From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 168 The Pride of Advanced Civilization

The two robots walked to Lu Heng's glass cabin, released a scanning beam, and scanned Lu Heng up and down twice through the glass wall.

Then one of the robots extended its robotic arm and pressed a button on the front of the glass cabin.

The glass cabin moved and slowly descended.

Lu Heng knew that he was chosen, and quickly made a gesture to Su Muyu and the others to allow them to move freely.

The glass cabin slowly descended into a glass elevator-style pipe and continued to move horizontally.

After a moment, it moved to the predetermined position, and a square hole opened just above it.

The side length of the hole is exactly two meters, the same as the width of the glass cabin.

The glass cabin began to rise, slowly passed through the hole, and appeared on the ground above.

As soon as he came out of the passage, Lu Heng adjusted himself to the light and then looked around. As expected, he arrived at the mechanical arena of the Sykes civilization.

This is an extra-large mechanical arena. A rough glance shows that the auditorium should be able to accommodate 100,000 people.

An arena of this level would rank among the top ten in the Sykes civilization.

If placed on a single planet, it would basically be the largest arena.

At this moment, there were some strange-looking Sykes people sitting sparsely in the audience seats, most of whom had undergone mechanical transformation.

If you see the Sykes for the first time, you might be surprised by their cool-looking mechanical shells, and then think that these Sykes who have been transformed with cool mechanical shells must be big shots.

But in fact, it's not.

The Sykes civilization went through several periods in the process of mechanical transformation.

In the early days of mechanical transformation, about two centuries ago, the mechanical transformation craze had just emerged in the Sykes civilization, and citizens were proud of owning cool-looking mechanical limbs.

At that time, if you wanted to carry out cutting-edge technological mechanical limb transformation, you would need strong financial support.

As the process of transformation into mechanical civilization reached the middle stage, more than 90% of the Sykes people had undergone mechanical transformation to varying degrees.

Some have had an arm modified, some have had a leg modified, and some have had ears and other organs modified.

By this time, getting cool mechanical limbs is no longer a trend.

Mechanical transformation began to diversify and differentiate into many schools.

Some Sykes like to transform their bodies into wild beasts, insects, or all kinds of strange or even disgusting things.

The Sykes also have this curiosity, but it has not become mainstream.

Diversity is the mainstream, especially the transformable mechanical transformation which was once popular for a long time.

At the end of the transformation of mechanical civilization, that is, twenty or thirty years ago, the "Renaissance" of Sykes civilization appeared.

The upper class nobles began to restore the most original image of the Sykes people and use the most expensive bionic skin.

There is a more advanced type of bionic skin, which is constant temperature bionic skin.

If you don't peel off the bionic skin and look at the internal structure, the touch is almost exactly the same as that of an organic life form.

Therefore, those cool-looking mechanically modified bodies in the audience seats have a low status.

Those Sykes who do not seem to have any signs of mechanical modification on their bodies are the nobles of this civilization.

Of course, these Sykes people, who show no signs of mechanical modification on the outside, are actually made entirely of machines inside. They just use bionic skin, so they look like organic life forms on the outside.

Obviously today is an entertainment event, so the number of people in the audience is not large, but there are still about one or two thousand people.

……

After the glass cabin rose up, the hatch opened.

Lu Heng stepped out of the glass cabin and looked at a mechanical fighting beast ten meters ahead.

This mechanical fighting beast is very strong and looks like a longhorn beetle covered with barbs.

This mechanical longhorn beetle's six legs are more than three meters tall, and the horns on its head are just raised, as if it only needs a sprint to pierce its opponent and nail it to the wall.

Lu Heng knew that this thing was his opponent.

Mechanical fighting beasts are the technological crystallization of the Sykes civilization, so the combat effectiveness of the mechanical longhorn beetle in front of him is not worse than that of the mechanical tiger, at least it is A-level combat effectiveness.

If Lu Heng used all his strength, he would be sure to win.

However, playing all the cards in front of so many Sykes people is not a good choice.

Moreover, the main quest does not require winning the beast fighting competition, it only requires surviving the competition.

After Lu Heng walked out of the glass cabin, the glass cabin behind him began to descend, sinking below the ground, and then the hole was completely closed.

At this moment.

The bell rang in the Colosseum, signaling the start of the game.

when……

After three sounds, the originally stationary mechanical longhorn beetle immediately moved, charging towards Lu Heng and poking with its sharp horns.

