Chapter 366: Heavenly Pillar
Todd doesn't care about human death.
In other words, most mechanical creatures don't care.
According to common law, the person who leaked the information would not be sentenced to death, but at most he would be sentenced to life imprisonment.
But Todd just wanted them to die. The process was not important, as long as the result was full of blood and death.
If Ding Yixiu couldn't do it, his career as city lord would be over.
In the area controlled by the mechanical race, the human lords of each city seem to be high and mighty, but in fact they are just dogs raised by the mechanical race, and they must bite whoever they are told to bite.
Many people were staring at the city lord's position, eager to put a dog collar around their necks.
Once the dog on top disobeys, the ones below will have a chance.
"Sir, Ding Yixiu has sent a message and is contacting Anluo Company." said the subordinate.
"good."
Todd had a blank expression on his face, staring into the night sky in the distance.
…
The rain is still falling.
In the office of the municipal building.
Ding Yixiu stood in front of the glass exterior wall, staring at the water marks on the glass, feeling very bad.
He said in a low voice to the person beside him: "Have you figured out the list?"
"Boss, the statistics are out."
"Okay, kill them all. No need to arrest them. Bypass the courts and law enforcement agencies. If anyone asks, just say it was my order."
"But, Boss..."
The subordinate hesitated for a moment and asked, "Brother Wang on the list has been your good friend from elementary school to college. Brother Li and Brother Liu also had dinner together not long ago and said they wanted to introduce their daughter to the young master..."
"No need to say more, just kill him!"
Ding Yixiu's voice became increasingly deep and hoarse, his eyes darkened, his fists clenched, and a vein popped up on his forehead.
Obviously, this result was not what he wanted to see.
But that was the order of the Mechanical Clan!
How dare he resist?
This is the tragedy of being a dog. He has to do whatever his master tells him to do, even if it means killing his own classmates with his own hands.
Ding Yixiu's bottom line is his family, and the mechanical clan has not touched this point yet.
He stared at the dim sky outside the window with a gloomy look, and gave another order: "Send a message to the members with psychic powers, telling them that Anluo Company's position should be opened. Tell them to be prepared, not to engage in any dangerous activities now, and it is best to find a place to lie down."
"Boss, is the stand device really that powerful?"
Someone nearby asked, "I see many people outside don't take it seriously and want to experience it."
"A bunch of idiots! Even the masked weirdo is in such a bad condition, are they more powerful than the masked weirdo?" Ding Yixiu scolded and told his men to go and notify them immediately.
That night, the government buildings in the city center were brightly lit all night.
Members of every department did not have any rest, and even those who had finished get off work were called back temporarily.
The previous explosion was so terrifying that the whole city was in turmoil. An uneasy atmosphere permeated the residential areas, and the hotline of the mayor's office was almost blown up.
Negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, panic, etc. become stronger and stronger in the darkness.
When the smell of gunpowder from the explosion reached the city, these emotions reached a peak at once, and many people recalled their painful life as a refugee.
Members of various organizations are much better than civilians.
Organizations such as the Zero Point Tavern, the Sun Foundation, the Aurora Research Institute, and the Black River Mercenary Union have all sent out messages, and their respective members are waiting for the outcome in their bases.
They were not worried about their own safety because they knew that the masked man would not bring the fight to a crowded place no matter what.
The last battle in Fish Scale City allowed many people to know some of the character of the masked man.
This new mysterious master is not as lawless and murderous as the legend says.
He also has his own bottom line.
On this night, there were especially many people gathered in the Midnight Bar.
During this period, almost more than half of the outsiders gathered in the Zero Point Tavern, and even the usually quiet basement floor of the tavern became lively.
"The explosion is over. Who knows what happened to the masked man?" someone asked.
"At this time, it's useless to be well-informed!" The person next to him shrugged, "The Mechanical Clan has tightly controlled that area. Who can get in?"
"Just now, a few guys relied on their special psychic talents to try to sneak in, but they were directly killed. Not a single drop of them was left!"
"Afeng, another glass of wine!"
“Here it comes!”
That night, bartenders like Afeng were all very busy.
People in the tavern come from all corners of the world. Whether they are having a serious chat, bragging or talking about masked weirdos, they always need to moisten their throats after talking for a long time.
Afeng and others also enjoyed it, after all, they got a share of the profits from every glass of wine.
"Strange, why hasn't my good brother come back yet?" Afeng looked around and felt surprised.
It’s already this late, and I haven’t seen Su Xia yet.
