Chapter 142 Rampage

Extremely high threat... Extremely high threat... Extremely high threat!

The residual historical fog has been detected, and the intelligence cannot be fully analyzed. The predicted combat capability of the enemy individuals exceeds the current processing limit of the body. Request for centralized computing resources for upgrading!

His vision was filled with dense data, red lights signaling danger flickering back and forth between the characters. He tried to control the runaway machine, but now he no longer had the strength to do so. The elusive "information" rose from his back and surged towards the sky, only to be obscured by the dim moonlight.

Warning. Signal blocked... First Abyss...

Black Moon can do some good things. A blessing in disguise. The higher-ups are outside, so the Empire's signal didn't get through. Is that so? Is that so?

Ziz, ziz, his thoughts stuttering amidst the imaginary sound of electricity. Chu Hengkong reached forward. Perhaps he was trying to warn the other party to retreat, or perhaps he was trying to push away the nearby banshee. His motivation was unclear. As the sound of electricity faded, his frail thoughts fell silent, and a steely will took over his body.

He lowered his head, then raised it again, his eyes devoid of any human emotion. He leaped up like a wild beast, stabbing Qingxia in the abdomen with his knife!

Qingxia flung her right hand aside, deflecting the thrust and thrusting the butt of her left hand toward Chu Hengkong's head. Chu Hengkong ducked, the butt of the gun glancing past his hair. The effortless strike sent a long, empty line through the air. The concentrated force ripped through the air, piercing the building, leaving a blank space 50 meters in front of the impact point.

Chu Hengkong was knocked over by the aftermath of the attack. He fell without hesitation, then launched his leg towards Qingxia's front hoof. The strike was simple yet extremely effective. The enemy's size was naturally suited to charging on the battlefield, but not for one-on-one duels. Once his balance was lost, he was like a warhorse caught in a trap, and it would take time to get back up.

Qingxia raised her hoof to avoid the hook kick, and stabbed Chu Hengkong in the abdomen with her left hand. Chu Hengkong swung his legs, slapped the ground with one palm, and kicked out, hitting Qingxia's leg joint with a side kick!

Qingxia's front legs trembled slightly, and she suddenly raised the front half of her body and stomped her feet towards Chu Hengkong's torso. Chu Hengkong rolled on the ground to avoid the direct attack, and his body was sent flying high by the aftermath of the attack.

"It hurts a bit." Qingxia felt her legs tingling and she smiled in surprise, "Don't force me to do anything serious."

"Sister, please have mercy!" Fan De screamed heartbreakingly, as useless as he could be. "We have elderly parents and children to support, and there are a bunch of idiots in the small town to support. It's really not worth it to lose our lives!"

Chu Hengkong, blown away, plummeted to the ground, seemingly dragged. He crouched on his hands and knees amid the rubble, like a beast with red eyes. The machine's self-checks completed as it regained consciousness, and streams of information flashed through his eyes.

Current unit integrity is 12.7%, energy reserves are 5.8%. Determine available attack mode.

Kinetic reflective armor: Deployable time is 8 seconds, and the coverage area is less than 50%.

Phantom Annihilation Field·Wide Area Attack: Insufficient energy.

Matter disintegration rays: no emission structure.

Energy reserves are too low. Pure imperial technology cannot be put into actual combat. Loading Dragon Country Fist information, conventional boxing reading progress is 87%, secret boxing reading progress is 34%...

Calculations complete. Temporary information assembly based on the secret "Immortality and Indestructibility." Mechanized transformation commenced.

A multitasking mindset transformed complex calculations into reality in an instant. Chu Hengkong opened his mouth as he landed, releasing a hurricane-like roar. Metal, soil, plants, gases—everything within reach—was sucked into his mouth. The blood vessels in his esophagus were rewired to facilitate energy recharge, and his blood, fueled by his willpower, rapidly heated itself, acting as a smelting furnace within him.

Trace elements beneficial for combat were absorbed and incorporated into the bones with a near-erosive force. Nutrients that could serve as energy were absorbed on the spot, while substances that the body could not utilize due to its low energy level were expelled as smoke and dust. The top priority at the moment was to replenish energy; no usable substances could be allowed to go to waste.

He grabbed the Eye Demon from his pocket with one hand, and Fander trembled like a sieve: "Brother, don't eat me..."

Chu Hengkong's eyes held only a cold, blood-red glow. He bit down, and the bone-white chain yanked out at the critical moment, pulling the Eye Demon free. Qingxia casually threw it onto her back.

"Look carefully, little thing." She narrowed her eyes, "He is no longer human."

Finder stared blankly at the object blocking their path. Blood-red smoke poured from his pores. One of his hands had been transformed into a blade-like limb, while his tentacle, under the influence of the bone armor, had become a thorn-like spear. Four more bones had broken out of his body, forming needle-like auxiliary legs to assist in movement. The thing was indeed no longer humanoid. No human could possess such a hideous and ferocious posture. It was the form of a monster, a monster worthy of fighting Qingxia!

Qingxia swung his spear like a meteor hammer, the bone locks at its end crisscrossing and dancing, forming a chain barrier that sealed off a 300-meter radius. Chu Hengkong had become a resource recovery machine; it had to prevent him from preying on crowded areas. Chu Hengkong crouched, exerting force, passing by Qingxia like a green ghost. His bladed right arm swung out as he charged, aiming for Qingxia's lower abdomen.

