Chapter 56 Illusion Date
"Kill!"
'Kill.'
Two commands sounded simultaneously from the shoulders of the inner and outer compartments of the mecha.
If you observe from a slightly farther distance, you can see the khaki-colored military special forces mecha maneuvering its shoulder cannon to launch a close-range attack on the slender figure standing on it!
Click, click—click—
In the blink of an eye, the outward-turned shoulder gun barrel of the mecha activated the rapid charging mode!
Boom——
A red beam of energy blasted out, and the red light shone brightly!
The petite figure was instantly obliterated.
At almost the same moment, under the influence of Su Xi's consciousness, the dark insect armor instantly turned into black mist with finer particles. Under the deliberate guidance of her mental threads, the violent flow spread rapidly inside the special military mecha like a virus, and completely occupied the energy transportation pipelines in the mecha within a few breaths!
After receiving the "kill" order from Su Xi's mind, the black insect armor in the "crazy devouring" state instantly decomposed itself!
Observed from a microscopic perspective, the insect substance, which was originally in a solid molecular chain structure, has its indestructible molecular chains broken one after another under an incredible energy resonance, and the structure of the substance has been decomposed again in the direction of finer particles!
Thus, in actual observation, a spectacular scene appeared!
The insect armor substance that had devoured eighty percent of the special forces mecha's energy instantly evaporated into gas again in the black mist state!
This is the first time that the dark beetle has displayed a state of almost pure energy!
From a distance, this was a more intense and crazier self-destructive attack than the Special Service Mecha's previous two quasi-ion cannon attacks!
The special forces mecha, which was originally strong enough to withstand the powerful tearing of space leap, seemed as fragile as a paper toy in the spreading black mist.
Inside this 'big guy's' body, like a sandbag filled with food that finally couldn't bear the weight, it violently burst out from the inside out!
The shoulder cannon attack that was launched at almost the same moment only flashed a few times in the black energy that burst out of the entire body, and it seemed so weak. However, even if there was only a little red energy that escaped from the black mist, when it shot towards the distant hill, it instantly flattened half of the hilltop!
As the black mist surged, the huge khaki-colored special forces mecha was instantly torn apart by the dark insect armor in the state of "matter energy"!
The outer shell of the huge humanoid robot was torn into pieces, and only the main energy driver remained in mid-air, being entangled and attacked by a dense black mist.
Huge debris fell to the ground one after another, and the continuously spreading black fog was like a series of small tornadoes in the sky, scattering and reorganizing, relentlessly devouring and strangling the defeated targets.
In this spectacular scene, two masses of matter, one red and one blue, quickly crossed each other in the air.
In just 0.8 seconds, the winner is decided!
The red ball of light is the cocoon-shaped life pod that once again ejected from the mecha cabin.
As a 3S-level alpha with rich combat experience, Vulture Snow directly faced the pain of having his left arm removed in the U-medium mental link just now. When the energy was "swallowed" by the dark insect armor that invaded the mecha's body, he instantly felt something was wrong. He immediately abandoned the mecha himself as if to save his life, retreated to the cocoon-shaped escape capsule and ejected, intending to avoid the subsequent bombing in his "intuitive prediction".
But even if he made the correct judgment and response, it would be too late to completely avoid it.
When he was evacuating in mid-air, a mass of silver-blue substance came towards him and directly cut off his way. Under such a double attack, he was caught off guard and fell rapidly to the ground.
As the victor, Su Xi raised her hand and took back the silver-blue "ice flame". The petite omega appeared in the dark mist, with dots of gold between her eyebrows looming. However, in the previous impact, the right side of her forehead that was scratched and bruised was gradually bleeding, dripping under her right eye like bloody tears, and slowly dripping down her face. The burned left cheek was exposed to the strong sulfuric acid air in the wilderness, and was being corroded and charred...
Fortunately, at this moment, her healing ability has reached a peak state of rapid recovery due to the increase in her mental power threshold, but the surface skin and flesh still cannot avoid a little pain.
Su Xi thought quickly and calmly, then used her mental power to scan her own recovery over and over again. The speed of cell recovery gradually surpassed the collapse and damage... Very good, she was very satisfied with this recovery speed.
