As the He Wu Race continued inward, the space became wider.

Such a large creation would not be stingy with its internal space.

Moreover, judging from the doors, the Civilization that created this thing was at least not short.

After breaking through another door, the group arrived at an even larger passageway, a rectangular cross-section space, about fifty to sixty meters wide and thirty to forty meters high. The passageway had a slight curve, and both sides were out of sight.

Their vision extended for at most one kilometer.

“This should be an internal cargo passage; there are tracks on the upper and lower walls.”

An Lun chose a direction.

“Let’s go left. Where there’s a passage, there’s a door to the true core area.”

“Be careful; some equipment here is still running. Whether there are people or internal self-repairing and operating devices, they should not be underestimated.”

“Anything capable of creating this is at least an Unknown Civilization.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman with sensitive ears warned, “Something is coming from the left, very fast, getting closer.”

Before she could finish, the thing had already appeared in their sight.

It didn’t look like any mechanical creation, like a train or transport vehicle.

Instead, it was a fleshy creature, whistling past them without any pause.

“What was that thing?”

Everyone’s face was filled with surprise and uncertainty.

Not only because of the strangeness of the thing, but also the predator’s pressure emanating from it, and the sizzling sound it made when its massive body collided with the surrounding walls at high speed.

“It’s best not to provoke it for now. Let’s proceed to the left as originally planned.”

The eight people went deeper into the passage.

There was no deep, terrifying feeling here, just less light, but their own eyes could see in extremely dim light, so it had no effect.

“Our original entry point was the middle section of this object, but we need to figure out if it’s the upper or lower part.”

“A Civilization’s creation will definitely have some partitions. If we know what area this is, we can deduce what other areas exist elsewhere.”

“Or we can find the control center or a map.”

An Lun continuously led his teammates deeper. After walking about fifty to sixty kilometers, the passage still seemed endless.

In fact, everyone was very nervous.

If this was just a ruin, it would be fine, but seeing that bug-like thing proved that there were still many unknowns here.

“Walking like this isn’t going to end. I think we can just cut a path directly to the center.”

“If we really encounter an Unknown Civilization, we are likely already being monitored, so there’s no need to be so cautious.”

The team’s engineer was reckless, but An Lun had to consider his opinion at this moment.

Although this passage would eventually end, it might not lead to where they wanted to go.

“According to your profile, your Sequence should be Devourer, right?” An Lun asked.

“That’s right. Originally, I was just a small-time thug, doing errands for big shots. This Sequence was a piece of cargo I intercepted during an errand, and then I joined the conscription.”

The engineer’s past life sounded exciting.

But the people here might have even more exciting stories.

After all, life is long now, and it’s hard not to experience too much.

“Let’s start, Terry!”

Terry found a position, pressed his hand against the wall, and the entire wall suddenly twisted, revealing a swirling pattern.

The wall seemed to be pouring into his body, which was indeed the case.

These substances continuously filled his 【Sequence Organ】, which was essentially the energy core of the Sequence. Only when the energy core was full could the Sequence transformation occur.

Devourer was a rare Sequence not known for its size, at least in its initial transformation, where its body was only about ten meters long.

In an instant, Terry completed his transformation. His entire body looked slimy, with four limbs, but his head was like jelly.

He pressed his head against the wall. This time, it wasn’t suction, but a large hole appearing directly as if being gnawed.

“Follow me. Devourer, as a top-tier Sequence, is very difficult to kill.”

The army generally provided high-level Sequences, and even the most ordinary Soldier received this treatment.

But even if one became an officer, the Sequence would still be high-level and would not change.

Because top-tier Sequences were too rare. The Civilization Federation currently only had a few thousand types of top-tier Sequences, and the manufacturing cost of each was very high. Most importantly, top-tier Sequences were difficult to control.

Many of the current top-tier Sequences were actually downgraded from Supreme Sequence tens of thousands of years ago.

As a former Supreme Sequence level, it itself possessed the combat power of a warship.

The official system rated 【Devourer】 as “ten warship level,” meaning ten warships, which was on the upper end among top-tier Sequences.

Terry had already walked a distance, and An Lun and the others quickly followed.

They were alert to their surroundings.

Terry occasionally emitted some light from the front, likely from devouring circuits.

After advancing continuously for about a kilometer, the front suddenly brightened like daylight, and Terry stopped.

“What’s wrong?” An Lun inquired.

“It’s a world!”

“What?”

Terry returned to his human form, and the others then walked to the front.

Instantly, they understood Terry’s words.

It was indeed a world.

A world that looked very mottled.

Everywhere were chaotic mechanical devices, with only sparse areas of green. The dome was a giant lamp, illuminating the entire world as brightly as day.

“A mechanical wasteland. I’ve played it in games, but this is more thorough.”

A teammate said.

There was no so-called land here; the equipment itself was the land.

“This Civilization extensively used non-metallic elements, boron and carbon from the air, likely providing growth conditions for these plants.”

The mech formed binoculars over An Lun’s eyes, helping him see further.

The so-called world was actually only about tens of thousands of square kilometers. An Lun constantly searched and found traces of some creatures within it.

“They are intelligent creatures, relatively small, appearing to be less than 1.5 meters tall. Their physique reminds me of a sunflower (a sunflower variant).”

The creature’s head resembled a sunflower, with a large, flat face in the center and a cluster of fleshy tendrils on the outside.

Their tendrils could extend, like large earthworms.

Three neck-like structures held the head, merging into a single stalk when they reached the torso, then branching into eight limbs.

The neck, torso, and limbs were all very slender, like plant stems.

This thing looked top-heavy, with six limbs at the back of the head and two at the front.

The front ones were about twice as thick as the back ones, but still appeared to be less than five or six centimeters thick.

