Xu Yangu caught the flaw caused by my being blocked by the invisible wall, and suddenly hit me hard. In the nick of time, I ducked and rolled to dodge, grabbing a handful of gravel from the ground.

Then, while widening the distance between me and Xu Yangu, I projected all the gravel in my hand. The rubble shot rapidly in all directions, but when they reached a certain distance, they were all intercepted by the invisible wall.

This is the enchantment. I immediately concluded, and further analyzed, that the barrier was a "transparent box" with a side of 200 meters and a height of 5 meters, and that we were inside the box. The person who arranged this enchantment was naturally Xu Yangu, and the purpose was to trap me here.

As a result, I could neither contact Xu Shengxing nor transfer the battlefield to the location of Xu Shengxing's ambush. It's really put on the table.

I shook off Xu Yangu's pursuit, and at the same time took out the anti-psionic short knife, and then came to the edge of the enchantment and slashed it with the short knife.

The moment the short knife made contact with the barrier, the transparent barrier rippled with orange light, and the short knife easily sliced through the wall made of ripples. But soon, the part that was damaged by the short knife began to be repaired automatically. When I quickly cut a "wound" more than a meter long on the barrier, the "wound" was repaired more than half of it.

I made a quick mental calculation: with this momentum, it would take me about a second to create an "exit" that would be enough to break out of the barrier.

But I simply don't have that much time for a second.

Because for me and Xu Yangu in the Dark Beaver Armor, one second is enough to be used as ten seconds. At the same time as I attacked the enchantment, Xu Yangu in the distance had already raised his armored left fist. In the blink of an eye, the fist morphed into a swarthy muzzle, from which flames erupted. I avoided it without hesitation. Then, I saw a fiery red energy cannonball land where I was just staying. The ground was bombed beyond recognition, and even underground plumbing facilities were exposed.

This is the armament that comes with the Dark Beaver armor, and the same is true of the small missiles that came before. But these are limited. He didn't want to waste any more ammo, but went straight up to me and started a hand-to-hand fight.

Although melee combat is my "area of expertise", I couldn't get the upper hand this time. After a few battles, I understood that this Dark Beaver Armor not only added a fairly high-performance computer, but also equipped with an efficient combat program, which can be based on massive combat data to calculate the current situation and opponent in real time, providing the most powerful combat technical support.

Just as a human chess player is inferior to a robot chess player in terms of computing power, a human martial artist is no match for a machine martial artist in terms of pure technical skills. In other words, Xu Yangu at this moment seems to have combat skills that are no less than mine.

"If you're counting on other foreign aid, it's useless." He said to me, "This barrier can block movement from the inside to the outside as I wish. Although the fighting is fierce here, it is not noticeable to the outside world. ”

Other foreign aid. Except for Xu Shengxing, where did I get other foreign aid.

It's not going to be a faceless killer summoned here. I've had this kind of brainstorm, but it's suicidal. The reason is very simple: if the list of prey in the heart of the Faceless Killer has a priority rank, then Xu Yangu is higher than me nine times out of ten, but this does not mean that the Faceless Killer will help me attack Xu Yangu. Because it has never shown intelligent activity, it cannot be expected to have the concept of temporary cooperation. It's more likely that it even took Xu Yangu to attack with me. Its claw attack may not be able to break Xu Yangu's armor defenses, but it will certainly be able to tear my flesh and blood.

Now I only have two ways to go: either I hope Xu Shengxing notices the changes here; Either I managed to defeat Xu Yangu myself.

Xu Yangu didn't know that before me, every three minutes, I would convey my whereabouts to Xu Shengxing. Two minutes have passed since the last time I communicated my whereabouts, and after another minute, Xu Shengxing will realize that I have fallen into a fight, and "for some reason there is no movement of the battle". According to the details of the plan we had finalized, the best thing he should have done at that point was to sneak over quickly to check the situation. In this way, the battle situation will return to the plan of "I will contain the Lord of Ants, Xu Shengxing will secretly snipe". It was a tough minute for me, but I had to get through it.

"Obviously the situation is so desperate in the face of you, but your movements are still so neat. Could it be that you still have a way to defeat me? But why not take it out? Xu Yangu said coldly, "Could it be that you and Xu Shengxing have agreed on other codes, and you are sure that he will definitely be there soon?" ”

His tone became colder and colder, "Late is changing." Looks like I'll have to show my hole cards and get a quick deal. ”

After saying that, his dark beaver armor suddenly revealed countless crack-like red circuits, and his speed and strength actually rose a notch. This looks like some kind of overload pattern of the armor. At the cost of drastic loss of armor life, it exerts a power that is better than the normal form. But I don't remember that the Dark Beaver armor had such a function. At this moment, his strength even exceeded the specifications of a super-grade psyker.

