"… You're out of your mind!"
A Boxing Champion's crystal processor seemed to be beeping in the communication channel. He immediately understood Li Yao's plan. "You're going to break through the stone belts and invade the gravity circle of the ancient giant planet to save us with your Colossus? That's impossible. Iron Fist is too massive for your Colossus to push. It won't work even if you're using 'Arsonist', the toughest Colossus in the Pangu universe. You will only exhaust the fuel of the Colossus and damage the structure of the Colossus. Then, you will be swallowed by the ancient giant planet together with us.
"Besides, the structure of Iron Fist is too fragile. If your 'Arsonist' only exerts a thrust in one direction, not only will it be impossible to push us out of the gravity circle, it will also further damage the structure of Iron Fist and make us disintegrate in advance!
"Therefore, all the specialists and scholars here appreciate your kindness, but there's no need to do such a meaningless thing and die together with Iron Fist. It's not necessary!"
"Why are you so pessimistic? In the war against the universe, every bit of our efforts will not be meaningless!"
Li Yao smiled. He pressed his hands on the armrests and leaned against the back of the chair, activating the mechanism hidden inside the chair. Immediately, the chair shivered slightly and turned into a floating platform. It slid all the way to the maintenance workshop of the Colossus, allowing him to enter the spiritual residence of 'Arsonist' directly.
"Little Black", the liquid crystal processor dedicated to the Colossus, enshrouded him as naturally as a fish breathing in water. Li Yao completed the transition from a starship to a Colossus. He connected to A Boxing Champion's channel again and continued, "One 'Arsonist' is certainly not enough to save Iron Fist. However, if dozens of Colossi are deployed, some of them will appear in certain locations on the shell of Iron Fist as the auxiliary power units according to my delicate calculations, while some of the other Colossi will be responsible for blocking the rushing meteoroids in the stone belts and creating a vacuum without any interference temporarily. Then, there will be a slim chance that Iron Fist will be pulled back!
"Such a possibility is too slim. How many users of the Colossi will agree with your crazy move?"
A Boxing Champion's voice was filled with suspicion and objection. "Besides, the interference is so strong right now. Have you already reached out to all the starships and built an unimpeded battle network? If you can win the consent of a hundred Colossi pilots, will the experts, especially the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium of True Human Beings, agree with your crazy move? "
"Uh, I think so."
Li Yao scratched his nose. "All in all, I've sent out the distress signal and the description of the situation. The interference is indeed a bit intense, so the battle network will be slightly delayed. I believe that the pilots of the Colossi, be they Cultivators or Immortal Cultivators, will come to help in a few minutes, won't they?"
"What?!"
A Boxing Champion was in disbelief. "So you're saying that you haven't even gotten anyone's agreement or tacit understanding. You don't even know if there will be anyone willing to fight alongside you. Are you going to stake everything on this one throw? You're a lunatic, a complete lunatic! "
"We're the same."
Li Yao mumbled, "Like you said, A Boxing Champion, I'm willing to risk my life for you. In any case, I simply cannot watch the … real elites of the civilization of mankind perish in the gravitational swirl of the ancient giant planet!"
Chi! Chi! Chi!
The three airtight gates were opened one after another. Before they were opened, the Colossus Arsonist had already been set on fire and jumped into the violent sea of stars!
"Don't come here, Li Yao!"
A Boxing Champion roared, "You can't save us. It's not worth it!"
"I don't care if it's worth it or not when I do things. I'm already here! "
Arsonist turned into a streak of brightness that was dark gold and crimson, passing tens of thousands of kilometers in the blink of an eye and entering the highly unstable stone belt.
Almost ten thousand pieces of meteoroids rushed close, only to be shattered and obliterated by Li Yao's flames of spiritual energy that had been boosted to the maximum. A crimson cloak that was tens of thousands of kilometers long seemed to be behind Arsonist. It couldn't have looked more intimidating.
As a result, he did not need to take the initiative to communicate. The friendly starships far away could detect the highly abnormal energy reactions in the stone belt and perceive his intentions.
"Do you know why I've been too lazy to compete with other people and why I've been avoiding the challenges of Yuanying and even the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators whenever I can?"
Inside Arsonist, Li Yao laughed in the most arrogant way.
Every smile on his lips seemed to have turned into a saber aura that the Colossus slashed out.
Everything that stood in his way, be it the meteoroids and iron dozens of meters in diameter, the high-energy particles and the powerful radiation, or even the electric arcs spurting out of the atmosphere of the ancient giant, was slashed into smithereens by him.
