The Legendary Mechanic

Many days later.

Through the starboard windows, a metallic planet approached in view, with no green forests, no earth ash, no sea water blue, and ubiquitous steel replacing nature to occupy the surface.

“Destination buzzing detected… Coming soon to Norios buzzing… Surface temperature suitable to buzz…”

In the hall of the ship, a robot with a round head made a mechanical voice, the cylinder's body was like a can, each side of the body was fitted with an elongated robotic arm, about a meter tall, before reaching the thighs of ordinary humans, underneath it was fitted with a single wheel, which was the way it moved.

All of a sudden, a big hand grabbed the robot's head and lifted it in the middle of the sky, and the robot seemed a little panicked, and the two robotic arms wandered in the air, matching this round, rolling robotic body, looked extraordinarily cute.

“Caught buzzing…” The robot makes a sound.

At this point, the man in black sitting next to the sofa opened his mouth.

“Put it down. How many times have I told you, Mellos, don't play with my robot! ”

Merloth shrugged his shoulders and put the robot down. The little guy came back to the ground and rushed to the side of the sofa with a single wheel, trying to hide himself behind Han Xiao's calf, and Cesar shivered.

Han Xiao stroked the robot's metallic head as gentle as a pet.

Merloth forked his waist, scratched his head with one hand, and said helplessly, "Is this artificial intelligence you made really capable of fighting? ”

“Can't you remember its name? It's Philip! ”

Han Xiaofu, “It's just a semi-finished product. ”

Han Xiao was not idle during the ship's journey, and he assembled a number of stronger drawings, updated his combat machines, and made Philip with the new [high-end virtual intelligence technology] - an artificial intelligence. Compared to previous intelligent chips, AI's computational speed, logical structure, and data capacity have increased by an unknown amount of magnitude.

There are several modes of artificial intelligence, two that have more characteristics. One is to record template data directly, so that intelligence is like having its own virtual personality. In fact, it still follows a fixed framework of closed thinking, but only simulates intelligent creatures, and the advantage is listening. The second is that it really has independent thinking, has imagination, can think for itself, and can only be controlled by underlying commands. Obviously, the latter is more agile and has the potential to become virtual or mechanical life, but equally more risky.

Han Xiao just needs a good help for now, so Philip is the former. It's a semi-finished product because there are some logical commands that aren't set up, the virtual character is flawed, and it takes more time to perfect, but it works fine, Philip can download data over the network, but it doesn't affect the fixed virtual character, and Han Xiao randomly built it a robotic body.

As for why he was named Philip, this is the name of a tortoise he raised in his previous life to remember his young shaver, a tortoise is a great choice for lazy people who want to keep a pet and don't like to clean... Maybe the owner raised himself and he's not dead yet.

Looking at the nearer and nearer planet outside the window, Han Xiao sighed: “Coming soon, this is one of the transit stations into the broken rings, there will be a lot of guys from other stars, don't say how many powerful superpowers, we act low, don't cut the branches, the goal is to find the teacher of the throne... Emmers is rushing back from other stars, even if her seat is fast, it will take a lot of time, let's look for clues in Norios first. ”

Norios is on the edge of a broken ring of stars, a planet that today does not belong to any civilized regime, and long ago a superconsortium saw the geographic location of the planet and paid for it. At the time, the planet was just a numbered deserted uninhabited planet, in a harsh environment, and the consortium transformed it into an artificial planet, transforming the ecological environment with countless devices to become viable, so it became a transit point into a broken ring of stars.

Since there are no planets near Norios for a long time, and the nearest jumping stargate will take at least three days to make the transition, many travelers will choose to land here, replenish fuel and supplies, refurbish the ship, and hide high, thus filling the consortium with money and returning home in less than 50 years.

The prosperity of the economy has also attracted many star citizens, who have smelled the opportunity to become rich, opened shops here and, similarly, operated a wide variety of business organizations here. Norios brings together countless travelers, very busy, very populous, mixed dragon snakes - but Norios does not accommodate villains like Lontan, and the warrant is in effect here, with few star thieves or wanderers coming to this place.

But the consortium controlling Norios, which prevents the star thieves from staring at this rich land, has set up many frigates in outer space, and has set up ports outside the planet, preventing any spacecraft from entering the planet's atmosphere - not even the frigates themselves, which prevents outsiders from stealing them from the sea! Moreover, the consortium has arranged a supermassive energy enclosure over the atmosphere of Norios to prevent remote strikes from destroying the surface.

All visitors must park the ship in a space port, and if the ship is driving into the atmosphere, the frigate warns are followed by firing, and if travelers want to travel to surface cities for recreational consumption, they must take a 10,000-meter lift that connects the sky to the earth.

This is Norios' defense, very strict, and it also makes travelers feel safe.

However, there were also star thieves who tried to break in, were blown up by frigates, were robbed of the surface, were captured by the guarded security forces who arrived at the port by lift, and the most frequent occurrence was when a group of star thieves was robbed of the surface by passing travellers - no one knew who the travellers from other stars were.

The Tiger Hidden Dragon!

Closer together, you can see five mountainous steel stations suspended in different directions in Norios, five outer space ports filled with defensive turrets of all kinds against the ship's class, surrounded by a large number of frigates.

The ship stopped at the nearest harbor, Han Xiao handled the ship's storage procedures, and brought all the curious people to the elevator area, where it was overcrowded and species of all colors lined up with dragons.

Alosia lifted her eyelids and said: “I feel familiar here, I seem to have been here...”

