Looking at the sky from the devastated, bloody, and ragged Land of Sins, A Boxing Champion seemed to have broken through the horizon and surpassed Manjusaka, the City in the Sky.
At this moment, time seemed to have frozen. All the sinners, both on the attackers' side and the defenders' side, stared at the sky in bewilderment.
For hundreds of years, no sinner had ever broken through the sky by force.
It was needless to say that they were going to sully Manjusaka, the high, high, pure, and immaculate City in the Sky with their filthy, hideous bodies.
Furious fire was burning in the throats and chests of all the sinners. They suddenly had an uncontrollable urge.
Even the thugs and bandits who were on the leader of Liberty City's side were deeply awed by A Boxing Champion's dominance. They could not help but roar in their hearts, Break through it! Break through the sky! Break through Manjusaka!
However …
Time was frozen for only half a second. From the Heavenly Rails and Manjusaka, hundreds of crimson pillars of light darted out and interweaved into an overwhelming net, enshrouding A Boxing Champion entirely!
The destructive net of mystic rays, however, seemed to boast high tenacity. It was deeply embedded into A Boxing Champion's iron body but did not completely stop him from moving upward.
It gave everybody on the ground the illusion that the Fist King would've been able to touch the legendary Manjusaka if he had been tougher, and he would've left the filthy and bloody marks of the sinners on the glorious and sacred shell.
However, hardly had such an idea popped up in the sinners' hearts when the brightness of the net of light suddenly increased to a higher level. A Boxing Champion was minced into the most dazzling fireball in the blink of an eye.
Just like all the disobedient brutal men who were bold enough to challenge the sky in the past hundreds of years, 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie was suppressed by the sky!
The fireball was raging, as if it were still charging at the sky full of regret and fury. But it could not defeat the blockage of the sky and the restraint of gravity after all and fell helplessly.
The iron fist wearing the crown perished after all.
…
Sighs, cries, and growls came from the ground.
Inside Manjusaka, the City in the Sky, however, there was nothing but casual laughter and restrained applause. The honorable guests who had come from afar congratulated and appreciated the great show that the owner of the place had gone through all the trouble to arrange.
"It's not as strong as I expected!"
Wuying Lan smiled and raised his cup to the honorable guests. Then, he turned around and said to Luo Tiansheng in a low voice, "As it turns out, he is a good-looking but useless guy. He was suppressed so easily. We were quite alarmed."
"That is the fatal shortcoming of the automatic learning and upgrading spiritual puppets."
Luo Tiansheng said, "The direction of their independent evolution is highly uncontrollable, and they often fall into the traps of very rudimentary modifications. For example, the Fist King's modification of his original body into such an enormous and clumsy one was actually unnecessary. Perhaps in his thinking logic, 'big' equals' strong '.
"All in all, its performance is not bad. After all, it is an 'unorthodox method' that it figured out on its own in the Land of Sins. If it is sent to our laboratory for further study and debugging, it should have even more shocking performances."
"Huh. It does look quite eye-catching."
Wuying Lan smiled. "The audience's reaction was very intense, especially the last picture where they charged at Manjusaka. It was very bold. Perhaps we should craft more super-enormous puppets and monsters of the same type in the future and help them come up with some blood-boiling, idiotic slogans. Only in such a way can the players, tourists, and audience enjoy themselves and watch to their heart's content.
"Now, let the Madmen Squad enter his remains, find his core crystal processor, and bring it back to the City in the Sky. Then, let's enter the next phase, 'Great Chaotic Battle'."
…
The enormous, burning remains hit the ground heavily. The fire almost covered half of Liberty City.
The squad of Exos that looked like mechanical insects slowly landed. Most of the members were patrolling around A Boxing Champion's mountain-like remains on alert.
Two Exos that looked like mantises and spiders crawled into the exploding fireballs. Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
The structural design of Great Iron City quickly popped up in front of their eyes, allowing them to lock onto the control center that was on the brink of collapse very soon.
As they expected, in the middle of the fire and smoke in the control center, a crystal processor core that was smaller than an apple and seemed to be carved out of diamonds was hovering. It was vaguely emitting a daunting aura.
Seeing that the two insect Exos had shown up, the crystal processor core seemed to be unpredictable and trying to escape into the remains.
"This is it."
"Ha. You want to escape? I find it hilarious every time I see the dying struggles of those things."
The Immortal Cultivator in the mantis battlesuit grinned hideously and opened his hands. Electric arcs flowed inside his palm and condensed into a powerful electromagnetic field, attracting the crystal processor core.
