Note: The song parodied in this chapter is the interlude "Forget It! Void Thunder Beast" from the second episode of the "Mission Man" series of videos produced by "Goodnight Tribe."

Any resemblance is purely intentional.

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Several months ago, another universe.

The headquarters of the Universal Superhero League, in a certain laboratory.

"Hey, guys, how's it coming along?" As he spoke, Tin Foil Man entered the room leisurely, holding a cup of strangely colored hot drink.

"If you're so free, come over and lend a hand." At that moment, Toad Man was performing tentacle-like rapid operations on a supercomputer that were far beyond the capabilities of humans. A rough estimate… his eApm (effective_Actions_per_minute) was at least over 500.

"Haha…" Tin Foil Man laughed. "It's just a 'farewell gift,' you're taking it too seriously, aren't you?"

"If I were serious…" Toad Man replied calmly, without stopping what he was doing, "I would have just given him a set of 'Hell Toad Armor.'" He paused. "I just don't like owing people favors, so…"

"Even if that favor may never need to be repaid, you still have to give something of equal value in return, right?" Tin Foil Man picked up his sentence and asked.

Before Toad Man could respond, Dr. Eternity, who was busy on the other side of the lab bench, looked up and said to Tin Foil Man, "It's a matter of principle, Kurtis… Poker Face's contribution to the Universal Superhero League may be far greater than we know, and… we probably don't even know what he's done."

"Oh?" Tin Foil Man quickly picked up on some subtle information from his words. "Are you saying… our memories have been interfered with?"

"It's not necessarily a problem with memory…" Toad Man then spoke up again. "Maybe even the timeline we're in has been interfered with in some way… Of course, changes that occur in dimensions we can't perceive may be 'no change' to us, because the 'before change' us has already disappeared from this timeline."

"So…" Tin Foil Man narrowed his eyes and looked at Dr. Eternity. "Doctor, do you know something?"

"I don't know anything." Dr. Eternity shrugged in response. "I rely on 'intuition'… you know, it's a unique talent of us Earthlings, vague, but it's a trait that's very close to 'hyperdimensional ability.'"

"Heh… okay, okay, 'Mr. Intuition'…" Tin Foil Man said in a teasing tone, and put down his drink, walking to the lab bench. "Let me see… what are you guys building."

He stared at the complex design on the holographic display台 for about ten seconds, and then, his expression changed a little.

"Hey, hey… what kind of black technology is this?" Tin Foil Man looked at Dr. Eternity. "Have you recently developed some kind of new 'magitek' system?"

Dr. Eternity smiled and replied, "Heh, I'm not that amazing…" He looked up at the holographic image. "This 'thing'… I found it in a void rift from a universe called 'Azeroth' during one of my 'astral travels.' It looks like some kind of scrapped combat weapon; I thought the manufacturing process and the enchantments on it were very interesting, so I picked it up."

"Interesting…" While listening to the doctor's narration, Tin Foil Man also further analyzed the design in front of him. "So this is how it can be done…" He quickly became immersed in a "scientist's self-gratification mode" and began to talk to himself.

He was in a daze for a minute or two, and finally Toad Man couldn't help but call him twice: "Hey! Hey! Kurtis!"

"Huh? Oh, sorry… I was a little distracted." Tin Foil Man came back to his senses and said.

"We have less than ten universal weeks to complete this, and based on my understanding of you… you're definitely going to participate in modifying this design, so…" Toad Man said, "You better hurry up and show off your cosmic-level intelligence, don't just stand there being senile."

"Ah… understand, understand." Tin Foil Man's interest was also piqued at this moment, and he eagerly replied, "No need to tell me, I can't wait to get started…"

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Time, back to the present.

Above Linlu Town, a strange-looking humanoid battle armor, about four meters tall, flew over from the sky…

And the "pilot" residing in the torso of this mecha was none other than Feng Bujue.

