Translator: Sean88888 Editor: Elkassar1
Sheyan retracted his saber painfully. The wound on the T-1000’s shoulder immediately squirmed in an attempt to heal itself. But before it could, Sheyan had already pierced a USB flash drive into the wound with great force! The USB flash drive showed no apparent movement, but Sheyan could imagine the virus program personally written by Dr. Dolittle must be multiplying like a plague from the mouth of the flash drive and spreading crazily in the T-1000’s body.
The T-1000 stood rooted to the spot. After a while, its entire body suddenly turned transparent, and countless 0’s and 1’s could be seen continuously flowing up and down in it. Finally, the numbers turned chaotic.
Amidst the numbers that were originally arranged in neat columns, a 3 unexpectedly appeared, followed by Roman numerals and random codes! It took five or six minutes for the T-1000 to turn back to normal, and the first thing it did after that was to run away!
It seemed that Dolittle’s study of liquid metal was indeed very comprehensive. The program was likely successful in preventing the T-1000’s self-destruct ability.
How could Sheyan let the Terminator slip away from his grasp again? Besides, the T-1000 had no ‘Overload’ ability right now and thus, had no advantage in speed.
First, the T-1000 was hit hard by Zi’s ‘Force Collision – Wall’. Then, Sheyan rushed up at the perfect moment and hurled the T-1000 into an old, abandoned processing plant nearby with ‘Tactical Throw’.
The T-1000’s deadpan face remained expressionless. To the Terminator, this level of impact was like scratching at an itch! But the T-1000 could never imagine how much painstaking effort Sheyan had put into the plan behind this throw.
With a loud crash, the T-1000 broke through the window and fell inside the plant. It landed into a huge pool of liquid!
This place was an abandoned leather processing plant, and as such there was a spacious tanning workshop inside. The pool in the middle of the workshop was filled with a black, viscous, muddy substance. Upon closer inspection, one would find the substance to be molten asphalt! The asphalt was bubbling from the heat!
After the T-1000 fell into the sticky pool of asphalt, it could immediately sense that something was amiss, so it struggled frantically to climb out of the pool. But the more it struggled, the deeper it sunk down! Sheyan had taken great care to make this pool of asphalt deeper, so it now reached a depth of nearly 10 meters. The Terminator would not reach the bottom for quite a while.
Although the T-1000 had a crazy amount of strength and insanely powerful abilities, how could Sheyan’s carefully laid out trap be so easy to escape from?
When he was sure that the Terminator had sunk to the center of the asphalt pool, Sheyan nodded towards Sanzi in the distance. Sanzi immediately pulled a lever, and the cooling device they had placed into the asphalt pool beforehand was activated. The asphalt started to cool down. With the decrease in temperature, the asphalt that was originally in a liquid state began to solidify into a viscous, semi-solid substance.
T-1000 was still struggling frantically in this semi-solidified asphalt pool. It had to spend a lot of energy every time it moved its hands and feet. If the asphalt was still purely liquid, the T-1000 could have changed its hands and feet into a webbed structure to swim in the asphalt, but the semi-solidified asphalt was the kind of sticky and tough substance that was used to pave roads. The T-1000 found that it could not move its body at all no matter how hard it moved its limbs. All it achieved was to waste its remaining energy in vain.
That was not the worst thing happening to the T-1000. The worst thing was that all this while, Zi, Mogensha and the people from Five Wheels were relentlessly attacking the hapless target that was the T-1000. After the Terminator was infected with the computer virus written by Dr. Dolittle, all of its abilities, including ‘Overload’, were completely blocked. Hence, it was totally powerless to do anything while it slowly sunk in the hell-like asphalt pool. Finally, its energy reserves dropped below 5%, and it entered a state of hibernation.
As soon as that happened, Dr. Dolittle eagerly ordered Sanzi to re-heat the asphalt pool. He was extremely excited to start his scientific research! To be honest, the harvest this time was far beyond Dr. Dolittle’s imagination. The doctor still remembered that the previous time, the liquid metal Gore had managed to obtain was only the size of a finger.
Therefore, Dolittle’s most optimistic estimate for this operation’s harvest was half an arm of liquid metal… But from what it looked right now, Sheyan had clearly gotten the whole Terminator! Its value was totally incomparable to just a body part! It was just like how the price of a northeastern old ginseng with a full beard and tail was at least 10 times the price of cut ginseng pieces!
Looking at Dolittle’s face that was brimming with joy, Sheyan suddenly remembered one thing, one very deadly thing. He recalled that in the plot of Terminator 2, the T-800 had been beaten so badly by the liquid metal Terminator that its internal power source was completely severed, but after a while, its backup power supply kicked in, bringing the T-800 back to life.
