Chapter 1165: Chapter 174: Beyond the Karman Line (Part 7) Conclusion
——It actually collapsed just like that.
This was the thought that flashed through Hartman’s mind a minute ago.
Several hours earlier, this situation was still “unimaginable.”
This ga actually began nearly eighty years ago. After the Eighth Martial God was eliminated, Yawgmoth grew impatient, aiming to thoroughly eradicate the “Martial God’s rebirth,” a phenonon that shouldn’t exist. While creating the Ninth Martial God, Yawgmoth simultaneously devised several strategies to restrict the “Artificial Martial God.”
The new generation of neutrino detectors was rely an alternative. During the Ninth Martial God, this plan went unused, so Yawgmoth turned it into a trap—one targeting future Martial Gods.
With no heart in mind, the battle was supposed to go smoothly.
Whether it was the Martial Ancestor or the Tenth Martial God, they should now be unable to surpass the King of Godspeed. The King of Godspeed was supposed to severely wound and capture all the heroes, adding to his ideal “zoo.”
With such a huge intelligence advantage, such a massive combat advantage… the enemy was not supposed to struggle.
But the Martial God just managed to struggle successfully.
His Majesty’s overconfident move brought the essential planetary suppression weapon within the Martial God’s attack range, thereby limiting the Romance King, forcing him to provide rescue.
From today’s perspective, Romance King Zhuan Leibin might not be reliable. At best, after losing a lot of equipnt, he could escape with His Majesty’s biological brain intact, but this formidable fortress-type prosthetic body is probably not salvageable.
The outer space rebellion on Earth could not be quelled quickly as planned.
Hartman mobilized more drones to fight Bai Man. Bai Man seed to be reaching the end of his life. He was covered in wounds and was running out of ammunition, almost on the brink of defeat.
At this mont, Hartman received a ssage from Yawgmoth.
King Aqini felt regret for the Romance King. Despite not knowing what the Martial God did, based on the intelligence sent back by His Majesty, Zhuan Leibin seems to be in grave danger.
Although the Romance King is only a diocre warrior among top-level warriors, King Aqini still felt it necessary to have so regret. At least he was indeed an excellent guard.
Regarding the issue of “the biological brain here is just a True Personality Mask,” Hartman wasn’t too surprised.
Although it was never acknowledged that this biological brain was a True Personality Mask, conversely, His Majesty never denied it either. Perhaps he disdained to say it, or maybe he was too lazy to say it.
According to Hartman’s understanding of Yawgmoth, His Majesty, the Father of a Thousand Machines, is eagerly awaiting the “complete end of old history.” Before this, he will never leave the most defensively fortified Throne. Even eighty years ago, he only threw out a Pseudo-personality Mask, and it was Hartman himself who implented the security asures.
As the head of security, Hartman knew a lot.
Before the birth of the Ninth Martial God, His Majesty attempted to create a True Personality Mask. He continually tried to instill his mory into blank cloned brains. However, even after more than eighty years, His Majesty couldn’t solve the key problem—most True Personality Masks don’t entirely agree with his main body.
Yawgmoth was foresighted not to share the highest user privileges and mories related to the “Great Power” backdoor with any True Personality Mask.
But perhaps this was also his reason for failure. No matter how you look at it, the superuser privileges and the “Great Power” itself have already beco part of His Majesty’s thought logic. Missing this part, the True Personality Mask would almost imdiately realize, “I am not .”
The checkpoints that the Martial Gods unknowingly passed over unknowingly stalled Yawgmoth for at least sixty years.
Of course, that was decades ago.
When His Majesty proposed that he wanted to engage in battle and eliminate the Martial God personally, King Aqini noticed it then.
However, he didn’t doubt any of it. For him— as the “firewall for humanity,” it was unnecessary.
——At least enough to destroy a Martial God.
King Aqini watched as the Dragon Head Main Cannon turned its muzzle. This strike was sure to trigger the fission reactor within that Martial God, and this chain reaction was too close to the fusion reactor of the “Control Theory Remains,” with a fifty percent chance of losing control of the fusion reaction. At that ti, surrounding soldiers might either be severely injured by the neutron flux or lted into a blob by light radiation.
The Dragon Head Main Cannon began to charge.
But at this very mont, an anomaly occurred.
A stream of data—a fresh stream of Inner Strength suddenly launched a surprise attack.
The “influence” of Inner Strength is to use various tools commonly used by hackers as extensions of one’s consciousness, driving these aggressive programs through “reflection” rather than “thinking.” The “movents” that drive these tools for probing attacks are more deeply connected with “consciousness,” thus giving “Inner Strength” a very strong personal style— just as External Martial Artists can side-profile the opponent’s personality through movents, Inner Martial Artists go much further in this regard.
