My Player 2

Chapter 173 Digital Life
The mecha operated by the "Baron" was purchased from the Alliance Military.

It looks like a bipedal tank with fierce firepower, but its output types are limited and the flexibility of its limbs is not satisfactory.

In the sunlight, the eight humanoid mechas with long limbs shining with silver luster opposite him were a technology from another dimension, more like the stereotypical "Gundam".

The "Baron" glanced at the opponent's attributes and found that there was no gap between them and himself.

Perhaps in the eyes of those newcomers, the opponent's "gold equipment" is stronger than their own "blue equipment", but in the eyes of experts, this is nothing more than the difference between "heavy firepower" and "agility".

"let's start."

The dwarf in the cab yawned and stepped on the forward pedal.

The heavy mecha he was operating revealed more than a dozen large-caliber gun barrels.

The exposed axle drove the iron feet forward, leaving a series of deep iron marks.

"Machinarium" is located in the west of the Rich Continent and is a small island near the sea.

Inside the city is a level 75 monster spawning point.

To enter this technological city, one must either complete the test of the [Gatekeeper·Dust Machine] or reach the hero level and charge in.

The residents of Machinarium are digital beings living in a data world.

Unlike those AIs that, for some unknown reason, insist on having a real body.

The digital life in Machinarium has little interest in the physical world.

They are unfettered data.

The monsters that automatically refresh in the city cannot harm them.

However, these monsters still drove away the servants who maintained the servers, destroyed the factories that produced computing power facilities, and squeezed the living space of digital life through unconscious destruction.

Over time, these digital lives will eventually come to an end.

However, the duration of this slow death is measured in "ten thousand years".

The one who can truly destroy them is the God of Machinery "Omnissia".

Just by listening to the name, you can tell that this god pays tribute to the unnamed Void Dragon in a certain IP. The official also changed "Ya" to "Ya", making the God of Machinery appear in the image of a female imp.

In order to prevent this god from "bugging".

The digital life in the digital world divided "Omnissia" into countless parts and placed them in different local area networks.

Through this method of "dismemberment", this god who could destroy all digital life was split into low-level clones and survived in a strange way.

"Boom!"

While checking the relevant information, the Baron, who was operating the heavy mecha, fired his shoulder cannon at the humanoid mecha that passed by.

The explosion seemed to be about to destroy the world, and it blew the humanoid mecha, which had no time to open its shield, into a piece of scrap metal with arcs of electricity.

Taking advantage of the aftermath of the artillery explosion, "Baron" quickly operated in the cockpit, allowing the bulky mecha to complete a gorgeous somersault in the air, and stabbed out the "deflagration spear" in his hand with the highest power, piercing the mecha that rushed into the smoke.

"Tsk."

After killing two humanoid mechas in succession, the "Baron" couldn't help but frown.

Most of the information about "Machinarium" found on the Internet begins with "I speculate" or "It may be".

There is very little real substance.

After all, the players who came here in the first round did not pass the test honestly.

They killed the guy in front of them as if he were a boss.

The [Gatekeeper Dust Machine] had high authority. Before it died, it issued a self-destruct command, destroying all the facilities in the city.

The players at that time didn’t think too much about it. After digging out a bunch of god-level blueprints, they thought that this was all that “Machinarium” had to hide.

The Baron also wanted to kill the Boss.

This way, you can steadily harvest a core of "God's Machine".

But in the second round, or in other words, the most powerful mecha maker in this other world may be in the abandoned city in front of him. He can't let this city destroy itself.

The era in which you could create a mecha by simply reading the material bars in the first game is gone.

Three humanoid mechas surrounded them, seemingly planning to use their speed advantage to attack from three sides and cut the heavy mecha into pieces.

The Baron looked a little listless.

When facing these high-tech opponents, small devices such as drones can be hacked, and there are fewer means to use.

But it's also good to practice close combat.

"Forget it, you passed." An electronic synthesized voice sounded.

The three surrounded mechas did not attack, but turned into a ball of nano-dust and re-merged with the scrapped remains on the ground.

"Hey, I only shot down two." The Baron was a little surprised.

"A fight of this level won't even grab your attention. I don't want to fight an opponent who's about to fall asleep."

Those are obviously very emotional words.

But when it is spoken through a synthesized electronic voice, there is an indescribable feeling of coldness.

"Those who pass the trial will become the guardians of the Machinarium. Please drive out the monsters in the city, repair the industrial facilities, and expand the production capacity of the computing center to produce more computing resources to stop the war between digital life."

After saying that, without waiting for the dwarf in the cockpit to respond, the silver "Gundam" dissipated into ash again, part of it covering the dwarf's mecha, and the other part floated away, "eating" the spare machine hidden by the "Baron" in the forest.

[Molecular Predator Dust].

This is the new mecha that Baron just got.

Its abilities are the same as the Boss's. It can turn into dust and change its form, and it can also eat metal to recover. One mecha has the functions of ten.

This is already heroic-level equipment, and there is potential for further improvement.

The Baron looked at the new cockpit with a genuine smile on his face.

"Can I use these permissions to produce divine machines?" he asked nervously.

"Yes." The mechanical voice of the panel replied: "Depending on the degree of recovery of the city, you will gradually unlock the use of industrial facilities."

"Can it really be produced?" The Baron stood up excitedly.

Whether he can continue to advance as a [Mechanic Master] will determine his future.

"But I know nothing about making mechas." He said nervously, "I'm just better at driving mechas."

"Your needs have been recorded... It is recommended that you increase the computing power in the city by 1EH/s, and first shelter the homeless digital life forms such as [Master of Manufacturing·Xuanwu], [Master of Forging·Iron], and [Assembly Line Expert·Aide]."

A long list of digital life's biographies and data appeared on the control panel.

These digital life forms were responsible for managing the "servants" in reality thousands of years ago.

The "Baron" looked at the data on the panel, listened to the electronic explanation, and gradually understood the task assigned to him by the other party.

Due to the lack of maintenance of the facilities that produce computing power, the computing power of the entire city has dropped sharply to 13% of its original level over the past thousand years.

The digital life in Machinarium is about to be squeezed out of its living space.

To put it simply, "computing power" is the "house" of digital life.

The digital life that leaves the "house" will become a "madman".

Now the "house" has collapsed due to disrepair and only a little bit is left.

In order to survive, those digital lives can only steal the computing power of other digital lives.

In the digital world without the smoke of gunpowder, a war is taking place.

And their task is to produce "machines for producing houses".

Once new computing power is generated, we will be able to adopt those homeless digital lives.

(End of this chapter)