togophonebook #303 - Pillar strikes! [Seeking votes at the end of the month]
#303 - Pillar strikes! [Seeking votes at the end of the month]
From the outside, the Pillar Blade Beast seemed to have fainted.
The mental shock throughout its body no longer exploded, and the occasional struggles from before had also stopped. The gravity circuit, which had been affected by the previous explosion, was now showing signs of recovery… but the Pillar Blade Beast itself was showing no signs of movement.
At this moment, Fu Jian was indeed sweating.
If a large-scale bombardment was not carried out, the Sixth Pillar might regain its ability to move.
However, Wang Jixuan's transmission just now, and the constantly weakening state of the Pillar Blade Beast at this moment, gave Fu Jian a little more confidence.
After careful consideration, Fu Jian made a decision that went against his usual style.
Believe in Wang Jixuan;
Suspend the fire offensive.
Of course, this did not mean that Fu Jian would do nothing.
Fu Jian carefully observed the halo near the six legs of the Pillar Blade Beast, and all the energy of the super-large mecha was supplied to the weapon system, preparing for a super-strong strike.
Space weapons needed to be deployed in advance, but the close-range firepower units were fully prepared.
And then…
Fu Jian waited for about an hour.
The halo on the legs of the Pillar Blade Beast lit up again. Its body had less sluggishness and more lightness, but the Pillar Blade Beast still showed no signs of activity, and seemed to be still unconscious.
Whether to attack or not became an increasingly urgent decision.
Finally, Fu Jian couldn't help but ask: "Wang Zheng, how is the situation?"
Half a minute later.
Wang Jixuan's main body didn't even open his eyes, and said quickly:
"It will be ready soon. Let's retreat temporarily. Don't be too surprised by whatever happens later."
"Okay."
Fu Jian nodded slowly.
Although he didn't understand what this meant, the situation should be improving.
Huh?
Something's not right.
It will be ready soon?
What will be ready soon?
While Fu Jian was still a little confused, a strong psionic reaction was suddenly captured in the high altitude, and a figure automatically appeared on the radar panel in front of Fu Jian.
It was Spiritualist No. 5, who was still in the form of a yellow-haired dwarf, falling straight from the sky and crashing directly into the wound on the back of the Pillar Blade Beast.
Immediately afterwards, the Buddha Hall Squad landed, and the Mechanical Maid Corps landed.
The battlefield seemed to be quiet for a few minutes, and a trace of焦灼smell appeared in the air.
Suddenly;
The Pillar Blade Beast moved!
The operators of each firepower unit were so nervous that their palms were sweating.
The Pillar Blade Beast gradually stood up from its crawling position, and a thick halo formed on the spikes on its back. This halo turned into shock waves, rippling in all directions, breaking through the clouds, but failed to produce an effective impact on the super-large mecha.
Nothing happened?
"Commander! The Blade Beast tides in all directions suddenly began to retreat!"
"The flying Blade Beasts in the sky suddenly changed direction!"
"The Blade Beast groups coming to support from afar collectively burrowed into the ground and are quickly retreating into the distance!"
"Lao Fu! What's going on? The Blade Beast tide is starting to retreat! Damn it, are they abandoning their boss? I haven't had enough killing!"
Fu Jian suddenly thought of a possibility, and his mechanical face twitched a few times.
"Don't let the defense line loosen, and don't pursue rashly. We can't relax yet."
Fu Jian said in a deep voice in the highest command channel:
"Wang Zheng is now trying to control this Pillar Blade Beast."
"With the assistance of the Spiritualists."
"I can't say much about the specifics. The situation is very complicated. You can try to understand it, but it doesn't matter if you can't."
"What the hell?"
"The Black Storm is controlling the Pillar Blade Beast?"
"Damn it, where did you pick up this treasure! If we can really control it, can't we let the Blade Beasts fight each other?"
"Wait for news, don't be anxious," Fu Jian looked at the radar image, and the Blade Beasts retreating in all directions were moving faster and faster.
He suddenly shook his head and smiled softly.
A very unique solution;
It seems that it can reduce a lot of sacrifices and greatly reduce resource consumption compared to their desperate struggle.
Wang Jixuan had already opened his eyes and cleared his throat: "Lao Fu, how about we make a deal?"
Fu Jian asked: "What deal?"
"The hibernation circuit will probably return to normal in more than fifty hours. If the Pillar Blade Beast detours, it may not have enough time to attack the Arctic Circle."
Wang Jixuan said quickly:
"Can you help plan a route?
"We may have to pass straight through half of the D2 and the entire D1 combined war zones in a straight line, so that we have enough time to attack the Psionic Capital."
"Otherwise, we will just lie down and fall asleep when we get there, and everything will be delayed."
Fu Jian: …
Listen to him!
Does this guy know what he's talking about?
Fu Jian hadn't wavered for a hundred years, but at this moment he wavered. He suspected that he was injured on the battlefield and was in a psychedelic dream.
