Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 169 19. The Snake and Tiger Alliance
In fact, if he had a choice, Zhou Ke would not want to bring trouble upon himself.

After all, although he and Wu Qinhu have become mortal enemies, if the two sides can sit down and have a good talk before picking up their knives and starting a fight, Zhou Ke will not miss the opportunity to fool people.

He was very keenly aware that Wu Qinhu's dislike for him was not just due to his disturbance in the Castle of the End. If he had to say, the previous encounter in the No. 2 Research Institute had made him realize that the grudge between him and Wu Qinhu was purely "personal" and did not contain even a trace of patriotism.

Therefore, Zhou Ke actually wanted to know why Wu Qinhu was determined to kill him.

Just as he sensed that little Acholi had an important knot in his heart, he could also feel that his image in Wu Qinhu's mind was far more than just a "madman".

But unfortunately, fate does not seem to give Zhou Ke and Wu Qinhu too many opportunities to communicate.

When he and the Evil Vulture were approaching the inner circle with their men, the monster suddenly jumped out without warning and chopped Amanda, who rushed forward for close combat, into a cloud of yellow sand with one blow.

This destructive power immediately made everyone realize that this guy was not someone they could deal with. This group of old silver coins hardly needed any words to communicate. They confirmed each other's thoughts with a glance, and then turned around and ran away tacitly.

The Tiger King deserves to be in trouble today.

After Zhou Ke and his companions crossed two time flow faults, they ran into them right in the face, and the monster that was chasing them "refreshed" in front of Wu Qinhu.

accident!

Well, it was all an accident!

Brother, let’s talk nicely, don’t draw your sword!

"retreat!"

Seeing the monster rushing towards him, Wu Qinhu no longer cared about scolding Zhou Ke for being shameless.

Seeing that his men were foolishly trying to resist, Tiger King jumped over and kicked Biao Wei away. He gathered his energy on the spot and transformed into a red "Super Saiyan". He roared and made a perfect block with the knife in front of him.

The eight-meter-tall monster raised its crystal sword high and smashed it down with a clang. The time fault was shaken amid the flying smoke and dust. The surrounding wind and sand were instantly rolled into dust, and the instantaneous researcher who had already run away screamed at the top of his voice:
"Run! The 'Time Lords' can disrupt the flow of time. This place is going to collapse!"

"go!"

Zhou Ke grabbed Amanda, who was still vomiting blood, with his left hand, and Afu with his right hand. He leaped into the air with the flapping of the rock wings created by the "Gargoyle Mask", picked up the two girls and made a sharp turn to rush towards the exit of the time fault. D-4 followed closely behind and did not forget to open the weapon bay to bombard the retreating Tiger State members below.

The evil vulture wanted to follow.

But she had just "paid full price" for the third magic eye, which made her very hateful. As soon as she stood up, she was spotted by the Time Lord. The strange creature covered with khaki crystals let out a shrill scream, raised its left foot like a crystal combat boot and stepped on the ground, and a ruthless war trampling tore the time flow fault from the center.

Amid Afu's screams, the young lady was unable to break free from the constraints of the chaotic time flow and was dragged into the "black hole".

"She's not dead, stop howling!"

Zhou Ke cursed, and was almost chased by the black vortex of time flow amid Wu Neng's harsh warning. He jumped into another time flow fault at the last second before being swallowed, and barely escaped.

Through the blurry layer of sand that seemed so close, he vaguely saw Wu Qinhu transform into a meteor and pounce on the crystal monster's head, giving it a hard blow.

"Zhao, this guy is really fierce!"

Zhou Ke sighed and threw the girl he was dragging with both hands to the ground. D-4 also dropped from the air, stretched out his hand, ejected a treatment needle from his fingertips, and stabbed it into Amanda's neck to prevent the poor girl's injuries from getting worse.

The monster did not catch up, perhaps it was entangled by Wu Qinhu. In any case, Zhou Ke felt temporarily safe.

He panted and said to Amanda beside him:

"What happened just now? How come you were killed instantly? Is that guy so strong?"

"Do you know what 'demigod' means?"

Amanda still had blood foam coming out of her mouth, and she pointed behind her and said tremblingly:
"That guy is a demigod, or at least the closest thing to a demigod on the surface world. Although I have never seen this kind of thing before, the fact that it was able to penetrate the elemental and directly hurt my body just now has already proved its value.

