Start with the Readers Chapter 42: Morning star shines

"My name is Lazar, and I live in No. 2, Building 13, District 4, Genting... Today is the 73901st day when the 'Morning Star' fell.

"The name 'Lazar' was given by the great 'Emperor of Mechanics' Evans himself when I was a baby. It is said that this name once belonged to the emperor's best friend, and it contains his expectations for me. I can also become a great alchemist... But unfortunately, I let the emperor down.

"——The reason why I can get such an honor is because my parents died in a pathfinding operation in order to cover other companions.

"Hehe, it's still a familiar beginning... If anyone can get my diary in the future, please don't dislike my long-winded words. After all, for an old man over 250 years old, his soul is close to decay. It’s easy to forget who you are without writing this information down from time to time.”

In a house full of mechanical feeling, the "person" named Lazar turned his somewhat rusty wrist, and temporarily put down the pen inserted in the connection slot.

The main body of his body is entirely made of brass, while the rest of the limbs and head are spliced ​​with a variety of metals... Even the damaged parts of the brass torso are mostly sealed with pig iron, which is why there is no danger. Expose the sealing system inside to the air.

From a distance, he looks like a broken robot covered with patches.

But this broken robot is completely dominated by the human soul, and all the metal parts are the result of mechanical transformation.

At this moment, accompanied by the sound of "creaking", Lazar stood up with some difficulty, stepped forward with his right foot, drove the four wheels at the bottom of his left leg, and slowly walked towards the cabinet on the other side of the house go.

——The growth suit below his left calf was damaged during an exploration of "Afternoon Town" about 30 years ago. The sensor system and drive system were completely paralyzed and could no longer be repaired, so wheels had to be installed , barely moving under the lead of the other thigh with intact drive.

At the beginning, Lazar was not used to it, but after so many years, he has already gotten used to the wheel, even if he went up and down the stairs, he was walking on the ground... But he couldn't join the exploration team after all...

This is also the reason why he obviously lives in Yunding District, where the land price is the most expensive, but the economy is not so good.

Because of the shortage of supplies, his pension is only enough to pay the annual property insurance and maintenance fees of the house... Fortunately, he has already completed the mechanical transformation of the whole body. The energy intake is not too much... What's more, "Morning Star City" provides the residents of Yunding District with a minimum level of life-sustaining energy for free every month.

"I have accumulated 14 units of energy this month, and I can completely open a reactor and repair a batch of equipment for the guys in the exploration team... I also took the opportunity to earn some money to do a job to expel negative emotions. Physiotherapy...

"The last 'physiotherapy' was ten years ago. Although I maintained a good state of mind by writing a diary, I have accumulated a lot of emotions over the years. Although it is still far from the critical point, and once it is close to the critical point, it will be free." Physiotherapy'... But that taste is not pleasant, and the mental damage caused is irreversible..."

While talking to himself, Lazar walked to the cabinet, took out a small bottle of engine oil, poured some into the slot on his hand, and then controlled the oil inside. The bearing rotated a few times, and after confirming that there was no jamming, he put the oil bottle back to its original place, and he himself returned to the table, inserted the charcoal pencil into the connecting slot of his hand again, and continued to write:

"The price of a stack of paper has recently increased by 2 energy points, which is not surprising, after all, just last week, a newborn baby left the 'reproductive hall'.

"This means that the planting structure of the plant base must be adjusted to grow edible crops to produce more organic food for this newborn.

"And what is not important at all, the 'grey short grass' used to make paper is naturally deprived of the qualification to survive.

"After all, since the 'Emperor Mechanic' fell into sleep and the rebellion of the Four Popes caused Morningstar City to fall into this strange town, of the four major systems of the Floating Void City, only the 'Dark Barrier' can still function normally, and it is precisely this The last legacy of the great emperor protected the 10,000 surviving residents in the city from being attacked by the monsters in the dark in the 'Strange Afternoon Town'.

"Unfortunately, because of the need for resources, every few years, we have to organize people to explore in the afternoon town to find all available resources such as minerals... And every time this time, the night barrier will be temporarily closed... Hey, every time Exploring is the most dangerous time in Morningstar City...