"Did you really control the Pillar Blade Beast?"
"It's not control. The situation is a bit complicated."
Wang Jixuan's main body scratched his head:
"It mainly relies on the power of these souls. They directly collapsed the consciousness body born from the Pillar Blade Beast."
"The current Pillar Blade Beast has returned to its factory settings, which is the way it was originally designed."
"There is a control panel inside, and the souls of the Spiritualists are controlling it."
"The order to retreat the Blade Beast group just now was issued by No. 5 through the Pillar Blade Beast… Now we can confirm many things, and we will report to you in detail later."
"Can the route be arranged?"
"Yes," Fu Jian nodded slowly, "Don't be too adventurous."
"Okay," Wang Jixuan said, "I mainly want to use this opportunity to force the three Spiritualists in the Arctic Circle to show some real skills, so that we can have a clearer understanding of their strength."
"Okay, I will arrange it immediately, but you'd better let the Pillar Blade Beast show its controllability at this moment first."
"Controllability… Let me think…"
Wang Jixuan thought for a long time with his chin in his hand, and then Yihun simply instructed No. 5 on a few things.
With a snap, it was very fast.
The Pillar Blade Beast easily jumped out of this deep pit with the help of the gravity circuit. The huge body, which was seven or eight kilometers long and covered with scars, jumped slowly on the ground, and wrote a huge '2' with its footprints.
Then, this war behemoth shook its tail, merged its two front feet together, and arched a few times towards the super-large mecha.
Fu Jian: …
The Six Elders: …
The commanders of the three space fortresses: …
The commanders of the nine war zones: …
Hei Ming, the head of the Destruction Regiment of the Spiritual Control Council, who was stopped by Fu Jian and watching the excitement next to him, and the group of 'experts' he brought with him, were also stunned by the actions of this Pillar Blade Beast at this moment.
However, they were stunned and didn't dare to be stunned anymore.
This Pillar Blade Beast suddenly locked on them and charged directly towards them!
The injuries on the back of the Sixth Pillar had begun to heal rapidly, stimulating a halo that had never been seen before.
"Commander Hei Ming?"
"Not good, run! It's coming for us!"
"The Black Storm controlled the Pillar Blade Beast! Damn it! Is he a monster! He is a monster!"
This group of Psionicists hurriedly retreated.
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The human army began to quickly clear the area and did not go to rescue these Psionicists.
Fu Jian, who was watching this scene, suddenly had a sense of deja vu that he was old, and there was more peace in his eyes.
He asked Wang Jixuan: "Do you want to control this Pillar Blade Beast to attack other Pillar Blade Beasts?"
"We have to avoid those Carrie Nos, otherwise the Carrie Nos may take away our control of the Pillar Blade Beast. No. 5 is only controlling the Pillar Blade Beast, not completely residing in the Pillar Blade Beast."
Wang Jixuan explained:
"There are things like operation logs in the Pillar Blade Beast's body. When the Psionicist civilization was at its peak, it did develop something similar to human mechanical technology."
"We have read the logs inside."
"The process of the Pillar Blade Beast rebelling against the Spiritualists began with those Carrie Nos, called 'Information Exchange Hubs', generating self-awareness and awakening the group consciousness."
"It was these Carrie Nos who gradually induced the Pillar Blade Beast to generate self, and then let the self of the Pillar Blade Beast kill sixteen Spiritualist souls who were the first to enter the Elysium Canopy."
"It is also because of this induction and induced relationship, the self-image of the Pillar Blade Beast is similar to that of the Carrie No, but the Pillar Blade Beast itself is too powerful, and it was designed to be at the top of the Blade Beast group, so the Pillar Blade Beast became the emperor, and the ordinary Carrie No became the prime minister."
"We have also checked some information exchange channels."
"You wouldn't want to know how many Pillar Blade Beasts there are in this star field where Earth is located."
Fu Jian asked in a deep voice: "How many?"
"Three hundred and ninety-two are active, and two hundred and twenty-six are sleeping."
Wang Jixuan said quickly:
"We have not yet obtained effective information on how Blade Beasts reproduce, and how Blade Beasts mine in various places, but we can also speculate roughly."
"The more civilizations the Pillar Blade Beast destroys, the stronger they will be, but the relationship between the Blade Beasts and other civilizations is like wildfire and dry grass. The more fierce the wildfire burns, the faster the dry grass will be damaged. When the dry grass is burned out, the Blade Beast civilization will also burn out."
"In other words, the Pillar Blade Beast relies on consuming the souls of intelligent life to maintain the operation of its inner Elysium Canopy, and the Elysium Canopy is the key to their self-awareness."
"If the Pillar Blade Beast does not destroy civilization, or the Elysium Canopy loses all supply of souls, it will shut down by itself."
"When the first group of Spiritualists designed the Pillar Blade Beast, they set up two modes."
