Chapter 474: Mechanical Seed
"It's about to open..." Li Ming looked at the cracks on the metal block, and wisps of spatial ripples began to surge.
Li Ming felt it carefully and was terrified. "It's compressed so thoroughly, I'm afraid I can't suppress it."
Realizing that there was no possibility of stealing the chicken, Li Ming couldn't help but feel sorry.
"It seems that Qinglong has made sufficient preparations."
In the outside world, Gonzalez said indifferently.
Everyone looked at the metal fortress in the center of the field. Given the defensive capabilities of these mechanical bodies, it was difficult for them to directly observe the internal conditions.
No one would think that this was Li Ming's own method, it was obviously prepared by Qinglong.
The relevant information should have been obtained from Reynolds and Mikhail.
"I don't know what his methods are, but this Lord Qinglong is truly worthy of his reputation." Lancaster couldn't help but shake his head. "It's a pity that I didn't get to see him this time."
"If Dius could open it, Qinglong might have used a similar method," Claude said calmly. "Don't be so surprised. In fact, it's not certain that it can be opened."
Dius glanced at him coldly. He was already in a bad mood, and he became even more unhappy after hearing these words.
Reynolds glanced at them and was too lazy to argue. Is the value of opening it in a day the same as opening it in a year?
These guys all have the same way of thinking. Only bigger and harder fists can hit their hearts.
As for the second half of Crow's words, everyone present automatically ignored it.
There is no point in discussing whether it can be opened now, and we can’t wait long.
Everyone was thinking about their own things, but Kostat was the only one who was staring suspiciously at the black and white mist in the distance.
"What's wrong?" Cedric noticed his abnormality and asked.
"It just feels a little off." Costat frowned. "Master Craftsman, are you sure there's no other danger in this area?"
Mikhail said calmly, "The combined number of explorations we've conducted with Forge Hammer is over twenty. If you don't believe me, you can go explore on your own."
Kostart glanced at the distant fog. He thought it would be foolish to leave the main force. He shook his head and said, "No need. I trust you, sir."
"What happened?" Cedric demanded.
"Nothing." Costat did not explain. It was difficult for others to empathize with and believe his own feelings.
After waiting for a while, everyone's eyes moved slightly, and the mechanical fortress in front of them opened. Everyone shrank into a mechanical body, and Li Ming also quickly withdrew from it.
"Huh?" Mikhail was quite surprised when he took a look at it. Only a tiny bit of the silver metal block was left, and the surface was covered with cracks.
boom!
The next moment, the block of metal exploded, and then an extremely violent force burst out instantly, as if it had been suppressed for a long time.
Metal fragments shot out in all directions, creating ripples in space that were visible to the naked eye, like a giant rock dropped into a calm lake, creating ripples.
It was like a piece of shaking silk, twisted and deformed.
Immediately afterwards, a huge fortress-like box appeared without warning, and the strong wind squeezed out of it raged wildly and fell down with a loud bang.
The reaction of everyone present was so quick that they evacuated immediately.
The ground rumbled continuously, and the rolling dust in the field just began to stir when it was suddenly suppressed by an invisible force.
"Is this their warehouse?" Dius looked at it. The box was rectangular, with a black surface and a matte texture. It was quite large and almost covered the entire area.
"The gaps between the molecules have become very large. The material's strength has undergone a serious decline..." Mikhail held a piece of metal fragment in his hand and examined it carefully, feeling astonished. "It can even be said that it is no longer the same material as the original."
"How is this done?" He looked at Li Ming in confusion. He had never seen such a method to downgrade metal materials.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Compared to Mikhail, others were more concerned about what was inside and approached the box as soon as possible.
The material of this box is not that strong, it just serves as a support, and it is easy to open a hole in it.
Everyone filed in and entered a huge space. Surprisingly, there were no weapon racks in it, only a few giant metal cans placed in the center.
The body of the can is covered with complex and mysterious patterns. Occasionally, a weak electric current flows through the patterns, making a crackling sound.
"Is this... nanomaterial?" Cedric walked up to one of the metal cans, tore open the outer shell with his palm, and a large amount of black liquid flowed out, fluctuating irregularly.
