Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

It was like this: until he found a lone "praying mantis".

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At first, it seemed to be just a tiny white dot in the distance in the night. But in Manila today, what kind of creatures could fly in the night sky?

Zi Yu gently turned his eyeballs: a strange bulge appeared around his eye sockets - looking closely, it turned out to be the entire lens of the eyeball, slowly rotating.

"Switch visual mode."

In addition to the common visual functions such as infrared heat energy and sound wave positioning, the armed monk naturally also has the ability of clairvoyance. So he saw:

The face is still human, but the hands and wrists are replaced by long, sharp blades, and the side ribs have two pairs of appendages, but they are complete with ten fingers; the pale shell covers the lower body from the back of the neck to the tail vertebrae, and is connected to the lower body with five thick hind limbs.

This is exactly the appearance of the target entity, codenamed Mantis, mentioned by employee A during the pre-war meeting. But there is a slight difference from the intelligence...

Its huge, membrane-covered wings were lifted high; the mantis flew from top to bottom, from the higher edge of the city toward the city center, which was like a depression.

then:

The lone mantis and the armed monk met head-on on the center line between the hunting point and the first contact point - the place where the noble person made contact with the Response Processing Department.

Snapped!

The mantis in Chi Yu's field of vision suddenly turned its neck like a machine and faced him: he could see the pair of emerald green eyes.

call!

There was no negotiation, no warning; the mantis almost immediately drew a 90-degree right angle and changed its flight direction; although there was no visible acceleration device, the momentum was like thunder and lightning -

The flying mantis almost rushed past the fish. If you slow down the time like the slow-motion button on a video, you can see the air on the mantis's side being cut by the sharp blade at the end of its forelimbs - with a faint white mark. Not to mention a human body with subcutaneous armor, even a human-like steel would be cut into two pieces under this slash -

But these two sharp swords did not cut the fish.

flutter!

Because the right hand of the fish, which was larger than an ordinary person's head, had already grabbed the mantis's neck fiercely.

The mantis's flight trajectory came to an abrupt halt: even under such a recoil, the mantis's cervical vertebrae or spine did not bend back, which shows its body strength. The impact caused by the high speed also caused the auxiliary limbs behind the fish to tighten suddenly, knocking cracks on the ground; only then could it be offset.

But then there was a terrifying noise...

Click!

The fish suddenly twisted and pulled, pulling the mantis's head out of its torso, and the mantis's wet light golden hair touched half of its red and white upper spine.

The analysis light screen emitted by the auxiliary limbs swept across the head in the palm of the fish. After losing the strange trunk and limbs, the mantis was much more similar to humans. But under the appearance of this kind of people, there was an inhuman vitality: even if the brain control area was damaged after being separated from the body, the oxygen storage function of the head could still retain its soul. For a moment, the mantis was still alive.

Zi Yu took a step back.

The mantis in front of him had a brainless body and was waving its sharp sickles around recklessly. The broken neck with no visible spine and flesh was like a broken faucet, spurting out small streams of blood, which made a sizzling corrosion sound when it hit the ground. Finally, it fell to the ground with a bang, swaying and trembling.

The armed monk held the head in his palm and turned it carefully left and right: he looked at the dying green eyes, tears streaming from the corners of the mantis's eyes; the mantis's lips opened and closed, but without the trachea and vocal cords, the tongue and mouth could not make any sound - Zi Yu could see primitive emotions like humans, or animals, on her face.

Fear? Attachment? Relief?

A single consciousness? Or a swarm of consciousness?

Zi Yu did not dwell on these issues for too long:

"There are no visible biological modules on the head. The bone density and hardness of the skull remain at the level of native humans. The framework structure of the cerebrum, cerebellum and nervous system has not changed at all. If destroyed, most of the mobility will be terminated."

Compared to the rest of the body, the mantis' head is too fragile - the armed monks don't even understand why they need to have a head, hair, and facial features like a human.

