pjbooks Chapter 446 The Giant of Light!
Chapter 446 The Giant of Light!
When Zhang Yan opened his eyes, the Chaos Mech's feet were already on the surface of the moon.
The 30-meter-tall dark gold machine landed steadily, while the surrounding crater stirred up fine dust in the low-gravity environment.
The mech's visual sensors adjusted their focus, locking the ever-expanding heat source in the distance onto the center of the screen.
More than a thousand points of light have been spread out, like a dense, impenetrable net.
They are coalescing at the bottom of the crater, building something that Zhang Yan cannot understand.
"Qin Xiao, maintain communication," Zhang Yan said.
"Received, Brother Yan. The communication delay on the far side of the moon is about 1.3 seconds, which is barely usable."
Zhang Yan didn't say anything more.
The Chaos Mech unfolded its four wing-like structures, ignited its rear thrusters, and the dark golden giant shadow charged at full speed toward the heat source.
The moon's low gravity caused the descent speed to far exceed expectations.
The 600-kilometer distance was compressed into zero in three minutes. When Zhang Yan arrived above the crater, he saw a scene that made his pupils contract.
At the center of the heat source is a ring-shaped structure with a diameter of about fifty meters, and dark red energy flows on its surface.
It was not a creation of the community, but the remains of some kind of forcibly distorted "door".
The ring structure is slowly rotating, and with each rotation it contracts inward by one loop, like a tightening noose.
Above the ring-shaped structure, a human-shaped silhouette floats.
It has no fixed form.
The surface is a layer of flowing light, with colors constantly switching between pure white and dark gold, like a collapsing star.
Its height is estimated to be over fifty meters, almost twice as tall as the Chaos Mech.
The most bizarre thing is its "face," which has no facial features, only a smooth mirror surface that reflects the desolate landscape of the moon.
Zhang Yan stared at the mirror for two seconds.
The reflection in the mirror wasn't of himself, but rather the image of the Chaos Mech.
"A high-dimensional energy body has been detected."
A system notification sounded: "Energy level cannot be assessed; avoidance is recommended."
Zhang Yan ignored him.
The Chaos Mech extended its right arm forward, and the beam saber popped out from its retracted state. The dark gold blade silently extended in the vacuum environment, pointing directly at the humanoid silhouette.
The Giant of Light moved.
Its movements are slow, even graceful.
It simply raised its right hand and waved it gently.
An invisible shockwave spread out from its fingertips.
Zhang Yan's visual sensor captured the trajectory of the shock wave—it swept across the edge of the crater and then disappeared.
The edge of the crater did not disappear, but the entire crater disappeared.
The two-kilometer-diameter crater was smoothed out in the instant the shock wave swept through, as if someone had gently erased the surface of the moon with an eraser.
Hundreds of millions of tons of rock and dust evaporated silently, leaving not even fragments behind.
Zhang Yan's back was covered in cold sweat.
"Chaos, full power shield."
A semi-transparent energy membrane lit up the dark gold surface of the mecha, and the shield reading was maxed out.
Zhang Yan piloted the Chaos Mech forward, his beam saber aimed straight at the chest of the Giant of Light.
The sword tip pierced the flowing light.
Then it went through.
The giant of light neither dodged nor blocked; it simply stood there, letting the beam sword pass right through its body.
The part of the sword that pierced through felt like it was being swallowed by liquid; there was no resistance and no feedback whatsoever.
Zhang Yan quickly drew his sword and retreated.
The Giant of Light remained motionless.
Its mirror-like "face" turned towards Zhang Yan, and ripples began to appear on its smooth surface.
The ripples spread, forming a blurred outline.
Zhang Yan recognized the outline.
It was his own face.
"It's mimicking you." Nie Qingcheng's voice came through the communication channel, tinged with a barely perceptible tension. "Be careful."
Zhang Yan did not answer.
The particle cannon on the left shoulder of the Chaos Mech began to charge, and the dark golden muzzle lit up with a dazzling white light.
Three seconds later, a beam of energy five meters in diameter shot out from the cannon muzzle, heading straight for the head of the Giant of Light.
The energy beam pierced through its body, creating a crater hundreds of meters deep behind it.
The Giant of Light remained standing in the same spot.
It wasn't even damaged.
"Physical attacks are ineffective."
Zhang Yan stared at the data on the screen, his tone calm, "Its energy structure is the same as the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship; conventional weapons are like tickling it."
He paused.
"But shared origins mean that it can be purified."
The Chaos Mech retreated 300 meters, and Zhang Yan deactivated all attack modules, leaving only the shield and the energy channel of the Four Spirits Matrix.
His hand rested on his chest, and the dark blue light of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart shone through the gap in his collar, illuminating the entire cockpit.
"Xuanwu, activate the domain control."
Behind the Chaos Mech, the dark gold patterns began to change color, turning from dark gold to deep indigo.
The lunar surface beneath the mecha's feet began to solidify, not physically, but rather as space itself was being locked in place.
The Giant of Light finally reacted.
Its body began to twist, and the flowing light became sluggish under the suppression of the town, like a spinning top whose power had been drained.
Its movement speed plummeted, changing from an elegant slowness to a clumsy struggle.
"Azure Dragon, spatial folding."
The left wing of the Chaos Mech glowed with a silvery-white light.
The space folding generator operated at full capacity, creating an invisible force field around the giant of light.
The force field began to contract, like an invisible pair of scissors, cutting along the weak points of the energy structure.
The body of the Giant of Light was split apart.
The flowing light was cut into countless small pieces, each of which rolled randomly in the vacuum, losing all connection with each other.
They tried to regroup, but the town's lockdown prevented them from getting close to each other.
"The heart of nature, full-power purification."
Zhang Yan removed his hand from his chest, and the dark cyan light of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart surged, a thick beam of energy shooting out from his fingertips, enveloping the scattered energy blocks.
Purification begins.
Each energy fragment trembled violently in the dark cyan light, and the surface luster faded at a visible speed.
They tried to resist, but the fragments, having lost their overall structure, were just loose sand and could not form an effective resistance.
Thirty seconds later, all the energy blocks were completely purified.
The completeness of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart has been increased to 99.4%.
The lunar surface around the Chaos Mech was in complete disarray.
The residual spatial force field cut by the smoothed edge of the crater, and countless high-dimensional substances that were purified and turned into powder.
Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the constantly changing data on the screen.
Then he heard a voice.
It didn't come from the communication channel, nor from a system notification, but rang directly in his consciousness.
"You think we're after the moon?"
That was the voice of the Giant of Light, but it no longer had a body.
Only a fragment of consciousness remained, leaving behind its last message before dissipating.
Look at your feet.
Zhang Yan's pupils contracted.
He looked down at the surface of the moon.
Beneath the feet of the Chaos Mech, beneath the purified and powdered lunar soil, something is glowing.
The light was very faint, almost invisible to the naked eye, but the Chaos Mech's sensors detected its frequency.
The maintenance frequency of the gate network is exactly the same.
"Qin Xiao".
Zhang Yan's voice turned icy. "Immediately retrieve Earth's real-time data: all gate nodes, all magnetic pole deflections, and all abnormal fluctuations."
There was a three-second silence on the other end of the communication.
"Understood, Brother Yan." Qin Xiao's voice also changed. "But you need to be mentally prepared."
Zhang Yan's heart began to race as he looked at the faint light spreading across the lunar surface.
"What's wrong?"
"The Earth's magnetic field at the North and South Poles... is deflecting synchronously."
Zhang Yan closed his eyes.
He was deceived.
From the very beginning, the moon was not the target.
What communities always want is Earth.