Player Reload
Chapter 768 - 652: Memories (4K)_2
Gray Rain charged forward with her head down, the Floating Engine drastically reducing her weight. The second before she pushed off the ground and leapt, she glanced at the Clay Giant.
No words were needed; the tacit understanding between Transcendents was enough for Lulina to get it.
The Clay Giant started its own charge as well. The thrusters on its lower body spewed flames, letting it, though starting later, arrive first. At the instant it reached the front of Gray Rain, it dropped to one knee and continued sliding, shield raised high over its head.
Gray Rain stepped on the surface of the Fingerprint Shield, her rebound force stacking with the Clay Giant’s upward push, shooting her into the sky like a cannonball,
At the instant she reached the apex, she suddenly canceled weightlessness and [Mustard Seed Concealment], gripped the Skull Shattering Hammer in hand, and began to fall.
"Girl, your chassis is really good—once you slim down you’ll definitely be a knockout." It had only been a joke, but the current Gray Rain was even more of a hundred-ton queen than Steel Coil.
This wasn’t a belly, this was a stomach sack.
Wan Ling barely managed to raise her head, staring at the tiny black dot overhead that was rapidly enlarging. A piece of mech-slang squeezed through her teeth: "K̄ŏn Jīn Kāo..."
Boom!
The electromagnetic barrier at the top of the pyramid cage was deactivated, perfectly synchronized with Gray Rain’s fall.
Yu Meiqin used her magnetic field to levitate herself off the ground in time, dodging the violent tremor of the earth. The slightly recovered Iron Sand Armor also blocked the flying rubble.
Dust billowed. Yu Meiqin did not use her eyes; instead, she "looked" at the scene ahead by sweeping the ground with a fine, arcing electromagnetic wave.
It was a crater slightly smaller than the one from the Light Speed Elbow Strike, and in it a big lump of silver Slime slowly reformed into Gray Rain’s shape.
Beneath her feet, the shockwave spreading out from the Skull Shattering Hammer shattered all the large rocks into gravel, compacting and hardening them together with the soil. In place, all that was left was pulverized metal dust—traces symbolizing Wan Ling’s former existence.
"I’m dead tired, gotta stand here hands on hips for a sec."
Gray Rain panted heavily. Luckily she had the [Gorging Feast Spoon] on her; usually she ate uranium fuel and high‑energy batteries like braised stew. Otherwise she really couldn’t have supported the combat consumption.
The Clay Giant hurried over in three big strides, sprawling at the edge of the crater, calling out anxiously, "You sure she’s dead?"
"Life or death unknown, which means dead."
Gray Rain wasn’t all that sure either. Shame Li Cheng wasn’t here; otherwise they could have used Info Integration...
The thought cut off abruptly. In front of Gray Rain’s brow, a blade suddenly appeared out of nowhere, piercing through from the back of her neck to the space between her eyebrows.
Wan Ling—or rather the remaining quarter of Wan Ling’s body—burst up from the compacted earth, driving one leg straight through Gray Rain’s skull.
She looked utterly miserable. The metal skin and tendons all over her body were destroyed and peeled away, the surface of the skull covered in cracks. But with every millisecond, the metal fragments scattered in the compacted soil flew back on their own, adhering to her body.
"Life... Link..."
Lulina’s pupils shrank sharply. She knew this effect all too well—this was clearly two Wan Ling individuals sharing one life. As long as one of them stubbornly refused to die, the other could regenerate at high speed.
"..."
Gray Rain froze. As a body of nano-robots, she had no fatal weak points, but her head—or rather, the hair—was woven full of electronic components large and small.
RAM sticks, CPUs, solid‑state drives, network cards...
As Wan Ling’s thigh churned, the hardware was savagely shredded. Gray Rain, for an instant, couldn’t even maintain humanoid form, collapsing into her primitive Slime shape.
And the Skull Shattering Power Hammer that had fallen to the ground was stomped and snapped in two.
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At the same time, the other side of the battlefield was just as grim.
The mountain‑like Fat Wan Ling lay prone on the ground, opening an Abyssal maw, absorbing all Energy Attacks and flying projectiles, then casually spitting them back out.
It wasn’t that no pro players had tried to rush in for close combat, but most hadn’t even made it to melee range before being wrapped up by the endless suction and swallowed in one bite, only to be spat back out moments later as a lump of bloody paste.
Despair rose in the depths of Lulu Xiu’s heart. He even considered killing all his teammates with his own hands and then actively committing suicide, so that Pifu and the others could end the match and leave the Home game and this world.
But he also knew that wasn’t realistic—Wan Ling was already holding a piece of Gold, the golden coin that came from Ji Liang and Jiying.
So even if all the pro players exited, the match still could not be concluded.
’Do I really have to use that move...’
Lulu Xiu’s gaze swept across the cockpit. He gently flipped open a small cover in the corner, revealing a Self-Destruction button marked with a skull.
If he detonated this Gao Wen Mecha, which carried the [King’s Road] team’s resources accumulated over many years, he should, probably, maybe be able to exceed Fat Wan Ling’s absorption limit and blow it to death, right?
"...Don’t."
A weak voice came from outside the cockpit. Lulina, half hanging from the floating wings on the back of the frame, said softly, "Between Wan Lings, there is a Life Link."
Life Link meant you had to kill both Wan Lings at the same time, with a single attack.
Was that really possible?
"Say, if the match ends, and you Otherworld travelers win and return to the real world where we are, you should be able to easily deal with a Wan Ling that doesn’t have a physical body, right?"
The Lobster, likewise clinging to the Gao Wen Mecha, fell silent for a moment and asked, "In the real world you also possess Extraordinary Power, while Wan Ling, though they can stir up storms inside the game,
are still data outside, with computers as their flesh. They can be killed."
"We can."
Lulina answered subconsciously. As a core member, mainstay, and tomorrow’s hope of the [Thousand Throats Beast], she had enough spare cash to buy a pile of functional items and store them in Space Items, just in case.
All sorts of gold and silver jewelry, currencies of various countries, food and water, even glutinous rice, black donkey hooves, candles.
Naturally, this also included a series of idiot‑proof Hacker tools provided by the Whale Song Guild.