Chapter 562 The Source of Magic

　　【Just when the sky was about to get dark, you kept the shape of the transport vehicle and drove near Chunli's bamboo house. 】

　　　【Your body began to deform, retracting all its parts, leaving only the mechanical heart. Chun-Li, who was wrapped in the body, was able to escape. 】

  【Chunli breathed the fresh air again, but immediately fell to the ground and vomited, which seemed to be a symptom of 'motion sickness'...】

　　【You send a bottle of sobriety potion to Chunli with a mechanical arm. 】

　　【Chunli picked up the potion and drank it all in one gulp, finally regaining some energy. 】

  【"Are you okay?" You asked. 】

"No, it's okay..." Chunli lay weakly on the grass nearby, her expression a little dazed. 】

“System Master, how is that robot...?” Chunli asked. 】

  【"It has rested."】

Mu You found a way to put it as euphemistically as possible. In fact, the robot had been dismembered into a pile of pieces.

“Did we really...kill a watchman?” Chunli asked dully. 】

Mu You sighed. He really didn't expect that the little girl would show such resistance to killing the robot.

From his perspective, robots are just dead objects, tools made by intelligent creatures. Killing them is no different from dismantling an object.

However, looking at the other party's current behavior, it seems that the robot has been regarded as a real life. To her, what just happened is like a child who has been growing up in a peaceful and stable environment and witnessed the impact of a murder with her own eyes. .

"What happened just now was all done by my will and has nothing to do with you. There is no need to feel pressure." You said. 】

　　【Chunli smiled reluctantly, did not argue, got up and dragged her tired body towards home. 】

After entering the bamboo house, Chunli, who had already relaxed, suddenly froze, because at this moment, a figure was already sitting at the table in the bamboo house. 】

　　【"Grandma Yao..." Chunli looked at the old man of the panda tribe in front of her with a guilty conscience. On the table next to the old man, there is a bowl of food made of grass. 】

"Where did you go at night?" The old man stood up, walked to Chunli on crutches, and frowned: "And why do you look so bad? What happened?"]

　　【Under the old man's concerned inquiry, the grievance in Chunli's heart seemed to suddenly burst out, she pursed her lips, and her eyes were filled with mist: "Grandma Yao, actually, actually I..."]

 Mu You felt like he was going to be in trouble as soon as he read this text, so he hurriedly typed it back.

“Do not reveal the existence of the system to others, otherwise the system will be permanently disconnected.” Your reminder sounded in Chunli’s head at the right time. 】

Chunli was stunned, and had to swallow the words that came to her lips. 】

"What's wrong? What happened to you?" Granny Yao asked hurriedly when she saw Chunli suddenly stopped. 】

"No, it's nothing... I may have been blowing in the wind for too long and caught the wind chill..." Chunli lowered her head and held the corners of her clothes and said. 】

[Grandma Yao took a deep look at Chunli, then sighed after a moment, touched her head and said: "Just rest when you are sick, don't run around, you don't have to go to work tomorrow, sleep well at home, I will help You handle it."]

　　""Well..." Chunli still lowered her head, not daring to look at the old man. 】

It was not until the old man turned around and left that Chunli breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door, sat back on the bed, and looked at the food on the table next to her in a daze. 】

"System Master, can you really not tell Granny Yao? She is the best person to me here, and she will definitely not harm us." Chunli asked cautiously. 】

"Heroes are always lonely. Telling the people around you will only involve them in danger." You answered. 】

　　【Chunli fell silent after hearing this, and then suddenly spoke after a moment. 】

 【"System Master, do we really...must fight against robots?"】

"this…"

Mu You was momentarily stunned by the question.

From his point of view, or from the point of view of the Fool, the robots sent out exterminators to hunt them down. They were relentless in killing them. At the same time, as a group of lifeless machines, they trapped so many real living races in the Under the abyss, they were deprived of their freedom to leave, and they were planning some ulterior purpose. No matter how you looked at it, it was a perfect villain's behavior.

 So from his perspective, fighting against robots is very logical.

However, from the perspective of Chun Li and other pandas, the robots did not seem to have done anything wrong. On the contrary, they saved the lives of these races and allowed these races that should have disappeared long ago to continue to exist for so many years, although they were trapped in the Underground, I lost a certain amount of freedom, but under the protection of robots, I gained peace, stability, and a life free from the world.

