Li Zheng was thinking this, are all the veteran players in the outer city so complaining?
This is too cynical.
The light entered his senses a step later than the sound. Li Zheng blinked. The place he was in was not as lively as he imagined, but rather deserted.
Looking up, I saw the dark sky that was unattainable.
Looking down, there is a metal floor of unknown material.
Yes, you can't grow vegetables here. Vegetables are probably worth a lot of money here.
Li Zheng raised his head and looked around. After seeing the scene around him clearly, Li Zheng suddenly froze.
This...isn't the outer city?
【Ancient Colossus
Grade: Extraordinary
Type: mechanical life
Description: Loaded with the JZ450-023 energy core, it possesses extraordinary power that mortals cannot imagine.
If you accidentally mess with it, be prepared to be crushed into a patty.
The characteristic is that it is equipped with no less than ten super-caliber siege plasma cannons. Don't be fooled by the appearance of the grade. If you are easily hit by one shot, the life of a star class will be severely damaged.
Lao Pu: Look at its one-eyed appearance, does it look familiar?]
【Ancient Warhammer
Grade: Extraordinary
Type: mechanical life
Description: Equipped with JZ450-229 energy core, based on JZ450-023, it has stronger instantaneous explosive power. The disadvantage is that it is not durable enough.
Is there a mountain in front?
Then go through the mountains!]
【Ancient Tiger Scorpion
Grade: Star Glory
Type: mechanical life
Description: Do you think it is a melee machine?
Then you are wrong!
In fact, it’s special machinery!
The chassis is loaded with thirty-two Digger 8s, allowing it to move freely underground in most mining areas. It is good at attacking the enemy's rear and targeting enemy material storage points.]
【Ancient Fire Salamander
Grade: Star Glory
Type: mechanical life
Description: It is another special machine. Most of its internal space is used to fill extremely pure flammable materials. With just a spark, it can eject five lines of terrifying flames with temperatures up to 8,000 degrees Celsius.
Lao Pu: Do you think ‘extreme isolation’ is its natural enemy?
Let’s put it this way, do you know what a total of five kilograms, including people and boxes, is?]
"Did I fall into the lair of ancient technology?"
Li Zheng looked at the giant war machines surrounding him. Compared with them, he was just an inconspicuous ant!
Any machine running it can easily crush him to pieces.
Here, Li Zheng truly felt what size suppression is and what fear of giants is.
This size difference is no longer simply a comparison based on strength.
This is a crushing advantage!
not to mention……
Wherever he could see, there were double digits of every kind of war machinery!
In places he couldn't see, there were so many that he couldn't even imagine!
"Damn...this is deep in the ancient ruins!"
Li Zheng became nervous, "Didn't I get teleported to the outer city? Why did I suddenly come here?"
Judging from the name prefix of each machine, if Li Zheng couldn't guess where he was now, he would have crashed to death.
"Are you awake...human?"
A large shadow suddenly appeared above the head, and an electronically synthesized voice sounded in the empty and crowded venue, stirring up a brief echo.
The next second, Li Zheng finally understood why the unscientific phenomenon of light being slower than sound just occurred.
I saw that in that place where the shadows were higher, the sky rose infinitely, and the originally bright light gradually dimmed.
That 'sky dome' turned out to be a super huge mechanical body. Just now because it was looking down at me, it was so close that I actually thought its chin was the ceiling!
And what emits light to illuminate him is actually the densely packed searchlights on the surface of the opponent's body!
【Ancient Heavenly Curtain
Grade: Unable to determine
Type: mechanical life
Description: Unknown.
Lao Pu: Boy, let’s find a way to run quickly!
It would take more than ten days for you to run back and forth on this thing on foot. If you stand still and let you dismantle it, you may not be able to dismantle an arm of it even if you give it ten years!]
Gulu~
Li Zheng swallowed hard, this thing is seriously over the top!
If you appear here, it's not because of its moves, right?
Damn~
You have such a powerful weapon, why don't you go to the outer city?
Is it fun to stay in the matrix and bully new players?
"Don't be nervous, human. We've met before."
This time, the place where the electronically synthesized voice sounded was closer to him. Li Zheng looked in the direction and found that a mechanical mantis slightly shorter than him had appeared on the feet of an ancient colossus not far away.
