Chapter 144 Endless
Floating island. The first line of defense. A clearly marked boundary.
Bang! Bang——
There were several loud noises.
After speeding up instantly, this small commuter car completely escaped the force field restraint of the aerial track, rolled in mid-air, knocked over three signal indicators in succession, and then flew sideways and crashed into the invisible first line of defense of the floating island.
The floating island's first line of defense is a 'dead line' that is strong enough to withstand heavy nuclear attacks, and cannot be shaken by such a tiny impact force.
However, the commuter car and its passengers, which should have instantly evaporated into gaseous ions upon touching this line of defense, were miraculously unharmed and instead fell smoothly from mid-air and landed directly on the second line of defense.
Sizzle——
A flash of blue arc light passed by.
In the commuter car.
The nano airbag pops out, and countless lightweight bubbles fill the entire interior of the car, completely restricting all movements of the two 'people' in the car.
The steel frame of the commuter car was completely destroyed and was now being captured by the second defense force field of the floating island. The disintegrated outer metal debris was floating in the air.
The workers who were directing the construction of the third phase of the floating island just looked up in surprise at the sudden situation and then lowered their heads to concentrate on their work.
Daniel was dizzy and managed to open his left eye. The blood from his forehead flowed into his eye.
In the blood-red vision, he could not forget the 'Sister Alyssa' who had become his inner demon because of his guilt. She howled at him with a twisted face of anger.
'Damn it, Daniel! You did this to me! You betrayed me!'
"You promised me that you could take me in!"
No, this is not the stubborn Alyssa who always smiles.
Not his sister.
Daniel, who had a constant buzzing sound in his ears, closed his eyes tiredly, and then opened them again. In his right eye, which had been implanted with a recognition program after the switch, the one screaming and howling at him was a "man-worm" covered in human skin and full of mucus.
"Anyway, I'm glad to see you again, Sister Alyssa."
The skinny Beta said with a tone that sounded like he was half crying and half laughing, then he covered his face with his trembling hands.
Through the gaps between his fingers, he saw the 'Man-worm Elisa' smiling at him contemptuously and opening her mouth without any scruples. The mucus dripping from her mouth corroded the white safety bladder that trapped her.
It escaped easily, but was helpless against the capture field of the second line of defense.
In Daniel's dizzy vision, 'Human Bug Alyssa' turned around, and a smile appeared on the face that looked like Alyssa: "Oh! Little Daniel, you must want to see Alyssa again, right?"
"She is intact?"
Under the man-worm's seductive mental waves, Daniel nodded woodenly and with difficulty.
The man-worm smiled and said, "Then offer me your flesh and blood, and I will fulfill your wish."
"Okay." He squeezed out a word from his throat with difficulty.
The mouth on Elisa's face split into four pieces instantly, and then a blood-red straw was inserted directly into Daniel's heart from his throat...
In the dizziness of blood loss, Daniel's dull brain recalled that five minutes ago, when he was driving his commuter bus at top speed and crashing into the floating island, he seemed to have... pressed the program's help button at the same time?
They will be able to notice it in time...
*
In fact, his worries were unnecessary.
The first time Daniel saw the 'man-worm', the identifier implanted in his right eye automatically sent a warning to the monitoring system.
The intelligence center of the first fortress, 'Zerg Defense Works', also operated normally and notified the relevant departments of this information.
Only Su Xi failed to receive the message in time, and she didn't know that a "bug" was coming specifically for her.
At this moment, she was isolated by the force field of the "Pure Energy Species Reservation Area" and was in a special ecological environment formed by the breeding 'Taren'.
Looking at the magnificent and fascinating scene before her, Su Xi couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
The pyramid-shaped building has a smooth, simple, streamlined exterior, but the internal structures and decorations are somewhat similar to the complex and gorgeous style of the Rococo period on Earth.
On the tall and empty dome, the complex "Tyron Lifeform" is coiled, its body and branches intertwined throughout the interior space of the building, magnificent and radiant with energy.
In the very center of the building, shining like a beating heart, is the most complete "Sun Devourer Core" in the entire universe, which Fitzgerald took from the Tomb of the Universe in the competition for succession.
The branches of 'Taren' are like the mangroves in the wetlands near the beach, hanging down and lingering around the 'Sun Devourer's Core'.
Su Xi had seen this special 'crystal core' in the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle, but it was only two meters high at the time. Now, in this special artificial environment, it seemed to have reconnected with its companion species. The magnificent energy crystal had expanded to seven or eight times its original size.
Su Xi looked away, carefully feeling the energy fluctuations in this space that did not belong to "Taren". Finally, under the huge body of "Taren" that was like a tree root, there was a small strange fluctuation hiding timidly.
"I got you!" Su Xi closed her eyes and stretched out her hand. The silver armor on her wrist turned into tough threads and firmly bound a humanoid insect with four wings on its back.
“Wow wow—”
"I'm hungry, hungry..."
The queen insect 'Doudou', who is crying with her eyes closed at the moment, looks no different from a two-year-old human baby, except for the four wings on her back that are as thin as cicada wings and the soft antennae on her head.
And now they can speak Interstellar Common very fluently.
"Stop messing around! Spit it out!" Su Xi pinched its neck, shook it twice, and said sternly, "That's not an energy crystal! It's a pure energy life form that is higher level than you!"
“No, don’t!”
