These points of light formed a neat array, like emotionless mechanical eyes opened in the darkness! As the points of light lit up, heavy, orderly metal footsteps approached from afar, becoming clearer and more frequent! Each step sent a dull tremor through the cold metal floor of the tunnel!
[Detecting...high threat...hostile target...!]
[Model identification…Ark…Inside…Scavenger…Unit!]
[Number…12…and increasing…!]
[Target...lock on...source of contamination...execute...decontamination protocol...!]
The cold reminder, accompanied by an alarm that suddenly became extremely sharp, exploded inside the helmet!
Scavengers! The Ark's automated defense units! They were activated by the chaotic energy fluctuations and multiple "pollution" markers within Pei Du's body! In their cold logic, the intruder Pei Du was a "virus" that needed to be completely eliminated!
No warning! No communication!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A piercing sound shattered the deathly silence of the passage! Dozens of blazing white high-energy particle beams, like the javelins of death, shot out from the locations of those faint blue points of light in the darkness! The beams precisely covered the entire area where Pei Du collapsed, blocking all possible escape space! Wherever the particle beams passed, the air was ionized, emitting a pungent smell of ozone, and the inner walls of the metal passage were instantly left with scorching marks!
Extinction Attack! Death from within!
The cold light of death arrived faster than the black tide of entropy behind it!
"roar--!"
The instinct for survival overwhelmed the excruciating pain in his soul and the sense of collapse in his body! Pei Du roared like a beast! His remaining left leg and the alloy claws embedded in the ground erupted with the last of his strength. His heavy steel body rolled sideways like a trapped beast on the verge of death!
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
The blazing white beam grazed his tumbling body and shot into the spot just before! The scorching heat even turned the thick armor on his back scorching red! Several particle beams that he failed to completely avoid grazed his right shoulder armor and the outside of his left leg!
Bang! Sizzle!
The hard armor plates crackled as the particle beam's intense heat melted through them! The bionic structure within was exposed, instantly scorched, and acrid smoke billowed out! The neural connection port felt the excruciating pain of being melted!
[Left leg...transmission unit...moderately damaged...!]
[Right shoulder...protection layer...pierced...!]
The tumbling momentum only stopped when it collided with the cold metal wall of the passage. Pei Du leaned against the wall, his heavy body trembling violently from the excruciating pain and the overload of his energy core. In his helmet's field of view, the icons representing his limbs were a crimson red. Within him, the cold, ancient will seemed to be stimulated by the attack, whispering an even more indifferent and corrosive whisper:
【Resistance... is futile...】
[Destruction... to... entropy...]
And deeper in the world, the faint crimson embers had almost completely disappeared, leaving only the last trace of cold thoughts filled with endless regrets, like a final sigh, gently brushing across Pei Du's chaotic consciousness:
[Pei Du... the key to survival... lies... in... your... heartbeat...]
Heartbeat?!
This final fragment of thought pierced his mind like an icicle! The key... wasn't that crimson spot? It was... a heartbeat?!
Just when his heart was shocked!
Heavy metallic footsteps approached like the sound of a death-dealing drumbeat! Those cold, dark blue compound eyes rapidly magnified in the darkness! Twelve hideous mechanical creations, like metal hounds crawling out of a hellish furnace, broke through the light and shadow boundary of the entrance, revealing their icy fullness!
They possessed a spider-like chassis, supported by four sturdy mechanical limbs covered in jagged reactive armor, allowing them to move swiftly and silently. Their upper bodies resembled twisted humanoid forms, clad in thick, dark silver armor. Their arms were twin rotating particle cannons, gleaming with energy! They lacked heads, only the cold, dark blue array of compound eyes embedded in their chests, fixed their gaze fixedly on Pei Du, who leaned against the wall!
They dispersed, closing in on us in a fan-shaped formation! The rotating particle cannons once again lit up with a deadly, incandescent light! This time, the distance was even closer, the coverage even denser! No chance of dodging!
"Ugh..." Pei Du's remaining willpower was pushed to its limit by the multiple desperate situations! The conflicting energies within his body, stimulated by the pain and death, were like boiling magma! The cold ancient will seemed to sense the threat, and its whisper was filled with a hint of instinctive restlessness!
There's no way back! The only option is to attack instead of defend! Use this broken body to detonate all the chaos within!
At the moment when the light from the particle cannon muzzle reached its peak!
The two dark red embers in Pei Du's eyes suddenly ignited with a final frenzy! He no longer suppressed any of the power within him! He exhausted all his remaining willpower and directed it towards the core of the violent conflict, towards that cold ancient will, issuing a devastating command - Release! All!
“Give…me…explode!!!”
An ultimate roar that comes from the deepest part of the soul, a mixture of the annihilation of stars and the wailing of all things!
boom--!!!!
An indescribable chaotic energy storm, a mixture of the violent dark red energy, the wailing of the remnants of the laws of the starry sky, the indifferent agitation of the cold ancient will, and even a faint breath of order that escaped from the crimson embers before they finally dissipated... centered on Pei Du's broken body, it exploded like a supernova... in all directions... especially the fan-shaped scavenger machine group in front... it exploded fiercely and swept away!
This wasn't a precise attack! This was a loss of control! This was a devastating release of energy!
Buzz——!!!
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