Chapter 2812: Quick Track
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Chu Zhixiao fired several times, only to hit the bottom of the infected’s feet. The high-heat metal particles melted the deck into more than ten shocking holes. Countless crazy infected fell into the lower cabins from the holes and lay flat on the ground, unable to climb back up.
Yuan Kou waved his arms like windmills, too, throwing more patients into the cabins below.
But it was useless. More patients crawled out of the metal cocoons and jumped down from the sky, trying to jump on them like crazy monkeys.
Roars that sounded like crazy devils were echoing inside the secret chambers on the two sides of the temple. The door of the cabin was torn open by hairy claws as if it were a piece of paper, from which ferocious monsters in black armor jumped out.
Those monsters were all talented, strong, and undergoing modification.
They had all been implanted with metal bones, strengthened veins, artificial hearts, and other organs, which made them the best soldiers in the battlefield. Their combat ability was far higher than that of ordinary ‘worker bees’ and ‘soldiers’.
“Jiang Xue, Jiang Xue…”
These monsters had been planted in the mind of the puppet king with the idea that his beloved wife, Jiang Xue, had been killed miserably by the people of the Sanctuary Alliance, and the few wretched guys in front of him were the hateful murderers.
Disregarding the fact that the modification was not completed yet, many of them were still dragging long tubes on the back of their heads and spines. They roared and lunged at the team of Yakshas and the other purifiers and cleaners.
“AHHHHHHH!”
Due to the suddenness of the situation, the lack of firepower of the purifiers and cleaners was not enough to resist the monsters that were born for killing. They were immediately torn apart by the hairy arms and sharp claws.
The monsters chewed the internal organs of the purifiers and the cleaners while they glared at the members of the yaksha squad with their dirty eyes.
“Let’s go!”
Chu Zhixiao suddenly turned around and shouted at Li Yao and Guan Qixing, “We will block the way. You focus on tracking the whereabouts of the puppet king!”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Cosmos Ring of ‘Titan’ Yuan Kuo blinked. He retrieved two Six Barrel Rotary Cannon that looked like cannons and blew up a dazzling wall of flames.
Under the cover of the fire wall, everybody was fighting and retreating. Li Yao and Guan Qixing, on the other hand, were paying full attention to the brainwaves of all the infected.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The entire world changed again in Li Yao’s perception.
Human beings were no longer vivid images, but they had turned into the amalgamations of radiation and magnetic fields. Their body temperature, heartbeat, and brainwaves turned into complicated figures in Li Yao’s vision.
Li Yao could vaguely see that the vitality magnetic field of most of the infected was dragging a thin, bright gray line all the way to the depths of the temple.
It was like ten thousand puppets whose strings were concentrated in the hands of a certain someone deep inside the temple.
While Li Yao was observing, the grey lines were getting dimmer and dimmer. In the blink of an eye, they were almost gone.
The enemy was giving up control over the puppets, perhaps because they were afraid that the yaksha squad would find their way to them.
He had to seize every second!
Li Yao did not even care whether the computational ability he displayed was too high or whether his actions were too resolute. Without any hesitation, he dashed in the direction of the thin line of puppets.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three explosions echoed behind him. It was Yuan Kou, the Titan, who had collapsed the entire deck with his amazing strength and knocked countless infected people to the lower cabins.
However, the staff and the priests in the lower cabins suffered. Of course, Yuan Kou did not care, nor did Li Yao—the priests deserved to be killed by the infected!
He shook off the six limbs and turned the sliding wheel at the end of the limbs to the maximum. He climbed up and down, jumping and shifting, never letting go of the target. Before all the gray lines were gone, he caught sight of the priest again.
At this moment, Chu Zhixiao, Yun Haixin, and Guan Qixing caught up and blocked the priest from three directions.
In addition, more and more purifiers and cleaners had surrounded all the pathways nearby, making it impossible for even a fly to pass through.
Li Yao’s soul was still twisted like a steel rope.
The priest was just the puppet king’s tool of crime, a lizard’s tail that could be cut off at any time. He had to sneak in and capture the puppet king before the puppet king got rid of him!
“There’s no time. Let’s give it a try!”
Ripples as sharp as sabers and swords were spreading out on Li Yao’s soul. “Think of the puppet king as Lu Qingchen. Extract the features of Lu Qingchen’s soul waves from the depths of our memories and let our soul invade the priest’s brain by force. Search for similar features and track its source!
The mainframe crystal processor of the spider tank lit up with an invisible and unstoppable lightning that crawled into the brain of the priest through the ubiquitous Spiritual Nexus.
