Rampage

Above the sky, between the clouds, a flock of spirit birds and demonic birds circled in the storm. Among them, a five-colored spirit phoenix with double pupils was being ridden on the back of a strange bird with human feet, Shusi. No, it was being held by the back of its spine and carried in its feet. It had clearly been hunted down, with a huge bloody gash pecked open from the back of its head to its spine, revealing its grim white bones.

Although the body of the Double-Pupil Spirit Phoenix was not very solid, merely possessing the form but not the spirit, and its Shusi wings were almost torn apart by the strange bird on its back, only the bone between its spine and the back of its head was as hard as iron, and it did not break no matter how much the strange bird pecked at it.

Then a crow flew out from the storm and landed on the spine. Its eyes flashed red. It pecked twice at the spine, and suddenly the white bone sprayed out a large amount of amber-colored oily liquid and steam. The sides slid open as if flipping open, revealing a human figure hidden in the spine.

Yes, it is clearly a human. Although it lacks skin, it still has a basic torso and face. All the muscles and nerves in this human form are connected to the muscles and spinal cord of the Chongming Bird, as if they were growing together. The eyes in the human face roll upwards, the eyeballs move rapidly, and it emits meaningless groans.

The crow brought its head close and pecked at the person's face, plucking out the two eyeballs and swallowing them. Then it lifted its foot, gouged out its own crow pupils, and stuffed them into the hollow of the person's face, where they merged with the person's brain nerves.

After waiting a while, the man blinked and chuckled softly.

The blind crow nodded, flew to Shusi's shoulder, and watched as the flesh and bones at the back of Chongming Lingfeng's head healed completely. It then cawed once.

Shusi then released his grip, throwing Chongming down from the clouds, and flew into the dark clouds, disappearing from sight.

After falling a hundred meters, just before hitting the ground, Chongming suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of double-pupiled raven eyes. He then flapped his wings and took flight again, heading straight for the mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

It was much simpler than I expected.

Li Fan constantly switched between the eyes of the crows, seeing the world through the eyes of all the puppets in his palm: Guiche, Xiqu, Chongming, Shusi Si, Qutu, Heluo, and Zhang Xiang. Each time was a novel experience, each time a different perspective, and each time a brand new adventure.

Through the memories of the Guiche, he learned that some people in the cult particularly liked to create seventeen or eighteen blood puppet clones, men and women, young and old, to party together or engage in solo group cultivation. At the time, he thought it was an eyesore and couldn't understand it. But actually experiencing the symptoms of schizophrenia seemed quite exciting. What was that saying again? Since getting a mental illness, he's become much more energetic.

However, you have to admit, the technology in all three locations is quite advanced. Aside from 'Heluo,' who uses a human prosthetic body to operate electronic warfare equipment from the shadows, 'Xiqu' and 'Chongming' both use human prosthetic bodies with added demon-god-level skin camouflage. Essentially, they're similar to the 'Zhu Long' bio-cruiser—the kind of 'living wildlife,' synthetic beasts created using bio-cloning technology, with a spacesuit-like biochemical camouflage shell. While they can't use demonic magic like real demons, they're equipped with plasma cannons, laser cannons, and other weapons to ensure combat effectiveness. Not only is their physical strength comparable to a great demon, but they also minimize the environmental impact of using high-tech equipment, thus avoiding detection by the company's systems.

As for the drones, smart munitions, gravitational binding fields, and full-band brainwave interference, which instantly suppressed Legion technology, these were all accomplished by this support team using limited Level 4 technology equipment while simultaneously hacking into the company's systems and conducting network intrusions. If they hadn't focused their main efforts on monitoring the company's movements and incidentally dealt with a wave of Legion Apostles, thus reversing the roles of the two sides in the hunt and ambush, Li Fan didn't have a sure chance of successfully counter-ambushing them.

But regardless of the cause and effect, a defeat is a defeat. This security team really stumbled in the gutter. They were too concerned about the company's need for covert operations and ignored the threat that wild animals could pose. They probably really didn't expect that the crow in the cage was actually a top hacker and illusion master.

"There's another one called Ear Mouse, wanna catch it?"

Hiding in a tree hole, the Guiche wearing a ghostly shell contacts the system, Pisces.

Li Kun, "This is difficult. It's Sentinel, a Level 5 bio-monitoring radar, and it also has an independent firewall. It's not easy to deal with."

Li Gan, "Besides, we don't have the technology to transform biological brains into ion chips. Let Qiongqi retreat first, leave him a piece of meat to complete the mission, and then follow him to find the location of the shuttle."

So Li Fan used his Divine Sense to instruct Qiongqi to take advantage of the opportunity when Qingyang Qingtian Dahu nuclear bomb was launched to throw down some fat meat to disguise itself as a dead tiger, so that its true form could escape.

