ccnovels #291 - A large number of wronged souls
#291 - A large number of wronged souls
“Stop always talking about fighting to the death or not.”
Wang Jixuan said quite seriously:
“Why not try to see if there are any other possibilities?”
Fu Jian, maintaining his running motion, smiled and said, “This is to highlight a sense of inheritance and deepen your responsibility to humanity.”
“Don't make it sound like I'm abandoning humanity after flirting with it.”
Wang Jixuan chuckled, looking at the Pillar Blade Beast behind him, which was chasing relentlessly but gradually slowing down.
“Why isn't it chasing anymore?”
“Then we'll wait for it,” Fu Jian said calmly, controlling the super-large mecha to slow down gradually, maintaining a sufficient distance from the Sixth Pillar.
Fu Jian explained simply, “Our purpose is to lure it over there. Pillar Blade Beasts have relatively high intelligence, but they often have difficulty showing it. Most of the time, they are driven by instinct.”
“That Galeno.”
Wang Jixuan said solemnly:
“Galeno is definitely the key here.”
“According to what Spiritualist No. 5 told me, Galeno is the brain of the Blade Beasts, and also the strategist of these Pillar Blade Beasts.”
“I saw something just now.”
“What did you see?”
Fu Jian quickly checked the deployment of the various troops. The super-large mecha had already turned around, staring at the Pillar Blade Beast.
Wang Jixuan said, “Wronged souls, souls that haven't dissipated after death and have suffered injustice… Most of them are humans or human-like beings. They are inside this Pillar Blade Beast, numbering at least several hundred million.”
“Wronged souls?”
Fu Jian asked in confusion:
“Are you saying that the souls of humans killed by Blade Beasts all gather inside the Pillar Blade Beast?”
“I'm not too sure about the specifics, and I can't determine if they are the souls of humans from this planet.”
Wang Jixuan sighed softly:
“This kind of great demon is shocking to the world.”
“Just thinking about the other eleven gives me the creeps… Lao Fu, tell me the truth, how many of these super-large mechas are there?”
“Three, two are currently usable, and one is under construction.”
Fu Jian said truthfully:
“Relying solely on this kind of super-large terrifying mecha, we actually can't defeat the Pillar Blade Beast. If we get into a bitter fight with it, this kind of super-large mecha will probably collapse on its own in about ten minutes due to operational errors accumulating too much that can't be corrected in time.”
“We're pouring resources into developing this thing, actually, to verify, to verify whether this path can be taken.”
“This is also a part of the Doomsday Plan I formulated.”
“Doomsday Plan? Is that the Mechanical Body's Doomsday Protocol?”
“Yes,” Fu Jian said calmly, “Humanity can perish, but the Blade Beast civilization must pay the price… Only with this kind of determination can we resist the pressure brought by the Blade Beasts.”
Wang Jixuan nodded without asking more questions.
He had just contacted Mudan and received a reply that his own squad had already taken off and relocated.
Wang Jixuan kept thinking.
Before he came, he had underestimated the Pillar-level Blade Beast.
Even with No. 5, who accurately predicted the Pillar Blade Beast's total spiritual energy, enormous size, and internal circuits, he didn't expect… there to be so many wronged souls inside the Pillar Blade Beast.
Just now, he had been trying to find the Pillar Blade Beast's own ‘soul’;
But there were too many wronged souls, creating a huge interference.
When suppressing the Pillar Blade Beast's soul, it was necessary to suppress these wronged souls as well, and the Demon Suppressing Pagoda couldn't distinguish them.
How to suppress them?
If he were in the Great Ascension stage, he could kill it with a single sword, and the wronged souls would either dissipate or be saved by the Buddha's light;
But he was only in the Core Formation stage now;
The Demon Suppressing Pagoda had to use the magical power of the war puppets to cast the spell, and also rely on No. 5's spiritual energy.
No. 5's own injuries hadn't recovered…
How to do this…
Wang Jixuan tentatively asked, “Can you tell me how that trap over there is specifically designed?”
“Huh?”
Fu Jian, who was busy, didn't expect Wang Jixuan to ask this question, and only answered after twenty seconds:
“The geology there is relatively loose, and the underground has been hollowed out by the Blade Beasts. We have placed dozens of nuclear bombs. After calculation, we can create a small rift valley to trap this thing inside.”
“Then, we'll do everything we can to restrain its actions and wait for the dormant circuits to take effect again.”
“Just… that?”
“Otherwise?”