The brain of the priest was just a springboard. Li Yao was in an extremely weird state. He seemed to be able to ‘see’ a thin, almost transparent thread that was ten thousand times thinner than a hair crawling out of the top of the priest’s head and drawing mysterious circles in midair before it crawled out
of the temple through crystal cables and antennas and projected into the depths of the sea of stars.
“Got you!”
Li Yao had never controlled his telepathic thoughts so carefully before.
He felt that he was walking on a shaking spider thread, with an ocean of ice on one side and flames on the other. He could neither be seen through by the Grand Master nor be discovered by the puppet king.
Li Yao felt that he had been ‘launched’ into the bright, deep sea of stars again.
The feeling of his soul being stretched to a billion kilometers, a million lightyears, and endless worlds was similar to ‘dancing’, but a hundred times more thrilling.
He ‘saw’ that the Psychic Temple had been left far behind him and quickly turned into a tiny grain of sand, while the stars around him turned into long, narrow spirals that interweaved into shining tunnels.
When his soul passed through the tunnel, he had already arrived in a completely different world.
This place was also a Sector under the control of the Sanctuary Alliance. It boasted facilities such as cruise fleets and resource collection bases. Naturally, it also boasted super crystal processors with amazing computational ability and a four-dimensional communication system that connected the entire
universe and transmitted data instantly.
The transparent spider thread that had snuck into the temple, controlled the priests, and detonated the infected was the mainframe crystal processor of a mining base in this world.
‘Was this where the real body of the puppet king was hiding?
No. It can’t be that simple!
The mental devil shouted, “The puppet king is merely treating this place as a platform and a disguise. His true self must be hiding somewhere else!
Li Yao concentrated his soul and observed carefully. As he expected, he ‘saw’ an even more transparent and slender spider thread extending from the mining base into the super long-distance communication base at the edge of the world.
“After him!”
His soul was torn, dissected, crushed, condensed, and reorganized again.
The stars that had been lengthened to infinity interweaved into dazzling swirls again.
Li Yao tracked him down and saw through the puppet king’s disguise time and time again. In the end, his soul locked onto an enormous, fat starship. The address of a certain node in the Spiritual Nexus deep inside the starship popped up in his soul ripples.
This was the destination of the transparent spider thread.
At this moment, Li Yao’s soul had reached the limit of fatigue.
It was like a rubber band that had been stretched to the end. One millimeter more and it would break.
Li Yao’s soul bounced back before he had the chance to check the environment or even see the name of the enormous starship clearly.
He felt that he had jumped out of the atmosphere, across ten thousand meters into the cold, deep ocean, and into a dark abyss.
It was not until five minutes later that his soul returned to his temporary shell, which was the mainframe crystal processor of ‘Red Pig’.
As for the self-test results, only a few minutes had passed.
After only a few minutes of tracking, his soul power consumption had reached 31%, which was equivalent to a world-shaking battle.
The real body of the puppet king had indeed been concealed for a long time. No wonder the guy was so confident and dared to release his tentacles to stir trouble everywhere in the Sanctuary.
However, Li Yao did not take out the address of the Spiritual Nexus that he had locked onto. If he did, his performance would be too impressive.
He pretended that he was still operating at a high speed and observing his surroundings carefully.
The riot seemed to be under control.
The staff of the Psychic Temple initiated an emergency procedure. Strong narcotic gas was spurted out from every corner of the temple, making the patients who had gone mad all fall asleep.
Everything was a mess. Countless purifiers, cleaners, workers, and priests had been killed or wounded, not to mention the brainwashing devices that had been sabotaged. Of course, Li Yao was more than happy to see that. He could not wait to destroy the entire temple.
Chu Zhixiao and the other members of the yaksha squad did not care about the loss of the Psychic Temple or the priests, either. They were only concerned about the whereabouts of the puppet king.
Half a minute ago, the desperate, desperate priest had detonated the crystal bombs that tied him up and blown himself into smithereens. He could not even find a single intact brain tissue. His connection with the puppet king had been cut off.
Right now, he could only count on Guan Qixing and the latest tracking module on the Spider Tank.
“How was it? Did you find it?”
Chu Zhixiao grabbed Guan Qixing’s metal body so hard that the crystal processor expert’s shoulder was uttering cracking noises, as if he were trying to crush it.
“Should be… found.”
Guan Qixing’s crystal camera blinked in confusion. He was dazed for a long time before he reported an address on the Spiritual Nexus.
His tracking ability was not as good as Li Yao’s. He could only find the approximate address of a certain area.
However, a lot of corresponding addresses of the Spiritual Nexus and the real address were stored in his database. Therefore, he named the only starship in the space zone immediately.
“The puppet king is hiding in the…”
Guan Qixing paused for a moment, as if he were catching his breath, before he continued… “On Eternal Brightness!”