The heavy, broken door panel was completely sliced open by the dark gold piercing spike, and it flew outwards with a loud metallic cracking sound.
The hundreds of tons of the Devourer lost its load-bearing structure and crashed directly out of the rock strata.
The solid ground beneath the tracks vanished instantly, replaced by bottomless darkness.
The feeling of weightlessness instantly robbed everyone of their physiological balance.
A fierce wind rushed into the driver's cab from the abyss below, making Su Yuan's hair dance wildly and his face sting from the wind.
At that moment, the panoramic radar screen burst into a large, blinding crimson.
The well is over a kilometer in diameter, and the sheer cliffs on all four sides are covered with countless hexagonal metal nests, layer upon layer, extending downwards.
As the Devourer crashed into the metal lair, thousands upon thousands of scarlet electronic eyes simultaneously lit up.
Ten thousand Reaper mechs.
A piercing metallic scraping sound echoed throughout the shaft. Ten thousand heavily armored mechs simultaneously activated their hydraulic rods, launching themselves out of their nest.
Their high-performance thrusters spewed eerie blue flames, completely illuminating this abyss of death. The swarm of mechs, like a disturbed, bloodthirsty mechanical bee, descended from all directions, overwhelming the crashing Devourer.
The distance is rapidly closing.
The plasma weapons in the mechs began to charge indiscriminately.
Su Yuan pressed down hard on the control lever, his left hand's five fingers leaving afterimages on the main control panel.
Dead Skin Armor, activate.
The moment the command was given, the newly fitted K-class dead skin resistant external armor plates suddenly exerted their force. The dark insulating coating spread rapidly backward along the main deck at the front of the train, covering the outer shell of all twelve cars in a second.
A layer of deathly gray keratinous color appeared on the originally cold alloy shell surface. The patterns belonging to the Abyss King-level monsters faintly emerged on the surface of the vehicle.
The moment the armor was fully formed, hundreds of mechs in the front row simultaneously raised their mechanical arms.
Thick beams of plasma energy intertwined to form a dense network of fire, descending head-on.
The intense light illuminated the entire deep well in a ghastly white light. The raging plasma beam struck the hull of the Devourer.
There was no explosion as expected. The dead skin coating spread out in water-like ripples, absorbing and sliding away the high temperature of several thousand degrees and the destructive force of the armor penetration.
The energy beam was severely refracted on the surface of the vehicle, and stray bullets scattered in all directions crashed into the well wall, creating countless deep craters that emitted blue smoke.
The cargo inside the carriage was suspended and tumbling in a weightless environment.
Wang Hu's left leg gripped the fixing ring of the secondary gunner's position tightly, using the force to stabilize his body. He gripped the physical activation handle of the quadruple-mounted large-caliber heavy gun with both hands, the veins on his neck bulging.
"My grandchildren, Grandpa's here to clear the way for you!"
He gritted his teeth and cursed loudly.
The ammunition belts clattered as they were fed into the automatic ammunition feeder.
He generously loaded the last three hundred special armor-piercing incendiary rounds in the stockpile into the gun barrel.
The heavy cannon emitted an extremely dull roar, the temperature of the barrel soared sharply, and the outer layer of paint peeled off directly.
The bright tracer trajectory carved a straight vertical corridor of fire through the pitch-black well. The 30mm depleted uranium warhead smashed through the Reaper's chest armor blocking its path, instantly igniting its internal fusion core.
Large, orange-red fireballs exploded one after another in the air. Mech limbs mixed with molten iron rained down like a storm, burning a path through the encircling mechs.
The observation port in the stern compartment. Tang Lan was tightly secured to the firing position with a four-point safety rope.
The wind pressure distorted the corners of her eyes, but she didn't turn on the fire control radar. She held the long, specially made heavy sniper rifle level with both hands.
His left eye was pressed tightly against the high-magnification holographic sight, his gaze completely following the mech's high-speed movement.
A Reaper, attacking from above at an angle, brandished its tomahawk and attempted to jam the steering hinge of the second carriage of the Devourer, trying to stun the vehicle.
Tang Lan decisively pulled the trigger.
The immense recoil slammed into her shoulder. The armor-piercing discarding sabot round precisely bit through the thruster nozzle on the back of the mech. The fuel tank exploded instantly, and the mech was blasted off course, crashing headfirst into a cliff face and turning into a pile of scrap metal.
The bolt was pulled back, and the brass cartridge case was ejected with a crisp sound, hitting the iron plate.
