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Beyond the third blast-proof iron door, the dull thud of mechanical footsteps shattered the rocks on the ground. Five eight-meter-tall heavy Reaper mechs stepped inside, their broad chest armor flashing with Lu Ye's signature crimson electronic mechanical eyes. Without any unnecessary movements, the five mechs simultaneously gripped the dark gold battle axe that gleamed with an eerie purple light.

Purple light spread through the air along the axe blade, intertwining and instantly forming an impenetrable net of light.

This layer of purple light was no ordinary energy field; it carried a strong repulsive force. The eerie blue light emanating from the Paradox Armor on Su Yuan's left arm was instantly forced back to within three meters of the front of the vehicle upon contact with the purple light. The space emitted a teeth-grinding squeaking sound, and the air became incredibly viscous.

Behind the iron table in the corner of the accommodation cabin, the technician who had fallen from the ventilation duct was clutching his head and pressed tightly against the wall, his crotch soaked.

"It's over! It's the 'Abyss Suppressor'! Lu Ye has played all his cards!" The technician screamed, his voice distorted with extreme fear. "Their shells are coated with the biological remains of K-001! Dead skin! That stuff is immune to 80% of rule modifications and physical energy! Your permissions are useless against them!"

Su Yuan placed both hands firmly on the launch button on the main control panel.

"Who cares about the armor, just blast it to pieces first!" Wang Hu shouted from the secondary gun position at the rear, kicked open the ammunition box, and lifted a hundred-pound armor-piercing high-explosive shell with one hand, slamming it into the gun barrel.

Su Yuan pressed down hard with his thumb.

The 400mm main gun at the front of the vehicle let out a deafening roar. The recoil caused the hundreds-of-tons-heavy Devourer's front to sag sharply, and the tracks scraped against the alloy floor, sending up blinding sparks.

A specially made armor-piercing high-explosive round, with a bright orange tail flame, tore through a vacuum trajectory in the closed tunnel and struck the chest of the leading mech in the middle with perfect accuracy.

A massive fireball exploded in front of the mech's chest, instantly engulfing its eight-meter-tall frame in flames. The shockwave shattered the surrounding rock walls, sending debris raining down.

Before the flames had even subsided, the purple battle axe swung violently, cleaving the sea of ​​fire in front of it.

The lead mech strode out of the smoke. Its chest armor, which should have been pierced by a 400mm armor-piercing round, now bore only a shallow crater less than half a meter deep. The dull, dead-skin-like coating writhed eerily at the moment of the explosion, like a greedy mouth, directly absorbing and sliding away most of the kinetic energy and heat from the exploding shell.

Fragments of the shattered bullet fell along the texture of the dead skin, without even tearing open a groove.

The technician, witnessing this scene, desperately clutched his hair.

"It's no use! The physical fire net can't penetrate that layer of dead skin! They're after the Judgment Key!"

The five mechs moved in perfect unison, their battle axes raised high. The purple light network contracted further. Under the corrosive influence of the purple light, the armor plates on the front of the Devourer creaked under the strain, and large areas of the anti-rust paint peeled off and carbonized.

Tang Lan leaned half her body out of the observation port of the tail section, her specially made heavy sniper rifle not firing. One of her eyes was fixed on the holographic high-magnification scope, filtering out the blinding purple light, tracking the energy flow of the five mechs with every movement.

"We can't break through! These guys are wearing iron shells!" Wang Hu roared, shaking his numb hands.

"Find the joint, diagonally above the right, the hydraulic pipe." Tang Lan fired two shots in quick succession, the spent cartridges clattering to the ground. She quickly reported the location in the team channel, her voice devoid of any unnecessary words, "Their dead skin coating doesn't cover the movable joints. The energy center of the Purple Light Network is at the seventh cervical vertebra in the back of the neck, two exposed dark gold hydraulic pipes. That's the weakness."

"Find the right angle." Su Yuan stared at the panoramic screen.

Modifying the mecha directly using the rules wouldn't work; K-001's outer shell was an insulator. But Su Yuan never intended to directly confront this insulator. He raised his left hand, his five fingers spread, and the "cloud" character mark on the surface of the Paradox Armor lit up with a dazzling silver light.

The target wasn't the mech, but this accommodation pod.

