47: Finish

Among all the examinees, the only ones unaffected by the junk data were Lin Chen and Oriental Red Sleeve, who had activated Spiritual Stealth.

The junk data couldn't even detect their existence, treating them as if they were invisible, so naturally, it had no effect on them. Everyone else was more or less affected, and their actions showed errors.

Lin Chen didn't waste any time.

The world is full of tricksters and extraordinary individuals.

If he was even a step slower, he might only get an assist.

Walking through the metal components, the closer he got to the Mechanical Triangle's core, the thicker the sense of sluggishness became. He might even need to use force to carve a path to the core later.

Outside, the Mechanical Triangle began to get serious.

Wherever the junk data field enveloped, that was where the Mechanical Triangle locked onto and attacked.

Countless cannon shells, laser beams, and energy streams extended from the four metal walls of the Mechanical Triangle, covering the entire area at an extremely fast speed, causing devastating damage to all examinees within the field.

The Mechanical Triangle, comparable to an Eighth-Order entity, had an attack power far exceeding that of a Seventh-Order Mechanical Lord. Furthermore, it had been specially designed to have some special attacks against martial artists.

A five-minute continuous round of firepower directly eliminated forty to fifty examinees who reacted too slowly or were overconfident in themselves. Other examinees were also more or less damaged and broken through.

Outwardly, the Mechanical Triangle launched a furious assault.

Inwardly, the Mechanical Triangle activated various energy fields, continuously compressing the examinees' living space. Although it couldn't kill the examinees, it could expel and imprison them, preventing them from affecting it.

And this was only a physical counterattack.

On the mental level, the Mechanical Triangle, which inherited a portion of Mechanical Star's planetary consciousness, began to mobilize the power of the entire Mechanical Star, gaining permission to apply the power of heaven and earth.

Examinees who were already deeply buried underground and were still trying to dig their way out and see the light of day no longer had any chance to leave. They were suppressed deeper underground by heavier metal blocks. If they couldn't withstand the pressure, death was only a matter of time.

"You worms of the world, you are truly detestable, and you shall suffer the punishment of annihilation!"

The Mechanical Triangle spoke for the first time.

Its first words defined humanity and displayed extremely strong hatred.

How could humanity allow such a race to exist?

Even without examinees, there would be an Expeditionary Force.

If the Mechanical Clan did not agree with humanity's ideals, then humanity would not agree with theirs. War was inevitable, but there could only be one winner, and only the winner had the right to define.

"I need to pick up the pace. This boss seems to be adapting to its power and getting stronger by the minute. I must destroy it as quickly as possible."

Lin Chen noticed that the Mechanical Triangle was constantly changing its structure and evolving, posing an increasingly serious threat to him. He had to interrupt this evolution and cut off any potential second stage of the enemy.

At this point, he was still three kilometers from the Mechanical Triangle's core. These three kilometers were also a difficult journey for him, as the surroundings were all alloy components above the Sixth-Order.

Alloys of this order had very high energy levels, making it very difficult for him to ignore collision volume and pass through. He had to use the qi and blood within his body to counteract the energy to barely pass through.

Other examinees, however, needed to destroy the alloy components piece by piece to artificially create a passage.

And during such large-scale destructive actions, the Mechanical Triangle was not dead. It would naturally resist, constantly generating new alloy components to block the way and compress the examinees' living space.

Lin Chen's method of advancement, however, did not attract the Mechanical Triangle's attention. Even if it did, its attention was mostly drawn by the other examinees, preventing it from concentrating its power on Lin Chen.

Ten minutes later, Lin Chen painstakingly reached the core of the Mechanical Triangle.

It was a metal sphere about ten meters in diameter, wrapped in hundreds of layers of Seventh-Order alloy armor. These alloy armors were embedded in each other, forming an impenetrable barrier protecting the core.

"Little Fanzi, you guys arrived quite quickly."

"Brother Chen, you were even faster."

Lin Fan and Oriental Red Sleeve arrived at the core one after another.

Among the three, Lin Chen and Oriental Red Sleeve stood within the alloy components, as if they didn't exist, while Lin Fan was in a illusory spatial interlayer, not in the current layer.

"Do you two have any good methods for breaking through this alloy armor?"

"Brother Chen, the alloy armor and the core have already merged into one, with not a single bit of space. Even the surrounding space is distorted. I can't cleverly enter; I can only force my way in."

"I haven't detected any gaps here either, and I can't pass through. As Little Fanzi said, we can only force our way in."

Their answers were within Lin Chen's expectations.

He also had no clever way to approach the Mechanical Triangle's core. Now, there was only one path left: a forceful assault.

