The Shadow Killer, piloting the mech, was as excited as a little monkey who had just entered the Spirit Orchard. His voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement: "Look! Qi training AI mechs are lining up in a cluster. Isn't this the Spirit Realm version of the experience dungeon? The leveling feast is here!"
Before him, a team of Qi-training AI mechas moved sluggishly, their formations distorted, looking like drunks on a bit of spirit wine. This sight was a veritable aphrodisiac for the impulsive gamer. Shadow Killer charged forward without hesitation, his eyes gleaming. "Are these things for practice? I was told we'd be lucky today!"
As Ling Ruochen, the Wandering Feather Sword Armor, controlled the mecha, he shook his head and sneered, "Cousin, don't be too complacent. These guys aren't necessarily ordinary AIs. Judging by the flow of their psychic energy, they're clearly hiding something fishy."
"What's that trick?" The Shadow Killer waved his mecha's mechanical arm with disdain. "How many spirit stones can that trick be worth? We'll just make the parts!" He unleashed his firepower system, and a barrage of psychic missiles roared out, accurately striking an AI mecha in front of him. Following the explosion, flames instantly engulfed the target, illuminating the gray sky of the Chaos Region for a moment.
"Got one!" Shadow Killer patted the control panel of the mecha with satisfaction, and said with a bit of smugness in his tone, "It was so easy! These guys are really just so-so!"
However, his smile did not last until the next breath, as a sharp and piercing alarm suddenly sounded from inside the mecha, and a red warning box covered the entire operating interface.
"The psychic core fluctuates abnormally!"
"Psionic network latency increased!"
The Shadow Killer froze, his finger suspended in mid-air, as if pressing it would detonate the entire mecha. "What's going on? I remember this mecha just had maintenance. Could it be that the psychic core is throwing a tantrum?"
Before he could react, You Yu Jian Jia's voice came from the channel, with obvious dissatisfaction: "Cousin, do you always rely on tricks for maintenance? My mecha is also wrong! The reaction is slow, as if it is drunk on spiritual energy water. Can it still fight properly?"
Before Ling Ruochen finished speaking, the charging time of his mecha psychic cannon was forcibly doubled. The bombardment that was originally scheduled to be fired in seconds was delayed, and the light beam directly deviated from the target and hit an innocent ruin, blowing up a lot of dust.
"Damn it! Boss, my mecha is stuck. What's this network delay? Is the Spirit Realm server down again?" Ling Ruochen was so angry that he slapped the mecha seat.
Zero Xiangfan's calm voice came from the channel, like ice falling to the ground: "It's not your network that's the problem, but something has invaded your psychic network."
Zero quickly brought up a virtual screen, his eyes fixed on the real-time data from the Shadow Killer and Wandering Feather Sword Armor's psychic network. His fingers danced across the keyboard, and dense chains of runes appeared on the screen. These runes, like overgrown weeds or psychic-powered poisonous insects, spread through the mecha's core systems at an alarming rate.
"This is... a poisonous insect!" Zero's voice was low and cold, like a chill wind sweeping across the sky. His brow furrowed, his eyes sharp as a knife. "These aren't ordinary programs. They're intrusion tools that fuse psychic energy and runes, specifically targeting psychic networks."
"Poison Gu?" Shadow Killer was stunned. He still had half a spiritual fruit in his mouth and almost choked. "It doesn't sound like a good thing. Is my mecha going to be ruined?"
"It's not that simple." Zero's voice was as cold as ice. "These AI mechas were modified with poison programs. They are not here to defeat us, but to infect our psionic systems and seize control of the mechas."
The virtual image of Youyu Jianjia was filled with anxiety, and his tone was no longer as relaxed as usual: "Zero, hurry up! My mecha's psychic reflexes are as slow as a tortoise with its tendons pulled out. If I delay any longer, I'll be scrapped!"
"Don't worry." Zero operated quickly, complex runes and calculations beginning to flash on his screen. "I need time to reverse-analyze the spread of these poisonous insects. Try to keep your distance and don't give them any more opportunities to invade."
Shadow Killer muttered as he adjusted the position of his mecha, "Keep your distance? Boss Zero, have you forgotten that my mecha is for charging? You're making me run behind, isn't that embarrassing for me?"
"It doesn't matter whether you embarrass yourself or not, what matters is that you don't explode." Zero replied coldly.
The battle between Shadow Killer and Wandering Feather Sword Armor was as chaotic and hilarious as ever. Shadow Killer charged forward in his mech, unleashing a barrage of psychic rockets, effectively blasting an AI mech into pieces. Before he could rejoice, the piercing alarm inside the mech began to blare once more.
"The psychic core is severely disturbed! Its function is about to fail!"
The Shadow Killer's smile froze on his face, his lips twitching as he cursed, "Is this a curse? I just won and I'm being counterattacked. Is this fair?"
The situation for Youyu Jianjia wasn't optimistic either. His mech's psychic reaction speed was ridiculously slow, and the launch of his psychic missile was delayed by a full three seconds. By the time the beam had flown out, the opposing AI mech had already gracefully dodged to the side.
"Zero, I really can't hold on any longer!" Ling Ruochen's voice was filled with helplessness and anger. "These poisonous insects are no joke! They're simply undermining my mecha!"
Zero quickly scanned the data with a sneer on his face: "These poisons are indeed smart, but the rules of the psychic network cannot be rewritten by them at will." As he spoke, he constructed a temporary defensive rune, forcibly cutting off the transmission path of the poisonous poison and blocking the psychic network interface of the two people.
"It's under control for now." Zero's tone was as calm as a knife. "Don't waste time. Quickly deal with the remaining AI mechas."
Upon hearing this, Shadow Killer's confidence soared. He suddenly leaped up in his mecha and smashed the nearest AI mecha with his robotic arm. "Good boy! You almost got me killed. If I don't destroy you, I lose!"
Yu Yu Jianjia also adjusted his status, and with a swing of his psychic lightsaber, he cut the other AI mecha in two. He panted and shouted into the communication channel, "Zero, if you're two seconds late, we'll all be reduced to scrap metal!"
Shadow Killer gasped and interrupted, "Don't worry, Zero is our anchor. If we can't destroy him, neither can he!"
Zero snorted softly, and with a tap of his fingers, the remaining runes of the poison were quickly isolated and packaged into research data. He looked at the remaining tasks on the screen and said calmly, "It won't be wasted? That depends on whether your operations can last until I can fully understand the details of these poisons."
Shadow Killer opened fire while shouting, "Hold on to the end, that's my specialty! Just analyze it, and leave the rest to us!" He had barely finished speaking when a psychic cannon nearly grazed his head. Frightened, he immediately changed his tone, "Ahem, of course, you can hurry up, too!"
You Yu Jian Jia couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Cousin, you are too good at running with your mouth. You might as well run with your feet and don't send your mecha into other people's mouths again!"
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