Doomsday Sequence Caravan: I Have a Mechanical Heart

Su Mu also heard their voices, and a chill instantly ran from the soles of his feet to his head, making his spine tingle and his scalp tingle.

He stiffly twisted his neck and looked into the shadows of the shop, where he saw a boy with rosy cheeks, pale skin, wearing a small black official's hat, grinning at him.

Then, a sinister voice echoed, "Big brother, come and play with me."

Su Mu's breath hitched, as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his legs felt like they were filled with lead, unable to move at all.

He screamed internally, "Damn it, move!"

Fortunately, he was in the sunlight, while the gray-haired boy stood in the shadows, not daring to approach for the time being.

But if the sunlight disappears from him, the gray-white boy will immediately pounce on him.

Su Mu knew he had to leave as soon as possible, because as the sun began to set, the shadows of the shops across the street would gradually seep into their territory. At that point, he would surely die!

He hardened his heart, bit his tongue fiercely, and instantly the suffocating feeling of falling into an ice cave disappeared. Without much hesitation, he ran frantically towards the door.

When he reached the door, he breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had been reborn. He wiped the sweat from his brow, glanced back at the gray-haired boy screaming inside the convenience store, and then hurried away.

Although he collected some food and drinks from the small shop, it would only last a few days, far from enough. So he didn't leave and continued walking deeper into the town.

As he walked, he suddenly sensed something and looked towards a quiet, secluded alleyway, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes. "Strange, why is there a mysterious energy fluctuation over there?"

"Could it be some kind of treasure?"

The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Driven by curiosity, he walked into the alley.

It was eerily quiet here. Although the sunlight streamed down the street, it still gave off a chilly feeling. There were houses on both sides, but behind those tightly locked doors, something seemed to be hidden, giving off a very dangerous vibe.

Su Mu swallowed hard, forcing himself to calm down. Soon they arrived at a small open space, which used to be a recreational and fitness area in the town. The space was not small, and there were some fitness equipment around it, but they were all rusty.

In the middle of the open space was a shallow pit, about one or two meters in size. The ground was charred black, and much of the surrounding cement ground had been torn up, as if something had fallen from the sky and crashed here.

The mysterious power he sensed was at the bottom of the shallow pit. He walked to the pit and looked down, where he saw a black metal sphere the size of a fist lying there.

It was engraved with mysterious runes, and faintly shimmered with blue light, resembling a futuristic sphere.

Out of curiosity, he went into the pit, picked it up, and was about to study it.

Suddenly, a thin needle emerged from the black metal sphere and pierced his palm.

"Ah--" Su Mu cried out in pain and instinctively tried to throw the metal ball away, but the metal ball seemed to come alive and stuck tightly to his palm, and his blood was also flowing rapidly into the metal ball through the thin needle.

Just a few seconds later, the blue light on the metal sphere brightened considerably, and even streaks of bright red light began to appear.

Su Mu was terrified and kept trying to remove the metal ball from his hands, but when his right hand touched the metal ball, a thin probe pierced his palm, and now both of his hands were stuck to the metal ball.

Seeing this, Su Mu was filled with regret. Why did he have to pick up that strange metal ball out of curiosity? Now he was completely stuck with it.

A dozen seconds later, the metal sphere turned completely bright red and even began to beat rhythmically, just like a mechanical heart.

"This??" Su Mu was dumbfounded. What on earth was this thing?

Before he could continue to wonder, the mechanical heart suddenly detached from his palm, flew to his chest with a whoosh, and quickly tore through his skin, merging into his chest cavity.

The sudden, excruciating pain of fusion caused Su Mu's vision to go black, and he immediately fainted.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but it was already dusk, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on him, giving him a faint golden hue.

Su Mu opened his eyes and quickly looked down at his chest, seeing that the wound had healed, leaving only a shallow scar.

At this moment, he had some new information in his mind. The metal sphere he had picked up earlier came from the mechanical divine realm at the very depths of the starry sky, and was called the Mechanical Heart.

It has now completely fused with his heart, meaning he now has a mechanical heart.

This mechanical heart is quite extraordinary; the energy it contains can empower any metal, transforming it into weapons, various metal instruments, and even mechs.

However, this mechanical heart has almost completely depleted its energy after traversing the endless void. Based on its inherent level, it is currently a level one mechanical heart.

As he noticed the mechanical heart, a phantom energy value appeared in his mind: 30/1000

Upgrading the mechanical heart's level and energy is quite simple. One way is to expose it to sunlight and absorb the energy from the sunlight, but this method is extremely slow.

The second method is to hunt down monsters and devour their essence, which can rapidly increase the level of the Mechanical Heart.

Su Mu sat there for a while, digesting the information, and his excitement grew. "Great! With this, I no longer have to worry about being chased by those monsters."

Suddenly realizing something, I quickly looked up at my watch and saw that it was already past five o'clock. The last rays of sunlight were gradually disappearing from the gym, being swallowed by shadows.

Once he is shrouded in shadow, the outcome is obvious: he will inevitably be devoured by a group of monsters.

Moreover, the convoy had already left for more than an hour, and he had to leave quickly to catch up with it.

"I was unconscious for so long." Su Mu quickly stood up, glancing at the fitness equipment around him. An idea instantly came to him. Now that he had the Mechanical Heart, why not use these devices to make a simple travel tool, so that he could travel faster?

While you're at it, make a weapon for self-defense.

He strode over to the fitness equipment, placed his hand on it, and with a thought, a mechanical diagram for making a tricycle appeared in his mind. The diagram displayed in the lower right corner: Consume 20 energy points.

A blue light emanated from his palm, instantly enveloping the large piece of fitness equipment.

The next moment, the fitness equipment seemed to come alive and began to transform rapidly.

In just a few seconds, it transformed into a tricycle. Although it still looked rusty, it gave off a very sturdy feel.

He went to a piece of exercise equipment, intending to make a pistol, but the mechanical diagram that automatically appeared in his mind showed that it would consume thirty energy points.

But he only had ten points left. After several choices, he used those ten points to create a repeating crossbow. A flash of blue light appeared, and the exercise equipment transformed into a repeating crossbow with dozens of arrows a few seconds later.

But then, a wave of dizziness washed over me. "Looks like I need to restore the mechanical heart's energy as soon as possible."

"Let's try to manufacture another pistol."

He put the repeating crossbow in the basket of the tricycle, got on, and headed out of town.

As soon as he reached the alley entrance, he noticed several strange figures wandering on the main street he had come from.

Among them was the gray-haired boy he met at the convenience store.

He panicked and quickly grabbed the crossbow from the carriage and aimed it at the strange creatures.

Although the information from the Mechanical Heart says that using these modified weapons can kill the monster, these are, after all, physical attack weapons and do not have sequence capabilities.

So he was still a little worried and could only try it out to see how it went.

He pulled the trigger, and whoosh—an arrow glowing with blue light flew out at lightning speed, heading straight for the gray-white boy.