From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 336 A Weird Civilization
This Malacca Channel mission is the first overseas mission of the Qianlong Special Forces, and it is related to the control of the world's first waterway in the future, so not only the Southern Theater Command is paying attention to it, but the entire Daxia top leaders are paying attention to it.

Since the special forces team set out, Lu Heng has received the latest mission reports every day.

On the first day, the special forces' deep-sea team entered the Andaman Sea and began to search for the location of the seabed rifts. They encountered a group of deep-sea woodlice. After cleaning them up, they continued their exploration.

The next day, the deep-sea team continued to explore the Andaman Sea. After a day without incident, they began to gradually reduce the exploration area.

On the third day, the deep sea team was attacked by a high-level abyss monster on the seabed. Cao Lixiong protected the team and retreated to the surface. Together with the support team members on the sea surface, they killed the 30-meter-long multi-headed monster snake.

Day ...

While the special forces were carrying out their mission, Lu Heng was practicing the Wind Dragon's Breath Slash in Binhai.

The proficiency of Wind Dragon's Last Breath Slash LV1 has been reached (932/1000), and it is not far from full proficiency.

On the fifth day of the special forces' mission, Fire Emblem accumulated a batch of quenching orders.

Lu Heng came to the Quenching Castle to carry out quenching and completed all the quenching orders above +6, three of which were for spirit infusion.

After completion, the master temperer's professional experience increased by 510 points.

Since the tempering master's level was upgraded to master level, it has become difficult to gain professional experience for quenching operations below +6, so this part of the quenching orders is handed over to Yuan Hecheng to complete.

Unlike Lu Heng, Yuan Hecheng did not have to take into account combat power. He put all his energy into quenching, so his quenching professional level increased rapidly.

More than half a year had passed, and he had already risen to the level of a senior hardening master.

Sometimes, Lu Heng does not have time to complete the quenching order, but the customer needs it urgently, so he will do quenching above +6 for him.

Now Yuan Hecheng is the most skilled temperer in the Quenching Castle, except for Guru and Lu Heng.

After Lu Heng completed the quenching orders that had accumulated during this period, he turned around and saw Yuan Hecheng still busy.

As the quenching market becomes larger and larger, the number of low-grade quenching orders is very large, so Yuan Hecheng has work almost every day.

The main purpose of Lu Heng's quenching is to increase the quenching level and thus gain flame resistance.

Therefore, hardening work that cannot gain professional experience is basically not done.

Yuan Hecheng is different. He does tempering not just for professional experience, but more importantly to make money.

In the past six months, as his quenching skills became more and more advanced, he made a lot of money and had already paid back the money for the [Fluid Metal] crystal core that his daughter Yuan Yaoyao absorbed.

Lin Zeyu originally bought this [Fluid Metal] crystal core at a high price, intending to use it himself.

However, this crystal core can only be considered usable for Lin Zeyu, but its adaptability is not particularly high.

Yuan Yaoyao's initial talents include [Mechanical Heart], which is perfectly compatible with the [Fluid Metal] skill.

Therefore, when Yuan Hecheng came to ask for help, Lu Heng gave the [Fluid Metal] crystal core to Yuan Yaoyao when he and his daughter could not afford it.

The purchase price of this crystal core was 4000 million at that time.

Yuan Hecheng worked hard over the past six months to repay the money, and finally paid it off last month.

Paying off the money is not the end, but a new beginning.

Because Yuan Hecheng discovered that his daughter would be called up to the Abyss Battlefield every once in a while. Although she returned safely every time, he was always very worried.

So he wanted to make more money and buy resources to help his daughter improve her fighting power.

For this reason, he would take any hardening work as long as he could make money.

Seeing that Yuan Hecheng was still busy, Lu Heng did not disturb him. He waved to him and left the forging room.

When I returned to the front hall of Quenching Castle, I ran into Yuan Yaoyao.

Yuan Yaoyao was wearing a dress. When she saw Lu Heng, a smile that was a mixture of childishness and intelligence appeared on her face. She trotted over, took Lu Heng's hand and ran to the second-floor balcony.

"What's wrong?" Lu Heng asked puzzledly.

Yuan Yaoyao ran to the south balcony of the living room on the second floor, closed the door with her backhand, pushed Lu Heng into a chair, and then sat aside, saying seriously: "Brother Lu, I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Lu Heng looked her up and down, but couldn't see any problem. It was no different from before.

