Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

"Boom!"

The relentless bombardment abruptly ceased after the final explosion. The military-grade giant cockroach mech ceased unleashing any more ammunition at the surrounding creatures. All sensors locked onto the entity whose danger level and priority level were set to the absolute limit, a fleeting shadow in the sky—the Inquisitor.

The speed had exceeded the limits of what the human eye could perceive. Only the mechanical cockroach's military-grade multi-locking system could confirm the judge's trajectory. All the machine guns and missile launchers turned around, aiming all available firepower at the judge who was charging straight at its head.

The anti-gravity prosthetics and momentum traction core installed on his body allow the Judge to step directly into the air and perform extremely agile maneuvers as if walking on flat ground. He lunges upward and downward, leaving afterimages, and forcibly moves forward in a storm of bullets in a way that is hard to imagine, aiming directly at the head of the military giant cockroach mech.

"Whoosh! Boom!"

A deafening roar erupted from its entire body as the military-grade giant cockroach mech spread its wings and moved forward, releasing powerful kinetic energy. Its massive, heavy body retreated rapidly, moving as far away as possible from the judge who was lunging at its head, while simultaneously completing the weaving of a fire net.

Dodging, no matter how fast or agile, is meaningless against a barrage of fire that leaves no blind spots. The judge sent the gang leader to his death to draw the fire of the giant military cockroach mech in order to delay the completion of this fire net targeting him.

Although these missiles and machine guns may not even be able to penetrate its outer armor, the kinetic energy they exert on its body upon impact is real, and this most basic law of physics will limit its forward movement...

Now, although the judge is clearly faster, the military giant cockroach mech, with its agile and rapid retreat that is inconsistent with its huge and heavy body, seems to be able to complete the firepower network composed of machine guns and missile launchers in no time.

"Bang!"

The entire high-speed military giant cockroach mech crashed backwards into one of the banquet hall walls. In the instant it easily smashed through and destroyed the wall, causing its speed to drop sharply, the fire net was also completed, completely blocking all of the judge's advance routes.

"Pfft!"

With no room to dodge, the judge was bombarded by a barrage of large-caliber shells and missiles. A high-energy barrier was deployed, instantly melting and dissolving all the fire that touched it. It simply floated in the air, enduring the bombardment without showing any sign of being injured or retreating.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle!"

Visible rings of energy began to converge on the head of the giant mechanical cockroach. That "head," which looked like it was designed to resemble a cockroach, was not a control core, but rather a fourth attack method besides ramming, machine guns, and missiles: nuclear annihilation.

The spiral rotates, the head deforms, revealing the flower-like structure inside, accumulating the surging energy pushed here from the internal power furnace, converging it to a single point, and then bursting out and releasing it.

It consumes extremely high amounts of energy and is incredibly powerful. It is only used to deal with targets that are marked as the two highest threat levels in the system. The judge who is being "held back" by the firepower network is the highest threat level target, without exception.

"call out!"

A blinding flash streaked across the eyes of everyone present, piercing through everything in its path. Then, about 500 meters away from where the giant military mechanical cockroach had launched its nuclear annihilation, a high-energy beam of light rose up, engulfing everything around it in a somewhat counterintuitive, slow spread before dissipating, leaving only a spherical crater with a radius of more than eight meters.

The Judge was naturally positioned along the trajectory of the nuclear annihilation, but he was no longer visible in the area. Nuclear annihilation, as the ultimate destructive method of military mechs, was indeed capable of penetrating the defenses of a Judge-level being. Could it be…?

"Click click click!"

However, this was not the case. After releasing a nuclear annihilation attack, the military giant cockroach mech was in a state of brief overload. Its weapons began to reload, its power reactor temporarily entered low-power operation, and its head gradually returned to its original structure. However, this process was forcibly interrupted.

The judge appeared before the head of the giant military cockroach mech, which was undergoing its transformation, and directly inserted his right arm into the energy release port in the center, which was so hot after releasing nuclear annihilation that it distorted a large area of ​​air, forcibly stopping its transformation process.

Trailing behind him in blurry, pale gray streaks of light, the judge did not dodge. He charged directly at the giant military cockroach mech. However, when the nuclear annihilation was released, he was not in this space, but rather traversing the phase channel constructed by the complete Great Wall Corporation's Dijiang Engine.

