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"Is this...the future?" Trunks asked in a low voice.
Xing closed her eyes to sense it, then opened them: That's right, but the timing is ten years earlier than expected.
Sun Wukong clenched his fist: In other words, the enemy has been in action for a long time.
Piccolo said in a deep voice: We must find the guy who controls the Omni-King as soon as possible.
at this time--
You've finally arrived.
A deep voice came from all directions, and everyone instantly went into battle mode.
Lin Ye looked up at the towering black throne in the distance, where a man clad in dark gold armor was slowly rising, his eyes flashing with a cold light.
Welcome to... a future of destruction.
Chapter 223 Future Reverberation
Is this the future?
Lin Ye's boot crushed a piece of charred gravel, the faint cracking sound particularly jarring in the deathly silence of the ruins. The air was thick with the acrid smell of burning metal. In the distance, the collapsed skyscrapers resembled skeletons gnawed by a giant beast, twisted steel bars piercing the blood-red sky from the concrete.
Number 18 crouched down, lightly stroking the ground with his fingertips. The data stream from the mechanical eye scrolled rapidly: the surface radiation index exceeded the standard by 400%, indicating that this place had experienced at least three global nuclear explosions.
Are you kidding me? Vegeta crossed his arms, the cape of his Saiyan battle suit fluttering in the wind carrying radioactive dust. What madman would dare to drop a nuclear bomb on Earth?
Sun Wukong closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, then suddenly opened them: He couldn't sense any living person's aura... Wait! He abruptly turned southeast; there was movement there!
Piccolo immediately lowered his voice: Be careful, it might be an enemy patrol.
Lin Ye's right arm dragon scales suddenly felt slightly hot, a sign that the Dragon God's power within him sensed danger. He made a tactical hand signal, and the group immediately dispersed, using the ruins as cover to stealthily move towards the direction from which the commotion was coming.
After passing through a commercial district leveled by the shockwave, the sight before them took everyone's breath away—
Lay down your weapons! Surrender immediately!
More than twenty fully armed soldiers emerged from behind the shattered concrete bunker, clad in patchwork armor, their energy weapons gleaming dangerously. At least thirty red dots from laser sights instantly locked onto them. The woman leading the group had short silver hair that billowed in the radiation wind, a sophisticated mechanical goggle over her right eye, and a gruesome scar running from her forehead to her chin on her left cheek.
Number 18 gasped: This is...me?
The futuristic version of No. 18 rapidly focused its mechanical eyepiece, a cold smile creeping onto its lips: Another imposter? Wasn't the last lesson enough? Without hesitation, it raised its hand and fired! Kill without mercy!
Wait! Lin Ye suddenly raised his right arm, and dark blue dragon scales instantly covered his entire arm. A semi-transparent energy barrier unfolded in front of everyone, and dense beams of energy exploded into dazzling sparks on the barrier. We are not the enemy!
A tall figure emerged from behind the futuristic warriors, his mechanical prosthetic eye flashing a dangerous red light: "Mother, abnormal spacetime fluctuations detected. They may indeed be time travelers from the past."
Trunks?! The Trunks of this timeline exclaimed in surprise, his gaze falling on his future self—the other's left side was completely mechanized, the exposed metal joints making hydraulic sounds with every movement. How could your body...
The future version of Number 18 stared intently at everyone, his finger still on the trigger: Prove it to me.
Goku scratched his head, revealing his signature goofy grin: Uh... I'm Goku, this is Vegeta, and over there are Piccolo and Krillin... Oh right, Krillin didn't come along...
"Not enough." Future 18 interrupted coldly, "Three months ago, a group of imposters also came with the same story." Her mechanical eyepiece locked onto Lin Ye, who was eventually proven to be an android sent by the Timebreakers.
Lin Ye suddenly spoke up: "The time-space jump device that Bulma is developing uses the Time Crystal Core left behind by the Supreme Kai of Time from Universe 7 as its energy core. The activation password is the founding date of Capsule Corporation."
Future 18's mechanical eyepiece suddenly flickered violently. She remained silent for a few seconds before slowly lowering her weapon: "Take them back to base. But remember, her gaze will sweep over everyone; any unusual movement will result in immediate elimination."
The underground shelter was far larger than anyone had imagined.
