Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

"Where did my arm go? I can't find it. Oh well."

Searching through the rotting biomass in the collapsed mimicry building, Wang Yu eventually gave up. He vaguely remembered that his right hand, marked by the power of eternal death, was not swallowed or destroyed, but rather cut off and replaced by the great being corresponding to this mimicry city.

But after searching for a long time, he found nothing. There was nothing inside, but his equipment was still there. It seemed that because Wang Yu himself had attracted the attention of all the great beings, his unremarkable equipment was lucky enough to be left behind.

"You're still there, right? Yes."

Wang Yu put his fingers in his mouth and tapped his upper and lower jaws a few times. He felt something small and hard touching his fingertips and confirmed that the mechanical spider in his throat was still there.

"As for you, whatever."

As he picked up his belongings from the mess and returned them, Wang Yu casually pressed his palm to his forehead and said nonchalantly.

The parasite in his brain could still affect his emotions, but it could no longer kill him. Before his body completely collapsed to maintain its own state, he was unlikely to die from pure physical trauma, so he didn't care about it much anymore. On the contrary, his weak mental power and simple emotional perception were still useful.

The reason he fell for Dorothy's trap was because his uncle put the parasite in his brain into a deep sleep, preventing him from directly sensing Dorothy's emotions. He was thus successfully tricked by her. Was all of this part of the Tide Gang's plan?

"Identity verification successful."

Walking back to the car, he held Dorothy's Star Ring Mercenary Device in his hand. He used it to verify his identity, and it passed without any delay. After all, there was no problem in Wang Yu saying that the flesh and blood on his body belonged to Dorothy.

"Hmm... was it before we set off?"

Unable to connect to the Star Ring Network, Wang Yu reviewed the communication records between Dorothy and the Tide Gang, gaining a clear understanding of their transactions and their ultimate fate.

"So that's why they fed me to this abnormal zone. So that's what my value to the Tide Gang is."

With an indifferent expression, Wang Yu now realized the error of his previous belief that "only by living and working for the Hai Chao Gang can one maximize one's value." In fact, for the Hai Chao Gang, his death would be the most valuable thing to them.

It wasn't a miscalculation or naivety; the information gap between him and the Tide Gang was simply too great. Without a complete and comprehensive understanding of the world, such a misjudgment leading to defeat was almost inevitable. However, the price was indeed too high, almost killing them forever in just one instance.

"The Tide Gang..."

Muttering the name of this entity, the rage and resentment that had been suppressed for so long no longer needed to be suppressed. Under the further catalysis of realizing that the Tide Gang only wanted him dead from the beginning, it turned into the purest killing intent in Wang Yu's heart at this moment. He wanted the entire Tide Gang to be completely wiped out.

"boom!"

Wang Yu started the world-traveling vehicle and drove towards the location of the abandoned city. In his current state, it was impossible for him to even board the mobile city. In fact, if he were discovered by the personnel in charge of inspection, he would be treated as an abnormal creature and dealt with immediately.

His body was in a state of utter chaos, the most primitive human form in a vulnerable position, struggling to maintain a basic balance and prevent his flesh and blood from collapsing.

The remnants of the sea of ​​blood, the incompletely evolved flesh and blood of hatred, filled the body's organs and cavities, wriggling and slowly devouring the blood and flesh.

The biomass left behind by the great being corresponding to that simulated city and Wang Yu's body reached a symbiotic relationship, with its simulated organs, bones, blood vessels, etc., truly serving as components of Wang Yu's body.

The flesh and blood of hatred and the mimicry tissues are locked in a struggle. As the mimicry tissues grow, they are devoured by the flesh and blood of hatred, while these tissues grow even faster to prevent the flesh and blood of hatred from consuming them completely.

It seems that the symbiosis of the mimicry organization is more "friendly," but in reality, it is not. The nutrients that the mimicry organization draws for its growth are also taken from Wang Yu's body.

The ultimate goal of this so-called symbiosis is simply to completely replace Wang Yu after fully simulating him. If it weren't for the presence of the flesh and blood of hatred restraining him, the process of replacing Wang Yu wouldn't even take long.

