Chapter 401 Shark Teeth
Panicked screams echoed in the room. The prince's sword spun and split the air, and arcs of energy buzzed. The possessed minister retreated at high speed, with a frivolous smile on his face that could almost squeeze out sparks. "Look! This prince has clearly colluded with alien forces, he has colluded with the Sadis! Now, he wants to catch all the top leaders of our Xiyiqi in one fell swoop! "
His words and the prince's behavior undoubtedly made the remaining senior bureaucrats in the hall fall to his side.
"Alsiel, are you crazy? Why did you kill the Prime Minister? What on earth are you doing?" the Navy Commander shouted, her tone revealing incredible confusion.
"He is a traitor!" cried the Minister.
The prince did not hesitate. His sword pressed the minister, and the sword was about to cut his body, but in the next moment, the minister dodged the blade with exaggerated movements like a shape-shifting gastropod. He continued to move, moving behind the remaining bureaucrats in the hall at lightning speed, "It was this traitor who murdered the queen! Kill him! Avenge our queen!"
At his instigation, the bureaucrats hiding on the other side of the hall raised their weapons and attacked the prince. The air was filled with superheated energy flashes. The prince jumped back, and the laser beam passed by his side. The prince dodged the deadly death light with clever steps. This extraordinary skill made the Xiyiqi bureaucrats panic. The fierce gunfire continued to output, detonating the ground under his feet, stirring up a piece of debris.
"traitor!!"
While the prince was dodging the gunfire, Shark Fang suddenly appeared behind the minister at the speed of a gust of wind. His sharp claws pierced through the minister's body. With a flash of arc light, the minister suddenly exploded into a blue-green blood rain, and the unique chitin fragments of the Xiyi people flew everywhere.
The few remaining bureaucrats screamed and dodged. Then the air twisted slightly, and slight ripples rippled through the air, and the shadow slid into the body of the next senior bureaucrat.
Then, the face of this senior bureaucrat was like butter that had gone bad in an instant . His expression changed from extreme panic to the arrogance of being in control of everything. His huge chip eyes were full of malice. He shouted: "Traitor! Revenge for the Queen!"
The prince's blade slashed at him. The senior official dodged the attack with extraordinary agility.
"Kill him! Kill Alsiel!"
But his words of persuasion only went so far, for in the next second, with an ear-piercing hissing sound, the prince's sword knocked him down, and he stepped on the carrier possessed by the phantom, completely cutting off his actions.
The poor bureaucrat ended his life.
But this was not the end. The afterimage swayed and slid out of the abandoned corpse again, like a burning fine dust mist, like an invisible smell, and swam to the next substitute.
One living body after another.
One victim after another.
Shark Tooth threw the corpse aside. The prince swung his sword and looked toward the front of the hall.
At this moment, there was only one bureaucrat left in the hall, the commander-in-chief of the navy.
A searing bullet came straight at the prince, who held his sword in front of him, flashes of light exploding . After the heat and smoke dissipated, drops of blood splashed in the air, but the prince still stood like a cornerstone.
The Navy Commander had realized something. She asked, "Is there something disturbing their minds?"
Then, her expression became a little dull, "I feel it... so cold..." she murmured. The prince looked at her sadly. Her face instantly became exactly the same as the original prime minister, full of arrogance of being in control of everything, "It's sad, Prince Alsiel has gone crazy!" She laughed lightly, and the afterimage rolled under her feet, "He colluded with the aliens! He wants to send us Xiyiqi to death!"
"Oh? This is the last one." Shark Fang stared at her, "Now the gate is sealed, you have nowhere to escape."
"Save me." The Navy Commander's expression suddenly became soft and panicked, and her tone was filled with pleading, "Save me. I don't know what's wrong with me ... There's something in my body..."
Shark Fang's only response to her was a burst of explosives.
She screamed and jumped back, the bodies in front of her exploded into pieces, "Why didn't you save me?"
"Because you have killed her." Shark Fang said coldly, "I know that you wiped out her self-consciousness the moment you entered her body. So die! Filthy thing!"
Sharkfang leaped up, his blade-like claws cutting through the air.
