Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 540 - 507 Autonomous Knight

"Is little Perfikot in the office?" Inside Lord Chernobyl’s mansion, Eldest Princess Annie came to the door of Perfikot’s office and asked the guard standing there.

"Count is busy working, please do not disturb unless it’s an urgent matter." The guard responded to Eldest Princess Annie with a dull, almost mechanical-sounding voice, and did not move aside to let her in.

"Another Autonomous Knight, little Perfikot sure knows how to save herself trouble." Eldest Princess Annie shook her head and couldn’t help but make a remark.

After arriving in the Northern Territory, Eldest Princess Annie and other noble members of the Empire naturally took interest in the unusually large number of Steam Knights at Perfikot’s disposal. After all, Perfikot only had two Knight Orders, so how did she come up with these hundreds of Steam Knights?

Even though Perfikot is the inventor of the Steam Knights, it still seemed rather exaggerated.

In their understanding, Steam Knights required great knights to operate them, and even if Perfikot had solved this limitation to allow ordinary knights to wear them, the problem is that it’s unheard of for the Northern Territory to have recruited so many knights on a large scale, so where did Perfikot get them from?

Facing such queries, Perfikot simply and directly ordered an Autonomous Knight to remove its helmet, revealing the mechanical structure of an Alchemy Puppet inside without any disguise.

Yes, she didn’t even bother to create a bionic skin to disguise the Alchemy Puppet, she simply installed the bare Alchemy Puppet directly into the Steam Knight armor.

Unlike normal humans wearing Steam Knight armor, the Alchemy Puppet is completely connected to the Steam Knight armor and controls its movements through gears and drive shafts.

After all, machines and humans are different, if the Alchemy Puppet used the same force feedback mode as humans, it would be a waste of the Alchemy Puppet’s performance and a misuse of the Steam Knight armor.

So Perfikot spent some time and effort, using the Eye of Omniscience to optimize, resulting in the current Autonomous Knight.

Although its interior is an Alchemy Puppet, this Alchemy Puppet could be considered part of the Steam Knight armor because there is no clear boundary or distinction between them.

Perfikot did not separate them and have the Alchemy Puppet wear the Steam Knight armor, but rather used Alchemy Puppet components to support and drive the Steam Knight armor.

In terms of structure and principle, the Steam Knight armor of the Autonomous Knight is different from the armor used by normal human Steam Knights.

Human knight armor, having to accommodate a person inside, often compromises in many ways, such as arranging mechanical structures in a way that encases flesh, inevitably affecting efficiency and output.

Since the human body is fragile, even the body of an Extraordinary cannot compare to the solidity of solid steel ingots.

But the Alchemy Puppet has no such concerns, and if it weren’t necessary for the Autonomous Knight to maintain a roughly human-shaped appearance, Perfikot wouldn’t need to make it humanoid at all.

One can imagine what kind of structure is inside the Autonomous Knight.

The specialized Alchemy Puppet serves as the internal supporting framework and main driving mechanism of the Autonomous Knight armor.

However, thanks to Perfikot’s exquisite Alchemy Puppet craftsmanship and the powerful intelligence of the mechanical logic, these Autonomous Knights appear no different from real people.

If they don’t remove their helmets and expose the mechanical structure inside, no one would consider them machines.

In this respect, Alchemy Puppet maids contrast starkly with Autonomous Knights; even if Perfikot beautified their exterior, they still don’t resemble living people, and the difference between the puppet maids and living beings is clear at a glance.

The reason, Perfikot believes, lies in facial micro-expressions, as living people have many micro-expressions that even they can’t detect, whereas Alchemy Puppets...

Despite possessing this technology, Perfikot hasn’t been extravagant enough to equip her puppets with micro-expression functions.

This results in most puppet maids having faces rigid as iron masks, even though their skin texture is nearly indistinguishable from that of real people.

As for engaging in dialogues, Q&A, or executing commands autonomously, it isn’t an issue for Perfikot, who has upgraded the difference engine to the first generation of golem computers.

For instance, the four Autonomous Knights at her office door dutifully perform their roles as Door Gods.

No matter who it is, unless there is a reason that satisfies Perfikot’s pre-set urgent matters criterion, they will block the visitor, even if it’s the Empress herself.

When Eldest Princess Annie first came, she didn’t realize this and argued with two Autonomous Knights for half an hour, but they were unmoved.

It was only when Perfikot finished her work and came out of the office to take a break that she saw Eldest Princess Annie angrily about to draw her sword at the door.

Now that she understood the nature of these Autonomous Knights from Perfikot, she didn’t argue much, just expressed to them that she had matters to discuss with Perfikot, and one of the Autonomous Knights opened the office door and went in to report.

After waiting for a short while, Eldest Princess Annie was smoothly allowed into Perfikot’s office.

"I must say, these Autonomous Knights are very useful. Sometimes, being rigid and inflexible is a very valuable quality, especially when they are daily guards; they won’t neglect their duties." Eldest Princess Annie praised Perfikot’s Autonomous Knights.

For Annie’s praise, Perfikot merely glanced up and said, "Please, make yourself comfortable. I’m handling some urgent official business; if it’s not urgent, please wait a moment."

"Hmm? Wait, little Perfikot, you aren’t also an Autonomous Puppet, are you?" Sensing that the conversation wasn’t quite right, Princess Annie showed a very peculiar expression.

Although she had known about Perfikot’s puppet doppelgänger since the inauguration ceremony of Chernobyl, seeing Perfikot using a puppet to handle her office work was still quite surprising to Eldest Princess Annie.

She had to ring the bell on the desk, summoning Foster, Perfikot’s old butler, to question him about where Perfikot was and why there was a puppet in the office.