Chapter 490 Mechanical Celestial Body

It was dark, silent and empty, and Lin Xian's consciousness was floating in the void.

It was as if time had been fast-forwarded. The shattered stars and dimensional fragments of the giants had long since dissolved into the stars of the universe, leaving only the huge dark red head of the god, like the most tragic monument in the cemetery of the universe, slowly and eternally decaying in the cold vacuum, emitting a heart-pounding breath of decay.

"Metal dice?"

Lin Xian was extremely sure that the fleeting cold metallic luster that passed by the god's head was no illusion. At this moment, his consciousness seemed to be experiencing an earthquake, and he was unable to digest the objects he saw in a short period of time.

Gravitational lenses, giant planets, dimensional fragments, the head of a god, and that terrifying beam of light...

What exactly is that?

Is it related to my own supernatural connection, or did I see something else?

I wanted to shout, I wanted to move, but I couldn't do it at all. I felt like I had completely lost my body and myself. It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

At this moment, Lin Xian even had a thought: if this state remained unchanged, wouldn't he be imprisoned forever in the deep space of the universe?

Lin Xian tried to sense his mechanical heart, but found no response.

"What's going on..."

He couldn't even feel the passage of time, but Lin now had a strong feeling that this short period of time was definitely more than 10 hours!

At this moment, he suddenly thought of his Black Star Forge. After all, this was also a skill connected to his consciousness. Would it play any role?

Lin Xian's consciousness sank, and suddenly, his consciousness seemed to enter a bubble that exceeded the speed of light. Countless stars turned into silk threads, and then the next moment, a huge dark red planet appeared in his sight, and his consciousness also fell towards an area near the orbit of the huge planet.

As his consciousness slowed down, a black dot appeared in the originally empty area, and then the black dot rapidly enlarged. A mechanical celestial body floating in deep space began to gradually occupy his sight, and he saw a huge mechanical hole.

Black Star Forge!

Lin Xian's consciousness rushed in, the starry sky channel rotated, and his own manufacturing sequence remained static at this moment.

"If it can really connect to the Black Star Forge, how could such a large mechanical celestial body connect to my consciousness and become my awakened skill?"

At this moment, Lin Xian finally began to be certain that his mechanical ability was definitely some special "creation" and had nothing to do with the dark energy mutation. From this point of view, mechanical devouring and mechanical manufacturing were not some kind of divine ability. It was very likely that some advanced mechanical civilization system was showing its power, and he was just the operator.

However, a bigger question arises: Who placed the Black Star Forge here? And who "endowed" him with the power to shake the stars?

With some doubts, Lin Xian tried to control his consciousness to wander in the Black Star Forge. At this time, his consciousness seemed to have broken free from some of its original restrictions and could fly into the depths of the Black Star Forge to explore.

Continuously moving downward, his consciousness shuttled through the energy base flow, as if entering the blood vessels of a mechanical celestial body. After an unknown amount of time, his vision suddenly became clear, and a shocking picture appeared before his eyes.

Countless breathtakingly huge metal structures, like the skeletons of prehistoric monsters, intertwine and extend to form a celestial core with terrifying breadth. The interior seems to follow some kind of cold and extremely efficient aesthetic design. The rough alloy trusses are kilometers in diameter, and countless mechanical arrays, as dense as scales, extend to the end of the field of vision.

It was as if ten of humanity's grandest steel cities had been compressed, twisted, and welded into a sealed metal planet! Its diameter was more than hundreds of kilometers? Perhaps thousands? Lin Xian's consciousness strained upward, attempting to gain a macroscopic perspective, but he could see no bottom at all. At the center of this mechanical celestial body's 'core cavity', suspended a seemingly intricately constructed device, seemingly some kind of core.

Four energy beams extended horizontally in four directions, and some fine matter in the central area seemed to be penetrating the core from top to bottom.

"Director Ding is right. All theology can be explained by science. Now perhaps this can explain why I can devour countless machines and create things out of thin air..."

Lin Xian's consciousness seemed to sigh, "But if this is what I observed during the lattice evolution, does it mean that my Mechanical Heart is actually inseparable from the Dark Civilization? Is it itself a form of Dark Civilization's power?"

"Oh my god!" Lin Xian was struck hard by his own deduction. "So, my Black Star Forge...could it be...the 'mothership' of the Dark Civilization legend?!"

Lin Xian was obviously frightened by this idea. He tried his best to find more possibilities, but the rationality in his consciousness continued to panic at this terrible idea. If his guess was true, then all his previous ideas, to upgrade the level of the mechanical heart and create weapons beyond human technology to deal with the dark civilization, wouldn't it sound like a joke?