Energy lightning burst into sparks, his claws pierced her body, her limbs shook weakly, and the sharp blade with a cold glow stabbed out from her back.
"Destroy," Sharkfang whispered. He drew out his metal claws. Her body went limp, her steps unsteady, and she fell backwards, blood and dust rising up.
The cleanup has been completed.
All biological doubles in the hall that it could transfer to were destroyed.
"Be careful--" the prince shouted behind Shark Tooth.
At the same time, Shark Fang heard a malicious voice in his mind, "Now, you will be my prey, my body vehicle."
Just for a moment.
The afterimage had entered his body, it was creeping into his mind, it was peering into the depths of his consciousness, savoring every memory, ravaging his perceptions, devouring his ego. Shark Fang knew what it was, and he knew what it was going to do next.
It is a lightless wandering soul that breeds in the wreckage of a destroyed advanced civilization. It is a greedy monster that feeds on the consciousness of living things. It belongs to the Black Box Society that constantly creates chaos and disputes in the galaxy in secret. It transcends the physical body and is superior to most creatures. In the galaxy, some people call it the Heart Devourer.
Shark Tooth was definitely not a mortal whose consciousness would be devoured by ordinary contact. He built a series of mental walls in an instant. His mind was far beyond that of ordinary people, and his will was also fine steel that had been tempered a thousand times. Their spirits were clashing, and their thoughts were constantly colliding in the void of consciousness.
"Your resistance is in vain." There was a hint of boredom in its voice. "It's just the struggle of a lesser creature."
Shark Fang did not answer. He was concentrating all his mental strength to confront this crazy wandering soul. The sea of consciousness in his mind was rolling up with turbulent waves, and he was heavily thrown down by the mountain-like waves. While he was dizzy, he saw dark thunderstorm clouds hovering in the sky, and he could hear the roar and whisper of the wind. After that, he saw countless stars flowing above his head, and the little lights flickered like fine water droplets, like a spring of stars that never stopped.
He didn't know how much time had passed.
Is he still alive? Has he lost his fight against the ghost?
Then he saw him.
Mansfield, the Lord of the First Chamber of the Eye of Supervision, the Guardian of the Galactic Order, his only monarch, was standing under the flowing starry sky. The starlight fell on his face, and in that instant the night turned into day.
He walked forward and knelt before him, "My Lord."
His monarch was gazing at the flowing fountain of stars. In Shark's eyes, these bright stars kept spinning and changing, and their trajectories formed flowing silk threads, intertwining and extending each other. Shark's tooth only looked for a while and felt his head like needles, and then he heard his voice, like a distant song at dawn.
"I told you not to follow my steps."
"My Lord," said Shark Tooth, "you are still alive."
"What you see now is only my shadow, which I left in the mountains of Tita in Hope Land many years ago," his monarch replied. "I have told you before that no matter what happens to me, you need not investigate or avenge me."
"No, my Lord." Sharkfang looked at him and said, "The Eye of Overseer needs you. The galaxy needs you. How can I pretend nothing happened?"
His monarch looked up at the flowing fountain of stars again, "Do you see the paths of these stars?"
"See, what does this mean?"
"The paths of these stars follow natural laws, as do all things. According to the Universal Algorithm, this star will collide with an asteroid in three astronomical years, and the life on the planet will be extinct. So do you think you have foreseen the future fate of this star?"
"Yes, my Lord."
His monarch shook his head slightly. "But in fact, the Kurum people in another galaxy also calculated the time when the asteroids would collide, so they came to this planet in advance before the planets collided, slaughtered the creatures on this planet for fun, and left when the asteroid was about to hit. This planet was destroyed as you predicted, but did you really foresee the true fate of those creatures on the planet?"
"..." Shark Tooth thought for a moment and said, "This is an unexpected variable."
"Yes, variables," the monarch replied. "According to the theory of things at the top of civilization, as long as there is enough computing power, the direction of all events can be calculated. In a sense, it is as if you have mastered the future of all things. However, this is a false proposition. You see the direction of the future, but every step forward has countless infinite variables. In the planet I just mentioned, you used an algorithm to calculate the variables of the Kurum people, so you arranged troops in advance to drive the Kurum people away and successfully saved the creatures on the planet. However, the Kurum people you dispersed fled to other star regions, burned, killed and looted passing ships, and eventually more innocent intelligent life died. Is this really the result you want?"
