Chapter 518 - 489: Electromagnetic Frenzy (Part 2)

In life, people who have lived for decades all have experiences that are etched in their bones:

The fear of being cornered, mistakes that can never be rectified, the burst of immense power in desperate situations...

As a mercenary, most people swear to themselves in the aftermath of these events that they will never again find themselves in such a predicament.

The man, saturated with noise, suddenly experienced a hallucination: he thought he saw his grandmother.

At that time, they were still farming in a small village in Eastern Europe, until Su Petrochemical’s tank troops declared that the land had been nationalized and placed under the management and cultivation of Su Petrochemical.

The sanctity of the national interest cannot be violated... so the land on which his family relied for survival had to consider the interests of the Soviet Federation.

Back then, he was just a seven or eight-year-old child, his emptiness and confusion at losing his home got crushed in the experience of a farmer lost in a big industrial city, until years later, until he learned to shoot and kill thugs like himself, until he was betrayed, until he spent his days thinking about drinking, taking drugs, and messing with women...

Only occasionally would he reminisce that, though farming was tiring and bothersome, it seemed somewhat more peaceful than his current life.

He saw his grandmother holding him, covering his eyes, and through the gaps in her fingers, he saw his grandfather yelling, "You can’t take away my land, it belongs to..." rushing towards the tank, and before he could finish his sentence, he was crushed to pulp.

Memories of the profound past and equally deep extremes of emotion were instantly triggered, mixing into a mental driving force...

V was accelerating faster and faster in mid-air, when suddenly she noticed her opponent, like a madman, fully pressing against the wall, taking all the impact without continuing to flee.

The power dissipated, and a completely reversed force exploded from the full body prosthetics, the extreme power nearly bursting the bionic components!

The abrupt change in speed made V tense up!

Bang!

A precisely tossed object was shot, deflected by V with her Mantis Blade!

The immense force caused her arm to shift, flinging the long data cables out with a whistling sound!

The motorcycle whipped around, slamming into the enemy’s abdomen, and the data cables also viciously struck V’s shoulder!

"You—can—not—take—take—away!"

The man’s face was obscured by the mosaic camouflage skin, but V could see the head beneath the mosaic skin opening its mouth—

This was somewhat creepy, since Eclipse’s head modifications didn’t include a mouth!

Boom!

The thruster erupted in flames, igniting from the broken surface of the prosthetics, completely engulfing the man in fire.

The machine body damaged, the propulsion stopped transmitting, and the Blast Ride fell downwards.

A slight mishap made the fall deviate from expectation...

Bang!

The motorcycle smashed onto the overpass, the direct fall made V somewhat dizzy.

It was this moment of dizziness that Lille noticed something amiss—

Legend Mackinaw didn’t slow down but dashed directly out of the alley onto the road, only to be met head-on by a Valentino truck flying towards them!

The people in the vehicle were already soaked in blood, Samson’s giant palm clutching the shattered head and steering wheel, the sensors frantically blinking!

Bang!

Vehicles collided, Samson jumped right onto the hood of Legend Mackinaw, completely ignoring Jack who was also launching an attack—

Samson’s thick cyborg arm rapidly transformed, and by the time it touched the car’s body, the arm had become some sort of projectile launcher, except this launcher seemed to be carrying some sort of super-hot, super-hard armor-piercing device...

Bang—

The device smashed onto the front armor and the arm explosively detonated!

Red-hot special armor-piercing spikes directly punctured the Chroni Titanium armored plate!

The armor-piercing shell warped and fractured, exposing the explosive core inside, making Lille’s hair stand on end. Thankfully, Little Octopus reacted quickly, popping the armor off with an Octopus Arm barrier.

Boom!

The majority of the explosion occurred outside the vehicle; Samson was impacted by the blast but didn’t flinch or dodge, instead preparing to fire a second Spiked Bullet—

Bang!

Jack raised his hand and fired four shots blowing up Samson’s head, his face filled with astonishment: Why had these people suddenly become so reckless?

"Mano!"

"I’m fine..." Lille’s half-body was burned by the explosion, but luckily Little Octopus was quick to push away the armor and used its arms to block the breach.

