"What the hell are they doing in there?"
The audience was furious.
Leon kicked open the door of the small room with a pistol in hand, and saw Ethan and Darent fighting over a machine.
"I want to put it in the front..."
"This isn't a toy! Get out of here!"
They are my colleagues?
For a moment, Leon Cornerell thought back to the afternoon when his father took him to a mental hospital as a child.
After some commotion, the situation in the screening room was finally clarified.
There are two machines here, one is a record player and the other is a projector.
There are wires behind the two machines, and the ends of the wires disappear into the cracks in the wall. There is probably a generator at the end, otherwise it is impossible to explain why movies can be played outside and why there is electricity in the small room.
The record player is the culprit of the loud noise. The music comes from records. The principle... according to the instruction manual, the "information" of the music is recorded into the concave threads of the record, and the sound can be produced by reading it.
There was also a large basket next to it, covered with layers of old newspapers. When the newspapers were removed, some boxes covered with a thin layer of dust could be seen. These might be the plastic boxes mentioned in the instruction manual.
"There are words on it." Li Ang casually pulled out a box, saw a line of words on the surface, and read them out loud.
"'Little white rabbit saves mother'...what does that mean?"
"The name of the movie." Ethan had almost finished studying the projector. He opened the cover on the projector and saw three similar plastic boxes inserted inside.
These also have names, namely "Random Movie 1", "Random Movie 2" and "Random Movie 3".
"I'll turn it off now," Ethan said, "and go outside to see what's going on."
With a click, he pressed the largest switch.
Li Ang went out for a while and came back: "The picture outside is gone, it's pitch black."
Ethan pulled out "Random Movie 1" and "Random Movie 2", leaving only "Random Movie 3", closed the lid, and pressed the button.
...He noticed that what was read just now should be one of the first two boxes, because the gears in that area were turning.
Li Ang went out for a while and came back: "It's on again. This time it's different. It's a group of... um, robots? Tin soldiers? I can't tell. It's a bit like a puppet show on the street."
"I know how to play this thing now." Ethan's face lit up. "The countdown at the beginning told us to choose a movie, but we didn't move...so it started playing randomly."
"Then should we play something serious?" Darent picked up the box of "Little White Rabbit Saves Mom" with an eager look on his face, "These should have plots!"
"We may not have that much time..." Ethan frowned and wanted to scold him.
There are so many plastic boxes on the side. How long will it take to finish this?
"There's still time." Li Ang began to mediate the conflict. "It shouldn't take long to ride back. Why don't we read a few boxes? Maybe there's important information in them."
Ethan still disagreed, so Leon had no choice but to throw out his killer move: "I suspect this block and that iron clock tower are related to Dr. Mechanical."
Doctor of Mechanical Engineering.
Hearing this word, Ethan suddenly stopped talking.
They didn't feel it before, but now they all know clearly: Dr. Mechanical is Hitzfeld's biological father.
"Really?" Only Darent was still skeptical. He looked at the cover of the plastic box in his hand: "Robotech? "Little White Rabbit Saves Mom"?"
"Why don't you look for content that looks more like it's for children over 3 years old?" Li Ang pushed him away unhappily, rummaged through the big basket, and pulled out three boxes.
They are: "Rise of the Machines", "Memoir 13", and "Blood Truth".
"Are you really sure?" Ethan looked at Leon.
Le Ang knew that he was not asking about the things in his hands, but meant "this place may be related to Dr. Mechanical."
So he answered very seriously: "We all saw it when we first came in. There were some square symbols hanging on the walls and the ceiling."
"Yes."
"I thought that was the writing that Dallent said Hitzfeld had written?"
"I am quite certain that I have seen her write it. I even asked her what it was, and she told me that it was a codeword of her own invention."
"Gone?"
"Gone."
"You don't usually talk a lot? Why didn't you ask a few more questions at that time?"
"Oh, I pissed her off. Who's going to make me something delicious?"
Darent looked at the two of them with contempt, as if he was not easy to fool.
"...So they are related." Leon continued, "This kind of text, a unique cipher...it may only belong to Hitzfeld's family, the family that keeps secrets, but it appeared here again. This place happens to be the territory of the Mechanical Kingdom - although it is abandoned - and her notes also mentioned that she would come to this place in the future. I don't think this is a coincidence."
"Let it go." Ethan accepted.
"Hurry up, I hope they're not too long."
The first official film, "Rise of the Machines", will begin soon.
After operating the projector, Li Ang returned to the hall. He glanced at the screen and frowned unconsciously.
That's... a machine.
There were countless machines on the screen... There were things that looked like huge mechanical arms, equipped with tracks, moving smoothly across the bumpy surface of the ruins. There were also some drilling machines that he couldn't recognize, and they were clearly cutting the streets.
Most of the scenes are silent, but in some close-up scenes, such as the dumping of soil and large amounts of waste materials being thrown into a steel furnace, huge sound effects will appear.
The source of the sound effects should be the same as the music just now, which is the two black boxes placed in the front corner.
"Rise of the Machines" is very short, with the total footage estimated to be less than ten minutes. It shows a group of mechanical tools, and even thin and frail robots, working hard to refine the abandoned city into raw steel materials, which are then spliced and cast into steel fortresses.
They saw the floating city.
More than one mechanical fortress rose from the ground, slowly rising into the sky with huge smoke and dust, and testing weapons on the old city.
