novelTele Chapter 341 The Rancher Arrives? Lu Sheng: Who's the Dinner?
Chapter 341 The Rancher Arrives? Lu Sheng: Who's the Dinner?
East China Sea, Dengxian Island.
Outside the Heroes' Tomb, half of the gray fog dissipated, revealing a sky still tinged with crimson.
Lu Sheng flipped through the "Immortal Qin Military Canon," stopping at the page with the divine oracle, his brows furrowing.
"With a computing power of 286, it can't even perform 10,000 calculations per second." He smashed the holographic data in mid-air. "Using this kind of junk as a server, my terracotta warriors will lag even when they're just going out for a basic attack."
Dao Yi stood aside, holding his whisk, not daring to utter a word. The astrolabe from the Oracle was revered as a sacred object in the West, but in this man's mouth, it was just electronic waste.
Lu Sheng traced the military manual with his fingertips, and the star map rapidly enlarged, passing over Earth and settling on a gray-white celestial body.
"So this is the person in question."
The far side of the moon.
The star map bears an ancient seal script inscription: 【天宫】 (Celestial Palace). The forward outpost and Earth monitoring center of the 13th Legion of the Immortal Qin Dynasty.
"Dao Yi." Lu Sheng put away the ancient scroll.
"Your subordinate is here!" Dao Yi straightened his back.
A bronze tiger tally was thrown into Dao Yi's arms.
"Immortal Island is sealed off. The standby access for the 108 Imperial Guard terracotta warriors is now yours." Lu Sheng looked up at the sky. "If any fools dare to knock on the door, don't waste words. Let them experience what it means to be covered by fire."
"Island Master, what are you going to do...?"
Lu Sheng's legs were slightly bent.
The specially made white jade floor tiles underfoot instantly turned into dust, and the gravity field within a radius of 100 meters was forcibly rewritten.
"Go up to the sky and get a motherboard."
The sonic boom cloud exploded in mid-air.
Without a flying sword or a star core spaceship, Lu Shengchun relied on the terrifying power of his physical body, which was 3000 times greater than that of ordinary people, to transform into a black-gold rainbow and crash into the stratosphere.
The violent atmospheric friction generated temperatures of thousands of degrees, leaving a long, fiery tail on his dragon scales.
It broke through the atmosphere in ten seconds.
Defying Earth's gravity, we step into the cold, absolute vacuum of the universe.
There was no air, no gravity. The starlight no longer twinkled, but instead became blinding, direct beams of light.
Lu Sheng hovered in near-Earth orbit, the black-gold imperial markings flowing across his chest. The laws of the Abyss Water System enveloped his entire body, transforming into a thin, invisible internal circulation barrier that locked in the loss of energy within his body.
At level 41, the Spirit King realm, one can already disregard the breathing needs of mortals. This ancient divine body is a self-sufficient nuclear reactor.
He locked onto the huge, grayish-white satellite.
Step back with your right leg and push off into the air in the vacuum.
Visible ripples spread through the space, and the powerful explosive force tore out tiny black cracks.
The reaction force propelled Lu Sheng forward, at a speed approaching the speed of light.
The 380,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Moon is brutally shortened by the extreme physical crossing.
……
The far side of the moon.
An absolutely desolate place, forever facing away from the Earth.
There is no sound here, only craters formed by meteorites of all sizes.
Lu Sheng landed heavily in the center of a giant meteorite crater with a diameter of over 100 kilometers.
No dust was raised, and the ground beneath our feet was unnaturally hard.
Lu Sheng knelt down on one knee and wiped away the several-meter-thick layer of lunar soil on the surface.
What was revealed below was not rock, but a dark gold cast plate that emitted a ghostly glow.
The line of sight extends outwards along the cast plate. This hundred-kilometer-long crater is essentially a giant, man-made missile silo.
The "Immortal Qin Military Manual" appeared in my palm, shimmering with golden light.
On the crater wall ahead, light and shadow distorted. After a series of spatial folding fluctuations, a massive, suffocating bronze base emerged from its concealment.
Thick mechanical pipes coiled like dragons and snakes, while towering bronze signal towers pierced the deep sky. Dark red array patterns on the towers flashed intermittently, exuding an aura of timeless vicissitudes and ruthless power.
Tiangong Outpost.
Lu Sheng put away his military manual and strode toward the towering bronze gate, which stood a thousand meters tall.
Just stepping into the red line one kilometer outside the gate.
Click click click.
Where the once desolate surface lay amidst the metallic wreckage, dozens of defensive psionic cannons, each loaded with high-level crystal cores, automatically raised their muzzles. A destructive purple light shone from within the cannon barrels.
This is an indiscriminate defensive formation left behind by the Immortal Qin. After ten thousand years, its internal spiritual energy has been severely depleted, but it can still easily kill ordinary Spirit Kings.
"There's no time for politeness with inanimate objects."
Lu Sheng did not stop.
The great dragon's spine trembled. The laws of the Abyss Water System emanated from its body.
There is no water in a vacuum. But the laws within him forcibly extracted high-dimensional water from the surrounding environment.
A black film of water covered his right fist, so dense that it swallowed up even the surrounding light.
Lu Sheng aimed his punch at the invisible defensive light barrier in front of him.
Space collapse.
There was no sound. The defensive array, strong enough to withstand the bombardment of a starship's main cannon, was now like a piece of tempered glass struck by a giant hammer, covered with spiderweb-like cracks.
boom.
The magic circle shattered completely.
The energy backlash from forcibly breaking the formation transformed into a visible energy storm that swept over Lu Sheng's entire body.
The black-gold dragon scales opened, absorbing all the storm and channeling it into the [Ancient Devouring Furnace] in its dantian.
