Chapter 133 A Helping Hand

Furious, Hua Jun charged towards Qiao Yu, looking like he wanted to devour him whole.

Three minutes later, Hua Jun was subdued by Qiao Yu, who grabbed his hand, pressed his head, and pinned him to the bathroom floor.

"Third Great-Uncle, calm down! I really didn't do it on purpose that time!"

"Calm down my ass!"

Hua Jun struggled desperately, his face turning red.

But how could a researcher's strength compare to that of a live monster like Qiao Yu?

He was pinned to the ground so hard that he couldn't even get up.

"Third Great-Uncle, it must be a special kind of fate that we became family along the way! We're blood-related relatives! Have you forgotten the sweet potato my grandma gave you?!"

Qiao Yu tried to reason with him, and only released him after seeing that Hua Jun was no longer struggling.

Then, Qiao Yu embarrassedly realized... he had used a little too much force, and Hua Jun had fainted.

Splash!

A bucket of cold water woke Hua Jun right up, so moved by Qiao Yu's filial piety that he jumped to his feet.

"What the hell do you want!" Hua Jun glared at Qiao Yu.

"Third Great-Uncle, don't get excited, I just want to ask you for a favor."

Qiao Yu smiled sheepishly, then got straight to the point and took out the mechanical body of the Mechanical Empress.

Hua Jun's eyes instantly turned solemn at the sight of it, and he didn't even bother arguing with Qiao Yu. He exclaimed in surprise.

"The first generation Black Empress?! She really was kidnapped by you?"

Then Hua Jun frowned tightly again, muttering to himself.

"Impossible, with the strength of the first generation Black Empress, who could hurt her like this?"

"Let's go, to the lab!"

Hua Jun pushed open the door of the bathroom and led Qiao Yu into the lab next door.

Qiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed. Although Hua Jun had accepted mechanical modifications, his nature was still the same as before - a research fanatic.

Qiao Yu couldn't help but be shocked as soon as he entered. The lab was incredibly spacious, filled with strange instruments that Qiao Yu didn't understand at all.

"Put her up here!"

Hua Jun pointed to a cold bed board that emitted a fluorescent glow, and Qiao Yu gently placed the Mechanical Empress's body on it.

Hua Jun pressed a button next to him, and a light wave slowly swept over the Mechanical Empress's body.

"The machine's damage rate is as high as seventy-six percent?" Hua Jun gasped.

"And that's not all! There's also a strange force inside the Black Empress's body that's constantly destroying her body and preventing her from self-repair. That force contains extremely pure destruction and death energy."

Hua Jun's eyes behind his reading glasses grew brighter.

"My God, I've never seen this kind of power! If this power could be used on mechanical life..."

"How is it, Third Great-Uncle, can you fix it?" Qiao Yu asked, also a little worried.

"Yes! But I need some time, I want to try to extract that strange power from her first!"

Hua Jun's eyes were filled with fanaticism. It had been a long time since he had encountered a research subject that interested him so much.

He vaguely felt that the power in the Black Empress's body had touched another realm! A realm that was no longer human!

"How long will it take?" Qiao Yu asked.

"One day, maybe." Hua Jun held up a finger, then he seemed to remember something and looked up at Qiao Yu blankly.

"Wait, it's been over a hundred years, but why are you still so young?!"

"Could it be..."

Hua Jun grabbed Qiao Yu, and then a probe extended from his arm and scanned Qiao Yu's body.

Hua Jun was stunned, then looked at Qiao Yu blankly and muttered.

"Bone age of 20, which means you've gone through more than a hundred years, but your age hasn't increased? How is that possible!"

Hua Jun's eyes were full of doubt, and at the same time, a strong curiosity arose in his heart.

He knew that if he hadn't accepted mechanical modification, he would have died of old age long ago.

Living for more than a hundred years, but the bone age has not increased at all, isn't this the legendary immortality?

"Third Great-Uncle, this is the question I want to know too."

"The thing is, I went to a very mysterious place with the Black Empress. We stayed there for a year, and when we came back, a hundred years had passed. Do you know what's going on?" Qiao Yu asked tentatively.

"Oh?!" Hua Jun's eyes flashed. "Space-time curvature... does it really exist?"

"A place of time curvature? What is that?" Qiao Yu asked.

"Space-time curvature may mean anomalies in time, or it may mean the bending of space, which means that the world you entered has a completely different time flow from this universe!" Hua Jun said quietly.

"Oh~" Qiao Yu's eyes lit up. "I don't understand!"

Hua Jun's eyes became a little strange.

"How can you be so stupid? Are we really related by blood?"

Qiao Yu: "..."

Then Hua Jun picked up a piece of white paper and wrote two points, A and B, on both ends of the paper.

"Look, under normal circumstances, you need to walk a certain distance from point A to point B, right? But when a space-time curvature phenomenon occurs..."