Dolittle was a completely irreplaceable figure to Sheyan. If the T-1000’s backup power supply suddenly kicked in as soon as it regained its freedom from the asphalt pool, and it smoothly broke Dolittle’s fragile neck before escaping with ‘Overload’, Sheyan would lose everything in this mission!
Therefore, Sheyan dragged Dolittle back and asked everyone to wait. The entire Party Ace naturally had full confidence in Sheyan’s judgement, but the people from Five Wheels were getting impatient. Why? Because they had entered this world unconventionally, so they had to pay a fee according to their duration of stay. The cost for their whole party to prolong their stay for an hour was over five thousand utility points.
Nevertheless, the Five Wheels still had need of Party Ace’s help, so they did not dare to voice their impatience.
After about ten minutes, the T-1000, which had seemingly gone rigid, indeed came back to life, but only 10% of its energy was restored. It continued to toss and turn in the asphalt pool for a long time while it was bombarded again by Mogensha and Zi. The Terminator did not last long before it fell into a state of hibernation again.
This time, Dr. Dolittle no longer dared to go forward. After some quick calculations, he found that he could not completely rule out the possibility that the T-1000 could activate its backup power supply again. Sheyan had enough patience to wait. The T-1000 seemed to have realised that it could not escape its predicament by pretending any longer. It tossed and turned crazily in the viscous asphalt pool as it changed into various forms, trying to make a final attempt at breaking out. Finally, its energy reserves dropped down to 0%. This time, it looked like it was gone for good.
By the time Sheyan and the others fished the T-1000 up, they found that the Terminator had completely turned into a silvery-white metal block. The block looked a little like molten wax that had re-solidified. No trace of human appearance was left on it at all.
Seeing this form of the T-1000, Sheyan was a little nervous, fearing that he had gone too far and caused all their previous effort to go to waste. Fortunately, when Dolittle saw the block, he beamed with joy instead. He took out several portable devices to perform some inspection, and finally nodded in satisfaction. He said that the T-1000 had returned to its original state, just like a corpse that had completely lost its consciousness. This had saved Dolittle considerable effort.
The next step was simple. Dolittle returned with the T-1000 to his lab to process it. To explain the process in a simpler manner, he did something similar to making fruit juice, treating the T-1000 block like a fruit. He first cut the block into slices, then threw them into the juicer, pressed the switch and waited for the juice to flow out.
Looking at the silvery-white viscous liquid metal placed in front of him, Sheyan finally received the long-awaited mission notifications.
[ Distinguished Lieutenant Colonel No. 1018. ]
[ You have obtained 148.3 pounds of liquid metal! ]
[ You have fulfilled the requirement stated in the mission objective of the first chapter of the Silver Mission Series: Dolittle’s Wish.” ]
[ Calculating… ]
[ Planning… ]
[ Making the relevant verifications… ]
[ You have achieved the highest degree of completion (Level Max) in this mission. ]
[ You have provided Dolittle with the relevant storyline equipments and the relevant knowledge. ]
[ You have satisfied the condition to trigger the hidden branch mission. ]
[ Silver Mission Series hidden branch, Chapter 2: Injection ]
[ Mission description: According to the relevant clues on the weapon, inject all kinds of necessary energy into it to greatly increase its devouring ability. ]
[ Silver Mission Series hidden branch, Chapter 2 description: After taking enough liquid metal for his own use, Dolittle, who is very grateful to you, started to use every method in his disposal to study the liquid metal and strengthen it according to his own ideas. He believes that the liquid metal will make an extremely terrifying material for a weapon or an armour. The most terrifying aspect about this equipment is that it has the ability to devour other weapons and armours, and, according to the will of the wielder, perfectly simulate a model of any weapon or armour it has devoured before! ]
[ Hint: If you can persevere to the last chapter and get the highest evaluation, you will be rewarded with a Divine Equipment! ]
The thing that shocked Sheyan most at the moment was that ability to devour other weapons and armours, and then perfectly simulate a model of them. Such a terrifying and ferocious equipment! More importantly, the more weapons it consumed, the more astonishing it would be in actual combat!
For example, Sheyan’s ‘+7 West’ had become less and less powerful as he got stronger, mainly because its base damage was too low. However, the additional effects on the ‘+7 West’ were absolutely insane. Sheyan would always think of the saber whenever he was in trouble.
If he had this liquid metal weapon, he could let it swallow the ‘+7 West’, then let the weapon simulate a weapon with a high base damage value, then simulate the additional effects of the ‘+7 West’! What an amazing weapon that would be!