Fu Jian said somewhat dissatisfied:
“If you have a way, just say it. Human technology hasn't yet developed antimatter bombs. The direct threat to the Pillar Blade Beast isn't too great.”
“What's more, those Blade Beast tides are the most troublesome.”
Wang Jixuan replied very pragmatically, “My method is difficult to work now, but if you can trap it, I can try my best.”
“Don't force yourself. You are the hope for the future. Let us old bones take on this kind of battle first.”
Fu Jian stared at the Pillar Blade Beast in front, which had already collapsed to the ground.
Underground, the Blade Beast tide had broken through the second line of fire and was about to converge with the Pillar Blade Beast.
A large number of Blade Beasts began to climb to the surface, and the long-awaited human air power began to bomb the surface.
Dense swarms of flying Blade Beasts appeared on the edge of the rolling black clouds in the sky. A small number of Terrorwings led a large number of Flyingwing Blade Beasts to pounce down.
On the edge of the rolling black clouds above the Sixth Pillar, human fighter groups, carrying a large number of drones, actively faced the aerial Blade Beast swarm head-on.
A faint flash appeared on the back of the Sixth Pillar;
The bodies of the Blade Beasts within a certain range of it had an extra layer of faint light, and golden patterns began to crawl on many Blade Beasts.
High-level Blade Beasts quickly released those emerald green light spheres.
Fiery meteors appeared in outer space. Those were high-lethality weapons launched by the space fortress, targeting the King-level Blade Beasts mixed in the Blade Beast swarm.
It wasn't that the human side didn't want to directly attack the Pillar Blade Beast, but all human means were difficult to break through the Pillar Blade Beast's extremely thick exoskeleton, and couldn't cause it any damage.
The Pillar Blade Beast was about to be surrounded by the Blade Beast swarm.
Wang Jixuan asked, “Aren't you going to stop them from converging?”
“It's already good enough that they're willing to crawl out of the ground for us to bomb,” Fu Jian said simply, “We're consuming resources, and they're consuming numbers. Unless the Sixth Pillar suddenly goes crazy, it's unlikely to rashly attack alone again… Hmm?”
Before Fu Jian finished speaking, the Sixth Pillar suddenly stood up from its prone position.
Its state had become different;
It was like an old man with a terminal illness being given a shot of strong medicine, or like a starving man who hadn't eaten for days seeing a rich carbohydrate meal. It raised its head and roared, and shockwaves wantonly surged between heaven and earth!
Fu Jian turned his head, looking at the back of Wang Jixuan's hand through the full-coverage armor.
There, a ball of flame was constantly burning, and equilateral hexagons appeared in the flame.
Wang Jixuan shrugged: “No. 4 core circuit, which was previously purified by Gao Huating's previous life. I have been wrapping it with a concealment method, and just released it.”
Fu Jian shook his head and smiled.
Beep, beep—
Red warning signs appeared on the large screens throughout the cockpit.
The Sixth Pillar, shining with a spiritual energy halo, was rushing towards them, and its target was the spiritualist core circuit in the cockpit of the super-large mecha!
The mecha's arms raised simultaneously, two streams of plasma sprayed out, and the huge body had already leaped backward, gracefully turning around and rushing towards the third line of defense with the blessing of magnetic rings.
Even when fighting on the front line, Fu Jian could still directly command the overall situation.
His thoughts turned into instructions, constantly transmitted to various places. The human fighter groups in the air began to retreat in a roundabout way, and dense swarms of drones were distributed in front, behind, left, and right of the super-large mecha, turning from active attack to active defense.
Various troops began to dispatch firepower.
They were waiting for an explosion;
An explosion of human anger;
An explosion of human cries.
The hills on the ground, like small mounds, were constantly thrown behind by the galloping mecha.
Wang Jixuan saw the airport where he had been before from a distance. It had been successfully cleared, leaving only a small number of mechanical bodies to set up defenses.
But behind the airport, several huge figures stood quietly.
Those were terrifying mechas from various war zones.
Behind these hundred-meter-class terrifying mechas, countless firepower positions were ready for battle.
Wasn't this trap a little too obvious?
Wang Jixuan turned his head to look at the black clouds surging from behind, and the terrifying behemoths galloping in the black clouds, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
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No. 5, Wilhelmina Tuck, had put away her slate wall, maintaining her blonde loli state, watching the distant black clouds through the porthole.
When she looked at the Sixth Pillar, she had no fear or hatred.
She was only thinking about how to suppress this Pillar Blade Beast and reactivate the temporarily ineffective dormant circuits inside the Pillar Blade Beast.