Everyone watched in silence.
They all guessed that the abandoned urban area in the picture might be the Port of Colossae, but since it was the part currently covered by gray fog, they were temporarily unable to explore it.
Then there is Memoir 13.
This one is shorter, at best it's just a... let's call it an experimental documentary, but it is definitely extremely important because the Cornerels and Aman almost jumped up after seeing the figure in the picture - that guy is Dr. Robotnik!
"Is it him?" The others confirmed while staring at the strange guy with gears on his face.
"That's him!" Li Ang exhaled, "I won't be wrong!"
Doctor Mechanic...
Although he had killed the other party, the power and shadow that this guy had brought with him from the beginning had been lingering in his mind. After the case was over, Li Ang still dreamed of that scary face many times.
After finally getting out, he now realized that it might be someone's trick... The one who actually killed Dr. Mechanical was most likely Hitzfeld.
This deepened his fear of this figure, and he found this person very mysterious because he could not understand his style of doing things.
"Memoir 13" is easy to understand because the person recording it is explaining what he is doing almost the entire time.
“This is my memoir, used to record some of my thoughts or trivial experiments.”
"What was the previous one? Let me think, ah... 'Compatibility between living people and mechanical chips', if I remember correctly, it failed. I expected that, after all, it's not easy over there."
"So let's start with the most basic experiments! Let's first... build some gadgets that can take care of themselves and see how they perform."
In the picture, his raw material is a tin soldier.
That was no ordinary tin soldier, a palm-sized toy with a modified interior. After opening the shell, one could see that it was filled with circuits and parts. The mechanical doctor used tweezers and other tools they didn't recognize to operate it back and forth, successfully giving the tin soldier the ability to move autonomously.
When they saw the little creature being placed on the table, they turned around and saluted its owner, then patrolled back and forth with their guns, and even shot and killed a mouse that had its head sticking out of the bookcase.
"He is a genius." Darent sighed.
"No wonder she gave birth to a daughter like that."
"Aisun?"
Suddenly, the doctor in the picture raised his face and said in a louder voice: "Are you watching?"
Everyone got goosebumps.
The feeling of oppression was too strong, so Aman drew his gun and aimed at the curtain. He looked so nervous, as if he would shoot at any time.
"…I am sorry for being rude."
The Doctor quickly turned his face away again.
"Yes, why did I suddenly go crazy..."
"My child... my love... you are so far away from me... I will never have the chance to see you again in this life..."
It turns out he was just being crazy.
Everyone sitting there breathed a sigh of relief.
"But I guess someone is watching."
The doctor said again.
"It should be, because I recorded these things just to show you."
"No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter what your purpose is, those who can find the treasure left by Lengdis are the lucky ones, and the lucky ones deserve to be rewarded..."
"He really cares about us." Darent leaned towards Ethan quietly.
"You didn't even mention that kind of secret code..."
Ethan frowned and didn't respond.
He noticed the Doctor's self-proclaimed title.
So his name is Lengdis?
“You should thank God first.”
The doctor in the picture sat back in his chair and folded his hands on his lower abdomen.
Although it was no longer a human face and no joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness could be seen, there was an aura and body language that conveyed his emotions at the moment - it must have been a kind of joy, or should we call it gloating.
“Because God is everywhere.”
"...You have been targeted for a long time."
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I wrote 1 more words yesterday, but I was too tired and overslept. I will find time to update three more words later~
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Chapter 112 Bloodline Truth 5k2
At this point, the entire roll of film has been played.
But everyone knows that things are not that simple - although Coldis did not finish what he said in "Memories 13", don't forget that there is another box called "The Truth in Blood" whose name is enough to scare people.
Considering that this guy said he would reward the so-called lucky ones, he is likely to reveal some very important secrets in this box.
Of course, it is not ruled out that Li Ang made the wrong choice, and the secret is not in "The Blood Truth", but hidden in those "contents that are more suitable for 3-year-old children to browse."
"This is the last box." Li Ang went in again and came out to briefly explain to the others, "We are out of time... We have 20 minutes at most to look at this thing. After that time is up, no matter if we have any harvest or not, we have to come and move the things."
Torres was stunned: "What are you moving?"
"These machines, and the projection equipment on them." Li Ang held the instruction manual in his hand. "We must calculate the possibility that there are still secrets hidden in the remaining plastic boxes... I don't know if the fog here will dissipate again during the next full moon. There is no shortage of electricity on the Pierre, so why do we have to do it again?"
This was a good idea, and Darent wanted to agree with it.
But this will be very troublesome...
Oman looked up and then at the black boxes in front of him. It seemed that it would not be so easy to transport them back.
He had experienced a chase in the snow and had the good fortune to understand the fighting posture of the tree lady. He originally wanted to say why bother with riding a bicycle and just let Balyu turn into a vine centaur and take all the people and goods away. But after thinking about it carefully...after all, they were married.
I don't know if this would offend anyone, but if there is such a consideration, it shouldn't be my place to bring it up.
Everyone seems to be thinking about something, and "The Blood Truth" begins playing in such an atmosphere.
It's really, really different from every other film that's been shown before.
No one here can tell exactly what the difference is, but they just have a feeling that it looks more comfortable, the pictures are more compact, and it can unconsciously mobilize their emotions and make them completely immersed in the content described in the film, and they forget the time while watching it.
