Soul Trigger

Chapter 264: Saturn's Nest (I)

Since the moment he confronted the power of the Predator King before entering the Spirit Prison, Ji Li's spiritual essence has been in a state of great consumption.

Then came the battle with the Avengers, and then the battle with two peak overlords.

With the use of Soul Mach and Rage Maxim, if it were not for the additional spiritual essence limit obtained from Jean, the capacity of his Soul Well, which was not very large, might have been exhausted after the battle with the Avengers.

This scene in the heart space was the last of his remaining spiritual essence, which was completely exhausted after entering the Proverbs of Liberation for the second time.

As for the thing he crushed, it was naturally the Predator Seed he got from the Avengers.

Because it cannot be fused or materialized, it can only be used as a prop, and its only function is one -

Opening up his own spiritual prison, or rather, his own nest.

As the rising red light burst out, Yan Xiyu's gaze was fixed on the smile on Ji Li's lips.

She smelled the scent of evil spirits. It was not the evil spirits of the Splitter in Ji Li's body, but the same evil spirits as those of Mouthpiece and others.

The ectoplasm of the predator.

At the same time, she could feel Ji Li's aura rapidly changing towards that of a predator, becoming more strange and terrifying than she had expected.

It was as if it was Ji Li who was corrupted instead of her:
A strong panic instantly surged into her heart, and at that moment, she regretted her thoughts -

I have to help him.

This thought was like opening a hole, turning into a strong desire to survive and pain in the chest, like a blocked river that broke through a hole in the dam.

Then the gap grew bigger and bigger, and finally turned into a raging flood of thoughts, violently overwhelming the despair of the team's annihilation and the fear of corruption.

Then, for some reason, the scene of Ji Li aiming at her head and pulling the trigger reappeared in her mind, and it was as if an invisible bullet pierced through her soul and turned into fireworks that burst into flames all over the sky:
I must stand with him.

Lightning shot up into the sky.

……

As the sense of dislocation caused by the dimensional conversion gradually subsided, Ji Li opened his eyes.

The first thing that catches your eye is not the mechanical ceiling with twinkling stars in front of you, nor the familiar dark hangar, but the tactical vision of the UI interface in your retina.

He raised his palm and saw the densely arranged bionic structures. He smiled naturally, but he felt nothing on his face.

"As far as I know, this body is not designed to smile..."

He glanced around and saw the garage with only a faint light in the darkness. A thought of surprise flashed through his mind:

"here……"

This place was the hell of spirits that he had opened, and he himself had also undergone the changes that a nest master should have.

Then he heard a mechanical grinding sound. It was a panel with a diffuse reflective surface, with neatly arranged honeycomb patterns on it, which slid in front of him along the slide track on the ground.

Then the panels with the honeycomb pattern flipped up one by one, and after they were tightly closed again, they turned into a mirror, showing his current appearance:
The whole body is wrapped in sophisticated bionic structures, creating a gray and black human shape.

The height of this body is at the level of a normal person. Except for some vital parts and the back where mechanical structures are jointed and cast, the entire body is almost entirely bionic.

Arc-shaped elements are the main design language of this body.

As he pressed the touchpad on the side of his head, the smooth mask opened, revealing his facial features made up of a sophisticated mechanical structure.

Although they are called five senses, only at the position of the eyes can a large number of sensors be seen forming an array, which can probably be considered the eyes.

The internal mechanical structure was still unfolding, and densely packed micro-robots kept crawling out from the depths of the structure, and began to perform maintenance operations amid a burst of fine sparks:
"So it was this one... Interesting, was this one chosen because of the characteristics of the 'Sword Master' and the fact that the predator was greatly enhanced in the nest?

The neurophotonic element in the internal structure of the head, this body model does not have a human face..."

Ji Li raised his hand, and some miniature spider robots passed across his fingers.

As the mechanical structure inside the head fully unfolded, he also saw a human brain covered in a semi-vitreous body.

The brain was wrapped in an unknown gray bionic structure with precise seams, through which bright spots of data flow occasionally flashed.

There is also a small sign in the corner with a string of characters written on it:
Yggdrasil Product.

Ji Li nodded his head slightly, and the entire structure was quickly loaded and retracted, then put together again, covering the shattered visor, making it as smooth as before.

The essence of the Linglin is also the embodiment of the thoughts and desires of evil and human spirits.

Like the Avengers' Limbo, the endless red desert is the embodiment of his despair under the shadow of revenge, and the door of flesh and blood that appears should symbolize his pursuit of power.

The other spiritual prisons that Ji Li had encountered also had some characteristics corresponding to those of the nest owner, but he did not understand what happened behind those evil things, so naturally he had no way of figuring out their formation.

But based on these experiences, Ji Li could roughly guess what his own Lingbao would look like, and he also had some guesses about how the predator characteristics would strengthen the nest owner in the nest.

However, this familiar hangar and his current body were still beyond his expectations.

At this moment, a strange sound attracted his attention——

It sounded like steel hitting metal, with some kind of hydraulic hissing and the sound of mucus sliding.

Ji Li turned around suddenly and saw a monster made of a mixture of steel and flesh, walking out of the darkness. His thoughts suddenly stopped:
"Even you have been copied..."

It was a large dog-like creature, wrapped in an alloy shell with the word "039" spray-painted on it.

The head was intricate, ferocious and sophisticated, but under its steel teeth was a blood-red tongue, with hot saliva hanging down in a sticky mass and steam rising from it.

With a series of fine clicking sounds, the outer shell of this high-tech creature that looked like a dog opened layer by layer.

