Chapter 330: Even if my sister is severely injured…

“Whoa, a super electromagnetic cannon!”

“The electric light dancing at your fingertips is my eternal belief!”

“So Misaka’s here too? Oh ho ho, exaggerated.”

Star energy metal is extremely hard.

Moreover, because it’s a metal born alongside the Negative Universe, it shares the same origin as star energy. It can directly contact star energy, cut through it, and forcibly negate its effects.

It is precisely because of this property.

Star energy metal can be considered the bane of most “glass cannon” type star energy users. No matter how powerful your supernatural power, as long as they find an opportunity to swing a blade, they can take your head in one strike.

But such a powerful creation is not without limitations.

Its hardness and internal star energy make almost all star energy metals impossible to undergo complex processing.

Therefore, star energy metal is mostly processed into cold weapons.

As for using it as a bullet for an electromagnetic cannon like Lin Zhen did, that idea had been proposed before.

In fact, the proposer was originally from the Imperial Institute of Technology.

He was practically Lin Zhen’s distant senior.

But alas, high-grade star energy metal is not only extremely rare and expensive—using it as a disposable bullet is simply uneconomical—and not all star energy metals can be used for electromagnetic effects.

Even for metals that can produce electromagnetic effects.

The interference from the internal star energy significantly weakens most of the electromagnetic propulsion’s kinetic energy.

To achieve a speed capable of hitting high-level star energy users, the electromagnetic cannon would have to be made extremely large.

Thus, aside from large factions installing electromagnetic star energy cannons at their bases to defend against powerful star energy users, almost no spaceship in the Star Sea is equipped with one.

Yet the Flying Harrier was equipped with one.

Because the two shortcomings above are nothing to Lin Zhen’s supernatural power.

High-grade star energy metal that can be used for electromagnetic effects is incomparably precious?

He can forge it by hand.

The interference from the star energy inside the star energy metal prevents the electromagnetic device from being miniaturized into a personal or ship-mounted weapon?

The star energy metal produced by Metal Reconstruction derives all its internal star energy from him.

As long as he focuses a little, he can suppress the star energy inside the metal, preventing the electromagnetic propulsion from being weakened.

Therefore, this star energy electromagnetic cannon, which was as useless as chicken ribs, is actually perfectly suited for Lin Zhen.

It truly gave him the means to fight above his level, even to kill high-level star energy users.

When Lin Zhen first discovered this weapon, he was ecstatic.

He suspected in his heart that Dr. Forefinger had never told him anything about the star energy electromagnetic cannon precisely because he was worried that Lin Zhen would use it to break free from his control.

Back to the main topic.

Driven by the ship’s energy, the Level 4 star energy metal cone launched via electromagnetic propulsion is one of Lin Zhen’s current trump cards.

Its kinetic energy, combined with the high-level suppression of the star energy metal, is enough to instantly shatter the supernatural powers of any three-star energy user and kill them. Even a fourth-level star energy user could be severely injured.

But the star energy electromagnetic cannon is far too rare.

The Evil Beast, sensing the anomaly at the start of the cannon’s charging, missed the optimal timing to block it.

Now it could only hastily defend. Even the Evil Beast, which inherited Yun Ruoxi’s original combat instincts, had never seen such a weapon.

In the pitch-black, silent void.

A red flash flickered at the bow of the Flying Harrier. All the telekinetic shields set up by the Evil Beast were pierced like paper, together only slowing the star energy metal cone for an instant.

But in that instant, the Evil Beast used the powerful maneuverability of its telekinesis to pull its body upward and dodged the attack.

In the distance, taking advantage of breaking free from the restraint, the Flying Harrier began to accelerate again via its warp drive.

But the Evil Beast, having emptied almost all its telekinesis and overexerted star energy in a short time, was clearly fatigued. Unable to recover its telekinetic power immediately, it could only watch them leave.

It breathed heavily.

Its face behind the mask was deathly pale, with beads of sweat rolling down its temples.

Just now, it had truly felt the threat of death. These ant-like prey had nearly killed it!

“Lao Zhen is actually this strong!”

“Doesn’t Lao Zhen want his wife anymore? Going so hard? He almost one-shotted Lao Xi just now.”

“New patch: mechanism monster vs. stat monster. Looks like Lao Zhen’s mechanisms win this round.”

“Isn’t level 4 star energy metal a stat? Lao Zhen clearly has both mechanisms and stats now.”

“Such a mess? If Lao Zhen isn’t nerfed, this game is unplayable?”

Inside the spaceship, which was accelerating again.

Seeing “Yun Ruoxi” actually dodge that attack, Lin Zhen’s right hand immediately clenched unconsciously.

That electromagnetic cannon shot of his had aimed at the side of Yun Ruoxi’s lower abdomen, avoiding all vital spots.

Even if it hit directly, it wouldn’t kill her—at most, it would severely wound her and make her lose the ability to pursue.

But even so, at the moment of firing, Lin Zhen’s heart was still incredibly conflicted and afraid.

Afraid that this attack might accidentally kill Yun Ruoxi.

And he couldn’t help but wonder—what if Yun Ruoxi couldn’t withstand the blow and was severely wounded?

Then he could directly lead his companion to attack, capture her, and completely take her back from the Saints’ Hand Society.

But as it stood, that was ultimately just his wishful thinking.

After five years, Yun Ruoxi was still the same Yun Ruoxi. Her combat instincts and reactions were terrifying to an extreme.

Even though it was the first time seeing it, his trump card—the electromagnetic cannon—didn’t even graze her side before she dodged it outright!

Sure enough, choosing to leave was the right decision.

They were still far from being a match for Yun Ruoxi!

“Sister!”

Aili pressed against the porthole, tears streaming as she watched the figure drifting in the Star Sea grow smaller and smaller, until “Yun Ruoxi” became a blurred black dot.

She turned to Lin Zhen and complained:

“Ajin brother, you almost killed sister just now!”

“You think I wanted that?” Lin Zhen’s expression turned ugly. “If I hadn’t done that, we would all have been captured by the Saints’ Hand Society! Do you think the Society would only send Xiao Xi alone?”

Aili’s face darkened, and only tears silently flowed.

She had fought for two years under the alias Blood Shadow in the Darkness.

She knew that sometimes choices had to be made. Lin Zhen’s actions just now were the most correct.

But reason was one thing; emotion was another. She simply couldn’t accept giving up on her sister again.

“But Ajin brother, why didn’t you fire another shot?”

Aili looked up, as if blaming Lin Zhen, or perhaps blaming herself, and asked softly:

“Even if you severely wounded sister, as long as we could take her back from the Saints’ Hand Society, it would have been fine.”

“I…”

Lin Zhen opened his mouth, but nothing came out.

“You clearly… have that ability. And I… don’t.”

She clenched her fist tightly, her pink nails digging into her palm.

“Lao Xi: Listen to yourself. What do you mean ‘severely wounding me would have been fine’?”

“Damn, Miss Ai is really going dark.”

“Aili complaining to Lin Zhen? That’s a bit unreasonable. The ADC gets carried and still pressures the jungler?”