After entering the earth's atmosphere, it seemed that Pumas had gotten rid of the pursuit, but in fact, its situation was still very bad.
Because the black poisonous needle shot by the mechanical bee into Pumas' body had begun to take effect. The poison on it was personally refined by Sonar. It was a powerful rust poison that was specially targeted at mechanical intelligent lifeforms.
Therefore, Pumas had lost most of its self-consciousness when it landed. It could only rely on inertia to turn into a burning meteorite and hit the ground obliquely. Fortunately, it adjusted as much as possible before the impact to hit the ground at a small angle.
As a result, the geographical location where Pumas landed was quite special. On the surface, there was a layer of rock shell tens of meters thick, but there was an underground lake below.
After smashing through the layer of rock shell above, it flew for more than 10 kilometers inside the underground space, then plunged into the underground lake. It even plowed a deep trench a few kilometers long at the bottom of the underground lake.
In the end, Pumas' head was inserted into the bottom of the lake at a 30 degree angle, and its tail was raised obliquely.
This was the cause of the "turtle-back" uplift that Fang Linyan saw at the bottom of the lake. It was completely pushed up by Pumas when it landed.
The location where Pumas obliquely smashed through the surface rock shell was more than 10 kilometers away from the underground lake. A small landslide occurred at that time, blocking the hole. Therefore, even if the people on the ground saw the meteorite falling, they didn't find anything.
Sonar was quite confident in the rust poison she had refined. After confirming that Pumas was hit by many black poisonous needles, she thought that this guy was dead for sure, so she didn't pursue the matter further.
This was indeed the case. Pumas had been in a coma at the bottom of the lake since then. Fortunately, after it successfully landed, before it lost its last trace of consciousness, it entrusted everything to the artificial intelligence in the ship: Luminous Wheel.
Luminous Wheel had been trying to save Pumas, but it was lacking in means.
The main reason was that the rust poison on the black poisonous needles was quite vicious.
Artificial intelligence: A maintenance robot created by Luminous Wheel – the kind of mechanical spider that would die quickly after approaching it.
Because it was difficult to replenish its own energy, Luminous Wheel couldn't create maintenance robots indefinitely to fight against the rust poison.
At the same time, the corrosive poison was constantly eroding Puma's vitality, causing it to dissipate.
Fortunately, Pumas had been in contact with the fragments of the steel fire source for a long time, so his vitality was exceptionally tenacious. He had been able to survive under the corrosion of the rust poison for so many years.
The life force that Primus had dissipated was a very special type of mechanical life energy, which was equivalent to a disguised form of radiation.
Under this constant radiation, the artificial intelligence, Luminous Wheel, was also constantly evolving. At this point, it could be considered as a cyborg intelligent life form.
Not only that, but the native creatures in the underground lake were also affected. They began to evolve into half-metal creatures.
The first creatures to be affected were snails, crabs, turtles, and other creatures that could absorb calcium to create protective shells. They only needed to evolve their ability to absorb calcium to create protective shells and turn it into the ability to absorb metal to create metal shells.
Because the life force emitted by Pumas had a fatal attraction to these creatures, most of these creatures would linger around the spaceship, forming an invisible protection around the spaceship ruins.
However, some small mutated half-metal creatures would still be inadvertently swept into the underground river while hunting for food, and then be washed away by the current.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a metal-shelled snail that swam out of the underground lake was caught by the outside world.
In just two years, these half-metal creatures with metal shells began to be discovered one after another. There were more than a dozen of them circulating in the outside world, but they were all metal snails.
Under such circumstances, the half-metal creatures finally attracted the attention of a big shot in the Blood Umbrella Corporation.
This person was called Williams. He was originally an unknown researcher with mediocre research skills, but he had outstanding achievements in politics. He seized the opportunity and quickly rose to become one of the five directors of the Blood Umbrella Corporation.
However, the ambitious him was not willing to stop there.
At this time, the Blood Umbrella Corporation was divided into two factions: human research and hybrid genetic research.
Williams wanted to increase his speaking power. From a normal point of view, he could only choose one of the factions first, then poach the heads of the major laboratories, the heads of the branch companies, and so on.