Hua Jun folded the white paper so that points A and B overlapped perfectly.

"This time, is the time from point A to point B much faster? Not only do you not have to walk such a long distance, but you can also save a lot of time."

Qiao Yu suddenly understood.

In this way, the Mechanical Kingdom is point A on the white paper, and the Mechanical Labyrinth is point B.

And his return to the real world is equivalent to leaving the white paper, and then directly jumping from point A to point B, while Hua Jun and the others are still moving towards point B on the white paper, so the timelines of the two copies with the same world background will be a hundred years apart!

At the same time, Qiao Yu thought of even more...

No wonder the copies can be reset. Rather than reset, it's better to say that every time you re-enter, you enter from the same initial point in time!

For example, if you take the start of school as a copy, then every time the player enters the copy, the time will be September 1st, so everything hasn't happened yet, which is naturally equivalent to resetting.

Qiao Yu's Adam's apple couldn't help but move up and down. He vaguely felt that he knew a part of the real secret of these copies in the Inner World, which made him feel terrified.

Knock knock knock!

There was a sudden knock on the lab door.

"Engineer Hua Jun! I am Pan Zexi, the chief guard of the Tazan Building! A daring thief broke into the Tazan Building after injuring the guards. Have you seen any suspicious people?"

Hua Jun glanced at Qiao Yu, and Qiao Yu's chrysanthemum tightened instantly. Would his Third Great-Uncle sell him out?

Fortunately, Hua Jun then said.

"No! I didn't see anyone else on the top floor. I'm doing a very important experiment, don't bother me!"

"But Engineer Hua Jun... we checked the surveillance and saw you taking another person into the lab..."

The person outside the door was still unwilling to give up, Hua Jun saw this and shouted directly.

"I said I'm doing a very important experiment, can't you understand human language? Get out!"

"...Sorry, Engineer Hua Jun! The safety of the Tazan Building is at stake, even if it is your order, I can only disobey it, I'm sorry!"

Bang!

With a bang, a hole was blasted open in the lab door, and white smoke rose up.

A man nearly two meters tall strode in.

There was no flesh and blood on his body, it was completely a mechanical body made of special materials.

A pair of mechanical compound eyes quickly locked onto Qiao Yu through the smoke.

"Presumptuous! Pan Zexi, how dare you!" Hua Jun's forehead veins bulged, no one had ever dared to bombard his lab door in so many years.

"I'm sorry, Engineer Hua Jun, this human thief killed a dozen or so brothers in the guard team! And also killed two mechanical law enforcers, I must bring him to justice! I will apologize to you afterwards!" Pan Zexi stared at Qiao Yu.

Nearly ten guard team robots were killed. Since the Mechanical Labyrinth entered an era of peace, there had never been such a terrible riot.

Hua Jun's expression also became a little ugly. Qiao Yu had caused such a big disaster, even if he came forward, it would be difficult to protect Qiao Yu.

Don't look at him shouting and killing Qiao Yu as soon as they met, this old man has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, he would never be willing to kill Qiao Yu.

"It's okay, Third Great-Uncle, just focus on helping me repair her! I have the ability to protect myself!"

Qiao Yu looked back at the tattered Mechanical Empress, with a trace of guilt in his eyes, and then looked at Pan Zexi.

"My friend, I'm sorry, I didn't really want to kill those guards."

Then Qiao Yu took a deep breath and said a little embarrassedly.

"If I've done anything wrong, then you have the ability to kill me!"

Pan Zexi was silent for a moment, and then a terrifying aura rose into the sky, making Qiao Yu feel a little palpitations.

This Pan Zexi is different from the small fries like Moro Huashuo, this guy's strength is estimated to be a leader among the high-level ranks.

"Not here, come out and fight!"

Qiao Yu directly smashed the glass of the window and jumped from a height of more than 500 meters, smashing a deep pit in the ground.

Then he looked up and found that Pan Zexi had also chased after him, Qiao Yu quickly dodged, and Pan Zexi punched the ground.

Then the sound of mechanical gears running came from Pan Zexi's body, and dozens of micro-motors on his body instantly started running at high speed, spraying two pillars of fire from his back and chasing after Qiao Yu.

The battle between flesh and blood and technological creations was about to break out.

"Lei Xi Crazy Blade!" (Pinyin: Lei Xi Kuang Dao, Thunder Breath Crazy Blade)

Pan Zexi's body turned into an afterimage and disappeared in place.

"Holy crap?! So fast!"

Qiao Yu was startled, and quickly used his Ghost Eyes to lock on Pan Zexi's position, then activated his Gale Boots and glided behind Pan Zexi.

He saw Pan Zexi's mechanical right arm changing rapidly, turning into a long knife with violent lightning arcs and slashing towards the position where Qiao Yu had just been.

