133: Chapter 133 Crab's Crazy Rant

The pale white fire of Law flashed and vanished in the Void Realm.

The extremely violent turbulent Spiritual Qi, the deafening roar of the self-detonation, and the nauseating stench of blood were completely cut off in that instant.

It was as if an invisible hand had brutally slammed the door shut.

Bang.

A dull thud of a body hitting something.

Gu Shen slammed heavily onto the hard refined-iron floor. The immense momentum caused him to slide several feet, dragging a glaring trail of blood across the dust-covered ground, until he finally came to a stop against the cold metal wall.

Cold. Dead silence.

There was not a single shred of Spiritual Qi.

Spiritless Ruins, Shelter No. 7, second underground floor, security room.

Gu Shen lay on the cold floor, his chest heaving violently as he greedily gasped for the murky air of this place.

In his perception, this air, carrying the smell of rust, was ten thousand times more comforting than the immortal mountains and blessed lands of the Cultivation World, which were filled with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi but hid murderous intent at every turn.

"I survived."

Gu Shen's bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at the emergency wall light emitting a faint glow above the security room. His nerves, which had been stretched to the limit, finally relaxed a fraction in this moment.

He reached up and wiped his face.

The disguise of Thousand Faces faded away like ripples on water, his facial bones making faint dislocation sounds as they shifted back to reveal his original, extremely stern—though currently pale as paper—true face.

Click.

Almost at the same time he landed.

The black iron clasp fixed to Gu Shen's collar detached on its own.

The sound of metal mechanical folding rang out crisply, and the small black mechanical spider unfolded its eight mechanical legs in mid-air, landing steadily on the refined-iron floor.

"Beep—!"

"Detected signal from Shelter No. 7 local area network!"

"Security protocol override complete! Standalone stealth mode deactivated! Full-power computing matrix reconnecting... Connection successful!"

Accompanied by a series of extremely rapid electronically synthesized sounds.

A dim blue light suddenly flared in the eight eyes of the mechanical spider.

"Holy sh*t!!! I was suffocating!!!"

The Crab's long-lost, extremely loud, and emotionally rich electronic voice instantly exploded within the security room. Its eight legs alternated rapidly as it spun crazily around Gu Shen, the red and blue lights on its sensor head flashing like laser lights in a nightclub.

"My Lord! Do you know how much grievance I suffered in that ghost of a place?!"

The Crab waved its mechanical pincers while ranting like a machine gun.

Gu Shen struggled to sit up from the floor, leaning against the cold wall. He did not speak, letting this pent-up AI go crazy.

"And that lunatic at the end who played with self-detonation!"

The Crab's electronic voice suddenly rose by an octave, even carrying an extremely anthropomorphic tremor, "My Lord, when you activated that golden mark in your palm, the temperature of my core processor soared straight to the danger line of crashing! What kind of dimensional energy weapon is that? No mass, no gunpowder, just a high-frequency beam, yet it could directly slice through the physical structure of a spatial barrier!"

"It's too barbaric! The Cultivators of your world are simply a bunch of walking nuclear bombs in human skin! They don't follow the basic Laws of physics at all!"

"Are you done?"

Gu Shen coldly interrupted the Crab's incessant chatter.

He lowered his head and coughed violently twice, coughing up a small piece of black blood from his lungs. Although the T-3 repair fluid had forcibly sutured seventy percent of his internal organ damage, the physical shock from the Cultivation World and the backlash to his Divine Sense from that Core Formation Talisman Treasure still left him extremely weak.

The Crab's movements suddenly stiffened, its mechanical legs hitting the brakes on the floor. The red light on its sensor head instantly switched to an extremely gentle light blue.

"I'm done, My Lord. Welcome home."

It crawled fawningly to Gu Shen's feet, "Medical scan initiated. My Lord, the neuron damage in your body is as high as thirty-five percent. Although the repair fluid has preserved your organs, your cerebral cortex activity is extremely chaotic."

"It's fine."

Gu Shen waved his hand, directly blocking its medical warnings.

He extremely carefully took out a jade box covered in Spirit-Sealing Talismans from his Storage Ring.

This was the Heaven-Defying fortune he had risked half his life to snatch at the limit, amidst the chaotic battle between two Foundation Establishment Cultivators and one Foundation Establishment Late Stage gu king.

Rip.

Gu Shen tore off the Spirit-Sealing Talisman.

The moment the jade box opened, even in this absolutely spiritless and extremely harsh Wasteland security room, an astonishing, tangible vitality of vegetation surged out from the bottom of the box.

The dried green venom residue on the floor of the security room even eerily sprouted a layer of tiny fungal mats in that instant.

At the bottom of the box.

That fist-sized gu king marrow, crystal clear like jade, was beating steadily and powerfully, just like a real heart. There was not a hint of fishy odor, only the pure, ultimate Origin of life.

Gu Shen looked at this clump of viscous fluid, and a scorching smile finally appeared on his pale face.

"With this, the hidden wounds to my Divine Sense can be completely healed."

"I might even be able to use this to break through the barrier of the Qi Refining 9th Layer Peak and forge a Flawless Dao Foundation."

This was a supreme treasure that even Foundation Establishment grand Cultivators would go crazy over and fight to seize. If the gu king hadn't been killed by Wei Lingfeng, and if the two hadn't both been severely injured, he, a Qi Refining Level 7, wouldn't even have the qualifications to catch a glimpse of it in this lifetime.

Snap.

Gu Shen closed the jade box, reapplied the Talisman, and solemnly stowed it in the deepest part of his Storage Ring.

He leaned against the iron wall, slowly stood up, and looked at the mechanical spider still crawling back and forth on the floor.

"During the time I was away, did those three Puppets left in the first-floor hall show any activity?"

Previously, the three Puppets had already cleared out all the usable metal from the three floors above ground. Those three Puppets could only conduct extremely tedious secondary scavenging in the bottom layer of these dilapidated ruins.

"My Lord, I was just about to report to you."

The Crab immediately switched back to its highly professional strategist mode, its voice tinged with the excitement of seeking credit, "The ground area has indeed been scraped clean, not even a layer of iron sheeting left. But these three tireless worker ants, while clearing the collapsed ventilation duct on the north side of the first underground floor, dug through a hidden interlayer!"

It projected an extremely clear, dim blue holographic screen.

On the screen, an underground vault that had been forcibly cut open was displayed.

"That should have been a place where Shelter executives hid their private supplies before the Great Cataclysm. There was no large-scale metal inside, but it was full of extremely precious survival hard currency!"

The Crab's mechanical legs tapped the floor excitedly.

"My Lord, we found fifty cans of unopened iron-sealed meat paste there, as well as thirty bottles of pure water!"

Gu Shen's eyes brightened slightly.

In the Cultivation World, he could eat fasting pills. But for secluded cultivation in the Wasteland, high-calorie solid food and clean water sources were absolute necessities to support his survival consumption.

"And there's more!"

The Crab's holographic image shifted, locking onto a black metal box in the deepest part of the vault.