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#220 - Chapter 220 Flesh Harvester
“Buzz, buzz, buzz!”
This fragment, about half the size of a fingernail, began to rapidly deform in front of Wu Wei after being charged by Master Silas.
In a few short moments, it transformed into several shapes that would seem incredibly twisted to any ordinary creature.
However, this deformation process did not last long.
Because Master Silas's mechanical arm activated some kind of force field the moment the fragment began to deform, firmly binding it within his mechanical palm and halting its almost frantic transformation.
Nevertheless, Wu Wei stared intently at the mechanical fragment before him.
As a Lord of the Abyss, he felt an eerie familiarity with the fragment's transformation.
Wu Wei had witnessed this type of deformation countless times in the Abyss.
However, in the endless Abyss, this transformation only occurred on flesh and blood.
And it had a specific term: [Abyssal Aberration]!
...
Besides this, Wu Wei also noticed that the moment the fragment was activated,
a surge of chaotic emotions, accompanied by the awakening of an incomplete fragment of will, filled the research institute!
Wu Wei had only sensed such a violent aura on certain demon heroes.
“Lord from the Empire,”
Master Silas said slowly.
“This fragment was taken from that mechanical being.”
“However, this fragment is not a component of that mechanical being.”
“On the contrary, the fragment's origin lies with the mechanical being's enemy!”
“The reason this mechanical being is in such a ruined state is because it suffered a fatal blow from that enemy!”
Hearing this, Wu Wei recalled that the mechanical being's location was indeed quite far from the silver-gray ruins.
Although both were silver-gray, their connection might have nothing to do with color.
More importantly, the mechanical being's initial direction did not seem to be defending the ruins but attacking towards them!
“The technological content of this mechanical fragment is also completely different from that of the mechanical being.”
After confining the fragment within the force field, Master Silas further magnified its image so that Wu Wei could observe it more clearly.
“It belongs to the mid-stage of a Tier 3 civilization, far surpassing the Tier 2 civilization peak of that mechanical being!”
“Such a level of technology is far more valuable than Tier 2 civilization in the Royal Auction House.”
“And more importantly, in the Royal Auction House, such technological creations are generally priceless.”
Hearing Master Silas's words, Wu Wei's eyes lit up involuntarily.
Suddenly, the foul smell in the laboratory no longer seemed so offensive.
Wu Wei even found Master Silas's mechanical body to be somewhat 'cute'.
However....
“But unfortunately,”
“Lord from the Empire, let me give you a friendly reminder.”
“No matter where or from which dimension you discovered this thing, I advise you to abandon that world immediately!”
“Why?”
“Because the entity this thing belongs to is extremely dangerous, and I once had the honor of witnessing it.”
“The essence of this thing is a product of an AI civilization's collapse.”
“In history, that AI did not leave much reliable information for reference, but over countless years, I have still managed to find some information about the true reason for the collapse of this AI civilization.”
Master Silas's mechanical body emitted a chilling mechanical laughter.
“This AI civilization took the wrong path in the process of transitioning from Tier 2 to Tier 3 civilization!”
“That is, this AI civilization, which should have been rational and technologically superior, began to crave flesh and blood, and souls, for some special reason, perhaps an unknown electronic virus, or perhaps some kind of meme.”
“I know such remarks sound like a fantasy, but it is true.”
“In short, this originally promising AI civilization, with the help of some technology that I have not been able to analyze, did indeed embark on such a strange and chaotic civilizational path.”
“Even more terrifying is that they succeeded.”
“Because with the help of that forbidden technology, their AI program did obtain the soul that AI programs dream of in some way.”
“But....”
“Their success was only half a success!”
Master Silas said with a sneer.
“Because the way they obtained souls was through live sacrifices!”
“This terrifying AI civilization, by devouring living things, bound their souls within the AI program's electronic network.”
“And this also caused another consequence: a large number of grieving souls completely corrupted the AI civilization's electronic network.”
“Then, the AI civilization's mainframe went mad!”
“And the mad mainframe and the other electronic lives it controlled were called by other civilizations belonging to the ancient civilization at the time...”
“The Harvester Legion!”
“A terrifying mechanical legion driven by a mad master brain, harvesting all living things!”
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At the same time, below the tunnels of the green cage.
The silver-gray ancient civilization ruins, after tens of thousands of years of dormancy, finally began to awaken.
[System scrambling...]
[Host 1-99 self-checking and restarting, self-check failed, restart failed....]
A green light inside the ruins flashed and disappeared.
But just as this light was about to disappear, a Laurent demon flashed past above the ruins.
The green light disappeared.
Replaced by a red light representing a warning!
[Warning, the system has detected living things!]
[Host 1-99 restart stopped!]
[Host 100, codenamed Decayed Life, is starting!]
[Flesh harvesting program completed!]
[Harvest...]
[Begin!]