Chapter 587: Chapter 418: Electronic Lifeforms

The monstrous mechanical beasts, ignoring everything around them, rushed near the mechanical platform and immediately activated various destruction modes.

The entire mechanical platform was torn into countless fragments by them, scattered on the ground, indicating their previous existence.

"Tsk tsk, we’ve barely obtained any valuable intelligence on the fourth or fifth layers yet, and we’ve already lost nearly a hundred Tier Four Transformers.

Grey Wolf, deploy the micro Insect Detectors directly inside to find out what’s in there that might attract Baby Bear.

Once we’ve figured it out and determined the location, we’ll decide on our next step."

Directly charging into the fifth underground layer is evidently not feasible.

After all, even the Tier Nine mechanical monsters within the fourth layer of the Steel Maze haven’t started moving yet.

A dozen of these creatures, within the not-so-large fourth layer maze, trying to pass through their territory would definitely trigger a massive battle.

Now that we know the underground Steel Maze poses certain dangers, Mo Qingchen is unwilling to risk the Guardian Beast in his possession.

It can be said that, currently, the only ones he has who can take out these Tier Nine mechanical monsters are the combined Chaos Divine Beast, Edward, and Kasi.

The underground maze was built by aliens, and it’s part of an Interstellar Civilization, so the technology of the other side is imaginable.

Even with the immense power of the Chaos Divine Beast, capable of reaching Epic King-level when bursting, its essence is still Digimon, a special electronic entity generated from countless virtual data.

In the underground maze, the special magnetic field can implant viruses into the Transformers; obviously, this constitutes a data intrusion, and who knows if it might affect the underlying database of Chaos Divine Beast.

Mo Qingchen is not inclined to take such a risk.

As for Edward and Kasi, they are, after all, Soul Bodies, albeit very special ones.

But the global covering red mist can cause any creature to mutate, and it’s uncertain if it would affect them.

Additionally, the fourth layer is not large, quite cramped indeed, making it an extremely restrictive environment for Edward and Kasi in battle.

Breaking through this layer of defense in a short time seems unlikely, and unforeseen situations could occur at any moment.

Mainly, Grey Wolf confirmed that the underground Steel Maze is still operational, and the enemy can control the mechanical beasts within the maze.

This indicates that the secrets must be hidden in the deeper fifth layer, possibly even surviving aliens!

"Boss, hold on a moment; I’m releasing all micro detectors from the spacecraft right now."

Grey Wolf didn’t hesitate and immediately began the operation.

A multitude of insect-like detectors flew out from the opened hatch beneath the spacecraft, swarming into the blasted channel.

These insect detectors moved swiftly down the channel leading directly to the bottom, shooting out like lightning.

And on the Spacecraft, countless images appeared—each processed to display only useful information for Mo Qingchen and his group.

In just over ten minutes, a large number of insect detectors sank into the underground fourth layer.

Upon reaching this layer, some of the insect detectors scattered to investigate the fourth layer Steel Maze.

One by one, Tier Nine mechanical monsters appeared on the screen projection.

These mechanical beasts, each enormous, were at least twenty meters tall, intertwined with metals and circuits, appearing extremely hideous and fearsome.

However, despite their appearance, it is evident that these mechanical beasts were Exotic Beasts transformed.

Especially among them was one aberrant dwarf machine familiar to Mo Qingchen and his group, albeit magnified dozens of times.

Just now, over a dozen various mechanical monsters were in a dormant state, looking like cold mechanical metal with no sign of life at all.

"The gathered mechanical beasts here might have been transformed from mutated Exotic Beasts after the red mist descended."

Seeing the enlarged wild boar-like exterior was enough to make Mo Qingchen think it was truly a mutated wild boar were it not for the all-metal shell, covered in rusty stains.

If only there were realistic skin, it wouldn’t be easy to tell these were modified mechanical beasts.

"Boss, these mechanical monsters are all in hibernation, apart from the Energy Core inside circulating energy; the whole body remains dormant with no energy flow."

Grey Wolf manipulated some insect robots to crawl into the internal structures through the metal crevices of these mechanical beasts and collect various data.

"It seems the opponent hasn’t detected the intrusion of insect robots, which is good news."

Nodding, Mo Qingchen looked at another screen where images transmitted by the insect robots infiltrating the fifth layer were displayed. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Compared to earlier layers, these images had some snow-like interference spots.

"There are powerful interference fields in the fifth layer affecting the transmission of insect detectors."

Though the images were unclear, occasionally showing snow spots, many things were still discernible.

The entire fifth layer was a huge research laboratory with various instruments, most still operating, emitting faint light.

"Grey Wolf, look for the database and see if you can hack it; also check if there are any surviving aliens."

The Secret Realm known as "Civilization’s Wound" is the relic of an Interstellar-level alien civilization.

Having reached the achievements of Interstellar Civilization, would it be really impossible for some aliens to survive?

Regarding the planet’s aliens, they were abandoned by their tribe, but not every single one should be destroyed; some may well hide and observe everything from the shadows.

"Boss, no normal life forms detected, but several robots still functioning, with Levels ranging from Tier One to Tier Three."

Within a short time, insect detectors spread across the entire fifth-layer laboratory, even appearing in buried conduits.

"Find a way to make the insect detectors hack these robots to gain control if possible."

Clearly, these functioning robots were left by aliens.

"Currently hacking, but it will take some time, and I’ve found the database, hacking it now, although the firewall is exceedingly strong."

Grey Wolf watched the rapidly scrolling data on the screen with a sinister glint in his wolf eyes, even furrowing his eyebrows.

Noticing Grey Wolf’s oddity, Mo Qingchen was immediately alert.

"Grey Wolf, what’s wrong? Did you run into some issues?"

"Boss, the database being hacked is immense, comparable even to the Spacecraft’s database, and I’ve discovered unknown signals trying to infiltrate the Spacecraft’s systems!"

While speaking, Grey Wolf’s wolf paws flickered with countless shadows as they furiously tapped the virtual keyboard.

"Be careful, if it’s uncontrollable, disconnect immediately!"

Mo Qingchen was wary of mishaps, especially regarding the Spacecraft, as it was one of his greatest trump cards.

If controlled by the opponent, it would spell disaster.

"Relax, Boss, I’m not simple-minded now! Plus, I’ve discovered something exceedingly intriguing."

Excitement gleamed on Grey Wolf’s face, intensifying as he crazily manipulated the virtual keyboard.

"Ha... To survive, these aliens transferred their consciousness into servers, becoming electronic entities, haha..."

Grey Wolf laughed wildly while watching the data captured by the Spacecraft and started analyzing the various data on them.

Teaming with the Spacecraft’s super-intelligent program, Grey Wolf swiftly captured over a dozen electronic entities, immediately establishing electronic cages for them and began reading various data from them.