179: Fighting the "Demon Spider"

Staring at the almost negligible computing power occupancy rate, Fang Yun was momentarily speechless.

"If I told her that my current computing power usage is only 1.8% of the total, what kind of expression would she have?"

"Most likely, she'd just think I'm under too much pressure and talking nonsense. (Laughs)"

Thinking of this, Fang Yun couldn't help but let the corners of his mouth curl up.

He turned his head to look at Valentine and Toke, only to find that the two of them had already tacitly raised their weapons and were looking sternly towards the end of the passage.

"Clang! Clatter! Ding! Dong! Dong!"

The sound of metal plates being torn was getting closer, followed by a humming sound similar to a vehicle engine.

"Fang Yun. Can you handle it?" (Comms) (Toke)

Fang Yun put away his smile and quietly held Sakura Fall across his chest:

"No big problem. We'll test the prototype's quality in a moment. If you can't handle it, I'll step in." (Comms) (Fang Yun)

"Okay." (Comms) (Toke)

"Thumbs up.jpg." (Comms) (Valentine)

"Since we can't leave, then we won't." (Fang Yun)

As his words fell, the entire corridor's lighting system suddenly turned on, immediately erupting in dazzling red light.

Sharp alarms tore at the eardrums of Fang Yun and the other two.

Thick white smoke permeated the ventilation ducts.

"Beep, neurotoxin detected, please be careful to wear gas masks."

The Human Intelligence Ascension's prompt was shared through the team channel, appearing in Valentine and Toke's ears.

"We were prepared." (Comms) (Valentine)

Valentine and Toke tapped the gas masks on their faces, simultaneously indicating to Fang Yun that they were fine.

After the two of them assumed tactical positions, two sharp praying mantis blades suddenly pierced through theDeprecated alloy wall in front of them, then cut it into countless small pieces.

Praying Mantis Blade Prototype - Demonic Spider, arrived.

The prototype's built-in high-precision optical scanner shot out six crimson beams of light, passing through the white mist and hitting Fang Yun and the other two.

With the power of Eagle Vision Wolf Gaze, Fang Yun was able to see the prototype's appearance clearly through the mist.

The massive mechanical creation before him was three and a half meters tall, with a body structure modeled after a spider.

A total of nine prosthetic limbs were mounted on the slender torso, six of which were prosthetic legs. Each prosthetic leg had a praying mantis blade hidden in its upper section.

The remaining three upper limbs held different weapons.

A large machete, its cold light glinting, with traces of the previous victims' blood still on the blade.

A thermal melting gun, although not like those in science fiction novels, its lethality was also terrifying.

A rotary heavy machine gun, its six barrels ready to spit out deadly tongues of fire at any moment.

The head was a flat mechanical skull, with six crimson electronic eyes arranged in a fan shape, locked firmly onto Fang Yun and the other two.

A heavy armor plate was embedded in the chest cavity, housing the engine assembly that served as the power source.

The massive abdomen and tail were responsible for storing ammunition and fuel.

"Hahahaha! See? This is true art!"

While waiting for the Demonic Spider to arrive, Mad Flower had been spewing trash talk, but neither Fang Yun nor Valentine paid any attention to her words. This made her extremely angry, yet she was completely helpless.

Having made a fool of herself, Mad Flower shut her mouth, cursing hatefully in her heart.

As soon as the Demonic Spider finally reached Fang Yun and the other two, Mad Flower could no longer hold back and let out a gleeful, wild laugh.

"Hahahaha! Hahahaha!"

The surrounding alloy walls constantly bounced Mad Flower's laughter back, transmitting it to Fang Yun's ears, making it sound somewhat demonic.

"That's the vibe, it's a bit like the laughter of a villain from old novels who thinks they have everything under control."

"Too bad, you're not it after all. It's not the 'Jie Jie Jie' laugh, that gets a bad review."

While Fang Yun was lost in thought, Mad Flower's pre-battle threats were in full swing.

"Hahahaha! Damn mercenaries, you all deserve to die!"

"You thought killing those small fry from the Vortex Gang meant you won? I'm telling you, you're dreaming!"

"Now, let you witness the terror of the 'Demonic Spider'!"

"'Demonic Spider', go, kill them!"

With Mad Flower's command, the Demonic Spider's six mechanical legs suddenly pushed off the ground, and its entire body charged towards Fang Yun like a cannonball!

Clearly, Mad Flower believed Fang Yun was a Hacker with no combat ability and wanted to eliminate him first.

"Scatter!" (Comms)

Fang Yun, who had anticipated this, gave a low shout, and the three of them immediately rolled in different directions.

"Boom—!"

The Demonic Spider slammed heavily onto the ground.

Seeing that its attack missed, the Demonic Spider's six electronic eyes spun wildly, locking onto Fang Yun's figure, and raised the thermal melting gun, preparing to fire.

"Da da da! Da da da! Da da da!"

Valentine, who had regained his balance, saw the Demonic Spider raise its gun and knew it wanted to shoot. He quickly raised his submachine gun and unleashed a burst at its head.

Ordinary round-nosed bullets struck the Demonic Spider's high-strength alloy skull, bouncing off one after another, making clanging sounds.

"Ordinary submachine gun bullets can't penetrate the armor, they can only leave a few white marks on it. Toke, try shooting its joints with your shotgun." (Comms) (Valentine)

"OK." (Comms) (Toke)

The Demonic Spider, whose attention was drawn by Valentine, gave up the idea of attacking Fang Yun and instead raised its machine gun, firing wildly in Valentine's direction.

"Da da da da da da da da da da da da——!"

A storm of bullets swept across, and the already somewhat dilapidated alloy walls were instantly riddled with holes like a beehive.

After Valentine finished that burst, he made an evasive maneuver.

However, even so, he was still in pain from the flying concrete fragments.

At this moment, in another direction, Toke rolled sideways into cover, raised his shotgun with a backhand motion, and fired a shot directly at the prototype's joint.

"Bang—!"

The slug accurately hit the joint of one of the Demonic Spider's prosthetic legs.

The bullet and the armor collided, sending up a shower of sparks, and then the bullet was deflected by the armor.

The Demonic Spider's movement as it turned to track Valentine's figure paused slightly.

"Effective! But not enough power!" (Comms) (Toke)

Mad Flower saw Valentine and Toke's actions through the surveillance System and immediately cursed in her heart:

『Damn it, relying only on the last emergency program really can't control the 'Demonic Spider' perfectly.』

『However, killing these mercenaries shouldn't be a problem, it'll just take a bit longer.』

『Next is to wait for the 'Demonic Spider' to kill them, then escape while the 'Demonic Spider' is away from the secret room, and head to the only remaining safe house.』

『The middleman is already arranging my escape route. As long as I survive these two days, I can get away and escape to freedom.』

『The little remaining computing power must be used to handle the traces left by the escape; it cannot be wasted.』

『Although I don't know if that mercenary Hacker was poisoned and knocked out because he didn't wear a gas mask, or if he's trying to attack the 'Demonic Spider's' ICE, either way, as long as he doesn't continue to launch Hacker attacks on me, it's a good thing.』

Mad Flower, who was fantasizing about the future, didn't realize that she was already surrounded by a stream of blue data.

"Beep, 'Puppet · Net of Heaven and Earth' (Fifth Order) has been deployed."