Chapter 555: First Exploration of the Abyss

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

Mu You hurriedly jumped up and looked vigilantly at the pile of broken parts on the sand.

If this special thing can be resurrected, then he really wants to scold his mother......

Fortunately, this time it doesn't seem to be a resurrection, but a simple voice is broadcast, and there is no movement.

After waiting for a moment and confirming that the mechanical body did not have a tendency to recover again, Mu You walked over, found the thin piece that made the sound just now, picked it up and checked it.

The entire sheet is bronze in color, with a fairly simple structure, and some alchemical runes are carved on it.

Mu You doesn't understand alchemy, but after long-term contact with various accessories of the mecha skin, he can still guess the meaning of some simple runes.

Judging from the runes, this should be just a simple sounding device, the sentence just now, should have been broadcast before the robot died, but due to the destruction of the vocal cords by Mu You's brute force, the disc was stuck for a while, and the last stored syllables were broadcast.

After confirming that this thing was harmless, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, and only then did he have time to recall the content of the broadcast just now.

"Reset Erasure Mission...... Starting spare machine production? ”

Mu You muttered, and couldn't help frowning, the word 'spare machine' reminded him of a somewhat terrifying possibility: This thing, shouldn't it still be a mass-produced assembly line product?

In other words, why is it that only the herb pickers have encountered this kind of thing?

The difference between the medicine picker and the locals is that he is a fool, but there are more fools, how come he has never seen the intelligence of this kind of robot before?

Or is the problem in the abyss?

This thing crawled out of the abyss, and the level of the abyss is too high, so no player should have touched the abyss so far, and the herb picker is likely to be the first.

"Fool, deepen the abyss, are the two conditions that led to the appearance of this thing......" Mu You groaned.

"It's almost time for the door." At this time, the herb picker reminded him.

"Okay, you go back to the abyss first."

Mu You nodded, sent the herb picker away, stepped forward, collected all the parts in the sand, and then put down the teleportation array and teleported to Eternal Night City.

In the machinery factory, Eugene was pacing anxiously in front of the door, and when he saw Mu You appear in the distance, he immediately rushed over with an arrow step.

"You're finally here, hurry, where's the thing?"

"What's that?" Mu You was a little strange.

"Core! Hurry up, I'm waiting for energy to start working in several factories! Eugene urged, and his eyes had already subconsciously aimed at Mu You's hands.

"Oh, I'm going to use the core for a while." Mu lobbied. Next, he plans to go to the abyss to see the situation, and if he encounters that kind of robot again on the way, he needs to use mecha skin to deal with it.

"Huh? Still need to use it? How long does it take? Eugene frowned.

"A week...... Tentative. Mu You thought about it and said.

"A week? Still tentative? Eugene jumped up urgently: "What are you kidding, you want to shut down the factory for a week?" Then my machine is going to rust! ”

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

Eugene was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "Really? ”

"Really, I promise."

Mu You pulled it into the factory, came to a tool table, pushed the tools on the table out, and cleaned the table out a little.

"Before that, you can help me take a look at this thing......" After speaking, Mu You stacked all the robot parts collected in the desert on the table.

"Hey, my tools......" Eugene rushed over to catch a glass instrument that had nearly fallen.

"Be careful, it's expensive......

Eugene turned around and wanted to complain, but before he could finish speaking, his eyes were firmly attracted by the things on the table, and he couldn't take his eyes off it anymore.

"Phew!"

The instrument in his hand fell to the ground and shattered. Eugene didn't notice it, walked quickly to the table, hurriedly took out a lens, put it on his right eye, took out gloves and tweezers, and put them all on neatly, then carefully picked up a piece of mechanical fragment and put it in the light to examine it.

"This ...... That's impossible! How could there be such a dense alchemy rune...... And the shape of this gear, how can it be chimerated? It doesn't make sense......"

Eugene couldn't stop exclaiming, and the more he looked, his eyes widened.

Mu You listened to it muttering for a while, and the words he heard the most were 'this is not right', 'this is impossible', obviously the alchemy level contained in this robot has far exceeded Eugene's cognition.

"How's that, can you see anything?" Mu You asked.