In just an instant, King Aqini completed his judgnt.
But his rationality simultaneously denied this judgnt.
[Zhu Xinyu? You, why…]
Within the vessel.
That hateful terrorist launched an attack within the fleet?
An elusive power.
At this instant, King Aqini realized his mistake. Several heroes had launched attacks on the fleet network. Their visits did reveal several vulnerabilities.
It’s just that those heroes’ Inner Martial skills were insufficient, unable to exploit the discovered vulnerabilities in a blink of an eye. Before they could reverse-engineer the attack codes, they were already killed by Hartman.
Bai Man drew King Aqini’s attention. Perhaps due to underestimating the heroes, King Aqini hadn’t yet replaced the faulty components.
The old Hero known by the codena “Turing” gained authorization the mont he acted.
—No, this reaction speed, it’s indeed within the fleet…
—But… why is that woman’s output flow so low? The problem she’s dealing with…
Hartman keenly sensed sothing was amiss. Two streams of Inner Strength were battling through the fleet’s internal network.
As the confrontation continued, Hartman noticed more details.
This “sense of anomaly” wasn’t caused by delay from distance. The enemy within the fleet responded to attacks very swiftly. It seed the opponent was simply unable to handle too many attacks at once?
All King Aqini needed was to blow up specific warship servers, then, based on the fluctuations in the opposing network, he could roughly determine their physical address. Within a second, King Aqini had his mid-level officers forcefully blow up five different sub-processors.
Yet, the final result left King Aqini puzzled once more.
—Two addresses… different warships… how did she do it?
The two streams of consciousness continuously jumped, dodged, and battled within the network.
Everything happened within seconds.
The main gun of the dragon head was fully charged.
At that mont, King Aqini finally realized the opponent’s goal.
The posture control system of the “Control Theory Remains”!
Bai Man’s eyes brightened. Flas like water shimred before his eyes. In front of him, a senior officer was almost instantly turned into a mass of plasma. His raised thermal axe, along with part of his arm, flew away.
Fortunately, the ti for the magnetic confinent device and the neutron moderation chanism to be eliminated was subtly different, preventing sustained nuclear fusion.
The snake neck rotated once.
At that instant, the snake neck made a full turn.
The invisible sword of the Grim Reaper swept across the entire battlefield. An invisible “plane” divided the battlefield into the “upper” and “lower” parts. All materials intersecting with this invisible plane were sublimated into plasma. Nurous fighters were directly destroyed, turning into balls of light in mid-air.
The other two of the three main guns of the Control Theory Remains were severed at the waist.
Niyaguti, already resolved to die, stared around in shock.
The light balls gathered on a plane looked like a miniature galaxy model from afar.
The entire fleet suffered heavy damage because of this!
What happened… why?
……………
At this mont, unaware of the outside world, Xiang Shan, with his back against the prosthetic body of the Romance King, suddenly exerted force, using his shoulder and waist to throw the Romance King toward Yawgmoth.
With a swing of his fist, that larger-than-average brain was shattered into a pool of protein mush by the Romance King’s blow. The Romance King’s fists continued their barrage, penetrating Yawgmoth’s freshly-opened protective structure.
Half the vast starry sky, half the blue Earth, with the curve of the earth at their intersection.
“Haha… hahahaha…”
Xiang Shan laughed. Probably laughed out loud. He had lost most of his senses and really didn’t know if his signaling device was still intact.
“This feels great…” The edges of Xiang Shan’s vision began to blacken, “I don’t know why, but I feel incredibly relieved inside…”
—The Father of Machines… a least an avatar, was killed. The Protector’s actions to suppress Earth also seed to have failed. Without such a tactical core, a fortress-like prosthetic body that could block Heroes long-term at the Karman Line, the Protector definitely couldn’t fully succeed.
What more could there be to not be satisfied about?
Xiang Shan intended to cut off his vision. The noise in his visual organs now was greatly affecting his ntal state.
But this ti, Xiang Shan, in the image of a Fierce Ghost, appeared before him.
—Can you really rest in peace?
“Hey, hey… aren’t we enemies, the Six Dragons Sect’s…” For a mont, Xiang Shan’s thoughts stumbled.
—Truly satisfied?
—Can you truly be content?
—With just this little achievent?
—Compared to the whole world?
Xiang Shan’s prosthetic eye lit up again.
