Eternal Night

Chapter 493 Ordinary people using their bare bodies to withstand space-based weapons, isn't that basic stuff?
Wu Pifu knew that the mechanical life form possessed powerful immortality, so after he chopped its huge body into pieces, he finely chopped the remaining parts into minced meat. Only when the huge mechanical life form was completely reduced to ashes did Wu Pifu breathe a sigh of relief.

"It seems I still lack a large-scale attack method..."

Wu Pifu stood there silently contemplating the battle.

It itself poses no danger, and the enemy's strength is not actually that great. However, relying on its size and high-powered ranged weapons, it should be no less than a martial saint who is a pure human immortal martial artist. For example, when Ace faces this mechanical monster, we will only know who wins after the fight.

That alone posed almost no threat to him. The reason he was injured by the laser was simply because he was caught off guard and because the laser was a close-range, wide-area attack. Moreover, the laser was only a minor injury to him at his current level.

What truly made Wu Pifu ponder was that he didn't have many attack techniques specifically designed for large-sized or super-large-sized opponents.

If we were to describe them by combat type, Wu Pifu would definitely be a person-to-person combatant, Liang Min would be able to fight against armies or even cities, while Chu Minghao would definitely be a nation-to-nation, planet-to-planet, or world-to-world combatant.

This doesn't mean Wu Pifu is weak. In fact, although there is still a huge gap in strength between him and Liang Min and Chu Minghao, he is indeed catching up with them step by step. At the same time, as the number of times his super brain awakening program is executed increases, his super brain will be even stronger than theirs in the future. Even now, Liang Min and Chu Minghao would never dare to let Wu Pifu get within five steps of them.

It's just that Wu Pifu is best at fighting people, fighting individual opponents.

"...It seems I need to focus on improving my area-of-effect attacks. It's a pity I didn't get the Human Immortal Martial Arts' cultivation technique, otherwise I could have cultivated the Ghost Immortal technique, which would have given me a greater attack range." Wu Pifu muttered to himself.

Just then, Wu Pifu saw A1 and six other members of the Ruoye unit, each carrying a weapon, about to enter the battlefield of the camp. However, they were not going to surround him. Although Wu Pifu could not sense their emotions, he could easily tell from their combat targets that these seven handsome men and beautiful women were actually planning to fight alongside him.

"What the hell? They were just shouting for war a moment ago..."

Just as Wu Pifu was about to speak with the seven people, his brow suddenly twitched, and he shouted directly at them, "Get out of the way!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground exploded, and a light source shot out from where the mechanical lifeform had previously emerged. It tore the ground apart and propelled Wu Pifu into the sky.

This is a silver-white humanoid being that is over three meters tall.

Its body and features bore a striking resemblance to humans, with a 70-80% similar appearance. It was entirely silver-white, with a streamlined physique, sword-like arms, and metallic wings on its back. Its movements were astonishingly fast, its twin blades wielding like the wind; ordinary people might not even see the blades before being sliced ​​into mincemeat. From its charge to its attack on Wu Pifu, only a fraction of a second elapsed. Then, its twin blades clashed with the broken half of the Heroic Spirit's Blade at least hundreds of times.

A tremendous sound spread outwards with the ripples of wind, causing the entire earth to tremble. These spreading ripples roared and exploded like sonic weapons, which even the elite A1 and other Wakaba units could not withstand. Their faces were filled with horror, and protective force fields appeared on their bodies as they desperately resisted the sonic boom.

As the newest and strongest androids, they are actually unable to intervene in the battle between ordinary humans and advanced mechanical life forms!?
At this very moment, the high-level mechanical life form let out a wild roar and laughter, looking like a madman who had finally found his organization.

"You're human, aren't you? You're human, aren't you? You're human, aren't you? You..." The simulated humanoid head kept emitting such roars.

"...Of course I'm a human being!"

Wu Pifu grew irritated by what he heard. He slashed and hacked with the Broken Spirit Blade in his hand, unleashing a burst of energy that sent the two mechanical lifeforms flying. Then he slammed his palm into their chests, creating a deafening explosion. The energy burst out from behind them, forming a visible torrent that shot out at least a thousand meters away.

A huge hole exploded in the chest of the mechanical lifeform, and the surging energy began to erode and spread from the hole. The mechanical lifeform also fell to the ground at the same time, and a large amount of mechanical flesh and blood immediately seeped from the ground and poured into the wound of the mechanical lifeform, but it still could not stop the gradual spread of ash in its chest, and could only slightly delay the destruction.

Unexpectedly, the mechanical life form did not struggle after falling to the ground, but lay there looking at Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu descended from the sky, carrying the Broken Spirit Blade, and walked step by step towards the mechanical life form. At this moment, the mechanical life form suddenly spoke, "Do you like reading?"

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, staring at the mechanical lifeform for a few seconds before saying, "Hmm, you like reading science fiction, martial arts, fantasy... and so on. And then?"

