Recalling everything I saw on the road, whether it was the mechanical horse or the mechanical dog, these all belonged to mechanical creations.
Even the poultry raised in the yards, what Jiang Wen saw were all mechanical creations.
Only upon first meeting, he thought mechanical creations were a specialty here, so he never thought deeply about it.
But now that he thought about it, there was a big difference. Whether it was a mechanical horse or mechanical poultry, they all belonged to cold mechanical creations. They were like airplanes and cars in the modern world, without any hint of vitality.
The roads in the town were too clean, and even the restaurant was spotless. What was even more surprising was that the sign of the restaurant read 'Restaurant,' but there was not a drop of alcohol in the store. This really surprised and puzzled him, and he even suspected that he had read the words wrong.
But now that he thought about it, perhaps it was not that he had read the words wrong, but that this was not the human world as he understood it.
"Everyone here may be mechanical people," Jiang Wen speculated. Although his strength was not restricted, his divine sense was temporarily unusable. This place was similar to the Feather God Palace, both suppressing divine sense. As a result, he did not use his divine sense to investigate the situation of the people around him on the way here, so he did not feel any doubt about the lack of human smell from the surrounding pedestrians.
Now it seemed that it was precisely because those pedestrians were all mechanical people that he did not notice anything wrong here.
"I don't know either," the nameless woman shook her head. "But I feel that they are very familiar, so familiar that it seems like I have seen them somewhere."
"You are familiar with these mechanical people?" Jiang Wen was a little surprised, not expecting that the nameless woman could have some connection with these mechanical people. It seemed that it was right for them to walk this way.
"Yes. Very familiar," the nameless woman's eyes revealed a trace of loss. "But I can't remember where I've seen them."
"Don't think about it if you can't remember. Anyway, things will eventually sort themselves out. Let's just go with the flow," Jiang Wen comforted her, and then checked the situation in the house.
The woman sat quietly in the house, watching his figure without moving. Jiang Wen didn't care, as she was usually like this anyway.
After checking the various ornaments in the house, he became more and more certain of his previous speculation. Because the ornaments in the house were not something normal people could use, they were all metal tools.
There was also a box in the room, and inside were various mechanical parts. This made Jiang Wen a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect that he had really come to a place where only mechanical people existed.
Now that he understood the environment he was in, he wouldn't be so clueless when doing things next. He went out and asked the mechanical shopkeeper downstairs for "wine." When he opened it, it was a strange liquid similar to lubricating oil.
This kind of thing didn't have the unpleasant smell of lubricating oil, but instead had a faint fragrance. This should be the lubricant used by the mechanical puppets to maintain their activities, and it could be considered their "wine."
He took out the things he needed for eating, living, and using from his storage bag, and padded the soft bedding on the bronze bed. Although he didn't really need to sleep at his level, and even eating could be avoided, there should always be some sense of ritual in living in the world. Sleeping and eating were both unavoidable.
Moreover, he had brought a woman with him, a woman who seemed to have no strength at all.
The woman was a little sleepy. Seeing that Jiang Wen had made the bed, she lay on it and fell into a daze. Jiang Wen sat aside and meditated, restoring his mana. Looking at the woman's terrible sleeping posture, he shook his head and covered her well.
"Although it's not her, the way she sleeps is the same," Jiang Wen thought happily. Jiang Wenji's sleeping posture was also poor. Every time he was on night watch, that person would always sleep crookedly like a naughty child, and someone would have to cover her with a quilt.
Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, he found that it had been pinched by the nameless woman. That slender palm was quite glossy and soft, and it tightly clamped his wrist like a pair of pliers.
"Don't go…" the woman whispered. He saw tears rolling down from the corner of her eyes, sliding down her face, and silently soaking into the bedding.
Jiang Wen's hand stopped in place, letting the other party pull it and place it on her chest. He sat by the bed, looking at the night outside the window. The moonlight of this world silently poured in.
"Sigh," Jiang Wen sighed for some unknown reason.
When she woke up the next day, the woman opened her eyes in response. What she saw was an unfamiliar place, and Jiang Wen sitting by the bed.
For some reason, the woman felt a sense of inexplicable peace. She touched her cheeks in confusion, feeling very puzzled.
She had fallen asleep soundly last night, but she had not had any nightmares. In the past, whether she closed her eyes to rest or sleep, many scenes would always flash before her eyes and in her mind.
Those scenes only contained burning cities, screaming crowds, and corpses everywhere. These nightmares had haunted her for a long time, and had only slightly lessened after meeting the person in front of her.
Thinking of this, even if the woman was still confused, she still had a special feeling of gratitude in her heart.
"We'll take a look at the situation in this town today and find out what kind of place it is."
The woman naturally agreed. After tidying up, the two went downstairs and out of the restaurant.
Perhaps because it was morning, there were quite a few guests in the restaurant. Like Jiang Wen and the two, they were all wearing cloaks and straw raincoats that covered their entire bodies. However, when the other party lifted their hats, what was revealed was a bronze head.
Sure enough, the people here were all mechanical people. Jiang Wen looked at the traveling merchants and lodgers, quite sure of his previous guess. Perhaps in this small town, there were no living things in the true sense.
Only the green space not far away could be considered a creation of nature.
Walking out of the restaurant, there was actually a street market in the town in the morning. On both sides were mechanical people dressed in various clothes. Some were dressed in colorful clothes, and you could tell at a glance that they were female mechanical people. Some were wearing loose robes, and their heads were carved quite realistically, looking similar to real people. Some were like the terracotta warrior heads Jiang Wen had seen in his modern world, looking a bit eerie.
However, these mechanical people were quite respected, and people would salute them along the way. Jiang Wen had never imagined that in this town full of mechanical people, there would actually be a social class.
This mechanical person with a human-like head was obviously a landlord class.
Watching this mechanical person walk past him, Jiang Wen suddenly became curious about it. He winked at the nameless woman, and the two quietly followed behind the mechanical lord.
When the mechanical lord passed by a remote place, Jiang Wen strode up.
Mouth covered, eyes blindfolded. Before the mechanical lord could call out, he was kidnapped to the puppet outside the town.
After untying it and letting it go, Jiang Wen and the woman both stared at the mechanical lord.
"You, who are you! Why do you dare to kidnap me! Do you know who I am!" The mechanical lord was furious, not caring about his situation at all.
"You dare to be so presumptuous, aren't you afraid of damaging your soul core!"
The mechanical lord said arrogantly, like a duck quacking loudly. The woman couldn't stand it anymore and kicked the mechanical lord, and only then did the mechanical lord realize that he had encountered a tough character, and immediately quieted down.
"We'll ask you some questions, and you'd better answer honestly, otherwise we'll dismantle you into spare parts," Jiang Wen said.
"I know," the mechanical lord said in a panic.
