Chapter 114 Strength Gap
Buzz, buzz, buzz... The defense tower rotated at a low frequency, and the blue edge line rose vertically, but no death spiral was emitted yet.
They are neatly arranged at the mouth of the abyss.
After all, almost all energy storage devices are located close to the edge of the fissure, using artificial "drills" to drill deeper into the abyss to better absorb abyssal energy or perform smoother energy conversion.
Crash.
A motley crowd dressed in colorful equipment rushed in. Men and women gathered together, facing the laser beams of the defense tower, their faces filled with excitement.
"Boss, the Church of Light has lost its mind! They're not even willing to open the defense tower!" A brown-haired man followed the large woman, his hands frantically rubbing the strange object in his palms, making the team roughly invisible.
The leader, over two meters tall, ran at top speed, his long legs covering several meters with each stomp. She didn't dare get too far ahead, fearing she'd be killed by a hidden crossbow or bow, so she slowed down a bit.
A group of people chattered as they walked through the dense defense towers, and the leader finally smiled.
She frowned and shouted, "Hurry up, there's a storage pipeline ahead. If we don't touch the energy stones, these guards who are scattered with resources can't possibly—"
whoosh.
Before she could finish her words, a silver bullet pierced her forehead and flew out from the other side, carrying her brain. Even a highly transformed body has its weaknesses: the soft human brain.
“Ku, ku…”
The tall woman squeezed out a sound from her throat or broken body, her eyes rolled back and she fell to the ground with a thud.
“Run—”
The crowd dispersed as a red exploding star spun down from the sky and slammed into the center of the crowd. With a buzzing sound, it broke into thousands of pieces.
Crackle, crackle!
A burst of sparks jumped on the people, and more than a dozen corpses appeared in the place in an instant.
None of the people running around could escape. Even the few who were farthest away were caught by the silk thread and pulled in, falling into the roaring flames and burning into a pile of bones.
Whoosh~
Ropes hung down from above, and students wearing x2 protective suits slid down the ropes and landed gently on the ground with their feet apart.
Crackling, snapping.
After executing two "invisible" enemies who were trying to escape, Liu Ping'an turned around carelessly and made a "safe" gesture to his companions.
This assault was not even a warm-up. As an elite force specially trained by Taoli Academy, they were at the crushing level in terms of equipment, combat awareness and superpower levels.
"Oh, I'm so poor! This little stuff can't even cover the cost of the bullets."
Liu Ping'an wore gloves and picked through the remains of the leader's body. In the end, he only found a transparent alienated tuberculosis and carefully put it into a glass bottle.
"If I weren't poor, I wouldn't come here to make a living."
Lin Lang did not collect the things on the ground. These low-level rare items would be picked up by the school workers.
She looked at the miserable state of the mercenaries with a slightly complicated expression: the mercenaries and the Human Soul Front were considered a good fighting force, but unfortunately... most of the members were not strong enough, and they had to stand on the opposite side of the Glorious Church because of the shortage of resources.
Beep, beep.
After the next round of scanning, the defense tower switched to energy-saving mode and fell silent.
The red pillars near them slowly lowered, leaving only a few to form a red door.
The Red Gate is a joint artifact with the function of group short-distance teleportation, but it can only be used near the Abyss Well. Once it leaves a specific range, no organization can afford the huge energy consumption of teleportation.
Beep.
Ye Xiaoyu walked out of the red door, followed by Xing Shuyao who was rocking a wheelchair.
Xing Shuyao observed the black, white, and gray patches nearby and nodded slowly: "There shouldn't be any ambushes nearby. Where should we go next?"
He asked questions, but his eyes were only on Lin Lang.
Lin Lang shook his ears in annoyance. "Aren't you clearly suspecting the Human Front Alliance is behind these mercenaries?" Okay, okay, I think so too.
She spread her paws helplessly. "If I were their leader, I'd probably take the backup route. After all, we can avoid the defense towers there, and there are dedicated charging nodes along the backup route, so we can get some scattered resources."
"Okay, then let's go to backup passage 1121 first."
Xing Shuyao readily followed suit. He took out his communicator and circled number 1121 on the map, indicating that they would go there to explore.
Most of the academy's land was still safe blue, green, and blank, with only a red line near the edge of the sealed building.
On the map, you can see three groups of 20 apostle teams gathering. No matter what preparations those chaotic god sects and mercenaries have, they will be useless. Even if they are playing the God's Projection, they have to go back.
So this group of people’s target is indeed the Energy Stone?
Xing Shuyao cleared his mind and chose to trust the judgment of the higher-ups.
Everyone changed their positions, Liu Ping'an tied his belt and rushed to a high place.
The academy was built on a rift in the abyss. Most of the buildings on campus were relics of the technological era, while a small part was affected by the abyss and possessed phantom characteristics.
In other words, the school's walls and floors can freely swap positions, changing like anomalies, while also facilitating the use of some superpowers and artifacts.
Liu Ping'an stepped on the ceiling and quickly shuttled through the rotating space.
She ran for a while before stopping to wait for her companions, still in the mood to joke, "It would be great if Xiao'er could come too. Wouldn't it make the battle much easier if she came? Especially the members of the Chaos God Sect, they'd shatter at the slightest touch."