Ji Li saw the bright red muscles combined with the precise structure, and also had high-temperature steam rising out. The strong sense of familiarity came over him, and he couldn't help but reach out and touch the other's head: "...The twelfth generation [Jumping Wolf] produced by World Tree Demon God Technology, an intelligent machine that perfectly combines biotechnology and mechanical circuits...

Is this actually my Limbo derivative? "

But suddenly, with a sound of mechanical coupling, the layers of steel on the iron dog's body closed, and its tongue suddenly retracted -

Because there was a strange sound and a scarlet light flashed out, shaking the air and the ground.

Ji Li looked in the direction he was looking in and saw the red light coming from a large mechanical-looking exit not far ahead.

"It looks like the guests have arrived."

Ji Li followed "Jumping Wolf-039" and walked out of the exit, coming to a place that protruded outwards and looked like a broken bridge structure.

"It is indeed the rooftop that is most familiar to me."

The structure here makes no sense for a functional building. It was just a place that Ji Li asked the engineering department to extend when he briefly served as the local dispatch commander so that he could see the scenery.

It has no meaning, but it can show everything in front of you at a glance:
The gray-silver sky swept across the entire world like a sandstorm, and a colony made of steel appeared before Ji Li's eyes.

"Liquid metallic hydrogen layer, endless gray-silver storm..."

He stretched out his hand as if to touch the endless storm, but those things were blocked outside an invisible barrier of the colony, which was actually thousands of kilometers away from his position.

"It looks like a storm, but in theory, I remember it was called 'liquid plasma'. It was my second-in-command who taught me about it."

"Hydrogen, helium-3, methane, ammonia, silicon carbide particles, and a large amount of rare metals... I suddenly miss them."

Ji Li said, looking at the giant steel colony below:
“The multi-space magnetic field traction technology allows the entire colony to be in a floating state completely customized to the current planet’s magnetic field, located inside the liquid metallic hydrogen layer.

It is the great achievement of the World Tree Group. It is another new breakthrough made after the departure of the First Ascender without using the technology of the main technology system—"

Then, Ji Li's voice suddenly rose, and with the sound of the micro motors whirring, he raised his mechanical bionic arms:

"To all of you who have seen this amazing work of art, don't you feel the slightest bit of shock and honor from the bottom of your hearts?!"

His voice spread out, echoing for a long time in the empty structure created by the colony's energy shield.

Three seconds later, a roar of gnashing teeth came from the horizon:

"Black-Mountain-Sheep!!!"

A surging red light pierced through, but Ji Li raised his palm, and a huge energy membrane appeared in the sky, intercepting the entire red light and exploding into a violent explosion.

As the bright red explosion gradually subsided, three figures climbed over countless steel structures and appeared in the large open square below. They looked up and saw Ji Li overlooking them from the giant building above.

As Ji Li projected a virtual button in his hand, his voice echoed across the external speakers of the entire colonial base:
"Welcome to Saturn Base... hillbillies."

At this moment, the mouthpiece showed an unconcealable anger on his face, and ignored Ji Li's words:

"How dare you take advantage of the gift of the Predator King..."

"The Avengers came to your door and brought gifts. If you don't accept them, wouldn't that mean you are looking down on your bandit leader?"

"You weird bastard... Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to withstand his power and will be directly transformed into one of us?!"

"Why don't you use the Predator's Hive Core to give me orders so that I can spare your lives?"

"Black Goat, there will be no good consequences if you anger me...!"

A pink light gathered in his hand and pounced towards Ji Li:

"Don't forget, you are using the gift of my stable!!!"

"Roar--!!!"

Jumping Wolf-039 roared angrily and charged towards the red light head-on, bursting into a raging fire in the air.

The Leaping Wolf-039, whose steel shell was blown into pieces, jumped directly down from the giant building where Ji Li was, jumping on those precise protrusions one after another, and pounced directly at the three people of the Mouthpiece in the fire that had not yet dispersed.

The burly Pig-faced Man took the first step forward, and with a wave of his backhand, sharp bloody claw marks appeared out of thin air.

After shedding its shell, the jumping wolf with its blood-red muscles and iron knots was instantly knocked away, letting out a mournful cry.

"You used a mere derivative to deal with us. Has your soul well been exhausted to this extent..."

With a wave of his hand, a huge vascular tentacle burst out from his side:

"Get down!!"

The Pig-Faced Man stepped directly onto the bursting vascular tentacles and ran towards Ji Li.

The silent liquid organ next to it turned into a ball of sticky and foul-smelling acid that wrapped around the tentacles and also spiraled along the bloody surface.

But Ji Li just slightly sidestepped and let the giant tentacle hit his side across a distance of hundreds or thousands of meters, and tilted his head slightly:
"Do you think the World Tree's territory will be as run by a makeshift team as your animal stable?"

As soon as the words fell, pairs of scarlet electronic eyes lit up on the densely packed giant maintenance racks in the dark hangar.

Then the lights in the entire building lit up, and accompanied by the sound of dense bouncing and shaking like an earthquake, a tide of metal beasts rushed out of the building complex one after another like a tidal wave of jumping wolves.

There were some carrying machine guns, some speeding in the air with jet packs, some gliding at high speeds with gripping wheels, and some huge jumping wolves that were several meters tall.

The violent mechanical tide followed the vibrating steps of steel colliding, and amid Ji Li's loud and electric laughter, it rushed towards the three people one after another!

The mouthpiece's expression changed almost instantly.

(End of this chapter)