Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 38 38. If you mess with me, the evil earth man succubus, you're kicking cotton.

What is Zhou Ke doing now?

Of course he is on his way!

Just like a capybara that was happily trying to run back to its warm nest, he tried hard to maintain his stable mental state under the scarlet moonlight, and at the same time helped Ajie, who was already unable to suppress his anger, to maintain his precarious San value.

At this time, the sandstorms on the evil land had been reduced to the level of ordinary sandstorms, but the spiritual energy surge caused by the change of the moon phases of the fetal movement moon showed no sign of weakening. Zhou Ke could even feel the burning in his nostrils and respiratory tract with every breath.

It's like walking in a bad radiation circle.

Under the damn scarlet moonlight, everything Zhou Ke saw was red.

To be honest, looking at this kind of glossy filter for too long really makes people want to smash something, but the good news is that due to the urging of the Crazy Moon, this heavily-armored off-road sidecar will encounter a group of manic monsters trying to "rob" it every time it passes a certain distance.

Under normal circumstances, encountering these ferocious guys would mean a terrible conflict for any wastelander. After all, it is impossible for the monsters to give way just by receiving money. But in the current situation, it is indeed a good choice to have monsters that come to the door on their own initiative for Ajie to vent his anger.

The abnormal energy in this guy's body grew extremely fast under the illumination of the scarlet moonlight, making Zhou Ke, the evil earth male succubus who likes to suck people's vitality, unable to control himself.

In just half a day's journey, more than an hour was wasted just on absorbing Ajie's "vitality", which made Zhou Ke exhausted.

But the harvest was also amazing. The madman's mask that was broken before has been completely reshaped, and its strength and complexity of the pattern are almost catching up with the previous mask.

"If this continues, I'm afraid Ajie won't be able to bear it."

On the rumbling sidecar, Zhou Ke twisted the handlebars and said to the energy-enhancing device:
"His current condition is basically like an old man who is obviously very weak but has to keep taking tiger and wolf medicine to stimulate his ferocity. It's fine in the short term, but it will collapse over time. It's like a piece of firewood that is still burning but has no stamina. The current condition is forcing it to burn faster."

"He doesn't care, so why are you worried?"

Wu Neng replied somewhat indifferently:

"From a rational point of view, Ajie is a failed product that has been abandoned. Except for your strange ability to make him quiet, no one else can drive him to fight properly. From the perspective of biological weapons, he should be destroyed the moment his personality collapses.

He was lucky to live this long, but as the psychic old Merck judged, no matter how much you take care of him, Ajie's individual will completely die out within half a year.

This is a fact that cannot be changed.

So if you really want to make Ajie's remaining time more valuable, then let him fulfill his mission as a biological weapon more properly.

Unless you can bring him back to his senses and rebuild his shattered personality.

But to be frank, this is impossible to do.

At least you can’t do it alone.”

Zhou Ke nodded without saying anything else. After moving forward for another ten minutes, he took a look at the time and route recorded by the energy-comprehension device and decided to stop and rest for a few hours to replenish his San value that was lost due to the shining of the Crazy Moon.

They soon found an abandoned village in the sand.

Such places are everywhere in the Badlands. Too many forgotten things have happened on this land in the past thirty years, and the traces left by those things are like the ruins of deserted villages, lingering on this rotting land.

Zhou Ke lit a bonfire in a barely intact room, and took out the fresh meat obtained from the previous "encounter" from the back seat of the sidecar. These ingredients came from several helmeted bull monsters that were killed by Ajie.

I heard Qiao Ya say in Tiger Claw Town before that the helmeted bull is one of the few monsters that can be eaten directly without processing.

This may be because they were ordinary two-headed bull-camels before they went crazy.

"You are blessed tonight."

Zhou Ke tapped Ajie on the head, then took out a folding pot from the supplies looted from Han Bin's aircraft, hung it over the campfire, added filtered water, threw in a fast food pack snatched from the city-state people, opened an energy bar as a supplement, and prepared to cook some salty and spicy beef soup.

He was not a good cook, but coming from a country of big foodies, he had seen pigs run even if he had not eaten pork, so it should not be a problem for him to make some pig food that could feed two grown men.

"This crimson moonlight looks dangerous, but as long as you hide in a building and avoid being directly exposed, you don't have to worry about being affected. It's quite humane."

As the pot heated up, a few pieces of clean beef were put in. Zhou Ke sat by the flames and sighed:

"From this perspective, the doomsday disaster of the Fetal Movement Moon is much friendlier than the residual radiation from nuclear weapons."

"It's just an appearance."

