OBS Chapter 29 Mechanical Rift
Chapter 29 Mechanical Rift
Lin Mo controlled the Wraith Boat to slowly descend. With a thought, the Wraith Boat transformed into mist and returned to his cards.
He took a deep breath and then walked towards the sentry post.
"Stop! Please show your credentials."
A guard reached out and stopped him, speaking in a stern tone.
Lin Mo took out his Black Iron-level card-making qualification certificate, certified by the Wushan City Card Making Association, and handed it over: "I want to enter the Rift for training."
The guard took the certificate, carefully checked it, and after confirming it was correct, returned it to Lin Mo, saying indifferently:
"Admission fee is 3,000 Star Coins!"
"That's really expensive!"
Lin Mo couldn't help but mutter a curse to himself, but he could only obediently pay, a look of pain on his face.
After receiving the payment, the guard immediately let them pass, saying solemnly, "Although this rift is of a lower level, it still poses a certain degree of danger."
You must remember to stay only in the outer perimeter area. Do not venture further in. If anything seems amiss, evacuate immediately. Do not linger inside. Understand?
"clear."
Lin Mo nodded, took a deep breath, walked slowly to the entrance, and leaped into the crevice.
……
Suddenly, the world spun around, and the scene before my eyes changed abruptly.
What came into view was a gray, hazy world.
Exposed gears, twisted steel pipes, and mangled mechanical wreckage were scattered everywhere on the ground.
It's a completely different world from the lush greenery outside.
A faint smell of rust filled the air, and the occasional harsh metallic scraping sound could be heard from afar.
Lin Mo stopped and recalled the relevant information about the commissioned materials in his mind.
[Hydraulic Chewing Gear]: Produced from mechanical aberrations, with a small chance of dropping after being killed.
"So, all you need to do is kill the mechanical aberrations, right?"
Lin Mo's eyes flickered, and he murmured, "But what is the probability of this being relatively small?"
Could it be a matter of probability, like drawing a vine?
He frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then shook his head.
Who cares, let's just do it!
Lin Mo summoned the mountain spirit and led it along the edge of the ground.
Not long after they walked, a mechanical hunting dog dragging a saw blade suddenly darted out from the ruins ahead. As soon as it saw Lin Mo, it barked and pounced on him.
Lin Mo sensed the spiritual energy emanating from the mechanical hound; it was Black Iron Three-Star. He immediately waved his hand.
The mountain spirit lightly raised her jade hand, and a beam of green light shot out instantly.
It transformed into a sharp blade, piercing through the mechanical hound's chest and pinning it to the ground.
A series of electric currents flashed across the mechanical hound's body, accompanied by the sound of a short circuit and engine shutdown. It struggled for a moment, then immediately fell silent.
A ray of light emanated and transformed into a strange energy crystal, which fell to the ground.
Lin Mo picked it up and sealed it in a blank card.
[Mechanical Hound's Energy Crystal] (White)
Seeing that it wasn't the material he needed, Lin Mo was a little disappointed, but he didn't pay much attention to it and continued forward with the Mountain Spirit.
After walking for about half an hour, Lin Mo's brows gradually furrowed.
Along the way, he encountered three waves of aberrations, all of which were mechanical.
The first wave consists of floating mechanical monsters that can shoot metal fragments.
The second wave consists of arachnid variants whose entire bodies are cast in metal.
The third wave was a mechanical boar with a steel shell, covered in sharp spikes, and this mutant was also a "vicious species".
What frustrated Lin Mo was that
After painstakingly defeating these three waves of aberrations, he hadn't even seen a white-quality hydraulic chewing gear, let alone a blue-quality one.
No wonder the price quoted for this commission is twice as high as others of the same level.
The drop rate is just too low, isn't it?
Lin Mo sighed. There was nothing he could do but continue forward.
However, what puzzled Lin Mo was that since he entered this rift, it seemed that all he had encountered were mechanical life forms.
From beginning to end, not a single aberration from other varieties was seen.
Lin Mo raised an eyebrow, suddenly recalling the Yinluo Mountain secret realm behind the academy, which was almost entirely inhabited by undead and monstrous forms of spirits.
There are no other populations.
A bold guess instantly surfaced in his mind:
Could it be that every independent rift, secret realm, and the aberrant creatures living within it all belong to the same single race?
Does the formation of a fissure directly determine the type of aberration within it?
To verify this conjecture, Lin Mo deliberately took a detour and searched for an extra half hour.
Having walked from the outer edge of the rift to the sub-outer zone, all the objects encountered were still mechanical aberrations; there wasn't a single one of any other type.
Lin Mo understood once his guess was confirmed.
This seemingly insignificant discovery means that when entering unfamiliar rifts in the future,
Once you understand the different mutant species, you can prepare cards in advance to avoid risks and even predict the abilities of higher-level mutants.
Suppressing his joy, Lin Mo didn't linger any longer and continued walking forward.
After traveling several more miles, a piercing metallic scraping sound came from ahead.
Lin Mo instantly held his breath, tiptoed, and crept towards the direction of the sound.
I peeked out from behind a huge piece of metal debris.
In the open space ahead, a colossal creature, about two meters tall, was squatting on the ground, frantically gnawing on a huge steel pipe.
The monster was covered in thick black steel armor, and its head was a huge oval steel stomach filled with layers upon layers of sharp gears.
The two thick robotic arms end in sharp steel claws, and the underside is a translucent metal shell.
A dark gold core gear can be clearly seen spinning rapidly inside.
Black Iron Five-Star!
Gluttony!
After sensing the spiritual fluctuations emanating from the mechanical monster, Lin Mo was momentarily at a loss.
His intuition told him that if he could kill the mechanical monster in front of him, he would most likely get the materials needed for the quest.
Judging from the way this thing gnaws on anything it sees, even turning pebbles into dust, it would probably take some effort to fight it.
After pondering for a long time, Lin Mo finally decided to do it.
As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold.
Moreover, even if he were no match for this mutated creature, he could easily escape the battlefield on the Wraith Boat.
Having made up his mind, Lin Mo immediately summoned the two generals, Shen Tu and Yu Lei.
Two tall figures instantly tore through the void and stood on either side of Lin Mo.
Two golden lights flashed, and the two generals crushed towards the mechanical gluttonous creature.
The mechanical monster that was gnawing on the steel pipe instantly sensed the movement and abruptly raised its head.
The steel stomach opened, emitting a piercing sound of gears turning.
The two mechanical arms slammed into the ground, and the heavy steel body charged towards the two generals.
The gears inside the giant stomach sac spun rapidly, as if trying to shred everything in front of it.