"You said your name is Zhe?" Lin Tao asked.

"That's right, I am the powerful Zhe from the great mechanical clan..."

Before Zhe finished speaking, Lin Tao sneered, "Great? I remember that you and the horseshoe crab were captured by the Etna people. Well, let me think about it. You might be dismembered or melted, and eventually you will no longer exist in this world."

"Well, yes, that's definitely what the result will be."

"No matter how great you think the mechanical race is, in ten hours at most, they will become metal waiting to be recycled."

"Oh, by the way, those Etna people seem to prefer using bone weapons. In this case, you will become a pile of useless scrap metal that no one will even be willing to recycle."

Lin Tao held one hand to his chest and supported his cheek with the other, as if he was analyzing something, or as if he had accidentally revealed his thoughts and spoke them out.

These words made the arrogant and domineering mechanical race strongman Zhe fall into silence. No, it should be analyzed. It was also analyzing what would happen to it if it fell into the hands of the Etna people. This was something worth pondering.

However, no matter how it analyzed or how it used probability to make judgments, the result seemed to be very close to the words of the hateful human in front of it.

"Damn it! I... I am a strong man from the great mechanical family. Why did I end up like this?"

For a strong man like Zhe, it seems that dying on the battlefield is the best ending, but being dismantled and melted, and eventually turned into a pile of discarded objects that no one cares about, and this while it is still alive, it ended up like this, which is simply an insult to its name as a strong man.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became.

The rhythm of the flashing light of the huge metal body also began to change, just like when humans are angry, becoming more rapid and frequent, just like the beating of a human heart, or breathing.

The scene before him made Lin Tao frown slightly. He even had the illusion that the so-called mechanical race in front of him was only a fine line away from real humans.

Bang! Suddenly, Lin Tao slapped himself on the forehead. How could he have such an illusion? Could it be that he had already believed in the other party's words that humans were also a created race? How could this be? When Lin Tao heard Zhe's words before, he thought that the other party was just making a casual remark and deliberately ridiculing him, but now he realized that the two sides actually had some common points, and he couldn't help but waver.

"Not good!" Lin Tao screamed again in his heart.

He is also a strong man in the Human Interstellar Federation, and also an ancient martial arts mecha master in the future interstellar federation. Although he is reborn as a human being, due to a lot of affairs, he rarely takes out time to practice ancient martial arts again. But a strong man is a strong man, no matter where he goes, he is a strong man.

As a strong man, Lin Tao was greatly surprised that he was shaken like this.

Lin Tao narrowed his eyes slightly and his gaze fell on the metal body in front of him.

At this time, most of Hongshi's thoughts in his mind had disappeared, and there were not many left. But there was one thing that Elder Fentu could not have expected. Lin Tao possessed the ability of photographic memory. Although he had only browsed through Hongshi's memory before, everything that Lin Tao had seen had been recorded in his brain.

Lin Tao had also seen some things about the mechanical clan and the giant insect clan at that time. Although there were no physical objects, there was information, just like the books and knowledge about mechas that he saw in later life.

The Mechanical Clan was a war tool created by the Three-Eyed Clan to deal with the Giant Insect Clan, but in the later period, they lost control of them. For unknown reasons, these Mechanical Clan actually became a force on their own and began to attack the then Interstellar Federation Alliance, becoming another existence like the Giant Insect Clan.

In an instant, all the knowledge in Lin Tao's mind was gathered together again.

However, when all this knowledge was gathered, Lin Tao was shocked again, because after these memories were gathered, they actually began to show signs of dissipating, as if this was not Lin Tao's own will at all. Even if he had the ability to remember everything he saw, he could not prevent the cells that stored this part of the memory from dying.

"What's going on?" Lin Tao was shocked.

"Could it be because of that method?" Suddenly, Lin Tao was startled. He remembered that in order to preserve the memory of Hong Shi, Elder Fentu taught him a set of methods.

It is very likely because of this method.

Thinking of this, Lin Tao, without hesitation, extracted from his mind the knowledge of Hongshi's mind that had been preserved using this method. This knowledge was from the time Hongshi was born to the time he learned the power of mind.

Sure enough——

Just as Lin Tao imagined, the memory preserved using that method showed no signs of disappearing no matter how it was called upon.

