Chapter 716: Transformation of the Replica
Meng Xiang ran as fast as he could, taking detours when he encountered a small town, and occasionally passing through the countryside, he would be attacked by some strange creatures that parasitized animals. He didn't want to fight with the strange creatures, so he avoided them whenever possible, and kept running away for nearly 100 kilometers before stepping on the Green Magic Board again, nearly 100 meters above the ground, resting while flying.
The psychological pressure brought by the ubiquitous strange shapes is always there and unbearable. Meng Xiang feels very tired, not only physically but also mentally.
What worries Meng Xiang most is how many clones are on board the spaceship that fell from the sky? The technological level of the alien monster is far beyond his imagination. Although nearly a hundred clones died when they fell to the earth from space, those clones can burst out the peak power of the deep and subtle level within a dozen seconds. The threat to the reincarnationists is greater than that of the monster.
Fang Ru once deduced that, judging from the number of monsters in this A-grade horror film, the individual strengths should not exceed the capabilities of the reincarnationists, and this is indeed the case.
Even if the monster parasitic on the whale can avoid the hidden attack, not to mention Zhuo Luo, even Gu Panpan, Han Fan or Tang Bixin can easily break the B-level defense and defeat the monster's body.
However, now it seems a little strange. The clone is so powerful that even Zoro cannot deal with it.
Regarding this doubt, Meng Xiang once discussed it with Fang Ru during his escape, and Fang Ru had only one answer: the basis of the replica is the reincarnation.
In other words, it was the existence and negligence of the reincarnations that led to the appearance of the clones. To put it more directly, it was because Meng Xiang first encountered the monster and was deprived of his genetic data by the clone that was parasitic on humans that the clone became extremely powerful.
Meng Xiang had no way to refute it. Everything was caused by his carelessness. However, Fang Ru put all the responsibility on him, which made Meng Xiang very unhappy.
"Don't worry. Considering the difficulty of the plot and the fact that the space fortress has gone out of control, the alien monster should not have extra time to produce a large number of clones. In addition, most of the clones will become cosmic dust when entering the earth. Therefore, even if the alien monster has the ability to continue cloning, the number of clones that can enter the earth to hunt you while we are alive must be limited."
Fang Ru's last words made Meng Xiang feel a little relieved.
After another three days of flying, Meng Xiang was a little overwhelmed by the boring flying life. He also had to concentrate on controlling the Green Magic Board and could not relax at all, which almost made Meng Xiang mentally collapse. He had to take a short rest in the wilderness during the flight. In this way, he might not be able to catch up with his companions in the remaining four days.
During these few days of flying, we passed the country where Meng Xiang's real world was located. Of course, everything here was different from Meng Xiang's real world, and to avoid any trouble, Meng Xiang deliberately avoided flying over populated areas. Apart from occasional bird attacks along the way, he rarely had any conflicts with the strange shapes that parasitized humans.
On this day, we have flown to the coast. Geographically, if we cross Oceania and fly along the coast of Australia, we will reach the border of Antarctica. In order to avoid populated areas along the way, Meng Xiang spent a lot of time taking detours, but when flying over the sea, Meng Xiang had no scruples. He flew in a straight line, taking into account the rest time, and tried his best to reach Antarctica as quickly as possible.
In order to cross Oceania in one go, Meng Xiang decided to take a short rest on one of the isolated islands along the coast.
The island is about 3 or 4 kilometers wide, and is covered with barren mountains and weeds. There are no tall plants and no animals, so Meng Xiang can rest in peace.
Meng Xiang sat on a big rock and fell into a hazy sleep. He didn't know how long it had been. Suddenly, the sound of the tides of the waves changed slightly. From the originally silent sky, there was a "squeaking" sound of breaking wind.
Because he had experienced being ambushed by a monster before, Meng Xiang always paid attention to the strange sights around him even when he was resting. Now he suddenly woke up, stood up and looked up, and was shocked.
I saw a flying saucer-shaped spacecraft with a diameter of more than 50 meters gradually approaching. Although it did not cause much noise, such a huge object falling from the sky still caused the sea surface to churn and the air waves to soar.
