Chapter 178 So, What’s the Price?

This false king is a humanoid mechanical life.

Different from other mechanical residents, he has all his mechanical parts covered with special materials, which serve as skin.

At first glance, this person looks like a real human being.

"John? How could it become like this..."

Adam scanned the false king in front of him, feeling a little confused. In my memory, this old rival is not what he is now.

"My subjects, arise."

The fake king on the opposite side pointed at Bai You and Leziren, and gave an order for all the mechanical residents present to surround them.

However, after he issued the order, no one responded to him, including the genius Yuanpan who is still on the court.

"What's going on?!" The Puppet King couldn't figure out what was going on. Seeing that no one was making any moves, he continued to try in disbelief, but it still didn't work.

Bai You had already been prepared for his move, and used the detection equipment as an amplifier to unleash a mechanical maintenance ritual that covered a wide range of areas and released the program control.

While the false king John was furious, Adam had already made up his mind. When he comes back this time, he wants to change everything.

"John, I'm back."

While Adam was speaking, Bai You had already stepped through the passage and walked up to the false king John.

And behind him, there were many mechanical residents who were freed from program control.

"Are you Adam? What did you do!" John stood up on guard. The current situation was completely beyond his expectations.

He tried to control the residents behind Bai You with the program he planted on everyone, but it had no effect at all.

"John, I don't know how much it cost us to get rid of human control. But now, why do you want to enslave the same kind of people!"

Adam's mood fluctuated abnormally. The two were comrades who had fought together and had been through life and death countless times.

He thought he knew the other party very well, but he didn't expect that the Karta base would look like this after he left.

Hearing Adam's question, John was stunned for a moment. Then he seemed to have forgotten his situation and responded plausibly:

"Adam, didn't you see?"

John pointed at the mechanical residents following Bai You, his fingers trembling.

"Look, can those behind you be considered our kind..."

Adam failed to understand John's words. The ones behind were mechanical beings, which were essentially the same as them.

"No, they are not my kind." John suddenly laughed wildly, heartbreakingly.

"To you, maybe they are no different, but I, a beverage machine...how can I compare with them in human form?"

John laughed crazily and tore off the special material on his body, revealing his true body. His size instantly increased by 30%.

An extremely ordinary-looking beverage machine appeared in front of everyone. He shook his bloated body and mixed the drinks of various colors in his body.

"See? Adam, you and I are different from everyone else."

John took out a cup in his hand, took out a drink from his mouth, and held it in his hand.

"It's really strange..." John's emotions were extremely chaotic and changed very quickly, like the mixed drink in his body, which was constantly changing color as his body shook.

"We have become mechanical beings and have the same thoughts and feelings as humans, but we have lost something equally important to machines..."

John suddenly stared at Bai You, no, he was staring at Adam hidden in Bai You's body.

"We can no longer change the shape of our bodies at any time like a cold machine."

At this time, Adam finally separated from Bai You's body, and the two temporarily released the fusion state.

Adam changed form and took human form.

Bai You was a little confused. Didn't it mean that after mechanical life has feelings, it cannot transform?

But looking at Adam's condition, it seems that such a thing does not exist.

John was also surprised when he saw Adam's change, and then the color of the drink in his body suddenly turned red.

"Sure enough, sure enough!" John's voice was so crazy that the entire beverage machine began to shake.

"It was you who took the holy cabinet out! It was indeed you! Hahahahaha!"

John laughed, but his laughter stopped suddenly, turning blue and changing its tone to something sharp and cold.

"The legend of the Holy Ark is true. It can truly lift the restrictions on a mechanical life. And you actually took it away privately."

"All of this was caused by you! It was you who turned this Kalta base into a prison for mechanical life!"

Adam's expression in human form was also very complex, and he could understand what John meant.

If he had not left the Karta base and taken away the Holy Ark, maybe John would not be so extreme and would not hate all human beings.

No wonder the champion who guarded the gate and the loudspeaker who announced the situation were all non-humanoid mechanical beings.

However, the Holy Ark was not as beautiful as John said.

"You have never touched the Holy Ark. There is a price for using it."

Adam split a part of his body open for John to watch.

John glanced casually at first, but then he immediately leaned forward and looked carefully.

"You, how come you have so many cracks in your core... No, how can you still be alive?"

John was shocked. The lifespan of mechanical life is almost endless, and it will not suffer from birth, old age, illness and death like humans.

As long as the core is not damaged, ordinary physical injuries can be restored to their original state as long as they can be repaired and treated in time.

But Adam's current state is different.

There are many cracks on his core. If he maintains intense life activities, he will die completely in a short time.

"The Holy Ark is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Carta human beings." Adam touched his core with his hand and stroked the cracks.

He gently exerted force with his fingers and even broke off a small piece of fragments from the core.

Adam did this without changing his expression, but John opposite him was surprised.

He raised his hand and pointed at Adam, the drink in his body was bubbling, and he didn't know what to say.

"After leaving, I wanted to go out and see the scenery, so I used the Holy Ark and gained the ability to change my form."

Adam held his core fragment in his hand, with a calm face.

"But there are humans outside. Although they are better than the bastards we killed, they are still bastards."

Adam transformed into a Titan core, and in the endless battle between the rebels and the IMC, he saw the side of human enslavement of mechanical war.

He couldn't accept it for a while. In a war, he cut the pilot who treated him roughly into pieces and slaughtered quite a few soldiers.

In the blood, he learned from his mistakes.

Adam no longer wanted to experience the pain of this world. After using the Holy Ark, his core was broken and he would not live long.

He decided to seal himself and chose an eliminated Titan on his own, and then he and the Titan ate dust in the warehouse.

After an unknown period of time, Adam traveled to various planets and bases with the Titan, and finally waited for Bai You's arrival.