Chapter 507: Mechanical Celestial Body

In the dark and silent void, Lin Xian's consciousness floated in nothingness.

It was as if time had been fast-forwarded. Those shattered stars and the dimension fragments of giants had long since dissolved into the universe and disappeared without a trace, leaving only that dark red giant god's head like the most tragic monument in the cosmic graveyard, undergoing slow and eternal decay in the cold vacuum, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of decay.

"Metal dice?"

Lin Xian was incomparably certain that the cold metallic luster that flashed by near the god's head was definitely not an illusion. At this moment, his consciousness felt as if it were experiencing an earthquake, and he simply couldn't digest the items he saw in a short time.

Gravitational lens, planetary giant, dimension fragments, god's head, and that terrifying beam of light...

What exactly was that?

Was it related to his ability link, or did he see some other existence?

He wanted to shout, wanted to act, but couldn't do it at all. He seemed to have completely lost his body, lost his self. This feeling was quite uncomfortable.

At this moment, Lin Xian even had a thought: if this state remained unchanged, wouldn't he be equivalent to being eternally imprisoned in this deep space of the universe?

Lin Xian tried to perceive his Mechanical Heart, but found no response.

"What's going on..."

He couldn't even feel the passage of time, but Lin Xian had a strong thought that this short time was definitely more than 10 hours!

At this time, he suddenly thought of his Black Star Forge. After all, this was also a skill linked to his consciousness. Would it have any effect?

Lin Xian's consciousness sank. Suddenly, his consciousness seemed to enter a bubble beyond the speed of light. Countless stars all turned into silk threads, and then the next moment, a huge dark red planet appeared in his vision, and his consciousness also fell towards an area near the huge planet's orbit.

As his consciousness slowed down, a black dot appeared in that originally empty area, and then the black dot rapidly enlarged. A mechanical celestial body, floating in deep space and becoming increasingly huge, began to occupy his vision. He saw a huge mechanical opening.

Black Star Forge!

Lin Xian's consciousness rushed in. The star dome channel rotated, and all his manufacturing sequences were in a static state at this moment.

"It can really connect to the Black Star Forge. How could such a huge mechanical celestial body link with my consciousness and become my awakening skill?"

At this moment, Lin Xian finally began to be certain that his mechanical ability was definitely some kind of special "creation" and had nothing to do with dark energy mutation. Looking at it this way, mechanical swallowing and mechanical manufacturing were not any god-like abilities. This was very likely some kind of advanced mechanical civilization system at work, and he was just the operator.

However, greater questions followed: Who placed the Black Star Forge here? And who "bestowed" this power capable of shaking the stars upon him?

With some suspicion, Lin Xian tried to control his consciousness to wander in the Black Star Forge. At this time, his consciousness seemed to be free from some original restrictions and could fly into the depths of the Black Star Forge to investigate.

Constantly downward, his consciousness passed through the energy base flow, like entering the blood vessels of a mechanical celestial body. I don't know how long it took, but the vision in his consciousness suddenly opened up, and a scene that shocked him incomparably appeared before his eyes.

Countless metal structures, huge to the point of suffocation, like the skeletons of prehistoric giant beasts, intersected and extended, forming a celestial core with terrifying breadth. This interior seemed to follow some kind of cold, highly efficient aesthetic design. The rough alloy trusses had diameters measured in kilometers, and countless mechanical arrays, dense as scales, extended to the end of his vision.

It was as if ten of humanity's most magnificent steel cities had been compressed, twisted, and welded into a sealed metal planet! Its diameter was more than hundreds of kilometers? Perhaps thousands? Lin Xian's consciousness tried hard to "climb" upward, trying to get a macro perspective, but he couldn't see the bottom at all. And in the center of the "core cavity" of this mechanical celestial body, a device that looked incomparably precise was suspended, which seemed to be some kind of core.

Four energy beams extended horizontally in four directions, and some subtle substances in the central area seemed to be passing through the core from top to bottom.

"Director Ding is right, all theology can be explained by science. Now perhaps I can explain why I can swallow thousands of machines and create things out of thin air..."

Lin Xian's consciousness seemed to be sighing: "But if this is what I observed during lattice evolution, does it mean that my Mechanical Heart is actually inseparable from the dark civilization? Is it itself a kind of dark civilization power?"

"Damn it!" Lin Xian was hit hard by this inference. "In this way, my Black Star Forge... could it be... the 'mothership' in the legends of the dark civilization?!"

Lin Xian was obviously startled by this thought. He tried his best to find more possibilities, but the reason in his consciousness became increasingly panicked in this terrifying thought. If his speculation was true, then all his previous thoughts—raising the level of the Mechanical Heart, creating weapons beyond human technology to deal with the dark civilization—wouldn't they become a joke?

Was the reliance he thought was independent of all ability users actually the core of the enemy?

Controlling the South Heaven Gate to kill the corpse-driver.

The Giant Ocean God suddenly changed its target.

The strange attitude of the Advent Sect towards him.

Could it be that what Hua Xiaoling had always wanted to tell him was this truth?

"No! Absolutely impossible!"

Lin Xian's consciousness rose rapidly. At this moment, he was in a state of chaos. He thought of the high-level defection mentioned by Chu Yan. If Lin Xian's speculation was correct, then all his hopes and plans were a joke. Humanity had no possibility of fighting back. Encountering such a collapse of belief, then for them, joining the Advent Sect was not a defection at all, but the correct choice to accept a new civilization.

The more Lin Xian thought, the more terrifying it became. His heart found it difficult to accept this fact, but the more he refused, the more things he couldn't understand before began to jump out and hit him hard.

"Is the mechanical celestial body homologous to the enemy and self, so I could transform the 1542 radio station into an isomeric magic cube?"

"So my Mechanical Heart can convert dark energy into mechanical source points?"

Lin Xian even associated a more terrifying idea: that the materials and mechanical source points he obtained through swallowing were, to some extent, helping the "dark civilization" scan the structure of Earth's technology and perfect their "mothership" and understanding of human technology, and the upgrade of the Mechanical Heart was doing self-iteration?!

"No, no, no!"

At this moment, Lin Xian fell into crazy self-doubt and collapse of belief. He felt his consciousness begin to become uncontrollable, blurred, and began to run around in the energy cluster flow of the mechanical celestial body, as if falling into an ice sea.

His consciousness fell suddenly!

Through the cold, heavy nothingness...

Through the ghostly blue electric arcs bursting from the engagement of gears...

Through the dark purple light river flowing on the surface of the solidified energy pipeline...

Through countless mechanical manufacturing sequence production lines...

Just as Lin Xian's consciousness was completely out of control and about to leave the Black Star Forge and fly into the endless deep space of the universe, he suddenly locked onto a direction in the star dome channel of the Black Star Forge.

In that direction was the area where Lin Xian collected and stored mechanical creations or other items, and in a corner of that area, a lead box was placed.

Inside it was that metal die!

"The giant was shattered. This thing is definitely a human creation, which means my previous assumption that a third-party force exists is very likely!"

Lin Xian's consciousness began to stop dissolving. Like a drowning person grabbing the last straw, this thought split the chaos and despair in Lin Xian's consciousness with the power of thunder! ===== CHAPTER 508 =====