46: Collapsed Mechanical Planet Surface, Second Stage Boss

The death of the first Mechanical Lord was just the beginning.

In the following hour, Lin Chen, while on his way, also destroyed many communication nodes and top-tier weapon manufacturing facilities of the Mechanical Clan.

When he arrived at the location of the next Mechanical Lord's subterranean cavity, he could only see a wasteland, with residual blood and qi not yet dissipated, forming a cruel battlefield.

Compared to Lin Chen's elegance, the battle here was somewhat chaotic; the Mechanical Lord had resisted, but it was ultimately useless.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chen knew that the other Mechanical Lords wouldn't need him to kill them, so he began to clear communication nodes and weapon manufacturing facilities, cutting off the Mechanical Clan's war capabilities.

The successive deaths of the nine Mechanical Lords were most directly reflected in the changes on the surface battlefield, where Mechanical Clan combat units lost their unified command, becoming chaotic, and subsequent combat power replenishment became increasingly scarce.

According to this situation, the Mechanical Clan's defeat would occur within today.

By the time the examinees on the surface reacted and swarmed into the underground passages, the Mechanical Clan no longer had the ability to resist.

Moreover, the examinees who initially delved into the underground passages were also exerting themselves, destroying more communication nodes and weapon manufacturing facilities, causing the Mechanical Clan's war capabilities to continuously decline, and increasingly more examinees were instead unleashing their combat power, enabling more effective fighting.

"This is a bit too simple, isn't it? Where are the Mechanical Clan's trump cards? They're on the verge of extinction, so aren't they going to take their enemies down with them?"

Lin Chen was somewhat puzzled and felt very uneasy.

The Wu exam questions couldn't be this simple; if the exam ended like this, 80% of the examinees on the surface would at most receive some basic points, as their war contributions were too low.

Killing Mechanical Lords, destroying communication nodes, and demolishing weapon manufacturing facilities were the true major sources of war contribution.

And the number of examinees capable of doing these things was very small, less than ten thousand, and among these ten thousand, dozens of people had already claimed the majority of the contributions.

Therefore, the war might have just begun.

Lin Chen's premonition was correct; less than ten minutes after the nine Mechanical Lords were annihilated, the entire Mechanical Star began to vibrate.

Eighteen towering pillars of light pierced through the Mechanical Star's surface, rising from deep within the Mechanical Star's underground, forming a surging energy impact.

The source of nine of these eighteen pillars of light was the subterranean cavities where the nine Mechanical Lords had existed, while the other nine had an unknown origin and location.

What was happening to the Mechanical Star as a whole was unknown to the examinees scattered in various places; all anyone could do now was protect themselves and wait for the anomaly to subside.

"No, this is too brutal!"

One minute after the eighteen pillars of light shot up, their sources exploded without warning.

The energy shockwaves generated by the eighteen explosion sources destroyed everything around them, creating eighteen large holes on the entire Mechanical Star, with countless metal fragments shooting skyward, only to be pulled back by gravity, crashing onto the Mechanical Star's surface with terrifying kinetic energy.

At this moment, no matter where an examinee was located on the Mechanical Star, they had to endure the subsequent effects of this wave of explosions.

Lin Chen, who was already not far from the explosion's core, immediately hid in the mirror space the moment he sensed danger, then teleported to his original stronghold on the surface.

At this moment, the stronghold had been built into a war fortress, armed to the teeth.

Currently, there were no examinees in the stronghold.

After the Mechanical Lords' deaths, the intensity of the surface battlefield decreased, causing countless examinees to pour into the underground passages, beginning to delve deeper into the Mechanical Star along these passages, and some, impatient with the long passages, even extensively destroyed the metal strata to reach deeper layers more quickly.

Then, the Mechanical Clan's trump card erupted, and the entire metal stratum of the Mechanical Star, from the surface down to five hundred kilometers underground, began to disintegrate in eighteen precisely calculated explosions, turning into a natural disaster.

And strongholds like war fortresses, in the face of a disaster that could disintegrate a planet, were somewhat like tin coffins.

The planet's surface was too dangerous, so Lin Chen didn't hesitate, continuously teleporting to seek refuge in the cosmic void.

The Mechanical Star had strong gravity, but what did that have to do with mirror teleportation? Lin Chen didn't need to fly; with one short-distance teleportation after another, he directly broke through the Mechanical Star's gravitational capture limit and stood in space.

A Sixth-Rank martial artist could temporarily survive in a vacuum environment for three days.

Three days, and this war would probably be over.

"Federal warships, it's indeed a real battlefield. My projection body should now be observed and recorded by the Expeditionary Force on the spaceship. Perhaps in four years, the Expeditionary Force will send me an admission notice."

