Chapter 555 A Preliminary Exploration into the Abyss

 The sudden sound made both of them nervous at the same time.

Mu You jumped up in a hurry and looked warily at the pile of broken parts on the sand.

If this guy can be resurrected, then he will really be scolded...

 Fortunately, this time it seemed that it was not a resurrection, but a simple sound was broadcast, and then there was no more movement.

After waiting for a moment to confirm that the mechanical body had no tendency to recover again, Mu You walked over, found the sounding chip just now, picked it up and checked it.

This thin piece is overall bronze in color and has a fairly simple structure, with some alchemical runes engraved on it.

 Mu You doesn’t understand alchemy, but he has been exposed to the various accessories of the mecha skin for a long time, and he can still guess the meaning of some simple runes.

Judging from the runes, this should be just a simple sound-producing device. The sentence just now should have been broadcast before the robot died. However, due to the vocal cords being damaged by Mu You's brute force, the disc jammed for a while before the last stored syllables were recorded. Broadcast it out.

 After confirming that the thing was harmless, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, and then had time to think about what he had just broadcast.

 "Reset the obliteration mission...start the production of backup machines?"

Mu You murmured and couldn't help but frown. The word 'backup machine' reminded him of a somewhat scary possibility: Could this thing still be a mass-produced assembly line product?

By the way, why are only herb collectors encountering this kind of thing?

 The difference between the herb collector and the locals is that he is a fool, but there are many fools. Why have we never seen information about this kind of robot before?

 Or, the problem lies in the abyss?

This thing crawled out of the abyss, and the level of the abyss is too high. No player should have touched the abyss yet, and the herb collector is probably the first.

"Fool, deepen the abyss, did these two conditions lead to the emergence of this thing..." Mu You pondered.

 “The time to open the door is coming soon.” At this time, the herb collector reminded.

 “Okay, you go back to the abyss first.”

Mu You nodded and sent the herb collector away. He stepped forward and collected all the parts in the sand. He then put down the teleportation array and teleported to Yongye City.

 In the machinery factory, Eugene was pacing anxiously in front of the door. When he saw Mu You appearing in the distance, he immediately rushed over.

 “You’re finally here, come on, come on, where are your things?”

 “What?” Mu You was a little surprised.

"Core! Hurry up, several of my factories are waiting for energy to start working!" Eugene urged, his eyes already subconsciously looking at Mu You's hands.

“Oh, I will need the core for a while.” Mu Youyou said. Next, he planned to go to the abyss to check the situation. If he encountered that kind of robot again on the way, he would need to use mecha skin to deal with it.

 “Hmm? Still need it? How long will it take?” Eugene frowned.

"A week... tentatively." Mu You thought for a while and said.

"A week? Still tentative?" Eugene jumped up anxiously: "Are you kidding? You want the factory to close for a week? Then my machines will rust!"

"It's not that exaggerated." Mu You smiled: "Don't worry, there will be a new core in a week, and no one will compete with you for energy."

Eugene was stunned when he heard this: "Seriously?"

 “Really, I promise.”

Muyan dragged it into the factory and came to a tool table. He pushed the tools on the table out and cleared some of the table.

"Before that, please help me take a look at this thing..." After saying that, Mu You piled all the robot parts collected in the desert on the table.

 “Hey, my tools…” Eugene rushed over and caught a glass instrument that almost fell.

 “Be careful, you know it’s very expensive…”

Eugene turned around and was about to complain, but before he could finish speaking, his eyes were firmly attracted to the things on the table, and he could no longer look away.

 “Bang!”

 The instrument in his hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. Eugene didn't notice it. He quickly walked to the table, quickly took out a lens and put it on his right eye. He also took out gloves and tweezers. After they were all dressed up, he carefully picked up a piece of mechanical fragment and put it under the light. Check it out.

"This...this is impossible! How can there be such a high density of alchemical runes...and the shape of this gear, how can it fit together? It doesn't make sense..."

Eugene couldn't help but marvel, his eyes widening as he watched.

Mu You listened to it muttering for a while, and the words he heard the most were 'this is wrong' and 'this is impossible'. Obviously, the level of alchemy contained in this robot was far beyond Eugene's knowledge.

“How is it? Can you see anything?” Mu You asked.

It’s a pity that Eugene is now like a fanatical scientist who suddenly discovered alien technology. He has entered a state of overwhelming curiosity and has no time to pay attention to him.