Yuan Yaoyao sat up straight, took a deep breath and said, "I was called up yesterday."

"Going to the Sykes civilization again?" Lu Heng had asked her before. So far, all her conscriptions had been to the Sykes civilization.

It may be because her mechanical heart is particularly compatible with the world of Sykes, coupled with the space anchor point and the Black Feather Spirit mechanical angel, the combination of multiple reasons makes her often summoned to the world of Sykes.

Yuan Yaoyao shook her head and said, "Not this time. This call-up is very strange."

Generally speaking, the recruitment in the Abyss Battlefield will evaluate the combat power of the recruits, and the combat power rating of the same psychic in different worlds will be different.

Yuan Yaoyao's combat power rating will be very high in the future technological world, but in other worlds, it will be relatively low.

So, Lu Heng casually guessed: "Another cyber world?"

Yuan Yaoyao shook her head again: "Actually, I'm not sure either, because when I was called up this time, I didn't even leave the initial space."

Lu Heng began to feel curious and asked, "What happened? Tell me in detail."

Yuan Yaoyao began to describe the process of her recruitment:
“I was called over this time, and after the teleportation was completed, I appeared in a strange space, surrounded by many glowing lines, like a cybernetic neural network.

“I was floating in mid-air, I had no sense of gravity, so I wasn’t falling.

“When I summoned the Black Feather Spirit and wanted to move.

“The neural networks in the space around me lit up and started talking to me.

“He told me that he knew my identity and my mission, but he asked me to stay where I was until the mission was over.

“He also promised me generous compensation as long as I stayed where I was until the mission was over.

"He also showed me the compensation list, which included [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core]. This crystal core can increase skill slots.

“I’m actually very curious about what the outside world is like.

“However, after analyzing the crystal core of my optical brain system, it believes that the level of civilization in the world is beyond the scope of cognition and recommends that I do as the other party requires.

“The optical computer system has never missed an analysis, so I followed the instructions and stayed at home for 15 days, listening to music and watching TV.

"After the time is up, I really got a [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core], look."

After she finished speaking, she took out a super crystal core and held it in front of Lu Heng.

Lu Heng's eyes widened when he saw the super crystal core. It had been a year and a half since he descended from the abyss. He had heard of the [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core] a few times, but had only seen it twice.

The first one was the one from the Gong family, and the second one was the one in front of me.

If you are summoned to lie down and watch TV for 15 days, you can get a [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core]. Is there such a good thing?

If this matter were to be made public, probably no one would believe it, but Lu Heng believed it.

Because Lu Heng remembered something that happened before his rebirth.

This civilization that requires the recruits to stay where they are and is willing to give compensation is most likely the one in memory... the world related to the source of reincarnation.

The behavior of this civilization is very strange. The recruits were teleported there with a mission, but this civilization asked the recruits not to participate in the mission and was willing to give more generous compensation than completing the mission.

This situation seems very illogical on the surface, but it has indeed happened.

Lu Heng remembered the processes described by other people with special abilities after they returned, and they were similar to Yuan Yaoyao's situation.

Of course, there were also people with special abilities who disobeyed the demands of this strange civilization and tried to force their way out. As a result, they instantly lost consciousness, and when they woke up again, they had returned to Blue Planet.

Yes.

The process is very strange. This civilization will prevent the actions of the recruiters, but will not kill them.

Once the conscripts resist, they will use some method to make them lose consciousness until the conscription time is over.

In the previous life, many people with special abilities discussed this strange civilization and speculated why they did this.

Lu Heng had also thought about this problem, but no matter how he analyzed it, he felt that the behavior of this civilization did not conform to normal logic.

In addition, very few people were recruited to this strange civilization. As far as I could remember, they were only recruited two or three times in the previous life. No one could break out of the initial space, so no one knew why the civilization did this.

Lu Heng put himself in the shoes of this strange civilization and thought that they might not want the recruits to destroy the balance of their world.

This is the only reasonable explanation.

Whatever the reason, one thing is certain: the level of this strange civilization is far above that of humans, even above that of the Sykes civilization.

"Brother Lu, are you listening?" Yuan Yaoyao waved her hand in front of Lu Heng.

"Yeah, I heard it." Lu Heng was lost in his memories just now, so he was distracted.

"Don't you believe what I said?" Yuan Yaoyao also felt that what she said was too unbelievable and the adults might not believe it.