This Mechanical Sword Mantis was completely different from the ones he had encountered when downloading dungeons before. It was more slender and had a human-like structure, retaining only a few characteristics of the Mechanical Sword Mantis.
【Ancient Sword Mantis·Humanized Revision
Grade: Extraordinary
Type: mechanical life
Description: Faster! Higher! Stronger!
The advanced model modified from the Mechanical Sword Mantis has a more flexible drive, and its attack and defense capabilities have also been greatly improved. It is by far the most successful model in the series of mechanical bodies of the Mechanical Sword Mantis.
Lao Pu: Although saying this is a bit obscene, I still have to remind you that the template this model refers to is probably a woman.]
Slender legs, towering chest...
Um?
The more Li Zheng looked at this figure, the more familiar it seemed. He raised his hand to block the metal mantis head. He was horrified to realize that the proportions were not made according to Zhan Zhouzhou's figure.
so……
"Are you the Cyclops?"
Li Zheng blurted out and felt that the hairs on his back were about to stand up.
When he downloaded the dungeon for the first time, the final boss he encountered was a large mechanical body with the appearance of a Cyclops.
If Zhan Zhouzhou hadn't been able to hold it back with his own strength due to his superb strength, he would have taken the opportunity to find its weakness and strike a decisive blow.
That time when they formed the team for the first time, I don't know how many people were going to die.
"To be precise, I am the collective consciousness of all the ancient survivors. We are indistinguishable from each other." The electronic sound sounded, and the Zhouhua Mechanical Sword Mantis jumped down from the instep of the ancient colossus, spreading its thin blade-like wings behind its back.
Slowly landed in front of Li Zheng.
The pair of compound eyes integrated with a large number of imaging equipment were locked on Li Zheng without any warmth, but strangely, Li Zheng felt the fluctuation of emotions in the other person's eyes.
Arrogance, anger, jealousy...
Seven of the emotions are the most obvious, while the rest are relatively peaceful and seem to have a bit of a Buddhist feel.
It's different from the extreme decadence of showing off, but a kind of Buddhism that sees through everything.
"Is it your fault that I'm here?"
Facing this sword mantis, Li Zheng didn't even bother to take a defensive posture. If the other party wanted to kill him, he would be reduced to a pulp by now.
"I didn't, it was you who suddenly appeared." Ancient Will denied Li Zheng's guess.
Since it's not their fault, the terminal is certainly not involved.
Will this terminal-led delivery go awry halfway?
Li Zheng felt that this possibility was lower than the chance of Zhan Zhouzhou accidentally killing himself while practicing his sword.
So what is the purpose of the terminal letting itself come here?
Is there any secret hidden among the ancient clan?
"With your strength, it shouldn't be difficult to enter the outer city, right?" Li Zheng thought for a moment and asked, "Why do you still stay in the matrix and be a stepping stone for new players?"
Not to mention much, just the ancient sky curtain can kill all players countless times when placed in the matrix.
The conditions for entering the outer city must have been met long ago.
"My clan has been to the outer city."
Ancient Will replied: "However, the war failed, and our clan chose to come back here to study countermeasures."
war?
Li Zheng noticed this word. Although the ancient will had irregular lags when speaking for some reason, since the other party has mastered Chinese, he should not say ambiguous words.
"What war?"
"Yes, the war of the twisted invasion." The ancient will said slowly: "This information cannot be disclosed to new players. However, you are qualified to know since you have gone to the outer city."
He will definitely know now, because he can't contact other people now, and the terminal is not afraid of him transmitting the information he knows.
"What twisted invasion?"
Li Zheng frowned: "Is it related to the twisted magic crystal?"
He had heard this word twisted many times. The first time he heard about this information was when the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword discovered twisted magic crystals of low purity from the corpses of radiation mutants.
At that time, Li Zheng thought that the so-called "twisted creatures" were some kind of trial in the outer city that was different from matrix creatures.
Now it seems that it is more than just that.
Ancient Will: "Twisted magic crystals are products of distortion, biological products. They are very evil and will devour everything! The matrix is a pure land, and its existence is to fight against distortion."
