Chapter 151: Chapter 150: Pitch-Dark Ahead, It Must Be the Bandits’ Lair
Having obtained an extremely high-Level auxiliary administrator permission, the self-replicating Mike possessed immense defensive capabilities.
Ordinary physical attacks couldn’t even locate his brain.
After all, with hundreds of thousands of copies, any one of them could be his main body.
But this very fact only highlighted that his biological brain was his greatest weakness.
Robots couldn’t be put under Hypnosis, but a biological brain could.
At the same time, Shen Feng had already carefully analyzed Mike’s personality.
Given his arrogant, conceited, and glory-seeking nature, once Shen Feng was at a disadvantage, Mike’s main body would inevitably be unable to resist creeping closer, wanting to witness Shen Feng’s miserable state up close.
And so, once Shen Feng was completely on the back foot and surrounded, with Mike’s vigilance at its lowest, Shen Feng immediately began his powerful Hypnosis!
After acquiring the *Hypnosis Principles* and conducting in-depth research into the art of Hypnosis, Shen Feng had become quite adept at it.
Especially when combined with the lights, the rhythmic background noise, and the gloomy environment inside the massive structure, the effect of the Hypnosis was amplified dozens of times over.
Meanwhile, Turman’s extremely high-Level auxiliary administrator permission could counteract Mike’s other copies, preventing them from waking up the main body.
"...Such a pleasant day... You’re not thinking about anything... You just want this day to last forever... Why not get up from your beach chair and go for a swim in the ocean... You stand up, and you walk forward..."
Even the most wicked people have a soft spot in their hearts, usually from their childhood.
For many, this is both their Achilles’ heel and their most cherished memory.
The same was true for Mike.
At this moment, the surrounding Mike Robots had all slowly ceased moving, clearly influenced by the main body.
Jingwei, using Turman’s permission, also began to suppress the permissions of these copies to avoid disturbing Shen Feng’s Hypnosis.
Following Shen Feng’s voice, only one last Mike Robot was still active.
This Mike Robot was located in the crowd, to the left rear, in a very inconspicuous position with about ten thousand others blocking the view in front of it.
Right now, this Mike Robot wore a dazed expression and a confused smile as it began to walk forward.
The copies in front of it parted to make way, allowing it to pass.
Clearly, this was the main body.
Shen Feng didn’t rush to disassemble it. Instead, he maintained the hypnotic lights and background sound, speaking in a gentle tone:
"Mike... Mike... Come to Daddy... Daddy will take you for a swim..."
A child-like, dependent smile immediately appeared on the Mike Robot’s face. It swayed as it ran toward Shen Feng, quickly arriving in front of him.
Shen Feng raised his hand, patting Mike’s head, and said softly:
"Little Mike is Daddy’s good son... Daddy is so proud of you..."
As he spoke, his hands suddenly plunged downwards, pushing aside the Nanomechanical Cluster and instantly ripping a cortically-metallized brain from within Mike’s body!
The Mike Robot before him snapped its eyes wide open, instantly waking from the Hypnosis, only to find in astonishment that its brain was already in Shen Feng’s hands!
"What did you do to me!? You despicable bastard!"
"Let him go!"
"Damn you, you bastard!"
"If you dare harm that brain, I’ll tear you to shreds!"
"..."
Including Mike’s main body, all the surrounding copies let out furious roars. A terrifying light of hatred shone from their eyes, yet none of them dared to step forward.
They were now in a hostage situation. If they reacted too aggressively, the other party might just destroy the main brain!
Mike’s main brain was also using its own permissions to command the copies, strictly forbidding them from approaching.
’This Asian kid is absolutely ruthless. There’s no telling what he might do.’
Although it had lost its brain, the main body robot that had just been under the brain’s control was still able to speak:
"I admit, I have failed... Friend, please accept my most sincere apology."
Mike said slowly, his expression equally sincere:
"I swear on my father’s name, if you let me go, I will pledge my loyalty to you from this day forward. I will be your loyal dog, your tool to conquer the entire world. Believe me, as a tool, I am far more useful alive than dead."
Shen Feng looked at the brain in his hand, then at the still-active Mike Robot before him, and suddenly laughed.
"Well, well, you actually evolved remote control capabilities. Give you a bit more time and you’d be trying to take over heaven, wouldn’t you? I can spare your life, but first, you need to make every Nanomechanical Cluster you control open its back-end permissions. At the same time, transfer control and your control permissions to me."
The Mike Robot before him hesitated. Just as it was about to speak, Shen Feng suddenly raised his hand and slapped the brain he was holding, shouting:
"Hurry the fuck up!"
All the surrounding Mike Robots immediately clutched their heads, their faces contorted in pain.
’This Asian kid is a complete Devil!’
A moment later, all the Mike Robots became dazed once more. The light in their eyes vanished, and their gazes grew vacant.
They had opened their control permissions.
"Jingwei, time to get to work," Shen Feng said with a whistle.
Jingwei immediately began to effortlessly penetrate the control cores of these Nanomechanical Robots. Through quantum information transmission, she swiftly obtained the permissions, along with the extremely high-Level auxiliary administrator permission that Mike had transferred.
