Chapter 510: An Unimagined Angle

The Oblivious One blew up?

He never would have imagined that today he would helplessly watch the Oblivious One explode right before his eyes.

He didn't know what exactly happened, but the Oblivious One was one of the Abyss Institute's trump cards, having secretly helped them accomplish many objectives in the past.

Although the Oblivious One himself was just an ordinary lifeform, when combined with the Chains of Silence, he could silently eliminate powerful lifeforms.

And precisely because he himself was an ordinary lifeform, he could evade most conventional detection and thus accomplish his objectives.

Including assassinations of leaders of advanced civilizations, as well as taking action against certain powerful lifeforms.

Dispatching the Oblivious One to kill Li Yu was partly because of Gensokyo.

Back then, Shadow Demon helplessly watched as Li Yu controlled Gensokyo using special means, and the Abyss Institute didn't want to give up that dimensional world.

Therefore, killing Li Yu was an attempt. They suspected that the special means Li Yu used back then might be related to himself.

Even if they guessed wrong, they wouldn't lose anything. After all, this guy had many unknown good things on him.

But they never guessed it would result in this.

The Oblivious One directly blew up!?

He saw clearly that after the Oblivious One used the Chains of Silence to steal Li Yu's power, he fell into an aberrant state.

With his discerning eye, he could naturally tell that it was an internal collapse caused by the conflict of multiple gene chains.

But the problem was, the Oblivious One's ability was akin to a rule. He wasn't stealing a specific power, but rather taking over the lifeform's state as a whole from a higher level.

Therefore, he could even use the "Death Cross Mark" that Siegel activated relying on his own special bloodline.

Since multiple gene chains could achieve equilibrium within Li Yu's body, the Oblivious One should logically also be able to achieve equilibrium after stealing them.

But why did an uncontrollable genetic aberration occur in the Oblivious One, causing him to completely lose his vital signs at an extremely fast speed?

He couldn't figure it out, unless...

Within Li Yu's body, there was a power that the Oblivious One couldn't copy.

But the Abyss Institute had conducted experiments. Except for cases where the lifeform tier was too high to copy...

As long as the Oblivious One could successfully copy, there wouldn't be any problems.

Various thoughts swirled in his mind. Right now, his doubts temporarily couldn't be resolved, but the heartache was real.

However, what made him hesitate even more now was whether he should strike.

Due to the Oblivious One's powerful characteristics, they had only prepared a contingency plan for identity exposure—that is, dealing with retaliatory actions initiated by the Other-Dimensional Camp if they discovered the attacker was the Abyss Institute.

Now that the Oblivious One had blown up, it was completely outside the plan. The loss had already occurred. What they needed to do now was cut their losses in a timely manner.

...

In the battlefield, Li Yu looked at the minced meat covering the ground, a look of disgust involuntarily appearing on his face.

Then, he raised his palm, attempting to lift the black chains mixed in the minced meat, yet it had no effect.

Any power approaching those two chains would be neutralized.

Li Yu could only step forward, have the [Symbiotic Colonization Armor] clean up the surrounding minced meat, and then pick up the two heavy black chains.

They had shrunk to about one meter overall and looked like ordinary iron chains.

Li Yu swung the chains, clearly feeling the resistance transmitted from them. These things didn't seem to want to be used by him.

"They can even be picky about their owner?" Li Yu raised his eyebrows slightly. Without a user, the might of these two chains wasn't all that powerful.

The magic nullification could only affect objects touching them and couldn't expand its range.

"What happened?" Hunter descended with the transport ships. They had originally received Li Yu's order to come over and collect the spoils of war, but halfway there, they detected energy fluctuations.

He found that a chain man had popped out from somewhere at some point. It was just that this battle ended extremely fast, and he didn't even catch a glimpse of any details.

Li Yu shook his head and instructed: "Nothing much. Move all the Artificial God Statues inside away. Find the data port and copy all of Meditation's data. Destroy anything that can't be taken away on the spot."

"Also, collect all the minced meat on the ground. Don't miss a single shred of meat."

Li Yu didn't know whether the opponent's special ability came from the chains, or if he possessed it himself as well.

So he prepared to collect this minced meat and send it to Peyton for research.

The earth around the battlefield rumbled continuously. The planet's internal structure was collapsing, and the atmosphere had been completely destroyed.

