The Uninhabited Island

"Is this Fuqing Island? It really is a dangerous place!" Xiao Yu looked around curiously.

Even on a normal planet to be inhabited, the ocean is dangerous and unpredictable, let alone on this planet that has been hit by a global nuclear explosion. On the seabed, energy bombs and radiation sources left over from the Second World War occasionally explode, causing disasters that can submerge continents.

On Fuqing Island, the rain poured down like bullets, and every now and then a storm would come and sweep up large rocks and trees weighing hundreds of kilograms into the air. Suddenly, an explosion occurred on the sea surface, and a flash of red energy shattered the space within a hundred meters.

"No wonder everyone wants to be a city dweller; there's a reason for it," the senior engineer remarked, looking at the perilous environment.

"Ah, watch out!!"

Xiao Yu's eyes widened as she saw a wave suddenly rise from the sea, seemingly guided, and rush madly toward the two of them.

Xiao Yu stepped in front of the senior engineer almost without hesitation, her small figure taking a step forward, the jet nozzles on the mechanical body emitting a sound like a musket exploding.

The next moment, the "gunfire" burst forth, the violent airflow tearing through the waves and knocking the thing out of the crest. After landing, the thing actually tried to run away, but the senior engineer reacted quickly and stepped on its tail, breaking off its two small legs.

"What the hell is this?!"

The senior engineer looked at the radiated beast, an ocean species, with a look of disgust. This thing was like a fusion of a swordfish and a centipede. It had at least fifty pairs of small legs on its two-meter-long body. The key point was that these small legs looked very much like baby feet.

"How blind must nature be to have created such a bizarre creature, existing on land, sea, and air!"

The senior engineer stomped on its head and crushed it.

[You killed a D-rank marine species, the 'Megret,' gaining 300 experience points.]

[You have gained the additional status 'Hate of the Multilegged']

Centipede Hatred: As long as you are in the ocean, centipedes will continue to attack you. Duration: 1 hour

"A Class D radioactive beast actually has negative status effects?"

In his previous life, the senior engineer had no involvement in the "Beast Disaster" storyline on the Machine Rift Star.

But he had also heard that this "planetary storyline" was extremely difficult to complete.

Have you heard of beast tides? In the "Beast Machine Disaster," beast tides are as easy as eating and drinking. The number of marine creatures is thousands of times greater than that on land. Once these creatures unlock their talent to come ashore, it will definitely be a global disaster.

What's even more frustrating is that in "Beast Machine Disaster," the "beasts" are just ocean radiation beasts, while the "machines" are those strange bio-energy weapons created by the Knights.

Thanks to nature's haphazard creation, all life on the planet Jili has radiation cells that can accumulate energy sources, which can then be combined with these biological energy weapons.

This is one of the few major events that has prompted Cybertron to mobilize all of its mechanical legions.

The Cybertronian regular army has a total of 10,000 units.

This is thanks to the terrifyingly rapid military buildup of mechanical civilizations, which enabled them to create so many mechanical life forms.

"Boss, I feel it's a bit dangerous here. Let's leave."

Xiao Yu stared warily at the sea surface, sensing that some danger was approaching. As for Gao Gong, once the radiation field was activated, he immediately realized that several groups of Class B marine species were wandering on the sea surface.

Let's go.

If you lack experience, triggering a monster swarm on the sea is a good way to farm monsters, but obviously, a senior engineer doesn't need that.

Soon, the two arrived at a fishing village.

This fishing village made the senior engineer feel as if he had returned to the radiation desert. The two were so similar in style, both made of scrap metal from the old era. The only difference was that the fishing village had all kinds of canvas and fishing nets, but no people.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Xiao Yu had searched the neighborhood but found nothing. As soon as she returned, she saw Gao Gong playing with "mud".

It was a lump of something like mud, silvery-gray, like a liquid of some kind of metallic material.

"Do you know what this is?"

Xiao Yu shook her head in confusion.

"Special materials produced under high temperature and pressure."

Earth's core soil: a special material found in the Earth's core, a world of high temperature and high pressure, composed of various iron elements, and possesses excellent energy conductivity.

Xiao Yu suddenly realized something, her eyes widened, and her mouth gaped open.

"That's right, this place should be formed from fragments of the Earth's crust. According to your memory, the project on that planet was destroyed by the enemy, and the remaining fragments were released with the movement of the Earth's crust. They then combined with fragments of the continent and became Fuqing Island."

The senior engineer looked up at the drizzling sky and frowned.

"But why is nobody here?"

Fuqing Island is the largest island near the Guanzhong Plain. All members of the Fulibang were once island residents. Even if there aren't hundreds of thousands of people on the island, there are still over a hundred thousand.

However, as Gao Gong and Xiao Yu walked along the coast, passing through several fishing villages, they didn't see a single person.

"Interesting."

One reason why the senior engineer came to this island at this time was to search for clues about the past. Another reason was to lay low for a while. Although the deep web could not find his true identity, what if the other party did something sneaky, such as large-scale prosthetic body testing? His high-level mechanical body could be easily exposed.

After much deliberation, the senior engineer decided to go to Fuqing Island first to retrieve the remaining "mechanical scrolls".

However, the strange deserted state of the island did pique the senior engineer's interest.

Especially when the only city of survivors in the center of the island was also deserted, the senior engineer knew that something was wrong with the island.

"Master, I sensed a very special signal," Little A's voice suddenly rang out.

The underlying framework of the artificial intelligence "a" is placed in the brain disk by the senior engineer, which is equivalent to a personal secretary.

"So the problem isn't in reality, but in the network?" the senior engineer muttered to himself. "The signal on the island isn't very good."

Humans have neural signals, but even humans have neural signals – these are the terrifying number of sea monsters in the ocean. Surfing the internet at sea is not a good option.

A beeping sound suddenly rang out.

[Mission: The Deserted Fuqing Island]

Difficulty: Hard+

Mission Briefing: The islanders of Fuqing Island have suddenly disappeared, whether in the real world or in the virtual world. This may be related to the death of Gao Jin.

Mission objective: Discover the secrets of Fuqing Island.

Task Rewards: 20,000 Experience, Fuqing Island Specialty Products, 'Bionic Return to Origin' Task Fragment *1

Fragments of "Bionic Return to Origin"?

Isn't this mission network only related to androids? How come it's here too?

Xiao Yu, special programs, crustal engines, androids, and the mysteriously disappeared islanders—they all seem impossible to connect.

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