Two robots walked up to Lu Heng's glass chamber, releasing a scanning beam that swept over him through the glass walls twice.
Afterward, one of the robots extended a chanical arm to press a button in front of the glass chamber.
The glass chamber moved slightly and began descending slowly.
Lu Heng realized he had been selected and hurriedly signaled Su Muyu and the other with gestures for free movent.
The glass chamber continued its descent into a pipe that was structured like a glass elevator, then proceeded sideways.
After a mont, it stopped at a designated position, and a square hole opened directly above.
The sides of the hole asured exactly two ters, the sa width as the glass chamber.
The glass chamber began to ascend, slowly passing through the hole to erge above the ground.
Stepping out of the tunnel, Lu Heng adjusted to the light and looked around, finding himself, as expected, in the Sikes Civilization's chanical Arena.
It was a massive chanical Arena, easily accommodating a crowd of a hundred thousand from a rough sweep of the eye.
Such a level of arena ranked within the top ten across the Sikes Civilization.
Placed on any single planet, it was essentially the largest arena.
Right now, sparsely scattered in the seats were various oddly-shaped Sikes people, most of them having undergone chanical transformations.
To a newcor seeing a Sikes for the first ti, the impressively designed chanical shells might be astonishing, and they might assu these Sikes with flashy chanical modifications were people of great importance.
That wasn't really the case.
The Sikes Civilization had gone through various phases in its process of chanical transformation.
In the initial phases of chanical transformations, roughly two centuries ago, the Sikes Civilization was just sparking a frenzy of enhancents, and citizens prided themselves on possessing impressively designed chanical limbs.
Back then, if one wanted top-notch chanical limbs, significant financial resources were necessary.
By the mid-stage of the chanical Civilization's transformation, more than 90% of Sikes people had undergone so form of chanical modification.
So modified an arm, others a leg, and so even modified their ears and other organs.
At this stage, acquiring flashy chanical limbs was no longer a trend.
chanical transformations beca more diversified and evolved into various factions.
So Sikes liked transforming their bodies to resemble wild beasts, insects, or various strange, even repugnant creatures.
Such peculiar tastes existed among the Sikes, though they never beca mainstream.
Diversity was the norm, especially chanical transformations capable of morphing, which were popular for quite so ti.
In the late stages of the chanical Civilization's transformation, or about twenty to thirty years ago, a "Renaissance" erged within the Sikes Civilization.
The upper echelons began to revert to the most primitive look of Sikes people, utilizing the most expensive bionic skins.
Beyond ordinary bionic skin was the thermoregulating bionic skin.
Without peeling back the bionic skin to see the internal structure, the touch and feel almost perfectly mimicked that of organic creatures.
Hence, those in the stands with flashy chanical modifications were actually those of lower status.
The true nobility of this civilization were those Sikes who appeared unmodified but were fully chanized inside, disguised with bionic skin that mimicked organic beings.
Clearly, today was a kind of recreational event, hence the crowd in the stands wasn't very large, but still amounted to a couple of thousand people.
...
After the glass chamber rose, the door opened.
Lu Heng stepped out of the glass chamber, looking ahead at a chanical Beast spaced ten ters away.
This chanical Beast was incredibly robust, resembling a beetle bristling with spines.
This chanical Beetle, even on its six legs, stood over three ters tall, its frontal spikes just beginning to curl upwards, seemingly ready to sprint forward and impale its opponent against the wall.
Lu Heng knew this creature was now his opponent.
chanical Beasts were the technological pinnacle of the Sikes Civilization, so the combat power of this chanical Beetle wouldn't be inferior to that of a chanical Tiger, at least A-level.
If he exerted full strength, Lu Heng was confident he could win.
However, showing all his cards in front of so many Sikes people wasn't a good strategy.
Moreover, the Main Quest didn't require winning the beast fight, rely to survive in the competition.
After stepping out of the glass chamber, the chamber behind him began to descend, sinking below the ground as the hole completely closed.
At that mont,
the sound of the starting bell rang out in the Beast Fighting Arena.
Ding...
After three chis, the previously stationary chanical Beetle imdiately sprang into action, charging towards Lu Heng, its spikes thrusting forward.
Lu Heng moved his feet to dodge, his high Agility making evasion relatively easy.
As he dodged, Lu Heng also observed the Sikes in the stands.
Clearly,
this was a frequent type of entertainnt event for the Sikes Civilization, where chanical Beasts slaughtered organic creatures for sport.
The spectacle of such competitions lay in watching chanical Beasts tearing organic life apart, demonstrating the might of their chanical bodies.
However, today's bout didn't align with the audience's expectations.
The chanical Beetle launched several attacks, none of which reached Lu Heng.
The audience yearned to see a chanical Beast ripping apart a fleshy being, desiring grueso, blood-strewn scenes.
Yet, Lu Heng continued to dodge, running swiftly on the ground and along walls.
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