In the lower reaches of the Baishui River and in the Glen area, the newly established large factory stands like a towering fortress on the former wasteland. The main body of the building built of gray-white artificial materials has rigid straight lines. The practical design style makes it completely different from the complex and exquisite magician workshops of the old era, but it also has a rough and powerful "industrial beauty".

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At the edge of the factory, the towering magic monitoring tower is monitoring magic fluctuations in the entire area to prevent unauthorized spell casting from interfering with the operation of machines and communication systems in the factory. Security personnel wearing light equipment patrol and stand guard at intersections, defending this critical facility with the background of the Government Affairs Office. A road extending from the river bank passed through the entire factory. On the avenue, a black magic car stopped smoothly in front of one of the workshops.

The car door opened, wearing a dark-edged long skirt and tied up hair. The tall and thin Viscount Roppenni Glen walked out of it and turned his eyes to the large workshop in front of her. Behind her, another figure also stepped out of the magic car, but it was Selena Gerfen, a ghostly "Lantern Saint" who looked like a ghost.

"Is this the main production area of ​​Glen Heavy Industry..." Selena raised her head and saw the large workshop that looked like a fortress standing in front of her. The hard straight lines outside the workshop cut the clear and bright sky like a sharp blade. The material pipes and liquids extending from the top of the workshop, and the gas pipes extend out like the blood and nerves of a giant beast, connecting other nearby workshops and the storage tanks in the distance. The industrial power contained in this made her squint her eyes, "It is truly one of the largest industrial bases in the southern region... I think I can understand why His Majesty chose this place to be the test point for the 'wet parts intelligent workshop'."

"The Empire has invested a lot of money and policy preferential treatment here. His Majesty ordered me to use these things to build an industrial base that can support the southeast. What you see is actually only part of this large-scale plan - for the overall situation, all of this is in the early stage, and in the future, there will be larger facilities and more factories in this area," Viscount Roppennie introduced her achievements over the years to the guests with a proud look on her face. "In addition to the inhabited urban areas and the legally stipulated cultivated land, woods, and water reserves, the wasteland in the north of Glen City is still large, and now these desolate land can finally be used."

As he spoke, the viscount couldn't help but look at Selena again. Her eyes fell on the other party's lap and asked curiously: "Although this is a bit rude, you don't seem to have to come with me in a car... As an Internet resident, just appear in front of me after I arrive at my destination, right?"

"Life requires a sense of ritual - this is a sentence your Majesty said, and I think it makes sense," Selena smiled, her tone seemed very relaxed. "Occasionally letting herself live like a 'living person' in the real world will help maintain a clear self-awareness in order to prevent her mentality from aging and slow. This is my experience over the past few hundred years."

"... Actually, I just think it's a bit strange, especially when you think that you are actually just sitting in a chair and flying in synchronization with the magic car..." Roppenni's face was a little strange.

"...Okay, I'm not thinking about it well," Selena was a little embarrassed, but soon waved her hand to change the topic. "We won't pay attention to these details for now - are the workshop ready?"

"Of course," Roppeni nodded with a smile, "was ready yesterday."

Until now, the head of the factory area who came to greet her confirmed that the two ladies had finished chatting and led the technicians to welcome her. Penny Rodney had a brief conversation with them and then made an invitation to Selena. Selena had been looking forward to this moment for a long time. She raised her head and saw that the thick mechanical gate in front of the large factory was opened smoothly under the power of the magic device, and a brightly lit workshop gradually appeared in front of her.

Coming to inspect Glen Heavy Industry's new workshop is one of her main tasks when she came to Glen. It is just as important as observing Patty's situation and confirming the effect of the anti-divine barrier. As for why a "node bachelor" like her who focuses on the neural and network fields will be associated with the workshop of heavy industry, it is related to the cutting-edge technologies to be launched here: wet parts host, magic machinery, neural network, and the three technologies that the Cecil Empire is proud of will be integrated here.

With expectation, she followed Viscount Roppeni and stepped through the alloy gate driven by magic machinery. After passing a short connecting bridge and verified identity and registered entry and exit, she finally stood between the huge machines, pipes and cables.

In an extremely spacious and bright large workshop, two or three meters high and more than ten meters long processing machinery is arranged neatly on both sides of the passage like a giant steel beast. The thick material pipes are tilted from the upper floor of the workshop to the top of the machines, and transmission mechanisms with various large scales and complex structures are connected behind the large processing machines. These things are intertwined into the arteries and branches in this "steel palace" - all of this is an unimaginable wonder in the era of traditional magic workshops, but they are not enough to surprise Selena.

Because she has visited factories in other places, there are also magic machinery similar to those in other places, at most, it is smaller in scale and smaller in number.

What really deserves attention from a technical expert like her is the "nerve lines" that connect those machines -

Between the "arteries" interwoven by the material pipelines and transportation mechanisms, another complex network structure came into her eyes. They were pipes and cables wrapped by thick and strong composite protective layers. They extended from the inside of machines, some into the ground, and some extended along the beams on the upper floor of the workshop to a certain area outside the workshop or inside the workshop. The surfaces of these pipelines were marked with dark red, and slightly luminous enchantment paint covered each important interface or maintenance point. A kind of glimmer flowed slowly inside them, extinguishing, making these things look like they had life.

In fact, they are indeed alive—even perceptual.

"All the machines here are actually transformed based on existing equipment. Their main working structure is the same as before, but a new control unit is added - which reduces the cost of upgrading the workshop by at least half," Viscount Roppeni walked up and tapped the metal cover on the side of one of the large processing machines with his fingers. "This is a new control unit. Note that it is a new one - the original manual control part is still retained for manual takeover or emergency shutdown if necessary. Mr. Pruman, please help open the cover."

