Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

The plasma slash pierced through the giant mudskipper's body, bursting out and leaving a molten gash on the wall behind it. It flew out of Wang Yu's residence and disappeared into the dark, rainy night.

"Sizzle..."

Stepping onto the giant mudskipper's corpse, Wang Yu used the momentum to push himself backward, trying to avoid the dark green liquid gushing from the carcass. From the moment he stepped out, Wang Yu's intuition and physical instincts had been frantically reminding him of the danger of this liquid.

"Tsk."

After rolling and rubbing his body several meters on the ground, he was stabilized by his hands, which were propped up. The dark green liquid suspended in the air by his telekinesis dripped down. Wang Yu clicked his tongue.

The timely retreat and the psychic blocking prevented most of his body from getting covered in the mudskipper's fluids. Only his hands, which were used to hold the plasma converging blade, were inevitably soaked in the giant mudskipper's fluids.

A needle-like pain spread across his hands, and at the same time, a strange sensation appeared, which made Wang Yu's body instinctively feel repulsed and nauseous, but he could not stop to investigate what was happening to him.

"Lingqi, push!"

Using his shoulder to brace against the giant mudskipper's carcass, Wang Yu roared as he pushed the heavy object pressing down on the MK1's body. He had to get Ling Qi out.

"Gah gah gah, bang!"

The sound of taut metal rang out, and with the combined force from the side and below, the mudskipper's corpse tilted to one side and slammed heavily onto the floor, freeing Zero Seven from below.

"How are you? Are you alright?"

Wang Yu stepped forward and dragged Ling Qi's body out of the crater. He nervously checked on Ling Qi's condition. There were many twists and deformities on her body, especially the joints of her legs, which were broken.

Sparks danced between the cracked wires, and the arcs occasionally connected with the liquid beside her. Fortunately, her legs weren't particularly useful to Lingqi anyway.

"I'm fine, Mr. Wang Yu."

Zero Seven's response relieved Wang Yu. The cockpit where the opponent's chip was located had been deliberately reinforced. As long as it was not targeted, there should not be too much of a problem. Fortunately, the giant mudskipper's power was still not enough to forcibly crush Zero Seven's body.

"It's good that you're alright."

"Ping!"

"I'm fucking impressed..."

As soon as Wang Yu finished speaking, a thunderclap exploded in the sky, and a brilliant flash of lightning briefly illuminated the scenery outside Wang Yu's residence. Swear words, following Wang Yu's mood at that moment, came out of his mouth.

The six-story building, which had been struck by the giant mudskipper, had almost completely collapsed. Half of the walls and roof had been reduced to rubble, and the torrential rain was relentlessly lashing against Wang Yu, Ling Qi, and Lena.

The lightning that ripped through the dark sky exposed them to the eyes of the marine life outside, and also brought those marine creatures into Wang Yu's field of vision.

The surrounding buildings were covered with those mutated spider crabs, and the top floors of each building had long been crushed by giant mudskippers, which perched on them, heads raised, seemingly searching for their next target, while the lightning illuminating the sky guided them in their direction.

Even in the nearshore area, Wang Yu saw something even larger crawling onto the land—a lamprey with limbs resembling those of a human, its length likely exceeding that of a blue whale.

The rain was pouring down, monsters were lurking all around, and the plasma converging blade's energy was completely exhausted. Wang Yu wasn't really thinking about anything else; all he could do was curse. However, this had nothing to do with whether he continued to struggle.

"Walk!"

Grabbing Ling Qi's heavy body and lifting the increasingly uncomfortable Lena, Wang Yu headed towards the door. At least the building hadn't collapsed yet, so the stairwell was safer than his own home, which was already mostly destroyed.

"Waaah..."

The sharp whistling sound cutting through the air and the heavy roar of the engine made Wang Yu turn his head as he moved forward. This sound could not have come from those marine creatures; it must have come from some kind of mechanical creation, and the only one that would arrive here at this moment was the Tribunal.

Five streaks of fire, trailing extremely long flames, streaked through the air. When they were about 2,500 meters from the coast, even more things trailing flames were released and crashed down in a dense barrage.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

There were over a hundred vertically launched missiles, which fell from the sky on vertical trajectories, raining down on the marine life. They exploded with a deafening roar, and in the burst of fire and shock, no marine life nearby could resist, and they were instantly torn to pieces.

Wang Yu finally saw what those beings, trailing trails of flame, were when they came within two hundred meters: four armed airships and one exceptionally large war-class armed airship that resembled an aerial fortress.

