89: Liquid Terminator! How do you fight off physical immunity?

"Antivirus software?"

Li Qiang froze for a moment, not yet understanding the meaning of Wang Wei's technologically modern words. Meanwhile, the silver liquid metal seeping from the walls and floor had already finished its shaping.

Hundreds of humanoid creatures, entirely silver-white with surfaces as smooth as mirrors and devoid of any facial features, stood silently in every corner of the server room. Their builds were similar to ordinary humans, but the sense of oppression they radiated far exceeded any enemy encountered before.

[Formatting Guard LV.50 (Elite · Server Plugin)]

"Watch out!"

Wang Wei let out a hoarse, desperate warning.

But Li Qiang had already charged forward. In his simple philosophy of combat, no matter what the enemy was, hitting it with a hammer first was never wrong.

"I don't care what software you are! I'm uninstalling you first!"

He roared, the power hammer in his hands whistling through the air as he smashed it ruthlessly toward the "head" of the nearest Formatting Guard.

However, an eerie scene unfolded.

The power hammer passed through the guard's body without any resistance, as if hitting a glob of mercury. The guard's body was dented by the impact, but it instantly returned to its original shape without leaving even a ripple behind.

[Immune]

A gray status text floated up from above the guard's head.

"Holy crap!" Li Qiang's pupils shrank. "Physical immunity again? Do these birdmen know any other tricks?"

Before he could pull back his hammer, the guard he had attacked moved.

Its arm suddenly elongated and thinned, the tip transforming into an incredibly sharp silver rapier. At an unbelievable angle, it silently thrust toward Li Qiang's heart.

Li Qiang's battle-hardened instincts saved him. He jerked his body to the side, and the rapier grazed his ribs, leaving a deep scratch on his sturdy armor.

"-1897!"

A staggering damage number popped up above Li Qiang's head.

"Such high attack power!"

Everyone gasped.

This was big trouble.

The battle erupted instantly. The attack methods of these Formatting Guards were completely beyond the players' imagination.

They could change their body shapes at will. One guard flattened its body into a thin pool of mercury, flowing rapidly under the gap of a door to get behind the player party. It then suddenly sprang up, its arms turning into two massive scythes, instantly harvesting the lives of two mages in the back row.

Another guard, while charging, suddenly decomposed into dozens of fist-sized silver droplets. Like a shotgun blast, they shot out from all directions, turning a shield-bearing warrior into a sieve.

Their movements were silent and without warning, as if they were ghosts.

In less than a minute, this squad composed of elite players had already lost half its members.

"No! This is impossible to fight!"

"They have no physical form; our attacks are all useless!"

"Retreat! Get back into the corridor!"

The players were beaten senseless and began to fall back step by step.

Just then, a guard locked onto Wang Wei, who looked like the "weakest" in the group. Its entire body turned into a silver torrent, sweeping toward Wang Wei, who was clutching the terminal device and refused to let go, seemingly intent on completely consuming and decomposing him.

"Old Wang!" Li Qiang roared, wanting to help, but he was pinned down by two guards and couldn't break free.

"Now!"

At the critical moment, Lin Xiaowan, who had been hiding in the back with a pale face, had a flash of determination in her eyes.

She slammed her staff onto the ground, pouring all of her mana into it.

"[Absolute Zero]!"

A visible cold front, interspersed with ice-blue snowflakes, exploded outward with her as the center.

The air seemed to solidify in an instant.

The silver torrent that was about to consume Wang Wei came to a dead stop the moment it touched the cold wave. The flowing light on its surface dimmed rapidly, and its liquid body was completely sealed from the outside in by a thick layer of crystal-clear ice.

One second it was a pervasive liquid killer; the next, it had become a lifelike ice sculpture frozen in a pouncing stance.

"It works!" Lin Xiaowan shouted in pleasant surprise.

"Great job!"

Seeing this, Li Qiang was overjoyed. He forcefully broke free from his entanglement, dashed to the ice sculpture, swung his power hammer, and smashed down with all his might!

"Shatter for me!"

Crack—!

The ice sculpture shattered at the impact, and along with it, the metal guard frozen into a solid state turned into a cloud of glittering shards.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Wang Wei's trembling scream rang out again.

"It's not dead yet! The fragments are squirming! Quick! Use fire!"

Everyone looked down and saw that the silver metal fragments scattered on the ground were actually squirming and gathering toward each other as if they were alive, attempting to reassemble!

“Damn! It's like an unkillable cockroach!”

A fire mage reacted extremely quickly, casting a [Flame Storm] at the pile of fragments.

Raging flames swept through. Under the scorching heat of over a thousand degrees, the metal fragments finally stopped squirming and were melted into a literal puddle of molten iron. Emitting green smoke, they completely lost their vitality.

[Killed "Formatting Guard" x1]

The combat notification finally popped up.

"I get it!" Lin Xiaowan panted, shouting excitedly, "They are liquid, so we make them solid!"

"Freeze first, then shatter, and finally melt with high heat!" Wang Wei adjusted his glasses, the gaze behind the lenses incredibly fanatical. "This is science! This is physical exorcism!"

Having found the weakness, the battle situation reversed instantly.

The fight turned into a streamlined operation with a clear division of labor.

"Ice mages! Crowd control them!"

"Warriors, follow up! Smash the ice sculptures!"

"Fire mages! Burn them to death! Don't let them reassemble!"

The previously mysterious and undefendable Formatting Guards had now become target practice for the players to farm points. One by one, the guards were frozen into bizarrely shaped artworks, then joyfully smashed into debris by Li Qiang and the others with their hammers, finally meeting their "purification" in the flames.

Ten minutes later, the entire server room fell silent.

Only ice shards and charred metal remains were left on the ground.

"Done!"

Li Qiang slumped onto the ground, panting heavily.

Wang Wei, however, didn't stop for a second. He looked at the massive crystal pillars flickering violently due to the battle, his eyes erupting with unprecedented light.

"We've crashed the defense program! The System is rebooting! Now's the time!"

Like a madman, he lunged at the core terminal again, forcefully plugging his mechanical arm into the interface.

Countless lines of code flowed through his prosthetic eye like a waterfall.

"Got you!"

Wang Wei gave a sinister grin and forcibly implanted a "backdoor" virus he had written himself—one full of vulnerabilities and dark humor—into the main System of the Heaven Realm server.

After finishing all this, he elegantly pulled out his mechanical arm, took two steps back, and smugly snapped his fingers at the empty server room.

Snap.

Instantly, in the entire Outer Ring of the Heaven Realm, all lights, fountains, and magic circles went out.

The world plunged into three seconds of darkness.

Immediately after, all the lights began to flash wildly in a rhythmic disco mode of red, green, blue, and purple!

In the sky above the Plaza of Courtyard of Glory, the originally holy clouds actually slowly assembled into several crooked, large Simplified Chinese characters:

[Player Daddy Was Here]

Wang Wei let out a maniacal laugh over the team communicator.

"Done! Now I'm in charge of the BGM for the Outer Ring!"

The next second, a piece of stirring, high-pitched music filled with rustic charm resounded through the sky via the amplification circles in every corner of the Heaven Realm.

"Good Luck Comes, wish you good luck, good luck brings joy and love..."

"Come on, everyone, sing along with me—!"