Chapter 2955: Mechanical Corps

Hostile creatures?

Everyone’s expression changed slightly.

It had been more than half a month since they entered this world, and they hadn’t seen even half a native creature. That in itself was unusual.

Fang Heng’s eyes also showed a heavy expression as he said, “Let’s go check it out.”

The group moved through the underground passage and reached the surface area.

At this time, the entire surface, composed of anti-gravity concrete blocks, was already covered and protected by a visible energy barrier.

Collete and Vionne, along with the Federation personnel, had also rushed over as soon as they noticed the anomaly.

Looking outside the energy barrier, in the distance amid a cloud of yellow sand, a type of black flying creature was slowly approaching the base barrier, floating in mid-air.

What the hell was that?

The life form was spherical and levitated high in the sky. As it got closer, it circled the outer energy barrier repeatedly, releasing a buzzing high-frequency noise.

Li Zixuan signaled the scientific personnel beside her to collect information and quietly reminded, “Fang Heng, this isn’t just ordinary noise interference–this is some kind of unknown language system. It’s confirmed that the other side is an advanced life form, at least capable of transmitting external information.”

Collete brought the military personnel over to join up with Fang Heng.

Hearing Li Zixuan’s words, Collete immediately ordered the base to broadcast human language to try and communicate with the external life form.

However, the life form didn’t seem to understand human language. After several rounds of incomprehensible noise broadcasts, it became agitated and began zooming erratically around the energy barrier at high speed.

Vionne looked up at the black sphere rapidly flying outside the defensive barrier and quietly said, “Looks like things are not looking good.”

Fang Heng stared intently at the sphere in the sky.

He didn’t sense any blood aura fluctuation from the black sphere.

Vionne turned and said, “Extract the information and immediately send the audio data back to headquarters for analysis and decoding!”

“Yes! Understood!”

After circling quickly for a moment, the black sphere retreated some distance and launched a black short-frequency light beam at the energy barrier!

So it was a machine!

The black light beams exploded on impact with the outer defensive barrier, which instantly activated to full power mode, consuming reserve energy to enhance its defensive capabilities.

Federation soldiers immediately raised their energy weapons to counterattack.

“Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!”

However, the black sphere, floating mid-air, was small and highly agile, using its altitude advantage to dart unpredictably through the sky.

All of the soldiers’ light beam attacks were dodged.

The black sphere managed to both dodge and counterattack at the same time, continuously launching short-frequency black light beams at the outer barrier.

Fortunately, there weren’t many of the orbs.

The current intensity of attack wasn’t enough to break through the perimeter barrier.

“Stop.”

After a round of ammunition was exhausted, the soldiers all lowered their weapons.

Li Zixuan observed the dodging patterns of the black sphere and frowned, saying, “Their dodges are minimal, and every time they dodge at the last second–it must be some kind of energy detection device. The enemy can predict the attack trajectory and perform precise evasions.”

Fang Heng raised his hand toward the sky.

Mind control.

Huh?

It didn’t work either?

The black sphere seemed like a black hole, completely absorbing his psychic ability.

Totally ineffective.

“Interesting…”

Fang Heng murmured softly, flipping his wrist, and the Book of Elements appeared in his hand.

“Lightning strike!”

Boom!!

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky, directly hitting one of the black spheres.

Bang!!

The black sphere exploded on contact.

Fang Heng raised an eyebrow in surprise.

The black sphere had considerable spell resistance. If not for his high spiritual power, an ordinary player’s lightning strike probably wouldn’t have been able to affect it.

“Well done!”

After Fang Heng’s successful strike, the players’ morale was instantly boosted.

After suffering casualties, the black spheres suddenly ceased their attack, slowly regrouped in the air, formed a line, then gradually retreated and disappeared into the sandstorm.

Retreat?

Everyone looked at each other.

A researcher stepped forward and reported, “We just uploaded the noise data to the spawn mainframe. It confirmed that the enemy is from the Cangbird Mechanical Legion.”

Zaka asked, “What the hell is that? A mechanical legion?”

“Yes, the Cangbird Mechanical Legion is a mechanical species from an external domain–an already awakened mechanical civilization. There are descriptions of them in the spawn database. Their sense of territoriality is very strong.”

Collete explained while quickly reading through the translated noise message, then handed it to Fang Heng.

“The noise just now was a warning from the Cangbird. They believe this planet is one of their resource reserves, and our mining activities have violated their interests.”

Arkley scoffed and said, “Tch. Just because they say it’s theirs, it is? Where’s the proof? I say the resource point belongs to us.”

“What we encountered just now was a reconnaissance unit of the Cangbird. Their formal troops are likely on the way.”

Collete looked at Vionne and said, “With our current defense capability, we probably won’t be able to hold them off.”

“The Cangbird Mechanical Legion is only one tier below the Black Fog in the spawn’s power ratings–equal in threat level to the Seed of Ouroboros.”

“Headquarters is already aware of the attack and should be dispatching a ship to assist in our evacuation.”

Vionne, having suppressed his anger this whole time, now welcomed the attack from the Cangbird as a positive turn of events–it gave them the upper hand.

Vionne looked at Fang Heng and said, “Once the ship arrives, we’ll evacuate immediately. Fang Heng, have your people prepare quickly and also send all the ores you’ve gathered back to headquarters.”

Vionne already had a plan in mind, putting on a look like he had everything under control.

Once the ores and materials were loaded onto the ship, wouldn’t the Western District Federation Council have the final say over them?

After all that hard mining work, Fang Heng would still have to hand everything over obediently in the end.

Seeing Fang Heng lower his head in silence, wearing a heavy expression, Vionne felt even more satisfied inside.

Hahaha!

Wasn’t this guy always so arrogant? Now he had his day!

Collete sighed inwardly, gently patted Fang Heng’s shoulder, and advised, “Mr. Fang, let’s quickly load the materials and prepare to evacuate.”

Fang Heng seemed to have just snapped out of his thoughts. He looked up and glanced at Collete in confusion, “Hmm? What?”

Vionne sneered and said coldly, “I said, Mr. Fang, the Federation ship has come to pick us up. Hurry up and sort the ore so we can evacuate.”

“Oh, I got it.”

Fang Heng flatly refused.

Right now, all he was thinking about was how to quickly finish building the ship. He wasn’t even considering ores or those minor details.

He waved his hand and said, “There’s not much ore left. No need for all that hassle… Just follow your evacuation plans. Don’t worry about me.”