PFC Chapter 102 Goal Achieved
Chapter 102 Goal Achieved
Before long, the two arrived at a huge crevice. From the air, the crevice looked like a long, narrow eye lying across the glacier.
After observing for a while, Wu Jie found a man-made staircase. The two of them went down the staircase and could see many traces of man-made buildings along the way, but these traces are now just ruins.
Soon, the two arrived at the eighth level of the underground cave, where they were greeted by a large number of abandoned mechanical parts and metal debris.
Wu Jie said, "According to the information I obtained from the ruins, this eighth level was originally a mechanical factory of the Kamo civilization. During the Kamo civilization's heyday, it produced a large number of mechanical artifacts every moment. Unfortunately..."
"Now this place is known as the Mechanical Graveyard, with only abandoned gears and broken steam pipes remaining. It is also plagued by disasters such as gravity disturbances and metal storms. In addition, there are not only monsters here, but also out-of-control war machines, all remnants of the original Camo civilization."
Huang Hong nodded slightly. He squatted down and stroked the mechanical gear, which was as big as a washbasin. He could vaguely feel the former glory of the Kamo civilization from it.
More ideas began to form in Huang Hong's mind.
According to Huang Hong's original plan, he would build his own mechanical fortress sooner or later, so he had been considering the location of the fortress.
In fact, Huang Hong's favorite place is the Giant Beast Plain, where the metal pillars scattered throughout represent abundant energy resources.
However, the fortress network has clear rules: unless certain special circumstances occur, only one mechanical fortress can be built in the same area.
Moreover, upon closer examination, although the total amount of source energy contained in those metal pillars of the Beast Plains is unimaginable, their utilization rate is too low.
Even if Huang Hong decomposes and absorbs energy from morning till night, the limit is only tens of thousands of energy points per day.
Huang Hong's original idea was to build a mechanical fortress and then use its power to complete the initial collection and purification work. He would only need to decompose the final product.
Even so, it would probably only improve efficiency by two or three times at most, which is still too slow for Huang Hong at present.
However, after this trip to the Kamo Caves, Huang Hong realized that this place might be a better choice.
This area is vast, and each layer has a different ecosystem, producing a wide variety of resources.
For example, Huang Hong has already verified that the azure crystal cluster vein on the fourth layer contains a considerable amount of source energy, and its absorption efficiency is much faster than that of the metal pillars in the Beast Plains.
A particularly challenging issue is that, due to environmental factors, the Kamo Caves occasionally experience significant shifts in the earth's veins. In such cases, there have been instances where even a small portion of the entire cave has collapsed.
Moreover, the most valuable resources in the dungeons are mostly located in the territories of powerful monsters, making them quite difficult to obtain.
Finally, and more importantly, it's too close to the Dragon Fortress.
Although it meets the criteria for establishing a mechanical fortress, it is still too close, which will naturally create a certain degree of competition. In addition, the size of the Dragon Fortress itself is enough to have a huge impact on new mechanical fortresses in several nearby areas.
However, this last point didn't matter to Huang Hong. His main goal was to collect more resources. Even if he didn't expand outwards, he could still keep to himself and his territory. The resources in the Kamo Cave were enough for his next stage of growth.
Pulling themselves back to reality, Huang Hong and Wu Jie continued on their way.
Along the way, we encountered various mechanical creations, all of which were entities that already existed on this level. There were also various monsters, such as the Rusty Mechanism, which was also a mechanical body, and the Hinge Butcher, which was composed of chains and blades.
In fact, the monsters that spawn in the Paradise World are not random; they are basically selected based on the characteristics of the local environment. This may be one of the mechanisms of the Paradise World.
As they passed a huge, relatively intact steel factory, Wu Jie said, "There is an epic-level mechanical lord inside, along with a mechanical legion that obeys it. Compared to other epic monsters, this mechanical lord is much more troublesome."
Neither of them intended to provoke the mechanical lord, so they carefully bypassed the area.
Soon they arrived at a large mechanical elevator, which was the passageway to the ninth floor.
Because the mechanical elevator was no longer in use, they had to climb down themselves.
Upon arriving at the ninth floor, Huang Hong immediately felt a powerful gravity pulling him. Compared to the occasional gravity disturbances on the eighth floor, the normal gravity on the ninth floor was more than ten times that on the ground.
Of course, Huang Hong adapted to this amount of gravity after just a little movement, and Wu Jie also had his own ways of resisting it.
The ninth level is called the Earth Core Altar. It is said that at the center of this level, there is a black stone altar suspended in mid-air. The closer you get to the altar, the harsher the environment becomes, with high temperatures distorting the air and gravity becoming even stronger.
The aura emanating from the Black Stone Altar is evil and chilling, which is why some archaeologists speculate that the Kamo civilization is related to an evil god.
Wu Jie said, "Earth Vein Essence can only be born in areas with abundant earth vein energy, and such an environment will also interfere with the gravity environment of the ninth layer itself to a certain extent. So as long as we follow this line of thought, it should not be difficult to find the Earth Vein Essence."
So the two of them intensified their exploration of the ninth floor.
Perhaps due to environmental factors, there are significantly fewer monsters on the ninth floor than on the other floors, and they are mainly elemental life forms such as lava and earth.
Correspondingly, the quality of the monsters here is also very high, with most being level 10 or above.
The search for the Earth Vein Essence went without any surprises. It took them almost a day to find seven areas of gravity interference. The first six areas either didn't contain any essence or showed signs of human activity, so they came up empty-handed. It wasn't until the seventh area that they finally found the Earth Vein Essence.
After completing the collection, Huang Hong finally achieved his main objective for this trip.
The two then didn't linger on the ninth floor and quickly returned upwards.
When they returned to the sixth floor, the two stopped.
Wu Jie said, "Hong, it was a pleasant deal with you, but it's time to part ways. I still need to take advantage of the environment here to complete the enslavement of the Frost Corpse Demon as soon as possible."
Huang Hong laughed and said, "Well, I've achieved my goal this time. It's time to return to the Dragon Fortress. Let's go on adventures together again sometime."
The two have already added each other as friends through the fortress watch. Although the communication range of the watch is limited in the wild, it is still easy for them to contact each other by leaving a message through the fortress network.
As long as a message is left in one of the fortresses, the other person can receive it no matter which fortress they are in.
Finally, Wu Jie took out a document and handed it to Huang Hong, saying, "This is the information I obtained about the sixth to tenth levels. Take a look."
Huang Hong did not refuse, as he did indeed need the information.