Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 111 NO.006e: Gods, Heroes and Monsters

"Boom!"

The thermal fusion beam bound by the strong magnetic field was detonated at the position of the muzzle in advance, and a dazzling ball of hot fire was ignited in mid-air.

Jiang Zhou, who had nowhere to rely on in mid-air, was immediately blown away by the violent shock wave, and was smashed like a sandbag on the shelf he jumped up earlier.

"Grass……"

Putting down his crossed hands protecting his head, Jiang Zhou couldn't help baring his teeth and cursing as he smelled the burnt smell in the air.

At this moment, except for most of his head protected by his arms, the skin on the front of his body was basically baked into a layer of jet black coke, revealing the dark silver plastic steel armor hidden under the skin.

"If we encounter a similar situation in the base reality in the future, then this native skin will have to be replaced sooner or later..."

While complaining, Jiang Zhou extinguished the remaining flames in his hair, then raised his head.

As expected, after the dazzling fire dissipated, Aconitum-23 was still alive—he was also blown far away, and he was struggling to adjust his balance in mid-air.

At the moment of the explosion, Aconitum-23 sensed the danger, and cut off his left arm decisively, and quickly moved up to distance himself, avoiding the fatal injury.

At this moment, he looked fine except for being a little embarrassed.

In other words, the result of Jiang Zhou's previous risky actions was only to break off the opponent's arm and melt part of the armor on the left side.

However, playing depth 4 at depth 2, it is not a loss to be able to do this kind of effect mentally or unintentionally...

When Jiang Zhou was thinking this way, a bright silver figure suddenly flew in front of his eyes.

That was Booker who activated the levitation device.

Before he had time to explain anything, the Aegis individual combat module on his body was transformed into a huge shield again.

And as soon as he stood in front of Jiang Zhou with his shield, the Aconitum-23 floating in mid-air poured a lot of ammunition towards them.

That was not the armed force that Cerberus had brought, but he took out a rapid-fire weapon that looked half the size of a person from his storage space.

The bouncing sound of "Ping Ping Dang Dang" echoed non-stop on the deployed shield, and Booker's head turned behind him like an owl.

He looked at Jiang Zhou and said:

"Is this what you call 'I have a way'?"

Booker's tone sounded like a complaint.

"I think it worked pretty well."

In this regard, Jiang Zhou replied in this way.

"Can't you consider a more secure way?"

Booker said, turning his head to look forward again.

And with a flash of the shield in his hand, an information window appeared, allowing them to see the enemy's current situation through the shield.

"I have to get close enough first, and then shoot at the moment the opponent's melta weapon fires, to be able to succeed."

In this regard, Jiang Zhou explained.

Regarding the ability to control the magnetic field, compared to clumsily manipulating metal products, it may be more appropriate to directly affect the deflection magnetic field itself and cause damage to weapons or equipment that rely on it to take effect.

And Jiang Zhou's previous tactics were drawn up entirely out of instinct.

After the brain can perceive the "magnetic fields", using them reasonably in battle has completely become part of one's own thinking. It wasn't until this time that Jiang Zhou realized that there were still so many tactical possibilities—this was like the advantage that a person with normal vision can gain in a world full of blind people.

In fact, if both sides were on the ground before, then after the explosion, I would have already gone forward to use my melee expertise.

It's a pity that I don't have the ability to fight in the air—it's hard to believe that the upgrade path named "Icarus" doesn't have any air combat enhancements until Depth 2.

"The opponent's anti-gravity device has been destroyed."

Jiang Zhou then continued.

At this moment, the blood-red lines on Aconitum-23's body, symbolizing the operation of the anti-gravity device, looked a little blurry.

This is also the purpose of his previous adventure, as long as the opponent is always in the air, it will be difficult for him to pose a threat.

The electromagnetically driven dense bullets hit the Aegis deployed by Booker, just like raindrops hitting an umbrella, making a pleasant sound without stopping.

Jiang Zhou increased the volume to cover the sound of the bullets, intending to clarify his next plan.

"we should……"

However, before he finished speaking, a striking warning message suddenly flashed on the large shield in Booker's hand.

[Has been locked by a high-threat weapon, please dodge urgently as soon as possible]

As for what kind of high-threat weapon... At this moment, the armor on the chest of Aconitum-23 in the screen is opened.

Previously, Jiang Zhou had never understood why he had to shamelessly make a pectoral muscle-like design in front of his chest with such mechanical equipment. But now, after seeing those two "pectoral muscles" opened to reveal the missile nest buried under it, he understood.

"Oops! Get out of here!"

Booker roared when he saw this, and immediately put away the shield decisively.

The ammunition loaded in the missile pod was out of ten, and in the end only single-digit missiles soared into the air, launching towards them with unpredictable trajectories.

And after this round of firing, the anti-gravity device on Aconitum-23 finally seemed to be unable to hold on, and the blood-red lines on the armor surface were completely dimmed. His whole body is also recaptured by the gravity simulated by the base construction, falling like a butterfly whose wings have been broken.

…………

be cheated……

Seeing that the adjuster of the Path of Perseus set up a huge shield to protect his teammates, Aconitum-23 knew that he had won.

Assembling that shield meant that the opponent would not have too many Aegis parts available for use.

At least, not enough to assemble a reliable missile interceptor in a short time.

Well, now is the time for the two of them to die.

Inside the missile nest, the last few "Strangle of Hades" missiles were locked and fired.

This is a weapon whose principle is similar to that of a thermobaric bomb, but whose destructive power will be more exaggerated. It only needs to detonate one bomb in a small or medium-sized building, and it can ensure that the entire building will be turned into a hell on earth.

