The player is playing like a god, and has already advanced to Space Marine level at the start.

Lu Xiao transformed into a streak of blue light and disappeared into the horizon.

Angel Yan withdrew her gaze and looked at the corpse at her feet. Sun Wukong lay in the pile of rubble, the blood from the hole in his chest no longer flowing, the dark red blood congealed on his black armor. His eyes, now dull and lifeless, were half-open, gazing at the sky.

Ah Zhui stepped forward and squatted down, probing Sun Wukong's neck with his fingers, his palm hovering above the wound on his chest.

"How is it?" Yan asked.

"He's completely dead." A-Zhui stood up and shook his head. "The core of the gene engine was completely burned out, and that white energy residue is still eroding his cells. Even some of the dark data has been erased. Even with the Great Clock, it's probably impossible to save him."

Mo Yi clicked her tongue in amazement: "That Lu Xiao, he's really ruthless. He killed without hesitation, just like that."

Yan sighed and raised his hand to press the communicator next to his ear.

"Connect me to the Giant Warrior."

……

Giant Warrior, Command Center.

Dukao braced his hands on the control panel, his eyes fixed on the large screen. The screen was filled with static, the magnetic interference from the energy burst.

"Sir, the interference is subsiding, and the satellite imagery will be restored soon." Lianfeng's fingers flew across the keyboard.

A static sound came from the communicator, followed by Angel Yan's voice.

"General Dukao."

Dukao immediately grabbed the communicator: "What's the situation? Where's Goku? Those two high-energy reactions have disappeared, have they stopped?"

There was a two-second silence on the other end of the communication.

"Stop." Yan's voice was devoid of emotion. "However, I think you need to send someone to collect the body."

Dukao was stunned.

"Collecting a corpse? Whose corpse?"

"Sun Wukong".

Upon hearing those three words, Dukao's mind went blank, his body swayed, and he almost lost his balance.

"What did you say?" Dukao's voice changed.

"Sun Wukong is dead," Yan repeated. "Killed by Lu Xiao. A sword through the heart, his gene engine destroyed, he died on the spot."

The command center fell silent instantly.

All the technicians stopped what they were doing and turned to look at the command post.

Dukao's face turned deathly pale instantly, then ashen. His knuckles gripping the communicator went white, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged.

"Lu Xiao," Dukao gritted his teeth, forcing out the name, "How dare he... how dare he!"

"I only sent Goku to break up the fight!" Dukao yelled into the communicator. "I only sent him to stop the fight! Why did it turn out like this? Why did Lu Xiao want to kill him?"

"Lu Xiao left a message before he left," Yan said. "He said, 'This monkey is an imposter, it doesn't deserve to die.'"

"A fake?" Dukao slammed the communicator on the table in anger.

"Bang!"

The alloy tabletop was dented, and communicator parts were scattered everywhere.

"Damn it!" Dukao paced back and forth in the hall, his military boots slamming against the floor. "Sun Wukong is the guardian of Earth! He's the greatest masterpiece left by Master Wu! He protected China for over a thousand years! Lu Xiao, that madman, does he even know what he's done? He destroyed Earth's most advanced fighting force!"

Lianfeng stood aside, her brows furrowed as she watched the enraged Dukao.

"General, now is not the time to lose your temper," Lianfeng reminded him. "Wukong's death cannot be kept secret from the Super Soldier Corps. Moreover, Lu Xiao's current danger level needs to be reassessed. If he can kill Wukong, it means he can kill any super soldier on Earth."

Dukao stopped in his tracks, his chest heaving violently.

"Evaluate? What's there to evaluate?" Dukao pointed at the screen. "This is an uncontrollable time bomb! He just made a deal with Karl, and then turned around and killed Goku. Does he even care about the country? Does he even care about Earth?"

In the shadows of a corner of the hall.

Du Qiangwei leaned against the wall, her arms crossed over her chest. She had come to report on the training progress, but happened to overhear everything.

Sun Wukong is dead.

He was killed by Lu Xiao.

The reason is: he's an imposter.

Rose bit her lip, said nothing, and turned to walk towards the door.

"Rose, where are you going?" Jess noticed her.

"bathroom."

Without turning her head, Rose uttered two words and pushed open the door to leave.

Stepping out of the command center, she went straight to the deck, letting the sea breeze tousle her red hair.

"Deno III, locate Lu Xiao's position," Rose ordered into the dark communication channel.

"Location successful. Target located in Giant City."

"I want to hear your explanation."

……

In the villa in Giant City.

Lu Xiao sat on the sofa.

The Terminator armor had been retrieved, and he was wearing a gray loungewear T-shirt and loose sweatpants.

A clay pot sat on the coffee table, steaming hot. Inside was pork rib and lotus root soup.

Lu Xiao took a soup spoon, ladled out a bowl for herself, blew on it, and took a sip.

"This lotus root is good, it's soft and powdery," Lu Xiao muttered to herself.

Just then, the living room space suddenly distorted.

A ripple spread outwards.

Du Qiangwei appeared out of thin air, dressed in a black leather jacket, staring intently at Lu Xiao, who was drinking soup.

