Chapter 372 Comprehensive Suppression
That night, the whole city was discussing the name of the masked man.
Some people think he is dead, some people think he is still alive.
He seemed to have become Schrödinger's cat, with life and death entangled in a quantum state. No conclusion could be reached unless observed, and he was always in a superposition of dead summer and alive summer.
Of course, Su Xia was too busy running for her life to know much of the discussion.
If he knew that he had temporarily become a physics prodigy, he would probably feel briefly relieved.
Speculations about his true identity have also spread widely in various cities in the southwest region. People are curious about what the face under the mask looks like.
Is he the advanced creature that has been missing for several years as the legend goes, or just an ordinary resident of a small city?
Or maybe it’s not a human face at all?
As long as that metal mask remains, his true face will never be seen.
It's like a cat. When you don't look at it, does it still exist as a cat?
When you close your eyes or turn your head, will it turn into another animal, or directly into a beautiful girl?
But when you look at it, it becomes an ordinary cat for you to observe.
Su Xia is the cat. As long as his true appearance is not discovered, he can satisfy anyone's speculation - some people even said on the Internet that Su Xia is his father who has been missing for many years.
In this way, a strange name "Masked Cat" spread unknowingly.
"What, you said he was a cat?"
"No, I just used a cat as a metaphor. Don't you understand that?"
"Why can't it be a wolf?" someone asked, "The masked man is fierce and cunning, so using a cat as a metaphor is not very appropriate."
"It's up to you..."
Regardless, the cat metaphor is accepted by most people.
As long as he doesn't take off his mask, his mystery will last longer.
Many people said that he had been killed by the mechanical race and his head was hung in the central square of Coral City.
Therefore, some people have already planned the destination of their next trip.
"Let's go to Coral City!"
"It's not far from Haima City, so we can be considered a sister city."
"Why can't it be sister cities? Do you look down on sisters?"
"Damn, where do all these nitpickers come from on the Internet..."
“…”
The night was not over yet, the rain gradually stopped, leaving a wet world behind.
People began to pack up and prepare to go to Coral City to wait for the mechanical people to hang out the head of the masked man.
However, they soon received strange news.
"Something's wrong. Why is the city still under lockdown?"
"What?"
"What do you mean?"
Some people tried to leave the city, but before the car reached the checkpoint, it was stopped by patrolling soldiers of the Mechanical Clan.
The atmosphere in the city is still tense and the city-wide martial law has not ended at all.
It can be seen that the mechanical base in the north of the city is brightly lit.
In addition, the same thing happened in several branch bases around the city, with loud roars being heard from time to time.
“Buzz—buzz—”
One after another, the combat robots rushed out of the base, either finishing repairs or getting supplies of ammunition and energy, and flew off into the distance again, drawing cold arcs on the horizon and quickly disappearing into the night.
Looking at their direction, they are clearly heading south!
The direction from which the previous explosion came was also the south.
"Why are there still robots flying over there? Could it be that the masked man hasn't been killed yet?"
"But the stance device has been turned off. It can't be that there is not enough energy, right?"
Everyone was puzzled and looked up at the sky.
Not long after, they were driven away by the mechanical soldiers on the road and had to return to their respective organizations to wait for the latest news.
" Wasn't killed? Was all the previous news false?"
For a time, all kinds of news were flying around, and it was impossible to tell which one was true and which one was false.
Many people realized that their previous conclusions were too premature - the masked man might not be dead yet!
It's truly amazing.
After all this time, is the masked monster still fighting?
How can a body of flesh and blood fight against a body of steel for a long time? If it were a normal level five creature, it would have died of exhaustion long ago, right?
Doubts flashed through everyone's minds. No matter how they looked at it, it was impossible for the masked man to persist for so long.
"Boss Hu, has the mechanical tribe sent you any message?" Someone whispered, asking Hu Hanhai, a level five creature with a better temper.
"No, keep waiting."
Hu Hanhai gave an affirmative answer.
He and Liu Jinjia were both waiting, not only for news from the mechanical clan, but also for news from their own side in the tavern.
In the entire tavern branch, only the two of them knew that the man in the wheelchair code-named "Swindler" had already brought a group of high-level creatures from the headquarters to hunt down the masked stranger.
This was a secret operation by the tavern, bypassing the scrutiny of the mechanical race and leaving the city in a special way.
