Chapter 83 Time to Cash Out! <TOC>
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Translator: SumTLMan
Before Zhou Yi could fully enjoy his excitement, he snapped back to reality.
The Light Seeds inside the two severed fingers of the Boundary Breaker were not created out of thin air; they were the collected results of its hunting nearby Dead Sea creatures.
Using a black finger as a standard calculation, twelve long fingers would amount to 38,400 Light Seeds, indicating that this Boundary Breaker had killed nearly 40,000 Light Absorber species!
However.
How was the Boundary Breaker planning to take away the Light Seeds from here? Was it just going to grab them like a big hand opening a box and then leave?
Red Falcon provided an explanation: “That’s not how it works; it seems you’ve misunderstood this mechanism.”
“The Dark Domain serves as a coordinate connecting two different worlds. Lifeforms need to consume 90% of their energy to pass through the Dark Domain and complete the projection.”
“No matter how much energy is obtained on the other side, returning will also consume 90%, so there’s virtually no energy gain. The Boundary Breaker comes here to hunt and acquire Light Seeds, absorbing energy to reach its complete state; these are just means. The core goal is to hunt Genetic Seeds.”
“The vast amount of precious information contained within Genetic Seeds is the true treasure they seek.”
Zhou Yi suddenly understood.
The Boundary Breaker first comes over to grind and level up, and after restoring its strength, it hunts B-Class creatures—in other words, only creatures of at least this strength have Genetic Seeds.
In that case.
He suddenly realized: “The Boundary Breaker under the bridge hasn’t actually left this place?”
If it were to directly lose 90% of its energy, it would have to start all over again, which is almost no different from dying once.
“Yes—yes——”
Red Falcon stuttered: “Yes. The Boundary Breaker you injured earlier has only temporarily retracted into the Dark Domain.”
But this state cannot last long; not only does it consume an enormous amount of energy, but it also faces strong repulsion from the Dark Domain.
Red Falcon compared it to a continuously pressurized piston.
Zhou Yi instantly understood.
If you can run, the monk can’t run away from the temple; that’s easy to handle.
Just you wait.
Information collection is the professional field of machine lifeforms.
They first established the most basic A-to-E level strength evaluation system based on actual combat, the degree of harm caused, or physical tests, making it convenient to intuitively confirm danger.
In further refinement, they quantified data such as each level’s mech, damage, attack range, etc. As long as one has the corresponding permission, one can intuitively obtain it at a glance.
After Hunter Sea unfolds the [Light Prism Exoskeleton], its maximum attack value is around 800, and based on black box recordings and Red Falcon’s own tests, they confirmed that the Boundary Breaker’s attack value is in the range of 700–1000.
Therefore, Zhou Yi believes it’s feasible to withstand the Boundary Breaker’s attacks; as long as he can force it into an attack cooldown period, he can launch a counterattack.
Red Falcon and Lin, after discussion and calculation, self-made a data chart of the Boundary Breaker.
[Boundary Breaker]
[B-Class Main Weapon]
Damage: 1000
Cooldown: 16
Range: 185
[D-Class High-Speed Secondary Weapon]
Damage: 10
Cooldown: 0.5
Range: 75
“Mark”: Any attack that hits the opponent will apply a mark.
“Detonate”: By attacking again to trigger the mark, causing corrosion damage that ignores defense to life points; each mark causes 1 point of life damage.
[Main Body]
Life Points: (10/12)?
Defense: ?
Energy: ?
Red Falcon said: “My skill [Survey] can acquire real-time information of the mech by continuously observing the target’s movements.”
“When you fought with the Boundary Breaker, its Main Body suffered minor damage because it released those black spheres. Its marks are parts of its own Main Body separated as carriers, then fired and attacked in bullet form.”
“Another way to mark is through large-scale attack coverage, followed by high-speed shooting. The detonation points are all on these black spheres, which is a different usage of the same ability.”
“The main material of those black spheres is highly purified Light Sand and some Light Amber.”
“From this, it can be deduced that the Boundary Breaker’s attacks require consuming its own Main Body as a price—that is, using its own body to make bullets for high-frequency attacks at medium and close range.”
“The large-scale energy shockwave consumes pure energy and will chemically react with the marks, causing secondary damage.”
The scout mech concluded: “This Boundary Breaker has strong destructive power, but its weakness is insufficient Main Body defense, or even possibly an extreme evolutionary route that abandons defense. So when it was hit by the Ridge Spine Hunter, part of its body was directly cut and damaged.”
“In its judgment, the Ridge Spine Hunter’s attack caused high damage to itself. If you launch a close-range offensive, it will fall into extreme danger, so it chose to defend and evade.”
Zhou Yi remained expressionless.