At the same time, Su Xi, who invaded the other party's brain, also saw his own extremely miserable wolf appearance from the perspective of others.
This kind of perceptual experience of blending the 'inside-outside-others' into one is really novel!
Su Xi chuckled. Not only did her clear five senses allow her to fully grasp her current situation, but the multi-sensory experience also brought her into a familiar state of 'near omniscience', with abundant energy galloping along the newly expanded spiritual circuit!
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In the 0.8 seconds of the encounter, Vulture Snow, as a 3S-level alpha warrior, had an excellent ability to capture dynamic vision with the help of his mental power. However, the moment he saw the other person's face clearly, his pupils, which had been dilated due to surprise, suddenly shrank!
He saw an incredible sight.
A petite figure gradually emerged in the diffuse black mist, and a tiny vacuum zone was temporarily formed where she stood. Liquid silver flew around her freely. Due to the limit of mass-energy, it was not enough to form a complete insect-proof armor, but the special silver-blue substance she held in her hand filled the gaps in the insect-proof armor very effectively...
That! That is the energy of the 'core crystal' of spiritual power! 'Vulture' Snow's face stiffened instantly, and a complex feeling immediately surged in his heart, half of which was greedy and trembling excitement, and half was worried fear.
What makes him greedy is that the spiritual power 'core crystal' is a million times more precious than the 'complete gene repair' quota! But what makes him afraid is that he can't afford to offend the power behind it.
But he didn't have time to think about it. In an instant, as he fell away, the original "hunting target"
At this moment, she leaped into the air with an expressionless face! She chased after him quickly, her long honey-brown hair drawing a crisp arc in the air. The liquid silver insect armor that was originally flying to protect her body retracted on her right hand and reshaped into the crescent-shaped curved knife that harvested the right arm of the mecha. The silver-blue energy attached to it made it extremely sharp. She struck him through the air!
'Vulture' Snow had anticipated this and barely managed to dodge it.
Following her roar came the dark insect armor that devoured the remaining mecha parts. The sky was filled with black mist and the momentum was extremely majestic!
'Vulture' Snow frowned, and the chaotic scene in his 'intuitive prediction' made him decide that even if it was not for the mission, he must kill this omega in this alien wasteland!
He immediately activated the last backup energy source of the escape capsule and changed the direction of his fall in mid-air.
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Su Xi, who was in the process of releasing all her spirit, was now in a state of clear-headedness.
She looked down indifferently at the rapidly falling cocoon-shaped escape pod filled with red energy light. It turned abruptly in mid-air and fled to the west side of the wasteland.
"The second step." Her palms were slightly sweaty as she clenched Xiguang's chip in her hand. The feeling of the hard object against her soft palm made her take a deep breath.
Then he abruptly stopped in mid-air and was about to fall and chase!
The dark insects, which looked powerful and imposing due to having eaten enough energy, followed her wishes and gathered at her feet.
The torn half boot and the bare heel stepped in the air. The scattered and gathered black mist quickly gathered into a semi-gelatinous and semi-solid state under her feet, and then instantly returned to a vaporous state when her feet left, and then dissipated with energy.
Su Xi did just that. After using the dark beetle armor to stop her from falling in mid-air, she used her right hand to swing the curved knife in a silver pattern. As she did so, beautiful liquid silver splashed in the air, and then quickly transformed into a semi-liquid, semi-solid substance, pouring down over her head and spreading over her body. It adhered to and covered her upper body, and formed two pairs of extremely beautiful liquid silver wings on her back. The wings grew rapidly.
This is the initial form of the spiritual power insect armor generated by liquid silver. Su Xi closed his eyes slightly and engraved the spiritual power totem that he had seen and remembered repeatedly in his mind...
Then, intricate, exquisite and ancient patterns quickly appeared on the wings. If you look closely, you can even see the mental patterns on each feather, and there is a faint icy blue energy flame that is about to go out and illuminates them.
That is a simulated energy thruster, but in the eyes of other people, it is too luxurious for Su Xi to use the 'spiritual core crystal' in a pure energy state as an energy source!
