Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 210: Omnics and Zombies

"--Um?!"

Looking at the stream of light that was suddenly coming towards him, Song Shi raised his five fingers slightly, ready to summon fire.

But in the next moment, he suddenly had a premonition from his mysterious intuition that the key would not harm him, so he put his hand down again.

He closed his eyes, and after a few seconds, he opened them again.

"Your guess is correct." Song Shi's expression was a little strange: "This is indeed the key to reach this network domain in a certain direction."

"Well, I now have one more choice."

He slowly opened his hand, and the key emerged silently: "It cannot be transferred or disclosed. Its only effect is that we can choose to jump directly here when we dive in the future."

"So, are you coming again?" Lapis Lazuli asked.

"Of course I'm coming." Song Shi clenched his five fingers and snuffed out the key. He looked around and said, "Although the abyss is always strange and many places don't even exist in a way that humans can recognize, this place is different."

"Even without counting the anomalies we just discussed"

Song Shi raised a finger and pointed at the sky above and the sea of ​​sand under his feet: "Don't you think that this place has some obvious 'purpose' for us?"

"I don't believe you didn't feel it." Song Shi laughed: "I don't believe you're not curious either. Coincidentally, I also want to find out the real purpose of this place."

Lapis Lazuli was silent for a moment, then exhaled—it opened the exhaust hole in the sphere and sprayed air outward.

"Yes, I am indeed curious."

"Then, let's reach a consensus!"

Song Shi laughed loudly, raised his hand to high-five the other party, and sighed: "I actually quite like this kind of puzzle-solving work, but I rarely have the opportunity to do it. Maybe this time I can experience it well-"

The sky suddenly trembled.

Then, amid the thunderous cheers that rang out again, another container appeared in the crack that had cut open half of the sky!

At the same time, a light blue holographic projection suddenly fell.

——That’s a huge leaderboard!
There is a line above with the unit of hours, showing the countdown as “309”… within 13 days?

At this moment, there are only two names on this huge list.

The contents of both names were garbled characters similar to "ЯАзЪС", and no valid information could be seen. But when Song Shi looked up, he could clearly feel that the first name represented himself.

After the name, there are numbers - currently both are 1.

He looked at Lapis Lazuli again, and from the interactive interface revealed by the other party, he understood that the other party was the same.

"I'm the first one, and you're the second one. Do you want us to compete in the same group?" Song Shi glanced at the list, then turned his gaze to the container that was about to fall: "In that case."

"Wait, you are the first one too?" Lapis Lazuli suddenly interrupted the young man.

Song Shi was startled, his expression changed slightly: "'Yeah'. This name doesn't refer to the two of us, but is it a nickname for two groups?"

"——Besides us, is there anyone else who entered here?"

The conversation was interrupted by a loud crash. The container fell to the ground, leaving a huge crater at the landing point. A huge amount of sand and wind swept in the surroundings.

The next moment, a huge silhouette tore through the wind and sand and crashed into the two tiny mice in front!

But this time, after seeing the other person's appearance clearly, Song Shi couldn't help but frown.

The other party has a huge body comparable to a two-story apartment, and is full of pure mechanical structure. The two completely different assembly styles of exquisiteness and wildness are combined together in it in an unharmonious way.

It looks like a heavy tank, with a large number of deformed parts growing on its surface. Like a magnet filled with iron filings, dark black liquid keeps flowing along the gaps, and every time it takes a step forward, a large number of broken parts are thrown out.

The other person gives me this feeling
"Omnic?"

Then, the three muzzles of the front of the heavy tank lit up at the same time, and three dazzling energy beams swept across the vicinity! Song Shi certainly wouldn't want to try this kind of firepower that reached the level of a heavy main battle tank and could easily penetrate fortifications. The "Forging Flame" instantly surged into his limbs and bones, greatly improving his body functions. He stepped back and raised his hand to press it.

Fire rained like a waterfall.

