Chapter 3914

In the current era, the "Wonder Tower" only had a height of five floors, and the interior had been renovated. The lower three floors were the product area and exhibition area, the fourth floor was the auction area that only VIP guests could enter, and the top floor was the inventor's club.

Mr. Finch intended to invite Xia De to visit the "Wonder Tower." He was very proud of this shop he had built back then. But just as the two walked into the entrance of the white tower paved with red carpet, before Xia De could carefully examine the interior of the tower, a young man with a two-ring level walked over in a hurry:

"Mr. Finch, something happened on the fourth floor. Mr. Munios asked me to find you to go and see."

As he spoke, he looked at Xia De and stopped talking, but Mr. Finch shook his head:

"This is the young man I mentioned to introduce to Munios. It's okay, take us to the fourth floor together. What is the specific situation? There shouldn't be any strange things collected in this tower, right?"

"You'd better come upstairs with me to see, I can't explain it clearly either."

The five-story "Wonder Tower" could look directly from the first floor to the top of the tower. The floors of the central part of the upper four floors had been dug away and then surrounded by railings, which was similar to a patio structure. And between each floor, in addition to the stairs on the side connecting each other, there were naturally elevators.

And the elevators here were not the kind of elevators with unknown power commonly found in ancient ruins, but true steam-powered elevators in the memory of the outlander.

The floor tiles in this tower used alternating indigo and white squares, and the walls were all painted brass, so the indoor environment looked quite avant-garde but very neat. Xia De was very curious about what had happened, and he didn't feel too strong element fluctuations here.

So he followed Mr. Finch all the way to the fourth floor. The structure of the fourth floor was very simple, with rooms outside the circular corridor. After coming out of the elevator, the young man led the two to the door of the room hanging with "Equipment Maintenance Room." Standing outside the door, one couldn't hear any sound inside, but after they entered the door, they were immediately shocked by the scene before them.

An old man Xia De didn't know was casting a spell to trap a strange machine that was constantly spitting flames. The appearance of the machine was a black coffin. At this moment, the coffin stood up, and the lid was open. The flames spewing from it even made the temperature in the room rise as if it were summer.

The old man who was casting the spell didn't attack, just defended blindly. Hearing footsteps, he shouted without looking back:

"Come and help! Don't let it ignite the room!"

The door had been closed, and Mr. Finch was very surprised:

"Isn't this the 'Fully Automatic Cremation Coffin'? How did it move by itself? I'll smash it..."

"Don't! It moved by itself! I must figure out why it suddenly became active! Finch, help me subdue it!"

The strange old man should be Mr. Munios. He looked chubby and quite wealthy. Although his level was not as high as old Mr. Finch, only five rings, if he were willing to smash the coffin directly, the matter would have been solved long ago.

"Automatic cremation coffin..."

Xia De pondered the name of this strange creation, and then saw old Mr. Finch, who was also confused about what happened to the coffin, take a nut out of his pocket:

"Even if it's activated, it's just a mechanical creation after all—Strange Art: Mechanical Stop!"

The nut turned into a brass-colored light, passed through the sea of fire, and hit the coffin straight. So, in the heavy echo of "dong~" like a big bell being struck, first the flames disappeared, and then the coffin fell heavily backward onto the floor.

"Oh, don't break it!"

Mr. Munios hurried over. Of course, he didn't forget to guard against the coffin suddenly spitting fire again.

Old Mr. Finch also walked over with Xia De. Mr. Munios didn't care at all about the appearance of Xia De, a stranger, and was currently carefully checking the current situation of the coffin.

The effect of the strange art made a faint brass-colored light appear on the surface of the coffin, and Xia De only saw it after getting closer. This coffin was actually a metal coffin, but the black paint made its metallic texture not so obvious.

In addition to "fully automatic cremation," this coffin must have other "little ingenuity," because Xia De saw that after Mr. Munios dismantled the baffle at the tail of the coffin, there were still many mechanical structures inside that looked like they had nothing to do with spitting fire at a glance.

"Where is the application scenario of this coffin? A prison for executing prisoners?"

Xia De asked in a low voice, and Mr. Finch shook his head:

"Arcadia has developed rapidly in recent years. We expect that it won't take long for there to be a situation where the dead and the living compete for land. The City Hall has also foreseen such a future, so it has been promoting cremation in recent years. But people's traditional concepts still hope to keep the bodies of their relatives intact.

So Munios invented this, which can not only allow the body to be buried intact but also not delay the cremation of the body."

Xia De's first reaction was that this thing sounded like it was really useful.

