171: Chapter 171 Logic Storm

Within the boiling blue ocean of nuclear waste, three behemoths fully revealed their forms.

These were three heavy stitched mechs standing over five zhang tall—the "Executioner".

Their torsos were cast from extremely thick lead-steel alloy, with high-tier aberrant muscle fibers exposed at the joints.

Catalyzed by nuclear radiation, this biochemical flesh provided the heavy bodies with terrifying explosive power that defied mechanical principles.

At the ends of the mechs' arms were mounted heavy, high-frequency plasma blades several meters long.

The deep blue plasma arcs at the edges emitted a piercing hiss, and even the surrounding space was slightly distorted by the scorching heat.

Just as the Executioner mechs stepped out of the ocean of waste.

The Mainframe, suspended in a nutrient tank above the dome, launched its ultimate extermination against carbon-based organisms.

As a pure silicon-based biochemical Fusion, The Mainframe knew full well that electronic code could not directly hack into a human brain.

It employed mental attack weapons within Shelter No. 7 designed for carbon-based life.

"Hum—"

The heavy phased array radar and infrasound generators throughout the entire Thirteenth Floor space operated at full capacity simultaneously.

The alloy gantry area where Gu Shen was located was instantly completely covered by multi-directional physical waves.

First came high-intensity directional microwaves.

The microwaves penetrated directly through the black flood dragon black gold armor on Gu Shen's body, acting upon his skull and cerebral cortex.

The Frey effect (microwave auditory effect) was pushed to the limit by The Mainframe, and dense streams of redundant data were converted into billions of chaotic mechanical noises and shrill screams, bypassing the eardrums and exploding deep within Gu Shen's mind.

Immediately after, the surrounding lighting matrix erupted in high-frequency spectral flickering.

This high-intensity light at a specific frequency pierced directly into the retinas, attempting to forcibly induce neuronal disorder in the brain to trigger epileptic symptoms.

Even more lethal was a low-frequency infrasound wave.

This infrasound wave precisely locked onto the resonant frequency of human cerebrospinal fluid, attempting to physically turn the intruder's brain into mush.

Sound, light, microwaves.

The Mainframe hid a "logic virus," massive enough to blow up an ordinary supercomputer core, within this bombardment of physical senses, forcibly injecting it into Gu Shen's nervous System.

For a Cultivator, this dual-layered physical and neurological overload strike was no less dangerous than a full-force "Divine Sense attack" from a Late Stage Golden Core old monster.

Gu Shen's body jolted violently on the gantry.

An unprecedented, intense dizziness swept through his mind; two trickles of crimson blood spilled from his ears, and the scene before his eyes was fractured into countless twisted color blocks.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the newly transformed God-Slaying Sword trembled violently.

But this attack did not originate from the Divine Soul; it was pure physical and neurological interference, and for a moment, the edge of the God-Slaying Sword had nowhere to strike.

Just at the critical moment when Gu Shen's neurons were about to collapse from the overload.

The AI Crystal attached deep within his brow erupted with unprecedented deep blue light.

As the perfect crystal of biochemical flesh and silicon-based computing power refined by the [Heaven and Earth Furnace], the AI Crystal had already established deep connections with Gu Shen's optic nerves, auditory centers, and cerebral cortex through countless tiny neural tentacles.

At this moment, facing the bombardment of homologous Wasteland data, it faithfully fulfilled its duty as a "physical firewall."

"Malicious neural overload signal detected. High-frequency microwave auditory injection detected."

"Initiating multi-threaded interception. Establishing sensory data isolation sandbox."

Gu Shen felt an extremely subtle, cooling sensation wash over his mind.

The AI Crystal instantly branched into thousands of redundant threads, like a fine, dense net, intercepting all the massive amounts of useless data that The Mainframe was forcibly injecting via microwaves and visuals.

These massive amounts of data, enough to crash a carbon-based brain, were all routed by the AI Crystal into its internal sandbox area, protecting Gu Shen's brain from harm by The Mainframe's "Divine Sense attack."

Meanwhile, the AI Crystal's computing power rapidly analyzed the resonant frequency of the infrasound waves.

"Feedback resonance parameters. Guiding host skeleton to perform reverse cancellation."

Gu Shen's eyes instantly regained clarity.

Enduring the stabbing pain in his brain, he exerted his full strength to activate the Bone Refining Art.

Encased by the muscles within his body, the Dark Gold Thunder Bone emitted an extremely high-frequency and highly rhythmic vibration.

The physical waves generated by the Thunder Bone's vibration collided violently with the lethal infrasound waves emitted by The Mainframe within Gu Shen's body; their frequencies were completely opposite, and their peaks and troughs perfectly overlapped.

The lethal sense of intracranial resonance dissipated into nothingness in an instant.

Gu Shen raised the back of his hand and wiped away the blood spilling from his earlobes.

His gaze pierced through the distorted, high-frequency flickering light screen, calmly staring at the huge aberrant brain suspended in the nutrient tank.

"Pure physical sensory overload is indeed hard to guard against. It's a pity my brain is also equipped with a 'firewall'."

The moment The Mainframe's neural overload strike failed.

The three massive "Executioner" mechs had already stepped onto the alloy gantry.

The hundred-ton bodies caused the gantry to emit a deafening groan as they stepped on it.

The Executioners were not equipped with conventional long-range artillery, relying entirely on their massive bodies and high-frequency plasma blades to execute the most primitive close-quarters slaughter.

"Engage."

Gu Shen gave the order.

The twelve Cyber Iron Guards turned into twelve streams of black metal, charging toward the Executioners.

No. 3 (Thunder Cloud Snow Leopard), No. 7 (Golden-Horned Rhinoceros Beast), and No. 9 (Flame Poison Crocodile King)—three heavy-duty Iron Guards embedded with the bones of Third-Order Great Demons—led the charge at the front.

"Boom!"

The first Executioner to attack swung its plasma blade in a horizontal sweep.

Iron Guard No. 7 crossed its arms, its titanium-tungsten alloy armor bracing against the thousand-degree high-temperature arc, locking it firmly in mid-air.

The plasma blade sliced through the outermost armor plating, but upon touching the dark cyan arm bone of the Golden-Horned Rhinoceros Beast, it erupted in blinding sparks, unable to penetrate even a fraction further.

No. 3 Iron Guard seized the opportunity to leap from the flank, its body like a fully drawn longbow, carrying violent thunder-magnetic kinetic energy, and slammed a heavy punch into the knee joint connection of the Executioner.

Accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of metal tearing, the aberrant muscle in the Executioner's leg was smashed apart, and its massive body staggered and collapsed to one side.

No. 9 Iron Guard followed up, spewing highly corrosive dark red toxic fire from its exhaust vents, which poured directly into the damaged joint gap of the Executioner.

Although this Executioner had fused with high-tier aberrant flesh and had extremely formidable combat power, it ultimately lacked the flexible and varied magical foundation of a Cultivator.

Under the siege of three tireless and equally defensively formidable Iron Guards, the battle quickly devolved into a most primitive and brutal brawl of heavy armor.

Gu Shen stood at the edge of the battlefield, gripping his thunder pattern gold-slaying blade.

His gaze did not linger on the Executioners but was tightly locked onto the dilapidated nuclear reactor in the center of the ocean of waste.

Deep within that reactor, he could clearly sense that energy of annihilation capable of destroying everything.