No, it should be said that the sea formed by flames collapsed from the sky to the bottom!

The tank sensed a sense of crisis, and as soon as its gun was silenced and its engine roared, it rushed at full speed in one direction to avoid the center of the sea of ​​fire.

Lapis Lazuli floated in the air and the mechanical arm raised.

hum.

A low buzzing sound passed by in an instant, and a circular projection appeared under the tank. Then, the invisible gravity turned into tangible pressure, accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound of metal twisting, pressing it hard in place!
——Gravity field·cage.

Then, the sea of ​​fire burned.

The tank was temporarily unable to break free from the constraints of gravity, so it lowered its lower body, and its six mechanical legs extended out, embedding themselves into the sea of ​​sand to stabilize the body. At the same time, it held up a spherical light shield to try to block the incoming flames.

But to no avail.

Under the effect of [Rendering], the surface of this thick light shield rippled violently, like a drop of ink falling into a cup full of clear water. The original white color turned into red gold at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then collapsed with a bang!

Song Shi casually clasped his five fingers together, and the sea of ​​fire instantly raised a wave that was about to completely submerge it.

With the blessing of [Burning Blood] and some skills in its use, pure "matter" is like a cracker in front of the [Ashes] now. However, the armor of this heavy tank is thick enough that it managed to hold on - but that's all.

This huge and deformed tank collapsed and melted like a burning candle. Under the unreserved and all-out gravity suppression of Lapis Lazuli, it was already severely damaged by the flames and could not break free no matter how much its engine roared.

But at this moment, Lapis Lazuli suddenly spoke.

"Song Shi! Please stop!"

The flames paused and then spread outward, revealing a "vacuum" in the sea of ​​fire. The tank was placed in the center, its mechanical parts making crackling sounds.

As if it knew it could not break free, the tank suddenly stopped moving and stopped shaking wildly. Instead, it suddenly raised its mechanical legs, and even as its surface was constantly being crushed by gravity, it actually struggled to lift the body up bit by bit!

A harsh sound suddenly rang out. At first it was a series of vague mechanical noises, which soon became clearer but remained intermittent.

While maintaining gravity suppression, Lapis Lazuli extended several data cables and tried to insert them into the tank for communication, but the volume of the latter suddenly increased. Even the cold simulated mechanical sound still made people feel the great anger contained in it.

"Traitor. Traitor!"

As if it was talking to the lapis lazuli that flew in front of it, or as if it was suddenly immersed in some memories, the tank's parts kept bursting out, and the sticky dark liquid was sprayed wantonly. It roared: "I can still fight--"

"I can still fight!" It roared like crying: "-Why abandon us!"

Then everything came to an abrupt end.

More than ten streams of flame suddenly rose from the nearby sea of ​​fire. These streams of flame intertwined and entangled with each other. Under the recasting of the forging flame, they turned into five straight and substantial fire pillars, which penetrated into the surface of the tank, interlocked and nailed it in place.

"It's going to self-destruct." Song Shi looked at the tank and said calmly, "Lapis Lazuli, I can delay it for a while. If you want to get its memory data, you still have twelve seconds."

Lapis Lazuli was no longer able to say anything else. The entire sphere suddenly expanded, extending dozens of thin cables and piercing towards the tank below.

Twelve seconds later.

A blinding white light flashed from the gaps in the shattered body of the tank, but in the previous instant, it was devoured by an endless flame and turned into ashes.

"You can't save it."

Song Shi looked directly at Lapis Lazuli. "As a non-psychic, staying in the Depth 4 Abyss for a long time is useless even if the resistance of the omnic is higher than that of humans. It has been completely contaminated by redundant psychic energy. Now it is just a distorted monster that retains a few memories of the past. Even this so-called 'memory' has probably been distorted for the most part."

"——Your fellow omnic died a long time ago."

The young man gave a straightforward answer: "It is now just a zombie in the skin of its former self."

(End of this chapter)