"War mode, the Pillar Blade Beast is fully fired, kills people, absorbs souls, and becomes stronger the more it fights;"
“In standby mode, the Pillar Blade Beast is stationed on the edge of the planet, serving as a deterrent. Then, periodically sacrifice some slaves to maintain the Blissful Canopy's operation.”
Wang Ji Xuan changed his tone: “The reason the Pillar Blade Beast can move now is because of the large number of souls within it. The soul power stored previously hasn't been exhausted yet.”
Fu Jian asked: “The souls of those who died in battle?”
Wang Ji Xuan was silent for a few seconds, then slowly said: “They will dissipate. I don't have any Yin cultivation methods, only methods to refine them… I think you probably wouldn't agree to let these souls become my puppets or something.”
“If it's beneficial to the battlefield situation, it can be done.”
“I'm sorry, I can't do it.”
“Okay,” Fu Jian said slowly, “Just follow your own ideas. You've already helped us a lot, mysterious cultivator.”
“I cultivate immortality.”
Wang Ji Xuan smiled freely.
He didn't say much, closed his eyes, and let his mind return to the Otherworld Soul.
At this moment, he was among countless souls, gathered around that throne, with a colorful light membrane under their feet.
In the throne, Number Five's soul returned to its original appearance, like a queen of the night, constantly mobilizing one equilateral hexagon after another.
To be fair, the manufacturing process inside the Pillar Blade Beast is quite good.
The control interface is very simple, efficient, with low latency, and most importantly… there are absolutely no error icons near the ultra-large mecha control panel.
It really has the air of an advanced civilization.
It's just that the energy source is relatively singular, relying too much on psionic energy. If psionic energy and mechanics could be effectively combined, the improvement to human civilization would be quite significant.
Ah, right.
Time is pressing!
“Mudan! Quickly call Shen Qionglin over! Let her soul come in and learn a thing or two!”
“Yes!”
…
An unprecedented Blade Beast charge, breaking the boundaries of ordinary human imagination, is unfolding!
After being beaten for most of the day, the Sixth Pillar suddenly started moving again.
The human military did not confront the Pillar Blade Beast;
A large group of Blade Beasts ran wildly away from the Sixth Pillar;
And this Pillar Blade Beast was rushing headlong towards the northeast. Its trajectory was a straight line, occasionally turning to avoid human fortresses and settlements.
For more than a day, this Pillar Blade Beast was running or resting.
Blade Beast groups on the borders of major war zones were retreating, and some flying Blade Beast groups were circling outside the human borders, chasing this Pillar Blade Beast from afar.
No one had ever seen such a scene before;
A Blade Beast actually obeyed human commands;
And during this time, some photos began to circulate in the military networks of various war zones and space fortresses. The content of the photos was…
A group of half-human mechs and frontline psionicists were taking selfies and graffitiing wildly on the back of the rushing Pillar Blade Beast.
The whole event had a dreamlike quality to it.
Unlike the curiosity and excitement in most areas of the human world, the city on the Pillar Blade Beast's straight path, once known as the Star of Civilization, the de facto capital of human civilization, the Psionic Capital, had fallen into great panic.
They didn't get much effective information, only that the Black Storm had control of the Pillar Blade Beast.
The ruling faction was wailing, fearing a reckoning was coming;
The Naturalist faction was running around spreading the word, wanting everyone inside the Psionic Capital to unite… publicly acknowledge the evil deeds done to human society by the ruling faction's psionicists, and beg for forgiveness from Fu Jian and the Black Storm.
The old D1 war zone's high command was in turmoil, and internal political factions began a frantic reshuffle.
And a large number of psionicists quietly left the Psionic Capital, away from the Silent Sphere.
Inside the Silent Sphere;
The Six Elders, each with their nerves stretched tight, gathered in front of those three huge portraits, silently waiting.
Even Tai Shenggang was now somewhat at a loss.
He didn't expect it, really didn't expect it;
The worst-case scenario originally predicted by Tai Shenggang was that Fu Jian would directly block this Pillar Blade Beast, and then Fu Jian would turn around and attack them, seizing control of the Psionic Capital. The Psionic Capital would lose the political system it had operated for many years on the periphery, and thus lose its own barrier.
But the current situation… was reversed! Everything was fucking reversed!
The Pillar Blade Beast had become Fu Jian's war machine!
That group of Blade Beasts was so weak! They didn't even want their own king!
According to their calculations, the Pillar Blade Beast's relentless charge would break into the Psionic Capital in six hours, and would flatten the Psionic Capital in a very short time!
A crisis of life and death had come inexplicably!
Who could stand this!
However, they still had their last resort now…
Ding-a-ling.
The wind chime rang softly, and a figure slowly walked out of the mural, wearing an elegant and gorgeous golden long dress, carrying a sharp spear.
The god's health bar is showing.