The First Evolution

Chapter 346: The Unlucky Pumesh

Chapter 346: The Unlucky Pumesh

After entering the interior of the Earth’s atmosphere, Pumesh seemed to get rid of the pursuit, but its situation was still very bad.

Because the black poisonous thorns shot into Pumesh’s body by the mechanical poisonous bees had already begun to affect it. The poison was personally configured by Soundwave. It was a powerful rust poison that especially targeted the mechanical intelligent lifeform.

Therefore, Pumesh had already lost most of his self-awareness when it landed, so it could only rely on inertia to turn into a raging meteorite and crash into the ground. Fortunately, it adjusted as much as possible before the crash, hitting the ground at a small angle.

The geographical location where Pumesh landed was quite special. On the surface, there was a layer of rock crust tens of meters thick, but there was an underground lake underneath.

It crashed obliquely. After breaking through the upper layer of the rock crust, it flew 10 kilometers inside the underground space and plunged into the underground lake. It even plowed a deep groove of several kilometers long at the bottom of the underground lake.

In the end, Pumesh stuck its head deep into the bottom of the lake at a 30-degree angle and stopped with its tail tilted up.

This was the cause of the “turtle back” highland that Fang Linyan saw at the bottom of the lake, which was completely lifted up by Pumesh when it landed.

The location where Pumesh smashed obliquely into the surface rock crust was more than 10 kilometers away from the underground lake. A small landslide occurred at that time, blocking the hole it smashed through. Even if there were people on the ground seeing the meteorite fall, they would get nothing.

Soundwave was quite confident in the rust poison it configured. After confirming that Pumesh was hit by multiple black poisonous needles, it thought that this guy would definitely die, so it didn’t pursue any further.

The fact was indeed true. Pumesh had been trapped in an unconscious state at the bottom of the lake ever since. Fortunately, after it successfully landed, before it lost its last trace of consciousness, it entrusted everything to the artificial intelligence in the ship: Nimbus.

Nimbus had been trying to save Pumesh, but it didn’t have the means.

Mainly because the rust poison on the black needle was quite vicious.

The maintenance robot made by Nimbus was the kind of mechanical spider that would die quickly when it was close to the black needle.

Because it was difficult to replenish its own energy, Nimbus couldn’t create maintenance robots without limit to remove the rust poison.

At the same time, the rush poison was still eroding Pumesh’s vitality all the time, making it dissipate continuously.

Fortunately, Pumesh had been in contact with contact the Steel Spark for a long time, so its vitality was extraordinarily tenacious. It could still survive under the corrosion of this rust poison for so many years.

The dissipated vitality of Pumesh was a very special mechanical creature energy, which was equivalent to a radiation force.

Under the persevering radiation of this kind of energy, Nimbus was also constantly evolving. At this time, it should be regarded as a semi-mechanical intelligent creature.

Not only that, but it also affected the native organisms in this underground lake. They also began to evolve into half-metal creatures.

The first ones to be affected were snails, crabs, and turtles, which could absorb calcium and make protective shells. They only needed to evolve the ability to absorb calcium to make protective shells, allowing them to absorb metal to form metal shells.

Because the vitality emanating from Pumesh had a fatal temptation for these creatures, most of these creatures would linger around the spaceship, forming an invisible protection for the spaceship ruins.

However, some small mutated half-metal creatures would still prey. They would accidentally flush out from the underground river while wandering.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a metal shell snail swimming out of the underground lake was captured by the outside world.

In just 2 years, this kind of half-metal creatures with metal shells began to be discovered one after another. There are more than a dozen of them circulating in the outside world, but they were all metal snails.

Under such circumstances, the half-metal creature finally attracted the attention of a big character in the Bloody Umbrella Company that was at its peak.

This person was called Williams. He was originally a little-known researcher with mediocre technology in research, but he had made outstanding achievements in politics. He seized the opportunity and quickly rose to become 1 of the 5 directors of Bloody Umbrella Company.

However, he was not willing to stop there because of his ambition.

At that time, the Bloody Umbrella Company was divided into 2 factions: human body research and hybrid gene research.

If Williams wanted to improve his authority, from a normal point of view, he could only stand in line and choose 1 of the factions, then he would poach and bribe the directors of major laboratories, the heads of branch companies, and so on.

