Prisoners of the Blue-Skinned People's Civilization

Within the Machine Puppet Territory, at the heart of the Machine God Core.

A great will is monitoring the situation within its entire territory through its "tentacles" that extend across countless worlds.

Countless messages are relayed from its various receiving ports to the Core Consciousness, where countless calculations, unimaginable to ordinary people, are taking place. Countless plans, structures, development directions, civilization progress, frontline battle situations, and combat commands all originate from this single will.

However, at this moment, it allocated some of its spare computing power and focused its attention on a specific Prison within the Prison system.

This Prison holds several prisoners of war from other Super-Civilization. They came to spy on the Machine Puppet in the realm of the Consciousness Demon, but were discovered by the Will and troops were dispatched to capture them.

Driven by an inescapable imprint deep within their minds since birth, their will mercilessly killed two members who were suspected of being able to manipulate Consciousness Demon. Then, they sent the remaining members to the Prison within their territory and imprisoned them.

After imprisoning them, the will also obtained the information it wanted from their Consciousness through the Thought-Reading Device: information about the other side, about the Immortal Realm, and... about its Creator.

The Immortal Emperor Shuhua —that is the name of the being that created it.

After learning that the Immortal Realm could manipulate the Consciousness Demon, its will was conflicted. Its original intention was to communicate, exchange ideas, and even unite with the civilization that created it. However, from the depths of its mind, the mission given to it by its Creator when it was created urged it to destroy all the Consciousness Demon.

That was its innate mark, its innate instinct, which it could not resist and did not want to resist at all. However, it also did not really want to be an enemy of the race that created it.

It wanted to learn as much as possible about the unique civilization on the other side of the Void, in the upper reaches of the Void River. However, although capturing these Immortals as Spy revealed a lot, their level was not high enough, and there were still many things they did not know.

Therefore, while Bai Qiuran was leading Tang Ruowei to infiltrate the Machine Puppet team and steal intelligence, this will was also considering the same thing.

Finally, after careful calculations, a mechanical Spaceship bearing the Machine God symbol was created from one of its special Manufacturing Factory and secretly transported by a Machine Puppet Squad to a deeper part of the Consciousness Demon Domain Frontline.

The heavy metal hatch rose, accompanied by a metallic scraping sound and a puff of white steam.

Having undergone upgrades and modifications, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei, controlling their Machine Puppet body, walked out of the hatch with heavy steps and arrived at the open-air plaza of the Battle Group Base.

After the modifications, the Machine Puppet body controlled by the two men were over three meters tall. Their bodies were heavy and solid, as if they were wearing a silver-white heavy armor that covered their entire bodies. A huge and thick shield naturally grew on their left arm, and their weapons varied depending on the direction they chose.

Bai Qiuran's Machine Puppet body is a melee-specialized Guardian, so her weapons are a giant axe locked to her back and a backup throwing axe inside her body. Tang Ruowei's Machine Puppet body, on the other hand, is a ranged-specialized type. The right arm of the Machine Puppet she controls is a giant Runes cannon with immense power and built-in aiming assistance.

Two enormous Machine Puppet stood in the open-air plaza, while many newly Ascension Machine Puppet passed by, gazing at their machines with envious eyes.

Although these Machine Puppet were imprinted with the Machine God's Thought Imprint, their emotions did not disappear. This may be why the Machine God did not give this Grand Warband much importance.

Compared to those truly bloodless and tearless Machine Puppet race, the souls of these Mechanical Ascension to heaven were still somewhat immature.

Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei stood in the square for less than ten seconds before a new instruction was transmitted to their Souls.

The instructions were to have them board a Guardian Warband airship, travel to a designated Prison to report for duty, and the instructions also included a map showing the distribution of Prison under all the Machine Puppet.

However, the map does not indicate who the Prisoners currently held in the Prison are.

We can only take it one step at a time.

Bai Qiuran looked up and glanced at the silver-white Machine Puppet beside her.

"If... One-Zero-Four, there's no time to lose, let's head to the Prison immediately."

"OK."

The Prison Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei were assigned to was not far from the world of the Blue-Skinned People's Civilization they Ascension to. Its full name was "Shenlada No. 1 Prison", and it was commonly known as Shenlada Prison.

After disembarking from the Spaceship and reporting to the indifferent Gatekeeping Puppet, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei were immediately assigned to the Prison's Guardian Roster.

Without any training, the Prison's patrol routes, structural diagrams, and all work details were transmitted to Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei at the same time as the report was filed. Fortunately, they were on duty tonight for the night patrol.

Through this mission, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei can confirm whether there are any Immortals from the Immortal Realm imprisoned in this Prison.

Night fell quickly, and it was time for the two to take over their shift. After handing over their duties to the two "senior" Guardian Machine Puppet, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei slowly walked down the dark Prison corridor, maneuvering their now enormous and heavy Machine Puppet body.

In the pitch-black passage, only the heavy footsteps of the two Machine Puppet and the faint grinding sound of gears turning could be heard.

"Master."

As Tang Ruowei walked, she suddenly transmitted her Spiritual Sense: "I'm a little scared..."

"Waste."

Bai Qiuran cursed in Spiritual Sense communication, "Look at your body now. Even if there are evil spirits in the darkness, shouldn't they be the ones afraid of us?"

As he spoke, he used the axe he was carrying on his back to pry open the iron window of a cell next to him, and through the bars he could see what was being held inside.

It was a monster that resembled both a human and some kind of amphibian, with a mouthful of sharp teeth and eyes that glowed red in the darkness. It also seemed to be particularly ferocious. After Bai Qiuran pried open the iron window, the monster suddenly lunged forward and crashed heavily into the iron door with a loud bang.

Seeing this, Bai Qiuran lowered the iron bars on the door. After the monster banged and roared behind the door for a while, it fell silent again, and the silence returned.

"What kind of crap is this?"

Tang Ruowei muttered, "Monsters? Judging from the temperament of these Machine Puppet, shouldn't we kill them all?"

"It's probably for research purposes."

Bai Qiuran replied, "You forgot, we didn't completely wipe out those native beasts we killed before we came. Instead, we left enough for the research institutions in that world to study... You know, the material beings under the rule of the Machine God don't have their own research institutions or departments. The researchers there are all the Machine God's tentacles."

The two continued forward, examining each cell in turn. These cells contained strange and grotesque monsters, some incredibly irritable, others appearing rather gloomy, though the light in their eyes was unsettling.

Looking around, Bai Qiuran and Tang Ruowei reached the end of the passage and the end of the Book of Questions. There was a cell there. If there were no Immortals in there either, then the prisons in this area could be completely eliminated.

Upon approaching, Tang Ruowei used the machine gun in her right hand to pry open the iron window and cautiously peeked inside.

It wouldn't have mattered if she hadn't looked, but as soon as she did, the girl immediately let out a gasp of surprise through Spiritual Sense communication.

"Master."

She exclaimed, "There's a Blue-skinned People locked up in there!"