His attack speed was also beyond the limits of my reflexes. In the next blow, he managed to hit me with his fist. I only had time to parry the blow with my arm, but I couldn't transfer all my power away. The force tore through my muscles, shattered my bones, and even forced my arms against my torso, breaking even my ribs.

I was knocked back a hundred meters away until my back hit the barrier.

Immediately afterward, I immediately activated the power of blood to recover from my injuries. In the blink of an eye, all the injuries recovered. However, the loss of blood power was more violent than expected, and it was consumed by a full thirty percent. I thought of the tragic situation of Naoto Inoue, who was once attacked by Xu Yangu. Could it be that the attack just now also carried a curse that I was not aware of, but it was purified by the power of blood?

"That's not the limit of this modified armor." Xu Yangu deliberately oppressed my spirit with words, "But you are destined to be unable to see clearly, because you have lost all the strength to resist." And with the next blow, you will die. ”

I turned a deaf ear and just continued to pretend that I hadn't recovered. And his words could not be oppressive to my spirit. Turning defeat into victory, surviving in a desperate situation, and surviving in death, this is my forte, or rather, it must be. At no time should I allow myself to be frustrated in the middle of a fight.

Die, Faceling; You're finished, Faceling; That's it, Facelings...... I heard these words so much that my ears were calloused.

I'm not going to die. I stressed myself over and over again. I'm not going to die.

He laughed as he burst forward and delivered the final blow to me, "Die, Faceling! ”

The shadow of death finally loomed over for real.

I'm not going to die. I continued to repeat in my mind. Moreover, he is by no means the only one who has hole cards.

Although it is said that deliberately using the crisis of life and death to explore a higher realm is the "Demon Dao Exercise", the Demon Dao Exercise is the Demon Dao Exercise. When it comes to life and death, the righteous path and the demonic path are insignificant. Besides, I'm not a decent person in the first place. With the help of this oncoming shadow of death, I consciously awakened the remnants of the higher realms that lurked in my body. And in my subjective feelings, the world of gears and levers finally reappeared.

At the same time, I narrowly avoided his so-called final blow. He seemed to be taken aback, not expecting that my movements were not slowed down by the injury. I grasped the flaw and reached for it.

The human body has gears, the world has gears, and of course machines have them. Of course, this power armor doesn't work with gears and levers, but that doesn't prevent me from looking at it from this angle. The "gears and levers of the world" that I have observed are nothing more than metaphorical things relative to the real world, not something that really exists. However, if it can affect the metaphor, then it can also achieve the purpose of influencing the truth.

When my hand touched the armor, I "saw" several key gears inside the armor, shot down by the force I had penetrated into.

How will this metaphorical change be interpreted in the real world? I don't know.

Xu Yangu hurriedly retreated, stopped again, didn't seem to feel anything wrong, and then sneered: "The hard-won opportunity to attack, you just touched me?" Is it because you know you can't hurt the armor, so you give up on yourself? You ......"

He said as he maneuvered his armor towards me. But suddenly, the armor paused as if it were malfunctioning, and then moved forward again, but it stiffened again.

"What's going on—" he said in amazement.

And when he was surprised, I quickly grabbed him again. He probably wanted to fight back against me, but the armor wouldn't listen. I just raised my hand, grabbed his armored arm, and pulled it down. In the metaphorical world I saw, I had merely destroyed a few gears that kept the armor strong with dark energy; In reality, it was reflected as the result of my entire armored arm being torn off, revealing even his own fleshy arm.

He screamed in shock and rage. Just as I was about to pull him out, he barely managed to maneuver his armor and quickly retreated, then activated the propulsion device on his back and fled at great speed.

The surrounding enchantments seem to have been canceled by him.

I followed him in relentless pursuit. Compared to the speed of his last escape, he was much slower this time. Maybe it's a credit to the gear I broke earlier. Thanks to this, I have drawn near to him several times. Every time he approached, he was able to remove part of his armor. And he desperately ran away, and more and more parts of his body were exposed.

When he finally stopped, the remaining armor on his torso could no longer form a whole, let alone propulsion, and fell to the ground.

We're back on the construction site directly above the Ant Colony's underground sewer stronghold.