Unfortunately, the Boundary Breaker didn’t know that although he withstood its full set of attacks, his Stretchy Fist alone did negligible damage.
He can’t say it was completely ineffective; can only say it added some excitement to the battlefield.
Zhou Yi first used 110 Light Seeds to replenish the previous 1,100 points of life loss.
However, the Light Seed replenishment conversion takes a certain amount of time, and the Main Body itself must remain stable; otherwise, the conversion will be interrupted, and the Light Seed energy will dissipate into nothing.
In other words, it’s almost impossible to replenish in real-time during high-intensity combat.
Zhou Yi made up his mind and directly took out all his savings, totaling 12,414 Light Seeds.
“White Suan Ni, add points for me!”
He absorbed the Light Seeds one by one, converting them all into life points.
Life force directly doubled, reaching 22,504 points.
To deal with the Boundary Breaker, being able to withstand is essential.
After preparations were complete, Zhou Yi led the team to the Dead Sea again, initiating the second battle.
Upon reaching the destination at the bottom of the sea, the Ridge Spine Hunter immediately flew over to report.
“Chairman, that guy came out twice again. We confronted it, and it retracted back. But seeing that you weren’t here, it swaggered out again.”
“I wanted to teach it a lesson, but thinking about the task you gave me to monitor, I held back.”
Zhou Yi glanced sideways at it.
The Ridge Spine Hunter’s two red eyes immediately looked down, somewhat unnatural.
Zhou Yi didn’t expose it.
He has basically figured out Hunter Sea’s personality by now.
To put it nicely, it’s a team player; to put it bluntly, it’s a bully when backed by someone strong.
When Zhou Yi leads the team, it becomes very aggressive, eager to charge; when asked to solo, it becomes timid.
The Ridge Spine Hunter is a B-Class creature. Logically, even in the entire Dead Sea food chain, it should belong to the upper circle and should have an aura of invincibility.
But due to its personality, Hunter Sea is timid.
Zhou Yi estimates that this guy might have been overprotected by its mother, so when facing danger and challenges alone, it lacks courage. Hunter Sea lacks that ruthlessness and initiative and needs pressure and orders.
But then again, if Hunter Sea had an indomitable and tenacious mindset, he probably wouldn’t have had any fate with him, nor would he have come to work at the company so easily.
Zhou Yi immediately said: “Listen up, I’ll tank its damage; you attack.”
“Yes, Chairman!”
Hunter Sea’s upper and lower eyes suddenly glowed red, fighting spirit surged, quickly switching to the triangular prism combat form.
Sure enough, they found the shadow of the Boundary Breaker ahead. Although it had lost two fingers, the remaining ten were still very flexible, but the way it rummaged everywhere on the ground looking for Light Absorber species made it look like a homeless person.
Zhou Yi charged at it.
This time, the Boundary Breaker directly gave up attacking, its huge body quickly shrank back into the Dark Domain hole, directly playing turtle.
Zhou Yi walked under the bridge and pointed at the hole, cursing.
“You have the guts to steal my fish here, but no guts to open the door?”
“Listen up, you’d better stay in there for the rest of your life.”
“If you dare to come out, see if I won’t finish you off.”
This time he came prepared.
The Warrior Crab beside him brought over prism lamps, books, canned cola, beer, some bagged nuts, and even a lazy sofa for sleeping.
Zhou Yi crossed his legs and sat on the sofa, reading the manga —Fist of the North Star— while drinking cola.
Time passed minute by minute.
Two hours later.
The Dark Domain hole finally experienced strong vibrations, directly squeezing out the black Boundary Breaker inside.
As soon as it came out, it was attacked by the waiting Ridge Spine Hunter’s death beam, and two more black fingers fell to the ground.
This time, the opponent seemed to want to fight desperately; the remaining eight fingers pointed at Zhou Yi, its whole body covered with a layer of silver patterns, exuding an aura of wanting to perish together.
Zhou Yi retreated while calmly issuing orders, and he also picked up a black finger nearby—this was a trophy. Carrying it on his shoulder, he suddenly found that the other end of the black finger was still connected to the main body, not completely severed.
At the same time, a thought occurred to him.
Can he input energy into this guy and chat a bit? In battles, it’s always about fighting and talking, talking and fighting.
Zhou Yi tried to input energy into the severed finger.
It worked.
He said: “Hey, can you hear me?”
After a moment.
An angry voice came to his mind: “What’s there to say with you barbaric monster? Do you still want to humiliate me?”
?
I’m the monster?
That’s turning the world upside down.
Zhou Yi reminded the other party: “Mind your manners. Do you want to negotiate, pay some war reparations or something?”
“Ridiculous!”
So there’s nothing to talk about.
Zhou Yi immediately ordered to intensify efforts to eliminate the Boundary Breaker.