"Look at these things, they have lost their … consciousness."
This was the underground laboratory of the Voidfolk camp. Cryopteris and the Scholar were looking at the image before them.
The image showed a group of miniature machines.
Of course, the Scholar felt that they looked more like metal amoebae. These miniature machines were currently locked in a 'complete isolation room' in the laboratory.
This isolation room was said to be made of special materials. Even the miniature machines could not crawl out of it.
However, the Scholar believed that they would not crawl out. These miniature machines were now trembling non-stop. Therefore, they could no longer maintain the appearance of the Hero. Instead, they were all scattered and would not come back together. They would not do anything but tremble there.
This phenomenon was called 'Core Protector Madness'. This name was given by Cryopteris because when they were hit by the Scholar's special weapon, the Core Protector was said to be eating away at their consciousness and thoughts.
"Now, what we need to look at is this information." Cryopteris climbed onto the image and pointed at the various information that popped up.
This information was produced when the small core protector attacked the micro-machines. When their consciousness was interfered with by the small core protector, they began to come up with all kinds of 'ideas' as if they had gone mad. Then, the imaging device could analyze these ideas, translate them into Voidfolk language, and display them in front of the scholar.
Even so, the Scholar could not understand it.
"What … does this mean?" The Scholar looked at the scattered words on the image and was very confused.
"You need to assemble them." Cryopteris said, "They are like this. Each or every small group of machines will only produce fragmented information. These information may look like meaningless words, but when the words of all the machines are put together, it will form their complete thoughts!"
Cryopteris continued, "If you can analyze this, it will prove that your will is stronger than the Voidfolk!"
"What does this have to do with will …" The Scholar said, "But in that case, we can try to combine them …"
"Their … civilization … is like this …"
After looking at it for a while, the Scholar found that the fragmented information could be combined into many meanings, but there was only one most reasonable meaning.
In general, this should be the case. After the Scholars and Heroes got close to the micro-machines, the machines became interested in them.
This was because the machines seemed to know that the civilizations nearby were all very small. They were not as big as the Hero and the Scholar. At that time, they decided to disguise themselves as individuals and follow the scholars to see what kind of 'civilization' was like.
They quickly understood the communication methods of the Scholar's machines and interfered with them. Then, they created a fake Hero and Gnome and followed the Scholar back here.
After the machine arrived, it decided to let the Fake Hero self-destruct. While blowing up a portion of the campsite, he also left a portion of the miniature machines here to continue observing the activities of the Void Dwellers.
But because he was hit by the Small Core Protector Gun, the plan failed.
At this point, the Scholar suddenly realized a problem … Yes, Micro had created both the fake hero and the fake dwarf at the same time. Where was the fake dwarf now?
It seemed that after approaching the camp, it did not appear again. No one knew where it had run off to.
"Looks like you've also noticed that the disguised dwarf has mysteriously disappeared." Cryopteris said, "It's hiding somewhere, so this camp is still in danger …"
"Then we have to find it," the Scholar said. "It might also self-destruct …"
"Report!" Suddenly, the Scholar heard a voice. It was the communication from the guards outside. "That … the Hero has appeared in front of the door again. Should we let it in?"
"… The Hero?" The Scholar used the repaired device to check the Hero's position and immediately said, "It's real. Let it in!"
After that, the Scholar and Cryopteris quickly left the underground laboratory. When they went outside, they immediately saw the Hero walking in from the door and the Gnome following it.
The Hero's body was covered with many … wounds. These wounds looked like small holes, as if they were made by micro-machines.
The Gnome's situation was similar. Obviously, these two were real.
"Finally back …" The Hero looked at the Scholar and said, "What happened just now? The guards there didn't let me in … "
"There were some small problems …"
The Scholar told the Hero about the fake Hero. After hearing this, the Hero was shocked. "They can disguise themselves as me? That's disgusting! "
"What happened to you there?" the Scholar asked. "It wasn't easy to run back …"
"I was dragged to the bottom by them. After that, they kept attacking me. Fortunately, they helped me get rid of those things. "The Hero turned to the Gnome and said," Let them come out. "
"Wow!" The Gnome opened its mouth. Some glowing things jumped out of the Gnome's mouth.