However, now that Su Xi had lost her "memories" in the wormhole and the detailed information she had gained from the "blank point in time", she just instinctively and instinctively mobilized all the resources and reserves she had in this life-and-death battle. She didn't care at the moment, and of course she couldn't figure out the true properties of the "ice flame" substance for the time being.
Su Xi stepped on the energy materialized by the dark insect armor in mid-air and completed the flight propulsion of liquid silver in one and a half seconds. Then she jumped lightly and followed the direction of the red light ball's escape, continuing to chase after it!
Bomb——The cocoon-shaped escape pod, which had exhausted its last reserve energy source, stumbled and landed on the western side of the wilderness!
光翼閃動，追擊而來的蘇熙輕巧的落在了地面上。
在她剛落地踏實的那一剎那，液态銀雙翼回縮，漂亮的銀色物質半空解體又忽而回聚到右手，待她揮手輕揚！握實後又回複到圓月彎刀的形态。
她一步步的走近。
相似的情景再次上演。
地面上。
焦黑一片，紅光彌漫，繭型救生艙的防護罩漸漸熄滅。
煙塵散去，只見一個渾身狼狽的少女滿臉餘怒的走近繭型救生艙的位置，她單手持握液态銀彎刀，朝着紅光滋滋作響、尤帶殘存能量保護的繭型救生艙劈過去！
‘第三個步驟，開始了。’
此刻的蘇熙無比冷靜，梳理着腦海裏閃過的那些‘直覺預判’的散碎畫面，她心裏默默數着與預判場景重合的點位。
10秒預判到位……9秒預判……8秒……
轟——咔！
繭型救生艙的能量罩被徹底的暴力破壞！堅固得足以抵擋隕石的金屬外殼被液态銀彎刀以一種不可思議的力度，切面整齊的掀開了整個外殼！
滋——
救生艙的最後一層密碼鎖，被暴力拆卸開，密碼鎖上流竄過幾道極粗的電流，然後徹底毀壞。
薄薄的維生內艙是滑蓋的設計，此刻正極慢的緩緩滑開——
然而當少女低頭探去，裏面卻空無一人！
站在救生艙前的少女，手裏極穩的持握了液态銀彎刀，臉上卻露出了一瞬間茫然無措的表情。
倒數5秒……4秒……
蘇熙屏住了呼吸，原本淺弱的呼吸此刻接近于無。眉心的金砂炙熱得發燙、原本清晰的視線此刻漸漸模糊起來，使得此刻眼中所見、耳邊所聽聞的現實中的一切，都漸漸與58秒之前在‘直覺預判’中的五感幻像漸漸重合……
然後——
只見一只黝黑有力的手，突然從表情茫然的少女背後伸出來！
那是一只屬于alpha肌肉遒結的手臂，但手肘處的損傷處，暴露出來的不是模糊的血肉，而是密密麻麻的集成線路，在皮肉外翻的仿生化皮質層下，是閃爍着破損電弧光的、精細的人造神經線路……手掌處甚至還能看見暴露在外的斷掉的金屬指骨……
就是這樣一只非人非機械的手，狠狠的掐住了少女纖細的脖子。
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‘禿鹫’斯諾忍不住得意的大笑起來！
“終于！讓我給抓住了！”
他慢慢的收緊了五指，舊這麽掐着脖子把嬌小的omega，猛的一下從平地拖拽而起。少女脹紅着臉，雙腳尖離地，難以呼吸般的拼命掙紮着，可怎麽也掙脫不出轄制！
‘禿鹫’斯諾就這麽得意的欣賞了好一會兒掌中獵物拼命掙紮求救的狼狽。
然而從蘇熙的視角望過去，只見這個身高近兩米的光頭的彪型大漢，從後頸到半背都紋滿了猙獰的刺青，後腦勺極有異星風格的半辮被剛才的撞擊毀得亂發飛揚，而左腿殘敗，斷裂的金屬腿骨像沒有痛覺一般的支楞在地，支撐着龐大的身軀。
只見他惡狠狠的吐出一口氣，收緊了五指，快意的說到：
“呵呵，就是要一點一點的、捏碎你們這些不勞而獲的白蟻！憑什麽幹苦力的永遠是我們！憑什麽？！”
“憑什麽所有好處——”
他話音未完，卻突然發現自己的視線矮了一截！
而手中還掐着脖子掙紮的少女……
卻消失了？
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宇宙絕域。距離蟲巢一千兩百光年。某顆紅矮星的第八顆行星軌道上。
這裏與‘生命圈’荒野的時間流速比幾乎為11比1。在蘇熙在荒原上酷烈而又短暫的這三十分鐘的生死拼殺中，菲茨傑拉德這邊僅僅過去了兩分多鐘。
