His soul was deeply entangled with Fuxi's database. Li Yao could clearly sense that Fuxi's tentacles invaded the Gold Crystal Pyramid through the Spiritual Nexus like threads of light, piercing into Xiaoming and Wenwen's bodies mercilessly, as well as the crystal processors that were controlled by them.
It was like a poisonous snake injecting fatal venom into the blood vessels of its prey, reaching the central nervous system and internal organs.
The super crystal processors around exploded, burned, and perished one after another, leaving empty shells that looked like skulls.
The spiritual puppets that were responsible for guarding the Gold Crystal Pyramid were also under Fuxi's control. They were either completely paralyzed after the dazzling electric arcs or "betrayed" Fuxi and attacked the spiritual puppets that were still loyal to Xiaoming and Wenwen.
The whole Gold Crystal Pyramid was in a mess. The thousands of runes carved on the surface were emitting rapid and pale brilliance, as if Fuxi were laughing hideously.
Xiaoming's and Wenwen's chests rose and fell quickly. Their eyeballs that were hidden below their eyelids were rolling quickly. At first, only a stream of blood flowed out of their mouths, but later, large blood clots spurted out of their throats.
Their tiny limbs were all reaching out of the neural interaction fluid as if they were drowning people trying their best to grab a non-existent life-saving straw. They were also like people who were deeply trapped in nightmares, trying their best to escape from the endless cycle of nightmares.
"No!"
Li Yao could see that Li was angry and heartbroken.
He knew that these two tiny bodies of flesh and blood were only two of the thousands of bodies that Xiaoming and Wenwen could control. Even if these two bodies died, it didn't mean that Xiaoming and Wenwen would die.
However, when he saw the two little girls fall into such a dangerous and painful situation in front of his eyes, he still felt a deep, deep pain, guilt, self-blame, and crazy anger.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Li Yao roared, "Stop! Don't touch them, you bastard!"
"Hehe, you also know that they are the central nervous system of the entire defense line of the Imperial Capital, right?"
Fuxi was still smiling casually. "What do you think I've been doing after consuming so many computational abilities and strategic assets in the past few days? Am I trying to crush the Imperium's army militarily and occupy the capital?
"No. The capital is a solid fortress that the Imperium of True Human Beings has built after a thousand years and infinite resources at the center of the cosmos. Even if the orbit is under control, it is impossible to completely clear all the military bases and shelters above and below the ground in only several years. The idea of conquering the capital by force is too simple and crude.
"The capital of the Imperium should've been hard to fall. It's a shame that the civilization of mankind today has embarked on the same path as the Pangu civilization in the past and entered the age of comprehensive information. The entire society, including the military system, is controlled by crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus.
"As long as we hack and sabotage your crystal processors, even the most impregnable defense line will be obliterated in one second.
"Without the locking of the crystal processors, however impenetrable your ground-based air defense system is, it will be impossible for you to lock onto the invaders with naked eyes and manual operations.
"Without the control of the crystal processors, the enormous air circulation and purification system below the ground will be paralyzed, and the underground locals will not be supplied with any oxygen. The more people escape below the ground, the more oxygen they will consume, and the faster they will die!
"Without the connection of the Spiritual Nexus and the command chain, your starships will not know where they are, what is going on in the entire battle line, and how many allies are around them. They will think that they are the last lone starship in the universe and that they can only run around like headless flies. Will they have any combat ability at all?
"Right, you have deployed a lot of battle puppets and drones in the sky and on the ground. Those things are all controlled by the crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus. What if the orders they receive are not from the command center in the capital but from my 'Ultimate Salvation'?
"Therefore, since the beginning of the war, I have been looking for the central nervous system of the entire Spiritual Nexus that is hidden deep inside the capital planet. The only reason why I launched the tide-like attack without caring about the cost was that I would impose great pressure on the battle network of the Imperium so that the central nervous system would exhaust its computational ability and be exposed more easily.
"I had expected that I would be able to find and hack it after three days of bombardment at most. I did not expect that the two cunning little things would not surface until ten days later. I was wondering what went wrong with my deduction, but it did not occur to me that they would be such a unique life form that is very similar to me, Lu Qingchen, and you right now. So, you are all from the Xing Yao Federation? No wonder I did not expect it."
While Fuxi was talking, the speed of his invasion did not slow down at all. Li Yao could even see glittering threads of light entangling Xiaoming and Wenwen like nets before they crawled into their brains through their orifices.
