Chapter 1 A Certain Electric Beast Song

Note: The song neta in this chapter is the insert song "Forget It! Void Thunder Beast" from the second episode of the "Mission Accomplished" video series produced by "Goodnight Tribe."

Any resemblance is not coincidental.

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Several months ago, in another universe.

Headquarters of the United Universe Alliance, in a certain laboratory.

"Hey, guys, how's it going?" As he spoke, Tin Foil Man entered the room leisurely, holding a cup of strangely colored hot drink.

"If you're so free, come over and lend a hand." At that moment, Toad Man was performing rapid operations on a supercomputer that far exceeded human capabilities, a tentacle monster-like operation. A rough estimate… his eAPM (effective Actions Per Minute) was at least over 500.

"Haha…" Tin Foil Man laughed. "It's just a 'farewell gift,' you're taking it too seriously, aren't you?"

"If I were taking it seriously…" Toad Man replied casually without stopping his work, "I would have directly sent him a set of 'Hell Toad Armor.'" He paused. "I just don't like owing people favors, so…"

"Even if that favor may never need to be repaid, you still have to give a return commensurate with its value, right?" Tin Foil Man asked, taking over his words.

Before Toad Man could respond, Dr. Eternity, who was busy on the other side of the laboratory table, looked up and said to Tin Foil Man, "It's a matter of principle, Cthas… Poker Man's contribution to the United Universe Alliance may far exceed what we know, and… we may not even know what he actually did."

"Oh?" Tin Foil Man quickly discerned some subtle information from the other party's words. "You mean… our memories have been interfered with?"

"It's not necessarily a problem with memories…" Toad Man then spoke again. "Maybe even the timeline we're in has been interfered with in some way… Of course, changes that occur in dimensions we can't perceive may be 'no change' to us, because the 'us before the change' has already disappeared from this timeline."

"So…" Tin Foil Man narrowed his eyes and looked at Dr. Eternity. "Doctor, do you know something?"

"I don't know anything." Dr. Eternity shrugged and replied. "I rely on 'intuition'… you know, it's a unique talent of us Earthlings, although vague, it's a trait very close to 'ultra-dimensional ability'."

"Heh… okay, okay, 'Mr. Intuition'…" Tin Foil Man replied in a teasing tone, put down the drink in his hand, and walked to the laboratory table. "Let me see… what are you guys building."

He stared at the complex blueprint on the holographic image table for about ten seconds, which was so complex that it made his scalp tingle, and then his expression changed a little.

"Hey, hey… what kind of black technology is this again?" Tin Foil Man looked at Dr. Eternity. "Have you recently developed some kind of new 'magic-tech' system?"

Dr. Eternity smiled and replied, "Heh, I'm not that great…" He looked up at the holographic image and said, "This 'thing'… I found it in a void rift in a universe called 'Azeroth' during one of my 'astral projections'. It looks like some kind of scrapped combat weapon; I think the manufacturing process and the enchantments on it are very interesting, so I picked it up."

"Interesting…" While listening to the doctor's narration, Tin Foil Man further analyzed the design drawings in front of him. "So it can be done this way…" He quickly immersed himself in a "scientist's self-hi mode" and began to talk to himself.

He was in a daze for a minute or two, and finally Toad Man couldn't help but shout at him twice: "Hey! Hey! Cthas!"

"Huh? Oh, sorry… I was a little distracted." Tin Foil Man replied after regaining his senses.

"We have less than ten cosmic weeks to complete this, and based on my understanding of you… you will definitely participate in modifying this design, so…" Toad Man said, "You better quickly take out your cosmic-level IQ and stop standing there acting senile."

"Ah… understand, understand." Tin Foil Man's interest was also aroused at this time, and he eagerly replied, "You don't need to tell me, I can't wait to start working…"

...

Time, back to the present.

Above Linlu Town, a humanoid battle armor about four meters high and of strange shape flew over from the sky…

And the "driver" who was in the torso of this mech was Feng Bujue.