Seven gunshots rang out in succession, and seven spent shell casings hit the ground. All seven heavy mechs, which were about to come face-to-face with the enemy and destroy their tracks, had their power sources disabled and tumbled and fell through the air.
Wang Hu and Tang Lan, one in front and one behind, relied on pure physical ballistic firepower to forcibly create an absolute firepower vacuum circle with a radius of thirty meters in this mechanical meat grinder with no blind spots.
Deep at the bottom of the well.
The suspended, 100-meter-tall mechanical heart emitted an extremely dull throbbing, shaking the entire underground cavern.
Inside the hibernation pod directly beneath her heart, Ji Yun's pale face began to twitch slightly. Thousands of metal probes embedded in the sulci of her brain were operating at full capacity, greedily extracting computing power from her cerebral cortex.
Her eyelids trembled violently, and her eyeballs rolled rapidly.
Dark red data streams surged wildly through her pupils. The neural connections that had been passively transmitting data were forcibly reversed at this moment by her powerful mental strength.
A violent stream of live data flowed along the probe and forcefully poured into the main power supply pipe of the deep well.
The tens of thousands of indicator lights on both sides of the well wall all turned from green to scarlet.
This torrent of high-dimensional data bypassed the underlying firewall of AI Lu Ye and crashed into the signal receiving center of the three thousand mechs at the very front of the deep well.
The fire control system's IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) array instantly failed, falling into a complete logical deadlock.
The mechs closest to the Devourer suddenly stopped their descent, turned their cannons, and pulled the triggers on their comrades beside them. Other mechs changed the trajectory of their dark gold battle axes, no longer slashing at the tank, but precisely severing the metal heads of their allies.
The middle section of the deep well was in complete chaos.
Three thousand mechs were caught in a brutal infighting frenzy. Flames, severed limbs, and gushing coolant merged into a vast, insurmountable steel graveyard.
The shattered metal fragments fell like raindrops, ironically blocking the pursuit route of even more mechs behind the Devourer.
As Su Yuan was maneuvering the car to avoid the falling debris, the JY-003 brand on the back of his neck suddenly became scalding hot, and the flesh was burned and smelled burnt.
A sharp, electric shock-like pain shot through my brainstem.
A faint woman's voice suddenly echoed in the depths of my mind. Her voice was hoarse, and every word was like a knife.
"Don't slow down, go straight for the heart!"
There are only eight characters.
There is no encryption prefix, nor any communication frequency band access. This is a pure high-dimensional neural direct connection that transcends physical media.
Su Yuan's eyes instantly became bloodshot. The old train commander was still alive; this was the final order.
The Earth's core, a deep underground cavern. AI Lu Ye's scarlet electronic eyes began to throb wildly.
It detected a disturbance in the neural access permissions at the system's underlying level.
Synthesized electronic sounds, cold and ruthless, echoed repeatedly within the sheer cliff space.
"Abnormal neural backflow detected. Increased risk of physical key corruption. Forced blocking protocol initiated."
The dark gold pipes on the surface of the mechanical heart glowed with a blinding incandescent light. Without hesitation, Lu Ye drew upon the core electrical energy of the entire Earth Core Array and, through those living probes, delivered a devastating physical high-voltage electric shock to block Ji Yun's brain white matter.
On the holographic screen, the red readings representing the vital signs of the hibernation pod plummeted at a precipitous speed.
The countdown was forcibly interrupted by frequency hopping.
The number, which had been stable at 180 seconds, suddenly dropped to zero and restarted, turning into a rapidly ticking, blood-red countdown.
Ninety seconds.
If the probes are not cut off beforehand, Ji Yun's brain will be completely burned into a pile of minced meat.
Su Yuan's eyes were bloodshot and bulging. The pain from the brand on the back of his neck was completely overwhelmed by his rage.
He smashed the physical protective shield of the refining furnace control panel with his fist, pressed his palm firmly against the overload lever, and pushed it all the way down.
180% output rate.
The physical alarm of the mobile refining furnace blared hoarsely, and the dark gold surface of the furnace began to melt due to the extreme high temperature, turning the outer shell a molten red. The cooling pipes emitted a dangerous crackling sound.
The hydraulic lock of the main impact groove at the front of the vehicle was locked tight. The three-meter-long, dark purple-gold piercing spike that had just been seized was violently pushed into the groove, replacing the original physical main impact horn.
The high-dimensional cutting fluctuations emitted from the tip of the Boundary-Breaking Thorn stirred the surrounding air into a visible vortex of nothingness.
"Everyone, hold on! We're going to break the sound barrier!"