In the previous battle with the "gatekeeper", he used these weapons, and together with the opponent, he destroyed an entire block.

And a major feature of this weapon is that its lethality in a narrow space far exceeds that in an open area.

And pervasive.

As he expected, there was no time to generate an interceptor, and in order to avoid the incoming missiles, the two of them, like two stray dogs, separately got into the three-dimensional labyrinth-like warehouse area below them.

And this doomed their defeat.

The flight speed of the "Strangle of Hades" missile is not fast compared to the enemy's maneuverability. In other words, as long as it is facing a certain level of adjustment, the probability of this weapon being able to hit directly will be terribly low.

However, their killing range never requires a direct hit.

This is the idea of ​​the Cerberus path - when the accuracy of shooting is not enough, what they need to do is to increase the damage radius of the weapon and compress the opponent's dodge space as much as possible.

Although this does not conform to Aconitum-23's personal aesthetics - he prefers to look into the opponent's eyes and see death with his own eyes. But he had to admit that this approach was very efficient.

As precise as manipulating his own fingers, he controlled the missiles remotely, allowing them to explode unpretentiously like weapons in the Christian era.

Even if you only dive with "two-head" level equipment, even if today's ammunition is out of ten... Aconitum-23 finally demonstrated its powerful suppression as a killing machine.

When Aconitum-23 fell back to the ground due to the damaged and malfunctioning anti-gravity device, the three-dimensional warehouse had already turned into a sea of ​​flames.

And the two guys who hid in... Maybe they thought that the stable structure of the warehouse could save them, but in fact the result is that the stable and solid three-dimensional structure of the honeycomb warehouse will maximize the "underworld" The lethality of the "choke" has become a steel tomb that wraps their corpses.

High temperature, shock waves and lack of oxygen, there is always a deadly element that can kill them like cockroaches.

【You and the help you invited over seem smart, but they are actually stupid】

After landing, Aconitum-23 looked not far away, and Theseus, who slowly came out of the mist, said so.

At the moment his speaker has been burned, so he can only send messages in the teammates channel.

Flames swept across the entire three-dimensional warehouse, and every square in the honeycomb was constantly spitting out fiery flames.

There were explosions one after another, and glass and shattered parts were continuously blown out of it.

It's hard to imagine carbon-based organisms that could survive in them.

But regarding this, Jiang Zhou stood silently where he was, silent.

【Icarus and Perseus... If you have any accomplices or abilities, feel free to use them】

【I'm looking forward to it, what kind of surprises can you give me?】

Aconitum-23 said so.

Seeing that Jiang Zhou was still silent, he took out a mechanical long sword with a red blade from his storage space.

Aconite-23 dragged his long sword all the way, and said as he walked:

[I have heard a saying in the past that there is a classification of the naming methods of various upgrade paths]

【Gods, Heroes, Monsters】

The blade of the mechanical long sword was ignited, and it gradually approached Jiang Zhou with a trail of smoking and charred black.

[The lofty god symbolizes the evolutionary form that has transcended human intelligence and is not limited to the form of life]

[The hero with the blood of the gods represents a new human being who inherits the heritage of mankind and advances along the evolutionary trajectory of millions of years]

And the monster...

Aconitum-23 is now less than five meters away from Jiangzhou.

For his speed, this distance is almost nothing.

It only takes a tenth of a heartbeat, and it is enough for him to behead Jiang Zhou.

[And monsters have always been just the whetstones used by gods to test heroes. It is said that all promotion paths named after monsters, even if they come to an end, cannot get rid of the status of tools]

[In the planning of super artificial intelligence, the upgrade path of monsters will never be able to give birth to civilization]

Speaking of this in the communication channel, he slowly raised the long sword in his hand.

That movement was as solemn as if he was doing some sacrificial activity.

[It may be a coincidence that you were given the heroic name 'Theseus'. You have indeed been blessed by the gods, and you have summoned two other heroes to help you]

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Jiang Zhou finally asked.

【It's not... a big deal】

Having said that, Aconitum-23 lowered the long sword in his hand again.

[Although you are the one who is at the end of the road right now, I have a premonition - as long as I wave the weapon in my hand and slash at you, then Ye Qian, who is in the base reality, will just inject the 'scavenger' to kill me, and then Just right to save you]

【All this is just a trial for you, and my mission is to die at a suitable moment】

【So I don't want to swing the knife, because as long as I swing the knife, my frozen fate will start to flow, and the doomed death will come to me】

"So you are not only a historian, but also a philosopher?"

Jiang Zhou answered in this way, and then couldn't help but laugh:

"Also, what is this? Is it your resistance to the fate of your inborn adjustment person?"

[We who were born as tools have philosophical concepts that you cannot understand]

To this, Aconitum-23 replied.

Finally, he said:

【If you are the one who survived in the end, maybe you can find out more about it】

【very romantic】

After speaking, he raised his long sword sharply again.

The fiery blade slashed at a speed that Jiang Zhou's dynamic vision could not capture.

"clang!"

The sharp blade was firmly blocked in the air by two crossed mantis knives.

It was Liao Qi who was covered in scorched black, with resolute eyes appearing between them.

A faint mist filled the space between the two.

Regarding this, Jiang Zhou said without blinking:

"Death may be your fate, but I can try my best to let you choose a more satisfactory way of death. This is not my trial...but I give others a trial."

Then, he turned his head to look at Booker who just came out of another fog, and continued:

"Besides, trials go both ways. It's like the numerous bones that died in the hands of Gorgon before Perseus' visit; As for the torn living.

"Aren't monsters their own victors in those unknown stories?"

I really want to smoke my own big-eared melon seeds, and stay up late again