The workshop head, known as Pruman, immediately stepped forward and opened the solid steel cover with a special key. Selena leaned forward, and the structure under the cover came into her sight.

She saw a "rune palette" with exquisite partitions installed on the internal rack, and the end of the rune unit was connected with dark red biological tissues. The biological tissues grew out of a pipe buried deep inside the machine and differentiated into nerve lines, like vines spreading and growing in the soil and fused with the entire "palette" device. In the depths of the runes, nerves, and pipes, she also saw another catheter that transports nutrients. The thin biomass was slowly flowing in the catheter, nourishing the nerve nodes inside the machine.

At this moment, in Selena's eyes, one of the nerve lines seemed to suddenly receive a signal from the superior, and the runes connected to it lit up. A low buzzing sound came from the inside of the machine. After a few seconds, everything returned to calm again.

Viscount Roppeni's voice came from the side: "The system is self-testing - the neural network in the workshop will self-test like this every once in a while, just like the workshop manager patrolling machines, but the human eye does not have these nerves. These nerves can clearly feel the situation of each machine as if humans perceive their own fingers. All faults and potential faults can be discovered and uploaded as soon as possible."

Selena nodded, stood up and left from the machine's "nerve control unit". She raised her head and saw a nerve duct extending from above, connecting with several other nerve ducts, fusing, and disappearing into a beam on the higher level.

"There are several kilometers of nervous system and supporting biomass pipelines here. They communicate and connect between machines, exchange data between neural nodes, draw nutrients from underground circulation pumps and split pools, and reserve external interfaces to other workshops - but if you want to transmit data further, you still need to forward them through the Magic Net hub," Viscount Roppeni introduced on the side, pointing to a facility deep in the workshop. "Next we will go to the 'brain' of this workshop, well... the brain in the true sense."

Led by Roppeni and the workshop manager, Selena came to the depths of the workshop. At the end of the connecting passage, she saw a large tower-like facility - it looked a bit like a large distillation tower in an alchemy factory. The lower half was buried in a large hole underground in the workshop, and the upper half was connected to the dome of the workshop. A large number of pipes and nerve cables gathered above it, and entered the tower like blood vessels connected to the heart. A connecting bridge controlled by a mechanical device connected the middle of the tower and the main road of the workshop.

In front of this tower, Selena closed her eyes slightly, but another field of attention opened - it was a scene that ordinary people could not detect with their naked eyes, something that only sleepers like her could see.

The river of thinking formed by nerve impulses flows quietly in this cold workshop made of steel, intertwining into a net.

In her vision, in the darkness, all machines gradually emerged from light. Fragile spots of light emerged inside them and gathered along artificially customized veins. They converged in the air and underground, growing like a river of life, and finally connected to that common source - the source is right in front of her, an artificial brain that emits a strong pulse of thinking, gathered by countless nerve nodes...and it seems that more than one brain?

She opened her eyes, and the picture formed by extraordinary perception was then replaced by reality. She saw Viscount Roppeni step forward, while the tower carrying factory consciousness was opening the door.

The tower is brightly lit, and three tubular devices with a diameter of two or three meters are fixed to the floor in the center of the room. Each device is separated by several meters, and countless pipes are neatly connected from top to bottom to the top. In the center of these three tubular devices arranged in a font, Selena saw something half buried in the floor. It looks like a carapace of some kind of insect, with a round arc on the upper part, and the lower part is a base made of alloy - the strongest pulse of thinking emanates from inside it.

"This is the main brain of the workshop - after passing the acceptance, it will become the main brain of the entire industrial area. Next to it is the backup and servo brain. They each have different functions and can quickly take over the system when any brain has problems," the technical director of the workshop came forward. This is a senior druid. His thin hair and deep eye sockets show his professionalism and reliability. "Theoretically, unless all brains die at the same time, as long as one is still running normally, the entire system will not stop, and at most the efficiency will decrease..."

Viscount Roppeni walked forward a few steps, bent his fingers and gently tapped the shell of the "main brain". With a crisp sound, the shell immediately opened, revealing the crystal container filled with biomass solution and the artificial brain soaked in the container.

Immediately afterwards, the three surrounding tubular devices also opened their shells in a sound. As the alloy protective shell slowly descended, the devices also exposed the crystal tubes filled with biomass solution and the floating brain soaked in the liquid.

A large number of artificial nerve cords and metal needles, and fiber catheters are connected to those brains. If you see this scene in ordinary people, you may feel... very exciting.

But those who have worked here for a long time are obviously not unfamiliar with all this - just as the druids and physicians are also used to the appearance of corpses.

"These are neural connection units, which also include monitoring poles. The wet piece host commands the neural network in the workshop through these connection units, perceives and controls all machines. The monitoring poles allow our master control center to always understand the situation of each servo brain, and is also used to issue instructions to these servo brains." The technical supervisor introduced this complex and advanced system next to it. "According to the deepest instructions of the servo brain, they will release commands outwards only when they receive the monitoring pole signal and recognize the operator's authority. If any part of the entire link is abnormal, they will cut off the neural network and prompt the workers in the workshop to manually take over the machine through the broadcast system."

"This is to prevent someone from stealing the command of the factory," Viscount Roppeni added, "According to His Majesty, when a system is highly integrated and directed, it has the risk of being stolen. In the near future, taking over a factory may only require a wrongly authorized order - a risk we have to guard against."

"Ah... Your Majesty is really good at this kind of network penetration and authority control..." Perhaps recalling something that made people sweat, Selena's expression was a little strange for a moment, and then her eyes noticed the artificial console in a corner of the room. On that console, there was a big red button that was particularly eye-catching, "What is that?"
Chapter completed!