Chapter 566 - 239: The Left Side Always Loses a Beam Struggle: Godlike
Chapter 566: Chapter 239: The Left Side Always Loses a Beam Struggle: Godlike
The officer, addressed as Mr. Li, didn’t even look up. His gaze remained locked on the data from an active rift on the main screen as he casually replied, "What kind of anomaly? What’s the energy level? Is it a routine skirmish between alien races, or has a new race emerged?"
"It’s neither..." the technician replied, his voice hesitant. "Data shows a sudden, extremely high energy reaction originating from the core area of a small-to-medium sized rift. It’s one that was confirmed closed for over half a month."
Mr. Li finally tore his eyes away from the screen. He frowned. "A closed rift? Isn’t that normal? The channel is closed, but the Celestial Abyss Race inside aren’t all dead. It’s just them fighting amongst themselves. No matter how high the energy level gets, they can’t stir up any real trouble. Keep monitoring. There’s no need to make a fuss."
"But, Mr. Li..."
"That rift... is the Painful Labyrinth."
Mr. Li’s movements froze.
"And our deep probes have detected the source of the high-energy reaction... It’s a newly emerged Intelligent Mechanism Race individual with a combat rating of A-rank or higher!"
The casual expression on Mr. Li’s face vanished instantly, replaced by an unprecedented seriousness.
He snatched the datapad from the technician. Staring at the glaring red alert and the steadily climbing energy curve, he drew in a sharp breath.
’You’ve got to be kidding me!’
’A new A-rank individual hasn’t emerged from the Intelligent Mechanism Race in the Painful Labyrinth for over a hundred years!’
According to their explorations and records...
...in the entire core layer of the Painful Labyrinth...
...aside from the masses of mass-produced B-rank Intelligent Mechanism units...
...the number of A-rank, special all-purpose Intelligent Mechanism individuals did not exceed thirty.
Ever since Yin Liulan had taken action, risking self-detonation to destroy that A-rank all-purpose combat unit, the core area of the Intelligent Mechanism ruins had fallen completely silent, devoid of any high-level energy readings.
’And now, a brand-new A-rank has appeared out of thin air?’
"Report this immediately!"
Mr. Li’s voice turned incredibly grave. "Notify the Fifth Squad to assemble! Target: the Painful Labyrinth!"
Before long, a fully-armed five-person squad finished assembling at the temporary military base near the rift’s entrance.
Their leader was an expert at Late-Stage Divine Realm Perfection. The other four members were, without exception, all experts at the Mid-stage of Divine Realm or higher.
Without hesitation, they activated a bizarre-looking device and forcibly tore open a micro-sized spatial passage in the sealed layer of the closed rift—just wide enough for one person to pass through. They filed in one by one.
However, the moment they stepped inside, an even more piercing alarm blared throughout the monitoring center behind them!
"Report! The target A-rank individual’s energy reading is still climbing rapidly!"
"Wait! Two more A-rank energy signatures detected! They’re approaching the target at high speed! Estimated contact in thirty seconds!"
’Three A-ranks?!’
’What the hell is happening in that godforsaken place?!’
...
「Meanwhile, deep within the Sigma Ruins.」
Lin Ye floated inside a massive, wrecked factory workshop.
As he ventured deeper, the sprawling network of pipes gradually disappeared, replaced by huge chambers with distinct functions.
It was like a city of steel buried deep underground. In addition to the power core chambers, there were numerous production-line factories for creating Intelligent Mechanism units, as well as warehouses storing vast quantities of unknown metals and parts.
Just a moment ago, he had completely destroyed the largest of these production workshops.
But he could clearly feel that the [Intelligent Mechanization Transformation] ability he had plundered via [Devouring Heaven and Earth] seemed to have hit a bottleneck.
Killing these B-rank and C-rank Intelligent Mechanism units, who were far weaker than him, no longer brought any significant improvement.
It seemed that to grow stronger, he needed more powerful "fodder."
Just as red lights flashed throughout the factory and alarms blared piercingly...
...the space in front of Lin Ye distorted without any warning.
In the next instant, two agile figures composed entirely of silvery-white liquid metal materialized out of thin air.
The moment they appeared, Lin Ye’s system instantly provided feedback.
[Level: LV.59]
[Evolutionary Tier: 3.1]
A glint flashed in Lin Ye’s eyes.
’Two Intelligent Mechanism units!’
’And their level and evolutionary tier are identical to the one Yin Liulan forced to self-destruct!’
Had this been the Lin Ye of two weeks ago, he likely wouldn’t have lasted a single second against an attack from these two terrifying beings.
But things were different now. The Lin Ye of today was more than qualified to face this level of alien race head-on.
A faint blue light lit up simultaneously on the two Intelligent Mechanism units’ smooth, mirrored faces, scanning Lin Ye’s body from top to bottom.
"It is you."
"Human."
A cold, emotionless, synthesized electronic voice echoed in the empty workshop.
They had inherited the final data from their fallen comrade and recognized Lin Ye.
"Executing... extermination protocol."
Before the words had even faded, the attack was upon him!
The two Intelligent Mechanism units’ figures instantly blurred into two streaks of silver light, carving deadly trajectories toward him from two completely different angles.
As they moved at high speed, their arms morphed into menacing cannon muzzles. With no warning or sign of energy gathering, two destructive beams, powerful enough to instantly vaporize steel, shot out and crisscrossed toward Lin Ye!
’So fast!’
The soulfire within Ah Qiang’s massive skull, who was right behind Lin Ye, flickered violently as he instinctively dodged backward.
A few of the weaker Curse Bone Race minions, who hadn’t managed to retreat in time, weren’t even hit directly by the beams. They were merely caught in the expanding energy shockwave and instantly disintegrated into dust, unable to even utter a scream!