Especially in the minds of the new generation like Chun Li, robots may be a race that coexists with them. They are both the ones in power and the guardians. In short, they are equal beings to them.

On the contrary, Mu You seemed to be the intruder. He broke in suddenly and broke the peaceful life here. He took advantage of this little girl and killed an innocent robot, putting her in danger...

Looking back, Mu You suddenly realized that he seemed to be playing the role of the villain unknowingly.

When Mu You came back to his senses and wanted to explain something, he found that Chunli had already fallen asleep.

　　【Chunli was so sleepy that she lay down on the bamboo bed, her eyelids fighting crazily, and soon she couldn't hold back her sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep...】

Mu You sighed and sent a quilt in.

 “Didi…”

 At this moment, a message alert sounded.

 At this time, the game character is in a special scene and should not receive messages from others.

Mu You took a look. The message came from the forum, from Xiaoya, saying that the goblin Eugene suddenly found her and asked her to help contact Mu You.

“The old goblin said, boss, what you asked him to study has produced results.”

 “Oh?” Mu You raised his eyebrows.

 What he asked Eugene to study was naturally the pile of robot remains he brought before.

It happened to be a coincidence that he had just finished dismantling a newly acquired robot, and Eugene had just finished dismantling the result.

The door had been used and could no longer be used in a short period of time, and the game character was trapped under the abyss and unable to move. Mu You had no choice but to wake up the herb collector, synchronized his memory with him, and then asked the herb collector to teleport. Go to Evernight City and see what's going on in Eugene.

 Half an hour later, the herb collectors arrived at Yongye City.

 “I want to confirm first…”

In the factory in Eternal Night City, Eugene pointed at a pile of mechanical fragments on the table that were sorted and stored in some kind of transparent instrument: "These are all the things you brought with you on that robot at that time, right? "

"certainly."

 The herb collector naturally nodded at this.

At that time, he watched the robot being smashed to pieces with his own eyes. All the fragments were scattered in the nearby sand. Finally, Mu You sifted out every one of them. There was no way that anything could be missed.

"What's wrong?"

In the pet shop, Mu You noticed that the herb picker quickly frowned after reading the other party’s reply.

The herb collector sighed: "Eugene said that it has tried to restore the exterminators by splicing them together. However, in the restored body, all the functions that were needed were found, but only energy accessories were not found..."

"Is that really the case..." Mu You breathed out. He didn't find any energy source for his own. It can also be said that he didn't understand alchemy and missed a certain component.

 But now even Eugene, the alchemist master, said this, so it is definitely not his problem.

“In other words, these robots from the underground are probably special machines that do not require additional energy supply!” In Eternal Night City, Eugene came to this conclusion.

 “But how is this possible?” the herb collector asked.

Whether it is a living thing or a machine, as long as it is a moving thing, it always consumes energy. Even in the magical world, energy conservation is an irreversible basic logic.

 “Yes, that’s impossible!”

Eugene said with a somewhat excited tone: "The only explanation is that they do not need external energy, they can generate their own energy from within the body!"

 “Self-generated energy…”

When the herb collector saw this sentence, he immediately remembered the previous battle in the Wind Erosion Valley.

At that time, they had used the wind unicorn arms to vacuum up the surrounding magic. However, under this situation, the exterminator could still continue to resurrect, but at a slower speed, indicating that there was still energy in the opponent's body.

Now it can be explained by "the other party can produce its own energy", which finally makes sense.

The issue is…

 “Where do you produce your own energy?” asked the herb collector.

Even if you want to generate your own energy, you must have an energy-producing device inside your body. However, among the robot parts that Mu You disassembled just now, no device that can produce energy was found.

"I'm afraid...it's in body fluids..." Eugene said uncertainly.

 “Body fluids?”

"Yes."

Eugene said as he took out a glass test tube. At the bottom of the test tube, a layer of milky white semi-solid material settled.

 “What is this?” asked the herb gatherer.

"This is the 'original liquid', which is the blood of the machine. I collected it from the inner tube wall of the body. However, because the body has been dead for a long time, the original liquid has already solidified into a solid state and lost its original properties."

 “Original solution…milky white…”

The herb collector looked at these two words and immediately thought of the battle in the Wind Erosion Valley. At that time, they defeated the Exterminator and smashed the robot into pieces. It seemed that there was indeed some milky white liquid flowing out of the opponent's body, and finally seeping into it. In the sand.

