From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star

In the courtroom of Queen Star, the capital of Sykes civilization.

Earlstone Stella raised his head arrogantly in front of all the leaders and representatives of the participating factions, as well as the central system.

"You can't judge me, because now only I can decide the fate of Queen Star, or even the entire civilization..."

His opening remarks puzzled the faction leaders and representatives present.

Only the top leaders of the Advent Faction knew a little bit of the inside story, but only a little bit.

Erstone Stella showed a realistic mimicry expression, looked at the time, and said:

"There are still 50 seconds left, and Queen Star will face the biggest crisis since the existence of civilization.

"Only me! Only I can solve this crisis.

"I'll give you the last 50 seconds to end this ridiculous trial and raise my power level to the same level as the central system, otherwise I will rule Queen Star in another way."

This narration puzzled all the top leaders of Sykes civilization present.

I don't understand why he has such great confidence.

Time passed by minute by minute.

After Earlstone Stella finished his previous words, he waited quietly.

After 50 seconds, the entire courtroom was in turmoil.

Because just one second ago, the faction leaders and representatives present had received a crisis alert, and it was the highest level of crisis alert.

In the Gravity Block, with Earlstone Stella's underground laboratory as the center, a large-scale loss of energy began.

It was as if there was an energy black hole in this laboratory, which swallowed up all the power energy of the entire block, causing the surrounding buildings to lose power.

And the area of ​​power loss is still expanding, spreading to nearby blocks.

Then.

A steel structure building in the Gravity Block seemed to come alive, and the steel extended tentacles, turning into a huge monster, and began to devour all the organic matter and metal around it.

This situation is still spreading, and all the steel structures near the Gravity Block have come alive and turned into tentacle monsters, and the entire block has fallen into chaos.

The Sykes civilization sounded the highest level of alarm, and all kinds of information poured into the central system like a tide.

The leaders of the major factions and the high-level civilizations obtained information from the central system, and all fell into an unsolvable computing state.

This unsolvable computing state is the state of shock of the robots.

They constantly obtain information, perform calculations, and try to find a solution to the problem.

However, after hundreds of millions of calculations, the information obtained did not produce the desired results.

Therefore, the mechanical nobles present fell into a state similar to a shutdown, and even their movements were frozen.

Earlstone Stella showed a realistic mimicry smile and said loudly: "I said that raising my power level is the only way to solve this crisis."

The faction leaders began to communicate data with Earlstone Stella, obtain information from him, and calculate whether he can really solve the crisis.

The characteristic of mechanical civilization is that efficiency is determined by computing power. As long as it is determined that Earlstone Stella can solve the crisis and there is no other way, then the central system is likely to agree to Earlstone Stella's request.

...

At the same time.

In the underground laboratory of the gravity block.

The six teams that raided the laboratory were trapped here, and they tried their best to attack the metal door.

When they found that the metal door could not be opened, some superpowers began to bombard the wall.

The superpowers that could be recruited into this abyss battlefield were basically above level 35 and were very strong in combat.

A few attacks made a hole in the wall.

But after the hole appeared, the steel bars in the wall grew out like tentacles and blocked the hole.

"What on earth is this?"

Seeing this scene, everyone began to panic.

Jian Qing spoke to stabilize the morale of the army: "Don't panic, concentrate on attacking one position, break an exit, and we will go out first.

"Don't worry if you can't get out, there are still two hours before the return time. As long as we hold on to the end, we can still go home safely. "

The captains of several other teams echoed: "Yes, we will be safe if we hold on until the return time. "

If we just hold on until the return time, the challenge mission of clearing the source of abyss pollution will definitely not be completed.

However, when encountering such a terrifying thing, being able to return alive is the best result.

As for the mission reward, it would be best if there is one, but we won't force it if there is none.

Everyone calmed down, followed Jian Qing's command, and began to attack a position together, and then broke out little by little.

When Lu Heng saw this terrifying "creature" that looked like metal and abyss tumor, he was stunned for a moment.

Because he finally figured out what this thing was.

This thing is an evolution of abyss tumor, usually It is called Metal Sarcoma, and another name is Metal Devourer.

However, this kind of thing should not appear at this time.

In my memory, Metal Sarcoma should appear in the third year of the Abyss.

It is now March of the second year of the Abyss.

In other words, according to the original timeline, Metal Sarcoma should appear more than eight months later.

Why is it so much earlier?

At this moment, Lu Heng also thought of the reason.

This Metal Sarcoma is hidden in Earlstone Stella's underground laboratory, which means that this thing should be the "experimental subject" he studied.