After passing through three blast doors, each at least half a meter thick, the group entered a massive command center converted from an old subway station. The walls were covered with hand-drawn battle maps and photographs, and makeshift medical equipment was piled in a corner, where several seriously wounded soldiers lay groaning softly on makeshift beds. The air was thick with the pungent smell of disinfectant mixed with blood.
So, if you throw a few bottles of drinking water with damaged packaging at us on the 18th, are you here to prevent annihilation?
Annihilation? Piccolo frowned as he took the water bottle. Who was that?
Future Trunks's mechanical arm hummed with hydraulic pressure: not "who," but "what"—a terrifying entity capable of devouring spacetime. He pressed a button on his wristband, and a holographic projection unfolded in the air. The image showed a writhing mass of black matter devouring an entire planet. It had suddenly appeared in Universe 7 three months ago and had already destroyed six parallel universes.
Vegeta crossed his arms and snorted: This thing controlled the Omni-King?
No, Future 18 shook her head. A warning code suddenly flashed through her mechanical eyepiece, and she coughed violently. The Omni-King was controlled by the Time Reversal organization, who used the power of annihilation to rewrite the timeline... She coughed up a mouthful of blood with black filaments.
Number 18 instinctively stepped forward: Are you injured?
Radiation sickness, late stage. Future 18 roughly ripped open her collar, revealing black, spiderweb-like patterns spreading beneath her skin. The surface radiation level was already twenty times the lethal dose; we could only hold on for two more months at most. She suddenly turned to Lin Ye, "What's wrong?"
Lin Ye pressed his temples tightly, his face ashen, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead: "The system is being interfered with..." he gritted his teeth and said, "Something is blocking my connection with the Dragon God."
Future Trunks looked up abruptly, his mechanical eyes flashing red: It was the Time-Reverser's spacetime anchor! They had detected a spacetime anomaly!
A piercing alarm suddenly blared throughout the base, and red warning lights began flashing frantically. A soldier covered in dust rushed into the command center: "Sir! The East Third Sector's defensive wall has been breached! Extremely high energy detected!"
On the holographic map, a scarlet signal dot was rapidly approaching the base. Future 18 slammed his fist on the control panel, the metal surface denting instantly: Damn it! It's War Machine! They've sent War Machine!
"What war machine?" Trunks in the present timeline asked.
The gaze of Future Number 18 as he looked at him suddenly filled with indescribable pain: It's you... your future self. To be precise, it's the ultimate weapon transformed from your corpse.
boom--!
The entire base suddenly shook violently, and concrete debris rained down from the ceiling. Amidst the billowing dust, a three-meter-tall black figure slowly straightened up, dark red energy flowing from the gaps in its armor.
With a click of mechanical operation, the helmet visor suddenly opened, revealing half of a mechanized face—it was indeed Trunks, except that the right half of his face had turned into cold metal, and his left eye was a constantly flashing red dot.
"Time-space intruder detected..." Mechanical Trunks' voice crackled with electronic noise. "Executing... cleanup procedure..."
Trunks in this timeline was struck dumb, his sword clattering to the ground: How could I...
Watch out! Future 18 shoved him away abruptly, and the particle cannon from Mechatronics grazed her shoulder, instantly vaporizing the entire alloy wall.
All personnel in combat readiness! Future 18 pressed the emergency button on her wristwatch, and nano-armor rapidly covered her entire body like liquid. "Listen, my past self—" She threw 18 a strangely shaped pistol and shot him in the back of the neck, targeting his energy core! That was his only weakness!
Goku's blond hair instantly turned gold, and the aura of his Super Saiyan form swept across the entire space: Vegeta!
"I don't need your command!" Vegeta's body erupted with an even more dazzling golden aura, and the father and son charged towards Mechatrux at the same time.
Lin Ye attempted to summon the power of the Dragon God, but found the energy flow abnormally sluggish, as if his blood vessels were blocked. He looked up at the collapsing ceiling: We can't fight here! The entire base will collapse!
Lead him to the ground! Future 18 fires the grappling hook, everyone follow me! Take the emergency exit!
Mechatrux's back armor suddenly deployed, and the launchers of twelve miniature missiles were simultaneously aimed at the group. Future Trunks shouted: "Scatter! They're homing missiles!"
Bang bang bang——!