The explosion was mostly outside the car, but the singly Chroni Titanium piece was not small. The Octopus Arm couldn’t fully block the gap, and the high-temperature gas still blew in through the opening...

Frankly, such injuries would be severe for many, with extensive burns leading to inflammatory responses, blood loss, nerve pain, and a whole host of symptoms, but for Lille, they were all bearable.

Now, the only thought in his head was: What’s going on?

Mental disturbances caused by electromagnetic waves?

"Yi—Ha!"

From the sky, a Full Body Cyborg shouted a strange cry as he plummeted toward the car at high speed, clutching a Rocket Launcher in his hand!

Thump!

The Mantis Blade from V descended from the sky, and Blast Ride’s tires smashed on the cyborg’s lower half at the same time. As the tires spun, the blades pinned him down, completely shattering him in mid-air!

As he fell, V casually snatched the Rocket Launcher and pulled the trigger at another car chasing from behind—

Boom!

The rocket struck the side of the vehicle, which lost control and spun out, rammed by the trailing Valentino. After both cars stopped, Valentino’s boys recovered first, hoisting their guns and unleashing a life-extinguishing burst of fire inside, turning the vehicle into scrap metal with their technical weapons.

As the explosion occurred, the motorcycle crashed to the ground; V immediately grabbed onto the car window: "Hey, hey, hey! You still there?!"

"I’m here..." Lille swapped out a new claw for Little Octopus, "Something’s not right..."

Boom—

The kamikaze attacks weren’t just happening here; Valentino’s motorcade suffered a devastating blow!

It turned out that if Full Body Prosthetics Transformation survivors could use their full strength and commit wholeheartedly to battle, things weren’t going to be easy at all!

Samson and Eclipse, one strength-type Prosthetics, the other agility-type Prosthetics, combined their efforts perfectly to constrain the power of Valentino’s motorcade—

These thugs weren’t users of any advanced Prosthetics!

Moreover, something even more formidable had rejoined the fight:

A Centaur Mecha charged at Valentino’s motorcade, which only had technical weapons left, its shield blocking the shots while its searing War Blade was unsheathed!

With a fierce stomp of its legs, the Mecha leaped up; its wheels and track system slammed against the wall, the shield bracing against the ground as it swung the War Blade, gliding along the wall—

The red-hot War Blade pierced the shells of those vehicles like a hot knife through butter, ripping apart all the cars...

Thump.

The Mecha’s wheels hit the ground, and an entire Valentino squad was wiped out.

To hasten his body’s recovery, Lille once again overdosed on Lizard Serum, his charred skin quickly regenerating, and the Si Anweisitan re-entered its brain-burning mode.

In the world where time slowed, Lille saw something extremely strange about the Centaur Mecha’s pilot:

He was trembling, shaking periodically like an epileptic, his jaws slightly open as if his muscles were no longer pulling it, drool and oil both trickling out. He looked like someone with an intellectual disability.

But these movements were not something someone with an intellectual disability could perform.

Lille clearly saw that the pilot’s eyes emitted a quite noticeable blue glow, which...

Was gradually turning red, and kept getting redder.

Blue light signifies artificial programs that humans can understand and feel through the Jing Yuan-Brage Protocol.

Red light signifies natural information that humans cannot understand and feel—

[Blais: Tzzz... Tzzz...]

[Blais: Located... tzzz... AI....]

[Blais: Hold on... tzzz.]

Thump!

Within the Prosthetic System, illusory red sparks followed the damaged cables around, and then all the lights went out.

Only red, undetectable by the naked eye, remained in view...

Spreading like bone-embedded maggots, it extended into every circuit capable of carrying an electrical signal.

As the glow faded, all that remained were the red War Blade of the Centaur Mecha and the increasingly bright Prosthetic Eyes and sensors of the cybernetic psychos.

A synthetic voice, deeper and devoid of emotional fluctuation than Da Mai’s, sounded—

"魂を込めた刃で (Blade imbued with soul)... "

"今ここに閃く (Now it shines here)."

It was as if metal were being torn apart.