117. Evil Spirit Castle

  Azure Star, West Fourth District, four iernoon.

  P-205 Shelter.

  Abyss Humanitarian Headquarters Laboratory.

  "Arm! High-energy intrusion! Warning! High-energy intrusion——"

  The tinuous arm tly silenced as the thrown object shattered it, apanied by the flickering red warning lights, intensifying the atmosphere.

  Li Aozi and Du Zexin walked through the dreeted by dozens of special bio-soldiers.

  pared to the previous factory assembly line products, these guards blog the "treatment room" of the Camity Armament ied were evidently more elite, heavily armed.

  Besides some heavily armored units holding 20mm heavy mae guns suppressing them with alloy storms, there were even invisible snipers loadied uranium armor-pierg rounds in their anti-material rifles, shattering Du Zexin's moving cover.

  Additionally, there were some with white armbands on their arms, ag as anders, making the other bio-soldiers react very quickly.

  Ammunitioed rapidly, Du Zexin put away the Magnum explosive gun and switched to a live ammunition rifle.

  "The professor is deliberately depleting our strength."

  Du Zexin hid behind cover, throwing out two kamikaze drones, which sped into the crowd and exploded, instantly bsting five or six bio-soldiers to the ground.

  Li Aozi seized the opportunity, activating 【Iterative Movement】, instantly telep through the barrage, swinging his long knife, perf a draw ssh, slig open a ander's neck, and then telep to the sniper's position, grabbing the sniper's head, using 【Direal Bst】 to instantly shatter the brain within the skull.

  Du Zexin, not a turret-style 【Meic】, influenced by traditional thinking on Azure Star, created only drones aronic swarms.

  These bio-soldiers didn't use chip processors, so he couldn't upload a virus to hack them and had to clear them one by ohe old-fashioned way.

  Li Aozi rolled to the ground, almost losing his footing, sitting behind cover at the other end of the corridor, throwing a throwing ko kill a sneaking bio-soldier, grumbling:

  "This should be the professor's st army. Give me more time, I take them all out."

  As soon as he finished speaking, a grenade exploded beside him.

  Boom!

  The gravity field opened in time, defleg much of the impact, but a fragment too close grazed Li Aozi's face scarf, which would have injured and disfigured him if not for the iructible clothiure.

  "Damn it, fuck!"

  Li Aozi cursed.

  "These guys' tactical awareness has surpassed the professional soldiers of the Frost-Pted Republic, reag extremely quickly. Without armored units, we 't push through."

  Busy fighting, Du Zexin didn't pay attention to Li Aozi's clothing issue, turning around to sweep a burst with the VK rifle, AI correaking 31 bullets precisely hit the same spot on the heavy mae gunner's helmet, accumutiration power, finally breaking through the ultra-strong aramid fiber and titanium alloy pte, the hardeeel core bullet peing the brain within the skull, the heavy-armored soldier crashing down, his heavy body fixed by the armor, standing dumbly in pce.

  Du Zexin's assessment was servative.

  Li Aozi just showed his head to throw a throwing knife, only to be suppressed back by gunfire.

  These guys' shooting was no worse than professional pyers, in his impression only deep learning no-recoil auto-aim plugins could achieve such results.

  Even Du Zexin couldn't guarantee his armor could block depleted uranium armor-pierg rounds—depleted uranium was self-sharpeniremely peive, produg thousands of degrees of high temperature after peing armor, harming the 【Meic】's fragile body.

  They were blocked.

  Li Aozi g the equipment Du Zexin picked up, clearly estimating he didn't expect such a rge enemy force before ing out.

  Nearly 800 fully armed bio-soldiers in total, plus these dozens of elites, Du Zexiimated Abyss could take down a border city.

  "So this is the scary-level difficulty."

  Li Aozi seized a firepap, immediately telep out to kill a few riflemen, his body uo withstand 6.8mm bullets' tearing, succeeding irike, then fleeing far away.

  "Damn it, so troublesome!"

  Li Aozi nded on the ceiling, running rapidly, dodging bullets with his unique aerial maneuvering.

  This hummingbird-like movement was almost impossible to predict, the riflemen's anti-air was barely effective, of ten missed, any lucky hits deflected by gravity.

  To shoot down Li Aozi, the bio-ander ordered soldiers to gather and trate fire density, hoping to hit the uable hummingbird-like figure.

  This gave Du Zexin a ce, quickly putting away his rifle and charging out.

