PFC Chapter 4154 [Day of Doom] (7)
Chapter 4154 [Day of Doom] (7)
Chapter 4154 [Day of Doom] (7)
"Miss Cecil seems to know those people quite well?"
"We just know each other because we trained here for a while before."
Bai Zhi nodded and did not ask any further questions.
With Miss Cecil's help, Bai Zhi easily entered the [Land of the Machine God].
Along the way, Miss Cecil also taught Bai Zhi a lot about the [Infinite Race] and the [Land of the Machine God]... Bai Zhi curiously looked around at the surrounding environment.
The entire [Land of the Machine God] appeared very empty, with only a small number of buildings around the perimeter, which served as residences for the guardian troops and clergy here, and then there was a huge deep pit.
Many lifting platforms were built along the edge of the deep pit.
"Miss Cecil, can all members of the [Infinite Race] be adapted to the [God-Slaying Armor]?" Bai Zhi looked nervously at the bottom of the pit—naturally, she couldn't see anything clearly.
"That's how it is in theory."
Bai Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Then why didn't the [Infinite Race] simply open it to all people from the beginning? If they had enough [God-Slaying Armor], they wouldn't be afraid of the [Limit Race], right?"
Cecil chuckled lightly, "Things aren't that simple. Putting aside the issue of training the pilots themselves, even if we just rely on the [Godslayer Armor]'s own auxiliary combat system, where does the energy to activate the [Godslayer Armor] come from?"
“This…” Bai Zhi was taken aback.
"The energy required to power a single ordinary [Godslayer Armor] is enough to support a standard Imperial battleship in a single high-intensity operation, not to mention the higher-generation [Godslayer Armor], which requires astronomical amounts of energy." Cecil sighed. "If we were to excavate all the [Godslayer Armor] within the [Machine God Land], how would we feed this massive force? Besides, nobody even knows how many [Godslayer Armor] units are stored inside."
The world of Tania is extremely barren, unable to even generate small world origins... In fact, the Guardian forces need external resources to sustain them.
Over the years, the Imperial Family has provided the Infinite Race with a large amount of various resources.
Bai Zhi hadn't expected that the only thing limiting the [Infinite Race] was energy... But upon closer reflection, losing energy supply was like [Azure] losing its spiritual energy.
The most basic things are often the most important.
“Go to elevator platform number three.” Cecil pointed ahead. “They’ll tell you what to do next, and they won’t ask you anything.”
Bai Zhi listened attentively.
Cecil then added, "Nebula is the first choice, but if you can't adapt to Nebula, try to persevere for as long as possible... The longer you wait, the better the quality of the Godslayer Armor will be."
Bai Zhi had a good impression of this mature older sister. At least she could tell that the other woman was genuinely concerned about her. So she quickly thanked her and started walking towards the third elevator platform.
At this moment, two more qualified individuals arrived at the platform next to them. They were the two who had given up entering the Pool of Inheritance from the beginning and chose to come to the Land of the Machine God.
Damon, and a female member of the royal family.
Cecil glanced at it from afar without saying anything... The temple's warships could already be seen in the distance, transporting a large number of eligible members of the [Infinite Race].
This place will soon become lively.
……
No. 2 lifting platform.
"Damon, are you... confident?" the female member of the royal family asked in a low voice, her face somewhat gloomy. "Even if we adapt to the [Godslayer Armor], we may have to go to war soon... Do you know about [Doomsday]?"
Damon shook his head silently.
People like him, from the margins of royalty, who climbed their way up from the mud through military exploits to earn a precious opportunity, are not uncommon among royalty... He did rise, but he had no access to the core secrets of the royal family. How would he know what the "Day of Destruction" was?
He was even surprised to learn that the ancestral land contained the [Infinite Race].
The female member of the royal family moved even closer, almost touching Damon's arm. "You know, if the compatibility fails... does that mean we don't have to participate in the war?"
Damon frowned, keenly noticing the gaze directed at him by the accompanying clergy.
Contempt and disgust.
Damon remembered why this female royalty had given up entering the Pool of Inheritance... She was already five hundred years old, her potential was exhausted, and she was even less willing to gamble on the probability of death during awakening.
He subtly created some distance between them and said calmly, "Then you don't need to go down. The priest can bring you up later."
The female member of the royal family glared at Damon with displeasure, cursing inwardly... "I finally got a spot, I came here to change my fate, not to sacrifice myself."
No matter what, we must survive...
……
“We’ve arrived. Just keep moving forward and follow your instincts.” The priest’s voice rang in Bai Zhi’s ears: “They will guide you.”
"they?"
The accompanying clergyman did not answer, his demeanor as rigid and businesslike as a wooden sculpture, not even glancing to the side... nor taking a single step off the elevator platform.
It was dark all around, and she couldn't see anything more than five meters ahead... Bai Zhi mustered her courage and stepped off the elevator platform. After tentatively walking forward for several dozen meters, she looked back and found herself all alone.
"Don't be afraid!"
