After entering the Earth's atmosphere, it seemed that Pumas had escaped pursuit, but in fact its condition was still very bad.
Because the black poisonous needle injected into Pumas' body by the mechanical poisonous bee has begun to take effect, the toxin on it was prepared by Sound Wave himself, and it is a powerful rusty poison specifically targeted at mechanical intelligent life forms.
Therefore, Pumas had lost most of his self-awareness when he landed, and could only rely on inertia to turn into a blazing meteorite and hit the earth obliquely. Fortunately, it adjusted as much as possible before the impact.
, hitting the ground at a small angle.
As a result, at the time of the impact, the geographical location where Pumas landed was quite special. On the surface, there was a layer of rock crust dozens of meters thick, but underneath there was an underground lake.
It struck obliquely, and after breaking through the upper layer of rock shell, it flew for more than ten kilometers in the underground space, and then plunged into the underground lake, even plowing out the bottom of the underground lake.
A deep trench several kilometers long.
In the end, Pumas stopped with his head stuck deep into the bottom of the lake at a 30-degree angle and his tail tilted up.
This is the cause of the "turtle-back"-shaped raised highland that Fang Linyan saw at the bottom of the lake, which was completely lifted up when Pumas landed.
The location where Pumas smashed through the surface rock crust obliquely was more than ten kilometers away from the underground lake, and a small landslide occurred at that time. The hole that it broke through was blocked, so people on the ground
Even if you see the meteorite coming, you will find nothing.
Sound Wave was quite confident in the rust poison he had concocted. After confirming that Pumas was hit by multiple black poisonous needles, he believed that this guy was definitely dead, so he did not pursue it further.
This is indeed the case. Pumas has been in a coma at the bottom of the lake since then. Fortunately, after it successfully landed and before it lost its last trace of consciousness, it entrusted everything to the artificial intelligence in the ship: Nimbus.
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Nimbus has been trying every means to save Pumas, but the means are lacking.
Mainly because the rust poison on the black poison needle is quite vicious.
Artificial Intelligence: Maintenance robots made by Nimbus------the kind of mechanical spiders that will die quickly as soon as they get close.
Because its own energy is difficult to replenish, Nimbus cannot create unlimited repair robots to fight against the poison of rust.
At the same time, the poison of rust is still eroding Pumas' vitality all the time, causing it to continuously dissipate.
It was also thanks to Pumas' long-term contact with the fragments of the steel fire source that his vitality was extremely tenacious and he was able to survive under the corrosion of this rust poison for so many years.
The dissipated life force of Pumas is a very special mechanical life energy, which is equivalent to a disguised form of radiation power.
Under the constant radiation of this energy, measured in years, this artificial intelligence: the light wheel is also constantly evolving. At this time, it should be regarded as a semi-mechanical intelligent creature.
Not only that, but the native creatures in the underground lake were also affected, and they also began to evolve into semi-metallic creatures.
The first ones to be affected are snails, crabs, turtles, creatures that can absorb calcium themselves and create protective shells. They only need to evolve the ability to absorb calcium to create protective shells, so that they can absorb metal and create metal shells.
It’s just the ability.
Because the life force exuded by Pumas has a fatal attraction to these creatures, most of these creatures will linger around the spacecraft, forming an invisible protection for the ruins of the spacecraft.
However, some small mutated semi-metallic creatures will still be accidentally drawn into the underground river while hunting and wandering, and then be washed out with the current.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a metal-shelled snail swimming out of an underground lake was captured by the outside world.
Within just two years, such semi-metallic creatures with metal shells began to be discovered one after another. There were more than a dozen of them circulating in the outside world, but they were all metal snails.
Under this circumstance, the semi-metal creature finally attracted the attention of a big shot in the then-prominent Blood Umbrella Company.
This man's name is Williams. He was originally a little-known researcher, and his research skills were mediocre, but he had outstanding achievements in politics. He seized the opportunity and quickly rose to become one of the five directors within the Blood Umbrella Company.
However, he was so ambitious that he was not willing to stop there.
At this time, the Blood Umbrella Company was divided into two factions: human body research and hybrid gene research.
If Williams wants to increase his voice, from a normal point of view, he can only choose one of the series first, and then poach the corners to bribe the directors of major laboratories, heads of branches, etc.