It wouldn't be long before this ruined planet became a barren star.

"Okay." Hunter nodded, yet he subconsciously glanced at the black chains in Li Yu's hands, inexplicably feeling a palpitation in his heart.

He just hesitated for a moment, but didn't open his mouth to ask, instead going off to direct his subordinates to work.

Siegel appeared not far away. His expression was solemn as he said in a low voice: "This person wasn't from the Meditation Organization. There are other factions secretly watching you."

"Mm." Li Yu also understood this. Copy Man lying in ambush in the building storing the Artificial Gods was exactly to deal him a fatal blow after the battle had completely ended.

"Stop hiding, come out." Li Yu suddenly spoke loudly, his gaze deep and heavy. The [Infinity Gauntlet] in his hand flickered slightly: "I've already seen you. Hiding since the beginning of the battle."

"We are all old acquaintances, stop hiding and tucking it away."

Siegel instantly became alert, raising the Blade of Gungnir and adopting a defensive posture, carefully surveying the surroundings.

"Huh..." A soldier of the Black Pupil Fleet who was cleaning the battlefield stared at the ground in confusion.

"What's wrong?" a teammate beside him, who was holding a liquid nitrogen condensation canister to collect minced meat, inquired.

"Just now, I clearly saw a piece of minced meat here. Where did it go?"

They wore simple combat armor, their helmets open, holding [Purple Light Type-3 Explosive Rifles].

"You must have seen wrong. Did you jerk off to Kaflorine too much yesterday?" the teammate teased: "To even jerk off to that wolf beastman, you really are something."

"How many times do I have to explain for you to believe me? I only took that poster to pad the table leg." He shook his head helplessly, assuming he had just seen wrong, and continued to collect other minced meat pieces.

In a corner that no one noticed, a shadow was shrinking back.

"In what direction is the enemy? How is their strength?" Siegel cautiously inquired; he didn't sense any murderous intent.

Li Yu's expression was solemn for a moment before suddenly relaxing. He said: "There probably isn't an enemy. I just said that casually to see if I could bluff anything out."

Siegel: "..."

The unknown figure ultimately decided not to act. The reason he let the Oblivious One act was precisely because the Oblivious One left no traces.

No one knew the Oblivious One came from the Abyss Institute. They could sit calmly on the fishing platform.

But if he acted today, he would bring this conflict out into the open.

The Abyss Institute temporarily didn't want to have a head-on conflict with the Other-Dimensional Camp.

At least before figuring out exactly what was going on with that Super Evolved Being, they didn't want to create any conflicts.

Therefore, he merely secretly collected the Oblivious One's minced meat. He could happen to use this to study Li Yu's current physical state, and perhaps glean the Other-Dimensional Camp's technological level and some other secrets from it.

The most important thing was to figure out why the Oblivious One suffered genetic aberration while Li Yu wasn't affected at all.

...

In distant orbit, several factions were secretly communicating.

"They've already started clearing the battlefield. Are we going to make a move or not? If we wait any longer, we won't even get a sip of soup."

"What was the situation with that chain guy who just popped out? He seemed very strong, yet seemed very weak. How did he inexplicably blow up?"

"Who knows? Maybe it was the Meditation Organization's secret weapon. It was obviously garbage, a half-finished product..."

"I don't care about this guy. I just want to know if you guys are going to act or not?"

"Act? How? With just us people going up, it won't even be enough to serve as an appetizer. Those Divine Aggregates are all gone, and you still want to throw your life away?"

"Then what are we doing here? VIP viewing seats? Cheerleaders?"

"..."

A group of people discussed for a long time but didn't reach a conclusion. The channel gradually fell into silence again.

...

"A total of 246 Artificial Gods have been cleared out and have all been loaded onto the transport ships." Hunter came over to report.

"That's quite a few. It should be enough for me to use for a long time." A smile bloomed on Li Yu's face. He happened to have unlocked quite a few superweapons recently.

Hunter continued:

"Due to the aftershocks of the previous battle, the Meditation Organization's main server has suffered some damage, but we still obtained quite a bit of intelligence data from it..."

"And we have backed up the manufacturing method for Artificial Gods."

"The manufacturing method for Artificial Gods?" Li Yu stroked his chin. This was the core secret of the Meditation Organization and was extremely valuable.

With this thing, Li Yu wouldn't need to spread his believers on a large scale across interstellar space; he could directly use Artificial Gods to harvest leeks.