The aliens must have satellites or other scientific means to track his location, so Meng Xiang was not surprised that he was caught up. On the contrary, Meng Xiang could never have imagined that the aliens would use this behemoth to track him.
Meng Xiang decided to strike first.
The initial spiritual gathering explodes.
"Boom!" Meng Xiang flew up, and the entire island shook violently, the waves rolled, and a tsunami spread around. The B-level defense could not stop the majestic force, and the huge spaceship was directly passed through by Meng Xiang. The energy fluctuations of the atomic-level attack directly disintegrated the spaceship into pieces.
"Swoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Three blue beams of light shot out from the spacecraft and launched an attack on Meng Xiang from three directions.
"Boom!" Meng Xiang collided with the three light beams. Intense energy intertwined, emitting indescribable energy fluctuations carrying atomic-level attacks, causing the sea surface surrounding the deserted island to evaporate, revealing an area of seabed.
Meng Xiang landed on the island and looked at three figures not far away.
People who are exactly like themselves are clones. However, unlike the clones seen on the space fortress, these three clones are wearing mechanical armor that is twice the size of their bodies.
In the battle in mid-air, although Meng Xiang did not use his full strength, he was still unable to tear open the defenses of the clones when he collided with the Heavenly Crystal in his hand, which shocked Meng Xiang very much.
What shocked Meng Xiang even more was yet to come.
"Meng Xiang, you can't escape. You destroyed our space fortress and caused the deaths and injuries of thousands of our companions. You must pay the price." The three clones spoke in unison, without any difference in their voices.
"You... you don't have souls? Why can you talk?" Meng Xiang was so surprised that he couldn't speak. Gene clones can only copy body and memory, but not soul. So the clones that Meng Xiang had fought in the space fortress before were like robots, only knowing how to follow simple instructions and fight by instinct. But now the three clones in front of him were talking so logically, and what's worse, their words were even full of intonation and emotion, which shocked Meng Xiang.
"Hehe." The muscles on the faces of the three people twitched, revealing a smile that no one who saw it would forget. Their smiles were full of ghosts, just like a person telling a ghost story, when he talks about the ghost smiling, he also imitates the ghost face and shows the same smile.
"Did you say on the Space Fortress that the clones we developed have no souls? Ever since we got your genetic data, we have been researching and conducting experiments on replicating various organisms. However, the replicas are always imperfect. Even if we give them various instructions, they always behave like non-organic organisms."
"Soul is something very unfamiliar to our technology. With your reminder, we searched for the memory of the soul in the replica's memory and finally understood the concept of soul. Indeed, we cannot give the replica a soul. Even with the most advanced artificial intelligence, we cannot achieve the level of 'soul'. Your words opened our eyes and corrected the direction of research and development. In order to solve this problem, we spent several days and finally got a solution."
The faint words were like a bolt from the blue to Meng Xiang. He finally understood why there were so many corpses or creatures in that garbage dump-like area on the space fortress.
Everything is an alien monster cloning experiment.
However, it is impossible for aliens who advocate technology to understand the concept of "soul". Meng Xiang secretly cursed himself for being too talkative and giving the aliens a clue.
However, he was very curious about how the aliens solved this problem. Even the Lord God could not copy and create souls, so could the aliens do it? The three clones standing in front of him acted just like humans, and even had subtle emotions. If they took off their armor and put on clothes, they would be exactly the same as humans.
Meng Xiang hesitated to speak, as he knew now was not the time to ask questions. Meng Xiang was not afraid of fighting one against three. The only thing that frightened him was the armor on the clone.
The huge armor exudes power beyond A-level defense.
Double A-level defense.
It is precisely because of this defensive power that the clone was able to confront Meng Xiang head-on when he activated his spiritual gathering.
Meng Xiang finally understood why the alien monster had A-level defense, and the space fortress even upgraded the defense of a certain layer to double A-level. Everything was done by the aliens. They studied some high-tech to gather defense power, thereby concentrating on improving defense power.
The Lord God gave all materials in horror movies B-level defense, but the aliens used this defense power to develop double A-level defense equipment.
Of course, this kind of equipment should be extremely difficult to make, otherwise, all alien monsters would have a set of such armor, and even the entire space fortress would have double A-level defense. Then even if Meng Xiang had great abilities, he would not be able to destroy it.
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