Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 610 Origin and Outbreak

Following the directions Zhang Jie had given him, Zheng Zha headed towards the core of the spiritual energy field. He didn't take any shortcuts, whether there were many or few people around; to be precise, he actually walked straight ahead.

No isolation door or metal wall could stop him; they would only collapse silently as he approached, then merge into the red flames surrounding him.

The entire communications ship was in complete chaos, with piercing alarms and clamorous shouts echoing everywhere.

"Aren't they communicating with each other using mental power? Why are they still so talkative?" Zheng Zha thought to himself.

Zhang Jie, who was still directing the drones to assist in the breakout and reinforcement of the center, shrugged upon hearing this: "What you're saying is not uncommon. Zhan Lan and I are not mute either."

Zheng Zha almost laughed out loud; he knew Zhang Jie was talking complete nonsense.

More than ten laser beams were aimed at Zheng Zha, causing him to raise an eyebrow and sway slightly. In that instant, although Zheng Zha's body did not turn into a stream of fire, it still felt unreal.

This was a move he learned from Mu Xiang. It might seem foolish in high-level matches, but it's quite effective in low-level games like this. Speaking of which, Zhang Heng also practiced this move after acquiring the Golden Armor, saying it could sway the enemy's firing line.

Then Zheng Zha's heart skipped a beat. He wasn't afraid that these lasers would threaten him... but rather that they would threaten humanity.

He had underestimated the situation; the laser wasn't a laser aiming device at all, but rather an attack in itself. Because it couldn't penetrate his defenses, he hadn't even realized there was a problem, and even the protective shield he'd somehow acquired hadn't been activated.

After all, the effect of that handmade protective shield could only be triggered if he "believed" it could "cause damage" to him...

The strangest thing is that during Zheng Zha's shaking just now, these lasers were still stuck to him. With his eyesight, he could even see that the lasers, which should have been straight, were bent.

Although Zheng Zha wasn't a particularly shrewd person, he was still a fourth-tier powerhouse with a strong bloodline... His intuition told him that if the laser were any more powerful, the human mechs would be in danger.

You can't shake them off, and you don't know how to block them... Won't something bad happen?

As he told Zhang Jie about it, he looked around, taking in the dozen or so Celestials dressed in mechanical battle suits. The mechanical battle suits were quite stylish; even in the Main God Space, they would at least be considered high-tech weapons that required a side quest to obtain… One look was enough to tell that they were far superior to those exoskeletons that didn't require a side quest.

These celestial beings were probably the most surprising combat force on this communications ship. And the truth was, they were absolutely elite; in the mental energy image shared by Zhang Jie, the entire communications ship's mental energy field resembled a fried egg.

The core is the egg yolk, while the rest of the celestial beings are the egg white, only differing in concentration... These celestial beings in front of us are the most concentrated batch.

Zheng Zha shrugged, remembering that besides the ring, he also had a spatial bag that he couldn't remember who had exchanged for it. This reassured him; he would have somewhere to put it after he surrendered.

Seeing that he was unaffected by the dozen or so laser beams, the celestial beings began to clamor again, and the floor beneath his feet emitted terrifyingly high temperatures. Whether it was the failure of the attack or the indiscriminate heat, both caused the celestial beings to retreat.

Zheng Zha sighed, raised his right hand, and more than ten shadows burst out from the flames in front of him. The lasers disappeared almost simultaneously, and the dozen or so elite Celestials immediately fell silent.

Each Celestial being in their battle suit leaned straight against the wall, their strange laser-firing guns lying on the ground, as if they were there to be punished. But upon closer inspection, one could see that each Celestial being had a long metal rod inserted into their chest, pinning them firmly to the wall.

Zheng Zha's attack was extremely vicious, just as he had seen before... The brain or internal organs of a Celestial's external body are actually secondary; injury will certainly affect function, but to say it is fatal is a bit of an exaggeration.

The real crux of the matter lies in the nodes of that viscous, soft material.

If even one node is destroyed, the loop will break, and the game will inevitably fail!
To be honest, Zheng Zha doesn't know anything about metal control, but his mastery of red flames has reached a level that others can't even imagine... although he himself is not satisfied.

However, Zheng Zha wasn't satisfied; ultimately, he wanted to refine his skills to an even more incredible level. Being stuck here didn't mean he couldn't perform some of the already quite incredible techniques.

Since he can control the crimson flames and use their high temperature to interfere with other matter, energy, and space... then setting aside the promise of mass-energy-spacetime integration that Mu Xiang once made to him, he should also be able to do the opposite. Since it's all high temperature, why can't he affect other high-temperature things?
Even if the high temperature was not caused by his red flames.

Driven by this idea, Zheng Zha also mastered the technique in the other direction, and he quickly became certain that he had definitely used this technique before, but he might not have been aware of it.

Controlling the metals used by the Celestials is actually a derivative of this technique.

Perhaps the celestial beings discovered that the high temperatures weren't a hindrance to Zheng Zha, but rather a potential benefit, and they shut down the high temperatures that could be activated anywhere. Zheng Zha felt the temperature around him slowly decreasing and couldn't help but shrug.

They should have discovered it sooner; otherwise, they would have been letting down this kind of wide-area mental surveillance.

