Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1078 - 419: 001 Killing Machine_3

The mist danced wildly, then floated down, mixing with the golden dust rising again from the ground.

A figure that was supposed to be Ren Zhong, who had been torn apart, unexpectedly appeared fifty meters away, unharmed.

What was torn apart just now wasn't Ren Zhong, but a fake illusion. This was a decoy tactic Ren Zhong had learned from Shi Xuan.

In his first encounter with this humanoid shadow, Ren Zhong's decoy tactic failed. The illusion he left was easily seen through, and he was truly torn apart by the shadow.

Later, he used several full moon timelines to improve the performance of the decoy.

During these full moon timelines, Ren Zhong had to transform himself into a true god of war, hiding in the shadows to manipulate the course of the war as a whole, and as the Grinder of the flesh millstone, pulling soldiers from both sides, colonizers, and innocent wasteland dwellers into it, grinding them into powder, and stealing many people to send into the Underground City to become part of the "mock network," providing new computing power to calculate parameters of the decoy target.

Finally, with his hands once again stained with blood, Ren Zhong found the spectral shift curve sufficient to deceive the 001 kill robot, and put it into practice.

Similar things, Ren Zhong had actually done more than once during these over three thousand resurrections.

Now, he's merely unleashing all accumulated resources and mastered techniques from the past, materializing them all like a volcanic eruption.

The seemingly ordinary water mist bomb he threw wasn't real water, but a special gel extracted by the Bas Group research center from the remains of Ruined Beasts, with extremely strong adsorption capacity, high specific heat capacity, and excellent light absorption.

This water mist bomb also used up several full moon timelines and is likewise the highest crystallization of Source Star human wisdom.

With the mist attached, 001 changed shape several times mid-air, seemingly trying to reform into a humanoid, but always failing.

Beside him, Ren Zhong had already retracted his Double Sabers, instead holding a cannon barrel nearly a decimeter in diameter in his hands.

With a series of thundering booms, cloud after cloud of dust bombs exploded in the room.

It turned into yet another kind of dust.

Finally, 001 reformed a human shape and once again dissolved into a meteor shower charging toward Ren Zhong. It barely broke free from the gel's restraints.

As it advanced, the light on its body gradually dimmed.

However, this time it did not succeed in closing in on Ren Zhong but seemed to hit an invisible wall and was bounced back to its original position.

This wall was precisely a force field shield, lasting only 0.1 milliseconds, created by the Iron Plate Ren Zhong had thrown.

Every move it made was within Ren Zhong's calculations; this was only natural.

Subsequently, 001 circled around and charged at Ren Zhong again.

This time it succeeded, but what it tore apart was again only Ren Zhong's decoy.

It was temporarily bewildered.

This wasn't an external display of emotions, but a bug in its artificial intelligence data algorithm, requiring a vast amount of calculations for correction.

If the "network" still existed, it would only take about a billionth of a second for it to correct.

But now, it could only rely on its own computing power, and it reacted much more slowly.

A full five seconds passed before it thought of a new plan, which was to stop chasing Ren Zhong and instead massively detonate in place, transforming into light that filled the entire hall. It seemed to take a long time for logical judgment. It couldn't violate the three basic robot laws, but it had to kill this person. It precisely calculated that the elders frozen in the adjoining room could survive.

The terrifying thermal reaction gradually rose in the hall, as if a Hydrogen bomb was accumulating explosive force.

Clearly, 001 had realized it was impossible to capture Ren Zhong's trace, so it decided to vaporize everything here completely.

As a High Rank weapon from the Empire, this was the first time 001 was deployed for actual combat in the Source Star, being forced into such a deadly situation.

If it had feelings, it would undoubtedly feel extremely aggrieved.

Under normal circumstances, with 001's combat power and lethality, it could kill everyone on the Source Star civilization one batch after another.

It possessed nearly inexhaustible energy.

But now...

It faced a monster who understood it far better than it understood itself.

Under the omnipresent glow, Ren Zhong finally had nowhere to hide.

He curled in a corner of the hall, tossing one Iron Plate after another outward.

The thin film force field shield generated by the Iron Plate constantly blocked the invasive light.

But as time went on, the light, capable of melting everything, continued threateningly closing in on Ren Zhong.

In his heart, Ren Zhong started counting down.

Ten

Nine

Eight

…

Three

Two

One

Zero!

The light ceased to advance and began to recede.

Ren Zhong leaped forward; it was his turn to strike back.

If allowed to continue, 001 would need only two more seconds to completely kill him.

But it received a termination order from the old frozen ones, stopping its self-detonation move.

The old frozen ones feared that 001 not only would kill Ren Zhong, but even blast the surrounding area inside the white ball apart.

Looking across the Source Star, nobody was more afraid of death than the old frozen ones. To the point that the old frozen ones violated their absolute trust in the Empire's weapon, and out of fear of death, ordered 001 to cease self-detonation. They did not believe in 001's judgment.

At this moment, there was a minor conflict between human nature and the three major laws of robotics, instantly altering the battle's course. It was this layer that Ren Zhong exploited. This was a psychological game.

As 001 reformed a humanoid shape, Ren Zhong had already charged forward.

At this moment, 001 could no longer transform into light.

Just now, during the time it had completely spread its body, the dust it collided with and absorbed while retracting its body consisted of material from the black sphere Bai Feng had refined before his death.

Ren Zhong still didn't know what this substance was, only knowing it could forcibly glue 001's body into solidity and rapidly consume its energy, constantly weakening its abilities.

The Red Blade Armor's power rating was already raised to Level Nine peak.

With the help of the Overload Potion, and relying on pre-input combat programs, Ren Zhong launched a rampant assault on 001.

Ren Zhong slashed with specially crafted Double Sabers for nearly five minutes. Finally, he completely dismantled 001. This civilization-level War Weapon was destroyed in such an aggrieved manner by Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong hovered down, standing once more in front of a door coated with a neutron layer.

In previous timelines, Ren Zhong had once read the data inside 001.

He knew that beyond this door, he would see the shivering old frozen ones hidden inside.