此刻，他已經完成了對僞裝衛星數據手檢的工作，可是距離兩分鐘前的針對蟲族的特殊超聲波驅散之後，那雙赤.裸而瑩白的雙腳又出現了，依舊在眼前晃啊晃。
菲茨傑拉德的臉色越發冰冷和難看。
瞧瞧，這就是蟲族‘聯網式思維共享’的後果。唯一能被獲知的，是第一要塞把蟲核精神體納入體內進行絞殺的那次。
他曾經把第一要塞蟲族防禦工事中那枚蟲核精神體，放入自身腦域中進行對抗降服。大概就是那個時候，在新舊蟲核交替的瞬間，讓那枚蟲核精神體的幾縷碎片信號同頻到了族群之中。
經歷過宙墓考驗的他，原本并不覺得個人的記憶對族群公開和共享是什麽需要避諱的事情。況且他身負的使命也從來沒有‘個人意志’或者‘私人欲望’的這種東西存在。
可現在，赤.裸裸的現實擺在面前，菲茨傑拉德不得不承認自己非常介意，原本意欲私存的記憶就這麽被共享到一個族群之中。
而且想到被醜陋蟲族拟态出來用作引誘和幹涉的那個影相，他皺眉。
就算只是模拟得只有五六分的類似，也實在是太礙眼了！
他虛虛握住了那截弧度優美的小腿，一個用力！
一陣刺耳的能量波動，附近隕石帶的碎石紛紛炸裂開，在無聲的宇宙背景下，嚣張又霸烈。
在無人的深空，他無需掩飾早已超出4S級的能力。
那些被擊碎的隕石互相撞擊湮滅成粉塵，行星帶三十公裏內無處再供躲藏。很快的，粉塵散去了，一個巨大的蟲影，在機甲冰冷的漆面倒影上，一閃而過。
那是一只有致幻能力的，王将級以上的蟲族。
菲茨傑拉德回到黯炎體內，開啓了機甲的隐匿模式，駕駛着黯炎迅速追擊過去。
星屑粉塵在能量的餘波下紛紛幻化成一具具漂浮的屍體，那些是吞日號上犧牲在蟲核精神體捕捉戰役中的——他的親衛隊。他們臨終前的優秀應變以及酷烈的拼殺，在他眼前化為實景一一飄過。
并阻礙着他繼續往前探索。
他微扯出一個笑。
很好，事故黑匣子中尚未收納到的角度都補全了。
他靜默了半響，一邊等待着将士們臨終的最後一幕播放完畢。
一邊驅動着銀藍色的精神力如膠質般的波動擴展。他微阖眼，仔細探查藏匿在虛影中的那塊蟲核。
找到了！
那是一只巨大得幾乎堪比一艘小型殲滅機的王将級躍遷蟲。
依舊隐匿着的黯炎，在目标出現後，發動機甲的炮筒第一時間鎖定，然後幹脆利落的轟擊！
醜陋的蟲軀瞬間化為粉屑，只餘下能量的最核心，閃爍着紅光試圖最後一次啓動‘空前躍遷能力’逃竄。
然而，蟲核最後的‘空間躍遷’被早以埋伏的力場地雷給轟回了原點。
于是沒廢多少事，菲茨傑拉德就站在了這塊足有兩人高的蟲核面前，他伸出手，思考着怎麽樣剝開蟲核的外殼更完整。這塊材料極好，比上次蟲洞中那只發育不全的躍遷蟲更适應制作精神力的防護蟲甲。
這個工作還算熟練，他很快就剝開了蟲核外殼，粗略處理了一下就扔回了空間鈕中，接下來就是比較容易髒手的內核淨化的部分。
察覺到他的殺意，長寬高約80cm的蟲核精神體爆發出極強的求生欲望。
一陣低頻的嘯叫響過，宇宙真空中仿佛存在空氣一般的蕩漾開一波一波的氣浪。
然後，一個嬌小美麗的少女出現在他面前，琥珀色的雙眼祈求般的看着他。
‘求求你，不要殺我。’赤.裸的少女大膽的抱着他的手臂，蜜棕色的及腰長發微微卷翹，發尾微濕着重暈染出纖細腰身的一小截線條。
菲茨傑拉德楞住了，如果只是從樣貌上來看，這次倒是有八.九分類似了。
他定定的看了一會兒，食指輕擡，接住了那滴淚。
她有哭過嗎？
是了。
在混亂的蟲洞空間，她被困在他懷裏有過細弱的顫抖，在他刻意的信息素引誘下神智混沌的與他親熱，那時的她已經剪短了發。并不是蟲核精神體模拟的現在這副剛上吞日號上的樣子。
菲茨傑拉德微擡手，輕輕推開了懷裏這個少女的幻象，修長的食指劃過眉目，精致的鎖骨，然後停在赤.裸的左胸。于是面前這個棕發少女，模樣更加凝實起來，她微微仰起臉，輪廓精致的臉上神色開始生動活潑，淡色的櫻唇緩緩綻開一個甜蜜的笑。
處于幻覺陷阱中的紅發的alpha低低垂眸。
空餘的左手上移，一把扼住少女線條脆弱優美的頸項。
‘不、不要……’察覺到他殺意的決烈，蟲核精神體模拟出來的少女瑩白的臉上撲簌簌的掉下眼淚，尤為凄美可憐。
然而那個紅發alpha卻沒什麽表情，左手繼續用力收緊，于是在他掌中的少女幻相便在破滅與維持之間不停的切換。
在少女身體的虛影切換之中，心髒位置有一塊晶核，清晰得能看見鮮紅紋路中的流動的液體在急速慌張的脈動。
然後。
他用右手快速的凝出純能量的薄刃，表情淡漠的從越來越凝實的瑩白軀體的心髒位置深深的挖出一塊晶體物質。
"Why, why..." The illusion could no longer be maintained, and the insect core spirit body let out a low-pitched howl.
Fitzgerald frowned, exerted force with his left hand, and completely severed the girl's neck, ending the illusion.
The image of the girl completely disappeared, and a crystal core that was so dark purple that it was almost black slowly fell into his open hand.