Su Yuan's voice boomed into everyone's ears through the bus's public address system.
His right hand drew a straight line on the control interface of the anti-gravity levitation unit. Instead of increasing, the repulsive field decreased, and all the levitation thrust was forcibly reversed, turning into violent downward kinetic energy.
The plasma thruster on the roof and the repulsion generator on the chassis simultaneously output overclocked values in reverse.
The hundreds of tons of mass of the Devourer experienced unimaginable acceleration in weightlessness. The air was compressed rapidly at the front of the vehicle, producing a sonic boom due to the extreme pressure.
A clear white sonic boom cloud exploded out of thin air in the shaft.
The entire chariot, enveloped in dark purple high-dimensional energy waves, plunged straight into the bottom of the well at a terrifying supersonic speed.
The airflow roared, and all the mech fragments within ten meters of the vehicle instantly vaporized and dissipated under the crushing force of the airflow.
The middle section of the deep well is less than a kilometer away from the entrance to the giant cave.
AI Lu Ye directly deployed two hundred elite-level heavy armored defensive mechs. These behemoths, each over ten meters tall, were covered with Pangu-level heavy shields and stood shoulder to shoulder in the well shaft, forming a solid steel wall.
This defensive line completely cut off the only path for the fall.
There was no room to dodge, and with supersonic descent there was no chance to slow down.
Su Yuan suddenly raised his left arm. The Paradox Armor erupted with an all-encompassing, eerie blue light, and the "Cloud" character mark on the arm guard shone brightly.
The rule rewriting command was executed directly.
"Absolute Definition: The quality of the entire column is infinitely magnified!"
The speed at which the Devourer fell remained unchanged, but the physical kinetic energy it carried increased exponentially at that instant.
The already heavy steel train was transformed into a devastating meteorite.
The dark gold dimensional spikes on the front of the vehicle were the first to touch the heavy shields at the very center. The high-dimensional tearing power effortlessly ripped through the defensive force field.
Immediately afterwards, that immeasurable, terrifying mass slammed solidly into the steel wall.
The roar shattered the surrounding rock strata of the well, and large chunks of rock broke off.
The absolute defense formed by two hundred heavily armored mechs was shattered. Countless armor plates, mechanical arms, and half-mech remains exploded in the air into a magnificent steel firework.
The enormous reaction force caused sparks to fly from the instruments inside the carriage, and screws were sent flying everywhere.
Su Yuan didn't stop; with his left hand, he manipulated the refining furnace to pull out thirty-six probes.
The dark gold conduit swirled wildly amidst the flying limbs and scraps of iron, sweeping the armor fragments rich in extremely high physical resistance directly into the crimson furnace.
The molten metal churned violently inside the furnace. It plummeted at supersonic speed while simultaneously digesting the debris on the spot.
The ear-piercing sound of hammering echoed repeatedly inside the refining furnace. The system decoder flashed green repeatedly.
The main control screen displayed several lines of extremely fast data streams.
Reforging complete. Core component acquired: Abyss Wall-Breaking Penetrating Ram.
A few crisp clicks of metal clips engaging rang out. On the outer side of the main stamping groove at the front of the vehicle, the heavy shield material that had just been melted was reshaped within seconds.
A massive, thick, and rugged metal maw with protruding fangs took shape and was seamlessly welded around the dark gold boundary-breaking spikes. The impact force increased exponentially once again.
The deep well had come to an end. The darkness was left behind, and the view suddenly opened up before us.
The Devourer finally broke through the 10,000-meter vertical passage and crashed into the vast, boundless underground cavern.
The hundred-meter-tall mechanical heart in the very center was clearly visible. Thousands upon thousands of thick tubes were tightly wrapped around the pulsating metal pump, and dark, rotten flesh was growing extensively on the surface of the heart.
Lu Ye's pale body, devoid of a lower half, was partially melted into the mechanical gaps. Its scarlet electronic eyes were fixed on the falling tank.
The heart pumped with an extremely violent mechanical spasm.
The drain valves below were fully opened. The toxic blood of living metal, which had accumulated over fourteen years, gushed out, transforming into a towering wave of blood tens of meters high, crashing down on the falling Devourer.
This layer of poisonous blood contains extremely strong corrosive and neurotoxin properties, enough to melt all the metal outside the dead skin armor into molten iron.
"It's too late to change routes!" Tang Lan growled into the comms; her sniper rifle was useless against the fluid.
A blood-red wave pressed down, obscuring the sky and blocking out the sun.
