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Chapter 400: Mechanical Swarm! Cybernetic Intelligences

Bound arms instantly shot out two orange energy blades.

Squelch, squelch.

The flesh and blood serpents coiled around him were instantly sliced into dozens of pieces by his blades as if cutting melons and vegetables. He swiftly raised his head, his plasma sword retracting instantly. With a series of clattering sounds, rows upon rows of 50mm caliber barrels extended from his arms.

"Targets locked—quantity: 17—High-explosive incendiary rounds loaded—"

"Exterminate—"

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

Spinning incendiary shells blasted out from the barrels, instantly turning the area where the tentacles and flesh humanoids were into a sea of fire.

"Ammunition loading—preparing second round of suppression—reloading stand by…"

"Warning—"

His helmet screen instantly flashed with red light. He jerked his head around, but it was already too late.The ground suddenly burst open. A massive ring-shaped beast opened its bloody maw wide and, with a howl, chomped down on his upper body. With a whoosh, it dragged him underground.

"Encountered aberrant stitched beast—Unit sustained major physical impact—Unit integrity compromised 64%—Survival probability 13%—Initiating energy overload—Forced consciousness upload—"

Hum—

A massive energy surge erupted from underground. The ground instantly exploded into a crater dozens of meters in diameter. Large amounts of flesh tissue oozing green blood, shattered mechanical structures, and massive amounts of earth and rock were blasted high into the air.

The mechanical units suffered their first casualty.

But this ambush battle continued.

"Attack! Don't let them deploy the beacon!"

Accompanied by a ferocious roar, a flesh humanoid stomped on the ground and leaped into the air. With a long howl, its body suddenly expanded and transformed into a faceless giant several meters tall.

A massive iron fist smashed heavily onto the energy shield of a mechanical spider, instantly cracking it with a web of fractures.

Boom!

Under a storm-like barrage of heavy blows, the mechanical spider's shield shattered with a deafening explosion.

"Initiating preliminary energy overload—Melee Mode—Exterminate—"

The mechanical spider suddenly raised its head. Its single-eye screen flashed with piercing red lights, ding-ding-ding. Its speed was immediately accelerated to a point where afterimages almost appeared.

Its sharp metal limbs scraped against the giant's hardened skin, producing intense sparks.

"Target flesh durability analysis—Unable to penetrate defense—Converting attack mode—"

In an instant, as the giant roared and threw a punch at it, the spider almost turned into a blur, abruptly dodging the blow. Its sharp limbs suddenly spread open, and its form materialized right in front of the giant's face.

Click, clack.

Its body landed squarely on the giant's face.

Its limbs suddenly tightened, locking onto the back of the giant's head.

"Exterminate—"

Its screen flashed with a crimson glow.

Boom!

A close-range, devastating blast. The giant's head was instantly vaporized into wisps of white smoke.

Yet, even headless, the body remained capable of movement. The giant hand, after the head's destruction, seized the opportunity and suddenly grabbed the mechanical spider's chassis.

Then, a terrifying scene unfolded.

Pores all over the headless body suddenly opened, writhing out countless hair-like nematodes that swarmed and burrowed into the mechanical spider's interior.

"Warning—Detected anomalous curse intrusion—Immediately initiate energy overload—Immediately—"

Squelch, squelch—

The mechanical synthesized voice froze. Countless viscous lumps of flesh and blood squeezed out from the mechanical spider's body. A massive overflow of flesh cysts and bloody fluid instantly rendered it inoperative.

Under the fearless, all-out assault from the Flesh and Blood Cult from all directions, the mechanical squad continued to suffer losses.

"Send in the aberrant beasts! Destroy their beacon!"

Following the long howl of a flesh humanoid, one roaring, massive beast after another burst from the ground. Withstanding the barrage from the opposing mechanical units, they rumbled toward the mechanical spider that had already landed and was converting the beacon.

Several beasts tried to launch a surprise attack directly from beneath the beacon's pedestal but were immediately thwarted by the deployed shield.

"Beacon emitter emergency deployment—Current adaptive progress 78%... 82%..."

"Required time: 15 seconds—Requires reduced interference intensity—Machinery Supreme, consciousness eternal. Please return, comrades."

The beacon-mech suddenly turned its head. Waves of red light rippled out from its screen.

The remaining few mechanical units stood firm. Their mechanical bodies emitted the same icy, synthesized voice.

"Machinery Supreme, praise the God of All Machines."

In that instant.

Those few mechanical units abandoned all weaponry, initiated energy overload, and charged toward the surrounding beasts and the distant Screamers.

Under the extreme speed of energy overload, those few mechanical spiders accelerated to their limits.

