Eat Little Almonds

Chapter 399 The City Lord of Mechanical Labyrinth

“This… how is this possible…”

A look of disbelief appeared in the eyes of the several guards.

The outcome of that head-on clash just now was already very clear.

Pan Zexi lost an entire mechanical right arm, while that human kid only suffered a serious injury to his fist.

This result was unacceptable to all the robots present. Pan Zexi was their guard captain!

Pan Zexi looked at his mechanical arm, which had shattered into pieces all over the ground, and was also a little dazed.

“Such a terrifying physical body… you?! You are an Ancient Sacred Body!”

Pan Zexi exclaimed, then he shouted at the guards.

“I’ll hold him back! You guys go and notify the City Lord! Tell him that the legendary Ancient Sacred Body has reappeared in the world! The future of the Mechanical City is up to you!”

Pan Zexi had a look of determination to die as if he were going to his execution. His motors ran at full speed as he rushed up and hugged Joe Elm tightly.

“Captain!!”

The guards were moved to tears when they saw this.

“Go! Hurry up! Don’t let my death be meaningless!” Pan Zexi roared loudly.

The guards looked embarrassed but eventually gritted their teeth and scattered in all directions.

This situation instantly confused Joe Elm.

If he remembered correctly, Pan Zexi brought people to capture him, right? Why did it sound like he was some evil demon king about to invade the Mechanical City?

But who would refuse experience points that were offered to him?

“Since you want to sacrifice yourself so much, then I’ll reluctantly fulfill your wish.”

Joe Elm pressed his hands on Pan Zexi’s head, then with a forceful pull, he tore off a mechanical head along with a spine made of refined iron.

[Detected that player Joe Elm has resolved NPC guard captain Pan Zexi through hand-to-hand combat. Rewarding 39 free attribute points, experience +1950]

With Pan Zexi’s death, Joe Elm’s experience points reached 27550/30000.

If he killed a few more high-level enemies, Joe Elm would be able to successfully advance to the high-level stage himself.

The *Dali Chaoren* (Super Strength Superman) skill that was rewarded when he advanced to the mid-level stage directly boosted Joe Elm’s combat power by a level. Joe Elm was very curious about what rewards he would get for advancing to the high-level stage.

“Let me see where those guards just ran off to.” Joe Elm rubbed his hands together expectantly.

But there wasn’t a single robot in sight nearby. They were all so scared that they fled in panic when they saw Joe Elm kill Pan Zexi.

But how could they outrun Joe Elm? The Zhulong Yanyue Blade switched to the *hui* (dark) state. The fifty percent agility boost made Joe Elm so fast that afterimages appeared where he stood.

“Tear!”

Joe Elm caught up with one of the guards, then slashed down with his blade. Before the guard could react, he was cut in half.

Black and red machine oil flowed all over the ground, and was directly ignited by the electric sparks.

“One more to go!”

Joe Elm impatiently raised his blade and chased after another guard. Just as Joe Elm was about to slash down, a voice suddenly rang out in the sky.

“Spare that man!”

Joe Elm instinctively felt a trace of danger. He quickly retreated, and then a long spear slammed into the spot where he had just been standing, leaving a bottomless black hole in the ground.

Joe Elm secretly thought it was a close call. If he had insisted on making that strike just now, that long spear would definitely have pierced through his body as well.

Just from the power he felt from this long spear, Joe Elm could be sure that the person who came was definitely stronger than Pan Zexi!

And when Joe Elm looked up and saw who had come, he was even more stunned, because the person in front of him was actually an acquaintance of his!

“Brother Meng?! Why are you here too?”

Meng De’s expression was also a little complicated.

“When the news spread from my subordinates that the human race’s Sacred Body had reappeared, I was wondering if it was you. I didn’t expect I’d guessed right.”

Joe Elm smiled sheepishly. Back then in the Mechanical Nation, Meng De had drawn the route map to the Queen’s Building for him.

At that time, Meng De was a colonel, but after a hundred years, Meng De had become the City Lord of the Mechanical City.

Meng De’s face had a few more traces of vicissitudes, and at the same time, a few more traces of calmness.

“Let’s go to the Tazan Building first. This isn’t the place to talk.” Meng De beckoned to Joe Elm, and incidentally asked the other robots to deal with the impact of this incident.

When he walked back to the top floor of the Tazan Building again, Joe Elm was also filled with emotion.

Ten minutes ago, he still had to rack his brains thinking about how to sneak in, and he was chased by the guard team. Ten minutes later, he was invited in by the City Lord.

If Pan Zexi knew about this in the afterlife, he would probably be so angry that he would come back to life…

The top floor of the Tazan Building was divided into two halves. One half belonged to Hua Jun, and the other half belonged to the City Lord of this Mechanical City.

“Sit down.”

Meng De pulled out a chair for Joe Elm, then slowly sat down opposite Joe Elm.

Joe Elm keenly noticed that compared to when he was in the Mechanical Nation, Meng De’s eyes were obviously much colder.

In short, the current Meng De was more like a machine than a human.

Joe Elm activated his Ghost Eyes to look closely, and sure enough, he found that there was an extra data motherboard in Meng De’s body.

In other words… Meng De had completely transformed from being a human undergoing mechanical modification from the beginning, to now being a complete robot.

“Powerful, isn’t it, my current body.”

Seeing Joe Elm observing him, a smile appeared on the corner of Meng De’s mouth.

“Very strong! I estimate it can withstand my full-strength punch.” Joe Elm nodded with a serious face.

Meng De’s smile instantly froze on his face.

Then Meng De coughed awkwardly twice, secretly thinking that this kid still spoke as caustically as he did a hundred years ago, oh no, caustically to machines.

“Joe Elm, you clearly possess such a powerful physical talent, why are you unwilling to accept mechanical modification to become even stronger? Even Hua Jun, that stubborn old man, has accepted mechanical modification.”

Looking at Joe Elm’s body, Meng De couldn’t help but sigh with emotion. It had been more than a hundred years, and he still hadn’t given up on the desire to have the Ancient Sacred Body accept mechanical modification.

Meng De had always firmly believed that a strong combination would create the most powerful physique in the world.

Joe Elm was just about to speak when Meng De interrupted him.

“Listen to me first, mechanical modification isn’t just about making the physical body stronger! It can also allow you to overcome your own genes!” Meng De’s eyes were fanatical.

“Genes?!” Joe Elm was slightly stunned. He thought of those gene sequences composed of code in Teng Ling’s body.

“That’s right! Pure humans can’t possibly overcome their own genes! Let me give you an example.”

Seeing Joe Elm’s reaction, Meng De was overjoyed, and quickly explained.

“For example, a human male, even if he knows that a human female cannot have offspring with him, he will still spend a huge cost to try to complete the process of reproduction with this female! Even if he knows this is an irrational behavior!”

“No matter how education and civilization develop, humans can’t beat genes!”

“As long as humans are still carbon-based organisms, as long as genetic material is still inherited through DNA, this situation will not change! The business generated based on instinct will always exist! Men will eventually pretend to reproduce in order to deceive their genes and self-anesthetize!”

“And accepting mechanical modification allows you to break through the limitations of the gene lock and become a life on another level! Complete sublimation!”

Meng De spoke eloquently, with a sense of superiority.

And Joe Elm’s face became more and more strange as he listened.

“Um, Brother Meng De, when you were caught soliciting prostitutes, was that the explanation you used?”