Volume 8: The Fourth Impact Chapter 73 John Wick + Johnny Silverhand = The Matrix: The Savior Arrives
“I don’t want to hide the outcome of this trip.”
Mason's voice sounded beside John Wick. The two had already arrived at the planetary shell of Unicron. They were riding in a batfighter that was temporarily demonized by Mason and driving into the interior of this huge mechanical body.
It was an impact crater that went straight into the star body, and it should be the channel created by the previous bombardment of the Star Destroyer Tower.
“This modified leadership module needs to be pulled as close to Unicron’s neural control center as possible, where it will form a stable data relay station to guide the power of other worlds into Unicron’s neural center.
I am confident that I can use it to severely damage this Devourer of the Stars, and cause it to stop the process of devouring the world and return to its original plane.
But when the modified leadership module is turned on, it will release a cosmic god-level energy flow. Not to mention you, even Sister Ka would be melted instantly here."
Mason treated Wick's waist and abdominal wounds while saying:
"I just spent some time thinking about how to protect you, but the conclusion is that you can't survive. Even if I give you the main power armor of the universe, I can only guarantee that you will leave with an intact body."
"Will it hurt?"
The cold-faced assassin saint asked a rather strange question at this moment, causing Mason to blink. The captain said:
"No, it won't. It will be an instant death."
"That's fine."
Tired Wick nodded and leaned back in his seat. He loosened the handle of the assassin's sword in his hand and took the time to take a short rest before carrying out the mission.
It seems that he had anticipated this outcome when he accepted the mission, and accepted his fate with a calmness and composure that is unimaginable for ordinary people.
Mason didn't say anything else.
He helped John Wick bandage his wounds. He had just discovered that Wick's injuries were very serious, probably because his internal organs were pierced by a robot.
He survived thanks to the tenacity of the Isu saints, which would have been a fatal injury to most people.
Of course, this kind of injury is not irreparable for the first aid master, but Mason can be sure that Wick can accept this suicide mission so calmly, not because he himself has been fatally injured.
The two of them sat quietly in the demonized bat fighter and headed deep into Unicron's star. They could see the strange and complex mechanical structures around the crater.
It was like being in an underground world made entirely of metal. The melted and severed tunnels were like the blood vessels of the Cosmic Emperor, dark and leading to nowhere. The various strange-looking robots that kept crawling out of the faults should be the "white blood cells" in the body of the Cosmic Emperor, quickly repairing the injuries suffered by the Star Devourer.
They didn't care about the demonic fighter planes that flew past them and into the deeper depths. They just completed their tasks silently and accurately.
"Mason, turn left and head downward! We have found the passage to Unicron's neural control center and have cleared the way for you."
The voice of Perfect Ultron sounded in the communication of the Batfighter. The star destroyers previously formed by Frogtu were right in front. From the increasingly hideous scene as they went deeper into the mechanical star, it was not difficult to infer that these guys were bombarding all the way here.
When John Wick saw the piles of mechanical wreckage suspended in a weightless manner in the large tunnels inside the planet, he realized that the interior of Unicron's planet was not without defense.
However, these "immune cells" born from the internal circulation of mechanical stars have been killed by Mason's vanguard. Unnoticed by these mortals crawling on the ground to fight against the doomsday, superheroes are also fighting with them in this mechanical hell...
Guided by Ultron's signal, the demonized bat fighter quickly flew across one ruined war zone after another.
After passing through the planetary antibody armor layer that was nearly a thousand kilometers thick, they finally entered the interior of Unicron. What came into view was the star separation device that was like a mechanical miracle, and the neatly arranged mechanical transmission gears.
With Mason's engineering knowledge, it was not difficult to find that these devices were responsible for adjusting the internal module rings and the mobilization of the antibody armor layer on the planet's outer shell when Unicron transformed.
The smallest transmission gear was as big as a city. Mason had a strange sense of déjà vu when he was here, as if he were as small as a foreign bacterium entering the human body.
"No wonder it ignores us..."
John Wick, sitting in the cockpit, could no longer describe his feelings in words. As he passed through this maze-like wonderland and entered the matter compressor area through the biochemical decompression chamber, he whispered:
"We are not really on the same level of life as it, and its eating of our world is as common and uncontroversial as us eating a piece of breakfast bread.
No need to be constrained by moral sense, and no more worries about the fate of bread. "
“There is still a difference.”
Mason replied:
"At least the bread in your hand won't jump up and punch you when you're having breakfast, but we will.
I understand that the contempt of the cosmic gods for all things is based on their own immortality and great existence. I can even understand that their arrogance is not a shame to us.
But if it wants to eat up this world, it has to bear the risk of being counterattacked. Even a powerful being like Devouring Star will not refuse the challenge from food.
Do you have any other wishes, Wick? "
"Hmm, let me think about it."
