Chapter 645 376: Mecha Era

Zhao Rui's gaze swept across the Ancestral Star, taking in everything.

With a flicker of his Divine Thought, he vanished from mid-air. When he reappeared, he was already hovering above a beautiful city.

This was the place where he had lived in his past life: Jeju City.

It shared a name with Jeju on Blue Star, but its environment and way of life were completely different.

There was no Martial Dao here, no Spiritual Qi. Here, true power was money, wealth, and the deterrence that came from conventional weaponry.

Zhao Rui scanned his surroundings and discovered a one-hundred-and-fifty-year gap between the current time and the one from his memories.

Now, skyscrapers filled the skyline and intelligent robots were commonplace. The pace of human life had become extremely slow.

Most jobs had been handed over to robots, from basic agriculture and infrastructure to complex manufacturing and outer space exploration.

All of these tasks, without exception, were entrusted to intelligent robots.

Humanity's primary occupation now was interstellar conquest.

The accumulation of technology had led to the development of controlled nuclear fusion and dimensional breakpoint ramjet technology.

Mecha, once only seen in cartoons and movies, had long since become standard military issue.

Three-meter-tall single-personnel Mecha, towering Titan Mecha dozens of meters high, humanoid combat Mecha, and insectoid transport Mecha had all become a common sight.

Through a combination of genetic and mecha technologies, humanity had built combat Mecha that perfectly integrated with the human body.

Once a human warrior donned this type of Mecha, they would instantly become like a Transformer—omnipotent, capable of conquering cities and seizing territories.

And once humanity successfully conquered a planet, an army of robots would be dispatched to begin terraforming and base construction.

Soon after, people would buy up these bases to build their own private "planetary" villas.

The entire Magellan Star System, spanning a radius of dozens of light-years, was under human control.

Zhao Rui's Divine Soul swept across the Ancestral Star. Any traces he had left in the past had long since vanished into the vast river of time.

He couldn't even sense the faintest trace of an aura related to his former self.

'Perhaps there is only one source imprint. When I was reborn on Blue Star, it must have meant my imprint on the Ancestral Star dissipated at that moment.'

Zhao Rui mused.

"Hey, you up ahead! Look out! Get out of the way!"

Just as Zhao Rui was lost in thought, an urgent electromagnetic signal transmitted from a distance.

In truth, Zhao Rui had already sensed their presence with his Divine Soul, but he hadn't paid it any mind.

He turned slightly. What had been dozens of kilometers away was now a red Mecha Warrior plummeting toward him, trailing black smoke.

The electromagnetic signal was coming from that very Mecha.

Seeing this, Zhao Rui rose slightly, ascending several dozen meters in an instant to make room for the falling Mecha.

"What the hell? You're actually a person!"

The Mecha drew closer, and another voice came over the signal.

However, the exclamation was immediately followed by the sound of the Mecha crashing into the sea.

Just seconds before the Mecha hit the water, a figure ejected from the cockpit.

A small personal thruster pack slowed the figure's descent, leaving them hovering in mid-air.

"Damn it! My brand-new Crimson Elite Mecha!"

The pilot was a slender young woman with two strangely styled pigtails.

Her face was covered by a mask-like device. Judging by its design, it was probably a Support system.

'Probably some kind of AI mask.'

Her real face was hidden.

"Hey, are you a superhuman? How are you just floating there on your own?"

the young woman asked, her voice a mix of curiosity and astonishment as she saw Zhao Rui suspended in the air unaided.