Wu Neng, who had entered alert mode, disagreed with Zhou Ke's judgment and said:
"Buildings can indeed block the stimulating red moonlight, but the psychic vibrations caused by the changing moon phases cannot be blocked by a wall.

The essence of this thing may be some kind of energy wave with extremely strong penetrating power. And from what we have collected so far, even if it is just pure psychic energy, it will still cause varying degrees of damage to the individual's mind.

In fact, this machine has a guess.

Perhaps the situation in the Badlands has deteriorated to this point because of the huge amount of spiritual energy that continues to "erode" the material world.

If spiritual energy did not exist in this world originally, then the brutal intervention of new energy would definitely destroy the original world system and even affect the laws of physics, which are the basic laws governing the operation of the material world.

It is equivalent to the underlying code of a program!

If this thing is modified casually, then bugs are bound to appear in the program. Look at the current Badland. Isn't this the result of a stable program being crashed by a bunch of bugs?
Now it’s perfectly fine to call it ‘a mountain of shit code.’”

"Hmm, that's a simple explanation. Wuneng, ah Wuneng, if you weren't here to teach me all this strange knowledge, how could I live happily and simply in this evil land?"

Zhou Ke praised in an exaggerated tone, causing Wu Neng to hum with pride.

The two of them kept adding to this conjecture that had no evidence to support it, and they spoke with details and evidence, just like those stupid guys who were crazy "fighting settings" in the book club and took the time to do high-intensity keyboard politics, which eventually caused the group to be blown up. Usually when this happens, the guy will just move to another place to continue his happy keyboard politics, leaving behind a pitiful author who was unable to convey the news of the new book to fans because of the loss of the book club, resulting in dismal data and eventually causing his family to starve.

But what does it matter?

Anyway, keyboard politicians never care about other people's feelings.
In short, while Zhou Ke and Wu Neng were chatting enthusiastically, the second person in the house didn't care about those complicated things.

Ajie didn't understand at all and didn't plan to listen to Zhou Ke and Wuneng's conversation. His eyes were fixed on the pot on the fire. The aroma of boiling water and beef made Ajie a little distracted. Even the energy bar in his mouth seemed to have lost its former delicious taste.

He held the mechanical spear in his arms, letting the saliva drip from the corners of his mouth.

For a biochemical maniac with a personality breakdown, the upcoming satisfying meal is the most anticipated thing in his already chaotic life.

It's even the only thing worth looking forward to.

"Well, dinner is ready."

A few minutes later, Zhou Ke's brainstorming was also interrupted by the aroma. He turned around, opened the pot and sniffed it, then nodded with satisfaction at the pot of pig food he had made like a chef. He took an iron bullet box as his bowl and made himself a big bowl of food for dinner.

The rest of the pot belonged to Ajie, the big eater. He reached out to grab it impatiently but was hit on the hand by Zhou Ke with a stick.

He looked up blankly and saw Zhou Ke throwing a fork at him. Ajie helplessly and clumsily grabbed the fork and stabbed the hot beef, which made Zhou Ke hum with satisfaction.

"With all due respect, Joker, your efforts to make Ajie look like a human being are meaningless, just like teaching a guard dog how to use the toilet. Even if a dog learns to use the toilet, it will not become a human being."

Wu Neng gave a very sharp comment on this. Zhou Ke slurped the salty and spicy hot soup. He didn't intend to discuss these issues about human nature with Wu Neng, the "cold" artificial intelligence, but in the end he couldn't help but say:
"As a human being, you should always have some dignity. Just think that I am kind-hearted and cannot stand such a rubbish as turning people into ghosts."

"Boring persistence."

Wu Neng said, then fell silent to perform his vigilance duties.

But in fact, due to the lack of external components, relying only on the current tablet body, the detection range of Wuneng is only a pitiful less than 20 meters. To put it bluntly, considering the strange strength of the monsters in the evil land, if they are so powerful that they can only be discovered when they are within 20 meters, then Zhou Ke and Ajie probably only have time to think of an epitaph for themselves.

In other words, this "alert mode" is just a layer of tiger skin that can make people feel slightly at ease.

But a few minutes later, the mentally retarded little boy Wuneng accomplished a "great achievement".

"Joker, there is a strange mechanical signal approaching at high speed! The energy level is very high! Don't be foolish, get ready for battle!"

Wu Neng's sharp voice interrupted Zhou Ke and Ajie's hearty meal, causing Zhou Ke to immediately put down his lunch box and grab the short assault rifle behind him. He said:
"What do you mean by strange mechanical signals?"

"It's just very strange! It's not the data fluctuations of a rebellious machine that is completely infected by the awakening virus, nor is it the rhythmic data transmission of a controlled machine. If I must say, it's like a 'freak' that intervenes in between the two.

