Starting as a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 138: Chapter 123: Separation of Flesh and Machine

Wolves in front, tigers behind.

No, birds in front, birds behind.

Without a word, Birdman Gao Gong flipped his four wings, inverted his body, and plunged headfirst downwards.

The two Sky Giant Beasts chased relentlessly.

It’s worth mentioning, although Gao Gong had four wings, his flight speed wasn’t fast, about 27m/s, certainly no match for a nuclear-powered flying device—about half the speed of a regular helicopter.

In contrast, although the flying giant beasts could only leap within the atmosphere, their flight speed was 550 knots, approximately 282.9 m/s, ten times that of Gao Gong.

The reason for such exaggeration is that Gao Gong had pure artificial flight relying on wing power, while the flight giant beasts, despite their massive size, possessed immense bioenergy within.

Although there’s gravitational acceleration, the distance between them rapidly closed.

Especially the Ionizing Radiation Bird, Gao Gong could even smell the scorching odor from his back.

The opponent was actually striking with lightning from afar!

’Luckily, Mr. G always kept a backup, having long anticipated you’d go sneaky!’

Suddenly, Gao Gong held an object in his hand resembling an Ark Reactor, just another technology branch.

Internal Engine - V-Type Carbon Atom Reactor

His fingernails automatically lengthened, five ’daggers’ slid and plunged into his chest, wrenching out a mechanical heart.

”Stupid thing, I wanted to replace it long ago!”

Casually tossing it behind him, it collided just in time with the falling lightning, and ’Scoundrel Gao’s’ remaining conscience shattered to pieces.

’Director Du is truly Director Du, even gifts are industrial style, without packaging like putting it in a glass box with a blessing note, such as—Mr. Gao has a warm heart.’

’Well, now, my conscience is gone, all your fault!’

The carbon atom reactor was inserted into the spot where the mechanical heart belonged.

The next moment, violent energy erupted from Gao Gong’s body, swiftly coursing through his limbs and bones.

Although Gao Gong wanted to be like Iron Man, with data strings popping up showing wind resistance, altitude, enemy distance, and such.

But don’t even mention the combat system; he hadn’t even got his hands on a combat chip.

’Later, I’ll definitely demand the top-notch combat chip from the Security Corps!’

Fortunately, the bumpkin has his own ways. The next moment, his organism began to transform, and the ’Slaughter-style Transformation’ kicked into action.

Pores sprouted on his limbs, flesh writhing on his four wings, squeezing out a series of energy vents while ’Venom’ was stimulated to form sleek curves.

Especially at the wingspan, crimson blades pushed out.

Just one hundred meters from the ground, the sound barrier shattered, and a sonic boom erupted. A long white line appeared behind Gao Gong as he sped past at supersonic speed in low altitude, slashing across, dozens of beast heads flying off simultaneously.

[You killed a Heavy Metal Butterfly, Experience +500]

[You killed a Mechanical Can, Experience +800]

[You killed a Phantom Monster, Experience +500]

[You killed a Sawtooth Cactus, Experience +1300]

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Any tall Radiation Beast suffered misfortune, proving what it means by the nail that sticks up gets hammered down first.

Supersonic is 340m/s; originally, Gao Gong’s Iaijutsu used this speed to chop off the Reaper Leader’s head.

After initial staggering, Gao Gong quickly adapted to high-speed flight, even mastering flight harvesting on his own.

Turns out you really can farm monster waves extensively.

Soon, Gao Gong’s experience value began soaring towards a hundred thousand again.

It wasn’t that Gao Gong was intentionally showing off, but that the ’V-Type Carbon Atom Reactor’ needed to pair with the ’Devil’s Jet Three-Phase Type’ to unleash full power.

Time waits for no one, and the Crimson Empress wouldn’t wait for you to be fully prepared before acting.

This temporary implant has a time limit on usage, hence needing to be installed on the battlefield.

Though the speeds were similar, the ’Multi-headed King Ghidorah’s’ vast size and weight made it impossible to do what Gao Gong did, dropping from a hundred meters low and pulling up.

Not to mention a hundred meters; a thousand meters for it would mean no coming back up.

The only threat to Gao Gong was the Ionizing Radiation Bird, not because its speed was faster, but like other pure energy life forms, it mastered a highly annoying ability—Energy Field Instant Teleportation.

Furious lightning blazed like daytime; although ’Bullet Time’ automatically triggered, avoiding several bolts from the clouds, the next moment, a lightning ocean rose from the Black Tide, coagulating into a gigantic bird shape, spanning over a hundred meters.

Gao Gong had no time to decelerate, his wings closed together, thick skin like rubber seeped from subcutaneous fat, while ’Venom’ erupted swiftly, forming a large black ball enveloping Gao Gong.

The next moment, raging lightning engulfed the giant ball.

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A humanoid black charcoal fell from the sky, crashing heavily on the ground. A few low-level Radiation Beasts tried to take advantage, but the next moment, four sharp claws thrust out from the ’black charcoal’, piercing the opponents’ bodies.

In the ’glug-glug’ digestion sounds, the Radiation Beasts shriveled rapidly, while the black charcoal slowly cracked open. Moments later, Gao Gong crawled out from the black charcoal, his sickly yellow eyes scanning wildly, lunging towards the surrounding beast pack.

Before long, dozens of dried corpses littered around as Gao Gong’s skin, now with a rosy undertone, returned to normal.

’Gotta give this fellow a hard blow first, or with him causing trouble, I can’t possibly take care of the whole battlefield.’

A metal claw grabbed at his thigh, and as the flesh split, it revealed an injection tube.

