Gu Lingxiao was stunned. The fact that the other party knew he was a human was one thing, but more importantly, the mechanical kingdom name he had casually mentioned had already been used to find the real deal so quickly.
He extended his hand and shook hands with the mechanical hand. "Human, Gu Lingxiao, tell me the details."
“Let me speak, let me speak,” Wangcai immediately interjected.
"Those evil creatures deep within the chaotic region, if they want to escape, must first seal off this place, preventing information from spreading and attracting the powerful figures of our five major forces. Each of our five races has a representative in one of the five worlds, who will relay the message back whenever there is any unusual activity deep within the chaotic region."
"They should have noticed the unusual activity in the other three locations and spread the word," Wangcai said, suddenly realizing the problem.
"Idiot, most likely they can't send messages out either, just like us, or they're simulating us sending messages to the outside world, or worse."
"So how did you determine that we were sealed off by creatures that want to create chaos in the world? It couldn't have been formed naturally. Also, I'm curious, since we can't see the outside world from here, how do you monitor the depths of the chaotic region?"
"The first question was derived from a combination of a large amount of information; for the second question, please see here."
Three virtual screens appeared, but only one of them displayed an image: a huge gray-white vortex spinning in the Black Sea. "Originally, there should have been three identical images, but the connection methods were different. The first image shows the monitoring equipment's signal source connected to the Black Sea network, with a security level of only three. The second virtual image shows the monitoring equipment's signal source connected to our signal source, with a security level of two. The third image is the most secure, completely unblocked by any signal-blocking equipment."
Before 9527 could continue speaking, the third scene disappeared.
Gu Lingxiao looked at t9527.
"It has a small flaw: the connecting wires are easy to cut, and the materials used to make them are very expensive, so they can only be connected here and can't be extended beyond the chaotic area."
"You're just going to leave them exposed like this, since they're so easy to cut off?" Gu Lingxiao was speechless.
"No, we've hidden it very well. Only a few people know about it, and after the rotation, they'll all come to our Mechanical Kingdom to have their memories erased."
"Oh? So there's a traitor among you?"
"High probability"
"Damn it, you two, stop talking and start thinking about how to escape! We're going to die!"
Gu Lingxiao grabbed a round frisbee and threw it out.
"Why are you throwing a frisbee at a time like this? Ah, what's going on? I really want to go get it!" The next moment, Wangcai rushed out.
"The dog shouldn't interrupt when we're talking."
“Their race does exhibit some strange behavior,” t9527 said.
"I can help you, but our current strength is still insufficient and we need some resources," Gu Lingxiao said, already extending his hand.
t9527 shrugged. "Our mechanical race's resources are used to rush into the core module to directly enhance our strength. However, I can give you all the resources I've collected here, but I'm not in my world right now, so the resources are there and I didn't bring them with me."
Gu Lingxiao understood immediately. After Wangcai retrieved the frisbee, both he and the machine focused their attention on Wangcai.
Wangcai felt a chill run down his spine, but he didn't know what was wrong.
"What's wrong? Why are you staring at me like that? Have you thought of a way to leave?"
"Yes, but it requires a lot of resources as energy, which we don't have right now."
"I have some here. I stockpiled quite a bit recently, about 200,000 Primal Super Energy Crystals in total. If that's not enough, I've saved another 100,000 or so."
"Take them all out, that should be about right. Calling you Wangcai (meaning 'prosperous wealth') is really fitting."
Wangcai eagerly went to get it. Although the more than 200,000 yuan was to be handed over to the higher-ups, he couldn't use it since he was almost dead. Besides, he wanted to rush out and deliver the message to them.
However, I do feel a little sorry for his 100,000 original super energy crystals, since he had deducted them from the resources he handed over, one by one.
"Isn't it a bit wrong of us to do this?" T9527 felt a little guilty. After all, they had been friends for over ten years. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have contacted Gu Lingxiao. Just like he said before, he wouldn't die completely. All his memories were backed up. As long as he died, those memories would be activated. He could completely afford to lose some modules.
"Compared to life, this is nothing. Besides, I want yours too." Gu Lingxiao's smile showed t9527 what a wicked smile looked like.
Before long, Wangcai returned with crystals, but some of them were not crystals, but other resources that could be exchanged for crystals, such as ores and rare materials.
Fortunately, there were about 200,000 crystals, which, combined with his own, would be enough to break through to the sixth stage. It's just a pity that there wasn't the ability Gu Lingxiao wanted, otherwise he could have directly rushed to the seventh stage.
Gu Lingxiao absorbed the crystals right in front of them. A large amount of the original super energy crystals turned gray and eventually became powder.
This speed completely stunned Wangcai. "How...how is this possible? Is this what a human is like?"
T9527 emitted a buzzing sound, clearly not at peace either. If this is how humans advance, then they would have emerged from the dead as ordinary creatures, and now they are at stage five, or rather, stage six.
At this moment, with the disappearance of a large number of original crystals, Gu Lingxiao broke through to the sixth stage.
"He broke through just like that? How is this possible? This completely overturns my understanding. Is this what humanity is all about?"
"If they are really that powerful, how did the human race perish in the distant past? Is there any other possibility besides internal strife?" t9527 said.
Upon hearing T9527's words, Wangcai immediately looked at T9527 and said, "Internal strife? Isn't this the kind of spatial rift that our Shi Kui Principality discovered?"
Gu Lingxiao, who had just completed his breakthrough, also became interested: "How did you find out they were fighting amongst themselves?"
Gu Lingxiao didn't say that people like him were just an anomaly, and that not every human was like that.
"I don't know about that, after all, I haven't been back for three years, and there's very little news from there," Wangcai said.
"According to my information, some text has been deciphered."
"Do you have any pictures? Let me see them." Gu Lingxiao really wanted to see what kind of writing it might be. Could it be the writing from their human history? None of the people before had ever seen humans. The only one who knew about his race was in the database of the Mechanical Kingdom. According to T9527, it was in the deepest part of the database when it was first created.
"No, the upper echelons of the Shi Kui Kingdom have done a very good job of protecting information; absolutely no information has leaked out."
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