338: Chapter 332 Possession

Boundless greed instantly drowned out all reason and hatred.

"Catch him!"

In the wolf demon's golden pupils, an unprecedented fanatical light erupted.

"At all costs! You absolutely cannot let him run away with the Star Beast!"

At this moment, the Star Beast had already completed its final preparations.

The magnificent pair of metal wings on its back fully unfurled with a "whoosh."

The moment the wings spread, visible ripples began to appear in the space around the Star Beast, as if a pebble had been dropped into a calm lake.

"Oh no! It's space travel! Stop it quickly!"

The mantis insectoid reacted first; its two bone blades instantly surged, transforming into two dark green, heaven-shaking rainbows that slashed down furiously toward the Star Beast's location.

The bear demon also roared, throwing a punch.

The wolf demon opened its mouth, and a golden energy ball, condensed to the extreme, instantly formed.

The enraged strike of three Cosmic Level Experts.

But their attacks were, in the end, a step too slow.

Just as those earth-shattering attacks were about to touch the Star Beast, its figure and Song Yang's were completely swallowed by those ripples, stretched, distorted, and finally turned into a speck of light, disappearing without a trace.

"Boom—!!!"

The attacks, having lost their target, slammed solidly into the floor and walls of the hall.

When everything calmed down, only a bottomless giant pit and devastated walls remained in place.

Song Yang and the Star Beast were long gone.

"Spatial ability... to think it was a Star Beast that has mastered spatial ability..." The mantis insectoid found it hard to believe.

This meant that as long as the other party wanted to leave, there was simply no possibility of them catching up.

The supreme treasure that was within their grasp had just flown away right before their eyes.

...

On the other side.

After a bout of dizziness, Song Yang's feet finally touched solid ground again.

He let out a long sigh, his entire body relaxing from its tense state, and an intense wave of fatigue instantly washed over him.

The Star Beast affectionately rubbed its head against him, emitting a satisfied purr from its throat, as if asking for credit.

Song Yang smiled and took a high-purity energy crystal from his storage space to hand to it.

The Star Beast happily snatched it up and began chewing it with a crunching sound, as if it were eating candy.

After soothing the Star Beast, Song Yang finally had time to look around.

This was another completely unfamiliar passageway, wider and taller than any he had passed through before, with walls cast from a dark golden metal he had never seen before, engraved with countless complex and profound patterns.

These patterns seemed to contain some kind of energy, flickering with alternating light and shadow at an extremely slow frequency.

The entire passage was terrifyingly quiet; Song Yang walked forward a few steps along the passage, and a huge circular space appeared at the end of his vision.

And in the very center of that circular space, a behemoth was silently floating.

It was a perfect hexahedron, dark golden in its entirety, with a surface as smooth as a mirror, yet it seemed capable of swallowing all light.

It hung there silently, yet it exuded an overbearing aura of ruling over the world, as if the entire ruin existed because of it.

The Star Beast pawed the ground uneasily behind him, emitting low whimpers from its throat, seemingly feeling an instinctive fear of the thing before them.

"Zeus."

Song Yang called out softly in his mind.

"What is this place? And what is that thing?"

"..."

Inside the system space, the small boy light projection representing Zeus was uncharacteristically silent for a moment, seemingly analyzing the unbelievable scene before them.

After a few seconds, Zeus's voice sounded again.

"If my database is not mistaken, this should be the main control center."

"Main control center?"

Song Yang's heart skipped a beat.

"Then this hexahedron is..."

"A hibernation pod."

Zeus's voice was very low.

"A high-spec hibernation pod for a Mechanical Race expert. Judging from its energy dissipation pattern and structure, the one sleeping inside is at least a high-level Mechanical Race."

A high-level Mechanical Race!

Although Song Yang did not understand the ranking division of the Mechanical Race civilization, just hearing the title, he knew this was definitely an existence standing at the pinnacle of the pyramid.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be so many machine guards in the spaceship.

"Don't be nervous."

Zeus seemed to have detected his emotional change.

"The situation is a bit strange. The hibernation pod's system is still running, but the signal inside is in a state of 'suspended animation' that is extremely weak."

"Simply put, it is still alive, but for some unknown reason, it cannot wake up, just like a person trapped in a dream who can never break free."

Never wake up?

Song Yang's brain raced, and an incredibly bold, one could even say crazy, thought suddenly sprang up from the depths of his heart.

"Zeus, in the legends of our Earth's cultivation novels, there is a saying that when a person's soul is extremely weak, or has simply left the body, another soul might be able to occupy their body."

"We call it possession!"

Zeus was silent.

But this time, Song Yang could clearly feel that the light projection belonging to Zeus was flickering violently.

A few seconds later, Zeus's voice resounded in Song Yang's mind.

"I understand what you mean; you want me to try to possess him?"

This was no longer just daring; this was simply crazy!

That was a high-level Mechanical Race!

Even in a state of suspended animation, the complexity and power of its core program far exceeded Zeus's current level.

This was no different from letting an ant try to devour a sleeping dragon.

Once it failed, Zeus's program would likely be instantly torn to pieces by the other party's residual defense mechanisms and completely annihilated.

"Have you thought it through?"

Zeus's voice regained its calm, but beneath that calm was an irrepressible desire.

For a super intelligence, nothing was more tempting than acquiring a more powerful carrier.

"Fortune is sought in danger."

Song Yang's answer was simple and direct.

He was never a timid person.

Since the apocalypse descended, he had died once and had long understood one principle.

Opportunity always coexists with risk.

Fearing risk meant giving up all possibilities of reaching the top in one step.

Moreover, he trusted Zeus.

This thousands-of-years-old monster would definitely not fight a battle it wasn't sure of.

"Good!"

Zeus said only one word.

Song Yang no longer hesitated; with a thought, the mini-robot that looked like a toy appeared in his palm.

In this small shell, Zeus's data was carried.

Song Yang weighed the robot in his hand, looking at the dark golden hexahedron ahead that exuded endless majesty, a smile appearing on his face.

"Old buddy, are you ready to move into a new home?"

"I've long been tired of this tin can."

Zeus responded with its unique electronic voice, its tone full of anticipation.

Song Yang took a deep breath, his arm muscles suddenly tensed, and then he threw it with all his might!

The mini-robot in his palm turned into an insignificant stream of light, flying precisely toward that massive hexahedron.

This scene looked a bit comical.

The tiny robot, compared to the mountain-like hibernation pod, formed an incredibly sharp contrast.

"Click."

A soft sound.

The mini-robot successfully landed on the top plane of the hexahedron and began to attempt possession.