Chapter 2777 - Higher than Genes
Chapter 2777: Higher than Genes
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‘Uh.
Li Yao asked cautiously, “Are you angry?”
“No.”
There was sorrow, forbearance, and desperation in the mental devil’s voice. ‘I’m not angry.”
“Are you sure you don’t? But why do I feel that there’s something wrong with your mood? Also, you’ve changed the fuel output pattern of the floating fortress and transferred the last bit of liquid crystal fuel that was supposed to be sent to the power unit to the attack unit. It seems that you are ready to perish
together with the enemy.
Li Yao said, “Alright. I know it’s my fault. I was too reckless, too hot-blooded, and too impulsive. Even if you are really angry, it’s understandable. Don’t hold your anger in your heart. Why don’t you ruthlessly scold me or even beat me up? I will feel a little better, okay?”
“That will be unnecessary.”
The mental devil said coldly, ‘Tm really not angry.”
“You must be angry.”
Li Yao said, “Don’t do that. I swear that I will change!”
“Change my ass! It’s been a hundred years. What have you changed?”
The mental devil suddenly burst out. ‘I’ve told you that ‘m not angry. Don’t be a nuisance and stop me from blowing those scumbags into pieces. I’m not angry. Im not f*cking angry!”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The last bit of fuel and ammunition left in the floating fortress had been pushed to the limits by the soaring fury of the mental devil. It was like a star that had passed the stable prime years and entered its final struggle. It suddenly expanded hundreds of times and turned into a red giant!
The bloody beams of light congregated and turned into a torrent of destruction. All the crystal suits, crystal tanks, shuttles, and battle puppets within dozens of square kilometers were wrecked by the waves or even ripples. Some of them were even burnt to ashes on the spot.
The members of the Sanctuary Alliance did not expect that Li Yao could still launch such an unbelievable attack at the last moment when they were running out of ammunition and food. The legions that were charging close in a dense battle formation immediately fled with their heads in their hands. Even
the ground attack warships that were tearing through the clouds and approaching from the sky turned around and flew higher, fearing that they might be affected by Li Yao’s fury.
Li Yao took the opportunity to dash out of the floating fortress and soar into the sky, trying to break out of the atmosphere.
As long as he escaped to the vacuum of the universe, without the interference of the atmosphere, it would be easier for him to perform ‘dive’ and return to his shell thousands of lightyears away.
However, the moment his soul darted out, the clouds were suddenly torn apart. Almost a hundred dense beams of light darted out of nowhere and pierced through the strengthened alloy armor of the floating fortress precisely, raising a series of shocking explosions inside and outside of the fortress.
The floating fortress had lost a lot of materials in the explosion. Its shell was deeply dented, making it look like an apple that had been gnawed by a dog.
The magical equipment units inside, including Li Yao’s soul, were also affected by the electric arcs and spiritual waves. They seemed to have been hit by hundreds of lightning simultaneously.
Hardly had Li Yao’s soul left the floating fortress when he felt that hundreds of burning thorns had tied up his ankles, calves, thighs, waist, and spine and dragged him back.
What followed was unforgettable pain that was worse than death.
It was as if his bone marrow had been replaced by sulfuric acid. It was literally ‘pain to the bones’!
“It’s the orbital fleet!”
Li Yao shrieked in the excruciating pain. “The fleet stationed in the orbit of Black Castle has been attracted by us, too. Hehe. They think too highly of us!”
The saturated bombardment of an entire orbital fleet was undoubtedly fiercer and denser than that of the ground troops.
The barrage was like a meteor shower, tearing apart the sky and stirring the clouds. The floating fortress was unable to raise its head and collapsed at a visible speed.
Ammunition was running out, fuel was running out, and the spiritual shield was entirely gone. Its defense ability was dropping, and it would collapse at any second.
Explosions. Explosions. Explosions were taking place everywhere inside the floating fortress. Fireballs thousands of degrees high were marching inside the cabins and pathways like ferocious beasts, reaping the lives of all the units and crew members mercilessly.
Li Yao felt that he was a patient of ALS.
However, the duration was ten thousand times shorter.
He was gradually losing control over the floating fortress—the only thing that he could rely on right now.
At first, the crystal cameras all over the floating fortress were burnt or blown up. The thousands of pictures floating inside his soul were extinguished one by one. His vision turned dark, and he was deprived of all his ‘vision’.
Then, the hidden antennas and perception chips embedded on the shell of the floating fortress were all wasted, too, making him unable to sense the vibration of the power unit of the enemy starship hundreds of kilometers away or the temperature of the red-hot barrels. He had lost his sense of hearing and
touch.