 “What’s wrong with this thing?” asked the herb collector.

“I originally thought that this raw liquid acted like a ‘coolant’, but after the experiment, I found that it was not..."

Eugene pinched a handful of iron powder and sprinkled it on the test tube containing the milky white substance. As a result, a weak repulsive force was generated in the test tube, which pushed the iron powder away in several directions. Finally, the iron powder was on the table. The upper row is arranged in a regular spiral pattern.

"These raw liquids are producing a special magnetic field that affects the surrounding gravity, but it is very weak... Of course, it may have been a very strong magnetic field, but because these raw liquids have 'died', the effect has become insignificant. Check..." Eugene explained.

 “Gravity…”

 The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention. When the herb collector saw the description of 'affecting gravity', he instinctively thought of the force field in the abyss.

“Besides, after I diluted these raw liquid solidifications and magnified them thousands of times with a magic magnifying glass, what do you think I saw?” Eugene suddenly asked excitedly.

It’s a pity that no one paid attention to it. The role of the herb collector just looked at it expressionlessly, waiting for his answer.

"I saw...thousands of corpses!" Eugene said with a somewhat fanatical expression.

"Corpse? You mean...microorganisms?" The herb collector was stunned for a moment and asked with a frown.

 The ‘corpses’ that can only be seen after magnifying thousands of times can obviously only be classified as microorganisms.

“Then, what are the properties of these microorganisms?” the herb collector continued to ask.

"Well, the current discoveries only go so far. These microorganisms are too small and dead, so they cannot be studied for the time being..." Eugene said with some embarrassment. It originally thought that the other party should be more surprised by such a major discovery, but it didn't expect that it would pass so easily.

Of course, that’s because it only sees game characters, and of course it doesn’t show too many expressions.

 In fact, the herb collector had told Mu You everything about what had just happened, and the two had already had a discussion.

“In other words, these microorganisms are the energy source of these robots…”

Mu You looked at a tube of milky white liquid in his hand.

This tube of liquid was scraped from the body of the robot that had just been dismantled. Most of the original liquid had been lost when it died, and only half a bottle was scraped out from some corners.

“Not only that, the exterminator at that time consumed a lot of magic power...” the herb gatherer reminded.

Mu You nodded. So, could it be that the magic power is produced by the microorganisms in these original solutions?

 “There is also the characteristic of gravity…”

Mu You murmured, suddenly thinking of something, and hurriedly returned to the game.

 【You try to call Chunli...】

　　【Unfortunately, Chunli was too exhausted and slept without knowing anyone else, with no sign of waking up. 】

Seeing that Chunli could not be woken up, Mu You took out a syringe and sent it into the game. He let the robotic arm operate the syringe and extracted a tube of blood from Chunli, and then took the syringe out of the game.

“Let Eugene see if there is any of that kind of microorganism in this blood sample.” Mu You handed the syringe to the medicine collector.

The medicine collector naturally understood what Mu You wanted to do, nodded, sent the syringe into the game, and handed it over to Eugene.

 Just use a microscope to observe the blood sample. The operation is not complicated. In just ten minutes, Eugene got the results.

"It's true! I thought this kind of microorganism could only survive in machinery, but it can actually survive in living bodies, and it seems to live better! It's amazing, where did you find this blood?" Eugene asked excitedly .

 “What does it mean to live better?” asked the herb collector.

“The microorganisms in this blood sample are more than twice the size of the microorganisms extracted from the mechanical body, and they are significantly plumper!” Eugene said.

 “Can we continue the research?” the herb collector asked again.

"Uh, no, because the microorganisms in this blood sample are also in a dead state. They just died not long ago. They should die immediately once they leave the host... So where did you find the blood sample?" Eugene asked hurriedly. .

The herb collector did not answer. After getting the answer, he and Mu You entered into the discussion again.

 “Is that really the case...” Mu You breathed out.

This makes it clear. No wonder so many creatures in the Garden of Eden are not afraid of the gravity of the abyss and can live normally under the abyss. It seems that they have been implanted with this kind of microorganism in their bodies. It is this kind of thing that offsets their A force field that was supposed to withstand.

In addition, Mu You finally understood why Chunli provided him with energy for a whole day without any operation to replenish the magic power, but the magic power in her body showed no signs of running out.

　　It turns out that it is this kind of microorganism in her body that is continuously producing magic power and replenishing her losses at any time.

 (End of this chapter)