Chapter 1583 Weird Machine

I see……

Is this the place?

A pom-pom is currently in a place called... it should be regarded as a 'cub manufacturing factory'.

This is a production factory, and the... residents here are manufactured in this place.

However, this place doesn't look like a factory, because the place where the pompom is... looks more like a forest.

The ground here is covered with fallen leaves, huge trees stand among the fallen leaves, and occasionally you can hear the calls of some small creatures.

This place looks like a forest as a whole. Of course, this place is also located among the giant plants 'Zanke'.

The thickness of Zanke's stems varies, generally ranging from hundreds of meters to one kilometer wide, and such relatively large buildings are built in thicker locations.

However...Lin felt that the name 'Zanke' was a bit weird, so...Lin decided to call this huge plant...'Bus Vine'.

Lin thought that this plant was part of the Stellar Bus, because not long ago... Lin read some history about the robots here.

Their history is quite simple. It seems that Ersh began to travel in the void, and then passed this place with floating gravel. Then some of the Ersh people decided to stay here and develop, while most decided to continue traveling with Ersh.

There was nothing particularly wrong with the story, but Lin noticed that it described a star nearby.

Now there is no star seen here. There may be something wrong with the historical description, or... there is something wrong with that star.

Lin felt that the latter was more likely, because the original group of Ershi people would not have chosen a place without stars to settle.

But they did not describe the disappearance of the star in the historical story. They just talked about the "bus vines" growing here, building buildings here, and encountering some creatures, and then did not continue to describe it.

This historical record is actually what Lin saw in this place. This forest here can be said to be... the living place of Ersh's robot cub.

Although they are machines, they still have cubs, and these cubs also have to learn and other things here.

It takes about three pom-pom years for them to grow into adulthood, and they live here during this period.

But now I don’t see any of them here, maybe they are in other rooms.

In addition to this forest, there are many various spaces throughout the place where cubs are raised, and the main reason why these machines do this is that they themselves are Ershi people.

It seems that something happened here, all the people who were originally... flesh and blood have turned into this kind of machine.

It might have been transformed into this, but for the specific reason, Lin didn't find any...things that recorded these things, so she could only explore for clues everywhere.

After these Ershi people became machines, they still maintained their original habits...or in other words, they had set their original habits.

They eat, but they don't produce real food, they just produce things that look like the original food... called 'food hardware'.

Putting food hardware into the body can create the feeling of eating that food. Moreover, they create... a kind of hardware for each food, instead of directly recording the information of all foods.

Also, they have set up a fatigue system, a sleep system, a system for the cubs to learn, etc.

Although not complete, they still restore to a great extent the various complicated things that happened when flesh and blood lived.

Therefore, Rin thought they were very strange. It would be easy to understand if they could not forget the feeling of eating, but they also set up other things that were purely troublesome, such as fatigue.

Why they do this is currently unknown.

So Lin thinks these robots look ordinary, but they are actually very strange... This is also the interesting part.

However, what Lin finds most interesting is the creature called ‘Bus Vine’.

Now through Lin's investigation of it, she has initially learned that this creature should be regarded as...a variant of the Stellar Bus, so she gave it this name.

It should be a descendant-like individual specially created by a star bus like Ersh, but unlike the offspring, this vine will not grow into a star bus, but will keep growing in this plant-like form, and... ... Various things around it serve as nutrients, but this gravel area should not grow, and it will not teleport.

Lin felt that Ersh deliberately left this mutant plant-shaped offspring here, and it might have some special purpose.

For example, it is used to deal with something...

"What is that!" As Lin was thinking, a large number of small robots suddenly appeared from the side and emerged from the forest around the pompom.

These machines are only half the height of ordinary robots... Lin previously learned that they will change into normal-sized bodies after three pom-pom years of learning.

It had maintained this size until then.

Because these machines themselves can input all the knowledge directly, this learning process seems superfluous, but...

Lin has not found any information that writes down the reason for all this.

"Is it a new toy? It looks so soft!"

These cub machines don't seem to recognize the pompoms, but are jumping around and shouting.

It seems that the cubs don't know about the pom-poms. Lin previously thought that all the residents knew about it, because the machines she saw along the way usually hid aside or whispered when they saw the pom-poms.

However, they will still answer when Pom Pom asks them questions. The attitude of these machines has always been very strange.

Now, Lin plans to study them formally...

Thinking about it, the pom-pom stretched out its fluff towards a cub and slowly touched it...

"What are you doing!"

Suddenly, a loud voice rang out, and it was an... adult machine walking over from the direction of the entrance, and said to the cubs: "It's already very late, go to bed quickly!"

"Yes——!" All these cubs ran away at once... The remaining robot made a gesture called a bow to the pom-pom and said, "Please don't do anything dangerous."

After saying that, it also walked away.

Lin felt...there was indeed something special going on with these strange things, so their attitudes were so weird.

Anyway, let's go and see what they have to do with combat. (To be continued.)