Chapter -1000 A Fierce Battle

-1000, who was entangled in a fierce fight with the sycamore tree man, suddenly erupted! He slammed a punch into the core of the tree man!

Amidst the splattering bark, the fist piercing into the tree man suddenly transformed into an iron hammer, ruthlessly tearing apart most of the tree man's body, emitting a crisp "crack" and a multitude of fissures. Even the pulsating heart of the tree man was visible to the naked eye. If -1000 followed up with another blow, he could completely kill the sycamore tree man before him.

However, at this moment, a vortex-shaped mark suddenly appeared above -1000's head, looking somewhat like a radar antenna. He seemed to freeze for a second, and then large swathes of dissipating electric arcs appeared on his body surface, converging into vast, shimmering, invisible shields!

These crystal-clear shields enveloped -1000's body. The instant the transparent protective shield appeared, the banshee familiars previously controlled by Mr. Darkness screamed and turned to ashes. Even the surface of the sycamore tree man's body, which was close to -1000, began to burn with raging flames due to the high temperature! It was as if -1000 had suddenly transformed into a being made of red-hot metal.

Immediately afterward, -1000 deeply gazed at Fang Senyan, as if trying to engrave his appearance in his heart, and then leaped into the depths of the nearby forest with astonishing speed. The trees he touched instantly burst into flames.

Fang Senyan's pupils contracted, and he immediately pursued, seeing a humanoid burning path scorched through the forest, with deep red embers and flickering flames illuminating the woods. However, the figure was nowhere to be seen.

When Fang Senyan chased out of the forest, he found himself in a street square, where many frightened citizens were gathered, whispering to each other. Seeing this scene, Fang Senyan immediately knew that today's assassination attempt had failed. For -1000, who could freely transform into any human appearance, hiding in human society was extremely simple.

At this moment, the team channel was suddenly connected, and Reef's concerned voice urgently transmitted:

"Boss, are you alright? We've dealt with those steel monsters and are coming to help."

Fang Senyan immediately understood the reason for -1000's escape. Clearly, he couldn't receive signals from his subordinates and knew they had all been annihilated, so he quickly retreated. His judgment of the battle situation was astonishingly high.

However, after a brief thought, Fang Senyan broke free from the initial feeling of a failed hunt and said in the team channel:

"Understood. Don't rush over. Carefully clean up the battlefield first, don't leave anything behind. After you destroy all those regular Terminators, -1000 should have also received the information that his subordinates were wiped out, so he escaped one step ahead."

The rest of the Ace team was naturally quite shocked upon hearing this news, but after thinking about it carefully, -1000's artificial AI was indeed cunning to a certain degree. Ordinary human intelligence might not be as strong as his. Strictly speaking, it would be strange if this guy didn't escape when facing adversity. That would undoubtedly indicate that this guy had even decided to self-destruct.

Under Wuge's Rejuvenation spell, Fang Senyan's wounds didn't need bandaging at all, and they were rapidly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. After waiting for less than three minutes, the remaining members of the Ace team arrived. Of course, Hei Ge and Reef were very familiar with Wuge. They went over to greet her as soon as they met, and Hei Ge took the opportunity to introduce Wuge to Zi...

Fang Senyan's expression and mood were naturally very awkward at this time, but he was also skilled at diverting the topic, so he introduced Mr. Darkness to the team members, and then explained his intentions in detail.

It is worth mentioning that Mr. Darkness had been hiding away from the moment the members of the Ace team appeared. Obviously, he was also very concerned that the Ace team would suddenly kill him. At this time, what appeared in front of everyone was just an illusion, transformed from a dead bat ignited by Mr. Darkness.

However, Reef did more of this kind of bargaining and asking for help. When he was the team leader, he had received requests from others more than once. After some heated debate, Reef and Hei Ge very simply pointed out the essence of the matter - if they broke up, what Mr. Darkness's Five Ring Workshop team would lose was the opportunity for two powerful Awakened to advance, while Fang Senyan and the others only had a chance of failing a mission!

