Endless Silver Machine

After Aika and Ruby's happy day, a figure wearing a crimson feather suddenly appeared in the palace of the Gods.

The young girl Yunike casually found a passing waiter in the corridor and asked him to take her to Aika's room.

Unfortunately, Aika himself is not in the room right now. Unique asked the waiters, but they didn't know where Aika had gone.

"I still want to return this machine to him...Forget it, just wait here. He will always come back, right?"

After Unique asked the waiter to leave, she stayed alone in Aika's room.

The PDA she placed casually on the table showed an illusory image. Saint Enili is still wearing a pair of violet-colored dresses today, and her beaded shoes are luxurious and elegant, but now her face is a bit unsightly.

"What are you doing, old guy? I'm only halfway through what I said!"

"It's just because I saw you so anxious that I came here!" Unique casually sat on the edge of Aika's bed with her feet raised, "Wouldn't it be better if we all chatted together?"

"Now is not the time to chat leisurely. I have something very important to inform the descendants of the 'Qianze' family!"

"So I'm already sitting in his room?"

"What's the use of just sitting here!"

Inili's beautiful face was now flushed with anxiety and anger. If she could move freely without relying on a PDA, she would have broken open the door and gone out to find the owner of this room.

"What important thing are you talking about? Is there anything more important than the two of us meeting like this? First of all, you should know that I have spent a lot of effort in the past two days to get you here from the humans. Right? Then no matter what, Yinili, the first thing you have to do is to stay here with me, right?"

"Stop saying such selfish things, Unique! Now my granddaughter's country is in chaos, and everyone is busy working on this matter. How can we, as a race, indulge our own selfish desires like this!" Thinking that she had criticized Yunique's willful request seriously enough, Yinili relaxed her tone after speaking, "Yunique, we should solve the urgent needs of the overall situation first, and I will spend whatever time I have in the future with you. You spend time together..."

"Then..." Unique still pouted with some dissatisfaction, but she no longer struggled with the willful request, "What are you going to tell them? Tell me first."

Although Yunique had reluctantly accepted Inili's irrefutable argument, she still refused to give in like a spoiled child.

At this time, other people's voices came from outside the door that was not closed.

——Is the young lady really there?

——Yes, we think we should notify you first.

"It seems that the current Queen is here. This time I clearly remember the voices of the people I met."

"What's there to be proud of in something like this?"

"I haven't interacted with the outside world for such a long time, is it the same for Inili?"

"Don't confuse me with you, a otaku who never leaves home. I just used magic to freeze the passage of time in my body."

"Then there's no difference!"

Unique didn't care whether there was really no difference between the two. She sat on the edge of the bed and swayed her legs with a smile.

The person who walked into the room unhurriedly was the waiter who had led Unique before. This time he also brought tutor Letika and Aika. The door to the room in the palace of the God Clan can only be opened by the holder. Even Her Royal Highness the Princess of the God Clan cannot break in by force. So after being informed by the waiter, Teacher Letika took some time to find Aika who was visiting and studying in Tusikong with Caroliel.

Having said that, in fact, as long as Teacher Letika came to the room to take a look first, Yuniko, who broke in without any scruples, would let her in. But at that time, she was only thinking about how to entertain the legendary childish lady. Instead of saying that the panicked teacher Letika's brain suddenly short-circuited, it would be better to say that this was her usual dull performance.

"Inili!"

As soon as Aika stepped into the room, she noticed the elegant and beautiful girl who had not appeared for a long time. Because she is an ancestor of the "Iela" family, and because of the inheritance of her bloodline, Yinili's gestures and gestures reveal a sense of intimacy that is very similar to Lan Ming's.

The composition in the room now is that Inili, with her arms akimbo and frowning, angrily scolding Unique, who is sitting on the edge of the bed with her legs crossed, and the pouting Unique looks very aggrieved and pitiful.

"Uh huh... Aika, you are finally here."

Perhaps because she was seen to be too close to Yuniko and worried about losing her dignity, Inili quietly regained her composure and calm demeanor.

"Inili, long time no see."

Compared with Yinili's eager attitude before, Aika's tone, who was still unaware of the seriousness of the situation, was obviously too leisurely.

