Chapter 475 Sneak attack!
Completely transform living organisms into mechanical bodies and gradually increase their strength.
This is the orthodox mechanical evolution system.
Whether it was Forge Hammer, Reynolds or Mikhail, they had only undergone mechanical modifications but did not have the ability to evolve.
Before, he thought that the Holy Spirit Civilization was the same, and that it was essentially a mechanized transformation based on extremely advanced technology.
But once this mechanical seed appears, everything can be explained.
He thought of the Heart of the Holy Spirit again. That thing should be used in conjunction with the Mechanical Seed.
"It's really powerful..." Li Ming was more and more amazed. However, this thing only requires 100,000 metal energies to control, and can only transform F-level life forms.
In his hands, it doesn't have such a big effect.
However, Reynolds and Mikhail should be quite interested. I wonder if they know about the existence of this thing.
Thinking about this, he looked up and happened to meet Mikhail's gaze. The other party looked away as if nothing had happened and then went to check other places.
Li Ming frowned slightly.
Others were also exploring, turning almost the entire area upside down, using various methods, and discovered some things here and there, even a few deserter entities, but none of them were of any special value.
"That's all." Gonzalez was still a little unwilling.
"Let's go somewhere else." Cedric asked, "How many places are there that we haven't explored yet?"
"There are two left."
"Heh..." Klaue's meaning was incomprehensible, and the others no longer had the initial expectations.
There was nothing valuable in the two places I visited, and the remaining two places are probably similar.
Even though I thought so in my heart, I still had to go.
Everyone casually opened a hole in the wall, but before they could get out, they started to murmur in their hearts.
Outside the hole in the wall, it was already shrouded in a hazy gray-black mist.
Li Ming's expression was slightly tense. Why did this fog look so familiar?
"Will the fog here spread automatically?" Cedric was puzzled. They had only been here for less than half an hour.
"There has never been a similar phenomenon before." Mikhail was still thinking about the thing that seemed to be a "mechanical spark".
If Li Ming takes her out and she falls into Qinglong's hands, he will definitely notice something is wrong and he will have to find a way to trick her into giving her away.
But this guy is not easy to fool.
Everyone went out one after another, their expressions changed a little. The hazy gray-black fog around them had completely enveloped the area.
Compress their vision and perception abilities to an extremely small range.
"This..." Li Ming's heart skipped a beat, and he became more and more certain that this thing was the fog that accompanied the Yuan clan.
Is there really a Yuan clan in this place?
"Everyone be careful, I have a bad feeling." Costat said in a deep voice.
Everyone looked around, their faces gradually becoming solemn. Mikhail gathered his thoughts and said in a deep voice, "There has never been a similar situation before. It's very strange."
A subtle clanging sound was heard. Li Ming had already put on the tank guard. The sense of crisis became stronger and stronger. The mechanical guards gathered around him, alert and vigilant.
"I feel something coming, and it's getting closer..." Kostat's pupils shrank, and he suddenly shouted, "Be careful!"
Before he finished speaking, a shadow invisible to the naked eye came over as the fog rolled around.
As soon as he appeared, he was less than a hundred meters away from everyone. For them, this distance was within their reach in the blink of an eye, and they felt a pang in their hearts.
The first one to react was Lancaster. A black scepter appeared in his hand. It was as black as ink, but it was flickering with faint light, like stars dotted in the night sky.
The body of the staff is carved with complex and ancient patterns. These patterns seem to contain some kind of powerful power and emit a mysterious light.
A huge black gem is inlaid on the top, and there seems to be deep darkness surging inside the gem.
Without hesitation, he smashed down with the scepter in his hand.
In an instant, the surrounding space was squeezed by this powerful force, making a "creaking" sound as it could not bear the weight.
Bang!
There was a dull sound, and the head of the staff hit the attacker accurately. A tremendous amount of energy instantly gushed out from the staff, boiling and rolling like boiling water, showing dazzling colors, intertwining and colliding with each other, forming a gorgeous and violent ocean.
Gray fog surged all around, the ground cracked in an instant, and the terrifying energy extinguished everything around it and spread to further distances.
"Be gentle!" Mikhail reminded in a deep voice.
