Chapter 167 Harvest <TOC> Chapter 169 The Spathena Race
Translator: SumTLMan
The soft ground still retained the residual warmth from the explosion as Li Mu gracefully approached Besame.
Clutching her painfully injured face with one hand, Besame struggled to retreat through the mud, her body completely covered in filth, resembling a wretched, homeless dog.
She had never imagined that she would be defeated in just one move. Such powerful and fierce strength, she had only encountered it in experimental subjects enhanced by the Seven Fungi Life Manipulation Secret Technique.
These experimental subjects had their bodies implanted with psychic metals, their muscles, fascia, and organs parasitized by various psychic fungi, completely transcending the scope of humanity.
“Being a pampered livestock like you, parasitic on the Scarmaggio family, even if you possess powerful energy techniques, what achievements can you really make?” Li Mu said disdainfully.
“Psychic energy originates from the soul; how can a feeble soul like yours bear such immense psychic energy?”
He arrived in front of Besame.
“Shameless fool, go to hell!” Besame’s actions and words were completely contradictory, as she rolled away in humiliation to put distance between herself and Li Mu.
At the moment she rolled away, the ground nearby emitted the whizzing sound of steel wires cutting through the air. Seven exquisite robots burst out from underground, powered by psychic energy. Three of the robots held razor-sharp steel wires between them, encircling Li Mu at the center. The remaining four launched attacks directly with various weapons mounted on them.
The tenacious steel wires were even sharper than blades, capable of effortlessly slicing through the bodies of enhancer-type awakened individual. Surging high-temperature flames, armor-piercing combat unit’s high-speed grenades, and heavy machine guns were part of the terrifying assault that instantly surrounded Li Mu.
These robots utilized the Scarmaggio family’s advanced combat robot technology from before the Great Catastrophe, equipped with various sophisticated weapons, combined with psychic metal and manipulator-type psychic energy, capable of unleashing terrifying destructive force.
They resembled enormous insects, their shells forged from psychic metal alloy. Coated in a dull gray paint, they were equipped with an internal hollow copper structure and high-energy batteries, capable of instantaneously producing more than a ton of pulling force.
Under appropriate tactical arrangements, they could effortlessly kill multiple awakened in an instant.
But this time, the supposedly foolproof ambush had failed.
Li Mu instantly leaped more than ten meters away, evading all the attacks.
“So, this is how these robots attack.”
How could the robots lying in ambush underground possibly escape the meticulous observation of the Divine Eye energy technique? However, he was somewhat curious about the attack methods of these robots.
Brilliant electric flashes danced between his arms, and with the amplification of the Hand of Steel, his power escalated further.
“Ha!”
The electric light struck down like thunder, etching a bright mark in the darkness of the night.
“Boom!”
Thunderclaps roared, and the electricity leaped back and forth among several robots, catapulting them away.
Even though these combat robots were designed to be lightning and waterproof from the outset, the high-voltage electric arc induced by Li Mu’s control of the holy relic evidently exceeded their load-bearing limit. The robots emitted a puff of black smoke before collapsing motionless to the ground.
While their psychic-metal shell remained largely intact, their internal circuitry could not withstand the damage and was utterly destroyed.
Besame’s smug expression froze on her face, like that of a clown. She never imagined that the combat robots Alfred had spent a fortune to create could be so easily obliterated.
Before she could react, Li Mu had appeared in front of her. His fist, shimmering with electric light, slammed into her chest and abdomen. The fierce force of the punch shattered her defenses, allowing the electric light to blast in and instantly turn her organs into charred remains.
Besame didn’t even have a chance to beg for mercy before she died from that single punch.
Li Mu withdrew his fist, shaking off the bloodstains on his hand.
A hundred meters away, a patch of mud exploded as a surviving combat robot grabbed Alfred and flew off into the distance.
Terrified, Alfred couldn’t believe the other seven cultivators had managed to face off against such a formidable figure – an entity they had no chance of opposing.
The combat robot’s flight speed didn’t slow down even with the extra weight of a person.
But before Alfred could feel the slightest relief of escaping alive, Li Mu caught up with them. He grabbed the airborne combat robot, allowing it to struggle violently before crushing Alfred’s head with a single stomp.
The technology of these combat robots was incredibly advanced; Shen Luoyan might be interested.
Li Mu decided to collect the wreckage of the combat robots as well. If not for the existence of the holy relic Electrocontrol, it wouldn’t have been so simple for him to deal with these robots.
The shell, forged from psychic metal, was extremely sturdy. It would likely take several punches driven by sheer force to deform the shell and destroy its combat capability.
That’s why the holy relic was so valuable – it was a force multiplier.
Li Mu dispersed the electric arc in his palm and walked over to a large piece of hovercraft wreckage.
“Stop playing dead. Do you think you can fool my eyes?”
Shen Xingyu lay in the swamp, his lower body gone. Due to excessive blood loss, his skin was pale and devoid of any color. Without breath or heartbeat, he appeared dead to anyone else.
But he couldn’t deceive Li Mu’s eyes.
Incalculable blood flowed slowly through the remaining vessels in his body, transporting the vital oxygen to his brain.
Li Mu pulled out the stolen pistol, aiming the muzzle at Shen Xingyu’s eyes.
“Three, two, one!”
As the countdown ended, Shen Xingyu’s eyelids twitched violently for an instant before opening, and a malevolent glare shot from his eyes.
He now seemed like a demonic entity.
“Who are you?”
Li Mu delivered a powerful slap to his face, causing Shen Xingyu’s eyes to see stars and several teeth to fly out.
“It’s me asking you, not you asking me. What’s your purpose in coming to Raginbeard?”
This heavy slap made Shen Xingyu reassess the value of life, and he didn’t recognize Li Mu’s true identity.
“We have no intention of intervening in the situation of Garbage Beard. Our relationship with Miss Demos is merely a simple partnership. If you release me, I will keep this secret strictly, and no one will know that you initiated this attack.”
“Bang!”
With a gunshot, Li Mu shot through one of his arms.
“Tell me your goal.”
Shen Xingyu hardly let out any screams; in his current state, he had lost his sense of pain.
“Our aim is solely to utilize the power of Raginbeard to monitor the actions of the Soul Cult and Eastern Xia. I am just a minor character and know very little. Even in Raginbeard, I am not the person in charge.”
Li Mu pondered for a moment.
“Monitor Eastern Xia?”