Chapter 593 Disappearance
Eileen shattered so easily.
Actually, things might have been better if she hadn't raised her hand to block. The key was that she subconsciously raised her hand to block, and then with a loud crash, the 66.6-centimeter-tall doll was kicked in half by the brass knight, its arms and legs falling to the ground, and its head flying far away.
In any other setting, this scene would have been a gruesome, sudden death. In fact, even Yu Sheng was alarmed when he saw it. After a moment of stunned silence, he almost jumped up: "I've been working on this for an hour!"
Hearing Yu Sheng's exclamation, Hu Li, who was standing nearby, also cried out in surprise, "Our benefactor has been working on this for an hour!!"
Eileen's head was still rolling on the ground when she heard Yu Sheng and Hu Li's commotion and immediately launched into a loud tirade: "Is this acceptable? Is this acceptable? Is this acceptable...?"
As it kept babbling, the tiny doll's head rolled to Yu Sheng's feet, tilting its head back in a furious rage: "Are you even human?! In a normal story, I'm like this and you guys should at least be filled with grief and indignation and unleash some kind of seed—or at least pretend to be grief and indignation!!"
Yu Sheng pointed to the spacetime rifts that were still opening in the distance, and the mass-produced Irene figures that were being teleported from the valley and shooting everywhere—mass-produced dolls were constantly being knocked down by the bronze knights, some were instantly teleported back to the valley, and some were smashed to pieces before they could teleport: "And there's a bunch of even more broken ones. How can I possibly be so grief-stricken as to use up the spare bodies of your four regiments?"
"Five regiments already!" Eileen exclaimed, then her eyes darted around to the bronze knights. "I have to get revenge..."
Just then, Yu Sheng was about to bend down and pick up the little doll's head, thinking that he could salvage some of the larger pieces before the little thing's body was crushed even more, so that he could piece it back together later. But before he could take any action, he saw strands of light golden light appear in the mist—
The wispy golden lines seemed to come alive, flowing swiftly through the hazy mist. The threads spilled out from every fragment of Eileen's body, almost instantly reconnecting the broken shell into a whole. Then the little doll's body began to rapidly reassemble itself!
Yu Sheng had previously seen Eileen use these gold threads to reconstruct her limbs at home, but the scene back then was obviously not this exaggerated!
In the blink of an eye, the brass knight who had previously shattered Eileen also reacted instantly. The tall figure silently charged towards the little doll again, raising his greatsword high, the disintegration field on the blade twisting into a hazy glow in the mist.
At this moment, Eileen's limbs were not yet fully connected, and her loose body was still swaying on the ground. But the next second, she strangely flipped over and stood up—like a marionette, her small body was bent at an unbelievable angle and was dragged into the air by the strings in a way that defied physics.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of golden threads wrapped around the brass knight's force field greatsword. The blade, which could easily cleave gold and stone, began to hiss and spark when faced with those "threads" thinner than a hair. The energy lines inside the blade began to overload rapidly, emitting a hissing sound of being unable to bear the burden. Then, accompanied by a series of ear-piercing metallic tearing sounds, the greatsword was directly crushed into countless fragments by Eileen's golden threads.
The next second, Eileen flipped over and climbed onto the back of the Brass Knight. As she climbed up quickly, she raised her hand and a frying pan that was almost as big as her body flew into her hand out of thin air.
With a clang, the pot was slammed down, and the tall, hollow armor collapsed to the ground, already shattered into pieces before hitting the ground. Large amounts of lifeless black "mud" oozed from the broken and disintegrated limbs.
Before the knight fell, Eileen leaped to the ground and, while supporting her still-unstable head, charged toward the nearest enemy. Golden threads were released intermittently, sometimes interfering with her opponent, sometimes pulling her own, as she darted and leaped like a swift golden lightning bolt.
Every minute and every second, she seemed to be getting more and more used to her "new" body, recalling more and more combat techniques, becoming faster and faster, and her reactions becoming more and more agile.
The only pity is that her most effective move is still jumping up and smashing the opponent's knee with a frying pan - she can jump a little higher, but it is not easy to dodge in mid-air, and she can easily be slapped back to the ground by a sword.
Ultimately, the 66.6-centimeter-tall doll body was too restrictive.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
A dozen tiny, blood-red needles pierced the air and pierced the gaps in the armor of a brass knight. The knight hurled his heavy sword, shattering two puppets and even severely injuring a shadow wolf. But after a brief and violent struggle, the knight convulsed and collapsed, quickly disintegrating.
In fact, Yu Shengzhong also tried to temporarily control some lone brass knights with blood needles and blood grenades, and then try to see if he could wash away the cognitive shield in their minds by soaking them in blood, just like when he "snatched" Luna back, and rescue these people trapped in the metal armor, but he failed two or three times.
