Clad in a fully oxygenated spacesuit, Lu Heng once again entered that highly civilized world.
Ground searches were too inefficient, and Lu Heng couldn't summon his beast companions. The situation with the mutated mice was still unclear, and he didn't want his contracted animals to be harmed.
Looking at the buildings in the sky, Lu Heng raised his hand, and a vine shot up, clinging to something above.
The vine then began to spread continuously upwards, and Lu Heng kept channeling energy within his body, allowing the vine to cover the structures above this space.
Since there was oxygen here, vines and other plants could survive. Moreover, looking at the external temperature displayed on his spacesuit, the temperature here was only a few degrees higher than in the apocalypse. The flora and fauna of Blue Star could adapt.
Anchoring the vine to the planet's soil, Lu Heng felt it extend downwards for a long time before finding attachable soil.
Then, he poured the ancient well water onto the vine. The vine instantly absorbed the water, and the roots underground searched for water sources, spreading outwards.
With a leap, Lu Heng, wearing his spacesuit, jumped onto the vine and quickly climbed upwards along its branches.
At this moment, a vaster world below immediately appeared in Lu Heng's sight.
Looking around, Lu Heng found a direction and controlled the vine to move rapidly towards it.
Just now, a flash of light had flickered there. Lu Heng wasn't sure if there were still living beings from this planet in that area, but he was certain that what he had just seen was a moving object.
As he got closer to that location, Lu Heng was about to descend to the ground for a closer look.
The vine he was clinging to was instantly severed by a beam of light, and he began to fall.
Lu Heng looked around and extended his hands towards the vicinity. A long branch immediately grew from the vine at his waist, shooting towards the spot Lu Heng had chosen.
His body, about to hit the ground, was caught by the vine and its downward trajectory was halted.
At this moment, Lu Heng was only about ten meters from the ground.
To be safe, Lu Heng controlled the vine to extend rapidly, and soon he safely landed on the ground and found a corner to hide in.
What had attacked him just now? But the attacker had only fired once, and it hadn't targeted his body, but rather the vine he was using to ascend.
Did that thing not want to harm him?
Could it be a creature from this planet?
Pulling off the severed vine from his body, Lu Heng looked at the burnt edges of the break. Had it been attacked by a laser or similar weapon?
However, moving in this spacesuit was too troublesome; it was easy to be exposed.
Since the other party had weapons, he should retreat into his space and see what had attacked him.
With a thought, Lu Heng entered his space.
However, he had enabled external detection, so he was now as if he were on-site, clearly seeing the surrounding situation.
The attacker was indeed patient. Lu Heng sat in his space for over an hour, drinking two pots of water, and there was still no sound from the other side.
Thinking of this, Lu Heng glanced at the severed vine he had discarded outside.
He returned again, controlled the vine to penetrate deep underground, and then rapidly spread it across the surrounding ground.
The vine kept patting the surrounding objects, making noise, while continuously shaking its branches.
The commotion created by the vine soon attracted the other party. A smart robot silently approached the vine.
If Lu Heng hadn't retreated into his space again, it would have been difficult to detect this robot.
Unlike the machine products from Blue Star, this robot made no sound as it moved.
Its exterior was covered in a layer of something like skin. Based on Lu Heng's current knowledge, he couldn't discern the specific material, but some areas seemed to be damaged, revealing some metallic skeletal structures that glinted coldly in the light.
These exposed metals were likely the reflections Lu Heng had seen flashing from above.
The robot approached the vine and, seeing the writhing vine on the ground, a beam of light instantly erupted from one of its eyes.
The beam swept across the vine, instantly scorching the still-dancing vine.
Seeing the vine no longer moving on the ground, the robot turned to leave.
However, just as it turned, several thick vines suddenly shot up from the ground, moving towards the robot and quickly covering and binding it.
The robot was knocked to the ground by the vines, with only its head exposed. It twisted its body frantically, trying to break free from the vines' restraint.
Lu Heng seized this opportunity, quickly appeared, and created a special metal hood on the robot's face.
He wasn't sure if this metal he had made could withstand the robot's laser.
But after covering the robot, Lu Heng began to control the vines to penetrate the robot's damaged skin, searching for its power lines.
Once the robot's energy supply was cut off, it would be essentially scrapped and no longer a threat.
Moreover, such advanced robots would surely have programs or stored data in their brains. Once deciphered, it would also help in researching the technology of this world.
However, as the vines explored inside the robot, they found nothing for a long time. Meanwhile, the metal covering the robot's face began to turn red, showing signs of being penetrated and melted.
Without further hesitation, Lu Heng took action himself. He held a sharp blade made of special metal.
He quickly peeled away the skin covering the robot's body.
This skin was not metallic; it felt very soft to the touch, and the sharp knife cut through it without resistance.
Based on the sci-fi movies Lu Heng had watched before, the energy source of robots was usually located in the chest cavity.
Soon, Lu Heng discovered a blue luminous object on the robot's front.
Perhaps it was because the robot was using energy to cut through obstacles on its head, but the light was very dazzling.
Lu Heng used his knife to explore the outer circumference of the luminous object and finally found a gap, into which he forcefully inserted the knife.
"Beep..."
Instantly, the robot, which had been struggling violently, stopped moving. Its stiff mechanical body remained motionless in the struggling posture.
The metal hood that Lu Heng had added to the robot's head, which was about to melt, gradually returned to its original metallic color.
Feeling the robot beneath him stop struggling, Lu Heng remained cautious. Who knew if the smart robots here had developed their own intelligence.
Therefore, the binding vines remained, and the mask on the robot's head was not removed.