At this time, in addition to Haima City waiting for news, the rest of the cities in the southwest were also waiting.
Coral City, Fish Scale City, Starfish City, Swordfish City, etc...
Kaiba City, the source of the news, is in chaos, let alone these cities.
In these cities, many people were saying that Su Xia was dead, and many were grief-stricken.
Some people have even started mourning and burning paper for him.
"Master Mask, have a pleasant journey!"
Many people were sad and crying, and scattered handfuls of paper money all over the sky.
I don’t know what Su Xia would think when he found out about this - he was still alive, but he had already accumulated a sum of money in the underworld in advance.
Some people also argued loudly: "Death does not belong to Mr. Mask, and death does not belong to us. The ones who really deserve to die are those..."
Just as Li Defu said, the entire southwest region was in chaos.
Not only in the southwest, but other parts of the mainland are also discussing this issue. Many people stayed up all night, sitting in front of the TV or other news channels, with their eyes red, just to wait for a result.
Before I knew it, it was five in the morning.
Southwest, Coral City.
In the northern part of the city, in the base of the mechanical clan, a shocking explosion suddenly came out.
“Boom——!”
Immediately afterwards, a silver-grey figure rose into the sky and let out a long roar, his voice full of anger. Then his speed increased dramatically, and his body was shining with the flames of the thrusters, like a burning star, heading straight for the south of the continent.
The loud noise and scream shocked countless residents in the city.
You don’t need to go out of the house, just stand by the window and look up at the night sky, and you can see that madly burning figure.
"Who is that?" Many people were shocked. "Such a powerful spiritual energy fluctuation. I have never experienced it in anyone."
"Could it be Mercer?"
"It can only be him, Yu Tuo is not that strong!"
Everyone speculated that the spiritual energy that just exploded was so terrifying that it made them terrified.
That scream contained an almost insane rage, like a volcano about to erupt.
"What happened to Mercer? He is very well-mannered, always wearing a black tuxedo like an old gentleman. Why would he suddenly disregard his image?"
Last time, after the battle between Mercer and Fan Lu, many people learned some information about Mercer from various sources.
It can be said that Mercer always pays great attention to his image.
Even when fighting with a level five creature like Fan Lu, Moser's image never collapsed. After a shocking battle, there was not even a stain on his black tuxedo.
Therefore, his current gaffe is very abnormal.
"Did he break up?" someone asked jokingly.
"Do robots fall in love?" someone else asked.
"You can't say for sure. Even a heart of steel can have a soft spot."
"Then how are they going to have children?"
“…”
People discussed their own guesses, and it seemed that every guess made sense.
However, within a few minutes, explosions were heard again throughout Coral City.
“Boom!”
This time, the noise was much louder than the last time, and the whole city was shaken.
Immediately afterwards, a series of whistling sounds cut through the sky!
The people on the ground looked up and were shocked to find that the mechanical air force belonging to Coral City was rising into the sky and following Mercer to the south.
At the same time, voices were heard from several sub-bases around Coral City.
The mechanical warriors who had been dormant in the past were awakened one by one.
"Wake up, my warriors!"
In the endless darkness underground of the base, the voice echoed, and pairs of dark blue eyes lit up, cold and chilling, without a trace of emotion in them.
Whether it was the ground forces, air forces or underground forces, they were all fully awakened at this moment, as if preparing for a shocking battle.
Thousands of mechanical armies walked out of the base, mighty and terrifying.
This is an invincible army that is always victorious!
Soon, people in the city saw these terrifying warriors.
Seeing the boundless mechanical army, many people felt their scalps tingling and panicked: "What's going on? Why do the mechanical tribe suddenly have so many soldiers?"
Someone answered: "There are so many of them, but they are usually asleep and we can't see them."
"What's the big deal?"
"Why are you all awake?"
"Shit, wait, it's not just our city, the mechanical armies in other cities have also moved!"
"What?"
"Are we going to encircle and suppress the last resistance of the human race?"
“…”
That night, cities throughout the southwest region and countless mechanical bases all burst into brilliant blue light.
Countless mechanical soldiers woke up from underground and joined the terrifying and boundless mechanical torrent. From the sky to the earth, the scale was huge, the momentum was astonishing, the momentum was magnificent and unparalleled, as if to restart the war between the two races!
A doomsday atmosphere of destruction enveloped the entire southwest region.
