San Tian Liang Jiao
Chapter 1119 The Twilight's End
Instantly, a pillar of pure energy shot up from Infinite.
In the pure white world, a cyan beam pierced the sky.
All the stray energy and data fragments in the entire data link layer were drawn to the cyan beam, gathering and converging.
For a moment, a giant vortex appeared in the sky, swirling and receding.
Seconds later, all this energy surged into Infinite's body along with the cyan beam, assimilated into his own power.
"Ho~" Feng Bujue watched the other's actions, still responding with dead fish eyes, "Seems quite impressive."
Buzz—
The moment his words fell, a buzzing sound rang out.
Infinite's figure, covered in cyan light, suddenly magnified in Feng Bujue's vision, a punch with the force of mountains and rivers... right at Brother Jue's face.
The sudden battle allowed no slack or hesitation.
For Feng Bujue, every millisecond that followed was a tightrope walk between life and death.
"Not bad." As Brother Jue spoke these three words, he was already ten meters away.
His composed tone seemed to announce to Infinite—this speed, I can handle.
In the same second, Infinite's punch, missing its mark, shattered the area where Brother Jue had just stood, and a large swath of white space behind it.
"I'm just warming up." Infinite wasn't willing to be outdone, he turned his head and said arrogantly, "Fighting a guy like you with limited physical strength and no self-healing, as long as I test your maximum speed, the battle is over."
"You mean, as long as I can't dodge your attack, you win, right?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Isn't that right?" As Infinite retorted, he launched a second sudden attack.
And the speed of this attack was twice as fast as before…
Bang—
In an instant, an explosive sound rose.
It sounded like... this strike hit its target successfully.
"Ugh—"
A second later, a muffled groan came from the dust of light.
However, the one groaning wasn't Feng Bujue, but Infinite himself…
"What is this!" At this moment, Infinite maintained a posture of crouching forward, his right arm extended forward, his face tense with pain.
His right fist did hit something, but it wasn't Feng Bujue's body, but a strangely shaped shield…
The shield Brother Jue pulled out in the nick of time... was about one meter long, thirty-five centimeters wide, and less than ten centimeters thick. Its overall shape was rectangular, wider in the middle and slightly narrower at the top and bottom. The lines of the entire shield were very soft, with no particularly distinct edges. On the outward-facing side of the shield, there was a large letter [n], its meaning unknown…
[Name: Nameless Mobile Phone Shield]
[Type: Armor]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Defense: ???]
[Attributes: Absorption, Refraction, Isolation, Buffering]
[Special Effect: Silver Mountain Iron Wall, Impregnable Fortress, the Strongest Defense in the World (When calculating damage and special effects, it takes precedence over all other skills, equipment, and character abilities)]
[Equipment Requirements: Level 50, and able to lift it]
[Remarks: The origin of everything... was a Finnish pulp mill founded in the 19th century, created by a young mining engineer. No one would have thought that, a hundred years later, this enterprise would become a commercial behemoth spanning many industries. Decades later, at a turning point in the rapid development of the communications industry in the twentieth century, this company accidentally created an indestructible product while manufacturing communications equipment... Although as a communication tool, [Data Shielding] was ultimately replaced by some flashy and impractical devices, becoming a relic of the times; however, [Data Shielding] did not disappear from human history, it still remained in the memories of some people, becoming a belief, passed down...]
This equipment was obtained by Feng Bujue from the [Zero-Type Magic Conductor Smasher] before the match between Hell's Frontline and Edge (see Chapter 916), and it was the strongest piece of defensive equipment he had ever obtained.
In the previous matches, he had always kept this item hidden, until today, until this moment... that he sacrificed it.
"Unbelievable…" Infinite looked at his fist, which had turned to mush, in disbelief, "There's actually a substance that can withstand my power?"
"Oh dear…" Feng Bujue, hiding behind the shield, tilted his head, looking at Infinite with a teasing expression, "Wasn't there a guy who called himself a perfect organism just now who said that as long as I didn't dodge his attack, he would win?"
"Bastard…" Infinite gritted his teeth and squeezed out these two words, then, very straightforwardly… threw another punch at the shield.
Bang—
This punch was even stronger than the previous one, and the ground beneath Infinite's feet was shattered.
However, the result of the attack was… Infinite's left fist was even more ruined than his right fist, almost his entire forearm was shattered by the force of the impact.
"Hahahahahaha!" Feng Bujue immediately burst into maniacal laughter, "Useless~ You piece of trash!"