The Ace team had a solid foundation and could afford to lose and gamble, but the lifeline of Five Ring Workshop was in the hands of the enemy!

Under such a strong position where he was the fish on the chopping board, any negotiation experts or negotiation skills were pale. Hei Ge kept bursting out with radical remarks such as "We'll just break up!" and "Full-scale war!" Reef then appropriately mediated from the middle. After resisting stubbornly for a while, Mr. Darkness sighed and could only agree to a series of unreasonable and unequal conditions, finally exchanging them for Fang Senyan and the others' promise to help.

This series of conditions, which could be described as humiliating and country-losing, included that the Five Ring Workshop team must not seek justice for the previous "misunderstanding," the Five Ring Workshop team must pay a hard-earned fee of 120,000 general points, the Five Ring Workshop team must help Fang Senyan complete related tasks free of charge, and of course, there must be no mutual attacks during the cooperation period, etc...

All of this was notarized through the Nightmare Imprint. After reaching an agreement, Mr. Darkness went back to the team to prepare everything, while Fang Senyan, whenever Zi's eyes swept across his or Wuge's face, always had a creepy feeling.

The group returned to the hiding place. To liven up the awkward atmosphere, Reef sighed, of course also because he was indeed worried:

"Now it's really troublesome. After -1000 escaped, it will be difficult to catch him. More importantly, -1000's mission target, Mr. John Connor, is traveling inside his mother's belly. Even we can't find him. It seems that the only bait has also escaped our control."

At this time, Zi stood up and said calmly:

"It's not necessarily true that we can't find -1000. Judging from the behavior patterns of this group of invading Terminators, they should have had hatred for humans injected into them by Skynet, so they almost completely kill all the way. If -1000 is hiding in a place with many people, then there should be very vicious homicides around! If we follow this clue, we will definitely gain something."

Hei Ge's eyes lit up at this time and said:

"That's right, the people from the Five Ring Workshop team look mysterious. It is said that they went to Cyberdyne Building to communicate with vengeful spirits and subdue them. Since both parties have reached a cooperation agreement, we can get more information from the ghosts."

Fang Senyan nodded approvingly and said:

"What you said is good, and it can be used as an effective supplement to the pursuit of -1000, but no matter what, -1000 is just a robot controlled by Skynet. We can naturally lure him into the trap by targeting the ultimate purpose of his coming to this world."

Hei Ge pondered and said:

"Boss, do you mean we still have to start with Mr. John Connor? But now even we don't know the whereabouts of their whole family."

Fang Senyan smiled and said:

"The problem is, -1000 doesn't know this! -1000's sources of information are nothing more than a few: the Internet, telephone, newspapers. He will definitely tirelessly search for the whereabouts of Mrs. Adela's family. The Terminator's stubbornness and perseverance must not be ignored, which is also a huge threat to our John Connor."

"So... what I mean is, immediately spread a large amount of false information about Mrs. Adela in any field that -1000 may come into contact with, so that we can cover up and mix in any flaws that their family may reveal, and we can also add our own traps into this large amount of false information! Make -1000 step into our trap again."

Sanzi frowned at this time and said:

"Don't forget those Terminators who are still lurking among humans. They may also become -1000's accomplices. Our traps may be accidentally entered by lurking Terminators. Don't startle the snake at that time."

"Even if it is a trap, as long as there is a possibility of finding John Connor, -1000 will come even if there is a mountain of knives and a sea of fire." Fang Senyan said decisively: "Because although robots have the word 'human' in them, their behavior patterns are still ultimately dominated by Skynet's mechanical implantation program. Before finding the real John Connor, even if -1000 knows it is a trap, he will jump down without hesitation."

At this time, Dr. Dolittle also walked in. He had just collected a lot of -1000's relevant combat data through the device and camera system carried by Fang Senyan, and it seemed that he had obtained research results.

"A bad news and a good news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"The bad one." Fang Senyan said decisively.

"The bad news is that the two hidden abilities that -1000 used before should have been newly installed by Skynet. When you encounter it next time, these two abilities can definitely still be used."

"What about the good news?" Fang Senyan frowned.