Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

"Understood, see you later..."

Wang Yu spoke to indicate that he was aware of the situation, waved goodbye to the other party, opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately said nothing. He simply watched as Lena waved goodbye to him in return, and then Ling Qi closed the door.

"The doctor is probably not coming back. The message he asked his daughter to give me basically says everything he wanted to say."

Wiping his face, Wang Yu's tone carried a deep sense of helplessness. He had foreseen what the doctor would do based on his previous actions and behaviors, but he hadn't expected it to come to this so quickly.

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

Wang Yu, who was talking to himself, raised his face and looked at Ling Qi, who had a somewhat inexplicable expression. Ling Qi was holding a small spherical object that was currently flashing red and green lights at a breathing frequency.

"This is a point-to-point signal repeater. Currently, it cannot overcome the signal interference in the wasteland, but..."

……

"Snap!"

The sturdy steel gate was struck from the outside by something extremely powerful, and a small hole was broken in the strong shock, revealing part of the situation outside the gate: a whole team of special forces soldiers who were fully armed and whose true faces were covered by black close-fitting tactical equipment.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."

Using the breached hole as a starting point, the plasma cutter, with its extremely high output power, quickly cut open the steel gate, which was at least 10cm thick, bit by bit. The external intruders did not seem to be in a hurry to break through, but instead opened up the obstacles blocking their way in a slower but more stable way.

The person inside the room showed no intention of retaliating, continuing their unfinished operations and analyses at the lab bench in front of them.

His expression remained as calm as ever, and his movements as he quickly controlled the control panel and analyzed the data were methodical and orderly. He seemed to take the outsiders seriously at all, or perhaps he had known all along that these intruders would come.

"Bang!"

The steel gate, now completely severed, slammed to the ground. The tactical squad outside quickly rushed into the room where their target was located. Each member held an energy weapon and stood in a different position, aiming their guns at the same target who was surrounded by everyone.

"You actually chose a place like this as your experimental site? We thought that you and another researcher had already cut off your own arm by escaping to the ruined city with the data, but we didn't expect you to be even more ruthless than we thought."

After all the team members had entered the room, a figure wearing a full-body single-soldier mech entered from the entrance, looked at the doctor who was still methodically carrying out his final experiment, and said with a hint of admiration.

"What happened to the researcher who came with you? Did he die in infighting due to disagreements?"

"Bang!"

The moment the words were spoken, a bullet struck the chest of the mech, exploding in a burst of sparks. Ordinary bullets simply couldn't penetrate this overly sturdy protection; the only effect of the hit was to flatten the bullet itself into a small metal disc before ejecting it.

The doctor had turned around, his hand holding the kinetic pistol trembling slightly. It seemed he was aiming at the head of the mech, but due to his poor shooting skills and insufficient grip strength, the bullet had deviated and landed on the enemy's chest.

"Ha, so this is still your Achilles' heel? It's quite amusing that someone as calm as you can be provoked. You should know that everything you're doing right now is meaningless, right?"

"Snapped!"

With a light laugh, the mech wasn't angry at the doctor's sudden barrage of shots; it probably just found it amusing. As it spoke, it tossed a panel displaying something at the doctor's feet.

"I must say, you've really had a tough time. If it weren't for the sudden increase in pollution and erosion in the nearshore waters, which led the court to intensify its investigation of the area, we wouldn't have discovered this submarine that had been patrolling the nearshore waters for nearly ten years."

"I must say, your audacity has exceeded my expectations. To use a submarine in the near-wasteland for an extended period of time, my God, I don't even have that kind of courage. As for the self-destruct program you set up in advance, I'm sorry, I have already hacked into it completely and turned it off."

The panel displayed a diagram of a submarine, along with the specific parameters of its various parts. They were currently on a self-circulating energy submarine that was conducting long-term patrols at a depth of 400 meters in the near sea. It was a small exploration submarine, but it had undergone considerable modifications.

