Max and the Mechanical Army Chapter 7

The first galaxy, the Silver Fortress.

The floating door slid open to both sides, and the old Union Army Marshal Mr. Wolfe and the Secretary General Miles got out of the car one after another. Miles politely asked the old marshal to go first, and he gracefully held the door, half bent over, and stretched out his hand to Mrs. Miles Aria Lin in the car, leaned close to her ear, and whispered: "Are you still uncomfortable?"

Aria Lin nodded with a unhappy expression. If she didn't want to walk for thirteen days from the Capital Star to the Silver Fortress like Admiral Lin did back then, she would have to make a jump. Carsickness, seasickness and airsickness have existed since ancient times, so it was not uncommon for Ms. Lin to be motion sickness during interstellar jumps.

"You open up the license and let Eden adjust the balancer for you," Miles said.

Aria Lin said nothing and just shook her head silently.

Since General Lin's death, Aria Lin, like her brother, chose to block most of the functions of the Garden of Eden.

The Eden Network was not built in a day. Initially, it was only used on a small scale, allowing people to control home appliances and play holographic games. Over the long course of a hundred years, the gradually mature technology has added convenience to people's daily lives bit by bit. Just like the ancient people on Earth installed a bunch of applications on their mobile phones, people have continuously opened up their authorizations.

The "Psychological Network Protection Law" stipulates that every application in Eden must fully inform citizens of the possibility of privacy disclosure and obtain citizen authorization before linking. However, these notices are very detailed and often hundreds of thousands of words long, so people are generally too lazy to read them. Anyway, since the establishment of Eden, legislation and supervision have been quite strict, and there has never been a scandal of leaking user privacy.

Today, openness, tolerance, frankness and free expression are undoubtedly politically correct. Except for a few religious people who believe that asceticism can sharpen themselves, only Dylan Lin and his Ten Silver Guards would block the Garden of Eden. This was actually a "crime" of General Lin during his lifetime. Those who scolded him said that he was harboring evil intentions and was not upright at all. After his death, it became a "merit". The Alliance Government specially wrote an article saying that he "embraced pain in order to temper the iron army."

Aria Lin chose to use this method to commemorate her deceased brother, which was similar to being a vegetAria Linn. Miles had no objection and was very considerate to give her half of his arm so that she could lean on him to rest. His gentleness was a bit of a show in the Silver Fortress, but it was also true --- no matter what the Secretary-General had privately with General Lin back then, he still had a lot of feelings for Aria Lin.

There is no way. Such a beauty, even if she is a dead object placed at home, can make people fall in love with her after looking at her for a long time.

General Li, the new garrison commander of the Silver Fortress, came out early and waited for the marshal and the secretary-general and his wife on the roadside. Two rows of guards lined up behind him, neatly dressed, all young and handsome, with thin waists and long legs. But a closer look was a bit inconsistent, because these guards were too handsome, except for the numbers on their uniforms, they were almost hatched from the same egg, and if you glanced at them, you would almost be claustrophobic by their handsomeness.

The marshal was a veteran figure, and he frowned when he saw the procession. Admiral Li explained in a low voice: "There are not many of the Ten Silver Guards left now, and the others... the others are the children of the rich and powerful, unruly and difficult to control. For the safety of the First Star System, I have transferred a group of artificial humans. You see this model..."

The old marshal interrupted him in a sarcastic tone, "That's a good idea. I'll write a letter to the Alliance Council and ask them to send an artificial intelligence to command the Silver Fortress. In the future, robots will command robots to fight. It will be civilized and save trouble, and we won't have to fight against each other all day long."

Admiral Li specially brought a team of robot models to greet them, hoping to show his flexibility. However, he was ridiculed by the old marshal in public. He had no choice but to lead the way with a shamefaced look on his face, and never dared to say a word again.

A group of people walked into the Silver Fortress and sank directly into the ground. They came to the deepest part of the underground. The Marshal used the highest authority of the Alliance Army to open the seven blocked gates. As the last heavy metal door was slowly lifted, a huge mecha came into everyone's sight.

It is almost perfect and almost dazzling, and the cold body is shining like a sleeping dragon.

Secretary General Miles looked up and exclaimed: "This is 'Max'."

"Yes," Admiral Li seemed to be afraid of awakening something, and subconsciously lowered his voice, "Dylan Lin... After that, no one could wake up Max. It refused all mental connections, including the Garden of Eden. Max is a treasure of mankind and the flag of the Silver Fortress. We don't want to destroy it artificially or force a connection, but interstellar pirates have become more and more rampant in recent years. The Alliance really needs it. We have no choice but to ask Mrs. Miles to help."

Admiral Li said, bowing to Ms. Lin: "You are Dylan Lin's only blood relative, sharing the same excellent genes, maybe you can impress Max."

Aria Lin took a step back and refused to accept the gift, and gave him a perfect smile in return.

The old marshal stepped forward, reached out and touched the fuselage of the Max, put his hand on the hatch, and tentatively said: "Request a link."

The entire underground space first made a "buzzing" sound, and then the frequency of the sound waves quickly left the range of human ear detection, like a silent roar, echoing around like waves. At the same time, the old marshal felt some extremely powerful oppressive force crushing him head-on, and the sleeping mecha was like a trapped beast, which would open its mouth to bite people once it opened its eyes.

