Soul of Burning Steel

The other end of time and space.

The bloody battle in the galaxy, the territory of the court of Amos.

Although it is said that there is no night and day in the void, according to the traditional customs of the Amos people in the major star regions, this time is the time to rest.

After long planning and preparation, Mycroft's temporary latent spy Kreller and Alien International friend Alma are now ready to launch an exploration operation on the royal court of Amos - to be honest, although this matter and The original goals of the two have nothing to do with each other, but any intelligent creature will always have a curiosity that can kill him. This is the case with Kreiler and Erma today. Under the influence of a certain adult, they are sincere Sincerely want to explore the truth behind Wang Ting's strange situation.

After all, behind them, there is an amiable God of Steel watching them.

"Are you ready, Kreller?"

Compared with the alien tentacle, Elma looks more like a tall human woman at this time. At this time, she is repairing the front port of the void battleship. It can be seen that her whole body is filled with materialized life energy, which is consistent with the main engine of the battleship. port for information exchange, and behind her, a black-haired human youth touched his clothes uncomfortably, and then reluctantly said: "Get ready... Uh, so, let's just drive the battleship like this ...To be precise, use your body to go out for a walk?"

Kreil now also knows the specific life style of the Amos people... In the royal court of Amos, most of the people in charge of physical labor are concocted "flesh and blood mechanical servants", a strange half-biological and half-mechanical man-made Life forms, and the Amos who have experienced the "Shenguang Trial" (magic energy radiation exposure), are generally divided into three categories: "war", "thinking" and "universal", dealing with combat, scientific research, and Class culture, production and finishing fields.

The Amos of the thinking category are generally concentrated in a few tightly protected man-made star fields, and the Amos the Great personally sent down power to guard them. The Amos of the war category and the Amos of the universal category are both It has evolved to the point where it can enter and leave the void. Only when it reaches this point can it hold citizenship and speak out on various topics. Among them, the three categories can be converted to each other, and Erma is a typical example. She has experienced all three categories, and her body naturally has the ability to enter and leave the void.

In other words, it is a large biological warfare ship.

Knowing this, Kreiler was still inexplicably shocked. It was difficult for him to understand that the figure in front of him was just an interactive terminal, and the battleship under his feet was the body of 'Erma', but he soon accepted this Setting - Mage tower and tower spirit, weapon and weapon spirit, why is it strange that a ship has a ship spirit, understand and understand.

What really makes Kreiler feel uncomfortable is actually the clothes on him: this clothes are actually a part of Erma's body, the active substance secreted by the other party in front of him... It is alive, used to have real-time sex with him A tool for communicating and detecting physical conditions. To be honest, as a young man in his early twenties, when he saw Erma's tall and beautiful human appearance, he was still wearing such a 'clothes' that could be regarded as a part of the other's body, Kreiler really felt embarrassed.

But it is obvious that Erma, a friend of Alien Star International, does not have this consciousness. She replied quite naturally: "I am a high-level individual with the authority of 'commander', and I have the authority to enter and exit various confidential facilities. I do, ninety-five percent of the secrets are no secrets to me."

"However, the abnormality of the royal court this time is exactly the 5% that I don't know. It is the last resort to go to the star domain uplink database and crack it forcibly to obtain the information. Before that, I want to observe the surrounding situation and see See if you get anything."

It was a very reasonable logic of action, and Kreiler himself had no intention of objecting. Just like this, the two of them started to slowly set off from Erma's private void anchor point and began to sail in the star field, in a state of shock.

The calm void is like a sea without undercurrents, and the battleship is like a giant beast in the sea, swimming slowly.

The star field where Elma is now is located in a relatively biased frontier area of ​​the bloody battle galaxy. The royal court does not have strict control over this place, so Elma can secretly prepare a plan to break away from the control of the royal court and hoard materials for this. Of course, Even so, there is also a well-established community in this star field, and a large number of Amos live here.

At this moment, it is late at night for most civilians in this star field, but for individual combatants, they do not need sleep to adjust and rest themselves, so they can see that there are many groups of void battleships patrolling in the star field, Block the main road.

Elma's body is an anti-detection warship that can fully sneak. The specific style is a fusiform whole, and detection tentacles that can be derived from both sides. Although it is said that Erma can activate the stealth posture operation, but this time she revealed her full form in an unusually high-profile manner, cruising in the void in a translucent posture that shone with fluorescent light.

