Chapter 1635 Automated Factory
The eyes of the gods will not be blinded, and any illusion created by spells or spell-like abilities will be seen through, and no matter how well hidden it is, it will be discovered by the gods.
To put it simply, Li Chengqi only needs to press the ALT key, and all interactive parts on the screen will be highlighted.
If Aldai and the others were to find it by themselves, they would have to knock on the floor or walls inch by inch in this room, but Li Chengqi knew the exact location just by looking at it.
To be honest, Li Chengqi didn't want to cause trouble, but Aldai's words did convince him that it would definitely be very troublesome for an illithid lich above level 70 to jump up and down in the demon realm, not to mention that the lich almost killed him. If you don't die, if you miss this opportunity, it will be difficult to kill the Lich if he is released.
With Li Chengqi's guidance, the three of them quickly bypassed the seven statues and walked to the wall behind the statues.
With a flash of golden light, everyone heard a sound like breaking glass. Li Chengqi broke the concealment or seal left by the lich, and a door slowly appeared in front of the three of them.
Aldai checked the door to confirm that there were no more traps or spell effects, and Nemea took the lead to open the door.
This time, the construction style behind the door is no longer that of an underground palace, but the minimalist style of an illithid.
The corridor is flat, just a straight road, and there are no unnecessary decorations on the floor and ceiling, but occasionally you can find a few octopus head-like carvings on the walls.
This road always echoes with the sound of clanging and banging, like a blacksmith forging metal.
Aldai felt that this should be an automated factory left by the illithid lich that was still working.
The alchemical creatures they saw along the way were obviously made by lichs, but even if they were lichs, they had to make them all by hand, which was boring to think about.
How easy it would be to let the alchemical creatures produce themselves.
But alchemy creatures are veritable artificial retards, and complete automation is impossible. They don't know how to correct their mistakes, and over time, their mistakes will become more and more outrageous.
This is where the scrapyard came from when I came in. The alchemical creatures that were supposed to be produced turned into scraps due to errors in assembly or parts production. The alchemy creatures would just throw away the scraps according to the set procedures and never consider correcting the errors. .
Walking along this straight road, I didn't find any rooms on the road.
This is actually not accurate. Aldai found traces of spells on both sides of the road, and they were from the school of conjuration.
She guessed that there should be arcane rooms on both sides of the corridor. This thing was not dug directly into the stone. The main body was located in the endless void, and spells were used as anchors to connect the arcane rooms with the material world.
The advantage is that it is extremely safe and cannot be invaded by outsiders. If you want to move your location, you only need to erase the anchor point and wait until the next safe place to place the anchor point to open it.
Considering that the illithid lich probably escaped, this operation is not surprising.
But the downside...
If the anchor point is not maintained for a long time, the arcane room will disappear. If the time is longer, the arcane room will automatically collapse, and all the contents will become cosmic garbage.
If that's the case, is the Lich's phylactery also missing?
Not entirely true.
The secret room is indeed safe, but it is in the void.
There is no plane in the void. If someone uses a spell to lock the lich's phylactery, it will be much easier than in the plane. The illithid lich is obviously fleeing, so it is unlikely that it will keep the phylactery for a long time. Place it in the secret room.
Besides, the river of souls that a person will merge into after death is also in the void, and the eyes of the God of Death will often scan along the river of souls.
The lich is equivalent to dead, but I don’t want to be judged by the god of death, so if the fugitive’s soul is hiding, if he puts the phylactery in the secret room, and is accidentally discovered by the god of death one day, then the lich will probably stand in the blink of an eye. In front of the God of Death, waiting to be sentenced... So Aldai can be sure that the phylactery is here, but it has not been found yet.
Continue walking forward until you reach the end of the corridor, where the road finally forks.
Aldai decided to go to the left first because there was a clanging sound coming from there.
There is a door not far to the left, but the sound insulation effect of the door panel is very average, and the sound of forging and knocking is constantly coming from inside.
There were no traps on the door, and there were no spell effects. It was just an iron door. Nemea quietly walked over, took out the adamantine dagger he had just harvested, and slashed at the door bolt along the crack of the door.
The enchanted adamantine weapon cut off the iron door bolt as thick as a finger with one stroke, as easily as cutting butter. Then she pushed the door open a little, and the three of them looked inside along the crack.
The first thing that comes into view is a row of columnar stamping machines. The cut metal raw materials are sent to the bottom of the stamping machine on a conveyor belt. The huge cylindrical object falls quickly, and a part comes out.
As the conveyor belt continues to move forward, different parts are sorted and aggregated, and in front is a group of golems.
The golem is equivalent to the castrated version of the golem. It is about the same height as an ordinary person and has more flexible movements, but its combat power is far weaker than that of the golem. It is generally used to handle delicate tasks that the golem cannot handle.
These monsters stand on both sides of the conveyor belt, like an industrial assembly line, putting together the parts on the conveyor belt one by one.
The final assembly should be something like a metal giant wasp or a magic casing, but as I said just now, there are errors and they have not been corrected.
Starting from the raw material cutting process, we saw a lot of unqualified materials, the molds of the stamping machines were also damaged, and the punched parts themselves were defective. In this case, if they were forcibly assembled, the final product would definitely be scrap.
It can almost be said that after coming off the assembly line, they will be stuffed into an automatic mine car, and then thrown into the scrapyard that Aldai and the others passed by.
Aldai feels that the factory does not operate 24 hours a day, and it is most likely due to a shortage of raw materials such as metal.
And artificial intelligence won't consider recycling waste materials. Even if there are alchemy organisms that are specifically responsible for mining minerals, the amount of mineral materials that can be obtained every day is quite limited.
The situation in this room was roughly like this. Aldai didn't see any doors leading to other directions. At most, it was a 'garbage passage' for the automatic mine cart.
So Aldai asked Nemea to close the door, and he added another door-sealing spell. After that, everyone returned the same way and headed to the right at the intersection.
This time it wasn't far, as soon as I turned the corner I saw a door.
But compared to the large iron door of the factory, this door is relatively more elegant. It is made of some kind of wooden material, maybe some kind of mushroom from the mushroom forest outside.
The front of the door is engraved with an octopus head with long teeth and five claws, and there are even two amethysts inlaid in the eyes, making it feel like it is alive.
This is actually true, it is indeed alive.
As soon as the three of them stood still, they saw a golden light emerging, poking at the door like a finger.
Immediately afterwards, a layer of thick purple-black fog rose above the door, which clearly took the shape of an illithid's head, but it was not worth mentioning in front of the brilliant divine power, and it collapsed in an instant.
A ghostly scream suddenly sounded in my ears, all sound and light effects disappeared immediately, and the sparkling amethyst on the door panel also shattered with a snap...
(End of chapter)