Chapter 88 Meet again

"Unfortunately, 'you' are also delusional."

Su Xi took a half step back and looked carefully at the tall man in front of her again. The vast sea was calm and the afterglow of the setting sun outlined a dazzling golden light along his flaming hair.

The man's face was blurry in the backlight, and it was impossible to tell how his expression changed specifically. Only the hand that was stretched out to her suddenly stopped in mid-air.

The sky of this sea of ​​illusion gradually began to ripple, and the spiritual ocean belonging to the essence of 'Su Xi' reflected in the sky was silently and majestically approaching this increasingly unstable illusion, and it was submerged!

"Well, I didn't expect that you still haven't gotten rid of the childish idea of ​​'unconditional pampering' during adolescence."

Su Xi put on her snorkeling mask again and laughed at her own childish girlish heart once again.

"As long as you believe it," the man withdrew his hand from her and said in a low voice, "it won't be 'false'."

“Same behavior, same result.”

"As for whether the motivation behind it is out of 'true love' or 'realistic' practical considerations, what difference does it make?"

The tall man took a step forward, approached her, and coaxed her with a soft, silent, and extremely charming smile.

Su Xi said nothing more. She waved her hand lightly, and liquid silver armor appeared on her right hand. Unfortunately, she couldn't activate it immediately. At this time, the man's shadow had completely enveloped her, blocking the last rays of sunset.

Su Xi looked up at the sky, and her essential world began to collide with this crumbling sea of ​​illusion.

However, time was not enough. At this moment, she was completely enveloped in the scorching chest, with flaming hair caressing her cheeks. The man murmured, "You can't resist it. It comes from AO's natural attraction, submission and physiological desire..."

The cold fangs even began to rub against the glands at the back of the neck.

Su Xi clenched her fists, took a deep breath, and moved her left index finger slightly. The dark insect armor instantly transformed into a shield covered with dense spikes, like a bloated porcupine!

In an instant, the illusion of the man in front of him was torn into pieces without leaving any trace.

At the same time, the world began to fall, and trillions of tons of seawater fell from the sky. The sky of the illusion collapsed, and in the midst of the roaring seawater, she turned around and took a last look at the frolicking on the beach. It was obviously a mixture of the island carnival scene of a graduation trip and the family vacation in a seaside town.

It is her most beautiful memory, which is both a vain lingering on the past and the most real existence of emotion.

Su Xi smiled slightly, then turned her head and looked expressionlessly at the gradually disappearing illusion of the man who was confessing his love to her. She looked at the fragments of the illusion that were torn into slag, like foam on the sea, disappearing one by one with the waves.

To her, such childish and unrealistic fantasies are the illusions that should be completely shattered.

The surrounding environment dimmed again. Su Xi looked down and saw that although the half-human-high insect core was still flashing a faint blue light, it seemed much dimmer than when it just fell into the ocean.

Su Xi snorted softly, deciding not to compete with the incomplete spiritual body of this "illusion worm". She still held the worm core steadily, preparing to float up.

At this time, an alarm sounded from EXO's helmet, indicating that the oxygen reserve was close to the red line. It turned out that she had been at the bottom of the sea for almost a star hour without realizing it.

There were about seventy or eighty micro intelligent mechas surrounding her not far away.

Su Xi started the turbine engine on the mecha backpack and once again traveled through the chaotic primordial sea of ​​planet BV32-II.

Those fully automatic intelligent mechas kept a certain distance and swarmed around her as she floated upwards.

It is still three hundred meters from the sea surface.

At this time, a storm was gradually gathering on the sea.

She stopped seventy-five meters above the sea surface. This was the boundary of the stratosphere of this ocean. Ten meters above was the storm zone with surging rapids.

Through the reflection of the transparent surface of the EXO helmet, Su Xi saw that her eyes were red and swollen, and there were residual tears in her eye sockets, looking aggrieved and about to cry.

She planned to let herself cry for a while and vent all the emotions and pressure that she had deliberately forgotten.

When you get back to the ground you have to regroup.

She sent a text message to Chris, saying that she was very safe and asked her to take back the dozens of intelligent mechas.

After all, their subsequent battlefield cleanup work on the ground requires even more mechanical labor.

Then she entered the system of the mecha intelligence computer, turned on the automatic alert mode, and arranged a short reminder task:

'Set a timer and remind me in nine minutes.'

After setting the alarm, Su Xi stood in the middle of the sea, hugging the insect core and began to cry.

But before she could finish crying, she was interrupted by a system reminder. A faint vibration was heard again from deep under the sea, and the intermittent submarine volcano was about to start erupting again.

Beep beep—EXO’s AI once again issued an alarm about low oxygen levels.

Su Xi took a few deep breaths, calmed herself down, quickly started the engine, and after a burst of energy, she accelerated her ascent.

