"Clatter!"
Guo Shuai was thrown directly into the RV by Jiangnan.
And right beside him, prepared in advance, was the [Fool].
They were already waiting here.
Not far away, Shen Lian and Chen Tong hid in a corner and watched.
Hehe~
The Fool let out a baby laugh and playfully poked Guo Shuai's cheek.
Meanwhile, the World Tree sapling that was originally supposed to grow...
Under this Suppression, it ceased its growth, stopped growing, and shrank back into Guo Shuai's flesh and blood.
The crisis has been temporarily averted.
Jiangnan did not step into the car.
He turned around, his gaze, hidden beneath Lei Kai's gaze, sweeping over the still-shaken crowd outside the car.
"What exactly is going on?"
The sound, its timbre forcibly altered by electric current, emanated from the Thunder Armor.
It is completely different from the original sound of Jiangnan.
The crowd looked at each other, unsure how to respond.
Because of the completely changed voice and attire, for a moment no one recognized the true identity of the person in front of them.
Zhao Yan stood in the rain, staring at the Purple Sky Thunder Armor, and sighed inwardly.
"Really!"
He immediately came up with a reasonable explanation.
The powerful figure before us is undoubtedly a trump card left behind by the Dragon God before his death.
Or perhaps it's a super protector secretly cultivated!
Thinking of this, Zhao Yan stood at attention and reported to his supervisor with a bitter expression.
"This... sir."
"This morning's tragedy is the responsibility of our military, and I, Zhao Yan, will never shirk my duty!"
"That bastard Zhang Lingqi originally planned to disobey orders and go to the beach alone to fight Gabetan."
"But I don't know why..."
"Unexpectedly, he suddenly went berserk, returned, and brutally murdered our comrades..."
"We really don't know why he would do such a thing."
"Zhang Lingqi..."
Beneath the thunderous armor, Jiangnan stroked his chin.
Judging from the exchange just now, this guy's strength is extremely strange.
He possesses at least three or more Sequence Supernatural Ability!
It's not just the [Intangibility] that grants immunity to physical damage.
And then there's that [Spatial Portal] that even I can shake off.
This guy is practically a born savior of escape techniques!
"Even I would have difficulty capturing or killing someone with this level of spatial escape ability in the first instance."
Jiangnan secretly pondered, "It seems that if I face him again next time..."
"We must not hold back in the slightest, and we must not even attempt to capture them alive."
"It must be a fatal blow!"
Jiangnan snapped out of her thoughts.
He pointed to the shattered remains of the World Tree he had cleaved in the distance and gave a cold command.
"The World Tree, right?"
I need information about it.
Then, his gaze turned to two people in the crowd.
"Wang Meng, Han Fei, you two are responsible for handing over this intelligence to me."
"Also, hand over all the files concerning Zhang Lingqi to me."
Upon hearing these two names, both Wang Meng and Han Fei were taken aback.
The two exchanged a glance.
The guy in front of me had completely changed his voice, but his personality...
Isn't that their eldest son in real life?!
Having figured this out, the two relaxed.
Since their leader didn't want to reveal his true identity, they naturally had to cooperate and put on an act.
Han Fei's mind worked extremely fast; his eyes darted around.
"Understood! Please rest assured... Lord Purple Sky!"
"Ah, right, right, Big Boss Purple Sky, let's go right now!"
After saying that, Wang Meng and Han Fei turned around and went to find Zhao Yan to ask for the file.
Zhao Yan dared not delay in the slightest.
Zhang Lingqi's public murder and rebellion were a grave offense he couldn't bear; he had to report it immediately.
He immediately took the two men to the military communications area inside the RV to retrieve top-secret information.
And...
Judging from the mess, the joint punitive operation scheduled for 8 PM tonight will likely have to be postponed indefinitely.
After making the arrangements, Jiangnan didn't waste any more words.
He stepped on purple lightning, rose from the ground, and leaped directly into the sky.
He then concealed himself and went to a secluded corner that no one knew about.
"Sizzle!"
Jiangnan instantly removed the Purple Sky Thunder Armor from his body, revealing his true appearance.
Immediately afterwards, the [Eye of Mobius] burst into light!
"The Fourth World!"
An invisible spatial domain, centered on him, expands in all directions!
He needs to conduct a thorough scan.
To determine if there are any treacherous individuals lurking on this Weird Island, waiting for an opportunity to cause trouble.
The feedback came quickly.
From Jiangnan's perspective, a huge outline was scanned on the beach, which is close to the First Sea Region!
Is it Gabetan?
Jiangnan's heart skipped a beat.
But then I realized something was wrong.