After all, large-scale preaching was rather troublesome. His familiarity with faith was far inferior to the Council.

Last time, he was reverse-tracked to his exact location through his believers. Next time, who knows what other methods they might have.

Within Gensokyo, he could cultivate primary believers, and in the external interstellar space, he would use Artificial God technology to harvest leeks—a two-pronged approach.

Anyway, now that the Meditation Organization had collapsed, who knew how many organizations had obtained the Artificial God technology. It would be very difficult to trace it back to him when the time came.

After all, the most abstract thing about confidential data was that it could be copy-pasted.

"Continue searching other places..." Li Yu glanced at the specific data. It was mostly things he hadn't heard much about.

Things like [Divine Limb Modification Specimens], [Believer Conversion Efficiency Experiments], [Anthropomorphic Concepts of Artificial Gods], etc., basically all extensions regarding Artificial God technology.

This entire planet was the Meditation Organization's stronghold. There were still quite a few experimental facilities in other places, and there should still be valuable things.

While waiting for his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, Li Yu brainstormed in his mind, trying hard to match Copy Man with a certain enemy.

It was just that this guy didn't have any distinguishing features on him, making it hard to find a specific suspect.

The main reason was that he had too many enemies...

As he was pondering, the Black Pupil Fleet hovering in distant orbit suddenly sent a message: the Black Net Organization requested to speak with Li Yu.

"The Black Net Organization?"

Li Yu looked at the holographic screen. What did this damn organization want?

Unhappy watching the show from space?

Yes, he knew someone was peeping. After all, the communication radio waves transmitted on public channels weren't encrypted and could be easily scanned.

As soon as the feed connected, a guy wearing a black mask jumped out. His voice was specially processed and difficult to distinguish.

"Greetings, Your Excellency Li Yu..." This guy acting all mysterious was actually somewhat polite.

"What's the matter?" Li Yu wasn't very polite. The reason these people appeared polite was because Li Yu's strength made them apprehensive.

He was very humble in his words: "We simply admire your great strength very much, so we took the liberty of contacting you."

Li Yu said directly: "My Black Hole Account is . Since you admire me, casually transferring a few hundred billion Star Coins into it isn't too much to ask, right?"

"Uh..." His tone stagnated slightly, and he chuckled awkwardly: "We just saw that your battle was arduous and wanted to help you clean up the battlefield..."

"Hah?" Li Yu felt like he misheard. What was this person talking about? Wanted to help him clean up the battlefield?

Wasn't this making it obvious that they wanted a share of the pie?

Where did this person get such thick skin?

"Are you... tired of living?" Li Yu revealed an inquiring expression without any murderous intent, as if asking him if he had eaten.

"This is the collective intention of our seven factions. You must have expended quite a bit of effort in the battle just now, right?" His tone remained humble:

"The main spoils naturally belong to you, but there's no need to waste effort on some of the other little things."

"Interesting..." Li Yu narrowed his eyes: "So you guys are banding together to threaten me. The Black Net Organization, a down-and-out old dog, also dares to threaten me!?"

These factions thought that after his successive huge battles, he currently had no strength left to fight, which was why they dared to coerce him.

The other party remained silent for a moment, his voice seeming to turn much colder: "If you are unwilling, you can just say so directly, and we will just leave. Why hurl insults."

Li Yu blinked, still somewhat unresponsive.

"Hmph, Your Excellency Li Yu, we will not keep you company anymore. Goodbye!"

Li Yu looked at the pitch-black screen with a strange expression. They were leaving?

Is this... bluffing me?

This bunch of crazy bastards had too many schemes in mind. Not daring to attack directly, they first came over to put on an act and bluff me.

If I agreed, they would make a huge profit; if I disagreed, they wouldn't lose anything either.

No... if my performance wasn't forceful enough, they might have really made a move.

Li Yu shook his head inwardly. According to the Black Pupil Fleet's scans, those few factions had indeed prepared to leave.

Well, I feel like I haven't been padding the word count recently, right? There have been three battles in this dungeon, and the combat processes were all different, as were the protagonist's methods of ending the battles.

Only the protagonist's battle was relatively detailed. Note that it's 'relatively'. The latter two were shorter.

Just saying a little bit. Anyway, thank you everyone for your support!

(End of Chapter)