At the moment of his appearance, for some unknown reason, every player nearby suddenly heard music—

After an approximately thirty-second intro with a fairly fiery atmosphere, a male voice actually sang the lyrics along with the music…

"High-tech armor that reflects light~ A stunning and gorgeous debut~

"When humanity faces a huge threat~ They'll push me~ In front of the monsters~

"Clearly~ You have powerful missiles~ But you tell me to get close to the enemy and desperately~ Throw punches~

"Clearly~ You're in a solid fortress~ But you want me~ To use my body! To block the enemy's hail of bullets~

"Machines will only get older the more you use them, no matter how many times you change the oil!

"Passionate shouts~ Are all in vain~

"When the mech is destroyed~ The enemy still exists~ The doctor will bring out a secret new type~

"The abandoned hero~

"e!x!

"Void Thunder Beast~

"Large garbage is collected on Tuesdays~ Void Thunder Beast~ Ha!"

As the song ended, Feng Bujue also descended from the sky.

Boom—

The mech landed, and the shock was earth-shattering.

At this moment, whether it was the Warring States duo and Juan Meng Huan, or Ruo Yu and He Yang Shinji, or Xu Huai Shang, Fang Jin, and He Yang Tomoyuki… everyone who was fighting stopped and looked at the [Void Thunder Beast ex] that suddenly appeared on the battlefield with different expressions.

For the NPCs, the shock brought by this mech was self-evident. People in their world had never seen anything similar. Their concept of "large humanoid combat weapons" was also blank. Most people had regarded it as some kind of demon…

And for the players, after listening to that song, they were basically thinking, "I might be playing a fake Thriller Paradise."

"Ah~ ah… it looks like everyone has shown up, that makes things easier." After a few seconds, Feng Bujue's cheap voice came out through the mech's built-in sound equipment, "Now that things have come to this, I don't want to talk nonsense with you…" He could be said to be fully taunting, "…Come on, who wants to step forward and seek death first?"

"Hoo…" Hearing his lines, Ruo Yu in the distance secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "Plans really can't keep up with changes…"

Her sigh was indeed a kind of helplessness.

Admittedly, the players' combat power is already very high, but the difficulty of this script is not as low as imagined.

First of all, He Yang Shinji's strength has far exceeded their expectations; secondly, He Yang Shinji's indifferent attitude towards "Hua's" life was also beyond the plan.

These two miscalculations alone have almost made Feng Bujue's previous "separate kill" plan meaningless.

However, just when Ruo Yu thought that the plan to seize the Sword Dance Grass Record would be completely ruined, Feng Bujue actually returned in such a state…

His return and his performance at the moment all indicated one thing - the mech stored in his hero ID card was much stronger than he imagined… much stronger!

The strength of this mech has allowed Jue-ge to make the judgment that "there is no need to separate the enemies and defeat them one by one, no need to use hostages to contain He Yang Shinji and delay time, and no need to wait for other players to fight each other to the point of being both defeated." From his meaning… he can now openly start mowing down enemies in Musou mode.

"What is that…" He Yang Shinji was, after all, the top expert on the field, and he had already learned some information about "strangers"… that is, players, so he quickly calmed down and really began to think about how to deal with the mech. "Could it be some kind of demon art that manipulates iron to transform into a shape…"

Unexpectedly, his low-decibel soliloquy… was actually heard by Jue-ge.

"Demon your head?" Feng Bujue turned up the volume of the loudspeaker and shouted at He Yang Shinji, who was a hundred meters away, "No one else is talking, but you're so talkative! Then it's decided, it's you!" After a pause of one second, he shouted, "Take this! Fourth Industrial Revolution Style - Secret Art - Positron Cannon!"

After a stern shout, the only thing he did next… was to press a switch with his finger.

Then, a beam of red clustered light with a white edge roared out from the energy furnace in the chest of the Void Thunder Beast ex…

Jue-ge said he was going to hit He Yang Shinji, but in reality… this shot went over and blasted the entire street…