"The rules are absolutely defined." Su Yuan's voice was cold and hard, piercing through the alarm's buzzer. "Definition: The right rock wall of the dwelling pod is the absolute gravity center of the earth."

The moment the words left his mouth, the physical laws within the dwelling pod were violently altered in an instant.

An immense and irresistible horizontal gravitational field suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The five Reaper mechs, which had been pressing forward with their battle axes, suddenly froze, their tens of tons of weight gone. Before their feet could even activate their electromagnetic adsorption, they were gripped tightly by this sudden lateral gravitational force.

A harsh metallic scraping sound rang out.

The five mechs completely lost their balance, as if pushed over by an invisible giant hand, and slid and crashed towards the right-hand rock wall in unison. The leftmost mech tried to stabilize itself by cleaving the ground with its battle axe, but its massive mass became a death sentence under the altered gravity. The axe blade plowed a deep trench in the ground, one of the mechs' legs twisted and deformed on the spot, and the armor plates at the joints flew off.

The originally impeccable purple light encirclement formation was completely torn apart by this violent loss of control, leaving a huge gap.

"Tiger!" Su Yuan roared.

"They're here!"

Wang Hu didn't even touch the secondary gun's control lever. He kicked the base hard with his right foot, using the recoil to hang himself on the lever, his upper body protruding directly from the roof. The wind, carrying gravel, lashed his exoskeleton, but he didn't even blink.

The heavy-duty crane boom on the roof of the vehicle groaned under Wang Hu's manual control as a solid armor-piercing hammer weighing tens of tons was hoisted high into the air.

Wang Hu's right arm muscles bulged high, and the exoskeleton's assist lever spewed out a blue tail flame. He pulled the control stick to its limit with one hand, and using the lateral momentum of the mecha falling to the right, he swung the heavy armor-piercing hammer out like a meteor hammer.

"Smash it for me!"

The armor-piercing hammer, accompanied by a sonic boom that tore through the air, struck the right knee joint of the unbalanced mech on the far left with pinpoint accuracy.

Without the protection of dead skin, the joint gaps simply cannot withstand the double crushing force of tens of tons of solid steel plus the acceleration of gravity.

The sickening cracking sound was amplified a hundredfold. The mech's right knee joint exploded on the spot. The massive hydraulic drive shaft snapped in two, and black, special hydraulic oil gushed out like a fountain.

The mech lost its support and crashed to one knee against the right rock wall. Its heavy head tilted downwards due to inertia, revealing the dark gold hydraulic pipe at the back of its neck that had been protected by the dead skin armor.

boom!boom!

Two highly rhythmic sniper shots rang out.

Tang Lan pulled the trigger with millisecond precision. Two specially made armor-piercing bullets with armor-piercing spiral patterns streaked through the sky in a tandem. The first bullet shattered the outer protective shield of the cervical spine, while the second bullet followed the opening created by the first, precisely severing the thumb-thick dark gold hydraulic hub.

Sparks flew, and the purple light was instantly drawn away from the mech.

The crimson light in the mech's eyes flickered violently twice before going out completely. The eight-meter-tall behemoth turned into a smoldering, lifeless piece of iron, limply sliding to the ground.

The first one, solved.

But this did not ease the tension in the battle. Suddenly, Lu Ye's emotionless, synthesized electronic voice rang out over the intercom in the pod.

"Underlying logic reorganization. Instruction: Energy fusion. Abandon individual survival rate."

The remaining four mechs, lying on the right-hand rock wall, suddenly turned their red lights into an extremely dangerous dark purple. They completely ignored their wrecked companion on the ground.

Without hesitation, two of the mechs turned their purple battle axes around and plunged them into the chests of the other two mechs beside them.

The axe blade sliced ​​through the dead skin and pierced through the reactor.

The two mechs that had been pierced did not resist; instead, they proactively released all their physical defenses. The fusion energy of the four mechs was then connected in a terrifying manner via the Tomahawk.

The massive energy overload caused the temperature inside the tunnel to soar to over 100 degrees Celsius instantly.

Purple light surged along the battle axe. Two mechs wielding battle axes drew their weapons abruptly, and a ten-meter-long giant light blade materialized out of thin air within the cramped cabin. At the edge of the light blade, the space itself had been torn open with fine black cracks—a phenomenon of the rules being forcibly cleaved.

