Suddenly hearing the names of "Paradox" and "Liao Qi" and their purpose, Christie was stunned for a moment.
Turn off "Styx Firewall"? How can this be?
No... if it were a lunatic like the "Fire Thief" who hoped to open up the abyss dark web and the basic reality, he might indeed want to do this. But even if it is possible, why is it related to that kid Liao Qi?
And taking advantage of her daze, No. 1 made a move.
He quickly raised the hand cannon used to activate the "Gorgon" and directly pulled the trigger. High-energy particles agitated in the cannon body, and the strong magnetic field compressed the huge energy constraints into explosive energy beams.
However, seizing this precious opportunity, No. 1 did not aim at the observation instrument not far away that posed a fatal threat to itself. Instead, it fired at Christie's body floating in the sky a few kilometers away.
A strategy of perish together? But I am still in the state of probabilistic cloud defense system...
Within a thousandth of a second, looking at the illuminated muzzle in the transmitted image, Christie's mind turned around and activated "strong observer vision" at the same time.
The precise observation of every microscopic particle caused the chemical bonds throughout the opponent's body to collapse. Number 1 turned into a diffuse mist in an instant. But at the same time, the blue blast energy pulse that had been emitted also hit Christie directly... No, it should be said that it hit the position behind Christie.
But in fact, the beam of light passed through Christie like a ghost, passed through her and hit a house behind her. Immediately, as if napalm had been stored in the building, those several floors of residential buildings were suddenly blown into a sea of flames.
The glass of the entire building was shattered by the shock wave of the explosion, and countless fragments reflected the firelight of the explosion and fell like hail. This caused the crowd downstairs to protect their heads and avoid it - a few unlucky ones were even stabbed to death on the spot by broken glass that fell through their bodies.
This blow caused at least hundreds of casualties, but Christie, who was the target of the blow, was unscathed - at this moment, she briefly entered the quantum state, which made this energy level attack like a breeze to herself. It's generally ineffective.
Of course, avoiding damage like this consumes extremely huge amounts of energy. Christie, who was in the quantum state, couldn't help but "feel" the emptiness of the power furnace. So, after confirming that the opponent had no room to continue firing, she immediately lifted the probability cloud defense. And at the same time, the antimatter specifications were recalculated, intending to use it to replenish the fuel in the power furnace.
But then, she discovered that she had been deceived.
The mist No. 1 had previously broken down into under her own observation, after she released the strong observer's vision, about half of the matter did not re-polymerize and undergo chemical reactions, but was directly annihilated and disappeared...
It's as if that part of matter never existed.
That is not the opponent's body, but a mass projection!
Boson oscillator - the core adjustment and transformation of Perseus Path Depth 7, which is used to achieve ultra-long-range interference by creating imaginary masses.
Although manufacturing quality projection consumes a lot of energy, has a short duration, and cannot be projected together with many advanced prosthetics. But Perseus' adjusters can implement multi-threaded combat by arranging the "Aegis Combat Module" in advance.
I should have thought that after so many years, the other party should have been upgraded to depth 7!
Sensing something strange, Christie ignored the energy of the power furnace which was about to bottom out and re-entered the probability cloud state. At the same time, her eyes suddenly lit up - No. 1, wrapped in bronze armor, released the "Hyena Armor" invisibility and rushed in front of her. And on his wrist, there was a blade shining with a faint purple light.
It turns out that the opponent's body has long been ambushing nearby!
Obviously he was in a state of quantum cloud defense, but the moment he saw the other party, Christie still instinctively felt extreme danger.
She suddenly stepped back to dodge, and raised her "front paws" to block it, and then...
The blade in No. 1's hand fell cleanly, and the blade passed through Christie's "front paws" as easily as it penetrated the mist - the blade did not even leave a scratch on the surface of the armor after it fell.
Although there were no traces on the surface, Christie could clearly feel that all the circuits inside his "front paw" had been severed. It can be said that this hand was completely scrapped before it was repaired.
Phase Sword: Scythe of Immortality - named after Perseus in mythology, who cut off Medusa's neck and used it to break the Gorgon's immortality. This mythical weapon, after being brought back to reality by the technology of the Abyss Dark Web, became a sharp blade that could bypass defenses and attack internally through space phase cutting.