"The power bank is of decent quality."
Lu Sheng brushed the energy residue off his shoulder and kicked open the bronze giant door.
Inside the base is a deep metal passageway.
The backup power lights on both sides glowed with a faint red light.
Less than 500 meters ahead, the air suddenly dropped.
A patrol team of guards walked in unison from around the corner.
They have no physical bodies. Their upper bodies are translucent ghosts encased in tattered Qin armor, while their lower bodies are purely mechanical structures combining tracks and anti-gravity engines.
What he was holding was not a long spear, but a Gauss psionic rifle engraved with explosive runes.
"A Daoist soldier." Lu Sheng recognized the thing.
The lowest-ranking cannon fodder of the Immortal Qin era, they are made by fusing the remnant souls of fallen soldiers with star-space mechanical technology, never tiring and never betraying.
Upon seeing Lu Sheng, the intruder.
The leader of the Daoist soldiers' ghostly eyes blazed with red light, and he instantly raised his Gauss rifle, spewing out blue ion sparks powerful enough to melt even a Spirit Master.
The gunfire was silent, but the deadly intent locked down all of Lu Sheng's escape routes.
Lu Sheng did not dodge.
He held the "Immortal Qin Military Canon" above his head.
"Can you read or not?"
The sound, transmitted through the spiritual source, directly penetrated the core of the souls of all the Dao soldiers.
On the cover of the military manual, the phantom image of the battle flag with the character "牧" (Mu) was projected in mid-air. The golden highest-level code of the Thirteenth Legion transformed into a visible stream of data, cascading down like a waterfall.
The trigger was pulled halfway.
All the blue ion sparks were abruptly extinguished at the muzzle of the gun.
The lead Taoist soldier's mechanical body emitted a loud grinding sound. The red light in the ghost's eyes quickly turned into a ghostly blue of absolute obedience.
It folded its rifle, folded its mechanical tracks, and leaned forward.
He slammed one knee onto the metal floor.
Hundreds of Taoist soldiers behind them made the same movement in unison.
In the silent passage, only the low-frequency vibrations of armored vehicles colliding could be heard.
There was no cheering, no emotion.
The killing machines of the Immortal Qin Dynasty, after ten thousand years, pledged their loyalty to their new commander.
Lu Sheng bypassed the kneeling Dao soldiers and headed straight for the deepest part of the base.
Central control room.
The space here is so large it's like an indoor plaza.
At the center, a liquid metal sphere with a diameter of over fifty meters is suspended.
The mercury-like surface constantly displays a real-time holographic star map of the solar system, with countless golden Qin Dynasty seal characters swirling inside.
Battle formation celestial plate.
This is the true "brain" that allows the Celestial Qin to monitor Earth and command its vast army.
Compared to it, the oracle's horoscope is not even as good as an abacus.
Lu Sheng walked to the bottom of the celestial plate.
A finger cut through the palm, and a drop of golden, ancient divine blood shot out, precisely disappearing into the liquid metal sphere.
Military Codex permissions are synchronized and overridden.
"Connect to the sub-node of Dengxian Island. Establish the first command sequence of the Terracotta Army."
Lu Sheng issued the order.
A deep rumble emanated from within the celestial disc, and violent ripples spread across the surface of the liquid metal. A hidden spatial information channel instantly traversed 380,000 kilometers, connecting to the Hero's Tomb in the East China Sea.
The progress bar quickly filled up in mid-air.
[108 guard units successfully linked.]
[Tactical simulation module activated.]
[The Lingyuan allocation network is now set up.]
Lu Sheng watched the terracotta warriors' perspective projected by the celestial compass. Those rigid machines, empowered by the celestial compass's computing power, now possessed a lively, dynamic electronic light in their eyes. They began to autonomously form the Immortal Qin Battle Formation, their clumsy movements completely gone.
With this supercomputer, his guard corps grew fangs.
"That's more like it."
Lu Sheng turned around, preparing to order Tianpan to take over the defensive firepower on the far side of the moon.
An unexpected change occurred.
The red lights in the entire control room were flashing wildly.
The solar system star map on the surface of the liquid metal sphere was violently distorted, and the blue interface was swallowed by a blinding scarlet.
A piercing alarm sounded directly in Lu Sheng's mind.
There is no extra analytical data.
On the huge holographic screen, only a line of blood-red characters pieced together from the Immortal Qin seal script appeared.
[Warning: The information blocking protocol has suffered a devastating blow; the defenses have collapsed.]
The handwriting trembled slightly, transforming into more straightforward information.
[High-dimensional gaze anchoring of the 'rancher' detected.]
[Warning: We... have been discovered.]
The red light shone on Lu Sheng's cold and stern face.
The surrounding temperature dropped below absolute zero, and a chilling sensation, even one that sent shivers down the spine of an ancient god, emanated from the depths of the celestial disc.
It is not a skeleton warship.
Not a vanguard of some abyss.
Rather, it is the being that treats the entire solar system as its dining table and Earth's creatures as its food.
Lu Sheng did not retreat.
He looked up, gazing at the boundless deep space through the heavy bronze dome.
The cross-shaped double pupils were fixed on a tiny coordinate point that had been forcibly torn apart in the star map.
Black and gold imperial patterns ignited beneath the skin.
"You've spotted me?"
Lu Sheng stretched out an extremely violent arc, revealing a set of white teeth.
"That's perfect."
"Looking at the menu for too long will make you hungry. If you're so tough, come to the kitchen and see which dishes are actually served on the table."
He raised his hand and slammed it heavily onto the battle formation's celestial plate.
"All channels broadcast. Get all the main guns warmed up!"
In the vast, empty celestial palace on the far side of the moon, the gears of war rumbled into action.