But Qiongqi refused.

Hmm... Hmm? Rejection??

"Damn it... it hurts so much..."

Amidst the howling hot wind, emerged a burly man, over two zhang tall, with a waist ten spans wide, broad shoulders and a powerful build, iron bones and icy skin, sword-like eyebrows, and golden eyes. His white hair cascaded over his shoulders, and his Great Strength, muscular chest resembled two iron anvils joined together. As he strode forward, the Dao Breath emanating from his body seemed to gather around him like a vortex of hot air, as if his entire being was enveloped in a burst of bluish-white flames! Blazing fiercely!

"Target still active! Threat level escalating rapidly! Repeat! Target still active! Threat level still rising! Requesting backup! Heluo! Requesting backup!"

"Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp! So noisy! You son of a bitch! Die!"

Qiongqi leaped forward, its foot slamming into the ground, causing mountains to crumble and the earth to split! Rocks Shi Kai!

A large rat with the head of a rabbit and the body of a deer, about four meters long, saw that things were not going well. It darted out from underground, its tail spinning wildly, and it almost skimmed the ground as fast as the light of a flash!

"I've been spotted! Heluo! Requesting backup! The threat level is still rising!"

Li Fan was completely overwhelmed. Damn it, Qiongqi had actually gone berserk at this crucial moment! He still needed to use the Guiche crowd control, how could he possibly spare the time to possess and suppress it!

"Damn it! You think you're all grown up now, causing trouble at this hour! I told you to retreat first! I meant, reinforcements are on their way!"

"Target has disappeared from radar! Requesting backup! Requesting backup!"

"Die--!"

The next instant, the Ear Mouse exploded.

Sigh, this guy's all about speed, but he can't even run away properly. What's the use of being fast? Why doesn't he at least run in a zigzag pattern? His straight-line trajectory is obvious at a glance. Qiongqi teleported right in front of him with a Tai Xuan, landed a straight punch, and was gone in a flash...

Without any suspense, Qiongqi shattered the giant rat with a single move, and even pulled out a human head with a large number of metal wires attached to its spine from the remains.

Qiongqi lifted the spine as if it were a chain ball, looking at the head of the real 'Ear Mouse' that was temporarily in shock due to concussion. Before Li Fan's Blood Raven could fly up and forcefully control it, the beast had already opened its blood-red maw and bit off the head and face in one bite, swallowing it whole and chewing it up. It even rubbed and chewed the spinal cord and cervical vertebrae into its stomach.

Oh ho...

"Ah--Ah..."

"Alarm! Alarm! Vital signs lost! Citizen in abnormal condition! Activate emergency medical assistance!"

"Damn it, what's going on now?!"

Li Fan's scalp nearly exploded. In an instant, the special agent team's channel suddenly heard the shrill scream of "Ear Mouse." The sound was heart-wrenching and soul-shaking, almost affecting even the Guiche. Heluo and the others even coughed up blood from their mouths and noses, fell to the ground with their eyes rolling back, and convulsed and lost control of their bladders as if having an epileptic seizure.

Even the mood system was probably shocked; its mood plummeted.

"Damn it... it, its Chang Gui ability to bind souls actually pulled that agent's soul out of the virtual network!"

"What?! Is this even possible?!"

"It can be done... I knew it could be done... Disconnect! Disconnect! They're connected to a subnet! The soul is shattered beyond repair! Disconnect!"

"No, no, no! Don't forget to wipe away the traces of the intrusion!"

"Damn it! Memory erase! Quack! Memory erase! Quack! Memory erase, quack!"

As the crows cawed in panic, a beam of light streaked across the distant mountains like a falling meteor. The optically invisible shuttle had broken through the dust and reached the battlefield, its searchlights shining like bright light directly at the Qiongqi in the arena.

Upon detecting abnormal vital signs in the agents, the shuttle teleported directly into the field in less than a minute! The transparent hatch opened in mid-air, and humanoid and spider-shaped drones with red crosses painted on their white shells jumped out of the hatch!

Those spider-shaped ones are multi-functional, multi-purpose drones, while the humanoid ones are strictly speaking 'stretchers'. Yes, their bodies are hollow, specifically designed to collect the remaining remains, organs, scraps of flesh, and biological tissues of citizens, preserving their physiological characteristics before bringing them back for emergency treatment.

"Alert! Alert! Citizen status abnormal! Activate emergency medical assistance! Threat detected! Wildlife! Threat level escalating! Activate emergency rescue regulations, armament unlock..."

"Buzz beep fucking loud! It's so noisy, fuck it!"

"Boom!!"

Before the drone swarm could even get close, Qiongqi roared in fury and spewed a torrent of fire that struck the shuttle squarely!

