Boom!
A humanoid robot that was at least ten meters tall was carrying a mutated beast. It crashed less than a hundred meters away from Yang Tian and exploded.
One of the broken pieces of the robot landed less than ten meters away from Yang Tian.
Yang Tian used his spiritual power to pick up the broken piece and took it in his hand.
It was a piece of red metal. It was about the size of his palm and was slightly thinner than his palm. It was very light in his hand, weighing less than one or two grams.
While it was light, it was extremely tough. Yang Tian used his blade to cut it and left a shallow mark.
It seemed that those gigantic robots were not as heavy as he had imagined.
Just as Yang Tian was about to throw the broken piece of metal away, he suddenly realized that it was double-layered.
The surface layer was extremely thin. Yang Tian used the tip of his blade to scrape off the thinnest layer, revealing the dense runes.
Seeing these runes, Yang Tian's eyes widened. He did not expect that the Automatons would know how to use rune technology!
With the Automatons joining the battle, the beast horde in the sky was quickly dispersed.
After destroying the mutated beasts in the sky, the tens of thousands of Automatons formed a red cloud and flew into the distance. They quickly disappeared from Yang Tian's sight.
Yang Tian threw away the broken piece of metal in his hand and looked at where one of the robots had exploded.
There was a huge crater there. The sand and stones on the ground were all crystallized from the high temperature of the explosion.
The powerful Cultivators had already pushed the battle further away from their home.
It seemed that the Hui 'er Family had won this battle.
His surroundings had become quiet. Yang Tian quickly stood up and walked to the edge of the crater.
The explosion had created a crater that was almost ten meters wide on the hard ground. The crater was pitch black with green smoke rising from it. It was filled with a pungent smell of burnt flesh.
There were a few pieces of beast meat and some broken pieces of metal at the bottom of the crater.
Yang Tian had only come over out of curiosity and wanted to take a look. Just as he was about to turn and leave, a red light suddenly shone from the bottom of the crater.
Yang Tian furrowed his brows and immediately jumped to the bottom of the pit. Using his saber, he pushed aside a clump of sticky, black substance.
After the surface was removed, a finger-sized red crystal-like object was revealed.
What is this?
Yang Tian's eyes widened.
He knew that it was not a Life Crystal.
If it were a Life Crystal, it would release energy waves. However, the red crystal that was the size of a fingertip did not release any energy at all.
With a flash of thought, Yang Tian used his mental power to pull it out.
After grabbing the red crystal, Yang Tian jumped out of the hole and returned to the wall.
At that moment, the Little Blue Dragon was lying on the ground with its eyes squinted as it 'digested' the two Life Crystals that it had just swallowed.
Judging from the energy waves emitted from the Little Blue Dragon's body, he could tell that it was about to advance in rank.
The battle prowess of the azure dragon at Returnance was extremely great. It was not something that Returnance beasts could compare to.
The surroundings had calmed down. Many ordinary humans came out of their hiding places and searched for beast carcasses among the broken buildings.
To ordinary humans, the carcasses of these beasts were food, and nutritious food at that.
They did not mind the fact that these beasts had human carcasses in their stomachs.
Yang Tian placed the red crystal in front of his eyes and looked at it again and again.
On the surface, it looked like a normal red crystal, but Yang Tian's instincts told him that it was not that simple.
After some thought, Yang Tian used a sliver of his mental power to enter the red crystal.
Suddenly, Yang Tian's eyes widened.
What appeared in his vision were countless densely-packed threads of various colors. There was a red ball hanging from each of these threads at certain intervals.
It was because of the existence of these red balls that the crystal looked red.
"This should be the brain of a mechanical life." At that moment, the voice of the strange program rang out in Yang Tian's head.
Yang Tian nodded and continued to use his mental power to enter the crystal.
At that moment, Yang Tian's mental power had only stopped at the surface of the crystal.
When Yang Tian's mental power entered the center of the red crystal and saw what was inside, he was shocked once again.
This was because a formation disk composed of countless runes floated in the center of the crystal.
Within the formation disk was a naked, beautiful woman with long red hair. Her eyes were closed as she lay in the center of the disk. She seemed to be asleep.
There was actually a human in the brain of a mechanical life!
Could it be …
Just as Yang Tian was guessing, the beautiful young woman lying on the disk suddenly opened her eyes.
She seemed to have sensed that some kind of energy had intruded into this world that belonged to her.
The beautiful woman who woke up sat up and looked around again and again.
Although she sensed that something had intruded into this world, she was unable to see it.
Out of curiosity, Yang Tian used his mental power to create a shape and appeared before the beautiful woman.
"Who are you?" Seeing Yang Tian appear in front of her, the beautiful woman asked with a frown.
She also spoke in the human language, which made Yang Tian feel that his previous guess was more accurate.
"I'm a human. What about you?" Yang Tian asked with a smile.
To the beautiful woman, Yang Tian's answer and question were a little strange.
For a moment, the beautiful woman did not know how to answer Yang Tian's question.
Yang Tian continued, "The mechanical life was originally human, right?
In order to have powerful abilities, you transferred your consciousness into the machine. This way, you can perfectly control powerful machines. "
After Yang Tian finished speaking, the beautiful woman could not help but laugh and say, "You're only half right.
In fact, we should be considered half human.
We've never really had a physical body like yours in this world. "
"What do you mean?" Yang Tian asked.
The beautiful woman said, "We were all born in a virtual world. Like you, we were born as children and slowly grew up.
In that world, we can live like you humans who have physical bodies, experience all kinds of things, feel happiness, and experience pain …
If we didn't know that we're just programmed lifeforms and that the world is illusory, it would be even more perfect.
In order to see this real world, we used machines to come to this world. Through machines, we communicate and fight with you … The reason why we're called half human is that our ancestors were humans.
Before our physical bodies died, our ancestors transferred their consciousness into what you call the virtual world to continue living.
In this virtual world, we can also reproduce.
In fact, this is another way for life to evolve. We're of the same origin, aren't we? "
"I see …" Yang Tian nodded.
The beautiful woman sized up Yang Tian and asked, "How did you enter this world?"