Instructor Letika on the other side was busy comforting Unique. She just said hello to Inili without being disrespectful. In her heart, the source of the gods' faith, the "young lady", was probably more important than the human saint. However, Inili never cares about such small things. Being able to appear in front of people in this manner is already a miracle brought by magic technology.

"Aika, listen carefully. According to the recent intelligence feedback from the Holy See, the war situation between the Bisi Empire and the Tebiri Kingdom has now completely reversed. The magicians of that kingdom seem to have introduced a kind of weapon that is very similar to the magical equipment. Weapons, and in quite large quantities, basically all their magicians on the front line are equipped with those weapons.”

"A weapon that is very similar to the magic weapon?"

"Looking at the information, it looks like an inferior version created based on the concept of magic equipment. It is almost the same as the product of the "Project Zero" that was frozen in the early days of the establishment of the Bis Empire."

This was the first time Aika heard about "Project Zero", and he didn't know where Inili meant it was the same. But when it comes to "weapons that are very similar to magic equipment," they have only faced that kind of thing in the past week.

"Mimicry magic costume?"

"So you know. Is that weapon called the Mimic Magic Equipment? It's a very appropriate name."

"We were investigating related to the mimicry magic equipment some time ago..."

"Eh... who is this one?"

At this time, other people who heard the news also gathered in Aika's room.

When Lan Ming saw Yinili for the first time who looked like him ten years later, he couldn't help but fall into shock.

Yi Nili also noticed Lan Ming standing behind Aika. This was the first time that the ancestors of the "Yila" family and the sixth generation successors met on the same timeline.

When Lan Ming was just born, she was told by her family that her ancestor had died, so she only knew Yinili's appearance from the portrait in August Castle. But neither the portraits worth over 100 million yuan nor the vivid sculptures could perfectly show Yinili who was standing in front of Lan Ming.

"Oh... you are Lan Ming Yiela, right?"

"You are..."

Lan Ming murmured and did not immediately respond to Yinili's question. But soon, Lan Ming came out of the shock.

Perhaps she was able to recover from the shock so quickly, thanks to Aika explaining things about Inili to her beforehand.

Lan Ming gently raised the hem of his skirt and saluted the legendary saint Yinili, who was also his grandmother. Her elegant behavior is fully worthy of the name of the "Iela" family, and she shows her elegant style.

"First time meeting you, Your Highness Yinili Yiela, I am Lan Ming Yiela from the Yiela family. I have heard a little bit about your deeds from His Royal Highness the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Queen Mother, and I can relate to you. It would be a great honor.”

"You don't have to be polite. I have already heard about you from the descendants of the Qianze family."

Yi Nili walked up to Lan Ming and raised her long sleeves to signal Lan Ming to stand up.

"So... may I ask, Grandma, I just heard you talking about 'Project Zero' outside the door..."

"Lan Ming, do you also know what the 'Project Zero' is?"

"Well," Lan Ming nodded in response to Aika's question, "That is a secret that only the royal family is allowed to know. It is a plan that has been frozen a hundred years ago."

"Lan Ming, it's up to you to explain it to the people here. If the mimicry magic equipment Aika mentioned is really a relic of the 'Zero Project', then it is what our 'Yila' family will leave to future generations. There is no need to use the fig leaf of 'secret' to cover up our sins."

"I understand. Please correct me if my explanation is different from my grandmother's understanding."

Yi Nili nodded in agreement, and then Lan Ming slowly said the mysterious term he had used to test No. 5.

"'Project Zero' is the predecessor of the magic technology that now makes human beings develop and prosper. When the magic equipment appeared on the mainland, the cross-border war was at its most intense stage. Even if humans obtained some of the magic equipment, but in other cases We still appear weak in front of race.”

Humanity truly left a glorious mark in the history of the continent precisely when magical technology developed to a more mature stage. But in the early days of magic equipment, humans had not even figured out the concept of magic machinery.

"It happened to be during that period that two families that had already made many great achievements in the war, namely the 'Qianze' family, known as the 'Bisse Twin Towers' by later generations, obtained 'Mechanical Alchemy', and 'Heinz The 'family got the 'Light Flame Sword'. The power and power of these two families once again achieved an unprecedented leap. At least at that time, they should be as famous as our 'Iela' family."

Lan Ming made a small mistake. At that time, those two families could not be called Fu surnamed families. The Bisi Empire was only established after the cross-border war. At that time, the system of grading based on whether one possessed magic equipment had not yet been formed.

