Chapter 186: The True Dragon Never Cared About Humanity

Ten days later, at the rear mountain where the Great Qin's Dragon Machine Soldiers were stationed.

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a muffled thud of something landing, a large amount of various giant beasts' flesh and blood was dumped onto the ground from wooden carts dragged over by a squad of soldiers.

"Captain, the supplies have been delivered. The rest is up to you all."

After saying this, the soldiers who had delivered the massive amount of flesh and blood departed together with their squad, driving the wooden carts away, preparing to load up another large haul of flesh and blood.

At this moment, it wasn't just their squad acting like this; countless surrounding squads were doing the same.

Everything was being done to recharge their Great Qin Dragon Machine Soldiers.

Yes, recharge!

The energy supply of the Great Qin Dragon Machine Soldiers was rather special; they were not simply lifeless mechanical contraptions, but special weapons that existed between life and mechanical device.

At this moment, along with the delivery of the massive amount of giant beast flesh and blood, the captain in charge of everything here also began directing his subordinates to continuously lift the giant beast flesh and blood and place it into the enormous cooking vessel, slowly scalding it to a boil in the scalding hot water.

Afterwards, another squad of soldiers responsible for transport would deliver it to the energy supply position of the Dragon Machine Soldier.

And watching as the massive amount of flesh and blood was devoured by that enormous machine, slowly transforming into energy and spewing out endless white thick smoke.

At this moment, Wang Weiqin, dressed in a plain white robe, also solemnly bowed to Zhang Rang, the Son of Heaven of Great Qin who stood right before him, then slowly walked toward the hatch of the machine under the expectant gazes of the crowd.

In the next instant, he was seen taking a deep breath, then raising his right hand and pressing it against the hatch of the Dragon Machine Soldier—that is, the chest of the Dragon Machine Soldier which was crouching on all fours.

Afterwards, a large number of tentacles began to slowly emerge from his right hand… no, those were not tentacles, those were the nerves within his body!

A large number of nerves extended directly from his right hand and inserted into the chest of the Dragon Machine Soldier. At this point, the chest of the Dragon Machine Soldier fully opened, and through the writhing of flesh and blood, his somewhat stiffened body was swallowed inside.

And with this, Wang Weiqin, who had entered the body of the Dragon Machine Soldier as his vision went black, also had an extremely solemn look in his eyes.

He knew in his heart that the most difficult moment had arrived. To pilot this machine, even someone like him, the most suitable pilot, could not succeed every time, and once he failed, he would have to wait several days to recover.

He had already failed once before; this time he absolutely could not fail again!

While muttering inwardly, his entire body began to extend a large number of nerves, linking toward the flesh-and-blood interfaces around him.

These were all the nerves within his body—the most fragile parts of the human body. A normal person absolutely could not control them, nor could they extend them outside the body. A single mishap causing damage would result in paralysis or even death from then on.

It was just that he didn't know what fortuitous encounter he had experienced as a child, causing the most core part of his entire body's structure to undergo a peculiar change. Then, under the effect of the ancient Dragon Transformation Potion, another mysterious change occurred, which allowed him to barely extend the nerves within his body outside his body.

This was why he could be called the best pilot of the Dragon Machine Soldier, because only he could, during the process of the dragon-transformed flesh and blood swelling up, extend the nerves within his body outside his body with a hundred percent certainty!

If one were to say that other pilots would encounter two difficulties, the first was that during the process of the dragon-transformed flesh and blood swelling up, they had to exert all their strength to control the nerves within their body to extend outside, and the second was that they had to carefully and cautiously link these nerves successfully with the nerve interfaces of the Dragon Machine Soldier.

And if they were unsuccessful, they would have to bear the enormous risk of nerve damage—light cases resulting in paralysis, severe cases resulting in death.

As for him, there was only one difficulty—whether the linking would be successful.

Because of his special constitution, even if the linking failed and his nerves were damaged, he could recover spontaneously over time by lying bedridden.

This point had also caused countless scholars to marvel endlessly during the previous research on the Dragon Machine Soldier, because he was simply too special.

While pondering, a large number of nerves slowly made contact along the positions within Wang Weiqin's memory.

As one nerve after another was carefully and successfully linked, the eyes of that enormous creature crouching on the ground outside also slowly began to light up, and large amounts of thick steam began to continuously spew out.

Afterwards, the crouching body of the Dragon Machine Soldier slowly began to resume its standing posture.

"Did General Wang succeed this time?"

This peculiar sight caused the surrounding onlookers to involuntarily murmur their doubts softly.

However, what replied to him was utter silence, because not a single person could answer his question.

Even Wang Weiqin, who was inside the body of the Dragon Machine Soldier, could not do this. Until the very last moment when all the linking was successful, no one could be sure.

And with this, Time began to slowly slip away.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.

"Whoosh—!"

Suddenly, a whistling sound of wind rang out; it was the enormous wings on the back of the Dragon Machine Soldier beginning to vibrate.

"He did it!"

"Excellent!"

"Well done, General Wang!"

……

For a time, upon seeing this scene, countless people began to celebrate one after another. At this moment, even Zhang Rang could not help but follow the crowd and reveal a trace of a satisfied smile.

Even though this was not the first time they had seen a Dragon Machine Soldier being piloted, every successful linking was an extremely arduous experience.

This was also related to the insufficiency of Great Qin's research in this area. In the end, Time was still too short. If those scholars were given fifty or a hundred years, perhaps by then the Dragon Machine Soldier could truly become a conventional weapon of Great Qin.

But that was not the case at present.

At this moment, Zhang Rang could wait no longer. No one knew when the period of the True Dragon's weakness would pass.

Once he missed this opportunity, perhaps such an opportunity would never come again.

As for why he was so eager to crusade against the True Dragon, in the end, it was because he had been frightened by this New Era.

As the saying goes, if a person has no immediate worries, they must have long-term concerns.

Although the True Dragon appeared to have no disputes with the world and showed no interest in everything around it, such a terrifying creature, with every single movement, could cause ordinary humans like them to suffer enough.

Now, their Great Qin appeared to have resolved the harm brought by the giant beasts, and had even raised the power of the entire dynasty by a large step.

But as the Son of Heaven of Great Qin, he could not only consider the present. Since the True Dragon could transform the world once, then once It recovered Its vitality, there might be a second, a third, or even countless times!

And now, merely the first time had almost caused his entire Great Qin to collapse and perish. Then what about the countless times after that?

He had been able to successfully upgrade Great Qin along with the era the first time, but that did not mean he could be so lucky every time thereafter.

He had not, until now, forgotten how terrifying the daily death toll of his Great Qin had been before the Dragon Transformation Potion had been presented.

It could truly be said that the entire Great Qin was teetering on the brink of collapse every single day.

The disloyalty of the powerful in the New Era, compensation for fallen soldiers, resettlement of various disaster victims, and the corrupt officials who held things back from time to time, etc. —a series of contradictions became even more acute under the ravages of the New Era's giant beasts.

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(End of chapter)