Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Chu Zhiqiao looked around with vigilance.

She never believed that the Puppet King's motives and behavior patterns would be so simple.

Each time, the Puppet King wrapped his true motive in an overlapping, bloody maze.

There are only countless corpses that have been smashed to pieces by the "Giant Spirit” Yuanco, and reactors that have been buzzing around.

Thankfully, this type of reactor has an extremely sturdy enclosure and very tight protective devices, not to mention violent damage from the outside, even if destroyed, the energy input pipeline to the reactor will be cut off instantaneously, slowly attenuating and stagnating the high energy response in the reactor, in no way causing a violent explosion, which will have an irreparable impact on the entire ship.

Otherwise, the Puppet King could detonate the entire ship by controlling a bunch of carnivores.

“Detonate the starship...”

Chu Zhiqiao closed her eyes and she smelled the scent of the conspiracy.

The carnivore's body was checked back and forth, but unfortunately all the bodies were bombarded into mud and were not worth a visit.

“Seven Stars, send me 3D 3D images of the bodies outside, be it the ghosts or the bodies of the victims, and don't miss out on every detail! ”

Chu Zhiqiao issued an order to his companions outside through a spider chariot.

At times, the indicator behind the spider chariot flickered and a bunch of invisible lines connected to her temple like a clear nerve. A pair of vivid, striking images appeared on her retina empty-handed.

Chu Zhiqiao concentrated and scanned a corpse with a sharp eye.

After scanning dozens of bodies, she found something strange.

“The eyes and fingers of many bodies are missing. ”

That's for sure.

How can eyeballs and fingers be spared if they are eaten all over the body and down?

Moreover, in the case of a carnivore, the eyeballs are the most “delicious” food, and the fingers are one of the easiest to eat.

The overwhelming majority of the victims of the "Ghoul Incident" will lose their eyes and fingers.

“The vast majority of the pictures of the ghosts here are also missing eyeballs and fingers, and although they may have been eaten to infect these parts and turned into ghosts, I still feel wrong. ”

Chu Zhiqiao exclaimed, "If we remove the limitations of our thinking from the 'Corpse Ghost Event' and do not treat this case as an ordinary outbreak of Taotie virus, then how do we view the reasons for the disappearance of these eyes and fingers? ”

“Major, what do you mean? ”

“Nightmare," Yunhai said, "it's not a" ghost thing. "What is that? ”

“Assuming that the bloody 'Carnivore Incident' is just a cover, what about the puppet king's real goal? ”

Chu Zhiqiao stared deep into the darkness and muttered to himself, “Robbing the eyes and fingers of dozens of key figures all at once will be noticeable anyway. Unless the 'Taotie virus outbreak’ is used as a cover to make the bodies of all the victims incomplete, the problems of the eyes and fingers will not be visible. In fact, are these eyes and fingers eaten or used elsewhere? ”

“Somewhere else? ”

“Dark Dreams," Cloud Sea closed his eyes, "you mean, control of the starship? ”

“Exactly. Vintage warships like the Light Tracker can be manually controlled with advanced permissions in many places, except for the bridge, but must require permission holders' fingerprints, iris, blood, and brain scans. ”

Chu Zhiqiao said, "And the authority holders, often the highest-ranking priests on old-fashioned warships, together with the directors of the areas to be controlled, on the Pursuit, are the great altar priests who were devoured to the face of Africa, as well as the directors of the power compartments, and perhaps the operators of the reactors, I think, all of them are dead, and the eyes and fingers are flying without wings? ”

“More than just eyes and fingers. ”

“Dark Dreams," Yunhai said, "a lot of bodies are sucked dry, so there are blood samples, there are brain scans, uh, simulated brain waves are the strength of the Puppet King, and the brains of many key privileged people don't fly, so fingerprints, irises, blood samples, and brain scanning programs are not a problem right now. ”

“Seven stars--”

Chu Zhiqiao's voice, like coming from a vacuum, was so cold, "Tell me, what can the Puppet King do if he takes over the highest authority of the power compartment through manual control? ”

“… do whatever you want, without taboos, do whatever you want. ”

It took a long time for the Seven Stars to come out of the air with a slightly trembling sound.

Chu Zhiqiao cursed softly.

The whole person rises vertically, like an arrow off a string, into the darkness.

She disappeared into the depths of the power compartment before the "Giant Spirit” Yuankou and the "Black Dream” Cloud Heart caught up.

Only the spider chariot "Red Pig” also tends to follow the owner's footsteps, and the slightly bulky shape also relies on the high-speed sliding wheel at the end of the six limbs, which is lost toward the bottom of the power compartment.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! ”

The lowest level of the power compartment is reserved for repairs and modifications, leaving behind a large number of distorted pipes, abandoned reactors and various maintenance components, like a dead metal cemetery.

