Mecha Star Wars.

Chapter 1342 Eating Radiation

The ancient area is vast, and there are quite a lot of machines deployed.

Even if Lin Fan and Antonio flew at full speed in their mecha bodies, it would be impossible for them to patrol every day just to be on guard against that guy who might attack at any time and at any place.

There's no such thing as being able to guard against thieves for a thousand days. But in this chaotic situation, how easy is it to catch someone?

Fortunately, with Lin Fan's words as a guide, Cui Yan, who was extremely sensitive to numbers, quickly found more locations with low radiation values.

"What's wrong with these areas?" Antonio looked at the newly circled areas. "The machines in these areas are all in good working order, undamaged. The radiation levels didn't seem high initially. I remember seeing this at some points, and I asked you about it at the time, and you said it was normal. Because of the terrain, the residual radiation levels vary."

"It's normal to have height differences." Cui Yan instructed the technicians to increase the transparency of the map. "But..."

The map is a real-life picture of the ancient ground scanned by two mechas from the air.

Because most of the buildings on the ground are dilapidated and abandoned, leaving large areas of wilderness, the terrain does not have much practical significance, so the technology reduces the transparency of the map to prevent the scattered ruins on the ground from interfering with the overall visual effect.

Now that Cui Yan had made adjustments, everyone quickly discovered the problem.

"These places all have large-scale architectural ruins!" Cen Fangyuan leaned forward slightly. "Quick! Overlay Lin Yuan's stick figure map!"

"Oh wow!" Antonio clapped his hands excitedly. "Everywhere this guy goes is where the sect used to be."

Lin Yuan's map did not mark the sects, but drew out the spiritual veins with the thickness of the strokes.

As everyone knows, a sect needs constant spiritual energy nourishment, and will only be established on a spiritual vein. Small spiritual veins will have small sects, and large spiritual veins will have large sects.

"No wonder I was wondering why some houses were left with only the base of their walls, while others were still half-complete. They turned out to be the houses of immortal cultivation sects," Anding Suo laughed. "So, these sects have some special energy that attracted that guy? That's not right. Didn't they say it was for the radiation energy? Besides, the radiation levels of these new targets are low, which doesn't match the characteristics."

"The two aren't contradictory," Lin Fan said. "Judging from the surviving buildings, the structures back then were relatively complex, and the interior spaces were relatively closed, which wasn't conducive to the spread of radiation."

"Furthermore, those secret rooms and realms hidden deep underground, if not properly protected by barriers, and within the soil and rock environment, coupled with the influence of certain building materials, can actually form specific areas rich in radiation sources."

"So generally speaking, underground radiation is higher than above-ground radiation. Areas with buildings have higher radiation than open areas without buildings. As for the low starting values ​​in these areas..."

Lin Fan pointed to one of the spots and asked Antonio, "Here, remember? We went to look for Jin Tong."

"What does this have to do with Jintong? Wasn't she eaten to the bone?" Antonio's CPU was already struggling to keep up with Lin Fan's sudden change of topic.

"Stupid!" Jin Sichen said bluntly, "Didn't I just say that a white shadow appeared in that location? The place where Jin Tong died, the underground palace where they stayed, is not far from the white shadow. The values ​​in this area are also very low. It's completely conceivable that the white shadow, or something else, has devoured the energy here. As for whether it's radiation or some other kind of immortal energy... maybe the other party swallowed it all without regard for temperature."

"Yes." Lin Fan nodded. "That's my guess. Those places with low initial values ​​are likely because the enemy came and sucked out all the energy before we deployed the machines. But after the radiation from the building was extracted, the radiation from nearby areas diffused back in, causing the actual measured data to be lower when we installed the machines."

Radiation will diffuse in space, but the amount of radiation diffused from the open environment is too small, equivalent to the entire ancient environment, and is not enough to attract that guy, so he will look for a new energy gathering place.

"I see." Antonio suddenly realized, "So that guy didn't just appear, but has always been there? He's been playing hide-and-seek with us right under our noses?"

"It's probably not hide-and-seek." Lin Fan shook his head. "It's probably just a coincidence that we didn't meet."

The ancient world was so large that the points were almost evenly distributed. Their mechas moved quickly, and except for a brief pause on the ground when laying out the machines, they flew through the sky at high speeds, leaving behind sonic booms.

There was no major movement on the ground, so they didn't notice it at all. Even if they saw a white shadow passing by, they would not take it seriously.

After all, clearing the radiation is the top priority, and they are too lazy to clean it up unless there is trouble in front of them. Who would have thought...

"But..." Antonio was furious when suddenly an idea struck him. "If that thing is so sensitive to radiation...why not just let it eat it? Wouldn't that speed up the elimination of radiation?"

"And then wait until that thing grows to a certain size, then pops up and interferes when you're retrieving the Chaos Orb, adding a huge hassle for nothing?" Jin Sichen snorted. "Please, this thing is clearly aggressive and has the ability to upgrade on its own. It feeds on radiation, so it's definitely a major hidden danger. If you don't deal with it while it's still weak, do you think your future life will be too easy and want to create some trouble?"

Antonio curled his lips, said "huh", and didn't say anything back.

"We haven't seen anything that can absorb radiation and grow stronger, so we can't predict how it will grow." Lin Fan said, "My personal opinion is to find it first. Then we'll see what the other party's situation is. If there's no room for us to use it, we'll eliminate it as soon as possible."

"I agree with Lin Jian's idea." Cen Fangyuan expressed his opinion.

Jin Sichen and Cui Yan also seconded the motion.

"That's what I meant." Antonio muttered softly.

Although it is impossible to accurately locate the object's current location based on known points, its route can be determined based on the level and growth of radiation values, and then a possible range can be delineated to narrow the search area.

Lin Fan thought about how he had been thinking about what to do with his free time before, but now he was busy. He once again felt that the Flag thing was really useless.

The two re-entered the ancient times, taking the destruction point where the other party last appeared as the origin, and went to the sect ruins within the possible range to look for traces.

"Hey, tell me." Andingsao couldn't keep quiet while searching the ruins. He spoke to Lin Fan through the mecha's internal communication, "Could that thing not be the soul of the Polun Star?"

"What do you think?" Lin Fan carefully searched for where she was, while not forgetting to reply to Antonio.

"Think about it. That's radiation, even if it's a soul. Can ordinary people eat it?" Antonio pondered for a long time. "Isn't it said that radiation is brought by interstellar alien beasts from space? Their bodies can carry compatible radiation, so isn't it normal for souls to consume radiation? Or do you think alien beasts don't have souls?"

"I think another way to describe the soul is that it's actually a form of consciousness expressed in the form of energy." Lin Fan thought for a moment and replied, "Humans may have richer ideologies due to their active thinking, but animals and even plants have their own independent consciousness, even if it's just biological instinct. So I think any living thing should have a conscious soul. Exotic beasts should have one too."

"Really?" Antonio laughed. "I knew you understood me. I was thinking, aren't all the souls in the river trapped? Why did some of them leak out in the ancient times? And can ordinary people's souls really survive in the ancient times after thousands of years of consumption? If they are the souls of strange beasts, doesn't it make sense? Wait!"

Antonio's laughter suddenly stopped, and then there was no sound.

"What's wrong?" Lin Fan stopped and asked.

"I think I saw that thing." Andingsao replied excitedly, "It ran pretty fast...you..."

The noise in the headphones grew louder.

"Anton? Anton!!" Lin Fan called out several times but got no response. He made a quick decision and turned around to rush to where Antonio was.