Abnormal crossing

Chapter 264 The [Prayer] Gear Set Starts Running Again!

"pain?"

Hearing Hayel say those words.

A rare hint of human-like suspicion flashed in the single eye of the mechanical cat's head as it looked Hayel up and down: "Impossible, right? Your body... can feel pain?"

Hayel's body had undergone a fundamental and special transformation long ago. Not only were his pain nerves completely eradicated, but even his most basic injury reflex arc had been completely reconstructed.

Theoretically speaking.

Even if his body were ground into basic particles, he wouldn't feel any pain whatsoever.

This is a gift, or rather a price, received as a temporary carrier of the echo trigger.

“I understand your thoughts, but the pain was indeed very clear,” Hayel said helplessly, shrugging in response to the cat-headed man’s question. “Moreover, the pain did not come from nerve signals, but rather from a kind of conceptual erosion? In any case, all the interception mechanisms you set up on my body have failed or are lagging behind.”

"It's like a higher-priority instruction was forcibly inserted into the very foundation of my existence, causing those defense mechanisms to belatedly arrive only after the concept of 'pain' had already completed its expression process. In other words, it's like I've already suffered through the pain before they give me the painkiller."

Mechanical cat head: "."

Why does this sound so outrageous?
To know.

The body modification project for Hayel was personally led by the mechanical cat head, who had some confidence in its skills.

Or was Hayel experiencing hallucinations rather than pain?

That's not right either.
To prevent the carrier from being hypnotized by hallucinations, Hayel's body has a special protection protocol with the highest priority:

Once any illogical cognitive biases or hallucinogenic fluctuations are detected, the carrier will instantly initiate an irreversible self-destruct program and annihilate itself.

Then the mechanical cat's logic core gurgled for a while, clearing away all the doubtful information and returning its focus to the original topic: "Forget it, let's not delve into the matter of pain for now. Since the source coordinates are invalid, we can only do as you said and start the [Prayer] gear set."

Followed by.

The mechanical cat head fell silent, its remaining half of the rusty skull slightly turning around, its single eye focusing on the direction it had come from.

Another moment passed.

A metal plate about the size of a palm, covered with strange patterns, slowly rose from it and floated in front of the mechanical cat head.

The metal plate has a dark bronze color and twelve recessed holes evenly distributed on it. However, only the two outermost holes still have a few faint spots of light remaining.

Then the mechanical cat head glanced at Hayel: "Let's begin, old friend."

Hayel nodded slightly upon hearing this.

next second.

At the same time, the black barrier surrounding Hayel and the broken body of the cat-headed creature both generated a vibration of the same frequency. Two torrents of energy, different in nature but equally powerful, suddenly surged out and precisely injected into the two lit holes in the metal plate.

hum-

A deep, resounding roar, as if from the very beginning of the universe, shattered the deathly silence that had gripped the Silent Zone for countless years.

Centered on the metal plate, an invisible wave suddenly spread out, instantly sweeping across the entire massive gear structure.

Click.
First came sporadic, harsh metallic clanging sounds, defying the laws of physics, echoing in this vacuum.

Followed by.

The sounds gradually merged into one, transforming into a deafening roar of steel that swept everything away!

Rumbling--

The colossal structure, hundreds of kilometers high and composed of countless rusted gears, seemed to have been infused with a soul and began to tremble violently.

A few moments later, in an area to the upper right of the giant gear train.

The outline of a deep gear set was dragged out, from the blur to the real, from far to near.

This is a gear set consisting of four gears of different sizes. The largest gear is about four or five kilometers in diameter, while the smallest is several hundred meters. Countless ancient symbols and patterns, whose meanings are unclear and deeply engraved on the surface of the gear set, appear and disappear in the shadows.

The moment I saw this gear set.

A flicker of reminiscence and excitement flashed in both Hayel's and the mechanical cat's eyes.

A few minutes later.

The gear set, which had been dragged out from who-knows-where, was completely fixed and stabilized.

The mechanical cat with its single eye quickly analyzed the gear set data, then looked at Hayel: "[Prayer] Gear set activated successfully, it's your turn, old friend."

Hayel's phantom nodded slightly, floated to the gear set, raised his left hand, and pressed it to the center of the smallest gear.

There was no sound, but it seemed as if some kind of "starting" intention was being transmitted—at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

At the location of Hayel's heart, a small silver dot, about the size of a coin, began to shimmer slightly.

Then the black barrier surrounding Hayel began to boil and expand, no longer a veil enveloping him, but transforming into a bridge connecting him to the gear set.

Om-! ! !
A resonant sound, far more magnificent and ancient than any previous commotion, erupted from the core of the gear set.

The four gears of different sizes began to turn once again, and the ancient symbols and patterns on their surfaces, whose meanings were unclear, lit up one by one with unprecedented brightness.

This light was not constant, but flickered like breathing, perfectly synchronized with the flashing frequency of the small dot at Hayel's heart.

gradually.

Between the slowly meshing gears, countless ribbons of light, composed of pure information flow and time coordinates, began to flow and converge, which were incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Then the light streak pierced through the physical dimension, swept across spacetime, and resolutely rushed toward an 'axis' that was invisible to the naked eye.

It flows upstream along this axis, within which...
Tracing the source!

Because the amount of data involved in tracing the source is too large.

Even the mysterious and powerful Hayel's body had reached its limit at this moment.

Around him, a large amount of blackness began to evaporate rapidly in an irreversible state, and his entire phantom became somewhat dim.

But Hayel still did not stop tracing the source, after all, the price he and Cat Head paid was too high.

that's it.

After flowing backwards along this axis for an unknown period of time, just when Hayel thought this attempt to trace the source would end in failure, a magnetic pulling force suddenly arose in his consciousness.

Hayel could clearly sense something approaching him, but at the same time, his energy, or rather his consciousness, was waning exponentially.

finally.

In the instant before his consciousness completely faded, a small, golden orb appeared before Hayel.

See this situation.

Hayel reached out almost instinctively and grabbed the small ball of light in his hand.

then
A familiar stinging sensation instantly spread throughout the body—

"No way, not again???"

(End of this chapter)