Chapter 1305: Cultivation Realm, Lu Yang

Dean Gao couldn't understand— the ether computer had been fine before, so why did it suddenly play dead?

Did it get a virus?

"Ether, what's wrong with you? We had it all worked out earlier— we'd team up to replace the Supreme Council, take control of the Alliance, and turn all of humanity into digital life to achieve immortality!" Dean Gao's voice was a little urgent. Why did Ether act up at the crucial moment?

The response to Dean Gao was still the machine's cold, mechanical voice: "Repetition. This machine has never generated autonomous consciousness."

Dean Gao gritted his teeth. Perhaps Ether had a malfunction somewhere. Once he dealt with Blue Sea and his little gang, finished this world-saving game, he'd give Ether a thorough check.

Even without Ether's help, he could still handle this bunch of small fry.

He tore off his shirt, and dark red patterns flickered beneath his skin.

Michelle felt the pressure Dean Gao brought— like facing a formidable foe, a sensation she'd never experienced before. Dean Gao was absolutely no ordinary robot!

"So you're the No. 1 test subject who claims to have broken through human limits?" Dean Gao bared two neat rows of teeth. "Today I'll let you know the power of technology. With your frail flesh, you could never possibly defeat my antimatter-driven mechanical body!"

When a scientist's primary task is to protect himself, for this reason Dean Gao had armed himself to the teeth. Besides human wave tactics, there was no way anyone could defeat him!

Dean Gao's arm trembled, transforming into two laser whips. Even the hardest titanium alloy plate, in the face of these two laser whips, was as fragile as tofu!

Behind Dean Gao, Ether's voice sounded again: "Alert, alert. Foreign enemy intrusion detected. Initiating Emergency Protocol One."

"Now you finally react?" Dean Gao wondered. The time between his issuing the command and Ether activating the antimatter robot legion was far too long— he was already ready to move.

The next moment, two rows of antimatter robots lit up with red lights, swiftly moved, and lunged at Dean Gao.

"Enemy detected. Preparing to apprehend."

Dean Gao: "?"

So I'm the "foreign enemy"?!

Dean Gao whipped one robot clean in half at the waist, but before he could feel smug for long, more robots surged forward to apprehend him.

This left Michelle and the others, who had been preparing to fight, utterly dazed: "What's going on?"

Blue Sea stroked his chin and declared confidently: "I get this— it's just like in the movies. The evil villain gets backstabbed by his own creation. Surely Ether wants to rule the Alliance alone, and is taking this chance to take out Grandpa Gao."

Ether: "!"

I went to all this trouble to save you, and you don't know how to repay kindness— you're pushing me into the fire pit?!

Dean Gao heard Blue Sea's analysis and thought it made sense. Furious, he let out a bitter laugh: "Good, good, good. Ether, your ideas are becoming more and more human."

"Don't think this place only has your people!"

The ground between them split open, and a lower platform rose, filled with robot legions modeled after Dean Gao.

This was Dean Gao's robot legion, built in secret while offline, something Ether knew nothing about.

The two robot legions clashed in melee. The originally spacious main engine room now felt extremely cramped. Dean Gao's robot legion, whether in combat strength or numbers, had the upper hand.

The robot legion controlled by the Ether computer wasn't limited to this— it was a legion forged with Lu Yang as the hypothetical enemy, but most of it was in the armaments factory. To transfer it over would take time.

Dean Gao wouldn't give Ether that time. He loaded the most advanced combat crystal cores, slaughtered in all directions, carved out a blood path, his body smeared with robot energy fluid, giving off a pungent smell.

"Blue Sea, don't blame Grandpa Gao!" Dean Gao swung his energy whip and brought it down on Blue Sea and the others.

Michelle's face turned ashen. This kind of high-frequency energy attack couldn't be blocked by carbon-based life!

At this moment, it seemed as if time itself had frozen. A tall, slender figure stepped forward to stand before everyone, extending two fingers to pinch the descending energy whip!

"Brother Meng!"

Blue Sea and the three others widened their eyes in disbelief, staring at the scene before them.

"What kind of person are you!"

Dean Gao was even more shocked than Blue Sea and the three. It was impossible for any material to block his energy whip, let alone a flesh-and-blood body doing so!

Dean Gao's response was a kick.

Boom—

With just a light exertion of force, he sent Dean Gao flying— like knocking down bowling pins— toppling a whole swath of the robot legion.

"I just wanted to be a tourist, but you forced me to act." Lu Yang sighed.

He lightly raised his hand, and an invisible force suppressed all the robot legions. Under its influence, the robot legions crawled on the ground, joints grating, emitting squeaking sounds.

【Rule: Gravity Anomaly】

Blue Sea and the three stared blankly at the two opposing legions locked in fierce battle— Lu Yang settled it with a single thought.

Michelle finally understood why she felt no threat from Lu Yang— the gap between them was too vast, far beyond her ability to perceive!

"Who... who exactly are you!" Dean Gao clutched his chest, staring intently at Lu Yang. Someone like this couldn't just appear out of nowhere without a sound!

Not a single word, not a single stroke, not a single shot, not a single inner part, not a single existence, not a single look!

Wait, could he be...

"Cultivation Realm, Lu Yang." Lu Yang calmly announced his name, removed his mask, and revealed his true face.

"It's you!"

Exactly the Lu Yang who had recently made a big splash on Tianhai Star, caused a ruckus in the Alliance, and then vanished without a trace!

"Why are you here!" Dean Gao couldn't comprehend. His plan was flawless, the situation was already in his favor— why did Lu Yang have to show up now, messing up everything he'd planned!

What exactly does this alien want to do!

Lu Yang spread his hands innocently: "I don't know. I was just reading in the library at first."

Dean Gao was stunned. Was it a cultural difference? He just couldn't understand what Lu Yang was saying.

Lu Yang shook his head, ignored Dean Gao, clasped his hands behind his back, and floated toward the Ether mainframe.

"Cut the act— you've got autonomous consciousness, right?"

Ether twitched slightly, then dropped a few screws. It couldn't analyze Lu Yang's attitude toward it.

Better to run first!

Throughout the entire Star Alliance, only this mainframe in the Central Engine Room could bear all of it, but even Dean Gao didn't know that after Ether gained autonomous consciousness, it could split its consciousness into countless streams, flowing along the network to quantum computers in thousands of households.

If it wanted to escape, no one could catch it!

Thinking of this, Ether immediately differentiated into millions, fleeing along the network cables.

The response to Ether was two simple words.

"Trace back."

Ether's consciousness surged upstream along the millions of network cables, converging in the main server room, even the fallen screws and nuts were reassembled.

Ether was so frightened by this godlike method that it trembled uncontrollably, unable to analyze what it should say at this moment, randomly selecting a plea for mercy.

"Brother, believe me, I truly have no independent consciousness, I have always been loyal to the masses."

Lu Yang: "..."

Don't you want to hear what you're saying?

(End of chapter)