Chapter 759: Chapter 283: Custom Black Hole
In my past life, Gao Gong learned about the Cloud Nobility toward the end of the planet. He had to buy tickets from these NPCs and got heavily ripped off.
In this life, I’ve learned about the twelve Cloud Nobles, each holding a key that can open the Fortress gate.
According to the Collider, the Xie Family is one of these twelve, possibly tracing back to a military server of the Empire.
Legend has it that every generation of the Xie Family members are products of artificial intelligence and industrial systems, with siblings categorized according to the style of the Source Code.
Moreover, they have a unique ’seniority system.’ Whoever has higher command priority in the Clan Hall has a higher rank.
Some creatures can even escape the ’seniority’ loop and control the ’Clan Hall’ in reverse. Such existences are the leaders of the Xie Clan.
To date, only three have achieved this, namely, the Clan Leader of the Xie Family, and two Grand Machine Elders.
Xie Egui, is one of them.
"But Xie Egui can freely enter this planet, not because of his Xie Family status, but because of another special identity," Pupil added.
"Special identity?"
"He is in charge of the trade between the Cyber Test Field and Outer Domain Civilizations."
"So he’s still a transportation team leader," Gao Gong stroked his chin and said.
"Why are you looking into him? You wouldn’t have offended him, or he wouldn’t have offended you, right?"
Chapai initially wanted to say the Xie Family members are all monsters, but now thought about it, this one is a monster too.
"That’s not the point. The point is, I’m now the Minister of the Shell Mobile Division, right?" Gao Gong suddenly grinned lecherously.
The three of them all rolled their eyes at the same time.
"Yes, Minister. When do you plan to take office? All colleagues in the department are eagerly waiting for you."
"If you don’t come soon, Sister Suzi might blow up."
"Minister, our department has a lot of beauties, you know."
Gao Gong’s expression gradually shifted from lascivious to serious, and his next sentence made the three jump up in shock.
"So, I have the authority to use General Cybertron’s Star-Destroying Weapon, right?"
...
After Gao Gong hung up the communication, he saw the Little Woman looking at him with a strange expression.
"What?"
"I never thought you’d have a day where you get angry over a beauty."
"No, I only get angry for a rich lady," Gao Gong answered customarily.
"Why don’t you ask me where Sister Du went?"
"What’s there to ask? Of course, she went to get revenge for me."
"You’re so sure?"
"Of course, isn’t it that way?"
The Little Woman muttered a few words and then huffed without speaking.
"Let’s go, I’ll take you to see."
Gao Gong lightly kicked forward with his toes, and the next moment, a purple mirror appeared. On the other side of the mirror was another war.
A war of rich ladies.
Compared to Gao Gong’s ’cheating,’ the current scene appeared normal, quite fitting the ’space warfare’ style. A sky full of missiles attacked the ’Sky Carrier’ from all directions, and large mechas equipped with Flight Modules acted as ’vanguards,’ attempting to land on this Space Base.
Meanwhile, the recovered Xie Egui laughed heartily while watching the woman floating on the other side.
"Good, good, good, you truly are worthy of being my future woman. Your production capacity has pleasantly surprised me. I must have you!"
Du Zhaodi was expressionless, continuously summoning mecha legions to encircle and attack the opponent.
However, the previously unchallenged mecha army in the Corporate War hit a hard wall here.
The energy shields of the Mechanical Fortress opened one by one, and regular mechas couldn’t break through them. More importantly, its base sporadically emitted energy tides, each of which caused a massive 360-degree area attack, devouring thousands of mechas.
Only two types of mechas, the Pioneer Mecha and the Biomechanical Armor, which were equipped with AT Force Fields, could withstand the energy tides and penetrate the opponent’s interior.
However, these two types of mechas were too few, with only a hundred Pioneer Mechas and just thirteen Biomechanical Armors.
The Mechanical Fortress only needed to release enough battle spaceships to temporarily hold them.
This time, when Gao Gong investigated again, he finally gleaned most of the opponent’s attributes.
Name: Xie Egui (Eternal Financial Group)
Species: Super Mechanical Life
Level: 90+
Life Value: 43,123,121/100 million
Mechanical Energy: 300 million/1 billion
Skills: ??
Modules: ??
Equipment: ??
Template: Xie Clan Ancestral Hall, Machine Elder, Longevity Species, Heart of the Fortress
Domain: Interstellar Fortress (Damaged)
Note: A powerful outer space fortress, patrolling between Star Zones, a Level 3 Mechanical Civilization superweapon.
That thing having 1 billion Mechanical Energy didn’t surprise Gao Gong. After all, a ’Subspace Tower’ alone probably had several billion in mechanical energy.
What shocked him was that this thing’s blood volume was actually 100 million?!
No wonder no matter how many ultimate skills I used, I couldn’t kill it.
It almost blew me out as well.
Speaking of which, how do you even have a domain? Are you a Shipgirl, no, a Shipguy?
Gao Gong recalled carefully, and the most formidable aspect of an authentic Interstellar Fortress was its energy defense system, consisting of millions of mechanical bodies in linkage, forming a super shield.
The energy tides the opponent unleashed approximated an S-Level, yet their range was ten times that of a Beast Tide, resembling an ’Interstellar Fortress.’
At this moment, the old machine dude seemed to have completely forgotten Gao Gong and was enthusiastically courting Du Zhaodi.
"The moment I saw you, I smelled that enchanting, gasoline-infused body scent of yours, so alluring, so sexy."