Bai Zhi took out Xiao Ke and hugged it tightly in her arms, continuing to move forward cautiously.
She remembered what Cecil had told her, and quickly took out the special crystal again. The darkness around her seemed to dissipate a little because of the faint light on the crystal... Bai Zhi suddenly stumbled and tripped over something.
Bai Zhi held the crystal and looked at it.
"I want light!"
Bai Zhi thought for a moment, then took out the clay tablet document, read it aloud, and a soft ball of light slowly floated out of the document and rose.
Before me lay an exceptionally dilapidated machine, its torso supported by a broken spear, kneeling on the ground, its head missing... the [Godslayer Armor]!
It has completely lost its color, like a weathered stone sculpture, having slumbered here for who knows how long.
Bai Zhi took another look. As the sphere of light rose and a larger area was illuminated, the area in front of her became clearer.
"many……"
It was like a huge funeral parlor, with the broken [Godslayer Armor] placed in various forms... even piled up, like defective products rejected from the production line.
Two beams of light suddenly shot out from the front, forming a straight bridge of light.
Bai Zhi tentatively touched the bridge with her toe before confidently stepping onto it... The more she walked across the bridge of light, the more remnants of the [Godslayer Armor] she could see below.
Just then, another bridge of light appeared in the darkness. Bai Zhi subconsciously looked over and vaguely saw two figures, a man and a woman.
As she looked over, the other person also looked over.
"Why are there other people here? Aren't there just the two of us?" The female royal looked at the girl on the other bridge of light... especially her striking green hair. "Is this person part of our reason for entering the ancestral land this time?"
Apart from Li Long and Raphael, all the other qualified individuals were traveling together on the Royal Family Association's spaceship.
Damon was also surprised, but he didn't want to pay attention to the woman next to him, so he didn't answer.
The woman didn't continue to make a fool of herself; she had already sensed that Damon's attitude towards her was no longer just indifferent.
At the end of each bridge of light was a dark silver door that opened automatically, and Bai Zhi was the first to walk in... Anyway, Miss Cecil had said that there would be no danger here.
Behind the metal door, the corridor lights up section by section, and at the end of the passage, in a huge room, there are a large number of three-meter-high egg-shaped cabins.
She walked up to one of the nearest hulls.
A female voice, sounding like it was synthesized electronically, rang directly in Bai Zhi's mind.
—【Welcome to the God-Slaying Armor Pilot Training System.】
— [Current difficulty level: 1.0. Should we change the difficulty level?]
—【The system detected that the student was carrying an advanced course certificate. The system automatically switched to advanced mode with a difficulty level of 4.9.】
—The course will officially begin in ten minutes.
— [Prepare to start the timer.]
Bai Zhi subconsciously rubbed her ears, and then saw that the egg-shaped hull in front of her had opened automatically.
She didn't rush in, because the two people she had just seen came in through another passage.
Damon, and the female royalty... Scarlett, also heard the notification sound at this moment, and at the same time, two more egg-shaped pods opened accordingly.
Damon frowned slightly, said nothing, and sat down directly inside.
"Hmph, impatient fellow..."
Si Jiaqi muttered something to herself, then turned her gaze and suddenly walked towards Bai Zhi.
Like a high-fashion model on a runway, Bai Zhi's first reaction upon seeing this woman swaying her hips as she walked was that this woman exuded a strong air of vulgarity.
The other person's gaze was very charming and full of allure.
Bai Zhi immediately categorized the other person as someone with a lot of "experience".
“Hello, my name is Scarlett.” Scarlett’s smile became even brighter. “Are you also royalty? I don’t think I’ve seen you before… I’m from the lineage of King Fletcher, and you are?”
"Hello..." Bai Zhi suddenly didn't know how to introduce herself, so she simply greeted him and then stopped talking.
"This is my first time here. Do you know what to do next?" Scarlett asked curiously.
In her view, since they didn't come in on the clan association's spaceship, they must have been brought in by the eldest princess or His Highness Li Long—either of them were top-tier royalty, and in Si Jiaqi's eyes, the people they brought in were practically "connections."
"This is my first time here too," Bai Zhi shook her head. "But that person has already gone inside, shall we go in too?"
Sijiaqi nodded and chuckled softly, "Then I'll go in first."
Before Bai Zhi could react, Si Jiaqi quickly walked to the egg-shaped pod next to Bai Zhi and sat down without saying a word. "These training pods should all be the same. I'm too lazy to walk back. See you later."
"Ah? This..." Bai Zhi was about to speak.
The hatch is closed.
Bai Zhi pouted angrily and had no choice but to walk towards the last training pod that was opened—as she entered the pod, the notification sounded again.
— [The system has detected that the student is carrying an advanced course certificate and has begun adjusting the training difficulty level to 4.9...]
—【Coefficient correction complete…】
Bai Zhi felt her consciousness beginning to slip away...
……
Scarlett's consciousness also began to drift away.
She knew that her behavior just now was rude, foolish... even offensive, but she didn't care anymore.
