Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station-Chapter 512 - 170 Tower_3

Before fully entering the city, Chen Ming once again clearly felt that this was a dead and silent place.

Aside from the occasional mechanical parts clanking, there was no other sound.

This was supposed to be a habitable planet, and a rather tropical one at that.

The vegetation was dense, and there was a rich variety of biological species, but around the Mechanical Race city, it was eerily quiet.

Not even the sound of insects could be heard, at most only the sound of wind rustling through the leaves.

The internal part of the city was likely in the same state.

This scene made Chen Ming, who had just left the fairly lively Pirate Space Station not long ago, feel physically uncomfortable.

Luckily, he didn’t have to go in personally.

After observing for a while, the small robot easily passed through the already paralyzed security systems at the city edge.

With the scanning device Chen Ming installed on it, it confirmed the positions of most basic security monitors inside the city.

By this point, Chen Ming also understood why the Empire experienced so much technological growth during the expansion period.

Clearly, they learned it from the ruins of another civilization.

The security systems similar to those Chen Ming often saw were the evidence.

The small robot identified many damaged blind spots in the security system and smoothly entered the city.

Upon entering the city,

Chen Ming became even more convinced that this was a lifeless place.

Not only were almost all visible mechanical beings no longer showing signs of mechanical life, rigidly resting in place,

but even at the data network level, only a few electronic signals were being transmitted in the entire city.

The signal density here might not even compare to the Mining Space Station where Chen Ming once worked.

Of course, Chen Ming was referring to a functioning Mining Space Station.

A space station with a diameter of just two or three kilometers couldn’t be compared with this city in terms of scale.

But if it surpassed in signal density, then the city’s condition is undoubtedly dire.

At this moment, the signal that Chen Ming’s robot detected most frequently was,

emanating from a device at the top of a tall tower in the center of the city, continuously sending information to a satellite in space.

However, the satellite corresponding to the city in orbit was already damaged, and now it was on Chen Ming’s Defender, making the continuous signal transmission ineffective.

Chen Ming attempted to capture the contents of the signal.

But unfortunately, Chen Ming couldn’t decrypt them at all and could only record the information itself.

He then let the robot continue its actions.

There was nothing much to see in this scene of decline—no, it should be said, ruin.

The robot needed to navigate through countless hidden corners between collapsed buildings to head towards the city’s core.

The high tower.

Besides continuously sending signals to the satellite, that tower seemed to function as a power tower.

It supplied microwaved energy to power the entire city.

Either this tower was the city’s core, or the buildings surrounding it were.

In any case, Chen Ming had to check it out.

While getting closer to the center of the city, Chen Ming finally saw a mechanical being that wasn’t dormant but still active.

It resembled the maintenance Mechanical Race Chen Ming had seen before, with several robotic arms, looking like it was designed for support tasks.

It was constantly clearing vegetation covering various buildings and even pathways.

But clearly, with only one mechanical being clearing, its efficiency was almost negligible for the entire city.

Yet, this mechanical being seemed unaware and continued to work in vain.

Chen Ming glanced at it and let the robot move on.

Until he could be sure whether these mechanical beings were as aggressive as those he had previously encountered, he couldn’t risk direct contact with them.

Continuing towards the city’s center, Chen Ming found many fallen mechanical beings in the gaps between heavily vegetated buildings.

At first glance, they looked like the mechanical beings one could see fallen on the roads outside.

But after a closer look, Chen Ming noticed this fallen mechanical being wasn’t the same as the others.

This mechanical being collapsed between the gaps of buildings showed no signs of electrical activity.

It was completely different from the working mechanical being nearby, barely maintaining the city’s operations.

It wasn’t dormant; it was already dead.

It had lost its individual consciousness and its existence.

So...

Chen Ming controlled the small robot to detach the Gamma Core installed inside.

And connected it to the internal circuits of this mechanical being, of the same model as the combat-type ones Chen Ming had seen before.

Its form was slender, resembling a mantis but also roughly humanoid.

Its left arm was a humanoid-like mechanical arm, whereas its right arm was replaced with a familiar Electromagnetic Spear.

Back then, Chen Ming had used the Iron Ore No., leveraging the ship’s weight to crush those mechanical beings.

But now he no longer needed to use such methods.

Soon, the Gamma Core successfully connected to the interior of this mechanical being and successfully took control of its... corpse.