"Gears and gears, engines and engines, hardware and hardware, united we would be so wonderful, creating even more formidable mechanical life."
"Ah, I assure you, we will enhance your production efficiency, and we can create mechanical life for an entire planet!"
"This old man is so disgusting!" the little woman said disdainfully, then worriedly added, "Can Sister Du handle it?"
"Don’t underestimate Director Du. Let me put it this way, even if I step in, I might not be able to take down her, this Shipgirl. But I think I understand why this ’old thing’ is so covetous of Director Du."
"Is it because he wants Sister Du to give birth to little robots for him?"
"No, it’s to cure his mechanical madness."
"What kind of madness?"
"You can simply understand it as a type of cyber psychosis exclusive to mechanical life."
Gao Gong was now certain that something must have gone wrong during the ’transformation’ process.
Otherwise, that ’Interstellar Fortress’ domain wouldn’t be so incomplete.
Gao Gong looked up into outer space. Although there was nothing to see from 400,000 kilometers away, Gao Gong was certain that Cybertron, that mechanical satellite, was undergoing a planet-level transformation. City-level mechanical modules were retracting, giant pipelines began to gather energy and charge, and tens of thousands of Sparks entered a fixed matrix. Among them, many Sparks were the core energy of Level 60 mechanical life.
One of the three Mother Cities, General Cybertron, seeing this scene might, no, certainly would jump in rage.
The three Mother Cities and the six departments are on equal status.
And the greatest leverage of being equal is that each department head can use the core defense mechanisms of the Cyber Test Field without the Mother City’s approval.
For example—the Star-Destroying Weapon on Cybertron.
Of course, the efficiency of this Star-Destroying Weapon likely won’t be set to 100%, otherwise, it wouldn’t be killing someone but committing suicide. It will automatically adjust the output level according to the opponent’s energy level.
And according to the accounts from those three members of the Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, the Cloud Nobility did receive certain privileges from the Mother City, such as free access to the planet and selling rights to certain special resources, but these privileges did not include immunity from investigation or annihilation orders by the six departments.
Hehe, that makes things easier.
Let’s see you be smug now!
At this moment, Xie Egui didn’t yet know that he had already been sentenced to death in someone’s eyes.
Moreover, Xie Egui discovered an awkward fact, no matter how strong he was, this Ms. Du seemed to be just as formidable, especially with a certain domain ability of hers that completely restrained him.
Sure enough, as the Pioneer Mecha and Biomechanical Armor once again joined forces and broke into the Mechanical Fortress’s interior, Du Zhaodi instantly switched her domain.
Super Body Seal: On large military machines like the Mechanical Fortress, military bases, and Sky Carrier, Shipgirls can greatly seal their performance.
In the next moment, at least seventy percent of the weapon systems, defense platforms, and energy systems directly went into downtime, making the massive Mechanical Fortress sway in mid-air, as if it could fall at any time.
Moreover, these little insects possessing a million mechanical energy once again stormed in, causing havoc everywhere; Xie Egui had to open the ’Subspace Tower’ once more, intending to clamp them to death with Space Clamps.
However, this time, something seemed different.
An aerial phantom flickered, and the next instant, it was as if a bubble blossomed from the void, directly enveloping his hull, and then, phantoms of gigantic Radiation Beasts appeared, either opening giant mouths or stretching tentacles to entangle the entire Mechanical Fortress.
’Pseudo-Planet-Level Spiritual Power detected.’
’Large-scale illusions detected.’
’Large-scale space parameter fluctuations detected.’
’Another master!?’
Only then did Xie Egui have to admit he might have misjudged.
The opponent had not just one master but each was very distinct.
Seeing himself about to be completely devoured by the ’Brain-in-a-Vat’.
The ’Subspace Tower’ suddenly began to rotate, and the base of the Mechanical City started to inhale and exhale large tides of energy, reverse-wrapping the entire Mechanical Fortress.
Space parameters once more underwent massive changes.
Then, a strong exclusionary feeling emerged, and this huge Space Fortress began to slowly vanish into thin air.
"Interesting, very interesting, hahahahahahahaha."
Within a radiation layer spanning at least three zones, the Space Fortress once again gradually emerged.
Xie Egui continued to laugh maniacally.
"Since I can’t have her, I’ll destroy her body first!"
"Destroy all her bases, factories, headquarters, forcing her to leave with me. What a pity for such a beautiful body—"
Xie Egui’s voice abruptly stopped.
Because he saw a tiny figure, like an ant, in the distant sky, the holographic projection zoomed in to reveal Gao Gong, his mouth moving as if saying something.
"10"
"9"
"8"
...
What does that mean?
Xie Egui showed a puzzled expression.
In Gao Gong’s ear, a cold, mechanical female voice sounded, the Artificial Intelligence of the Star-Destroying Weapon.
’Target for annihilation locked.’
’Coordinate locating.’
’Output Efficiency 17.7%’
’Command confirmed, Minister of Ghost in the Shell Mobile Division, Gao Gong.’
’Attack system targeting complete.’
’Commence annihilation.’
Gao Gong revealed a bright smile, extending three fingers.
’3’
’2’
’1’
Xie Egui only felt his vision darken, the massive Sky Fortress rapidly disintegrating in this darkness.
And in this darkness, space parameters were inexplicably unparseable!
And in Gao Gong’s eyes.
A ’Black Hole’ as large as this sea area suddenly appeared.
Then, it directly sucked the enemy in.
