Anna is now stirring up this storm of 100 million blades over Tivian. If it were lowered and placed above the city on the ground, it would not take long to destroy the entire Tivian, razing this huge city of millions of people to the ground and shattering it into powder. The storm that Tivian is experiencing now is just a small aftermath of the storm that Anna has truly unleashed. Facing the strong winds that Anna has blown, even holy steel ships like the Twilight Shadow have to lower their altitude to take shelter.
Under the attack of such fierce winds, Gu Mian used all his strength to repair himself. His body was crushed into powder while rapidly regenerating. As an almost complete apostle, Gu Mian possessed great spiritual power to provide support for the regeneration and repair of his illusory body. He managed to maintain his body tenaciously in the storm of blades and continued to fly into the sky.
At this moment, Gu Mian was repairing his body in the destructive wind while continuing his pilgrimage. Although his speed was affected, he was still able to continue to move forward. At this moment, Gu Mian regarded this storm as a difficult test on his pilgrimage.
"No... Judging from the current state of the Holy Cocoon, Gumian has not been destroyed! Although its speed has slowed down a bit, it is still enough to support it to enter the transmission point before its death!
"This storm is very powerful, can it be a little stronger?"
At this time, Dorothy, who had transformed into a giant dragon, was still hovering in the low sky over Tivian City. Beside her, the black cat who could sense the condition of the Holy Cocoon spoke with a stern expression.
“There’s no way to solve this…”
After hearing what Black Cat said, Dorothy couldn't help but feel a little sad. She immediately contacted Anna through the information channel, but the answer Anna gave was not very good.
"No... Teacher... This is already the limit.
"A large-scale attack covering the entire Tivian sky is already the maximum limit. If I want to increase the power of the attack, I must narrow the range of the attack, but this may not necessarily cover the enemy!"
Floating on the sea outside the port, Anna responded to Dorothy with a serious look on her face. After hearing Anna's response, Dorothy couldn't help but feel even more serious.
'Only by reducing the attack range can the attack power be increased... If this is the case... there will be no 100% chance of hitting the Gu Mian, which will be very risky.
"So, do you want to make a bet now? Bet on which area the Gu Mian is in and concentrate your attack there. If you bet right, you may be able to cause more effective damage to the Gu Mian. But if you bet wrong, it will be the same as letting it go directly..."
Dorothy pondered this in her heart, and in just a moment she had the answer.
"No! We can't gamble! If we make a wrong bet, it's all over... Now we have to find the exact location of Gu Mian and then give it a devastating blow... But... if we can't use any method to sense it, how can we find the location of Gu Mian?"
Dorothy was lost in thought as she thought about this in her heart. She was very careful and unwilling to throw the dice at her fate. She was now thinking rapidly about how to find a way to induce sleep. Under the strong pressure, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
"Maybe... let's try this..."
Immediately, Dorothy, who had a new idea, began to use her information channel to contact other people. This time, the person she contacted was Nefernis.
…
"Huh..." Finally done.
In a secluded street house in Tivian, at a ceremony with countless ghostly green soul fires floating in the air, Neveu, who had just finished acting on Dorothy's behalf, let out a long sigh, then stretched herself and stood up, walked to the window and looked out at the scene of howling wind.
"I have completed my mission... But I don't know what the situation is like in other places. Dorothy said before that she would fight the enemy in her dreams. Has she won now?"
Neveu was thinking this in her heart, and a trace of anxiety arose deep in her heart. Just when she felt a little anxious, Dorothy's information contact was connected.
"Ah... Miss Dorothy, I'm almost done with my situation. How's your situation? Ah? Soul, I still have some left, and I haven't sent all of it back yet...
"What? A new mission?"
With a hint of confusion, Neveu couldn't help but frowned slightly after listening to Dorothy's words.
…
On the stormy streets of Tivian, Neveu, wearing glasses, a robe and a hood, was flying at high speed. The strong wind was whistling and blowing her clothes, and the wind and rain were hitting her glasses. Neveu endured it while flying at high speed in the low altitude.
With the help of Anna's wind control from afar, Neveu flew over the city at an extremely high speed. Fortunately, she was an extraordinary person who assisted the "Cup", otherwise such a fast flying speed would be enough to make her faint.
"Okay... we're almost there..."
After flying at high speed, Neveu finally flew to a predetermined location and landed on the roof of a high-rise building. After landing on the roof, Neveu immediately began to work non-stop. She then released a translucent ghost and controlled it to stay on the roof.
After the ghost stayed there, Nef immediately flew up again, quickly flying towards the next point, the next rooftop, and quickly reached the destination in two seconds. Then, Nef released another ghost here and let it stay here as well.
Just like that, Neveu braved the wind and rain and flew over the city at high speed. She placed the ordinary ghosts that Neveu had summoned before at different points far apart in the city. With the help of Anna's wind, Neveu placed many ghosts in a large area in about half a minute.
