The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

"I need to ask a very important question first."

Shandian, whose energy field had been propelling it forward, was suddenly halted by a single hand. It was somewhat confused.

It knew that it was no longer in the super energy-saving mode but in the second combat form. The strength it was bursting with was completely different from before.

Yet it couldn't break free, as if it was clamped down on.

Despite its anxiety, it had no choice but to stop and say,

"What's the question?"

Su Qi paused and said, "...Your reboot from a dormant crash state took longer than I expected. Will the others be the same?"

Su Qi murmured to himself, "It seemed to take you more than twenty minutes. If the stronger they are, the longer it takes, that's going to be troublesome."

Shandian was a bit stunned.

"What do you mean by asking that?"

"Answer me first."

Shandian paused, "The reboot time for each Mechanical Life is inconsistent. It does indeed change with the crash duration and strength, but generally, it shouldn't exceed one hour."

Su Qi glanced at it, "You're still so slow, even though you're called Shandian."

Shandian: "...First of all, the name has nothing to do with it, and secondly... why the hell am I standing here talking about this with you!!"

The rumbling vibrations were shaking loose stones constantly. The base was already buried, and it felt a heavy weight on its heart. It needed to act quickly. After all, it would take considerable time to dig out to the surface from here.

Shandian suddenly burst forth with an energy field, blazing a path right before its eyes! And charged out!

Su Qi watched it sprinting past with calmness, "Quite in a hurry."

Meanwhile,

He slowly turned to look behind him, where he had already begun to hear movements and sensed fluctuations.

"Looks like they're all faster than Shandian. Xiao Meng, I leave it to you."

"Yes."

A mechanical female voice reached his ears.

This was the offline version of Xiao Meng since the real Xiao Meng was still on the starship, constantly deciphering the Divine Core, increasing its knowledge, and growing non-stop.

It would be responsible for explaining the current situation and the ongoing events to these newly awakened Mechanical Life and providing guidance.

To be honest, this feeling was quite similar to Paradise.

"Although the big ones have not yet woken up, it's almost time. Otherwise... the charging group might flutter a few times and be wiped out."

Su Qi followed the pathway cleared by Shandian and went in.

The interior space, thanks to the metal dome, was deformed but had not collapsed like other areas. There were only a large number of cracked stones. The protective measures of their leader, Lord Bai Qixing, were extremely well done.

And Shandian at this moment... was standing still, its eyes trembling as they gazed upon the scene before it, as if shocked and in disbelief.

"Su Buxian... do you see it?"

"Mmm-hmm."

"Lord Bai Qixing... It..." Shandian looked at the scene before it in some disarray.

The once-half shattered body of Bai Qixing had now completely repaired itself, the Mecha shining like a fallen galaxy! Brilliant light was cascading over the surface of the machine!

What were originally rusty parts assembled were now completely covered in High Energy Armor, every inch a work of art.

"It's completely repaired!! Why! A miracle has happened!!"

Su Qi: "First of all,"

"I need to correct two mistakes of yours. First... this isn't repaired, it's overloaded."

"Second, this is no miracle." Su Qi picked up a piece of stone that had exhausted all its energy and murmured to himself, "Do you think how much I've put in?"

Shandian came back to reality, suddenly realizing that the pile of rubble that covered the ground like a mountain was not from the collapse of the dome.

Instead... it was a large number of energy stones, identical to the one on its body.

And then, the next moment, Su Qi waved his hand again, and numerous sparkling energy stones surged forth.

"Su Buxian you..."

Shandian's eyes widened in shock.

Then, before it could continue, a rumbling sound came from behind, but this time it seemed not to be caused by an earthquake.

"Snap!"

Su Qi softly snapped his fingers,

"From this moment on, you need the strategic principles of The Hustlers, as well as the commands of the Sect Hierarch, to win this battle."

Shandian was still in shock, not even able to process these words with its CPU. It suddenly froze, "Wait a minute, who are 'we'!"

And the next moment!

Numerous energy fields broke through all that had been buried in rubble, a dense array of Mecha laden with energy fields burst through the ruins, landing in front of everything!

They were imbued with Deep Blue energy, and a plethora of reactors flickered with astonishing light!

"It's been a while... Shandian," a Mecha said softly.

"It seems that more time has passed than we had anticipated."

Shandian was somewhat crashing.

It crashed for a few seconds, its eyes flashing with a mix of disbelief and deep excitement, "You guys...."

Su Qi clapped his hands, "Alright, let's put catching up aside for later, it's time to get down to business now."

Shandian, interrupted, quickly responded with excitement, "Everyone, we must hurry to assist, Sirius and its Black Spark below..."

Before it could finish.

"We are already aware," a Mecha said with a grave voice.

Shandian was taken aback.

This Mecha seemed to be on the same level as Li Batian. It looked at Su Qi, "According to your deployment, everyone else besides us who has arrived here is working full speed to clear a path out. We wait for their signal."

"We can then bring these energy resources to our comrades and provide rapid support!"

"And also... Lord Bai Qixing..."