"Then we should wipe out all the Kurum people."
"If the Kurum people are exterminated, then several star systems closely related to Kurum trade will suffer a huge economic blow, and even lead to local regime changes and social unrest, which will cause more lives to fall into poverty and death. Is this really the result you wanted in the first place?"
“There’s always a good way…”
The monarch stared at him. "There is always a good way. When you have calculated the millions of possible directions of an event, you have to consider every intricate variable. Shark Tooth, this is simply endless. This is also the limitation of living things. Even if you spend your entire life, you cannot see every future clearly and consider every variable in detail."
Shark Fang fell silent, then he asked: "My Lord, why are you telling me this?"
"We are fighting the Black Box Society. Even if I have glimpsed the direction of the future, the Black Box Society can do the same." The monarch said softly, "The Black Box Society can also calculate every step of our plan. They can also calculate everything you can think of. Shark Tooth, don't underestimate our great enemy. They are secretly preparing to pull us off the original path at any time."
"My Lord, please let me serve you!" Shark Tooth shouted, "Since you plan to conduct a covert operation, I can also..."
"I see the path you have chosen," his liege whispered. "A moth."
"What?"
"A moth that flies towards a glimmer of light is a lonely soul unknown to anyone and a sinner known to everyone. You will be accompanied by stigma for the rest of your life."
Shark Tooth smiled: "That's it? I've experienced this several times, it's nothing more than that."
"Shark's tooth," the monarch said, "there are enough variables in this fate line."
"My Lord, are you ordering me to ignore the Black Box Club?" Shark Tooth shrugged, "You already know what my answer is."
The eyes of the First Court Lord flashed with a subtle light, and his flawless face gradually blurred, disappearing from his sight like fading morning mist.
Shark Fang stood up and saw the filthy thing that was confronting him in the void and trying to gnaw at his consciousness.
"Thanks to you, I recalled my last conversation with that adult." Shark Tooth said, "Now, I am much more sober - it's time for you to get out."
A tsunami almost as high as the sky rose behind Shark Tooth, and the indestructible extraordinary will counterattacked the invading creature. The powerful mental power instantly turned into countless sharp knife tips and pounced on it.
roll!
As the air in the real physical world trembled, Shark Fang regained consciousness.
He has expelled the damned afterimage from his body.
The next question is how to solve it.
As long as the prince can avoid being devoured by it and there are no other creatures in the hall, then it should be possible...
At this moment, the door of the hall was suddenly pushed open and Princess Alji rushed in.
She yelled to the prince, "Father!! Are you okay?!"
Almost at the same time, the air moved slightly, and the wandering soul that had just been expelled swam towards Princess Alji.
In the hall, besides the two of them, the princess was the only living person.
Before Shark Fang could launch an attack, the prince beside him grabbed the invisible afterimage with incredible speed.
This was a process that could not be seen with the naked eye, but Shark Tooth could keenly feel that the prince beside him used an invisible technique, as if the air condensed into tendrils and tightly wrapped around it. With a slight crackling sound of energy, the prince pulled the afterimage into his body.
Fierce shock waves surged around the prince's body. He was using his body to bind this invisible shadow. Shark Fang could feel an unknown flame burning inside the prince's body.
The prince looked at him and he said calmly: "Kill me."
“…”
"Quick! Kill me while you can still restrain it!"
Not far away, Algie was running and calling for her father.
Only now, only this moment.
"You will live with stigma for the rest of your life." The monarch 's voice echoed in his ears.
I see.
But that's all.
Sharktooth couldn't help but burst out laughing.
He seemed to be back in the deep pit, blood rain washing his black hair. He stood at the crossroads of his endless dark life. The taste of the blood rain in his hometown was so bitter, but it had always been deposited in his most peaceful memories.
He laughed and pointed the plasma gun at the prince.
Then, fire.
He heard Algie's desperate screams.
