Afterward, robots from further away converged on the scene, collecting intelligence that lingered at the site after the explosion, which, upon inspection, was deed the result of a high-concentration annihilation of opposing forces.
It was similar to the collision of matter and antimatter, yet this force stemd from the clash of the Life Power and the Power of Death.
The explosion erased all traces from the scene and brought severe losses to the chanical units present.
Inside the City of Technology, several individuals with chanically augnted bodies focused on the data displayed before them. The battle with the Proxy Agents had provided them with a vast amount of data, and regarding the losses, even if a random robot involved in the combat could set a family up for generations, but... what of it?
The size of the Machine Domain was comparable to that of a planet laid flat, with a substantial population and even more impressive productivity. The lost machinery could be exchanged for invaluable data.
It was well worth it.
Their only regret was that the Proxy Agents had escaped the battlefield too soon; otherwise, once data collection reached a certain phase, they could have produced even stronger weapons for testing to see the endurance of the Proxy Agents.
Both Proxy Agents were protected by a powerful force field, which prevented the use of nanochanics to parasitically collect additional data from them.
Then there was Zheng Yichen’s motorcycle. They had also attempted to infect it with a virus, but its firewall was notably robust, and the AI inside was fiercely defensive. Upon detecting an intrusion, it imdiately retaliated with a virus bomb.
As a result, a number of their machine rooms suffered damages, but as long as they didn’t lose any crucial data, such impacts were acceptable.
Using Hell as a transfer point, Zheng Yichen and Du Gang once again passed through Hell to arrive at the Great World.
Du Gang, observing the unfamiliar surroundings, spat fiercely, "If we encounter any more anomalies this ti, we definitely can’t get entangled again. I suspect they’re just stalling for ti to extract from us, trying to understand as much as possible about the Proxy Agents, and using them to train their troops!"
"Let’s leave it at that," Zheng Yichen said as he took out his cellphone and glanced at it—no signal whatsoever, and offline maps were useless here too. Yichen flipped through his old text ssages, looking at the jumbled ’numbers.’ He tried the callback feature, which, unsurprisingly, failed.
"We don’t even have a map of this world; we have no idea how long it will take to get to Twilight. Just how big is the Great World?"
"How would I know..." Du Gang said with a touch of helplessness, "There’s always been scarce information about the Great World. Even so information has been acquired by Dusk rcenaries who used thods of the Evil Path to retrieve souls, that’s about it.
All we know is the Great World is indeed vast, divided into many ’great domains.’ The Boundary Breakers belong to certain great domains, which are divided into the above-ground domain, the Sky Domain, and the underground domain.
Most Boundary Breakers spend their entire lives within their respective great domains."
"So you’re telling we’ve been running for so long and we haven’t even left a single great domain?"
Zheng Yichen had Lilith create an ultra-high-resolution miniature satellite, a product of the fusion of magic and technology. Once launched, it observed the terrain from the sky, revealing a vast and boundless world.
Even when capturing the scenery in ultra-high resolution and magnifying the image to near-blur, the edges of the world remained imasurable.
"F*ck..."
"Ha ha ha ha, where did these rural Proxy Agents co from? Do they really think they can see through the Great World with that kind of device?" The staff, observing Zheng Yichen’s actions through the Eye of the Heavenly Law, couldn’t help but laugh.
This ti, Zheng Yichen was unlucky; the point where he erged was more than ten great domains away from Twilight, with a direct distance of over a million kiloters... Based on their previous speed, it would take at least a dozen hours to reach Twilight.
But with the ti extended so much, their organization could leisurely make arrangents; after all, the advantage was now theirs.
Proxy Agents were like fish in their pond, wherever they appeared there might be anglers ready for a challenge, no problem—let the anglers practice their fishing skills.
Just like with the previous City of Technology, after new data was collected, they could update their systems. The combat systems developed to deal with Proxy Agents could more easily cope with the Twilight rcenary Guild.
"Let’s hurry on our way." Zheng Yichen grabbed the satellite, almost as tall as a person, and cramd it into his internal space, then set off again, asking Lilith to activate the Explosive Speed Mode.
In the last battle, Lilith had absorbed a great amount of energy. So of that energy had been fashioned into high-explosive ammunition, while so had been compressed into energy cubes for storage—ready to be called upon from the internal space.
Maintaining the Explosive Speed Mode would directly consu those energy cubes...
"What... what?!"
Seeing Zheng Yichen hit the road again and his speed reach thirty kiloters per second in a very short ti, the staff’s eyes widened. If the car had gradually accelerated to that speed, they might have been accepting of it.
But this ti, the speed of the vehicle clearly wasn’t a normal increase.
Although the subsequent speedup slowed down, the vehicle’s speed had surpassed thirty kiloters per second and was still increasing towards forty kiloters per second, with no signs of decreasing.
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