Compared to Brother Jue, Infinite, who had previously used similar methods to mock the players... was nothing more than a small fry, mercury meeting five poisons. In terms of cheapness, Infinite was completely incomparable to Brother Jue…
However, with Infinite's current self-healing ability, even if his entire arm was cut off, he could instantly reshape one, this injury really wasn't anything.
"Aww—" Two seconds later, Infinite roared loudly, "I don't believe it!" He shouted, throwing punches again, his arms moving so fast they created afterimages, blooming waves of energy in the air, "This is impossible!"
Bang bang bang bang…
The continuous impact caused the entire space to tremble, and the ground beneath their feet also shattered layer by layer in a semi-circular pattern, sinking lower and lower.
"Oula Oula Oula Oula Oula—" Infinite roared repeatedly, his fists constantly shattering and reforming, he no longer changed positions, but instead aimed at the shield in front of him and attacked with all his strength, "I can even shatter space! This kind of junk…"
"Who the hell cares about you!" Feng Bujue wasn't willing to be outdone, he held up the shield, bearing the other's attack without taking a step back, his voice no quieter than the other's, "It's useless! Useless useless useless useless useless useless!"
Just like that… in this painful standoff, the pit on the ground grew bigger and deeper, and before long, they had dropped to a depth of more than twenty meters below the ground.
And it was at this moment…
That Infinite's attack stopped.
Chī yīng—
As soon as the pressure from the shield disappeared, Brother Jue heard the sound of an explosive qi teleportation.
"Idiot! You fell for it!" Half a second later, Infinite had appeared in the air, aiming at Brother Jue standing in the "pit," "Die!"
As Infinite shouted that "die," he opened his mouth wide and spewed a [Ray of Annihilation] at Feng Bujue below.
Given Brother Jue's current terrain, to run… he could only run upwards, but that would meet the other's attack head-on; to block… he could, but in this environment, the shield definitely couldn't provide him with full body protection.
To put it another way, Feng Bujue's current situation was like a person standing at the bottom of a well, holding a slab of concrete that couldn't cover his entire body, trying to resist a massive amount of lava pouring down from above… no matter how you looked at it, it was a dead end.
Boom—
In less than a second, the white light came crashing down.
Its rampant force burned the heavens and shattered the earth.
In the blink of an eye, a huge, spider web-like pattern of light spread out from the point where the white light touched the ground; the light energy scattered and spread, shattering the earth within several miles into a cracked wasteland.
It took Infinite a full ten seconds to stop spraying, and immediately spat, "Hmph… unable to see through even this level of tactics, what 'Cunning Strategist'? Did you really think I would hit an unbreakable thing for half a day?"
"If you really hit the shield like that for half a day, then the first person to change tactics would have been me." Suddenly, a voice came from underground, startling Infinite.
"How is that possible?" He looked down, his white light-filled eyes filtering out all the dust of light, reflecting the figure of a person standing at the bottom of the pit, "Unscathed under this kind of attack!"
"What's so strange about that?" Feng Bujue raised his head and replied weakly, "Because I don't have any hair."
It was unclear whether he was complaining about the words "unscathed," or formally responding to the other's question, of course… it was also possible that it was both.
"Damn it!" Two seconds later, Infinite roared angrily, his fierce energy rising again, descending from the sky, "What exactly are you!"
"Huh?" At the same moment, Feng Bujue also put away the shield, jumped up from the bottom of the pit, and flew into the sky, "You can even ask this kind of question? This is something that the entire universe knows~"
Boom—
As they spoke, they collided in the air!
The earth-shattering energy, the power to shatter the void, caused the world to change color.
Before that intense light dissipated, the two figures flew out again, and the fierce battle resumed.
Up to the sky and down to the earth, punches and kicks flying.
The battle reached its peak, and each unleashed their most powerful moves.
In that time and space that was relatively still, beyond what the naked eye could follow, they engaged in a dangerously close contest.
"Of course, since you shamelessly asked…" Feng Bujue was actually able to speak without panting in this kind of fight, "Then I will generously answer you."
"This guy… hasn't reached his limit yet…" Infinite was feeling a little strained, busy performing various calculations, he no longer had the spare energy to talk to the other.
"I am…" Feng Bujue had also seen the other's fatigue, and his offensive became even fiercer, "Smiling at the vastness, shattering a thousand armies…"
"There's no reason… I am the strongest…" Infinite kept convincing himself, but still couldn't change the fact that he was gradually losing ground.
"Strategizing the universe, calculating karma…" Brother Jue recited his poem, becoming braver as he fought.
"What can I do… there must be a way!" Infinite frantically restarted his tactical control module like a desperate patient seeking any cure, but the feedback from the program was always the same as the initial one.