At the same time, the life support and cleaning system in the mecha helmet was activated, and the messy tears and traces of crying on the face were quickly cleaned away.

At this time, the tremors on the seabed became more and more intense. The continental frame that Su Xi originally used to pick up the insect core cracked a tiny crack, and hot magma gushed out violently.

EXO's AI counted down coldly. With less than five minutes left before being affected by the magma, Su Xi immediately adjusted the turbo engine's power to the highest gear.

In the turbulent sea water, the floating process presents a zigzag line.

For Su Xi, whether it was the oxygen content, jet power, or balance control, all aspects made it difficult for her to reach the ground safely.

When it floated to a position more than 100 meters above the horizon, the magma like the flames of hell, with the temperature of the sea water boiling instantly, was about to swallow up the tiny figure.

A huge mecha with a dark and cold appearance suddenly appeared in the raging waves. Its graceful and streamlined body instantly attracted Su Xi's attention.

It came towards her in huge waves.

The fully-energized light blade flashed and split the overwhelming waves, isolating a relatively quiet small sea area from the turbulent waves.

The terrifying vortex in the sea that was originally surging and swallowing everything gradually subsided due to the interference of artificial energy.

Su Xi was floating on the sea, holding the insect core, and saw this huge humanoid mecha full of mechanical beauty slowly leaning down towards her. This was originally a very oppressive posture, but Su Xi unexpectedly breathed a sigh of relief.

The huge mechanical hand closed gently and lifted the tiny figure along with the sea water from the sea. The force was controlled very finely, neither loose nor tight, and countless sea water flowed out from the gaps in the huge mechanical hand.

At this moment, Su Xi inexplicably recalled the game of catching goldfish in her childhood.

But now she is the stupid goldfish that was caught.

The humanoid mecha, full of mechanical beauty, stretched out its long legs and broke through the dark and rolling waves in a few steps. With its hands gently clasped in front of its chest, it walked from the turbid primitive sea to the volcanic islands, the calmest in this storm.

When the "stupid goldfish" arrived at this relatively safe environment, it let go of the insect core that it had been holding tightly. The petite figure stood up from the huge palm of the humanoid mecha, and she took two tentative steps to the edge, but was suddenly shaken by the right hand of the mecha, and Su Xi slipped and fell back into the palm of the right hand of the mecha.

But before she could stand up again, another huge hand slightly bent its five fingers...

Click! The five fingers formed a cage, and the two mechanical hands loosely fit together.

Su Xi blinked and was stunned.

This feeling——

She couldn't help but correct her previous thoughts. She was not a goldfish, she was now a cricket.

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The giant combat mech emerged from the waves of the sea. Its dark and cold appearance was full of murderous aura, but it was surprisingly careful and steady before moving. The sea water slid down the smooth and graceful body of the mech and evaporated cleanly in an instant. Although Su Xi was trapped in the palm of its hand and was in a small space, she did not feel suffocated, but only a rare sense of peace.

She looked out through the gap in the mecha's palm.

The volcanic islands on the planet BV32-II still look like they were at the beginning of the world, except for the cruel sight of insect debris all over the ground, and human post-war cleanup is in full swing.

The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle had now lost its invisible state and was parked on the cleared space.

Various logistical machines swarmed out, racing against time to collect useful parts from the insect carcasses.

Compared to the utilization rate of human corpses by the Zerg, it is obvious that the Zerg materials are more useful to humans. After humans, who are good at learning, cannot compete with the Zerg's gene tree evolution rate in their own technology tree, they have integrated any advantages of the Zerg that can be integrated into their own evolutionary logic chain.

Su Xi turned her head again, the figure in the mecha cabin was blurry, she couldn't see clearly, she just felt a pair of eyes following her.

But he didn't say anything?

Are you angry?

Su Xi felt that she was a little confused about this man's thoughts, but inexplicably she felt embarrassed as if she had done something bad and been caught.

She was a little worried about how to explain why she kicked the insect core and why she picked it up... No, picking it up was right. She knew the value of this insect core very well.

But how do you explain why you didn't return immediately after picking it up at the bottom of the sea, and why you foolishly stayed at the bottom of the sea for so long?

As for the seemingly real and fake scenes she entered under the influence of the incomplete spirit of the "illusion worm"——

Yes. We must not let him know that he has been dismembered twice by someone today!

Su Xi felt guilty for a moment.

Su Xi, who had never told a lie since she was a child, fell into entanglement and trouble.

At this moment, she heard a light "click" sound, and a figure jumped onto the top of the "cage" built by the two huge mechanical hands of the Dark Flame Mecha.

"Come out."

A voice that seems strange yet extremely familiar.

It was calm and motionless, and one couldn't tell the owner's specific emotions.

Su Xi's breathing stopped.