The Essence of War
It's hard to imagine that such a large space could be created underground.
The enormous mechanical giant rose halfway up from the ground, lying prone.
These enormous robots were arranged in rows in the dimly lit environment.
At the center of the two giant robots is a huge pit, in which stand statues of mechanical warriors. The warriors' faces are lifelike, and their waists are 10 times larger because they are equipped with military machinery. This is usually the standard feature of ancient mechanical warriors.
And these kinds of "mechanical terracotta warriors" are everywhere, stretching as far as the eye can see.
"What is this thing?"
The senior engineer poked at it in confusion and quickly revealed an attribute.
Name: Great Xia Mechanical Guard
Race: Primary Mechanical Species
Overall Level: 25
Health: 4214/5000
Skills: Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Blade (Elite lv5), Military Machine Burst (Advanced lv7), Bow, Horse, and Spear Combination (Elite lv9), Imperial Divine General (lv10)
Status: Combination lock is sealed
Template: Loyal and Brave Minister (1/3 incomplete)
Note: Never underestimate any mechanical civilization, even one that has been destroyed; its embers can still illuminate the stars.
"Ha?"
The senior engineer paused for a moment, then he roughly understood that these were the imperial legions that had swept across the planet back then.
But what he didn't understand was why these Tier 1 units generally had a 'boss template'.
He poked around and found that almost all the mechanical guards had such a 1/3 template.
When did "boss templates" become so ubiquitous that everyone has one?
Moreover, the properties of this template are quite interesting.
Will to Conquer: Once the will of a mechanical species is activated, it will unleash terrifying combat power, increasing all attributes by 30%, with the additional trait: Mechanical Camp Formation.
Meanwhile, watching the senior engineer fiddling around, Ye Da Luoli followed suit, but her mental power was like thousands of steel spikes, instantly piercing into the brains of these robots.
Then, a huge, loud voice suddenly rang out.
"Where did this little girl come from? I've gone to great lengths to seal these ancient demons away, don't ruin my plans!!!"
In a daze, Ye Da Luoli seemed to see an old god who was half mechanical and half data, with three strands of wires in his long beard, reaching to the sky and pressing down on the earth. His red official robes were firmly covering every mechanical guard.
Moreover, the other person's voice was especially loud, and Ye Da Luoli felt that her eardrums were about to be deafened.
"Who are you? What makes you able to subdue them?"
"I am Xuanyuan X, the last Grand Preceptor of the Great Xia Empire and the leader of the Xilin Void Machine Party. The Emperor is dead, and I am the most powerful person in the old era. How can I not suppress these chaotic and evil mechanical demons?"
Ye Da Luoli felt as if her ears had reached their limit, and then with a "snap," her hearing disappeared instantly.
A piercing pain, like a tearing wound to the soul, instantly spread throughout Ye Da Luoli's entire body.
Ye Da Luoli screamed, clutching her head.
"Little Ye Ye, Little Ye Ye, what's wrong!?"
On the Black Emperor's throne, Xiao Yu's concerned voice rang out.
Black Rose frowned as she looked at Ye Da Luoli, who was screaming while clutching her head. Just a moment ago, she could feel that the chemical substances in Ye Da Luoli's body had suddenly increased a hundredfold.
"Sister Rose, please treat her," the senior engineer said, frowning.
Black Rose nodded, placed her hands over the other person's ears, and her palms transformed into a bionic liquid that flowed into the other person's still bleeding eardrums.
The next moment, Ye Da Luoli's ears, which had exploded, quickly recovered, and even her eardrums, which were the most difficult to treat, recovered rapidly.
This is a cutting-edge "bionic repair technology".
Finally, Ye Da Luoli trembled all over and recovered from that terrifying voice.
That's terrifying!
Although the useless members of the "Sacred Brain Group" caused him to lose most of his "electronic brain," he did not expect that this roar would cause him to suffer a mental breakdown.
What kind of monster is this?!
Seeing the group of people gathering around, Ye Da Luoli swallowed hard and briefly recounted what had just happened.
"That old man Xuanyuan, no wonder he doesn't want to talk."
Good heavens, just one sentence ruptured the eardrums of a monster with over 10,000 senses. If it were me, the senior engineer felt that even my biological computer might not be able to withstand it.
"Xilin Virtual Machine Party".
Black Rose murmured to herself, clearly having thought of something.
"Sister Rose, do you know this guy?" the senior engineer asked in a soft voice.
"I don't know them, but when I was searching through old records, I found information about the 'Virtual Machine Party,' and the old man with the compound surname Xuanyuan was also recorded in historical books."
This "Xuanyuan" was not only the last national advisor of the empire, but was also personally dismissed by the Mad Machine Emperor, who was also the father of the Black Prince.
In unified ancient empires, political struggles were never absent.
Within the Mechanical Imperial Court, there were roughly two factions: the "Eastern Garden Party" and the "Western Forest Party."
Among them, the "Dongyuan Party" can be simply referred to as the royalist party, and the Xiao family was an important member of it.
