Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?-Chapter 347 - 349: The Heavenly Net That Has Lost Its Momentum

Chapter 347: Chapter 349: The Heavenly Net That Has Lost Its Momentum

“What… what is happening to me?” Qian Tong suddenly found that his body seemed to flicker.

No, it wasn’t an illusion, it was really flickering, feeling like snowflakes popping out in various colors. As he pondered, a sudden sense of falling overcame him.

Then, as he subconsciously tried to grasp something, he caught a glimpse of the sky in the corner of his eye, a vast net was enveloping everything, as if it shrouded the whole world.

“This can’t be just a dream, can it…”

Qian Tong muttered to himself, and then he could no longer prevent the sensation of falling. By the time he realized what was happening, he found himself submerged in water, his entire body bound, and some sort of device seemed to be attached to his face.

Most importantly, he felt something foreign clamping down on his spine and the back of his head.

After struggling for a while, he finally broke free and swam upwards, eventually finding the top. He forcefully opened it, only to be greeted by darkness and various mechanical beings roaming around.

“What exactly is going on here?” His voice was very hoarse, as if he had never used it before.

Moreover, he could feel the weakness in his body, a kind of atrophy due to prolonged inactivity. Not far away, he wasn’t the only one; many people were crawling out of cylinder-shaped devices nearby, whether men, women, old, or young.

All of them looked confused but had atrophied limbs.

They were perplexed, but not foolish, realizing immediately upon seeing these mechanical beings and their own condition, that they were being farmed. Yet, they could not explain why they had suddenly awakened.

Qian Tong, however, changed color, “It must be a problem with the Super Assistance!”

Everything had been fine before, but ever since he received the Super Assistance, this situation had suddenly arisen, and it was hard not to make the connection.

“No wonder there were lag issues with the investigators before, these investigators might not be real at all, just a bunch of virtual data.”

Connecting the dots, Qian Tong naturally understood.

But understanding was one thing, accepting it was another; he asked himself why, when his life had been so good, such a heavy blow had been dealt to him.

Yet before he could recover from the psychological shock, he suffered another physical blow.

A barrage of fire rained down relentlessly, the breeding base took heavy damage in a blink of an eye.

Flames burst forth and metal shattered.

In the blink of an eye, it turned into a mortal purgatory.

Most people had just awakened, and escaping from the power tanks had taken all their effort, let alone dodging the relentless gunfire that covered everything.

Qian Tong watched as a massive radiance approached him; in a daze, he felt this brilliance seemed familiar.

Not until the radiance pierced through him and everything within hundreds of meters around him.

In his final moment before death, he finally remembered what this radiance was; the reason for his character’s death when he had first received the Super Assistance was being killed by the same radiance.

Fortunately, death was painless; whether it was the bones or the power tanks, all were reduced to scorched earth in the brilliance, leaving nothing behind.

…

The massive Matrix World was enveloped by the Magic Network, which forcibly extracted it from the body of Heavenly Net, storing the bewildering data.

The body of Heavenly Net, on the other hand, came to an abrupt halt; clearly, the sudden extraction of the Matrix World had caused a lag in its operational logic, and it struggled to control its powerful body, hence the lag.

The situation was somewhat like cramming an old mobile system into a smartphone; even if compatible, there would be problems.

Bang~

Then, a loud noise was heard, and Heavenly Net’s head was smashed to smithereens.

The one responsible was Hercules, who, driving his chariot, had directly charged at Heavenly Net, which naturally stood no chance.

Although Heavenly Net lost its head, clearly, that wasn’t its weakness.

Compared to the colossal Heavenly Net, Hercules was like an ant, but the attack of this ant was extremely powerful.

It was but a breath, and Heavenly Net was riddled with holes.

If the Matrix World were still around, Heavenly Net might have lasted a few moves against Hercules, but Qin Muye naturally understood the importance of the Matrix World and had stripped it away at the first opportunity.

“Now it’s time to find the main program of Heavenly Net, which is going to be a hassle…”

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Completely annihilating Heavenly Net was no easy task. Hercules alone could destroy its body, pulverizing the entire thing into dust, and with the addition of the 2nd-level firepower of the Endless Abyss, not even a speck would be left.

