When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.-Chapter 318 - 223 All Mechanized, Memoirs_2

After all, Chen Qing came to investigate the virus on this island, not to exterminate everything on it.

Of course, investigating the virus wasn’t for some phony reason like saving the world—Chen Qing was simply satisfying her own curiosity.

Although the reason Chen Qing initially took up the profession of Mechanic was out of convenience, over time, she had genuinely grown to like it.

In the field of the Mechanic profession, she benefited from the right timing, location, and people—Chen Qing had it all.

She really had encountered the best era for Mechanics.

Perhaps the next professional wave in the Deep Blue Sea would be that of Mechanics.

The world is a giant cycle, going round and round, and always comes back to where it started.

The Ancestor Relics should represent the most dazzling and prosperous time of Mechanical Civilization.

Now, with the emergence of these relics, could it be signaling the return of the era of mechanics?

Chen Qing crouched down and plucked a Cannibal Flower with its gaping maw—her previous guess was correct.

All the Mechanical Creatures on the island were infected with the same Mechanical Virus as An’an.

The island itself was a Mechanical Graveyard, piled high with vast numbers of failed and discarded machines.

With the virus appearing, coupled with the sheer volume of machinery on the island, the speed of the virus’s spread and expansion was simply astonishing, and the entire island had fallen.

The Cannibal Flower that Chen Qing had picked was likely newly sprouted and not yet fully mechanized.

Thus, a very magical sight appeared.

The plant’s thick stems were half machine, half dripping with lush green sap.

Inside Chen Qing’s space, there were many haphazardly arranged Magic Tools, some acquired from survivors and trade associations, others she had opened from supply boxes.

She took out a Time Glass Bottle from her space, a magical tool that could freeze any object’s time at the moment it was placed inside.

Chen Qing had bought it for eight thousand goldfish.

The reason it was so cheap was because it could only contain mechanics, and it was only Grade C.

The Cannibal Flower just happened to be right at that boundary.

Chen Qing didn’t understand why a Magician would create a tool meant for Mechanics.

The survivor who found the tool had approached Chen Qing first thing.

If you were to talk about the most famous Mechanic among the survivors, it was none other than Chen Qing.

When it came to odd tools like this, as long as the price was right, Chen Qing hardly ever refused.

Gathering them, you never know when you might complete the progress bar for another catalog. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Even when she was broke, she still had to budget for this.

Mechanical Heart was a very thrifty machine, and also very well-suited for the profession of a merchant.

The useless junk in Chen Qing’s storeroom had all been tidied up and sold off by her.

And indeed, she had made a nice sum of money from it.

When Chen Qing was not at home, the machines there didn’t idle about—the Sailor Rabbit and Mini Rabbit squads took their battle squadrons all over various locations in the Treasure Sea to peddle their wares.

They sold not only arms and mechanics, but also medical supplies, food, games, and many other kinds of resources.

Some were essential for their survival, others for their enjoyment and leisure.

As far as the survivors were concerned, Chen Qing and Mechanical Heart had the same stance—eliminate them all!

And they wouldn’t spare the natives either!

After placing the half-mechanical Cannibal Flower into the Time Magic Bottle, Chen Qing continued toward the interior of the island.

So far, she hadn’t encountered any people from the blue camp.

She didn’t know whether they were hiding or had died.

Chen Qing was more inclined to believe the latter—the mechanics on this island were not easy to deal with.

They were highly aggressive, and moreover, they were even less afraid of death than humans.

Chen Qing had been on the island for over an hour now, and she had killed at least ten thousand Mechanical Creatures.

Every mechanic she encountered demonstrated incredible aggressiveness without exception.

This island had been here not just one or two days, and the experiments on the island were not accomplished overnight.

There had never been any trouble before, but right when Qing Xian and her group arrived, so many issues were discovered.

That suggested that something might have gone wrong with the island.

Just as the incident occurred, they ran into it.

Initially, only two or three people were watching over the island, but then people from the Beixing Family showed up.

The initial guards were from combat professions; the Beixing Family belonged to the Mechanical Family.

If the mechanics on the island hadn’t encountered issues, how could they afford to send people here during such a crucial time as the Deep Blue war, when the Beixing Family itself was deeply mired in the conflict?