His expertise allows him to roughly sketch out the opponent's three-dimensional outline.
That thing was as big as a mountain, but...
That was clearly a human silhouette!
It couldn't be Gabetan.
"Could it be the owner of that explosive sound that just streaked across the sky?"
Jiangnan speculated.
He did hear a sonic boom from the sky when he rushed down to stop the World Tree from going berserk.
It must have been this behemoth that caused the commotion.
"Let's go take a look."
Jiang locked onto the coordinates of that beach and activated [Close at Hand, Near Yet Far]!
However!
During the space jump.
"Bang!"
Jiangnan felt a sudden darkness before his eyes as he crashed into a dead tree trunk, shattering the tree to pieces!
He staggered onto the beach, his brow furrowed, filled with doubt.
"What the hell?"
"I clearly locked onto an empty beach; I didn't jump to any point with trees!"
However, the thought only flashed through my mind.
Perhaps it was just a minor, occasional shift in coordinates caused by his spatial Supernatural Ability, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
Upon arriving at the beach, Jiangnan immediately spotted the Machine God.
And there was the blonde girl, suspended in mid-air, dressed in overalls, repairing the waist of the mecha with a welding torch.
"This is... a mecha?"
Just to be on the safe side, Jiangnan once again donned the [Purple Sky Thunder Armor], appearing as a body armor.
However.
While repairing her mech, Berris heard a thunderous noise behind her and instinctively turned around.
When she saw Jiangnan, who was enveloped in purple lightning, she surprisingly showed no hostility.
Instead, he blurted out something incongruous.
"Oh! It's you, Thunder Living Person!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
It wasn't just Jiangnan who was stunned.
Even Berris herself froze in mid-air, her hand holding the welding torch.
Her mind was filled with questions. "What the hell! Why would Berris call him Thunder Living Person?!"
"Berris has never seen this guy before!"
"Why did this nickname just slip out of my mouth so naturally?!"
Not only Berris, Jiangnan was also completely bewildered at this moment.
Why does this Yellow Hair act like he knows me so well?
Moreover, the nickname "Thunder Living Person" and the tone of voice...
It's definitely not something you could blurt out upon first meeting someone.
"Who are you?"
Jiangnan stepped forward and asked.
Berris remained silent for a long time.
A series of bizarre events occurred during this half hour.
Zhang Lingqi, who knew her trump card.
The Machine God's inexplicably damaged weakness, and this strange sense of familiarity...
Berris began to vaguely sense that something was amiss with herself, with the Machine God, and even with the world itself.
This discrepancy might be somehow related to the Thunder Living Person in front of us.
Therefore, Berris decided to refrain from losing her temper and proceed with the negotiations cautiously.
"Listen carefully, Berris comes from the White Eagle Country Supreme Research Department!"
"It's the invincible Cyber Machine God Duo Berris!"
She tapped the Machine God with a wrench and said indignantly.
"Berris originally came here on a mission to eliminate the Gabetan, but..."
"The mecha's power center was destroyed by a guy in a black hooded trench coat named Jiahao!"
"Hooded trench coat..."
Jiangnan's eyes, hidden behind the mask, narrowed slightly.
It was probably Zhang Lingqi who did it.
But why would Zhang Lingqi do that?
Was his aim to protect Gabetan and prevent the Eagle Country from interfering?
No, that's not right.
Jiangnan overturned this assumption.
If Zhang Lingqi truly wanted to protect Gabetan.
The people he should be dealing with most are definitely not Guo Shuai and Circle.
Conversely, if Zhang Lingqi was at that banquet with a do-or-die attitude when he went to kill them...
So, from the very beginning, his goal was to awaken the World Tree in Guo Shuai's grief!
"But why would he do that?"
Jiangnan couldn't understand it.
All these mysteries can only be solved through in-depth analysis after we obtain the data retrieved by Wang Meng and his team.
Just then, Berris's disgruntled voice interrupted Jiangnan's thoughts.
"Hey! That's incredibly rude of you!"
"Berris has already introduced herself, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and introduce yourself!"
Jiangnan came to her senses.
Perfect timing, he needs this new identity to move around in the outside world, Berris is clearly a big mouth.
It's practically the perfect promotional flyer.
So he adopted the title Han Fei had just made up. "My name is Purple Sky."
"They are subordinates of the Dragon God."
"Purple Sky?"
After hearing this, Berris pursed her lips.
She mentally complained.
This name sounds even cooler than Berris's.
We can't let this guy steal Berris's thunder!
So, suppressing her guilt, she gave a loud, insincere evaluation.
"It doesn't sound good! It's too pretentious!"
"Let's just call you Thunder Living Person! Berris thinks that's perfect!"