There are no half-headed ghosts here, but there is no even a hint of light and vivacity, a dead silence, more frightening than the area where the ghosts just toured.

Chu Zhiqiao did not have a sense of fear, but still orderly issued the order: “Seven Stars, send me the original structure chart of the lowest level of the power compartment as well. Yes, I suspect there are many hidden areas here before the last modification, not shown on the latest version of the map.

“Also, if you want to cut off the bridge order and force manual control, the operating room should be here, pay attention to monitoring and tracking at all times.

“Besides, let the" Giant Spirit "be honest on top. The same goes for the" Dark Dream ". Don't let any of you down. It's too...”

Chu Zhiqiao's voice stopped.

She suddenly realized it was too quiet in her ear, and the crystal brain and tracking expert "Seven Stars” hadn't responded.

It's not normal, so short a distance, between her and the Seven Stars, there shouldn't be any blocking or shielding.

The only answer was that she was once again in a state of illusion, hacked into her brain by the Puppet King and hijacked her visual and auditory nerves.

This guy, as the "Seven Stars” put it, is practicing his soul with an evil outburst of emotion and desire, which has soared him into unimaginable terror in just a year and a half!

But... is it ridiculous to want to trap her?

Chu Zhiqiao's heart was clear and transparent, and his soul gathered into a gorgeous sword, which raised thousands of silver lines, cutting the surrounding black space into pieces and crumbling.

In front of her, the dark red light again appeared, the light emitted by the spider chariot Red Pig.

And at the end of the light, a thin, tall figure, his hands in his pockets, looking at him with a smile.

This is a young man with a mediocre appearance with no expression on his face for many years, making his face smooth like an egg, but now he has a deep smile print on it.

He was wearing a work-specific raincoat, often worn by power cabin mechanics, and was covered with pockets, all of which were drummed and bleeding.

An indescribable sense of danger penetrated Chu Dawn's brain, so that she instantly knew: “Puppet king? ”

“Major Chu, hello. ”

The young mechanic smiled, “This seems to be the closest you and I got, isn't it? ”

“It's like, don't move, don't shake out even a tiny little brain wave, or I'll cut you straight into a bloody mist and burn it to the ground. ”

Chu Zhiqiao pressed the arc sword between his waist and approached the Puppet King, “Who are you and why? ”

“My purpose, isn't it all stated in the purpose of the Congregation for Divine Hearts, is to pursue the liberation of humanity and to remind everyone of what a true human being looks like, even if living as a human being for just one second is better than living as a slave and an instrument for a hundred years. ”

The Puppet King grinned.

“Are those ghosts your so-called ‘real humans’? ”

Chu Zhiqiao snorted.

“Correction must be done, and the Allies have been sinking in deception and obscurity for far too long. How can we truly awaken them - you? ”

The Puppet King blinked, “As for my name, I usually don't tell anyone else, but if it's Major Chu, it's different. As long as you promise me a condition, you will never tell a third person my name. It's a secret between you and me. ”

“Secrets? ”

Chu Zhiqiao felt ridiculous more and more, "Do you believe my word? ”

“I don't really believe it, but it's worth it to pay a small price to ‘wake' you. ”

The puppet king said, “You know, ‘secrets' form an extremely important part of life, and if a person doesn't have any secrets, everything is exposed to others, it's not really a person.

“So, start with this little secret and build your true personality, Major Chu. ”

Chu Zhiqiao snorted softly: “Tell me your name first. ”

“My name is Li Yao, ‘Vulture Li Yao'. ”

The Puppet King laughed very happily, "From across the star sea, very far away, first time to meet, please take care, but for now, goodbye! ”

Chu Zhiqiao heard the "Giant Spirit” Yuankou and “Black Dream” cloud sea heart pounce behind him.

And the smile on the puppet king's face, like that little feast that just turned into a ghost, grew shallow and disappeared.

Her pupils suddenly contracted and she jumped at the Puppet King at all costs.

Yet before she defeated the Puppet King, from behind the Puppet King, a glowing light bulb burst into the depths of darkness, sweeping across the stern of the ship and devouring everything.

The only thing Chu Zhiqiao can do is to raise the spiritual energy shield in time and adjust the crystal armor to the most defensive "explosion-proof mode”.

And her spider chariot "Red Pig” slammed herself in front of the master, waving her clumsy, ridiculous short leg, trying to protect the master's safety, and eventually, under intense light and heat shock, broke apart, almost melted.

This is the last scene Chu Dawn saw before he fell into darkness.

“Li Yao...”

Chu Zhiqiao chewed the name in the dark.

Then, he bite hard, didn't even spit out the slag, swallowed it all up in his stomach.