When the last ghost was settled, Neveu reported to Dorothy.
"Huh...huh...it's so cold...Miss Dorothy, we're all ready!"
"Very good, let's get started."
After receiving Dorothy's response, Neveu immediately started the planned operation. She closed her eyes, took the treasure from Dorothy before the night fell, and with the support of the Lamp of the Underworld, she carefully connected all the countless ghosts under her control within dozens of kilometers.
Then, Neveu called down these ghosts and asked them to look up at the sky together.
Afterwards, at countless locations on the roofs of countless buildings, these pre-placed ghosts looked up at the sky at the same time under the same command. Some ghosts saw nothing due to the wrong angle, while the ones who could see saw in the sky, in the howling storm, the pale white figure looming in the sky.
Some ghosts saw the figure more clearly, some saw it more blurry, and some saw it very faint, almost invisible. No matter whether it was clear, blurry or faint, the moment these ghosts observed the pale existence, they all fell down, closed their eyes, and fell into a deep sleep with their dead bodies. Although Neveu had cut off the sensory connection with these ghosts before, the perception of the ghosts was not affected at all. At this moment, these ghosts who had been sleeping for a long time also cut off the connection with Neveu.
At the same moment, Dorothy, who had been taking in the overall situation, immediately focused her mind and began to perform rapid calculations in her mind.
What Dorothy was calculating at this moment was time.
Although these ghosts placed in various directions seem to have fallen asleep at the same moment, there are differences within the same moment.
Previously, when Dorothy had the spy monks on the Twilight Shadow conduct observation experiments, they all failed. However, it was not without gain, as she found a clue.
In those experiments, although direct observation of Gu-sleep and observation of Gu-sleep through obstacles both lead to hypnosis, there is a very small time difference in the speed of hypnosis. Simply put, the person who directly observed the Gu-sleep fell down immediately, while the person who observed the extremely hazy Gu-sleep through thick fog seemed to pause for less than a second before falling down.
In other words, the more closely one observes the Gu Sleep, the greater the impact of the Gu Sleep, and vice versa. No matter how small the impact is, pay attention to the momentary sleep. What Dorothy needs to calculate now is the difference in this moment.
At this time, the sky of Tivian was covered by a storm, which itself obscured Gu Mian's figure. This caused different visual effects when looking at Gu Mian at different distances. The closer you are to Gu Mian, the clearer you can see Gu Mian in the sky. The farther you are from Gu Mian, because there is not enough storm to block it, the more blurred you can see Gu Mian's figure. Even if you look at the direction where Gu Mian is, you can't see its existence.
These storms created by Anna were just like the fog in the previous Holy Steel Ship experiment. Even if Dorothy could not directly sense the Gumia, she could use her willpower to observe the different time it took for the Gumia to be hypnotized from different distances and calculate the Gumia's location.
Just now, Neveu uniformly let her ghosts observe the Gu-sleep, and all the observed ghosts were hypnotized. The hypnotized ghosts would immediately disconnect from Neveu. At this moment, Dorothy was monitoring Neveu's feelings through the information channel, including her perception of these ghosts.
Among these ghosts, those who are close to the Gumian are hypnotized quickly and will be disconnected first, while those who are far away are hypnotized slowly and will be disconnected later. Those who have not observed the Gumian will not be disconnected. Although the time difference between these disconnections, that is, the speed of the ghosts being hypnotized, is extremely small, ranging from 0.0001 seconds to 0.01 seconds, it is less than a second in the general sense, but it can be accurately recorded by Dorothy and used as a chapter.
After recording the situation, it is very simple to calculate. By comparing the tiny differences in the length of the hypnosis time, Dorothy can determine the distance between the ghosts set at various points and Gu Mian. Combining the distance between these ghosts that she already knows and the map of Tivian, Dorothy can comprehensively calculate how far these ghosts are from Gu Mian and calculate Gu Mian's specific location in the Tivian sky at this moment.
The next thing to do is to send this specific coordinate location to Anna who is ready to go.
At this moment, on the sea outside the port of Tivian, a huge tornado was swirling in the storm, constantly rolling up huge waves and overturning ships, and in the process of absorbing sea water, it became more and more powerful and terrifying.
Inside the tornado, inside the raging blast wall, Anna, holding the flag high, immediately shouted loudly after receiving the message from afar.
"Wind! Charge with me!!"
In the roar, Anna flew up, and the tornado around her rushed towards the sky like a dragon, piercing towards the sky above the city.
At this moment, the strong wind that was sweeping across the entire Tivian suddenly slowed down, and the rainstorm seemed to become smaller all of a sudden. The body of Gu Mian in the sky suddenly became clear and bright. After seeing this, Gu Mian, who had been struggling to move forward in the storm, immediately accelerated his flight and flew towards the psychedelic woods high in the sky.