"Wait a minute!" Li Zheng was confused: "What you said is unclear. Can you start from the beginning?"
Ancient Will: "Then, let's start from a long time ago, a long time, a long time, a long time... a long time ago..."
Next, through the narration of the ancient will, Li Zheng finally understood some of the secrets that the terminal hesitated to let them know.
First of all, there is indeed more than one civilization in the universe, but the place where Blue Star is located is quite special. It was supposed to be a restricted area for life, but as a result, an intelligent population was born.
According to the ancient will, the civilization closest to Blue Star is tens of thousands of light years away.
That was also the last player civilization.
Such a long distance is an extremely difficult hurdle for ordinary civilization to overcome.
Normally, no civilization is willing to spend a high price to conduct an interstellar voyage for a long time, just to find another civilization that does not exist.
However, two civilizations appeared at the same time in a certain galaxy that, in the words of the ancient will, was "difficult to investigate."
These two civilizations developed rapidly, each running on different power systems.
One of the civilizations is good at studying "emotions", and the other civilization is on the "technology side" that is more common in the universe.
When they each gained the ability to enter space, the two civilizations finally learned of each other's existence.
At the beginning, the relationship between the two civilizations was relatively harmonious, and they shared the results of their own power systems with each other.
Until one day, the civilization that studied 'emotion' suddenly discovered that the resources in its territory were about to be exhausted. If a replacement could not be found, the entire civilization would fall apart and eventually disappear from the universe.
At this time, it is too late to start a star-studded journey, so we can only start from the nearest neighbor.
From the initial request for help, to the subsequent occupation, to the final escalation of the conflict.
The war started and got out of hand.
The civilizations on both sides use their respective fields of expertise to fight back and forth, with each other winning or losing.
The original idea of the technological civilization was to fight a war of attrition. As long as the opponent's resources were completely exhausted, they would ultimately be the winner of this war.
But who knows, emotional civilization also knows this. When the last bit of resources is about to be exhausted, all life forms unite together, pushing the power of 'emotion' to the extreme, forming an unprecedented 'emotion' storm!
Once the storm formed, it was out of control, because the storm was mixed with countless disparate emotions and became extremely distorted and abnormal.
Wherever it goes, all conscious, rational, and emotional beings will be infected by this twisted emotion and turn into asymmetrical monsters.
Asymmetric monsters will produce a certain amount of distorted emotions, which can infect some intelligent civilizations with insufficient strength, and can also be used as food to feed emotional storms at critical moments.
The emotional storm swept through the technological civilization. When it was about to die, the technological civilization made a desperate move and built the matrix and the technological creation called the tower. It carried a part of the living force to fight its way out of the emotional storm and escaped into the universe.
After strangling the remaining resistance of technological civilization, the emotional storm drifted aimlessly in space.
The storm that combines countless emotions is extremely sensitive and can detect intelligent life thousands of light years away.
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Over time, after swallowing countless civilizations, the emotional storm and the matrix met again.
After another brutal fight, Matrix was still defeated and fled in defeat.
After that, the Matrix began its career of fighting against distortion, always causing emotional storms not far away.
After clarifying the opponent's goal, he took the lead and took away all the lives of that civilization.
At the beginning, the Matrix's approach was to accept all comers, as long as they were intelligent life, they were included in the rescue category.
Unfortunately, the ideal is full, but the reality is cruel.
When the number of intelligent life groups living in the matrix became more and more, there was friction like the two civilizations did at the beginning.
Gradually, the friction developed into a war, which resulted in rivers of blood.
At this point, the original race in the matrix changed its policy and expelled all those races, leaving them to fight the emotional storm.
In that battle, the casualties were incalculable.
The ancient will only knows that from then on, every civilization saved by the terminal will have to undergo a period of investigation.
As long as they fail to pass the test, they will stay in the matrix world and be used as cannon fodder to fight the emotional storm next time.
Over time, after continuous improvement, the matrix has a unique set of rules, which are running in an orderly manner to this day.
only……
"Just what?" Li Zheng couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
"It's just that since the last player inspection ended in failure, the matrix has suddenly undergone some changes."
There was a trace of doubt in the voice of the ancient will. It didn't know why the matrix terminal that had been running for countless years suddenly changed.