Lin Chen's thoughts diverged for a moment, then quickly returned, and he began to observe the situation of the Mechanical Star, ready to return to the battlefield at any time to deal with any unappeared enemies.

The number of examinees who escaped the Mechanical Star like Lin Chen was very large; even if they couldn't escape the planet, many examinees had means to protect themselves, at most being buried in the metal wasteland, needing to dig themselves out.

In this wave, only tens of thousands of examinees lost their lives, leaving over seven hundred thousand examinees; even if the Mechanical Clan still had a second-stage boss, it wouldn't be able to withstand the siege of so many examinees.

Space was too vast, and there were also thousands of examinees who fled into space, but there was no one near Lin Chen; he couldn't even find someone to analyze the situation with.

The disintegration of the Mechanical Star's surface continued for three hours before slightly subsiding, with many areas still in a state of upheaval.

As expected, the Mechanical Clan's second-stage boss appeared.

The unified Mechanical Clan consciousness, having merged into one, emerged. It could, to some extent, represent the Mechanical Star's consciousness, and a part of the nascent Mechanical Star consciousness had already been eroded by the Mechanical Clan consciousness.

A towering mechanical construct rose from the metal wasteland.

The mechanical construct was fifty kilometers tall, with the appearance of a mechanical triangle, emitting a gray metallic luster overall.

The mechanical triangle stood on the metal wasteland, temporarily motionless.

In space, Lin Chen targeted the mechanical triangle's location, quickly approaching with one mirror teleportation after another.

Other examinees in space who could observe the mechanical triangle also used various divine abilities to approach it.

Clearly, the mechanical triangle was the final obstacle to victory in this war; as long as the mechanical triangle was defeated, the war would be won, and the Wu exam would end.

Whoever could make the greatest contribution in this battle would secure the position of top scorer in this Wu exam.

As for the examinees buried in the metal wasteland, those who didn't discover the mechanical triangle immediately could only be said to have bad luck, having lost their last chance to get a high score.

Lin Chen was fast, but there were others faster than him.

When he arrived near the mechanical triangle, dozens of examinees were already standing by, observing. They weren't waiting for other examinees, but rather observing the mechanical triangle, contemplating how to destroy it.

Lin Chen landed and immediately tried to open a mirror space on the mechanical triangle's surface to enter its interior through the mirror space.

His attempt succeeded; the mechanical triangle's surface inherently possessed mirror-like properties, and he merely slightly enhanced these properties to a degree that allowed him to pass through.

Lin Chen disappeared, unnoticed by the surrounding examinees.

Spiritual Stealth Technique is the best.

While Lin Chen was sneaking, Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve also arrived nearby. The two teamed up, closely following Lin Chen, and entered the mechanical triangle's interior.

When it came to playing with space, Lin Fan was the expert.

The mechanical triangle looked very hard from the outside; it would be easier to destroy it by breaking it from the inside.

Inside the mechanical triangle, Lin Chen found that there weren't many independent spaces, and even if there were, they were very small, insufficient to accommodate a person.

If he didn't activate the Spiritual Stealth Technique, he would definitely get stuck in the metal, unable to move an inch, unless he slowly destroyed the metal to advance.

Clearly, the mechanical triangle had learned its lesson, preferring to add useless metal components to itself rather than leave internal space unfilled, to guard against examinees destroying it from within.

"There are people faster than me!"

Lin Chen released his mental power to sense, discovering two 'old sixes' walking through the metal, slowly approaching the triangle's core.

And the triangle was not without resistance; countless metal blocks compressed towards the two walking in the metal.

Furthermore, the squeezed metal blocks contained countless pieces of junk data, and these junk data endlessly bombarded the two's soul defenses.

Subsequently, several more examinees entered the mechanical triangle's interior through their own means.

Among them were Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve; the two didn't notice Lin Chen, who was observing, but rather focused on walking in the narrow spatial interlayers, cautiously moving towards the core.

At the same time, the battle outside had already begun.

Examinees unable to enter the triangle's interior had to act first; even if they couldn't destroy the mechanical triangle with external attacks, they could cooperate with the examinees inside, gaining some contribution.

Compared to the 'each showing their divine abilities' inside the mechanical triangle, the battle outside was very simple and unadorned, with countless skills smashing onto the immobile mechanical triangle, creating one pit after another.

After being attacked, the mechanical triangle fully activated, and countless pieces of junk data spewed from its core, forming a one-hundred-kilometer junk data field around itself.

Any examinee within this field had to endure the bombardment of junk data, forced to divert power to resist, otherwise the junk data would scour their souls, taking away memories contained within.

Examinees inside the mechanical triangle also received the same treatment, and the pressure to advance became even greater for a time.

This was just the beginning; the mechanical triangle, comparable to an Eighth-Rank, naturally had more than just this one method. This was just a field ability; the real counterattack was yet to come.