At this time, these powerful figures had already been recruited by other major directors, so Williams would inevitably offend others if he wanted to poach them.
In this case, Williams chose to take a new approach and start a new one, creating a brand new third faction within the Blood Umbrella Company: biomachines!
Williams mobilized a large amount of funds and began to concentrate on researching the captured semi-metallic creatures.
It was also because of his luck that he managed to catch a crab with a metal shell at this critical moment, immediately making a breakthrough in biomechanical technology.
Williams is very mediocre in academic research, but is an out-and-out genius in politics and marketing. He is the kind of person who can sell plain water as a high-end nutritional product, and can also fool a large number of people into crying and buying it.
of strong men.
What's more, he really has an epoch-making achievement in his hands at this time?
As a result, Williams immediately became even more powerful, seizing a large amount of resources by enclosing land, and attracted an astonishing amount of floating funds and venture capital investors.
After obtaining sufficient resources, Williams immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation of the place, and then spent a lot of manpower and material resources to secretly build the Veronica Laboratory. Relying on the development of the so-called underwater ruins, Williams achieved great success.
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As a result, the biomechanical faction also emerged. Because they had ready-made mutant biological samples for research, they avoided many detours and soon began to squeeze the remaining two major factions out of breath.
However, even the top management of the Blood Umbrella Company at the time, including Williams, did not know that the underwater relic they were studying was actually a mechanical intelligent life that was still alive, but it was just in a state of suspended animation.
Of course, if they knew, they might become even crazier.
Needless to say what happened next, the Blood Umbrella Company split up.
It's just that Williams had already prepared for a rainy day. When he was establishing the Veronica Laboratory, he built a total of eleven locations, eight of which were cover-ups, in order to cover up the real core laboratory.
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As for Fang Linyan, he could no longer suppress his excitement at this time.
Because, he has obtained a shocking secret from the remaining memories of Pumas.
That is the specific location of the small steel fire source fragment!
When Pumas went to steal the energy block, he did not take it with him.
At that time, Soundwave placed a large piece of steel fire source fragment in the base. If Pumas brought the fragment, the two originally originated from one body. As long as they are put together, they will be like two drops of water touching each other.
Miraculously two become one.
Not only that, even if the two fragments are close to a certain range, they are likely to resonate.
In view of the characteristics of the steel fire source fragment, Pumas certainly did not dare to take it around with him. Instead, he used some materials found in the abandoned garbage dump to make a shielding box.
He usually puts the piece of steel fire source next to him in a shielding box, and the shielding box is buried in a hole he usually digs.
When Pumas was caught stealing energy blocks, it was equivalent to falling into an ambush. He had to do his best to break out of it. Of course, he didn't have time to go back and get the steel fire source fragments.
In other words, no matter how it was placed then, it should still be in the same place now.
The specific location there is next to a mountain range on the back of the moon that can never be observed from the earth!!
As for this piece of steel fire source fragment, Fang Linyan felt that he could not evaluate its rarity. He had heard something before when chatting with the goat, that every world hides one or several ultimate secrets.
This ultimate secret is unique. Once discovered and obtained, it will be lost forever.
Of course, it will be incredibly difficult to obtain this ultimate secret, and you will have a narrow escape from death!
At that time, Fang Linyan joked that he didn't know how many people were included in Noah's Space. Those who were selected must be elites. If everyone can become the selected ones and compete fairly, then there is something to be said for it.
But since you all know this, then the rest of the people must also know,
Others enter the space for a few years or more than ten years first, and then wait until they are strong enough to go back and discover this ultimate secret. How can they keep it?
But Goat told Fang Linyan that there are conditions for obtaining the ultimate secret, and they are very strict. For example, personal attributes cannot be higher than a certain level, and for example, you must be a trialist or a contractor. If it is higher, you will be directly disqualified.
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This is similar to the achievements of "accompanying ten different female classmates home from school before the age of 14" or "achieving the goal of killing hundreds of people in high school", which can only be completed at a certain stage.
It will definitely keep the difficulty of obtaining the ultimate secret under extremely difficult conditions.
After calming down for a while, Fang Linyan began to put away his thoughts, and then continued to patiently search for the structural diagram of the activated mechanical heart in front of him.