Chapter 1769 - Sacrificing a Shipgirls Waist (2/2)
“Only fools would trust you!” Nolan glared back, but as this was her own idea, even when she was nervous, she had to bite the bullet. “Just… Just keep your head steady when you do it. Those two tubes in the middle, don’t you go damaging the parts on the side!”
Hao Ren pouted as he lifted his crowbar. “Oh you, don’t worry. I’m adept in all weapons, and a mere crowbar would be beyond me? Just make sure you’re in sync with me, the moment I smash that it, you floor the accelerator toward that ‘mirror’, and blow this dimensional structure to kingdom come. If you do it too early or too late that’s just a waste of a good stick…”
Nolan glared again. “Bullsh*t, you are just wasting a stick, I’ll be wasting my own waist!”
Just like that, as Nolan’s voice trailed away, Hao Ren smashed the beak of the crowbar downward!
Nolan screamed, “F*ccckkkkk, that hurtssss!!!”
Even when she was heavily damaged by the divine storm in Star Cluster X she had never sounded so painful. It seems like having her waist smashed by a crowbar did actually hurt.
The screaming aside, Nolan as an A.I. was still maintaining the usual precision and efficiency, and as soon as the safety systems of the void engine blared out its alert, the Petrachelys’ engines exuded bright particle stream, and the already decelerating speed suddenly became a stream of light and smashed against the layer of chaotic dimension masked by countless of mirrors.
With the safety system destroyed, a surge of energy was directed by Nolan to the void engine module, and the engine, originally cannot be deployed inside the world barrier was forcibly activated, and went into overdrive within a few seconds.
The waist of the ship let out orbs after orbs of bright light, as the unstable field of order tore holes throughout the starship’s protective barrier, and a large number of metal fragments and crystalline dust spew out of the gaps, and at the same time, the space around the ship, too, was visibly collapsing, a large number of distorted light formed into an uneven surface, enveloping the Petrachelys.
And the moment the surface made contact with the ship, the ship lost control, and it started appearing and disappearing inside the dimension, as the undefined dimensional structure had destroyed the continuity of its navigation, and making it impossible, but the void engine overload had reached its limit.
There was no terrifying explosion, and the moment the void engine went into meltdown, the Petrachelys’ waist simply just flashed, before an ethereal bubble-like structure appearing around the ship, and the thin membrane expanded rapidly, spanning about ten kilometers wide before popping soundlessly like a bubble.
And the mirror surface at the nexus of the Dark Abyss too shattered, the information shock wave sent out by the void engine’s meltdown which complexity exceeded all dimensional laws totally unraveled that layer of chaotic dimension. All of the twisted dimensional projection was wiped out by the information torrent, leaving it in its original form.
At the price of the shipgirl’s waist, Hao Ren had broken through the last gate before the Mad Lord.
As the chaotic dimensional unraveled, Hao Ren had a hallucination. He saw the mirror fragments flying about, and the tiny, floating mirrors passed through the shield’s barrier and hull armor like a phantom, and filled the cabin, passing slowly in front of him.
Rheia and Vivian had disappeared.
He looked at the floating mirror fragments in the air, and on it, he saw his face, he saw the stars in the distance, and the old, unkempt streets of the Southern Suburbs forgotten by the city.
He saw a pale figure in one of the fragments, and the face was laughing at him. “What did you see? Did you see yourself? Did you see me?”
Hao Ren laughed back. “For a starter, this illusion sure lacks creativity.”
“What’s the difference between illusion and reality?” The pale, evil goddess continued laughing. “This universe will soon end, and your struggles only delay it for just that little bit. And when it comes, all reality is nothing but data floating in the chaos and void… If it is meant to end, what’s the meaning of your insistence with the delineation of the border between illusion and reality?
“Meaning? I have never told you the meaning of what I desire.” Hao Ren smiled as he grabbed and smashed a piece of the mirror in his palm. The image on it was of CARS being destroyed and countless broken crystal towers floated in space. “You have never seen the real image of the world outside. What I’m pursuing, even if I were to tell you, is totally beyond you.”
The pale face contorted as a terrifying smile appeared on it. “Mortal, flowery words will not save you. Before this world-ending power, how do your desires stand up to it?!”
“How much? The key is not what my desire is, it is how much your value is.”
Hao Ren broke into a laughing fit and smashed the mirror with the latter’s image. “To me, you are nothing but a moving year-end bonus!!”
At that moment, all of the illusions disappeared.