The mechanical lifeform's eyes seemed to light up, and it immediately asked, "Reading a book, what exactly is it like to read a book?"

At this moment, A1 and the others slowly walked to a distance of more than ten meters behind Wu Pifu, and stood there silently to protect Wu Pifu from behind.

Wu Pifu was naturally unaware of the seven's plans, but since they hadn't shown any hostility towards him, he didn't bother to interfere. He simply frowned and asked the mechanical lifeform, "What do you mean? I don't understand what you're trying to say." The mechanical lifeform's eyes flashed... not as an adjective, but literally like a light bulb, before it immediately said, "A book, hundreds of thousands of words, millions of words, with very little information, regardless of its internal records, I can scan, analyze, and understand it in 0.00... one second. Whether it's foreshadowing, hidden plots, or even the author's growth, insights, and logical contradictions in the writing, I can thoroughly analyze it, but..."

"I don't feel the emotional resonance described in those reading notes, as if I've connected with the author. Does this... count as reading?"

Wu Pifu remained silent for a long while. He sat down beside the mechanical lifeform, gazing into the humanoid's eyes. After more than ten seconds, he finally spoke: "This involves too many things. First of all, humans have emotions. These emotions are not only recorded in books, but also appear in many forms of artistic expression. The so-called resonance is not just about the content of the book, but more about the emotions conveyed in the book..."

The mechanical lifeform looked at Wu Pifu. The ash and ashes covering its body had spread out, its entire chest cavity was empty, its upper and lower body were completely severed, its lower body was rapidly withering away, and its upper body had also withered and the ashes had reached the trachea. Its voice was beginning to distort: ​​"Why can't I feel this sense of attachment? What is this emotion described by the program? How can I feel this emotion?"

Wu Pifu fell silent again. He shook his head and said, "You are not human. You cannot feel human emotions."

The mechanical lifeform's decay had reached its mouth, and it uttered in a lisp, "How can I become human..."

Wu Pifu didn't answer. He stood there silently for a long time until the entire mechanical lifeform completely disappeared. Only then did he stand up and say, "I don't know how to turn from a monster into a human..."

After speaking, Wu Pifu turned to look at A1 and the others. Strangely, the seven people were extremely respectful to him, which was completely different from when they had met him before.

However, Wu Pifu could understand it, after all, his strength was off the charts. He didn't use any high-tech weapons. Others might not have noticed at first, but it was impossible to hide it now. So this was naturally beyond the scope of the rules.

Imagine a scenario in the 21st century where monsters roam and humanity is plunged into an apocalyptic state. Then, suddenly, a superhuman descends from the sky and, without using guns or missiles, directly slaughters those monsters with his bare hands. Humanity would absolutely express respect and reverence. If this superhuman were a person, they might even elect him as the emperor of all mankind.

Wu Pifu said to A1, "Now you know? I didn't use any high-tech weapons in the fight."

A1 and the six members of the Wakaba unit all nodded simultaneously, saying, "Yes, we know you are human. One of the vast majority of humans, not a mechanical life form, but an ordinary human."

"Yes, ordinary...humans?"

As Wu Pifu spoke, he sensed something was amiss, and unusually, he noticed his confusion level starting to drop. This was gratifying, but it also made him even more bewildered.

A human being who can fly, fight, and chop a kilometer-long mechanical monster into mincemeat...?
Or did he misunderstand the other person's meaning, and the other person wanted to express that they did not see him as a monster and still recognized his human identity?
Just as Wu Pifu was completely baffled, he suddenly stopped thinking and looked up at the sky.

A radiant light gradually appeared in the sky, growing brighter and brighter, its brilliance even beginning to surpass that of the sun.

"A space-based weapon!?" A1 exclaimed in shock.

The other six people were also terrified. They all said to Wu Pifu, "Please get out of here as soon as possible! The destruction radius of the space-based weapon is 500,000 square kilometers, but the explosion speed after landing is not that fast!!"

As they spoke, they were about to take off and head towards the bright impact point. Before landing, the attack range of the space-based weapon was only ten meters in diameter. As artificial humans of the Wakaba Squad, their protective force fields were very strong. Even though they knew that this could not withstand the space-based weapon for even a second, they did not intend to sit idly by and wait for death when it came to protecting the core of humanity.

But in the next instant, Wu Pifu shot into the sky at a speed far exceeding theirs, leaving the seven people stunned in mid-air.

"...Can an ordinary person's physical body withstand space-based weapons?"

The beautiful woman with long, straight black hair, wearing a miniskirt, suspenders, and stockings asked the question.

Everyone looked bewildered, and then a question suddenly arose in their minds...

If ordinary people's physical bodies can withstand space-based weapons and treat them as basic manipulation, then... why did humanity in the past invent these "weapons" that could not harm them at all?

Is it fun?
(End of this chapter)