Chapter 190

Without pausing, Wen Jing touched the ground with his toes, and tiny arcs of electricity suddenly burst from the gaps in his carapace, crackling as they swept across another area of the insect swarm.

The mechanical insect's logic circuits were disrupted, causing it to move Slowness and collide with another swarm of insects that arrived later.

This is a [Thunderstorm Field] generated by the body's own bioelectricity driven by energy, one of the combat techniques that Wen Jing learned during his exchange with Azure Jade.

The Factory World indeed 'recorded' it, and then [X-1.9.3], with its simple insulating coating and circuit shielding structure, joined the battle.

Models are constantly being updated. Even if the original model of this enemy had Wind Blade resistance [X-1.6.1], the models produced after defeating it are all based on the strength of the iteration.

Therefore, the enemy's strength will steadily increase no matter what, and she must estimate the iteration time of new enemies to prevent upgrading too quickly.

Of course, without this mechanism, Wen Jing would not have come up with the idea of using the production chain to overwhelm factories.

There will always be a new, top-of-the-line model, that's true, but that's okay, because a model is a model, and production is production.

For the strongest and newest models, she only needs to time her attacks to kill a small number of them, thus prompting the new models to emerge and preventing them from upgrading themselves.

At this time, there were five different models on the battlefield, each targeting a different type of defense, mixed together.

Wen Jing moved like a ghost into the swarm of insects, no longer using a single ability, but instead unleashing a dazzling display of combat skills, much more serious and cautious than when he was a professor at Azure Jade Quality Inspection Institute.

She could be said to have learned all the combat techniques and secret skills offered by the three academies.

However, these general-purpose skills are weaker than special skills, and she didn't use them much in the crises she encountered or in her later explorations. They mainly served as a source of Skill Points.

But now is the perfect time to use it.

Two different combinations result in the birth of a new model. On top of that, more different skills continue to be added. ABC is an assembly line, and ABCD is another assembly line.

Moreover, Wen Jing is actively creating more permutations and combinations such as BCD and ABD.

She had already mastered various general combat skills, energy utilization techniques, and characteristics gained from devouring Ancient Wilderness... even characteristics like neurotoxins that were ineffective against mechanical creations, and she spent a few Skill Points to evolve them into a variant of acid spray.

Of course, she mainly targeted the weakest classic versions, maintaining the 'hot selling' effect without killing them all and forcing the factory to shut down the production line.

With planned and phased use, new production lines were established, and the number of robot models in the factory began to rise steadily...

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Time passed in the battle: one day, three days, five days, ten days...

Today is the forty-third day.

In the material universe, Wen Jing, waiting for night to fall, calculated the time in his mind, feeling utterly exhausted.

However, given her recovery ability, fatigue doesn't show on her body.

Conquering the Factory World was the longest and most arduous battle she had ever experienced.

This time, unlike her past visits to ancient ruins which she did every few days, she now enters the Ancient Wilderness Night.

The difficulty didn't lie in how strong the enemy was, but rather... the sheer volume of calculations required.

This battle drained her mental energy far more than her physical strength.

The goal is not to increase the efficiency of killing enemies, but to control their strength while allowing them to multiply.

Calculating the model combinations of factory units is not difficult, nor is controlling the pace, handling variables, and eliminating targets when facing a massive number of enemies. However, when the two are combined, the difficulty increases Geometry.

Massive numbers of units mean massive amounts of information input, action prediction, and battlefield micro-management; every decision needs to be weighed in an instant.

Not to mention that all the mechanical insect bodies are based on her appearance, and with her deliberate control over combat power, the changes in appearance after each upgrade are relatively subtle.

For example, enemies with ABC resistance look very similar to the new version with ABCD resistance. Even with a 360-degree Wen Jing, it's impossible to clearly see all the model stamps at all times.

This kind of battle is like playing hundreds of intricate games of chess simultaneously, where the state, value, and potential changes of each piece need to be monitored and evaluated in real time.

Moreover, even under such control, the basic strength of the mechanical swarm continues to grow over time.

After all, Wen Jing must complete the kill. Apart from being able to counter it at the beginning, the more resistances he accumulates, the greater the power he needs to use to kill it, and the stronger the enemy that is born will grow accordingly.

In the first few days, the Strongest Clone could handle it alone, but when it broke through ten days, the Reconnaissance Clone also joined in.

All of Wen Jing's Clone share the same characteristics, only their basic physical attributes differ. Although the Reconnaissance Clone is the weakest of the three active Clone, its combat power is by no means low.

In terms of computation, in addition to the devouring consciousness, the three consciousnesses were operating in parallel, almost at full capacity, and there was no time to learn the newly acquired technology of the Law String Civilization.

Because the mental and physical exertion required for this protracted battle increases gradually.

