From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 322 The Beginning of the Decline of Sykes Civilization
In the court of Queen Star, the capital of the Sykes civilization.

Earlstone Stella held his head high in front of all the leaders and representatives of the political factions and the central system.

"You can't judge me, because now only I can decide the fate of Queen Star, or even the entire civilization..."

His opening remarks puzzled the faction leaders and representatives present.

Only the top leaders of the Advent Sect knew a little bit of the inside story, but only a little bit.

Earlstone Stella showed a realistic mimicry, checked the time, and said:

"In 50 seconds, Queen Planet will face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization.

“Only me! Only I can solve this crisis.

"I'll give you the last 50 seconds to end this ridiculous trial and raise my level of power to the same level as the Central System. Otherwise, I will rule the Queen Planet in another way."

This narration puzzled all the senior officials of the Sykes civilization present.

I don't understand why he has such great confidence.

Time passed by minute by minute.

After Earlstone Stella finished his previous words, he waited quietly.

After 50 seconds, the entire courtroom was in commotion.

Because just a second ago, all the faction leaders and representatives present received a crisis alert, and it was the highest level crisis alert.

In the Gravity District, centered around Earlstone Stella's underground laboratory, a large-scale loss of energy began.

It was as if there was an energy black hole in this laboratory, swallowing up all the electricity in the entire block, causing the surrounding buildings to lose power.

Moreover, the area of ​​power outage is still expanding and spreading to nearby neighborhoods.

Followed by.

A steel structure building in the Gravity Block seemed to come alive. The steel extended its tentacles and turned into a huge monster, which began to devour all the organic matter and metal around it.

This situation continued to spread, and all the steel structures near the Gravity Block came to life and turned into tentacle monsters, and the entire block fell into chaos.

The Sykes civilization sounded the highest level alarm, and all kinds of information flooded into the central system like a tide.

The leaders of various factions and high-level civilizations obtained information from the central system, and all of them fell into an unsolvable state of calculation.

This unsolvable computing state is the robot’s state of shock.

They constantly acquire information, perform calculations, and try to find solutions to problems.

However, after billions of calculations, the information obtained did not produce the desired results.

Therefore, the mechanical nobles present fell into a state similar to a shutdown, and even their movements were frozen.

Earlstone Stella showed a realistic mimic smile and said loudly: "As I said, increasing my level of power is the only way to resolve this crisis."

Faction leaders began to communicate data with Earlstone Stella, obtaining information from him and calculating whether he could really resolve the crisis.

The characteristic of mechanical civilization is that efficiency is determined by computing power. As long as it is determined that Earlstone Stella can solve the crisis and there is no other way, the central system is likely to agree to Earlstone Stella's request.

……

at the same time.

In the underground laboratory of the Gravity Block.

The six teams that raided the laboratory were trapped here and tried their best to attack the metal door.

When they found that the metal door could not be blown open, some people with special abilities began to bombard the walls.

The psychics who can be recruited into this abyss battlefield are basically above level 35 and are very strong in combat.

A few attacks created a hole in the wall.

But after the hole appeared, the steel bars in the wall grew out like tentacles and sealed the hole.

"What the hell is this?"

Seeing this scene, everyone began to panic.

Jian Qing spoke to stabilize the army's morale: "Don't panic, focus on attacking one location, break an exit, and we will get out first.

"Don't worry if you can't get out. There are still two hours until the return time. As long as we hold on to the end, we can still return home safely."

The captains of several other teams echoed: "Yes, if we hold on until the return time, we will be safe."

If we just hold on until the time of return, the challenging task of clearing the source of pollution in the abyss will definitely not be completed.

However, when encountering such a terrifying thing, the best outcome is to be able to return alive.

As for mission rewards, it would be best if there are any, but I won’t force it if there aren’t any.

Everyone calmed down, followed Jian Qing's command, began to attack one position together, and then broke out little by little.

When Lu Heng saw this terrifying "creature" that looked like both metal and a tumor from the abyss, he was stunned for a moment.

Because I finally figured out what this thing is.

This thing is the evolved form of the Abyss Sarcoma, commonly known as Metal Sarcoma, and has another name called Metal Devourer.

But this kind of thing shouldn't appear at this time.

As far as I can remember, the metal tumor should only appear in the third year after the abyss descends.

It is now March of the second year since the abyss arrived.

That is to say, according to the original timeline, the metal tumor should have appeared more than eight months later. Why did it appear so much earlier?
At this moment, Lu Heng also thought of the reason.

This metal tumor is hidden in Earlstone Stella's underground laboratory, which means that this thing should be the "experimental subject" he is studying.