The moment he appeared, for some reason, every player in the vicinity suddenly heard music –

After an introduction of about thirty seconds with a fairly exciting atmosphere, there was even a male voice singing the lyrics along with the music…

"High-tech armor reflecting light~ A dazzling debut with earth-shattering force~

"When humanity faces a huge threat~ They'll push me~ To the front of the monsters~

"Clearly~ you have powerful missiles~ But you ask me to get close to the enemy and desperately~ Throw punches~

"Clearly~ you're in a solid fortress~ But you want me~ To use my body! To block the enemy's hail of bullets~

"Machines will only get older the more they're used, no matter how many times you change the oil!

"Passionate shouts~ Are all in vain~

"When the machine is destroyed~ The enemy still exists~ The doctor will bring out a secret new model~

"A discarded hero~

"e!x!

"Void Thunder Beast~

"Large garbage is collected on Tuesdays~ Void Thunder Beast~ Ha!"

As the song ended, Feng Bujue also descended from the sky.

Boom—

The mecha landed, the sound of the shock reverberating through the sky.

At this moment, whether it was the Warring States duo and Juan Meng Huan, or Ruo Yu and He Yang Shinji, or Xu Huai Shang, Fang Jin and He Yang Zhiyan… all the people who were fighting stopped their battles and looked at the [Void Thunder Beast ex] that suddenly appeared on the battlefield with different expressions.

For the NPCs, the shock brought by this mecha was self-evident. People in their world had never seen anything like it before, and their concept of "large humanoid combat weapons" was completely blank. Most people had already regarded it as some kind of demon…

As for the players, after listening to that song, their minds were basically thinking – "I might be playing a fake Thriller Paradise."

"Ah~ ah… it seems like everyone has shown up, which makes things easier." After a few seconds, Feng Bujue's cheap voice came out through the mecha's built-in speaker, "Now that things have come to this, I don't want to talk too much nonsense with you guys…" He could be said to have turned on the taunt to the maximum, "... Come on, who wants to come forward and meet their maker first?"

"Huff…" Hearing his lines, Ruo Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief in the distance, "Plans really can't keep up with changes…"

Her sigh was indeed a kind of helplessness.

It was true that the players' combat power was already very high, but the difficulty of this script was not as low as they had imagined.

First of all, He Yang Shinji's strength far exceeded their expectations; secondly, He Yang Shinji's attitude of disregard for Hua's life was also beyond their plans.

These two miscalculations alone had almost rendered Feng Bujue's previous "separate kill" plan meaningless.

However, just as Ruo Yu thought that the plan to seize the Sword Dance Grass Record would be completely ruined, Feng Bujue actually returned in such a state…

His return, and his current performance, all indicated one thing – the mecha stored in his hero ID card was much stronger than he had imagined… much, much stronger!

The strength of this mecha had already led Jue Ge to make the judgment that "there was no need to separate the enemies and defeat them one by one, no need to use hostages to restrain He Yang Shinji and delay time, and no need to wait for other players to fight to the death first." From his looks… he could now high-profilely open a rampage and collect heads.

"What is that…" He Yang Shinji was, after all, the number one expert present, and plus he had already learned some information about the "outsiders"… that is, the players, so he quickly calmed down and really began to think about how to defeat that mecha. "Could it be some kind of demonic art that manipulates iron to transform…"

Unexpectedly, his low-volume soliloquy… was actually heard by Jue Ge.

"Demon your head!" Feng Bujue turned up the volume of the speaker and shouted at He Yang Shinji, who was a hundred meters away, "Everyone else is quiet, but you're the only one talking so much! Then it's decided, it's you!" He paused for a second and then shouted, "Take this! Fourth Industrial Revolution Style · Secret Art · Positron Cannon!"

After a sharp shout, the thing he did next… was simply pressing a switch with his finger.

Then, a white-edged red focused beam of light burst out from the energy furnace in the chest of the Void Thunder Beast ex…

Jue Ge said he was going to hit He Yang Shinji, but in reality… this shot went through the entire street…