At this time, these people with real power had already been taken in by the other directors. If Williams wanted to poach them, he would inevitably offend them.
Under such circumstances, Williams chose to open up a new path and start anew. He opened up a new third faction within the Blood Umbrella Corporation: Biological Machinery!
Williams mobilized a large amount of funds and began to concentrate on the research of the half-metal creatures that he captured.
He was also very lucky to have successfully caught a metal-shelled crab at this critical time, and immediately made a breakthrough in biological machinery technology.
Williams was very mediocre in terms of research and academics, but he was an out-and-out genius in politics and marketing. He was the kind of person who could sell plain water as high-end nutrition products and fool a large group of people into crying and shouting to buy it.
Moreover, at this time, he really came up with an epoch-making result in his hands.
As a result, Williams was like a tiger that had grown wings. He seized a large number of resources and attracted an amazing amount of floating funds and venture capital.
After getting enough resources, Williams immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation of this place, then spent a lot of manpower and material resources to secretly start building the Veronica Laboratory. Relying on the development of the so-called underwater relics, he achieved great success.
As a result, the Biomechanical Faction was born out of nowhere. Because they had ready-made mutant biological samples for research, they were able to avoid many detours. Soon, they began to suppress the other two factions to the point that they could barely breathe.
However, even the highest level of the Blood Umbrella Corporation at that time, including Williams, didn't know that the underwater relics they studied were actually a living mechanical intelligent life, but it was in a state of suspended animation.
Of course, if they knew, they might become even crazier.
The next thing was needless to say. The Blood Umbrella Corporation split up.
It was just that Williams had already prepared for a rainy day. When he established the Veronica Laboratory, he built a total of 11 locations. 8 of them were pretenses in order to cover the real core laboratory.
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For Fang Linyan, it was difficult for him to suppress his excitement at this time.
Because he had obtained a shocking secret from Puma's remnant memory.
That was the specific location of the small steel fire source fragment!
When Puma went to steal the energy block, he didn't carry it with him.
At that time, Sonic placed a large piece of the steel fire source fragment in the base. If Puma went with the fragment, the 2 originally originated from one. As long as they were combined together, it would be like two drops of water touching each other, miraculously merging into one again.
Not only that, even if the 2 fragments were close to a certain range, it was very likely to trigger resonance.
Given the characteristics of the steel fire source fragment, Puma of course didn't dare to take it everywhere. Instead, he used some materials found in the abandoned junkyard to make a shielding box.
He usually put the steel fire source fragment beside him in the shielding box, and the shielding box was buried in a hole he usually dug.
When Puma was caught stealing the energy block, it was equivalent to inviting the enemy into the trap. It was already his best to rush out of it. Of course, he didn't have time to go back to get the steel fire source fragment.
In other words, where the thing was placed at that time, it should still be in the same place now.
The specific location was next to a mountain range on the back of the moon that could never be observed from the earth!!
As for this steel fire source fragment, Fang Linyan felt that he couldn't even evaluate its rarity. When chatting with the goat before, he heard that every world hid 1 or several ultimate secrets.
This ultimate secret was unique. Once it was discovered and obtained by someone, it would disappear permanently.
Of course, if he wanted to obtain this ultimate secret, it would definitely be extremely difficult!
At that time, Fang Linyan joked that he didn't know how many people had been recruited into the Noah Realm. Those who were selected must be elites. If everyone was selected together and competed fairly, then there would be a chance.
But since he knew about this, then the others must know about it too.
Others entered the Noah Realm for a few years or more, and when they were strong enough, they would come back to explore this ultimate secret. How could they keep it?
However, the goat told Fang Linyan that there were conditions to obtain the ultimate secret, and they were very harsh. For example, one's personal attributes couldn't be too high. For example, one must be a contestant or a contractor. If one's attributes were higher, one would be disqualified directly.
This was similar to "accompanying 10 different female classmates home after school before the age of 14", "achieving 100 kills in high school", and so on. It could only be completed at a certain stage.
It would definitely make the difficulty of obtaining the ultimate secret constant under extremely difficult conditions.
After calming down, Fang Linyan began to put away his thoughts, then continued to patiently look for the structure diagram of the activated mechanical heart in front of him.
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