“It feels…like I’ve experienced sothing similar sowhere before…”
——Unwilling…I absolutely cannot forget…
“Ha, ‘Among any three people, there is always sothing I can learn’…even scum have sothing worth learning from…”
Xiang Shan retrieved the cables from the storage compartnt behind him, then looked up at the Romance King, who was presumably brain-dead. Two magnetic chain weapons were still wrapped around him.
During his encounter with the Romance King, Xiang Shan had grasped most of the information about the opponent’s prosthetic body. He retracted the magnetic chain weapons, using the force to jump behind the Romance King, quickly inserting the data cables into the exposed interface due to the armor’s damage.
But at this mont, the fatigue was even stronger.
——No, I can’t sleep…
In his final monts, Xiang Shan invoked all the curses he had at his disposal. He had almost lost his judgnt, operating his Inner Strength purely on instinct.
The data that Tuoba Xuanyuan Fourteen last gave him played an unexpected role.
The data Ah Zero handed to Tuoba contained the latest three curses, one of which had not yet been repaired on the Romance King.
Xiang Shan successfully escalated his authority.
Zhuan Leibin’s prosthetic body stopped its blind attacks. Xiang Shan manipulated Zhuan Leibin’s prosthetic body to deliver a palm strike to his own chest.
In Xiang Shan’s final struggle, he attempted to see if he could control this intact prosthetic body to dismantle the reactor running amok.
Xiang Shan transmitted infrasound through the tal spine, which had a strong cell-structure annihilating function. Zhuan Leibin’s prosthetic body, with its high integrity and strong radiation resistance, retained all of its operational capabilities.
But, the drowsiness in his consciousness dragged Xiang Shan into the Abyss.
——Ahhh…I’m finished…
——Going down with Yawgmoth is a good outco, but with the scene frozen here, it looks like I’m going down with Zhuan Leibin, and I’m on the losing side…
——Ah, ghost, your advice is just to embarrass …
…………………………
At this instant, Hartman made a critical operational error.
Bai Man finally seized the opportunity, crossed the newly severed corridor, and shattered the drone in front of him. He finally rushed onto the bridge. Bai Man didn’t know where the attack had co from, but that single strike also took down the last Sky Warrior on the bridge. Bai Man raised the thermal axe he had just acquired, and swung it at the cylindrical object on the bridge.
The axe smoothly lted through the armor. However, Bai Man found himself confused.
This armor…it’s just a shell!
King Aqini had just relocated!
Indeed, upon realizing Zhu Xinyu’s intentions, King Aqini decisively chose to relocate. At the sa ti, he gave up the encirclent and slaughter of Bai Man. Compared to Zhu Xinyu, Bai Man was insignificant.
King Aqini left only the shell on the bridge, while his main body, carrying so components, went through a reserved passage below the bridge and landed in his exclusive vehicle.
He locked onto Zhu Xinyu’s position.
On two different warships, three Martial Artists had just recovered from a montary daze. They hadn’t even realized what had happened and were relieved that their lapse hadn’t been noticed.
Then, they were imdiately pinned down.
King Aqini forcefully controlled the surrounding Martial Artists, twisted their necks, directly pulling out their spines, along with the entire processor.
He quickly created virtual machines in the servers of the two warships, read the devices just extracted from the bodies, and backed them up into the virtual machine within himself.
——Strange…where exactly is this…
——Signs of log tampering…
——Who exactly are these three people? They surely aren’t that Zhu guy. But this Inner Strength…disciples? No, even if they were disciples, their styles wouldn’t be so closely aligned…
King Aqini re-examined the data he copied, quickly checking all the unfamiliar code.
——Unseen components…unseen tools…this is…
King Aqini felt he had found a clue about Zhu Xinyu’s whereabouts.
The Planet Suppression Fleet’s Svalbard Corps was not King Aqini’s fleet, but Romance King’s fleet.
This fleet was usually stationed on Venus, guarding the safety of the Human Gene Bank itself.
King Aqini rarely interacted with this military force; hence their network security wasn’t tight.
Probably before the war started, Zhu Xinyu had unknowingly infiltrated considerable power into it.
However, the working principles of these components…
King Aqini had a feeling. He felt that he might be able to solve a mystery that had troubled him for many years.
That was eighty years ago.
He had once conveniently handled a data theft incident on Mars. He initially thought it was done by Zhu Xinyu, but in the end, he pinpointed the Eighth Martial God on Earth. However…
Neither Zhu Xinyu, suspected to be in the Jupiter Domain, nor the Eighth Martial God on Earth should have shown the swiftness they did in that encounter.
