A2 stared blankly at the system prompt—["Golden Toilet" has accepted the invitation].
Normally, those who had just been invited into this [Super-Dimensional Channel] would be panicking and extremely cautious.
This person hadn't even had time to understand anything yet, but accepted a stranger's invitation without any guard?
Weren't they afraid of trouble? Wasn't it dangerous?
What were they thinking?
What should she do now?
Now a new instruction popped up, explaining that she could have the other party appear directly beside her, or designate a position within a certain range for them to be teleported to.
What choice should she make? Of course, to specify where the other party would appear.
But she couldn't just designate anywhere. For instance, having them appear directly on the moon? That was impossible.
It had to be a specific location within her field of vision, set as the teleportation coordinates, allowing the other party to appear there.
What about after that?
Afterward, she could perform an operation to send the other party back.
What a troublesome function. Why couldn't she just directly abort the invitation from the beginning, instead of having the other party come and go?
Ugh, she needed to quickly set a location, as a new prompt appeared.
It indicated that if she didn't respond, the invited party would automatically be teleported to her side.
However, this world invitation would actually teleport a person into physical existence, which proved that this [Super-Dimensional Channel] she had joined wasn't just some delusion caused by a virus.
Because of this, A2 felt both anticipation and unease about this invitation.
So, where should she designate the teleportation?
That place would do—the ruins of the ancient city outside the forest, while she would hide in the forest and observe.
Immediately, A2 nimbly jumped from branch to branch of the large trees.
As the scenery on both sides rapidly receded and the leaves that blocked her vision gradually thinned, she could see a brighter, more open area.
With another leap, instead of landing on a branch, she lightly stepped on the main trunk, then climbed along it to a higher position until half her body extended above the treetop.
At this point, A2 gained a wider field of vision and could see the vast urban ruins.
She decided on that spot, a place that looked like a plaza with a relatively flat surface.
The operation was simple, like the visor she once wore, which could mark and lock onto a location in her field of vision through the system on the goggles.
However, the [Super-Dimensional Channel] system acted directly on her brain and worked through her vision, making it feel as if her eyes had the functions of a visor.
Confirmed!
And then—
"What!"
A2 couldn't help but cry out in shock.
Although she had heard from others in the channel about what materialization was like, witnessing it firsthand was still astonishing.
Inviting someone from another world to this side didn't involve a sudden light vortex appearing with the person walking out of it.
Nor was it a so-called spatial rift appearing with them emerging from it.
It wasn't even a beam of light suddenly descending from the sky to strike the plaza, with the person then appearing.
It was simply that with no warning whatsoever, at the moment of confirmation, the target appeared there.
The target wasn't human?
Standing about two meters tall, completely covered in steel armor that looked very cumbersome, like an iron man.
The armor also gave off an impression of being rusty, but looking closely, one would find that the rust-like substance resembled blood that had stained it.
The armor's surface also had obvious scars, some looking like they were inflicted by blades, others like bullet impacts, and so on—it was covered in wounds.
Honestly, if she hadn't seen the other party appear out of thin air, at the exact position she had designated, as the guest she had invited...
A2 would probably have identified them as an ancient robot.
Hmm, perhaps they were also a mechanical lifeform.
Why didn't she consider it to be something like ancient, purely metallic armor?
Because A2 could sense unknown electromagnetic waves emanating from the armor.
If there was a person inside the armor, then it was probably power armor, though it looked like the technology would be quite outdated.
Additionally, this armor was of course equipped with weapons.
On its back was a weapon resembling a chainsword, and it also carried what looked like a rifle. In its hand, it held what appeared to be a shorter, crude-looking pistol?
This "Golden Toilet" was momentarily flustered by suddenly appearing in a different environment, but immediately became alert, looking around.
Suddenly, an orange light flashed from one direction, causing A2's expression to change.
Before she could react, the iron figure in her vision was engulfed by the flames of an explosion.
The shockwave from the blast threw debris in all directions and spread a large cloud of dust.
A2 was well aware of this type of attack—it was clearly artillery fire from a machine lifeform.
This was terrible. She hadn't expected there would still be machine lifeforms in this city.
The other party, having been hit, was probably torn to pieces by this attack.
Perhaps the metal armor's protection prevented them from being completely blown apart, but the explosion's fragments likely riddled the armor with holes.
The close-range shockwave probably also twisted and deformed the armor like a crushed empty can.
For a moment, a sense of guilt arose in A2's heart.
It was her carelessness that had led to the other party's death.
Wait, it seemed they weren't dead. She saw them charge out from the dust cloud that hadn't yet dissipated after the explosion.
Their armor, though showing many new scars, hadn't been breached.
It looked like they hadn't been hit directly, just caught by shrapnel from the explosion.
But even at such close range, the armor hadn't been torn apart, showing how extraordinarily sturdy it was.
And despite the heavy armor, the figure moved with surprising speed—appearances could be deceiving.
Suddenly, the figure stopped in their tracks and sharply aimed the crude pistol at something in the air.
With a flash of orange light, a bullet trailing a red-hot wake, like a laser, struck a flying machine lifeform.
With a tremendous boom, a flying machine lifeform the size of a battle tank was shot down as if hit by a shell.
However, the machine lifeforms weren't just one. By A2's current estimation, there were about fifty of various sizes closing in.
Should she continue to observe? Go help? Send them back?
However, she felt her concern for the other party was somewhat unnecessary.
Despite wearing armor that looked so cumbersome and should have been inflexible, with seemingly backward technology, they demonstrated agility that defied their appearance.
The attacking machine lifeforms all turned into scrap metal under those strange explosive bullets and laser blasts.
It could be said that apart from the initial unexpected artillery shell that had affected them, they had hardly been hit once by the machine lifeforms afterward.
The other party was extremely powerful, slaughtering the machines in what seemed like an overwhelming fashion.