118: Chapter 118 Devouring the Ruins of City-States! Truth Points Exceed 20,000, So Satisfying!

The Polaris drove from the position of the iron wall toward the Black Rock City-State at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour.

Two kilometers of distance, two minutes.

The collapsed frontal ruins of the Black Rock City-State presented a raw sense of metal fracture under the searchlights.

Steel fragments were piled up to fifteen meters high on the ice, with broken armor plates layered haphazardly and twisted I-beam support beams protruding from the pile of debris.

The fire in the storage area had already been extinguished.

The City-State's internal firefighting team had spent forty minutes suppressing the last open flame.

Now, only residual white smoke rose silently from the gaps in the ruins.

Lin Xiao stood on the side exit platform of the fourth level, his military uniform covered in dust, and a cut on his forehead had already scabbed over.

He watched as the Polaris stopped fifty meters in front of the ruins.

The Mechanical Arm extended, a blue light illuminated, and the first fragment was devoured.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 234 Truth Points."

The second piece.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 187 Truth Points."

The third piece.

The fourth piece.

The frequency of the blue light continuously accelerated.

Lu Chen operated with his left and right arms alternately.

One of the hydraulic lines on his left arm's number two joint had broken, leaving only sixty percent of its output, but grabbing and transporting did not require full force to operate normally.

The right arm was responsible for scanning and selecting high-value debris, while the left arm was responsible for transporting and rough sorting, an assembly line operation.

Each cluster of blue light was accompanied by a number, and the numbers continued to jump on the panel.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 312 Truth Points."

That was a complete outer armor plate of the city wall, forged alloy, a high-grade material, with a yield more than thirty percent higher than other debris.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 456 Truth Points."

That was a main rib that hadn't completely broken.

The main rib was the core load-bearing structure of the city wall, made of pre-civilization alloy material, with extremely high density and rich value.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 523 Truth Points."

That was a piece of chassis armor from the ground of the Docking Area.

The chassis armor was the thickest part of The City-State, utilizing extremely luxurious materials, and the degradation yield directly broke five hundred.

Zhou Yuan stood beside Lin Xiao, staring at the pile of ruins in front of the Polaris; every time the blue light lit up, the pile of ruins shrank a bit.

"City Lord." Zhou Yuan lowered his voice.

"Just watch." Lin Xiao's reply was without ripples.

"He is eating our city, he is turning our city into his power, and then he will turn that power into our new home."

Lin Xiao watched those blue lights; the moment each cluster of blue light devoured a fragment, he could clearly see the details on that fragment.

The welding line on the armor plate was the craftsmanship of the number three welder, Old Chen, who was fifty-seven years old this year and had been welding for thirty years.

The number on the rib was clearly visible.

That was the seventeenth main load-bearing rib of the fourth level; he had personally inspected that weld in the first year he became City Lord.

That piece of chassis armor had casting marks, which were the serial numbers of a pre-civilization military factory and craftsmanship from over a hundred years ago.

It all turned into blue light, it all turned into Truth Points, and it all flowed into that battle vehicle, which was over twenty meters long.

Five minutes, the debris pile lowered by two meters.

Ten minutes, the debris pile lowered by five meters.

Lu Chen's operational efficiency continuously climbed as he figured out the structural layers of the debris pile.

The outermost layer consisted of scattered fragments that had flown out from the explosion; they were small in volume and large in quantity, with a relatively low value per piece.

The middle layer consisted of armor plates and ribs that had fallen off in whole pieces after the city wall collapsed; their volume doubled and their value was higher.

The innermost layer was the chassis and floor structure, which had the highest density and greatest value.

This City Lord decisively adjusted his strategy, no longer clearing the outer fragments piece by piece, and instead extended his right arm directly into the interior of the debris pile to grab large, high-value wreckage.

The outer fragments naturally slid down after the large pieces of wreckage were pulled out, and then the left arm quickly swept them away, doubling the efficiency instantly.

"Degradation complete. Obtained 678 Truth Points."

A complete second-layer reinforcement structure of the city wall, multi-layer composite armor plates, extremely high welding level, all pre-civilization craftsmanship, with a yield approaching seven hundred.

The numbers on the panel continued to scroll.

The balance was eight thousand one hundred ninety-six, nine thousand forty-two, nine thousand eight hundred seventy-seven, ten thousand three hundred forty-one; it had broken ten thousand.

"City Lord!" Lin Wan's voice came from the planting area, "It's over ten thousand!"

Lu Chen did not stop the movements of his hands.

"I see it."

The Mechanical Arm continued to operate.

Eleven thousand, twelve thousand, thirteen thousand, fourteen thousand.

Two-thirds of the debris pile was cleared within twenty minutes.

The remaining one-third was near the intact areas above the fourth level, and Lu Chen kept his promise and did not touch a single bit of it.

"Degradation of the collapsed area of the Black Rock City-State is complete. Cumulative degradation income: 12,337 Truth Points. Current balance: 19,855 points."

Nineteen thousand eight hundred fifty-five points, approaching twenty thousand.

Lu Chen stared at the number on the panel, nineteen thousand eight hundred fifty-five.

He quickly calculated the figures.

The Power Engine top core required four thousand points, Ecological Logistics node two was one thousand points for the first tier, Ecological Logistics node three required two thousand points, and the Ecological Logistics top core required four thousand points, totaling eleven thousand points.

The current balance was nineteen thousand eight hundred fifty-five points; after unlocking everything, eight thousand eight hundred fifty-five points would remain, which was enough, more than enough.

"City Lord Lin Xiao." Lu Chen spoke into the communicator.

"I am here."

"Degradation complete."

"How much?" Lin Xiao quickly retorted.

"Twelve thousand three hundred thirty-seven points."

The sound of Lin Xiao exhaling heavily came from the other end of the communicator.

"Twelve thousand, plus the two thousand four from the iron wall, and your previous inventory, it's approaching twenty thousand."

"Yes, twenty thousand."

"Is it enough to upgrade?"

"Enough to max out all the nodes, and then trigger the rank up."

The communicator fell into a brief silence.

A few seconds later, Lin Xiao's voice sounded again, revealing endless hope and determination.

"Then do it, our thirty thousand people are watching you."