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Opening my eyes, my left eye, which I've gotten used to, is still completely black, but what my right eye captures is something that has nothing to do with "habit".
"Drip-"
The same mechanical sound had been heard countless times. From initial tension to gradual acceptance, Lin Yi was surprised to find that his adaptability seemed to be increasing day by day. At least, if it were his past self facing an attack with a certain probability of being fatal with just one hit, he would never have been so calm...
"God, have you figured out the principle?"
The body rolled across the mostly melted ground, the deep red particle beams grazing its surface. The exoskeleton armor, which was partially hit, was not so lucky, disappearing into the air at almost the speed of a breath of hot air in winter...
Even now, Lin Yi still finds it hard to believe that the outer armor he thought was powerful enough could not even stop a small red beam of light less than five centimeters in diameter. You know, the storm of hundreds of thousands of bullets had not been able to make a hole in it before.
"Not a laser in the conventional sense—"
The red beam of light followed its trajectory, cleaving the forest behind it in two. There was neither a massive explosion nor a towering fire, but only a "scorch" more than two hundred meters deep on the ground. Even without close observation, Lin Yi could imagine the molten lava flowing and dripping inside. But even so, this kind of ray was not one of those conventional laser weapons that used high temperatures to kill targets, as Lin Yi knew. This was most fully verified when the beam of light pierced through the more than five hundred meters of seawater and grazed his left abdomen.
Intelligent Conservation: Chapter 134 Amplification - Impact
"These are not ordinary high-energy rays; they cannot be refracted. The amount of water vapor evaporated under the same energy would definitely be much more than this."
Panting heavily, he climbed out of the sea. The wound on his abdomen was healed in less than five seconds, but the sensation of being hit, which was different from the burning heat, was still clear.
"We can't wait any longer!"
Across the rising, scorching steam from the sea, Lin Yi made a decision after spotting the figure, some distance away, once again pointing a weapon capable of emitting red rays at him.
I originally thought that this kind of weapon would consume a lot of energy, and that I would only need to fire a few shots at most—the robot, which had been abandoned for hundreds of years, did not seem like the type that could provide enough energy. I could just clean up the mess myself. But I did not expect that even after being abandoned for so long, it still had a sufficient energy supply. Maybe it was supplying the energy of the entire base to that pistol.
"The Supreme God—"
As he pondered, his gaze fell upon a red dot that was gradually brightening five hundred meters away: "Overload mode!"
[Command confirmed, overload enabled.]
The unreleased force compressed the surrounding air, transforming into tangible kinetic energy as it stomped onto the ground. As the red light traced a straight path across more than two hundred meters of land and pierced into the sea, the shadow crushing the earth had already trampled and leaped high into the air—
Lin Yi was certain that what he saw in the eyes of this female-looking robot at that moment was not surprise, but confusion.
"boom----"
The impact of the two overlapping figures falling almost uprooted the surrounding trees. Lin Yi, who had assumed that the robot would be exceptionally strong given its powerful weapon, was surprised to find that it was unusually weak. At least when he crushed the robot's arm holding the gun with his outstretched right hand and pressed it against her face, the robot had almost no strength to resist.
At this moment, Lin Yi disregarded everything else, letting out a hoarse growl from behind his bone armor: "Amplify—"
Phase One
The bone armor surrounding the right hand was directly shattered by the expanding airflow. Inside, over 130,000 internal components spun wildly, converting the energy poured from the supreme god. The excessive compression even created a vortex around the pressed-down right hand, ultimately transforming it into kinetic energy under the command of subjective will.
"—Impact"
As if by illusion, everything around me came to a standstill.
"Thump——————————————————!!!"
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"Reputation severely damaged, requesting reinforcements!"
"A fourth-stage evolved iron beast has been discovered—"
"Concentrated fire attack!"
"On the right"
……
The chaotic battlefield offered no room for any beautiful disguise. Every moment, "girls" were being torn apart and swallowed by swarms of metallic creatures, while even more metallic creatures sank to the bottom of the sea amidst the overwhelming barrage of artillery fire and black smoke. Fei Zhouren didn't know what his other comrades would think in the face of such a scene, but he knew very well what he was thinking.
"what……"
War is war, and games are games. Games can use various settings and hypotheses to cover up the cruel truth, but when they become real, they are destined to be unable to escape the cruelty of reality.
When people are killed, they die.
If a ship is hit, it will sink.
Such a simple truth, yet I only realized its existence now.
But what was the purpose of this war?
Staring blankly at the distant island, surrounded by heavy artillery fire and smoke, like a secluded paradise, an emotion welled up inside him, but before it could be translated into action—
"Thump———————————————!!!"
In their memory, the people of Feizhou had heard similar sounds before, the sound of huge iron piles hitting another iron pile on a construction site. However, that sound was not nearly as loud as it is now, nor as... frantic.
In stark contrast to the surrounding "hell" sealed off by artillery fire, the once undisturbed island, like a paradise, suddenly erupted in a cloud of dust. Crushed rubble, mixed with trees and branches, was flung dozens of meters into the air before being swept away by gravity and falling gently back down. The Filipinos even saw ripples spreading rapidly in their direction from the island...
