Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 520 - 5: Mechanical Ascension
Crack!
The sturdy metal wall was breached by these mechanical insectoids, and over a dozen silver-gray insectoids leaped up, crashing directly into the glass apparatus at the center of the lab.
Splat!
Jets of dark green blood spurted out.
The mechanical insectoids unhesitatingly wielded their blades, slicing towards the insect queen within the laboratory. The gleaming blades pierced various parts of her body, but the most lethal were the wounds left on her brain.
At the moment of attack!
The insect queen imprisoned within the glass instrument seemed to awaken suddenly. Her eyes opened wide, and in her dying state, a powerful spiritual shock burst forth, transforming into a shockwave that flung the nearby mechanical insectoids away.
"You... you betrayed me..." came the insect queen’s dying mental whisper.
With her brain severely damaged, she convulsed in her death throes, and then her massive body was torn apart by those silver-gray mechanical insectoids, her brain even split open. The mechanical insectoids thoroughly destroyed her brain structure, seemingly unwilling for her brain tissue to fall into the hands of the Empire.
Rumble!
At the moment of the insect queen’s death, the Empire’s military seemed to receive new orders, and all the cannons turned to aim at the laboratory’s location.
In the next second.
A terrifying barrage enveloped that entire area.
The entire laboratory was flattened. Even those insectoids that had undergone mechanization couldn’t withstand such intensive bombardment; one by one, silver-gray mechanical insectoids were shredded, nearly annihilated in an instant.
"I didn’t betray you."
"It’s just that you’ve been abandoned by the times... You actually surrendered to humans! How pathetic!..."
The eerie mental communication sounded again: "I’ve already found the intelligent core of the ancient mechanical alien insect!"
"The construct swarm will surely re-emerge in the world!..."
"This planet is just the starting point for our conquest of the Milky Way Galaxy!..."
A massive spiritual fluctuation gradually dissipated.
After killing the insect queen, the other insectoids began to retreat.
Some of the insectoids acted as sacrifices to block the Empire’s counterattack, while others escaped through the tunnels they had dug underground.
The battle was nearing its end.
The insectoids initially seemed to want to rescue the insect queen inside the lab, but then they believed she had been polluted, and their primary objective shifted to killing her.
Now that the insect queen was dead, there was no need for the swarm to expend itself here.
Bang.
The figure of the Holy Blood Rose fell from the sky, accompanied by a spurt of blood, her form pierced the ground, leaving a pit several meters deep. The light saber, once glowing with a blood-red light, dimmed and disappeared, leaving only a handle about thirty centimeters long. Heavily injured, the Holy Blood Rose could no longer hold the light saber in her hand. With a strong tugging force, the light saber flew from her grasp into Su Ziyu’s palm.
The armor on the opponent seemed impossible to strip away.
While Su Ziyu was powerful, he was not yet strong enough to crush the opponent outright.
The blood-red armor had a unique mental defense, rendering Su Ziyu’s mental control ineffective. In direct combat, subduing the opponent was extremely difficult. Despite several attempts, he managed to damage certain parts of the blood-red armor.
Fortunately, he did gain something. In that moment when he severely injured the enemy, Su Ziyu burst with telekinesis, snatching the light saber from the opponent’s hand.
——"Holy Blood Light Saber (Genetic Lock) [Legendary]: A plasma light saber activated by spiritual energy, very light in weight, yet capable of slicing through most metals. In the center of the handle is an energy crystal, an extremely special energy crystal stone. Attributes: Plasma, Energy Damage." [Note: This item has a genetic recognition lock!]
Genetic recognition?
Upon acquiring the blood-red light saber, Su Ziyu’s expression froze for a moment.
He discovered that his spiritual energy was actively blocked by the light saber, completely unable to activate it. Without activation, the saber in his hand was no more effective than a piece of firewood.
"System?"
"Can you unlock its genetic recognition?" Su Ziyu was reluctant to just discard the light saber.
The fact that it had genetic locking only emphasized its extraordinary quality.
"Genetic locking is a high-tier lock mode, requiring a large amount of computational power to break. During the process, the host’s spirit will be subjected to significant data flow impact."
"Breaking the genetic lock requires consuming 5 Source Power Points!"
"Proceed to break it?"
The prompt from the Space-Time Monitor System made Su Ziyu hesitate slightly. It wasn’t due to the consumption of Source Power Points, but the data flow impact would increase his mental burden, making it easy to lose focus and unable to concentrate.
Given the current chaotic situation in the underground base, with bullets and energy beams flying everywhere, this definitely wasn’t the time to unlock the light saber.
"Store it first." Su Ziyu immediately placed the saber handle into the other-dimensional storage space.
He glanced at the Empire’s troops rushing to support from afar and turned to retreat without hesitation, as he saw that a portion of the tank-like armored units had already turned their cannons to target his position. The electromagnetic cannons fired by these tanks were extremely powerful, with a wide attack range; if they swept through, he might very well be severely injured on the spot.
The swarm had begun to retreat.
If he didn’t retreat now, Su Ziyu could be surrounded by the Empire’s army.
He flew towards the outside of the underground base.
The rebels seemed to have withdrawn long ago, and several aircraft outside were missing.
Outside the underground base.
Just as Su Ziyu exited the battlefield, he saw several streaks of fire descending from the sky, which, upon closer inspection, turned out to be silver-white drop pods, seemingly airdropped directly from near-Earth orbit.
"What is this?"
"Empire reinforcements?" Su Ziyu instantly cloaked himself in invisibility and laid low.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One by one, silver-white drop pods crashed to the ground. With a hiss, the heavy metal doors opened, and knights wearing various exoskeleton armors charged out.
"The Empress has ordered us to take over this place!"
"Empire Guard Corps."
"Eliminate all insectoids!"
Although the number of knights who airdropped from near-Earth orbit was not large, they were extremely formidable, directly cutting off the retreat of the insect swarm. With a trail of blood and debris, the insectoids unable to burrow underground through the main entrance were dealt a devastating blow.
"Empire Guard Corps?" Su Ziyu, hidden in the shadows, quietly observed and mused to himself, "Airdropped arrival?"
"I need to be more cautious in the future."
The battle broke out and ended in less than twenty minutes. Deducting the time it took for the underground base to request support, they had at most consumed just over ten minutes to gather and arrive here.
This reinforcement speed is terrifying!
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