Gunshots rang out continuously. Lin Ye fired bullets filled with different substances at that structure. The filling substances didn't affect the building, but he discovered something during this process.

The power and speed of the bullets were almost identical, but the point where the bullets disintegrated was getting closer to the structure. This indicated that the structure's power, which caused the surrounding area to collapse, was weakening, and this was likely related to the spiritual energy materials being consumed by the production lines.

Lin Ye sped up the processing of spiritual energy materials. As the consumed spiritual energy materials increased, the structure's power that caused the surrounding collapse also gradually weakened.

The ruins creatures in the abandoned area had mostly been cleared. These ruins creatures dropped a large number of blueprints. Lin Ye studied the stable structures on the blueprints and developed more stable explosive creatures.

Moreover, as the spiritual energy materials decreased, the power of the abandoned area also weakened. Now, explosive creatures could survive in the abandoned area for a long time, with their attrition rate dropping sharply.

Using the corpses of those ruins creatures, Lin Ye produced a large number of explosive creatures. These explosive creatures spread across every corner of this area.

At the same time, Lin Ye manufactured many different versions of production lines. These production lines operated simultaneously and soon exhausted the accumulated spiritual energy materials.

Those plane powers provided a large number of spiritual energy crystals to keep the production lines running. Whatever Lin Ye needed, he could ask the plane representatives.

He only needed to provide some different types of decomposition products to satisfy the forces behind those plane representatives.

Those plane powers were very satisfied with the situation here and even prepared to offer them more support in different aspects.

When the spiritual energy materials in this area were cleared, that strange structure began to collapse, finally leaving only some special spiritual energy materials and a black box.

Inside the box was a pure black card. It looked like it might be related to the system.

This area was a regular square region. After the structure collapsed, a portal appeared in the center of each of the four sides of the square.

Some spiritual energy users entered those portals. Not long after, those spiritual energy users returned to this side, bringing back news from the other side.

The four portals each connected to a ruins space similar to this one. Over there, there were also portals leading to different planes and truck drivers. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Lin Ye wasn't surprised at all. He had long sensed that this place wouldn't have only this one area.

With his experience handling this area, Lin Ye could completely repeat this process. Moreover, he now had a large number of parasitic nodes and production lines spread throughout the entire space, plus the mental defense system, so he didn't need to worry about it later.

Little Guardian would help him complete those basic operations.

Furthermore, their processing speed would get faster and faster from now on, until the spiritual energy materials here were completely cleaned out.

And Lin Ye only needed to be responsible for manufacturing new production lines and researching various decomposition products.

Lin Ye dispatched drivers to recruit drivers from other areas. Protected by the Parasitism Network, as long as they didn't run off to other planes, they would be fine.

Drivers from other areas could also help him exchange for research materials from other planes. If the Master here still wanted to send people to attack them, then he could just find some more planes willing to cooperate.

Lin Ye left the matters of other areas to Little Guardian. A large number of spiritual energy users and parasitic creatures passed through the portals and entered other areas.

Not long after, new drivers arrived at this side to receive physical repairs from Lin Ye. They were all drivers who had completed their trading tasks.

Area clearing was going smoothly, but Lin Ye's research on spiritual energy materials hadn't made any progress. Those decomposition products had decent effects, but it was hard to achieve further results.

Research materials from other planes also couldn't provide him with much help. He had already moved ahead of those planes.

'This is probably my limit...'

Lin Ye had always believed that everyone had their own limits and was constrained by those limits: the limit of cognition, the limit of power, the limit of lifespan... So when he encountered a problem he couldn't solve temporarily, he would stop doing inefficient things and switch to a direction he was better at.

For example, researching new versions of explosive creatures filled with different products.

'And those stable structures on the blueprints might have some connection to spiritual energy materials.'

After changing his research direction, Lin Ye immediately thought of many new ideas. He was still better at handling these kinds of problems.

A large number of boxes and ruins creature corpses were transported to Lin Ye's side. He continuously updated the versions of explosive creatures, making these stable explosive creatures more and more dangerous.

Lin Ye incorporated different types of decomposition products into the explosive creatures. During this process, he gradually felt a sense of balance that existed between stability and collapse.

Just like these abandoned areas, between ruins creatures and spiritual energy materials, there also seemed to exist this sense of balance.

'So this place is used for researching collapse and stable structures?'

Lin Ye initially thought this place was a garbage dump for processing these polluting materials.

'Not necessarily. It's very possible this place is indeed used for processing polluting materials, but someone is conducting research here.'

The Parasitism Network was cleaning up this place. If there really was a Master here, they should have come out to talk to Lin Ye by now.

Unless they didn't care about this place at all, or they couldn't come here, or... they also hoped he would clean it up.

In less than an hour, the Parasitism Network had processed the surrounding four areas. At the borders of those four areas, only two portals appeared each, indicating that this place was likely structured like a nine-grid formation.

Of course, since they were relying on portals for movement, Lin Ye couldn't determine the exact structure here.

Little Guardian sent out a large number of parasitic creatures and spiritual energy users through the portals. Not long after, those teams converged at the connecting areas.

The Parasitism Network began to occupy the remaining four areas. When the clearing progress of the last four areas reached halfway, Lin Ye suddenly controlled the Parasitism Network to stop the clearing work.

A large number of truck drivers began to gather toward Lin Ye's area. They had been happily completing Lin Ye's commissions before and didn't understand why he wanted them to come over.

"Sir, is there anything you need us to do?"

Old Zhang walked up to Lin Ye and asked respectfully.

"No, not really. I just felt things were going too smoothly, so before clearing this place out, I called you to a safer spot."

Lin Ye didn't believe the Master here would let him take away things that belonged to them. After all, this was someone who wouldn't even let those truck drivers go—there was no way they would be so generous.

Moreover, they had allowed those plane powers to work for him until now without closing the portals, which showed they also hoped he would clean this place up as quickly as possible.

They weren't very smart, but Lin Ye was no fool.