As soon as he merged with the mecha, Gu Ya drew his beam scattergun and shot at the neon lights on the wall.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" A series of scattered shots shattered the lights, plunging the surroundings back into darkness.
This immediately broke through the illusionary markings on the walls.
No one knew how the hidden entities managed to record the amplitude and force of Gu Ya's every movement, using the lights to create false markings that extended deep into the cave.
And the hazy mist lingering overhead was the pervasive Gu Qi, paralyzing Gu Ya's sensory nerves.
Due to the vast range and density, 【Pain Nullification】 could not immediately resolve the issue, which was how Gu Ya fell into the "ghostly maze."
"I knew there had to be a scientific explanation for everything," Gu Ya said sinisterly.
Piloting the mecha and filtering out the toxic gases through the ecological simulation system, Gu Ya's vision instantly cleared.
Suddenly, Xu Jie's low, melodious voice echoed from all directions within the chamber: "Gu Ya... you've come, I've been waiting for you for a long time... I have something to say to you..."
Gu Ya contorted his face and said with disgust, "Xu Jie! You're as disgusting as a cockroach!"
The damned person actually didn't die completely! Then he would kill him again!
Gu Ya's mind conjured new mecha arms and a complete set of compressed flame projection devices.
The next second, the armor plating on the mecha's rear shoulders disappeared.
Communication lines, power conduits, and mechanical structures spontaneously emerged where the armor plating had vanished.
Immediately after, soft heat-insulating membranes and anti-vibration internal lining armor encased the cables and mechanical skeletons.
Various lifting and rotating cylinders, movable pin shafts, high-pressure energy accumulators, virtual energy wave damping devices, coolant storage tanks, automatic lubrication systems, elbow joint bearing assemblies, hydraulic systems, braking systems, clamping systems, gravity-moderating mobile units, wrist-elbow shock absorbers, high-pressure frequency stabilizers, and all sorts of sensors.
Finally, the entire weapon unit control system!
Everything materialized in its rightful place.
All units and mechanical assemblies were further encased in a layer of extremely lightweight riot-proof internal lining armor,
followed by hard external armor coated with bulletproof material.
The mecha instantly transformed into a four-armed, four-handed entity.
After assembling all of this,
the mecha's four hands quickly disappeared, and the arm plating began to separate and disperse, preparing for the next transformation.
Four complete sets of flame projection devices connected to the weapon power units suddenly appeared on the outside of the four arms.
Nearly a thousand parts attached to the arms as if drawn by magnets, assembling in sequence.
Screws automatically tightened rapidly, lubricating fluid was automatically applied, pin shafts were driven into holes like bullets, and conduits formed like blood vessels. When the last flame projection tube was installed,
the mecha's four arms transformed into bulky, oval flame projection cannons!!!
All of this took only five seconds.
"Burn you bastards to death. I've had enough of this place," Gu Ya said coldly and ruthlessly.
Four dragon-like, orange-red fire streams blasted out from the four arms, fully illuminating the dark surroundings.
The toxic water vapor evaporated, and the humid air gradually became dry.
"Gu Ya, aren't you really going to listen to me? I passed through that veil, into a world unreachable by humans, searching for the end of truth."
"When I discovered that the end was merely an insurmountable wall, I awakened."
"Gu Ya, if you wish, you too can reach the end of truth."
Xu Jie's nonsensical ramblings enraged Gu Ya to the extreme!
"Coward! Come out and fight me one-on-one if you dare!"
Gu Ya shouted in fury:
"One-on-one, I am invincible!!!"
Instantly, Xu Jie's flickering, stroboscopic holographic body appeared directly in front of the mecha, floating in the air.
As soon as he appeared, the four ferocious fire dragons engulfed him.
After continuously burning for nearly five minutes, Xu Jie's two-dimensional image, as thin as paper, still floated in the air.
"Gu Ya, let me show you what the technology at the end of truth looks like."
As Xu Jie's voice faded, he gradually vanished.
In the empty cave in front of the mecha, a deafening, ear-splitting sound suddenly erupted.
"Stomp!!!"
A smooth woman's leg, wearing a red high-heeled shoe, revealing only half of the calf, appeared out of thin air and stomped heavily on the ground!
Then another one!
Both legs, as if wading through water, slowly approached Gu Ya.
"Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!"
The eerie sound of high heels striking the ground echoed in the cave, a chilling sight enough to scare anyone with a weak constitution to death.
The two half-calves grew increasingly swollen, eventually puffing up into round, white radish shapes!
The excess flesh on the feet pushed out of the red high heels, resembling two basketballs with a small ping-pong ball attached below.
