Chapter 116 The scepter
was actually not as disgusting as Li Pan imagined. As soon as he lay down in the coffin, these silver tapeworms brushed and inserted into the body from the pores, blood vessels, eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the body, and connected with the nerve endings, as if Throwing a man into iron will pierce a virgin.
But there is not much pain in this process. Well, relatively speaking it is not that painful. At least it is much easier than the previous process of boiling with fire and water, with rotten flesh all over the body and spitting out blood. Even Li Pan felt cool and gentle. , quite comfortable. You may be abused too much and you may become addicted...
The link was completed in an instant, and Pharaoh Li Pan was activated!
Then he saw Earth as he had never seen it before.
Those steel buildings, neon lights, and tall buildings lost their light and shadow in an instant. As far as the eye could see, there was only a dark forest, like piles of charcoal ash piled on the ground, or like pieces of dead wood. It rises from the ground and reaches into the sky.
And in the black tree trunks, there are white beams of light, like searchlights shooting from the earth to the sky, like javelins, and like pieces of flames, these white lights go straight to the sky, but halfway, Blocked by an endless mirror, it seems like there is a mirror lying across the low-Earth orbit, blocking the road to deep space and reflecting the earth beneath our feet.
So the rays of light broke off on the mirror surface, linked to each other, and collided together to form a honeycomb-shaped grid. The bright lights and fires were intertwined and woven into irregular polygons, and they continued to extend toward the horizon.
What is this...
As soon as Li Pan's thoughts moved, his body moved out silently and floated to a white light that was projected into the sky like a javelin.
Then the voice of 0113 said in his mind,
"This is the spiritual world, the silhouette cast by the spiritual link on the Dirac Sea, which is what you commonly call the QVN network."
QVN?
As soon as Li Pan's hand touched it, the bright light was extinguished in an instant.
0113 explained,
"You just destroyed a psychic hub, um... you burned down a community's network server." "Oh
, so this mecha was hacked?"
0113,
"No, no, this is a psychic machine. A, but the Veil, QVN, Abyss, Void Sea, and Star Realm are essentially different aspects of the same thing. What you can see and how much you can see depends on how deep you dive. Pharaoh/Unit-1,
this This device can directly throw you from the material world, into the abyss of the abyss, into the inside of the gap, between worlds, a realm where nothing exists and has never existed. Therefore, the Dirac Sea can be cut off directly from the source
. The spiritual link..."
Li Pan said, "Then just unplug the network cable."
0113 was silent for a moment, "Unplug the network... you just killed at least 100,000 people."
Li Pan was shocked, "What! One hundred thousand! ? Why is it so easy to get to one hundred thousand? Don’t you have any other units of measurement!"
0113, "I'm kidding, who can count them one by one, but from this metaphor you know that my Unit 1 is very powerful."
Li Pan, "... …”
0113, “You destroyed the QVN node of the local community. People who access the Internet through this link will have slight or severe amnesia due to consciousness shock, mental breakdown, and a small number of soul fragments may be washed away into the void. .
So there should not be as many as 100,000. If you just surf the Internet normally, you will probably get a headache and be bounced offline. At most, you will become a vegetative state. And if you are a deep-linked Internet user, such as a hacker, a corporate dog, or a cosmic People will be fatally wounded."
Li Pan said, "Oh... So Ah San, you are saying that if I pinch one, I can kill 100,000 corporate dogs who are surfing the Internet?"
He quickly pinched another one to suppress it. Shocked.
0113 reminded, "Don't you have something else to do?"
Li Pan said, "Oh, yes, I have to kill Fabius and his family. Ah San, by the way, this thing should also be useful for vampires, right? How do I find them? link?"
0113, "Easy, open your eyes first."
Only then did Li Pan react, so he gave it a try.
Pharaoh Li Pan opened his eyes and looked down at the ant-like sentient beings in the night city, as if they were the true gods in the world... Well, it wasn't
Li Pan who was floating, it was Pharaoh Li Pan who was really floating!
At this time, the coffin unfolded its arms and legs and transformed into a complete body, but it was only a little over three meters and less than four meters tall, and it was not as big as a four-meter werewolf. It was not so much SMS as it was SBS, as if it was wearing a heavy cosplay suit. Same as the uniform.
But this technique is really outstanding. Li Pan now feels like a god on earth. Compared with the single spine he used before, now his whole body is covered with an anti-gravity field, and the acceleration is silent and traceless. It is really Just go wherever you want, and if you're not careful, you'll crash through the glass of the building. This speed is at least as fast as the Handkerchief Knight! And what’s even more awesome is that there is no sonic boom! No wind resistance! Just brush it! Go over there in one go! Uh-huh! Come right over here!