The "pain" signal burned into Christie's logical core, and eventually turned into a fierce desire to attack. She opened her steel jaw made of low-entropy alloy, and huge energy gathered in her "mouth".
The subatomic fuel deep in the throat was instantly activated, and a hot melt breath as thick as a bucket was spat directly towards the opponent, but the opponent only had time to use the Aegis Combat Module to generate a large prismatic shield in front of him.
The red to almost white hot melt flood instantly engulfed No. 1. The surface of the Aegis shield was continuously damaged, but more spare materials began to be filled and repaired.
The molten breath that seemed to never stop suppressed No. 1 and crashed to the ground, but at the same time its blazing heat also ignited half of the street. In an instant, it turned into a literal purgatory on earth.
The trees planted on both sides of the road turned to ashes in an instant, the metal fence next to the green belt melted like chocolate, and the cars on the roadside exploded one after another under the terrifying heat. As for the pedestrians on the road... even if they were not directly hit, the hair and fat of innocent pedestrians on the street who were slightly closer to the hot melt beam were ignited.
Those who were on fire kept rolling on the ground, screaming and struggling amidst the "cracking" sound of their skin and fat burning.
Seeing this tragic situation, Christie suddenly stopped breathing. Taking this opportunity, No. 1, whose armor had not been completely destroyed, immediately activated the vector injector to distance himself, and released several lead-containing smoke bombs as cover along the way.
Two adjusters with a depth of 7 can directly fight for only a few seconds. And just the aftermath of their escape had destroyed almost an entire block, causing hundreds or even thousands of casualties.
The city has never been a battlefield suitable for high-depth adjusters. If they continue to let go and continue fighting, when the winner is decided, it is estimated that this entire level will be reduced to ruins.
[Now that you have chosen to use this place as the "cocoon" for upgrading, are you sure you want to continue fighting?]
After reaching a distance that ensured that the other party's "strong observer vision" would not be caught, No. 1 asked.
At this moment, his whole body was burned like a melted wax figure, and dead machinery was constantly falling off.
[I was not the one who started the trouble in the first place]
Christie replied, and then she continued:
[Also, regarding Liao Qi, I need you to explain clearly why he is related to the Styx Firewall]
In response, No. 1 smiled and said:
[Nothing...it’s just that we suspect that he, or the "paradox" that controls him, is one of the last wishes left by those super artificial intelligences back then]
【Last wish? what is that? 】
Christie was a little confused.
[You have indeed fallen behind the times... Were you sleeping all these years wandering around the abyss and dark web? 】
Seeing that the other party didn't even know what his "last wish" was, No. 1 couldn't help but say this.
Yes, I'm really sorry that I slept like this for decades...
Christie thought to herself, and then said with some sullenness:
[If you don’t want to say it, don’t say it. Anyway, after I pull out the core of your logic, I will know everything after scanning it]
Regarding this threat, No. 1 said indifferently:
[If you can do it... So do you want to continue? 】
There was a hint of "stay with me until the end" in his words.
Christie glanced at the mess on the ground, and then said:
[It will not be good for us to cause more casualties... We have deployed a temporary deep-diving interface nearby. How about moving the battle online? 】
【That's just what I want】
Number One replied.
After hearing the affirmative answer, Christie opened the verification of the deep dive interface to No. 1, and the two used the brain-computer interface to connect to the "server" leading to the abyssal dark web.
"So……"
After connecting to the server, the two people who were several miles apart issued instructions almost at the same time.
【Domain Construction】
In an instant, the two people's real-life visual signals were cut off. In the thick darkness, dark green grid lines suddenly lighted up and extended to infinite distance.
Then, relying on the extended grid lines, the entire cyberspace began to be rebuilt.
That is their own basic construction.
The sky was a mixture of jet black and blood red. Christie stood on a small boat, and the Styx River rose under her feet. The bodies of countless dead people were shaped by the water of the Styx, and they struggled as if they were planning to drag people into the water.