It's very dangerous outside now. There are patrolling robots everywhere. If you are not careful, you may be caught as a dangerous person.
If not, there wouldn't be a need for everyone to huddle in the pub.
"The Mechanical Clan has deployed such a large force. It will be embarrassing if we still can't catch the masked monster!" someone shouted loudly, reeking of alcohol.
"Pay attention to the wording. It's not about embarrassing people, it's about embarrassing the machine."
"Ha ha……"
Some people just want to see the mechanical race fail just for fun.
Of course, most people are rational and know how great the danger the masked man is facing this time.
To be fair, the masked man was once a member of the tavern. Even if he was going to die, everyone would rather he died at the hands of the tavern members.
There have always been some minor conflicts between the tavern and the mechanical race, and recently it has become even more unpleasant.
"The sky is full of machines. I heard that the underground is also filled with machine monsters. The last time the masked man escaped, he escaped from underground. This time, there is really no way to escape."
Everyone put themselves in the masked man's shoes and felt that this time the masked man was having a very difficult time.
With the situation tonight, even a level six creature would most likely die on the spot, let alone the masked monster.
According to the tavern's information, he was only a level 4 creature.
"Let's put aside other things. How many of us can withstand the bombing just now?" Afeng said casually while holding a wine glass and serving wine to the two guests.
"Yeah, I heard that Todd did it himself." The guest agreed.
"The most important thing is that the stance device hasn't been turned on yet!"
Ah Feng stretched out his finger and pointed upwards, his meaning was obvious: "Once the position is opened, the masked weirdo will have no chance of survival."
Hearing this, someone laughed and said, "You know what? It's been so long, why hasn't the stand device been turned on yet?"
"Could it be that the Mechanical Tribe was just bragging before?"
"That thing is still in the development stage, so it probably can't block the entire city, right?"
"I'm not afraid even if it's closed. I've wanted to experience it for a long time!"
"Ha ha……"
Many members of the pub were a little tipsy and spoke without restraint.
Anyway, we are inside the pub, we can say whatever we want, and there are many people who really don't care about their stance.
A Feng chatted with the crowd for a few words, then walked to the bar with a glass of wine and asked the store manager Liu Yinjia: "Boss, you've worked so hard tonight, how about a glass of special herbal wine?"
"Don't bother me for now." Liu Yinjia waved his hand. "The store manager in Coral City is bombarding me with messages."
"Manager Yi? The one who stole the wine last time?"
"It's him."
Liu Yinjia fiddled with his phone, as if responding to the message: "That masked weirdo is not his real brother, and he actually sent me a message in the middle of the night. How would I know if the masked weirdo is dead or not?"
Liu Yinjia couldn't understand Yi Yi's anxiety, so he felt annoyed by him and replied to the message casually.
However, for Yi Yi, the life and death of the masked man is related to whether his apprentice Yi Mo's illness can be cured.
The last time he went to the pharmacy to find Su Xia, he learned from Su Xia that the masked man was looking for the venom gland of a kind of marine fish in the southern city, and would come back to cure Yi Mo once he found it.
But now the situation has changed suddenly, and a war is about to happen!
Not only Yi Yi was anxious, but the members of the Beifeng Story Club were also anxious.
In the basement of the Coral City Tavern, all the storytelling members were looking at Yi Yi, hoping that he could give them some good news.
Ke Yiyi sighed, shook his head, and said, "If anything happens to the mask, I will go to the southern city myself and look for that kind of marine fish venom gland."
"Is there no hope? Damn the mechanical race!" Yuan Hua growled and clenched his fists.
"Mask shouldn't have been allowed to go!" Yang Liang lamented, "He's in the middle of a storm right now, how could he go looking for that venom gland himself? At least tell us so we can go."
"It's hateful that I can't even help at all!" Vice President Zhu Lu felt aggrieved and at the same time had a deep sense of powerlessness. He was really too weak.
"That damned pharmacist Su Xia, did he deliberately ask Mask to go to the south?"
"How vicious! He knows there are dangers everywhere over there!"
“…”
At this point, the members of the story club all remembered to curse Su Xia.
In many people's minds, the impression of Su Xia as a "selling out his teacher for fame" has been fixed, and no matter how talented he is, he cannot save his positive image.
…
At this moment, Su Xia, who was running away, suddenly sneezed a few times.
He rubbed his nose, confused.
"You have a cold?"
He had been caught in the rain all night, was seriously injured and mentally exhausted, so it was understandable that he had a cold now.
