Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 695 - 220: The Power of the Box

Gao Gong’s current form is not much different from when he transformed before; his lower body has turned into a Beast Tide, and his upper body is still covered in endless beast patterns.

However, the feeling of losing control also appeared within him.

Pulling, tearing, cell disintegration, cell regeneration, it feels like a devil has grown out of the Mechanical Body, struggling to emerge from the flesh.

This is not purely pain, but even more pleasure than pain.

Any kind of release will bring absolute ecstasy.

But Gao Gong also knows that once ’released’, the balance between the two rejection forces will be broken, and once that balance is broken, the rejection value of 50,000 will instantly skyrocket to 5 million, 50 million, instantly devouring him.

The price of powerful Power is losing control anytime, anywhere.

’It’s about time.’

Gao Gong sensed his body’s state and felt it was time to exit this mode.

’Exiting’ is harder than ’entering’.

’Even if a fragment of a Cosmic Relic gets destroyed hundreds of times, it can’t possibly be without consumption.’

Does this universe have an existence that doesn’t consume any energy? Yes, that thing is called a ’Perpetual Motion Machine’, a Civilization Specialty of the Level 7 Mechanical Civilization.

And Bionic A definitely doesn’t count.

However, in the next moment, Gao Gong’s expression slightly changed.

Within the sea of violent energy, a minute change occurred.

Just like ’Nanomanipulation’ has absolute control over the microscopic world.

Within the Energy Tide, Gao Gong’s control over energy also reached a meticulous level.

’Here to cause trouble again?’

The next moment, the Bionic man’s ultimate move arrived; the energy of the Beast Tide transformed in an instant, condensing into a giant blade crossing above the ’planet’, the blade as thin as a line, directly cutting open the radiation clouds, the blade’s light flickered slightly, and the space below the blade fractured in layers.

A great fear of life and death appeared in Gao Gong’s mind.

’Using the power of ’Nanomanipulation’ to manipulate the Beast Tide in reverse?’

This move was indeed something Gao Gong hadn’t anticipated; the other party’s exploration of ’Destructive Energy’ surpassed his beginner level.

At this moment, Gao Gong felt a strong threat.

According to the System Panel’s statement, that blade carried a bug trait—instant death!

If it strikes, the body disintegrates.

"Next time, when I’ve fully explored the ability of the Destruction Form, let’s have a good fight."

Gao Gong suddenly smiled slightly.

The blade shattered the void, just a millimeter away from hitting Gao Gong’s neck.

Yet this millimeter was as distant as heaven and earth.

Gao Gong’s flesh suddenly turned into ’glass in human form’, then, the ’glass’ began to melt and expand, like molten glass fluid, directly engulfing the ’blade’.

In a breath, the ’blade’ also transformed into glass liquid.

Bionic A on the ground suddenly had a change in expression, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

Because he felt that his Destruction Ability, ’Nanomanipulation’, was being transferred, transferred into that ’glass liquid’.

This was something that had never happened since he gained sentience.

And at the same time, an indescribable sensation spread through his entire body.

It was a feeling of difficulty breathing, pores opening, and shivering all over.

This feeling is called ’fear’.

But Bionic A, worthy of being the strongest Bionic Man in history, suppressed this emotion the moment it appeared, while his entire body turned into a gray mist, before the ’glass liquid’ could cover him, he extracted a trace of purple light from the mist, and vanished instantly.

Along with Prometheus, this female Bionic Man, also disappeared without a trace.

"Using Nanomanipulation to forcibly open my Purple String Space, using one form of Destruction to interfere with another, you can actually do that!"

Gao Gong was amazed by the opponent’s maneuver.

"But it doesn’t matter, I can’t move anyway, can’t even give chase."

The ’glass state’ of Gao Gong is exactly the Great Serpent Mode of Gao Gong.

And this mode has now turned into a ’box’.

This ’box’ once opened, Gao Gong is like a bug sealed in Space Amber, unable to move.

But the clever part is, this ’box’ doesn’t just target him, but all Destruction Forms.

Once within the ’box’s range’, Destructive Power, like tired birds returning home, rushes in frantically.

’So, could this thing actually be called the ’Destruction Form Bane’ too?’

When time came, Gao Gong canceled all transformations, downgraded from Fusion Mode to Great Serpent Mode, and further to a normal state.

An indescribable pulling sensation emanated from his body, resounding in every cell.

Whether skin or mechanical skeleton, countless small dots emerged.

Gao Gong took a deep breath, purple light flashed, appearing in front of Black Rose.

Black Rose said nothing, pulling him into her embrace, and in the next moment, the Metabolism Queen’s ability unfolded, and Gao Gong seemed to be drawn into a beautiful world, a world evolved from countless chemical substances, and he was lost in it, unable to extricate himself.

