Story Reader / Festival Event Story / Fist of the Taoist / Story
UUUUGGHH, how is it that you've defeated me, the West General?!
AAAAGGHHH!
He has not actually fought you, but the West General poses weirdly after Lucia has passed the trial to demonstrate his defeat.
He buries his head inside his hands, then half-kneels on the floor before falling to the ground with a "Thud!" while groaning painfully.
He does act like a defeated villain, doesn't he? But we really should focus on our surroundings right now, Commandant.
He should've fallen immediately. But we really should focus on our surroundings right now, Commandant.
After Lucia points it out, you realize that the recon drones are also falling alongside the West General. With that, the holographic projections around you begin to crumble.
——
What is this place?
What it was originally, I imagine. It looks to be a factory.
With that, Lee walks toward the giant screen and opens the terminal with the black box he carries.
Just what this factory was built for. Maybe we can even figure out why so many mechanoids gather here.
I'm certain there will be an order to investigate this place after this. We're going to save some time if we start preparing now.
But isn't this place maintained by Foreman and the others?
I'm not digging for their secrets. I'm just trying to find out what this factory originally was.
Lee begins to decipher the factory's terminal afterward, and data soon appear on the screen.
Are these records of the factory?
Correct. It seems like this is an assembly line of a packaging plant—a medium-to-low-level one, judging by its scale.
Pay attention to this... notice of cessation.
There's a more detailed explanation underneath. Basically, all human employees were ordered to evacuate because of the Punishing Virus.
Indeed. This kind of operation was happening everywhere back in those days, but the point is they only evacuated the human employees...
Indeed. To lessen the pressure on the operations and guarantee their efficiency, only humans were evacuated.
So, Foreman and the others...
There are no concrete proofs, but we can assume that they are the mechanoids that got left behind.
Although I'm not sure how they managed to avoid the Punishing Virus, they've somehow survived until now, and, following the schedule of the factory...
They gather here to celebrate the festivals.
This is just a guess, of course. I simply noticed that days like the Double Seventh Festival and the Ghost Festival are marked on their calendar.
Even with the humans gone and the factory abandoned... they're still gathering here according to custom.
Following their routines is a fundamental part of their programming logic. There's nothing unusual for them to act like this.
...
That's about everything we can find out about this place. Let's focus on the last trial.
Right.