He believed that the support that was independent of all other superpowers might be the core of the enemy?

Control the Nantian Gate to kill the corpse chaser

The Giant Ocean God suddenly shifted his target

The Advent Party's strange attitude towards him

Could it be that this is the truth that Hua Xiaoling has always wanted to tell him?

"No! Absolutely not!"

Lin Xian's consciousness quickly rose, and he was in a state of panic. He thought of what Chu Yan had said about the high-level defection. If this guess by Lin Xian was true, then all his hopes and pursuits would be a joke. Humanity would have no possibility of fighting back. Faced with such a collapse of faith, for them, joining the Advent Sect would not be a defection at all, but the right choice to accept the new civilization.

The more Lin Xian thought about it, the more horrified he felt. He found it hard to accept this fact, but the more he refused, the more things that he had never understood before began to pop up and hit him hard.

"The enemy and I share the same origin, a mechanical celestial body. That's why I can transform Radio 1542 into a heterogeneous Rubik's Cube?"

"So my Mechanical Heart can transform dark energy into a Mechanical Origin Point?"

Lin Xian even conjured up an even more terrifying thought: that the materials and mechanical sources he acquired through devouring were, to some extent, scanning and structuring Earth's technology for the 'Dark Civilization', thereby improving their 'mothership' and their understanding of human technology. And that the upgrade of the Mechanical Heart was a form of self-iteration?!

“No, no no!”

At this moment, Lin Xian fell into crazy self-doubt and collapse of faith. He felt that his consciousness began to become uncontrollable and blurred, and began to run around in the energy beam of the mechanical celestial body, as if falling into an icy sea.

Consciousness suddenly dropped!

Through the cold, thick nothingness...

A dark blue arc of electricity flashed through the meshing gears...

A river of dark purple light flows across the surface of the solidified energy pipe...

Passing through countless machine-made serial production lines...

Just when Lin Xian's consciousness was completely out of control and was about to break away from the Black Star Forge and fly out into the endless deep space of the universe, he suddenly locked onto a direction in the starry sky channel of the Black Star Forge.

In that direction was the area where Lin Xian collected and stored mechanical artifacts or other items, and in a corner of that area, there was a lead box.

Placed inside is the metal dice!

"The giant was shattered. This thing is definitely a human creation. This means that my previous speculation about the existence of a third party force is very likely!"

Lin Xian's consciousness began to stop dissolving, like a drowning man grabbing the last straw. This thought, with the force of thunder, split the chaos and despair in Lin Xian's consciousness!

"No, it's not extremely likely, it's absolutely possible!!!"

Lin Xian's consciousness began to stabilize, he seemed to have regained control, and then quickly flew into the starry sky channel of the construction sequence. He picked up the lead box and opened it. At this time, he found that the metal dice inside were changing directions in an indescribable illusory state. Sometimes the number 6 was facing upwards, and sometimes the number 4 was facing upwards, and this unobservable afterimage state was repeatedly presented, as if time was flowing rapidly.

"What do 6 and 4 represent?"

"6:04? June 4th?"

"What does it mean? Are you trying to give me some kind of information?"

No one responded, and Lin Xian had no answer.

This metal dice left Lin Xian with the last bit of faith. Although the previous thoughts made him feel a lingering fear, this bit of faith was enough to make him question his previous ideas. As long as there is doubt, hope still exists.

Tick-tock~

In the starry sky passage of the Black Star Forge, the black Infinity was quietly suspended. Lin Xian was sitting in the cockpit of the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive, feeling the vibration sound from the swing clock. The time calculated on it showed that he had been trapped in his own Black Star Forge for more than 3 months.

The holographic screen was filled with various numbers and formulas. During this time, he had tried every possible way to wake up from the Black Star Forge. He had also tried to call Chu Yan, Grace, and Viola, but all in vain.

As time passed, Lin Xian even used Viola's computing power to simulate and calculate everything he saw, including the giant planets, the heads of stars, and the spatial directions of the leaps...

But there was not much effective progress. Although Viola's learning module contained knowledge of high-energy physics, the entire human exploration of astronomy and cosmology was very rudimentary. In addition, he did not have professional equipment. Apart from being able to calculate the derivation of the structural mechanics of some mechanical celestial bodies that could not exist on the blue planet, it was useless.

Lin Xian's mood became extremely anxious. He sat alone in the corner of the room, while the manufacturing sequence outside was running silently.

