"Indeed, someone at your level of modification should have at least heard of them, even if you haven't encountered them." She didn't wait for Li Cheng颐 to answer, skipping over it herself.

"Then you should also understand what the Alliance, the Grand Alliance, and the Royalty truly represent, and just how vast the gap has become between those high and mighty nobles and ordinary people?"

While Xin-dui stabilized the situation, a small map appeared in the lower right corner of her vision.

On the map, the green dots representing her comrades' combat models were rapidly approaching their location.

Clearly, the change here had alerted them.

"So what? How does that concern me?" Li Cheng颐 remained unmoved.

"You must understand the difference between the self-circulating city and ordinary cities, right?" Xin-dui said in a deep voice. Looking at the green dots on the small map, they were getting closer and closer.

Five thousand meters.

Four thousand meters.

Three thousand meters.

"This world shouldn't have such a vast class divide. The nobles and the commoners are almost two different species. Gene biology, pharmacology, combined with various mechanical and biochemical modifications, have allowed them to continuously extend their lifespans.

"When elders don't die, they will forever occupy high positions, blocking all channels for upward mobility. The people suffer and toil, unable to see any hope. Society is stagnant. Do you know that the highest-ranking royalty in Yi Country has lived for three hundred years!"

Xin-dui said gravely.

"Three hundred years! Four generations of people in ordinary cities have passed, and he is still there! Treating the people like pigs and dogs! And he can continue to live on!"

"So you want to create a utopia?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly understood.

"The number of immortal royalty is increasing. They don't die, nor do they engage in production, yet they demand that everyone else offer everything as tribute. They are like tumors in Yi Country, growing larger and more numerous!"

Xin-dui's eyes grew colder.

"Eliminate the immortals! Establish a true utopia with a flowing hierarchy! Rebuild order for the entire world, that is our mission! And our ideal!"

"As expected of Utopia, I understand you a bit better now. Such an ideal is indeed great. Sorry, I might have misunderstood you before." Li Cheng颐's tone revealed a hint of emotion.

"To be willing to give everything for an ideal, to live in anonymity and risk being wanted by governments around the world..."

In an instant, before the sentence was finished, Li Cheng颐 took a step forward.

At this moment, the distance between the two was unknowingly only ten meters!

Bang!!

He shot towards Xin-dui like an arrow.

The change was too sudden. Xin-dui was still listening to him speak, unable to predict his trajectory. She was caught off guard.

Clang!

She raised her hand in time to block in front of her, barely stopping the sword.

The golden blade slashed fiercely on the armor of her arms, cutting out a gash more than ten centimeters deep.

'!!? This is military-grade alloy!?' Xin-dui's expression was shocked. Her armor's hardness was at least several times stronger than that of other fully modified bodies.

The materials used by those civilian grades were ordinary metals cobbled together to avoid the Yi Country government.

But she was different.

Her machine was a special military-grade alloy fully modified body assembled from years of accumulated parts!

Its hardness was simply incomparable to those cannon fodder!

But even so, she almost failed to block the first attack!?

Before she could recover, a continuous barrage of golden blades descended haphazardly.

When the sharpness of a weapon exceeds the opponent's imagination, even a random hack can pose a huge threat.

Clang clang clang clang!!

Xin-dui retreated continuously, trying to jam the opponent's weapon with her arms. But as soon as she jammed a golden sword, Li Cheng颐 simply let go and pulled out another golden sword from who knows where.

Golden blades continued to slash at her armor.

Shoulders, waist, chest, arms, new sword marks appeared everywhere.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, her chest armor opened, and a honeycomb-like muzzle inside abruptly spewed out a large amount of fire.

But all the bullets missed completely at such close range.

The automatic fire control system seemed to be blind, completely unable to lock onto Li Cheng颐.

He was like the plants and trees in the mountains, impossible to aim at.

She could only rely on manual aiming.

This made Xin-dui, who was long accustomed to automatic aiming correction, completely unaccustomed.

She was just a commander, and personally fighting was not her forte.

After retreating more than ten steps, suddenly her expression lifted, and she looked towards the bottom of the mountain in the distance.

There, a green dot was rapidly approaching.

"Here it comes!! You're dead!!" she said with surprise, and the armor behind her suddenly spewed out a burst of fire.

The huge thrust from the explosion of fire propelled her into the air, rapidly rushing towards her reinforcements.

"Is that so?"

Strangely, Li Cheng颐 behind her showed no intention of chasing.

He simply gripped the sword and lightly stabbed it into the ground.

The golden blade stood straight in the soil, motionless.

A bizarre thing happened.

Xin-dui, who had just flown out, suddenly felt a surge of dizziness throughout her body.

Her whole person was clearly flying straight down the mountain.

But at this moment, in this instant, she bizarrely circled in the air, like a boomerang, inexplicably flying back and charging straight towards Li Cheng颐! Without stopping! www.

"No!!!??" She let out a piercing scream in mid-air.

Just then, Li Cheng颐 drew his sword, swung upwards, and slashed.

Swish!

The golden sword mark and the blue modified body passed by each other, and an ear-piercing flash of fire momentarily appeared.

Xin-dui's entire body was split in two, diagonally cut in half at the waist.

Before she could make a sound, a casual swipe of the golden sword cut her entire head into two pieces.

Everything was settled.

Li Cheng颐 sheathed his sword and looked up at the rapidly approaching green figure.

"Too bad, you're too late."