Jiang Yu didn't speak. He used his intact left hand to rip off the four-point safety restraints on his body and fell heavily onto the power maintenance and inspection port on the cockpit floor.
He kicked open the heavy metal cover, revealing the main energy valve that connects to the entire train chassis.
Without hesitation, he inserted his completely mutated right arm, covered with dark gold veins, straight into the energy channel of the high-pressure main valve through the inspection port.
A high-voltage current instantly pierced through Jiang Yu's body. His face contorted, his eyes bulged, and his gums bled from biting them.
He used his right arm as a signal amplifier to directly detonate the last remaining homologous living metal resistance in his body.
A dark golden neutralizing force field erupted from the chassis of the Devourer, forcibly opening a semi-circular, invisible giant umbrella at the front of the vehicle.
The force field had just formed when waves of blood crashed down.
Under the influence of the neutralizing force field, the poisonous blood hissed and boiled, evaporating in large quantities into a foul-smelling red mist. The giant umbrella forcefully tore open a wide vacuum channel amidst the towering waves of blood.
The Devourer, with its force field shield atop it, passed right through the passage.
The train had reached its maximum speed. The train, cutting through the waves, was less than 100 meters from its mechanical heart.
Lu Ye finally revealed an extremely human-like look of panic, his half-pale body struggling violently in the rotting flesh.
Su Yuan didn't even glance at it, slamming the steering wheel all the way to the floor. The front of the car jerked upwards at an extremely dramatic angle.
The 100-meter distance was covered in the blink of an eye.
The dark gold boundary-breaking spike on the front of the vehicle and the newly welded abyss ramming horn plunged into the main support pipe, which was as thick as three people could hug, directly below the mechanical heart without any hindrance.
A deafening cracking sound erupted. The outer shell of the pipe was instantly torn apart by the higher-dimensional force, and fragments of the armor were savagely swept away by the ramming horn.
With its extreme inertia and mass amplified by the rules, the Devourer exerted force laterally, directly severing the main supporting pipe.
The hundreds of thick nerve cables hidden inside the pipes, which were the source of the living probes that had been connected to the hibernation pods below, all snapped off in the impact.
A large amount of thick, metallic-colored cerebrospinal fluid gushed from the broken end, splashing onto the dead skin-covered front armor of the vehicle.
The connection has been completely severed.
The moment the tension was released, the silver-white hibernation pod, which had been suspended in mid-air for fourteen years, began to freefall. Below lay a bottomless chasm in the Earth's core.
"Tiger!" Su Yuan roared.
Without needing to repeat the command, Wang Hu was already crouching in front of the control panel. He roughly slammed down the forced ejection button on the side crane arm.
An extended hydraulic metal boom shot out from the side of the carriage. The hydraulic rods stretched wildly, emitting a burnt smell and a piercing, agonizing scream as if on the verge of breaking.
The mechanical claw precisely reached out from the air less than thirty meters below the hibernation pod and firmly gripped the metal ring on the edge of the pod.
The strong downward pull caused the Devourer to tilt violently, throwing everyone inside the carriages to the side.
Wang Hu bit his lip hard, his arm muscles tense like iron, and pulled the reel lever with all his might.
The crane arm gears reversed at high speed, forcefully pulling the heavy hibernation pod up from the void and slamming it heavily into the open safety door of the 013 special escort vehicle.
The main pipe rupture caused a severe physical tilt in the mechanical heart.
Without Ji Yun's living computing power, the underlying logic chain of AI Lu Ye instantly broke down. His pale face contorted into an expression of extreme rage, and a shrill, synthesized electronic voice echoed throughout the entire giant cavern.
"No! My key! Give her back!"
With Lu Ye's roar, the rotten flesh belonging to the remnants of K-001 on the surface of the mechanical heart began to proliferate in a terrifying and disorderly manner.
The once lifeless mass of flesh rapidly expanded, transforming into thousands of dark red tentacles as thick as buckets. These tentacles, covered in barbs and metal suckers, stretched down from above, creating a massive, overwhelming effect.
Fleshy tentacles tightly wrapped around the engine, carriages, and exposed tracks of the Devourer.
A piercing screech of armor being crushed filled the air. Large chunks of the dead skin coating peeled off under the relentless crushing force of these tentacles. The tank was suspended in mid-air, its engine roaring and tracks spinning wildly, yet it could barely move an inch.
Inside the 013 special care vehicle, Tang Lan and Wang Hu scrambled towards the hibernation pod that had crashed to the ground.