This is the last section of distance. In less than five seconds, Gu Mian will rush into the woods, enter the area where dream teleportation is allowed, start the teleportation, and directly arrive at the dream cocoon.
"boom!"
䀴At this moment, in the eastern sky, a thick and huge tornado was flying across at a speed far exceeding Gu Mian's incredible speed. It was like a dragon leaping out of the sea, roaring and attacking Gu Mian's huge body.
By the time the originally pious and excited Gu Mian reacted, the Storm Dragon had already rushed in front of him. In the dragon head of the Storm Dragon was Anna, who was holding a spear, closing her eyes, blocking all her senses, and charging towards the predetermined position.
"What……"
In great astonishment, Gu Mian, who had almost no time to react, stretched out his hands and tentacles to stop the Storm Dragon. However, his arms and tentacles were directly crushed at the moment of contact with the Storm Dragon. Then the Storm Dragon continued to advance and directly hit Gu Mian's body.
In an instant, the huge, fat, bloated and deformed body seemed to be sucked into a meat grinder. Amidst the extreme wailing, it was chopped into illusory fragments that floated down from the sky.
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On the windless field covered with wind-eroded rocks, the eight-eyed witch stood on the cracked earth, gazing with a smile at the silent and broken knight on the throne in front of her. She seemed to be recalling and recalling something, and then continued to walk slowly forward.
Step by step, the witch slowly approached the throne, as if she was approaching the prize she was determined to obtain. However, facing the approach of the witch, the figure on the throne did not react at all, but just sat there silently.
"files!"
Suddenly, a loud metallic sound was heard all around, and in front of the witch, a metal iron fence wall that seemed to be made of copper suddenly pierced out of the ground, blocking the witch from the throne. The iron fence wall also rose up from the other three sides of the throne, and suddenly placed the entire throne in a brass cage to protect it. After seeing this, the witch frowned slightly and stopped.
However, even if the witch stopped, the crisp sound of metal hitting each other continued to echo in the entire space. This sound of metal gradually became rhythmic, and more and more similar sounds gradually became interspersed in it. This feeling was like being inside a busy factory.
“Ah…it’s you…”
Looking at the cage in front of her, the witch couldn't help but speak in understanding. The metal sounds around her gradually turned into the sound of mechanical operation and steam roar, and the temperature of the entire space began to rise rapidly.
Amid the roar, the earth began to crack, and huge metal pillars hundreds of meters high continued to rise from it, with profound and mysterious symbols engraved on them. From the cracked ground, high-temperature steam continued to spew out and evaporate.
Above the space, the originally thick black clouds were now gradually dispersing under the drive of some force, and then emerging above the black clouds were countless huge gears with diameters of hundreds or thousands of meters. These incredibly large gears were suspended above the ceiling of the space, meshing with each other and rotating, assisted by equally incredibly large chains or connecting rods, forming a whole, covering the entire sky.
The mechanical sky pressed the earth with an immense pressure, and the noisy roar of the machines filled the entire space, turning the entire world into an endless factory. In the center of the mechanical sky, facing the broken throne, the mechanical sky formed a huge, glass-like "eye" among the countless rotating gears. This "eye" constantly flashed an unsettling red light, as if it was warning the existence approaching the throne below, despising all the insignificance.
The witch paused for a moment after looking around at the sudden changes in her surroundings. Then she looked at that eye and spoke with a smile.
"Who was here at that time? It turned out to be you... So, you are the final backup that Serene invited? It seems that once the secret becomes invalid, a certain mechanism will be triggered, and you will obtain the corresponding information here to execute the final measure...
"You are still so concerned about Hyperion's affairs until now... Even if it is just his inheritance... I thought you were the smartest among the 'Stones', but I didn't expect that you are just as ignorant of the times and stubborn as the rest of your kind... I advise you to go against the 'trend', but there will be no good results."
Looking at the warning red eye in the sky, the witch said this. After her words fell, the mechanical sky did not give any response, but still gave warning pressure, with no intention of retreating at all.
Looking at the situation in front of her, the witch breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to speak with some helplessness.
"It seems like you are not going to give in? Well, I knew this would be the result. I foresaw your appearance, so I am not unprepared.
"First, put the things away. I don't intend to fight with you here, but I won't let go of the things I got, so..."
Looking at the mechanical sky above, there was a hint of deeper meaning in the witch's smile.
"So, let's have a trade... You who are trying to keep the 'Shangjin Realm' from completely falling, you can't refuse the trade, no matter how much you favor Hyperion and his successor... At this time, you must remain neutral...
"If... I can give you something valuable enough, then you must sell me the thing in the cage..."
As she spoke, the witch slowly lowered her head, stared at the broken knight in the cage with her eight pupils, and said with a smile.
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