0113, "This is passing through the gap, shuttling between the spiritual world and the material world. In short, the psychic engine and power system are normal. Let's try something else." Well, the most powerful thing is not the floating of Unit 1
. and maneuvering systems, but eyes.
The Eye of the Pharaoh, or psychic vision.
Closing his eyes, Li Pan could see the scene just now, the spirit world and the Lakhai. When he opened his eyes, he could not only overlook the Night City, but also directly access the security system and observe from every monitoring angle. , and instantly locks and scans all targets. In a literal sense, the omniscient and omnipotent god, with a thought in his mind, instantly knows the information and location of all members of the Fabius family who are logged in to the system. If you stare at it, you can clearly see the garbage, feces, urine, cockroaches and beeping covers on the ground... Uh... do business, do business... So
Pharaoh Li Pan raised his hand and pointed, and his whole body turned into a shooting star, breaking open In the night sky, he flew over the territory of the Fabius family in an instant.
The size of the Fabius family's territory is much larger than the Cornelius family's castle. The entire district-level administrative division is private territory, close to the outlet of the Pacific Ocean. The ocean bathing beach is screened with polymer mesh on the periphery, creating a livable environmental protection zone like Mount Hakone.
But it's not a forest volcano hot spring, but green mountains and blue sea, and there is a large golf course on the mountain. On the seaside are sea-view hotels, villa areas, sunny beaches, yacht piers, as well as various high-speed racing tracks and helipads.
Across the sea is the newly planned Pacific Economic Development Zone in Night City. Obviously in the coming next hundred years, the Fabius family plans to build a new urban area of the City of Night centered on their own lair and surrounding the Pacific Ocean, and this private territory is the entertainment area Xiaojin Cave.
At first, Li Pan was worried. He had shown his cards right with the council before, and had been tossing the group book of the Collector site until now. If he was making trouble so late, all the Fabius family would have run away long ago. When I got there, I saw, hey! People have just started to transfer, okay? When did this happen! I'm actually moving here!
But also, how could such a large chaebol be able to quickly cut off from the group and complete the asset transfer within a few hours? Now that they have been stripped of their shares and kicked out of the parliament, it is impossible for the Fabius family to just run away. Why don't they bring at least two pieces of water ghost with them, or else they will drink from the northwest wind in the future?
Moreover, Ye Shi can indeed buy some of the latest technical equipment. At this time, these vampires activated the planetary defense system, which not only included point defense orbital guns, but also plasma deflection stances to prevent orbital bombardment, and thermal and nuclear shields. , to put it bluntly, if you defeat Su Zhengliu now, others can still resist.
A dense swarm of drones was released from the inner circle of the protective shield, as well as night knights and security mechas guarding the outside, trying to 'block' TheM Company's troops.
The front line was handed over to the guards, and the elders, nobles and blood slaves packed up their gold and silver items and fled in a hurry. Robots moved boxes of coffins and treasure chests from the castle to parked shuttles, trucks, cruise ships, and submarines for transport. These guys have a lot of good stuff in their hands. The cargo ship and yacht are full of all kinds of jewelry, antiques and art. If you scan them casually, they will be priced in millions or billions. No wonder he is still reluctant to disconnect. He has really made a lot of money...
Pharaoh Li Pan stood in the night sky and scanned it. After all, they are the three major families in power. They will be in charge of power for the next hundred years. Fabiu There are quite a lot of Si family members. The prince has not been found yet, but in the family lair alone, there are four or five elders and five or six hundred blood knights. At least most of them are combat prosthetics like blood knights, and the main ones are children. There are at least one or two thousand people like Chu'er who are minors, not counting those in coffins.
Coupled with the various blood slave family members, security guards, and maid robots, the flow of people is really overwhelming. Shuttles take off and land frequently, sending the Fabius family's treasures to vacuum anchors or buried under the sea. The transportation system is bigger than a small airport. busy.
Li Pan was a little confused when he saw this scene. How to fight? Unplug the network cable? Or are they going to fly down and hit each one to death? How about calling in an artillery attack? But with so much gold, silver and jewels, it would be a pity to blow them all up with one shot...