"Click click click..."

The airship, which resembles a combination of a fighter jet and an attack helicopter, begins to rapidly transform as it approaches its target location. Its wings retract, its hovering flight power engines extend and open, its cabin folds into its chest cavity, and its sturdy and heavy mechanical arms and legs are erected. It completes the landing maneuver with unimaginable speed, transforming from an aircraft mode into a semi-land combat mech mode.

Metal feet glided across the ground, which was covered with marine life and had been bombarded by missiles. Switchable mecha armaments popped out from inside the two arms, and the huge nozzles of the flamethrowers spewed out flames that had been agglomerated and heated to a blue color.

The terrifying waves of flame, with their terrifyingly high temperatures, swept over the surrounding marine life. They instantly turned the falling raindrops into steam, and all the mutated marine creatures that were affected by the wave died within seconds and burned into black charred dust. Even the road below was incinerated into a molten, glowing gel-like substance.

"Bang!"

Two of the mechs landed directly on the top floors of two other buildings. One of them had a mechanical arm equipped with a rotary machine gun similar to that of the Dauntless mech, while the other had its massive, high-energy destructive chainsaw blade, which was originally mounted on its back, fully assembled.

The chainsaw structure, possessing extremely strong physical destructive power, combined with high-energy blades on each saw blade that work on a principle similar to plasma convergence blades, creates a weapon with terrifying destructive power on any level. As the high-energy filling device finished preheating, amidst a piercing roar, the mech easily cleaved those giant mudskippers in two.

"The Tribunal's mechs? They certainly deserve responsibility for this catastrophic event, though they arrived just in time, after all."

Wang Yu looked at the mechs and muttered to himself. He couldn't name the models of the mechs. Just as the Dauntless Armor crushed most of the machinery in the ruined city, these mechs from the Inquisition also completely crushed the Dauntless Armor.

"Captain, do you know what's going on in this area? Logically speaking, the abyss's abnormal spread here should have stopped more than 30 years ago, otherwise this ocean monitoring station wouldn't have been abandoned."

After dealing with the giant mudskippers, the mechs on the rooftop switched the weapons mounted on both arms to rotary machine guns, unleashing a barrage of fire at the large marine creatures below, powered by their chips.

The extremely high rate of fire caused the tracer rounds to leave a straight line, assisting the mechs below using flamethrowers to clear the mutated marine life in the area.

"This is an emergency mission. I don't know the specific reason either. This unusual marine invasion is a completely sudden situation. It can only be explained as the abyss's erosion of the safe zone becoming more active again. More information will have to wait for the Vientiane Bureau to analyze."

Within the mechs' communication channels, the pilots exchanged messages. These mechs, which Wang Yu couldn't name, shared a common codename—Valkyrie Land-Air Dual-Fighter Mech.

The mech using a flamethrower is the Specialized Crimson Flame, while the two that landed on the rooftop are the Specialized Whirlwind. They are both combat units belonging to the Inquisition Order Force, and their duty is to deal with this abnormal disaster caused by the Great Being.

The largest mech, almost the size of an aerial fortress, is the leader of each Order Force, codenamed Valkyrie King Fortress-class mech.

"We've located the abnormal aggregate of this mutated marine creature, Captain. Let's deal with it quickly. Too many abnormal marine creatures entering the abandoned city area will cause us a lot of trouble."

"Don't rush."

"Target location confirmed. Annihilation mode activated. Internal approval obtained. Annihilation mode activated."

After a brief period of airtime, the enormous Valkyrie King mech began to transform. Then, the massive, three- or four-story-high, dual-plane mech crashed to the ground. Its astonishing weight caused the surrounding buildings to tremble slightly. And what it faced was the giant seven-gilled eel monster that Wang Yu had seen earlier.

"Gravity field generator activated!"

A warning sound rang out, and a red marker with a strong warning connotation was projected directly onto the giant mutated seven-gilled eel by the mech, moving with the eel as it moved.

"Gravity Crush Unleashed Warning, Countdown: Three, two, one, Gravity Crush Released!"

The sharp warning sound was projected directly into the surrounding area. As soon as it finished broadcasting, an invisible energy shockwave erupted, and the Valkyrie King mech shook violently for a moment. The mutated seven-gilled eel was captured by a gravitational field. The amplified gravity pressed it directly to the ground, making it unable to move at all. The ground cracked layer by layer and fell uncontrollably into the depression.

"Target acquired, Destruction Ray pre-initiated, internally approved, Destruction Ray energy storage process initiated, launch warning, energy storage process, five, four, three, two, one, Destruction Ray launched."