"This should be a programmable unified material." Mikhail walked over, sucked up a ball of black liquid, and kept changing it into various shapes in his hands.
"Low- to mid-level weapons, and even various types of infrastructure, should all be constructed uniformly from this material, saving a significant amount of production lines. We've discovered similar shaped objects before, but this is the first time we've discovered this type of raw material."
Mikhail's eyes changed. "In the Holy Spirit Civilization, only some high-strength mechanical bodies and weapons use high-end solid metals."
"Isn't this still a nanomaterial?" Cedric was speechless.
Reynolds said disdainfully, "I remember the Empire had made many breakthroughs in nanomaterials a long time ago. Why haven't they come up with this unified material?"
“If all low- and mid-end machines and equipment could be made from the same materials, wouldn’t that save a lot of effort?”
Cedric choked. Mikhail didn't bother to say anything more. He opened the other metal cans one by one, took out all the remaining black liquid inside, and then divided it into four equal parts.
It was divided among the three major civilizations, and then the share he kept for himself was divided into three parts.
Li Ming took out a jar, put it away, and was secretly shocked.
The benefits of this unified material are self-evident. The number of production lines saved is not as simple as one hundred or two hundred, but may be tens of thousands or even more.
However, the difficulty is self-evident. The fundamental reason why nanomaterials cannot achieve this unified material is that their characteristics are far from comprehensive.
Even for extremely simple smart terminals, the various components require different material properties, and the properties required for data calculation, memory storage, and energy conduction are very different.
Although the others didn't quite understand, seeing that the two master craftsmen attached so much importance to it, they also carefully put it away.
At the same time, Li Ming has quietly activated the [Intelligent Assistance] ability to help him check every detail without blind spots.
"Is that all you have?" Gonzalez frowned. It wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
"There is an area at the back..." Mikhail had already calculated that the area of this space did not quite match the entire box, and there was another space.
After simply punching through the metal wall, everyone saw a small area in front of them that was quite familiar, with layers of metal racks arranged in order.
However, the base of the metal rack was empty, with nothing left.
"It's empty." Dius frowned, and everyone else's faces looked unhappy.
Given the brutal fighting outside, it was unrealistic to expect the warehouse to be full, but only a few cans of black liquid were dug out, which was too disappointing.
"A mechanical body?" Gonzalez noticed something unusual. In the corner, there was half a piece of metal debris, which had already decayed and was leaning against the wall.
"Guards?" Everyone gathered together. Mikhail's eyes flickered, but Reynolds said, "I'm afraid he's a deserter. There's no need for guards here."
After carefully examining the body, nothing of value was found, and after passing through the area, everyone's expressions couldn't help but ease a little.
There were rows of slender glass columns, most of which were empty, with only a few still having something left in them.
But unlike the various powerful weapons that everyone expected, there were almost identical blocks of purple metal.
"What the hell? This warehouse provides raw materials?" Cedric frowned, staring at the glass column in front of him. The purple metal block was as big as an adult's head, slowly rotating, and surrounded by faint particle streams.
"To us, they are raw materials..." Mikhail shook his head, his eyes slightly heated. "But you have to consider the specific situation of the Holy Spirit Civilization. Most of them are mechanical evolutions."
"This type of metal material is basically specially crafted to match their evolutionary path. If used, it should be possible to form a variety of weapons based on their own characteristics."
"It's amazing..." Reynolds couldn't help but come closer, his excitement even more uncontrollable: "Advanced prototype materials, if we can figure it out..."
Before he could finish his words, Mikhail pressed him down.
Reynolds's expression couldn't help but pause.
Civilizations at this level have extremely strong technological barriers. Although the various mechanical bodies they found before can be repaired and used, they have no way of knowing the most fundamental mechanical evolution route of the Holy Spirit Civilization.
This prototype material is of extraordinary value. If it can be studied thoroughly, it will be a great improvement for them, and perhaps they can get a glimpse of the mechanical evolution path or two.
Snap——
A cracking sound was heard, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound, only to see that Li Ming had already pierced through the glass column and took out a piece of purple metal.
"I'm sorry, everyone. As we agreed, I have the first right of choice." He shook it in his hand. The purple metal block was really heavy.
