nycdaug Chapter 383 The Man Standing Atop the River of Time (Page 12)
Chapter 383 The Man Standing Atop the River of Time (Page 12)
"The ceiling of humanity... is nothing more than this." Isis gently stroked the blood-stained blue veil, her eyes filled with the cruelty of a cat toying with a mouse.
Just as the four great gods were preparing to deliver the final blow—
"Rumble--"
The entire sea suddenly trembled violently!
On the distant horizon, a silvery-white lightning bolt cleaved through the mist!
It was a modified McLaren P1, with four turbocharger nozzles spewing out a ghostly blue flame, carving out a vacuum channel a kilometer long on the sea surface!
The car had already broken the sound barrier, but under the control of some mysterious force field, it did not generate a shock wave.
The car door opened like a wing.
A silver-haired woman emerged from the waves.
Her tattered black cloak fluttered behind her, revealing two oddly shaped pulse pistols at her waist.
Most striking is the mechanical eyepiece she wears in her left eye, with dense streams of data flowing across the lens.
"Finally made it." Ye Fan coughed up a mouthful of blood, but showed a relieved smile.
The four deities simultaneously stopped fighting, looking at the uninvited guest with surprise and uncertainty.
A hint of confusion flashed in Nut's starry eyes: "Zhou Ping, the fifth pinnacle of humanity, has not arrived... Who is this person?"
Guan, struggling to straighten his broken glasses, asked, "Commander Ye...is this your hidden trump card?"
The woman did not answer immediately. She slowly walked to the center of the battlefield, her mechanical eyepiece scanning the four gods in turn.
When the lens locked onto Isis, a scarlet [SSS-level threat] warning suddenly popped up.
“I—in remembrance.” Her voice was as cold as the polar wind.
“Commemoration?” Geb chewed on the name, then his pupils suddenly contracted. “The Egyptian temple bombing three years ago…”
Commemorating the dangerous curve of his lips:
"Finally remembered? That fireworks show that blew up half of your temple." She casually tossed out a holographic projector, and the scene from that year immediately reappeared in the air—the pyramids were falling apart in the pulse bombs, and the statues were blasted into dust by electromagnetic cannons.
"It's you!" Tefnut's scepter crackled with lightning. "The leader of that terrorist organization!"
"A terrorist organization?" Ji Nian suddenly burst into laughter, his laughter filled with biting sarcasm.
"You so-called gods, you raise humans like livestock in the mist, exploiting their faith to extract offerings..." Her mechanical goggles suddenly switched to attack mode, "The Shangxie Society is nothing but an eye for an eye!"
Isis suddenly made her move!
The curse of life transformed into a giant purple python and lunged at Jinian, only to be intercepted in mid-air by a pulse barrier.
The memorial didn't even turn around; it simply snapped its fingers lightly.
"boom!"
The railguns hidden in the clouds fired simultaneously!
Twelve tungsten alloy warheads hurtled toward the four gods at Mach 20, each warhead covered with anti-divine runes!
"Times have changed, everyone."
With twin pistols in hand, her silver hair fluttering wildly in the wind, and the explosions of artillery fire behind her illuminating her cold, sharp profile.
Her mechanical eyepiece flashed a crimson data stream, locking onto every subtle reaction of the four gods.
Just as the Four Gods were about to strike again—
"Smack!"
She suddenly pulled a black detonator from her waist, her thumb gently rubbing the red button on it, a dangerous smile curving her lips.
"Gentlemen, you don't want... the temples within the circles of those people you've raised to be blown up again, do you?"
Her voice was light and airy, yet it was like a sharp knife, piercing the heart of a god.
"I know you've built several new temples!!!"
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Isis's pupils contracted sharply, and her fingers clenched tightly beneath the blue veil.
"You...you planted another bomb in the temple?!" Her voice trembled for the first time. "Are you even human?! How could you slaughter innocent humans?!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Nian suddenly burst into laughter, her laughter laced with biting sarcasm.
"Yo yo yo—" She tilted her head, her eyes mocking, "The high and mighty gods actually care about the life and death of the 'tools' who provide incense offerings?"
She abruptly stopped smiling, and her mechanical eyepiece emitted a blinding red light.
"But that makes sense. Without their offerings, your divine power... wouldn't be enough, would it?"
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The expressions of the four gods instantly turned extremely gloomy.
They dared not disbelieve, nor dared to believe entirely.
Geb's rocky body trembled slightly, Nut's starry eyes flickered, Tefnut's scepter flashed with lightning, and Isis's fingertips dug into her palm, drawing blood.
They hesitated.
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And at this moment——
Suddenly, Ji Nian added a casual remark.
"Oh, by the way, are you still waiting for... news of the four gods you sent out?"
Her tone was as if she were talking about today's weather.
Isis looked up abruptly: "What did you say?!"
With a slight smile, he leisurely pulled out a holographic projector and casually tossed it aside.
"boom!"
The scene unfolds, revealing four divine corpses!
Osiris, the god of the underworld—his head was severed, and his divine blood dried up!
Fengshen Xiu—his divine body was nailed to the yellow sand!
Set, the god of the yellow sands—his heart was pierced, and his scepter was broken!
The sun god Amun—his divine nature shattered, and he turned to ashes!