After an unknown amount of time, Gao Gong awakened, exhaling a long breath, feeling completely relaxed, as if having undergone a super massage.

On the System Panel, the rejection value once again dropped to three digits.

"You should be cautious with your dangerous abilities," Black Rose warned, a rare occasion.

Even Sister Rose was apprehensive about the danger, indicating it was a genuine risk.

"I understand."

Gao Gong nodded, the same contemplative look flashing in his eyes.

The first time he powered up, there didn’t seem to be such serious consequences.

Why did the rejection spike to ’50,000’ the second time?

Wouldn’t it reach 500,000 next time?

Is there actually a limit to how much you can power up these days?

This shouldn’t be possible. If powering up is limited, how can that arrogant woman, the Blade Queen, be so formidable?

Or perhaps there’s some kind of ’equipment’ along a fusion route that specifically suppresses this ’transformation backlash’.

Further research is needed.

However, Black Rose’s face soon took on a strange expression: "You’ve destroyed a continent."

Gao Gong looked up, seeing the ground split into countless pieces, floating on the surface. Many island-sized landmasses were slowly sinking into the sea, and in the distance, storms rolled with vortices forming in the sky and sea. The leftover radiation energy seemed to have birthed some radiation spirits, wandering amidst the black light.

This indicated that an ordinary region had been blasted into a high-radiation area by him.

"Uh—fortunately, it’s not in District 30."

Besides the Mechanical City, this planet had many deserted continents, similar to the ’Oudik Continent’, though not as perilous.

The area Gao Gong destroyed was one such continent.

Gao Gong wanted to say something, but Black Rose silenced him with a kiss.

"I just love your ferocity, my little wolfdog."

...

Meanwhile, in a very secretive location, a flash of purple light revealed Bionic A, Prometheus, and the mysterious girl who called herself ’Ymir’.

"Is there a chance we were followed?" Prometheus asked worriedly.

She was somewhat intimidated by Mr. G now, for a simple reason: she hadn’t experienced the Second Mechanical War and thus had never seen such a planet-surface-destroying attack.

Now she had.

She once tried ’reverse bionics’ to replicate methods to confront ’Mr. G’ back then.

The results were beyond her expectations.

She couldn’t successfully replicate, and all that awaited her was death.

Prometheus understood.

It wasn’t an issue with the ’No. 12 Destruction Form’; rather, the bionics consumed far more than she could provide.

"We weren’t followed," Ymir said: "Don’t be scared by him, Prometheus. The ’modifier’ can’t modify only itself."

"This also means that Mr. G must have great limitations now, otherwise A wouldn’t have escaped."

Bionic A remained silent, lips tightly shut, but from his body, reminiscent of an Ancient Greek sculpture, wisps of gray smoke emerged.

Prometheus immediately understood; Bionic A had already overexerted himself.

"We need a safe place to recuperate," Ymir’s eyes flickered as she spoke.

"However, this means it’ll be hard for us to compete with No. 2 for No. 13 in the short term," Prometheus said with concern.

"Their depletion is just as significant," Ymir calmly replied. "Also, that old ghost of war isn’t so easy to deal with."

"The start gets us closer to the end,

the more life, the more non-life.

The connection between the earliest and latest born destruction forms is beyond our imagination; thus, we might benefit from their rivalry."

The three made their plans and prepared to leave.

Suddenly, Ymir turned her head, suspiciously examining the distant mist for some time before turning back and slowly leaving.

Shortly after the trio departed, the mist gradually coalesced into a human form. Gao Yuanyuan looked into the distance, gently saying:

"The capabilities of the destruction form are truly terrifying. Even when hiding deep within the data, I almost got discovered."

"Oh well, I’ll go back to find my brother. I intended to bring a gift, but alas."

Gao Yuanyuan shook her head and once again dissolved into the mist.

...

Half an hour later, Gao Gong and Black Rose found Xiao Yu and Ye the Big Lolita. Gao Gong’s face was pale, legs trembling, and his back was soaked with cold sweat.

Xiao Yu gazed at Gao Gong with admiration, saying, "Boss, was the enemy that strong to leave you so depleted?"

"Strong! Extremely strong!"

Gao Gong glanced guiltily at Black Rose. Rose, who had mastered the ’Metabolism Queen’, was like a war god in bed, and he had already transformed from a little wolfdog into a Chihuahua, small and oh-so-cute.

Such a terrifying rich lady.

Even scarier than Bionic A by ten thousand times.

Ye the Big Lolita examined Gao Gong suspiciously, questioning whether he’d really been that exhausted. She felt something wasn’t quite right but decided not to pursue it further.

Instead, she said, "Here, you might need this."

In Ye the Big Lolita’s hand was a ’Tree of Flesh’ that had shrunk hundreds of times.