"It's not too late to kill you now!" The green figure roared, without slowing down, charging straight towards Li Cheng颐.

His speed was much faster than all the previous fully modified bodies.

After his body emerged from the shadows, his full appearance was revealed under the moonlight.

It was a strong, black-green modified body with a sharp horn on its head and both arms completely replaced by huge curved blades.

His entire body was covered in armor with dark green patterns, and his trapezius muscles were bulging high, obviously concealing ammunition bays or weapons. A large, dark red rhombus crystal was embedded in his chest, extending out many vein-like networks.

"Kill!!"

A low roar.

The green fully modified body swung its dual blades, explosively closing in on Li Cheng颐, one blade aimed at his waist and the other at his thigh.

The golden sword slashed horizontally, and Li Cheng颐, holding the sword with both hands, fearlessly met the dual blades, clashing with them head-on.

Clang!!

Two impacts merged into one sound.

Li Cheng颐 staggered back several steps, and his face under the helmet immediately turned solemn.

There was a clear gap and damage on the blade of the golden sword.

And there was also slight damage and gaps on the opposite dual blades.

"As expected of a military grade!" The green fully modified body said coldly, "No matter what force you belong to, leave this machine here today!!"

Shhh.

His back muscles automatically split open with a swish, and two more arms extended from behind.

A total of four mechanical arms, all with hands crafted into cleavers.

A green flash, and he charged towards Li Cheng颐 again.

The four cleavers hacked at the opposite side like a storm.

This kind of chopping was not like Li Cheng颐's random hacking, but rather had a pattern, sealing off all possible gaps and routes for dodging.

This forced Li Cheng颐 to either fight head-on or retreat!

And the speed of retreating was definitely not as fast as charging forward, so once he retreated, a disadvantage was inevitable.

Although Li Cheng颐 was not proficient in weapon techniques, he had also learned some close combat for a period of time, and the principles were the same in actual combat.

He steadied his feet and slashed his dual swords towards the opponent's torso, ignoring the cleavers that were hacking towards him.

Before coming, he had activated the Firm Flower Utterance. In a head-on collision, he didn't believe he would lose!

Wearing the Flower Scale Armor and activating the Flower Utterance on top of it brought about a combined amplification effect of the flesh and the Flower Scale Armor.

It could greatly increase the strength of the Flower Scale Armor.

This was also the confidence that Li Cheng颐 had gained from multiple personal experiences.

At this time, he didn't dodge, and the opponent didn't dodge either.

The weapons in their hands almost landed on the opponent's body at the same time.

Clang clang clang!!

Under the moonlight, two figures rapidly passed by each other, each standing firm.

Li Cheng颐 looked down at his waist, where two gaps had been forcibly opened, revealing the bulletproof vest inside.

The alloy steel plate of the bulletproof vest had also been cut through, almost injuring his flesh.

His expression became serious.

This was the first time that he had his Flower Scale Armor defense broken with one strike after activating the Firm Flower Utterance.

Not only that, but in the instant of passing, he had also taken two cleaver strikes to his chest.

In other words, he had taken four strikes in that one exchange.

His chest had been blocked by the golden sword, preventing it from breaking through the Flower Scale Armor. But it had also left two deep scars.

"Again!" he roared and turned to charge towards the opponent again.

This time, the green fully modified body didn't clash head-on with him at all, but instead dodged left and right.

With the speeds of both sides being similar, he actually perfectly dodged all of Li Cheng颐's golden sword slashes.

"So you're just a piece of trash who doesn't know anything!" The green fully modified body finally saw it. Li Cheng颐 didn't know any weapon techniques at all, he was just wielding a sharp military-grade alloy longsword in a wild hack, that's all.

He also had injuries on his body, but there was only one, which was left by Li Cheng颐's sword when it brushed past his waist.

At the critical moment, his well-trained instinct allowed him to twist his body in time, avoiding Li Cheng颐's slash to the greatest extent and leaving only a shallow scratch.

"Remember, the person who killed you is me, Zhou Yan!!"

Buzz!

Green firelight simultaneously spewed out from behind his thighs, generating a huge thrust that greatly increased his speed, making him like an arrow, charging towards Li Cheng颐.

"Flowing Cloud Slash!!"

The green fully modified body shouted sharply, and four cleavers danced together, slashing towards Li Cheng颐 with a power that was faster and heavier than before.

The speed was so fast that Li Cheng颐 only had time to dodge to the right.

But strangely, as he moved to the right, the opponent also slightly shifted to the right at that instant, charging towards him again head-on.

Chii!!

In an instant, the two figures crossed paths.

The four cleavers of the green fully modified body, Zhou Yan, were deeply embedded in the ground and the soil.

The cleaver marks carved a long gully in the ground.

'What's going on!!?' He couldn't understand why, even though he had aimed at his opponent at the critical moment, his cleavers had suddenly skewed at the last instant, all of them hacking into the ground.

Suddenly being thrown off balance during the rapid collision, if he hadn't braked in time, he would have probably rolled and crashed into the ground.

'How did it miss?' Zhou Yan couldn't understand. He looked down at his waist.

There was a deep scar there.

That was left by the opponent's golden sword, using the force of the impact during the instant of the exchange.

"Just what are you!?" He turned around and looked at the opponent intently, his tone serious.

Li Cheng颐 didn't reply, he simply drew another golden sword, pointed it diagonally downwards, and turned to look at him.

(End of this chapter)