Lu Xiao didn't even lift her eyelids.

"Would you like some soup?" Lu Xiao pointed to the empty bowl on the coffee table. "It's freshly made, cooked to perfection."

The rose did not move.

"You killed him."

Lu Xiao put down the bowl and picked up a tissue to wipe her mouth.

"Who?"

"Sun Wukong".

"Oh." Lu Xiao leaned back on the sofa, shifting to a more comfortable position. "That monkey... it was killed."

"Why?" Rose took a step forward, her wormhole calculations accelerating, several throwing knives flickering in the air. "He was a comrade of the Super Soldier Corps, a guardian of Earth. Why did you kill him?"

Lu Xiao looked at the flying knives that appeared around the rose, a mocking smile on his face.

"Stop your tricks," Lu Xiao said. "That monkey couldn't even withstand one of my sword strikes, do you think these fruit knives can hurt me?"

Rose gritted her teeth and did not retract the throwing knife.

"Give me a reason." Rose stared into his eyes. "Otherwise, even if I can't beat you, I'll still give it a try."

Lu Xiao sighed.

He stood up, and his 2.8-meter height created a huge sense of oppression; Rose had to look up to see his face.

"Rose, have you read 'Journey to the West'?" Lu Xiao asked.

Rose paused for a moment.

"Who hasn't seen it? But what does that have to do with you killing monkeys?"

"In my understanding," Lu Xiao said, his back to Qiangwei, "the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, was a stone monkey born of heaven. He became a disciple of Bodhi, wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, was imprisoned under the Five Elements Mountain, and later protected Tang Sanzang on his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures. He is a hero with unyielding integrity, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven."

Lu Xiao turned around and pointed in the direction of the Giant Hero.

"And what is that thing today?"

"A genetic monster created in a laboratory by Death God Karl and that old charlatan Kieran."

Clad in dark alloy armor, with a so-called 'guardian program' implanted in his brain, he constantly refers to himself as "Old Du" and "Old Sun." Aside from resembling a monkey, what about him is worthy of the title "Great Sage Equal to Heaven"?

"He's a product of technology!" Rose retorted. "Supergenes are technology! Aren't you a super soldier yourself?"

"I am a warrior. I don't deny it." Lu Xiao walked up to Qiangwei, looked down at her, "but I have never used anyone else's name to deceive or cheat."

"That imposter, bearing the face of a Chinese totem, is actually a biological weapon programmed with a set of rules. This is a desecration of the Great Sage."

Lu Xiao extended a finger and gently brushed aside a throwing knife that was hovering in front of the rose.

Have you seen the episode of "The True and False Monkey King"?

Rose instinctively took a half step back.

"The Six-Eared Macaque," Lu Xiao slowly uttered these four words. "He is good at listening, discerning reason, knowing the past and the future, and understanding all things. He impersonated Sun Wukong, injured Tang Sanzang, stole the luggage, and even formed his own team on Flower Fruit Mountain to retrieve the scriptures."

"What does Sun Wukong hate most? Is it demons and monsters? No, what he hates most are imposters. That Six-Eared Macaque, he imitated his speech, his clothes, and his fighting style. What happened to him in the end?"

"He was beaten to death with a stick," Rose answered instinctively.

"That's right." Lu Xiao snapped his fingers. "He was killed by Sun Wukong himself. Even Buddha couldn't stop him."

Lu Xiao pointed to her chest.

"In my eyes, the so-called 'Victorious Fighting Buddha' of today is a fake."

"Moreover, it is a poor imitation, not even as good as a single hair of the Six-Eared Macaque. At least the Six-Eared Macaque was transformed from the Great Sage's two hearts."

"The real Monkey King wouldn't be created by a few aliens, nor would he take orders from a general from Denos.

Lu Xiao sat back on the sofa and picked up the soup bowl again.

"I killed him to clean house for the Great Sage."

"This world doesn't need two Sun Wukongs. Especially not the kind of imposters built from piled-up data."

Rose looked at Lu Xiao. He calmly drank his soup. But his words just now revealed a kind of obsessive madness.

Because the other party is a genetically engineered "Sun Wukong", he is a fake and therefore deserves to die?

What kind of logic is this?

But for some reason, looking into Lu Xiao's calm and unwavering eyes, Rose couldn't find any words to refute him.

"You..." Rose opened her mouth, "You're a madman."

"Thank you for the compliment." Lu Xiao took a sip of soup. "Most of the Emperor's warriors are a little crazy. They can't survive if they're not crazy."

He put down the bowl and looked at the rose.

"Go back and tell Dukao."

"Don't look at me like that, and don't even think about accusing me. Since that monkey dared to brandish a weapon at me, he should be prepared to be killed."

"besides."

Lu Xiao pointed to the gate.

"Remember to knock before you come next time. It's a matter of courtesy."

The space behind Rose distorted again, and her figure disappeared into the wormhole.

The living room returned to silence.

Lu Xiao shook her head, picked up a piece of pork rib and put it in her mouth.

"The meat is stewed until tender, just right."