At first, when she left the Factory World during the day, she was able to find time to do basic reconnaissance, exploration, and knowledge learning.

Now, she even uses her daytime hours for calculations and preparations.

As for the Law String Civilization, as a civilization more powerful than the Forging Alliance, it seems to have something to ask of her, the '30,000 light-year lord'.

During her initial, brief conversation with the other party's maternal lineage, they revealed that they knew about other extraterrestrial civilizations, vaguely hinting at matters concerning the Public Order of Cosmic Civilizations.

Originally, in order to say less and make fewer mistakes and maintain her public image, she deliberately kept her distance from the other party. Now, due to the special nature of the Factory World, she couldn't be distracted and had to put it aside for the time being.

"This is what clocking in for work is all about..."

As soon as it was 6 p. m., Wen Jing focused his mind, cast aside his negative emotions, and instantly entered the Factory World.

"Whoosh!"

The moment it appeared in this world, it was attacked by a dense swarm of mechanical insects, showing signs of pursuit.

This is a daily occurrence that Wen Jing encounters every time he travels in during this period.

She enters precisely on time each day, and upon leaving, she uses the alternation of day and night to travel to a desolate, ancient natural Ancient Wilderness that has been swallowed up, serving as a transit point before returning to the material universe.

As a nocturnal Ancient Wilderness, the Factory World no longer synchronizes with a day. For civilizations with day and night, this world goes directly from tonight's night to tomorrow's night, with no time difference in between.

Therefore, from the perspective of the mechanical swarm here, Wen Jing, who had traveled back and forth once, had always been in this position.

Fortunately, it's this very unique characteristic; otherwise, during the 12 hours of daylight she couldn't reach, she wouldn't know to what extent the machinery here would have evolved.

Using the several battle plans she had calculated during the day to break through the encirclement, the drastically changed Factory World once again came into her view.

After more than a month, this place resembles both a mechanical museum and an industrial waste dump.

The overhead conveyor belt network was so complex it was dazzling; the different colored materials and the steam and heat flowed like Extreme Speed surging blood vessels.

The mechanical insects, both on the ground and in the air, have increased in number to over three digits, ranging from the initial [X-1.4.1] to the latest [X-17.9] series, densely packed with various shapes and sizes.

Some are covered in sharp spikes, designed to prevent physical penetration; others are covered in smooth mirror surfaces, designed to prevent energy reflection; and the latest model integrates multiple resistances and is increasingly resembling Wen Jing's true form... [X-17.9.56].

The vast sea of insects stretched as far as the eye could see, like an endless Metal Frenzy that constantly replicated and strengthened itself.

"Bang!"

The Strongest Clone's attack landed on the latest model, preventing it from continuing its 57th self-update.

To be able to keep the number at this level for over forty days is a testament to her ability to achieve a unique kill every time a new model is released.

Many times she was too late because there were too many insect swarms and the encirclement was too tight, and she also had to find the latest production line.

However, after the attack, [X-17.9.56] in front of him did not immediately shatter, but instead began to repair itself.

Wen Jing's heart sank. In an instant, his forelimbs, now enhanced with [Sharpness], slashed again, severing the mechanical insect body.

Even with proper control, the strength of the latest model continues to steadily increase. Currently, its armor hardness, energy resistance, and speed reaction have all exceeded the Threshold that she could crush with just her basic attributes.

If you can't achieve an instant kill, the opponent's endless numbers and the characteristic of becoming stronger if they can't be killed will cause your strength to increase explosively.

Not only is she 'meticulously controlling' things, but the factory is also 'working tirelessly'.

If this were a gamble, both sides would be competing to see who runs out of chips first.

Wen Jing was mentally prepared for this situation from the beginning. Although he knew that the situation was getting worse, he did not hesitate or waver in his actions.

Either don't take this path in the first place, or if you do, stick to it to the end.

The Strongest Clone deals with the new model, while the Reconnaissance Clone operates in another area, obtaining battlefield intelligence over a wider range, and even using its positioning to cause friendly fire among the dense swarms of insects.

What seemed like another stressful and repetitive day turned into a sudden and unexpected turn of events on the battlefield—

Chapter 190

"Boom..."

On the battlefield, an unexpected change occurred.

While attempting to intercept the Reconnaissance Clone, the latest model [X-17.9.57] knocked over three Slowness- moving, heavily armored older models [X-8.3.11], and activated its own thermal melting device, causing them to short-circuit and explode on the spot.

This scene immediately caught Wen Jing's attention, who keenly noticed something unusual about it.

In the battles that had lasted for more than a month, she frequently created various misleading accidents, causing higher-level models to inflict friendly fire on lower-level models while chasing her, thereby increasing her kill efficiency and allowing the assembly line to mass-produce these less threatening 'classic' models.