Kreller was naturally a little nervous about this, but he knew why. As a member of the royal court, Elma naturally knows the various rules and unspoken rules within the royal court. As an individual with the authority of a commander (Peak of Ultimate Intent), her access will not be restricted by most of the patrols. Attention, which is only asked when entering or leaving important facilities, is a privilege.

In fact, as expected, those patrol spaceships with black shells that looked like an upside-down iron fist stopped when they noticed Erma's body, and respectfully sent out a signal of goodwill, and occasionally appeared The captain of the patrol team (the larger trapezoidal pyramid spaceship) only sent an inquiry signal, which was a routine matter, but Erma did not reply to the former signal, and the latter also dealt with it casually, and then continued in the void naturally. wandering.

"The martial law inside the star field is very serious. Usually, even in the middle of the night, there will be some wandering individuals, but now, in the entire star field and more than a dozen worlds, only patrols and some authorized military personnel can be seen. "

Inside the battleship, Elma's humanoid avatar has a serious expression: "When we confronted the Annihilation Cult on the front line, the frontier star field was not under such a state of martial law. I am afraid that only the control during the period of total war can be compared with the present - Clay Le, as an individual of the royal court of Amos, I can only think of two possibilities: 'the royal court is preparing for war', or 'the royal court is defending against the World Eaters', but the matter may not be that simple, what do you have? view?"

Elma knew very well that although her knowledge was extensive, it was likely to be limited by the social characteristics of the Amos. Although Kreiler could not be called a wise man, at least she had the perspective and light of another race. Points can be used for reference.

"My opinion." Hearing the question, he paused for a moment. After all, Kreiler was also an elite Mycroft who had received the education of the captain. He thought for a moment, and then replied: "This situation is a bit like back then." During the plague of the mad dragon, the cultists spread the plague, the empire was under martial law, and every household had to be independent, only knights and patrols patrolled, to avoid the appearance of the plague spreading due to population flow.”

"Of course, it's also a bit like some highly mobile monsters or cultists have appeared. They lurk into the city, so martial law must be imposed to find the other party's trace."

When it comes to this, Kreiler can't help but feel a little absurd—what plague can spread across the void? And what kind of Warcraft monster can make the entire huge galaxy empire martial law?

And it's not one, but two, Thakur's Annihilation Order has been doing the same recently, two huge xenophobic void forces are so ready, how can a mere plague and monsters do this.

Impossible.

The star field where Erma is located is not large, and the void situation is not complicated. Soon, most of the area has been detected, and there is nothing unusual except the martial law. The internal news and various notices of the royal court can also be regarded as is normal.

At this point, Kreiler did feel that Elma was special. This Amos had a suspicion and action ability far beyond the average Amos. She only relied on a little metaphysical sense and 'Guessing', I found a few mistakes in the seemingly normal star field.

"Xinba's family lives in this void settlement, but time and space fluctuations show that no individual has entered or exited this settlement for more than ten days and nights."

Inside the spaceship, Elma thoughtfully reconstructed the afterimage of the time-space trajectory on the light curtain. She imitated Kreil with a serious face, bit her lip, and said softly: "I suspect that something may have happened to the Xinba family. ...have to find a chance to see what's going on inside this settlement."

"Infiltrate and explore, leave it to me, your goal is too big, you can't stay here for long."

At this moment, Kreil also knew that it was time for him to show his strength—the black-haired young man stood up, and he put one hand directly on the black and gold belt around his waist, and said in a low voice: "Crisis management system, activate! "

"Load the extraordinary plug-in Shadow Gold!"

【Loading complete—Are you ready? 】

"In armor!"

The quick and short communication passed by in a flash, accompanied by the subtle mechanical vibration sound, from the belt around Kreiler's waist as the source, large groups of black dust and mist spewed out, surrounded by golden lines, like lightning, Completely enveloping Kreiler—and the next moment, all the dust and golden lightning shrank suddenly, and then turned into a strange black and gold full-coverage armor, completely enveloping Kreiler, and he could see the top of his head and shoulders An unquenchable dim flame is burning everywhere, and at its core, golden sparks flicker.

Pretty handsome, even with the aesthetics of the Amos. On the side, Elma, who was watching this scene, couldn't help but have such a thought in her mind.

[The special installation version of Qiao's system is launched...Link to the crisis management system, and start modular processing...Supernatural Armor·Golden Flame is fully activated]

[Latent, surprise attack, cutting grass and roots, we are all flames in the shadows! 】

"Activate, 'Path of Shadows'!"

