The night before the promotion

Chapter 35 Thunder
It was a roar from the depths of the soul, a hatred that vowed to burn everything in front of it to ashes.

Zhou Si stepped on the fallen steel corpse and threw the narrow blade with all his strength. The dazzling cold light flashed across the narrow carriage like a burst of lightning.

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The sharp blade penetrated into the chest of a humanoid avatar without any hindrance, protruding from its back, with sparks leaping from the gap.

The word "Number 7" was painted on its head. After staggering a step, it tried to grab the narrow blade to restrict Zhou Si's movements, but before it could raise its hands, the nanotubes connecting the narrow blade and the prosthetic limb suddenly straightened.

Zhou Si pulled his muscle fibers with all his strength as if he was dragging a fishing rod. Sharp crackling sounds echoed from the chest of Incarnation No. 7.

The moment the ringing stopped, the narrow blade popped out violently, splitting its body into two from bottom to top.

The incarnation's body cracked weakly to the sides, and the exposed components fell to the ground with clanking sounds just like a human's broken internal organs.

Quickly retracting the narrow blade into his arm, Zhou Si pounced forward, hugged the almost shattered body of the incarnation, and used it as a shield in front of him.

A dense stream of humming sounds was heard, like sharp swords being unsheathed, or the sound of several electromagnetic rifles firing at the same time.

The staggered rain of bullets surrounded Zhou Si from the front and back. The metal bullets hit the carriage, leaving dents and piercing the sealed glass windows. Amid the crisp sound of shattering, more strong winds rushed into the carriage, making it difficult for people to breathe.

Zhou Si hugged the remnants of his incarnation's body tightly and hid in the angle at the edge of the carriage. He successfully blocked most of the bullets, but a few still hit Zhou Si's body through the gaps, leaving shocking bruises on his skin.

Countless air currents rolled in, pouring in from the broken car windows and seeping through the cuts left by Zhou Si's hacking.

As the light rail was running at high speed, the strong wind noise made Zhou Si unable to hear anything.

"Non-lethal mode? It looks like Elysium still has some patience with me."

Zhou Si's thoughts were running fast, thinking, "But if they want, they can switch modes at any time and beat me into a pile of rotten meat."

He didn't like putting his life in the hands of others and betting it on the poker table.

At least, now is far from the time to gamble with your life.

Zhou Si held up the wreckage of his body. Right in front of him, at the connection between the carriages, there were three or four humanoid avatars standing. They held up electromagnetic rifles and fired at Zhou Si in an orderly manner, suppressing him.

At the same time, another group of humanoid avatars were rushing out of the carriage behind Zhou Si. Zhou Si did not look back at them, but he could hear the crackling sound of electric arcs from a series of hums.

The incarnation killers learned from their previous lessons. They sent more people and set up the battlefield on the speeding light rail.

This is a desperate situation in the true sense. There is nowhere to escape and no way to avoid. Only when one side falls, everything will be over.

Zhou Si held his breath, the rage in his heart burning all his emotions, but they failed to overwhelm Zhou Si's reason. On the contrary, he was very sober and knew what he was going to do.

Lined with figures, they were covered in bone-white, porcelain-like shells and looked like lifeless puppets, being manipulated and danced by the consciousness far away in the horizon.

Most people would choose a humanoid avatar when using an avatar shell. The reason is simple: a humanoid avatar is highly similar to the human body, allowing the brain to highly adapt to the body and respond quickly and sensitively enough.

More importantly, due to the similarity between the human form and the human body, it will avoid the occurrence of the disease of consciousness separation to a great extent. Even if the disease of consciousness separation has already occurred, it will slow down the deterioration of the disease.

The continuous gunfire suddenly stopped for a moment.

Zhou Si greedily enjoyed this brief interval. Although the electromagnetic rifle's firing mode was non-lethal, when the accelerated metal bullet landed on Zhou Si's body, it would still bring huge shock and pain.

It felt like being hit by a conventional bullet while wearing a bulletproof vest. If Zhou Si had not been injected with drugs in advance and had not had his own strong willpower, an ordinary person would faint or even go into shock due to the intense pain after being hit by a few bullets.

The moment passed in a flash, and a tall figure stood in front of Zhou Si.

It was a modified humanoid incarnation. Compared with other slender figures, its body was undoubtedly much heavier, and its outer shell was covered with ceramic armor several centimeters thicker. Obviously, they were very afraid of the narrow blade in Zhou Si's hand.

No matter how many avatar killers besieged Zhou Si, they only controlled regular avatars, while the power carried in Zhou Si's arms was that of a truly armed avatar.

The generation gap between the two cannot be easily made up by quantity.

A flashing arc of light suddenly lit up at the edge of Zhou Si's vision. He saw deadly arcs of electricity leaping on the arms of this heavily armored incarnation. With just a light touch on Zhou Si, the strong electric current could instantly paralyze him, or even burn his body, as if he was struck by lightning, leaving behind a series of tree-like burn marks formed by capillary necrosis.

