Y'lisabet carefully stepped into the fog.
As soon as her body entered the fog, the nano-electronic sensors installed under her skin immediately sent back a set of data.
Relative humidity: 90%.
The composition of the fog: dihydrogen monoxide, which was also water molecules.
"So, this is just a simple fog?" Y'lisabet frowned. "Then why...
"All the equipment installed on my body are malfunctioning?"
As a human biochemical mechanical warrior, Y'lisabet's body had been specially modified.
She was equipped with the most advanced detection and detection equipment. Her whole body was densely covered with all kinds of sensors, and her brain was installed with a sophisticated quantum personal core.
In theory, she could even recognize the pheromones of the Diablos.
But now, all the external sensors on her body seemed to be malfunctioning.
The biochemical cells in her body seemed to be imprisoned by something.
The moment she entered the fog, the laser knife extending from her arm had automatically retracted.
The nano-biochemical mechanical armor covering her whole body was also fully retracted.
This caused her to switch from combat mode back to standby mode.
It seemed that only the quantum core embedded under the cerebral cortex and a few non-combat nano-organs were still operating.
Y'lisabet's eyes saw that at the end of the thick fog, there seemed to be a light source similar to a light, flickering.
She pondered for a moment, then followed the light and kept moving forward.
After a few steps, her feet seemed to touch something.
Y'lisabet lowered her head and picked up the thing.
It was the drone she had released before.
However, now, the four-winged drone had become a ring watch again.
Tick tock, tick tock. The clock slowly moved.
Putting the ring watch back on her wrist, Y'lisabet continued to move forward.
Then, she felt that her feet seemed to have stepped on something soft.
Y'lisabet lowered her head and saw the thing with the light source of the ring watch.
It was a mass of flesh that was rapidly melting and evaporating like melting ice and snow.
From the outline, the original appearance of the mass of flesh could be vaguely seen. It was the bison like offspring of the Lunar Devil.
This powerful offspring of the Diablos was being disintegrated by the inexplicable power in this thick fog.
In just a few seconds, it melted and evaporated. Even its skin, hair, and bones were no longer there.
Only a smooth crystal the size of a goose egg was left on the ground.
Y'lisabet picked it up and carefully put it in her arms.
This was the treasure that humans had been diligently seeking — the Diablos' Crystal.
It was a powerful crystal that only existed in the bodies of a small number of Diablos.
It was also the source of energy for the Doomsday Fortresses' main control center.
A single Diabolic Crystal of this size could maintain the operation of a large fortress for a year.
Therefore, its value was immeasurable!
After putting the items away, Y'lisabet continued forward, following the source of the light.
Finally, she reached the source of the light.
Raising his head, he saw a building with red bricks and green tiles in the thick fog.
The old wall was covered in dust, and a plaque appeared in front of Y'lisabet.
She was slightly taken aback by the words written on the wall, "This is … Cathayan …"
She recognized this kind of writing.
Her quantum core carried most of the world's mainstream text and language templates.
This was a necessary template for the convenience of meeting any possible survivors outside the fortress and communicating with them.
It was a pity that he hadn't had the chance to use it all this time.
"Qiyuan … Bookstore …" Y'lisabet looked at the dusty plaque, her expression uncertain, but she still walked forward resolutely and gently pushed open the glass door.
… …
Sure enough, after drinking the water soaked with the leaves.
Ling Ping'an dominated the canyon!
Three consecutive rounds of games, he really had it no matter how he played!
No matter how bad his teammates were, no matter how strong his opponents were.
Ling Ping'an could also turn the rotten into the magical and directly beat his opponents into autistic.
One against four was easy.
This made Ling Ping'an unable to help but make another cup.
Drinking the tea in his hand, he slowly lay down on the chair in the counter.
At this moment, he heard the sound of the shop door opening, so he raised his head from the counter and looked over.
He saw a blonde foreign woman pushing the door open and entering.
She looked about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, so she shouldn't be older than Ling Ping'an.
Ling Ping'an noticed that she was wearing clothes that seemed to be worn by a character in a sci-fi movie. She looked very futuristic.
"A sci-fi fan?" Ling Ping'an thought to himself.
Thus, he asked with a smile, "Customer … Are you looking to buy a book?"
… …
Y'lisabet pushed open the glass door and walked in.
As soon as she entered the door, she swallowed hard.
In front of her was a small space.
A strange man was sitting in what seemed to be a wooden counter.
His body was thin and had no muscles, but his entire face seemed to be shrouded in fog, making it impossible to see clearly.
Seeing her enter, the strange man stood up.
Sparks quietly flickered in the pitch-black eye sockets of the head shrouded in mist.
