Douluo: I founded the mecha tribe and I am the king of mecha battles!

Chapter 256 Na'er, who was stripped away
These ambiguous words made Gu Yue pause, as if she was considering something, and a blush involuntarily appeared on her face.

"boom!"

Chen Zhou's disgusted expression reappeared, and without hesitation, he gave Gu Yue a sharp rap on the forehead. "Is there nothing else in your brain besides that lewd garbage?!"

"woo"

Gu Yue covered her head, looking at Chen Zhou with some confusion.

Chen Zhou sighed, pointed in the direction of Shrek Academy, and said, "Have you forgotten that you're not whole yet?!"

Na'er!

A clone formed from the Silver Dragon King's subordinate personality!

It contains thirty percent of the Silver Dragon King's power!

Chen Zhou's words struck Gu Yue's chaotic thoughts like a bolt of lightning. The silver light that had been swirling in her purple eyes suddenly froze, and images from the depths of her memory surged forth like a tide—

That was a gamble with oneself.

The "Na'er" who was separated from her own human consciousness chose to make a bet with herself in order to protect Tang Wulin.
"But our bet isn't over yet."

Gu Yue frowned, the Silver Dragon King's fingertips unconsciously scratching several marks on the metal wall. She suddenly realized an absurd fact—during her time with Chen Zhou, she had almost forgotten the bet she made when she first came to Donghai City.

The clone named Na'er, the embodiment of the Silver Dragon King's last curiosity about humanity, is currently spending time with Tang Wulin at Shrek Academy.

Chen Zhou squinted, seemingly pondering whether it was worth the trouble of improving such a brain-dead and foolish subordinate.

But when he thought about the power that could drive and control the elements between heaven and earth, and the thought of being able to transfer such power to every mechanical beast warrior, Chen Zhou felt happy.

As their core force, the stronger the warriors of the Beastman race are, the better.

In this way, it will be more comfortable to conquer countless worlds and dimensions, and even to explore different universes.

So, I'll accept it no matter how stupid it is.

Speechless, Chen Zhou gave Gu Yue another sharp rap on the head.

"Your Excellency the Wise Silver Dragon King, you don't actually consider yourself human, do you?"

"That so-called bet has absolutely no binding force, and it's not worth your adherence."

Chen Zhou leaned down, his fierce eyes flashing with a chilling light unique to the ancient well. The two were so close that they could count each other's eyelashes.

"A so-called bet is nothing more than a shackle you put on yourself."

His long, slender fingers lifted Gu Yue's chin, forcing her to look directly into the abyss in his eyes. "You think this is following the pride of the dragon race? No—"

He brushed his fingertip across her trembling lips. "That's just a coward's excuse to avoid making a choice."

Or perhaps...

Chen Zhou chuckled, his eyes filled with undisguised sarcasm. "You really fell in love with that boy? Tang Wulin?"

Gu Yue's pupils suddenly contracted, and his black hair moved on its own without any wind.

"you--"

Suddenly, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the metal floor centered on her, and countless tiny silver scales emerged from her skin. The laboratory's alarm system activated instantly, a blinding red light accompanied by a buzzing sound engulfing the entire space.

Chen Zhou laughed.

He slowly raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and all the alarms stopped immediately. The dragon scales that had appeared on Gu Yue's body seemed to have been paused, frozen in a state of just before they appeared.

"Enraged?" The slender fingers suddenly tightened, gripping Gu Yue's chin until it turned white. A dangerous undercurrent surged in Chen Zhou's eyes: "Your Excellency, Silver Dragon King, are you reluctant to part with that black-haired boy, or are you reluctant to part with the innocence you displayed when you were playing the human?"

"open!"

Gu Yue's body erupted with dazzling silver light, and the pressure of the Silver Dragon King was like a collapsing mountain. However, Chen Zhou merely flicked his arm, and those violent spiritual energies shattered into countless points of light, like waves crashing against rocks.

"It seems to be the latter."

Chen Zhou released his grip, took a half step back, and elegantly adjusted his cuffs. "What a pity, I thought I was going to see a good show of 'the Silver Dragon King rebelling for love'."

Gu Yue was breathing heavily, her chest heaving. She stared at Chen Zhou as if he were some incomprehensible monster: "What exactly do you want?"

The holographic projection on the control panel suddenly switched automatically, displaying Shrek Academy's real-time monitoring. In the image, a black-haired boy and a black-haired girl were walking side by side on the shore of Poseidon Lake, the setting sun casting a gentle golden glow on their silhouettes.

"How youthful."

Chen Zhou lightly tapped his fingertip, and the image zoomed in, freezing on Na'er's smiling profile. "This clone, carrying thirty percent of your power, is using your Silver Dragon King bloodline to nurture the seed of the Golden Dragon King—"

He turned to Gu Yue, a cold glint flashing in his eyes: "Guess what will happen when the Golden Dragon King's seal within Tang Wulin is completely broken?"

The laboratory's temperature control system suddenly malfunctioned. Gu Yue felt a chill creep up her spine—she knew the answer, of course. When the powers of the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings met in the same container, Na'er would only be devoured.

Tang Wulin may gain the power of the Dragon God as a result, but Na'er, or rather, the part of the Silver Dragon King's essence that constitutes Na'er, will be lost forever.

"It seems our Silver Dragon King is finally starting to think." Chen Zhou clapped his hands, and the monitoring screen switched to a dense stream of data. "According to the calculations of the Supreme Research Group, at Tang Wulin's current rate of de-sealing, that wonderful moment is still some time away."

He deliberately dragged out his words, looking at Gu Yue's tense shoulders: "Six years."

"Since the Silver Dragon King and the Golden Dragon King belong to the same source, do you think the six-year timeframe might be shortened?"

Gu Yue suddenly gripped the edge of the control panel, his knuckles turning white.

"Is this what you wanted?"

Her voice was like shattered ice crystals, "Look at me...like a clown."

Chen Zhou's eyebrows twitched almost imperceptibly. He turned and walked towards the control panel, the hem of his black trench coat drawing a sharp arc in the air.

“What I want is a complete Silver Dragon King—” The fingers that retrieved the data typed out a cold, hard rhythm on the holographic keyboard, “not a defective product torn apart by clumsy emotional drama.”

The surveillance footage suddenly split into hundreds of windows, each displaying clips of Na'er and Tang Wulin together. Chen Zhou waved his hand, and these clips spun and arranged in the air like playing cards.

How touching!

His voice was so soft it was chilling, “following the homeless child I took in as my sister for a piece of bread, releasing fireflies into Poseidon Lake, sharing candy in the work-study dormitory.”

Every keyword felt like a knife slicing into Gu Yue's heart. Those memories belonging to Na'er seemed to be replacing her own, as if she were the one interacting with Tang Wulin at this moment, intertwining with the cold, inherited memories of the Silver Dragon King into a blinding mess.

The screen suddenly went completely dark.

When Chen Zhou turned around, he had a metal box in his hand. The lid slid open automatically, revealing crystals flowing with liquid silver light inside.

The light reflected in Gu Yue's eyes, as if she were looking at a broken version of herself, causing her fingertips to tremble uncontrollably.

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