"Don't these thoughts belong to me? Unless I use that method, I can't preserve them no matter what method I use." Lin Tao's mind once again recalled what Elder Mengqin had said, and he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

At this time, the huge metal body emitted a strong light again, and the fierce voice appeared again: "You humans are also not Etna people. Tell me your name and why you appear in Etna people."

"My name is Lin Tao. As for the reason why I'm here..." Lin Tao shrugged and didn't intend to tell the other party.

"You are a foreigner. Why would the Etna people accept you?" Zhe was extremely puzzled. However, not long after he stopped talking, the metal body he represented suddenly emitted a strong light: "Could it be that because of the same appearance, they are more likely to accept you?"

Lin Tao shrugged. Perhaps it was true. This was an era of appearance. Only those with similar shapes would be more easily seen as one. Those who were so different as the mechanical clan and the giant insect clan would only be seen as monsters.

Lin Tao even had no doubt that if the mechanical race before him and the horseshoe crab possessed the ability to transform into humans, perhaps humans would directly accept their existence when they first met them.

"Maybe I can take you away." Suddenly, an idea flashed in Lin Tao's mind.

"Huh?" Zhe was stunned.

"You are a member of the mechanical clan, so there should be no driver here. As far as I know, the so-called machines that can produce human-like life forms are mostly due to AI. The reason for your existence may be that you are a piece of AI." Lin Tao said.

"AI?" Suddenly, the light of the metal body changed, sometimes expanding, sometimes shrinking, sometimes dazzling, sometimes faint. After a while, it recovered: "You are right. We mechanical people are different from you. Our core is a piece of AI, a relatively special piece of AI."

"Tell me, how are you taking me away..." After a pause, Zhe continued: "In my database, you humanoid creatures have a characteristic, you never do meaningless things."

As he spoke, the metal body emitted another blinding light.

"Tell me, what do you want from me as a condition?"

There is no such thing as a free lunch. Zhe seems to understand the thinking of the Interstellar Federation Alliance very well.

"Knowledge." Lin Tao said: "If I can take you away, then as your thank you, you need to give me the corresponding knowledge."

What Lin Tao needs is an exchange of knowledge.

The mechanical race is a mechanical life form that can produce its own kind. Apart from their advanced AI, their understanding of mechanical structure alone may be no less than that of a human with advanced mechanical knowledge.

Such an existence might be of some use to Lin Tao's future.

Of course, this requires the other party to agree.

"Knowledge?" Zhe fell silent.

The other party did not speak, and Lin Tao did not speak either. He turned his head and looked around the interior of the inverted pyramid with the help of the light from the circuit.

The layout of the lines and the construction of the machinery seemed to follow certain rules. Unfortunately, Lin Tao was not an expert in this area, so he was unable to detect any such rules. He could only feel that the layout was very clever.

"Hahahaha... I really can't believe that you guys are interested in our knowledge? Oh, by the way, although we were created by the Three-Eyed Clan in the beginning, now even they don't understand us anymore."

As Zeng spoke, the light of the metal body flickered again.

"You...are you trying to get the secrets about our core level from me? I can tell you clearly that this is impossible." Zhe said.

"Although I am a strong man of the great mechanical race, I am only the seventh generation. Starting from the fourth generation, our mechanical race will have its AI erased after it is produced. In other words, even I don't know the secrets of our race."

"These core-level data are only known to the first three generations, no, perhaps only the first generation of the great mechanical race."

"So, you can't get this level of core information from me."

Zhe said.

Lin Tao was startled when he heard this, but then he scratched his head and laughed out loud: "I think you seem to have misunderstood what I meant."

"Oh?" Zhe's tone was surprised.

"As a human, I am also somewhat interested in your core secrets, but now I am more interested in the mechanical knowledge you possess. The knowledge I am exchanging with you is mechanical knowledge. As for the core secrets you mentioned, they are dispensable to me."

What Lin Tao said was not false. His knowledge of the mechanical clan in front of him was still limited to mechanics. If he could get help from this mechanical clan, perhaps he could design a more powerful mecha.

Humans, at this time, still mainly rely on mechas.

Just like the Etna people's Elder Fentu and Elder Mengqin, they also have a certain interest in this aspect, and even do not hesitate to use Hongshi's brain memory for exchange.

It can be imagined that this is a technology that only humans possess for the time being.

Compared with the mechanical race in front of them and the Etna people outside, humans have one thing in common, that is, they are open-minded and can turn all knowledge that does not belong to them into experience and broaden their horizons, thereby forming a more powerful force.