The Ancestor of all Machines? The Holy Mother of Machines? Listening to Jasmine's words, Jiang Wen grew increasingly curious about this world. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♡ What kind of existence could create such a bizarre and peculiar place? Were the Feather Cloud race of the past also among these mechanical beings?
These thoughts arose spontaneously, and Jiang Wen couldn't help but want to know the truth. He watched Jasmine drink her 'wine,' something no human could consume. He then took out a jar of fruit wine brewed by the white foxes from his storage bag, opened it, and handed it to Jasmine.
"Want to try my wine?" Jiang Wen asked with a smile.
"Your wine." Jasmine curiously took the fruit wine and cautiously took a sip. Immediately, she froze, hugging the bottle and sitting there blankly.
"Jasmine?" Seeing her as if she had crashed, Jiang Wen called out to her several times. He saw crystalline, viscous liquid flowing from Jasmine's eyes, slowly running down her face.
"I, I." Jasmine looked at Jiang Wen and stammered.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying all of a sudden?" Jiang Wen asked.
"I, I'm fine. I just drank a little of what you gave me. Something inexplicable appeared in my soul core. How should I put it, I can't explain the feeling. It's a completely different sensation from 'wine.' It makes me feel a kind of sourness, perhaps that's how I should describe it, a feeling of heartbreak. It seems like there's some memory hidden in my soul core, and I don't know how to express it. I'm just, just so sad." Jasmine hugged the wine jar and sat at the table, silently shedding tears. Fortunately, the location where they were sitting was relatively secluded, and no one paid much attention to them.
However, looking at the crying expression on Jasmine's face, she was no different from a living person.
Jiang Wen silently handed her some paper so she could wipe away her tears. After Jasmine's emotions calmed down, he carefully inquired.
"I don't know what happened just now; I definitely wouldn't be like this normally." Jasmine scratched her head somewhat remorsefully, her cat ears twitching, feeling ashamed of her embarrassing behavior just now.
"I'm not a weak machine person. You must have done something to me."
"This has nothing to do with me, right?" Jiang Wen shrugged innocently. "I was just kindly sharing the wine I love to drink with you."
"Of course it has to do with you. If you hadn't given me the wine, I definitely wouldn't have been so embarrassed. This is your fault." Jasmine said with a proud expression.
"Alright, it's my fault. So, what are you going to do?" Jiang Wen asked amusedly. He could see that Jasmine was just a female mechanical being who pretended to be strong on the outside but was actually quite fragile on the inside. As for why she was like this, it was probably related to her usual environment.
As he expected, Jasmine made her request.
"You have to give me some more of your wine, and I won't hold it against you." Jasmine's face revealed a sly smile, truly like a cat caught stealing fish.
Jiang Wen shook his head and gave her a jar of fruit wine. He had plenty of this wine and wouldn't miss one or two jars.
"I have many more things I want to ask you. I wonder if that's alright?"
"Of course, that's fine. You're my friend now, and I'll definitely help you," Jasmine said candidly.
"Seeing you covering your face, you're definitely not a machine person from Mo City. Did you come to Mo City to buy joint parts? Or are you looking for a female machine person to fuse your soul core with?"
"…" Although Jiang Wen didn't quite understand, he had already obtained the answer to the soul core fusion issue from the mechanical landlord. This topic was similar to going to a brothel to find a girl, and he didn't know how Jasmine could say it so casually.
"I came to Mo City just to find someone and solve some of my confusion."
"Looking for someone? Then you've come to the right person." Jasmine smiled confidently. "In this lower level of Mo City, if I say I'm the best at finding people, no one would dare say they're second. Since you gave me this jar of wine, I'll take care of this matter for you."
"Really? Then thank you very much. The person I'm looking for is called Xue Changming, and he looks something like this." Jiang Wen thought for a moment, took out his phone, and showed Jasmine Xue Changming's photo. Jasmine picked up the phone in surprise, very interested in this magical gadget.
"What kind of ingenious device is this that can display such a clear illusion?" Jasmine played with the phone, accidentally pressing a button that started playing a song.
A song of Jasmine slowly unfolded, which was quite related to her.
Jiang Wen took the phone back and turned off the song. He had already seen many mechanical beings around him looking over.
"This isn't a suitable place for chatting. Let's go somewhere else." Jiang Wen got up and walked out of the restaurant, with Jasmine, hugging the wine jar, hurriedly following.
"Then let's go to my place; my place is relatively secluded," Jasmine suggested.
"We're a lone man and a single woman; aren't you afraid?" Jiang Wen asked with interest.
Jasmine rolled her eyes at him playfully, then trotted ahead and said, "With your weak mechanical body, I'm afraid you can't withstand my torment. I don't know who's afraid then."
"Haha." Jiang Wen couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. He found this female mechanical being truly interesting, just like Shen Yueshu in the modern world.
Now, I wonder how Yan Gongli and the others are doing. Jiang Wen thought as he followed behind Jasmine, heading deeper into Mo City.
"It is said that as long as you eat the Holy Mother's flesh and blood, you can transform towards the appearance of the Holy Mother. When all the machinery is finally shed and the whole body is covered with flesh and blood, you can become a descendant of the Holy Mother. Becoming the most noble royal family among the machine people."
"Have you eaten it before?" Jiang Wen suddenly asked.
"I haven't." Jasmine shrugged. "Holy Mother's flesh and blood is too expensive for me. It's better to buy some spirit crystals to replenish my strength. Only those upper-level royal nobles have the ability to enjoy these things."
"Holy Mother's flesh and blood?" Jiang Wen pondered what this thing was, but before seeing the real thing, he could only speculate.
Following Jasmine, bypassing various messy streets, Jiang Wen occasionally saw mechanical beings with various severed limbs lying on the ground, either living in a drunken stupor or barely clinging to life.
There were also mechanical beings acting as pickpockets, preparing to steal Jiang Wen's belongings, but Jasmine discovered them in time and beat them severely.
This was the lower level of Mo City, an extremely chaotic place.