It's a pity that Eugene is now like a fanatical scientist who suddenly discovered extraterrestrial technology, and has entered a state of intellectual curiosity, and has no time to pay attention to him.

"Ahem, you study slowly, and let me know when there are results." Mu You didn't bother it anymore, left a sentence and left the factory in a hurry.

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

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

[In a sense of dizziness, you appear in a dense forest, and when you look up, under the misty mountain in front of you, a huge sinkhole is impressively ......visible]

[You have come to the 'Lochmadi Abyss'! 】

When he left the abyss before, Mu You left a teleportation array nearby, and at this moment, the character was directly teleported.

[You walk to the edge of the abyss, where the herb pickers are already waiting. 】

[The surface of the abyss is covered with clouds and mist, like a dreamlike scene, these clouds and mist are not ordinary moisture condensation, but a cold breath rising from the bottom of the abyss. They roll and writhe as if to tell some kind of ancient horror legend......]

[You are led by the herb picker to a gap at the edge of the abyss. 】

[Before this toothed gap, several rows of rope ladders had been placed by the predecessors with solid ropes, facing down into the clouds, and the ropes were covered with traces of countless explorers climbing. 】

[Do you want to go down the ladder immediately?] 】

"Yes." Mu You is here to explore the abyss, he is going to go to the bottom of the abyss to see the situation of the golden bull, and by the way to find the source of the robot.

[The herb picker took out the safety rope, tied one end of the rope to his waist, and threw the other end into the abyss, then took out a special hook from his backpack and hooked the rope ladder knot at the edge of the abyss......]

[The herb picker begins to slide down the rope at a constant speed, and you follow closely behind......]

"The abyss can't fly?" After letting the characters set off, Mu You asked the medicine picker through the team channel.

This is the first time he has come to the Abyss, and the herb picker has been exploring here for a few days, so he should have figured out the rules.

"You can fly, but you can't go up or down." Said the herb picker.

"What do you mean?"

"Just demo and you'll see." After the herb picker finished speaking, there was no movement.

Mu You looked back at the game.

[You see the herb picker pick up a passing mountain mouse from the edge of the cliff and throw it into the boundless abyss behind him......]

[The mountain rat was suddenly thrown out, squeaked in horror, and struggled frantically in the air, but to no avail, it could only fall freely under the traction of gravity, and the speed was getting faster and faster......]

["Smack! "More than ten seconds after the mountain rat was thrown, you saw that the falling mountain rat suddenly exploded, bursting into a cloud of blood mist, floating in the clouds......]

"The Great Abyss is covered with a peculiar force field, just like sea water, at different levels, it will exert different water pressure on people. Once this force field is quickly diluted or enhanced, it will cause a 'force field embolism', and the result is that as you just saw, the biological flesh will explode directly! ”

"In addition, the abyss is an independent space, and it is impossible to arrange a teleportation array, nor can you open a backpack, and if you die here, you can only resurrect in place, which means that once you die in the process of falling, you will continue to explode and die in place until your life is exhausted......"

"Therefore, you can fly in the abyss, but you can only fly in levitation, or slowly rise or fall, plus there are many flying monsters hidden in the fog, and the danger is everywhere, and flying is not as stable as climbing." The herb picker explained.

"Force Field, ......"

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

You throw a stone into the boundless abyss below. 】

[The stone fell freely, and soon fell into the clouds below, disappearing ......]

"So this force field only works on flesh creatures?" Mu You asked.

"So far, yes."

"Doesn't that mean ......?"

"That's why I asked you to come in person......"

"I see...... Mu You exhaled, and finally understood.

If it only works on Flesh, that is, his mech skin will work normally here.

The existence of the mecha skin gives him a huge advantage in the abyss that others cannot match, and it is indeed much more efficient for him to explore the abyss than the medicine collector.

[You descend all the way down the rope ladder and soon fall below 500 meters.] 】

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

Mu You was stunned: "There is also a problem with gravity?" ”

"Yes, because of the influence of the force field, the gravity here is divided according to the distance, every 500 meters is a grade, and the further down, the higher the gravity multiplier that needs to be borne."

