Chapter 498

Su Xing knew that mechanical lifeforms possessed powerful immortal characteristics, so after hacking its massive body to pieces, he minced the remaining parts into fine meat paste. Only when this giant mechanical lifeform was completely annihilated did Su Xing finally heave a sigh of relief.

"It seems I still lack large-scale attack methods..."

Su Xing stood where he was, silently reflecting on this battle.

In itself, it held no real danger; the enemy's strength was not actually great. However, relying on its size and high-powered long-range weapons, strictly speaking, it was no less than a Martial Saint of pure Human Immortal martial arts. For instance, if Esi were to face this mechanical monster, one would only know who won or lost after fighting it.

Even so, it posed almost no threat to him. The reason he was injured by that laser was merely due to being caught off guard, and the fact that the laser was a close-range, wide-area attack. Moreover, to him now, that laser was only a minor injury.

The real reason Su Xing was deep in thought was that he did not have many attack moves for fighting entities of large or super-large sizes.

If described by combat type, Su Xing was strictly an anti-personnel combat type. Liang Min should be able to achieve anti-army or even anti-city levels, while Chu Minghao was strictly an anti-nation, anti-planet, and anti-realm combat type.

This did not mean Su Xing was weak. In fact, although there was still a huge gap in strength between him and Liang Min and Chu Minghao, he was indeed catching up to them step by step. At the same time, as the number of times his super-brain awakening program was executed increased, his super-brain would become even more powerful than theirs in the future. Even now, Liang Min and Chu Minghao would absolutely not dare to let Su Xing within five steps of them.

It was just that Su Xing was simply most adept at anti-personnel combat, fighting individual targets.

"... It seems I need to pay attention to improving area-of-effect attacks next. It's a pity I didn't obtain the internal cultivation method of Human Immortal martial arts; otherwise, I could have cultivated into a Ghost Immortal, and then I would have had an attack range too." Su Xing muttered to himself.

Just then, Su Xing saw A1 and the other six members of the Ruoye unit. They were each carrying weapons and about to enter the camp battlefield, but they were not surrounding him. Although Su Xing could not perceive their emotions, he could easily judge their combat targets. These seven handsome men and beautiful women were actually intending to fight side-by-side with him?

"What the hell, they were shouting about killing me just a moment ago..."

Su Xing was about to speak to the seven of them when his brow suddenly twitched, and he shouted directly at them: "Back off!"

As the words fell, the ground burst open. From the place where the mechanical lifeform had previously emerged, a source of light rushed out wildly. While tearing the ground apart, it carried Su Xing and charged toward the sky.

This was a silver-white humanoid entity over three meters tall.

Its body and facial features were seven or eight parts similar to a human's. Its entire body was silver-white with a streamlined physique; its arms were blade-like, and it had metallic wings on its back. Its movements were astonishingly fast, and at the same time, its twin blades danced like the wind. An ordinary person might even be hacked into meat paste before seeing the blade shadows. From the moment it rushed close to attack Su Xing, only zero-point-a-few seconds passed, and then its twin blades clashed with the broken half of the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade at least hundreds of times.

A huge sound accompanied by wind-breaking ripples spread out, and the entire earth trembled. These spreading ripples roared like sonic weapons, and even elites like A1 and the Ruoye unit could not withstand it. Their faces were horrified, and defensive force fields appeared on their bodies, but they could only desperately resist the sonic roaring.

As the newest and strongest androids, they were actually unable to intervene in the battle between an ordinary human and a high-rank mechanical lifeform!?

And at this very moment, that high-rank mechanical lifeform was roaring and laughing wildly, looking like a mental patient who had finally found their organization.

"Are you a human? Are you a human? Are you a human? You..." Its simulated humanoid head kept emitting such roars.

"... Of course I'm a human!"

Su Xing felt annoyed. He slashed horizontally and vertically with the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade in his hand, and his Qi burst forth, forcefully knocking away the mechanical lifeform's twin blades. Then, he slapped its chest with one palm. With a thunderous explosion, the Qi burst out from behind its body, forming a visible torrent of Qi that rushed out at least a thousand meters away.

A huge gap exploded directly on the mechanical lifeform's chest. The Qi surged and eroded, and ash-like diffusion began from this gap. The mechanical lifeform also fell to the ground at the same time, and a large amount of mechanical flesh immediately seeped from the ground to pour into the mechanical lifeform's wound. However, it still could not stop the result of its chest gradually turning to ash; it could only slightly delay the destruction.

Yet, unexpectedly, the mechanical lifeform did not struggle after falling to the ground, but lay there looking at Su Xing.

Su Xing descended from the sky, carrying the Heroic Spirit Shattering Blade and walking toward the mechanical lifeform step by step. At this moment, the mechanical lifeform suddenly spoke: "Do you like reading books?"