The crystal processor core revolved crazily in midair, trying to resist, but it was too feeble to resist the attraction of the enemy at all.
Right then, the Immortal Cultivator in the mantis battlesuit suddenly felt that a thunderbolt was exploding inside his head. His pupils constricted to the minimum!
Something was not right!
Communication!
The communication between them and Manjusaka — no, even the tactical channel between them and their companions outside of the remains had been heavily jammed and completely cut off at some point!
"Kacha kacha, kacha kacha!"
It was the sound of tracks crushing the remains.
The elite Exo of the madmen squad suddenly saw an unbelievable scene.
A square-headed, heavy, and clumsy tracked spiritual puppet crawled out of the twisted space deep inside the debris.
"This is …"
The mantis Exo was greatly stunned and couldn't believe his eyes.
How could a spiritual puppet fall from the atmosphere and remain intact?
Before he figured out the question, he felt a stinging pain in the back of his head and an itch at the center of his eyebrow.
Then, he saw a bloody dart or flying sword appear in front of his eyes out of nowhere.
In a daze, he realized that the thing seemed to have drilled into his brain from the back and crawled out from the center of his eyebrows.
He wanted to shout, but he could not make any sound. He managed to turn his eyes and search for his companions, only to discover that his companions had been stripped of their Crystal Suit at some point. Their bodies had been cut in half evenly and thrown to two corners dozens of meters away from each other.
"How is it possible?"
Before his self-awareness completely fell into darkness, the mantis Exo stared at the weird star on the front of the tracked spiritual puppet in a daze and moaned in confusion.
…
The brain circuits were reconnected.
The database was copied and condensed again.
From the fundamental architecture to the operational logic, infinite algorithms were colliding and combining, establishing a glittering, magnificent building from the void.
A Boxing Champion was rebooted.
It scanned the environment quickly, only to discover that it was in a sealed space that was filled with stinky gas and thick mud. Intense explosions and quakes were echoing from above.
Its core crystal processor was connected to three small ancillary crystal processors before it was embedded in the body of a skinny spiritual machine.
Judging from the different materials of the hands and feet, it should be a piece of garbage that had been jumbled up temporarily.
However, the way of connection and assembly was surprisingly comfortable. It was even more advanced than its own technology. No, much more advanced.
It warmed up its fingers slowly. Its body was made of iron, but it was as smooth as silk and as greasy as cheese. It was truly an incredible assembly technology.
It sensed that two clusters of objects that were releasing infrared rays incessantly in the cold mud were the two little guys that human beings had 'dined' together last night.
There was also a tracked spiritual puppet of its own kind.
"Master A Boxing Champion is awake!"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze cheered at the same time.
"Where am I?"
A Boxing Champion tried to control the brand-new sounding rune arrays. "Did you save me?"
"This is a certain abandoned sewage tube below Liberty City."
With everything coming to this point, there was no need to keep it a secret anymore. Li Yao said, "I saved you and helped you change a brand-new body by the way. There are no suitable tools or materials here. I can only make do with some random garbage. Please don't mind."
"A body assembled from scrap metal?"
A Boxing Champion was silent for a moment. Then he continued warming up his brand-new body and punched fiercely again and again, before he said, "However, the interface of my core crystal processor should be incompatible with other crystal processors. How did you solve the problem?"
"Well. Is that a question?"
Li Yao did not know how to explain it. "I made a random converter and connected it."
A Boxing Champion seemed to be not used to Li Yao's real way of talking. He was dazed for a moment before he asked again, "How long have I been hibernating? What's the situation outside?"
"About two to three hours," Li Yao said.
"It's quite lively outside. 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie and 'Leader of Liberty City' Xiahou Wuxin have both been killed. Right now, Liberty City has become a 'masterless city'. Whoever has the biggest fist will be the new master of Liberty City. At the very least, that's what all the bandits and thugs think and do.
"They are fighting fiercely up there. The weird guys who claim to be assassins and mercenaries from the Valley of Thorns are also fanning the flames. The situation is completely out of control. I don't think that they will stop until more than half of them are dead, right?
"Since it is so chaotic up there, we can take advantage of the chaos and take a rest in this place for us to figure out what we should do next.
"But first of all, I want to know who you are exactly. Or rather, are you a human being at all?"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze were greatly surprised. They looked at A Boxing Champion in surprise.
A Boxing Champion, on the other hand, thought for a moment and nodded frankly. "Of course I am not a human being. I am your kind, a kind of artificial intelligence."
"What!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze exclaimed in shock. They looked at Li Yao and A Boxing Champion suspiciously.
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