Bang!

Before the lack of oxygen and blood supply completely took away Mantis's soul, the armed monk crushed her head. He threw the broken flesh and bones on his palm and the bulging eyeballs to the side, and coldly issued orders to the other armed monks on the communication system:

"Meet me here."

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"Do we need to guide them into the formation?"

The attendant walked up to the Fourth Princess—the people of Britain were observing the movements of their allies through the circular light technique.

"..."

The fourth princess gently shook her head:

In her opinion, whether the "allies" of the Dao Kingdom Axis and the Grand Opera Troupe are willing to enter the range of the formation is still unclear.

and--

"It is a 'Dan Dao creature' that has changed its innate Qi and undergone a secondary metamorphosis... It is not very advanced, and is about the same as those bastards in the crucible."

This so-called "praying mantis" did not have the functional strength that the fourth princess had imagined.

During the Three Islands Alchemical Rebellion in Britain, the Lady of the Lake had used similar technology - but the alchemical weapons cultivated from the Dagda's Cauldron in her hands were not as strong as what we saw before us, nor were they cultivated for a long time.

According to the research and dismantling of the Royal Alchemy Laboratory, the Dagda Crucible that set off the alchemical rebellion contained 17 Celtic alchemical weapon templates. As long as the three bases of salt (flesh) - sulfur (soul) - mercury (spirit) are matched according to the corresponding ratio, the corresponding "Homunculus" can be created.

As the main opponents of these alchemical weapons, the alchemists became particularly sensitive to this type of technology: the bio-modulation devices in Eastern Europe, which are centered on "Pan-sexual Esoteric Studies", rely on a discipline that is different from corpse refining, witchcraft or the five internal organs.

Therefore, the British Alchemy Empire had to absorb this knowledge.

Alchemy is the sum of numerology and alchemy skills. As one of the high-ranking officials of the British Alchemy Empire, the Fourth Princess naturally knows the various sub-categories of alchemy: immortality, medicine, fortune-telling, divination, and physiognomy. She is proficient in all five major disciplines. At the same time, after years of war, the British Alchemy Empire has also acquired a lot of original mystical machinery about alchemy, astrology, theurgy, etc. from all over Europe.

The more knowledge she acquires, the broader her horizons become: to the fourth princess, there is no such thing as orthodox or unorthodox.

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Chapter 248: Six Days of Rebellion (VI)

People in the city can only see shadows forever - no one knows what is really happening, and no one knows where they stand: friend, enemy, prey, hunter, perpetrator, victim...

What caused the explosion? What was the reason for the evacuation? What about the residents who were killed by the Noble Response and Treatment Department?

But even if they understood the underlying situation, perhaps the citizens of Manila would not care much. The credits or pesos in their accounts are just afterimages, the remnants of events that happened outside of their lives - when the disaster is over, everything will return to normal.

Just like the "Allegory of the Cave" proposed by the philosophers of the old times...

If we collect the shadow shapes seen by everyone, can we outline the true face of things? Or maybe, there are only shadows in the world, and there is no so-called reality?

Even though no one can control destiny - those who are blinded by sweetness are undoubtedly lucky.

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Perhaps cement and steel bars will not be watered by flesh and blood, and this land will never grow flowers and weeds - in fact, the highly corrosive blood of the mantises did not bring fertile soil, but corroded the ground of Manila into an increasingly sunken pit. It was as if a giant ant lion several tens of meters long had taken this place as its hunting ground: a funnel-shaped pit nearly 100 meters long and wide was formed in the mist brought by corrosion, with the remains of hundreds of mantises lying in it.

This was the most spectacular arena in all of Southeast Asia at that time - but there were only a few spectators; there was only one side's tireless mincing of meat, and the other side's unyielding pounce.

What do the mantises want? Why do they launch such a suicidal attack? At least the armed monks of the Dao Kingdom Axis do not know the answers to these questions: they only care about their craft - that is, to wipe out the target locked in their sight from this filthy world.