Amidst the continuous explosions, Piccolo braced himself against a shield and withstood three missiles, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth: This guy is even more troublesome than Cell back then!
Number 18 nimbly circled to the side, his energy pistol striking Mechanical Trunks precisely in the knee joint. The opponent only staggered slightly before unleashing a backhand ion blade slash—
clang!
In this timeline, Trunks parried the fatal blow with his sword, his hand instantly splitting open, blood streaming down his wrist. He stared intently into the empty mechanical eye of his other self: Wake up! You're not a killing machine! You're Trunks! Bulma and Vegeta's son!
Mechanical Trunks' processor suddenly emitted a piercing noise, and its movements briefly faltered. Future 18 seized the opportunity to leap high into the air, its light blade aimed directly at the energy core in the back of its neck—
Click!
Mechanical Trunks twisted his body at a physics-defying angle, grabbing her throat: "Identify...rebel leader...prioritize eliminating this target..."
"Let her go!" both Trunks roared simultaneously.
Just as the robotic arm was about to exert its force, a dazzling golden light descended from the sky!
Kamehameha!
Goku's full-power shockwave blasted Mechanical Trunks out of the base, smashing through seven walls before disappearing into the night sky. Vegeta grabbed Trunks from the present timeline: What are you standing there for! Get back here!
The group rushed out of the ground and found that the mechanical Trunks was crawling out of the crater a hundred meters deep, with black material writhing inside exposed through the damaged parts of its armor.
Lin Ye suddenly realized: that wasn't an ordinary machine... he had been infected by Annihilation!
Future 18 wiped the blood from her mouth: "So conventional attacks are ineffective against him." She pressed the communicator, activating Project Ark, and transferred all the survivors to the B-sector shelter!
Mechatrux's chest armor suddenly cracked open, revealing a swirling, dark red energy core inside: Spacetime anomaly detected... Execute final protocol...
The earth began to tremble violently, and on the distant horizon, three equally tall, dark figures were approaching at supersonic speed. Future Trunks's mechanical eyes flashed frantically: Damn it... he's summoning his counterparts from other timelines!
Chapter 224 Mechanical Gods
This is not right. Lin Ye stood at the edge of the spacetime rift, his dark trench coat billowing in the chaotic flow of time. The energy probe he had gathered at his fingertips had barely touched the space on the other side of the rift when it recoiled violently as if struck by lightning—the area that should have been filled with the peaceful energy unique to the Omni-King's Palace was now filled with a piercing buzzing sound like metal gears meshing. Vegeta behind him couldn't help but take a half-step forward, glancing at the churning leaden-gray clouds on the other side of the rift out of the corner of his eye: What's with the nonsense? Why don't we just go in and see for ourselves?
Sun Wukong, unusually, didn't respond, his fluffy tail swaying uneasily behind him. The energy fluctuations emanating from the direction of the Omni-King's palace were visibly distorting space—those cold, glowing ripples of energy, like pebbles thrown into a lake, carried a violent, almost shattering quality. "The last time I came, the Omni-King's candy wasn't this sweet..." He scratched his head, his relaxed tone betrayed by his furrowed brow. Whis had said that only a fight between Gods of Destruction would create this kind of commotion.
Lin Ye didn't respond, but instead unleashed his full mental energy field. A deep blue energy ripple spread out from him, only to abruptly freeze upon reaching the direction of the palace—the energy readings were scrolling wildly in binary code, each fluctuation accompanied by a sharp, metallic noise. It wasn't the power of a god of destruction. He traced energy lines in the air with his fingertips, materializing the analyzed data. Looking at the spectrum, each energy peak carried harmonic oscillations of mechanical waves…
Trunks's wrist-mounted detector suddenly emitted a piercing alarm. The silver mechanical arm rapidly adjusted the instrument parameters, and the boy's face grew even paler under the blue light of the screen: Senior Lin Ye! Life signal scan... The biosignal frequency of the Omni-King's Palace is decaying! He zoomed in on the waveform on the screen; the green curve representing life energy was being swallowed by the blinding red mechanical wave, and now only the standard mechanical signal remained! Frequency match... The highest-specification war machine template in the universe!
