They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 289 Giga and the Ultimate Life Form
After the dharam dissipated, countless particles of light, like fireflies on a summer night, swirled and danced in the mountain breeze before silently merging into the night.

Impat stood in the center of the battlefield, the dazzling katana of light in his hand shattering inch by inch, turning into pure energy and dissipating into the air.

Masaki Keigo could clearly feel that the soul of the samurai residing in his consciousness was dissipating at an extremely rapid pace.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for allowing me to fulfill my last wish in this life."

A semi-transparent samurai phantom emerged from Impet's body, its form much dimmer than before.

But there was no regret on his face; instead, he had a sense of peace and satisfaction that his wish had been fulfilled.

"Your power... has been used up too much."

Masaki Keigo responded in his consciousness, sensing that the soul fire of Ida Iryu was about to be extinguished.

"Being able to completely understand Sukuna-ki in the end means I can die without regrets."

The phantom of Ida Iryu bowed slowly to Masaki Keigo.

Before he finished speaking, a part of Iida Iryu's soul separated and flew into Masaki Keigo's body.

In that instant, countless images that did not belong to him flashed through Masaki Keigo's mind.

Solitary training, sweating profusely, the clear sound of a blade slicing through the air, life-or-death battles with wild beasts in the mountains, and the resolute determination to fight against ghosts and gods with a mortal body.

Countless swings of the sword, countless insights, and honed combat skills and mindset all culminated in the ultimate technique for slaying demons and gods: the [Ichi no Tachi].

When the torrent subsided, the phantom of Jing Tianjinglong had completely vanished, as if it had never existed.

Masaki Keigo slowly deactivated his transformation.

He stood there, closed his eyes, and his right hand unconsciously made a gesture as if he were holding a knife.

The sharpness of the blade seemed to linger in the air.

"This gift is truly heavy..."

……

Weeks later
A brand-new, colossal warship appeared in TPC's underground dock. It was a massive warship that was completely aerodynamically incompatible with any design.

It is over 100 meters long, but its wings are pitifully small.

The reason for choosing this design is naturally because this warship is equipped with the Max propulsion system, which was developed under the leadership of Dr. Yamata.

The enormous energy released by the annihilation of protons and antiprotons is enough to make them fly even without the help of air.

However, with the commissioning of this revolutionary engine, some strange phenomena that cannot be explained by existing science have begun to quietly appear.

"This is the Snow White, Lina reporting. I am conducting the final phase of the Max Engine faster-than-light cruise test."

Inside the cockpit, Lina skillfully operated the test machine. The engine roared smoothly and powerfully, and all the data remained stable within the preset range.

Just as she was about to finish the test and return home, her pupils suddenly contracted.

Against the backdrop of the distant starry sky, an unimaginably enormous floating island appeared in her field of vision without warning.

"Command Center! I've detected a huge unidentified floating object in the area at coordinates D78-9! Repeat, it's... an island!"

Lina immediately reported that this was extremely unusual.

"Team member Lina, please confirm. Radar scan is normal; there are no objects in the area."

A confused voice came from the command center.
"Your physiological data are fluctuating a bit. Is the engine test too demanding?"

Lina looked in that direction again, but the magnificent floating island had vanished without a trace, as if everything just now was merely her illusion.

"……Maybe."

She remained silent for a moment, but ultimately did not insist.

"Test complete, I request to return to base."

……

A few days later
"Team Member Horii, more robots have appeared in Sector C! There are at least twenty of them!"

"Roger that! We're on our way! Xincheng, how's it going on your end?"

"Don't rush me! I have as many robots as cockroaches here! Where did all this scrap metal come from?!"

In the city, sirens blared incessantly.

The entire Victory Team was mobilized, driving their specially designed vehicles through the streets, looking somewhat overwhelmed.

Their enemies were a group of strangely shaped robots. These robots were covered in rusty metal shells, their joints made a creaking sound, and they moved slowly and clumsily.

The most bizarre thing is their heads, which are equipped with only an old-fashioned tungsten filament bulb that emits a dim yellow light in the night, making them look like a product of the last century.

However, these very "scrap metals" have appeared in large quantities around the world in the past few days, without any warning and in an endless stream.

The Victory Team has been patrolling 24 hours a day for several days in a row, and they are exhausted.

……

TPC Technology Development Bureau, Special Analysis Laboratory.

Masaki Keigo looked with great interest at the pile of robot wreckage on the experimental table; these were samples recovered from the site.

Under an optical microscope, beneath that rusty surface lies a complex structure far beyond human imagination.

"Strange, so strange."

Ye Rui stared at the structural analysis diagram on the holographic screen, completely baffled.
"These robots are almost completely hollow inside; there are no computer chips, power units, or energy cores to be found. How do they even move?"

"This is a cluster of nanomechanical structures that we do not yet understand."

Keigo Masaki provided his conclusion.

Nanomechanics?

Horii frowned and picked up another fragment.
"You mean, these seemingly rough sheet metals are actually made up of countless tiny robots?"

"Yes."

Masaki Keigo nodded. That was precisely why these hollow robots could move and combine into a giant robot.

"Then... what reason did the civilization that created this thing have for releasing it onto Earth? For entertainment? Or some kind of experiment?"

Horii asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Perhaps we should ask them this question."

As Masaki Keigo spoke, he turned around and took several cables from the instrument rack next to him.

He walked to the lab bench and began carefully connecting the probes on the cables to those seemingly ordinary metal fragments.

"You mean...you want to read their data?"

Ye Rui immediately realized what was happening, and his eyes lit up.

No matter how bizarre its structure may be, as long as it operates according to some kind of logic, there must be traces of information exchange.

"That's right~"

As Masaki Keigo spoke, he started the equipment.

On the screen, countless lines of code began to refresh like a waterfall.

Then the fragment deformed and turned into the shape of a robot.

……

At the same moment, in outer space far from Earth
A golden ripple spread out without warning.

At the center of the ripples, space twisted and tore like the surface of water, slowly opening a spacetime gate that was neither round nor square.

Inside the door was a dazzling light, as if connecting to another world of a higher dimension.

Immediately afterwards, a figure with the outline of a giant, radiating golden light, slowly walked out from it.

His gaze fell upon the azure planet and the space elevator that seemed like a miracle, piercing straight into the sky from its surface.

"I see... So such a timeline exists..."

The golden figure sighed; it could observe and interfere with countless parallel universes.

The entire multiverse is differentiated by countless choices, just as a towering tree gives rise to countless branches.

However, the vast majority of branches exhibit a strong tendency to follow the same direction.

For example, in this universe, a human named "Daigo" would become the Giant of Light Ultra, Tiga, in almost every observable world line.

But the path in front of us is quite absurd.

That's precisely why it caught his attention, and that's why he came here...

(End of this chapter)