Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu! Hiu!
The air between the two of them seemed to have turned into visible sabers, spears, swords, and spears that were shrieking and colliding.
The afterimages in the air also rippled out ripples that cut through the skin and spread in all directions.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them had dodged, moved, and changed their positions and postures a hundred times, but they seemed to be two motionless statues.
If somebody had been standing between them, they would've been cut into thousands of pieces the size of fingernails.
Chu Zhixiao's fingertips that seemed to be dangling casually next to his legs were condensed and dripped in deafening noises in the silence.
A wound so deep that his bones could be seen appeared on Yun Haixin's cheek, but the wound was soon sealed by the wriggling black fog, making him even more hideous and creepy.
"Stop, Black Dream. I don't want to fight you. We have no reason to fight at all!"
Looking at the blood on his fingertips, Chu Zhixiao narrowed his eyes and said solemnly.
"Reason to fight?"
Yun Haixin smiled. "Then, Major, what is the reason that has supported you to keep fighting and killing in the past few decades of your life? Is the Ultimate Benevolence Masters' lies the reason to fight?
"Admit it. We are nothing more than beings of a higher level. It doesn't matter whether we are called 'gods', 'devils', 'destiny', or 'Heavenly Law'. We are merely playthings under our control. Continuous battles are the only meaning of our existence. Whether we have a reason or not, what should we do other than fighting? Where can we find a way out for ourselves?
"So, there's no need to waste time. Fight, kill, and dance crazily like a puppet that has been fully wound!"
In his desperate laughter, Yun Haixin charged forward in a weird way again.
His steps were truly like that of a broken puppet. His zigzagging dance was neither fast nor intimidating.
However, Li Yao sensed that thick ripples were spreading out from his brain nonstop, turning the space around into a swamp that interfered with the soul.
"Black Dream" Yun Haixin was an experienced Meditation Healer and an expert in mental battles. His expertise was the same as the Puppet King's: creating illusions and attacking illusions.
Moreover, he also had the support of the Puppet King, which increased his ability to create illusions by ten times. Even Chu Zhixiao, who was on full alert, couldn't help but fall for it.
Faced with the seemingly easy dance steps, Chu Zhixiao looked confused and confused. There was no telling whether it was because his words had hit the mental wall, or because he was entangled by the illusions again.
Whoosh whoosh! Swish! Swish! "
The two of them turned into streaks of light and swapped positions dozens of times. The air ripples between them were sharp enough to tear apart the Crystal Suit. This time, it wasn't just Chu Zhixiao. Even Yun Haixin's fingertips were stained with blood.
It was Chu Zhixiao's blood, of course.
Chu Zhixiao snorted coldly, and a sharp dagger appeared in his hand again.
"That's more like it. That's more like it, my major!"
Yun Haixin laughed crazily as if he were drunk. "I've been meaning to fight you for a long time without any interference. I want to see how strong the 'Goddess of Slaughter', one of the legendary ultimate weapons of the Holy League in terms of individual combat ability, is! It doesn't seem too bad to be killed by your saber. Haha. Come on, major. Kill me! "
The two members of the yaksha squad turned into two streaks of brilliance that were entangled with each other again.
The soul ripples that they triggered were enough to collapse the entire skyscraper.
The frenzied roars outside were getting louder and louder, as well as earth-shattering explosions. It seemed that the cabin walls around 'Guang Ming City' had been breached by the infuriated people. The people swarmed out like a tide, devouring one cabin after another along the corridors as they attacked the bridge.
Li Yao's soul cursed almost a hundred profanities in a row.
If every profanity was a bullet, Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets, would've been shot into a beehive.
"Calm down. Calm down. We have to find a way to stop the riot. No matter how evil the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the King of Puppets are, the residents of the City of Light are innocent. We have to do everything possible to minimize the losses!
"Yun Haixin … Yun Haixin is an Immortal Cultivator, but his wife and children are innocent, too. I wonder if they are still alive. Maybe we can save them and help them create a future that is entirely different from the King of Puppets' brain-in-a-vat future!
"Those Ultimate Benevolence Masters are all pigs. They didn't notice that Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets, was involved in such a great scheme. Now, they are asking me, a Cultivator from the edge of the cosmos, to clean up their mess after such a long journey? I am truly a great man! "
Li Yao's soul was in a mess.
He did not know how to stop the fierce battle between Chu Zhixiao and Yun Haixin anymore.
However, on second thought, a bolt of lightning exploded in the sky above his Divine Soul Sea, illuminating his thoughts with a dazzling brightness.