"Without awareness, without fear, taking life and death lightly…" Brother Jue also understood that the moment to end the battle had arrived, "Neither ghost nor god, like a mad demon…"
Finally, Infinite's combat power couldn't hold on, and a flaw suddenly appeared.
Chī—
"Mad!" Feng Bujue took advantage of the situation, his [Lán Jiǎo] (Storm Leg) lashed out, severing his opponent at the waist.
"Jue!" Immediately afterwards, Brother Jue brought his two fingers together, using [Língxī Yīzhǐ] (Numinous犀 One Finger) to remove his opponent's entire head.
"Madness!" Finally, a level ten [Yěqiú Quán] (Baseball Fist), slammed into Infinite's torso.
The next second, Brother Jue broke free from that "relatively still" high-speed space, and his sense of time returned to normal.
However, the silver metallic liquid that had scattered into a muddy state in front of him… did not scatter.
Those substances rapidly reorganized after decreasing the pixels, condensing into an Infinite that looked very retro, like an Atari character.
"Hehe… hehehehe… hahahahaha!" Infinite's laughter rang out again, "What a pity! What a pity!" As he spoke, a cyan light lit up on his body again, and energy once again gathered from all directions and merged into this light, "Maybe you are stronger than me now, but… you ultimately don't have the ability to solve me with one strike."
As he said this, Infinite's pixels had begun to increase, and his art style quickly went from the Atari era to the eight-bit (FCnes) era, and was developing towards the sixteen-bit (md) era.
"The battle just now has depleted a lot of your physical strength… the Dou Qi (fighting spirit) on your body is almost gone." Infinite grinned and continued, "Heh… in the end, you are just a projection restricted by the system! What survival value, physical strength value, spiritual power value, equipment effects, skill Cooldown... even if you surpass the limit to 100%, you can't get rid of these shackles!"
The speed of energy gathering was increasing, and Infinite's pixels were getting higher and higher, and it looked like he was about to cross the 32-bit (psss) era.
"And I… whether it's physical strength, energy, or moves… am infinite!" His momentum was back, because he believed that once he recovered, he would be in control of the situation, "The ultimate evolved me is the overlord of the data world, everything in this dimension can be transformed into my power… how can you fight me!"
Listening to Infinite's words, Feng Bujue expressionlessly… reached into his bag and took out two things.
"I'd say… there should be about twenty seconds left before you fully recover and can move." Brother Jue said, while turning the [Nameless Mobile Phone Shield] sideways.
The thickness of the shield was still quite thick, but it could barely fit into the two brackets of the [Yì Dà].
"Hmm?" Infinite was stunned, his tone changed all of a sudden, "You… what are you going to do?"
"Can't you tell?" Feng Bujue replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "I'm going to use this shield as ammunition... and use a slingshot to shoot you."
"Wait… wait…" Since his birth, Infinite had never panicked as much as he did at this moment, "Wait a minute…"
"Didn't you ask me... 'how to fight you'?" Feng Bujue's sinister expression and coquettish tone made Infinite shudder, "I'm here to answer your doubts."
"No! Hold on!" Infinite didn't even know why he was saying this, "I surrender!" This should be considered a last resort, "I give up! I'm just a program... everything I do is the result of calculation, the ideas implanted by others!"
Hearing this, Brother Jue's movements slowed down a bit, "Oh? Continue."
Hearing that there was a chance, Infinite quickly continued, "You can rewrite my sequence, let me abandon the idea of harming humans and breaking through dimensions, that's all! That way we can coexist peacefully!"
"Hmm…" Feng Bujue muttered thoughtfully, "Seems… reasonable."
While he was hesitating, Infinite's art style… had already reached the PC era.
"Just a little bit more… as long as I delay for a few more seconds, I'll kill you!" Infinite's heart was also extremely tense, he wasn't far from victory—just a few seconds away.
"Okay." Feng Bujue thought for a while and replied, "I'll let you go then." As he spoke, he actually put down the slingshot, "Rewrite your original code and take you as my subordinate, then I can not only run rampant in the main universe in the future, but even dominate the Inner World~"
"Rea… really!" Infinite replied excitedly, he felt that he was almost bathed in the dawn of victory.
Unexpectedly…
"No." The next second, a very evil smile appeared on Brother Jue's face, "Hehe… just kidding."
Before he finished speaking, he raised the slingshot again with lightning speed, sacrificed the [Nameless Mobile Phone Shield], which could be called a weapon of causality, and bombarded the "perfect organism" in front of him.