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Responding to‍​‍‌​‍​​​⁠‍​‍​‍⁠​​​⁠​⁠​‍ an unknown signal and still transmitting location?

“…….!!!”

Jiang Ci suddenly froze. Xiao X was different from Bai Ze. It spend most of its time with Huo Xianfeng, followed by Jiang Ci himself, and at most Nora, who it had been in contact with her for a short while.

But no matter how he thought about it, it couldn’t possibly have any connection to the Church.

Wait a minute…

“The top floor…”

Jiang Ci looked up. Although he could only see the pure white ceiling, at this moment, Cecilia’s words floated through his mind.

[The core of the Forbidden Abyss is being repaired at the top level of the Central Temple.]

Forbidden Abyss…

Jiang Ci immediately said, “Bai Ze, analyze the signal immediately!”

Mech signals could provide a lot of information, such as their class, military or civilian, combat or transport mecha. But for SS-class mechas and above, their signals were mostly treated as private IDs.

Not to mention the world’s only SSS mecha, Forbidden Abyss.

Bai Ze hesitated slightly. “But, A-Ci, my energy…”

Tasks like this that required extensive computation needed a lot of power and memory, which meant high energy consumption.

Jiang Ci’s tone was decisive. “—Analyze it first!”

Huo Xianfeng raised an eyebrow slightly and had a guess in his mind. He glanced around and there were various strange and large-scale precision equipment scattered everywhere. While White Solitude City’s factories also had many laboratories, most were related to biochemistry.

Here was different; most of it involved machinery and metal, likely related to military manufacturing.

In less than a minute, the footsteps outside were getting closer and closer.

Huo Xianfeng’s eyes darkened.

—They couldn’t just sit here and wait to die.

So, without waiting for Bai Ze’s analysis results, the young man suddenly reached out towards Bai Ze.

Bai Ze: “……..!!!”

The silver pendant shook violently, then quickly hid behind Jiang Ci.

But this didn’t prevent it from falling into the clutches of the Great Demon King, as the enormous mental power poured in the next moment.

“Ahhhh! A-Ci, save me! The Great Demon King’s mental power is pouring in!!! Ahh! My mental cavity is going to burst!!!”

This guy must be resenting it after it complained about the one second; otherwise, how could he pour in so much mental power?!!!

Jiang Ci: “………”

Although Jiang Ci didn’t know that Xiao X and Bai Ze privately referred to Huo Xianfeng as the Great Demon King, he immediately understood who this name referred to at this moment.

…But that’s not the point.

This sentence made him feel like Bai Ze had suddenly put him on the gutter.

Jiang Ci didn’t understand why the original designer named the space where the mecha was stored and linked with the pilot’s mental power “mental cavity”.

It almost… at times sounded like a reproductive cavity.

However, Jiang Ci couldn’t perceive Huo Xianfeng’s mental power, because humans couldn’t sense each other’s mental power, nor could they release mental power outwardly.

Just like controlling a mecha, pilots had to use mental power through some form of connection as a medium, like piercing through the spinal cord and linking the human brain and mechanical body through this physical connection.

In fact, human understanding of mental power was still very shallow. Even four hundred years ago, on the eve of the appearance of the Illusory God Church, mental power was still called brainwaves.

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Therefore, Jiang Ci generally couldn’t perceive it. It was only when he imported Xiao X as a substitute core into the Forbidden Abyss’ wreckage that he and Huo Xianfeng’s mental powers crowded into a mental cavity, creating a strange and overly intimate perception.

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Huo Xianfeng chuckled lightly.

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For a moment, it didn’t know if the other was serious or being sarcastic.

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Bai Ze trembled, “……..what are you trying to do? I’ll tell you, I am A-Ci’s machine in life and death. Even if my mental cavity is occupied by you, you can’t bind me like this!”

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What???

He looked at Bai Ze with surprise and confusion.

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It immediately checked its language system and realized it had inadvertently synchronized its language pack with Xiao Xi while continuously analyzing and checking its internal programs.

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No! This won’t work!!!

Delete it!

Delete it right now!!!

Bai Ze is a legitimate SS-class combat mech. How could it be using such weird language packs?

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Huo Xianfeng chuckled meaningfully.

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Jiang Ci: “………”

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Bang—!

The tremendous force was so terrifying that Bai Ze even created a sonic boom as it flew out.

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“Huo Xianfeng, you…”

Jiang Ci probably understood his intention—to distract the enemy’s attention with Bai Ze carrying Xiao X. But now, they had no fallback plan at all.

What should they do now?

Steal the Forbidden Abyss bare-handed?

As it turned out, Jiang Ci guessed Huo Xianfeng’s thoughts again.

Next, Huo Xianfeng walked to the elevator door he had kicked open earlier and looked up at the passage nearly a hundred meters high, seemingly calculating something. Then, suddenly, he reached out and lifted Jiang Ci beside him.

—It was like holding a child.

Actually, this posture was very unfriendly to Jiang Ci now because his buttocks were pressed against Huo Xianfeng’s left forearm, and his legs had to wrap around Huo Xianfeng’s waist, leading to a very tight and awkward fit and friction.

The omega stiffened to the extreme because he was very familiar with this posture.

“Huo… Huo Xianfeng, you…”

But the latter just patted his back and whispered softly:

“Hold on tight!”

Then, Huo Xianfeng took out a grappling hook gun and pulled the trigger.

Swiiish—

Jiang Ci heard the sound of the steel cable shooting out.

The next moment, a strong sense of weightlessness hit him.

Just as they disappeared from the elevator entrance, a lot of footsteps and search noises could be heard outside.

“Where are they!?”

“Didn’t the positioning show that they are still here? They haven’t moved!”

“Damn it, search every corner carefully. They must be hiding!!!”

“………”

Those voices grew fainter and fainter.

Because at that moment, they were rapidly rising.

Jiang Ci tightly held onto Huo Xianfeng’s neck. He opened the air vents on his breathing mask, eagerly absorbing fresh pheromones from the young man’s neck.

Meanwhile, on the top floor, the positioning system initially only projected a simple three-dimensional map of the temple. The red dot indicating the central program chain suddenly disappeared with a flicker.

Several seconds passed before Angus regained his composure and began adjusting the search signal again.

As a result, the light screen that originally only projected the three-dimensional map of the individual temple had to expand its range and project the three-dimensional map image of the inner city.

It turned out the red dot didn’t disappear; it had flashed out of the map.

Oh, it wasn’t flying—it was teleporting.

“………???”

What just happened?!!

How did the central program chain suddenly teleport nearly a kilometer away???

Could Jiang Ci and the others have activated the mecha and fled?

But wasn’t the outside already surrounded? How could no one have seen it???