Global Freeze: I built a doomsday safe house

The red light continued to shine down from the sky, but there were no longer any corresponding targets below. The beams of light only left blank, high-temperature craters on the ground.

The mechs on the ground kept jumping up, like fearless insects, rushing up in waves.

However, this time Zhang Yi did not choose to destroy them.

"Arrest them all!"

The divine refining rapidly disintegrated in mid-air, then continued to disintegrate again, eventually weaving into a vast network of tens of thousands of vines that bound all the mechanical lifeforms.

Their struggles were completely futile, and they were all eventually dragged into the other dimension by Zhang Yi.

The moment they entered the alternate dimension, the eyes of those mechanical lifeforms immediately lost all their light, as if they had died.

"Ok?"

Zhang Yi frowned; he found this scene very strange.

In principle, mechanical life forms will not die even if they enter another dimension.

It seems that their actions are controlled by some kind of external central mechanism.

"This world is really interesting."

Zhang Yi looked up at the sky, but the giant artificial sun floating on the horizon in the distance did not react or launch an attack on him.

"It's a bit... inexplicable."

Zhang Yi doesn't quite understand the rules of this world.

He flew to a point several thousand meters above the ground, looking down at this still, lost continent.

"These mechanical lifeforms are not guards, but maintenance programs. They are controlled by the central hub, and only by severing their connection with the central hub can they be completely killed."

Lu Keran analyzed from within his shadow that Zhang Yi had sent several mechanical lifeforms into the shadow, and she had already quickly begun studying them.

"Moreover, the level of intelligence here is a level higher than that of the Cangyuan Clan."

So, you see—

Zhang Yi looked up at the still-twining star in the sky, his gaze gradually turning cold.

"True civilization lies at a deeper level."

"This is just the outer shell, the way they present themselves to others."

He paused, then smiled.

"That's more interesting!"

The sea returned to calm.

The city remains frozen in time.

The open space was littered with shattered mechanical debris and a spatial rift that had been forcibly torn open, proving that the battle just now was not an illusion.

The myriad phenomena of the universe spread out around him again, hanging down like a cloak.

"Let's go."

He said it very casually.

"Let's go in and see what secrets Mars is hiding."

Zhang Yi didn't rush to wander off again, but instead turned to look at his own shadow.

"Keran, it's time to go to work."

The shadow rippled outwards like water being poked, and Lu Keran's figure emerged from within.

She was wearing those somewhat exaggerated engineer glasses on her head, holding a stack of translucent energy sampling plates in her hands, and several egg-shaped detectors hanging from her waist, looking like she was about to dismantle a spaceship at any moment.

As soon as she came out, she exclaimed "Wow!" and turned around in the open space of this still world.

"This place is so cool! It's totally like... a home port-level hub left over from before the Great Migration of Civilization!"

Her eyes sparkled, clearly already imagining what it was like back then when thousands of mechanical ships took off and landed here.

Zhang Yi reminded her, "Don't just stand there watching the excitement, it's time to get to work! Test the energy response in this place and investigate the distribution of resources."

"We're here to mine!"

"Oh, okay, okay."

She immediately abandoned those fancy tricks, spread out the sampling plate, and several detectors popped off their tripods with a "click-clack" sound. She tossed them in all directions, and after landing, they automatically opened their hemispherical sensor covers and began scanning the energy levels of the surrounding space.

The entire world fell silent.

The resurrected machines were dragged into Zhang Yi's alternate dimension, leaving only the wreckage he had created on the ground. Occasionally, a metal plate or two would return to its original position, but there were no truly aggressive actions.

Lu Keran squatted on the ground, her fingers flying across the holographic screen. Her expression suddenly became serious, and she completely entered her "research maniac" state.

"Let me tell you some good news first."

After a while, she looked up, glanced at Zhang Yi, pouted, and looked very smug.

"The energy network of this world has not been completely cut off, which means that the core hub is still operating, but at a minimum power consumption."

Zhang Yi nodded: "That's why it has that beam resurrection function."

"Correct."

Lu Keran raised a detection plate high and slammed it down on a positioning point in mid-air with a "smack." Dozens of energy curves immediately lit up on the plate.

"Moreover, this resurrection command didn't originate from that artificial planet you just saw; that was merely a relay station. The true source..."

As she said this, she raised an eyebrow and looked into the distance.

"Over there."

Zhang Yi followed her gaze.

It was a seemingly empty horizon.

A very flat, smooth horizontal line, as if measured with a ruler, separates heaven and earth at that line.

But after staring at it intently for two seconds, he discovered that behind that "empty" space, there was actually a shadow.

It's like a needle standing upright in a very, very far place.

"Have the coordinates been generated yet?"

“It’s out, but…” Lu Keran looked at the screen and pouted, “These coordinates… aren’t very reliable.”

"How to say?"

“It has two values.” She wrinkled her nose. “Normal space should only give me one set of three-dimensional coordinates, but this gives me a set of reachable coordinates and a set of observation coordinates.”

Zhang Yi chuckled: "You even differentiate between internal and external networks?"

"almost."

She herself was amused, but her eyes brightened even more. "It means you can see it, but you can't get to it."

"What about energy reactions?"

"The energy reaction is off the charts!"

She raised her wrist and pushed the projector upwards.

A dazzling ball of energy, like a firework placed on a black screen, exploded in the projection with a "bang," and all the data columns jumped to high-risk red.

"This is the kind you like."

She deliberately exaggerated, saying, "The energy density is almost on par with the heart of a planetary engine, and it even has an outer shell of regular energy. If you can bring this thing back, Tianhai City will never have to worry about energy again!"

Zhang Yi stared at the mass of data that was so red it was almost white, and his eyes narrowed.

"Okay, let's go take a look!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed Lu Keran, stuffed her into the shadows, and then opened a dimensional portal in front of him.

Following the coordinates Lu Keran gave him, he quickly traveled in that direction.