Even when the entire system has collapsed, its core data flow still maintains a certain regularity."

Wuneng briefly explained:
"I suspect this is a machine that is in the process of being infected by the Awakening virus but has not yet been fully infected. Today really opened my eyes. In addition to me, there are machines in the Bad Land that can resist the Awakening virus with their own computing power and firewalls?
Plus, its energy level is really high!"

"Stop eating, Ajie, and get ready for battle!" Zhou Ke kicked Ajie hard, forcing the latter to reluctantly put down the pot in his hand, grab the mechanical battle spear, lower his body and make a humming battle threat.

After the two of them had prepared for an ambush in this dilapidated house, Zhou Ke asked:
"So, how high is the energy level?"

"About five or six stories high."

"Asshole! Is this the time for you to be clever? Can you at least give me a clearer comparison?"

"This machine will give you a rough reference. Remember that old-fashioned bipedal assault mech we saw in the Tiger's Nest Building? If you multiply that thing's combat level tenfold, it's almost on par with this thing.

Almost catching up with the Ascendants.

Considering that the opponent is a mechanical body that is not afraid of pain and knows no fatigue, its actual combat power should be higher.

Ah, we mechanical life forms are truly amazing."

"What's the point of fighting? Did the Tiger Nation use some 'ultimate weapon' to capture me?"

"Stop it! If Wu Qinhu had this thing, you would have died hundreds of times. There is an identification signal of the Acholi Consortium in the opponent's data stream. This is the mechanical guard of the Acholi Consortium. I don't understand why it is coming for you, but considering that the opponent has been infected by the awakening disease, it is surprising that he has done something crazy.

Finally, Zhou Ke!

A very important point is that this guy, like Ajie and the organic hunter from Tiger Claw Town, has 'abnormal energy' emanating from him."

"Oh?"

This news made Zhou Ke raise his eyebrows.

His eyes rolled and he immediately took out the metal mask from his pocket and put it on his face. He felt that he might get something good out of this crisis.

The prerequisite is that he and Ajie can survive and win this raid.

In the wind and sand outside, the revengeful mechanical female warrior jumped from a great height with the help of her leg thrusters. While shattering the wind and sand, she saw the off-road sidecar parked in the abandoned town at a glance.

This let her know that she had found her target, and the flames in her mechanical eyes suddenly grew stronger.

But as a mechanical individual, she tends to make planned attacks, so she didn't rush in and use her invincibility immediately. Instead, she first activated the life signal detection on her chest to determine the opponent's movements.

With her level of capability as a guard robot equipped with the most advanced combat program of the Acholi Consortium, she could easily capture the target's life signals at such a close distance even with the interference of the Moon of Madness and psychic energy. But the strange thing was that these abandoned houses connected together in front of her were "unscannable".

The information sent back by the detector showed that there was special "electromagnetic interference" ahead, which was equivalent to a "perception blind spot" for the robot.

She now had to rely on the simplest optical capture to determine the enemy's situation.

This caused a surge of unfamiliar emotions to surge in the Vengeance Machine's intellectual spark, but it was then suppressed.

Unfortunately, she had just gained "freedom" not long ago, and the complete digital mimic personality had not yet been established. She did not understand that this surging emotion was called "ominous", otherwise she would definitely be more cautious.

"rub"

The mechanical blades on both arms popped out, and the thrusters on the back and legs began to accumulate energy.

As a close-fitting protective machine, whose mission is to "do its utmost to protect its master", it does not have long-range firepower, but its amazing melee destructive power, extremely flexible propulsion device, and eyes that can shoot high-energy lasers effectively make up for this.

Her fighting style is often to block bullets for her master and then immediately protect her master's evacuation. As for destroying the attackers, it will naturally be done by her "compatriots" who specialize in destruction and hunting.

You don't really think that the big guys who can afford such high-end products will only have a mechanical bodyguard around them, right?

The standard configuration of the "all-weather personal mechanical defense package" sold by the Acholi Consortium includes seven functional intelligent machines, which is truly foolproof security. However, no matter how good the defense measures are, there are always some willful bosses who like to play the "travel light and incognito" game, which led to the previous plane crash tragedy.

"Get ready! Joker, it's scanning here. This machine is doing electromagnetic interference, but it's ready to strike!"

As soon as Wuneng's scream died down, Zhou Ke saw the broken wall in front of him being shattered by the huge force as if it had been hit by a missile. Amid the flying bricks and stones, a slender figure rushed up with his arms waving.

The latter had blue flames propelling her back and legs, and the impact tore apart her disguise, leaving the ferocious robot's white hair flying in the dust.