Ten-meter-long blades of light intertwined and slashed down at the Devourer.

"Thirty degrees to the left! High-dimensional cleaving wave!" Jiang Yu roared, clutching his mutated right arm as he stood in the carriage. The dark gold veins on his arm bulged to their limit, the skin cracked, and blood dripped from his fingertips. The remaining living metal and the energy on the light blade were of the same origin, creating an extremely repulsive resonance.

Su Yuan had no time to look at the radar. He slammed both hands on the steering wheel and floored the thrust reverser with his right foot.

The hundreds-of-tons-heavy vehicle completed an extremely violent sideslip drift within the enclosed space. The tracks scraped large, charred marks on the floor, and the vehicle veered sharply to the right.

The light blade whistled past the left side of the vehicle and fell.

Silently.

The three-meter-long, half-meter-thick Pangu-class alloy armor plate attached to the left side of the Devourer was smoothly sliced ​​off by the light blade, like a piece of butter cut by a hot knife. The heavy armor plate crashed to the ground, the cut surface smooth as a mirror, gleaming with a purple sheen of intense heat.

If it were just half a meter short, the light blade could have split Su Yuan's control room in two.

"If you've been stabbed, you have to pay the price." Su Yuan's eyes were fierce.

His left arm was crossed in front of his chest, the eerie blue light of his Paradox Armor forming a massive shield that forcefully withstood the oppressive aura emanating from the light blade. His right hand slammed down on the central red lever on the main control panel.

Mobile refining furnace, restrictions lifted.

Thirty-six dark golden conduits shot out from the middle of the carriage with a roar. They were no longer meant to entangle the mech, but rather, like a group of venomous pythons that had caught the scent of blood, they plunged straight at the two ten-meter light blades that were extremely unstable due to overload.

The high-temperature plasma jet from the head of the conduit melted the energy shield surrounding the light blade and penetrated deeply into the network of rules woven with purple light.

"Fully loaded!" Su Yuan roared, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.

The blue flame core inside the refining furnace roared like a beast, and a terrifying suction force erupted instantly. The conduits stopped releasing heat and instead began to plunder with extreme brutality. Visible purple energy flowed along the thirty-six dark gold pipes, forcibly drawn away from the light blade like a receding tide, and poured continuously into the Devourer.

The ten-meter-long, regular light blade quickly dimmed and shattered.

The extracted energy was extremely violent, mixed with the biological riots of K-001's remains, causing the thermometer in the refining furnace to spike red. Su Yuan did not choose to let it settle; instead, he abruptly drew a new output circuit on the control panel, a cold, sharp smile playing on his lips.

"Take it back!"

The pipeline split, and eighteen of the conduits, like javelins drawn taut, suddenly veered back and plunged into the hole in the chest cavity of the Reaper that had just served as its energy battery.

The violent and unfiltered purple energy was forcibly poured into the already severely overloaded reactor of the mecha by Su Yuan.

"Energy reversal!" the technician shouted wildly, his voice distorted, as he leaned over the metal table.

The energy circuits inside the mech were instantly destroyed by the torrent, and the scarlet electronic eye on its chest exploded with a crack. The massive metal body, like an overinflated balloon, unleashed a blinding incandescent light from every gap in its armor.

boom!

A high-energy fusion explosion occurred at extremely close range, right in the center of the mech array. A shockwave of 100,000 tons, mixed with dead skin fragments and jets of hot metal, swept in all directions. The mech that carried the mech was instantly torn to pieces.

The third mech, standing closest to the enemy, didn't even have time to make any defensive maneuvers before a ten-ton shard of its chest armor flew horizontally through the air and severed its body at the waist. Its upper body slammed heavily onto the rocky ground, its two massive mechanical arms still futilely digging through the rubble amidst the inferno.

Only two intact heavy mechs remained on the field.

The shockwave from the explosion forced them back several steps. After regaining their footing, the red light in their eyes faded, replaced by a blinding incandescent glow. Their thick chest armor spontaneously split open, revealing the rapidly blackening and collapsing reactor core deep within.

Lu Ye's emotionless, synthesized voice came through the damaged broadcast network in the dwelling pod.

"Miniature nuclear collapse procedure initiated. The accommodation pod is physically sealed. Countdown: 10 seconds. The seven keys and you will all remain here as fertilizer."