"After all, I'm not an expert in the field of mechanics; I've only made some achievements in the field of biology."

The doctor casually tossed aside the useless gun, turned around and continued working on the lab table, replying indifferently that anger could only make him put down what he was doing and fire this one shot.

"Since you know, then stop wasting your time. Hand over the file you and Anna took. I'm too lazy to search through the submarine's database or dig it out of your head."

As the mech raised its hand, the members of the surrounding tactical squad attached corresponding extension devices to their weapons. The live capture restraint device instantly paralyzed all the muscles of the captured person, leaving no chance for even minor actions like biting their tongue.

"If you want it, you have to take it yourself."

The doctor replied, taking a chip from his sleeve and placing it on the lab table beside him.

"When did you become so fond of playing little tricks?"

The pilot inside the mech raised an eyebrow, but didn't seem to care much about any possible traps the other party might be setting. He raised his hand, and an electromagnetic restraint field was generated between his thick palms, allowing him to take the chip directly from a distance of seven or eight meters.

"Sizzle!"

It was a very convenient way to retrieve the item, but the chip that the doctor placed down only touched the palm of the mech before it burst into a violent self-ignition and turned into useless charred remains.

"I knew it. To get rid of him, it's easier to just dig something out of your head."

As expected, the raised hand was pressed down, and the mech no longer had any interest in wasting time with the medic. The special forces teams around it, having received the order, immediately carried it out without hesitation, and the restraint attachments on their weapons were activated instantly.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Numerous needle-like missiles struck the doctor's body from various angles, activating the complex internal structure and delivering an invasive impact that paralyzed all of his muscles, causing him to collapse to the ground.

"That's it, let's take him back."

Seeing the doctor lying on the ground, the mech didn't say anything more, turned around and left the compartment inside the submarine, leaving its subordinates to handle the target.

"learn."

A response came through the communication channel from the special forces soldiers. Following the orders of the person inside the individual mech, they came in unison to the side of the completely powerless doctor, took out the restraint devices they carried, and fixed them to each joint of the skeleton.

With a buzzing sound, the restraint device, composed of various small pieces, was connected together to form a cage resembling an external skeleton, locking the doctor in place.

"Heh, heh..."

But just as these special forces soldiers were about to make their final retrieval of the doctor, they heard a labored gasp for breath. This was quite unusual, as someone whose entire body was paralyzed could not produce sound with their vocal cords or breathe with enough force to make a sound.

"Injecting a powerful sedative to fill the body with the machine."

The response was swift; several tubes of sedatives, each containing a miniature robot, were injected directly into the doctor's body to eliminate any possibility of resistance.

"Bang!"

"Wait, what is this thing, little...!"

Things did not go as they expected. When the syringe was halfway pressed, a force of recoil came, and before the special forces soldiers could react, a clump of semi-liquid and semi-solid substance rushed back into the syringe.

With a deafening explosion, the injection was burst open, and the slightly orange-yellow substance inside smeared directly onto the faces of the two special forces soldiers who were working. Before they could even cry out or warn each other, the unknown substance had already penetrated their bodies.

The moment they were penetrated, they lost the ability to speak. Their bodies, like wet sand sculptures, collapsed layer by layer under the external impact, disintegrating into decaying matter that could not be reconstituted into a whole, disintegrating and destroying themselves from the root.

"Splash..."

In just a few seconds, the bodies of the two special forces soldiers turned into two puddles of mud on the ground. An unknown substance, faintly glowing orange-red, wriggled and trembled within their flesh and blood, and in the extremely short time without flesh and blood as a carrier, it immediately perished.

"An unknown anomaly has occurred at the target. Activate emergency plan. All personnel on standby...!"

"Gulp, thud!"

Realizing the sudden situation, the other special forces members immediately began to implement countermeasures. Portable force field generators and shock munitions were pre-activated and loaded, but the doctor, or rather the things inside the doctor's body, did not give them time to react.