"Asan, does your No. 1 machine have any weapon system? Can it release waves? This hat is quite big, can it be launched? "
0113, "That's a spiritual awareness amplifier, why do you want to launch it... And I just wanted to ask, is Asan calling me??" "
Oh, it's just a friendly local dialect, don't worry about it,"
Li Pan looked at the two short staffs held in the hands of the mecha pharaoh. The heads of the staffs were curved hooks and flails. He waved twice casually and said, "Is this a
weapon? Oh, I understand. Do you use this hook to hook your neck?" Pull it over and smash your skull?"
0113, "Are you really talented at killing people? Of course... no. I said, this mecha is experimental and you can't get through the door with weapons.
This is called Heka. The scepter, on Earth 0113, is a magic weapon with powerful spiritual power, a decoration symbolizing the pharaoh's control authority.
Heka is a hook that can hook the spiritual thread. From the soul dimension, the spirit in the spiritual core is , to exercise absolute control and dominance.
The flail is used to destroy... well, it is used to hit people. It can completely destroy the soul, and it can also destroy the will of the resister.
However, both of these require spiritual awakening. The magic weapon used, so if you want to deal with those vampires, you should go to the spirit world and directly destroy their spiritual links..."
Li Pan, "You can only unplug the network cable."
0113, "...Tsk."
That's it. .
So Pharaoh Li Pan closed his eyes, entered the spiritual world, and teleported directly into the Fabius family's lair.
The fortress and harbor in front of him disappeared in an instant. In front of Li Pan's eyes, in addition to the pillars of light soaring into the sky, there were also large tracts of white light, like stars in the Milky Way or fine sand on the beach at night. This was probably a signal, spiritual energy. , or should we say 'soul'?
From this perspective, Li Pan also noticed that the 'souls' of those elder-level vampires were indeed very strong, and their brilliance was beyond ordinary people, like real flames. However, there was no essential difference between them and the blood warriors and knight-level ones. The group is just bigger.
On the contrary, they are childish underage vampires. Their souls are very fragile. They seem to be weaker than ordinary security maids, as if they have been torn into pieces and then put back together again.
Of course, the weakest ones are those blood slaves. Their souls are like candles in the wind, as if they have been sucked away along with their essence and blood, and will be extinguished at any time with a gust of wind.
With his mind moving, Pharaoh Li Pan held Heka's scepter and tried a hook first, hooking a ball of elder-level flames. What was interesting was that the hook actually hooked out the shape of a human head, so Li Pan directly A flail was swept to pieces. Then open your eyes and take a look at the situation.
The ground was covered with headless blood clots. A group of vampires around him turned to stare at him. It looked like they were about to be killed by this inexplicable ghost thing that appeared out of nowhere in front of him, then raised his hand to hook the elder's neck and beat him to death with a club. Scared to death.
Li Pan also turned around and looked around. That's right. It seemed impolite to rush into someone's house and hook their elder out and shoot his head on the spot...
Li Pan, "...knockknock?"
"Ahhhh—" —!"
The vampires in the room screamed and entered the fighting state. In an instant, the beasts in the room suddenly turned into ferocious blood bats and blood beasts! These powerful cyborgs instantly turned into giants, beasts, and berserks! Bare fangs and claws and lunge at the Pharaoh! !
But it’s too slow. This movement is more like floating than flying...
Well, the Fabius family’s blood transformation, although the fighting state is quite strong and domineering, is very similar to a werewolf, it can be added It can attack, defend, and recover, and it can also grow bone wing membranes to fly, but it seems that it can't speed up!
Players with a little knowledge of the game all know that the so-called martial arts in the world are invincible, except for speed. If you're not agile enough, you can't even dodge and hit, so where's the output? Where is the defense? Wouldn't that mean being hung up and beaten?
And now that Li Pan was racing over and over, he was somewhat familiar with the operation of 'Pharaoh/Unit No. 1'.
Although this psychic mecha is not equipped with any weapons, since it is an artificial apostle, its strength is naturally comparable to that of demons such as Handkerchief Form, Shuten Doji, and Daitengu. Definitely pushing the boundaries.
In terms of dynamic reaction speed alone, Pharaoh's basic attributes are far superior to the effects provided by top-level prosthetic plug-in bonuses. Therefore, even with bare hands, it is completely fine to fight this mecha as if it were a superman.
And when Superman kills people, it's not murder. I wonder if you have seen the photos of the traffic accident scene? Yes, it’s the image of a rolling pin grinding back and forth in the meat sauce.
So Li Pan held the Heka hook in his left hand to cover, and wielded the flail and iron rod in his right hand to hit randomly. True to his word, he hit the heads of the vampires of the Fabius family one by one until their brains burst, and the heavenly spirits flew around and blood overflowed. , died with his skull crushed. Blinking while beating randomly, it flashed repeatedly on both sides of the spiritual world and the real world to confirm the killing effect.