Zhou Si laughed at himself in his heart, "I have patience, but not much."

The narrow blade popped out again, piercing out a cold light. The moment it collided with the ceramic armor, the blade edge vibrated at a high frequency. Every short-distance ups and downs were a fatal slash, and the burst of sparks flashed. The heavy-armored incarnation didn't care about Zhou Si's attack. The narrow blade was undoubtedly terrifying, but this time it carried heavy enough armor, and it could hit Zhou Si's chest with this thunder fist before Zhou Si cut through its armor.

The high-frequency buzzing sound drowned out the roaring wind noise, and then the piercing sharp sound stopped.

The narrow blade pierced through the ceramic armor.

Zhou Si raised his head and stared at the camera with a crazy smile. He believed that the other party could see his disgusting face at this moment.

The incarnated killers made a complete plan against Zhou Si, but Zhou Si also made some iterations in his weapons.

Electromagnetic pulse shatters the sword.

According to the introduction sent by Ruan Linrui, after four years of updates and upgrades, this is the official name of Narrow Blade within Shenwei Technology.

The metal material of the narrow blade itself is a special alloy developed by Shenwei Technology, which was then strengthened using nano-composite technology. Zhou Si's major is not materials science, so he only has a vague understanding of this.

It significantly improves the overall performance of the material by introducing nano-scale reinforcement phases into the matrix material, thereby forming a nano-composite material that plays a role in strengthening and toughening the material, and can effectively disperse and withstand the stress and heat generated during the cutting process, thereby preventing premature failure of the blade.

Stronger, sharper, more resilient, and deadlier.

Zhou Si exerted a little force, and the high-frequency vibrating narrow blade completely penetrated the torso of the heavy-armored incarnation. The edge of the metal crack was rubbed and burned red under the vibration, and continuous sparks overflowed from the gap, as if a cutting machine was strangling its internal organs.

If only the blade material had been upgraded, it would not be enough to give Zhou Si the confidence to go to the meeting alone.

Shenwei Technology has carried out a comprehensive upgrade on it, with a new generation of muscle fiber bundles, more efficient energy conversion and power output, a special drive battery, and an external power port, which can greatly increase the battery life when necessary.

Among them, the most important upgrade is the addition of the narrow blade external discharge function.

When the narrow blade penetrates into the shell of the incarnation, the driving battery will release a large amount of electrical energy and transmit it to the blade tip, using high-power current to generate a strong electromagnetic field, which will interfere with and destroy the internal circuit system of the machine, causing short circuit and paralysis.

If the introduction is correct, under ideal conditions, the instantaneous peak power of the narrow blade discharge of the complete armed incarnation can reach one megawatt.

After reading this, Zhou Si couldn't help but sigh that Shenwei Technology was creating a complete singularity monster, but fortunately he had an arm of this monster.

Zhou Si had no idea how much of its full strength this arm could achieve when fully released, but now was a good opportunity to test it.

The blade penetrated relentlessly, and a surge of electricity, like frozen thunder, suddenly broke free and was violently released from the narrow blade.

The huge electric current, with destructive power, raged through the complex structure of the heavy-armored incarnation, like tens of millions of invisible electric snakes, winding through the gaps. They ruthlessly penetrated the fragile electronic components, bit through the circuit boards, and in bursts of cold electric light, destroyed the electronic veins one by one.

The tall, heavily-armored incarnation stopped where he was, with a faint glow of fire flickering in the wound pierced by the narrow blade.

It's dead.

No matter how thick its armor is, when the strong electromagnetic field penetrates the core of thought storage, the consciousness hidden in it will be evaporated, just like an exiled soul.

"Ha ha……"

Zhou Si laughed softly as he drew out the narrow blade. An arc of electricity flashed across the edge of the blade.

Faintly, he smelled the scent of Houttuynia cordata, which was the ozone after the air was ionized.

The howling wind blew it all away.

Dots of red light emerged in Zhou Si's field of vision. The humanoid avatars in front and behind raised their electromagnetic rifles again, and the rear sights turned into a red lethal mode.

The destructive power presented by Zhou Si wore away their last bit of patience. After all, the upgraded test only needed Zhou Si's brain, and losing an arm or a leg would not have much impact on the project.

The narrow blade can kill the incarnation's body, and can also cut off a speeding bullet, but Zhou Si does not think that his mortal body and nerve reaction speed can perform such movie-like actions.

"I hope you didn't lie to me, Pei Dong."

Zhou Si muttered to himself as he swung out the narrow blade. This time its target was not any humanoid incarnation, but the wheelchair that Pei Dong had left at the door of the carriage.

The narrow blade, with an arc of electricity, split the wheelchair in half.

(End of this chapter)