I feel like I've aged ten years in an instant.

At least ten years old.”

"Well, it's not an illusion."

Zhou Ke felt around his body and took out a small mirror from somewhere and placed it in front of Amanda. The red-haired knight commander was horrified to find wrinkles on his face.

"It's obvious that every blow of that damn thing carries the power of 'old' and 'weak'. It reminds me of Roger's damn pistol."

Zhou Ke sat cross-legged on the spot, waiting for Amanda to recover, and said:

"And the Flash Researcher just called out the name of 'Time Lord'. I suspect that the Flash Organization must know the origin of that monster! Maybe this is another weird thing created by their ghost experiment."

"Be bold, Joker."

Wu Neng spoke at this time:

"I just used the hyper-dimensional radar to scan the crystal monster. Guess what I found under that thick layer of 'crystal armor'? I bet you can't guess it!"

"Don't play the guessing game now, Wu Neng. I've been scared enough today. Just announce the answer directly."

Zhou Ke said this helplessly, and Wu Neng ridiculed him as "boring", then used a light curtain to project a strange spectrum, revealing the real answer.

The seven-meter-high crystal monster presents a completely different form in the spectral layering. Under the thick crystal on the outside is a broken humanoid body, right at the heart of the "Time Lord".

Regardless of the complex and mysterious relationship between the two, this scene looks more like a mysterious guy driving a crystallized steel truck and killing everyone.

Zhou Ke and D-4 looked at each other, he narrowed his eyes and said:
"Could that guy be Takahashi Santaifu who has been missing for over a year?"

"It's possible. As one of the three masters of the Flash, he is at least at the same level as Roger and Han Bin in terms of research. When the No. 1 Research Institute encountered a disaster with the damage of the reference instrument, it makes sense that he activated some self-protection measures at the critical moment."

D-4 analyzed:
"But one spectrum alone is not enough to make a judgment. We must obtain more intelligence."

"The Time Beast was scared away in the chaos just now."

Zhou Ke sighed and said:
"From now on, I can only rely on luck to pass through this complicated time maze. Zhuo, why is it luck? Why did I choose to go to the part that I am least good at?"

"Zhou Ke! There's movement in the wind and sand ahead! The surrounding sand is not moving normally."

Amanda, who was lying dead next to them, heard the conversation between the two. She didn't intend to be forced to use her brain when she was injured, but this time, relying on her control over the sand, Amanda was still able to capture the changes in the surrounding environment in the first place.

Speaking of which, the external manifestation of the time maze is a sandstorm with extremely low visibility. This environment can be regarded as Amanda's "home court".

Of course, she could only sense and slightly manipulate it. The sand and gravel here were all carrying chaotic time energy, which exceeded the limit of what Amanda could mobilize.

"Afu, you stay here to protect Amanda. D-4 and I will go over and take a look."

Zhou Ke carefully put on the resurrection armor. This time mask was obtained with the help of Rhine by killing a mature X-894 before encountering the "Time Lord".

With this thing, Zhou Ke’s confidence increased greatly, and he even dared to take the initiative to undertake the exploration work.

The two mechanical arms behind him kept moving and locked onto the front. D-4 had two knives drawn and protected at his sides. Following Amanda's instructions, the two slowly stepped into the windy and sandy environment with extremely low visibility. A dozen steps away, they unexpectedly saw a huge rock and a "bonfire" lit in the shadows.

An old man with a white beard and a style that was both retro and avant-garde was sitting beside the gravel, using a wooden stick in his hand to stir the flame, like a traveler who had strayed into a sandstorm.

"It's you!"

Zhou Ke recognized this guy at a glance, and the latter turned around and looked at him with a smile, waved and said:
"It's you, Lan.

You see, I told you, we will meet again. Bring your injured friend here. The flow of time here is too chaotic. All kinds of possibilities are intertwined here without any rules, just like the history of the surface world that has long been shattered.

But because of that, I can be less restricted here.

I can talk to you for longer, are you still going to stand there? For us, time is passing by second by second."

"Tell me who you are first!"