"what is that?"
The question remained unanswered, but the question of how to end this hellish battle was resolved. Almost at the same time that terrifying roar erupted in the center of the isolated island, the densely packed iron beasts on the sea surface seemed to have received a huge shock and turned around and fled, not even caring about the artillery fire coming from behind, leaving the ship girls behind looking bewildered.
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The center of the isolated island, where the original industrial ruins were located.
Lifting the right hand, which he could not feel at all, from the bottom of the depression, he noticed that the surface was still radiating an astonishing temperature due to the energy overload. This made Lin Yi wonder if it might damage the internal parts. After all, given the precision design of this right hand, it would be a major undertaking to break any part.
But just like its exaggeratedly precise design, its power is also terrifying.
Looking around at the huge cracks that had spread to a hundred meters away, and the robot beneath his feet whose parts were no longer visible from the waist up, Lin Yi was still somewhat astonished, even though he had expected it.
"Even if the restricted area is opened, it will be about the same."
There are two factors that determine the final output of a machine: the first is the machine's performance and structure, and the second is the amount of energy input.
Regarding the first element, Lin Yi could only achieve the limit of what he could control—this right hand, composed of 137,913 parts, was currently his limit. However, the second element… with the entire reserve energy of the main god as support, it could be said to have no limit.
Following this philosophy, Lin Yi eventually transformed this right hand into this form.
Name: Lin Yi
No.: 0
Strength: 201 (+200)
Constitution: 212 (+200)
Agility: 198 (+200)
Spirit: 111
Special Ability: Advanced Mimicry (Right Hand) – Amplification (Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3). Different levels of reserve energy are invested depending on the amplification stage to unleash various forms of attack. Excessive amplification pressure can damage internal components.
Forced Proliferation (Armor Mode - Significantly increases all abilities)
Forbidden Zone of Life (Not yet open)
Status: Overload (Greatly enhances athletic ability and physical fitness; duration and magnitude of enhancement are related to the host's physical strength and the main god's energy reserves)
Intelligent Conservation: Chapter 135 Civilization Taboos
East Asia Heavy Industries – that’s the name of the owner of this facility, or rather, all the companies involved.
As Lin Yi had predicted, this facility was built more than two hundred years after the radiation outbreak. The people who built it were mainly survivors who fled from the inland areas to the sea. Using all the resources they brought with them when they fled from the land, plus most of the resources that could be collected nearby, they spent more than ten years completing this underground base with a complete automatic defense mechanism. The main purpose was to protect their own safety and to store what they called "civilization taboos".
In order to protect this "civilizational taboo," they even spent a lot of hard-won rare resources to create a special security guard to protect this site—Sanakan.
"The one I just broke?"
[98.1% probability of meeting the standard]
In a flash, Lin Yi skipped over the long description of the security guard's safety and operation mode. If he had seen this before he came into contact with it, Lin Yi would have been more than 90% confident that he could stop its operation by means other than destroying it and thus obtain its technical knowledge. The problem is that now it has been dismantled in half, and the most core data stored in its brain has been completely crushed. Even if he saw this, what difference would it make?
Naturally, the only option was to abandon it.
East Asia Heavy Industries was not a simple industrial company like it was before the apocalypse, but a mass organization established with the mission of rebuilding human civilization. Under the harsh conditions of the apocalypse, all construction work related to East Asia Heavy Industries was given top priority. It is no wonder that they were able to build such a huge facility in such a short time. It is just unexpected that it was not destroyed by the cruel apocalypse or by the rampaging iron beasts, but by the ever-expanding human heart.
As builders of East Asia Heavy Industries, each survivor was assigned different privileges based on their contributions to humanity. The highest level of privilege even allowed them to control all intelligent facilities in East Asia Heavy Industries except for those "civilizational taboos." All of this was done with the idea of assisting in the reconstruction of human civilization, but they never expected it to become the fuse that ignited the self-destruction of human civilization.
At that time, the person with the highest internal authority suddenly ordered the sub-individuals to attack everyone except themselves. Because of the authority, he had modified the system's internal setting that it could not attack humans in advance. Even the security guards who were responsible for protecting humans joined in the process of harming humans. Originally, humans had a last means of retaliation in this situation—the forbidden means of civilization. However, from the beginning, they placed this only means of self-salvation in a position that no one could touch.
Just like the nuclear bombs of the old era, this demonic technology was a mistake from the very beginning, and no one has the right to unleash it!
Humans trust machines, and even trust themselves.
Looking at the last two lines of characters left in the record, Lin Yi frowned slightly.
On the surface, they seem unrelated, but what Lin Yi is doing now seems to be quite similar to what this extinct civilization once did, especially in the mass production of robots...
Shaking his head, Lin Yi put the problem aside for the time being. Regardless of whether such a mistake could be repeated, even if it was possible, he wouldn't allow himself to stop now.
"God, have you finished searching for information here?"
[Search complete. 12.8% of the information is complete and can be analyzed for related knowledge.]
"Then only one more thing is left."