A bluish-white plasma beam struck the blue deflection field on the outer layer of the shuttle, creating a dazzling display of light and turbulent jets of energy, as brilliant as a sky full of stars! Yet the shuttle only swayed slightly, completely unharmed!

"Fuck you! Electric turtle! Die!!"

Qiongqi was enraged! It stomped the ground and leaped forward, cracking the ground like spiderwebs! It rose from the ground and threw a punch! Like a cannonball, it slammed into the shuttle, directly destroying the plasma engine! The cloaking device also failed in the violent explosion! The crab-shell-like disc-shaped shuttle spiraled and crashed to the ground!

The system was shocked!

"Huh? It didn't trigger the anti-Newtonian stance!"

"The soul has been pulled over! The agent's main consciousness is now inside the prosthetic chip in its stomach! Friend or foe identification is disabled!"

Li Fan nearly vomited blood. "Don't panic! What do we do now?!"

The situation is now chaotic.

The shuttle wobbled and crashed to the ground, its hatch wide open.

It's like slapping a spider to death, causing a swarm of baby spiders to burst out.

Shouting, "Received! Emergency Rescue Regulations activated! Rescue citizens!" "Received! Regulations activated..." "Received! Rescue citizens..." A large number of white drones painted with red crosses automatically started up, pouring out of the crashed shuttle's pod. Spider-like drones instantly activated strong gravitational fields, controlling and blocking Qiongqi's movements, and then fired a large number of intelligent guided munitions, swarming towards Qiongqi's body like bees!

The humanoid drones, though lacking heavy weapons, leaped and climbed like nimble monkeys and fleas, extending monomolecular mantis blades and high-energy rays from their four legs, brandishing scalpels at their fingertips, and charging forward in a dense, frenzied frenzy! They clearly intended to dissect the Qiongqi alive and rescue the citizens inside its belly.

"Aaaaaah! I'll kill you! I'll kill you all!"

Qiongqi roared wildly as it danced amidst the barrage of bullets and flashing swords!

Even with the steel-like bones forged by the Azure Sun Divine Transformation, the Transformation Stage could hardly withstand the cutting impact of lasers and monomolecular blades. But Qiongqi was not a purely reckless beast; the beating it had just suffered was not for nothing. This beast had actually grown rapidly amidst the carnage, developing its own set of composite combat techniques.

Although it's the same old thing that Li Fan used skillfully ten years ago, Qiongqi has finally figured it out.

In principle, it utilizes the Dao Body to inflict damage, and at the moment it is locked onto by laser missiles, monomolecular blades, or sensed as a threat by the Qiongqi, it immediately transforms into a gale through the Tai Xuan method to become immune to damage. This back-and-forth switching, with illusion and reality intertwined, is like a ghost or a phantom, making it impossible for people to determine whether this raging storm is a manifestation of magic or a gale stirred up by fists and claws that are too fast to see!

In the blink of an eye, a fierce wind swept through! It blasted all the cybernetic bodies to smithereens! Even the intelligent warheads that were buzzing around like flies were thrown off course by the rapid flash of Qiongqi and the plasma impact of Qingyang Flame, which was like an EMP shock! They exploded and burst open, turning the earth into ablaze with flames! A scene of utter devastation!

Damn! Qiongqi! It can actually fight really well when it gets serious! It was just slacking off before!

"They've dropped it! Combat mechs!"

Well, it really is bad news. Not only did the covert operation fail, but people also died. Now we don't need to worry about search warrants or deviation values anymore. The Level 5 military cybernetic bodies were immediately unlocked and taken over by the security department's system. Two teams, eight mechs, were launched from the escort ship on the spot! They were directly parachuted into orbit!

When the system packaged the satellite images and aircraft data and sent them to Li Fan, the SBS autonomous combat mech signal had already entered the atmosphere!

These are not cheap civilian gadgets. The SBS Space Combat System is designed for space warfare, for storming and seizing fortresses, Death Stars, aircraft carrier flagships, and for decapitation command systems—it's a combat mech!

Moreover, unlike the engineering machinery operated by people, the mission of the Third Division was to raid and infiltrate the company's secret test base. They could encounter all sorts of strange and unusual things. The SBS combat cybernetic bodies of these Security Bureau were also top-of-the-line, and the mechs were equipped with combat clones. Even the mood system could not be dealt with by simple signal interference or hacker puppets!

Li Fan felt as if he had just won a game and suddenly someone unplugged his internet cable – utterly speechless.

"... How about we surrender and lose half?"

"How can you say we can lose by half! Those agents were all turned into idiots by the soul shock! Earthlings' souls are fucking weak!"

"Damn it! It's come to this! Plan B!"

"Confirmed, Plan B activated!"

Do we have a Plan B?

"Of course! Let's go all in! Let's fight them! The security network has collapsed! The company and the Security Bureau will be calling the police soon! There's no way to hide, so let's muddy the waters! Authorize us to handle it! You don't need to worry about anything else!"