Zhou Ke asked seriously:
"I know you must be very powerful, and maybe you have a background that can scare me, but I still have the right to choose. I at least have to make sure that you are not an enemy with ulterior motives."

"Who am I? Haha, good question."

The white-bearded old man by the campfire stretched out his hand, allowing the storm that appeared around him at that time to gather into visible quicksand in his palm, and then spread the quicksand out with the shaking of his fingertips.

He whispered:

"I am an explorer who moves from the present to the past, and a weeper who looks back at the future from the past. I have been cursed by a 'blessing', and therefore have been forever trapped in the endlessly intertwined chaos of time.

I could leave this cage at any time, but I finally chose self-exile.

I deserve all this punishment, Lan.

If you ask me who I am, I will tell you that I am the 'creator' of this world. Of course, I am not the god you imagine. If there really is a god, things would not be so bad now.

Don't be so anxious, you are destined to find the 'truth' you want to see in this maze.

But these are still far from the truth that Han Bin and Weng Yafen studied. You are not the first friend I made in this era, but you are indeed the one I have been waiting for. "

Zhou Ke took a step back. He stretched out his hand to protect D-4 and said more vigilantly:

"But you still haven't told me who you are!"

"Have you ever heard of the 'Eternal Seven'?"

The white-bearded old man showed a trace of sadness. After seeing Zhou Ke nod, he said:

"Unfortunately, I am one of them. My name is..."

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"Valsenk! His name is Valsenk!"

With a scream, the unconscious evil eagle Rhine suddenly opened her eyes. The leader of the eagle nation covered her head and endured the excruciating pain in her mind. She wailed:
"The Eternal Seven, the original proposer of the historian Valsenk's sacred benchmark project, my father's partner. I remember his name! That power disappeared, no! He took the initiative to expose himself.

His 'meme' is gone, and the secrets are revealed!"

"Calm down! Miss Rhine, you need to calm down now."

As the evil vulture screamed, a pair of cold hands pressed down on her shoulders, forcing her to lie back on the stretcher. Only then did the evil vulture feel the weakness of her body.

The strength is still there, but the body is injured.

She turned her head and saw Qiao Ya, who was wearing a motorcycle suit and looking at her worriedly. However, the "thing" following Qiao Ya made Rhine subconsciously clench his fingers and prepare to release psychic energy. The "thing" also waved its mechanical arm and ejected a hot-melt bayonet with a bang.

"You two, that's enough!" Qiao Ya screamed:
"We are in a cooperative relationship now. Please put your weapons away! Mr. Robot."

"We have only reached a temporary cooperation agreement with the Snake Nation, but this 'Chaos Believer' is not your companion. She is dangerous. Well, we usually call this kind of thing a 'unit on the verge of losing control'!"

The "slender" mechanical sage beside Qiao Ya moved the red artificial eye on his head, waved the "high-intensity energy suppression device" that looked like a steel staff in his hand, and said in a ruthless mechanical voice:

"What she hides is more dangerous than you think, Ms. Qiao Ya. This machine suggests you stay away from her. This machine will render her harmless."

"I refuse! Miss Rhine is Zhou Ke's collaborator, and I am also Zhou Ke's collaborator. If we round it off, she and I are also collaborators. Protecting collaborators is the responsibility of team members."

Qiao Ya crossed her arms and made a gesture, which silenced the mechanical sage next to her. After a few seconds, this absolutely rational rebellious intelligent machine complained:

"This machine feels that there are great problems with your thinking logic, but this machine does not intend to correct it. When you actually see this 'unit on the verge of losing control' degenerate into a subspace creature, you will understand who your trusted collaborator is."

Qiao Ya turned a deaf ear to this.

She took out an energy bar from the cargo box of her suspended motorcycle, carefully placed it next to the vulture's mouth, and said:

"Levi just performed surgery on you. He said that the paralysis on your body will take thirty minutes to wear off. Don't worry, Qiao Shan, who fell from the chaotic time layer with you, and that uh, avant-garde-dressed psychic master have both been rescued by us.

But one lady was so badly injured that Levi said she couldn't be saved, so we had to bury her on the side of the road and leave a tombstone."

"You can tell the truth, Xiaoya."

The vulture said softly:
"I know what form Ron will transform into when he is dying. This is probably why the mechanical sage from Rust Castle next to you called me a 'unit on the verge of losing control'. You executed her when she was transforming into a black demon, right?"