"It's not that I underestimate the heroes of the world, and it's not that I'm confident that I can deal with a hundred Yuanying and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators at the same time. It's just that, after walking such a long path of training, I'm no longer interested in fighting my compatriots, human beings, at all! Even if I defeat all human beings and become the strongest of them, so what? In front of the boundless universe, I'm still a grain of dust, the largest and most meaningless grain of dust!
"Human beings are no longer my target.
"The universe is my enemy.
"Fighting the universe is a great pleasure. I'm not just here to rescue you. I'm also waging a war against this silly behemoth, the 'ancient giant'.
"Come on, ancient giant. Bring out all your abilities and release your most powerful gravity. Let's see if you are capable of swallowing me, or if I can take 'Iron Fist' back from right under your nose!"
Li Yao laughed crazily. The 'cape' on his back seemed to have turned into a red tassel of a javelin. Fearless, he darted at Iron Fist, which was struggling to hold on, at the gravity circle and even the atmosphere of the ancient giant. Chi!
Chi! Chi!
Chi! Chi!
Chi! Chi!
Chi! The closer he was to the ancient giant, the more chaotic the magnetic field was, and the more intense the interference of spiritual energy was. Tremendous high-energy particles that were invisible to the naked eye even penetrated through the spiritual shield and the composite armor of Arsonist. They even penetrated through Little Black and pierced Li Yao's skin, muscles, and bones brutally.
Li Yao's ears were filled with the noises and the metal fatigue of the Colossus. A lot of his cells were burnt up by the high-energy particles, and his exuberant vitality was stagnated.
But he still gritted his teeth and pushed forward against a super tornado.
Finally, above an ocean of lightning that was almost boiling, he saw 'Iron Fist'!
At this moment, Iron Fist was as appalling as a shark that had been skinned.
But at the very least, the main structure of the ship was more or less intact, and there was no large-scale spurting of materials and fuel. The few power spurts of the working medium on the abdomen and the tail were still spurting out lackluster flames.
Not far away below Iron Fist, from the surging methane clouds, thick bolts of lightning dashed out like the arms of devils. As if attracted by the spiritual shield and the spurts of spiritual energy on Iron Fist, they snatched Iron Fist brutally and brushed past the abdomen of Iron Fist at a very close distance.
"A Boxing Champion!"
Li Yao exclaimed and blocked the head of Iron Fist with Arsonist while he shot dozens of crystal cannons into the atmosphere of the ancient giant planet to delay the birth of a new thunderstorm.
Before A Boxing Champion replied, Arsonist had stuck to the head of Iron Fist that was falling hard. The output of the power units was boosted to the maximum, spurting out thousands of streaks of brilliance, trying to 'catch' Iron Fist and push it away by brute force!
Iron Fist was a very new arsenal warship. It was one of the largest and most massive warships in the entire exploration fleet. It was more than three kilometers long.
Arsonist, on the other hand, was no more than forty meters tall. The comparison was like an ant trying to lift an enormous bone.
After only several seconds, ominous explosions were echoing from Arsonist's joints, and the exhaust flames turned pale because of the excessive consumption of crystals. Its arms were deeply embedded into the head plate of Iron Fist.
"What are you doing exactly?"
A Boxing Champion almost wished that he could summon a hammer from his mechanical arm and extend it into the spiritual residence of Arsonist to knock Li Yao's head brutally. "This is not a battle but a suicide. Nobody will go crazy with you. Do you understand?"
"I … Of course I do!"
Inside Arsonist, Li Yao was resisting the gravity and electromagnetic tides of the ancient giant planet on his own. Blood was flowing out of his nostrils and his mouth, but the intense blood could not wipe away the confidence in his smile at all. "It's you. You don't understand it, A Boxing Champion.
"In the operation to explore the Supreme Emperor's mausoleum, we will certainly encounter countless situations that are even more perilous than what we are facing right now, as well as the irresistible temptations for any righteous person. As it happens, our team is made of three different forces. Although we have been trained, we are far from being united and tacit.
"If we abandon our comrades on a whole starship when we encounter the first obstacle after the jump, we will be screwed. Everybody will be lost. Nobody will come to the rescue of whoever is in danger in the future. Everybody will only be thinking about how to preserve themselves so that they can seize the most precious treasures of the Supreme Emperor, the Pangu, and the makers of the black wall!
"Do you understand it now? An adventure team made of smart people will not go far. Somebody has to play the role of a lunatic and an idiot first. They have to contribute without regrets and without asking for returns. You — the specialists and scholars on your starship have been the 'idiots' first, but it is not enough. The number of 'idiots' is not enough to complete a qualitative change for the whole team. Then, let me add fuel to the fire!
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