As they approached the Church, the streets around them began to change.
The buildings here had been almost completely destroyed, as though someone had cleared them away.
Large expanses of black rock lay exposed all over the ground.
The rocks looked as though they had been scorched by intense heat. Dense networks of cracks covered their surfaces, and many places had even crystallized.
One glance was enough to tell that a major battle had taken place here.
And when the three reached the streets near the Church, corpses finally appeared again.
But this place was different from the earlier "slaughter field."
This was another battlefield, but the fighting seemed to have been even more brutal and chaotic.
There were more corpses here, scattered haphazardly but densely.
On closer inspection, it looked as though the Guard Team had desperately surrounded and attacked something, only for that thing to slaughter them all.
Xu Feng glanced at the positions of the bodies on the ground.
Several had died charging in the same direction, while others lay on their backs, expressions of utter frenzy still frozen on their faces.
Their bodies bore more wounds, all the same round holes.
Then...
Xu Feng saw a "corpse" at the center of the clearing. It stood two meters tall, smaller than the surrounding Guard Team bodies, yet unmistakably the focal point of the battlefield.
"The Mechanical Race! How is that possible?"
Andy pointed at the mechanical being in the very center of the clearing, speaking in a shocked whisper.
Li Hengkong followed the direction of her finger and froze as well.
A metallic humanoid knelt in the center of the clearing, its body covered in a dark silver shell.
Countless dents and cracks covered that shell.
It was down on one knee, both hands locked tightly with