Chapter 633: Chapter 333:
For Song Chi, although there were many mechanical units in this fifth area, the high-rank combat power was limited; he only needed to deal with the two Fourth Rank Level Hellfire Mechs, and the others were not much of a threat to the [Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield].
Therefore, he quickly said,
“Ansewei, you take the left, and I’ll take the right, let’s take out those two Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs with everything we’ve got!”
The calmness on Song Chi’s face stabilized Ansewei’s heart, and she agreed to the plan.
Shadows of the Sword Intent more than a thousand kilometers long were quickly condensing, along with even more terrifying Soul-Extinguishing Rays.
Although the Soul-Extinguishing Ray could not achieve its maximum effect against these mechanical units, it was still an attack feature condensed by a Fifth Rank red main cannon, and its might was unimaginable.
The White Rose, on the other hand, gathered two attacks that were no less formidable than those of the Cang Qiong.
Once fully charged, four terrifying attacks erupted suddenly, hitting their targets with precision the next second.
Not waiting for the boom to sound, the [External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher], which had already been readied by Song Chi, was activated, with two special cobalt shells firing towards the two Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs.
Watching the two Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs in the distance that did not dodge or evade, a smile appeared in Song Chi’s eyes.
What satisfied him most about these mechanical units was this point: although their intelligent brains were not necessarily worse than those of other carbon-based life forms, and could even be superior, the ones in these ancient ruins were clearly not the normal mechanical units; they had no thoughts of their own and only the ability to passively receive orders.
Before being integrated into the ruins, the programs they were encoded with quite obviously included only one instruction: to kill all outsiders. As for dodging? No…they had no such concept.
Their sole directive was to autonomously attack invaders.
In the midst of the roaring sounds, the two Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs, along with the ordinary mechanical units beside them, were all blown into heaps of debris.
As mechs mainly responsible for long-range firepower strikes, the defense capabilities of the Hellfire Mechs were only average to begin with, and in the face of direct bombardment by Fifth Rank Level firepower, they naturally could not withstand it.
With the threat of the two Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs gone, there was no need to worry about the others—the Third Rank and Second Rank mech units.
Of course, this was the case for the Cang Qiong. The White Rose, however, did not have this confidence.
Even though they had dealt with the Fourth Rank enemies, the tens of thousands of Third Rank Hellfire Mechs were not to be taken lightly; if they focused their fire, the single red energy shield and orange warship armor would not be enough to withstand it.
In the end, Song Chi simply positioned the Cang Qiong directly in front of the White Rose, allowing the Cang Qiong to absorb more than eighty percent of the attacks.
Even so, protected by a double shield of silver energy and red warship armor, and with a 50% shield value boost to the energy shield recently provided by Ansewei, the Cang Qiong still managed to hold out to the end.
When the two warships had cleared all the mechanical units, the Cang Qiong still retained more than 20% of its shield value, and that was without having resorted to the [Final Blessing] component.
In the main control room of the White Rose, Ansewei’s gaze swept over the Cang Qiong. After this battle, she had pretty much made a guess in her heart.
And her heart couldn’t calm down for a long time.
No wonder she was shocked—this was a silver energy shield, not some common commodity. Even among the high ranks of the Chenxing Clan, such quality energy shields were only available to the Fifth Rank ancients, one per person. In those pseudo-major forces, a single silver energy shield could even be considered the greatest foundation of power.
To Ansewei’s knowledge, not one of the current five imperial princes of the Chenxing royal family had a silver-grade energy shield installed on their flagship.
After a brief moment of astonishment, the smile in the woman’s eyes deepened a bit, but perhaps she herself hadn’t noticed it, let alone Song Chi.
“Let’s collect the loot first, and also rest a bit. The high strain of the past few days…it’s unbearable…”
Song Chi’s voice came through the communication projection, pulling Ansewei back to reality, and shortly after, the two began to take stock of their gains as quickly as possible.
Not to mention anything else, just the massive amount of mechanical parts and fragments was a significant gain. Although not Strange Objects, as artifacts from a mechanical civilization of no low level, they had substantial research value.
Ansewei could hand them over to the Chenxing Research Institute, confident of getting a handsome reward.
As for Song Chi, he could split them in two, providing one portion to his clan’s internal affairs department’s research institute, while selling the other part to Goblin Luke.
Goblins were famed for their mechanical proficiency; they would definitely be interested in such mechanical artifacts.
Besides these items, the pair also discovered that the energy core of one of the Fourth Rank Hellfire Mechs had transformed into a Purple Relic, which could be converted into a Purple Engine.
All these were secondary, for there was a more prominent feature to come: the mechanical folding box that was in a corner of the fifth area.
According to Ansewei, in each area, there would always be one such mechanical spatial folding box, and within these boxes were stored precious data, resources, and even Strange Objects left behind by the Qiongtian Mechanical Civilization.
Before this, she had already acquired several Orange Oddities from the four previous boxes.