"Where are the people from Taihai Chain?"

Chi Yu looked at the sword ball floating in his palm. This smooth and round sphere reflected his thoughtful face. The eighty-one sword balls he had were made of alloys containing neodymium magnets. The huge magnetic energy product allowed it to obtain unparalleled acceleration after utilizing the Ampere force of the electromagnetic field.

Like thunder and lightning.

……

sieve!

The sword ball disappeared in an instant, leaving only a shallow dent in the artificial skin on the prosthetic hand of the fish: above the ground, the corroded cement fragments raised a nearly 100-meter-long dust, outlining the flight path of the sword ball——

The projectile, which was only 3.5 centimeters in diameter, spun and bounced; it chiseled into the mandible of a mantis, crushed its cerebellum, and then passed through the occipital bone; with splattered blood and debris, it tore open the skull of the next mantis, and the wind pressure it brought crushed the exposed brain; then the next one...

The headless mantises fell to the ground like raindrops; after causing dozens of deaths, the sword ball drew a perfect circle and returned to its owner's hand again - the high-speed movement shook off all the body fluids that were stained on it, and the sword ball was still so clean and bright.

The auxiliary limbs composed of dozens of sword balls on the back of Zi Yu stretched out long due to the magnetic repulsion, supporting him in the air 30 meters above the ground; although he had a sufficiently three-dimensional reconnaissance system, the captain of the armed monks still preferred to observe the battlefield with his naked eyes - he believed that the intensity of this conflict was gradually evolving into a local war.

"Well……"

He felt uneasy: unlike other commanders who participated in the hunt, Chi Yu liked to receive orders, and even enjoyed receiving orders - so that he could fully devote his judgment and thinking to fighting and killing. But even in the noisy killing array, he still felt an indescribable silence: all the "allies" did not seem to share information as planned, nor did they control the Tianhe to reveal his future destiny.

Chaos - complete chaos: the Taihai Chain-Guiren Response and Processing Section, which was responsible for the first wave of contact, had completely lost contact; the actors from the big opera troupe who should have feinted and driven the target into the hunting site were nowhere to be seen; on the contrary, among the three forces that were ready for the final capture, he and his team blocked the target's advance route for reconnaissance.

Chi Yu has an inexplicable intuition; and his intuition is one of the manifestations of the calculation of the secondary soul, and it can always point out some mysterious truths:

"It's best not to stay with those people from the Fangshu Empire. It's very dangerous."

This is the reason why Chi Yu took the initiative to leave the encirclement...the intuition given to him by Zhongkong Tianhe.

He looked down at the collisions, cutting and explosions that were heard all around him - the other six armed monks came out in full force and set up an ambush point here; even facing the siege and life-and-death battle with thousands of mantises, they were still able to handle it with ease.

In the distance, the mantises were still flying towards the Dao Kingdom's axis position: Zi Yu could see their wings raised high, covering the sky; like a group of expanding dark clouds - even Zi Yu could not judge how many mantises were left to be eliminated.

The fish stood silently in mid-air, saying nothing:

I was leading one of the most elite teams in the Dao Kingdom Axis. As long as I, as a "refiner", gave the order and exerted my full strength, the armed monks could kill most of the mantises in front of them in a short time. They could even push the front line forward and start a counterattack. But - what after that? What should I do?

So Ziyu is waiting: waiting for the next variable to appear - when the situation is still within the controllable range, it is best not to change it.

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"There is a situation."

The armed monk "Tree Viper" who was conducting reconnaissance for the entire venue sounded the alarm, which was connected to the entire venue through "Mountain Tapir" who was the communication center.

Ci Yu also immediately looked two hundred meters away.

Behind the overlapping figures of the mantises, there is a blood-red foreign object hidden. It seems to be...

cocoon.

How many people today can recognize the sac-like protective covering of an insect during metamorphosis? After all, even the dancing of a fly is rarely seen.