“Ahem, study slowly and let me know when you have the results.” Mu You left the factory without disturbing it again. He left the factory in a hurry.

 Ten minutes later, Mu You got stuck and passed the door and returned to Earth.

 After the door closed, Mu You closed the door and hurriedly re-entered the game.

　　【Amid a feeling of dizziness, you appear in a dense forest. Looking up, you see a huge sinkhole clearly visible under the mist-shrouded mountain in front of you...】

　　【You have arrived at the ‘Great Abyss of Lohmadi’! 】

When he left the abyss before, Mu You left a teleportation array nearby, and now he had the characters teleport directly over.

　　　【You walk to the edge of the abyss, the herb collector is already waiting here. 】

The surface of the abyss is shrouded in clouds and mist, like a dreamlike scene. These clouds and mist are not condensed by ordinary moisture, but the cold breath rising from the bottom of the abyss. They are rolling and twisting, as if they are telling some ancient horror legend...]

　　　【You were led by the herb collector to a gap on the edge of the abyss. 】

In front of this square tooth-shaped gap, several rows of rope ladders have been installed with strong ropes by previous generations. They are submerged into the clouds. The ropes are covered with traces of countless explorers climbing. 】

　　【Go down the ladder immediately? 】

"Yes." Mu You came here to explore the abyss. He planned to go to the bottom of the abyss to see the situation of Taurus and find the origin of the robot.

[The herb gatherer took out a safety rope, tied one end of the rope around his waist, and threw the other end into the abyss. Then he took out a special hook from his backpack and hooked it **** the rope ladder knot on the edge of the abyss...]

  【The herb collector starts to slide down the rope at a constant speed, and you follow closely...】

 “Can’t fly in the abyss?” After letting the characters set off, Mu You asked the herb collector through the team channel.

 This is his first time in the abyss, and the herb collector has been exploring here for a few days, so he should have figured out the rules.

“It can fly, but it cannot rise or fall quickly.” said the herb collector.

"What's the meaning?"

 “You’ll know after a demonstration.” The herb collector stopped making any movement after he finished speaking.

 Muyou looks back at the game.

[You see the herb picker picking up a passing mountain rat from the edge of the cliff and throwing it into the boundless abyss behind him...]      【The mountain rat was suddenly thrown out, squeaking in terror, struggling crazily in the air, but It doesn’t help, I can only fall freely under the pull of gravity, and the speed is getting faster and faster...]

“Bang!” More than ten seconds after the mountain rat was thrown, you saw the falling mountain rat suddenly explode into a ball of blood mist, which dispersed in the clouds...]

"The Great Abyss is covered with a strange force field, just like sea water. At different levels, different water pressures will be exerted on people. Once this force field is quickly diluted or strengthened, it will lead to 'force field embolism' ', the result is what you just saw, the flesh and blood of the creature will explode directly!"

"In addition, the abyss is an independent space. You cannot arrange a teleportation array or open a backpack. If you die here, you can only resurrect in place. This means that once you die during the fall, you will continue to explode in place and die. , until the life span is exhausted..."

"So you can fly in the abyss, but you can only fly horizontally, or rise or fall slowly. In addition, there are many flying monsters hidden in the mist, and there are dangers everywhere. Flying is not as stable as climbing." The herb collector. explained.

 “Force field…”

 Mu You nodded, then remembered something, and controlled the character to throw a stone in the game.

　　　【You throw a stone into the endless abyss below. 】

　　【The stone fell freely and quickly fell into the clouds below and disappeared...】

“So this force field will only work on flesh and blood creatures?” Mu You asked.

 “So far, yes.”

 “Doesn’t that mean…”

 “That’s why I asked you to come here in person…”

“I see…” Mu You breathed out and finally understood.

 If it only works on flesh and blood, that is to say, his mecha skin can act normally here.

 The existence of the mecha skin gives him a huge advantage in the abyss that is unmatched by others. It is indeed much more efficient for him to explore the abyss than a herb gatherer.

  【You slid down the rope ladder and quickly landed below 500 meters. 】

　　【You feel a sudden increase in gravity all over your body, as if there is an invisible hand trying to pull you into the abyss...】

Mu You was stunned: "Is there a problem with gravity?"

“Yes, because of the influence of the force field, the gravity here is divided according to distance, with every 500 meters being a level. The further down you go, the higher the gravity multiple you need to withstand.”