He raised his left hand and stared at the unremarkable black pistol in his hand.
A taboo of civilization—graviton radiation device.
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During the battle with the security guard, Lin Yi dismantled its right hand beforehand, which saved the pistol that could emit an "indestructible" red ray from being crushed into metal scrap along with the robot. However, after picking it up himself, Lin Yi discovered a problem: it seemed that the use of this weapon was not as simple as just pulling the trigger as he had seen before, but rather required certain permissions and conditions to be met.
Clearly, Lin Yi, who was eliminated as an intruder, couldn't meet the usage restrictions. The same applied to the escaped natives he captured; they were helpless against this powerful weapon. He had hoped to find design data for the weapon in the ruins and replicate it, but this civilization was equally wary of it. Not only were its manufacturing methods and operating principles unknown, but even its true name was found in some obscure document. Otherwise, it would be impossible to connect a "pistol" with the term "civilizational taboo." After all, in Lin Yi's imagination, the civilization these survivors had rebuilt contained at least some high-energy weapon comparable to a "nuclear weapon"—a hydrogen bomb or something similar—that was considered a taboo…
"In terms of point-to-point lethality alone, it does fit this description."
Once again, Lin Yi futilely aimed forward and pulled the trigger. Whether it was due to a lack of power or some other reason, the red particle phenomenon that had flashed in the hands of the security guards showed no signs of reappearing. Helpless, Lin Yi had no choice but to put it down again.
The problem is, this makes it impossible to effectively utilize this weapon...
At present, Lin Yi could only urge the main god to speed up the decryption of this weapon, while searching for other possible information related to the radiation civilization.
Besides records related to "civilizational taboos," Lin Yi found more records about iron beasts in the ruins not so much about the iron beasts that drove them from the land, but rather about iron beasts in the sea. And unlike Lin Yi, who chose complete annihilation as his means of resistance, the survivors, after experiencing heavy initial casualties and desperately lacking resources and weapons, opted for methods of influence and control. Some of their results were similar to what Lin Yi had seen before—
Level 5 clearance permission, child individual information inducement
"Sub-individuals... do you mean the iron beasts in the sea?"
[86.5% probability of matching the judgment]
"However, it failed."
There's no need for further speculation; the fact that this civilization could only survive by building underground bases and hiding in corners is enough to conclude that they never succeeded. And the fragmented records found at the end confirm this conjecture.
Around the time when the rebuilders of the Radiation Civilization were making some progress with their newly acquired "anti-Iron Beast technology," the radio waves they emitted in order to influence the Iron Beasts' actions awakened the "monster" in the deep sea.
“Brahsh…”
Squinting, Lin Yi looked thoughtfully at the only extremely blurry photo remaining in the record.
Intelligent Conservation: Chapter 136 Deep-Sea Iron Beast: Brashur (Part 1)
According to records of pre-radiation era human civilization, "Brahsh" should be the name of a terrifying evil god from the abyss who appears as a villain in a widely circulated myth. Although it is essentially a fictional existence, it is not inappropriate to apply it to a huge unknown life form that dwells in the deep sea and attacks humans.
Even considering only the threat and trauma to humanity, this "Brahsh" beneath the deep sea is far more serious than the one in mythology. At the very least, it completely ended the human civilization that had a sliver of hope to continue its existence.
March 11, Radiation Calendar 233.
...The base has fallen, and for the sake of the last spark of hope, we have to abandon this place that holds all our hopes.
The expulsion of the sub-individuals was successful, but considering the possibility of attracting the attention of that madman, we had to abandon the idea of having these sub-individuals protect us. It's ironic that we were originally irreconcilable racial enemies, but now we need their cover to survive.
...The "Brahsh" has locked onto the fleet. Even if we spread out, it will be meaningless. Its speed is far beyond our reach. Doing so would only shatter our already slim hope. We can only hope that the ships' defenses are strong enough to at least allow someone to escape.
……We're fucked!
Along with that last piece of information, a blurry photograph was recorded. Most of the scene was covered by the white waves that had been stirred up, and only through the thick fog above could two huge orbs of light be barely seen in the background—which, as expected, should be the eyes of "Brahma".
"It is over 100m long, and the metallization has covered the lens of the eye. Moreover, it is a record from 300 years ago."
Lin Yi tapped the rusty control panel unconsciously with his index fingertip, then remained silent for a moment before saying, "God, issue the mission."
【Command confirmation】
Before the naval bases, which had suffered heavy losses in the operation against the "sub-individuals" due to their location in the nearby waters and had been forcibly conscripted, could recover from their grief, a sudden message interrupted each admiral's planning and deployment for the next operation.
[Urgent Mission: Deep-Sea Iron Beast - Brashish]
[5 hours, 17 minutes, and 21 seconds ago, the Governor's Office detected an abnormal signal in the area at coordinates X25741.51, Y12459.241. After locking onto the location, it was determined that one of humanity's greatest enemies—the deep-sea iron beast Brash—was lurking in the vicinity of this sea area. The Governor's Office has now decided to officially launch an offensive operation against Brash. All admirals are requested to prepare for the battle.]
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