A steel spear, a thousand meters long and glowing red-hot.
Who would think it was just a toy?
However, what no one knew was that a heated argument was raging within the giant's consciousness.
"Wangshu, stop making it look like a spear. We're just going to throw it anyway!"
"It's a rare chance for Jinyang to play the superhero. How can we not make the weapon look imposing?"
"Even if you carve patterns on it, no one will see them!"
"Wait a minute, why is Cui Jinqi here?"
"Why can't I be here?"
"Jinyang, did you bring people in without everyone's consent?"
"Don't be silly. Do your parents ask for your permission before having a second child?"
Various voices overlapped, making it hard to tell who was speaking.
Cheng Jinyang looked at everyone. The consciousnesses of all the girls were close to him, without shape, color, or any distinguishing marks.
He refocused his attention on the outside world. Compared to the towering giant, the surrounding buildings were as small as children's toys. Even a 50-story building barely reached his knee.
Chu Qingqing's metal manipulation had created this colossal metal giant, and Xing Yuanzhi's mass effect maintained its terrifying weight.
Wang Wanrou's thought imprint kept everyone's consciousnesses together and resisted Wang Chuzhong's mind control. Yang Wangshu's electromagnetic barrier provided basic "vision" for the steel giant and countered the surrounding drones.
However, it was Su Lili's "energy" that elevated the girls' abilities to third-grade strength.
Cheng Jinyang could feel one consciousness snuggling close to him. Unlike the others, she never spoke, moved, or used her abilities. She just stayed quietly, as if this closeness alone completely satisfied her.
He turned his gaze forward again and shouted in the consciousness space:
"Everyone, quiet down!"
The girls fell silent.
The steel giant was now controlled jointly by Cheng Jinyang and the girls. Their abilities were fully shared and interconnected, each bearing part of the burden of ability application and computational load, the so-called "distributed computing."
Cheng Jinyang himself had the highest authority, able to assign various tasks to the corresponding girls for execution.
The giant's right hand gripped the spear, its tip slightly raised, aiming at the distant mothership in the sky.
A barrage of military attacks from the surrounding ground continued to rain down on him. The nearby Longxiang Army had wised up, no longer using kinetic metal shells to add material to him, but switching to high explosives, lasers, and plasma weapons, trying to thwart his attack on the mothership.
"Wait." A girl suddenly said, "If you attack directly like this, you'll break the city's shield from the inside out."
"No problem," another girl replied. "That's exactly what we want the people on the mothership to think, so they'll order all the Longxiang troops in the city to gather here and stop us at all costs."
"Then we'll take them all down in one go..."
As if to confirm this, the raised, metal spear suddenly slammed into the ground with a boom.
The surroundings shook violently for an instant, and then the mass effect's quicksand field rapidly expanded.
1280G, super gravity amplification!
Centered on the steel giant, within a radius of about 2 kilometers, all buildings collapsed instantly, military vehicles deformed and caved in, and combat personnel fell on the spot, their bones crushed.
Nothing could withstand more than a thousand times its weight, leading to roughly one-third of Jiangning District being completely leveled, leaving no survivors.
Although most non-military personnel had already evacuated this war zone, some innocent civilians who stayed behind would inevitably be affected, right?
Cheng Jinyang felt a twinge of guilt, and Wang Chuzhong's "pawn theory" flashed through his mind again.
He concentrated hard, pushing these distracting thoughts out of his consciousness space. The girls, having already sensed his thoughts, also stopped arguing and fell silent.
"Jinyang!" Yang Wangshu suddenly exclaimed.
Her electromagnetic wave detection range was the farthest, and she immediately detected something striking the city shield, which was almost instantly pierced. The attack was already upon them.
If it had been a simple shout of warning, it would have been too late by the time Cheng Jinyang reacted. However, in the mental space where everyone was telepathically connected, the moment Xiao Wangshu detected something amiss, everyone knew simultaneously.
The iron giant suddenly raised its hand, and the wave of abilities flashed again.
Mass Effect: Azure Nether Realm!
The so-called Azure Nether Realm refers to controlling an area where all objects within it have their mass reduced.
When the mothership fired the Cataclysm Fire Missile at the Pukou District in the past, the master of the Xing family, who was of the fifth grade, used this move to make the missile lighter, allowing air resistance to take effect and buying time for the old man Cheng Benhe's ability to lock onto it.
A fifth-grade supernatural can transform their ability from the "normal state" to the "intermediate state," resulting in a qualitative leap. Those below the fifth grade absolutely cannot turn tons of matter into something as light as a feather.
However, the third grade is another threshold, allowing one to transform their ability from the "intermediate state" to the "phase state." If the intermediate state is initial interference with reality, the phase state is deep interference with reality, creating a series of astonishing anti-physical effects.
The Azure Nether Realm in the third grade phase state unfolded invisibly in front of the iron giant.
Before anyone could take a breath, the main cannon laser, which had pierced the city's sky shield and had 100% energy enough to penetrate the earth's crust, crashed into the Azure Nether Realm's effect range with unstoppable, terrifying momentum.
Then it exploded.
Like a brilliant firework, the solid large-diameter laser suddenly exploded into countless tiny light points the moment it entered the Azure Nether Realm.
These light points scattered in all directions. They landed on the ground, on buildings, on the surface of the iron giant, and seemed to pass through any obstacles as if they didn't exist, continuing in a straight line towards their original direction, soon disappearing into the unseen, purely spatial distance.
"These are photons with zero rest mass," a girl in the mental space remarked with amazement. "It's incredible... This is probably the first time humans have created photons with absolutely zero rest mass that still maintain speed and stability. They can penetrate all obstacles, like the ghosts of this world..."
However, the others quickly realized: this was the mothership's main cannon laser!
Without Xing Yuanzhi's Azure Nether Realm, the iron giant would have been melted in an instant!
Thus, Cheng Jinyang raised his hand again, aiming from a distance at the silhouette of the mothership in the sky beyond the city shield.
An eye for an eye, even if it meant breaking the city shield, he had to respond to this main cannon attack.
Universal Gravitation: Twenty Strings!