And these powerful figures had already been brought under the command of the rest of the big directors at this time. Williams would definitely offend them if he wanted to poach them.

Under such circumstances, Williams chose to find a new way and opened up a brand new third faction: biomechanics within the Bloody Umbrella Company!

Williams mobilized a large amount of funds and began to concentrate on research on captured half-metal creatures.

It was also because of his luck that he managed to catch a crab with a metal shell at this critical moment, and he immediately made a breakthrough in biomechanics technology.

Williams was very mediocre in academic research, but he was an out-and-out genius in politics and marketing. He belonged to the kind who could sell plain water as a high-end nutritional product, and he could fool a large group of people to buy it.

What’s more, he really took out an epoch-making achievement?

As a result, Williams immediately became even more powerful. He seized a large amount of resources and even attracted astonishing floating funds and venture capitalists to invest in him.

After obtaining enough resources, Williams immediately conducted a comprehensive survey of this place, then spent a lot of manpower and material resources to secretly start the construction of Veronica Laboratory. He achieved great success by opening up the underwater ruins.

So the faction of biomechanics appeared out of nowhere. Because they had ready-made mutated creature samples to study, so they avoided a lot of detours. Soon, the other 2 factions were being pressured heavily.

However, even the top management of the Bloody Umbrella Company at that time, including Williams, did not know that the underwater ruins they were studying actually had a mechanical intelligent life that was still alive. It was just in a state of hibernation.

Of course, if they found out, they might get even crazier.

Needless to say, Bloody Umbrella Company split up.

However, Williams had already planned for a rainy day. When the Veronica Laboratory was established, a total of 11 places were built to hide the traces. 8 of them were all disguises in order to cover up the real core laboratory.

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As for Fang Linyan, he couldn’t suppress his excitement at this time,

Because, he had obtained a shocking secret from Pumesh’s remaining memory.

That was the little fragment of the Steel Spark!

When Pumesh went to steal the energy block, it didn’t carry it.

At that time, Soundwave put the large piece of Steel Spark in the base. If Pumesh went with the fragment, the two would combine magically like 2 drops of water touching each other.

Not only that, even if 2 fragments were close to a certain range, they were likely to resonate.

In view of the characteristics of the Steel Spark’s fragment, Pumesh certainly did not dare to wander around with it. Instead, it made a shielding box using some materials found in the junkyard.

Usually, he put the piece of Steel Spark in the shielding box, and the shielding box was usually buried in a hole he dug out.

When Pumesh was caught stealing the energy block, it fell into a trap. It already did its best to escape, so it didn’t have the spare time to go back to get the Steel Spark’s fragment.

In other words, the Steel Spark’s fragment should still be where it was now.

The specific location there was next to a mountain range on the back of the moon that could never be observed from the Earth!!

As for this piece of Steel Spark, Fang Linyan felt that he could not even evaluate its rarity. When chatting with Goat before, he heard something that every world had one or several ultimate secrets.

This ultimate secret was unique. Once it was discovered and acquired, it would disappear forever.

Of course, in order to obtain this ultimate secret, it must be extremely difficult. Almost no chance of survival!

At that time, Fang Linyan joked that Noah Space had taken in so many people, and those who were selected must be elites. If everyone became the chosen one at the same time and competed fairly, then it was still possible.

But since they knew this, the rest must know it too.

Some contractors had joined the Space for a few years or even more than ten years. They could return to discover these ultimate secrets when they were strong enough, so how would the ultimate secrets be still left?

However, Goat told Fang Linyan that there were conditions to obtain the ultimate secrets, and it was very strict. For example, the character attributes couldn’t be higher than a certain number; the person must be a contestant or a contractor. If he had a higher identity, he would lose the qualification.

This was similar to the achievement of “accompanying 10 different female classmates home from school before the age of 14”, “killing a hundred people in high school”, etc., which could only be completed at a certain stage.

It would definitely keep the difficulty of obtaining the ultimate secrets under extremely difficult conditions.

After calming down for a while, Fang Linyan recollected his thoughts and continued to patiently search for the structure diagram of the Living Mechanical Heart.

TL: He can’t really go to the back of the moon in the remaining days right, can he?