376 chapter 376-army approaching the city
[ soul crown ]
[ quality: blue ]
[ parameters: Weight: 0.5 kg, anti-magnetic metal, amplification vibrative metal, magnetic field twisting function ]
[ equipment requirements: LV25, intelligence 25, energy 25 ]
[ attribute bonus: intelligence +5, energy +5 ]
[ effect bonus: the strong magnetic field unique to the psionic field-bind crown will block any invading consciousness for 1 hour. ]
psionic field-enhance-crown can enhance your spiritual power, allowing you to use psychic power like an esper for 30 minutes.
[ magnetic field distortion ]-[ spirit crown ] can distort the magnetic field around it, causing the crown to disappear visually.
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Even though there were many implanted robots and mechanized soldiers in the city, the biggest threat to link was still the leader of the machinery faith, Dr. Zhao, who guarded the city as a pioneer in the field of machinery.
If a normal person encountered professor Zhao, they would be deceived by his mechanical body and the brain in the tank on his head. They would think that he was only proficient in mechanic combat, and that his weakness was his head.
In fact, after Dr. Zhao replaced all his organs with machines, his only original component, the brain, had also undergone unprecedented development, and it had activated telekinesis. He had also found a new path and possibility between machinery and Esper abilities.
This was also why the machinery faith did not develop into an intelligent creature that was completely controlled by the purge protocol program, but instead became a fusion of half-human and half-machine.
Others might not know, but as a veteran player for six years, link still remembered the trump card of this Big Boss. Many of the Guild leaders present today had been tricked by Dr. Zhao’s telekinesis in his previous life, and it had even led to an armed fight between several major guilds.
Now that link had something as good as the soul crown, he naturally had to wear it in case professor Zhao tried to trick him.
Link walked out of the secret chamber and passed through the hall on the first floor to the garden.
the players were no longer as restrained as before, but most of them still did not dare to speak, afraid of leaving a bad impression on the painter.
What a joke. A good impression of a legendary NPC could affect one’s future development in the game. It was priceless.
Only Dave, who was also an NPC, dared to talk to John, and his words were full of admiration.
and because dave was proficient in machinery, the conversation between the two went from the ecosystem maintenance box with masha to the scavenger mech.
“This mecha is what I’ve saved up these past few years. the chips inside are the five modular chips from the mechanical zealot. that’s how i got to know link. You’ve just arrived in the sand capital, but it’s as if you already knew that I needed these five chips. You’ve successfully found my weakness.”
“so, you accepted link’s invitation to help us sneak into the city?” John could not help but ask.
Dave’s eyes turned from excitement to determination. He gritted his teeth and said, ” ” ten years ago, there was a sudden power failure in the city. i was lucky enough to escape with my granddaughter, but we encountered the zealots on the way. i fought my way out, but helen was captured by them. I’ve spent every night in hatred and longing, and I swear that I’ll return to the city one day to save Helen.”
“And today is the day!”
“i’m sorry, i didn’t know you had such a story behind you.” John felt apologetic as he caressed the maintenance box. He had come to the floating mech city to save his family, so he understood the feeling.
Dave chuckled and scratched his head. His face was full of smiles.”I thought link was the only one bringing me along. I didn’t expect the famous painter to be here as well. I’m even more confident in this trip to the city.”
Windchaser-like Piao Rou, Leng Feng, bombarding chicken, lost mo Wen, Yaoyao Ling, and Tang Jiu-the six of them stood at the side, carefully listening to the story. One moment, they were drooling at the scavenger mecha, and the next moment, they were moved by the bitter story behind Dave.
Link returned to the garden and asked, ” “Are you all ready?”
The six players immediately straightened their backs, like soldiers being inspected.
dave climbed up the scavenger mech in two or three steps. the core energy on his back was activated, and red energy was injected into the central hub through a conduit, activating all parts of the mech.
Bang Bang Bang!
Dave operated the scavenger mech and thumped his chest three times, indicating that he was ready at any moment.
John also nodded slightly, indicating that he had no problems.
As for the six players, link completely ignored them.
Their main mission was to buy time for John and Masha, so it didn’t matter if they were ready or not.