At this point, the panel suddenly appears with a hint!

Han Xiao glanced at it and actually [restarted] the progress of the second ring added 1 point.

‘Looks like Norios is one of those Arohia memory fragments where she came in one life and was accidentally hit by me.’ He thought.

Verdin looked around and said, “Here alone, I feel at least forty B-level energy fluctuations. ”

“No wonder we keep a low profile.” Sylvia was a little nervous and felt like a sheep had broken into the tiger's cave. Luckily, the teacher, Uncle Mellos and Sister Alosia were also very strong, giving her a little peace of mind.

In a previous life, Norios was an advanced area where players needed to pass through similar transit stations in order to travel to other stars, and players were ranked well before they could leave the stars.

After queuing for a while, it was finally everyone's turn, and the lift staff at the ticket check kept accepting tickets, smiling professionally and saying welcome to every passenger.

When Han Xiao arrived, the ticket examiner suddenly laughed: "Welcome to Norios, Black Star. ”

“You know me?” Han Xiao looked down at him and was slightly surprised.

“I'm just a messenger. Have a nice trip. ”

Upon entering the port, the monitor automatically detects the identity of the visitor, so the senior management learned about Han Xiao's identity. The Black Star Mercenary Corps is now a bit famous for breaking the ring of stars. Especially the Longtan background is not to be underestimated. The consortium values celebrities from all walks of life, so the manager specifically ordered it to be more polite to the Black Star Mercenary Corps.

The elevator space was large, each carrying hundreds of passengers, waited for a short while, everyone's feet sank, the elevator moved up and quickly slipped out of the station along the track. The walls of the elevator were clear glass windows, and the spectacular view of the sky jumped into the curtain as it climbed.

There are also dozens of elevator tracks nearby that connect the harbour, like a sky-high tower running. This altitude is above the cloud, as if stepping on the cloud sea at its feet, the orbit extends downwards without entering the cloud, unable to see the ground, while the horizontal view, gradually from pitch black to blue sky, is on the same horizontal surface of the field of view, the artificial star light source gleams, as if reaching out to touch.

“Beautiful! Philip, film it.” Sylvia's eyes sparkled.

Philip's mechanical eye kept flashing, and he was an assistant, and Han Xiao gave subordinate authority to the other cadres, and when he didn't give the order, the others could give Philip the order.

Through the clouds, Han Xiao overlooks the entire city of the ground, and countless generations of stepping vehicles can only fly under 2,000 meters. A building several hundred meters tall is like a steel spear pointing to the sky. It's a city made entirely of steel, where you can't see any plants, and yet it's not a dead ash, but neon is incredibly colorful and flourishing. Large ecological equipment provides the freshest air, and many of the equipment to govern the city is hidden beneath the iron and steel floor and is operated by the urban management system.

The foundation of the city is a mass-producing colonial machine, thrown on the surface of a planet, and when it unfolds, it is a city like this. The Norios Foundation bought this "silly automated urban expansion package” from the Red Empire, easily transforming the planet, and the money really can do whatever it wants!

Norios has more than a dozen cities connected to each other by electromagnetic tracks, using high-speed trains, and Han Xiao and others travelled to City 4.

Looking closer and closer to the surface, Han Xiao suddenly frowned and his heart slightly moved.

“I have a feeling of restlessness, I always feel like something is going to happen...”

……

The elevators arrived at the surface, and the crowd moved out of the station, and the noisy hot tide swept in and out of the street, and there were many species.

Boo!

Philip was hit by a passing pedestrian, turned for several laps, and Sylvia leaned over and hugged the robot to prevent it from being kicked off.

“There's too many people here. How do we find them?” Merloth pushed away an insect creature suspected of selling herself to females and asked aloud.

Han Xiao already had a countermeasure, "Because Norios is the main traffic route, many intelligence organizations have set up branches here to record information about all travellers. I know the target's face. Just ask the intelligence organization and you will definitely get a clue. ”

Merloth suddenly said, "You really know everything. It's reliable. ”

The crowd marched through the crowd, and about twenty minutes later Han Xiao stopped at the door of a tall building.

“This is it. The ninety-seventh floor is the office of a regular intelligence organization.” Han Xiao looked up and the location of the regular organization was still easy to find.

A pedestrian took the elevator upstairs to the 97th floor, which was very dark, and the floor and windows were covered with black cloth, as if deliberately to create a mysterious atmosphere. After walking in, only one receptionist stayed at the door, and there was an elongated corridor next to it, which was supposed to be a large space, but the rest of the place was black walled and inaccessible.

To ensure the privacy of the client, the floor is divided into opaque compartments to discuss transactions in detail, and the passage between these compartments is like a maze, and the corridor is the only entrance with countless forks in the road that do not allow the client to meet each other.

“I'm here to buy intelligence.” Han Xiao expressed his intention to the front desk.

“Wait a minute. ”

The front desk pressed the button on the table.

Later, a man in black dress came out of the hallway and said, "Please come with me. ”

Han Xiao and others followed the human traders into the corridor and turned into a fork to a compartment.

Just seconds after the crowd walked into the fork, another bird trader walked out of the other fork with a client who had just purchased the information and went to the door, just at the crossroads with Han Xiao and others.

“Thank you for your hospitality. ”

At the door, bird traders bid farewell to their clients.

The customer was dressed in a hood and covered in black robes, covering his appearance.

He didn't talk, walked out, pressed the elevator button.

The elevator door opened for a moment, and the moment he lowered his head, the light briefly illuminated the face under his hood.

Ashes!