The composition of the "Xilin Party" was more complex, with various mechanical factions. The "Virtual Mechanical Faction" was an important member and the largest faction of the "Xilin Party" at the time. Their pursuit was to use numerology, that is, artificial intelligence, to master machinery.
In today's terms, this is the standard "intelligent machine" approach, a very reliable technological route.
However, in ancient empires that pursued "self-transformation" and stuffed everything into their bodies, this idea was too radical, even fanciful.
Ultimately, due to the failure of his reforms, the Grand Preceptor was expelled from the Mechanical Imperial Court by the then-mad emperor and forced to retire to his hometown.
"This old guy is so powerful, he's even a national advisor," the senior engineer muttered to himself.
He knew that these three ascendants all had powerful backgrounds, but he didn't expect them to be this powerful.
He was actually a big shot from the previous era.
"These must be the helpers you hired. No wonder these ancient machines haven't made a sound," Black Rose said calmly.
Upon hearing this, Ye Da Luoli glared angrily at the senior engineer, as if to say, "You even betray your own people."
The senior engineer shrugged:
"I can't control these three old guys. They're more like people from the mother city than my people."
Black Rose frowned upon hearing this.
"If you let the people from the mother city in, be careful they might turn against you."
"Don't worry, I'm confident."
Leaving aside the lifeblood of these three old guys, the future of Cyber Hacker is still in their own hands.
He still has Gao Yuanyuan as his biggest backup plan.
Others might not know, but he was well aware of the power of "Divine Land of Dreams." It was a devastating move. In his previous life, he used this move to forcefully disintegrate a sixth-order information creature, a "virtual god" residing in a black hole, into "billions of virtual servants."
Even if Gao Yuanyuan only mastered one or two percent of the power, it would be enough to subdue the opponent.
"Alright, on the bright side, with these three old guys holding the war host back, we can deal with the last Collapse Entity more easily. This trip might go much more smoothly than we think."
In the virtual realm, the two elderly people are traversing an ocean of data.
These two people are "Old Man Wanwei" and "Watts".
The backgrounds of these two are no weaker than those of 'Xuanyuan'.
Strangely, the ocean of data that should have disappeared with the launch of the Electronic Brain Project has reappeared.
From the seawater, some bloated corpses kept surfacing, and after these bloated corpses floated to the surface, they suddenly opened their eyes and frantically attacked the two of them.
What's even stranger is that, apart from not wearing sunglasses and having deformed bodies, the data fluctuations emanating from the bodies of these corpses are strikingly similar to those of cyber killers.
"It seems that someone has deciphered the underlying code of the 'Punk Group' and created some 'Punks'."
"Old Man Wanwei" said with a smile. What is most eye-catching about him is his completely transparent bald head. Sitting in his wheelchair, he often flicks his hand, and a large number of "Punks" are destroyed as data.
Watts was laughing especially happily.
"Punkmen, ah, it's been a long time since I've seen these little things. Back then, this was the secret weapon of those Research Association. Only they could deal with the 'alien' creatures created by the Brain Project."
"Heh, Watts, don't forget, you were the leader of the largest Research Association back then."
Wanwei looked around and, as the scattered 'Punk Men' disappeared, thick blood appeared in the seawater.
This would never happen in a normal sea of data.
"Thanks to you all, otherwise, we people of the Northern Federation would really have become these information aliens."
Wan Wei paused for a moment, then said:
"I just didn't expect that someone would revive these wild punks again. The last Collapse Entity's ability is really special."
Watts frowned as he looked at the sea. "Why don't we just capture her? If she keeps interfering like this, it'll be very troublesome."
"We cannot make a move against her before the 'subsidiary' matures; this is the rule we signed with those three."
Wanwei closed his eyes, and the next moment, the seawater disappeared, revealing a seabed skeleton composed of nerve structures. Then, his gaze traveled rapidly and landed in front of a little girl in white clothes and a pale face.
"However, you really should be taught a lesson, otherwise, the capture 'war' will be very difficult."
The little girl looked up and gave Wan Wei a strange smile.
The next moment, a significant portion of the random humans scattered across this planet shed tears of blood.
At this moment, both Wanwei Lao and Watts' expressions changed.
"That wicked girl, trying to revive the 'Punk Group'!!"
Meanwhile, the group led by Senior Engineer managed to find the actual "War Machine" without any problems.
That was the largest pit among all the mechanical terracotta warriors.
And in that pit, the true form of the 'war machine' was clearly revealed.
It was a rotting "giant hornet's nest". The eyes of each hornet's nest were all rotting flesh eyes, and inside the flesh eyes were floating half-machines and half-flesh people.
These are all reserve mech knights.
Rotten, foul-smelling, and bloody.
Many severed limbs and remains still float in the pool of blood, occasionally assembling into bizarre bodies that are either three-headed and six-armed or covered in bone fragments.
Just standing in front of the 'war machine' makes me feel physically uncomfortable.
A familiar aura emanated from the senior engineer.
The "fusion route," or rather, a lower-spec version of the "fusion route."