Whoosh ~
Link whistled, and the treasure-hunting mouse jumped out of the Bush and climbed onto Link’s shoulder.
At the same time, treasure-hunting mouse’s five underlings, the five mice Secret Service Squad, also appeared.
In addition, a large number of spy rats and self-destructing rats appeared outside the garden.
The treasure-hunting mouse stood on Link’s shoulder, one paw on his shoulder and the other clenched into a fist, hitting its own back. It moaned and complained to link.
For this attack, the treasure-hunting mouse was exhausted. He had to mate with dozens of self-destructing female rats every night just to give birth to new self-destructing rats as much as possible.
looking at the tens of thousands of self-destructing mice, the treasure-hunting mouse said to link, ” “Look, this is the majestic empire that I have fought for you!”
The spy Mouse was trying to access the system of the floating mech city and obtain the code as much as possible.
As for the self-destructing rats, he already knew what he knew and didn’t need to go into detail.
John had seen a lot of things, and there had been several cases of rats running amok in the sand City before, so he had long been able to resist it.
dave was the same. although he was surprised, he felt a sense of security when he was surrounded by the scavenger mech.
It was the first time the six players had seen such a scene. They were standing in a row at ease just now, but now they were all hanging on Leng Feng and wind-chasing Wolf, and their expressions were very interesting.
The only thing that Lin Ke regretted was that he could not post anything on the forum. Otherwise, he would definitely take a screenshot of this scene as a memento.
“it’s fine if you’re scared, but don’t ever touch the ground. Many of these rats are self-destructing rats. As long as you step on them and there’s a change in pressure, they’ll immediately explode, blowing your leg off.” As a senior member of the link gang, wind had heard of the horror of the self-destructing rats. He immediately explained it to the other five. He didn’t want to be blown to pieces before he even set off.
As a former Special Forces soldier, Leng Feng had been in all kinds of difficult situations. He stood still in this situation and let the rat run past his feet and crotch.
On the other hand, the few people hanging on the two of them were all so scared that they raised their feet, afraid that they would not be able to support their feet and step on the ‘mobile bomb’.
The self-destructing rats and the spy rats surged forward like a tide, and within a minute, they had all entered the black hole that was five meters in diameter.
A low rumble of Thunder came from the black hole, like the muffled Thunder before the rainy season in a tropical rainforest. As time passed, it gradually became lower and became silent.
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“Alright, we can set off now. Other than Dave, everyone else is to come here to collect the Bluetooth helmet and power car.”
Dave, on the other hand, began to tune the mech’s frequency, adjusting the chat frequency to the same as the Bluetooth helmet.
At the side, bombarding chicken had never seen such a scene before. He could not help but ask softly, ” “What does it mean to wear a Bluetooth helmet?”
we’re going into a tunnel, ” Leng Feng replied. it should lead directly to the floating mech city. If we use our normal voices to talk, the sound waves will spread in the tunnel. This tunnel is very long, and our voices will be amplified. The energy will get stronger and stronger, and it might even cause the tunnel to collapse.
“If you don’t want to be buried underground, it’s best not to make any noise in the cave later.”
upon hearing this, lost mo wen, tang jiu, yaoyao, wind-chasing wolf, and bomb chicken all obediently put on their bluetooth helmets.
Each of them rode a power vehicle, and John carefully hung the maintenance box at the back of the power vehicle.
As the power car’s lights lit up, a huge cave with a diameter of five meters appeared in front of everyone. It was extremely empty and deep.
Whether it was the six players or Dave, all of them were convinced by the smooth chiseled walls of the cave, without any mud sediments.
What kind of power did it take to dig a tunnel from the weeping Valley to the floating mech city?
It must be known that the Goria Grand Canal was more than 30 kilometers long from the crying Valley. a huge hole with a diameter of five meters, how much work would it take? Most importantly, wind howl castle was not far from Shenmu City. These players had been traveling between the desert and Shenmu City almost every day, but they had not seen any signs of construction at wind howl Castle.
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Through the Bluetooth helmet, John took in the shocked expressions of the six Inhumans.