"What is that?" Kostarte had been keeping his eyes on the attacker, but his expression suddenly changed. Amidst the seething energy, he could vaguely make out the attacker's appearance. He paled in horror. "Shadow of the Eternal Abyss!"
In the boiling energy, the shadow escaped and disappeared without a trace.
"What?"
Others were also shocked. How could the shadow of Yongyuan be here?
The sudden attack and the identity of the attacker caused all sorts of thoughts to arise in their minds.
"No, this is a bait, behind it!" Costat suddenly spoke again, already feeling something was wrong.
Everyone's expressions were slightly shocked, and as soon as they turned their heads, a ball of energy suddenly exploded.
Li Ming?
Everyone had different expressions. Mikhail's heart skipped a beat, but then he realized.
The gray-white life form punched Tanwei in the chest, but did not cause any damage.
"Feinting an attack on others, your real target is me?" Li Ming felt indifferent.
These Yuan people are indeed powerful. They use the fog to cover up their tracks and launch attacks from a very close distance.
When he came out, he had already replaced all the control objects he had switched off piecemeal with the main combat system.
This resulted in him not noticing the opponent's ambush, but the resulting defense, superimposed on the tank guard, was terrifying.
"How come this metal shell is so hard?" The Yuan clan, who failed to launch an attack, were also surprised.
He only felt his arm go numb. Not only did he fail to break the opponent's defense, he also felt a strong recoil force. However, in his perception, this metal could not be so hard.
At the same time, Li Ming had already raised his head, ready to activate the [Guards Armament] when the enemy attacked. In that instant, the mechanical guards attached themselves to the tank guards and transformed into the king form.
The Yuan clan's face changed slightly, and by the time they reacted, the purple giant hammer had already fallen.
Li Ming was already familiar with this combo, and the ultimate power exploded instantly, like the surging corona of a star, or the violent and raging collapse of a giant, unmatched.
There was a loud "bang" sound, so loud that it was barely audible, and the huge hammer hit the Yuan clan hard.
The force was so terrifying that the Yuan clan had no time to react and were directly smashed down.
The ground, which had already been deeply cut away, instantly cracked. Even though the material used was quite hard, it could not withstand an explosion of this level.
"Want to leave?" Li Ming sneered in his heart. He was very familiar with these old guys. He chased them immediately and did not give him any chance to resist.
"Surround it, we must catch it!" Costat shouted.
The others reacted quickly and occupied all four sides, using all sorts of methods, causing the place to become bustling with activity.
The strength of the Yuan clan was not too strong, and they could not withstand the combined forces of so many people. They were soon pinched in Li Ming's hands and were as weak as a dead dog.
The grayish-white skin was covered with wounds, but it absorbed some free energy particles in the mist to repair itself.
Dius immediately sealed him off from external energy.
Everyone's eyes were filled with wonder and a hint of fear, as they glanced obscurely at the burly mechanical body.
The strength displayed by the mechanical body in front of them was almost catching up with Lancaster, which was far beyond their expectations.
Qinglong's mechanical body has more and stronger combat methods than the other two master craftsmen.
"This is the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss..." Cedric was quite surprised. He fixed his eyes on this gray-white creature. It had slender limbs, smooth skin, strange facial features, and it kept making hoarse sounds.
"This is the first time I've seen a living one. In the past, I could only get a glimpse of it in various materials." Kostat frowned, his eyes scanning back and forth between the Yuan people and the burly mechanical system.
Why did this guy attack Li Ming?
"According to the information, shouldn't this thing only be active in the Eternal Abyss?" Dius was puzzled.
The energy around him gradually dissipated, and Mikhail's face looked very ugly. Everything below him turned into nothingness, with only scattered metal debris floating around.
The brief collision directly destroyed a quarter of the area.
This caused a chain reaction, and the edges farther away also began to collapse, as if some kind of balance had been broken.
The space-time isolation state covering the entire area actually began to flow slowly.
"How could something like this suddenly appear in this place?" Gonzalez looked at Mikhail, "You should give us an explanation."
"I don't know why it hasn't appeared before. This time, besides bringing you in..." Mikhail seemed to remember something midway through his words, and his expression became very interesting: "Is it... that black hole?"
