Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 1187: Section 726: Cooperation (Part 2)_2

Chapter 1187: Section 726: Cooperation (Part 2)_2

After all, once you enlighten this big guy a little bit, he won’t be able to hide anything in his heart.

No one knows, the old dean would tell Malin, among those enlightened beings, who was originally on a mission when they arrived.

If this big guy is a spy, then he’s really doomed, and if he’s dead, then Malin can be sure, all the zombies of this tribe will die too.

Malin personally takes charge of the execution.

Because of this, both Malin and Sage Yu won’t refuse his joining. And Dimis agreed to let him stay. Since someone stayed, Sage Yu decided to lead a team of engineers into the factory. Malin thought for a while and decided to go over and take a look too.

......

Neither Sage Yu nor his engineer team carried weapons, instead, they drove straight along the road northward carved out. A trailer was hitched to the car, with Mrs. Dimis in it — for her, this was a very peculiar experience.

Reaching a point where they had to go on foot, as the road came to an end but was close enough, Malin and his group disembarked and began to walk.

Mrs. Dimis asked Malin how exactly these machines operated, Malin explained once, realizing Mrs. Dimis was in a state of understanding nothing.

So Malin explained again, then Mrs. Dimis pondered a bit: "I still can’t understand, all the words you say I can understand, but when combined together, I am totally lost."

And then she and Malin burst into laughter.

"Atai was indeed right, knowledge is humanity’s most powerful force." Mrs. Dimis’s lament drew a sigh from Malin as well: "You don’t have to worry too much, Dimis. If you want to live with us, join our country, I believe knowledge will be a strength for you too."

"But my people... they are too clumsy." Madam lamented.

Leading Malin and his group over the hill, a patrol team spotted the humans, but they also saw the more noticeable mother of the tribe, so they walked past each other without incident. The lady looked at Malin: "Look, these young ones, don’t even have the ability to stand, Atai was the first man in my tribe to learn to stand, he and my mother gave birth to many children who could stand, and with me, a few offspring too, but he’s... too old, and my new husband is just a fortunate one, exceptionally strong from birth, Atai taught him how to stand, but couldn’t teach him how to respect humans. When my mother was alive, she already said that humans were no longer just walking meat in our eyes, but he and many others refused to face reality until those people were defeated by you humans, and Atai killed a man far younger and stronger with your crafted weapons."

As Mrs. Dimis spoke, she led Malin and others across the factory stairs to the platform ahead, pointing at those bodies hanging from the frames.

"Atai killed him, but they still wouldn’t admit defeat, so I ordered my guards to kill them."

"It seems you aren’t really keen on cooperating with us." Malin sensed the lady’s anger.

She nodded heartily: "Yes, if possible, I also don’t want to cooperate with humans, because before this, we had no basis for collaboration. To us, humans and we were mortal enemies, never had we interacted so... peacefully before."

"Indeed, before today, I never thought we could have peace." Following the lady towards the factory doors, Sage Yu remarked.

"Should this door be pulled open?" Malin asked, looking at the massive door.

"No, it will open on its own." Mrs. Dimis responded.

Then Malin saw the door begin to open automatically, accompanied by a girl’s sweet voice: "A mechanical being, a high-energy reactive life form, Dimis, this is the man you mentioned who gave you a name."

"You are... Tianji!" Sage Yu immediately called out this name.

The girl’s voice once again sounded: "You know my name... Who are you? My database contains no information about you."

"We are the last inheritors of the New Hangzhou Sanctuary," Sage Yu said as he took out a data disk: "If you don’t believe me, you should believe the contents within this."

Soon, a small robot came out, entirely mechanical without any faux skin, took the data disk and inserted it into the back of its head, then soon sighed human-like.

"You know, existing in this hell, with no means of contact, for a long time I thought I must be the last inheritor of the Union." Saying this, it looked at Mrs. Dimis: "Dimis, I originally wanted to cultivate you as the new rulers of Earth, so from your great-grandmother, I’ve been educating your tribe, but obviously, now we can only be partners."

"That’s all well, mentor, my grandmother, and mother deceived you, please forgive their selfishness."

"It’s nothing, child, selfishness is part of what I taught you, but that Atai, he could even conspire to deceive me... But he isn’t to blame, my master must be an inheritor of the Union, not just anyone can be my master." Speaking thus, the small robot looked at Malin: "How does a Westlander like you end up here, and what’s with your body, as much as 54% isn’t Earthling, what kind of demon are you?"

"A traveler from a distant land, my father lived in Westland, this is a long story, maybe you should first invite us in to see if this factory can be activated." Malin smiled and waved.

"No, only Union members can command me, you aren’t qualified." The little robot immediately retorted.

"Tianji, trust him, his story is long, I have his data here and can share it with you." Sage Yu came over and pulled out a data cable from behind his neck.

The small robot named Tianji took the data cable, the two set up a bridge, then data sharing completed.

Miss Tianji emitted a series of crackling noises, then looked at Malin: "This is the most preposterous story I’ve ever heard, you come from a long time ago, before the Great Destruction, even before the Grand Union?"

"Yes, considering you’ve lost touch with the outside world for so long, so I’ll say it again, it’s a long story, can we get back to business first, please?" Malin looked at this one once again showing kindness.

Tianji finally nodded: "Alright, after all, today I’ve seen too many strange things, but speaking of launching satellites, the near-Earth orbit is full of junk now, can you handle it?"

"Don’t you have cleaning ships?" Sage Yu was slightly taken aback: "I saw it in the database."

"Yes, but the energy cores they use were all used by me to maintain myself, so if you don’t have energy cores, having them or not makes no difference." Tianji’s answer sounded somewhat helpless.

Upon hearing this, Sage Yu laughed: "You said energy cores, right? We in New Hangzhou are not short of them now."

Malin thought about it — indeed, back home, Sage Yu collected many energy cores.

The two discussed it and found no major issues except the launch tube for the spaceship needed clearing, and the interior required maintenance, plus for safety, all families in the tube and underground needed to relocate.

Mentioning these lives, Tianji hesitated: "Sage Yu, about this tribe..."

"We are willing to reconcile with humans, even willing to move out of the factory, after all, humans are the true masters here." Mrs. Dimis chose to concede.

Therefore, Sage Yu was also happy to assist: "We are willing to accept Mrs. Dimis and her tribe, in the south, there is a clan of Awakeners, all zombies awakened with intelligence, no, they are no longer zombies, I believe Mrs. Dimis and her tribe will live better there, and Tianji, I can provide you with a new body. After clearing, we can launch the ship and then visit there and go to New Hangzhou. I assure you, the flame of Union’s civilization has never been extinguished."

For some reason, Malin was moved by this sentence.

Indeed, the flame of civilization never goes out.