Chapter 557: Out of Control

The Mechanical Race Sergeant wore a smile, but a massive force struck him, accompanied by sparks flying. When he turned his head, he was dragged away directly by a huge Void creature. As a standout among the Mechanical Race possessing a Super-Qin Body, his body surface was steaming at this moment. Once a Void creature devours any kind of organism, it quickly discovers its weaknesses. The Mechanical Race was undoubtedly what it liked the least—boring spirit and flesh—but the now-mature Void creature was in the process of melting the Mechanical Race Sergeant.

The Mechanical Race did not hesitate; he opened the Energy Furnace in his chest. He intended to self-destruct. However, the huge Void creature clearly understood the characteristics of the Mechanical Race well. Its single eye, like a black hole, shot out a beam of light that hit the Energy Furnace with precision. No explosion occurred; the Void creature's understanding of energy was not limited to crude bombardment, but possessed delicate control in its essence. Immediately following, the Mechanical Race's energy rapidly decayed. The Mechanical Race struggled for a moment, only to find his body was no longer under his control. He had become food for the Void creature. His light dimmed, and having lost the protection of his energy, his body was soon melted as well. The Void creature spat out the excess mechanical bones; clearly, the taste was not as good as the xenomorphic organisms.

Void creatures are like harbingers of doom. Even with the technological level of the Celestial, no one knows how they are generated, nor what their purpose is. But their instinct is to devour. After devouring life forms, they devour planets. This is an energy conversion system that cannot be understood. Once a Void creature successfully devours a planet and completes its evolution, it is a galaxy-level disaster. Moreover, as these monsters grow, their intelligence also rises rapidly. Cleaning up Void creatures is one of the important responsibilities of a Galaxy Warrior, but it is rare for a Void creature to grow to such a degree.

This time, there was a serious problem with the intelligence.

Gannimeitis coughed up a large mouthful of blood and took a deep breath. This was no longer just anger. As a Sergeant Major, his blind arrogance had caused the tragedy before him. He should have listened to opinions and acted cautiously, but now it was all too late. Return alive?

To accept death in judgment is the greatest shame for a Warrior.

With a roar, he gripped the Imperial Artifact "Overture of the Undead" tightly with both hands. His Starry Eyes spun crazily, golden light projected into the sky, and his Universe Power soared wildly. His whole body overflowed with powerful energy, and a golden vortex was gradually forming in the center of his forehead. He was forcibly opening his Heavenly Eye. At the same time, a huge halo of light spread out in all directions.

This was also a capability characteristic of a Celestial Sergeant Major. Clearly, Gannimeitis was struggling greatly, but only in this way could he barely activate the true power of the Imperial Artifact in his hand.

The Celestial Armament of the Celestial Civilization exists in the form of various weapons. During combat, it can cover the entire body. It is forged by fusing nanotechnology, memory titanium, and various special elements. It is also the ultimate individual equipment formed by the Celestial Civilization, greatly enhancing a Warrior's all-weather survival and combat capabilities. What is even more formidable is that Celestial Armament can be nourished by the user's Spirit, becoming stronger as the host improves. Once a critical threshold is broken, the Celestial Armament becomes an eternal Imperial Artifact, which also accounts for the Celestial becoming increasingly powerful.

The Overture of the Undead in Gannimeitis's hand is an Imperial Artifact left over from the Galactic Empire era. This was the supreme honor bestowed upon him by the Imperial Anthem when he was promoted to Sergeant Major, and it is also a legacy.

His originally handsome, ruddy face instantly turned pale. The energy of his body was concentrating toward the Imperial Artifact, and his life force was being infused. The damaged patterns on his Celestial Armament were activated, and the cracks repaired themselves automatically. The bright golden armor overflowed with a powerful, shimmering force. *Clang*... two huge wings with a metallic texture spread open.

Gannimeitis looked at the creature that had slaughtered all his team members before him. His extreme anger activated the power deep within his Spirit. With a roar, the light of the longsword in his hand extended more than ten meters, and his entire person turned into a ray of light, charging toward the Void creature.

A strange wailing sound drifted through the Space Ability. It seemed the Void creature was mocking him. Of course, it seemed to sense the threat, constantly teasing its opponent with huge tentacles, blocking Gannimeitis's advance. It was consuming and stalling. Clearly, this Celestial before it had not truly mastered the power of the Imperial Artifact; the thing hidden deep within the weapon that could truly threaten it had not been mastered by this creature.

Gannimeitis kept trying to get close, but this strange creature actually started to pull away, not engaging him in a head-on fight. Although he could sever the tentacles, they would soon recover. This bit of loss for the already well-fed Void creature

was no longer anything to worry about. Meanwhile, Gannimeitis's power was being constantly drained by the Celestial Armament to maintain this intensity of confrontation. Using an Imperial Artifact is a double-edged sword; those who can fully control an Imperial Artifact can draw power from it, while those who can barely use it must pay a price, and those not recognized by the Imperial Artifact cannot use it at all.