Without any hesitation, Kleil, who activated the extraordinary armor, immediately used the most core of the extraordinary abilities of the armor, the 'Shadow Path'! It can be seen that a small knife that seemed to appear completely from the shadow suddenly appeared in his hand, and Kleil, with the assistance of Erma, threw the knife in the right direction without hesitation.

Then it could be seen that a black streamer passed away in a flash, and sank straight into the void settlement not far away.

Shadow Path!

Obtained from the shadow power of Goliath, the demon king of the sixth abyss, combined with the material control ability of the legendary warrior Radcliffe, the resulting power is in line with extraordinary abilities!

[Create a shadow knife and throw it in any direction to form a shadow path. As long as the user is within the range of the shadow path, it can penetrate almost all space-time barriers, energy defenses, material walls and positions shield. 】

[The results of the thirty-seventh experiment on the power of shadows were quite effective, but Goliath seemed very unhappy...'I didn't come to be an experimental animal! ',What does it mean? 】

【—Mr. Radcliffe, a combat researcher who does not want to reveal his name】

Slightly nodding to Elma at the side, Kreiler flew directly along the path of shadows, the seemingly long distance can only be crossed in an instant, even the detection organs deliberately prepared by Erma can't I didn't see how Kreller crossed this path of shadows.

"It's like a leap!"

At this moment, Kreiler has entered the void settlement, but Erma's voice can still be heard, because the clothes on his body are part of the opponent's body... But Kreiler has no time to care about Erma at this moment Said something, because in the spirit, the warning from the crisis management system pierced the eardrums.

【warn! Abnormal biomass detected! 】

【warn! Perceived foreign material erosion! 】

【warn! Large-scale microscopic life forms are approaching! 】

What the hell? !

Even though he was mentally prepared for the danger inside the Void Settlement, Kreller did not expect that the danger would come so quickly and be so unusual—he just raised his head and glanced at it, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about it. The walls and the hall were attacked by strange things that could not be seen at all!

"Damn, can you only use this?!"

As a last resort, Kleil could only use the second extraordinary ability [Shadow Desolation] of the extraordinary armor - Youjin Zhiyan.

According to the past few activations of the extraordinary armor, Erma and Kreiler know that the golden flame has four powerful extraordinary abilities, [Shadow Path], [Shadow Desolation], [Sun Flame Refraction] and [Embers Fall]

Among them, [Shadow Path] is to move and hide. You can throw it out for long-distance displacement, or throw it under your feet to hide yourself in the shadows. [Yangyan Refraction] can create a small group of steel mist around the body, which is a complete stealth method, which can completely eliminate all traces of Kreller's breath, energy fluctuations, etc., and can also be turned into a shield in times of crisis , offset and reflect a part of non-physical energy damage.

As for [Amber Fall], it is a complete life-saving skill with an extremely long cooling time, but it has a great effect—when the wearer encounters fatal danger, the crisis management system will forcibly burst out the full power of Shadow Gold, Send out a legendary blow, and at the same time, regardless of whether the wearer is dead or not (most likely dead on the spot), the body will be burned to ashes, and the soul and the core of the shadow gold will be transmitted to a part of the ghost that was cut out in advance. Next to the Shadow Gold Fragment, and then perform regeneration recovery.

In addition to special skills, the armor can also greatly improve the wearer's physical fitness and reaction speed. There are also various auxiliary combat systems. I am afraid that they can defeat ordinary extraordinary professions who are not proficient in combat.

And [Phantom Desolation] is the only means of attack for the entire Youjin Flame Armor——use the surface of the armor as the origin to create a layer of black body space, and all the material energy that hits this space will be destroyed by the steel in the space. Disintegration and smashing of force is the most perfect means of combat, except that it cannot be used remotely. However, in addition to this, there is another shortcoming that is not considered a shortcoming. Because the power of Shadow Desolation is too great, it is likely to accidentally injure teammates or absorb teammates' attacks, so it cannot be deployed when there are many friendly forces. Only When sneaking in and surrounded by many enemies, when the user is preparing to break out or wipe out witnesses, it can exert its power to the maximum.

With the activation of Shadow Desolation, a dim shadow appeared on the surface of Kreiler's body. As soon as it appeared, it immediately caused clusters of dark golden flames to ignite in the seemingly empty space around them, and continued to move towards As it spread in all directions, Kreiler looked around in shock. Of course he knew that this was a vision of the invisible existence in the air corroded by the power of steel, but he still didn't understand what it was that attacked him.

"...Kreiler, go find the... corpse of the Xinba family."