As long as he could decipher the opponent’s thods, he could uncover the truth of that incident.
At the sa ti, he could also find Zhu Xinyu’s traces in the network world.
Compared to this, perhaps Earth is not that significant at all.
—That’s right, even if there’s a full defeat here, as long as we win back on another battlefield…
Having figured this out, Jakub Hartman hesitated no longer and imdiately started his vehicle. The warplane transford into a stream of light, directly departing from the battlefield.
……………..
Bai Man didn’t stay long on the warship. He found a set of external flying equipnt in the armory and imdiately turned to enter the universe.
The devastation outside was beyond imagination. The entire fleet was in a miserable state. With King Aqini’s departure, the Svalbard Corps lost command and were entangled in battle with the remaining Heroes.
Bai Man received a signal from Niyaguti. He found Niyaguti.
“Hurry up, we need to get Xiang Shan back, hopefully, we’re not too late…”
Niyaguti said, asking Bai Man to take her to the edge of the control theory remains.
Bai Man crossed the massive dragon head. Just like a mythical beast, the steel construct was so ferocious, seemingly invincible just tens of minutes ago. However, now, the broken dragon head could only float in the universe, continuously hit by space debris.
Bai Man detected the violent nuclear radiation from ten ters away.
From the data, he instantly understood sothing.
“Fission pile… The Martial God, is this…”
Could the secret to killing the Romance King with a remnant body be this?
Even seeing it with his own eyes, Bai Man still found it absurd. He couldn’t understand how this could be possible.
Niyaguti said: “Throw over, throw to Zhu Anlei Bin’s back. Then you retreat imdiately and go support others.”
Bai Man continued to approach: “No need, I can directly…”
“Xiang Shan could force Zhu Anlei Bin to abandon most non-kinetic weapons, likely by pushing the reactor to a state infinitely close to critical…,” Niyaguti said, “You are now the most intact First Heavenly Layer warrior on our side. Whether you join the battle now or return to Earth imdiately, it can significantly impact the situation. This risk shouldn’t be yours to take. I don’t need an assistant for this, just throw over. This is the Martial Chief’s order.”
Bai Man hesitated for a mont, then nodded: “I understand.”
After throwing Niyaguti over, Bai Man turned and ran towards another battlefield.
Niyaguti hooked one arm around Zhu Anlei Bin’s shoulder, then took advantage of the montum to grab Xiang Shan’s cable, pulling Xiang Shan’s end away from him and connecting it to herself.
In performing this step, he quickly dodged to the back of Zhu Anlei Bin’s prosthetic body, using it to shield himself from Xiang Shan. The neutron deceleration chanism and superconducting fra of this prosthetic body could block radiation damage to the greatest extent.
Xiang Shan’s last attack lifted Zhu Anlei Bin’s firewall. Niyaguti successfully completed the takeover. Zhu Anlei Bin’s prosthetic eye on the front also showed noise. Niyaguti dared not hesitate, imdiately tearing off Xiang Shan’s chest armor, exposing the burning interior.
Xiang Shan’s prosthetic body torso was already in a ss, the high temperature even causing so parts to start lting. The reactor’s magnetic confinent device could fail any ti due to the high temperature, at which point the reactor would instantaneously lt down. If the fission fuel was improperly controlled and touched, exceeding the critical volu, Zhu Anlei Bin’s prosthetic body along with Niyaguti would both beco a beam of light in the sky.
Niyaguti controlled Zhu Anlei Bin’s prosthetic body, grasping the reactor nearing out-of-control. The arm armor emitted an unusual sound, seemingly slightly deford by the high temperature. Niyaguti unplugged the reactor, then together with the cable, wound it around the flying wing separated from Zhu Anlei Bin’s body. Niyaguti commanded this flying wing to fly towards the remaining carrier.
After losing command, the Svalbard Corps was already in chaos. The friend or foe identification code of Zhu Anlei Bin’s prosthetic body components had extrely high authority, so much so that no one noticed this out-of-control reactor at all.
The nuclear explosion’s light flared one last ti in space. Probably done by so Hero.
Each First Heavenly Layer warrior possesses the ability to ignite a chain reaction using a neutron flow.
About thirty minutes later, Yang Zhenhao arrived at the battlefield.
………………………..
About thirty minutes later, Zhu Xinyu finally understood the cause and effect of the situation.
“What have you done…” Zhu Xinyu murmured to herself, “No, what have I done…”
She covered her eyes, trying to wipe away non-existent tears like she did in her childhood.
“What on earth have I done…”
“How could I have let Hartman realize it…”
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