Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train Chapter 1268 - 489: Mechanical Celestial Body

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Previously on Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train...
Lin Xian activates his crystal grid cultivation device, which floods his body with dark energy. His consciousness is plunged into an abyss, where he witnesses a terrifying cosmic entity devouring a planet. He then sees a giant, dead head and a beam of light that annihilates the planetary giant before shattering Lin Xian's own consciousness as a metal die.

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

It was as if time had fast-forwarded. Those shattered stars and fragments of the giant’s dimension had long since disappeared within the cosmic expanse, leaving only the massive dark red head of a god, like the most tragic monument in a cosmic graveyard, decaying slowly but eternally in the cold vacuum, emitting a haunting aura of decline.

"Metal dice?"

Lin Xian was absolutely certain that the fleeting cold metallic gleam that passed by the god’s head was no illusion. At this moment, his consciousness felt like it was experiencing an earthquake, unable to comprehend what he had seen in such a short time.

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

What exactly was it?

Was it connected to his superpower or did he see some other existence?

He wanted to shout, wanted to act, but he simply couldn’t. It was as if he had completely lost his body, lost himself, and this feeling was quite disconcerting.

At this moment, Lin Xian even had the thought that if this state remained unchanged, wouldn’t he be eternally imprisoned in this cosmic deep space?

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

"What is going on..."

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

At this point, he suddenly thought of his Black Star Forge, after all, it was also a skill linked to his consciousness, could it possibly play some role?

Lin Xian’s consciousness sank, and suddenly, it was as if his consciousness had entered a bubble beyond the speed of light. Countless stars transformed into threads, and then in the next moment, a massive dark red planet appeared in his vision, and his consciousness fell toward an area near the giant planet’s orbit.

As his consciousness decelerated, a black dot appeared in the once void area, then rapidly expanded. A mechanical celestial body floating in deep space grew increasingly larger in his vision, and he saw a huge mechanical entrance.

Black Star Forge!

Lin Xian’s consciousness rushed in, the Star Dome Channel rotated, and his Manufacturing Sequence was all in a stationary state.

"Really able to connect to the Black Star Forge, how could such a large mechanical celestial body be linked to my consciousness, becoming my awakening skill?"

At this moment, Lin Xian finally felt certain that his Mechanical superpower was definitely some kind of special ’Creation’, and had nothing to do with Dark Energy Mutation. This way, Mechanical Devouring, Mechanical Manufacturing, were not godly abilities, it was most likely a manifestation of some advanced mechanical civilization system, and he was merely the operator.

However, a larger question followed: who placed the Black Star Forge here? And who "bestowed" this power that could shake the stars upon him?

With some doubt, Lin Xian attempted to control his consciousness to wander within the Black Star Forge. At this moment, his consciousness seemed to have transcended a certain limit and could explore the depths of the Black Star Forge.

Continuously descending, his consciousness passed through streams of energy base flow, as if entering the blood vessels of the mechanical celestial body. After an undetermined amount of time, his consciousness’s vision suddenly opened up, and an immensely shocking scene appeared before his eyes.

Countless gigantic metal structures that were breathtakingly vast like the bones of a prehistoric beast intertwined and extended, forming a celestial core of terrifying magnitude. Inside, it seemed to follow a certain cold, supremely efficient aesthetic design; the diameters of the rough alloy trusses measured in kilometers, countless mechanical arrays, densely packed like scales, extending to the edge of sight.

It was as if ten of humanity’s most magnificent steel cities had been compressed, twisted, and welded into a single sealed metal planet! Its diameter not just a few hundred kilometers, perhaps thousands? Lin Xian’s consciousness desperately tried to "ascend," seeking a macroscopic view, but couldn’t see the bottom, and in the ’core chamber’ center of this mechanical celestial body, a device of seemingly incomparably intricate construction was floating, appearing to be some core.

Four beams of energy extended horizontally in four directions, with minute substances in the central area seemingly penetrating through the core from top to bottom.

"Director Ding was right; all theology can be explained by science, and now perhaps I can understand why I can devour countless machines and create out of thin air..."

Lin Xian’s consciousness sighed: "But if this is something I observed during the Crystal Grid Evolution, does it mean that my Mechanical Heart is actually inseparable from the Dark Civilization? That it’s inherently a kind of Dark Civilization power?"

"Damn!" Lin Xian was struck hard by his own conclusion, "In this case, my Black Star Forge... could it be... the ’Mother Ship’ of Dark Civilization legend?!"

Lin Xian was obviously startled by this thought, desperately trying to find more possibilities, but the rationality in his consciousness was increasingly terrorized by this dreadful notion. If his speculation were true, then all his previous ideas about enhancing his Mechanical Heart level and creating technology beyond human capabilities to deal with the Dark Civilization would turn into a joke?

His reliance, believed to be independent of all Superpower Users, might be the core of the enemy?

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