As his life was drawing to an end, the cold-faced assassin rubbed his forehead. After a few seconds, he said to Mason very seriously:
“Take care of my dog.
It is very timid and clingy, and it must be very scared when I am not around. I am not confident to entrust it to other people, but I saw that Ms. Hallie took good care of her dog, so..."
"Well, I've always wanted to have a pet, and actually I already have one, but that wild phoenix with a big appetite and a crazy mind has never been willing to acknowledge that I'm its owner."
Mason pops out two cigarettes and hands one to John Wick.
The latter is a non-smoker.
But when he saw the space before him where Unicron's antenna array and energy concentrator existed, which looked like a suspended starry sky, he realized that he was about to embark on his final journey.
So he smiled, took the cigarette handed to him by Mason very casually, and accepted the purple flame handed to him by the captain himself with an attitude of enjoyment.
"Wick, I still don't know who your Isu sequence traced back to?"
Mason maneuvered the Batfighter downwards. He had already seen Lord Chao holding up a beacon in front of a giant passage below.
A few minutes before he joined the wounded advance team, he asked:
"Can you tell me this secret? Then when I meet your ancestor in the future, I can tell him in person about the miracle you created."
"But you've already met him."
The Assassin Saint picked up the leadership module that was emitting purple light. When the door of the fighter plane opened, he blew out a smoke ring and said to Mason:
"Has Consus not told you? I thought you had guessed the truth when ."
"It was him, Prometheus, the fire thief."
Mason laughed.
He stood up, patted John Wick on the shoulder, and said:
"It seems that what you did today is also a tribute to your ancestors. Well, I will tell him this story next time I go to Night City. He will be proud of you."
"But I'm not doing it to please him."
The Assassin Saint snorted and said no more.
The advance team in front of the two was not in a very good condition at the moment. Except for Lord Chao and Da Chao, everyone else had more or less shocking scars on their bodies.
The vibranium armors of the Kryptonian trio have become tattered in the constant assaults, and the perfect guide Ultron is even worse off. He has to be supported by Frog to stand up.
The six Infinity Stones on its chest were flashing randomly as if the system was in disorder, which fully proved that even a super mechanical intelligence like it would not end well if it rashly connected its data consciousness to the nerve center of the Emperor of the Universe.
"Right up there!"
Lord Chao pointed to the blocked mechanical tunnel above and said:
"There is a giant biological shield there. Lord Ultron took the risk of hacking into Unicron's defense array and confirmed that it was the only way to the Star Emperor's main processor.
Not only is there a neural control center inside, but there is also an isolation cabin that stores the second-level emergency fire. The fire energy that was previously shot towards the Isu world was launched from there.
But we can't break the shield, that thing is immune to all energy and physical attacks.
We tried and it wouldn’t open.”
“Because you don’t have this.”
Mason pointed to the radio-sized leadership module in Wick's arms and explained:
"This is the only item in the parallel world system that can harm Unicron. It is a gift from its oldest enemy after its demise. This item is a key that can unlock the Star Emperor's protective shield.
But it only allows the holder to enter and exit.
So our next task is to stay here and fight for Wick's chance to crawl into the Star Emperor's neural control center. I am sure that as long as the leadership module enters the protective shield, we will face the highest energy level attack of the entire star device.
Although it is sleeping, the sleeping of the cosmic gods does not mean that they will be at the mercy of others.
There are less than four minutes left before the Isu world is sent into Unicron's matter-eating mouth. Wick, get going. You only have four minutes to complete your work."
"Um."
John Wick put the leadership module on his back and put on the Isu cloak and flying device handed to him by Mason again. He didn't have time to say goodbye to others before he activated the device and flew towards the giant mechanical passage above everyone's heads.
Below him, the partying Thor drank his wine and saluted the assassin saint who was far weaker than him with the highest etiquette of the Asgardians.
This is a true warrior!
His courage is enough to earn him a place in the glorious Valhalla.
“This should have been my job.”
The captain sighed, and released his Lord of the Universe Neural Power Armor amid the echoing mechanical collision sounds around him. He whispered to the others:
"But I made Wick the price..."
"You've done good enough."
Dachao patted Mason on the shoulder from behind and whispered:
"Mr. Wick knows this so he won't allow you to go and plant that bomb. Everyone here knows how much you mean to us.
That can't be summed up by just the word leader.
You've become a symbol of hope, Mason, and we'd rather lose here than have you end your life this way."
“Here they come!”
Bald Frog Tu said in a low voice, and the warriors here stood up and prepared to meet the enemy.
As Mason watched, a huge figure that was very familiar in his memory was thrown into this place from a mechanical cabin, and more mechanical cabins were being opened one by one.
The dormant Unicron sensed the danger and finally activated the most powerful group of "immune cells" in his body.