"The Xing Yao Federation is truly an interesting place. It is obviously a remote, remote place in the middle of the universe, but it has produced so many marvelous life forms. It seems that after I completely integrate the resources at the center of the cosmos, I will have to pay a visit there and look for more possibilities for the development of a civilization."
Fuxi's voice was as calm as a scalpel. "What's wrong with the two little fellows? Were they created by Lu Qingchen? Or that … Professor Mo Xuan? They did not seem to exist in Lu Qingchen's memory pieces. Were they born not long ago? If so, their potential was truly infinite!
"You seem to be very angry. So to speak, the two little fellows are very much related to you. Can you tell me the secrets about them?"
Before Li Yao replied, the 'barrier' between reality and the virtual world seemed to have been smashed by something brutally. Li Yao 'saw' that Fuxi's thousands of threads of light that pierced into Xiaoming and Wenwen's bodies pulled out two translucent, glittering clusters of light from the two little fellows' bodies and dragged them into Ultimate Salvation through the entire Spiritual Nexus!
Fuxi had swallowed the core data of Xiaoming and Wenwen in an unbelievable way!
"Forget it."
Fuxi smiled. "Let me digest and absorb them on my own and integrate all their data into my database so that I can study them on my own."
Li Yao saw that, in the absolute darkness, Xiaoming and Wenwen were caged in two impenetrable crystal shells like ignorant fetuses. They were connected to the enormous light cluster that represented Fuxi's core of thinking through the threads of light that looked like nerves and veins.
Fuxi was injecting something into the two little fellows inside the crystal shells through the threads of light and taking something from the two little fellows' bodies.
The two little fellows' previously pure and flawless bodies were enshrouded in colorful streams of data under Fuxi's swallowing and digesting. They were like haze that blocked the blue sky and the white clouds, or a carpet of flesh-eating fungi that gnawed the fresh lives nonstop.
As Fuxi invaded, swallowed, and digested them, the two little fellows were closer and closer to him. They were about to be completely controlled, like asteroids that had crossed a tipping point and fallen into a black hole that could never be pulled back.
The two little fellows were still asleep, or rather, suppressed by Fuxi and mired in nightmares, unable to free themselves. Only the pitiful resistance on their faces made Li Yao even more indescribable fury surging out of the depths of his soul.
"Let go of them."
Li Yao felt that he had turned into a crystal bomb that was expanding nonstop. He suddenly had the idea of dying together with Fuxi. He roared hysterically, "I told you to let go of them. Let go of them!"
"How rare. Your fury index is beyond the limits of human fury that I collected in the laboratory of human nature for a thousand years."
Fuxi was slightly surprised, but then he smiled again. "But what's the point? The so-called emotions and desires are just a combination of data and bioelectricity. Without the enhancement of absolute strength, even the most violent fury will be reduced to nothingness.
"Right now, the pivot of the Spiritual Nexus in the capital has been taken over by me, and the battle in the capital is coming to an end. I can spare 90% of my computational ability to completely swallow you. How can a lone ghost like you and the two 'babies' who haven't developed their full potential compete with me?
"Therefore, abandon your meaningless fury and resistance and watch me finish everything obediently. It will be your turn next. You can be reunited in my mind as part of me."
While Fuxi was talking, devastating electric arcs were flashing deep inside the light cluster again.
Li Yao felt that the 'density' of the darkness was dozens of times, a hundred times, a thousand times, and ten thousand times more!
He was truly like an empty can that had been thrown into the deep ocean and crushed into a ball that barely existed by the pressure of the seawater.
He was more like a mosquito, an insignificant ant, that had been enshrouded in a large cluster of amber and had spent billions of years in suffocation without being able to escape.
When the pressure was raised to the extreme, it became as if there was no pressure at all. He was just an ordinary speck of dust floating in the vast and boundless universe. In the face of the unpredictable Heavenly Dao, he could do nothing but go with the flow.
However …
However …
However …
Even if he was really an ant, a speck of dust, and an insignificant existence compared to the Heavenly Path and the universe, as a father, how could he watch his child being swallowed alive in such a cruel way while doing nothing?
"I! Shout! You! Stop! Hand! "
"Crack!"
Li Yao felt that a seal that had been sealed for billions of years and lightyears in the deepest part of his soul was completely broken.
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