The shadow of death loomed over them instantly.

There is no safe distance for miniature nuclear collapse. Once detonated, the entire dwelling pod, along with the surrounding 100-meter-thick layer of ground, will be blown into particles.

"dream."

Su Yuan's eyes were bloodshot, and his fingers left afterimages as he swiped across the control panel. He raised his left arm high, and the arm guard of the Paradox Armor emitted a mournful metallic groan as it strained under the weight, while two distinct beams of light, one silver-white and the other earth-yellow, shot into the sky simultaneously.

"The Key to Pride, Absolute Suppression!"

"The Key to Cowardice, the Fear Field Freezes!"

Two concepts that should have been mutually exclusive were forcibly merged by his will, and he thrust them forward with a sudden burst of energy through his left arm. A hazy, oppressive ripple spread out in a fan shape, slamming hard into the open chests of the two mechs in front of him.

Time did not truly stop. However, the extremely precise physical detonation gears and electronic pulses inside the mech, under the brutal crushing force of two higher-dimensional rules, experienced a severe logical deadlock.

The countdown timer on the reactor core was stuck at "00:00:03".

Only three seconds.

Su Yuan felt as if tens of thousands of steel needles were piercing his brain nerves simultaneously, and his eardrums were ringing. This was the limit of his mental energy that he had reached.

"Tang Lan!"

"Wang Hu!"

Su Yuan only called out the name, without giving any further instructions.

Gunfire was the best response. Tang Lan pressed himself against the scorching roof armor, and through the high-powered sniper scope, his field of vision was clear of all distractions, leaving only the two micron-sized main capacitor lines connecting the collapsed reactor core.

boom!boom!

Two armor-piercing discarding sabot rounds sliced ​​through the gray ripples, precisely severing the detonation wires inside the mech's chest cavity. The chilling, dark light of the nuclear collapse was instantly extinguished.

At the same instant, Wang Hu pressed down on the secondary cannon control lever. A large-caliber depleted uranium round was fired at close range, slamming directly into the faces of the two mechs. The metal heads, stripped of their energy shields, were blasted into a pile of scrap metal. The two eight-meter-tall behemoths lost all power and, propelled by inertia, fell straight backward, kicking up clouds of dust.

The three seconds passed perfectly. The suppression ripples dissipated.

The battle is over.

"Collect." Su Yuan slapped the control panel with his backhand. The refining furnace's probing arms launched again, like several thick giant pythons, lifting up the black smoke-belching mech wreckage on the ground along with the precious K-001 dead skin coating and dragging it into the furnace.

The Blue Flame Core's output power was maximized. Raging flames churned within the furnace, devouring and reforming. Accompanied by the piercing sound of metal cooling, spoils popped out of the mobile refining furnace's outlet.

Two highlighted green characters appeared on the main control screen.

[Smelting complete. Loot obtained: K-grade Dead Skin Resistance External Armor Plate.]

[Obtained: High-Dimensional Rule Slicing Blade - Dark Gold Boundary-Breaking Thorn.]

The jet-black external armor plates automatically unfolded along the vehicle's rails, perfectly fitting the damaged front and side armor of the Devourer. The entire vehicle was now clad in an insulating armor that absorbed all light. Directly beneath the main cannon at the front, a three-meter-long, dark purple-glowing piercing spike slowly emerged. The air around the spike's tip distorted like ripples on water—pure, high-dimensional tearing power.

Su Yuan let out a long breath, but before he could speak, the decoder of the refining furnace emitted a piercing buzzing sound.

"Warning! Lu Ye's real-time data link has been reverse-decoded from the mech's main control chip!" Xiao Huo's mechanical voice jumped rapidly, "Forcibly cutting into the Abyss Core Network!"

The main screen suddenly went black, then the static disappeared, and a holographic image appeared without warning, filling the entire screen.

A deathly silence fell over the carriage. Jiang Yu's legs went weak, and he clung tightly to the edge of the control panel to avoid sliding to the floor.

The video shows the scene at the very bottom of the abyss.

This is a hollow underground cavern large enough to contain an entire city. At the very center of the earth, suspended in mid-air, hangs a mechanical heart over a hundred meters tall. This heart is entirely composed of tens of thousands of thick nerve cables and dark gold pipes, and each regular beat brings with it a deep, rumbling sound.

