Zombie Marvel? Luckily, I'm Superman!

"Even if the door of the Zhiguang Clan is complex, it cannot stop me! Because my method of intrusion is not traditional lock picking or brute force! I possess an extremely special ability to simulate, assimilate, and resonate! I can almost perfectly simulate the characteristics of any mechanical life form!"

"What do you mean? You know I don't like to use my brain." Lin Yi pressed, perhaps because he had experienced too much in the past two years, he was now feeling tired and didn't want to think too much for the time being.

"You bastard, you've witnessed all that history of civilizations rising and falling for nothing? Anyway, to put it simply, my resonance ability makes them feel like I'm one of their own! I don't even need to unlock the door; they'll open it and welcome me home!"

"Moreover, this ability of mine can even temporarily and completely mimic any mechanical life form I understand, such as the Zhiguang race in front of me. From appearance to internal signal characteristics, it's exactly the same! This is one of the core talents my mother left me, hehehe..."

"Huh? You have a 'mom'?" Lin Yi was taken aback.

The shield's eerie laughter abruptly stopped: "What the hell do you mean? What nonsense are you spouting? Why can't I have a 'mom'?"

"Aren't you some kind of Transformers or something? I remember that according to certain settings, you were created by something called the AllSpark... uh, how should I describe it, enlightenment? Or creation by giving life?" Lin Yi recalled the movie he had seen before.

"Okay, I apologize... Although the AllSpark seems to be a cube or something, it's reasonable for you to call it 'Mom'."

"Stop talking nonsense! My mom is human!"

"Holy crap?" Lin Yi was even more shocked! "Are you serious? Your mother is human, and then she gave birth to you, a mechanical life form? What kind of being is your father? He's that awesome?!"

"..." The shield trembled, seemingly quite angry, but still managed to suppress its rage as it explained, "I don't have a father! To be honest, my mother is indeed a AllSpark, but in an intelligent human form!"

"Okay...actually, it's not that different from the AllSpark..."

"There's such a thing? Then your mom... uh, I mean, is pretty amazing..." Lin Yi scratched his head, wanting to ask whether Shield Mom was a AllSpark turned human or a human turned AllSpark, but that seemed even more offensive, so he decided against it...

"Impressive?" Upon hearing this word, Shield's attitude became somewhat smug: "It's alright, anyway, if you ever have the chance to meet her in the future, you'll have to call her 'elder sister' according to seniority."

"Do I still have a chance to see her?" Lin Yi pressed.

"Oh, she's always been with your father!" Shield replied casually. "According to your human relationships, she's your half-sister."

"Huh?" Lin Yi was taken aback, his face full of strangeness: "You're talking like a half-sister, are you even speaking human language?"

How exactly is this relationship calculated?

"I'm a mechanical life form!" the shield retorted irritably. "Why would I speak human language? I'm not human! You carbon-based beings can figure out these complicated interpersonal relationships yourselves. Alright, stop bothering me while I'm working, I'm about to go inside! Hehehe... Let me see what kind of little treasures these ancient Lightbringers are hiding!"

As he spoke, Lin Yi noticed that the virtual progress bar above the shield's head began to advance rapidly.

Seeing this, Lin Yi stopped interrupting and refocused his attention on being vigilant to prevent the two intelligent beings from suddenly "waking up".

About ten minutes later, the virtual progress bar was full.

The shield emitted a slightly excited "Oh!"

"Success! As expected of me! I've connected to the clan network!" Shield exclaimed excitedly, then his tone shifted with a hint of doubt: "However... something's strange. The feedback from the entire clan network is incredibly low, as if it's operating at an extremely low power consumption, comparable to the level of stirring a speck of dust."

"Come on, let me see what's going on!"

"Hmm, the entire clan... fell silent ten minutes ago?! Was it because of low energy, triggering automatic protection standby? What happened?"

"Never mind all that for now, let's first verify if it was their fault that I was sent back!" Lin Yi said.

"Okay, okay, please don't tell me what to do, the multi-threaded search is in progress! I won't interrupt your work!"

As it spoke, the shield raised its two hind legs in a human-like manner and touched its chin, unable to fathom the logic.

"Logically speaking, these mechanical life forms, which have evolved through countless generations, shouldn't be constrained by energy sources. Let me see..."

"Hiss... Their race's energy supply is something like a spark source? And not just one! It's an array! Holy crap, are they that rich?!" Shield exclaimed in shock. "Each single energy block is equivalent to my mother's energy level before she evolved! How could an array of these energy blocks experience low energy?"

The shield continued its analysis, searching through energy consumption records while simultaneously looking for keyword information provided by Lin Yi.

"Hahahaha!" As he watched, the shield suddenly burst out laughing, and the laughter grew louder and louder.

Lin Yi was confused. What happened to this guy? Could it be that he was being attacked by the tribal network?

"Hahaha, you'd never guess this, kid!" Shield laughed, slapping his right hind leg with his left.

"This is absolutely hilarious! They actually pulled a deal to drain all the energy themselves!"

"Holy shit... Hahahaha! I was wondering what kind of protocol this was that almost completely shut down such a high-level energy array, and now I know what it is! Hahahaha... Isn't this just pure clownish behavior?!"

The shield laughed more and more arrogantly, and the lizard's body trembled.

Lin Yi hissed, immediately becoming curious: "What agreement? Tell me quickly!"

"Don't you dare try to imitate the Riddler from the Marvel Universe! I'm telling you, I hate that kind of thing!"

"Don't rush, don't rush, I'll tell you!" Shield finally managed to stop laughing, but his tone was full of schadenfreude: "According to the records of the last application for execution by these two individuals of the Light Clan, they initiated a protocol called 'Tracing the Source'."

"Tracing the source?"

"That's right! They analyzed all sorts of things here and there, and then they felt that you had too much of an impact on their plans, so they initiated a full-domain 'source tracing' of your individual existence!"

Lin Yi's eyes lit up as he stared intently at the shield, feeling an exceptionally clear clue laid out before him: "So, the reason I was able to go back was really because of their scheme?"

"Yes!" the shield replied affirmatively.