If they knew that this was all dug up by Link’s pet, the Dragon God, in one afternoon, their expressions would be even more interesting.
The players thought that the space inside would be reduced after going deeper into the cave, but after driving for more than ten kilometers and the entire journey was four to five meters high, they did not feel depressed at all.
that’s strange. We’ve entered so deep, so why don’t we feel difficulty breathing or lack of oxygen? ” Lost mo Wen could not help but ask. The five players all turned their attention to the only Lin group employee, floating soft.
But Zhui Feng knew nothing about this and had an embarrassed expression.
as a result, he was naturally met with a bunch of disdainful gazes.
at this moment, link, who was at the front of the group, said, ” because I’ve already arranged for the silver army ants to dig air holes that connect to the ground along the tunnel, so the entire tunnel will not lack oxygen.
After that, link threw Dave another topic. Dave, you escaped from the mechanical city ten years ago. Have you forgotten the structure inside? ”
“i’ve been reliving the memory of my escape every night for the past ten years, so i can return to the city of mech one day and save my granddaughter, helen. Also, I’ve gained a general understanding of the city’s structure through the Zealot’s memory chip and my own memories.”
dave tapped his chest as he spoke, and a ball of light emerged from his chest, forming a holographic image in the air-a complex and exquisite city of the ages, the mechanical city.
“The city is divided into five main areas. The northeast is the energy area, which is my target area. All the human batteries are gathered here, and through a special energy conversion device, dreamscape energy is converted into real energy for the city. It’s an important part of the city.”
the southeast is where the city conducted its research and experiments, which is the painter’s target area. The laboratory for Project Dream is here, but we still need to investigate the exact location.”
Southwest, the military factory in mech city. All the androids and cyborg modified people come from there. Other than weapons, they were also producing implant robots. Other than being a manufacturing factory, it was also a barracks for soldiers. The moment we are exposed, this place will send out a huge mechanical Army to encircle and annihilate us.”
“The data storage facility in the mech city is located in the Northwest. the place where all the data of the machinery faith is gathered and distributed can be understood as the CPU core processor of the entire machinery city, which is heavily guarded all year round.”
” and the most important central part, the center of the city-the machine magnate. In the center was a huge gear with a diameter of more than 100 meters. The half-enclosed building was the territory of the leader of the machinery faith, professor Zhao. His personal laboratory and research Center were here. The giant gears are the core of the city, and they are the key to the city’s mobility.”
Dave explained the structure of the mechanical city, and the six players were dumbfounded.
although they heard the names of the machinery faith and the machinery city every day, through the holographic lens, they realized that the actual city was much bigger than they had imagined.
A mechanical city with a length and width of five kilometers and a height of hundreds of meters. The gigantic structure and exquisite design combined to form the most advanced product of wasteland. It could even move through canals and Gobi, which only appeared in science fiction stories.
“Link, do you have any plans for entering the city?” John asked.
Link’s lips curled into a confident smile.”It’s October 30th now. At the end of every month and two days later, the worshipers of the machinery faith in the desert would gather along the way of the machinery city to select the zealots who were qualified to enter the city and give them chips to become real mechanical apostles. What we need to do now is to find nine powerful zealots to take their place in the city. Use the identity of a mechanical Apostle as a cover and act within the mech city.”
Hearing Link’s plan, John finally heaved a sigh of relief.
“I thought your plan was to fight your way into the city.”
Link shrugged. I can’t help it, ” he said awkwardly. someone’s only good at simple plans. In order to accommodate me, he had to make many changes to the plan. Finally, it’s at a level where you can understand it.
The players behind him didn’t even dare to breathe.
In their eyes, a high-level legendary NPC like the painter would definitely be stronger than link.
However, link was now casually joking with the painter, even deriding each other. There was no difference in power between them.
In the midst of the chaos, the power car’s headlights shone on the hole in front of them. A silver flash entered their eyes and instantly lit up the hole. Upon closer inspection, one would notice that the light was all reflected from the metallic silver army ants.
alright, we’re now at the bottom of the city’s road.
link looked at the silver army ants crawling all over the cave and slowed down the car.
it’s time to give the city a big surprise.
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