Wisps of light appeared in front of the bright power reactor on the chest of the Valkyrie King mech. As a loud warning was broadcast, the light gradually flowed into the launch port. A materialized energy ball gathered in front of the power reactor. After five seconds of charging, it aimed at the mutated seven-gilled eel captured by the gravity field and burst out.

An extremely thick and bright high-energy beam swept out from near to far, melting several meters deep into the ground with just a graze. When it directly hit the mutated lamprey, the high-energy jet, which was already half the thickness of the lamprey's body, vaporized and incinerated all the flesh and tissue within several meters of it. The mutated lamprey's seemingly huge body only lasted for a second or two before it was reduced to nothing.

"Buzz, boom, whoosh..."

The destructive ray, overflowing with power, rose up, sending excess high-energy jets hurtling towards the sky near the sea, until all the energy was released and the beam converged.

The massive amount of dissipated heat energy caused the Valkyrie King mech to evaporate the falling raindrops simply by standing there, and the swirling white mist enveloped the entire mech, giving it an indescribable and awe-inspiring aura.

"The anomalous carriers have been annihilated. These mutated marine creatures will soon die or escape due to the loss of the anomalous field surrounding the abyss. The mutated creatures in this area have been mostly cleared out. Go and kill the anomalous creatures that are already close to the abandoned city area."

The captain issued orders to his four Valkyrie mechs. The mutated creatures near the coast had just been cleared out by them; all that remained were those that had crossed the kennel earlier.

"receive!"

With its mechanical legs slightly bent, it suddenly launched upwards, transforming from a mecha into a fighter jet during its ascent of about ten meters. These Valkyrie mechas of the Order Forces, just as they had arrived, trailed trails of flame, pierced through the rain curtain, and disappeared from Wang Yu's sight.

"You survived."

Letting out a breath, Wang Yu, who had been tense all along, leaned back and lay on the MK1 body that Ling Qi was piloting, trying to relax as much as possible to recover his strength.

"Mr. Wang Yu, your hand."

Lingqi's pockmarked mechanical hand gripped Wang Yu's left arm, speaking rapidly.

"I know, this must be the effect of the giant mudskipper's body fluid. It's already the best result that it only got on my left and right hands."

Wang Yu spoke without much concern. His right hand had already undergone a transformation. Fish scales spread across his skin, and webbing, similar to that of a near-shore fishman, grew between his fingers. His nails also became sharp and pointed. At this moment, his entire left hand had become indistinguishable from those fishmen, and this process was spreading all the way up his left arm.

"What should we do?"

Lingqi was extremely nervous; she had absolutely no idea how to handle this situation.

"How would I know? It's the same situation as Old Fish Head's. He'll just have to wait for the doctor to come back and do some surgery. At least he won't die."

Wang Yu shrugged. There was nothing he could do in this situation. Ah, should he cut off his left hand? Or should he just forget about it? This was pollution from a great being. Putting aside the question of whether losing his left hand or gaining a fishman's arm was a greater loss, whether cutting it off would even be useful was another matter.

As for why it was judged to be the pollution of a great being's power, it's because Wang Yu's right hand did not show any abnormalities, and the mark from eternal death seemed to have repelled the pollution from the abyss.

"Pfft!"

"Wang Yu, I'm feeling better now and can temporarily help you suppress the spread of this pollution."

Two tentacles suddenly pierced into Wang Yu's left wrist, then detached from Lena and remained inside him. Ignoring the pain, Wang Yu turned to look at her.

There was nothing wriggling under Lena's raincoat anymore, and she seemed to be in much better condition. After the other party pierced Wang Yu's wrist with the tentacles, the fish-man transformation did indeed stop spreading.

"Thank you. I'll go down and check on Old Fish Head. Maybe he'll know how to deal with this anomaly."

Wang Yu thanked them, pushed open the door and went downstairs. The abnormal marine life in the vicinity had been almost completely wiped out by the five mechs, and the remaining ones also died spontaneously. At least he could do whatever he wanted now.

Old Fish Head's shop door was locked. Wang Yu knocked, but there was no response. He called out again, but still no answer. Without saying a word, he took out his Greedy Silver Snake revolver and fired three shots at the lock. The standard armor-piercing rounds shattered the lock, and he forced the door open.

The scene inside the store came into view. There were no marine creatures invading, but the inspiration from the second ascent had already told Wang Yu what had happened here. He could only shake his head helplessly and sigh softly.

"Is he/she dead...?"