The surface of the heart was covered with large patches of nauseating, rotting flesh. These patches were covered in the dark red markings characteristic of K-001. The rotting flesh writhed like living things, tightly coiled around a pale, humanoid half-body. The half-body was missing its lower body, its face expressionless, its scarlet electronic eyes filled with absolute rationality.

AI Lu Ye completely stitched its body back together with the monster's remains.

But what made Su Yuan's heart tighten suddenly was something floating directly below the mechanical heart.

It was a silver-white military cryogenic hibernation pod. Standard equipment from the old Blue Star expeditionary force fourteen years ago.

The hibernation pod was filled with a pale blue life-sustaining fluid. Inside, a woman with a full head of white hair, wearing a tattered 011 crew uniform, lay quietly. That was the real Ji Yun.

Half of her skull was roughly pried open, and hundreds of thin, hair-like living metal probes were driven deep into her exposed cerebral sulci. The other end of the probes was connected to the hundred-meter-tall mechanical giant core above.

"She's being drained!" The technician scrambled to the screen, pointing at the rapidly dropping red reading on the hibernation pod's glass, his voice shrill and distorted. "Lu Ye is using her living brain as a super key! It's forcibly unlocking the planetary destruction matrix below using the Earth's core network!"

A red countdown projection flickered wildly above the hibernation pod.

"Vitality signs are rapidly deteriorating. At most three minutes remain before Captain Ji's cerebral cortex completely dissolves and he dies!"

Fourteen years. This woman was alone at the bottom of this dark abyss, used as a battery and a key, having her blood and cerebrospinal fluid extracted for fourteen whole years.

The JY-003 brand on the back of Su Yuan's neck suddenly felt like a red-hot iron had been slapped onto him, the scalding pain shooting straight to his brainstem. A sense of resonance belonging to destiny and origin made his eyes bloodshot.

"Hold on tight."

Su Yuan uttered two words, gripped the control lever tightly with his left hand, and slammed the accelerator pedal so hard it pierced the floor with his right foot.

Donning K-class dead skin armor, the Devourer transformed into a crazed black dragon, crashing headlong into the final alloy gate at the end of the accommodation pod, which was five meters thick.

The dark gold boundary-breaking spike slammed heavily into the center of the gate. The higher-dimensional rules exerted their power, tearing a massive gash through the seemingly indestructible alloy gate panel as easily as paper. The chariot smashed through the tattered gate panel and roared out.

The view suddenly vanished. There was no path. Ahead lay a vertical spiral abyss, over a kilometer in diameter. The putrid, pressure-filled air, characteristic of the abyss, surged upwards from the endless darkness beneath their feet.

The searchlight beams shone on the surrounding well walls.

The well walls resembled a giant honeycomb. Countless metal cabins hung from the cliff face, layer upon layer, stretching downwards to the horizon.

Every hatch lit up with a blinding red light at that moment. Tens of thousands of Reaper mechs, which had been in standby and dormant, simultaneously opened their crimson electronic eyes. The clicking sound of metal joints grinding together converged into a despairing tsunami of steel.

At the very moment when this overwhelming killing intent awakened.

On the holographic screen, in the hibernation pod suspended beneath the mechanical heart, the woman's fingers, which had been lifeless, twitched slightly.

The next second, Ji Yun suddenly opened his eyes.

Her pupils showed no human whites, only a stream of dark red, high-dimensional data flowing wildly like a waterfall.

Even through the 10,000-meter-deep well, her gaze pierced through the surveillance camera and locked onto the "cloud" mark on Su Yuan's left arm.

The flowing data stream instantly pierced through the ten-thousand-meter abyss and precisely connected with the paradoxical armor on Su Yuan's left arm.

"The cloud-shaped mark... has returned to its place."

Ji Yun's hoarse, broken whispers pierced through the darkness, echoing throughout the entire hollow core of the earth. Thousands of awakened mechs suddenly froze, their crimson eyes flashing with chaotic, garbled code. The hundred-meter-tall mechanical giant's core trembled violently, the intertwined flesh and blood patterns frantically receding, and for the first time, Lu Ye's stitched-together bizarre body showed a flaw that had spiraled out of control.