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Chapter 441: Crisis! The Mechanical Nano-Storm

The surrounding deputy officers immediately connected their nerves to the Aberration Fortress. Accompanied by rumbling roars and the squirming of flesh and blood, thin protrusions slowly surfaced one after another on the outer walls of the massive flesh and blood fortress.

Beam after beam of light emanated from those protrusions, illuminating the entire underground root network.

And it was at that very moment they finally saw the full appearance of that [Aberrant Whale].

In that instant, their faces instantly turned deathly pale.

Several of the deputy officers even couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"What on earth is that…"

Under the immense beams of light, they saw the outer walls of that colossal [Aberrant Whale]. And at this very moment, those massive outer walls were riddled with thousands of holes and gaping wounds.

Corrupted blood and flesh tissue dripped and trickled down from the fissures.

But the most terrifying thing was that those flesh tissues and meat walls were decomposing and rotting away at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was as if an invisible giant maw was slowly devouring this leviathan from the inside out.

Something…Was eating this [Aberrant Whale]!

In that instant, the Commander was greatly shaken.

He suddenly thought of something, recalling a certain scene he had encountered during a major battle he once participated in against the Mechanical Cult.

"Run!" he trembled.

The surrounding deputy officers were stunned, asking in astonishment, "Sir… what's wrong?"

"Run!"

At that moment, he roared, violently waving his tentacles, and said:

"Immediately control the fortress, get out of here now! Hurry! Hurry up!!"

Because he finally understood what kind of terrifying thing they had encountered!

It was a storm!

A storm researched and developed by the Mechanical Cult specifically for the mass extinction of flesh and blood organisms…

The Mechanical Nano-Storm!

The massive Aberration Fortress immediately retracted its light beams, accelerating sharply towards the direction they came from. Like a sheep stepping into a pack of tigers, it began to flee frantically.

And the efficiency of the rapidly decomposing flesh tissue on the colossal Aberrant Whale suddenly decreased by half.

In the darkness.

It seemed a gentle breeze brushed through the tunnel.

Then, one after another, the glowing tumors embedded in the root network's flesh walls dimmed. An extremely low, collective hum seemed to gather in the air.

It seemed something had already set its sights on that fleeing flesh and blood fortress.

...

Meanwhile, deep within the surging black fog of the Cursed City.

A black inverted pyramid-shaped structure, whose end could not be seen at a glance, rumbled as it surged within the black fog, slowly approaching this massive Cursed City.

"Nanite Swarm has completed infiltration of the Mother Tree's Root Network—majority of branch roots severed—full-scale invasion targeting the core root network will be launched from within in thirty minutes—"

"Hive Main Leader information update—Desire Mother Tree roots entwined around the underground Colossus Tower number 154,252—Progress on breaching the Colossus Tower is 96% complete—Estimated time for complete breach is within one hour."

"Flesh Leviathan has activated stealth mode—currently under full detection efforts—All major mechanical swarms be advised—in thirty minutes—launch full-scale assault on the Colossus Tower's core region—"

"Mechanics Supreme, good luck to all."

Accompanied by the powerful stream of information sent out by the black inverted pyramid, all mechanical units throughout the Cursed City received the latest orders.

Inside the inverted pyramid, countless precise assembly machines operated at full capacity, mass-producing large numbers of mechanical units in batches.

Within a precise mechanical chamber, accompanied by the welding of one small mechanical arm after another.

A pair of eyes, flickering with streams of digital light, slowly opened.

[Silver Fantasy Prototype activation complete.]

[Consciousness integration complete.]

[Welcome back, Miss Intelligence Machine. The latest detection information transmitted back by the Nanite Swarm has been sent to your terminal network. Target positioning is complete.]

Accompanied by the mechanical synthesized voice in her ears, a holographic information landscape slowly appeared in her vision.

Floating on it was a figure wearing a pale plague doctor mask, tentacle after tentacle surging out from beneath that figure's black robe. Surrounding it were densely packed analysis reports of various kinds about that target.

[Code name established for target: Desire Disseminator]

[Target Alignment Affiliation]: Night Doctor (crossed out), Plague Doctor, belongs to hostile faction of the Flesh and Blood Cult, suspected high-ranking cadre.

[Target Elimination Priority]: S-class.

[Additional Notes]: Target possesses extremely potent desire dissemination abilities. Based on analysis of two case results, the target's desire dissemination ability seems to be able to directly affect consciousness and mind through some currently unknown method, causing strong negative impacts on consciousness. During information synchronization, it poses a significant hidden danger to the Hive collective consciousness. Priority elimination required.

[PS]: The target's method of desire dissemination is fundamentally different from that of the Desire Sect. Countermeasures effective against the Desire Sect cannot be applied to this target, but partial mitigation is possible.

[Target Apprehension and Elimination Executor]: Silver Fantasy

[Reminder: For this apprehension and elimination mission, you will penetrate deep into the Desire Mother Tree's root network. Danger coefficient is high. The Nanite Swarm will provide escort at all times, assisting you in completing the kill. If it attracts the Mother Tree's Gaze, initiate emergency fold-jump immediately. End.]

As segment after segment of information flashed before her eyes.

Silver Fantasy reached out, fastened her pale silver translucent visor, and stepped into the projection mechanical chamber.

"Projection preparations complete. Good luck, Miss Intelligence Machine."

Boom—

In an instant.

Accompanied by immense kinetic energy, that silvery-white mechanical girl was projected towards the massive Cursed City at an unimaginable speed.

Digital light streams flickered in her eyes, and within those light streams forming the underground root network map, was a rapidly moving light point.

And that light point was the target of her killing mission this time.

...

And at this very moment, within the underground root network.

The Aberration Fortress had pushed its speed almost to the limit it could achieve, racing frantically through the root network.

Behind it, countless light sources embedded on both sides of the flesh walls continuously extinguished. Thick, heavy darkness clung closely to their rear, getting closer and closer, closer and closer.

"How could this happen! Damn it! How could we encounter a nano-storm here!"

Inside the chamber, the Commander, his eyes bloodshot, was linked to the Aberration Fortress, fully controlling its forward trajectory.

Upon hearing the term 'Mechanical Nano-Storm,' the deputy officers had long since lost all color from their faces.

"Maximum detection mode activated!"

"No units detected!"

Accompanied by the urgent voices of one deputy officer after another, the monitoring imagery of their rear presented in their consciousness remained completely blank.

But they knew.

Right there in that darkness.

At this very moment, there might be billions, tens of billions of nanoscale mechanical units relentlessly pursuing them.