Outside the cockpit window, 3,000 sets of "Iron Man and Dragon Girl" combat mechas were arranged in an orderly manner. This terrifying mechanical army presented an oppressive sense of power. During these three months, Lin Xian operated the Black Star Forge and continuously manufactured mecha armies. He even spent a lot of energy to renovate the Infinity. The damage suffered in the super vortex was perfectly repaired by him, and he even built an orbital star cannon on the traction locomotive.

Lin Xian's original plan was to start building his own mechanical army without wasting any time before waiting for the lattice to evolve, but Lin Xian didn't expect that the wait would last for three months!

After so much time had passed, Lin Xian began to be unable to convince himself that the time in the Black Star Forge was not the same as the time outside. The thought that he had only slept for ten hours had long been eliminated in the torture of the whole night.

"...Three months, is Blue Star still there? Haha" a bitter laugh, full of bitterness and self-mockery.

Lin Xian leaned on the driver's seat and looked at the mecha army outside. The production line of the last manufacturing sequence also stopped operating at this moment, which meant that all the materials in his material center had been used up, but he still hadn't woken up.

"Teacher Chen...KIKI...building...Brother Huo..."

Lin Xian held his forehead with a look of despair. If he had a physical body, he would definitely be able to feel his splitting headache.

But now he didn't even know if his body was still alive. Perhaps his consciousness had already been uploaded to the mycelial network and existed in the Black Star Forge.

During this period, he thought of various ways, and even thought of directly activating the flash bullet. At least returning to the low-Earth orbit of the Blue Planet is better than staying here.

But it was impossible. He could not sense the existence of all the forbidden objects, which was why he could not contact Grace.

Ding~Dang~

The extreme irritability and despair he felt, which he had nowhere to vent, finally erupted. Lin Xian suddenly stood up and kicked away the things he had been studying on the ground: the black gear, the resuspension fluid container, the civilization rehearsal ball...

He strode through the silent cockpit, pushed open the connecting door, and entered Carriage No. 2. The multiple screens in the information center were all black. The girl on the swivel chair who liked to eat lollipops and bicker with him was only a figure in his memory. The TV and game consoles in the entertainment area of ​​Carriage No. 2 were all bought by him from Jiangshi Furniture City and Yuchi Digital City.

Lin Xian passed through the No. 3 and No. 4 Cole 3 biological science research cabins and came to the No. 5 carriage. This carriage used to be the tail carriage of his Infinity. It had undergone several large-scale renovations, and the hydraulic tailgate had long been removed. It could be said that in order to enter the ocean track, it had basically been transformed into a brand new carriage.

The rooms in the building and Lu Xingchen's tea room were also empty, and Lin Xian, a conscious being, had no way of making tea.

Looking up at the lift roof, Lin Xian's consciousness passed through and looked at the 1130 close-in defense gun and G3 electromagnetic railgun hidden under the armor. These were all painstakingly manufactured by him one by one, and they helped them fight their way out during the train escape.

"Lattice evolution..." Lin Xian sighed quietly, "If I haven't evolved, it seems to indicate that my mechanical abilities have no connection to the dark civilization."

"The problems I was worried about before should not be a problem anymore."

"Hey, it seems like there's no point in saying this now. I finally upgraded my Mechanical Heart to level 7, and I haven't used any of my new skills yet. I don't know how everyone is doing now..."

At this moment, Lin Xian suddenly froze, his eyes fixed on the roof armor of the Infinity.

"Power resonance? My new skill seems to be able to generate energy resonance with machines..."

Lin Xian muttered to himself, and then he realized something. He suddenly looked up at the Starry Sky Passage and came up with a crazy idea.

"Fuck, could it be that my consciousness is covering up the Black Star Forge, and that's why I can't wake up?"

This terrifying mechanical celestial body...

As soon as this crazy, absurd thought came to mind, Lin Xian immediately realized what was going on and tried to control the Black Star Forge with his consciousness.

At this moment, a terrifying shockwave rumbled through the vacuum, sending out tremor ripples. Lin Xian then saw with shock that the entrance to the Starry Sky Passage in front of him was slowly changing direction, just like before. A few minutes later, the outline of a terrifying dark red planet slowly covered the entrance to the Black Star Forge, and the space suddenly darkened!

At the same time, the mechanical heart, which had not been lit for a long time, lit up a message at this moment.

[PXTH-08611 iron-nickel planet has been calibrated. Strong gravitational source detected. First-stage Stardust Furnace construction protocol is ready. Please confirm: Do you want to execute the gravitational capture procedure? Do you want to start the first-stage Stardust Furnace construction?]

Looking at the information in front of him, Lin Xian widened his eyes, a chill spread from the depths of his consciousness, and he sighed coldly.

“Damn it!”

(End of this chapter)