The heavy rain continued.
The night wind howled as it passed through the space above the ruins.
Gu Qing Shan silently stood in the rain without moving.
The War God UI had once again appeared and was communicating with him.
[Welcome to the future, Gu Qing Shan]
“How long was I gone for?”
[After you were sealed in the Drifting Sand World, a total of 1 year and 79 days had passed]
“How strange, I was supposed to have returned to that exact moment, so why did I instead arrive 1 year and 79 days later?”
[You will have to ask the thing that brought you back here]
Gu Qing Shan looked up.
The Gold Coin was still floating in the air in front of him, occasionally letting out sorrowful sobs.
Gu Qing Shan cleared his throat and asked: “Can I ask you something, why did we skip over almost an entire year’s worth of time?”
The Gold Coin let out a series of clanging and clinking.
Gu Qing Shan had already obtained the ability to communicate with artifact spirits when he was in Shen Wu world, so he understood right away.
“You’re saying that I had to skip over at least a year and a bit more, otherwise I would’ve been killed?” Gu Qing Shan confirmed again.
Cling clink!
The Gold Coin replied with conviction.
Gu Qing Shan sincerely told it: “Thank you for your luck, if I had used the three coins of humanity, I don’t know how things would have turned out”
Clang clang clank~
The Gold Coin tiredly told him.
“You’re tired? Then you can rest” Gu Qing Shan said.
The Gold Coin slowly fell into his hand, allowing him to carefully put it into his Inventory Bag.
Gu Qing Shan silently thought over what he went through just now and sighed: “I can’t believe over a year had already gone by, I wonder how the 900 million World Layers is currently”
The War God UI replied: [Most importantly, you survived, and brought your Heaven sword with you]
Lines of glowing text then appeared from the void of space:
[Quest description: This is the requiem of the Age of Old humanity, you must struggle to survive among the Divine race, Desolate race, evil creatures, and even Abyssal monsters, all for the sake of a single hope for your entire race, furthermore obtain this weapon that would ultimately decide victory or defeat of this war, the Heaven sword]
[You have obtained the Heaven sword]
[War God Quest completed]
[You have obtained the reward for this War God Quest, War God Title: Sword Demon is now permanently yours]
[War God Title: Sword Demon]
[By equipping this title, you are able to use the Title Skill: True Soul Cleaving Eyes]
[True Soul Cleaving Eyes: Ignoring Space-time, briefly pull an enemy in your sight into a temporary world and attack it once]
[Note: This Title Skill is the manifestation of your understanding of the sword, as your swordsmanship improves, so will its power]
Gu Qing Shan glanced at the [War God Title] column.
Sure enough, [Sword Demon] had appeared below his other titles like [Shen Wei General], [Ace Assassin], [Talented General].
The Title [Starflame War God] had also returned to a usable state.
Gu Qing Shan was amazed: “After going through so much, I’ve actually forgotten that I issued a War God Quest in the first place”
[I would not forget] the War God UI replied.
“Do you have any suggestions for what comes next?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
[I do not, you will have to decide everything by yourself] the War God UI replied.
Gu Qing Shan was briefly surprised, then realized something.
Indeed, Gu Qing Shan would be responsible for every action and decision.
This was how the War God UI acted, completely unlike the [Demon King Order].
The corner of Gu Qing Shan’s lips curled up a bit.
“Very well, since this place was my only hope to survive, let us take a look at what’s going on in this world”
He muttered and walked towards the giant metal beast that was being soaked in rainwater.
This was a destroyed Assault Mech.
During the last time he faced his Tribulation, he traveled to the Mahesvara realm of the future, then came to the Earth World in the same era and even left these Assault Mechs here.
From how rusted this Mech unit is, it seemed to have been broken for a long time.
Its form and components have been improved somewhat from how I made it, but the change was mostly for refining the controls.
Makes sense, it had only been a short year after all.
This world’s level of technology was originally at an elemental level of Mech research, so it couldn’t improve too much from my own design.
Gu Qing Shan carefully observed the broken Mech.
Several critical points of the Mech had been cracked, warped, or completely broken. The power system had also been thoroughly damaged.
The Mech’s components lay scattered all over the ground, the majority of which couldn’t be used any longer.
Gu Qing Shan circled the Mech once, then reached his hand out to lightly pat the frigid outer shell.
The Mech seemed to have run into an unbeatable opponent and was broken through sheer force.
What kind of thing could’ve dealt with a Mech so nonchalantly in this world?
Gu Qing Shan came up to the cockpit, reached in, and pressed something in a hidden compartment.
Sha-ka!
The mechanical lock had completely been deactivated, so he couldn’t pull out what was inside.
This was an extremely intricate component of the Mech that couldn’t be accessed by force or it would be broken, usually only accessible through electronic authorization.
In consideration of electronics occasionally being disabled and this place would be automatically locked, I’ve also designed a manual way to open this.
But the manual lock needed an appropriate tool to be accessed.
As Gu Qing Shan reached for his Inventory Bag, he abruptly stopped.
The last time I came to his world, my own Holo-Brain, as well as a lot of smaller tools, were left here.
Before I managed to retrieve them, the Earth Creator had already sent me away.
God knows where those things would be right now.
And I don’t have the right tools to dismantle this thing.
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit and displayed a serious expression.
He randomly grabbed the Heaven sword from the void of space and aimed at a metal panel on the other side of the lock.
Carefully adjusting his strength, he focused his mind.
And struck.
Clink clink clink clink clink clink!
Six tiny consecutive sounds rang out almost consecutively.
Several components came off the metal panel at once.
Clak!
The lock unlocked itself.
A thin small black box about the size of his palm was seen inside.
Gu Qing Shan lightly sighed and pressed a button on the black box, detaching it from the Mech.
At the same time, Luo Bing Li’s complaint came from the Heaven sword:
“Heaven’s Choice is a skill for killing your enemy, I can’t believe the first time you used such a powerful ability was to fix something”
“What I did just now was more important than killing any enemy” Gu Qing Shan replied seriously.
“Just for this black box? What is it?” Luo Bing Li asked.
“It recorded the detailed process of operation and its numbers, from there it can help us know what happened here” Gu Qing Shan replied.
“It was already dead, yet it could still remember exactly what happened? What a miraculous thing” Luo Bing Li muttered in awe.
The Heaven sword returned to silence.
Gu Qing Shan carefully put the black box away.
Now I need to find the appropriate device to read what’s been recorded in the black box.
There should be such a device in any Mech maintenance facility.
Gu Qing Shan released his Three Thousand Worlds realm inner sight and swept through this entire city.
The main roads, structures, bodies, trees, rivers, so on and so forth… everything was within Gu Qing Shan’s inner sight.
Unfortunately, since Mechs were still a strategic weapon that hasn’t been popularized in this world, everything related to Mechs were still highly restrictive and hard to find.
The entire city was a dead zone of despair, there wasn’t a single living being or intact structure left, it basically wasn’t worth searching here.
Without giving up, Gu Qing Shan continued to expand his inner sight outwards to look for everything he could on the ground.
Finally, in a secluded area around 300 miles away from the city, Gu Qing Shan discovered a hidden facility complex.
The signs outside the facility complex suggested that it was a military research facility, the inside was also a post-disaster scene.
Although the entire facility had already been destroyed, a number of devices within the Mech research factory appeared as if they could still be repaired.
That’s more than enough!
Within this ruined world, if there were any places left that could help Gu Qing Shan read the information within the black box, it would be here.
Gu Qing Shan leapt upward and flew towards the research facility.