  [Rush Hour Military]

  These bio-soldiers cked chip impnts, but the ander locked onto the fast-moving figure, bio-soldiers linked mentally raising their guns as he lunged into the formation.

  Da da da da da da da——

  The rifles just opened fire as Du Zexin charged into the crowd, throwing two liquid fuel tanks assembled on his waist to the ground.

  Crash!

  Liquid fuel spshed everywhere, spreading in the crowd.

  Then activated the anti-gravity system dismantled from the Robust, jumping high instantly.

  "Now, Li Aozi!"

  At that moment, Li Aozi crossed paths with him in the air.

  Du Zexin raised his hand, throwing an indiary, the tainer opened, red iron(III) oxide and aluminum powder scattering in the air.

  Li Aozi opened his palm, a brilliant white light shining.

  【Brilliant Daylight】

  Boom——————!

  Dazzling fireworks bloomed in the air, the white light igniting the liquid fuel and indiary fully, bio-soldiers were instantly engulfed in p fire rain, carbon fiber armor burning through, internal fat and flesh corroded by aluminum-iron pniting the entire body from head to toe.

  The air immediately filled with a foul burnt smell, most bio-soldiers instantly cut off nerve signals, standing dumbly in the fire, leaving only beal skeletons and fire-resistant clothing.

  "Unimagihis bio-soldier force's bat power has far surpassed the professional soldiers of the Frost-Pted Republic, if such a force repced real soldiers, it would greatly reduce casualties——"

  Uhe mask, Du Zexin's expression was extremely flicted.

  Such bio-soldiers, if Abyss could raise them, wouldn't the Frost-Pted Republic's military, as a national violent institution, also raise them?

  The Frost-Pted Republic's military budget proportion reached 11.7% of total expenditure, 3% more than education iment. If such forces repced real soldiers——what severe unemployment would it cause among soldiers!

  Joining the military was the most on way for farm boys to rise. If this path was blocked, the already distorted society of the Frost-Pted Republic would colpse.

  Acc to Du Zexin's memory——nowadays the Frost-Pted Republic has over 400,000 tract soldiers.

  They mastered violent skills, impnted one or two dangerous military prosthetics, flooding into society due to unemployment, would cause the Frost-Pted Republic's crime and murder rates to explode instantly.

  Those bounty hunters from the slums would be overwhelmed by these anized and disciplined soldiers, being the top gangs in cities, profit iru and occupation, they could bee warlord lords on the spot.

  But, its bes were so obvious.

  pared to maes, humanoid bio-soldiers were more cealed, less noticeable, and more acceptable to citizens when wearis than robots.

  Their bodies had no puter programs to hack, ensuring loyalty.

  For a moment, he even doubted if the 【Biomancer】 path was correct.

  Azure Star's teology wasn't that advanced, people's imagination of extraordinary power wasn't that rich.

  Some pursued virtual teology, human-puter iion, meical assion, desiring immortal maes to carry their lonely souls, abandoning weak bodies.

  Others firmly believed iic editing and grafting, evolving carbon-based life forms as humanity's future.

  They couldn't imagihe future, as the path to the stars was long obscured by the red-bck clouds of Camity Armament.

  Du Zexin was momentarily fused, a stist's fusion and doubt about the future of their research field.

  The struggle between maery and bio has never ceased, representing human wisdom's meical creations and flesh bodies dominating the top of the food , whichever prevailed would greatly impact human thought and society.

  "Not that terrifying."

  Li Aozi gulped a bag of trated glucose, his powerful digestive system quickly rest his Omega Energy and stamina.

  He g the bio-soldier corpses and said:

  "Not to mention the enormous maintenance costs, the humanitarian issues in produaking widespread equipment impossible. Just one point: 【Biomancer】 studies flesh bodies——all carbon-based life forms have a fual weakness."

  Azure Star people might be smarter than him, but no one has more fht.

  From a ic perspective, if bio-soldiers were really that useful, wouldn't all ic civilizations develop bio-teology to repce humans and maes?

  Clearly not.

  Because flesh bodies, after all, are just flesh. Their advantages are precision, flexibility, and greater adaptability, but their weaknesses are too obvious.

  Du Zexin was stuhen uood.

  He lowered his head, standing in mid-air with Li Aozi, looking down at the ground covered by a red o. About twenty bio-soldiers stood among them, their flesh burned , brain matter evaporated, leaving only posite metal skeletons shining a bright dark gold.

  "Fire."

  FAL