"Right..." Xing Shuyao agreed subconsciously, then quickly retorted, "No, the professor said that her influence on the artifacts is too great, and the effects are random. Since we have the upper hand, it's best not to let her get close to the battlefield."
"Oh~" Liu Ping'an stuck out his tongue.
Indeed, they cut down the mercenaries like cutting melons and vegetables. As for the higher-ups of the Church of Chaos, they had their own apostles to deal with them, so there was really no need to send Xiao'e out.
She jumped a few steps and couldn't help asking, "I'm thinking, if Xiao'er's superpowers continue to evolve and her priority becomes higher, then the sacred objects in the academy—"
"Hush." Zheng Lu put down the detector mirror and blew on her fingers from the other side.
Liu Ping'an clasped his hands together awkwardly and shook them. "Sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to offend you. The probability of this happening is practically non-existent. My bad!"
Everyone fell silent tacitly.
Superpowers can also be considered a type of "abnormality".
If Chen Xiao'er's superpowers take priority over the holy objects, then as long as she harbors ill will towards the Church of Light, the holy objects... not to mention anything else, the ineffectiveness of the human epic and the remains of beings alone is not a price the church can afford.
So, could it be that the professor didn't allow Xiao'e to join the war because he wanted to keep her "ignorant"? After all, only those who are completely ignorant of the facts will not choose a certain side in various situations.
They didn't speak, but many people realized something in the brief conversation.
Perhaps the church has many plans for Xiao'ai, one of which is to keep her ignorant until her death.
This result is not bad, it can even be said to be merciful.
They also envied Chen Xiao'er's ignorance of the current situation. She was like a swaying daffodil blooming in a pond full of blood, creating a strong contrast and distorted beauty with everything around her.
But for some reason, they still vaguely remembered that dazzling flash - she once lit up the abyss, like a star illuminating the night.
…
Tick, tick.
As the water flowed over the pipe, the poisonous spider swallowed her saliva and continued to crawl forward. She lowered her body a little, then lowered it again, fearing that it would sweep across any retrieval line and expose her fugitive identity, and be pierced in two by the beam.
Gurgle.
The poisonous spider nervously rubbed against the thinnest pipe, its heart pounding and its ears filled with the buzzing sound in its blood vessels.
Damn it, damn the Glorious Church, damn it students, damn it devil, damn it Chen Xiao’er—it’s all your fault!
If I hadn't been caught by the church, teased by the students, coerced by the devil, and implicated by Chen Xiao'er...how could I have ended up like this?
After all, I am a person with super powers and experience. Do I have to be labeled a criminal?
Her eyes were filled with tears, and she was obviously very wronged.
The Dark Spider Mother is dead.
As a newly elected believer, Venom Spider had already broken away from the link. She wasn't a devout believer, so naturally she didn't suffer much damage.
But the church did not forgive her mistake, or rather, she was not worthy of being forgiven by the church.
Ever since she was caught by that group of students last time, her status as a low-level school worker had been stripped away, and she was imprisoned at the bottom of the prison as a criminal.
That prison is more like a living material library than a prison.
The Church of Light never gave her the chance to have a normal trial, nor did they plan to release the criminals inside alive, so the Pasteur radiation value of this prison has never been lower than 200, and the food she eats is also a meal that maintains vital signs.
A serving of mashed potatoes, a serving of chopped vegetables, a spoonful of protein, a little salt, and three plates of water a day, that's all.
If she didn't have rich experience in surviving in the wild and wasn't able to use her superpowers to catch the mutant insects and dig out the edible parts, she would have starved to death long ago!
This month has been like hell, and the urge to go to Zisha has flashed through Poison Spider's mind countless times.
Fortunately I didn’t give up!
She was crawling in the pipe and almost burst into tears: "God damn the Glorious Church! You really have so many enemies, you must have finally been ambushed."
Okay, as long as I crawl out of here, find a safe place to hide, and then find a chance to run outside, I will be free!
As the poisonous spider was crawling, it suddenly saw a human figure appear in front of it.
She stopped dead in her tracks, unable to move forward or backward. It was difficult to retreat from a tunnel like this, and any further retreat would only lead back to the prison. It was much easier to climb out.
This pipe should lead to an alternative passage. I don’t know who I will meet when I climb out.
If it were a mercenary, it would be fine. I could at least give my name to them and get some face. But I'm afraid it's a student of the Glorious Church. Those elites don't care about your sufferings. They'll just capture you and exchange you for contributions.
Especially Chen Xiao'er's group... If I meet them, I might as well go outside and bet that the defense tower will go blind!
In Du Zhu's memories, Chen Xiao'er's face was a little blurry. After all, he had tricked her once, so he felt a little guilty.
But Zheng Lu's face was twisted into that of a ghost, which was terrifying no matter how you looked at it, even scarier than the dead spider mother!
Ta-da. Ta-da.
The figure walked to the pipe and lowered her head. Poison Spider looked at her, breathed a sigh of relief and then held her breath: it was a female student with an unfamiliar face, neither Zheng Lu nor Chen Xiao'er.
Will win.
She grasped the hidden weapon hidden in her chest, which was a finely polished and poisoned mutant insect bone.
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