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Tamil Molecule Injector: Perception +3, Attention +30%, activates the ’Alertness’ button of the mixed neural system via medication, duration: half an hour

’Just this isn’t enough.’

Gao Gong looked at the system panel, at the progress bar that was less than 10%, and frowned slightly.

Against high-level Radiation Beasts, the accumulation speed of ’Genetic Slash’ was particularly slow.

Fortunately, when struck by lightning, he managed to put a mark on the opponent’s head.

The opponent can no longer instant teleport and attack in large areas to get to him.

’Hmm, do you kind of like that guy?’ Gao Gong looked at ’Venom.’

’Venom,’ having recovered alongside Gao Gong’s blood absorption, was now a pool of thick blood gnawing on various corpses.

As the saying goes, machines restrain carbon-based, carbon-based restrains energy; however, for unfinished products like ’Venom,’ the damage to B-level energy life forms is still limited.

’Got it!’

Gao Gong’s mind moved, summoned his hand, and the pool of viscous blood automatically covered his surface, making his appearance even more ferocious.

The next moment, countless nerve bundles pierced out from his surface, stabbing into ’Venom’s’ body.

On the system panel, Gao Gong’s bioenergy rapidly decreased, dropping from 4910 straight to 100, about the level when Gao Gong just traversed.

Meanwhile, ’Venom’s’ aura rapidly increased.

This was a biological version of the Transmission Skill.

”I can’t call you Venom anymore; after all, someone has already used that name. I’ll call you Red Liquid. After all, you and I both like to suck blood.”

’Red Liquid’ emitted an excited emotion.

Gao Gong looked down at his hands which had become four alien claws and helplessly shook his head.

After the Beast Tide ends, he must hurry to the ’Pre-War Research Institute’ to search for advanced bionic technology. Otherwise, with this form, how could he attract a Rich Lady?

The next moment, the sound of a sonic boom rang out, and Gao Gong’s feet stamped a small pit in the ground, taking to the skies once more.

The Crimson Empress seemed determined to hold him back; amidst the dark clouds and lightning, a large number of Mechanical Birds scattered, and upon seeing Gao Gong, the biological radar within began to operate.

In that instant, the entire sky turned into a radar net.

Like before, Gao Gong dashed around with sound burst-level speed, quickly taking out a dozen Mechanical Birds.

However, continuous lightning once again descended, producing a certain resonance, and a massive Thunder Ocean descended once more.

This time, Gao Gong didn’t focus on defense but accelerated the V-Type Carbon Atom Reactor, frantically fleeing.

As his blood volume frantically decreased, Gao Gong’s speed rapidly increased.

The Ionizing Radiation Bird had to extend the scope of the ’Thunder Ocean’ to hundreds, thousands, five thousand meters, and when the diameter reached the ten-thousand-meter mark, even a B-level giant beast couldn’t sustain the ’electricity’ consumption, with all lightning retracting centerward; a gigantic bird shadow began to form.

Unexpectedly, a black shadow charged even faster than fleeing speed.

A hint of confusion flashed in the Ionizing Radiation Bird’s eyes; it possessed formidable combat wisdom, so it didn’t understand.

What could this heavily injured opponent use to fight it?

However, when ’Gao Gong’ appeared before it, the figure suddenly exploded, transforming into hundreds and thousands of red fluid tentacles, directly enveloping its body.

All the tentacles ferociously invaded, rapidly absorbing the Ionizing Radiation Bird’s power.

Meanwhile, countless blood threads wrapped around the ’Carbon Atom Reactor’ surface on the fluid’s other end, the reactor’s radiance growing ever brighter, quickly restoring the previous energy loss and Demon Mountain’s usage as the operator.

Just then, Gao Gong’s main body staggered over, engulfed in black smoke, his form shrunk by three sizes, cheeks sunken, eyes bulging as if to fall out, exposing titanium alloy bones, also charred black, appearing extremely grim.

He staggered, half-dead, to the reactor’s side, clawed the reactor with his iron-bone-sinewed hand, and stuffed it into his chest; with the violent energy pouring in, Gao Gong’s consciousness finally awoke from the daze.

”Damn it, fried me to death!”

Scanning the barely one-tenth blood volume, Gao Gong’s eye corners twitched fiercely.

In fact, if it weren’t during the Beast Tide, he wouldn’t dare take such a risk.

But as a ’High-level Radiation Beast,’ as long as he wasn’t instantly killed, the radiation energy provided by the Beast Tide could always keep his last breath.

And such a risk was clearly worth it!

Watching the Ionizing Radiation Bird, wrapped by ’Red Liquid’ and unable to struggle, Gao Gong smirked sinisterly; hundreds of Biological Straws squeezed out from beneath the flesh, simultaneously inserted into Red Liquid.

Great Blood Sucking!

The opponent’s blood volume started dropping by thousands.

Gao Gong’s skin swelled once again, four wings reanimated with vitality, blood feathers more vivid, the 3*3m bioelectricity starting a ’zizi’ sound.

This advanced energy field was a talent skill he possessed in his super-combined state.

Simultaneously, a warm flow raced to his lower back.

The next moment, another pair of 2-meter-long wings emerged from the flesh, appearing transparent on the surface, with fine currents dancing across it.

[You have acquired the skill, Basic Thunder Control]

[Your Biological Transformation Rate (Digestive System) +1%]

Looking at the fully charged ’Genetic Slash,’ Gao Gong waved his hand, ’Red Liquid’ rapidly transformed into a nearly ten-meter-long massive blood-red scythe, and viciously slashed at the Ionizing Radiation Bird’s neck.

Thunder clapped, the sky lit up.