But Heavenly Net’s main program could be transferred, and the likelihood was that it had already moved.

Perhaps as soon as the Matrix World was extracted, it had successfully fled, leaving only the Zion Base’s body as a decoy.

Having multiple hideouts was second nature for an intelligent AI.

When the entire Zion Base was blown to smithereens, with various types of firepower raining down, it was completely reduced to a wasteland.

Yet even so, Qin Muye realized that he had only completed the Fourth Stage of the operation, with the final Fifth Stage still incomplete.

This indicated Heavenly Net had not died; the crisis of the Rectification Agreement had not been resolved, and all was still in peril.

“Can only do a carpet search now. If Heavenly Net wants to hide, I can’t find it,” he said.

Qin Muye was somewhat helpless; there was no way for Heavenly Net to escape now, as he had almost blown it apart, but it not being dead was troublesome.

For all anyone knew, it could be secretly developing in some unknown base, and although it had lost the Matrix World and its logistical support, it still had the Spark Source.

As long as it bided time, it could definitely make a comeback in the future.

Unfortunately, Qin Muye did not plan to give it a chance for a comeback. While farming Points was thrilling, life and safety were naturally of the utmost importance and had to be dealt with.

It was fine to be greedy when the time was right, but blatantly being greedy was not suitable in these circumstances.

He could be greedy for the Matrix World, as that was considered spoils of war, but if he left Heavenly Net deliberately alive for the sake of farming Points, and in the future, it turned over a new leaf, what would he do then? He would have to beat a retreat in disgrace.

Moreover, he urgently needed the Treasure Box from that unfortunate Heavenly Net to offer up a Random Dungeon Scroll; he still wanted to Advance to the 6th stage, otherwise being stuck at the current level was frustrating.

“Have you tracked down Heavenly Net’s traces?” Qin Muye asked.

“Heavenly Net seems to have divided copies of itself, with a program in every remaining base, so to deal with Heavenly Net, we need to destroy all bases,” came the reply.

“Luckily, due to this defeat, Heavenly Net has lost the Matrix World which led to all its shielding mechanisms completely failing, revealing all bases and Terminators on the radar,”

Black Hand inquired at the command center, then relayed the information to Qin Muye.

“Clean up the battlefield, then annihilate all bases and Terminators,” Qin Muye said directly after hearing the details, suspecting these bases and Terminators were likely just targets.

Given Heavenly Net’s cunning, it absolutely wouldn’t expose itself so openly; it was probably just offering benefits to bamboozle Qin Muye, as it had been like playing a game of nesting dolls every time they clashed.

However, this perfectly suited Qin Muye’s interests. If it wanted to play nesting dolls, he would butcher them all for Points.

Should it manage to hide deeply, he would just initiate the plan to ‘scrape the ground three feet deep’ and destroy the whole world, confident that continued calamity would leave no refuge.

If the entire world was ravaged and he still hadn’t finished, then Qin Muye could only leave; after all, if he couldn’t find them with such measures, there was nothing he could do.

Cleaning up the battlefield was a quick process; after all, with the space technology of the Endless Abyss, there was no need to pick and choose on the spot—simply collecting remotely was enough, with classification done later upon receipt.

With the spoils of war collected, the Endless Abyss once again engaged in spatial traversal, naturally aimed at eliminating the other Heavenly Net bases and Terminators.

Without Heavenly Net and Terminators at their peak, these bases stood no chance against Qin Muye’s domain. Under the 2nd-level firepower coverage, nothing would be left.

Even the spoils of war were gone, and the hope of salvaging some copper and iron as resources for reforging became wishful thinking.

The entire base, along with the surrounding area of thousands of miles, turned into a huge pit. To avoid leaving anything behind, it was crucial to be thorough.

While the Endless Abyss was indeed greedy for Resources, if Heavenly Net was cleared, all the world’s resources would be theirs, so why bother with trifles and risk oversight? That would be missing the forest for the trees.