Suddenly, the two bulbous legs quietly exploded, spewing out countless条状物 (strips)!
Those half-meter-long strips, crawling like maggots, covered the entire cave, on the ceiling and the walls alike.
Upon spotting Gu Ya's mecha, the maggots all lit up their crimson eyes.
The entire cave was illuminated by red light, with tens of millions of such eyes staring at Gu Ya.
The next second, the maggots arched their bodies and rapidly crawled towards Gu Ya!
"Holy shit!" Terrified, Gu Ya cursed, and the four fire dragons immediately unleashed their fury!
Four streams weren't enough! Then six! Eight!
Eight arms materialized from Gu Ya's mecha, and the eight fire streams merged together, engulfing the entire cave in overwhelming orange flames!
The flames raged for a full five minutes, and Gu Ya, inside the mecha, was sweating profusely from the heat. Finally, the red light in the cave ceased to flicker.
The dead maggots writhed and struggled for a long time before finally ceasing all movement, piling up on the ground to a depth of one meter.
"What other tricks do you have! Bring them all out!" Gu Ya roared, gasping for breath.
Xu Jie's voice drifted from the depths of the cave like a gentle breeze, fragmented: "Gu Ya... do you know what I've been through?"
"I don't know if I should thank you or hate you."
"My thoughts were liberated, yet bound by truth."
While Xu Jie was speaking erratically, Gu Ya controlled the mecha to pick up the dead maggots from the ground.
Upon activating 【Mech God's Gaze】, a string of code appeared in Gu Ya's mind simultaneously.
This code was even more obscure than the writings on Shen Jingming, as if he were looking at ancient scriptures.
An indescribable sense of dread arose within him.
"These are all mechanical products, and they were not created by humans of this planet."
Coupled with Xu Jie's words, Gu Ya had no idea where he had obtained this alien technology.
Just by staring at the code, Gu Ya's body began to feel cold, and some of his consciousness was slowly being removed from his mind.
This amplified Gu Ya's fear of these mechanical "maggots," but the more he feared them, the more he yearned to understand them.
This was just one maggot; if there were millions, it was hard to imagine how Gu Ya could escape.
"Gu Ya, do you feel it? Your abilities, combined with my current abilities, are enough to reshape the entire world!" Xu Jie's voice echoed again.
Gu Ya steadied himself, reined in his scattered consciousness back into his brain, and calmly stated, "Heretical methods and alien technology deserve to be eradicated!"
"Wang Chuan!!!"
An identical mecha suddenly appeared not far behind Gu Ya.
Gu Ya, using his consciousness to create another self, quickly activated the mecha. Red flames erupted from the mecha's back, and with a "boom—!" it charged into the depths of the cave.
Two brains, two fields of vision appeared before Gu Ya, with no apparent separation between the visuals, requiring both brains to meticulously differentiate.
In the forward field of vision, the cave walls on all sides rapidly flew backward.
In the rear field of vision, it followed the mecha in front, flying at extreme speed.
The two mechas, one in front and one behind, soon reached the source of Xu Jie's voice, and simultaneously arrived at the end of the cave.
On the rock wall ahead, obscure and difficult-to-understand patterns were painted.
Beneath the wall, a simple small altar was placed, and on the altar lay Xu Jie's head.
Two electronic candles emitted a faint green and red light, casting Xu Jie's head in a hellish glow.
Realizing that Gu Ya was here to kill him, Xu Jie's head struggled to force an ugly smile and mechanically said, "It's useless, I have already infiltrated some external electronic devices through the 'Truth's *'."
Xu Jie couldn't pronounce the character "*."
After the two mechas dematerialized, the two Gu Yas gradually converged, merging into a complete Gu Ya.
He placed one hand on Xu Jie's head, and as he pulled his hand back, a half-meter-thick insulation lead alloy encased Xu Jie's head, which Gu Ya collected into his 【Void Pouch】.
"I'll take it back for thorough research."
Gu Ya sighed heavily. Having just arrived in the third correctional zone, he was already disgusted by the resurrected Xu Jie before even finding his target.
Glancing back, the holographic lights illuminated once more, making the entire cave appear colorful and dreamlike.
Within those lights and shadows, prison cells carved into the cave walls hung suspended.
There were no guards, nor the shouts of prisoners. The entire third correctional zone was eerie and quiet.
Gu Ya summoned his exoskeleton armor, cast aside his distractions, and flew towards the nearby prison cells.
"God knows what's locked up in those cells. It doesn't matter."
"I, Gu Ya, will be the one to destroy this prison!"