From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword

The next morning.

Lu Heng and his two companions returned to Ecological Island and discovered something strange.

The robots on Ecological Island had begun constructing defensive fortifications on the bridge and shore, with hundreds of repair robots working, their mechanical arms welding weapons and armor with buzzing ray guns.

Seeing this, Lu Heng was a bit surprised.

He had only received news from Chen Zihang last night that the hostile camp would soon attack the island, and by this morning, defensive constructions had already begun on Ecological Island.

Lu Heng and Su Muyu exchanged glances, looking puzzled.

"We didn't send back news about the island being attacked, did we?" Lin Zeyu was also a bit confused.

"The Central System Camp also has spies; the leak wasn't from us, so it must have been other Superpower Users," Lu Heng thought, remembering what Chen Zihang had mentioned the night before, that the opposing camp already had 23 Superpower Users.

From this information, one could deduce that this Abyss Battlefield was supposed to have 30 participants.

The remaining Superpower Users who hadn't appeared yet might not have joined a camp or might be well hidden.

In the opposing camp with 23 Superpower Users, it wouldn't be odd for one or two spies to send information back to Ecological Island.

Lu Heng returned to Ecological Island to deliver the task assigned to the Mechanical Tiger the day before.

When he had left the island yesterday, the Mechanical Tiger had hoped that Lu Heng would destroy a mechanical guard and bring back its energy battery.

Now, Ecological Island was in dire need of batteries; even some repair robots couldn't start due to damaged batteries.

Lu Heng directly took out twenty-five Energy Batteries, saying, "Here are the batteries you asked for, I brought back twenty-five."

Although the Mechanical Tiger was a machine, its Mechanical Core had merged with Source Material, giving it an intelligent consciousness.

Thus, it showed a surprised expression when it saw the many Energy Batteries Lu Heng had brought back, "This is great, it will be a big help to us. Bring the batteries and come with me; we are going to awaken more repair robots."

The Mechanical Tiger led Lu Heng to a deserted robot warehouse on Ecological Island.

The warehouse was underground and very spacious.

The abandoned robots were not piled up like trash, but rather, they stood quietly, twenty centimeters apart from each other, as if in deep slumber.

Lu Heng handed the Energy Batteries to a nearby repair robot, which entered the warehouse and installed the batteries inside these dormant robots.

After the batteries were installed, the control panel of a robot lit up, its wheels turned slightly, and without greeting anyone, it turned around and walked out of the underground warehouse to start working on the bridge.

The twenty-five batteries awakened twenty-five robots, adding to the "manpower" for building defensive fortifications.

Bringing back so many batteries significantly increased his contributions within the Mechanical Servant rogue camp.

Lu Heng made another request to the Mechanical Tiger: "Can I meet your superior?"

The Mechanical Tiger paused for half a second, clearly communicating with its superior, then responded, "My superior wants you to participate in the forthcoming defense battle and has asked me to take you to collect weapons. After the defense battle, my superior will consider your request to meet."

Bringing back twenty-five Energy Batteries was still not enough to meet the Mechanical Tiger's superior.

It was no longer a mystery; the so-called superior of the Mechanical Tiger was undeniably the main brain behind the Gestalt Consciousness of the rogue Mechanical Servants.

It looked like they would only meet after the defense battle of Ecological Island had happened.

Lu Heng had also contemplated finding the main brain's location on Ecological Island, but this idea was difficult to achieve.

Because it wasn't even known what the Gestalt Consciousness's main brain was—it could be a computer or a bracelet.

Ultimately, any terminal device connected to the Gestalt network could be the main brain.

Therefore, without knowing what the target was, it was impossible to search for it.

Moreover, forcibly approaching the main brain could be deemed a threat, leading to attack by other Ecological Island robots.

Lu Heng and his companions followed the Mechanical Tiger into the Ecological Island's arsenal, where they saw batches of Cyber World weapons.

Among them, there was a large number of Energy Weapons.

Lin Zeyu's eyes lit up upon seeing these Energy Weapons. He picked up one and said, "This Ray Gun looks very similar to the one I saw on the Crystal Core Dark Network before. This thing is pretty good. It deals 300 points of damage per second, though that isn't particularly high."

His SVD sniper rifle had an Attack Power of over 500 points, and even shooting from 1000 meters away after attenuation, it could still inflict over 300 points of damage.

From this, one could see that this Cyber Beam Gun didn't have an Attack Power as high as the SVD sniper rifle.

Of course, both weapons were of different types, and directly comparing damage values was actually inappropriate.

Energy Weapons only caused energy damage, while a sniper rifle was a Kinetic Energy Weapon, its bullets inflicting kinetic damage.

In the material world, the destructive force of kinetic energy would never become outdated.

Because a moving object with mass naturally requires a lot of energy.

Moreover, this type of energy can be carried far by material objects.

Energy Weapons lacked kinetic damage, but their advantage was clear: the beams were propelled at the speed of light, nearly instantaneously hitting the target.

Conversely, Energy Weapons needed a moment to cause damage.

The Level B Ray Gun in Lin Zeyu's hand could inflict 300 points of damage in 1 second—this damage was not low, capable of killing a Power User below Level 20 in just one second.

Besides,

Ray Guns also had the advantage of not needing a magazine change; as long as the battery had charge, it could be continuously used.