"Okay, Optimus Prime, Brother Pillar... I knew you would never be absent in this kind of story. It's a pity that we couldn't be friends when you were still alive."
Mason looked at the Cybertron robot in front of him that had been transformed by Unicron and the Autobot warriors behind him who had been transformed into more powerful forms. Among them were even elder-level Cybertronian life forms such as Magnus and Triumph.
This will be a tough battle.
They will fight against the most powerful leaders ever born in the world of Cybertron within the body of Unicron to buy time for a final counterattack for the world that is about to be swallowed.
On the other side, in the strange tunnel leading to Unicron's neural control center, John Wick's progress is not smooth sailing.
Although Unicron could not take more brutal measures to obstruct the enemy in this area similar to the human brain, some micro robots were still activated to block the road ahead.
This place is close to the core spark of Unicron, and any mechanical creation here will be given free will. Therefore, Wick did not use guns, but only held two swords forged by Mason himself.
The opponent could not just randomly fire missiles to avoid destroying Unicron's relatively "delicate" thinking structure, so the two sides fought in close combat.
"Stupid! Left!"
A voice that Wick hated so much suddenly came from his cloak, causing the Assassin Saint to turn around and chop into pieces the mechanical insect that was attacking from the left.
"Why are you out again? Didn't you say you were going to be with your girlfriend and not bother me anymore?"
The Assassin Saint cursed:
"Johnny! I'm dying, get out of my head, okay?"
"Stop looking down on others, you idiot."
Johnny Silverhand sneered in his annoying voice:
"It's because you're dying that I left my girlfriend behind and came to see you off, just to watch your pathetic death.
Why are you still wasting your time here with them?
Look up!
Your world can no longer bear it."
Wick looked up suddenly, and from the strange mechanical projection above he could see that the Isu world had been pulled to the material entrance in front of Unicron's star.
The golden interlocking arms of gravity, like the claws of an insect preying on it, grabbed its own planet from both sides and exerted force on it, causing the huge golden horns to penetrate under the world's continental shelf.
The scene is very similar to the way the shell of a walnut breaks when it is cracked with pliers.
"rush!"
Johnny Silverhand yelled:
"Ignore them and charge forward! The closer you are to the silver neural control center above, the better. I will help you adjust your flight posture! Hurry up."
At this moment, Wick threw out the two knives in his hands, piercing the two mechanical insects flying towards him. Then the thrusters on his back ignited, and he flew into the air.
He stepped on the head of a mechanical bug with his left foot as if he was playing some kind of climbing game, and flew high into the sky with amazing agility.
“It’s time to play a song.”
Silverhand laughed.
Then a passionate heavy metal music sounded from Wick's cloak. The Assassin Saint hated this kind of harsh music, but at this moment, he felt that it gave him some kind of power.
"What's the song called?"
When his body was entangled by three mechanical insects, the Assassin Saint decisively activated the bomb hidden in his leg, blowing off his left leg while flying higher in the midst of blood.
He stared at the silver matrix core that was getting closer and closer in front of him and asked as if he felt no pain.
"Never fade away..."
Johnny replied:
"One of the best singles of the Samurai Band, my masterpiece. By the way, we are still short of a bassist. Would you like to consider it?"
"I'm not interested."
Wick replied, took out the leadership module from behind and held it in his hand, while Johnny snorted and said:
"Then be a bodyguard. I don't mind your weakness, poor little fool."
"Bang"
The broken body of the Assassin Saint crashed into the outer shell of Unicron's neural control center, which was suspended like a silver tower in the center of the mechanical area. He had no more strength to climb upwards, so he grabbed the handle of the leadership module while being pounced and bitten by the ferocious mechanical insects all around him.
At this moment he seemed to be hallucinating.
That idiot Johnny Silverhand appeared in front of him in the form of data pixels. He squatted in front of him and grasped the other side of the leadership module with his silver mechanical arm.
Two guys who looked exactly the same looked at each other, with a background of killing machines and twinkling stars behind them, and time seemed to have stopped at this moment.
"When we first met, you called me a lunatic who killed people with nuclear bombs."
Silver Hand took off his sunglasses and said sarcastically:
"Now, you have also become a bomb maniac. Congratulations, Wick, for crossing the line of being an assassin and taking the first step towards freedom."
"Go away, you idiot!"
The assassin saint replied weakly, and when the rhythm of the song "Never Fade" with the blood-stained cloak behind him reached its most intense climax, the leadership module in his hand was violently pulled open.
Purple light covered everything around him as Unicron roared, and John Wick closed his eyes as he was washed by the energy of the cosmic god in the flashing light.
At the last moment, he and Johnny Silverhand simultaneously raised their middle fingers toward the sky, which was the final response of mortals to the gods.
Disobeying the gods?
Pooh!
Our goal today is to kill you, you bastard God!
