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Chapter 21 West Outer Ring District

"What's the reason? Those machinery suddenly lived?" Shuer remembered the metal living bodies in his memory. Of course, those living bodies are countless times more advanced than the technology in this world, and the two are not comparable at all.

"I don't know." Unexpectedly, Delia shook her head, "Although only a few decades have passed, some of the people who have experienced mechanical disasters are still alive, even if they are, they can't tell what's going on."

"All self-disciplined machinery seemed to have lived and began to massacre humans uncontrollably. They have been planning for a long time and launched at the same time within almost all human activities. Most of the humans have been massacred without even reacting to anything. Although the remaining survivors have resisted for a long time, their territory has gradually been lost. In the end, only a area around the headquarters is still controlled by the coalition government. All the others have fallen, only the City of Sky. Because the number of self-disciplined machinery is relatively small, most of them have been successfully defended."

"It seems like he's alive?"

"Yes, this is the key. Self-disciplined machinery is still the same, rigidly executing orders, without any self-awareness. You saw it that night, it was no different from normal self-disciplined machinery, and it cannot be said that they have come alive. But the problem is that they are like being controlled by something, and suddenly they no longer obey our orders, and instead treat us as enemies."

"Under their pressure, except for the survivors in the capital circle, people from other regions have moved to the Sky City... Uncle, we are here." As he was speaking, the girl suddenly showed a cheerful expression and pointed to the front and said happily, "This is the West Outer Ring District."

What appeared in front of the shadow-seekers was a vast field. The world should be autumn now. The fields were golden, and the fragrance of soil and grain crops were floating everywhere. It is hard to believe that such a scene appeared at a height of several thousand meters. If it were in Pavatiga, the Mother of Earth, Kaiya would definitely cry.

Although I had just experienced a catastrophe and there were still large bloodstains on the ground. No, I could even occasionally see corpses that were not available for treatment, but there were still many people in the fields, as if they were not affected by the disaster at all. But it was true that for a metropolis with a population of nearly one million, food is probably one of the most important materials, especially now it is the harvest season. No matter how big the matter is, food must be handled first.

Walking through the fields, when they saw Shuer and his party, these people showed serious instinctive disgust, but they did not show it in their actions. Instead, when they saw Delia following him, people smiled: "You are back, Delia."

"How is the family?" He glanced at the body that had not been dealt with in fear. The girl greeted him in a familiar way, "No big problem is there."

"Don't worry, the focus of mechanical invasion is in the inner city. Our western outer ring area has been affected relatively little. Only more than a thousand people were killed by machinery, and most of them are safe."

Only? The shadow-seekers were stunned for a moment, obviously not very adapted to the news they heard in their ears. Their attitude towards life was a bit too ridiculous. Even if they were used to mechanical invasion, they should not talk about death so plainly. After all, the dead were their companions who were with them day and night, and maybe their relatives and friends. The familiar people died, but their attitude was still so casual, so as not to be too inconsistent.

"Delia, ask you a question." Shur, who had been watching coldly before leaving the working crowd, asked thoughtfully, "Since that night, I discovered that your world, no, people on your planet have a strange attitude towards death. Although they are equally afraid, they should be more calm when facing death. Is there any special reason?"

"Because you will be able to survive soon." The girl said naturally, "Although the pain of death still exists and will lose memories of recent years, it can still be resurrected after all, and the terror of death has been reduced a lot."

"Hmm?" Shure paused, "Resurrection?"

"Haha, uncle, you're shocked." Delia was quite proud of her shocking Shure. "You don't know that most of the victims have not actually died. They will be able to see them again soon, even those who were crushed. It's just that recently... I'll calculate... the memories of the last three years will probably turn into blank."

"What's going on?"

"About 30 years after immigration to the floating island, due to the continuous influence of mechanical invasion and serious lack of productivity and combat effectiveness, the coalition government launched a special plan, which is said to be a recovery plan. It is to back up everyone's memories and physical condition at that time and seal it in the archives room of the city hospital. Once someone dies abnormally, their files will be extracted, their bodies will be copied and the memory will be introduced, and the deceased will be resurrected soon."