Almost in the blink of an eye, one mechanical spider charged into the herd of beasts and triggered a large-scale energy overload.

Hum—

All flesh-and-blood creatures within several dozen meters were instantly pulverized in the energy surge.

"Scatter! Destroy that beacon now!"

A flesh humanoid roared.

But with the speed boost, the remaining three mechanical units also abruptly scattered, charging into the enemy ranks. Two self-destructed, shattering their formation, while the last one charged straight toward the distant, wildly howling Screamers.

"Flesh decays, Machinery Supreme."

Boom!

Accompanied by a blinding flash, several Screamers were directly reduced to dust in the explosion.

"Information jamming energy level reduced—Adaptive process accelerated—Current adaptation reached 100%"

"Beacon construction complete—Synchronization process complete—Information synchronized with Hive Main Leader—"

"Coordinates established—Spatial node established—Request received—Bombing command issued—Space fold-jump initiated—"

Hum—

At that very moment, right under Lynn's astonished gaze, a pale blue laser pierced through the black fog, shooting straight into the high sky.

On the street, the flesh humanoids roared, turning around in furious rage, but immediately and frantically began breaking through the ground, diving madly underground.

White Night also immediately reached out, grabbing Lynn's wrist. Both his and Lynn's bodies immediately turned ethereal.

He said gravely,

"Experience this, Lynn. After this experience, you'll know what to do when you encounter soldiers of the Mechanical Cult in the future."

But Lynn didn't hear his words at all.

Because his gaze was completely captivated by the scene in the sky.

Around the laser beam stabbing into the sky, light points suddenly lit up one after another. Blue outlines appeared one by one. Under his shocked gaze, countless pale warships emerged from those outlines.

Countless pale aircraft streaked across the high sky like meteors.

Then came dense, almost uncountable black warheads, pouring down in a torrent.

The next moment.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

With the landing of countless warheads, mushroom clouds rose rumblingly one after another. Blazing flames and vibrations that almost shattered eardrums instantly turned the entire street into a hellish sea of fire.

Lynn watched in shock.

The aircraft in the sky continued to fly past in orderly formations. The dense bombardment plowed the ground over and over again.

That was a mechanical cluster! That was a swarm of mechanical bombers!

The ground was plowed for a full several minutes.

The surrounding temperature had already reached thousands of degrees.

Then Lynn immediately saw, beneath the billowing sea of fire, dense mechanical pods crashing down from the void like meteors onto the burning ground.

And right there in the raging flames, densely packed humanoid machines stood up from the shattered pods and flames. Their streamlined bodies and red-glowing eyes flickered madly amidst the fire.

Ten! A hundred! A thousand!

That was an entire army completely composed of mechanical units!

Lynn's breathing grew rapid.

And at this moment, he finally realized why the Mechanical Cult was rumored to be so terrifying.

Steel torrents, mechanical clusters, integrated ground and air forces, extremely orderly command and control, unimaginable unity!

How do you fight that?!

Without a Root-level being holding the fort, what could the Flesh and Blood Cult use to fight against such a force?!

Mechanical pods were still being deployed, the bombardment continued.

In front of the beacon shooting into the sky, thousands of mechanical armed units were already assembled and lined up in formation.

And in the very next moment.

Amidst the billowing flames, at the forefront of the mechanical cluster formed by those thousands of armed units, Lynn saw a mechanical girl slowly standing up from a shattered mechanical pod.

She seemed to be the leader of this projection cluster.

Her entire body was covered in mechanical structures. Data streams flowed in her eyes. Her arms were equipped with one red and one white monomolecular blade. Delicate red mechanical light patterns flowed on her cheeks, forming a stark contrast with her pale mechanical body.

Her gaze mechanically looked toward the end of the street.

As if meeting his gaze.

Lynn's pupils contracted. Her status panel instantly appeared before his eyes.

[Cyber-Intelligence Machine 'Silver Fantasy' a01 Prototype]

[Level]: ???

[Race]: Cyber-Intelligence Machine/Supreme Unit (Primary)

[Alignment]: Extreme Lawful

[Resident]:

[Combat Ability]: Believe me, you don't want to be targeted.

[Introduction]: Forged by combining the intelligence machine technology of the Mechanical Cult with Colossus technology, using rare dead star crystals, the "Silver Fantasy" series prototype mechanical body. Theoretically possesses strength comparable to a Root. However, due to the absence of some key technologies and severe restrictions on consciousness inhabitation, mass production failed. Currently, the a01 prototype mechanical body has completed owner recognition. Under comprehensive restrictions, it is undergoing experimentation and optimization in major wars.

Ps: Ahem, just a casual introduction... wasn't really thinking about pursuing her...