With just a little thought using the control variable method, I was able to lock on to my target.
"Huh?" Reynolds reacted and said in surprise, "No wonder the broken crystal still has such powerful power. It turns out it's locked up these two things."
"Let's put him down first," Kostart said, his eyes twinkling. "This is probably the first time we've caught the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss alive."
"Put him down? He just attacked me." Li Ming made a dissatisfied sound.
"He is extremely valuable and may be able to reveal many secrets to us," added Costat.
Li Ming didn't say anything, but just tightened his palm silently. Of course, he didn't have to kill the Yuan clan.
Instead, he discovered that he could actually extract genetic essence from the body of this Yuan clan member, and not only essence, but also another thing.
"These guys are also X-level life forms, flesh and blood, so it's normal to be able to extract them." Li Ming muttered in his heart, and he must extract all the genetic essence before putting it down.
There was another kind of energy that could be absorbed, and he was also curious about it.
"Don't kill him." Costat's brow jumped, and he said hurriedly, "After this thing dies, it will leave behind a contaminated area that will erode space and corrupt physical matter. It will be difficult to resolve and will continue to expand."
"Contaminated area?" Li Ming was quite surprised and asked, "What exactly are these things? I thought they were just some kind of mimicry from the previous challenge."
Costat was not surprised. After all, Li Ming was not very old and had no access to relevant information.
After a slight hesitation, he looked around at everyone and explained, "The Empire calls them the Shadow of the Eternal Abyss, or the Abyss Clan."
"In fact, we have never actually seen this kind of life form. We have only obtained fragmentary records in many ruins and relics of civilizations."
"They live in the Eternal Abyss. We know nothing about whether they have their own civilized lifestyles, evolutionary paths, and so on. We only know that they are closely linked to the downfall of many powerful civilizations."
"What do you mean? They will destroy civilization?" Li Ming asked in surprise. "Are you saying that they destroyed the Terrax civilization as well?"
"Well..." Costat hesitated and shook his head, "We don't have clear evidence of this."
"They rarely appear in the main universe, as the main universe will suppress this kind of life form," Deus added.
"Suppress?" Li Ming was stunned. He really didn't know this, and the others were also quite surprised.
Dius added: "Yes, just like suppressing dimensional life forms, their power cannot be fully exerted. The air of the main universe is extremely poisonous to them."
"But how did the Holy Spirit Civilization perish? It was obviously killed by this thing." Li Ming asked in confusion.
"I don't know." Costat shook his head and emphasized, "So, many answers need to be found in this thing."
Li Ming pondered for a moment, until everyone was getting impatient waiting, and then he said, "But my teacher taught me to cut the grass at its roots."
"It's been caught." Crow said impatiently, "Put it down quickly."
"Hmm..." Li Ming pondered, dragged his feet, and delayed for a while before reluctantly saying, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Everyone was speechless. They landed in an undamaged area, watched Li Ming casually drop it, and immediately implemented various blockades.
Dius even tried to communicate with them through mental fluctuations, but after a moment he was surprised and said, "They don't have spiritual bodies?"
"No spirit?" Mikhail asked in surprise. "This phenomenon is usually only seen in maternal species. They use pheromones as guidance."
Dius said nothing as runes fell into his brow one by one. He then shook his head and said, "I can't find any memory either. It's all emptiness."
"Perhaps, the biggest gain this time is this guy." Kostat stared at the Yuan Clan on the ground. This life form did not make any sound, but just stared at them, which was chilling.
Everyone glanced at Li Ming covertly, and they were all very curious. Why did this guy attack Li Ming? Was it just because his life level was the lowest?
However, just as Kostat finished his words, the Yuan people on the ground suddenly let out a wail.
Everyone's vigilance instantly rose to the highest level.
There was no movement around, but the Yuan clan in the center underwent incredible changes. They twisted their bodies and seemed to be in extreme pain. The surface of their skin began to melt and white mist evaporated.
Costat's eyes suddenly fixed, and everyone frowned.
Li Ming felt a gaze that was almost tangible. This guy was staring at him intently.
The others finally heard the sound made by the Yuan Clan, which was a string of strange syllables.
No one understood what he meant and watched him evaporate into a cloud of mist.
(End of this chapter)
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