Countless people were shocked and terrified. Just one look at the terrifying army made their hearts tremble and they almost suffocated.
What on earth are the mechanical people going to do?
With such a powerful military force, which human organization can stop it at this stage?
Are we going to fight against alien invaders?
"It can't be because of the masked man, right?" someone thought, and quickly shook his head.
When has the Mechanical Clan ever mobilized such a large force to target a single person?
The energy required to mobilize the army is almost astronomical, which is hard for ordinary people to imagine. It is really not cost-effective just for the cat of the masked monster.
…
At this time, Su Xia was flying in the vast wilderness south of Haima City.
His injuries were very serious, and there were still a lot of fragments in his body that had not been removed. The slightest movement caused him severe pain.
In the past, I should have found a secret place to lie down and rest.
But, that night, a sense of oppression of death always lingered in Su Xia's heart, making him feel uncomfortable.
He knew that the danger was not over yet and he had to continue to escape.
"call……"
Su Xia exhaled a breath, stretched out his hand, and slowly grasped a large piece of metal debris in front of his chest.
This fragment belonged to the surface skin of a mechanical aerial warrior. It was very hard and pierced into Su Xia's chest in the previous melee, going through from front to back and shattering his sternum and several ribs.
The injury to his lungs was equally serious, and every breath Su Xia took now was a struggle against severe pain.
This won't work.
If it is not removed, his body will always be in a state of serious injury and it will be difficult to recover completely.
Su Xia gritted her teeth, grasped the fragment tightly, and pulled it out violently!
“Crack!”
The fragments were pulled out straight away, bringing out a puff of blood, and the jagged irregular edges even had bloodstains hanging on them.
Su Xia trembled in pain and his face turned pale, but he was still conscious. He quickly asked the nanorobots to catch the falling blood without leaving any trace.
The pain was unimaginable, as if it was cutting him in half.
After the fragments were removed, only a bloody hole remained on the chest, which was constantly oozing blood. Even broken bones could be seen.
“Gurgle gurgle…”
Su Xia raised her head and drank a few healing potions to promote the healing of her wounds.
In a state of total weakness, not only did his spiritual power drop to the bottom, but his body's recovery speed also slowed to an extreme.
If it were an ordinary person, with such horrific injuries, he would have died ten times.
Excessive blood loss made Su Xia's eyes go dark. Feelings of fatigue, weakness, and sleepiness surged from every part of his body, almost occupying his brain.
But he gritted his teeth and endured it, took out a scalpel, controlled it with distraction, and cut his right shoulder with a tearing sound.
The entire shoulder was shattered, with clothing scraps and blood clots stuck together, it was a horrible sight that was hard to look at.
From the blurry wound, Su Xia picked out some single crystal silicon and diamond slag embedded in the flesh and blood.
These things all came from the mechanical warriors who self-destructed.
[Your vital signs are extremely low, you need to rest]
"I know. Do you think I don't want to rest?"
Su Xia ignored the message sent by the little robot and continued to treat the injuries on various parts of his body.
Just like the last time in Fish Scale City, some small fragments were embedded in the flesh and blood, and because the wounds healed too quickly, they were no longer visible from the outside.
During the previous potion outbreak, Su Xia's injuries healed at an astonishing speed.
This is also the reason why he was able to fight his way out of the encirclement of a group of mechanical soldiers.
"The Mechanical Tribe will not give up, especially Mercer. He is such a proud person, he will never accept this failure, and will definitely gather more forces to encircle and suppress me."
Su Xia now knew very well that he had to run far enough away, otherwise he would easily fall into danger again.
The mechanical tribe will mobilize a large number of manpower to search for him in the vast wilderness.
This time, it is not only Su Xia who is in danger, but also the resistance forces that have been hiding in the wilderness for a long time.
"It's time to hide my insect nest." Su Xia suddenly thought of the two insect nests managed by his ugly clone.
During this encirclement and suppression storm, once the two insect nests are discovered, they will definitely be cleaned out by the mechanical clan.
Although he didn't like bugs, he had too little power and had to do so.
…
Fish Scale City, Northern Wilderness.
Underground, insect nest.
Su Xia's ugly clone suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were dark red, and his blood-red wings spread out behind him. He flew to the highest point of the nest and gave orders to all the insects.
"Enter the deepest hidden space underground, seal the entrance and exit, and do not leave for the next half month!"
