Chapter 156: Mechanical Creature
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Chu Zhou and the others had imagined what this ancient human ruin was like before seeing it.
The word ‘ancient’ usually made people imagine something relatively ancient and primitive.
In their imagination, this ruin might be related to the horde, hunting, totems, and other elementals.
However, it was definitely unimaginable that this was actually an incomparably huge steel city.
People were always used to linking ‘steel’ to modern technologically advanced society.
It was difficult to imagine that such a steel city had existed billions of years ago.
In the steel city in front of him stood countless huge buildings made of steel.
Even the ground was covered in huge steel rails.
However, after countless years of corrosion, this huge steel city was already rusty.
Many rusty steel buildings could no longer support their structures and collapsed.
The rusty steel components covered the vision of Chu Zhou and the others.
“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I probably wouldn’t have imagined that this is a ruin left behind by the ancient Humans.”
Dongfang Mingzhu sighed and squatted down. She picked up a rusty nail the length of a palm from the ground and observed it carefully.
“That’s right. If I hadn’t confirmed that this is a ruin of ancient humans… I feel that it would be easier to accept if it was said to be a human ruin from the era before the Cataclysm.”
Yang Zhenzhen also picked up a rusty iron block the size of a face plate from the ground. After studying it for a while, she realized that it was once a gear.
Xie Longyuan, Bai Changming, Ye Yun, Luo Yue, Pang He, Zhu Yushi, Gu Xi, and the others also began to explore the vicinity.
“Teacher, let’s go in and take a look too!”
“Okay!’
Chu Zhou and Big Sister Saber also stepped into the steel city.
Crack! Crack!
This steel city was really too corroded by the rust.
Chu Zhou and Big Sister Saber stepped on some mechanical components and steel rails, turning them into iron slag. “There’s a mural here!”
Not long after, Luo Yue suddenly shouted.
When Chu Zhou and the others heard the sound, they immediately flew over.
When Chu Zhou and the other two arrived, Bai Changming, Ye Yun, and Luo Yue were standing in front of a huge mural and looking at it carefully.
This mural was carved on a huge rock. It did not match the style of a steel city.
Moreover, the carving technique of the murals was very crude. The lines were abnormally easy, like a child’s graffiti.
There were only four murals.
The first was many people holding hammers, saws, knives, shovels, and other tools standing together.
In the second mural, a steel city appeared. Many people cheered in the city.
The third was that some of the limbs of some people in the steel city had become mechanical components.
In the fourth mural, all the normal humans in the steel city had disappeared. There were only robots of different sizes in the city.
“Could these four murals reveal the development of the civilization of the ancient humans who built this steel city?’
Chu Zhou muttered to himself. He basically understood the meaning behind these four murals when he saw the transformation process of the humans in the murals.
“They seem to be trying to take the mechanized evolutionary path… I wonder how far they have gone? However, they should have failed in the end. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have disappeared from history.”
“The evolution path that we humans are taking has vaguely reached a limit… I wonder if we can succeed in the end. ‘
Big Sister Saber said solemnly.
When Bai Changming, Ye Yun, and Luo Yue heard this, their expressions darkened slightly.
From the information revealed by the huge steel city in front of him and the four murals, the ancient humans might not be inferior to the current humans.
However, the civilization established by the ancient humans seemed to have been completely destroyed.
The evolution path that the ancient humans tried also failed.
Would the evolution path taken by the current humans succeed in the future?
If the evolution path that humans were taking now failed, would the current humans disappear like the ancient humans?
These problems involved the history of human civilization and evolution. They were too heavy, making the atmosphere oppressive.
Chu Zhou smiled. “Why do you care so much! We’re only Control Realm martial artists now. We haven ‘t even reached the end of our current evolutionary path.”
“The continuation of human civilization and the development of the evolutionary path are things we should consider after reaching the end of the evolutionary path. ‘
“The current us might not even be able to become Martial Gods!”
“Cultivate hard! Become a Martial God first before thinking about anything else!”
“Chu Zhou’s words are rough but reasonable! That’s right, we’re still far from becoming Martial Gods! There are some problems that we shouldn’t consider.” Bai Changming also smiled.
Ye Yun and Luo Yue could not help but laugh.
Exactly!
They were only Control Realm martial artists. Now, they were thinking about problems that only Martial Gods should consider.
Wasn’t he thinking too highly of himself?
At this moment, Xie Longyuan, Dongfang Mingzhu, Yang Zhenzhen, and the others also walked over. They were also very shocked after seeing the four murals.
“So the ancient humans who left behind this ruin took the mechanized evolutionary path? No wonder they left behind such a huge steel city.”
Xie Longyuan and the others sighed.