War machines? Vegeta's brows furrowed, and his palm suddenly flared with power. Who dared to touch the Omni-King's territory? Before he could finish speaking, the clouds in the distance suddenly exploded—dozens of streaks of light ripped through the night like scalpels, the shrill sound of metal scraping against metal instantly piercing eardrums. Lin Ye's pupils contracted sharply, and he abruptly pulled the three of them into the shadows of the spatial rift behind them. The next second, the streaks of light had already formed a ring of light blocking their previous position.
The suspended mechanical form gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen under the moonlight. The once-sacred angelic halo had transformed into meshing gears, each rotation sparking blue electricity. White wings had been replaced by folding alloy blades, and exposed hydraulic lines at the joints contracted and expanded in a rhythmic, breath-like fashion. The lead mechanical angel raised its red-glowing eyepiece, its metal jaws opening and closing as it uttered a chilling electronic voice: "Unauthorized biosignal detected. Threat level B+. Initiate elimination protocol α-7."
Wait! It's me! Lin Ye! Lin Ye took a step forward, trying to awaken the other's memories. He clearly recognized the golden necklace that wasn't completely covering the mechanical body's neck—it was the lucky charm that the angel Macarita always loved to wear. However, the mechanical angel's movements didn't stop at all. Dozens of metal hands rose simultaneously, and the energy balls gathered in their palms lit up instantly—those light balls weren't the purple of the God of Destruction's energy, but rather the cyan-blue unique to the data torrent, with matrix patterns composed of 0s and 1s flowing across their surfaces.
"Damn it!" Vegeta roared, his Super Saiyan Blue form erupting like a volcano. He instantly appeared in front of Lin Ye, his right fist, imbued with the power of a thunderbolt, slamming towards the nearest mechanical angel. However, the expected sound of metal shattering did not occur. The mechanical angel's arm bent at an angle defying the laws of physics, precisely blocking the attack while its other hand was already aimed at Vegeta's chest. "Watch out! Their defenses have energy deflection fields!" Lin Ye's warning came a fraction too late. Vegeta was blasted away by an immense force, crashing into the edge of a distant spacetime rift, sending energy debris flying everywhere.
Sun Wukong's combat experience was on full display at this moment. He transformed into a golden afterimage, weaving through the swarm of mechanical angels, each punch delivered with a tricky angle, yet he found that his opponents always managed to dodge 0.1 seconds before the attack hit. "Hey, can these guys predict my movements?" He dodged a laser beam in surprise, only to see the attack curve in mid-air and lock onto his back again. Lin Ye, while using telekinesis to control the falling rocks to block the attack, keenly observed: It's not prediction, it's motion capture! Their database contains our combat model!
The balance of the battle tipped instantly. The mechanical angels' attacks were like precisely calculated programs, each punch precisely targeting the opponent's muscle activation points; their defenses were like the strongest firewalls, always able to shift their force before the energy attacks could hit. Trunks' lightsaber struck the mechanical wings, only producing a string of sparks, and he was instead struck in the shoulder by the opponent's counterattack. The sound of armor shattering made Lin Ye's heart tighten.
This can't go on! Lin Ye leaped up, the energy blast he condensed at his fingertips no longer attacking the mechanical angels, but instead shooting towards the space beneath their feet. A violent explosion kicked up a cloud of dust, and he seized the opportunity to rush towards the Omni-King's Palace. However, a familiar blue figure appeared in front of him like a ghost—the gentle smile on Whis's lips was gone, replaced by a stiff arc formed by metal panels, and the third eye on his forehead flashed a dangerous red light.
"Weis?!" Lin Ye's voice trembled with disbelief. He clearly saw that his mentor's once smooth blue skin was now covered with spiderweb-like electrical patterns, and the scepter symbolizing his angelic identity had transformed into a multi-barreled energy cannon, its muzzle pointed directly at his chest. What chilled him even more was that the energy fluctuations within Weis's body exhibited a perfect mechanical rhythm; the once gentle, flowing aura was now as precise as the gears of the most accurate clock.
Target detected: Lin Ye. Threat level A+. Weiss's voice, a mix of electronic noise, each syllable like the clanging of metal, command: Accept mechanical modification, integrate into the new order. Refusal will result in complete physical erasure. Before the words were finished, the energy core at the top of the scepter suddenly lit up—a terrifying energy capable of instantly evaporating a star; Lin Ye could even see the rapidly flowing mechanical code within the energy beam.
