution broke out, he used the battle mech to barely fight against the Iron Legion, but he was still defeated in the end.

The Tsar and Grizzly looked at each other, Grizzly said: "I have no identity in the City of Steel, let me go, I am not afraid of meeting my former self."

But Moran said: "Let me come, I will take you in."

"After the battle is over." Moran said, "Everyone is waiting to gather at the west harbor pier, inside the canyon of the ancient heart."

"The Pope!" Aka said, "It's too dangerous, you don't know the situation in Steel City! Even if you are arrested, you won't be able to escape!"

Moran touched A-Ka's head and said, "I don't know how my future self will choose at this time in the past, but I believe that since even A-Ka has the courage to take risks, the Holy See cannot always stand on the side of others. under protection, isn't it?"

A-Ka took a deep breath, planning to think of another way, but seeing Moran's serious expression, he was relieved.

"As the pope." Moran said to the crowd: "I believe I must have a way to protect myself, everyone, I am going to sneak into the assembly factory, I wish you good luck."

After saying this, Moran held the scepter and walked towards the place where the small robots gathered. Aka held his breath, and suddenly thousands of small robots spotted his whereabouts. Immediately afterwards, all the large battle robots on standby All green lights and turned heads.

"On behalf of the Holy See, I come to pay homage to the man-made god, the omnipotent 'father'." Moran said leisurely, and opened the scepter in his hand, and a flashing blue light device appeared. At this time, there seemed to be something deep in the ground. Startled, the whole city vibrated, a beam of light broke through the clouds from the top of the tall tower in the distance and shot towards Xicheng District, while all the steel life forms around were rapidly approaching this place!

"Holy See." A heavy voice echoed in Xicheng District: "Sibelius's human descendants, why did they come here?"

Before it was too late, Moran slammed the scepter in his hand to the ground.

"Come to judge you." Moran said in a deep voice.

In the blink of an eye, the place where the scepter meets the ground emits a dazzling white light, and an arc ring spreads rapidly, covering the sky and covering the sky, and all the robots lose their mobility under the effect of electromagnetic force. It is a reverse magnetic field. A-Ka didn't hesitate anymore, and urged: "Go!"

Heishi turned his head and took a look. Taking this opportunity, a group of people rushed into the assembly plant. Under the effect of Moran's scepter, all the mechanical bodies briefly failed, the buzzing sound became louder and louder, and the magnetic force swept across like a strong wind. They passed half of the Xicheng District, and Moran was standing in the center of the Xicheng District. With the action of electromagnetism, he looked up at the flashing blue light in the sky.

It was like the first and last dialogue between the patriarchy and the theocracy of faith since ancient times. The father stood still in the blue brilliance, and said in a cold voice: "You have no right to judge me, I am only responsible to the Creator."

"In this world, there is no Creator anymore." Molan said: "It is the belief of all life that supports the operation of the astrolabe."

"Stupid human being." The Father's voice said, "You will pay for this provocation."

Immediately afterwards, a reverse elimination storm was emitted from the high tower, and thousands of flying robots shot over, covering the sky like heavy dark clouds before a storm. Moran's barrier collided with his father's electromagnetic beam, and a sudden There was an explosion.

The sound of vibration spread to the assembly plant, and all the working robots in the hall were flashing with lightning, and all of them had stopped. Aka led them to run deep into the factory, found the stopped conveyor belt, and was still trying to figure out how to make it work. But Xiong said: "I don't have time, let's all go up! I don't know how long the Pope can last."

Filo: "Which conveyor belt?"

It was densely packed, full of stationary conveyor belts, and the boxes were neatly stacked on the rubber belt, and A-Ka didn't know where to go for a while.

"Either the far left, or the far right..." A-Ka frowned deeply. After watching for a while, Grizzly urged: "There is no time, hurry up!"

"One bet." Heishi said, "To the left."

Just when everyone was on the conveyor belt, there was another explosion outside, and all the devices started to move again.In the short few minutes in Xicheng District, everything returned to normal. Aka was startled, and was sent to the assembly workshop by the conveyor belt. He still couldn't help looking out, his face full of worry.

Fei Luo pushed him into the empty box, motioning him not to look out, so as not to attract the guards.

This is a reverse conveyor belt, and Blackstone made the right bet. They hid in three empty boxes respectively. Blackstone bore the brunt and was transported to the northern urban area, while Aka and Feiluo were in the middle, and the Grizzly Tsar was in the rear.

A-Ka breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still very worried.

Fei Luo obviously relaxed too, leaning against the corner of the big box, pulled out the magnetic storm bullet from his waist, and loaded it into the gun.

"Sometimes I really admire you." Fei Luo said, "I never knew how you survived."

Aka also sat down cross-legged, took out a small device from his small bag, looked at it with his head buried in his eyes, and said to himself, "Am I being reckless?"

"A little bit." Fei Luo said, "He didn't even have a plan, yet he dared to lead so many people into the city of steel."

"No matter how careful the plan is, there will be changes." A-Ka smiled and said, "My life was picked up. Several times I thought I was going to die, but in the end I escaped safely, so it doesn't matter where I go. .”

Fei Luo didn't speak, hooked the gun in his hand with his index finger, swung it around, and said, "Is this courage or recklessness? I heard that when you found the Black Stone, you chased it all the way from Phoenix City."

A-Ka didn't answer, but with a smile in his eyes, he said, "You think I'm reckless, so you still entrust Pacito to me?"

"Because your luck has always been good." Fei Luo said lightly.

"Your reputation in Phoenix doesn't seem to be very good," Aka said.

"Well, yes." Fei Luo said: "I owe too much debt. I didn't tell you at the beginning. I'm sorry, because I was afraid that they would bully Pai Xi, so I can only hand him over to you."

Aka nodded and said, "After you go back this time, don't follow us anymore."

Fei Luo suddenly fell into a long silence, and said after a long time, "I'm sorry, A-Ka."

"Ah?" Aka was puzzled and asked, "Why?"

Fei Luo replied: "You shouldn't be asked to bear such a heavy responsibility. Pai Xi said that after entering the city of machines, you will... give your life. Is it true?"

"Hmm." A-Ka thought for a while, and said, "It's possible, if I can't come back, Black Stone will...please take care of you."

Fei Luo smiled helplessly, shook his head, Aka patted him on the shoulder again, and said, "Take it easy, Fei Luo."

Fei Luo raised his eyes, his eyes were red, and looked at A-Ka, A-Ka said, "You will all be fine and won't die, because Percy's dream doesn't include your death."

"But you." Fei Luo choked up and said, "What on earth are you thinking? Knowing that you will end your life, how can you be so... so indifferent."

A-Ka stopped talking, he adjusted the small machine in his hand, and said slowly: "Because I don't like that."

"I don't like the world I see, it's that kind of world." Aka said very slowly: "Even if I sacrifice myself, it's better to come back alive. I've heard an old rumor that if a If a person can dedicate his life to the mechanical city, the divine power of the father will bring him to the core of the astrolabe, and let him and the core become one forever."

"He will watch the world." Aka smiled at Feiluo and said, "Of course, this is just a nonsense fabricated by the city of machines to brainwash humans. They want humans to spend their lives paying for the steel regime." Everything. But I think there is always something that can make people... don't care about life and change everything."

Fei Luo smiled, stared at A-Ka, shook his head after a long time and said, "You are the real Son of God."

"The Black Stone is the one." A-Ka smiled awkwardly and said, "My mission is to help him. If someone else picked up the Black Stone, they would do the same thing as me."