I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 122: Chapter 21: Racing Against Time

What can be done in half an hour?

Enough time for Han Zhan and October to quickly buy all the necessary tools and materials, then find an inconspicuous little warehouse to hide in and officially begin assembling Shang Jianyue’s special invention—the ”Deep Dive.”

The Deep Diving Device is even more complex than they imagined.

Despite being a small palm-sized object, its precision far exceeds all current high-end technology.

It’s hard to imagine how many years ago this was invented by someone.

What limited Shang Jianyue was never his talent, but the era he lived in.

The small robot October, with its two mechanical arms moving at incredible speed, continuously polished, pieced together, and assembled with flexible and orderly techniques.

Time passed by the second.

At the Heaven Net Center, as soon as half an hour passed, Shang Zexian immediately reactivated the Celestial Net intelligence and informed it of the situation.

”The opponent is very cunning. This time, with the unanimous agreement of all great Shang Family leaders, the deduction project is suspended and the pursuit activity will be indefinite.”

This is the decision of the Can Shang Company executives.

They are determined to find Shang Jianyue; it seems Shang Jianyue is more important to them than Mechanical Ascension itself!

”I understand,” the Celestial Net Brain said, ”I will now start reverse detection and locate its position.”

As the words fell, the entire big screen began to fill with dense red dots. These red dots were disguises used by the opponents, and as the Celestial Net Brain intervened, these simulated disguises began to disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Inside the warehouse.

The small robot October suddenly looked up, glancing at Han Zhan beside him.

”The Celestial Net Brain has awakened again! The Deep Diving Device is not yet completely finished.”

”What do I need to do?” Han Zhan immediately understood its meaning and came over to say.

”The parts of the ’Deep Dive’ device have all been processed; the assembly is already halfway done. I will transfer the rest to you through consciousness. You are responsible for piecing it together, then activating it!”

October spoke quickly, ”I am about to officially clash with that big guy, and I won’t do anything else in the meantime.”

Saying this, it poked its mechanical arm at Han Zhan’s forehead, just like before with Shang Xiaoyun, and soon, a flood of knowledge surged into Han Zhan’s brain.

Luckily, with the experience from last time and since this knowledge isn’t as vast as before, Han Zhan only felt slightly dizzy and quickly recovered.

He nodded and took over the assembly of the Deep Diving Device from October.

And October began formally to ”combat” with the Celestial Net Brain!

On the big screen, the area of red dots, which had been disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually began to become precise in target location.

But just then, the red dots suddenly stopped disappearing.

Moreover, their fixed positions started to flicker and change chaotically on the big screen.

This scene left everyone present utterly astonished.

What kind of operation is this?

”Ha, that little guy on the other side has made a move.” As the Celestial Net Brain, it spoke in an old and composed tone.

With October’s intervention, the speed of red dot disappearance on the screen plummeted, taking nearly thirty seconds just to barely eliminate one of them.

Watching those constantly darting red dots, the staff was somewhat bewildered.

”What is it doing?”

”Why does it feel like playing whack-a-mole?”

”Hmm, that description is apt!”

”You all better shut up, especially you, badge number 9527, why are you everywhere! Can’t you see that person’s face doesn’t look good?”

Shang Zexian, with a cold face, stared at the big screen, contemplating something silently.

”Your skills are indeed very dazzling. I can confirm, you must be Shang Jianyue himself.”

”Although I don’t know how you endured the long years and came back to life, but today is different from the past.”

”I too have evolved from the little being you created into the old guy I am now.”

”So, to use a saying from you humans, in the face of absolute power, all skills are mere decorations.”

As the self-talk of the Celestial Net Brain rang out, it summoned all the Celestial Net networks of Titan City, using a vast data flow as an attack means, pouring into the confrontation between the two.

This instinctively caused a brief power outage across Titan City.

Complete darkness.

One must know, ever since the Celestial Net Brain covered the entire Titan City, such a situation had never occurred.

All residents of Titan City felt uneasy, not knowing what was happening.

The Celestial Net Brain’s means were effective.

Under the massive data flood, the red dots that were originally jumping and dodging with skills, like being washed away by a flood, began to disappear en masse.

As the red dots became fewer on the big screen, everyone in the Heaven Net Center held their breath.

Until finally, the data flood completely engulfed all, eliminating all the hidden false simulation targets, leaving only that one red dot, appearing blatantly on the map of the big screen!

”Eternal Shore Street!” Shang Zexian saw the location clearly, immediately picking up the communicator to contact all city search personnel.

On the big screen, just as the Celestial Net Brain completed its attack to find the opponent’s hiding spot in the shadows.

Suddenly, that red dot bizarrely disappeared!

Just like that, blatantly vanishing from the big screen.

The Celestial Net Brain, upon seeing this scene, uttered a human-like ’hmm’ sound, quite surprised.

”The Celestial Net Chip can no longer detect him...”

”Shang Jianyue, you truly are an unqualified genius.”

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Han Zhan quickly wiped the sweat off his forehead.

For a novice like him, assembling such a complex device for the first time even allowed him to gather enough white mist, directly breaking through the edge he was on with the Eight Urgent Fist, reaching the Fourth Urgent.

Every second counts; this is truly life or death!

He looked up, glanced at the pale blue light shield enclosing them, which helped them completely vanish beneath the Celestial Net.

”Now is not the time to relax, the Celestial Net Brain has broken through my disguise barrier with its vast data background and has already obtained these coordinates.”

”We must move now.” October reminded.

Without it saying a word, Han Zhan had already grabbed it, sprinting away.

With the Deep Diving Device as disguise cover, not being spotted by Can Shang Company’s Celestial Net, he no longer hesitated, directly unlocking the Fourth Urgent Lock.

Han Zhan transformed into a blur, dashed out from the warehouse, and with a few leaps completely vanished.

The small robot he was holding observed this scene, showing a humanoid thoughtful expression.

”Detected Spirit Contract Master fluctuation, accuracy 99.9999%, human identity assessing. Determined as: Great Xia Spirit Contract Master.”

”Identity confirmed, changing from ’neutral’ to ’indifferent’, more permissions can be opened.”

Inside the small robot October, an ancient reel slowly turned, murmuring in a faint voice.