In the game.
After hanging up the phone with Li Weizheng, Chu Fu called out to everyone.
“Let’s go. Time to enter the Level 50 map!”
“Come on. Let’s see what our Thorn City will look like under the calculations of the Primordial Gate and Version Six!”
Low-level players had to pass a combat-power check before entering high-level maps.
Without a doubt, Chu Fu and the others all qualified, and they were able to teleport to the higher-level map.
The teleportation array lit up.
The power of space carried everyone to another location.
Their vision returned.
At the same time, the sound of dense gunfire reached their ears, along with a buzzing noise that sounded like a chainsaw.
Everyone instinctively looked toward the source of the noise, only to realize that it was coming from directly above them.
The sight left them stunned.
At that moment, Thorn City was enveloped by a gigantic energy shield. Countless small machines and robots were attacking the shield from all around, while several enormous airships overhead were firing back.
The words “Thorn” were written across the airships.
They were locked in a fierce battle with the robots outside, neither side gaining a clear advantage.
This was obviously the future predicted by the Primordial Gate.
Their Thorn City had developed airships and was fighting against the Mechanical Race.
It made perfect sense!
After all, they had the Mechanical God!
“We start fighting the moment we arrive? This is exciting!” Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao charged forward and unleashed a taunt, hoping to draw all the monsters together.
However, MISS appeared above the heads of every member of the Mechanical Race.
The Mechanical Race followed its underlying code and had no souls, so taunts were ineffective.
That immediately enraged Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao.
She promptly summoned the earth element. The bluestone paving beneath her feet was torn from the ground, enveloping her body and transforming her into a giant made of rock.
She stomped on the ground.
A mountain rose from the earth, carrying her beyond the energy shield.
Fortunately, the shield was only five hundred meters high. Otherwise, she really would have had to create an entire mountain.
“Jiao Jiao! This is only a future map. If you did this inside Thorn City, do you realize how much you’d destroy? You’d tear your own home apart!” Suture Saint shouted.
“I can’t worry about that now! A tank who doesn’t want to be a damage dealer isn’t a true tank. I’m switching to a damage-dealing class!”
Ever since they had defeated the Divine Envoy, Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao had risen rapidly.
She was no longer satisfied with being a tank. After all, the team already had two tank classes. It would be better to let her break free and become a damage dealer.
Being a berserker was much more comfortable.
Battle! What a thrill!
But before Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao could truly show what she could do, Shen Chi transformed into a metallic man as well. His entire body turned a dazzling white, as if he were glowing.
He raised one hand.
“Metal Manipulation.”
A strange energy wave, resembling a magnetic field, spread outward.
Every machine attacking Thorn City was swept up by the wave.
In the next instant, the machines began twisting and collapsing.
“Beep beep beep beep! The body is being controlled. The body is deforming.”
“Metal-type Awakened detected. Activating self-destruction annihilation mode.”
“Self-destruct system failure. Control overridden! Control overridden!”
Countless robots flashed red warning lights.
But there was nothing they could do. In just a few seconds, the robots had all been reduced to lumps of scrap metal.
Shen Chi raised his hand and clenched it.
Countless iron blocks gathered from every direction and instantly condensed into a cube.
The sound of pieces locking together rang out.
Above them, the countless metal blocks formed a gigantic Rubik’s Cube.
All the members of the Mechanical Race had been compressed into it.
They were already dead.
The next moment, loot began raining from the sky.
“Wow!”
Chu Fu’s eyes glimmered. At that moment, Shen Chi seemed to be glowing.
He was so cool.
Xie Lin watched from the side and curled his lips.
“Look at you, showing off.”
Shen Chi was also a little embarrassed. He glanced at everyone, his gaze lingering briefly on Chu Fu, then coughed.
“I did this for convenience. Absorbing metal is beneficial to me, and these machines should still contain chips. I might be able to learn more from them. For all we know, these airships were built by me!”
This time, Xie Lin did not argue.
What Shen Chi said did make sense.
Shen Chi then summoned the metal and began slowly merging it into his body.
No one would disturb him during a moment of improvement like this.
“Should we go up and take a look? Do you think we can get inside the airship?”
“We should be able to. Let’s try!”
“Wow, high technology! Even though everyone has gained supernatural powers, technology still exceeds our imagination!”
The group flew toward the airship.
Just then, the airship spoke in an oddly human voice.
[Beep! Administrator identity detected. The surrounding environment is safe. Opening cabin door.]
The airship opened its doors automatically.
Everyone immediately entered with great interest and began looking around.
Although the interior of the airship had a certain technological feel, most of the decorations were actually exact replicas of the interior of Shen Chi’s wolf-type mecha.
“Even the cup I keep in my workshop is here.” Zhimengzhe found it amusing.
“The Primordial Gate is really cutting corners.”
“Since this is a prediction of the future, it’s actually reasonable. We’ll be taking airships into battle from now on!”
After looking around for a while, everyone lost interest.
The monsters did not respawn either.
The group could only leave and search for new monsters to fight.
They had to admit that these monsters provided quite a lot of experience.
One wave of monsters had given them 0.3% experience. At that rate, they only needed to clear 330 waves to level up.
As long as they found 330 cities and cleared them all, they could level up without even using a full day.
The only problem was the teleportation cost.
Thinking of this, Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao called out to Shen Chi.
“Put that huge metal lump away first! When we go to another city, you can just stay idle and absorb it.”
The others often did things like this. For example, Feng Huimin never participated in minor battles. At most, she would give everyone a buff before handling guild affairs.
Their damage output was simply excessive.
“Okay!” Shen Chi’s gentle voice rang out as he agreed.
The group walked toward the teleportation array.
But once they opened the teleportation interface, everyone fell silent.
During the Titan Version, the destinations available from Thorn City had been densely packed together.
During the Elemental Storm Version, there had still been fewer than five thousand sanctuaries.
But now, there were only a little over thirty destinations available.
Among them was Dragon City, where Dragon Conquers the Nine Provinces was located.
“Then let’s go to Dragon City first and take a look,” Chu Fu said.
Everyone nodded.
After spending the required gold, they all teleported from Thorn City to Dragon City.
The moment they arrived, they felt as though the sky had turned completely black.
A huge rift had appeared, and countless machines were emerging from it.
[Origin-level dungeon discovered: Mechanical Star. Enter?]
An Origin-level dungeon had appeared in the future map?
Chu Fu was stunned for a moment.
She vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
…
At the same time.
High above the planet where Chu Fu lived, or more precisely, within a dimensional space at an even higher level, ten thrones floated in the void.
“They’ve seen it. The plan succeeded!”