Erma, who witnessed all this with the black-haired young man in real time, was the first to react. She soon knew that the "universal logistics staff" living here, the Xinba family she was quite familiar with, might have encountered an accident, but the sadness and Anger did not make her hesitate for a moment, and Elma pointed out: "The Xinba family is not big, they are a professional logistics family, while living in this empty settlement, they are also responsible for maintaining the safety of passing patrols and fighters." Body and machinery. Most of the time, they should be around the maintenance workshop in the lower middle of the settlement."

"OK."

Kreiler naturally had no objection. He raised his head and looked around the hall... I have to say that the size of the Amos is not comparable to that of humans. The ordinary door of the other party looks like the triumphal arch of the capital of the Far South Kingdom. As huge as he is, he is like a villain who has entered the kingdom of giants. However, with the support of the extraordinary armor and the guidance of Erma, he quickly passed through the corridors and came to the surrounding area of ​​the maintenance room in the middle and lower floors of the void base.

Along the way, Kreiler encountered several invisible and insubstantial attacks, but they were all resolved by Kreiler using Shadow Desolation. Soon, Kreiler encountered his first target.

A huge, snail-like biological corpse.

This corpse is located in the center of a corridor, almost blocking the road. It is a full 40 meters long, 25 meters high, and an astonishing 20 meters wide. Its main body is a huge, alloy material The metal volute, and what supports this metal shell is a soft carbon fiber column like a network—that seems to be the skeleton in front of this creature.

There was no flesh and blood on the corpse, and there was no pus or carrion on the ground. The entire corpse was clean. Even if Kreiler used Shadow Desolation to approach, he did not sense the existence of invisible danger—the corpse was empty. , nothing, nothing left.

"What kind of creature is this..."

Kreiler was naturally surprised. He stared at the huge corpse that was as large as a building, and couldn't help but sigh: "This is the Amos? You are so huge. Even the logistics staff have huge bodies. Such an amazing body!"

"wrong!"

But Kreiler heard Elma's dignified voice: "No! The corpses of Simba's family are not like this... They chose to evolve from the information processing system of a specialized 'brain'! They don't have such a burdensome shell at all. The things that are used are usually soaked in the nutrient solution in the maintenance room to deal with the problems of material transfer and maintenance logistics!"

"Go and look elsewhere. This may be the body of another Amos."

Kreil naturally didn't care. With the help of the Shadow Path, the various walls and blocked gates of the Void Settlement were useless to him. In less than ten minutes, he walked through the entire Void Settlement every corner of the

And in the process, counting the first one, he found a total of five corpses in one corner of the maintenance room - one with a huge snail shell, one with solid bone wings, and one with no specific image , only a group of broken skeletons remained, and one only remained the crystals that should be eye crystals.

And the strangest thing is the last corpse—he also grew a huge metal shell, but there were two huge jet ports behind the shell. A flesh engine, allowing it to accelerate forward.

"...five bones are the population of Xinba's family...the eldest son who is in charge of engineering, the mother who transports materials, the second daughter who controls the machinery, the second son who is in charge of observation, and the father who is in charge of maintaining the void battleship."

Elma murmured: "Although this corpse is completely different, it has left obvious features...and these shapes feel very familiar..."

Soon, she suddenly remembered her familiar feeling: "Wait, aren't these shapes the special abilities and special individual prototypes that we Amos evolved in the past?!"

"This is an atavistic mutation!"

And when Erma, who was walking back and forth in the surrounding star field, recalled where the familiar feeling came from, Kreller suddenly received a reminder that the 'crisis management system' fed back an important message.

[The extremophile ontology has been successfully identified: the forced evolution of molecular-level autonomous organisms (temporary name: Extreme Virus)]

[Effect: Forced evolution of the host, consumes a lot of energy, 100% unlocks the potential of the host, and randomly evolves it to the limit state of a certain level]

[Reminder: If a non-extreme-level existence is infected with this evolution body, it will experience an irreversible collapse of the essence of life. In the case of insufficient energy, one in a hundred billion may successfully evolve to the limit state. In the case of sufficient energy, some One in a million may successfully evolve into the limit state, and the loser will consume all the energy that can be consumed, including but not limited to fat, muscle fibers, blood...]

[Final conclusion: super-dangerous extraordinary virus! 】

[Suggested treatment measures: Complete elimination! 】

[Precautionary measures: complete material isolation, throwing infected material into the star, or roasting it at a high temperature of more than 12,000 degrees for 20 seconds to destroy its shell and completely inactivate the virus! 】

[Real-time countermeasures: emergency escape! 】

I originally wrote it all in one breath, but it turned out that the plot was too long and could only be divided into two chapters...

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