Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 487: Pay Back Part Four

"It is worth a try. For robots to gain sentience they must have some form of speech." Yin Li replied. 

"Actually, if they are preprogrammed to run certain tasks it may not be so we can only tell if we investigate the mountain." Alicia wondered if the robots of this world were just a ruse for those looking down from above. They could be programmed to go about a daily routine as if they were humans. Making it seem the poison in the air was needed for some kind of protection for their planet.

The two flew closer to the mountain top where they found a large facility that took up almost half the mountain. Large smoke stacks rose up into the sky that produced the green poisonous gas. There was another gas being produced with it that seemed to push the poison up into the atmosphere keeping it from hitting the ground.

"This" Alicia and Yin Li had never seen anything like it. It was like a large labor camp below. They saw humans being ushered around by robots with weapons in her hands. 

"It seems this world had created an Artificial intelligence that took over or these robots came from another world. Either way, these people were enslaved." Alicia said. She really didn't know what to do in a situation like this. 

"Well, we can not let the gas continue to be created. If it is and it escapes out of this solar system more places will become uninhabitable." Yin Li said, answering Alicia's internal struggle. 

The two flew down to the base of the mountain and followed a group of humans who were chained up into the facility. Alicia grimaced as she looked at these humans who were all walking around naked and forced to keep moving even though they looked like they would drop at any minute. The smell was also not the best thing in the world either. As they walked around the facility they were met with many unpleasant sights. There was a room where women were giving birth to babies and next to that was a large factory of women and men mating under the guard of robots. It seemed less like people making love and more like a human breeding ground. The rooms were so big that there were at least tens of thousands of humans inside. 

"This place..." Alicia's anger was rising. She had never seen such treatment before. This was beyond anything she had ever expected to see. 

"Don't act rash just yet. We need to find those in charge. There had to be someone overseeing this place." Yin Li could tell that Alicia was about to go on a rampage so she held her back. If they started from the bottom those at the top would escape.

Alicia nodded and the two girls left to continue their search. There were many facilities on this mountain. Rooms where humans were in large tubes filled with some sort of liquid and hooked up to machines while others were placed for raising children. But none of these kids acted like kids, they all had the same dead look in their eyes. Alicia had noticed that kids from newborn to four years of age were still under the care of the robots while those five and older seemed to be forced to do labor and being taught how to do certain tasks. Alicia hated this sight the most, these people were being bred to slave away their lives. As they made their way up the mountain they saw many people working. But she noticed the people here were all older men and women. 

Alicia quickly figured out why though. When she thought back to the breeding rooms. The younger men and women were being used to breed more humans and when they got too old for such things they would then be forced into labor until they died. A cruel fate. At the top of the mountain, they finally came across a large palace. Alicia and Yin Lin landed at the entrance of the palace and walked inside to see young girls of all ages wearing servant clothes cleaning. 

There were no men in sight as they continued deeper into the palace until finally, they arrived at one room where they heard a man talking. "Haha! This world was so easy to take over. Those bastards who told me my work would destroy the universe can go to hell. The whole purpose was to wipe out our enemies! Since they wish to side with those Gorlonians instead of siding with someone of their own, I will make them submit to me with this new power!" 

Alicia facepalmed as she heard the man talk. He was acting like some kind of two bit villain. She really just wanted to barge in and smack the guy senseless. But from what she could tell there were many women inside as well. Alicia looked at Yin Li who also smiled bitterly. If they were to just teleport into the room they could easily take the man down but the issue would be that the people inside may get hurt as well. "Any ideas?"

"Hmm I could take him out easily but there are girls around him should we sacrifice the few for the many?" Yin Li asked.

"Let's wait and see if he is ever alone. If not we will do just as you said." Alicia did not like killing the innocent. It was clear as day that these girls were all slaves from the lower area who were completely brainwashed by now. Alicia was not sure that even if they saved them that these people would be able to live ordinary lives again.

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