168: Chapter 168 Electrician Master Su requests to join the battle!

After Su Ming's indiscriminate round of verbal abuse, the System finally provided an answer.

A cold, mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

【Reproductive cells are differentiated from the host's Origin Star Core material; their density is deeply bound to the Life Core and cannot be lowered through surface mimicry.】

【Conventional carbon-based female bodies cannot bear their mass and kinetic energy. The moment of union would cause physical penetration damage, making normal reproduction impossible.】

Su Ming's mouth twitched wildly.

Physical penetration?

Is this supposed to be for pleasure or murder?

Indescribable, pixelated images flashed through his mind, and he hurriedly shook his head.

"Then what if I control the force? Or use some auxiliary tools?" Su Ming tried to reason.

【Physical penetration stems from absolute mass and density differences, and is unrelated to subjective force or external lubricating media.】

He was ruthlessly slapped in the face by the System.

Wait, why are you so familiar with contraceptive products!?!

Su Ming sighed.

That is to say, as long as he remained in this abnormal Silicon-based Fusion body, any ordinary girl getting close to him would be throwing her life away.

This effectively cemented the reproductive isolation for any "Mortal pursuing me" scenario!

【The only solution under the current life form: The spouse must possess a Law-level bearing Physique, or have awakened an ultimate Force Field-type talent.】

【They can use their own Origin Force Field to buffer and offset the mass impact of the reproductive cells, bearing the high-density life Origin to complete the normal reproduction process of carbon-based life.】

【Other paths require the host's life form to complete a deeper essential transition before the complete information can be revealed.】

Su Ming was speechless after reading this.

To put it simply, his Rank just isn't high enough, right?

As for the first solution, he ignored it directly.

Go find another metal hunk like himself?

Not to mention where he'd find one, even if he did, would they just clash head-on?

The image was too beautiful; he didn't dare to imagine it.

Wait.

Force Field?

Su Ming's eyes suddenly lit up.

He remembered that Shen Qingci's talent had a Force Field sequence!

The SS-Rank Geng Metal Blade Bone comes with a Geng Metal Force Field and atomic wire cutting.

This, this is what you call factory-standard compatibility!

God had already matched his wife's model long ago.

However, Shen Qingci was only Tier 3 Silver right now; that small frame of hers definitely couldn't withstand his more than three hundred tons of "solid goods."

It seems that if he wants to hold his wife, that little girl Shen Qingci will have to train desperately.

In the future, he couldn't just focus on farming mass points for himself; he also had to figure out how to get her some upgrade resources.

Su Ming was filled with emotion.

Does this count as "I've become stronger and heavier, but I'm still a pure-love warrior"?

Putting aside those messy thoughts, Su Ming stared blankly at the mass points balance on the panel.

He was still 120,000 mass points away from the one-million-kilogram threshold.

Now he was racing for "marital bliss."

How was he going to scrape together these 120,000 points?

Killing monsters to level up was fast, but he couldn't just run around the world looking for Rank 7 Source Beasts.

Those things weren't exactly cabbages.

Su Ming's gaze swept over the 【Storage Space: 100,000 cubic meters (99% remaining)】 on the panel, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

He quickly pulled out his phone, opened the Jiangcheng map, and locked his gaze precisely on several abandoned areas on the outskirts of the city marked with red boxes.

Reinforced concrete ruins, scrap industrial slag, construction waste that hadn't been cleared after demolition...

To others, this trash was worthless, but in Su Ming's eyes right now, it was a veritable feast!

Unwanted trash was his buffet!

"Let's go, time to feast!"

Su Ming sent Ye Xiao a message saying, "Bro is going to find you some local specialties," and then slipped out of "Heaven on Earth" alone.

He took a taxi straight to the nearest small ruin on the outskirts of the city on the map.

Under the cover of night, it was a scene of broken walls and ruins, completely silent.

Concrete blocks and piles of broken bricks and tiles formed mountains, with twisted steel bars sticking out from the cement blocks like tentacles struggling in death.

As for the valuable copper, iron, and aluminum, they had long been scavenged clean by scavengers.

Moreover, with the stabilization of Federal order, large-scale ruins were becoming fewer and fewer, and the Urban Construction Bureau's cleanup work had never stopped.

There really wasn't much "wild food" left for Su Ming.

"Better than nothing."

Su Ming walked up to a piece of discarded wall as large as a tabletop, weighing at least two hundred kilograms, pressed his palm against it, and whispered in his heart: "Devour!"