At this moment, a huge tremor sounded.
Chu Zhou and the others were shocked. They looked in the direction of the voice and immediately saw robots the height of several people surging towards them from the city like a tide.
On the surface, the construction of these robots looked very simple.
The head was a circular iron ball.
His body was like an iron bucket.
There were also two mechanized arms and thighs.
These robots were completely incomparable to the complicated and precise robots in movies in terms of beauty. They were more like inferior products pieced together from simple mechanical components.
However, Chu Zhou and the others felt a sense of danger from these mechanical armies.
“No, these aren’t robots… There’s a Spirit fluctuation on them!’
Chu Zhou and the others’ expressions suddenly changed.
As the tide of robots approached, they clearly felt a trace of Spirit fluctuation emitting from the robots.
Chu Zhou and the others understood that machines did not have Spirit fluctuations.
Only real life forms had Spirit fluctuations.
In other words, instead of saying that what appeared in front of them were robots… it was more like mechanical creatures!
“Could it be that the ancient humans succeeded? They were all transformed into mechanical creatures?”
Chu Zhou and the others looked at each other in shock.
If the ancient humans really succeeded, they would no longer be humans… They would be brand new species, mechanical creatures.
A mysterious and ancient electronic synthesis suddenly sounded in the steel city.
The mechanical creatures that surged towards Chu Zhou and the others like a tidal wave. Their electronic eyes flickered with red light before they attacked Chu Zhou and the others.
In the next moment, a large number of mechanical creatures shot out dark red plasma balls flickering with lightning.
Dense plasma balls the size of basketballs enveloped Chu Zhou and the others.
Chu Zhou casually punched and shattered a plasma ball. Wisps of red electricity spread to his arm, giving him a numb and needle-like feeling.
“It’s roughly comparable to the attack strength of a peak-level Awakening
Realm martial artist… It can’t threaten us yet.”
“However, it’s hard to say if we’re hit too many times.”
Chu Zhou said calmly and immediately used the phantom movement technique to rush towards the mechanical creature army.
With every step he took, he drew realistic afterimages and perfectly dodged all the plasma balls that flew over.
Soon, he appeared in front of a mechanical creature.
BANG!
He punched a mechanical creature heavily, shattering it into countless parts.
A white crystal the size of a rice grain and countless parts flew in all directions.
Chu Zhou grabbed the white crystal with his right hand at lightning speed.
He felt extremely weak Spirit fluctuations from the white crystal.
“Could this crystal be the mental condensation of an ancient human?”
As a spiritual master who had already condensed the Spirit Relic, Chu Zhou instantly thought of many things the moment he saw the white crystal.
He wrapped the white crystal with his mental strength and immediately confirmed his guess.
This white crystal was indeed a condensation of Spirit.
However, it did not seem to be conscious.
There was only an extremely weak single signal.
Chu Zhou did not know how the ancient humans engraved this single signal in the white crystal, but he sensed that this white crystal was good stuff.
This white spirit condensation was very pure. Other than the single signal, there were no other distracting spirit thoughts.
It seemed that as long as he removed the single signal, he could directly absorb the white crystal and increase his mental strength.
“This is good stuff!”
Chu Zhou’s eyes lit up.
In the next moment, he completely let go. His entire body turned into afterimages and shattered the mechanical creatures one after another. Then, he collected all the white crystals.
Xie Longyuan and the others had been staring at Chu Zhou ever since he began to attack.
They saw Chu Zhou’s actions.
Their eyes lit up when they saw Chu Zhou continuously shattering mechanical creatures and putting away the white crystals.
No one was stupid.
He immediately knew that the white crystal was probably something precious. As a Spiritual Masters, Luo Yue immediately guessed what the white crystal was when she saw it.
She directly controlled a flying knife to shoot a mechanical creature apart from afar and sucked a white crystal into her hand.
“This… This is actually a Spirit Condensation!”
“Moreover, there are no chaotic consciousnesses inside. After dealing with the single signal, you can absorb it and increase your mental strength.”
Luo Yue said in shock. As if she had discovered a shocking treasure, she eagerly dodged the plasma balls and rushed towards the mechanical creature army.
It was as if they were afraid that Chu Zhou would kill all the mechanical creatures in advance and snatch all the white crystals.
“That white crystal can actually increase mental strength?”
Big Sister Saber, Xie Longyuan, Bai Changming, and the others perked up and rushed towards the mechanical creatures.
Even though they were not Spiritual Masters…
It did not mean that they did not have mental strength nor did it mean that strengthening their mental strength was not beneficial to them.
Therefore, they would definitely not miss such an opportunity to quickly strengthen their mental strength..
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