He seemed to have known this would happen and asked Y'lisabet, "Customer … Are you looking to buy a book?"
When this sentence fell into Y'lisabet's ears, the quantum core in her brain immediately overloaded.
This was because countless facts and cases had shown.
Any human who came into contact with Diablo or similar existences would be distorted by their language, consciousness, and even the ripples produced by just coming into contact with them.
Therefore, after paying countless prices, humans had no choice but to choose symbiosis with machines.
They implanted nano-biochemical machines into their bodies.
They even embedded the quantum core in their brains and accepted the surgery of mechanized minds.
In this way, they could isolate and filter the pheromones of Diablo and protect themselves.
After the quantum core overloaded with calculations, Y'lisabet finally got the best choice.
She nodded lightly and activated the language template. Using an electronic voice, she said, "Hello, what books do you have here?"
… …
"Hello, what books do you have here?" The cold, mechanical electronic voice made Ling Ping'an frown.
"Another person who is too immersed in her role?" Ling Ping'an sized up the foreigner in front of him.
Her face belonged to the kind of exquisite oval face that met the public's aesthetic standards.
It was just that it was a little too fair.
Her azure blue eyes didn't look like human eyes. Instead, they had a metallic texture.
The bridge of his nose was straight, and he looked like a work of the gods.
"Maybe it's because of her makeup..." Ling Ping'an thought.
Other than that, her body was also a little tall.
She was almost as tall as Ling Ping'an. A conservative estimate was at least 175 centimeters.
She had a pair of long, healthy, and slender legs. They were firm and very beautiful.
Looking at the clothes she was wearing, Ling Ping'an laughed. He knew that she was a rich man.
From her dressing style, Ling Ping'an guessed that she should be a new player who had fallen into the pit of Stellaris.
It just so happened that there were several official sets of the Stellaris game in the bookstore!
"My luck is really here. I can't even stop it!" Ling Ping'an was extremely happy and asked, "Customer, are you from the Mechanical Ascension Faction?"
… …
"Customer, are you from the Mechanical Ascension Faction?"
Hearing the question of the strange man in front of her, Y'lisabet's quantum brain began to alarm frantically.
There were countless cases recorded in the brain, and each of them was displayed in front of her in a bloody manner.
Those cases told humans a truth — don't answer questions from evil gods or untouchable existences! Don't answer! Don't answer!
Because any answer, as long as there was a slight deviation, it could lead to unpredictable results.
However, she couldn't remain silent either.
Because in front of evil gods, silence was useless.
They could easily penetrate the human mind and peek into the true thoughts of humans.
They could even play with human thoughts in the palm of their hands.
Many people thought that they were normal after coming into contact with evil gods.
But the results were often tragic.
Therefore, on the one hand, she couldn't answer directly to avoid stepping into an unpredictable dangerous situation.
On the other hand, she had to think of all ways to deal with it and gradually test the logic of its behavior.
Only then would there be a chance of survival.
"Mechanical Ascension Faction?" Y'lisabet carefully followed the plan given by the quantum brain and drove the electronic vocal cords to ask.
… …
"Yes!" Ling Ping'an looked at the unfamiliar foreign woman in front of him and said very warmly, "Customer, are you not from the Mechanical Ascension Faction?"
"Then are you from the Psionic Ascension Faction? Or the Genetic Ascension Faction? "
Ling Ping'an didn't discriminate against these patients who were too immersed in the role.
Because in the bookstore, all customers were God.
Especially now, business was really getting harder and harder to do.
If he didn't think of a way to sell some books, it would be difficult to cheat subsidies next month.
The Federal Empire wasn't a fool.
A bookstore that had been losing money for a long time and had zero turnover could still continue to be subsidized?
… …
"Customer, are you not from the Mechanical Ascension Faction?"
"Then are you from the Psionic Ascension Faction? Or the Genetic Ascension Faction? "The strange man seemed very surprised.
Y'lisabet was even more surprised.
Mechanical Ascension, Psionic Ascension, Genetic Ascension.
Three terms that she had never heard of before.
Her quantum brain continued to overheat.
Finally, after careful deduction and calculation, the mainframe gave him an option.
Looking at the option, Y'lisabet fell silent.
"So..." she thought, "I became the sacrifice or experiment chosen by the brain?"
The quantum brain was installed in her brain.
After her death, the brain would automatically destroy itself.
Then, the key information stored in the brain would be reproduced in the main control center of the Doomsday Fortress through quantum entanglement.
Currently, most of the knowledge that humans had about evil gods or similar existences was obtained through this method.
After hesitating for only three seconds, Y'lisabet chose to follow the brain's suggestion.