Avoiding the nuclear annihilation that could wipe out everything, the judge used phase shift to send himself to the head of the mechanical cockroach that was in an overloaded state, inserting his arm into it. The special implant inside was already fully charged, and vibrations at a frequency so high that they were almost imperceptible were added on top of it, and a fluid light filled the entire arm.

"bass!"

A sharp sound, like the ringing of a sword, exploded in the air. The light and vibration on the judge's arm dissipated, and the invisible blade pierced through the body of the giant military cockroach mech, starting from its head. All mechanical parts collapsed and stopped, the power unit completely shut down, and the massive shell fell from its clinging position, crashing to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.

After pulling the right arm from the head of the military giant cockroach mech, the judge walked towards the "abdomen" of this berserk mech, where its main control core was located.

The attack he just used was a weapon designed specifically for "hunting giants," a "super weapon" level device that allows individual soldiers to hunt down military giant mechs—the Magnetic Spectrometer Sword.

Once a weak point is found and penetrated, the violent magnetic field, constrained to near-fluidity, will instantly traverse the target giant machine's shell, destroying and distorting all electrical currents, pipes, power furnaces, etc., completely paralyzing it.

"Bang!"

"Crunch..."

With a punch piercing the sturdy armor plate constructed of a special alloy, the judge tore open the abdominal armor of the berserk mech, ripping away all the malfunctioning mechanical components blocking the target until the main control core appeared before him.

With precision and speed, the judge separated the black cube from the machine body, pointed his finger at the top of the cube, and prepared to establish a connection to read data.

"Sizzle!"

However, a burst of purple electric arcs abruptly interrupted the connection process, and the control core of the berserk mech refused the judge's access.

"Won't you stop this rampage until you find what you're looking for? What are you looking for? Go back and let the tech team analyze it properly."

Without doing anything further to the black cube, the judge opened a section in his hand that had a distinct sense of layering with the surrounding space and threw the main control core of the berserk military giant cockroach mech into it.

This mech rampage is much more serious than some previous incidents caused by pilots' mental problems or even betrayal.

Military mechs are divided into two types: humanoid and non-humanoid. Compared to humanoid mechs, non-humanoid mechs completely outperform humanoid mechs. Ultimately, the human body structure cannot be fully applied to the mech industry.

Non-humanoid mechs, free from all limitations, are far superior to humanoid ones. This rampaging military giant cockroach mech cannot be considered completely non-humanoid. Even if the Chief Judge were to personally use superweapons, a completely non-humanoid giant mech would not be handled as easily as it is now.

Is there still a need for humanoid mechs? Of course there is, because the pilots of mechs are familiar with humanoid bodies just like themselves. Using a brain-computer interface to control humanoid mechs is much simpler and less risky than controlling non-humanoid mechs. It's just like using a slightly awkward new body.

However, non-humanoid mechs are difficult for humans to control. The larger the mech, the more complex parts it has to adapt to. Forcing a human to control it will most likely result in brain overload and collapse, leading to brain death.

Humans need either exceptional talent or inhuman modifications to pilot humanoid mechs. Therefore, most military-grade giant non-humanoid mechs are controlled by AI through a main control core, namely the black cube that the judge cut out of the mech.

Anyone who has experienced an "artificial intelligence riot" can understand why the loss of control of non-humanoid mechs is much more serious than the rampage of humanoid mechs. This is because it could be a signal, or even the trigger for a series of crises.

……

"Sizzle sizzle..."

A series of noises caused by interference came through the headset of the electronic mask. Wang Yu subconsciously glanced in the direction of the outside world. The continuous explosions over there had abruptly stopped a dozen seconds ago. It was very likely that the matter was over. Whether the cockroach or the gang won, he had to speed up.

"Such strong electromagnetic interference. The battle over there is coming to an end. I need to hurry. Let's get down here."

Muttering to himself, Wang Yu confirmed, based on the directions from the positioning device in his hand, that the target was located below, but he couldn't be sure how deep it was or which level it was on.