Then, the remaining hundreds of thousands of Mike Robots raised their heads again. Light flickered in their eyes, and their surfaces began to writhe and morph, like liquid mercury.
Soon, all the bald, black Mikes had transformed into copies of Shen Feng, complete with a large backpack and a mocking smile.
Unlike Shen Feng’s hive-mind control, each of Mike’s original copies had its own independent consciousness, but Shen Feng had just erased them all.
Seeing hundreds of thousands of copies of himself smiling back at him, Shen Feng couldn’t help but shudder. He spoke to the brain in his hand:
"This is too weird. You’re a real sicko, you know that..."
He released his mental tendrils again, and the surrounding Construction Machines changed form once more. This time, they all transformed into cool-looking warriors.
Their heads were the white helmets of the Star Wars clone army, their torsos looked like Gundams, their arms were from Transformers, and their legs were from Voltron.
They were a flashy, garish mess, like postmodern installation art.
"Shen Feng, isn’t this copyright infringement?" Jingwei asked, a little worried.
Shen Feng waved his hand dismissively.
"Don’t worry. If I just use a little from each one, it’s not infringement. This is called ’re-creation.’ I’ll call the work ’Polyhedral Warrior’... You know, men are just boys who never grow up. We all have the heart of a boy, and this... this is my boyish heart..."
"Re-creation, my ass! This is called infringing on multiple parties at once, okay!" Jingwei was utterly speechless. ’This kid seems to be getting more and more shameless!’
"Respected... Mr. Shen, may I ask, do you require my fealty?" the last remaining Mike Robot asked. It was still being controlled by the brain in Shen Feng’s hand.
To put it bluntly, he *was* the brain.
Shen Feng gave a dark laugh, glanced at the brain in his hand, and said:
"Fealty my ass!"
With a sudden exertion of force, a SQUELCH resounded as he tore the silver-gray brain in half, like splitting a ripe, juicy fruit, revealing the red and white biological structures within!
’I’ve been wanting to do that for a while.’
Shen Feng then applied more force, completely shredding Mike’s brain. He tossed the pieces aside, and a nearby Construction Machine immediately stepped forward, opened its mouth, and swallowed the brain fragments to begin studying their structure.
The combination of Mike and the Nanomechanical Cluster was also a great source of inspiration for Shen Feng.
Its various structures could provide Shen Feng with guidance on how to better integrate his own Silicon-Based Brain and biological brain, as well as how to exert better control over the Nanomechanical Cluster.
The Nanomechanical Cluster under Shen Feng’s control acted like a swarm of ravenous termites, quickly breaking down Mike’s brain fragments to the cellular level and beginning the most detailed research and absorption on a microscopic scale.
After all this was done, Shen Feng stretched, sat down cross-legged, and pulled out the preserved dried fish, the last of his crackers, and some other food and water from his backpack, and began to eat heartily.
He hadn’t eaten in a day or two and was getting really hungry.
The hundreds of thousands of Construction Machines, now converted into Polyhedral Warriors, also sat down on the ground, waiting quietly by his side.
After eating, Shen Feng lay down lazily. A few Construction Machines immediately fused together, forming the shape of a bed for him to sleep on.
After resting for about an hour, Shen Feng, his energy restored, snapped his eyes open.
He stood ramrod straight, his gaze as sharp as a sword, and looked up toward the higher dome above.
Fed, watered, and well-rested. Now it was time for the final act.
The hero’s victory.
There would be a fierce battle, far more brutal than anything he had experienced in this world.
But since he had already come this far, there was no turning back. Naturally, he had to go up and see.
A Construction Machine came to Shen Feng’s side and enveloped his body once more.
Only this time, it didn’t take a humanoid form but mimicked a suit of metallic battle armor, like the Venom symbiote suit.
With a great leap, Shen Feng landed on the metal wall of the shaft to the side. He looked up at the faintly visible exit above, grinned coldly, and began to sing:
"Behold the dark void ahead, it must be the thieves’ den! I will rush forth and slaughter them all ’til the world itself turns to darkness!"
The moment the words left his mouth, he led the hundreds of thousands of Construction Machines, which had morphed into the shape of eight-legged Spiders, and they began to scramble rapidly up the shaft of the massive structure like a pack of beasts.
The simultaneous crawling of hundreds of thousands of Construction Machines created a thunderous roar, like a cascade of ten thousand lightning bolts.
As they passed through the upper levels, new Construction Machines constantly appeared, attacking the army led by Shen Feng, and a brutal slaughter immediately ensued.
Eventually, these Construction Machines were gradually infiltrated by Jingwei via their permissions, brought under control, and absorbed into Shen Feng’s legion.
As they neared the exit, a beam of light shone down from the opening, illuminating the path forward for Shen Feng’s mechanical army.
New Construction Machines continued to dive down from above, trying to block Shen Feng’s mechanical army.
The Construction Machines of the mechanical army piled on top of one another within the shaft, charging toward the beam of light at the exit.
It was as if the Fallen Angels, led by Lucifer, were about to burst out of Hell!
Finally, the exit before them grew larger and larger, and one by one, the Construction Machines, led by Shen Feng, charged out!
