036. Turn Off the Sun

  Iional support is in pce.

  ons are about to arrive.

  Ideological mobilization is plete.

  Now, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

  Tactical shortings be pensated for strategically. After returning from the Red Arrow Embassy, Li Aozi didn’t rest. Seeing that his medical cooler had arrived, he directly ied himself with a new Omega Energy awakening serum.

  This was his third iion.

  The effects of this serum were slow, and it was difficult to produce rare Omega Energy. After the sed iion following the acquisition of 【Armor of the Mountains】, Li Aozi only obtained a Delta-Tier Omega Energy 【Color Extra】, which could be used for invisibility and ging the color of objects he touched.

  Unfortunately, this Omega Energy was useless to Li Aozi, so he crushed it ahe gene fragments to 【Natural Ignition】.

  Qiu Ran’s Omega Energy potential was high, and since gravitational Omega Energy wouldn’t be useful in the uping battles, any improvement was a good thing.

  The option for a perfect mutation was intriguing.

  【Geegration Quantum Information Hub】: Gene sequences are re-ied; it’s time tahe chaotiervous system. Fully optimize your brain's signal transmission capacity; the quantum puting effect of your brain will extend to every cell. Your brain will no longer be sidered your ‘fatal weakness’; your entire body fun as brain cells for ste and putation. Even if your brain is destroyed, you still maintain thought and motor funs.

  If you choose to retain this trait, you fuse Omega Energy within your body and, through cell transpntation, grant synthesized Omega Energy to others.

  This is aremely important mutation dire, usually only appearing when advang to Gamma-Tier, but having it now is highly beneficial to Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi’s Blood Demon flow was only missing the Omega Energy 【Death Link】, and this Delta-Tier Omega Energy could be synthesized from two Beta-Tier abilities, 【Physical Enha】 and 【Neural Wiring】.

  “I’ll deal with mutatiohe priority now is to advao Beta-Tier as quickly as possible.”

  Li Aozi thought for a moment and called Alexia on a video call.

  “Dear, you miss me so soon?”

  Alexia smiled at the camera, but it seemed she was gathering with the rebel forces.

  “Alexia, I’ve delivered the message. , I’m going to do something. After you’ve gathered the troops, head to Sullute Pace immediately. We o assassihe Grand Duke.”

  Li Aozi then briefly expihe pn.

  Alexia blinked and said:

  “Hmm, sounds good, but I have a question.”

  “What are you unsure about?”

  “Just ohing.” Alexia poi herself, her dark golden eyes flickering: “What did you call me?”

  “Alexi—uh,” Li Aozi’s mouth twitched: “We’ll talk about it ter.”

  “Pfft—someone from five hundred years iure is too shy.” Alexia pced her hand on her chest and said, “Alexia is just a formal name. For our retionship, a niame is fine.”

  “Then what should I call you?” Li Aozi asked helplessly.

  Alexia csped her hands behind her bad said, “My family calls me ‘Ellie’—would you like to try?”

  “Ellie sounds too cute, like a little girl.” Li Aozi teased.

  “Am I not cute?” Alexia turhe camera, iionally putting on a cold face, and made a peace sign: “Am I not cute, or not a ‘little girl’?”

  “Don’t keep that cold face; when you smile, you look like a cute little girl.” Li Aozi scratched his : “This battle has nothing to do with you, but I admire you, Alexi—Ellie.”

  Alexia stared at him and said:

  “All the injustices and oppressions that people suffer aren’t the enemies of individuals; they’re the enemies of all humanity. There’s nothing admirable about it. I’m just tinuing my beliefs in my way, to find the meaning of my existence.”

  “The meaning of existence.” Li Aozi eechless: “Your philosophical level is too high. I’m still stuck at the level of getting fries from the dock every day.”

  “But,” Alexia gazed deeply at Li Aozi, “perhaps for me, the meaning of existence is no longer limited to that.”

  Li Aozi’s expression was plicated, but he forced a smile and said:

  “Don’t say things that sound like death fgs. I’m begging you; I’ve already seen two girls die like that.”

  “I won’t die.” Alexia said, “I carry the hopes and dreams of many people, so I will live on. And I ask you to live with me.”

