When 001 entered the Twin Towers, he was filled with bitterness and resentment. But after listening to the conversation between the two people that day, he vaguely knew that the more difficult things were now, the easier it would be for Di Xiu to return to his original world.
Given his situation, time travel would have to go back to at least before he was sealed away.
Fortunately, Emperor Xiu finally decided to make some preparations this time. He went to the mall and exchanged two doses of healing potion. When 001 saw him paying the merit, he was so envious that his eyes turned green.
Emperor Xiu caught a glimpse of something beside him, paused slightly, and made a mental note of it.
Twin Towers, Mission Hall.
Please select the world level...
"advanced."
[Missing you a task...]
Matching in progress...
Worldline Type: Interstellar
[Task Difficulty Level: High]
[Please begin the mission as soon as possible...]
[Initiating teleportation—]
"Buzz—Third squad, buzz buzz—cover the rear, the rest of you, buzz—retreat, buzz—"
Before Di Xiu could regain control of his body, he heard a jumble of electrical noises in his ears, mixed with an order: Commander... who sounded very young and promising.
However, this is not what he should be focusing on right now.
Emperor Xiu immediately activated his divine sense and discovered that the surrounding area was densely packed with strangely shaped and enormous insects, some flying in the sky and some running on the ground, truly covering the sky and the earth.
He himself was encased in a giant robot, surrounded by a dozen or so similar robots, forming a steel defensive line to buy time for the more than one hundred robots further away to escape.
The moment their bodies touched, the robot he was on stopped moving, its waving lightsaber disappeared, and a breach appeared in the defense line. At the same time, a large number of insects began to gnaw at the metal.
The robot's shell was made of some kind of metal and was very hard, but the insects' teeth were also very sharp, and the robot was broken in the blink of an eye.
Countless light screens popped up in front of Emperor Xiu, their color as bright red as blood, one after another, almost hitting his face.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Fearing something might go wrong, 001 didn't dare to dawdle this time, coming out only 0.1 seconds later than him, and immediately uttered a very, very dirty curse.
He didn't dare waste any time and said quickly, "This is a mecha, use your divine sense..."
Can you control it?
This sudden turn of events was a real test of 001's language skills, but he still instinctively replied, "Okay."
"The mech is yours, I'm going out."
001 had no doubt about his decision, instantly hacked into the mech's program, forcibly took control of it to resume combat, and opened the skylight above its head.
Di Xiu yanked off the thing stuck to his head, and with a powerful leap, Wuji appeared in his palm.
001 saw his sword-wielding motion through the mecha and mentally warned, "Be careful not to crash the world."
Merit can be earned again, but he can't bear to see the mission takers die, especially since he sacrificed a thousand years of his youth to secure the mission.
There was a crackling sound of electricity coming from the channel inside the mech, but no sound came through.
The people in the mech next to them immediately noticed something was wrong, but just as they were about to ask, they saw the silver-white mech open from the inside, and a dark figure jumped out.
Upon closer inspection, I was so frightened that my heart almost stopped.
Their major general actually abandoned his mech and charged into the swarm of insects with a flashy ancient sword.
Although staying behind to cover their retreat was a certain death sentence, their direct charge into the swarm of insects was tantamount to suicide.
The mechs alerted them to a drop in mental connection, and they no longer had the chance to say what they wanted to say. They could only refocus their attention on controlling the mechs and try to make up for the gap caused by the silver-white mech's strike.
The next second, something even more shocking happened: the silver-white mech started moving on its own without a controller, and the laser sword lit up again, wreaking havoc in all directions.
The next second, they stared at the sea of insects that had suddenly been torn open with a gash over a hundred meters long, and they were filled with existential doubt.
When Wuji was born, the surging insectoid race sensed the danger, but they still obeyed the queen's orders and continued to devour everything without fear of death.
Faced with an endless stream of enemies, Wuji felt offended and his ferocity was aroused. The sleeping sword spirit began to stir and was no longer lifeless when it fell into Di Xiu's hands.
Even without spiritual power, the divine sense was integrated into it, and it still caused astonishing damage.
The sword light spun, clearing a vacuum.
"Make them withdraw." Di Xiu sent a telepathic message to 001.
001 mimicked a mechanical voice, ordering the people around to retreat. Although these stubborn individuals didn't understand what was going on, they unanimously demanded to stay and die together.
He guessed that the original owner's mecha was so special that its status should be slightly higher, and said firmly, "This is an order."
The group of men, who appeared to be space soldiers, reluctantly retreated, firing a few high-energy particle bullets as they went, and shouting into the channel, "Major General, you must come back alive!"
The major general, who still didn't know his own surname, worked together with 001 to forcefully block the Zerg on this side of the line. However, the flying ones were not so easy to stop, so they let the soldiers handle them.
The Zerg continue to swarm in, and as far as the eye can see, they are truly overwhelming.
Emperor Xiu had once seen a similar ant-like beast that occupied one small world after another, leaving nothing but barren land and extinguishing all life in its wake. At that time, he was at his peak and could easily wipe them out along with the small worlds, but now he was experiencing what it meant to be helpless.
Moreover, he had a bad feeling, as if something might happen if he stayed any longer.
The mechs had already disappeared from sight. Di Xiu swung his sword and returned to his mech. 001 immediately let him in.
"First, can you open a spacetime portal within this world?"
"These interstellar settings usually involve wormhole travel technology, so I can just simulate it."
"Leave here immediately."
"Okay, give me a minute."
The sky in the distance seemed to brighten a bit more, and the insectoids on the ground and in the sky fell into some kind of chaos again. However, they were already quite chaotic due to their sheer number, so Emperor Xiu didn't notice anything different.
The sky grew brighter, and although Di Xiu lacked understanding of this world, he could sense the inescapable danger.
He glanced at 001, who seemed to have noticed something, and lightly ran his thumb across the blade, his voice calm and steady: "Don't be nervous."
Seemingly sensing his intention, Wuji trembled slightly with unease.
The screen inside the mech suddenly turned into static; before that, the screen had been so bright it looked overexposed.
Time seemed to stretch out infinitely long at this moment, yet also compressed into such a short span, as if every second was a long farewell to the world.
Fifteen seconds before the expected minute, 001 suddenly shone with a bright blue light, and the ground beneath the mech suddenly collapsed, revealing a completely dark void that instantly swallowed them along with the mech and the nearby Zerg.
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