Qingxia activated the Qingkun Spear, deflecting the thrust with repulsive force. Chu Hengkong's strike missed, sending him careening into the impeding chains. His auxiliary bone spurs grabbed hold of the chains first, using the reaction force to spring upwards, reaching for the spear to pierce Qingxia's back. Sparks flew where the spear landed, and a layer of bone armor appeared out of thin air to protect the thrust. A second attack was also neutralized by the enemy. Chu Hengkong adjusted his position and attacked again.

He wielded the bone-locking barrier, leaping dozens of times in a single breath. His spear, blade, claw, and leg attacks lashed out from different directions, each with unparalleled ferocity and precision. Such rapidity created a green hurricane around Qingxia, a pervasive crimson vision, a whirlwind of fists and palms. Qingxia defended herself with the Qingkun Spear and bone armor, but for a moment, she didn't attack. She excelled at charging into battle and chasing prey, but her unusual form wasn't suited to such a cunning fight.

Thirty cuts, seventy cuts, one hundred and forty cuts. In a flash, the clash reached its two hundred and tenth clash, and the blade, sharpened during the fight, shattered Qingxia's bone armor. Wordlessly, Qingxia clenched her fist, gazed at the ground, and launched a powerful punch, intending to end Chu Hengkong's guerrilla warfare with a wide-ranging strike. However, Chu Hengkong's speed suddenly increased, and he floated in the air, thrusting out all six arms, piercing the back of Qingxia's head.

His stamina surprisingly recovered during the fight, his improvised predatory system absorbing surrounding matter, and his carefully calculated combat consumption resulted in far less energy consumed than recovered. Chu Hengkong was far more agile than Qingxia, his surprise attacks swifter than a fist striking the ground.

A pale flower bloomed in the small space, and the petals slashed towards the swords and guns and skeletal hands, stopping Chu Hengkong's surprise attack!

The bone blade that had once torn Wu He apart reappeared, blocking Chu Hengkong's attack with pinpoint precision. Six bone blades floated behind Qingxia, defying gravity, their tips connected to her back by thin, transparent lines of blood. These floating bone blades, controlled by nerve bundles, were Qingxia's primary combat weapon during the Particle 2 era and remain her primary secondary weapon today.

She twisted her upper body and launched a punch. The blood-filled uppercut pierced Chu Hengkong's defense and hit his face with far greater force than the one she had used on Wu Heshi, sending him flying into the air.

Chu Hengkong's bony claws fluttered behind him, using his injuries as an opportunity to slash through the bone-locking barrier. His face was covered in blood, but the urgently appearing Qi armor saved him from a blow to the head. His torso repaired itself while floating, and his bladed forelimbs melted and reformed, forming a massive hand forged from steel.

The unit's current integrity is 7.4%, and its energy reserve is 40.8%. Its kinetic reflex armor is active for 30 seconds, and its phantom annihilation field can be applied.

The price of rapidly replenishing energy is the further depletion of Chu Hengkong's vitality, considered a machine. Once his integrity drops below 5%, he will no longer be able to return to human form. His existence will be completely transformed into a machine composed of flesh and blood, which is the external contamination of the Empire of Truth. At that time, even the intervention of a high-quality expert will be unable to save Chu Hengkong.

But the Immortal Machine does not consider the "life" of the body, it only cares about the death of the enemy.

It swung its massive palm in mid-air, its forced will stained with blood, enveloping the hardened air in a palm print a hundred meters wide. On the ground, Qingxia swung her Qingkun Spear, the massive lance accelerating amidst a shrill, reverberating sound. She hurled it with such force that the tip, possessed by blood, took the shape of a crimson dragon.

The same power from qi and blood collided in the air, and the repulsive force in the Qingkun Gun was released, shattering Chu Hengkong's palm print in the sky!

When the attacks collided, a column of crimson air shot up into the sky. Finder had no choice but to entangle Qingxia's hair to prevent it from being blown away. Qingxia stared at the monster in the distance. Its form was constantly changing, its flesh gradually decreasing, while its metal structure increased at a visible rate. It was like a giant metal insect trapped in a human body, constantly tearing open its flesh cocoon to reveal its true form.

What a misfortune.

How could such a beautiful and attractive girl become so ugly?

Cold, deformed, without a trace of vitality... Standing there with his life burning, fighting a battle that had nothing to do with him, so weak that it was sad.

Fander sensed the murderous intent beside him and screamed hastily, his voice muffled by the wind: "He's been affected by bad luck... I can hypnotize him! Please... hold back..."

Qingxia sighed.

"Yeah, it's very unpleasant. I understand how you feel. The feeling of having your actions and decisions manipulated by self-righteous trash is the same anger no matter how many times you experience it."

Fander's heart sank. He understood the hidden meaning in Qingxia's words. He was unhappy and unacceptable, but no matter what he did, he couldn't change the situation. A life that couldn't be saved was gone, and even someone as powerful as Qingxia couldn't resist this fate. His best friend had become a heretic, and he had no choice but to kill her. There was no turning back.

"—So, leave it to me."

Yet, it heard unbelievable words. A promise that defied common sense and common sense. It looked up, seeing blood-red hair whipping in the wind, and a confident, warrior-like smile adorning her alluring profile.

"I hate stories like this the most. People ruined by malice, souls dying in despair. I've seen the same tragedy for so long that I want to vomit."

"So I won't give up, I won't admit defeat. Keep your eyes open and watch, I will definitely save him!"

(End of this chapter)