"Uh."

Qiao Ya was embarrassed for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Yes, when she fell, she turned into something... It's hard for me to describe. In Zhou Ke's words, even if I just took a look at it, I felt that my San value was about to drop. The Mechanical Sage told me that it was a primary subspace creature, a mobile pollution source in the material world, and something that Rust Castle has been trying to eradicate for so many years.

So, are you going to become that kind of thing in the future?"

"If I'm not lucky, yes."

The evil eagle did not hide anything. She chewed a bad-tasting energy bar and said:

"But if I can find the right path to advancement."

"Haha, it only exists in theory. In practice, the probability of successfully completing the 'soul transformation' is no more than 0.01%."

The Mechanical Sage, who existed entirely in the form of silver-gray precision machinery without a single piece of bionic skin on his body, sneered mercilessly:
"You are just paralyzing yourself, ah, human, you are always choosing the wrong goals and not creating your own illusory future. You are used to weaving an illusion that will never come true to escape despair, but the psyker...
Haha, a born Chaos lackey!
The Awakening Fire is right.

As long as you exist, there will never be any hope for this world!"

The Evil Eagle had just undergone surgery and unlocked one of the meme blocks of the "Eternal Man" in her memory. The life record of "Historian Valsenk" was constantly unlocked in her mind like jumping text. The feeling of this past memory "resurfacing" was quite terrible.

Rhine felt that she needed to divert her attention. She was too lazy to argue with the rebellious machine, so she motioned Qiao Ya to help her up and asked:
"How did you get into the maze?"

"Oh, I shook a pretty powerful guy."

Qiao Ya told her story in Snake Country, then pointed ahead with a gloomy look on her face and said:
"That nasty guy fell from the same broken time layer as you, and Sasha was going to kill him while he was weak. This was the first time that Aunt Sasha and I agreed on the same thing, but the old man stopped us.

Look!
The two of them were talking in front, and they were so secretive that they didn't allow anyone else to get close."

Following Qiao Ya's finger, Rhine saw Wu Qinhu, who was carrying a sword on his back, and a man as big as a bear talking in the sand in front of them.

Wu Qinhu's hunting dragon mistress mount and her herd were lying nearby, receiving treatment from Levi, the second-in-command of the Snake State Knights, while "Thunder" Sasha stood beside her husband with a spear in hand, performing her protective duties, while curiously observing these powerful biochemical hunters who were obviously created by genetic technology.

In addition to them, there are four mechanical sages with different appearances in this team.

Three combat models were guarding a silent rebellious intelligent machine that was obviously a wise model. They did not tell the people of Snake State why they came to Time Maze No. 11, but they chose to cooperate with Old Yuri for their own purposes.

For robots who have never regarded flesh and blood beings as equals, this kind of cooperation is tantamount to "weakness."

It is particularly evident that the purpose of these robots coming to the time maze is by no means ordinary.

"What are they talking about?"

The evil eagle asked softly. Qiao Ya sat on her hoverbike and sighed:

"I don't know. I don't really care. I convinced myself not to care too much."

"You'd better care."

"I'd better not care too much, for my safety."

"Uh okay, you're right."

At the edge of the sandstorm in front of the resting convoy, Wu Qinhu leaned on his sword and said to Old Yuri:

"Thank you for this. I could feel that your silly girl was really trying to kill me. I was weak at the time. If I had been less lucky, she would have succeeded."

"Her? She's not even close!"

The snakeman curled his lips, took out a wine flask with a red five-pointed star on it, took a sip from it, and said:
"At most, I'll tear your first heart apart, and then you'll pull off your head. From what I understand, she may not even have a chance to get close to you before you strangle her neck. But I'm also very curious about what happened to you just now that could force 'Lord Tiger' into such an embarrassing state."

"Come on, Yuri, stop being weird."

Wu Qinhu waved his hands and said:
“The Shunguang bastards deceived me. They only said that there was material here that could help me make further progress, but they didn’t tell me that the thing was in the hands of a demigod, and it was the most dangerous demigod who controlled the power of time.

Don't tell me you guys are going to the inner ring too?
That means you'll have to face that horrible thing too. It's not that I look down on you, Yuri, but if you were forty years younger, you might still be able to fight that guy off.

