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Chapter 172 The Mysterious Masked Man Reappears
Inside the church, there was a group of people whose souls had been devoured by 'sentiment'.

As Fisher walked toward them, he slowly drew his mechanical greatsword from his waist.

"The Knights cannot draw their swords against believers, but those who have been corrupted by 'sensibility' cannot be considered believers."

"Now let me use the sword in my hand to send you to repent before the Soul of All Machines."

Before long, screams echoed through the Great Bell Church in the dead of night.

Fisher's 'neutrality' was never indifference, but rather absolute obedience to 'rules' and 'central directives'.

Therefore, anything that violates the 'rules' or may threaten the 'central authority' will become his enemy.

Because, as he said, tools do not need to have their own thoughts.

The screams and the sound of metal cutting flesh completely disappeared.

Inside the quiet church with its large pendulum clock, only the mechanical bell continued to chime rhythmically.

Suddenly, a mysterious masked man with silver hair and blue eyes walked into this hell on earth filled with blood and corpses.

He looked at the wreckage scattered on the ground and clicked his tongue softly.

"That's why I don't like you bunch of lumps of iron, all you think about is procedures, you have no human touch at all."

“Purge heretics like formatting a hard drive, without the slightest guilt.”

Fisher pointed his mechanical greatsword at the mysterious masked man who exuded an aura of depravity and asked in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

Faced with this question, Heaven smiled and said, "Someone who has come to take away the 'central authority' in your chest."

"is it?"

The next second, amidst the roar of the overloaded steam engine, Fisher left a golden afterimage in place and instantly rushed to within three steps of the Heavenly Dao.

The mechanical greatsword, accompanied by a whistling sound as it tore through the air, slashed down fiercely towards the opponent's head!
In response, Heaven neither retaliated nor dodged, and even the smile in its eyes remained unchanged; it merely turned its head slightly.

In Fisher's constricted pupils.

His mechanical greatsword, which he had precisely calculated before slashing down, was suddenly altered in trajectory by something.

This caused it to ultimately fail to hit its target, merely grazing past the mask of the Heavenly Dao and landing on the ground beside it.

boom!
Shattered bricks and steam shot into the sky, and a sword mark half a meter deep and more than ten meters long extended from Tiandao's feet, spreading all the way to the wall behind him, leaving it covered with dense cracks.

Amidst the swirling dust and falling ceiling debris, Fisher was about to draw his sword to attack again when he suddenly felt a heavy weight on the hilt.

He looked down and saw that Tiandao was stepping on the blade of the mechanical greatsword, stopping him from moving.

Fisher's advanced electronic eyes, half flesh and half machine, flashed through a massive torrent of data, attempting to activate the sword's vibration device and break free from the suppression of this mechanical greatsword by the Heavenly Dao.

However, it was all in vain.

At the same time, the Heavenly Dao seemed to have seen through the future, and leisurely reported his information.

"The steam-powered joints have a reaction time of 0.3 seconds, the hidden gun barrel in the left shoulder armor requires 0.7 seconds to charge, and the spare steam tank in the lower back has a pressure resistance of 300 standard atmospheres."

"If I'm not mistaken, you're going to kick my side with your right foot, then immediately fire the gun from your left shoulder to distract me, and finally activate the backup steam tank to maximize the power of your mech and launch a full-force attack on me, right?"

Fisher's pupils suddenly contracted.

Because this is the optimal solution he just calculated in 0.1 seconds.

'Did you foresee the quasar's origin, or did you investigate me beforehand and know something about me?'

A large amount of data flashed through his mind.

During this process, Fisher released his grip on the mechanical greatsword, and the steam vent on his wrist erupted. Using the recoil, he punched Tiandao in the chest.

But this punch only hit an afterimage in the end.

"Your reaction time is really fast, you metal lump."

Fisher looked up abruptly and saw Tiandao hanging upside down on the thirty-meter-high church dome, his pale blue eyes behind the mask looking at him with a half-smile.

"Always so calm, always having a backup plan, aren't you tired of living like this all the time?"

Fisher did not answer the question posed by the Heavenly Dao, but instead asked it again.

"Who exactly are you? There is no record of you in the Star Envoy files of the Steam City, or even the entire New Federation."

Upon hearing this, Tiandao said meaningfully, "Didn't you already guess that? Otherwise, why would you have secretly sent encrypted instructions to the central hub just now?"

"After all, you clearly saw through my Star Eclipse Eye and vector control, it's just a pity."

Tiandao opened his hand, and a virtual quantum cube made of blue light appeared in his palm.

Each face of the Rubik's Cube is spinning rapidly, constantly consuming the surrounding free quantum signals.

"With it around, all your quantum information cannot be transmitted."

After saying that, Tiandao took off his mask, revealing the face that had appeared countless times on the association's wanted posters.

Although he has undoubtedly grown a lot compared to the photo from six years ago.

But his signature silver hair and azure eyes clearly identified him to Fisher.

"The Heavenly Dao and the Fate."

Fisher pronounced the name slowly and deliberately, as if those few words contained some immense danger to him.

Ignoring Fisher's thoughts, Tendou's body fell like a feather, landing without even raising a speck of dust, showing complete ease.

He looked at Fisher in front of him, his tone full of disdain.

"So many years have passed, and you iron lumps still remember me so fondly."

"Honestly, if it were some fair-skinned, beautiful, and aloof cat who had designs on me, that would be one thing."

"But the ones who chase me the most are you cold, hard metal blocks. Isn't that incredibly annoying?"

As he spoke, Tiandao suddenly snapped his fingers crisply.

The next second, Fisher suddenly felt a strange tremor throughout his mech.

The hydraulic rod on his right arm suddenly extended and retracted in the opposite direction, the gear set on his left leg began to reverse, and even the steam engine on his chest emitted a misaligned roar!
It was as if an invisible hand was forcibly altering every part of his mech!
Vector control!

In an instant, Fisher understood where the problem lay.

Without any hesitation, he immediately activated the star energy jamming device built into the combat mech.

I am trying to eliminate the influence of vector control on myself.

But at that moment, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder.

"Don't waste your energy, because the outcome of this battle was already decided the moment I stepped into this Vatican."

Fisher instinctively wanted to elbow him, but he found that his body was completely out of his control!
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