The speed was so fast that even the air made a sonic boom.

Qiao Yu thought it was dangerous, if he had been careless at the beginning, he would have suffered a big loss now.

Taking advantage of the fact that Pan Zexi hadn't reacted yet, Qiao Yu seized the opportunity, took out the Candlewolf Crescent Blade and directly slashed Pan Zexi away.

"Captain, we're here to help you!"

Four or five more guards rushed over, all of whom were high-level strength.

Qiao Yu's teeth hurt a little when he saw it. No wonder as long as you leave the Mechanical Labyrinth alive, this copy is considered complete. Any guard in this copy is high-level, who can withstand this.

Just when Qiao Yu thought he was going to fight a group of people, Pan Zexi, who had just climbed up, raised his hand.

"Don't come over! Watch carefully, I'm going to tear this human apart with my own hands!"

Pan Zexi looked at the knife marks on his back that had been slashed by the Crescent Blade, and a fierce look appeared in his eyes.

"Awesome!" Qiao Yu gave a thumbs up, he liked this kind of opponent who was not very smart.

If he was Pan Zexi, he would definitely let people beat him up.

What? Martial ethics? Qiao Yu doesn't even have morality, how could he have martial ethics.

Since Pan Zexi gave him such a chance, Qiao Yu would naturally not let him down!

He first threw out the Candlewolf Crescent Blade, and the violent blade light made Pan Zexi have to dodge to the side.

Then Qiao Yu leaned forward, and a storm of attacks followed one after another, beating Pan Zexi so that he could only parry and had no power to fight back.

Pan Zexi was a little horrified to find that the human teenager in front of him was not weaker than him in terms of physical strength, speed, or power!

How is this possible?

He is the captain of the guard team in the Tazan Building! In the entire Mechanical Labyrinth, his individual combat power can definitely rank in the top three!

How could a human teenager suddenly appear who could match him?

A trace of doubt flashed in Pan Zexi's mechanical compound eyes. He tried to analyze Qiao Yu's body data, but the data he got was only four question marks.

What kind of thing did this human in front of him turn into?

Pan Zexi couldn't believe that a human's combat power could be comparable to his, a mechanical guard team captain, but the fact was right in front of him.

"This is impossible!"

Pan Zexi let out a low roar, and the motors on his body began to operate in overload, providing him with powerful power. He couldn't accept that he had lost to a human!

He waved his mechanical arm and knocked Qiao Yu away.

Qiao Yu didn't stop either, and immediately took out the Dark Staff the moment he landed.

"Undead Giant Kun!" (Kun is a mythical whale-like creature)

The huge bone Kun opened its big mouth and bit down on Pan Zexi.

"Mechanical Ballista Cannon!"

Pan Zexi in an overloaded state was extremely powerful, and countless orange-red shells were fired after his right hand was transformed into a muzzle.

Before the bone Kun could get close, it was directly blasted into a sky full of bone powder.

However, this was not the end. In an instant, countless skeleton warriors pounced on Pan Zexi.

"Human undead? You were all trash in front of me when you were alive, let alone now that you are dead!"

Pan Zexi raised his ballista cannon and fired, and all the skeleton warriors along the way were destroyed like a rotten branch and turned into a pile of skeletons.

However, Qiao Yu's purpose in summoning the skeleton army was never to rely on the skeleton warriors to defeat Pan Zexi.

What he wanted was just to confuse Pan Zexi's sight!

"Undead Swap!"

Qiao Yu's figure silently swapped positions with a small skeleton like a ghost, appearing behind Pan Zexi.

"Flowing Water Hundred Transformations Fist!"

Qiao Yu punched Pan Zexi's back, with ten layers of strength superimposed, faintly sounding like a tsunami.

However, Pan Zexi's reaction was also extremely quick, he immediately turned around and also threw a punch.

"Boom!"

The mechanical iron fist and the flesh fist collided together, making a muffled sound.

The heavy floor tiles on the ground were lifted up, revealing the bare ground underneath, stirring up a sky of dust.

The few guards who were watching were a little horrified, could this human really fight their captain to this extent?

"Pa ta!"

"Pa ta!"

"Pa ta!"

The sound of blood dripping came through the smoke.

After the smoke cleared, the guards looked over and found that Qiao Yu's right fist was dripping with blood, and even the white bones were exposed on the fist.

The guards were overjoyed when they saw Qiao Yu was injured.

"I knew it! How could the captain lose to a human!"

"That's right, a mere lowly human actually dared to challenge our captain, what an overestimating ant!"

The guards turned to look at Pan Zexi, but they were horrified to find that Pan Zexi was standing in place maintaining his punching posture, but Pan Zexi's mechanical right arm had disappeared without a trace!

The ground was scattered with parts emitting electric sparks!