The attack of Heka's Staff indeed has special effects such as 'soul killing'. After all these vampire elders and blood warriors were killed by headshots, their bodies were not directly destroyed, and they could still take their time. After resuscitation, the person was actually lying there with a dead ball, just lying there staring like a cerebral palsy vegetable.
It seems that the souls of these vampires have really been destroyed and killed.
Hey, rubbish, the prosthetic body that boasts of immortality is actually of no use.
But after seven or eighty blows like this, Li Pan felt a little tired. The parameters of Unit 1 were too high, and they were all teleportation-killing, execution-style executions. But what's the point of being so cruel to food? And it would be too tiring for him to knock them over one by one and beat thousands of ghosts to death, right?
So Li Pan scanned it, trying to find where there was a powder magazine, a nuclear warhead, or something big, but he accidentally noticed the holographic map in the castle, and then saw the nearby golf course, and suddenly remembered that he had seen it somewhere. This golf course, so I immediately came up with the idea.
Pharaoh Li Pan teleported into the air, holding Heka, and hooked the psychic hub.
"Everyone, listen to me."
Everyone in the Fabius family stood silently for a moment, looking up at the gods appearing in the night sky.
Pharaoh Li Pan opened his arms, "Come and play! Explode! Explode! Ball!"
0113, "...what?"
Very good, explosive ball is a bloody game that is popular in the slums of 0791. These high-level managers who manage everything to destroy the world, I really haven’t had much contact with it.
So Li Pan briefly introduced the rules of the game.
Vampires are not allowed to transform,
shoot
, or fly
and throw a bunch of exploding balls with a sixty-second countdown for everyone to grab.
After one hour, whoever has the most seconds with the ball will live.
Everyone else must die.
Yes, Li Pan only remembered it when he saw the terrain and then the ball.
He had seen this film in Black Mewtwo.
Well, golf is also quite famous in Shenzhen Net, and the competition was held at this golf course at that time.
But of course it's not just a golf tournament, it's a private explosive ball tournament.
The gameplay of that game was pretty bad. In short, it was golf balls. They were all explosive balls of special sizes. A group of beautiful girls and boys competed against each other. The more goals scored, the higher the reward.
However, these special explosive golf balls will start a ten-second countdown when exposed to the air. When the countdown ends and the ball has not entered the hole, it will explode, and the player's head will also explode.
So the rule of the game is to try to make a hole in one shot, or think of other ways. In short, don't let the ball be exposed to the air before making a hole in one shot.
The competition continues until a winner is determined. The only winner can take away the prize money.
Later, the scene of the competition was so tragic that Li Pan didn't insist on seeing who took the prize money, so he deleted the video.
This time, time was limited, and Li Pan didn't play any new tricks with the organizers, so he just used the simple rules of grabbing the ball.
After all, I still feel quite disgusting when I think about it...
"Let's start, I'll kill while you grab, everyone saves time, die early and be reincarnated early."
So Li Pan threw the explosive ball in his hand, even if the game started, and then swung the chain A went up.
Amid the desperate screams and non-stop explosions, the game began.
At first, some knights wanted to join forces to resist, using drones to attack and fight their way out.
But 'Pharaoh/Unit No. 1' can close its eyes anytime, anywhere, hide in the spirit world, and dodge all attacks.
And Li Pan also discovered that the defense of this 'Pharaoh' was a bit outrageous. Electromagnetic wave weapons were completely ineffective. When the focused laser turret of the local defense system irradiated, the rays were actually reflected by crystal-like mirrors! ? And it doesn't matter even if it is hit by a military level five howitzer! This layer of crystal armor cannot be penetrated at all. Not only is there no mark at all, but the driver is not even injured...
Well, no wonder the 'Pharaoh' is classified as SMS level instead of SBS level. To defeat this mecha, I'm afraid it would require at least a level 6 custom-made armor-piercing warhead, or it would be necessary to directly hit the center of the ship's gun to penetrate it.
So soon, the Fabius family recognized the reality, became aware of it, and began to abide by the rules and grab the ball.
As a result, the game was over in less than half an hour.
It may be that there are some design flaws in 'Pharaoh/Unit-1', which will emit some kind of radiation, causing the surrounding souls to fall into complete madness and destruction.
Or it could be the scepter of Heka exerting its power to dominate and crush.
In short, it was just as Pharaoh expected.
In this lair, all members of the Fabius family died.
(End of chapter)