Chapter 647: Chapter 445 Mechanoids Descend_2
After hearing what he said, the customer feedback varied; some simply paid extra for the repairs, while others, like Dong Tianyu, were stubborn and heedless of advice.
At first, he might have had different psychological reactions based on the immediate feedback from the customer, but after so many experiences, no type of feedback was new to him.
Once it was confirmed that Dong Tianyu did not require additional services, the other party promptly boarded the transportation vehicle and left the area with decisive efficiency.
As the figure of the other party receded into the distance, Dong Tianyu unfolded his Divine Sense to check if there were others nearby, and upon confirming that no one was around, he directly sent the small transport machine into the Cave.
After completing these tasks, Dong Tianyu did not linger, but drove straight home.
On arriving home, he entered the Cave directly and activated the Cave’s transformation ability to convert the technological transport machine into a mystical Magic Artifact.
After the transformation by the Cave, the electronic instruments inside the original small transport machine became useless. However, the body’s material was transformed from ordinary metal to a metal imbued with spirituality, turning the transport machine into a Magic Artifact with only the characteristic of levitation.
The current small transport machine was more akin to a semi-finished Magic Artifact than a vehicle.
Like the Wave Rider, since the casing was relatively large, it provided Dong Tianyu, a beginner in Formation, with a substantial area to inscribe arrays.
Following his original plan, Dong Tianyu sequentially inscribed the Mystifying Array (invisibility), Shifting Array (speed increase), Spirit Gathering Array (energy), Vajra Array (defense), and Grand Teleportation Array (teleportation) onto this Magic Artifact.
Dong Tianyu had a precise vision for this Magic Artifact, as a pure transportation tool, hence he did not inscribe any offensive formations on it.
However, while inscribing the Grand Teleportation Array, Dong Tianyu added many precious materials, which elevated the small transport machine from a Magic Artifact to a Magical Weapon.
After successfully refining the artifact, Dong Tianyu immediately went out to test it, and after repeated trials, he found that even when the Shifting Array was activated and the Grand Teleportation Array was not, the movement speed was roughly equivalent to Dong Tianyu’s full-speed Sword Control sprint.
Yet there was a significant difference in flight comfort between the two, and once the Grand Teleportation Array was activated, catching up to the small transport machine with Sword Control became almost impossible.
Dong Tianyu tested the travel time between Kyoto and Saxon County Camp using the small transport machine; with the Grand Teleportation Array, it took less than half an hour for a round trip, estimated at just over ten minutes one-way.
Before the disaster, a flight from Pengcheng to Kyoto took about an hour, but during the disaster, Blue Star’s size increased significantly, hence the distance between Pengcheng and Kyoto also became much greater.
Now, under normal circumstances, the fixed return flight between Pengcheng and Kyoto takes about four hours one-way. Although Dong Tianyu had taken this flight numerous times, he was not a professional, so he did not know the speed of the flight.
After completing the tests, Dong Tianyu directly tossed the transport machine into the Storage Space. Despite the painstaking effort to refine this Magical Weapon, Dong Tianyu prayed he would never need to use it.
Lately, the outside world had been relatively calm, and Dong Tianyu was too lazy to go out for a stroll, so he mostly stayed at home to practice cultivation. The cultivation techniques of the Eastern Orthodox practice were quite similar, all requiring persistent, long-term accumulation to successfully break through to the next Realm.
On the other hand, cultivation techniques that allowed one to quickly break through the current realm by using special ’consumables’ were generally considered unorthodox.
The orthodox path may be slow but stable, whereas the unorthodox path may be fast but can easily lead to an imbalance in one’s temperament.
The peaceful days of devoted cultivation did not last long. Unlike the flood rumors circulating in the market, the approach of this disaster was more direct, like the previous insect disaster.
When the catastrophe struck, teleportation gates appeared in various regions of Blue Star. Once the azure-colored gates were fully opened, robots in the shape of wild beasts surged out.
Unlike the mechanical beings in movies that stand neatly together after exiting the gates, these mechanical creatures scattered into the jungles as if they were ancient animals reborn, acting like normal beasts.
As soon as the teleportation gates descended upon Blue Star, Dong Tianyu immediately set out towards the area of their appearance using sword control.
Had it not been for the fact that the creatures emerging from the gates looked different from carbon-based lifeforms, just by their actions alone, Dong Tianyu might have thought that ancient creatures had returned.
Watching an increasing number of mechanical beasts exit the gates, Dong Tianyu for a moment didn’t know what to do.
Soon, out of curiosity, Dong Tianyu grabbed a mechanical creature that resembled a leopard and brought it into the Cave. This Mechanical Leopard was still lively and active, which suggested it wasn’t being remotely controlled.
When he casually severed one of the creature’s legs with a flying sword, the Mechanical Leopard let out a pained roar as if it could feel the pain. But when Dong Tianyu examined the wound, he only saw sparks from severed wires, no blood or even lubricating oil was oozing out.
After witnessing this, Dong Tianyu struck again with his sword, this time performing an abdominal dissection on the Mechanical Leopard. As he had guessed, the insides of the Mechanical Leopard were not like those of a carbon-based lifeform with various organs, but rather assembled from various mechanical parts.
At this point, the wails from the Mechanical Leopard gradually diminished, like that of a normal lifeform reacting to a mortal blow and dwindling vitality.
But Dong Tianyu couldn’t understand why this purely mechanical, silicon-based being would exhibit the same reactions to injury as a carbon-based lifeform.
The flying sword, echoing the perplexity in Dong Tianyu’s mind, once again slashed through the Mechanical Leopard’s head. Dong Tianyu, who had a rudimentary understanding of computer parts before the disaster, could only recognize something like a hard drive in the Mechanical Leopard’s head; he had no idea what function the other electronic components served.
It was only after Dong Tianyu had ’opened up’ the Mechanical Leopard’s head that it stopped wailing, as if it truly died.
Prodding the Mechanical Leopard’s body with his flying sword and observing the dense array of electronic components inside, Dong Tianyu felt a deep sense of alienation.
Leaving everything else aside, the Mechanical Leopard, which had become an entirely mechanical life form, theoretically should encapsulate advanced technology, both in its body and its functions.
But after dissecting it, Dong Tianyu saw many items inside the Mechanical Leopard’s body that resembled diodes, giving him the impression that, given the proper blueprints, even China would be capable of perfectly replicating them.
You see, before the disaster, China had already dipped into the field of artificial intelligence. From Dong Tianyu’s observations at the gates, these mechanical creatures, though not appearing highly intelligent, seemed more like living beings with their own individual essence rather than cold, lifeless machines.
Rather than calling them mechanical creatures, the term ’trajectory lifeforms’ might be more apt.
Looking at the motionless, broken ’corpse,’ Dong Tianyu casually used the disintegrating power of the Cave.
Just as he initially suspected, after disintegration, Dong Tianyu only obtained various types of pure metals, with no other unexpected harvest.
Moreover, these metals were all common metals already present on Blue Star before the disaster. If the Cave hadn’t been upgraded, disintegration might yield some materials useful to Dong Tianyu.
But after the Cave’s upgrade, the ordinary materials obtained from disintegration could only serve as raw material reserves, with no other special purpose.
