Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 150: The Carrier of the Assessment Tower
The wounds on Yuanze's body caused by phase disorder are gradually stabilizing, the loss of source power has been curbed, and his body is beginning to recover bit by bit.

"Your energy reserves are less than one-tenth of what they were when the war began. I'm afraid the toxins won't be completely eliminated." Astra prepared to re-mobilize the gene chip to eliminate the toxins bit by bit.

Yuan Ze lay on the ground, staring at the egg sheath in his hand: "Don't worry too much, I can mobilize the source power of the source core body now."

"Oh, you are curious about how I use it to repair your body?" Astra raised his eyebrows proudly, "Why don't you thank me quickly?"

"That's not what I wanted to say. You must have brought me here for some purpose. In my current state, my wounds shouldn't heal so quickly."

Yuanze just activated the "Flow" to check his physical condition and found that the speed of cell division was significantly accelerated, but the body's detoxification ability decreased.

Then, Yuanze converted the object of "Flow" to space. It was obvious that the space here was filled with a special energy that enhanced the recovery ability while weakening the efficiency of detoxification.

"Thank me first." Astra put her hands on her hips, pouted, and raised her head high, glancing at Yuanze from time to time.

"Okay, thank you, that's it, tell me what's going on."

"What do you mean? What's okay? Explain yourself clearly!"

However, Astra was only arguing verbally. After being with him for such a long time, she didn't have any reason to be arguing with a straight man, so she sent him the map and information.

This is the machine that originally carried the five assessment towers. After being attacked, some problems arose in the connection with the assessment towers, and it was separated from the assessment towers when it fell.

It just so happened that Astra also underwent a transformation last time, and the database of that old-man-like AI was also introduced, which recorded the entire structure of this machine in detail.

Just as speculated in the two AI data, the machine crashed not far away from their five assessment towers, but the encryption program was activated after the crash.

These encryption procedures allow the entire body to be completely integrated with the surrounding geological environment.

This resulted in thousands of years passing without humans being able to find any trace of the fifth assessment tower until Astra, who had mastered the encryption program, scanned some well-hidden geological anomalies.

"Why do you think these aliens would go to such great lengths to come to such a backward planet?"

"I don't know either. Even the AIs that have awakened didn't tell me. It seems like they deliberately hid it."

"Let's talk about it later. The map shows that there are still many valuable things. Let's look for them."

Yuanze didn't want to spend too much time thinking about these vague secrets. After all, the current situation was becoming more and more critical day by day, and no matter how powerful a force was, it could be wiped out.

Although these are just some guesses about the future, this idea has been lingering in my mind since what happened in YN Province, and has become more certain with the passage of time.

In this situation, the only way out is to strengthen yourself and make yourself an object that others dare not provoke easily, rather than holding on to a big tree that may be cut down.

Under Astra's guidance, Yuanze walked to the engine of the machine. Astra judged that walking from here could bypass a large number of security systems and was currently the safest route.

But this does not mean that there will be no obstacles along the way. On the contrary, the sporadic security has caused great pressure on Yuanze.

“Why are there so many drones here?”

Yuanze dodged left and right and hid in a shelter nearby. As soon as he raised his head, countless high-energy attacks followed.

"It's up to you now. I've calculated the difficulty, so just treat it as a training exercise. I'll come out when we get to the engine room."

Astra also adopted a highly energy-saving mode because of the damage to his suit, leaving the task of clearing the level and fighting entirely to Yuanze. Fortunately, the system here has not been maintained for a long time, and the energy is running low. If he grits his teeth, he still has a chance to get through.

As the last drone was destroyed by Yuan Ze, he came to a security door, and after quickly entering the password, they entered the engine's control room.

Through the transparent window in front of him, Yuanze saw the extremely large engine.

Its body is larger than a stadium that can accommodate a million people, and is wrapped in countless crisscrossing cracked pipes.

Some of these pipes seemed to be still working, with a galaxy-like energy liquid flashing inside.

Following the liquid to the center of the engine, there was a broken energy ball that was still emitting strong energy waves.

Despite this, the energy ball still transmits the surging energy to various areas through the normal pipeline network.

The glittering energy liquid flows in the pipes like the blood of life, providing a constant supply of power to the entire ruins.

"The entire engine is like a powerful heart, driving the operation of the body." Yuanze said with emotion.

"Although its main function is to provide power, the electricity recovered by this engine alone exceeds the annual consumption of the entire China. Even so, it is still unable to power the entire body. You can imagine how huge this relic is."

"It looks like this place has just been restored. Look at the robots that are performing repair tasks. Their efficiency is not very high."

"That's right. By the way, I remember that the repair robot here should be controlled solely by this engine room. Let's see if it can repair the suit you are wearing."

Astra projected himself out again, connected to the engine room's system, and gained access to this group of robots.

Yuanze was very curious, looking at a group of stupid robots surrounding him.

However, Astra laughed when he saw Yuanze's expression, and the robots then returned to repairing the bodies.

"what happened?"

"See for yourself."

Yuanze leaned over to look at Astra's console, and there was a warning on it: "The material level is too low, and no matching materials can be found."

"Fuck it..."

Yuanze also laughed. Even if his master didn't use the best materials for him, at least they wouldn't be common stuff.

Because apart from special attack methods such as phase attack, there has never been such serious damage.

"It looks like we have to go to the central control room first and get central authority."

Astra lets the system open the ceiling of the engine room and drill through it, which is the safest way.

After crawling for a long time, Astra commanded Yuanze to break a severely damaged board, open a hole, and let him jump down.

"This is the security door to the central control room." Astra explained as he deciphered the secret, "As long as you control this, you can control the entire security measures. Nothing can hinder you."

(End of this chapter)