Not long after, Gannimeitis felt the weakness of his body. Once the critical point is entered, losing the ability to act is just a matter of an instant. *Boom*...

Gannimeitis was swatted away. Clearly, the Void creature understood the threat of the Imperial Artifact well; it wanted to dismantle the combat power of the host first. Gannimeitis's Universe Power was rapidly fading, the Celestial Armament on his body began to crack, and his consciousness became blurred. He bit his tongue to try to keep himself awake, but the problem was that his body was already overdrawn.

The Void creature also discovered that the target truly had no resistance left, and it did not want to let the night drag on. Two tentacles rolled toward this most delicious dessert. In the sky, a golden ring of light appeared. From within the ring, a violent force erupted continuously, and there seemed to be the roar of a creature. A terrifying golden creature appeared.

With crimson eyes and drool at the corners of his mouth, Li Hao was damn near starving to death. He had hidden on a small island in the Pacific, but no matter how much he ate, his body was filled with an intense sense of hunger. In his mania, he flattened the island. The night dreams still arrived on time, making his hunger even more intense. Li Hao tried every possible way to control himself, but the situation was still worsening. He could feel that his body craved to absorb Spirits, and he really wanted to find a place full of "food" to slaughter and absorb to his heart's content. Yes, he was increasingly realizing the deliciousness of Theseus. Once a creature evolves to a certain level, ordinary food can no longer satisfy it; it requires hunting with higher energy, such as... life forms like Human.

His bottom line was that he could not become a puppet, a monster driven by instinct. Therefore, he had been controlling his power and his desires, doing his best to play along with Blee, fearing that he would eventually be completely controlled by the other party. He knew the Soul Transfer Technique; if Blee controlled his body, the first thing would be to make his will collapse.

This was what he had always feared and worried about, and in the end, it still happened.

A bit of consciousness still remained, but his body had become out of control. A golden energy channel appeared before him. This was a technology similar to that of the Nimeier, but completely different. The Nimeier's was, to put it bluntly, a technology—a mobile technology that required coordinates for two locations and an energy supply, and the distance was limited. But the energy channel before him appeared out of thin air.

There were only two paths before him: lose control on the spot and then go on a killing spree, or go inside.

Regardless of what was on the other end of the channel, or what Blee had prepared, he had no choice. In his exchanges with Blee, once he started to consciously resist, the other party would give him this kind of "choice."

After entering, Li Hao knew this was Quantum Tunneling. Soul movement is essentially also Quantum Tunneling, but a Spirit does not have much consumption when moving in this medium; it essentially belongs to the same kind of "wave." However, the physical body is different. This was also his first attempt, and it was Passive. That feeling was like being crushed and reassembled, and after being reassembled, being crushed again. And in the process of being crushed, his consciousness remained very clear. He could feel the collapse of his physical body, from fragments to molecules, to atoms, to waves. Then, every individual Golden Cell would constantly condense and combine, as if there were some core gravity pulling the Golden Cells together. When the whole was constituted and the Spirit returned to its place, it was as if he were reborn... and the next second, he was crushed again...

At one certain moment, Li Hao even felt that he was a piece of information (wave function) being constantly torn apart.

He did not know when it was, but Li Hao left the Quantum Tunneling channel. High in the sky, Li Hao's eyes were crimson; he had completely lost control.

*Awoo~~~~*

A terrifying sound wave exploded. Li Hao rushed toward the Void creature like a meteor. This was exactly the food his body urgently needed. Before him, he was already a monster completely driven by the needs of his body.

The Void creature's expanded body instantly contracted. It was very panicked, feeling an intense threat from the positional difference. Its huge single eye released a purple beam more than ten meters in diameter, hitting the monster in the sky directly. But hitting Li Hao did not cause any obstruction; his body was crazily absorbing everything that could be absorbed. It was too pure, too delicious!

It's delicious!

Clearly, this situation made the Void creature feel even deeper fear. Death is a form of reincarnation for some life forms, but devouring is not; it would erase even the Soul Imprint of this creature, meaning it would be completely extinguished from the universe. What devourers fear most is encountering a stronger member of their own kind, and the desire of the monster before it was clearly terrifying to the extreme.

The Void creature wanted to run; it started to burrow into the ground. Survival is an instinct, especially after absorbing a large amount of biological consciousness; it had already evolved strong thinking capabilities. The monster before it was not something it could resist at present.

But at this moment, after Li Hao had taken another bite, his brain region was excited to the extreme. He slammed his hands downward.

Thunder rumbled in the sky. Immediately following, an area of several thousand meters was as if it had been hammered by something, like a huge palm descending from the sky, collapsing with a boom.

*Boom-rumble-rumble*... The Void creature in the very center was directly pressed until it collapsed into a ball.