217: Chapter 217 Soul Deprivation, Mechanical Divine Court?

The mist in the Black Forest was partially dispersed by the recent explosion.

Chen Du stepped on the Orc captain's breastplate with measured force.

It was just enough to make the other party feel the pain of shattering, but not enough to kill him.

"Hey, big guy."

Chen Du leaned over slightly and exhaled a puff of blue smoke.

"You were the one who said you wanted to use my women as genetic material, right?"

The Orc's limbs were pinned firmly to the mud by Shadow Hands, yet his eyes still held a sense of arrogance.

"Lowly... rogue exile..."

The captain spat out a mouthful of green blood: "You think... just because you won against a few scouts, you can act like a king?"

"The commander has already received my... signal. Your souls will be stripped, and your bodies will be remodeled into laborers!"

"For the... glory of the god of machinery!"

As soon as he finished speaking.

The transistor at the back of the captain's head suddenly burst with red light.

Chen Du frowned and immediately activated Tyrants Gaze, adding the illusion-breaking effect.

He saw the other party's blood accelerate wildly at that moment, and the temperature rose sharply.

"Not good! He's going to take us down with him!"

On the deck, Xia Lai let out a startled cry, "He's overloading the Energy Core in his body. A self-destruction of this level would blow half the forest into the sky!"

Upon hearing this, Tang Ran subconsciously prepared to rush off the ship to save him.

Chen Du waved his hand, staring coldly at the transistor.

"Trying to self-destruct in front of me?"

The Judgment attribute was enchanted onto the bone gold cleaver.

With a flick of his wrist!

The tip of the blade accurately pierced into the gap between the captain's neck flesh and the transistor connection.

A white light flashed!

It directly severed that unknown energy connection!

The crimson light, which had reached its peak brightness, suddenly sputtered out!

The Orc's pupils shrank suddenly, filled with disbelief.

"How is it possible... the authorization... my self-destruct operation was disconnected?!"

"Are those your last words?"

Chen Du put away the knife and casually patted the other's cheek, "All nonsense!"

He stopped wasting words and channeled his thoughts deep into his mind.

The ancient, pitch-black sacrifice notebook suddenly appeared by his side.

The monstrous mouth, invisible to others, was now grinning so hard its saliva was almost dripping.

[Jie jie jie! Quick! That's a false god's beacon! There's pure nourishment inside!]

"Sacrifice! I need his memories!"

Chen Du's tone was icy.

[Haha! A wise choice!]

The monstrous mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated degree and bit down on the Orc's head.

The light of Sacrifice instantly enveloped the entire pit.

"Ah—!"

The Orc captain let out a miserable scream within the light.

His muscles rapidly collapsed amidst convulsions, his skin became like withered old bark, and finally, even that alloy armor began to weather away.

In just three to five seconds.

A living Orc was completely turned to ash.

[Ding! Sacrifice successful!]

[Obtained: Special Alloy x20, life essence x2.]

[Important memory collected... analyzing!]

Chen Du felt a sharp pain in his brain as bizarre, fragmented images flashed before his eyes like slides.

He closed his eyes.

Enduring the sensation of needles pricking his brain, he began to organize the information.

Lin Keke leaned on the ship's railing, chin in her hands, and couldn't help but complain: "Incredible! The Captain is a human paper shredder!"

"But, so handsome! So handsome my DNA is reacting!"

An Nuonuo asked softly: "Is... is he okay? His face has gone pale."

Li Yaozhi's eyes were deep as she explained in a low voice.

"He should be reading memories. This method is dangerous, but also the most direct."

"It seems this continent is more complex than we imagined."

A full two minutes passed.

Chen Du snapped his eyes open, and the golden light deep in his pupils almost overflowed.

He let out a long breath and wiped away the blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.

"So that's how it is..."

"The truth is actually quite rotten."

Tang Ran jumped off the ship in a few steps and asked urgently: "Captain, what did you see? Where did these Stitched Monsters come from?"

Chen Du sneered with a hint of mockery.

"What divine citizens, what indigenous people. They are just like us."

"They are all players who once struggled in the Sea of Despair."

The entire area fell into a deathly silence.

Xia Lai was stunned: "What did you say? They are also survivors? Then how did they become this ghostly way?"

Chen Du bent down and picked up a fragment of armor that hadn't been completely oxidized.

"This place is called Lost Olympus. Before this era, many batches of survivors have been here."

"A group of high-level players who survived established a dictatorial power here called the 'Mechanical Divine Court'."

"Not only do they not help the newcomers who follow, but they use their accumulated technology to harvest them."

"These Orcs are players from previous generations who were implanted with monster genes and control chips."

After hearing Chen Du's words, the girls felt a chill run down their backs.

This kind of fratricide, even turning their own kind into biological weapons, was more disgusting than the abyss sea monsters outside.

"I'm speechless..."

Lin Keke's small face became unusually serious, "This isn't some Mechanical Divine Court, this is clearly a black-hearted pyramid scheme!"

"Turning their own kind into genetic supplements? Ugh... I thought that armor was pretty cool just now, now I want to vomit."

Xia Lai clenched her fists, a fire of anger burning in her eyes.

"This is the law of the jungle! Exploiting their own kind to provide for a so-called 'god'."

Chen Du's eyes returned to their usual coldness, "I don't accept this kind of rule."

"There's an outpost thirty kilometers from here."

"Since they want to use us as fuel, then we'll blow up their pot first."

"Not only must we take it down, we have to swallow this territory too." An Nuonuo chimed in, clenching her small pink fists.

Chen Du rubbed her small head and turned to look at Xia Lai.

"Second Sister, go back and check the power system. We're driving No. 0819 there!"

The door to the resting room of the dead slid open slowly.

A terrifying chill, enough to freeze the air, billowed out from the cabin.

Chen Du's pupils shrank as he saw Xia Mo.

She was standing barefoot on the deck.

Her jet-black hair was now eerily drifting with specks of icy blue at the ends.

She didn't look at anyone, her gaze firmly locked on the northern horizon of the forest.

There, a mass of dark, oppressive clouds was rolling rapidly.

"Xia Mo?"

Chen Du stepped onto the deck and reached out to put his arm around her shoulder.

Xia Mo suddenly turned her face.

"Chen Du... be careful."

"There is a disgusting thing over there."

Chen Du looked into the distance.

In the center of the rolling dark clouds, he vaguely saw a massive golden ring.

In the center of the ring, a giant mechanical eye burning with red fire slowly opened.

Chen Du held the beauty in his arms tightly and laughed softly.

"Don't worry, I'm here!"

"Everyone, get into the cabin! Let's go meet this so-called Mechanical Divine Court!"