  Li Aozi opened his mouth, but his limited vocabury didn’t allow him to respond.

  After a long silence, Li Aozi couldn’t help but say:

  “—In some ways, modern people really fall short pared to the as.”

  Alexia smiled, giving off a warm, spring-like feeling.

  After hanging up the phone, Li Aozi stood at the crossroads, looking at the cordoned-off troops. The cold sunlight fell on his shoulders, but it didn’t feel pleasant at all.

  【Live on, carrying the hopes and dreams of many...】

  The surveilnce camera’s lens slowly turned, and drones flew bad forth in the sky, seemingly deteg something. But in the moment, the pce where Li Aozi had been standing was empty.

  For him, there was still a more important task at hand.

  “Bermudes’ goal is to unch a surprise atta the city, and the best cover is darkness.”

  Due to the threat of the Camity’s blizzards, sandstorms, and natural disasters, all cities on Azure Star had to rely on nuclear fusioors and power shield geors to survive.

  When there are no natural disasters, the power output is low but still equivalent to the level of a high-voltage prid. This makes smuggling and border crossiremely difficult.

  The news of Malis being kidnapped had already reached the cordoned-off troops. Military and police vehicles were searg everywhere oreets. Li Aozi could even see Law III agents starting to move.

  Clearly, his presence here had been exposed. Knowing Medewei’s crazed nature, she would probably want to tear him apart.

  However, Li Aozi was never afraid of being exposed.

  His eyes lit up with golden rings, and the surrounding light distorted instantly. His figure suddenly disappeared from where he stood.

  【Mode II ? Distortion】

  This optical distortion was something that Grant’s military and police couldn’t detect. Li Aozi stepped onto an armored vehicle, traveled a few kilometers, then jumped onto another car, bus, and hovercraft, hitg a ride all the way to his destination with ease.

  The modest, white, dome-shaped building was right in front of him. From the outside, no one could tell that this ordinary-looking structure housed the reactor that powered the ey.

  “The main engine of Speya's shield geor is here.”

  Li Aozi g the time. Seventeen minutes until the rebel forces uheir assault.

  Although it was called an assault, it would still be a street battle where lives would be sacrificed. In this enviro, even with artillery support, it wouldn’t be enough. Armored units could easily be destroyed by anti-vehicle teams hiding in every er of the city.

  Malis was very loose-lipped, and through his intelligence, Li Aozi learhat due to the terrorist attack two days ago, the capital’s military and police forces were scattered across the city under lockdown. sidering they were still searg for Malis, they probably wouldn’t be able to gather their forces in time.

  For the Grand Duke, Malis was his hope of esg suffering.

  All that was needed was to shut dowy’s shield geor for a while, let darkness cover the nd, and the military and police everywhere would be busy dealing with the ong the popuce. This would provide the best support for the attag forces.

  The nuclear fusioor facilities were heavily guarded by automated meical forces, but to Li Aozi, sneaking in wasn’t that troublesome.

  He followed an engineer into the plex, casually swiped his ID card, and with ample supplies and the passive mana regeion from 【Armor of the Mountains】, he remained invisible the eime, unnoticed by anyone.

  What he o do was simple.

  Beep—

  The door unlocked, and Li Aozi arrived at the trol station, bathed in a faint blue light. Several staff members were busy at work. He raised his palm aly pressed down.

  Boom!

  Five times the gravity instantly crushed the staff to the ground, rendering them unscious. Li Aozi walked to the station and directly turned off the shield’s particle strictor while maintaining the city’s power supply.

  “Good night.”

  The artificial sun, 6,000 meters above the ground, instantly went out. The unstrained particles shot straight into the sky, and due to the trated energy, it appeared like a deep blue sword pierg through

  the red-bck clouds of Camity.

  Whoosh————!!!

  “Hey, what’s happening?! The sky’s gone dark!”

  “The wind is s! Run!”

  “The sun has stopped! The apocalypse is here!”

  The people crowded iy streets were instantly blown away by the gale. The once warm and pleasant climate was torn apart by the cold air from the outer nds. Within mihe streets were covered in snow, and the frigid air spread throughout the city, reag Sullute Pace.

