Chapter 299 Ran away?
The outer shell of the artificial saint was pierced by Irene's rays. In her flank, a fist-sized round hole was emitting wisps of green smoke. Some kind of liquid metal that seemed to have biological activity was rapidly wriggling in the gap, as if trying to repair the pierced part.
This killing machine created by the Holy Hermitage has very powerful defensive capabilities, and its external armor can certainly withstand "high temperatures" in the conventional sense, but it is obvious that the strange rays stimulated by Irene are not just as simple as "high temperatures" - some kind of power that seems to have the characteristics of "decomposition" or "erosion" directly evaporates the metal near the direct impact point, leaving this terrible scar on the iron puppet.
However, Irene seemed quite dissatisfied with the effect of this attack.
"Hey, I thought I could get through it all the way," the little doll sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder, with a little heat coming out from his wrist to his shoulder, "but I only got through the first layer."
Click.
The sound of metal heels hitting the ground came from not far away, interrupting Irene's complaints. The artificial saint adjusted her posture and assumed a fighting stance again.
The wound that looked quite scary didn't seem to have any effect on her. She didn't show any pain or difficulty in movement.
This scene immediately made Yu Sheng, who had relaxed a little because of Irene's successful attack, instantly nervous again. Almost at the same time, he also felt the "gaze" of the iron doll falling on him.
Although there was no emotion revealed on the pale metal mask, Yu Sheng still sensed an emotion of...surprise and confusion from the subtle changes in the iron puppet's movements and the weak connection through the blood.
She was staring at this side, wondering why the familiar enemy in front of her was still alive - she still remembered the injury Yu Sheng suffered during the last fight, and that wound would be fatal to any human being.
Even if it wasn't fatal, there was no way an ordinary person could appear here alive and well so quickly.
Yu Sheng weighed the tetanus stick in his hand, adjusted his posture to be ready to defend against the enemy at any time, and gave the tall and slender figure a provocative look: "Surprised, it's still me - if you get my blood on your hands, you'll have it in your life~!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a flash of light and shadow in his vision, and the figure of the artificial saint suddenly turned into a blurred shadow. This shadow drew a graceful arc in the air, and then pounced towards this side without hesitation!
At almost the same time, the surrounding "Brass Knights" who were still able to move also launched an attack in coordination, attacking from all directions with swords and hammers raised high!
"These damn things are really in the same group!"
Yu Sheng cursed in his heart, and then he met the sword chopped down by a brass knight. He raised his hand to block, but he saw the sharp blade of the artificial saint stabbing at him from the corner of his eye. This iron puppet had cut off one arm before, but now it has all its limbs intact, and it was obviously repaired somewhere. And he didn't know if it was an illusion, but Yu Sheng always felt that the opponent's attack this time was more fierce and dangerous than the last time, as if... this guy reviewed the last fight, and now her attack was completely targeted at his movement habits during the last fight! The harsh sound of metal collision hit the eardrum, and bright sparks burst in the air. Yu Sheng dodged the first attack of the artificial saint with a reaction speed far exceeding that of ordinary people, and then blocked her two consecutive stabs and a kick, and then retreated continuously, flashing through the interception of two brass knights. Then, there was a flash of light and shadow in the corner of his eye, and the overwhelming black silk threads filled his vision again.
Irene's spider web once again covered all the space around Yu Sheng, and it was woven and reshaped quickly like a living thing, binding and imprisoning the nearby bronze knights one after another in mid-air, while constantly compressing the movement range of the artificial saint. The latter relied on her amazing agility and ghostly "dance steps" to constantly find the route of attack in these layers of interwoven spider silk, and repeatedly rushed to Yu Sheng's vicinity.
Although she is made of steel, her dancing steps are like a gust of wind that cannot be caught in a net.
"Ahhh, this is so annoying! How can a C-shaped buckle be so flexible!" the little puppet yelled irritably, and then he finally managed to slightly restrict the "dance steps" of the iron puppet again. Without even bothering to aim carefully, he directly controlled his other body and raised his hand to shoot out a series of bright rays.
The "Irene Rays" containing the power and strange characteristics of fox fire hissed through the air, penetrated a tricky path in the spider web and pierced the enemy directly. This time, the artificial saint obviously already knew the danger of these beams. As soon as Irene raised her hand, she had already prepared to dodge, and once again drilled into the blind spot between the spider silk from an angle that no one could have imagined.