But then he reacted again. The body was indeed intact when buried, and the cremation was indeed successful, but the land occupation area was still a whole coffin, which was no different from before.

Even because such a large amount of metal and such a complex mechanical structure were used, and because the special nature of the coffin made it impossible to be dug out and reused, the price of this device was simply not affordable for ordinary people.

So, this was still a useless invention.

Xia De had also seen activated metal life. The magic sword 【Sword Heir Nest】 on the snowy mountain was a typical example; and Xia De had also heard of relics that could give ordinary metal life, such as the derivative "Number Five Metal" of the Angel-level relic 【Feynman's Gold Storage Warehouse】 (Chapter 1650), but clearly the situation at this time was different from what he had encountered or heard of before.

Seeing that neither of the two old men objected, Xia De also reached out to check the metal coffin. Although it had certain elements, it did not have the obvious whisper element fluctuation after being affected by relics.

"Can you feel anything?"

Xia De asked softly in his heart.

【There is an extremely low content of "fire seed." It is not a fire seed in the ordinary sense, this is the fire of life.】

"What do you mean? I don't understand."

And after Mr. Munios dismantled the coffin, the three of them didn't see anything wrong from its internal structure. After casting spells to check, Xia De's 【Heart of Stone】, 【Edwards' Eye】, and other strange arts all had no reaction.

This was just an ordinary mechanical coffin. Although it could spit fire, transform into a trolley, and make a huge noise from the inside if the deceased woke up after fake death, it clearly didn't have the power just now.

"This is impossible..."

Mr. Munios said subconsciously. The expressions of Xia De and Mr. Finch immediately became terrified, so Mr. Munios was startled, and then immediately apologized:

"Sorry, sorry, I forgot about the Infinite Snake."

But the coffin didn't turn into a snake, which proved that this incident had nothing to do with fate.

"Did you accidentally pour that 【Active Metal】 onto the coffin? High-concentration 【Active Metal】 can activate machines."

Even if he didn't sense the whisper element, old Mr. Finch couldn't help asking, but Mr. Munios shook his head:

"Of course not, the current price of 【Active Metal】 is more expensive than mithril. Am I that wasteful?"

Then he saw the two staring at his chest, or rather, his chest pocket.

That pocket seemed to be filled with some living thing, and it was constantly heaving inside at this time, but a moment later, what crawled out of it was not something cute like Little Mia, but a pocket watch with sharp metal spider legs.

After the pocket watch came out of the pocket, it opened the watch cover with a "pa~", and then the tiny metal parts inside were shot at the three people present like bullets.

"Stop!"

Xia De said softly, 【Chloe's Time-Space Freeze】 froze those tiny parts in the air.

Mr. Finch hurriedly used "Strange Art - Mechanical Stop" again to control the pocket watch that was also activated. After reaching out and taking it, he neatly dismantled it completely by hand, but the inside of this pocket watch was also very normal.

"Besides these two, are there any other machines activated?"

Mr. Finch asked Mr. Munios, who shook his head:

"Of course not, that coffin was also... five minutes ago. Are you worried about infectivity?"

The old man who brought Xia De nodded seriously:

"You and I both know how many mechanical creations are stored in this tower. Even this tower itself, under our transformation over the years, has approached the category of mechanical creations. Once it really activates, neither you nor I want to see anyone say things like 'How did the Wonder Tower stand up'."

The chubby old man opened his mouth and blinked, then sighed:

"I understand, then let's destroy them... but you have to help me explain to my wife why I destroyed our token of love, otherwise I really can't explain this matter clearly myself."

"Mr. Watson, please help. Although I have rich experience in dealing with such abnormal metal creations, I can't figure out the situation this time. It's better not to use relic-type cleaning methods, and disintegration spells cannot completely make matter disappear. Do you have the power to annihilate matter?"

So Mr. Finch asked Xia De again, and Xia De really had it:

"Then let me do it. Please put the pocket watch parts on the coffin and step back a bit. Okay, are all the parts here? Black Moon Mark!"

A huge black moon mark appeared on the floor, and then the coffin and the parts of the pocket watch began to turn into sand together. Ten seconds later, only a handful of ashes remained on the floor, proving that the two items just now did indeed exist.

And in the ashes, the three of them saw dots of red light. Those light spots were crimson, and one could know at a glance that this was "life" itself, but this "life" looked a bit evil.

"Fire seed?"

Mr. Finch said this word subconsciously, but before they could investigate, those crimson light spots suddenly brightened. The three hurriedly dodged, but at this time the light spots went out completely, meaning that life had disappeared completely.