Space Odyssey from Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 511: Chapter 170 Tower_2

Although the Supreme Point did not just scan the presence of Mechanical Race warships in space, necessary precautions certainly cannot be lacking.

As the spacecraft gradually approached, Chen Ming’s mind was still replaying the content he had just seen about studying the Mechanical Race.

According to research conducted by some research institutes within the Empire.

The difference between the Mechanical Race individuals and the seemingly similar Dusk is significant.

The most obvious point is that Dusk are independent individuals like humans, whereas the Mechanical Race is more akin to a hive mind.

All mechanical bodies are sub-individuals, with only basic consciousness, and they are more of a part of the collective.

Of course, the few Mechanical Race Chen Ming had previously encountered were clearly independent and were likely disconnected from the collective.

The city of the Mechanical Race he was about to contact was very likely a group independent of the Mechanical Race.

However, for all the Mechanical Race, the hatred towards humans, almost engraved in their logical core, cannot be changed.

So Chen Ming does not expect to engage them directly.

If contact does occur, it would certainly be amidst battle.

The three cruisers soon approached a relatively safe distance, then stopped without entering the planet’s orbital path.

Mainly because Chen Ming was concerned about the possible presence of mechanical race sentry or defensive satellites in the orbit.

So it’s best to have the Supreme Point scan first.

At this distance, the Supreme Point can conduct a high-power scan while maintaining a sufficiently safe distance.

Once the ship was stable, Chen Ming immediately restarted the Supreme Point’s star system scanning array.

Before long.

A steel city, surrounded and integrated with the jungle, appeared before him.

Last time, when Refraction came close to the planet, it only saw Mechanical Race activities outside and simply recorded some features of the city before retreating, without much investigation.

This time, Chen Ming came personally, finally having a clear look at the appearance of the city.

He also fully understood what the demise of a civilization meant.

Only by seeing this rusty, dilapidated city that could collapse at any moment, the wild vegetation cracking through countless buildings, and those paralyzed Mechanical Race sprawled everywhere.

Did Chen Ming truly comprehend the meaning of the word ’civilization collapse’.

Chen Ming didn’t look much at the city’s scene since he would be going down shortly.

What Chen Ming needed to focus more on now were the things in the planetary orbit.

The scanning array had just detected a satellite in orbit, but it could be confirmed that this satellite had ceased functioning and was also in a state of ruin.

Moreover, there were no weapons or alert devices present in the vicinity.

Thus, Chen Ming simply ordered the Defender to retrieve the satellite, which it did easily as it was taken into the storage room.

The satellite’s appearance was clearly shown in front of Chen Ming through the Defender’s internal monitoring.

The external shell made of White Cloud Steel had not changed much in space, but its internal circuitry had already thoroughly deteriorated, preventing it from functioning again.

The satellite had been in space for so long that its precise existence duration was indeterminable, only that it had been a very long time.

Due to the deterioration of its circuitry, its signal reception and transmission functions were completely damaged, and the internal records couldn’t be accessed.

Even if Chen Ming had the maintenance capability, at best he could only repair the signal transmission functions, unable to recover the internally stored records.

This satellite now seemed like nothing but scrap metal meant for material recovery.

Alternatively, Chen Ming might study a bit of the manufacturing process of its communication equipment.

The technology itself needn’t be learned since Chen Ming knew the Empire’s faster-than-light communication technology was derived from this civilization’s legacy.

However, as the satellite was already in such a decrepit state, he did not expect to uncover anything significant through research.

In any case, Chen Ming could now confirm that the outer layer of the planet had no defenses installed.

He could proceed to descend.

Of course, Chen Ming would not go down personally, nor would he have the cruiser descend.

For him to go down would be too dangerous, and the cruiser’s descent into the atmosphere would be too costly and conspicuous.

Thus, Chen Ming instructed the Defender’s landing craft to deploy a small robot equipped with a Gamma Core, entering the planet’s atmosphere.

The landing craft might attract the Mechanical Race’s attention when it produced fiery light upon atmospheric entry, so Chen Ming specifically directed it to land some distance away.

And, during this process, he continued to have the Supreme Point on the orbit maintain detailed observation of the city.

However, Chen Ming’s deliberate precautions seemed pointless.

As long as the Mechanical Race was not blind, they would undoubtedly see the fiery light falling from space. However, they simply didn’t care, nor did they come to investigate.

The scattered Mechanical Race the scanning array could see, which were still operational, paid no attention to Chen Ming’s landing craft.

This scene, in turn, cost some time for Chen Ming, who was initially prepared to guard against a Mechanical Race sudden attack, to maneuver the landing craft closer to the Mechanical Race city and deploy the small robot.

The small robot stealthily and agilely approached the city overgrown with vegetation, reaching the city’s edge, maintaining a certain distance from the security devices at the city’s boundary.