"Gulp."
The bubble was slowly expanding … and then it exploded with a bang.
Along with the waves of the explosion, the rain of life also fell.
This was a dark and sticky environment. At the same time, it was also known as the "Rotten Land."
This was the underground of the Canned City. It was an environment made up of countless black sludge and broken mechanical parts. It was like a huge abandoned site. The things that the city did not want were thrown here and mixed with the sludge.
Among these 'unwanted things', there were also some who were once residents of the city.
"I can't move anymore … I can't find … a new energy source …"
Two machines were crawling in the sludge. Their disc-shaped bodies were supported by three rusty mechanical arms. Their bodies were full of cracks and traces of corrosion.
These machines belonged to the lowest level of the city's residents. They could not continue to work in the city due to various reasons. They could only come to the rotten land under the city and live a life of picking up trash.
Sometimes, they could pick up some energy cores to maintain their lives …
However, these two machines had not picked up anything useful for a long time. Their bodies would soon stop working. The brains in their bodies would also be unable to receive visual and sensory information from the outside world. They would slowly die in the endless darkness.
"No! There must be some energy source here! " Unwilling to accept this ending, one of the disc-shaped machines suddenly ran wildly. It quickly climbed up a mud hill in front of it. When it reached the top, it saw … a small puddle not far away.
The puddle with a diameter of more than two meters was constantly bubbling. Seeing this, the disc-shaped machine immediately made a sound of excitement and jumped toward the puddle.
In its memory, if it saw a puddle and found that the puddle was bubbling, there would definitely be something like an energy core inside.
"Dong."
It fell into the water. However, before it could find an energy core, the cold water seeped through the wounds on its body and flowed all the way to the tank that contained the brain.
Soon, it felt its consciousness become more and more blurred. Before it stopped working, it saw that in the puddle, there were many machines similar to it … corpses.
The bubble was still rising and falling, and the machine that had fallen into the puddle had completely stopped working.
"…"
Another one jumped in.
From beginning to end, Lin had been watching the entire process. Lin's vision was not elsewhere. She was in the puddle … everywhere in the puddle.
This was because the entire puddle was filled with a large amount of fungi. The bubbles were produced by the vigorous reproduction of these fungi. This phenomenon seemed to easily attract … the machines that were here to scavenge for trash to jump in.
So far, ten machines had jumped in. Most of them were very small, and soon … they would drown here.
These machines did not seem to be very waterproof … Lin did not turn them off. Instead, she continued doing what she had been doing all this time, which was … forming an army.
The sludge here was mixed with a very … complicated mix of materials, including metals and many other materials. The sludge here was quite deep, and it might have accumulated for thousands of years. However, they didn't know how fast it accumulated, so they couldn't get an accurate answer.
Lin had a feeling that the residents of the city above must have thrown all their trash here. Most of them were probably corpses … machines that could no longer be repaired. However, these trash were not thrown elsewhere. Instead, they had been accumulating here.
In short, there were many nutrients suitable for cellular life forms here. At the same time, there was also a lot of water. This led to a large number of fungi communities in the sludge, which gave birth to some multicellular life forms.
These multicellular life forms could grow to a maximum of over 10 centimetres. Compared to the fungi, they were incomparably large. They lived in the deeper parts of the sludge, living a very … relaxed life here.
The fungi here were … fertilizers that Lin could use to create her army. As for the outer shell of her army, she could use the metals here to create them.
The main control system that Lin was tossed in earlier had some cells with it. Now, Lin had these cells begin to grow in this sludge and occupy many of the main gathering points of the bacteria … in other words, these puddles.
This puddle was very small, but there were many other large puddles. Using these places as a starting point, Lin had the cells spread throughout … the decaying land.
At the same time, she began to create a relatively large army, the Pioneer, deep within the sludge.
It was mainly used to excavate the melted area. At the same time, Lin was also collecting the machinery and metals here to create a large number of small mechanical army.
As Lin was doing this, she found that there were a considerable number of … scavenging machines in this decaying land. For this city, the decaying land should also be the residence of the lower-class residents.
All of this was indeed no different from a city of sexual life forms. However, Lin still did not know who built this city and for what purpose. Lin decided to investigate.
… … …
[I will now broadcast the news outside the city. In the desert outside the city, the activity of the graveyard glue has become increasingly frequent. Some researchers have pointed out that these creatures may pose a threat to us. Whether or not that is true is still under investigation.]
[What do you mean, still under investigation? What are they up to …]
This was a shop, a shop that sold mechanical parts.
A mechanical brain was standing on top of a pile of mechanical parts, looking at the screen displayed on the wall in front of it. The screen was currently broadcasting the news.
What it failed to notice was that Lin was also looking at it.
While growing in the sludge, Lin had created many small army units and had them explore the city. This was one of the places that Lin had been paying attention to …
This was the shop that Lin had dismantled earlier.
Their lives … appeared to be quite ordinary. However, the news that it was watching was quite interesting.
That was because they could receive information from the outside. Could there be machines here that could go out of the city to obtain news?
In the news, a large group of … graveyard glue could be seen crawling across the sand. The cameraman was flying high up in the sky to follow these creatures.
[These monsters are truly disgusting … let's look at something else.] After the mechanical brain said that, the screen changed.
This time, it was showing … an interview. A group of machines were surrounding another machine and asking it questions.
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