"Then let's go for a forceful assault. The environment here really isn't suitable for combat."

"It can only be this way."

The three cooperated tacitly, understanding each other's methods well. They began to use their signature techniques to shatter the alloy armor.

As layer after layer of alloy armor shattered, the Mechanical Triangle grew anxious. It attempted to save itself, and countless metal liquids surged forth, repairing the shattered alloy armor.

However, the three were not afraid, as their style was superior to that of the Mechanical Triangle.

The speed of the metal liquid's repair couldn't keep up with the speed of the three's destruction. More and more metal liquid solidified in the space previously occupied by the alloy armor, unable to solidify or flow.

Lin Fan stirred space, creating a hole in layer after layer of alloy armor, destroying the overall integrity of the alloy armor.

Oriental Red Sleeve released extreme cold air into the hole, destroying the material properties of the alloy armor, using physical laws to shatter and peel off the alloy armor.

Lin Chen finished up by mirroring the altered alloy armor. With one strike of Mirror Shatter, he could destroy many layers of alloy armor.

In just one minute, hundreds of layers of alloy armor were shattered and removed by the three, leaving only a fifteen-meter diameter metal sphere and countless metal liquids that hadn't had time to solidify.

This metal sphere was the core of the Mechanical Triangle, housing the Mechanical Clan's group consciousness.

Because Lin Chen and the other two attacked the alloy armor protecting the core, the Mechanical Triangle mobilized a large amount of resources to repair the alloy armor. Not only was it useless, but it also relaxed its obstruction of other examinees.

As a result, as soon as the three shattered the alloy armor and directly faced the metal core, examinees appeared, each displaying their unique abilities, bypassing the metal components and descending to the core, which was covered in metal liquid.

"Please hold on, gentlemen. May I join you?"

"Bro, in your condition, can you even fight?"

Lin Chen looked at the examinee wrapped in metal liquid, quickly solidifying, and silently asked a question.

"Uh, this guy is targeting me! There are four of us, why is he only messing with me?!"

Feng Chuisha was helpless. He sensed a cavity appearing at the core, so he bravely passed through, directly falling into the metal liquid, and then he was restrained by it.

Lin Chen and the other two were fine, simply because they were not in the current spatial layer, so the metal liquid couldn't affect them. They themselves could also resist the erosion through energy counteraction.

The Mechanical Triangle had its limitations. Its essence was too little knowledge and too few available methods. Facing Lin Chen and the other two, it had no countermeasures, so it was suppressed.

"Spatial Vortex"

"Absolute Zero"

"Mirror Distortion"

The three did not wait for Feng Chuisha to break free and immediately launched a full-power attack on the metal sphere.

Oriental Red Sleeve froze the metal sphere. The extreme cold environment changed the material properties of the metal sphere and froze the Mechanical Clan consciousness body residing within it.

Lin Chen and Lin Fan's attacks collided, forming an even more terrifying assault that tore apart the already brittle metal sphere, completely annihilating the Mechanical Triangle's core, along with its consciousness.

The metal sphere lasted only three seconds before turning into metal fragments in the face of extreme power, scattering into the metal liquid.

"Take this, Wind Erosion!"

Feng Chuisha finally caught up and used his ultimate move, using wind power to entangle the metal fragments and metal liquid together, grinding them into dust and completely severing any trace of their existence.

"Phew, I finally got an assist! You guys are really strong!"

"........."

Lin Chen and the other two looked at each other in silence. Feng Chuisha was truly working hard; he was almost burning his essence and blood just to get an assist.

As for the other examinees who were a step slower, they could only look at the shattered core space and lament their slowness.

With the metal sphere annihilated, the entire Mechanical Triangle began to collapse. Without a controller, the Mechanical Triangle, composed of countless metal components, could no longer maintain its existence, and collapse was a matter of course.

The moment the Mechanical Triangle collapsed, Lin Fan directly teleported Lin Chen and Oriental Red Sleeve away.

In the sky outside, the three looked at the collapsing Mechanical Triangle, somewhat shocked.

"It should be over."

"It's definitely over."

"Our scores must be high."

After only a few brief chats, the three's vision went black, and they returned to their individual examination spaces.

[Congratulations to Examinee Lin Chen for passing the Wu exam. Please wait a moment; your Wu exam score will be provided immediately.]

The Wu exam results were given immediately after completion.

There was no need for examiners to grade the papers. The Virtual Divine Realm's sub-consciousness, "Fish," constantly monitored the examinees' situations. As soon as an examinee left the examination venue, a predefined program began calculating their score.

After four or five minutes, Lin Chen's score appeared on the light screen in front of him, along with a detailed breakdown of his score.