Everyone's faces changed. This kind of gain was not what they wanted, but it was better than nothing, so they had no choice but to accept it.
As a result, after searching the entire area, they finally found two pieces of purple metal.
"Only two..." Gonzalez looked grim. Apart from Li Ming, Reynolds and Mikhail still scored.
These two pieces still need to be divided into four equal parts, which is too messy.
"The Master Hammersmith spent so much effort, and you guys haven't been able to open the warehouse despite many attempts, and this is all there is in it?" Claude said in a bad tone.
Mikhail glanced at Li Ming and said, "I've already reminded you that I never said anything was so precious inside. It's just that I can't open it for various reasons."
"It's just a pile of ruins, how could you expect to find anything?"
Even Kostat frowned. If Mikhail and Reynolds hadn't made it so difficult to exaggerate, they wouldn't have had such expectations.
The most important thing is that they really don’t need these things.
They could clearly see how excited Reynolds was just now, and these raw materials would probably bring extraordinary improvement to them.
But they can only take it back and hand it over to the research institute. It will probably take a long time to truly turn it into tangible value.
Li Ming tried to absorb the purple metal block, but the speed was much slower than the silver metal block outside.
His expression was a little strange, which meant that the most valuable thing in this warehouse was actually the lumps of metal from the outside world.
But no one seemed to care, only Mikhail kept looking at him.
He looked around silently, ignoring the crowd's division, and wandered around the area, checking every area.
Suddenly, he paused and stretched out his hand. Something stuck in the corner fell quietly into his hand.
Huh? Li Ming's heart skipped a beat. Before he could think about it, a voice suddenly came from behind, "What is that?"
As soon as Li Ming turned around, everyone was standing behind him. It was Claude who was speaking, his eyes lingering on Li Ming's hand.
"Fuck, it's so troublesome to hide it from these bastards." Li Ming cursed in his heart and stretched out his hand. A black thumb-shaped object appeared in front of everyone.
For a moment, Mikhail's eyes trembled, but as a mechanically modified body, he could perfectly control his emotions.
It seemed to be that thing... His heart trembled slightly. This thing actually had a prototype.
"I don't know, maybe it's a part that fell off from somewhere." Li Ming said frankly.
"Really?" Everyone looked suspicious, having experienced Li Ming's cunningness before.
"Let me see it..." Crow stretched out his hand expressionlessly.
Li Ming shrugged and threw it over without caring, but then said, "Be careful, if it's damaged, you have to pay for it, and I'll charge a high price."
Crow snorted coldly, took it in his hand and examined it carefully for a while. Naturally, he could not see any clues. He pinched it with his palm and easily made a dent.
Is it really not a good thing?
They always believe that things of high quality will naturally be very hard.
After thinking for a moment, he threw it to Dius, "Take a look..."
Dius glanced at Li Ming, who was obviously still upset about Li Ming's interception. He unceremoniously opened a series of rune arrays to study them carefully, but in the end he found nothing.
"It seems to be some kind of object with a sophisticated structure..." Dius threw it to Kostat again. Kostat just took a quick look at it and put it in Mikhail's hand.
Mikhail's mechanical pupils condensed, and he looked at it for a moment, his heart couldn't help but be excited. This thing really has a prototype.
Something that even the forging hammer couldn't find was actually here: the foundation of the Holy Spirit Civilization's mechanical evolution system!
Although he was extremely excited, he pretended to be calm and threw it to Li Ming.
"I haven't seen it yet." Reynolds said dissatisfiedly.
"It's just a small component. It might be the shock caused by the release of space just now." Mikhail said indifferently.
“How can there be so many good things…” Li Ming seemed helpless and just put them in his pocket, but he was quite surprised in his heart.
No wonder it’s called the Mechanical Evolution System, it turns out it’s because of this thing.
[Mechanical Seed - Consumable (Damaged): The root of the path of mechanical evolution.
Control conditions: 100,000 metal energy
Control Ability - Mechanical Root: Consume the controlled object to plant the seed into the body, gradually permeating the flesh and blood, and eventually turning it into an evolvable mechanical body. Note (physical strength must not exceed F level).
(End of this chapter)
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