"These are … light needles?" The Scholar saw that the things that jumped out were about two centimeters in size. They looked like glowing beetles. These were actually mechas that the light needles rode on. The light needles were inside them.
"When we were surrounded, they rushed over to save us," the Hero said. "Although we don't speak the same language … they seemed to want me to bring them back."
The Hero said, "So, at that time, I tried my best to escape with them. But there are only a few left …"
"You did a good job." Cryopteris said, "This way, we can learn more through them. Let them in the lab. Also, you need to fix it."
"Okay, I understand."
Just like that, not long after, in the lab …
"Their language isn't that difficult to understand."
The Scholar and Cryopteris stood in front of the imaging device and watched the images in front of them. The images showed the information they had translated through the light needles' language.
The information showed that … the light needles were suddenly attacked by the micro-mechas. The micro-mechas suddenly appeared in their territory and attacked them without saying anything.
The attack quickly killed most of the light needles, but there were still a few left. They were the … elites of the light needles.
However, as the elites were killed one by one, the light needles were on the verge of extinction. The micro-mechas did not allow any of them to escape. It seemed that they were determined to exterminate them.
But at that moment, the light needles discovered that the Hero and the others were here, so they wanted to use them to escape.
When the last Hero fell, a group of light needles gathered to help the Hero. With the Hero's cooperation, a portion of the needles managed to escape.
Although there were only a few of them, at least they were not extinct.
What surprised the Scholar was the information the light needles brought … about the micro-mechas elsewhere.
The light needles were not a very isolated civilization. They had contact with many nearby races, or rather, they had some … 'trading relationships'.
The light needles indicated that the nearby races had also sent out information that they were under attack. The micro-mechas seemed to have attacked many places, and they were all targeted at various civilizations.
Furthermore, Light Needle also said that this was something that had never happened before. There had never been multiple civilizations being attacked at the same time. However, most of these civilizations didn't send out the war signal to summon Ring City. They only sent out the signal to each other that they were attacked.
According to these signals, it seemed that the micro-mechas had occupied more than half of their cities. Now, they might have occupied almost all of them …
However, the light needles believed that if it was a 'normal' battle, they would not have lost to the micro-mechas. The main reason was that there was a sense of fear in the process of fighting the micro-mechas. This feeling would become stronger as the battle continued, and this was the main reason for their failure.
Otherwise, they should have been able to defeat the micro-mechas, or at least chase them away.
However, it seemed that after the micro-mechas left the ground, the sense of fear would disappear. This was also noticed by the Scholar. The light needles also pointed out that this seemed to be the reason why the micro-mechas could not be placed on land and had to be dealt with underground.
… What were they trying to do?
The Scholar thought that this might be a very serious problem, so it decided to go out again to investigate and help these civilizations defeat the invaders.
Thus, the Scholar and the Hero formed a team again and embarked on the journey to deal with the micro-mechas.
However, this was only its idea.
"Although your idea is not bad, you should not be running around now. You should stay here."
This was what the Cryopteris said to the Scholar.
"But the situation now is very bad …" the Scholar said. "These civilizations might all be … wiped out because of the attack."
"That is not very likely," the Scholar said. "And even if you go out, you won't be able to do anything useful. For now, you have to stay here because there are still many things to be done."
"The research here is almost done, right?" the Scholar asked. "Is there anything else to be done?"
"… It is about the defense of this place." Cryopteris said. "Perhaps this place will be attacked soon, so you should be in charge of the defense."
"What?" the Scholar was shocked. "Why should I be in charge?"
"Because you should have felt it," Cryopteris said. "This is a chance for you to … 'grow' even more."
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