Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Gu Qing Shan only thought about it for a split second before he stopped.

I'm not good at naming things, and under the current emergency situation, it's no time to be slowly thinking about it.

"Warship, were you constructed in complete accordance with my specifications?" he asked.

The indifferent electronic voice answered:

[I was. This mechanical city was constructed exactly as you have designed, would you like to name the Immortal City now?]

"Not yet"

Gu Qing Shan pondered briefly before speaking again: "Initiate the No.2 technical system and collect my gene, no need to create any clones, I just need a half-mechanical artificial intelligence substitute"

[Roger]

Several spinning rings appeared from his feet, and after circling around him a few times, they returned to the floor.

After that, an incubation chamber emerged from where the rings appeared.

[Currently incubation organism to adapt to mechanical apparatus]

[Prototype complete]

[Please examine]

The incubation chamber opened.

A semi-mechanical creature walked out.

Gu Qing Shan glanced at it and said: "Good enough"

The indifferent electronic voice continued: [Permission received, incubating final product]

Numerous tiny holes appeared all over the deck of the warship, from which tiny wires sprung out and began to weave themselves together into the skin of the prototype organism.

Very quickly, a second Gu Qing Shan appeared.

From the outside, it looked exactly like Gu Qing Shan, including its facial expressions.

"Say something" Gu Qing Shan said.

The other 'Gu Qing Shan' spoke up right away: "Say something"

Their tones were exactly the same.

[Please give an order] the system machine said.

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly before speaking: "If I leave this place, the Heavenly Emperor would surely head into the Human realm to try and capture me, then my substitute would only have a single responsibility------ be prepared to initiate warp at any moment"

He then started programming the system with a detailed set of orders.

[Orders received. The Immortal City will act with 'avoid contact' as its highest directive] the electronic voice replied.

Gu Qing Shan nodded in satisfaction.

A mechanical bracelet then floated to and started hovering in front of him.

[By activating this bracelet, you will immediately return to the warship]

Gu Qing Shan equipped the bracelet.

"Now send me to the Human realm, Huo Shui city" he ordered.

The electronic voice replied: [Coordinates confirmed, transporting]

Gu Qing Shan instantly vanished from the Immortal City.

The entire interstellar warship simply continued to float in the sky motionlessly.

A few moments later.

A flash of light could be seen at the edge of the horizon.

--------the Heavenly Emperor's Immortal City.

As soon as the light appeared, Gu Qing Shan's Immortal City reacted without delay.

The substitute that had been standing blankly on the deck of the ship suddenly spat at the horizon:

"Idiocy, you think I'm going to let you catch up?"

As soon as he said that, the interstellar warship triggered its warp drive.

The giant warship that eclipsed the sky vanished.

It had directly warped over a hundred thousand kilometers away.

Time slowly passed.

After an unknown amount of time, some tiny fluctuations could be felt in the airspace around the warship.

The 'Gu Qing Shan' who was standing on the deck of the ship moved right away.

He muttered: "Concealment? But there were some energy fluctuations, regardless of what you are------"

In an instant, the interstellar warship had warped away again.

It was gone.

------this time, it warped a total of two hundred thousand kilometers away.

…

On the other Immortal City.

The Heavenly Emperor was sitting on top of a throne shrouded in fog.

Below, heavenly beings stood waiting on him in two lines.

"Your Majesty, should we continue to pursue?" a heavenly official asked.

The Heavenly Emperor scowled but didn't say anything.

Gu Qing Shan is clearly standing on top of that interstellar warship, but refuses to fight.

-----this fellow is as slippery as an eel, and without feeling sure of himself, he would definitely not clash against me directly again.

"A technological airship almost doesn't have to worry about energy, since they have more than one advanced method of recharging themselves, it'll be very difficult to pursue them if they insist on fleeing" another heavenly official added.

"This is troublesome… if we can't go within a certain distance, it would be impossible to seal off space around them" the first heavenly official commented.

The Heavenly Emperor felt a bit troubled.

------should I invoke the power of Miracles now?

While he was thinking that, someone came to report: "Your Majesty, for unknown reasons, 7-8 of our men have gone missing"

A Heavenly General who accompanied them added: "That's right sir, according to our casualty reports, they did not die during the previous battle, but they are still nowhere to be found"

"The situation is a bit eerie and everyone is feeling a bit uneasy, please give your judgment, Your Majesty"

The Heavenly Emperor paused, feeling a bit hesitant.

The past few times… I didn't manage to find appropriate opportunities…

If too many people go missing too rapidly, it would harm the morale of the troops.

The Heavenly Emperor silently sighed, then asked in return: "What's the state of repair for our Immortal City?"

"70%, Your Majesty"

"What about our Merit Stones?"

"There are more than enough to provide the Immortal City an upgrade and restructure"

"If that's the case, then let's have the Immortal City be upgraded and repaired first. Additionally, send out some people to investigate that Apocalypse and search for our missing men"

"Understood sir!"

The heavenly officials all responded in unison and quickly dismissed themselves.

The Heavenly Emperor continued to sit for a few moments before standing up from his throne and proceeding towards the opaque fog behind the Heavenly Palace.

He simply walked forward through the endless white fog.

Brilliant bursts of light gradually condensed into beautiful calligraphy behind his back-------

This was a large-scale isolation formation.

Several dozen isolation formations in a row had completely quarantined this area off, making it impossible for anyone to see the Heavenly Emperor's whereabouts.