Pei Shao had no way of knowing what the little cubes before his eyes were, drifting endlessly through the air in every imaginable color—red, yellow, blue, green. But he knew that he was desperately trying to raise his arms, yet they hung limp and would not move, as if they no longer belonged to him.
In his daze, Pei Shao seemed to hear a strange voice coming from inside Motor's body. It was definitely not a human language, yet he could somehow understand its meaning. It seemed to be saying that a certain program had been forcibly activated and that all data had been copied.
Then Pei Shao felt Motor's body go completely rigid, and the mechanical arms gripping his legs froze in midair. Pei Shao hurriedly pulled his head free and braced both hands against the ground. But when he flipped himself upright and got back on his feet, Motor suddenly began moving again. To Pei Shao's astonishment, he found that his body was his own again!
Overjoyed, Pei Shao naturally would not give Motor another chance. He desperately grabbed the electronic wiring inside Motor's body and used all his strength to yank it out, handful after handful! He did not even care as the wires cut his fingers, using them to bind Motor's two claws tightly together.
Yet even so, Pei Shao still failed to stop Motor completely. By the time Motor's electronic eyes once again reflected their cold, ghostly light, it had been thoroughly enraged. With all its strength, Motor struck Pei Shao with its one unbound claw, sending his entire body flying through the air.
When Motor's massive claw hit his chest, Pei Shao had almost thought he was done for. But as he heard the wind howling past his ears and felt the pain of