On the other side of the space, there is a stone forest composed of countless lifelike heroic statues. Number 1 is riding on a Pegasus that exudes soft light. He is holding the reins in one hand and holding a sharp sickle tightly in the other. . And in the sky, the shadow of a huge Gorgon head was slowly taking shape.
The two worlds were built almost instantly, and then collided between them, eroding each other's space.
In the image constructed by both parties, the water of the Styx washed and corroded the stone forest, and countless resentful souls were petrified into new statues.
"So……"
Number 1 looked at the other person and said.
"second round."
Christie responded.
…………
At this moment, Liao Qi, who was regarded as the key to closing the "Styx Firewall", was making final preparations near the geothermal power station.
In less than a minute, the geothermal power station will be completed. But it happened that at this time, bad news from the intelligence team came one after another.
The Wolfsbane troops have passed the checkpoint on the negative level. An Adjuster troop carrying heavy firepower has entered their sphere of influence and is rushing towards the geothermal power station non-stop.
It may be that the appearance of the Wolfsbane troops allowed the resettlement area government to see the determination and courage of Pluto Deep Diving Company. The task force stationed on the first floor immediately received the order from the "tenth floor" and went down to the underground of the resettlement area. Apparently, they planned to carry out a special security operation to exterminate the members of Icarus.
Although compared to Pluto's deep-diving Wolfsbane troops, the combat effectiveness of this task force can be said to be negligible. But their goal is not to fight the Icarus elite here at the geothermal power station, but the other Icarus members who are now hiding - for those comrades who are still natives, this task force is simply It is the irresistible god of death.
[How could there be such a complete plan so soon? Those bastards must have made plans in advance]
Booker cursed a little uncontrollably in the encrypted channel.
The previous attitude of the resettlement area government was ambiguous. Booker originally only expected them to remain neutral, but he did not expect that they would defect so quickly and completely.
[Fortunately, we have arranged for the members of the organization to hide separately, which can delay a lot of time]
Liao Qi said comfortingly.
【hope so……】
Booker sighed.
But both of them knew that this was probably not the case.
The resettlement area government's understanding of the underground in the resettlement area and the Icarus Liberation Front is much better than that of the company. The hiding methods of those comrades in the organization were planned for the company. If it were the troops facing the resettlement area government, God knows how long those methods would last... Maybe the big benefactor behind the shelter some of them found was A member of the resettlement area government.
Hold on, keep on living...
Liao Qi thought anxiously.
In addition, there is a latest piece of news from the intelligence team, which is particularly disturbing.
Not long ago, a series of strange explosions occurred on the seventh floor, not far from the drone intelligent control center. It has caused a large number of resident casualties and several buildings have been destroyed.
Regarding this, Booker and Liao Qi could even clearly hear the explosions coming from the distance.
The last photos of the scene sent from the intelligence team reminded Liao Qi of the scene when he faced Wutou-23 in the Abyss Dark Network - the building was hit by a melt weapon and melted like a candle. But if you only look at the photos, the bombardment on the seventh floor of the resettlement area is now many times more serious than before.
Are there any other masters who have started filming in this area in advance?
If so, do they have any connection with these current events?
Liao Qi didn't know, and at the same time, he couldn't ask the intelligence team for details - after the photos of being bombarded by melta weapons were sent, the signal from the intelligence team was cut off for some unknown reason.
There is no way, now he can only focus on matters related to the geothermal power station.
With the completion of the last piece of the device that looks like a tumor wrapped in fungus, the geothermal power station is complete. The countless black blocks that made up the multi-purpose printer were reconstructed at the entrance of the power station, and soon they appeared in the form of a black cube.
[Booker, the power station has been completed]
Liao Qi shouted excitedly in the channel. While shouting, he connected the data cable on his brain-computer interface.
【Then let's...】
Upon seeing this, Booker planned to follow the previous plan and immediately place an anti-matter bomb in the core of the power station after completion, and then issue a deterrent broadcast on the public channel to end it all.
However, in the next moment...
Without warning, he and Liao Qi appeared in the broken city at the same time.
Just like in the past, Mr. Paradox was now standing on a balcony, looking down at them.
"This is no longer a trial, but requires you to do something for me."
Before the two of them could speak, He said this.
(End of chapter)