Jiangnan's lips twitched.
This guy is still just as annoying as ever...
"Before?!"
Jiangnan realized that his thinking was abnormal.
Why did he subconsciously use the word "[before]" to describe the girl he was meeting for the first time?!
Starting half an hour ago, everything that has happened has seriously deviated from normal logic!
Zhang Lingqi inexplicably rebelled and betrayed.
The other party's actions were strange and highly purposeful, almost prophetic.
Berris's contradictory attitude toward herself, which felt both familiar and unfamiliar.
Even...
Including himself, the sense of spatial disorientation from suddenly crashing into a tree, and the inexplicable feeling of familiarity that arose in his heart!
Jiangnan raised his hand, noticing the awkwardness.
"Clatter."
He snapped his fingers.
"A moment... is eternity."
Buzz!
The entire world, with Jiangnan as its center, was stripped of its color in that instant, turning into a black and white painting!
Everything has been put on hold.
But...
The next second!
Something terrifying happened in Jiangnan!
The black and white image that should have been static in front of him suddenly began to flicker and stutter!
Even on some of the outlying areas, the beaches and waves have been repainted.
A full three seconds passed.
This bizarre disorder has finally returned to normal.
"I see..."
Jiangnan stared at the space that had been frozen in time. "Time... time is the problem."
"No, not just time, but also space!"
He recalled the rare incident where he inexplicably bumped into a tree when he used [Near Yet Far] before.
All of these phenomena are proving one fact.
The Space-Time Law in the current Barbaric Realm are in an unstable state!
Or rather...
Someone forcibly altered this game of chess!
The reason why Jiangnan is so sensitive to this kind of temporal and spatial anomaly is that...
It's because every time he uses [Momentary Eternity], his resistance to and perception of the laws of time increase exponentially.
Today, the whole world feels particularly awkward to him.
In Jiangnan's mind, the figure wearing a black hooded trench coat appeared.
"Zhang Lingqi..."
"That guy's bizarre behavior..."
"He's exactly like a reincarnated character with memories of a past life in a novel."
Jiangnan withdrew his Supernatural Ability, and time began to flow again.
Just as Jiangnan was lost in thought because of this speculation.
Suddenly, Berris waved at him from mid-air and called out in a friendly manner.
Hey! You, the Thunder Living Person!
"Stop standing there like an idiot! Go to the cockpit and get the spare thermal grease for Berris!"
"It's in the third drawer to the left of the Main Control Console!"
Jiangnan rolled his eyes.
This guy really took rudeness to the extreme.
However, he still walked towards the Machine God's leg boarding gate.
Because, coincidentally, he was also curious about the internal structure of the Machine God, and...
Why did this mecha give him a sense of déjà vu?
The moment Jiangnan walked along the passageway towards the driver's cab.
His sense of déjà vu grew stronger and stronger...
How each hatch opens.
He felt he had seen even the wear marks on the corners of the passageway somewhere before.
Jiangnan became even more certain that he definitely knew Berris, and perhaps even...
He even personally entered this mech!
"Laugh!"
With the sound of the air valve, Jiangnan pushed open the cockpit door.
And what happened next...
This confirmed Jiangnan's suspicions: this was definitely not his first time visiting this place!
"Buzz!"
The Cyber Machine God was originally in a dormant state due to the loss of its neural connection with Berris.
All the main control screens lit up red simultaneously!
The mech roared to life, and its main engine started up on its own!
"Ah!!!"
Berris, who was repairing her mech while suspended in mid-air, screamed in fright at the sudden jolt of the Machine God.
The person fell directly from a height of 100 meters!
"It's all over, it...!"
Without a second thought, Berris activated her [Tron: Legacy] Supernatural Ability!
She transformed into a stream of electronic data, entered the Machine God, and became an electronic ghost, barely managing to save her life!
"What is going on?!"
Berris, transformed into a data stream, rushed into the cockpit along the lines, roaring in shock.
"First Unit's central access is bound to Berris's neurons!"
"How could it possibly start by itself?!"
Immediately afterwards.
A voice came from the speaker on the Main Control Panel.
And this voice even bypassed Berris, who controlled the Machine God!
[System self-check complete...]
[Highest-authority pilot detected has entered the cabin...]
[Permission verification passed...]
[Federation Star System First Unit has been automatically activated for you!]
[Ready to strike at any time, My Lord!]
Upon hearing this system notification...
Berris, who was inside the holographic screen, was completely dumbfounded.
She turned her head and looked at Jiangnan sitting in the driver's seat, a whole row of question marks floating above her head.
"???"
"Who... who are you?!"