This King General-level Leaping Insect Crystal Core has the dual abilities of a mutant psychotropic and hallucinogenic. It is an extremely beautiful crystal substance that contains extremely abundant energy. If you look closely at it against the light, you can see that there seems to be a bright red liquid flowing through it.
It was a strange and sad color.
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On the other side, the 'Circle of Life' wasteland.
For 'Vulture' Snow, the prey that was about to be caught, the parasites of the upper class that were about to be crushed into a bloody mess, the pleasure that was about to be released freely!
But in an unexpected situation, it was interrupted!
Before he felt the severe pain in his back, he lowered his head in surprise. His originally horizontal line of sight turned upside down, and he discovered that... he had suddenly become shorter.
His dull gaze fell on his knees. The area below his knees was empty, and the metal calf that rolled to the side had a smooth half-cut surface, shining with the unique texture of metal.
"Step 3 completed."
Such a voice came from behind him.
This was the first time he heard the other person's voice in person.
He turned his head.
I saw a delicate omega slowly standing up, and the liquid silver curved knife slowly transformed back to a flowing state, then retracted into his left hand and obediently turned back into the original bracelet shape.
This is the target of this hunt, the so-called intermediate "beginner" omega in the "sponsor's" data, the "rare species" of unknown identity, a fat sheep worth a "complete genetic evolution quota"...
In the eyes of Vulture Snow, in this almost stagnant air, her long hair fluttered slightly, and the blood was half dried. The dark insect armor material swam and coiled on the ground like a giant snake, guarding her in the center, and the sharp thorns occasionally rose and fell on the dark surface.
She looked down at him, the golden sand on her forehead gradually disappeared, and her delicate face returned to normal.
She only said one sentence to him, and her sweet voice carried an extremely bland and cold tone.
"Congratulations, you found me."
"This is not an illusion."