Because she and humans had no other choice.
"Can you tell me about Mechanical Ascension, Psionic Ascension, and Genetic Ascension?" For the first time, her electronic vocal cords trembled.
… …
The customer's request was, of course, Ling Ping'an's mission.
And as a person who was determined to be the future book giant of the Federation, it was also a basic job for Ling Ping'an to be familiar with and understand the details of the books in the store.
Therefore, he had read most of the books in this bookstore.
Thus, Ling Ping'an smiled and said, "Of course!"
"This Mechanical Ascension is to embrace machinery, abandon the fragile physical body, and walk towards a bright world of steel!"
"Flesh and blood are weak, but steel is eternal!"
"With absolute reason, absolute materialism, and absolute rationality, walk towards a bright future and embark on a journey into the sea of stars!"
… …
"Flesh and blood are weak, but steel is eternal!"
The quantum brain was overloaded crazily.
The computing speed soared to the highest level.
Y'lisabet was also amazed by the future described in this truth-like language.
"With absolute reason, absolute materialism, and absolute rationality, walk towards a bright future and embark on a journey into the sea of stars..."
She chewed on the strange man's words, "Isn't this the hope of mankind, the blueprint for the future?"
Earth was already riddled with holes and had become the paradise of evil gods.
The entire solar system had been completely corroded.
The sun had become the nest of evil gods.
Jupiter and Saturn had become the holy land for the descendants and minions of evil gods to reproduce.
The moon was occupied by a huge spider evil god, the Dark Side of the Moon.
Mankind could only struggle at death's door in the Doomsday Fortress, relying on biochemical machinery to barely struggle.
Therefore, mankind wanted to survive and continue to reproduce.
Wasn't the only hope the scene described by this strange man?
Therefore, Y'lisabet could no longer care about anything else. She grabbed the strange man's hand tightly and pleaded, "Then, can you guide me and mankind on this great path?"
… …
Ling Ping'an looked at the excited foreign woman in front of him.
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He imitated the tone of the supporters of the Robotic Ascension Party he saw on the forum and said, "Child, of course, I will not refuse your request!"
"The weak body of mankind is destined to become a shortcoming and drawback!"
"Only machinery can live forever!"
Yes, if the other party was the Psionic Ascension Party or the Genetic Ascension Party.
Then replacing machinery with psionic power or genes was the same.
"I will lead you into the Temple of Truth and into the Mechanical Paradise!" Ling Ping'an said.
… …
"Child..."
"I will lead you into the Temple of Truth and into the Mechanical Paradise!"
The strange man's voice was grand and sacred.
Even though Y'lisabet had already undergone mechanized mental surgery, she was still excited.
Therefore, she bowed deeply, "Please!"
At the same time, she quietly issued an order to the quantum brain: Activate Plan A.
The so-called Plan A was to urgently self-destruct.
She authorized the brain to immediately self-destruct if she encountered any life-threatening situation and activate the quantum entanglement program to send the information back to the quantum control center in the Doomsday Fortress.
The brain quickly accepted the order.
Thus, Y'lisabet was no longer afraid.
She raised her head and looked at the strange man in front of her. Step by step, she walked toward a pitch-black, twisted, and unfathomable abyss-like space.
That space was like a black hole, deep and dark.
At the edge of the space, there was an asphalt-like liquid slowly squirming.
In the boundless deep abyss, there seemed to be pairs of malevolent eyes opening and closing one after another.
This place was like the void where evil gods were born. It was full of mystery, unknown, distortion, and madness.
… …
Ling Ping'an walked to the back of the bookshelf and found the sci-fi label. Then, he counted the books one by one.
Finally, he found the book he was looking for.
A bright smile appeared on his face, "There's finally hope to sell it!"
He took the book down.
It was a heavy tome.
The title of the book was "Stellaris: Mechanical Ascension Settings Collection".
It was the official setting collection of the most popular sci-fi game on the market, "Stellaris".
There were many beautiful game illustrations inside.
More importantly, there was an official and authoritative interpretation and introduction of the Mechanical Ascension School.
It was a must-read for the Mechanical Ascension School.
That foreign woman, judging from her appearance, was probably a noob who had just fallen into the trap and was obsessed with it.
This kind of official setting collection would definitely make her happy.
Of course, the most important thing was its price-225 yuan!
It was one of the most expensive books in Ling Ping'an's hands.
At the same time, it was also the most profitable book.
If he could sell it, he would earn at least half of it!
"If this deal is done... tomorrow morning, I can ask Aunt Cai to bring me an extra bowl of tofu pudding!" Thinking of the sweet tofu pudding, Ling Ping'an was filled with fighting spirit.
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