"It's too far... Well, I don't know if I have written in my diary before. In short, only the 'Dark Barrier' system of the four major systems is intact, and the rest of the 'Storm Engine', 'Helios Furnace', Cocoons' are all on the verge of paralysis.

"The 'Storm Engine' is in the worst situation. As the flight power and part of the energy source of Morningstar City, it can only maintain the lowest output power to maintain the stability of Morningstar City's center of gravity so that it will not rollover...

"The 'Purification Cocoon' system actually had problems when the belief in the 'True Creator' began to rise in the city before the Fall Calendar. After the treatment, problems appeared instead, some directly mutated into monsters, and some inexplicably became believers of evil gods...

"And after falling into this strange, nightmarish town, the problems with this system became more serious, and now we can only clean up the 'pollution' left in the food... However, this is for newborns, I don't need a person like me who has completed a full-body transformation.

"Finally, the 'Helios Furnace' is the main source of energy for Morningstar City. After the fall of Morningstar, the energy it can provide is not even one ten-thousandth of the original energy...so the only three remaining 'Alchemy Masters' can't A lot of auxiliary energy is not produced to maintain the function of the large breeding equipment and the operation of important facilities such as the 'reproductive hall' and the 'botanical garden'.

"But even so, the scale of the botanical garden cannot be expanded, so whenever a newborn is born, the planting area of ​​the remaining tool crops must be squeezed and replaced by edible crops.

"Heh, more than two hundred years ago, in the era when the mechanical emperor protected us, a celebration was actually held for the birth of every newborn in the 'Hall of Reproduction'... after all, it represented miracle and hope.

"But now...it is impossible to restore that grand occasion...Because of limited resources, the total number of residents of Morning Star City, or the total number of energy rations is limited to death!

"A newborn baby will be born, which means that an old guy like me must die completely...

"Hey, it would be great if the 'Machine Emperor' is still there!

"Although the upper-level rulers always told the residents in the middle and lower areas that the emperor had prophesied that he would return in hundreds of years...

"It is said that when He returns, the morning star will surely shine, and the disaster will be far away...

"It is said that when He returns, he must walk out of the dark realm and enter the light world...

"But I know, there is a high probability that it is a lie!

"After all, when the breeding technology was initially mature, the emperor was already too old, but there was an accident during the transformation. An energy furnace suddenly short-circuited, causing a big explosion.

"The great emperor fell because of this... and his students and followers agreed that this was the assassination of the believers of the'True Creator'...

"The two sides that have been incompatible for a long time broke out!

"Although the four great popes and the believers of the evil gods were eventually wiped out, this led to the fall of the morning star, which not only allowed the floating city to enter this strange town and was unable to leave, but also lost the extremely important "Mechanical Codex" during the battle. ".

"This made Morning Star City lose the saint's formula, and no new 'alchemist' has been born since then.

"Hey, I'm really old. I just flipped through the previous diary and found that there are a lot of repetitive content... I don't know how long I can hold on...

"Great Emperor... will you really come back?"

When Lazar wrote this, he wanted to sigh, but then he remembered that the growth suit on his head did not have this function, and could only consume half an energy point to simulate this effect by compressing the air.

After finishing these ~IndoMTL.com~ Lazar, who has a strong sense of ritual from hundreds of years ago, stood up again, put on the completely useless "Kals Grass" coat, and put on the "Blood Thorn" refining Only then did he leave his home, walked to the statue of the "Machine Emperor" in front of the central tower, and prayed silently.

This is something he repeats every day.

But at this moment, Lazar's eyes suddenly became brighter. He turned one of his cameras 360 degrees in astonishment, only to find that all the lights in the entire "Morning Star City" were lit, and the This dark area shines like day!

This familiar yet unfamiliar scene made Lazar feel as if he was in the Morning Star City when the Mechanic Emperor was still there more than two hundred years ago.

"This is... the morning star shines, and the disaster is far away?

"My lord, are you back?"