Netherworld Retrograde

Capítulo 1047: Chapter 507: Mechanical Soul

Amidst the roar of engines and the screeching of tires on the pavement, faint cries for help were interspersed.

They seemed trapped within those speeding cars, emitting waves of wailing.

Fathers reassured children, suppressing their fear, while young children screamed in terror and young people shouted…

This caused everyone’s expressions to change drastically.

Why would there be such sounds? Zhou Ding, that guy…and hostages? He even brought them here?

Especially Zhou Hao, as a member of the Zhou Family, the reason they could keep things from blowing up was because the incidents involved only family members.

This was an internal family conflict, and with the tacit understanding between the family and the Giant City, the city’s officials indeed wouldn’t intervene in family matters without a call for help.

But now it’s different. Innocent victims have been involved, which changes everything.

The iron fist of the Giant City will surely come down!

Communicate? Foster family relations? None of that is possible now.

Zhou Ding, you’ve cut off your last escape route!

Li Yelai’s gaze also turned somewhat cold.

If he was going to obediently capture Zhou Ding earlier and let the Zhou Family handle it, now that civilians are threatened, there’s only one outcome.

“Zhou Ding! You beast!” Zhou Hao roared in fury, his heart torn: “Save the people first!”

Such collisions are extremely dangerous for ordinary people, but for these Five Senses Spiritual Ability Users, it poses no danger. Even without spiritual energy, they can use their physique to stop the out-of-control cars.

No matter Zhou Ding’s intentions, they must first rescue the hostages.

Upon hearing this, Grenade was the first to extinguish the fireballs spread in front of the team.

These fireballs are powerful, containing extreme heat, capable of both illuminating and igniting. They are Grenade’s means of defensive counterattack.

He worried that the cars might crash into the fireballs, which would be disastrous if the hostages were harmed.

However, the moment the fireballs were extinguished.

The cars accelerated to the extreme and, under the blinding lights, careened madly towards the group.

Damn, does Zhou Ding actually have this kind of diehard support? Trying to ram Spiritual Ability Users?

“Strawberry, Feng Yu!” Grenade shouted, worried that the two people at the front of the team would be forced to use their abilities to counterattack.

“I know!” Li Yelai and Strawberry quickly charged forward, preparing to forcibly halt the cars.

Although difficult, it’s not impossible for Five Senses Spiritual Ability Users.

Strawberry’s hands manifested two short axes, planning to disable the car engines to slow them down.

Meanwhile, Li Yelai drew out the Blood Cloud Ring Head Blade with his right hand, with his physical strength and speed able to destroy those engines even faster.

But the moment the cars approached, Strawberry clearly felt a warning from her inspiration.

Danger!

Why danger? Could these cars possibly kill me, a Five Senses True Martial?

Strawberry instinctively dismissed this inspiration warning. As a spiritual energy user of her level, even a dump truck couldn’t break through her spiritual barrier.

How could these vehicles hurt her?

She quickly crouched, her twin axes spreading like wings, and in the next second, she shot forward like an arrow.

Li Yelai’s expression slightly changed, his physique far surpassing Strawberry’s.

This allowed him to hear more sounds and see more details.

Amidst the cacophony, Li Yelai didn’t hear any heartbeat or breathing.

Clearly, in such a situation, people’s heartbeats and breathing should be rapid, but Li Yelai, with his physique, should have been able to detect them.

This made Li Yelai’s mind race, gazing towards the front amidst the blinding headlights. He squinted to peer inside the vehicles.

The driver’s seat… or rather, all the car seats were devoid of people!

In that moment, Li Yelai understood, accelerated instantly, quickly overtook charging Strawberry, and shouted, “It’s a trap, no one inside!”

Meanwhile, he raised his left hand towards the car that was now within reach.

Blood God Seven-layered Shield!

The dark red leaves on his wrist instantly formed a shield wall.

Almost instantly, the foremost vehicle crashed into the Seven-layered Red Leaf Shield.

Then exploded.

Terrifying hot melt exploded from within the car, followed by the second, third, a dozen vehicles exploding in succession within a second!

This caused a wave of scorching air to surge through the passage.

Everything happened too fast, with Li Yelai accelerating and overtaking Strawberry to use the Secret Treasure.

The remaining three had no time to react or prevent it.

The next second, they were engulfed by the terrifying heatwave.

The collective bombardment of a dozen Hot Melt Bombs rapidly raised the temperature of the entire passage.

The Blood God Seven-layered Shield trembled, with two leaves showing signs of burning.

The spreading heat wave made even Strawberry’s hair curl as she was so close.

This caused Strawberry to halt instantly, a look of terror on her face.

“Hot Melt Bombs? A suicide attack?”

Spiritual Ability Users can indeed disregard most conventional weapon attacks. Spiritual barriers can ensure their safety.

Yet Hot Melt and Plasma Cannons can rapidly deplete spiritual barriers, serving as deadly weapons.

They’re also one of the most universally effective weapons humans deploy against spiritual ability users.

In the wilderness, there are tales of Border Iron Guards hunting spiritual ability users.

This is because the Iron Guards’ weapons are often hot melt guns, hot melt swords, and so on.

If they focus their fire and spare no expense, even a Great Spiritual Ability User could be critically injured by hot melt weapons.

Many illegal spiritual ability users have been overwhelmed by human soldiers with hot melt weapons.

Just now, had Strawberry approached the vehicles rashly to rescue the so-called ‘hostages,’

She would have been caught in the Hot Melt Bomb blast; under such heavy bombardment, she’d be severely injured or even killed.

This filled everyone with fear.

As the heatwave dispersed, the group looked at Li Yelai at the forefront.

In their view, he seemed to have endured the horrific blast alone.

“Feng Yu, are you okay?”

“Of course!”

“Are you sure there’s no one in the car?” Zhou Hao shouted.

“No! It’s autonomous driving, and the sound came from the car’s speakers!” Li Yelai quickly replied.

That unknown Taboo Item is far more dangerous than the Zhou Family understood!

It can hack into networks, alter surveillance footage, and even control cars.

Before the Calamity, cars could indeed be autonomous. Remote control of vehicles might not be a big deal.

But humans after the Calamity don’t have the conditions to make such self-driving cars. Those vehicles lack the necessary hardware and systems.

This means these cars were initiated and made lures using the in-car speakers without human intervention?

This felt eerily familiar to Li Yelai.

Be it these inducements or the unmanned control.

The former, Li Yelai encountered in the wilderness, where the enemy used children as hostages, driving a dump truck.

The latter… Li Yelai saw it on a Dead Sea Wreck… mankind’s last warship, Yan Yun Fleet!

Even unmanned, it still fired upon humanity’s enemies!

That was the Mechanical Soul’s awakening!

And here… does each car have a Mechanical Soul?

Can that Taboo Item create Mechanical Souls?

However, the danger hasn’t ended, as the aftermath of the Hot Melt Bombs faded.

The sound of rock fracturing and metal twisting filled the surroundings of the Net Road.

Damn, I haven’t even activated Face yet. Is it going to collapse?

Li Yelai shouted: “Retreat!”

The next second, the Net Road collapsed with a bang.

(Sorry, I was at my father-in-law’s banquet and got held up… Apologies)