The balance was incredibly fragile. Every now and then, a piece of flesh would fall off Wang Yu's body. The original human flesh, which was bearing the fierce confrontation between the two great powers, was being used like a consumable. It was constantly decreasing because the income could not meet the expenditure. If it weren't for the human flesh provided by Dorothy, this broken body would have collapsed just now.

The power of the Blood Sea and the mimic city, corresponding to the great beings, is completely different from the abnormal pollutants injected into Wang Yu's body by the abnormal steady-state catalyst. Those abnormal pollutants do not have the instincts and behaviors of biological beings, but the flesh and blood of hatred and the abnormal derivatives of the mimic tissue are particularly similar to biological beings. His somewhat special body simply cannot adapt to and bear both of them.

The only advantage might be that his current body is composed of abominations and mimicry, and thus he has inherited some characteristics of both.

The former is an extremely terrifying weapon against living beings. Touching, invading, devouring, and hating flesh and blood can devour living beings from the inside out and grow itself simply by touching them.

Mimicry tissues, on the other hand, provide specialized regenerative capabilities. As long as there are nutrients, they can regenerate and differentiate flesh and blood at a speed that exceeds human limits in order to restore and heal.

Alongside the two specializations came additional enhanced speed and strength. It must be admitted that both the mimicry tissue and the flesh and blood of the abominations were far superior to the human body. Wang Yu's ability to control this dying body with his own will was a once-in-a-lifetime miracle.

"How much time do I have left? I don't know, I'd better hurry."

Driving his transport vehicle across the wilderness, the unrecognizable Wang Yu muttered to himself, "The power of great beings has always been like this; extra strength comes with unimaginable risks."

Objectively speaking, his body has indeed become stronger than before, but even he himself cannot predict when this fragile balance will suddenly collapse, at which point he will truly face death.

However, he didn't care much. Right now, this guy was just a shell driven by the rage and murderous intent of revenge. As long as he could send the Tide Gang to hell, he didn't care about anything else.

He might not have had this ability before, but now, the addition of the power of a great being has made him see this possibility. As for whether he lives or dies, he can just consider it the price for achieving his goal. This deal is worthwhile!

He glanced at the depth gauge he had picked out from the pile of rotten flesh. The depth reading fluctuated around 112, much higher than the previous 60s. He was getting closer and closer to those great beings.

Stopping pondering these questions, Wang Yu focused on driving the world-traveling transport vehicle towards the abandoned city. Although he had survived, he still needed to return to the abandoned city without a mobile city to pick him up. Was that really possible...?

……

"Sizzle!"

After gliding a short distance across a rugged, rocky hillside at full speed, the RimWorld transport vehicle, battered and with its roof and hood missing, stalled.

"Tsk, completely destroyed. The only way forward is to walk."

After taking out his tools, Wang Yu made one last effort to repair the engine, which had stalled and been repaired countless times. After collecting a piece of engine debris, he declared the transport vehicle a total loss. No matter how durable and high-quality the vehicle was, it couldn't withstand Wang Yu's use. It was unbelievable that the vehicle's energy could last this long.

A month has passed, and Wang Yu is driving this transport vehicle through the wasteland. Perhaps he can now be considered an anomalous derivative, because almost no anomalous zones he passes through launch attacks against him, and the anomalous predatory creatures roaming the wasteland are not interested in him.

The near-non-stop journey was overwhelmed, and the first vehicle to break down was the world-traveling transport vehicle that had accompanied him through mountains and valleys and extremely high-intensity off-roading. After being overloaded and shutting down for the 27th time, it was completely beyond repair, and Wang Yu had to walk the remaining third of the journey.

Without wasting any time on melancholy or worry, Wang Yu took some affordable and relatively useful equipment and started walking towards the direction of the ruined city. He wanted to go home. No, the ruined city was hardly a home. His home was on the other side of Earth. He wanted to go back to the ruined city and then destroy the Tide Gang.

.........

Forty-seven days later, after wandering the wasteland for a total of two months and seventeen days, with his clothes worn out and only a specially made backpack and some personal equipment left, Wang Yu finally saw the malevolent city, the abandoned city, at the edge of his vision.