According to the original timeline, Lu Heng did not join.

The superpowers recruited this time are probably still investigating Xavier Matrix, and it is highly unlikely that they will investigate Earlstone Stella.

Even if they investigate Earlstone Stella, as long as Earlstone Stella receives the information, he will withdraw the laboratory as soon as possible.

In addition, with the existence of the Creator Organization's looting team, the Sykes civilization must have spent most of its energy on the Pharaoh's team.

In other words, if Lu Heng had not appeared here, Earlstone Stella would not have been exposed at all.

Naturally, no one would be able to see the metal sarcoma experiment hidden in the underground laboratory.

In this way, the metal sarcoma experiment would not be exposed at this time, but eight months later.

Due to the appearance of Lu Heng, the original order of events was changed, causing the metal sarcoma experiment to be exposed in advance.

...

After these information were connected in series, the context of the entire incident was clear.

The source of the abyss pollution that Jian Qing and others investigated in the recruitment mission was the metal sarcoma experiment.

The "mechanical demon" studied by Earlstone Stella is not the trash in the laboratory. The real experimental project is the metal sarcoma.

This metal sarcoma is a combination of the abyss sarcoma and the metal devourer, which is more terrible than the original abyss sarcoma.

The abyss sarcoma itself is terrible enough, but this thing has a disadvantage.

It can only devour organic matter, and grow continuously by devouring organic matter, and eventually engulf the entire planet.

If there is no organic matter on this planet, the abyss sarcoma cannot grow.

This is also the reason why the abyss sarcoma will not appear on the ice planet.

The ice planet of the Sykes civilization has a temperature below minus 200 degrees all year round. There is no organic life at all, only minerals and mechanical mining equipment.

Even if the abyss sarcoma appears on the second Gaia star, the harm it causes is relatively limited.

Because the Sykes civilization has evolved to the late stage of mechanical civilization, almost all Sykes citizens have undergone mechanical transformation.

The bodies of Sykes mechanical citizens are basically made of metal materials, and they do not need to eat, but only need to be charged.

Since there is no need to eat, the Sykes civilization does not have any animal husbandry or planting, and does not need organic food.

Rare animals are kept in zoos, and there are not many of them.

Compared with animals that need to be cleaned frequently, citizens of Sykes prefer mechanical fighting beasts.

Similarly, the Sykes civilization does not have high requirements for the atmosphere, and its activities only consume electricity, not oxygen.

So the Sykes world does not even need many plants.

Combining various factors, the total amount of organic matter on the planet of the Sykes civilization is far less than that of the blue planet.

This leads to a limited space for the abyss tumor to play in the Sykes civilization.

Of course, this is only relative.

For such a large planet, the total amount of organic matter is still a lot.

If the abyss tumor is left alone, it can still devour the entire planet.

The last time on the second Gaia star, the expansion of the abyss tumor was relatively slow. One of the reasons was that the city was full of metal and concrete, and there was not much organic matter.

Therefore, after Earlstone Stella got the sample of the abyss tumor, he started a research project.

And he succeeded. He used a new research idea to combine the abyss tumor and the metal devourer, and finally successfully researched the experimental body of the metal tumor.

It's just that his research has not been completed yet, and the current metal tumor experiment is not his most perfect work.

According to the timeline of the previous life, he will create a more terrible metal tumor experiment in eight months, and then release it to devour the entire Queen Star.

Yes.

In Lu Heng's memory, the capital of the Sykes civilization, the Queen Star, was finally swallowed by the metal tumor.

Of course, the Sykes civilization made a lot of resistance during this period.

After all, the Queen Star is their political and cultural center, and the Sykes civilization certainly wants to keep this planet.

Unfortunately, after three months of fighting the metal tumor, the Sykes civilization announced its withdrawal from the Queen Star.

Two months later, in May of the third year of the Abyss in the human world, the Sykes civilization established its capital on the Second Gaia Star.

The fall of the Queen Star is also the starting point of the decline of the Sykes civilization.

Lu Heng indirectly witnessed the decline of an advanced civilization in the invasion of the Abyss, step by step towards the end.

And the starting point of the decline of the Sykes civilization is this metal tumor experiment.

It is this Sykes scientist named Earlstone Stella.

Sometimes Lu Heng couldn't tell whether the decline of the Sykes civilization was due to the invasion of the abyss or the civilization itself.

Now, after seeing the metal tumor eight months in advance, Lu Heng couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

Maybe he could change something...