  Crack—crack—

  The sudden ge in temperature caused the asphalt roads to crader the pressure of the shifting air currents. In an instant, all the hovercrafts came to a halt, falling from the sky. But instead of causing a traffic jam, they were swept up by the wind and thrown into the air.

  “Enjoy your meal.” The servant carefully pced twe barrels of nutrient paste into the Grand Duke’s feeding tubes. Due to its thiess, the paste required meical pressure to be pushed through the tubes.

  Gulp, gulp...

  This sticky substance, far from being food, was naturally not tasty, but the cost of this meal could bankrupt a family.

  Grand Duke Gamos closed his eyes, trying to ighe ing mixture of grease and sugar that produced a siing, fishy taste.

  This was for survival, for the sake of living on.

  “How is Malis?”

  “Law III is helping with the search. We should have news soon…” the adjutant said cautiously.

  “Law III…” Grand Duke Gamos took a deep breath, and the entire room seemed to thunder as the rolling, oppressive sound waves made everyoh him tremble with fear. Even Alpha-Tier subordinates couldn’t stand upright, instinctively wanting to kneel.

  While ing the high-energy nutrient paste, Grand Duke Gamos suddenly felt a sense of alertness. In the moment, the entire Sullute Pace began to shake. The cold air shattered the windows, uprooted the soil and pnts in the courtyard, and instantly froze the fountain, f a glittering curtain in the air.

  Sullute Pace had always been warm and fortable, so the servants were lightly dressed. With the sudden influx of cold air, many of them were shivering and uo move.

  “How despicable! Someone has stolen our sun!”

  Gamos was instantly furious, and bck smoke began te around him. Sitting on the monarch’s throne, his face appeared with different expressions.

  ‘Gamos, someone is ing for you.’ A woman’s vengeful spirit ughed wickedly. ‘Good luck; I feel that his power is no weaker than yours. He has an incredibly strong allure, which I like very much—if you give me his soul, I’ll help shield you from the pain.’

  ‘Roar, roar, roar!’ The wild beast spirit rolled out from under Gamos’ feet, growling its iion: ‘We spirits aren’t afraid of the cold. You stay put, and we’ll intercept him in advance.’

  The tless spirits parasitizing him all offered advice, but their underlying message was the same.

  They wao trol his body, take over his flesh, and then deal with the one ing after him.

  Gamos’ face darkened. He not only refused to heed the spirits’ suggestions but also resolutely shouted:

  “Summoa-Tier guards to apao the main hall. Mobilize the military and police to guard against any surprise attacks.”

  Just as he finished speaking, a sharp sound pierced the sky. A rocket fell over Sullute Pace, intercepted by a drone and exploded in mid-air.

  The shattered fragments fell like rain, as if someone had crumpled them up and thrown them into the long, dark night.

  Darkness desded.

  The azure particle beam pierced through the red-bck clouds, like a bde slig through the sky, while als as a bea for Bermudes’ soldiers.

  “rades, fight! It’s time to take back our try!”

  The sharp whistle sounded, and Bermudes soldiers flooded into the streets. The war against the izers and the puppet Grand Duke had officially begun.

  Drones were immediately struck down by the storm from the outer nds, as darkness and snow wreaked havoc, plunging the ey of Speya into panid terror. All air forces were grounded, and the high-energy particle beam shot into the sky, drastically ging the surroundiromagiviro and severely disrupting ground unication.

  In his past life, Li Aozi wasn’t sure when psioniunication was introduced, but now, because he had destroyed the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization’s b and Snow had been isoted, the formal psioniunication equipment was likely indefinitely deyed.

  In this situation, if there was a Gamma-Tier 【Medium】, the troops could naturally unicate via the psychietwork without issue.

  Among the 6.3 billion people on Azure Star, there were probably fewer than ten Gamma-Tiers, and it was uain if any could even take a.

  Chaos, darkness, and snowstorms—these were the best prote.

  In this enviro, the numerically superior Bermudes forces quickly stormed into the city, shrouded in darkness and snow, and ehe troops in fierbat, advang toward the paamed after the God of Fire.

  Li Aozi no longer cealed his presence, activated his gravitational ability, and flew low, heading straight for Sullute Pace.

  To be tinued...

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