"Besides the golden beans that Xi, Xi gave me, this is the most delicious!"
Doudou hugged Su Xi's thighs tremblingly, and looked up at her with a pitiful face. If it weren't for the inhuman coldness revealed in his dark and deep compound eyes, this cute trick would definitely soften Su Xi's heart.
"Vomit!" Su Xi's expression turned cold. She reached out and pried open its mouth. Among the dense teeth in its throat, she saw tiny flashes of fluorescence flowing out.
Then, Su Xi exerted a little force on her hands, and after the insect mother 'Dou Dou' cried, an energy crystal like a tree seed was spit out.
It just jumped twice on the ground before it was snatched back by the main body of 'Taren', those energy limbs that looked like tree roots, and tightly wrapped up again.
That is the "seed" of the "Taren" clan whose origin is on the edge of the Tomb of the Universe. It was wandered outside the desolate area of the universe. Under the care of Su Xi and others, it was the first one that was artificially bred with great difficulty.
Its success means that the artificial replication of the energy cycle of the Sun Devouring Beast Core has made a breakthrough. It is of great significance to the formation of the final form of the floating island planned by Su Xi.
How could I let this stupid bug eat me like this?
Holding it in one hand, Su Xi no longer lingered in this extremely comfortable environment, and she quickly retreated.
The long passage closed, and then the door closed quickly behind her.
The robot on guard at the side opened the 'artificial worm coop' that had been prepared long ago. Su Xi glared at the 'Dou Dou' in her hand and was about to throw the 'mother worm' back into the worm coop and lock it up.
'Xi, Xi... Don't lock Doudou up!'
Su Xi explained to it in a bad tone: "We agreed that there will be rewards and punishments. There is an important multi-party meeting at the First Fortress tonight, and there can't be any chaos. I will feel relieved if I lock you up."
"But, Xi, Xi...I am worried about you."
A baby voice came from the cocoon: "The insect tribe has come in! They have come into the floating island! And those who are fighting with me for the golden inheritance..."
Su Xi was stunned and shouted: "Xi Guang!"
"I'm here." A young boy's voice as clear as a spring appeared, and in the holographic projection, AI Xiguang still activated the image of the red-haired boy in the initial setting, "Don't worry, sister."
"I didn't mean to hide this from you."
"After the third phase of the project, the floating island has become a self-contained system. No matter what kind of twists and turns and disasters occur, you don't have to worry about them in your lifetime..."
Xiguang perfectly replicated his favorite image on the liquid robot and responded to Su Xi's stern questions with a smile.
"It's just a small bug. In my opinion, it's not a threat at all..."
In observing the various interactions between Su Xi and Dou Dou, it has become more and more accurate in understanding Su Xi's emotions, and has become more and more capable of dealing with them.
'Xiguang!'
Really angry.
'Okay! Okay! I'm going to sleep!'
After a slight pause, the silver-white liquid robot regained its flat human form. "Review of surveillance records."
A cold mechanical voice sounded: "Three minutes ago, we received the 'Alien Identification Program' alert for locating 'Daniel'. This is the twelfth Zerg identification signal from the First Fortress, and the third active alert."
Su Xi suddenly remembered what Fitz emphasized to her when he left the floating island this morning: "There will be some chaos tonight."
"…It is currently heading towards the floating island. According to the behavior recognition system, there is a 99.9% chance that it will be detrimental to the floating island…"
"But in the current defensive state, the opponent's success rate is zero and the threat is zero."
Amid the cold mechanical sounds, the light screen flickered, and from the surveillance of the sky eyes distributed outside the floating island, a clearly marked derailed commuter train suddenly accelerated and derailed...
'According to calculations, it will hit the first line of defense of the floating island in two minutes.'
'Open the first line of defense and let him in.'
Su Xi made a decision.
'But!'
"No buts," Su Xi, who had read about Daniel's experience, said with sympathy, "He was determined to die...he was seeking his own death."
"At this speed, even without hitting the defense line, the car would be destroyed and people would be killed."
'"Let the second line of defense do the capturing."
'Alive.'
"Yes." The cold mechanical voice responded, and then the car in the light curtain crashed into the first layer of defense line just as Su Xi said. However, due to Su Xi's deliberate letting, it missed and was directly captured by the second layer of defense force field. The metal outer contour disintegrated... All the fragments were slowly suspended in the air.
'Alien invasion!'
'Alien invasion!'
The alarm wailed on the floating island, but the 'man-bug' in the surveillance picture walked out of the airbag, tore open the second layer of defense with his bare hands, and smiled in the direction of the surveillance camera.
A provocative and sinister smile.
Then, at an incredibly fast speed, it headed towards the energy warehouse of the floating island, which was exactly where Su Xi was now.
Su Xi frowned slightly, locking onto the last frame of the surveillance video.
From the outside, she was a pretty beta female with long chestnut hair and dark blue eyes that were the result of long-term laboratory work.
But in fact, in the scanned images of aliens that were retrieved——
"Facial recognition completed, confirmed as 'Human-worm Arisa'," Xiguang, who was mounted on the silver-white liquid robot, returned to the appearance of a red-haired boy and said with a smile:
"Well. After the facial recognition results came out, it only took me fifteen seconds to climb over the wall and crack the Yindu Empire population management database, and I found some interesting things."
"Sister, do you want to know?"
"This Alyssa has had a relationship with that annoying alpha for a long, long time!"