Lu Heng moved his feet to dodge, and due to his high agility, he dodged easily.

While dodging, Lu Heng was also observing the Sykes people in the audience.

obviously.

This is an entertainment competition often held by the Sykes civilization, in which mechanical beasts fight and kill organic creatures.

The highlight of this kind of competition is to see how the mechanical beasts tear apart organic life, thereby demonstrating the power of the mechanical body.

However, today's game was a little different from what the audience expected.

The mechanical longhorn beetle launched several attacks but failed to touch Lu Heng.

The audience wants to see mechanical beasts tearing apart flesh and blood creatures, and want to see the bloody scene with flesh and blood all over the ground.

However, Lu Heng kept dodging and running on the ground and walls at an extremely fast speed.

Every time the mechanical longhorn beetle charged, it would crash a big hole in the wall, but it could not touch Lu Heng at all.

There were constant boos from the audience, and they began to curse and belittle the company that manufactured the mechanical beetle.

……

When Lu Heng was fighting with the mechanical beast.

In the beast fighting warehouse, Su Muyu took out a crossbow and shot an arrow at a corner of the glass cabin.

Under the [Melting Armor] special effect, a hole was shot through the glass cabin.

Then, she released the source energy and summoned the Divine Feathered Eagle.

The Divine Feather Eagle entered stealth mode and began to explore.

By the time we had explored the entire structure of the Mechanical Colosseum, the competition outside had also ended.

There was a burst of boos from the audience.

Because Lu Heng dragged on for a full thirty minutes until the end of the game.

During this process, the proficiency of physical skills increased by 125 points.

Lu Heng completely treated the mechanical longhorn beetle as an opponent for practicing his physical skills. He moved around and above it but was never hit by it.

After the game, Lu Heng was not sent back to the original beast fighting warehouse, but was taken to a spacious office. In the office, a Sykes man with no trace of mechanical modification on his body and a pair of blue eyes asked, "You should be an intelligent creature, can you communicate?"

Lu Heng nodded: "Okay."

"Very good, then are you a devil?" the blue-eyed Sykes man asked.

"No." Lu Heng denied.

"Then why are you here?" the blue-eyed Sykes continued to ask.

"Recruitment for the Abyss Battlefield, do you have any information about this?" Lu Heng was not very sure whether the Sykes civilization knew the recruitment rules for the Abyss Battlefield at this point in time.

In his previous life, Lu Heng first entered the Sykes world one year after the abyss descended.

At that time, the Sykes civilization already had some understanding of the abyss.

And the Sykes will also be recruited into the Abyss Battlefield.

According to the conscription rules of the Abyss Battlefield, all intelligent life belonging to all worlds invaded by the Abyss will be conscripted.

For this reason, Lu Heng has always felt that the call to the Abyss Battlefield is very much like support for the worlds invaded by the Abyss, with the purpose of uniting with these worlds to fight against the Abyss.

Therefore, the Sykes would also be called up, but it is uncertain when they would be called up.

"I see. Then which world are you from?" the blue-eyed Sykes asked again.

"The human world."

"What are the star coordinates?"

"No comment." Lu Heng did not intend to reveal the coordinates of the sun, because revealing it might cause unknown events in a few decades.

"To what extent has your world been invaded by the abyss?" The questions raised by the blue-eyed Sykes were all very crucial questions.

"It's the seventh month since the invasion, and abyss rifts have appeared." After thinking for a while, Lu Heng only said what he could.

After that, Lu Heng wanted to try to gain this person's support, so he said: "I am here to help you, I hope we can fight the abyss together."

The blue-eyed Sykes laughed and said, "You are wrong about one thing. Our civilization is very powerful and does not need help from other civilizations."

Lu Heng frowned and once again felt the arrogance of the Sykes civilization.

The Sykes civilization is indeed arrogant, at least in front of human civilization, it is very arrogant.

Because the civilization level of the Sykes civilization has reached above level 2.1, which is much higher than human civilization, they have surpassed stellar civilization and are developing towards galaxy-level civilization.

The level of human civilization is actually only 0.8.

According to the classification of civilization levels, Level 1.0 civilization is a planetary civilization, which requires the civilization to reach the level of fully utilizing the planet's resources.

Humankind’s process of planetary civilization has not yet been completed, and there are still many resources on the blue planet that we have not yet been able to develop.