According to the original timeline, Lu Heng did not join.

The psychics recruited this time are probably still investigating Xavier Matrix, and there is a high probability that they cannot investigate Earlstone Stella.

Even if the investigation leads to Earlstone Stella, as long as Earlstone Stella receives the information, he will evacuate the laboratory immediately.

Coupled with the existence of the Creator Organization's looting team, the Sykes civilization must have spent most of its energy on the wanted Pharaoh team.

In other words, if Lu Heng had not appeared here, Earlstone Stella would not have been exposed at all.

Naturally, no one can see the metal sarcoma experiment subject hidden in the underground laboratory.

In this way, the metal sarcoma experiment will not be exposed at this time, but eight months later.

Due to the appearance of Lu Heng, the original sequence of events was changed, causing the metal sarcoma experiment to be exposed ahead of schedule.

……

After connecting these information together, the context of the whole incident became clear.

The source of the abyss pollution that Jian Qing and his team were called up to investigate was the metal sarcoma experimental subject.

The "mechanical demon" studied by Earlstone Stella was not some small fry in the laboratory, but a real experimental project: a metal tumor.

This metal sarcoma is a combination of the Abyss Sarcoma and the Metal Devourer, and is more terrifying than the original Abyss Sarcoma.

The Abyssal Tumor is scary enough on its own, but there is a downside to this thing.

It can only devour organic matter, continue to grow by devouring organic matter, and eventually engulf the entire planet.

If there is no organic matter on the planet, the Abyssal Tumor cannot grow.

This is also the reason why abyss tumor will not appear on the ice planet.

The temperature on the ice planet of the Sykes civilization is below minus 200 degrees Celsius all year round. There is no organic life at all, only minerals and mechanical mining equipment.

Even if the Abyss Sarcoma appears on the second Gaia star, the harm it causes is relatively limited.

Because the Sykes civilization has evolved to the late stage of mechanical civilization, almost all Sykes citizens have undergone mechanical transformation.

The body of the Sykes mechanical citizen is mainly made of metal. It does not need to eat and only needs to be charged.

Since there is no need to eat, the Sykes civilization has no animal husbandry or planting industry and does not need organic food.

Rare animals are kept in zoos, and there are only a few of them.

The citizens of Sykes prefer mechanical fighting beasts to animals that need constant cleaning.

Similarly, the Sykes civilization does not have high requirements for the atmosphere, and its activities only consume electricity, not oxygen.

So Sykes World doesn't even need many plants.

Taking various factors into consideration, the total amount of organic matter on the planet of the Sykes civilization is far less than that of the Blue Planet.

This results in limited room for the Abyss Sarcoma to play in the Sykes civilization.

Of course, this is only relative.

For such a large planet, the total amount of organic matter is still large.

If the Abyss Tumor is left alone, it can still devour the entire planet.

The last time we were on the second Gaia star, the expansion of the Abyss Tumor was relatively slow. One of the reasons was that the city was full of metal and concrete, with not much organic matter.

So, after Earlstone Stella got a sample of the Abyss Sarcoma, he started a research project.

And he succeeded. He used a completely new research idea, combining the Abyss Sarcoma and the Metal Devourer, and finally successfully researched an experimental subject of the Metal Sarcoma.

However, his research has not been completed yet, and the current metal sarcoma experimental subject is not his most perfect work.

According to the timeline of his previous life, he would create a more terrifying metal sarcoma experimental subject eight months later, and then release it to devour the entire Queen Star.

Yes.

In Lu Heng's memory, the capital of the Sykes civilization, Queen Star, was eventually engulfed by the metal tumor.

Of course, the Sykes civilization put up a lot of resistance during this period.

After all, Queen Planet is their political and cultural center, so the Sykes civilization certainly wants to keep this planet.

Unfortunately, after three months of fighting the metal tumor, the Sykes civilization announced its withdrawal from the Queen Star.

Two months later, in May of the third year of the abyss in the human world, the Sykes civilization established its capital on the Second Gaia Star.

The fall of Queen Star was also the starting point for the decline of Sykes civilization.

Lu Heng indirectly witnessed the gradual decline of an advanced civilization in the invasion of the abyss, and its step-by-step approach to the end.

The starting point of the decline of the Sykes civilization was this metal sarcoma experimental subject.

This is the Sykes scientist named Earlstone Stella.

Sometimes Lu Heng couldn't tell whether the decline of the Sykes civilization was due to the invasion of the abyss or to the civilization itself.

Now, having seen the metal sarcoma eight months in advance, Lu Heng couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

Maybe we can change something...

(End of this chapter)