Yu Sheng's vision had already adapted to the speed of the iron puppet. He finally discovered that every joint of this guy seemed to be able to be broken and reshaped at any time. Even the complete arms and legs could be broken or suddenly softened and flipped.
With a few hissing sounds, Irene's dense beams of light only swept across the thighs and back of the artificial saint, leaving horrifying wounds on the black alloy shell.
Despite such damage, the iron puppet successfully broke free from the black spider web, flipped lightly backwards, and landed several meters away.
But before she could stand firm, another white shadow pounced towards her.
That was Hu Li who had been looking for the opportunity to attack - she was still brooding over the last time she saw Yu Sheng being stabbed to death by the enemy with two swords, making her feel aggrieved. This time, she had been waiting for an opportunity since the iron doll appeared. With her previous experience, she did not use the limited effect of the fox fire this time, but used the Nine-Tail to accelerate and rushed forward with a rocket headbutt.
The iron doll, who had just landed and was injured in many places, could no longer dodge gracefully as easily as before. She only had time to twist her body barely, and a sharp noise came from the leg that was injured by the light beam. Then she was hit hard by a "fox carrot headbutt" from the fox girl.
It was a loud bang like the sound of a huge bell. Yu Sheng even saw a circle of visible shock waves erupting from the collision point between Hu Li's head and the artificial saint's chest. The latter was like being hit directly by a cannonball. Her body was instantly twisted into a weird angle and flew out sideways.
Hu Li stood there and shook his head, then let out a low growl and rushed forward again, pinning down the iron puppet that was still struggling to stand up on the ground and started beating it up.
Irene was stunned watching beside him. It was the first time she saw Hu Li fighting in this way. She was stunned on the spot: "...The stupid fox's head is harder than the starship armor?!"
Yu Sheng was also stunned, but before he could open his mouth, he saw one of the artificial saint's arms suddenly twisted into a strange angle, and she was lifted up despite Hu Li's strong grip, with several sharp blades pointing at the back of the fox girl.
"Hu Li, be careful!"
Hu Li had already reacted by now. Before Yu Sheng could open his mouth to remind her, she suddenly let go of her opponent and jumped forward on all fours.
A few murderous blades only cut off a few tufts of silver-white hair on the fox's tail.
Xuan Che also strode forward at this moment.
The artificial saint stood up shakily. After a series of attacks, the reaction and movement speed of this elegant and efficient killing machine finally slowed down. She noticed Xuan Che who had come in front of her, but she could no longer create distance between them with a few light dance steps as before. She could only barely adjust her posture and then face her enemy with the sharp blade in her hand.
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The pale steel mask still had a beautiful but empty smile, and it was impossible to tell whether she was nervous, fearful, or resentful at the moment.
Xuan Che simply swung the icy sword in his hand, then put it behind him again, then took a half step forward, lowered his waist and raised his hand, and threw another simple and unpretentious...ah, just a straight punch.
Seemingly without any skill, he dodged all the blades and punched the artificial saint directly on the arm.
A short buzzing sound.
Yu Sheng saw that layers of obscure lines suddenly appeared on the arm of the iron puppet. Dense runes and strange lines penetrated from the surface of the black alloy shell like strong light penetrating through the skin. A powerful force was resisting the punch - that seemed to be the "secret technique of breaking the law" that Xuan Che had mentioned, which was set in the lining of the artificial saint armor by the Chongsheng Hermitage.
Obviously, Xuan Che's cultivation was far superior to that of the "ordinary cultivators" he mentioned - although his fighting style was a little different from what Yu Sheng had imagined, the power contained in his simple and unerring punch broke through the protection inside the iron puppet's body after a moment's stalemate.
Those layers of runes began to collapse on a large scale, and strange explosions and tearing sounds came from the body of the artificial saint. One of her arms began to shatter from the fingertips, and fell to pieces accompanied by continuous small-scale explosions.
Before the iron puppet's body completely collapsed, the brass knights gathered around it had already fallen down due to the aftermath of the punch.
But just when Yu Sheng thought that the terrifying and difficult artificial saint could finally be completely dealt with this time, he suddenly saw a layer of strange ripples on the surface of the iron doll.
Immediately afterwards, before he and Xuan Che could react, the figure of the iron doll quickly "flashed" a few times in the air and disappeared out of thin air.
Xuan Che's fist was no longer able to resist, and the remaining power that had been accumulated exploded forwards - all the road surfaces and objects within a hundred meters ahead turned silently into dust.
He turned his head and looked at Yu Sheng in confusion.
(End of this chapter)
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