“Sorry, those four…” Ji Nian tilted his head, a bright smile on his face, “have all been killed.”
She gently shook the detonator.
"Don't believe me? You can try contacting them!"
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Isis's expression changed drastically!
She secretly channeled her divine sense, attempting to communicate with the four gods, but—
no respond!
A dead silence!
It was as if they had never existed!
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"boom--!!!"
The rock beneath Geb's feet suddenly collapsed, Nut's star orbit became disordered, and Tefnut's torrential rain reversed!
The four gods' expressions changed completely.
Fear, terror, anger, disbelief—
They stared intently at the memorial, as if they were looking at a madman.
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Commemoration, however, merely yawned lazily.
"Aren't you going to run?" She narrowed her eyes. "The people who will slaughter you soon... will be here!"
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Isis suddenly took a step back!
"withdraw!!!"
With a sharp shout, her green veil billowed up, and she instantly transformed into a streak of light and vanished!
Geb, Nut, and Tafnout did not hesitate either; their divine bodies exploded, turning into divine light and dissipating into the sky!
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The smoke of war gradually dissipated over the East China Sea.
Commemoration put away the detonator, glanced in the direction the god had fled, and let out a soft sneer.
"Tsk, that's fast."
She turned around, looked at the four battered ceilings, and grinned.
"How was my acting? Pretty good, right?"
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Ye Fan: "..."
Lu Wuwei: "..."
Locked in: "..."
Master: "..."
The four remained silent for a long time, and finally—
"Depend on!!!"
"You didn't even blow up the temple?!"
"Those four gods...are they really dead?!"
Ji Nian blinked and smiled brightly.
"Who knows~"
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At this time.
The Master's body lay amidst the wreckage of the bronze chariot, his robes soaked in blood, his white hair disheveled, and his face withered like rotten wood.
His chest was pierced by Isis's life curse, and an eerie purple mist swirled around the wound, as if even time itself was distorted there.
Ye Fan's expression changed drastically, and the golden Buddha phantom collapsed with a roar!
"Master urgently needs treatment!" He turned his head sharply, his gaze piercing Ji Nian like lightning. "Do you have a way?"
This is not an inquiry, but a plea for help.
Ji Nian raised an eyebrow, his silver hair flying in the wind, his mechanical eyepiece scanning the Master's injuries, the data stream flashing wildly.
"Tsk, what a hassle." She pursed her lips, but without hesitation pulled out a... pixel cloud from her waist?
The cloud floated in her palm, like a compressed mass of digital energy, constantly changing shape.
"Watch closely—" she tossed it casually, "Transform!"
"boom!!"
The pixelated cloud exploded, and countless streams of light converged, instantly condensing into a Bugatti Veyron!
But this car is anything but ordinary—its body is composed of a flowing digital matrix, its tires shimmer with eerie blue particle effects, and its hood is covered with runes from an unknown civilization!
The pupils of the eyes, confined and inactive, are trembling!
"This..." The lenses of his glasses snapped open with a crack, "Matter recombination? Quantum materialization?"
Ji Nian ignored him, walked straight to the back of the car, and snapped her fingers.
The trunk opened automatically, and the interior space mysteriously expanded, transforming into a luxurious life support pod in the blink of an eye!
The cushions are made of nano-memory material, the bulkheads are filled with data from the life support system, and there's even a small holographic projector playing... a recitation of the Analects?
"..." Ye Fan's lips twitched. "You even prepared this?"
Commemorating the shrug: "Customer needs, precise customization."
She lifted the dying teacher with one hand and tossed him into the trunk like luggage, thoughtfully adjusting the angle of the pillow.
Lu Wuwei & Guan Zai: "???"
"Wait a minute!" Lu Wuwei pointed at his electric scooter with a flat tire. "Is this reasonable?! Can a sports car's trunk fit people?!"
Jinian had already opened the driver's side door, turned around, and revealed a mysterious smile:
Anything is possible!!!
"Get in the car, Ye Fan!"
Ye Fan climbed into the passenger seat without hesitation.
Suddenly realizing something, Guan lunged at the car door, shouting, "Wait! This car only has two seats, we—"
"boom--!!!"
The Bugatti Veyron's tail suddenly transformed! Six sets of pixelated rocket thrusters deployed, and the eerie blue exhaust flames evaporated the sea surface, creating a giant crater!
Commemorating the moment when I floored the accelerator, the sound drowned out by the sonic boom:
"Don't you have electric cars?!"
Bye-bye!
"call out--!!!"
The Bugatti Veyron soared into the sky, drawing a digital rainbow in the air at a height of a thousand meters, before disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye!
The two abandoned people stood on the sea, bewildered by the wind.
Lu Wuwei looked at his electric scooter, now just a frame, and stared at his laptop, now reduced to rubble.
silence.
A long silence.
"..."
"Is this even a car anymore???" Guan finally broke down and shouted.
Lu Wuwei silently took out a pocket watch—only to find that the pocket watch was broken.
The wind in the East China Sea suddenly turned very cold.
It perfectly reflects the heart of a single person.
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Inside the Bugatti Veyron, the hum of the Quantum Engine sounds like the low growl of an ancient behemoth.
A stream of dark blue data flowed along the interior walls of the carriage, and holographic projections outlined ever-changing star maps in the air.