Just like bursting a syringe, the contents inside the doctor's body instantly shattered the mechanical skeleton cage that bound his flesh and blood, and then began to spread its influence to all living beings around him.

A viscous substance, black with orange-red tinges, erupted from the doctor's back. Its quantity and size far exceeded that of the doctor himself, as if it had appeared out of thin air.

The strange substance, its amorphous body thrashing wildly and erratically, relentlessly attacked the special forces soldiers. At its astonishing speed, only one or two soldiers on the periphery managed to react, and even then, it was largely ineffective.

"Bang, sizzle!"

The closest entity was completely engulfed by this massive black substance and slammed onto the ground. As it moved toward its next target, all that remained in its original position was a pile of rotten remains, not even a skeleton.

It burst forth like a fountain, attacking every target in the cabin without leaving any blind spots. Anything that came into contact with it would have its flesh and blood disintegrate, resulting in instant death without a trace.

The two team members who reacted quickly fired impact grenades at the strange substance. The strong shockwaves dispersed the nearby substance, but some of the exploding strange substance turned into tiny droplets that still clung to the bodies of the two special forces members.

"Crackling sound..."

"Thump."

One brushed against his face, the other touched his waist. Instantly, his head softened and collapsed, and he fell to the ground. His waist and abdomen were instantly severed and swallowed up, and his upper and lower body separated.

"Tch, they've completely become people of the Wasteland. Even this last resort is related to pollutants. Just like the people of the Wasteland I remember, they resort to those disgusting beings in an incredibly filthy and pathetic way whenever they can't achieve something."

A semi-transparent barrier made of physical energy blocked the hatch that the special forces soldiers had broken open. The strange substances rushed against it, but they could not break it open like they would destroy a living being's body. Instead, after about ten seconds, the massive body of the substance gradually collapsed and disappeared because it had lost its carrier.

At this moment, there were no living beings left in the cabin. All the special forces members, including the doctor himself, had been completely devoured by the pollutants that had erupted.

After removing the physical energy barrier, the mech entered the cabin. On the doctor's experimental table, there seemed to be one last thing that had slipped through the net. He was curious about this thing that the doctor was still experimenting on at the very end.

Inside the transparent container was a piece of human flesh cultivated using in vitro culture technology, which was entangled with pollutants that had burst from the doctor's body, and surprisingly, it did not collapse for the time being.

"Oh?"

Just as the being inside the mech made a sound tinged with interest, the piece of flesh suddenly succumbed to the corrosive effects of the contaminants, rapidly disintegrating into a pool of viscous, semi-transparent liquid that vanished completely.

"Tsk, a mixture of different types of pollutants. In the end, you were researching meat that could withstand all this pollution? Heh, all you can do is use it as a one-time self-destruct weapon. What a failure. Without the technical support of the new capital, even if you had all that data, you wouldn't have been able to research anything. It's really ugly."

Watching the flesh and blood, seemingly capable of withstanding the destruction of the mixed contaminants, crumble and disintegrate, the mech scoffed at the already dead professor. So many years had passed; the once-advanced technology was now obsolete, and the professor had accomplished nothing in all that time. Coming to capture him was a waste of time, as were creating clones…

"Get headquarters to approve another team of clone special forces. It doesn't matter if the mission fails. That researcher is a useless piece of trash. He was researching a project that was already confirmed to be worthless."

"Boom!"

The mech left without lingering, and moments later, with a deafening roar, the submarine located deep in the near sea exploded, and the surging seawater swallowed everything that remained.

What the person inside the mech didn't notice was that there was a hidden monitoring point inside the submarine, which was being monitored by someone with higher privileges, and the entire process was being observed.

……

"The doctor won. He completely severed all ties with the past. For those people, there is no longer any connection between them and the world."

Wang Yu's expression was very unpleasant as he squeezed out his conclusion.