Civilization 2.0 is a stellar civilization. This level of civilization can already make full use of the resources of stars.

In other words, if human civilization wants to develop to 2.0, it needs to have the technology to fully develop solar resources.

The Sykes civilization has completed the process of stellar civilization and started to develop towards galactic civilization. Although it has only taken the first step in the process of galactic civilization development, its level of civilization is indeed much higher than that of human civilization.

Therefore, the Sykes civilization is not only arrogant in front of human civilization, but also has this attitude in front of all lower civilizations.

Lu Heng frowned and said, "The abyss is not as simple as you think. It cannot be dealt with by a higher level of technology."

"is it?"

The blue-eyed Sykes smiled and said, "If that's what you think, then I'll show you an interesting fight."

As he said this, he took Lu Heng back to the mechanical arena.

However, this time Lu Heng was not thrown into the Colosseum to fight with the mechanical beasts, but was taken to the audience seats.

at this time.

In the Colosseum, a mechanical fighting beast was fighting with a winged demon leader.

The Winged Demon Leader flew into the air and attacked the mechanical beast with a roar.

The mechanical fighting beast spread its wings on its back, but did not fly out. Instead, it revealed 30 micro-missile launch ports and launched 30 micro-fusion bombs at the same time.

Under the lock of the fire control radar, all 30 micro-fusion bombs hit the Winged Demon Commander.

The Winged Demon Leader was blown into pieces and scattered on the ground, with no intact piece of his body left.

The blue-eyed Sykes turned to look at Lu Heng and said with a proud smile: "Do you understand? Demons are no different from you humans to us. They are just toys for entertainment."

After watching the battle between the mechanical beast and the Winged Demon Leader, Lu Heng said nothing.

Judging from this battle alone, the technological level of the Sykes civilization is indeed very high. The mechanical fighting beasts they created can easily kill commander-level demons in seconds.

This is a fact.

However, Lu Heng had entered the capital planet of the Sykes civilization in his previous life. At that time, the abyss pollution on the Sykes capital planet was already very serious.

The Adventists, the Salvationists, and the Escapers fought against each other, and rebellions continued within the civilization.

The demons appearing in the Sykes civilization are becoming more and more powerful, and the Sykes civilization may collapse from within at any time.

If the timeline continues to develop in the same way as in the previous life, the Sykes civilization will not be able to escape the fate of being invaded by the abyss and then declining.

Lu Heng had seen the decline of the Sykes civilization, which was in stark contrast to the attitude of this Sykes blue-eyed nobleman.

In fact, Lu Heng had a lot to say. He wanted to persuade him to re-examine the horror of the abyss.

However, Lu Heng knew very well that it would be useless to say anything.

Because in the eyes of the Sykes, humans are just a life form from a lower civilization. In their eyes, humans are not much better than cockroaches.

Therefore, the Sykes people will not listen to the persuasion of humans, especially the blue-eyed noble of the Sykes civilization in front of them. It is even more impossible for them to listen.

Lu Heng was no longer interested in persuading him.

Sometimes, faced with such a situation, all we can do is respect the fate of others.

Even if you really want to persuade them, you have to find someone from Sykes who is willing to listen.

Lu Heng thought about it and asked, "Can I apply for a visa as an envoy of another civilization?"

In the previous life, someone once obtained a visa to the Sykes civilization and could walk freely on the planets of the Sykes civilization.

Of course, the premise is to abide by the laws of Sykes civilization.

The blue-eyed noble smiled and refused, "You are just a toy for fighting animals. I am willing to talk to you purely out of curiosity. Will your civilization issue visas to animals in zoos?"

really.

Lu Heng was not too surprised and did not say anything else. He was then sent back to the fighting beast warehouse by the robot he called and locked back in the glass cabin.

After returning to the fighting beast warehouse, Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu were still there.

The three began to discuss a plan to escape from the Mechanical Colosseum.

Originally, Lu Heng wanted to communicate with the blue-eyed noble of the Sykes civilization in order to obtain a visa to leave the Colosseum freely.

Unfortunately it didn't work.

Then the only option is to escape.

After discussing it, the three of them first used the Divine Feathered Eagle to destroy the Colosseum's power system, then released the most violent beasts in the beast warehouse, and finally took advantage of the chaos to escape from the Colosseum.

(End of this chapter)