The herb collector explained: "This is also the reason why no one has been able to detect the bottom of the abyss so far - when everyone descends to the ultimate gravity level that they can bear, they must return, otherwise they will be swallowed by the abyss and never climb out. Opportunity to come up.”

 “Like this…” Mu You frowned.

Indeed, the gravity gets stronger the further you go down, which means that once you reach the limit distance, if you continue to go down, you will be bound by gravity and can no longer break free.

 This ‘limiting distance’ is different for everyone. The more powerful the creature, the stronger the gravity it can resist, and the deeper it can explore.

 But no matter how powerful a creature is, it must have a endurance limit. Once it exceeds this limit, it can only go down, not up, until it is trapped and dead at the bottom of the abyss.

However, this is only for flesh and blood creatures...

Muyou immediately tried to switch to the mecha skin.

　　【You switch to the mecha skin, and the gravity hanging around you suddenly disappears. 】

 Sure enough!

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. Even the influence of gravity can be ignored. This mecha skin is simply made for exploring the abyss!

  【You and the herb collector landed on a platform 500 meters deep. 】

　　【You look up and the area in front of you suddenly opens up and becomes a space of its own...】

"The entrance to the abyss is only two thousand meters in diameter, but the inside is not that small. On the contrary, the bottom area of ​​the abyss has expanded more than ten times. Each layer is a space of its own, with mountains, rivers, lakes, and birds, animals, fish and insects in it... In short, every 500 to 1,000 meters, there will be a layer of underground world, and the lower the layer, the stronger the living creatures are, and the higher the gravity they need to withstand."

“It is said that the highest level that has been proven so far is the seventh level, which is about seven thousand meters underground. The levels below it seem to have exceeded human limits. No one who has gone down has come back... Hmm!"

The herb gatherer suddenly frowned mid-sentence.

 On the other side, Mu You has also noticed something strange.

　　【You have just landed on the first floor platform and are about to explore deeper, when suddenly you hear a familiar mechanical voice from the cliff behind you: "Target found!"]

　　【You turned your head suddenly and saw a mechanical arm reaching out from under the cliff in front of the cliff behind you, firmly grasping the edge of the cliff, and then climbed up, revealing the mechanical head and body...】

　　【A robot appears in front of you and the herb collector. Its appearance is almost the same as the robot you encountered before. 】

　　【You used the Omniscient Crystal to observe some of the attributes of the robot. 】

　　【Exterminator TK-105: An unknown mechanical intelligent unit, strength 99, agility 186, intelligence analysis failed, constitution analysis failed, defense 305-6250, health analysis failed...】

　　【At the same time, another mechanical figure jumped up from the cliff and landed on the platform. 】

　　【This time the robot is slightly taller and stronger. Judging from the body shape and appearance, it is somewhat similar to you...】

　　　…”

Mu You's heart sank when he saw it.

He had guessed before that these robots would be mass-produced, and if one was killed, others would come to the door, and now it really came true.

Moreover, the robot that came this time is obviously a level stronger than the last one!

In other words, these robots in front of us are not the limit of the robot's strength. Even if we kill them here now, a new one will appear soon, and their strength will become stronger every time until they are successfully eliminated. !

　　【"Confirmed target: KT-54054608 (VA-00150546), crime: birth of an unconventional sense of exploration, disrupting order... Execution of order: Clear... Anle... Obliterate!"]

　　【The two robots are playing voices in unison, and then they are killing you and the herb collector respectively. 】

 “How to deal with it?” The herb collector sent a message.

“There is no other way, let’s seal it first.” Mu You said helplessly.

These ghosts cannot be killed. Unless they are lured to the Wind-eroded Valley and the previous process is repeated, it is possible to kill them.

However, just killing them is useless. If the source is not found, these things will continue to appear, and they will become stronger every time. Sooner or later, they will be upgraded to a level that they cannot defeat. It is better to lock them up from the beginning.

　　【You and the herb collector retreat, leading the two robots to a narrow terrain behind...】

　　【In the gap between the two robots rushing into the canyon, you immediately switch to God's Skin and punch out. 】

　　【The two robots could not avoid it, they were hit from the front, and they disintegrated into pieces that did not look like human beings...】

  【The disintegrated robot began to heal quickly...】

　　【A black shadow appeared under the two robots, opened its huge mouth, and forcibly pulled the two into the shadow before the other could complete healing...】

 Mu You was very lucky that they had shadow pom-poms at their disposal, otherwise there would really be no way to deal with these robots here, and they would have to be hunted down by these things endlessly.

 (End of this chapter)