Perhaps it was because the Brass Knights and the artificial saintess had different mental models (the twelve knights who were with Luna were packaged and transferred to the Wilderness of Souls as her "symbiotic minds"), or perhaps this batch of knights used some "new technology" that the cultists of the Sacred Order further cleansed these "soldiers'" basic humanity—anyway, when Yu Sheng tried to wash away the shackles in the minds of these Brass Knights, all he heard was a chaotic noise, and even the dead could not talk to each other.
The increasingly fierce attacks of the bronze knights and the chaotic battlefield environment clearly did not allow him to make any more attempts—he could only temporarily stop thinking about where these knights came from, like Luna, and focus on eliminating the enemies on the scene.
Just then, the perceptive fox-fire seemed to have suddenly noticed something. She quickly fired a burst of foxfire at the open space in the distance (with a "da da da" sound in between), and then darted to Yu Sheng's side in a few steps: "My benefactor! The sides are starting to narrow again!"
Yu Sheng raised his hand and used more than a dozen blood needle bullets to block the movements of the two bronze knights, while looking up at both sides of the dark alley.
The fog had started to thin out sometime during the day.
The alley, which had become extremely wide as the fog thickened, was now recovering. The buildings on both sides of the road were slowly approaching like giant, writhing beasts, and the stone slabs that had been stretched and deformed were visibly merging into the mottled, moss-covered walls of the buildings.
The Shadow Wolves were forced to retreat, and some of the mass-produced dolls had to return to the valley. Luna leaped down from the roof of a nearby building, killed a bronze knight in mid-air, and landed to Yu Sheng's left front, cautiously holding one hand in front of her: "Space, warp."
A deep, strange sound, like a heavy object crushing something, reached everyone's ears. Little Red Riding Hood, whose wolf ears had popped out due to the stimulation of her fighting stance, was instantly made dizzy by the strange, deep sound. She could only quickly raise her hands to cover her ears, but two hands were not enough to cover them all. She was in a flustered state for a moment, and finally found a suitable hand gesture to barely cover all four ears with both hands.
The fox was simple; she just took off her two ears from her head and threw them into her tail.
At the same time that things were changing in the dark alley, the bronze knights also stopped their attack.
It didn't seem like they had received any ceasefire orders, but rather that they had fallen into a state of confusion and bewilderment due to the influence of the environment.
The buildings on both sides of the alley narrowed further, and some bronze knights disappeared right before everyone's eyes into the crushing walls—but rather than being swallowed by those buildings, it was more like they returned to another time and space.
The remaining brass knights finally began to retreat—they staggered backward through the increasingly thinning fog, and before the concealment field was reactivated, some of the brass knights seemed to have been teleported elsewhere.
Before the last enemy disappeared, Yu Sheng quickly raised his hand and fired two blood needles into the armor.
He didn't know if the controllers behind the Brass Knights would notice the two blood needles, nor was he sure what effect this thin trace of blood could have—these two shots were purely a conditioned reflex, a habit he'd developed from laying down the fungal carpet...
After that, the alley returned to normal—at least to the way it was when Yu Sheng and the others first entered.
A thin mist lingered on the streets, and the narrow alleys fell silent. The brass knights that had appeared out of nowhere seemed to have never been there. Only the lingering smell of burning in the air and the broken mass-produced dolls and armor fragments on the road proved that what had just happened was not an illusion.
Eileen took the remaining batch back to the valley herself, then dragged the frying pan all the way to Yu Sheng, clattering as she climbed onto him with practiced ease, muttering, "That's it? Where did this come from?"
Yu Sheng finally understood how this little thing could climb so fast on him while carrying a life-sized frying pan—it turned out that she had used several thin gold threads to tie the pan to her shoulders when she carried it on her back, like carrying a schoolbag.
Who says Eileen isn't smart? She just doesn't like to use her brain normally.
Hu Li also came over, walking like a musketeer who had just finished a duel, holding a large tail and blowing the blue smoke from the tip of the tail. After reaching Yu Sheng, she put on her ears and twitched her large ears: "My benefactor, I just scanned the alley with my divine sense. When those 'knights' disappeared, there was an unstable energy field everywhere in the alley, but I feel that the source is not in the alley."
"Not in the alley..."
Hearing what the fox girl said, Yu Sheng frowned thoughtfully.
A rustling sound quickly interrupted his thoughts.
Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw a large, thick shadow slowly emerging from the entrance of the old bookstore. The shadow shoved and rolled forward to squeeze outside the door, and many eyes that emitted white light lit up inside. Then, a bunch of cat ears emerged from the edge.
The "cat" has come out, so it seems those "intruders" are really gone.
(End of this chapter)
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