But now, whether to shut it down or not is no longer up to them. Zheng Zha didn't make any unnecessary movements; he even leisurely put the guns and armor into his spatial bag, causing the temperature of the entire communications ship to rise sharply once again.

As Zheng Zha packed up his equipment, he also shook the mechanical battle suit a few times to shake out the celestial beings that had turned to ash inside.

The metal of the entire communications ship began to glow red, and the temperature, many times exceeding the limits of this high-temperature cleaning system, became unbearable even for the remaining Celestials. Their comfortable temperature and extreme heat tolerance seemed to be far apart, but they still couldn't withstand such high temperatures, and one by one they turned to ashes. Their spiritual energy also began to shatter and dissipate, leaving only the very core.

Zheng Zha walked straight ahead. The spiritual core didn't exist out of thin air; it had a physical entity supporting it. One of his major tasks here was to obtain this thing.

To be honest, Zheng Zha broke through the communications ship faster than Zhang Jie had expected. He was supposed to put on an act... which left Zhang Jie somewhat helpless. He ordered the drones outside the communications ship to stop attacking and prepare to turn to the breakout group, while he restrained the dissipating mental energy.

This almost soul-binding technique, when used by Zhang Jie's mental power, wasn't even considered a skill. He recorded the characteristics of this mental power, and then probed it into the machine in front of Zheng Zha.

This is the core of the communications ship's mental energy field... and also the communication node for this group of warships.

Zhang Jie once again discovered traces of human spiritual energy within, but there was even more spiritual energy he had never sensed before, and he didn't know what species it belonged to. These spiritual energies intertwined with each other, and based on the spiritual energy of humans and celestial beings, they formed a vast spiritual energy field, which then spread outwards, connecting all the celestial beings and equipment within this spiritual energy field.

"Tsk." Zhang Jie felt a surge of anger. This mental field might be a good communication medium for celestial beings, but in his perception, it was far too complex. The residual mental imprints and thoughts were nothing short of horrific. He was certain that this mental energy had been strengthened, amplified, and solidified through some means.

For example, by using various stimuli to enhance human senses, and then stripping away their spirit at their most painful moment... The part of the spirit that belongs to the individual, the content similar to "I", will collapse at this moment, leaving only the spirit in a broad sense.

However, Zhang Jie couldn't dwell on this for long. He sighed and began to trace what lay beyond this node. A single node would only be the core of this spiritual field, but it was obvious that such a massive fleet must be governed by even higher nodes. Tracing back further, it might be the fleet's main node, or even some core entity within the Celestial Realm.

Zhang Jie's spiritual power surged in like a raging tide, but it wasn't like all rivers flowing into the sea; rather, it was like the tide flowing backward, heading towards an even more distant place.

To his surprise, the overall strength of the fleet's nodes was not much, and they were not significantly stronger than the nodes of these communication ships, not even by an order of magnitude.

If we continue pushing upwards, since there isn't a single powerful secondary node, it means that the topmost node must be even stronger... otherwise it wouldn't be able to handle this function.

His mental energy smoothly passed through numerous obstacles. There were indeed massive counterattacks of mental energy along the way, but these mere reflections and suppressions based on sheer magnitude posed no threat to him. To achieve even greater speed, Zhang Jie also used the rune he had discovered within Adam's body. His mental energy, based on the structure revealed by the rune, formed an independent space, rushing upwards like an extremely long pipe.

When he broke through the last barrier, his mental energy finally reached the highest mental energy node... This was the true core.

"Let me see...where exactly are you?" Zhang Jie murmured.

The next moment, Zhang Jie's whole body trembled.

He saw Mu Xiang outside the core. Mu Xiang was holding Ji Yue in one hand, dealing with the attack from two figures in front and behind. The strength of this spiritual core was extremely high, and it was firmly connected to those two beings... Their spiritual strength far exceeded that of ordinary fourth-tier beings!

Just then, Mu Xiang blocked the impact from behind with a backhand slash, and his body sprinted forward, delivering a flying knee that distorted space and forced the enemy in front of him back.

Then, he turned his head and looked in Zhang Jie's direction with some confusion.

Zhang Jie was willing to bet that Mu Xiang was definitely watching him... even though Zhang Jie had only infiltrated that area with his mental energy.

Then, another, even more powerful spiritual force appeared behind Zhang Jie's perspective. Originally, Zhang Jie hadn't even noticed this presence, but at this moment, this presence sensed the anomaly first, and its own aura erupted.

"My grass!"

Zhang Jie, who was far away from the communications ship, narrowed his eyes. Then, he severed the mental link on his own. A terrifying mental force erupted from the Celestial's mental network and swept across the area. Zhang Jie's mark was shattered at the core, and the node on the communications ship also suffered. Terrifying mental force fluctuations spread from this center!

In the area controlled by this communications ship... all the Celestials had their spirits erased at this moment.

Zheng Zha also noticed something was wrong, and he anxiously asked in his mind, "What's going on?!"

Zhang Jie did not answer. He took a deep breath, left Zheng Zha with a sentence, and then... the spirit in this body was also directly annihilated.

At the same time, Zhang Jie's spiritual body, which was investigating the anomaly with Zhang Heng and others on Earth, and another prosthetic body that was moving, both stopped what they were doing and looked up at the extremely high sky and beyond the sky, into the even more distant distance.

(End of this chapter)