A familiar sensation of micro-currents came from his palm.

Visibly, the hard concrete wall piece began to turn gray and loose.

Thirty seconds later, with a faint "crack" sound, the core crystalline structure of the wall piece was drained, completely weathering into a pile of fine white ash that scattered away in the night breeze.

The System's notification sound rang out at the right moment.

【Ding! Purification and refining complete, effective purification rate 15%, mass points +30!】

"...Only 30 points?"

Su Ming curled his lip; the efficiency was even lower than he had imagined.

But on second thought, even mosquito meat is still meat!

"I'm going to wipe out this entire ruin today!"

He no longer devoured them one by one; that was too slow.

He stood in the center of the ruins, a thought flickered, and the System Space opened silently.

"Hand it over!"

He spread his arms wide like a madman embracing the world, and a powerful gravitational force extended from within his body.

In the next second, the entire ruin "came alive"!

Broken bricks, stones, concrete slabs, scrap steel... Hundreds and thousands of tons of construction waste lifted off the ground, turning into gray torrents that surged into the Void Realm in front of Su Ming, vanishing from sight.

Anyway, the space was large, and putting things inside didn't take time; he could let the System process it slowly in the background when he had time.

Just like that, Su Ming transformed into a ruthless "ruin mower," leaving not a single tile behind wherever he passed.

In less than ten minutes, two soccer-field-sized ruins had been scavenged clean by him, leaving only flat land, clean enough that the Urban Construction Bureau would have to award him a little red flower if they saw it.

Su Ming clapped his hands, still wanting more.

Looking at the mountain of "ingredients" in the System Space, he roughly estimated that after this operation, he should at least have tens of thousands of mass points coming in.

He would just have to wait for the feedback after the System Space finished devouring them at dawn!

Just as he was preparing to move to the next "cafeteria," a dull rumble of thunder suddenly came from the night sky.

"Boom—"

Bean-sized raindrops fell without warning, instantly soaking the ground.

In the distance, a massive bolt of lightning tore through the night, illuminating half the sky in a ghastly white.

Su Ming subconsciously looked up, gazing at the fleeting bolt of electricity wandering through the clouds, and a bold idea suddenly popped into his head.

Since gravitational fields, kinetic energy, and even the spatial Laws remaining in the severed arm of a Rank 8 Source Beast could be assimilated and absorbed by the System... could this kind of extremely violent natural lightning, containing massive energy... also be absorbed?

Once this thought appeared, it could no longer be suppressed!

Su Ming ran to an open, flat area, spread his arms, and looked up at the sky.

"Come on!"

"Strike me!"

The rain fell harder and harder, quickly turning into a torrential downpour.

Su Ming's clothes were instantly soaked, and rainwater streamed down his cheeks.

But the lightning overhead seemed to have eyes; it just thundered without "striking," crazily bombing the area around him, refusing to share even a single spark.

"Damn! That shouldn't be! What are the odds?"

"I'm Silicon-based, I should be more conductive!"

Su Ming was furious.

He ran back to the edge of the ruins, broke off two hollow iron pipes over a meter long from a pile of anti-theft windows he had discarded for being too thin.

Then, he climbed to the top of a nearby abandoned water tower in a few moves, facing the storm, and held the two iron pipes high toward the sky.

"Come! Strike me!"

"Strike here! Whoever doesn't strike is a coward!"

The thunderclouds in the sky were ruthlessly mocking him.

The lightning continued to ravage the surrounding sky, and one bolt even struck less than fifty meters next to the water tower, blasting out a scorched, black crater.

But it just wouldn't strike him.

The human lightning rod, Su Ming, was drenched into a complete drowned rat in the heavy rain.

He held the two iron pipes in a fit of rage, his hair plastered to his forehead, rainwater dripping in strings from the tip of his chin, looking as disheveled as if he had crawled out of a sewer.

Was God being a sore loser?

Had a lightning rod become sentient?

He was just about to bring out his trump card and try making a few vicious oaths.

Turning his head, he suddenly saw something at the end of the horizon.

The high-voltage substation on the outskirts of Jiangcheng, flickering with red lights in the rain.

Su Ming's eyes lit up instantly.

The lightning wouldn't strike him, but high-voltage electricity was pure kinetic and electromagnetic potential energy!

The electricity in the substation wouldn't dodge him, right?

Su Ming rubbed his rain-soaked cheeks, revealing an extremely arrogant and dangerous bandit smile...

"Electrician Master Su!"

"Requesting to enter the fray!"