novelraw Chapter 446: Call Me Wild Daddy Once to Show Some Respect
Chapter 446: Call Me Wild Daddy Once to Show Some Respect
The Purity Council: "Order revision: To prevent abnormal behavior, temporarily revoke Hive Three's control over the nano-clusters in the target area. Control authority will be transferred to the special response squad. Members of the squad shall be assigned by your Hive Three."
The Purity Council: "Restating once more, Miss Intelligence Machine is on the way. If you can eliminate the target before Miss Intelligence Machine arrives, you will have proven your worth."
Collective Consciousness: "Machines above all, we comply."
Hive Three Intelligence Core: "♡~"
……
Meanwhile, at the Aberration Fortress.
Lynn, having found a countermeasure, abruptly fold-jumped again with Hei Xianyue while wielding the Scythe.
He narrowed his eyes, pressing down his top hat. The mechanical armor on his legs accelerated his speed to the extreme, letting him dart through the ruined corridor without pause.
"Zuo Zuo! Don't stop! Keep gnawing me!"
"Those nano-clusters were sluggish just now, which means my M Fist is effective! Give them a few more hits, maybe they'll back off once they realize their mistake!"Zuo Zuo angrily unclenched the jaws that had been biting his shoulder and shouted:
"How many times do I have to tell you! It's bite, not gnaw! Stupid Brain, don't go randomly changing verbs, okay?!"
Though she said that with her mouth.
Still, Zuo Zuo widened her jaws with force and, with a ripping sound, fiercely bit his shoulder, blood flowing freely.
[Ding! You have been attacked by Zuo Zuo. All your pain has been converted into S&M Power. Current charge efficiency: 41%]
[ Ding! You have been attacked by Zuo Zuo. All your pain has been converted into S&M Power. Current charge efficiency: 52%]
Exactly.
Since M Fist can influence the controllers of the nano-clusters via information exchange, he did not mind using this method to wear down that controller's will to fight.
After all, when an entity reaches extremes of pleasure but cannot vent it, its control over the nano-clusters certainly cannot stay fully concentrated.
Although it still couldn't completely remove the threat of the nano-clusters,
weakening their combat effectiveness was definitely a workable approach!
And Zuo Zuo,
for now could only act as his M engine!
"Miss Puppet, would you like to give me a turn?" Lynn pressed his hat and glanced at the air beside him, saying:
"Relying solely on Zuo Zuo's charge efficiency is too slow."
Silence all around.
Just as Lynn wondered whether Miss Puppet was still present,
Boom—
A tremendous noise.
Lynn (ヾﾉ꒪ཫ꒪)——
[Warning! Hei Xianyue has swiftly attacked your big (beep) (beep). Your S&M charge has reached max! Please use it as soon as possible! Please use it soon!]
"Miss Puppet! How dare you kick me there?! (Outraged)!!"
"That area can induce intense pain in a short time. It is the most efficient method."
"(〃´皿`)q Then let me kick once and see!"
But Lynn knew this was absolutely not the time to argue.
In a few years, the unfeeling Miss Puppet would surely regret it.
He spun around sharply. With the added agony fueling him, he instantly raised his fist and slammed another M Fist into the ground.
Boom—
A deafening explosion.
Because a max-charged M Fist had a very large radius, as long as those nano-clusters remained inside the Aberration Fortress, they would be affected by M.
And in the next moment, the System notifications came into Lynn's ear as promised.
[ Ding! Mechanical Consciousness (1) has been affected by your M Fist!]
[ Ding! Mechanical Consciousness (2) has been affected by your M Fist!]
Swish, swish, swish—
Under that punch, Lynn's mind suddenly filled with prompts showing that nine thousand mechanical consciousnesses had been hit.
His heart tightened immediately.
Something changed!
Previously, the System prompts had always referred to Hive Intelligence Cores, but this time they were Mechanical Consciousness instead.
In other words, the nano-clusters inside the Aberration Fortress had switched controllers?!
Lynn understood nearly instantly.
The Mechanical Cult obviously hadn't found a way to counter his M Fist, so they used a crude solution: deploy so many controllers that M Fist's effect would be diluted and shared among them!
Because M's influence doesn't act directly on the target, some of its potency is lost when transmitted via the nano-clusters' information exchange.
If that remaining potency were then split across nine thousand units...
M's power would be reduced to its minimum!
In an instant, he whipped his head around.
He saw dust and particles converging wildly from all directions—already forming a visual-scale Nano-Storm cluster!
At that moment, Lynn could distinctly hear in the air a cold voice, as if countless voices overlapped into one:
"You have done something wrong—flesh-and-blood—You should not have toyed with our Hive Intelligence Core—"
"Every single consciousness here has been purified and baptized by Miss Intelligence Machine—she is the mother shared by all our minds—and you dared to make our mother utter such a ♡ sound—you're finished—"
Within that cold voice, Lynn could clearly detect restrained, enraged emotion.
He stared, surprised, adjusted his hat brim and said:
"Is that so? Did she sound lewd? Then why don't you show me some respect and call me Wild Daddy once?"
[ Ding! Mechanical Consciousness anger toward you +10]
"Die—"
Accompanied by that ever colder, more furious voice,
the surging dust stampeded toward him again in violent waves.
Easily letting them break his defenses, Lynn arched a brow, removed his hat, and said elegantly:
"It seems you are different from pure machine intelligences. You must be uploaded consciousnesses. Glad to meet you all. Wild Daddy will come to greet you later."
Lynn pressed a hand to his chest, bowed theatrically, and gave a comic eyebrow lift.
In the blink of an eye he repeated the same trick, using the Scythe's fold-jump ability to transform into a cloud of blood mist and vanish from the spot.
But this time the nano-clusters did not pursue.
Large numbers of nano-clusters gathered together. Although agitation from anger caused restlessness, their unified coordination clearly remained unimpaired by emotion.
"We won't chase—"
"No need. The Intelligence Core needs to orchestrate the entire Aberration City's nano-mechanical clusters. It has no time for tactical fine-tuning. But we are different. We don't need to play cat-and-mouse with it."
"Adjust strategy—divide a portion of the clusters to shadow him immediately—convert all remaining clusters to a new target—prioritize disassembling this Aberration Fortress—once this fortress stops operating—he is undoubtedly dead!"