If they came in at the same time, why did that girl also go through a separate passage?
If she's someone with connections, is her training pod special?
After being equipped with the [Godslayer Armor], she was conscripted to fight the [Day of Annihilation]... Thinking of that incredibly huge and terrifying thing, she had no choice but to take a gamble if she didn't want to sacrifice herself.
It might offend the eldest princess or Li Long's subordinates, but what can be done about it?
After all, staying alive is the most important thing... Perhaps the training pods used by those with connections can consistently match you with even more powerful [Godslayer Armor]?
"Perhaps I stole something from you..." As her consciousness faded, the thought flashed through Scarlett's mind. "No... if it was something I could take, then it should belong to me. Who told you not to resist..."
"I must..."
Complete immersion of consciousness...
Time passed slowly, and in just a moment, the training pod door suddenly opened... Scarlett gasped for breath as if all her strength had been drained, and her clothes were soaked with sweat.
Her face was extremely pale and ashen.
The constant notification sounds in her ears only intensified her despair.
— [Course completion rate 4%, poor rating, please leave the training pod]
Inferior...
"impossible!!"
"One more time! One more time!!" Scarlett frantically pounded on everything inside the training pod and yanked on the control lever. "Start it! Start it now!!"
—[Violent behavior detected]
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!
In an instant, a terrifying electric current spread throughout Scarlett's entire body in the training pod... Even with her genetically enhanced body, Scarlett still experienced pain comparable to death under the stimulation of this strange current.
She practically crawled out of the training pod, collapsed to the ground, and began convulsing!
Once she regained some strength, a venomous glint flashed in Scarlett's eyes, and she suddenly rushed toward the training pod that was originally meant for her.
"This is mine, this is mine..."
As she tried to forcefully pry open the training pod door, that excruciating electric current returned—a scream instantly echoed throughout the vast training ground.
In the struggle between pain and resentment, pain completely triumphed over resentment and anger... Scarlett couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to her knees, trembling.
A frisbee suddenly flew up to Scarlett's head, shot out a beam of blue light, sucked Scarlett up, and then slowly carried her away from the training field.
"Let me go..."
She pounded on the faint blue light around her with all her might, but the blue light transformed into a solid cage, no matter how she resisted.
Finally, the frisbee brought Scarlett back to the second elevator platform and threw her to the ground.
The clergyman remaining at the platform asked in surprise, "They're out so quickly? Did they fail...?"
Upon hearing this, Sijiaqi burst into tears.
The priest didn't offer any words of comfort. There were still a lot of eligible members of the clan going in, and the people originally stationed at the [Land of the Machine God] were simply not enough.
He didn't want to waste time here. "I'll take you up first."
As he spoke, he went to start the lifting platform.
"I don't want to go back, why should I..."
"you?!"
A foot-long laser dagger pierced the priest's chest in an instant.
Scarlett screamed like a madwoman, "Why are you forcing me to leave?! I'm royalty!! Royalty!!"
The laser dagger instantly went full power, and the priest's heart was melted by the high temperature in an instant, leaving a fist-sized charred hole in his chest.
Sweat dripped down her face, and Sijiaqi was still panting heavily... The laser dagger slipped from her hand and fell to the ground before she realized what she had done.
With a determined look, Scarlett swiftly lifted the priest's body, stripped him of his clothes, and threw the corpse into the burial ground of the [Godslayer Armor] wreckage.
She changed her clothes, started the lifting platform, and felt extremely uneasy.
Unbeknownst to her, in a hidden, dark corner, two pairs of eyes had witnessed everything she did.
"Sure enough, once a person starts doing the first stupid thing, they become unstoppable in their stupidity." The woman... the maid's voice, "just like the first lie."
Upon hearing this, Boss Luo didn't react much—instead, he looked at the training grounds surrounding the [Godslayer Armor] burial ground.
"This place..."
……
……
When the second platform arrived, a group of qualified participants were already waiting to go down... Scarlett looked around and found that long queues had gathered at the elevator platforms built at the edge of the pit.
"Why are you the only one who came up? Where are the two people who went down earlier?"
A clergyman frowned at this moment.
Scarlett's heart was pounding. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she was already considering taking out her [Hero Mech] and breaking through the encirclement.
"Forget it, let's take everyone down first. Time is too tight and there are too many people!" The priest sighed again and then began to direct people to enter the elevator platform.
Sijiaqi subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and silently retreated to the edge of the platform, watching the qualified participants walk in one by one...
……
"Justin, what's wrong?"
On the second lifting platform, amidst the crowd, Adams glanced questioningly at the descendant of the brave warrior beside him, with whom he seemed to get along quite well.
Justin was staring at the hooded, head-down clergyman at the edge of the platform... The four gene locks granted him various powerful abilities.
He has an extremely strong sense of smell.
The clergyman, with his head bowed, emanated a complex mix of smells—sweat, perfume, urine, and even a faint hint of blood!
Why does it smell of blood?