Because it had nothing to do with the overall situation, Yinili did not interrupt Lan Ming's explanation and went out of her way to correct this mistake.

"The power of 'mechanical alchemy' transcends the laws of the world, and Aika should know it better than anyone here. It can completely generate the exact same power based on the concept, and can even use the power that transcends the laws of the world to give birth to countless similarly transcendental creatures. The power of the laws of the world. So when the concept of magic technology began to take shape, the idea of ​​'Project Zero' was born."

"Are you saying...that you want to use the power of mechanical alchemy to create infinite magic equipment?"

"The specific content of 'Project Zero' has long been frozen by the Imperial City Intelligence Bureau. The only people who know the specific content of that plan may be people like Grandma who came from that era..."

Lan Ming could only explain so far. What exactly happened during that period, why "Project Zero" failed and was permanently frozen, and why Inili said "Project Zero" was the crime they left to future generations... everything has been buried in history. In the dust of Fengchen, even the royal family is not allowed to know the past of Fengchen.

The only person who knows the inside story of what happened between humans is the saint who is now standing here in an illusory form, Enili Yiela, who witnessed that history with her own eyes.

Seeing that Lan Ming had finished what she could explain, Yi Nili spoke on her behalf.

"One or two days would not be enough to explain the specific content of that plan, as well as some other trivial matters. Now there are other more important things to explain. It is enough to understand what Lan Ming just said. , so I won’t go into details. Even if there is the power of mechanical alchemy, if the concept of magic equipment cannot be analyzed, there will naturally be no way to mass-produce it. In the final analysis, it is still unknown whether mechanical alchemy can exert that kind of foul power. When After we discovered the basics of the concept of magic equipment, in order to apply it in war as soon as possible, we turned to actively develop another technology, which is the current magic technology."

"I heard Unique say before that you two were involved in the development of magic technology, right?"

"Both sides can learn from each other's strengths. At that time, the relationship between I and Unique... can be said to be good, and at the same time, they both thought of using the opportunity of the magic suit to end the war."

Inili showed a comfortable smile towards Unique, who was sitting by the bed, and Unique, who had a tacit understanding, also smiled knowingly.

As cross-race lovers during the cross-border war, the two of them must be best friends that Aika could never imagine. That feeling may have been fully contained in the smile just now.

"In short, the 'Zero Project' was only suspended at that time. It was not restarted until the end of the cross-border war and the official establishment of the Bis Empire. However, during that period, the war with the Principality of Setia broke out again. The Se' family and the 'Heinz' family raised objections in the parliament, and experienced many complicated changes in the process. Even though I was the queen, I could not save the two families with a majority decision. They were regarded as betrayers behind their backs. The people of the empire disappeared after that. Without the power of mechanical alchemy, it is just impossible to develop magic equipment by human power alone. During this period, many failures were repeated, and there were even human experiments that violated human ethics. In the end, I could only Announcing that Project Zero will be frozen and will never be carried out again."

"In other words, is the mimicry magic equipment manufactured by the 'Workshop' the result of the reopening of the frozen 'Project Zero'?"

"That's right. I think the Mimicry Magic Equipment should have used the technology left over from Project Zero, including the side effects on the human body that have not been corrected." Lan Ming said thoughtfully, "I was taken away by No. 5 I also tentatively mentioned things about that plan at that time, and I always felt that he should know something. Maybe he, like Miche, is also related to that plan, or the culprit who leaked the information of that plan."

"It's impossible to question them now, but as long as they are still active, they will definitely show their traces at some point."

His body was not found within the area of ​​the No. 5 crash. Although it was imagined that a fall from that height would result in no bones left, investigators dismissed this possibility. It is very possible that Miche is a researcher in the northwest region of the empire. By some chance, she came into contact with the forbidden technology that was frozen a hundred years ago and became the manager of the "workshop". But now she has disappeared with Komachi.

"It seems that you have also come into contact with the mimicry magic equipment in this Protoss territory. It would be easy to say if it is the same as the weapons appearing on the front lines of the two countries. As long as that kind of weapon appears on the battlefield, it will soon be between the two countries. It has spread, but fortunately it seems to be just a sign now. But as long as this war continues, it will one day fully spread. If it really develops to that point, it will not only affect the troops participating in the war, But all of humanity.”

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