Lu Heng nodded and said, "I believe this world must be very strange."

Yuan Yaoyao's eyes lit up, and she held up the super crystal core in her hand and said happily, "Really? Then this crystal core is for you."

Lu Heng was stunned and reminded: "This crystal core is a priceless treasure. If other people know about it, they might send mercenaries to steal it."

Yuan Yaoyao nodded and said affirmatively: "I know, but I want to give it to you."

Lu Heng thought about it seriously, bent her fingers back and clenched the crystal core, and said, "Use it yourself. To survive the Abyss Age, you must be upgraded every time you are summoned, otherwise the subsequent summons will become more and more dangerous."

A [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core] can greatly increase combat power. Lu Heng actually wants it, but it is a bit cold-blooded to take such an important treasure from a little girl.

Moreover, Lu Heng has three more skill slots than Yuan Yaoyao. This crystal core will bring greater improvement to Yuan Yaoyao and may even determine her future destiny.

If I really took this crystal core and she was unable to come back from the abyss battlefield, I would definitely not be able to get over it.

Yuan Yaoyao thought for a moment and took out another thing: "This is for you."

This time, what was taken out was a cubic transparent crystal. After checking the properties, it was discovered that it was actually the [Abyss Law Assimilation Crystal Core].

As the name suggests, this crystal core can assimilate the laws of weapons and equipment, and the effect is the same as using divine energy for assimilation.

To put it simply, this crystal core can replace the divine energy and assimilate the laws of an object.

However, this crystal core does not leave any chance for bugs to occur. The data limits the mass of items that can be assimilated, and the upper limit of the item mass is 100kg.

In other words, it is impossible to assimilate a tank or a battleship into the abyss world.

Lu Heng does have an item that needs to be assimilated, which is the S-level treasure [Space Confinement Orb] obtained from the Elf World.

This [Space Confinement Orb] was used by the Great Arcanist Augustus in exchange for the [Magic Secret Book].

At that time, Lu Heng's entire team and Fiona were trapped in the magic tower by this [Space Confinement Orb]. It was only after Teris came that the energy attack of the magic tower was broken and several people were released.

This S-grade [Space Confinement Orb] is extremely powerful and fully worthy of its S-grade status.

Lu Heng got the orb, but kept it in his inventory.

Because there is not enough divine energy to assimilate the laws, it cannot be taken out on Blue Star.

Now Yuan Yaoyao took out an [Abyss Law Assimilation Crystal Core], which can be used to assimilate the [Space Confinement Orb].

Lu Heng took the crystal core and asked, "Have you thought it through? Do you really want to give me this treasure? This treasure is also very precious and cannot be bought outside."

Yuan Yaoyao nodded seriously: "I got these two crystal cores by staying at home and watching TV for fifteen days. I'll give you one. You can have either one."

"Increasing your skill slots will greatly improve you, so you can keep it for yourself. If you must give it as a gift, then give it this Law Assimilation Crystal Core." Lu Heng said.

"Okay." Yuan Yaoyao nodded happily, and then began to absorb the [Skill Slot Expansion Crystal Core].

A moment later, the number of her skill slots increased from 3 to 4.

"My skill slots have increased. Brother Lu, what skill do you think I should learn?" Yuan Yaoyao was very happy.

"Don't be anxious. You can decide when you find the right skills. Since you gave me such a valuable treasure, I will give you something too." Lu Heng accepted her valuable treasure and decided to help her upgrade her skills.

"What gift is it?" Yuan Yaoyao's eyes suddenly lit up, because she had never received a gift from Lu Heng.

In her opinion, the crystal core given to her at the beginning could not be considered a gift, after all, her father was paying her back.

So, when she heard that Lu Heng was going to send something, she immediately became happy.

"Have you mastered all your skills to the maximum? Do you have the spiritual energy? I'd like to see if I can help you upgrade your skills." Lu Heng said the "gift" he wanted to give.

After hearing this, Yuan Yaoyao pouted and muttered softly: "It's not a gift..."

"What did you say? Speak louder. Which skill do you want to upgrade?" Lu Heng asked again without hearing clearly.

"Hmm... [Fluid Metal] Okay, the proficiency of this skill has been maxed out. The optical computer analysis shows that upgrading this skill will improve it the most." Yuan Yaoyao was stunned for half a second, and then decided to choose the best upgrade skill according to the conclusion of the optical computer analysis.

(End of this chapter)