"Ha? Can this be considered resurrection? What should I do with the soul?" The shadow-tracking players looked at each other and reshaping a body. The gods of Pavatiga could do it. It is not difficult for them to pour in memory. The problem is that without the driving of the soul, the reshaping body has no value and it is impossible to wake up again.

"Huh? Uncle, your planet won't believe in things like souls, right?" Delia laughed unexpectedly, "How can there be any soul? That kind of thing is common sense that even a three-year-old child on the brown star knows."

"No wonder." Militi seemed to have found some answer, and briefly explained in response to Shuer's inquiring gaze, "Since that night, at least tens of thousands of people died in the past two days, but I never felt the soul and resentment. I was still wondering in my heart, and now I finally know the reason."

"I changed my body and disappeared, and I didn't even have a soul. Even if I woke up, it wasn't me." Shuer secretly kicked the dwarf and made him whisper, "I'm actually dead."

"The memory is still there." The differences between the two worlds are not so easy to understand, "It's just that there is less recent ones."

"Mobak, shut up." Shuer raised his hand and stopped what the other shadow-seekers wanted to say. The world rules and the world views were different, so there was nothing to discuss. "Delia, since she could be resurrected, why are Surta and the others so afraid of death?"

"Because it is the one who suffers from death that is still the pain, and being dismembered by a mechanical body is not a pleasant experience. And they even bargained for their lives with five thousand credit points, which shows that they were not too afraid of death."

"I'm not referring to this." Shur shook his head, "I mean later, you were peeking at the time, and you must have seen the fear they showed when we were talking about business."

"Oh, that's different." Delia explained, "Accidental death can be resurrected, but if you are executed because of a crime, you will really die. Your life files will be destroyed and there will be no chance of resurrection. If the crime is serious, you may have to be executed several times. Each time you will record the memories before your death, import them into the newly copied body, and then execute them again. That should be a very terrifying feeling."

"Uh, then it's no wonder they are so scared." Trying to bring in this feeling of repeated death, even with the will of the shadow-seekers, he couldn't help but fight a cold war. Shuer curled his lips and threw this curious death penalty aside, "You keep going, what happened after your brown star?"

"After we gave up most of the ground world and escaped to the Sky City, they built countless production and maintenance facilities, began to expand their number, and soon covered the land. Uncle, have you seen the intact circle of buildings around the Tower of Babel, that is their factories, and every minute, countless mechanical beasts were born from the factory."

"I don't know how much hatred machinery has against humans. Since they moved to the Sky City, they have never stopped trying to hedge against the floating city and kill us all. Every few months, when they accumulate a certain number, they will launch a mechanical invasion to try to attack the floating city."

"Have you succeeded?"

"You mean our city?" Delia shook her head, "This one has not been captured, but it is said that many cities have fallen under their attack, and all the humans in the city have died completely."

"Well? Can't be resurrected?"

"The city is destroyed, the sky city falls, and the life archives in the city naturally no longer exist. Those people cannot be resurrected." Delia sighed regretfully, "Maybe they can regain the ruins of the sky city, and there is still a chance to rescue some life archives, but if that kind of thing can be done, they will not be forced to this day... Aunt Jessica, yes, I'm back, little Evan and the others have already returned, hahaha, this time it's a big harvest, and I've made a lot of money, yes, that's what they mean, letting them bring it back first, don't wait for me, it's enough to help me keep my share."

He greeted the old woman passing by skillfully and enthusiastically. However, after both sides passed by, the little girl's expression immediately collapsed and she rolled her eyes several times.

"Ha, I feel that you are very popular in the West Outer Ring District." Xiuer said with a smile.

"Uncle, you did it on purpose, I don't believe it, you can't tell it." The little guy pouted and muttered, "They are enthusiastic about me now because in recent years, I have always been able to find ways to make money in the West Outer Ring District. I remember how they treated me when I didn't have the ability before. It's not a reason for people in the urban area of ​​the West Outer Ring District to look down on me. Humph, don't think that if I'm enthusiastic about me now, I can forgive them."

"Ha, the little guy who holds revenge." Sher patted Delia's head, and Shure didn't say much. Everyone has their own opinions on this kind of thing, and they can't say who is right or wrong.
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