In the end, as the crystal processors were overloaded and paralyzed one after another, the space for his soul activity was compressed, too. His computational ability plummeted, as if he had been mired in a swamp. His brain was filled with black mud, and his thoughts became more and more rigid and feeble.
“Damn…”
Li Yao tried his best to maintain the feeble waves of his soul, as if he were breathing hard. “Am I, the best expert of the Pangu Universe, really going to fail miserably in such an inconspicuous place? My strength is fading, my soul is burning, and my five senses are all gone. Is this… the taste of death? Hey, are
you scared of death?”
“Tt was alright.”
“At the very least, I will be separated from you after I die,” the mental devil said.
“Li Yao.
“However, it is not so easy to kill me!
The bloody aura of the mental devil was already extremely dim, but when it was about to be extinguished, it burst into flames again, motivated by its fury and endless killing intent.
At this moment, it finally released the lust for killing that originated from the ‘Blood Stripe Virus’. Li Yao was infected by it, too. He stopped thinking about what was going to happen in the next second and focused all his attention on how he was going to annihilate all the targets within his range of vision!
“Exactly!”
Li Yao burst into laughter. “I am ‘Vulture Li Yao’. You want to kill me just because you are walking corpses? Go back and train yourself for another ten thousand years!”
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
The floating fortress used to be the main gun. But right now, in the middle of the broken debris, a helical ripple that was crimson and bright gold suddenly darted toward where the railguns were densest.
One pillar of light versus a thousand pillars of light, yet they were equally matched. Even the dark clouds in the sky were burning red, as if a volcano eruption had just taken place above the clouds!
Several enormous starships appeared in the clouds and fell slowly like dead whales. The head of the starship was full of traces of his fury.
The neat beams of destruction of the enemy were somewhat disordered by his counterattack, too. They were frozen for amoment.
No matter what, he had persisted for long enough. Chu Zhiyun, Tang Ka, and Little Tian Tian should be safe now, right?
For some reason, Li Yao suddenly recalled the scene where Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and the other Cultivators died together on the Grand Desolate War Institution’s train in the Star Glory Federation and the Heaven’s Origin Sector.
The battle at the edge of the no man’s land on Black Castle was very similar to that day.
He also suddenly understood the mentality of Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and the other cultivators.
Cultivators were not scared of death, but were Cultivators really not scared of death?
Maybe, everybody was scared of death, but some of them understood that death was not the end of their life. As long as they passed on their most precious belongings before their death, it was not just their genes but also certain things that were more valuable than genes.
Li Yao’s soul, which was gradually dispersing, rippled like vague smiles, just like the smiles of the seven Cultivators when they charged at the beast tide without any hesitation.
Almost a thousand kilometers away, deep inside the rugged, cave-like mountains…
The teenagers gazed at the burning clouds on the horizon for the last time before they crawled into the ground.
It was late at night, but the burning clouds constituted the most glamorous scene that they had ever seen in their life, as if the bleeding gods were fighting in the sky.
Tang Ka was awakened by something cold and wet on his face.
‘When his consciousness gradually emerged from the abyss and condensed once more, he discovered that he was in Chu Zhiyun’s embrace, and what dripped onto his face were actually Chu Zhiyum’s tears.
“Well.”
Tonka blinked hard. ‘Am I dreaming? What is this place? Have we.. escaped? Where is Master Yao?”
“You’re awake?”
Chu Zhiyun sniffed hard, but there was no way that he could stop his tears. “This is not a dream. The nightmare that we’ve been having for more than ten years is finally waking up. Three hundred meters down the cave is a shelter. Unless they tear apart the crust of the planet within hundreds of square
kilometers, they will never find us.
“Yes, we are safe.
“However, Master Li Yao, we don’t know what happened to him, either. The area he is in seems to have been bombarded by the troops in low-Earth orbit. We don’t know what will happen to his soul in the extremely high temperature and the complicated reactions of the spiritual energy. We don’t know
whether or not he can get out in time and whether or not he will die.
“anh
As if he had been struck by lightning, Tang Ka’s eyes were aching, too. “He said that everything would be fine. He said that everything was under his control and that he could rescue us easily!
“Maybe. Maybe he has already escaped.”
Chu Zhiyun managed a smile. “Tang Ka, you owe us an explanation. What is going on between you and Master Li Yao? What kind of person is he exactly?”
“Well.”
Tonka lowered his head. “I don’t know how to explain it, either. I don’t know much about him. I only know that he is a good man and a sordid, cunning one at that. Therefore, he will not die just like that. Definitely!”
The young man’s eyes were determined again. He waved his fists in the direction of the floating fortress that was on fire..