He had been infiltrating Hamorlet's mansion for some time now, and the interior was indeed ridiculously large, with a maze of passageways, a huge hall, and rooms scattered throughout. This mansion simulated an amazing "medieval manor" that was basically impossible to complete in the Middle Ages.

The more Wang Yu searched for a way through the mansion, the more he felt something was wrong. Especially after confirming that the depth gauge reading was constantly increasing and he hadn't encountered a single guard, he became even more suspicious that the "mentally unstable" retro-obsessed gang leader, Hamorlet, was performing some kind of ritual.

"laugh."

Grasping the wires wrapped around his teeth, Wang Yu began to pull out the things hidden inside his stomach and esophagus.

The parts, covered in stomach acid, fell into Wang Yu's hands. He skillfully assembled them one by one, creating a gun that resembled the Greedy Silver Serpent revolver in appearance, but was smaller and had an extension component added to the muzzle.

Greedy Silver Serpent Revolver Modified. For convenience, Wang Yu simply calls this thing Greedy Golden Serpent Revolver, even though it has nothing to do with its color. This gun is considered to be the pinnacle of his mechanical repair skills at this stage. In addition to being more compact and detachable, it also has additional tools for expansion.

"Buzz!"

Unfolding the blade folded at the muzzle, which emitted a stream of azure light as it charged, Wang Yu aimed it at the ground beneath his feet and plunged it in.

It was no different from cutting tofu; the blade sliced ​​through the steel-cast ground without any hesitation. During this process, the glass knife, an old-fashioned relic whose function Wang Yu did not fully understand, continued to perform its purpose.

He made a circular cut, then stomped down hard, sending Wang Yu and the cut ground plummeting downwards together.

"Bang!"

"Ping, ping, ping!"

The former was the thud of the ground crashing down below, while the latter was the explosion caused by Wang Yu firing his gun without hesitation. During his descent, he saw the humanoid mechanical figure moving in the room below; it was the first "guard" he encountered in this mansion!

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The bullet accurately struck the body made of pure metal, immediately deforming and bouncing off, causing the humanoid mechanical body, which was clearly not in a hurry to react, to stagger backward. Although it failed to penetrate the outer layer of the mechanical body, it did leave a fairly deep dent.

"Who are you!?"

The humanoid mechanical entity uttered a questioning voice filled with surprise, confusion, and anger, seemingly completely unable to understand why Wang Yu was here.

Inspiration Check • Pass

"That's really true, tsk."

Based on his intuition, Wang Yu rolled the dice and, after passing the test, saw the truth hidden behind the humanoid mechanical body, which confirmed his previous guesses.

Behind the humanoid mechanical body clung a semi-illusory shadow, its expression a mixture of surprise and anger, interspersed with a deep fear of unknown origin. Its face was identical to that of the gang leader Hamorlet, whom Wang Yu knew.

Hamorlet was horrified. Relying on his long-planned strategy, the moment his head was blown off by the giant mechanical cockroach, he used his great power to abandon his physical body and attach his will to one of the mechanical bodies in his mansion, which was also a ritual site, and controlled it to survive.

Hamorlet couldn't understand why an intruder would suddenly break into his mansion, but he knew he had to fight back. The mechanical body was very strong, at least equivalent to a human body modified by more than 40% cybernetic enhancement.

He charged forward, rushing towards the intruder, swinging his fist to smash into the opponent's forehead while simultaneously folding and extending his right hand, revealing the muzzle of the impact cannon, ready to unleash its kinetic energy.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The remaining three projectiles, which were already being fired, instantly deflected the impact cannon aimed at him. Then, using the recoil from the firing, he swung his arm and swung the gun blade at the descending fist.

"Sizzle!"

Wang Yu severed the four fingers of the mechanical hand, excluding the little finger, and they flew off. It was this slight reduction in attack distance that caused the powerful punch to graz the slightly lowered Wang Yu and miss.

The hand not holding the gun then pressed down on one of Hamorlet's mechanical arm joints. When the two separated immediately after a very brief exchange, Hamorlet was horrified to find that the arm that Wang Yu had pushed down had completely lost control.

As a mechanic, Wang Yu's understanding of mechanical special attacks is quite reasonable, isn't it?