Wow, it’s a white-haired mechanical girl!

This really makes the white-hair lovers ecstatic.

Zhou Ke, in an absolutely rational state under the metal mask, rolled backwards and fired, while facing the staggered mechanical knives, Ajie rushed forward to act as a meat tank.

The attacker's "X·Knife Formation" was an absolute killer move. She thought she could easily cut through the flesh and blood blocking her way like chopping up a helmeted bull, but she didn't expect that the invincible single-molecule battle knife would be blocked with a clicking sound. The mechanical battle spear in Ajie's hand burst into dazzling sparks, and after leaving a terrible battle scar, it barely blocked the opponent's attack.

It is worthy of being Tiger King’s “personal collection”.

This technology tree is so crooked that the evil earth cold weapons can even block single-molecule weapons. It's really outrageous!
"Shoot her in the chest! Aim well!"

Wuneng screamed, making Zhou Ke think that his personal assistant was an absolute perverted shrimp-headed man for a moment, but then he realized that Wuneng's reminder was very correct.

The light shining in the other party's mechanical eyes definitely did not belong to a rational robot. She was being invaded by the awakening virus, which was equivalent to having a "Debuff" that could get out of control at any time.

Therefore, the key to this battle is not whether Zhou Ke and Ajie can repel her, but to try to break the "offensive and defensive balance" in the robot's body, so that she can't resist the erosion of the awakening virus. Although this will cause the robot to completely turn into a crazy killing machine, the sluggishness of the body caused by system disorder is the only possibility for the two to win.

This guy’s energy level is too high!
The moment Ajie blocked X's slash, the laser shot out from the white-haired robot's eyes and hit Ajie hard. If he hadn't been wearing the biochemical armor of the Tiger State Valkyrie, this laser would have been enough to burn through Ajie's heart.

"bang bang bang"

Rhythmic gunshots rang out in this small abandoned room. The energy-charging assault rifle "gifted" by Han Bin was indeed a high-end product. The semi-automatic mode of the Wolverine rifle required 0.5 seconds to charge, but the charging time of the short rifle in Zhou Ke's hand was definitely no more than 0.3 seconds for each shot.

Coupled with the shooting correction granted by the metal mask, when the white-haired robot kicked Ajie away, the silicone layer on her towering chest was already broken.

What a sin.

The specially made bullets with extremely strong penetration left bullet marks on its scandium alloy armor. The continuous attacks on the chest device caused the operating power of the Mechanical Avenger's firewall module to drop, and also made the "noise" in the Mechanical Avenger's mind even more harsh.

She even covered her head and screamed in a very human way, but then she rushed towards Zhou Ke under the hail of bullets.

"What's the grudge here? Did I eat your rice jar? Or did I just watch you change your oil?"

Zhou Ke dodged in a panic, complaining in his heart.

The opponent's attack was extremely fierce. Seeing that another deadly X-knife formation was about to fall on his head, Zhou Ke took a step back and gave an order in his mind.

"Swish"

The shadow elongated by the firelight in the house shot out like a snake, and when the X-shaped crisscrossing sword light chopped down, it transformed into the figure of Old Merck to block the sword for Zhou Ke. While being chopped into pieces, it also tried its best to release small psychic lightning.

This amount of electricity was not enough to overload the Mechanical Avenger, but the paralysis caused by the psychic lightning's unique "ignorance of physical laws" still made the attacker pause for a moment. Ah Jie had already rushed over with a roar, grabbing Wu Qinhu's mechanical spear with his muscular arms and delivering a powerful "salted fish thrust".

"boom"

The sharp blade of the spear pierced into the solid scandium alloy armor from behind. No one knew what kind of magical material this thing was made of. In Ajie's hand, it pierced through the robot.

The sharp blade pierced through the armor in front, causing sparks to fly, and white mechanical maintenance fluid spurted out like blood.

"Good thrust!"

Zhou Ke praised.

Amid Wu Neng's screams, he pulled out the black straight-blade knife he got from Han Bin, held it with both hands and stabbed it forward.

"boom"

The sharp blade named "刈" accurately pierced into the white-haired mechanical girl's smashed chest, and under the guidance of Wu Neng's direction, it dealt a "fatal blow" to the firewall central module in her chest. This was certainly not enough to destroy this dangerous machine, and in fact it was not even a fatal injury.

But the explosion of the firewall core instantly defeated the last bit of resistance of her mechanical mind, enough to make her fall into the clutches of the awakening virus.

Hey, I didn't kill Bo Ren, Bo Ren died because of me.

She is beyond help.
(End of this chapter)