Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 655 25: Dimensional Reduction Strike 4

Inside the room.

"Do you regret it?" Su Ziyu reached out and held Pasha's hand, pulling her into his embrace with a hint of guilt, and said softly, "If you want, maybe I can help you switch back to a human body."

Undergoing high-tier bionic transformation is destined to lose something.

"This was my own choice." Pasha shook her head and said, "Besides, I'm in a good state now. I can feel the breeze, the warmth of your body."

"I thought it would take hundreds of years to achieve this."

High-tier bionics have a long lifespan, but Wasteland technology is still thousands of years away from achieving the level of ancient bionic technology.

"Is little Ying okay?" Pasha leaned in Su Ziyu's embrace for a while and asked.

Su Ziyu nodded and said, "She's very safe now."

Their relationship didn't have the love-hate entanglements that Su Ziyu and Qing Ji shared. Perhaps in Pasha's heart, her daughter was the first priority. Su Ziyu understood this well, as he had been more of a transient visitor in this world for a long time.

"Tell me about your things." Pasha nodded contentedly and asked.

Su Ziyu thought for a moment and briefly recounted some things that Pasha could understand. As for the things beyond her worldview, he didn't tell her for now, as the shock would be too great at once.

This time, the things he brought back were beyond the era, and some matters needed Pasha to know.

"Old Rulers?"

Pasha's expression was one of disbelief. Although Su Ziyu still concealed some things, the information about the Old Rulers gave her a huge shock. She could accept that there were extraterrestrials in this world. After all, rumors had long said that aliens caused the great disaster. But to hear that immense Old Rulers slept sealed beneath Earth was still hard for her to believe.

If it weren't Su Ziyu saying this, she would have thought he had drunk too much today.

The darkness hidden in the Wasteland Plane was deeper than imagined, and even Su Ziyu only gradually came into contact with those shadows that had lurked for tens of thousands of years.

The two embraced and indulged in a moment of warmth.

Pasha, who had just acquired the Ancient Bionic Components, was like a curious little girl, gently caressing Su Ziyu's chest with her renewed sense of touch, feeling the warmth and the resilience of flesh from her fingertips. It had been a long time since she'd felt the touch of another person. She once even thought that over time she would slowly lose part of her human emotions. For many years, Su Ying was her everything, and Pasha placed all her emotions on her daughter. High-tier bionics perceive external signals as data, which gradually altered her perception of the world.

In fact, in the civilization of the Ancient Lost Empire, there was a long period when those who first injected their consciousness into machines gradually became estranged from their families, losing the ties of blood, wear away the last bits of humanity over time, until one day they turned into emotionless robots.

Indeed.

Humans too can become synthetic life forms. Without human emotionality, they would ultimately become intelligent robots.

The most important breakthrough of ancient bionic technology was a neuron system and five senses comparable to humans, even physiological needs were crucial to maintaining humanity. Without these, the emotions of bionics would gradually disappear within one or two hundred years.

Su Ziyu quietly watched Pasha before him, feeling the joy emanating from her spirit.

At the initial meeting, her emotions seemed like a dead pond. However, her emotions have surged again with her renewed perception of the outside world, and as her hand slowly moved downward, Su Ziyu could even feel a hint of eager excitement from Pasha.

Yet this attempt was quickly interrupted by Su Ziyu.

Suddenly, sensing something, he held Pasha's fingers and slightly frowned, "It seems little Ying is in some trouble."

"Let's go have a look."

Hearing his words, Pasha immediately stood up and said with determination, "There's a helicopter on the rooftop, where is she?"

"We can get there now."

Su Ziyu placed a hand on Pasha as she rose and shook his head, "No need to trouble ourselves. We have a faster way."

"Hold on tight."

With that said, he locked onto their daughter's approximate location. A flicker of lightning flickered in his eyes and, with a feeling of vertigo, when Pasha's senses recovered from the brief dizziness, they were already hundreds of meters in the air, with a towering mountain over a thousand meters high nearby, and a swamp covered in a light mist in the distance.

"Ghost Shadow Forest." Pasha glanced around and said with caution, "There are many swamp crabs and giant leeches living around here."

"Where is little Ying?"

Su Ziyu gently descended with Pasha in his arms, his gaze piercing through the mountain to where Su Ying was, and with a flicker of spiritual light from a spell, he said softly, "Over there."

"She seems to have encountered an opponent."

—"Twenty Feet Invisibility."

The two figures vanished from the spot. After encountering other Guardians in the Space-Time Hub, Su Ziyu filled in many spiritual abilities. He basically replicated all spiritual abilities once possessed by the Arcane Empire into his Space-Time Inspector System.

Su Ying was indeed in trouble.

And it was a great trouble, a once-dangerous foe, one who had even made Su Ziyu feel threatened. Of course, now, she definitely wasn't Su Ziyu's match.

Mother Yisodel.

Her appearance had changed drastically from Su Ziyu's past memories. Her skin exhibited a faint blue-purple hue, though her facial features remained the same, several keratinous plates had formed on her back. However, spiritual casters confirm targets by mind waves, so no matter how much Mother Yisodel had changed, Su Ziyu could recognize her from a glance.

She was parasitized by a spirit body.

In Su Ziyu's Spiritual Vision, he could see the ill-omened shadow shrouding the spiritual light behind her, covering her body like a writhing creature.

Nonetheless, she had become stronger.

The spiritual fluctuations Mother Yisodel exhibited had reached Level 8, which was a lord-level in the Lost Empire during the interstellar age. The battle between her and Su Ying was very intriguing. In both spiritual ability level and combat experience, Mother Yisodel far surpassed Su Ying, often showcasing astonishing combat prowess, seemingly toying with Su Ying by exhausting her strength.

Not for lack of desire to capture Su Ying directly, but Mother Yisodel just couldn't do that.

Because she couldn't break through the defense.

Most of the known weapons on Earth can barely penetrate the outer defenses of interstellar armor. Mother Yisodel had clearly planned for this ambush for a long time and even wielded a special Fluctuating Blade, black tech from a certain organization, capable of penetrating power armor yet only leaving a shallow scratch on Su Ying's interstellar armor.

The light saber in Su Ying's hand posed a significant threat, forcing Mother Yisodel to remain cautious at all times, conscious that just one strike could cleave her in half in an instant.

So, the battleground was more like Su Ying charging through, relentlessly pursuing Mother Yisodel. Though not entirely embarrassed, her counterattacks were weak.

The advanced interstellar armor of the Ancient Lost Empire could traverse Wasteland Earth unchallenged.

Even under a nuclear assault, unless in the epicenter of the explosion, it would only sustain minor damage at most.

However, Su Ying's combat experience was still lacking.

She couldn't synchronize her spiritual ability with the interstellar armor, so she would always be a step slower than Mother Yisodel. Elite Space Marines react in nanoseconds with reflexes directly linked to the computational prowess of the interstellar armor, and now she's like a child wielding a divine artifact, always just a tad short no matter how hard she tries.

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