"I'm back."

With a ferocious yet gleeful smile, Wang Yu strode forward, heading towards the city at the edge of his vision. Less than ten kilometers later, he would complete this long journey home.

"etc."

Wang Yu stopped in his tracks, suddenly realizing something. He had been so focused that he hadn't considered anything other than traversing the wasteland. Even if he had successfully made it this far, he still couldn't return to the ruined city; he couldn't get in.

The abandoned city refuses entry to anyone who doesn't use the mobile city. Anyone who gets close enough will be subjected to heavy firepower and killed as a threat. Since Wang Yu can't board the mobile city, it seems like he... can't enter the abandoned city at all.

"..."

After a few seconds of silence, Wang Yu began to dig at the compacted ground beneath his feet. With the added strength of his body fused with the abnormal derivative, he quickly dug out a fairly large hole. Of course, this was not Wang Yu's intention to dig a tunnel to enter the safe zone. The abandoned city naturally had complete countermeasures against anything such an abnormal creature might do, making it absolutely impossible for him to do so.

What he had to do was what he had done many times during those two months of wandering the wasteland: crawl into the pit he had dug, use his equipment to create air vents for breathing, and finally leave his head exposed.

Sensing the piece of abomination within his body that had merged with his own, he opened the storage bottle containing the abnormal pollution of other great beings, allowing this pollution to affect his own body.

"Slap, slap, slap..."

Sparse roots grow from the surface of his body, penetrating the surrounding soil, while leaves and branches at the top of the bushes emerge from the ground, concealing Wang Yu's presence beneath the grove of trees growing on the flat ground.

Using a steady-state anomaly triggering device, those cumbersome operations are no longer necessary, since the original device core, "Unstable Flesh and Blood," has already merged with him.

Transforming into a plant-like state, burying himself in the soil, photosynthesizing, and drawing water from the surrounding soil through his proliferating roots, Wang Yu repeatedly used this method to avoid danger and take short breaks in the wasteland.

These abnormal contaminations can no longer cause irreversible changes in Wang Yu's body, since his body has been almost completely occupied by two other types of living abnormal contaminations.

He needs some time to think about how to return to the abandoned city, so he'll use this method to buy himself some time.

"That special containment facility seems to be located outside the safe zone. If we could reach that area and use the Abyss Ritual or the Inspiration Dice, it might be possible to enter that anomalous zone. However, 'once we enter, we will never be able to leave'...?"

……

"Sister Lingqi, hasn't Wang Yu returned yet?"

Wearing the raincoat she had worn before, Lena asked Lingqi beside her. Underneath the raincoat, which covered most of her body, a large number of unidentified things could be seen churning and wriggling, causing ripples to spread across the surface of the raincoat. More than two months had passed without dealing with the abnormal pollution inside her body, and even her body, which had been built by doctors, was about to be unable to withstand it.

"Lena, are you feeling alright?"

Lingqi looked up to check on the other person's feelings. She had already searched through a lot of information on the abandoned city's public network, but there was nothing, absolutely no information about Lena's problem.

"It's alright, I've been in this state for a long time, there's nothing seriously wrong. It's just that you seem very worried about Wang Yu, and I also want to know how he is. I don't want to end up like my father did, knowing nothing..."

Lena's words carried a rare hint of emotion, subtle yet clear.

"No, he hasn't gone home yet."

Ling Qi paused for a moment, but quickly answered the other party's question. A look of fatigue and worry flashed in her mechanical, bionic eyes. She had already done a lot in the abandoned city, improving the shops and renovating the workshops.

But Wang Yu had completely disappeared without a trace, and the two mercenaries who had gone to the wasteland with him had not returned to the ruined city. Reason had already told Ling Qi what had happened.

But she was unwilling to give up, yet she seemed powerless to do anything. She could only watch helplessly as Lena's body gradually lost control due to Wang Yu's long absence. The sense of powerlessness was unimaginably clear.

"Um?!"

A disconnected area suddenly entered Lingqi's perception range and reconnected, which made her realize something.

"Lena, you stay here and wait patiently. I'm going out for a bit, and I'm sure it'll bring good news!"

"Um."