The dark pink cyst wall was pulsating, and countless thick blood vessels crisscrossed and covered the entire outer wall - one large and one small, a total of two. The large one was nearly two meters long, and the small one was only about fifty centimeters.

Chi Yu thought quickly and made a judgment: Is this another "army" prepared by the mantises to break the situation? Or is it a trap to lure the enemy in? Should he send out the "side wolf" responsible for clearing obstacles and clearing points to eliminate it first...

Chapter 249: Six Days of Rebellion (VII)

puff!

But the next moment, the abnormality of the cocoon made the choice for the fish -

The forelimbs of the creature in the cocoon broke through the cyst wall: they were not blade-like forelimbs with five-fingered appendages like the "praying mantis", but rather two hands like those of an ordinary person. However, the ten fingers of the "creature in the cocoon", except for the thumb, were all the same length, slender and without undulating joints; the cold and bright skin had a jade-like texture.

Just by looking at it, you can feel the difference in "quality" between it and other mantises:

It stretched out its arms gracefully, pulling the shell of the cocoon to the left and right; it was about to break free completely -

Zheng!

The head of the "thing in the cocoon" suddenly folded back 90 degrees, and a vertical bulge appeared on the neck due to the impact; the cocoon shell was also torn apart, leaving it completely exposed to the hot wind.

The long, thin, dizzying buzzing sound came from the collision between the sword ball and the center of the face of the "thing in the cocoon": the fish had no interest in waiting for the newborn monster to walk out of the fetal membrane before engaging in a one-on-one duel with it.

However, this violent and swift impact did not stop the "thing in the cocoon" from taking steps forward.

It is draped in a vermilion amniotic membrane, with the outer hem hanging down to the feet; it covers the entire body like a piece of clothing, and its style is like a Taoist robe - only it is so bright red, covering the blood vessels and fascia, and even pulsating with the heartbeat.

An arc formed by the exoskeleton and scar tissue wrapped around its head: like a helmet made of connective tissue - if the people present were not armed monks from the Taoist Axis, they might be able to recognize that this was a mask unique to the "outer Taoist priest", but without the mirror-like reflection.

The creature in the cocoon took a light step and walked out of the cocoon that had hatched it. Its bare feet stepped on the ground filled with the mantis's body fluids that were like strong acid; curls of green smoke rose from its corroded feet, but when the smoke dissipated, its bare feet were still intact.

Click!

The fracture on its neck caused by the impact of the sword ball also restored itself with a crisp sound. The impact of the sword ball did not penetrate the mask of the "thing in the cocoon" - it was not as hard as it looked, but used soft gelatin to resist the impact.

Chi Yu raised his eyebrows: What surprised him even more was that Jianwan did not return to him.

Then, he saw——

At some point, the sword ball fell into the enemy's hands. The creature in the cocoon held the sword ball in its palm: the dense tentacles, like silk threads, intertwined and went straight up; they wrapped around the swaying and trembling ball. It was this pulling and wrapping force that confined the sword ball firmly to its side.

boo.

With a crisp sound like a bubble bursting, the tails of these blood-red tentacles connected to the palms suddenly broke off, turning the still floating sword ball into a lonely red cocoon.

Ci Yu frowned: the high-speed movement and impact of the sword ball alone could not tear open the "shell of flesh and blood" that was wrapped around it.

Although he could still control the sword pill through the electromagnetic field, if he couldn't get rid of it, how could he dare to continue using this sword pill that he didn't know whether it had been implanted or wrapped with a biological virus?

Chi Yu gently waved his hands, and his ten fingers, which had undergone multiple joint modifications, made gestures that normal people could not do at all. He used the "Sword Technique" to control the eighty-one sword balls. Another shiny sword ball broke away from his auxiliary limb, drew a sharp straight line towards the "prisoner" wrapped in flesh and blood, flying towards him, and crashed into it:

flutter……