Su Xia didn't think much about it and immediately took a few more potions.
To his relief, the city boundary was just around the corner, and beyond that was the vast wilderness.
He could clearly sense that there was much less metal activity underground. The aquifer in this area was very narrow, and most underground mechanical creatures needed to rely on themselves to clear a path out.
Just like the worm-like mechanical monsters seen in Fish Scale City last time, they can move forward while rotating, using their sharp front ends to crush the rocks and soil underground, and then use their hollow metal bodies to transport the gravel in front to the back, expelling the stones like excretion, thus continuously moving forward.
“Buzz——”
In the sky, several air superiority combat robots flew by. Their gray-black bodies were graceful, like swifts, leaving a faint trail in the night sky.
Here, the mechanical creatures in the air were not as dense as before.
Some of them flew back to their bases to temporarily replenish their ammunition and energy.
Another part is still tracking Su Xia.
They took turns going back and forth to ensure that there was always air power keeping an eye on Suxia.
Su Xia was not in a hurry and continued to fight with these robots.
He is now getting farther and farther away from the main urban area, and the same is true for the mechanical creatures in the sky. It will take them longer and longer to fly back to the base for supplies.
In the long run, the one who perseveres to the end will definitely be Su Xia.
But at this moment, a loud bang suddenly sounded throughout the entire Seahorse City.
"boom--!"
The whole city shook as if a major earthquake had occurred. Many city residents screamed and trembled with fear, thinking that the explosion had spread to the city.
Members of the major organizations were also confused and asked their respective top leaders.
However, most of the top brass also had no idea what was going on.
Only a very few smart people guessed it.
They walked out of the door, looked up at the sky, their faces extremely solemn.
"Is that the thing?"
"The mechanical race is going to be mobilized?"
If that thing can really succeed, will the era of psychic creatures be over?
The stand device, they became worried at the thought of it.
It turns out that their concerns were correct.
Half a minute later...
In the center of the city, on top of the municipal building, a terrifying deep blue beam of light suddenly erupted. It was dazzling and blinding, like a sharp sword shooting straight into the sky!
Most of the city was illuminated and could be seen even from a distance.
The beam of light was so dazzling that it stretched between heaven and earth, like a passage connecting the sky and the earth, carrying a somewhat mysterious aura.
Many people haven't figured out what this thing is yet, it suddenly erupts with a heart-pounding wave.
“Buzz—buzz—”
The light column vibrated, flickering, as if following some kind of pattern, erupting with wave after wave of astonishing blue energy storms.
These storms sweep from the city center to the surrounding areas, mighty and unstoppable.
Ordinary people were fine and did not feel any discomfort after being swept by the blue storm.
However, the expressions of the psychic creatures in the bases of various organizations all changed in an instant.
"What's going on?"
"I... why do I feel so blocked in my heart..."
"Why are my hands shaking? I can't control it..."
They looked panicked, screamed, and then looked at each other.
Some people couldn't even hold the wine glass steadily, their hands were twitching, the cup fell to the ground with a bang, and the whole person fell to the ground, feeling extremely uncomfortable all over.
Some people even collapsed on the spot, their faces turned pale, and they fell to the corner and twitched, like an epileptic patient who suddenly had an attack.
But their consciousness is normal, their eyes reveal panic, and they cannot control their bodies.
"No...something's wrong...what's wrong with me?"
The body of a psychic creature is a carrier of energy.
In the past, this energy worked well in their bodies and could provide them with powerful support.
But just now, the moment the blue storm swept through, the spiritual energy in their bodies seemed to riot collectively, suddenly becoming disordered and completely out of control.
And, this is just the beginning!
Just when they felt a little better, another energy storm swept through!
At the same time, several loud noises were heard again throughout the city.
“Boom! Boom!”
The sound shook the heavens and the earth, and made the listeners' scalps tingle.
Loud noises and vibrations erupted simultaneously in the four main urban areas of the city: east, south, west and north.
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying energy wave burst out, and four identical energy beams shot straight into the sky, illuminating the entire night sky, like four dazzling giant light tubes, turning night into day.
This is not the end yet!
Outside the city boundaries, terrible roars were heard simultaneously from four directions.
“Boom…”
It's like a giant beast has awakened underground!
A moment later, four more energy pillars appeared from the ground to the sky, echoing the previous five.
Nine beams of dark blue light shot up into the sky, like giant pillars supporting the sky, holding up the cold sky in the darkness!
