Chapter 186 Ruins of Binhai
When Song Shi opened his eyes again, he saw himself standing on the top of a building with most of its surface covered with algae.
The sky glowed with a thick dark blue, and fissure-like flowing clouds slowly passed by, casting blocky shadows one after another.
The air is filled with the unique salty smell of sea breeze and the lingering smell of rust.
Song Shi glanced around and found that the building under his feet was not an exception - to the end of the field of vision, and even beyond the end, there were ruins everywhere, and many buildings were even soaked in some kind of sticky blue. In the fluid, the whole body was entangled in huge algae of various colors.
It is reminiscent of the ships that were dragged to the bottom of the sea by those huge deep-sea phantom beasts in the past during the Age of Discovery.
“—This is [Binhai Ruins].”
Lapis Lazuli’s voice came from Song Shi’s chest, and it turned into a necklace again.
"Good luck. This is an abyss area that has been explored. There is relevant information for reference." It paused and said cautiously: "The danger coefficient of this area is considered to be medium or low. This is the first time. The dive starts well.”
The abyss is big, very big.
In a sense, today's abyss is a city of all network users - considering the popularity of the Internet, this "all network users" can be approximately equal to all human beings.
[The Abyss] is a "dream" for all mankind.
If we were to select dreams, then the abyss would undoubtedly be the most bizarre and magnificent dream. With the daily use of network users over the years, nearly endless information and data have accumulated here along with redundant spiritual energy, forming an unprecedented spectacle.
Considering omnics, a small number of phantom beasts with high intelligence exist. They will also go online and indirectly participate in the formation of the [Abyss].
Everything that exists in reality will exist here, and everything that exists in imagination will also exist here.
"The Ruins of Binhai."
I have no impression at all.
Song Shi recalled it and thought to himself.
In my previous life, I didn’t dabble much in the [Abyss]. Although my highest dive was into depth 6, that time was considered an accident. After only staying for a short while, I surfaced and returned to reality.
The highest depth that I have ever truly moved to should be "depth 5".
At that time, I accepted the employment of an abyss lord as an off-site aid to help him fight a bloody battle - to be precise, it was a bloody battle between abyss lords.
To be promoted from [Demon] to [Abyss Lord], the former must build and occupy a network of his own through bloody battles in the abyss, and have his own territory in the abyss. This is also the origin of the name Abyss Lord.
Abyss lords and abyss lords can also launch bloody battles and annex each other's territory.
As a fourth-ring psyker in my previous life, under the shielding cover of my employer, I airborne from orbit, broke into the opponent's territory alone, and successfully beheaded him.
But there is a saying. When killing an abyss lord in the [Abyss], the opponent's difficulty level is several notches higher than reality.
If he were in reality, even if he was also a fourth-level psychic, he would be sure to kill him within twenty-five moves. However, in the abyss, the opponent actually took a hundred moves to die.
“I saw the derivative body.”
Song Shi suddenly spoke.
Four hundred meters ahead, a spiral outline emerged slowly. It looked like a nautilus, but it was thousands of times larger, like a moving four-story building.
The huge shell on the back is no longer just calcium carbonate, but is made up of countless broken mechanical parts, with smooth scarlet muscle tubes squirming between the mechanical gaps.
The blue viscous fluid slowly flowed down the shell. The derivative body that Song Shi conveniently named "Nautilus" broke out of the sea and slowly climbed up the building nearby, causing the latter to stagger and gnaw at it. Seaweed on top.
"These seaweeds are 'redundant data'. The components of this derivative should have a 'cleaning program', so it will clean up spontaneously."
Lapis Lazuli See Soon The real scene under the surface was revealed: "But in addition to the 'cleaning program', the component also includes the 'ice pick' used to break through the firewall."
"Did you see it, that building is crumbling."
“Because while the derivative is clearing redundant data, it is also destroying the underlying protocol and maintenance structure of the building. Two contradictory operating logics appear at the same time. This is the ‘derivative’.”
Seeing this scene, Lapis Lazuli's tone darkened slightly as he seemed to have thought of something.
——Most of the "derivatives" are suture monsters.
Just like the current nautilus, there is a high probability that it has been sewn into some ice-breaking module and data cleaning software that sank into the abyss at the same time.
The objects that can be spawned one by one are stitched together, and there are also some omnic parts.
In other words, the "corpse" of omnics.
"——Okay, I understand." Song Shi stared at the nautilus in front of him, feeling the fluctuations of spiritual energy on it.
In terms of strength alone, it is about the middle of the second ring, but the composition is extremely turbid, with redundant spiritual energy from the three paths of transcendence, great source, and truth randomly sewn together. together, or rather, each in a different body part of the nautilus.
Then, the flame ignited.
The surging flames emerged with the control of will, with Song Shi as the center, suddenly dyeing the surrounding area red.
The young man took out his sword and smiled softly.
"I haven't killed such a large unit for a long time, it's just time to recuperate——"
"Wait, wait, wait."
Lapis immediately stopped feeling sad.
“You should know that in the battle of the abyss, psychic energy only accounts for part of it, and technology is also required.”
An interface suddenly popped up in front of Song Shi's eyes.
There is a line of text at the top - ""Deep Diving Assisted Countermeasures v.1.0.1 (Trial Type)".
The content of the interface is very simple, with rows of options above.
[Energy output threshold increase], turn on/off
[Penetration damage protection], turn on/off.
[Disguise Detection], turn on/off.
[Abyss Pressure Resistance], turn on/off.
[Giant Killer], [High Speed Nerve Reflex], [Wound Expansion].
"You are responsible for the psychic part, and I am responsible for the technical protection. I made a set of visual interfaces, that is This is what you saw."
It spoke quickly: "For example, this [Disguise Detection] can ignore the hidden program of the derivative body and lock the real body's location."
"I won't explain its technical principles. In short, you can just take these options literally. I can now turn on four items at the same time - just select them when you need them, and I will provide conversions at any time."
< br>Song Shi scanned it and picked four.
After a few breaths, feeling the change in his condition, he nodded slightly.
——It’s really not bad.
Basically speaking, it seems that the strength has increased by 20 to 30%. No, it cannot be calculated that way.
For example, [Giant Killer] causes increased damage when targeting large enemies. This cannot be completely regarded as an increase in strength - most of the protection provided by Lapis Lazuli is this kind of "special effect".
“Huh”
Song Shi slowly exhaled.
He stretched out his five fingers and clasped the heavy slaying blade, and as it slowly crossed, a trace of slightly golden blood snaked - and then, this shallow trace of blood suddenly burned, and raging flames entangled it. It turned into an extremely dazzling blazing light.
Psychic skills·[Boiling Blood].
And the next moment, some kind of flame that seemed to be the same but completely different in nature burst out from Song Shi's body, pouring into Zhong Xi in large numbers.
Psychic skills·[Forging Flame].
So, under the gaze of Lapis Lazuli, the young man turned his head to kill, and then tilted it sideways to his side - and then, the turbulent fire stream continued for an instant.
Even the outline of Chongshi was looming. Song Shi stood on the top of the building. In his clenched hands, a stream of majestic and brilliant red gold flames that stretched for more than ten meters roared in the strong wind!
No, it is not "flame flow".
——The terrifying fire sword was obviously made from a heavy sword as its handle and bundles of flames intertwined and entwined as its blade!
Forging Flame, specialized recasting.
The next moment.
Song Shi jumped between the rooftops, and when he was about to reach the Nautilus, he raised the fire sword high.
The surging red flames dragged brilliant flow marks in mid-air.
Song Shi slashed down with his sword to cut off the power of the sky and encompass the Nautilus and the building together!
(End of this chapter)