"That's why, so far, no one has been able to detect the bottom of the abyss - when everyone descends to the level of extreme gravity that they can bear, they must return, otherwise they will be swallowed by the abyss and never have a chance to climb up," the herb picker explained. ”

"That's ......," Mu You frowned.

Indeed, the further down the gravity becomes, the stronger it is, which means that once you reach the limit distance, if you continue to go down, you will be bound by gravity and will never be able to break free.

And this 'limit distance' is different for everyone, the stronger the creature, the stronger the gravity that can resist, and the deeper it can explore.

But no matter how powerful a creature is, there must be a limit to what it can endure, and once it exceeds this limit, it can only go down, not up, until it is trapped at the bottom of the abyss.

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

Mu You immediately tried to switch the mecha skin.

[You switch to mecha skin, and the gravity that hangs around you suddenly disappears.] 】

Really!

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. Even the effects of gravity can be ignored, this mecha skin is literally made for exploring the abyss!

[You and the herb picker land on a platform at a depth of 500 meters.] 】

[When you look up, the area in front of you suddenly opens up, and it becomes a space of its own......]

"The entrance of this abyss cave is only two thousand meters in diameter, but the interior is not only so small, on the contrary, the bottom of the abyss has expanded more than tenfold, and each layer has its own space, with mountains, rivers and lakes, as well as birds, beasts, fish and insects...... In short, every 500 to 1000 meters, there is an underground world, and the further down the layer, the stronger the living creatures will be, and the higher the gravity they need to bear. ”

"It is said that the highest proven layer is the seventh layer, which is about 7,000 meters underground, and it seems that the human limit has been broken down there, and no one has returned...... Not! ”

The herb picker was halfway through his speech, and suddenly frowned.

On the other side, Mu You had also noticed something unusual.

[You have just landed on a platform and are about to explore the depths, when you suddenly hear a familiar mechanical voice under the cliff behind you: "Find the target!" ”】

[You suddenly turn your head, and you see that in front of the cliff behind you, a mechanical arm poked out from under the cliff, firmly grasped the edge of the cliff, and then climbed up, revealing the head and body of the machine......]

[A robot appears in front of you and the herb picker, and its body and appearance are almost the same as the robot you encountered before.] 】

[You used the Omniscient Crystal to observe some of the properties of the robot.] 】

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

[At the same time, another mechanical figure leaps up from under the cliff and lands on the platform.] 】

[This time, the robot is slightly taller, and judging by his body appearance, he is somewhat similar to you......]

“……”

Mu You's heart sank when he saw it.

He had guessed before whether these robots would be mass-produced, and if one was killed, something else would come to the door, and now it had come true.

Moreover, the robot that came this time is obviously a notch stronger than the previous one!

In other words, these robots in front of you are not the limit of the strength of the robots, even if you kill them here now, a new one will soon appear, and the strength will be stronger and stronger each time, until you succeed in getting rid of them!

["Confirmed target: KT-54054608 (VA-00150546), Crime: Birth of an unconventional exploratory mind, disordered order...... Command: Clear ...... Easy...... Obliterate! ”】

[The two robots are playing their voices in unison, and then they are killing you and the herb picker respectively.] 】

"How?" The herb picker sent a message.

"No way, let's seal it first." Mu You said helplessly.

This ghost can't be killed, and it is impossible to kill them unless they are lured to the Wind Eclipse Valley and repeat the previous process.

However, it's useless to just kill, if you don't find the source, this thing will still appear in a steady stream, and it will be stronger and stronger each time, and sooner or later it will escalate to the point that they can't beat, it's better to lock it up at the beginning.

[You and the herb picker pull back and lead the two robots into a narrow terrain behind......]

[In the gap between the two mechs rushing into the canyon, you immediately switch to the skin of the god and smash it with a punch.] 】

[The two robots are unavoidable, they are hit head-on, and they are not humanoid ......]

[The cracked robot begins to heal rapidly......]

[A black shadow appears under the two robots, opens its huge mouth, and forcibly pulls the two into the shadow before the other can complete healing......]

Mu You is very glad that they have shadow pompoms available, otherwise there is really no way to take these robots here, and they can only be chased and killed by this thing forever.

(End of chapter)