Standing in front of me at this time was no longer black power armor, just a frail old man wearing an iron mask.

He gasped for heavy breath and looked back at me, "You-"

I didn't wait for him to talk nonsense, I shot his arm through his chest and shattered his heart.

*

More blood flowed from Xu Yangu's body lying on the ground, and the blood gradually converged on the ground into a pool of blood.

This corpse made me feel a sense of déjà vu, and at the same time, I was reminded of the "death of Xu Yangu" that Xu Shengxing once mentioned that he witnessed in elementary school. At that time, Xu Yangu killed himself by piercing his chest with a dagger.

This is the same way of suicide as the doppelganger Xu Fu in the past.

No, it's not the same. I suddenly noticed something. There is a certain decisive difference between the two.

I put that thought aside for a moment and turned my attention back to reality. Xu Yangu may not have died yet, and the reason why he fled back here before he died may be because there is a reincarnation he prepared nearby. This scheming old fox was reincarnated and escaped.

Although there is no ritual rune array or anyone else in the vicinity within ten meters, as I said last time, the condition that "the reincarnation must be within ten meters" can be subtly met.

Within 10 meters, it can be within 10 meters of a plane, but also within 10 meters of a three-dimensional surface.

I stomped the ground and landed in the ant colony's colony underground. A room, to be exact, that looks pretty spacious in the colony. As soon as I landed, I saw an old man running away with his back to me not far away.

I'm about to chase it. At this moment, a five-meter radius around me suddenly erected an enchantment glowing with orange light, and I was locked inside. This seems to be the "invisible barrier" before, but at the moment it has been deliberately compressed into a rather narrow form. And the old man stopped.

I seemed to have fallen into the trap, however, I didn't panic. When I saw that I was inside the barrier and he was outside the barrier, I had already come up with a strategy to fight back.

The old man turned and looked at me with a face in an iron mask. This mask, this posture, all tell me that he is Xu Yangu who died just now. But this is unreasonable, the reincarnation ceremony only requires that the reincarnated body must be a direct blood relative within three generations, and it does not require that the physical details must be exactly the same as the person who presides over the ceremony. Unless it's a clone.

Clones? I bit the term in my heart and asked, "Your reincarnated body, is it a clone of yourself?" ”

"Exactly." He nodded bitterly, "I provide money and my own cells to the Silence Order, and they provide me with healthy clones. ”

"This is the deal you made recently with the Silent Order." I've figured it out, "Because clones are born from your own cells, they're the closest to your direct blood relatives." ”

"The brain is spinning fast, but it's useless." He said, "You have fallen into the trap I prepared for you in advance, and you have been completely trapped by this compressed and strengthened barrier. ”

"Less bravado. Even you can't do it this far. "I'm not that easy to deceive," this barrier was originally intended to be used elsewhere, but you changed your mind and used it on mine. ”

"That's right. It was meant to be used in ......," he said, stopping suddenly.

I know why he stopped. Because at this moment, the ground under my feet suddenly lit up with a bright red square rune. The rune is about nine square meters in size and is made up of a number of strange symbols, which look like flowers made of many nematodes.

I looked at this grotesque phenomenon, and my mind was spinning at full speed:

First, combined with the current situation and the information provided by Naoto Inoue before, it is not difficult to surmise that this is Xu Yangu's reincarnation ritual talisman array;

Second, this rune array is in an active state, which means that the situation at this moment has matched the activation conditions of the rune array;

Third, because the talisman array had already been used by Xu Yangu just now, even if it was activated again, it was likely that it would no longer be able to support the second activation.

Combined with the second clause above, and the item that I have known in the past, "the rune array can only allow the host to seize the body of his direct blood relatives within three generations of his initial body", the following conclusions can be drawn:

Because Xu Yangu is my great-grandfather and does not belong to my direct blood relatives within three generations, it is impossible for him and I to meet the conditions for the activation of the rune array.

In other words, he can't be Xu Yangu.

I looked up, and he looked at it, and his whole body seemed to freeze.

After a long while, he finally returned to normal, and then asked, "Xu Fu, is it?" ”

"Yes." I say.

"Sheng Xing is a good father, right?" He asked.

"Yes." I say.

"But my father was different." He raised his hand to take off his iron mask, revealing Xu Quanan's face, and continued, "He doesn't care what books I usually like to read, and he looks down on my harmonica, and even what my son hates to eat and drink, he has never been indifferent. So that evening, when he handed me the drugged carbonated drink, he didn't expect that I had secretly poured it out. ”