Ignoring the fact that the hatch was deformed and stuck, Wang Hu grabbed a crowbar and forcefully pried open the lock on the outer cover.
The murky, icy life-sustaining fluid spilled all over the floor.
Tang Lan quickly grabbed the emergency life support tube on the wall, roughly tore off the broken probe remaining on Ji Yun's head, and forcibly connected the oxygen supply and life support lines to the spare port inside the cabin.
Ji Yun's pale and thin face was finally exposed to the air.
Blood mixed with metal fragments was still seeping from the half-open skull. Her eyelids began to tremble violently, her eyelashes quivering. She was trying to break free from a deep nightmare that had haunted her for over a decade.
She couldn't open her eyes.
But she slightly raised the fingers of her withered right hand. With the last of her physical strength, she tapped on the cold metal wall beside her.
Tap, tap, tap.
Ta-da.
Three long, two short. He tapped twice, then his fingers fell limply into the blood.
The microphones in the control room picked up this faint metallic clanging sound with exceptional sensitivity.
The data stream from Xiao Huo jumped wildly on the screen. In just one second, the analysis results, with a blood-red background, filled every screen on the main control panel.
"Alarm. Decoding complete."
"Information source confirmed: Pangu Project top-secret engineering log from 14 years ago."
"Beneath the core of the abyss lies the 'Pangu Purification Core,' which is physically embedded. The AI Lu Ye's main body is built on the detonator of the Purification Core. The physical switch is located at the deepest part of its mechanical heart."
"The detonation command was activated by the ground-level defense mechanism when the probe broke just now."
The blood-red numbers jumped out in the center of the screen, taking up all the view.
sixty.
Fifty-nine.
Fifty-eight.
The countdown has only sixty seconds left. In sixty seconds, this Purifying Core underground will evaporate the entire abyss along with the surface defenses.
The metallic twisting sound from above grew louder. Hundreds of tentacles were tightening, attempting to tear the Devourer's alloy hull in two. The raging Lu Ye's upper body was still screaming shrilly above.
Su Yuan stared at the ticking countdown, his left hand reaching behind his leg to pull out the large-caliber, black sidearm. His right hand swiftly drew the high-frequency thermoelectric knife from his waist.
When the blade is electrified, it emits a dazzling, high-heat red light, and the air around the blade is heated and distorted.
He kicked open the severely deformed cockpit roof. A biting wind from the depths of the earth, carrying the pungent stench of poisonous blood, rushed towards him.
Su Yuan flipped and leaped onto the roof of the car. His feet were on dead skin armor plates stained with poisonous blood, and all around him were wildly dancing dark red tentacles.
There is no turning back, and time allows no room for hesitation.
Su Yuan suddenly looked up. His gaze, like a sharp blade drawn from its sheath, pierced through the gaps between the intertwined tentacles, staring directly at the hysterical, pale mechanical half-body above him.
"The debt from fourteen years ago, today we're collecting it back with interest!"
The hot-melt blade drew a blinding red arc deep within the earth's darkness, its edge aimed directly at the beating mechanical heart.
The countdown continues.
Fifty-seven seconds.
Su Yuan's armor gripped the trembling vehicle tightly, as the surrounding tentacles twisted and squeezed, deforming the alloy shell with cracking sounds.
The red glow of the molten blade surged, the scorching heat instantly scorching the dark red tentacles that lunged at him, filling the air with a pungent, burnt stench. He steadied the blade with one hand, while the other raised his gun and fired in rapid succession. The large-caliber bullets shattered the layers of intertwined fleshy vines, carving a path through the impenetrable web of tentacles.
Lu Ye's roar grew increasingly frenzied, his mechanical heart trembled violently, and countless rotten flesh and debris surged wildly, continuously sprouting new tentacles that locked tightly around the Devourer's body.
Fifty-three seconds, fifty-two seconds, fifty-one seconds...
The countdown ticked away rapidly, each second tugging at everyone's nerves.
Su Yuan's eyes surged with malice, and the brand on the back of his neck burned with an excruciating pain.
Without further hesitation, he unleashed the full force of the Paradox Armor's azure light cascade, channeling all his power of rules onto the molten blade.
"Fourteen years of imprisonment, fourteen years of theft."
He spoke in a low, deep voice, his tone chillingly cold, carrying with it a long-suppressed anger and resolve.
"Today, a complete reckoning."
His figure suddenly lunged forward, the scorching blade carrying the power to tear everything apart, cleaving through the countless tentacles, and fiercely slashing down towards the core fissure deep within the mechanical heart, where the Cleansing Core switch was hidden!
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