Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 163: Burn It with Pollution

Why does this prayer feel a bit strange? Hughes frowned.

As Chloe chanted, in an instant, the hot flames in the boiler filled with fuel rose up, burning Gaia who was holding the brazier and preparing to pour in, and she staggered, and the dark red charcoal in the brazier fell on her.

Monica's expression changed, and the flesh and blood magic was activated. She swung her whole body and used her snake tail to help her block the charcoal.

Chloe calmly withdrew her hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she looked at the steam engine that was starting to run, her eyes filled with joy: "It actually works, we succeeded!"

Monica and Gaia in her arms were stunned, their eyes widening. "Success?"

"It really worked, A-no, A-no responded to me, woo-woo-woo, it finally paid attention to me."

Monica threw herself on the boiler room of the steam engine, hugged the steam engine and cried bitterly. Gaia also stood up and showed a smile from the heart.

This was the first time they successfully communicated with the machine spirit.

"Great!" "Wow, little Monica is amazing, she actually succeeded!" "Gaia! Awesome!" "You're worthy of being the chief!" "Oh oh oh!"

There was a burst of cheers outside the room, which frightened Gaia so much that she shrank her neck. Zeus took the lead in applauding, and soon the small room was filled with warm applause.

Gaia's face turned red. She then remembered that she and the others were being watched the entire time. The feeling of embarrassment spread from her toes to the top of her head. She squatted down with her head in her arms.

Chloe next to her was like an actor taking a curtain call, greeting everyone in a pompous manner, then she put her hands on her hips and raised her head with a smug smile on her face.

The applause from the crowd was long-lasting and like a tide. Half of them were cheering, and half were genuinely admiring. In fact, there were more than just Chloe and the other two who tried to communicate with the machine spirit. Most of the people in the test site had tried to communicate with this "living" steam engine.

A Nuo ignored everyone except Xiu Si.

People were not surprised by this. After all, Hughes was the designer of this steam engine, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was A-Nuo's father.

A steam engine with living characteristics, everyone thinks it has great value, but it just ignores people, as if they have found a treasure house with great effort but don’t have the key to enter, making everyone hate it.

The applause died down after a long time, and Hughes stepped forward to congratulate him:
"Congratulations, you've successfully communicated with the Machine Spirit. This is enough to be written into history textbooks. I'm just curious where these rituals and prayers came from."

"This is actually the common prayer for steam engines in the Mechanical Temple."

"Mechanicus Temple?"

"An organization that fanatically worships machinery and technology. They, ahem, have some connection to me."

Zeus blinked and showed a surprised expression. The reputation of the Fire Moths was too bad. Zeus did not disclose their identities. Chloe must have meant that the Fire Moths were related to the Mechanical Temple.

Come to think of it, the Fire Moths are pursuing knowledge, and in this respect, they have the same goal as the Mechanical Templar. It is normal for them to have some secret connections. And why does he seem to have some impression of this name?

"The Mechanical Templar has some connections with the royal family, and the Queen is their secret supporter." Chloe leaned in and whispered.

So that's how it is. No wonder he had some impression that a large part of the Empire's army equipment came from the secret supply of the Mechanical Temple. As the illegitimate son of Duke Cohen, he had heard some words about it.

However, this organization has some religious elements in it, so the royal family just hides them behind the scenes to avoid direct conflict with the Candlelight Society.

Speaking of which, the priest who killed the worker, Hughes, seems to have some connection to this Mechanical Temple. He's covered in gears. "By the way, why are you all here?"

Chloe looked at the crowd of onlookers gathered at the door with some curiosity. Hearing this, Gaia also secretly looked outside through the fingers covering her face.

Hughes's face darkened.

"Monica, you've already blown up two toilets, collapsed half of the factory building, and killed a nest of coyotes while doing a pollution experiment a few days ago." Monica smiled awkwardly and muttered in defense.

"Gaia, not only did you not stop Monica, you also provided her with nitroglycerin."

Gaia quickly covered her eyes.

"Chloe, you, you're fine."

Chloe summoned the evil god, but almost lost control of it. The last time she asked him to do an experiment, something went wrong again, and it was the crazy fire moth. Unfortunately, none of this can be said.

Chloe tilted her head.

"The three of you getting together is an emergency for Castel. Who knows whether you want to communicate with the steam engine or pour explosives into the boiler?"

Xiu Si looked at the three people in front of him and finally sighed helplessly: "From now on, you must report any experiments you want to do. It's not too troublesome. Just tell the banshee on duty at the door, or Monica, you can contact me directly."

The banshees have a telepathic connection and can communicate directly with Zeus at any time. Theoretically, Zeus's ability to control the test site is still very strong, but these three people are just too efficient in causing trouble.

"Actually, I'm a little curious. How did you think of using the ritual of the Mechanical Temple? And the Machine Spirit actually responded."

This mechanical temple left only one impression in Zeus's memory - it was filled with demonic energy.

If the Fire Moths are pursuing knowledge, learning knowledge, using knowledge and going crazy about it, then the Mechanical Temple regards machines and technology as something completely incomprehensible.

They worship machines as something sacred and strictly forbid others from studying and understanding them. They themselves have a whole set of cumbersome operating procedures, from prayers to various ritual items. Although they do not call themselves a religion, their worship of machines is more fanatical than many religions.

The worker Zeus in the previous life was killed because he didn't know these things.

Huh? Wait, wasn't he killed by the Candlelight Order? That Mechanical Priest seems to be wearing the Candlelight Order's holy emblem, right?
Zeus rubbed his forehead. The power of Rhine was really complicated. Even if he really broke into the upper class of the empire through the relationship with the church, he would probably be killed inexplicably.

"Come to think of it, I used to think these rituals were a bit silly, but I didn't expect they'd actually be useful." Chloe rubbed her chin. "The Mechanical Templar is quite something. Their rituals can really please the Machine Spirits."

"Do they have organic souls?"

Chloe fell silent, thinking carefully for a long time before answering: "No."

"." Xius was also speechless.

This Mechanical Temple is really crazy.

"By the way, now that we have successfully awakened the machine spirit, let's proceed to the next experiment."

"Burn some pollution on it."

(End of this chapter)