"Wait. The King of Puppets' purpose is naturally not for Chu Zhixiao and Yun Haixin to attack each other, but for them to exhaust each other's souls and break their mental defense so that the King of Puppets can further corrupt and analyze them.
"That is to say, the King of Puppets' mental power, soul tentacles, telepathic thoughts, and other things must be lurking nearby, ready to break in at any moment, right?
"As long as we follow the clues, won't it be possible for us to find his real body through the … soul tentacles?
"Yes, the King of Puppets. Lu Qingchen does not have a real body, but his soul must be attached to a certain super crystal processor in order to trigger enough strength. As long as the super crystal processor is destroyed, more than 90% of the King of Puppets' strength will be weakened. If we are lucky, we can even seal him inside … the debris of the crystal processor!
"If the source of the King of Puppets is cut off, Yun Haixin will not be controlled so easily. The chaos in Light City will be resolved, too. At the very least, it will be peaceful for now. We will have more time until the reinforcements from the Imperium and the Federation arrive!"
After figuring everything out, Li Yao was refreshed. He expanded the range of his soul scanning, not letting go of any waves in the air.
The spider tank, on the other hand, pretended that the mainframe crystal processor had been seriously compromised and was gradually losing control. Its six limbs were cramping nonstop while it retreated.
It was an out-and-out case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets, did not seem to realize that Li Yao's soul was so close to him at all.
His soul power had locked onto Chu Zhixiao and Yun Haixin, preparing to corrupt their brains when their battle reached the fiercest moment.
His concentration, however, inevitably revealed flaws in the eyes of Li Yao, a bystander.
"Gotcha!"
Very soon, in Li Yao's scanning, two sets of unusual data that were deeply hidden in the ever-changing digital world popped up.
They were like two giant snakes that had been lurking in a swamp. As the ripples spread out and changed, they revealed their hideous traces.
Li Yao observed the battle again.
Chu Zhixiao was slightly stronger than Yun Haixin, but she did not seem to have any fighting will. She did not even put on the Crystal Suit. She was simply dealing with Yun Haixin's crazy attacks in a daze.
Yun Haixin, on the other hand, was not trying to accomplish the King of Puppets' mission. It was more accurate to say that he was seeking death and was trying to end his painful life with Chu Zhixiao's dagger.
It seemed that, as long as Chu Zhixiao did not kill him ruthlessly, the two experts who were destined to be 'experimental subjects' would be able to stall for a while longer.
That would be enough!
Li Yao made up his mind. He crawled back a few steps, sneaked into the shadows, and jumped out of the abandoned building.
He could faintly 'see' that the two strings of unusual data were like two faint black marks. They zigzagged in the air and spread all the way to the depths of Guangming City.
"After hiding for so long, I'm finally going to show myself. Let's see where you can run to this time!"
Li Yao muttered to himself. He spread out his six limbs, spun the wheels to the limit, and rushed toward the source of the black marks.
Along the way, there were not many angry citizens in the streets and alleys.
This was because most of the citizens had rushed toward the gap in the wall, trying to escape from this man-made 'paradise'.
However, the blood and corpses on the ground still silently told the cruelty of the riot.
There were also some people who could not bear the 'truth'. Even under the stimulation of the 'Fury Virus', they still had a complete mental breakdown. They cried like children and went completely crazy. They turned Guangming City into a burning mental hospital.
Such a scene filled Li Yao's heart with fury that he did not know whom he should vent his fury on.
Who caused such a tragedy? Who should he blame? The Ultimate Benevolence Masters, the King of Puppets, or the existence behind the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the King of Puppets, named 'gods', 'devils', 'destiny', and 'heavenly law', as Yun Haixin said?
Li Yao did not know.
He only wanted to do his best to capture the King of Puppets and stop the tragedy before his eyes from getting worse!
"Calm down. Don't be rash."
The mental devil's cold voice brushed Li Yao's soul again. "Even if you can capture the King of Puppets, how are you going to stop the tragedy from happening? It must be noted that the same tragedy is not just happening on Eternal Light but on all the experiment starships, all the starships of the Holy League, and even the Holy League and the Imperium at the same time!
"Perhaps, Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets, did not have a wrong idea. Since the real world is so evil and ugly, what's wrong with creating an illusion of eternal tranquility and happiness?
"As for Yun Haixin's question, how should we choose the false paradise and the real hell? I don't think the answer is difficult, is it? "
"The real hell and the illusionary paradise?"
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