When the explosion sounded and the hot breath came from behind, a scene flashed in Booker's mind for the first time.
A termite nest filled with molten aluminum.
Oops...
Hiding in a hive warehouse is a fatal tactical choice - the enemy is just waiting for them to do it.
Liao Qi's communication signal disappeared the moment the explosion occurred, and he didn't even have time to leave a last word.
However, even if he left his last words, it would be meaningless, because death would soon find him.
The shock wave, which was enough to shatter the internal organs of an ordinary person, was like a formless monster, pulling the fragments of countless buildings and attacking him. Those sharp fragments kept scratching Aegis's defense. For a moment, Booker felt as if he had become a medieval knight on the battlefield.
However, the defense capability of the Aegis module made of low-entropy alloy is enough to survive this stormy attack.
But for those storage room doors around Booker, there was no such luck.
Before Booker was engulfed by the blazing flames that followed the shock wave, the "hives" around him were opened one by one by the shock wave.
Antique paintings, post-modern artworks, banned weapons, second-hand prosthetics, brain parts soaked in jars...
Different "honeycombs" were opened, and the collections inside were swallowed up by the flames one after another.
The "hive" that had always been around Booker was opened, and his attention was instantly drawn to it...
The collection displayed in this storage room is something that every leader of Icarus has dreamed about over the years.
A black coffin that was so pure that even in the raging fire, it did not reflect any firelight...
"Universal printer..."
Booker murmured, his eyes moved up, and he saw the number of this "hive" clearly.
【J-0001】
Immediately, before the flames were about to completely engulf Booker, a pair of hands whose skin was burned into a charred shape stretched out from the mist that had filled the air at an unknown moment and pulled him in.
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Under the constraints of the base construction program, if the avatars in cyberspace want to move from one position to another, they must abide by the physical laws summarized by Newton and change their own motion state through "force".
However, using the Mark of the Dark Moon, Jiang Zhou can "cheat" by bypassing the physical laws of cyberspace just like those "Wizard" level hackers.
After all, the so-called location is nothing more than a set of coordinates.
Jiang Zhou saved himself and Booker from the hive warehouse that had turned into purgatory by changing the coordinates. Then, he allowed himself to set up the mantis knife at the critical moment to block the fatal blow for himself.
Looking at the blazing blade so close without blinking, Jiang Zhou sighed in his heart at Wutou-23's previous speech.
Destiny...
Not only him, but also Jiang Zhou sighed at this word.
A hundred years have passed and we have come to this strange and crazy era. Now, is my destiny not controlled by those existences that are difficult to recognize?
On weekdays, Jiang Zhou always tried his best to restrain himself from thinking about this topic.
But after listening to Wutou-23's speech, he couldn't help but ask himself - so many coincidences, so many dangers, so many times a blessing in disguise... The creature he once created, the one named "Yanu" Didn't the existence of "Si" really affect him secretly and let him experience everything before him?
It's not that Jiang Zhou hasn't thought deeply about the truth about the so-called "destiny".
It's just that he has always felt that without sufficient information, no matter how much he thinks about it, he is just compiling stories that can convince himself - which has no guiding significance for solving the current real problems.
Therefore, Jiang Zhou's final attitude is to never deliberately do anything or deliberately avoid anything in order to break the control of "fate".
Prophecies are mostly self-fulfilling.
The more you resist fate, the more it will find you.
Therefore, Jiang Zhou only plans to do what he thinks is right based on the information he currently knows.
And this is the true manifestation of having free will.
Therefore, he finally said those words to Wutou-23. But what he said made Wutou-23 and Booker stunned at the same time.
Wutou-23 was stunned, partly because of Jiang Zhou's attitude towards fate. It was a new perspective that he, and even their group of natural adjusters, had never considered. This can be done as part of the philosophical system of innately adjusting people, and be slowly embedded in it.
Of course, it must be admitted that the bigger reason why Wutou-23 was stunned was that he found that neither Liao Qi nor Booker was killed by him.
As for Booker's confusion, it was due to a misunderstanding - he thought Mr. Paradox's previous words were all addressed to him.
This really scared him.
What's the meaning? Or is the trial a two-way street?
I bet this is still a battle royale where each other needs to be eliminated. "Paradox" plans to decide the final winner like raising a poison?
No wonder the final test of this trial was not a malicious program, but the adjuster of another upgrade path, Cerberus.
In this case, don't say anything and just start the war.
After completing their psychological construction in a very short period of time, the second round of battle between them and the "cerberus" began again.
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At this distance, the heavy firepower will hurt yourself. So Wutou-23 waved the red-hot blade in his hand and charged forward.
On the other side, Liao Qi opened the mantis knife on his arm and faced him.
The two fought for more than ten rounds in the blink of an eye. The blades filled with murderous intent collided with each other, producing a series of metallic clangs.
If a native were here to watch the battle between the two of them, he would most likely only see splashing sparks extending outward, as well as the surrounding facilities being continuously destroyed.
As for the specific actions of those two people? For native people's dynamic vision, the most they can see is a series of afterimages.
However, compared to the Icarus Path, which is specialized in melee combat, the melee combat capabilities of the Aconitum-23 can only be described as mediocre. In the confrontation between the two sides, Jiang Zhou basically suppressed the opponent until he was breathless.
However, on the other hand, for a depth 4 strength adjuster, the damage of the "Sickle-footed" Mantis Knife is too low.
This low-entropy alloy weapon can cause no more damage to the opponent than a cat can cause to a human.
On several occasions, Liao Qi's blade clearly broke through Wutou-23's defense and hit the opponent's undoubted vital point... But the effect of each final slash was just to draw a line on the armor. It's just a white seal that was judged as "unsightly".
Jiang Zhou made up his mind that in the future he must always have a powerful enough armor-breaking weapon with him.
Of course, he was not helpless at this moment.
So, in another round of attack. Jiang Zhou, who was wielding the Mantis Knife, rotated the magnetic field force together, intending to act directly on the opponent's body and the plug-in equipment that could be affected.
But he never thought that as soon as he stepped forward to extend the magnetic field, the chaotic magnetic field "ball" on the opponent's body was protected by an invisible defense stance that gave people a cage-like feel.
【arrogant……】
Wutou-23 curled his lips in the communication channel, and then continued:
[Do you think, after I have suffered a loss, I will not prepare a magnetic field interference strategy?]
[If you want to kill me, please show more real skills]
There is another chapter tonight
(End of chapter)
