Chapter 177

A0-03 pulled his legs out of Aesop's hands, and with a mental force, he dragged a chair not far away and sat under it.

He seemed to be talking to Aesop, but also to himself: "For the sake of smoother communication later, please be patient. It will only take an hour."

After saying that, A0-03 didn't care what the people on the ground thought. After thinking about what action he should take at the moment, he acted leisurely with his feet crossed, playing with the brain worm.

This look was a true mockery to the tortured Aesop, and coupled with the previous words, it filled him with hatred.

Damn it, I still can’t move.

Aesop was breathing heavily, and the pain of his own mental strength being torn, healed, and torn again continued to surge, making him more and more exhausted.

The pain is still within the tolerable range, but I really can't muster any strength in my body.

Ignoring the distraction of pain, Aesop focused all his attention and tried to raise his hand, but in the end only his fingertips moved.

Still can't do it... What on earth did this person do to me? Was it drugs or mental interference...

What was that strange-looking bug? Was it a biological genetic weapon? It had been knocked over and that was how it became.

...Strange insects, mysterious visitors...uncontrolled mental power...purpose...everything made Aesop's already confused brain even more confused. In his drowsiness, vague ideas flashed through his mind, but he was unable to think about them further.

No more, no less, exactly one hour later.

A0-03's eyes lit up, no longer looking out of focus.

"Time's up."

He stared at Aesop, who lay motionless on the ground, and said with a half-smile, "A fifth-level junior star refiner shouldn't be so useless as to be unable to get up like this."

It must be said that Aesop, sent by the Ikar civilization this time, is much stronger than Dorn. Not only has his star power been condensed to green, but his mental power has also reached the B-level level.

A B-level mental power level wasn't low, but it was a shame that Aesop had run into a brainworm. Not to mention that the brainworm's mental power was already stronger than his, even in terms of its application and understanding of mental power, Aesop couldn't catch up.

Mental damage is different from physical injury.

In this interstellar age where severed limbs can be regenerated and body parts and organs can be replaced at will, even if a being is fatally injured, it will not die as long as it is rescued in time.

Mental power is different. There are treatments for mental power injuries, but each one is extremely expensive... Most of them are completely incurable and can only delay the worsening of the injury.

Therefore, I originally thought that my mental strength must have been severely damaged after enduring such a "life-and-death" torture, but who could have imagined that the result was completely different from what I expected.

After recovering his strength, Aesop stood up and flipped over the disgusting bug that had been sitting on his back.

The overturned brain worm flapped its wings good-naturedly and flew up, hovering to the side.

To it, Aesop, who was parasitized by it, was similar to a fellow of the same level. When their identities were similar and their status was equal, this action was no different from a joke.

Aesop felt his own mental power and felt a little hesitant.

...It must be an illusion, otherwise why would my mental power not only show no signs of damage, but become even more condensed?

Aesop had measured the strength and quantity of his mental power before setting off. Although he didn't know how much his mental power had been condensed, he could feel that his mental power had become more resilient. If he were to face the impact just now, he should be able to hold on for a while longer.

At the same time, he also felt that the power that imprisoned the star power was gone.

When the star power in the qi sea was no longer imprisoned, the star power flowed through the acupoints of his body under his control, restoring a lot of his strength.

Meeting that pair of familiar yet unfamiliar calm eyes, Aesop's heart sank.

Although he was still a little confused, he did not forget that the person in front of him was the culprit of his current situation.

Aesop jumped up as fast as he could and rushed over to grab the man's neck: "--Tell me, how did you get in here?"

He didn't care about his embarrassing naked shirt situation, he just wanted to control the man in front of him to prevent himself from being at a disadvantage again.

A0-03 had been touched on the head so frequently in the past hour that he ran to Aesop to hide because he was tired of being touched. The idle brain worm was flying nearby and it didn't seem to have any intention of rescuing A0-03.

"I walked in." A0-03 didn't care at all about the hand on his neck that was getting tighter and tighter.

No matter how much he looks like a carbon-based creature, it cannot hide the fact that he is a robot, and strangling him will not pose a threat to him.

“…”

Aesop felt like vomiting blood. He gritted his teeth and asked, "I'm asking how you got into the fleet. You're not a soldier on the ship."

"No." A0-03 still had a smile on his face when he said this.

Although it is possible to continue the conversation like this, this posture is not conducive to shaping your own image.

Thinking of this, A0-03 took less than a second to break free from Aesop's hands.

While Aesop was stunned, he grabbed Aesop's wrist with his left hand and pulled it down violently. He bent his other hand and hit Aesop's abdomen with his elbow, but he regained his freedom of movement in the blink of an eye.

Aesop's reaction was not slow either. He was about to fight back. Under the control of his mental power, the star power condensed into a dagger and stabbed towards the opponent.

While recording Aesop's fighting moves and calculating how to crack them, A0-03 was almost responding to the attacks against himself simultaneously.

In addition to being able to convert the mental power injected by the brain worm, A0-03's core can also directly store the absorbed star power in the star core three inches below the navel, and then simulate the running route of the star power to perform various combat skills.

The acupoints and meridians in his body are all made up of extremely thin and tough tubes. Whether it is absorbing star power or launching attacks, his speed is abnormally fast compared to ordinary people. He is not worried at all that the rough operation of star power will hurt his body.

The two men were very restrained during the fight and obviously had no intention of making a big noise.

A0-03 is about collecting more combat information and establishing a dedicated database for combating the enemy. When using moves, it is more inclined to counter each move with a counter-move. Aesop's goal is to capture the victim alive, so he will not kill him.

Thanks to its powerful data processing capabilities, A0-03 forced Aesop to use all his tricks in just five or six minutes.

In the end, Aesop even used highly destructive and lethal star war skills.

If A0-03 hadn't blocked it in time, there would have been an explosion of varying sizes - and if that had attracted other people, it would have been a disaster.

A0-03 lowered his eyes and looked at the person he pressed on the bed. He used his mental power to communicate with the brain worm beside him, asking the brain worm to restrain the other person's star power.

The data is already in hand, so we can continue to prohibit Aesop from using star power.

The brainworm acknowledged it, and neatly controlled Aesop's mental power to retract the outward-emitting star power, and gathered the retracted star power back into the sea of ​​qi... The star power shrank into a ball, and was as quiet as a frightened quail.

Xingli lost control again. Thinking of the similarities between the two situations, Aesop, with his back pressed by the opponent's knee and his head pressed under his hand, gritted his teeth and uttered a word.

"What have you done to me again!"

This was the second time that Aesop was restrained without any resistance. He felt humiliated and used all his self-control to restrain himself from letting the boundless anger burn out his sanity.

A0-03 didn't answer his question, but continued, "It's our first meeting, please allow me to introduce myself."

"My name is Lu Ze, from 'Gray Mist'."

His words made the enraged Aesop confused. Gray fog? What was that? It sounded like the name of an organization, but he had never heard of it.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. After all, we only decided to reveal this matter to the public not long ago."

This solved Aesop's confusion, but it also gave him new confusion.

Did they just decide to show up recently? This means this organization has existed for quite some time, but has always been hidden.

"Well, let me tell you one more thing."

To make himself seem more human, A0-03's tone was deliberately cheerful: "The previous fleet disappeared. It was us who did it."

"What, it's you—" Aesop wanted to turn his head to look at him, but the hand pressing hard on his head prevented him from doing so.

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The author has something to say: I felt a little tired yesterday, and wanted to lie down and take a nap before getting up to write, but I fell asleep.

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