Su Xing was stunned for a moment. He stared at the mechanical lifeform for a few seconds and said: "Yes, I like reading science fiction, Wu Xia, Xianxia... and so on. So what?"

The mechanical lifeform's eyes seemed to light up, and it immediately asked urgently: "Reading books, what exactly is the feeling of reading books?"

At this time, A1 and the others also slowly walked to a distance of more than ten meters behind Su Xing, each standing there silently to guard Su Xing's back.

Su Xing naturally did not know the seven people's intentions, but since they had no hostile behavior toward him, he couldn't be bothered to care. He just frowned and asked the mechanical lifeform: "What do you mean? I don't understand what you want to express."

The mechanical lifeform's eyes had light flickering... not an adjective, but truly flickering like light bulbs. Then it immediately said: "A book, hundreds of thousands of words, millions of words, the amount of information is very small. No matter what is recorded inside, I can scan, analyze, and understand it in zero-point-zero-zero... one seconds. Whether it's the foreshadowing in the book, the hidden threads, or even the author's growth, insights, and logical contradictions when writing, I can parse them thoroughly, but..."

"I can't feel what is described in those reading notes, as if I have an emotional resonance with the author. Does this... count as reading books?"

Su Xing was silent for a long time. He sat down beside the mechanical lifeform, looking into its human-like eyeballs. After more than ten seconds, he said: "This involves too many things. First, humans have emotions. This kind of emotion is not only recorded in books, but also appears in many artistic expression carriers. The so-called resonance is not just the content in the book, but more of the emotion entrusted in that book..."

The mechanical lifeform looked at Su Xing. Its entire body's ash annihilation had spread, its entire chest cavity was empty, its upper and lower body were completely severed, its lower body was rapidly withering, and its upper body had already withered to ash at the trachea. Its voice began to distort: "Why can't I feel this entrusted emotion? How is this emotion described by a program? How can I feel this emotion?"

Su Xing was silent again. He shook his head and said: "You are not a human; you cannot feel human emotions."

The mechanical lifeform's withering and decay had reached its mouth. It said in a leaking voice: "How can I become a human..."

Su Xing did not answer. He stood there silently for a long time. Only when the entire mechanical lifeform completely disappeared and dissipated did he stand up and say: "I don't know how to turn from a monster into a human either..."

After speaking, Su Xing turned his head to look at A1 and the others. And inexplicably, the attitude of these seven people toward him was simply respectful to the extreme, completely different from when they first saw him.

However, Su Xing could also understand; after all, his strength was off the charts. He didn't use any high-tech weapons. Others might not have seen it at first, but there was no way to hide it now. Naturally, this was beyond the standard.

Think about it: in the 21st century, monsters were rampant, humans were in a doomsday scenario, and then suddenly a superman descended from the sky, not using guns or missiles, but directly slaughtering those monsters with his bare body. Then humans would absolutely express respect to the point of reverence. As long as this extraordinary being was a human, acted like a human, then electing him as the Emperor of all mankind was possible.

Su Xing said to A1: "Know now? I didn't use high-tech weapons to fight."

A1 and the six Ruoye unit members nodded at the same time: "Yes, we know, you are a human. A member of the vast human race, not a mechanical lifeform, but an ordinary human."

"Yes, ordinary... human?"

As Su Xing spoke, he felt something was wrong, and he rarely saw the "clueless index" start to drop. This certainly made him gratified, but it also made him even more clueless.

Can fly, can fight, can hack a thousand-meter-long mechanical monster into meat paste... an ordinary human?

Or did he misunderstand the other party's meaning? Did the other party want to express that they didn't see him as a monster and still recognized his human identity?

Just when Su Xing was clueless, he suddenly stopped thinking and looked up at the sky.

At the zenith, a light that was becoming more and more brilliant and bright gradually appeared. The brightness of that light even began to gradually exceed the sun.

"Orbital weapon!?" A1 said in horror.

The other six were also full of terror. They said to Su Xing at the same time: "Please leave this place as soon as possible! The destruction range of the orbital weapon is 500,000 square kilometers, but the explosion speed after landing is not that fast yet!!"

While speaking, they were about to ascend to the sky to meet the landing point of that light. Before it landed, the attack range of the orbital weapon was only ten meters in diameter. As androids of the Ruoye unit, the defensive force fields on their bodies were very powerful. Even though they knew this could not withstand the orbital weapon for a second, they did not intend to sit and wait for death when it came to the core of protecting humans.

But the next moment, Su Xing rushed toward the sky at a speed far exceeding theirs, leaving only seven people stunned in mid-air.

"... Can an ordinary human's body withstand an orbital weapon?"

The beautiful woman with long black hair, a miniskirt, and suspender stockings asked.

Everyone was blank, and then a question suddenly arose in their hearts...

If an ordinary human's body could withstand an orbital weapon and treat it as a basic operation, then... why did humans at that time invent these "weapons" that could not cause them any damage at all?

Was it for fun?

(End of chapter)