The old marshal was suddenly startled and quickly let go, taking a few steps back before he could stand firm.

"marshal!"

The old marshal waved his hand to block Admiral Li's flattering hand, stared at him with cloudy eyes, and said word by word: "In 260, the new interstellar terrorism and the pirate group colluded, and Dylan Lin was ordered to fight. In the most famous battle, he invaded fifteen enemy mechas by himself and forcibly took over the other party's authority---at the same time."

General Li's face turned red and white.

"Dylan Lin doesn't command the Silver Fortress with just one mecha. It's understandable that Max doesn't accept the link. Linking you trash is a humiliation to the mecha. The mental threshold is not reached, blood relationship? You thought of that!" The old marshal said coldly, and then turned to Aria Lin politely, "Mrs. Miles, there is no need to try. Madam, you are in poor health and have not received military training. You are easily injured by Max. If your beautiful self is injured, it will be a great loss to the capital planet. I'm sorry to bother you to make a special trip, please."

The Secretary General was just there for show and didn't really want to help. He was happy to watch the military at a loss. Without saying a word, he pulled Aria Lin up and followed the old marshal out of the Silver Fortress with big strides.

He didn't see his "weak" wife look back at Zhan Lu, her crow-feather-like eyelashes drooping, hiding her strange smile.

The same cosmic time, the eighth galaxy, Beijing β star.

It was just daybreak when the fourth brother carefully washed his hands three times. After washing, he thought for a while and then wiped his face.

The mechanical arm on the wall was still dormant. He shaved himself, changed his clothes, and then opened the windows and the front and back doors of the "broken tavern".

The sound of wind and the chill passed through the hall, and Beijing Star had woken up from the shivering cold night.

The fourth brother poured himself a cup of overnight coffee, and took out a sandwich from the refrigerator - a specialty of the Eighth Galaxy. He held it up and took a look, but couldn't really tell what was inside. He didn't care, and started to chew it in the cold wind with the doors wide open, and also fed the lizard some mealworms.

Outside, voices gradually rose, including the hurried footsteps of pedestrians, the loud scolding of a flustered housewife, naughty children imitating adults to swear, and the whistle of the "Rikeyun Car" that honks every five minutes. This is the unique vitality of the Eighth Galaxy.

The "shabby tavern" was clean and the spiders were gone.

Fourth brother is a man who has never been very lively when he is full of energy. But after staying up all night, he does not appear listless. He is like a pine tree, and he remains the same whether it is windy, frost, rain, snow, or spring.

His skin is as rough as iron and he doesn't know the difference between hot and cold.

"You shouldn't eat breakfast facing the cold wind, it will cause gastrointestinal problems." When three hours were up, Zhan Lu hanging on the wall turned back into a handsome man on time.

The fourth brother seemed to be attracted by something, staring out the window without looking back: "No."

Before he finished speaking, the doors and windows of the bar closed at the same time, and the temperature inside quickly rose, isolating the cold morning of Beijing Star like an iron wall.

Zhan Lu said seriously: "Yes, eating cold food facing the wind is significantly positively correlated with gastrointestinal problems."

Fourth Brother: ...

Max took away his makeshift breakfast, poured out the stale coffee, ground a new cup, and reheated the sandwich: "You interrogated the spider."

The fourth brother didn't beat around the bush when talking to him: "Well, three months ago, the Poison Nest encountered a group of people of unknown origin on the outskirts of the Eighth Galaxy. These people claimed that they had a hundred mechas and two armed starships, and wanted to negotiate an arms deal with them. The chip was brought here by this group of people. Implanted in the heart, it can not only affect people and artificial intelligence within a radius of 200 meters at will, but also turn them into invulnerable supermen - as far as I know, the Garden of Eden does not have this function."

What does it mean to have one hundred mechas?

Five years ago, the Alliance Government secretly sent troops to surround the Silver Fortress, but only deployed 500 mechas.

Zhan Lu: "It is not a gang force native to the Eight Star Systems."

"It shouldn't be," said the fourth brother. "These mysterious people offered a very low price. The first batch of arms was almost free. They just asked Poison Nest to help collect children between two and four years old, one hundred per batch. They have already asked them for two batches. I guess they are doing some human experiments. Those mysterious people didn't let them kidnap children in the same place. They might be afraid that if they kidnap too many children, they would be discovered. Or they might be using Poison Nest, a group of idiots, to test biochips. Now Poison Nest is running around the entire galaxy."

Zhan Lu waited quietly for his fourth brother's conclusion.

The fourth brother ate the processed breakfast absentmindedly, and then said: "Don't worry, if the foreign pirates want to do something, the poison nest should be just a test of their tentacles, and they will come to us sooner or later. Before that, it is best to find out what the biochip is."

"I will do my best to assist Principal Lu," Zhan Lu paused, "By the way, will you accept the invitation to attend Principal Lu's opening ceremony today?"

"Am I bored?" The fourth brother drank the coffee in one gulp.

Max: "But I noticed that you changed your clothes."

The fourth brother dismissed him casually: "The one from yesterday was stained with blood and was very dirty, so we disposed of it."

Zhan Lu said "Oh" and took away the fourth brother's tableware and empty cup: "Then I will cross this arrangement out of your schedule later."

The fourth brother sat there in silence for a while: "Who asked you to put it on the schedule?"