The hastily deployed protective shield creaked under the strain of the energy beam. Lin Ye was blasted a kilometer away, crashing through several layers of clouds before barely regaining his footing. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and was shocked to find that the shield's energy reading had dropped by 47%—meaning that the mechanical Weiss before him was at least three times stronger than before! Even more terrifying was that the opponent's attack wasted no energy whatsoever; every ripple precisely struck the shield's weak points.
An abnormal fluctuation was detected in the emotional module... System repair is underway. A erratic red light flashed in Weiss's mechanical eye, and his attack rhythm experienced a barely perceptible pause. Lin Ye seized this one-thousandth of a second opportunity, instantly entering the state of Ultimate Instinct—silver-white flames soared into the sky, every strand of his hair shimmering with divine radiance. His figure left countless afterimages in the void, approaching Weiss like a ghost.
"Whisper, do you remember?" Lin Ye's fist stopped an inch away from Whisper's face, and instead, his fingertips lightly touched the other's forehead. "In the Supreme Kai Realm, you taught me for the first time how to pick up beans with chopsticks, saying that the elegance of an angel stems from absolute control over power..." His voice trembled slightly, and countless scenes of his time with his mentor flashed through his mind: Whisper smilingly handing him Earth ramen, deliberately letting him hit during training, and even secretly taking him to the God of Destruction's restaurant to steal pudding.
Mechanical Weiss froze abruptly. The forcibly overwritten memory data began to crack like ice cubes thrown into boiling water. The red light in his eyes flickered alternately with his original blue pupils, and his metal jaw opened and closed uncontrollably, as if trying to say something. However, a red indicator light suddenly lit up on the back of his neck, interrupting everything—the coin-sized control chip was emitting a piercing alarm, forcibly pulling him back into combat mode.
"Not good! It's the control device!" Lin Ye instantly realized. He showed no mercy, conjuring an energy blade thinner than a hair at his fingertips, and slashed at the chip behind Weiss's neck with surgical precision. *Zzzzt*—a burst of electrical sparks erupted as the chip was precisely severed. Mechanical Weiss let out a roar mixed with electronic noise and painful groans, and his entire metal armor began to tremble violently.
As Lin Ye ripped off the control chip that reeked of burning, Weiss's body plummeted like a puppet with its strings cut. Lin Ye hurriedly caught him, only to find his mentor's body rapidly returning to normal—the circuitry beneath his blue skin gradually faded, the metallic wings transformed into pure white feathers, and even the deformed scepter reverted to its wooden form. "Lin...Lin Ye..." Weiss's voice was weak, like a candle flickering in the wind, and the familiar gentleness returned to his emerald eyes. "Quick...to the central control room...the Mechanical God Project...Lord Omni-King..."
His words were interrupted by a violent cough, and his body dissipated into specks of light in Lin Ye's arms—this was the angel's self-protective mechanism due to excessive energy depletion. Lin Ye gripped the control chip tightly in his hand, the complex patterns engraved on it causing his pupils to shrink—those were logic circuit symbols used only by ancient mechanical civilizations, long lost in the Big Bang!
"Find the control chips on the back of their necks!" Lin Ye's roar pierced the battlefield. Vegeta immediately understood, deliberately feigning an opening to let the mechanical angel get close, then turning like a cheetah and precisely tearing off the chip from the back of its neck. The out-of-control mechanical angel froze on the spot, its metal joints making a confused clicking sound. Goku learned even faster; he even used a ki blast to accurately knock off the control chip of a distant mechanical angel, prompting Vegeta to curse him as a stupid monkey.
As the last mechanical angel regained its senses, a deafening roar suddenly echoed from the direction of the Omni-King's palace. The entire palace slowly opened up, revealing a circular platform with a diameter of ten thousand meters. At the center of the platform stood a colossal metal statue that caused the four to gasp simultaneously—it was a mechanical construct composed of countless gears, pipes, and energy cores, with two familiar crowns embedded in its chest, the symbols of the Omni-King brothers!
Mechanical God... Project complete. A cold, electronic voice echoed through the heavens and earth. The eyes of the metal colossus shone with a star-like light. From this moment on, the multiverse will gain eternity under the absolute rational mechanical order... Those who resist will be nothing but data scum.