“The mechanical civilization developed by humans seems to have a good upper limit.”
No. 5 murmured softly.
“Is that praise?” Mudan's voice came. She had already put on her Invisibility Armor, holding her helmet in one hand, waiting for Wang Jixuan's attack order.
They were guarding the ancient pagoda.
The ancient pagoda was in the area below, dragged by two heavy transport planes.
No. 5 turned her head to look over, slightly pursing her lips: “I guess so. Primitive humans are too fragile, the strength of mechanical bodies is very good, and they can continue to evolve.”
“But our thinking logic is given by humans through programs, and is based on human thinking logic itself.”
Mudan said softly:
“Without the maintenance of human engineers, even the most powerful mechanical body will eventually collapse.”
"So, we don't have the risk of a Blade Beast... I mean, betrayal and such."
Number Five snorted, "You sure have a nasty way of putting things."
"That's quite the compliment," Peony responded with a smile.
"It's just a pity," Number Five changed the subject, "If the threat of the Pillar Blade Beast can't be resolved, the human civilization here, or the mechanical civilization for that matter, will all become dust on this planet."
"Isn't that a problem created by the esteemed Spirit Cultivation civilization?"
"That's true, but we're having a hard time protecting ourselves right now."
Number Five raised his chin towards the porthole:
"Look, even if the Pillar Blade Beast breaks away from the Blade Beast horde, it can still run rampant. It is, in itself, a nearly invincible monster, a perfect war machine."
"The reason it abandoned the Blade Beast horde to charge forward alone is that it sensed the weakness of the Spirit Cultivators."
"If I'm not mistaken, it sees your master as the successor to Old Sophie."
"The spiritual energy within your master, in its eyes... is not worth mentioning."
Peony asked softly, "Can Pillar Blade Beasts communicate?"
"Yes," Number Five said, "But it's very difficult. They refuse to communicate and have only expressed—only by destroying all Spirit Cultivators can they be liberated—this very strange idea."
"Liberated? Is that the correct term?"
"It is accurate."
"Then I'll record it and give it to my superior later."
Number Five chuckled, "You really care about your superior."
Just then, Wang Jixuan's battle puppet opened its eyes in the corner and said slowly, "Otherwise? If she cared about you, then I would have to consider replacing a life assistant."
The battle puppet slowly stood up.
Wang Jixuan's main body was already sitting cross-legged in meditation, using a spiritual sense secret technique to temporarily expand the range of his spiritual sense and activate the battle puppet in advance.
He had some questions to ask Number Five.
"Do you know that there are massive amounts of wronged souls within the Pillar Blade Beasts?"
"Wronged souls? Souls?"
"You can think of them as the souls of innocent victims."
"That there are a large number of wronged souls within the Pillar Blade Beasts, I haven't heard of that..."
Number Five carefully recalled:
"The spiritual energy circuits I control rarely involve souls. When fighting the Pillar Blade Beasts, they are always surrounded by extremely thick Blade Beast hordes, making it difficult to sense."
"The most troublesome thing now is these wronged souls."
Wang Jixuan's battle puppet crossed its arms.
This was a subconscious action he made when thinking.
"Now, we must find a way to suppress these wronged souls, so that we can have a chance to suppress this Blade Beast. My Demon Suppression Tower cannot distinguish between the wronged souls and the Blade Beast's original soul. Even if it could, if I activated the formation to suppress it, the wronged souls would counterattack the Demon Suppression Tower. Relying solely on this temporarily constructed tower body... it's unlikely to withstand it."
"Do you have a way to purify the wronged souls?"
"Yes, but I need you to take action," Wang Jixuan's eyes flickered slightly, "I'm not sure if teaching you this Buddhist mantra will open another door to the abyss, allowing Spirit Cultivators to master my術法."
Number Five clicked his tongue, "Why don't you ask me if I'm interested in learning it?"
"Then forget it, let Old Fu figure it out himself."
"Hey! Don't!"
Number Five cleared his throat:
"Since you sincerely invited me, then I will reluctantly agree!
"What kind of術法? Teach me!"
"Wu Man," Wang Jixuan snapped his fingers, "Come and teach her the Rebirth Mantra. This is also a targeted medicine for the wronged souls. Whether we can break the situation today depends entirely on your Buddhist Hall squad!"
"Yes!"
The group of people in the cabin were mentally excited.
Number Five looked at Wu Man, his expression slightly dissatisfied.
She wanted Wang Jixuan to teach her personally, to be sure.