The reason they were confirmed to be intelligent creatures was because they were covered with some mechanical items, looking like people wearing watches or similar things.

A power block-like object was also implanted between the three necks.

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Some of these creatures enjoyed themselves in the “oasis,” while others were distributed in the mechanical wasteland, constantly rummaging through garbage piles for something.

Then they transported it to a car-like object.

The car had a small cockpit at the front and a large bubble at the back, where objects placed inside would float.

“They don’t look like the Civilization that created this object. Their technological strength, locally, appears to be only Level 1, with a threat level of 0.”

“I think we should act directly, ascertain all information here, find Wang Weihai, and immediately withdraw.”

“Although this place is somewhat strange, when facing a group of weaklings, being too cautious can be counterproductive.”

The group discussed for a few moments and then reached a consensus.

Then they pushed off the ground, their bodies flying out like cannonballs, heading directly for an oasis.

“Boom!!!”

The landing of the group stirred up countless mechanical fragments, and the airwave also shook some of the surrounding creatures away.

“Wuwuwuwu…”

The creatures surrounded them menacingly.

An Lun raised his hand, and the mech split into fine, thread-like things, binding hundreds of surrounding creatures.

These creatures had no ability to resist whatsoever.

He used telekinesis to lift one creature in front of him, watching it wail.

All sounds were automatically recorded. Virtual projections of surrounding objects constantly appeared on his hand, and he pointed at the virtual projection.

Until the other party understood the meaning, and then recorded it again.

Finally, there were some conceptual words, such as kill, gender, emotion, and so on.

Afterward, An Lun asked the other party to write text and continuously explain. In just two hours, both speech and writing were mastered by the mech.

An Lun wrote and asked, “Who are you?”

“We are the He Wu Race from the abyss.”

This was accurate information that took 10 minutes to elicit.

“Why are you here?”

“I’m not sure, but according to ancient legends, we were captured and sold as slaves. Who exactly captured us, I don’t know.”

“How long have you lived here?”

“We use one rotation of the round wheel as one day, and 827 days as one year. We have been here for 90,220 years.”

The round wheel was a mechanical device, seemingly a gear-like structure, exposed because it was damaged here.

The gear should only be part of some elevator-like device, not very large, about half a meter in diameter.

It rotated very slowly. An Lun calculated that it would take about 17 hours to complete one rotation.

“If their records are correct, and they haven’t lied to us, they have been here for 144,794 years.”

“How could they still multiply in a place like this for so many years?”

According to this He Wu, they were small in size and consumed little energy.

Because their Civilization had already entered a stage above Level 1, An Lun guessed it was around Level 1.4, creatures did not survive by eating, but relied on the energy devices between their necks.

In fact, their original numbers were very large, exceeding ten million.

But as time passed, the energy devices were damaged, and now only twenty to thirty thousand remained.

According to An Lun’s previous observations, the numbers were similar.

He looked at the device, and it was indeed terribly old.

If it weren’t a Level 1.4 Civilization’s creation, it probably wouldn’t have lasted this long.

Then he asked what this device was and if they couldn’t live without it.

“We can’t live without it, because we don’t have mouths or anything like that. We can only survive by relying on this battery-like thing.”

“This is how the upper echelons of our tribe control the lower echelons. As long as all citizens rely on this thing, the powerful individuals who control it can forever control the entire tribe.”

Still an autocratic Civilization.

An Lun was not interested in an autocratic Civilization of this level.

The technology level of that energy device was indeed very low. Give An Lun a few years, and he could probably make something similar using the surrounding materials.

A few years was due to entirely using surrounding materials.

If he could return to the warship and bring a miniature factory, he could replicate it in minutes.

“Have you never thought about leaving here?”

“Leaving? We’ve tried too many times, but this place is like a cage. No matter what we do, we can’t leave.”

“Oh, by the way, where did you come in from?”

The surrounding He Wu looked at them eagerly.

They hoped they would reveal the passage to leave this place.

An Lun thought about it. How could these low-level Civilization creatures possibly break through the materials an Unknown Civilization used to produce warships?

Without special means, An Lun felt that even a full-force strike from him wearing a mech would not leave any trace on this warship.

This was a warship, the He Wu told him.

Legend has it that it was to conquer the He Wu Race, but An Lun estimated they were only discovered incidentally.

This star field probably had very prosperous Civilization trade. Tens of millions of He Wu Race were worth the army of this Civilization specially changing their route to capture them.

Aside from the He Wu Race here, in the legends of these He Wu, their Civilization had been destroyed.

“You’ve been here for so long, you should have many records of this place, such as some unusual areas?”

The He Wu thought for a moment and said he didn’t know.

“If you tell me information in this regard, then I can take your tribesmen out of here.”

The He Wu immediately became extremely excited.

“I really don’t know, but our tribal elders might know.”

The naive young man betrayed their leader.

If they were facing a powerful Level 1 Civilization, doing so would undoubtedly bring them utter destruction.

However, now they were facing an Unknown Civilization, so it didn’t matter, because so-called hiding was meaningless in front of An Lun and his group.

“Take me to see your tribal elders.”

Although the distribution here seemed to be like various tribes, in reality, there was only one tribe.

All units resembling tribes were merely like cities, not operating independently.

The He Wu’s tribal elder lived in a smaller oasis. He built a house using a relatively complete ruin.

The tall Civilization Federation people could not enter the house and waited outside.

However, after a short while, what greeted them was a beam of light.

An Lun felt a slight threat from the beam of light. He raised his hand and directly slapped the beam away.

“This should be a weapon of this warship’s Civilization. If it’s standard, it’s still weaker than our Civilization Federation.”

“It should be a Level 2.6 Civilization.”

After speaking in chinese, An Lun then said to the inside of the house using the mech’s translation, “Come out! Your resistance is meaningless in front of us!”

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