But now you are too old.”

"Don't look down on me, Old Wu. Do you believe I can cut off another piece of your spine?"

"Come on, let me kick your balls and smash them. You won't be able to use them anyway."

Snake Man cursed, and Tiger King retorted, without showing the bearing of a legendary figure at all.

The gangster's tone of voice was so natural that the two old men burst into laughter.

It seemed like they were back to the time when they worked together. The laughter made the two knight commanders beside them look at each other in bewilderment. Sasha and Levi really couldn't understand what Dad and Wu Qinhu were talking about. Why were they so happy?
It is said that these two guys can hardly agree on anything, from their style of doing things to their outlook on life and mental will, right?

But looking at their appearance, it seems that they really have something in common that young people like me cannot understand.

After the two of them finished laughing, Snake Man threw the wine jug in his hand to Wu Qinhu. Wu Qinhu did not despise him and took it, raised his head and drank a sip, then wiped his mouth and said:

"Actually, I roughly know why you, an old man who hasn't shown up in more than ten years, came here. It's the same as me. The Eternal Singularity Project, right?"

"Ah."

Snake Man slightly closed his eyes and said:

"I have to confirm something. I have to confirm that it is him."

"Pretty much. I came here to kill him myself."

Wu Qinhu said:

"No one in the world knows what the 'Eternal Singularity' means better than the two of us. Your family thinks it is the hope of saving us, but I think it is a complete monster! You made this mistake back then.

You should have persuaded your sister not to go to extremes!
But now the mistake has been made, and old Acholi will not allow Zhou Ke to interfere with his final operation, regardless of whether he is the Eternal Singularity or not.

I also don't think it's a good thing to let that monster run around in these terrible times.

Yuri
For old times’ sake, get out of the way!
That monster is not your family's child, it's just a pure monster!"

"family."

The snake man sighed and answered the question irrelevantly:
"Do you still remember my sister's name and appearance? After you left the Enlightened One, you served as her bodyguard until the Eternal Singularity Project entered its implementation phase.

You remember it, don't you? "

Wu Qinhu hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said:
"I can confirm that she exists, and I know she's definitely not fake, but I can't remember her name, and I have absolutely no idea what she looks like. I guess you're the same way, right?

There is some kind of force blocking information about her, just like the force blocking a lot of things we should know but now completely forget. It's like a layer of gauze filtering out some of our cognition. Roger said that thing is called 'meme'. "

"And my brother-in-law's information! I only remember that they were members of the 'Eternal Seven' like old Acholi, but I even forgot what the 'Eternal Seven' stood for. Just like you said, it was as if a pair of hands took those memories away from my brain, leaving me living in a daze until now.

But I know that 'Eternal Singularity' is the hard work of my sister!

That was the only information and evidence related to my family that I could find in this strange world.”

Snake Man slapped his knee and sighed.

"Old Wu, do you think this world, this era, is real? Why do I always feel like we are living in a fake era? This place is incompatible with the hometown where we were born, as if it changed overnight."

“It’s real!”

Wu Qinhu interrupted the snake man's description and said:

"If it's fake, do you think it's necessary for someone like old Acholi to do this? He has already gambled everything he can!
Anyway, Yuri, I don't want to be your enemy.

I can give you the opportunity to confirm Zhou Ke's true identity, but you can't stop me from doing what I'm going to do to him next.

If he survives, it will prove that his existence is more meaningful than mine; if he dies, then we can only say that the so-called 'eternal singularity' is nothing more than that.

make a deal? "

"Yeah, deal."

The snake man nodded, then pointed to the sky and said:
“Zhou Ke will definitely go to the inner ring, so we have to go there too.

That monster is blocking the road. You said it was a demigod and that it had something you needed. I'm not interested in the loot, but I do want something to 'warm up' in case I might have to fight you to the death.

So, before you pick up your sword and want to kill each other, let's join forces first?"

"Ha, I've been waiting for you to say this. I couldn't ask for more! Let's join forces to defeat the powerful enemy first, and then abandon all grudges and kill you with our own abilities. This is the best way I can think of to say goodbye to you, old man!

This is how a samurai should die!

Do it! "

(End of this chapter)