"Right, citizens with cerebral palsy are still citizens! As long as the agents are still in our hands, we have a chance to negotiate! The premise is that we can't let the system take back the citizens! Let Qiongqi eat them all!"

So you're going to risk it all? Fine, let's risk it all. The worst that can happen is the world being destroyed. The world has been on the brink of destruction too many times already; Li Fan can calmly face it now.

"Alright! Let's fight! I authorize the start! Subnets connected in parallel! Quack!"

"The divine court invades! Gua!"

"Spiritual Reset! Croak!"

"Pain blockade! Quack!"

"Passing on the boost! Quack!"

"Metabolic surge! Quack!"

"Restrictions lifted! Quack!"

"The ferocious beast has gone berserk! Croak!"

Li Fan howled at the top of his lungs, and the crows shrieked! Xiqu, Chongming, Shusi, Qutu all went berserk in fury!

Qiongqi roared like a tiger, shaking the mountains, and sprouted a pair of wings from its back, soaring straight into the sky! It met the descending stars head-on!

A group of demons and iron soldiers descending from the sky engaged in a fierce battle in the clouds! For a time, it was difficult to determine a victor!

Well, since both Xiqu and Chongming had hostages in their heads, the mechs didn't dare to go all out, while Qiongqi could use its wind-based attack to dodge damage at any time. As for Shusi and Qutu, well, they were just one shot after another, not even flying into sight before instantly turning into roasted chicken and fried chicken, dying on the spot...

Li Fan (Raven): "Damn it! This won't do! These pieces of trash are too fragile! They can't even withstand an ion cannon!!"

Li Kun (Crow): "Normally, no one could withstand that..."

Li Fan (Raven): "Why don't I jump over in my true form now and kill them all?"

Li Gan (Ya): "Wait! There's still a chance! Use the stuff 'Heluo' brought! It's mercenary-grade equipment! We don't need to breach the Security Bureau's gateway!"

Amidst the fierce battle between demons in the sky and on the ground, and the chaotic shooting of plasma fireballs, crows cawed and chattered as they flew noisily over the mountains towards the mud pit where 'Heluo' lay. Beside them was a spider-type drone, a formidable military asset with full-area ECM intrusion blocking capabilities, capable of wiping out the entire Divine Cult army in a single strike. The demons were still rampaging and running amok.

However, Heluo, who had been lying unconscious on the ground, suddenly jumped up, raised his hand with his eyes closed, and with a series of flashes, blasted three or four crows that were nearby! At the same time, his entire body's nano anti-Newtonian field was reactivated!

Li Kun (Crow) yelled, "Damn! Even disposable prosthetics buy the VIP Automatic Defense Platinum Monthly Package?! They're fucking rich!"

Li Gan (Ya) yelled, "Scare her! You'd better scare her now!"

Li Kun (Crow) yelled, "Damn it! Didn't you hear me say it was a Platinum Package?! What did you think I was doing?!"

Li Fan (the Raven) roared, "Blood Puppet Embrace! Caw!"

So Zhang Xiang, who was lying on the ground, opened his eyes, sprang up with a whoosh, grabbed Heluo around the waist, wrapped his arms around her limbs like an octopus, and dragged her down into the mud. He shoved the crow-eyed gun in front of Heluo's eyes.

"Blood Puppet Embrace! Croak!" roared 'Heluo,' his face covered in blood, "Disarm!"

"The automatic defense system reminds you that your monthly contract has not expired. Once the contract is terminated, our company will not provide a refund..."

"I already said it's off! If you keep whining, I'll give you a bad review! Ugh! My back is broken, my back is broken!"

"Thank you for using the automatic defense system. We look forward to your next visit..."

So a flock of blood crows swooped over and landed on the drone next to them, pecking open the panel one after another, plugging the Ghost Shell's external cables into the main unit, and adjusting the parameters by stepping on the keyboard.

Li Kun (Ya) shouted, "Done! Give me authorization five counts down!"

Li Fan (Heluo) retorted angrily, "What are you waiting for? Can't I just give it to you now?!"

Li Gan (the crow) shouted, "Five! Four! Three! Two!"

The next instant, Li Fan (Heluo) spoke, "Authorize!"

"Second strike, initiate."

Li Kun (Ya) spoke calmly, as if he had simply pressed a switch.

At first there was no reaction, and then, Li Fan (Heluo), who was lying on his back with his waist bound, saw it.

A star in the sky suddenly lit up.

In that instant, it was as if the sun had burst forth from between the stars; someone had ripped open the curtains of night, and dazzling rays of light rushed towards us, blindingly bright.

Li Gan (Ya), "Initial shot hit, 'Night Curtain' shot down."