"etc."
As she stepped through the courtyard gate, the sorceress stopped, waved to the scarred man, and gestured with her eyes to indicate the way she had come down.
The scarred man looked back and saw nothing on the empty street. He quickly nodded.
“That old bastard won’t do anything without a profit. Whether the gold is true or not, it’s definitely not going to be that easy.” The sorceress said viciously, taking out a string of black beads and throwing them to the scarred man: “Take this and hang it in the Jiang family ancestral hall.”
"Hmm!" The scarred man caught the black bead, and a fishy, foul smell instantly filled his nostrils. He forced himself to endure it and quickly ran in another direction.
He knew the intricacies of the mansions of wealthy families, and he could roughly guess the location of the ancestral hall as soon as he entered.
Watching the man disappear around the corner, the sorceress sneered a few times and began manipulating Lu Yuan again.
Just then, several explosions came from the direction of the underground palace. The sorceress's expression changed, and she quickened her pace, urging Lu Yuan to stumble forward.
The two had just passed through several courtyards when a mechanical SWAT officer, whose arm was flashing with sparks, suddenly crashed through a courtyard gate and flew out in mid-air.
The sorceress quickly stopped and peered out. Behind the courtyard gate was the entrance to the underground palace.
Immediately afterwards, gusts of foul wind flew out from behind the stone gate at the entrance to the underground palace, and two tall zombies stood in the shadows beneath the stone gate, filling the entire Jiang family courtyard with a stench.
The underground palace guards, clad in armor, leap into the air!
Wearing a round, pointed helmet, with layers of cold iron armor nested on the face, cascading down to the shoulders, chest, abdomen, and waist... it resembled a towering mountain. Upon closer inspection, each nested iron armor plate was engraved with a ferocious beast, its mouth the hole through which the armor plates passed.
As the hopping zombie stopped moving, the armor plates on its body, which resembled the roar of a beast, ceased shaking.
Judging from its appearance, it is a Song Dynasty-style infantry armor.
"Underground Palace Corpse Demon (Level Jump Zombie): Fateful spirit enters the tomb, sacrificing life to fight, wearing Taotie Demon Armor, forging the Seven Kill Corpse Demon Body."
Even if one is prepared, anyone who sees these two zombie-like corpses jumping around will inevitably feel fear.
"It's a corpse demon! Who would dare raise a corpse demon here..." The sorceress frantically grabbed the tree beside her, curled up into a ball, and rolled on the ground behind a flower bed, afraid of being discovered.
Lu Yuanze stood there dumbfounded, then suddenly walked in the opposite direction from the sorceress, leaving heavy footsteps in the courtyard.
The corpse demon in front of the underground palace moved its feet, but did not leave the area of the underground palace entrance. It simply stood there, looking at everything around with its red eyes that peeked out from the gaps in its mask.
In a few moments, many sounds erupted from the underground palace, like thunder or drums, shaking the eaves of the courtyard and causing countless broken tiles to fall.
Before the trembling subsided, the remaining mechanical special police officers who had entered through the main gate were thrown out of the underground palace one by one, crashing onto the ground and creating electronic sparks that shattered several stone slabs.
Several holes were pierced in the bulletproof mechanical bodies by sharp zombie claws, and some black oil was leaking from the holes and dripping onto the ground.
Although they didn't seem to have gained any advantage, the RoboCop actually used minimal damage to complete the information exploration inside the underground palace gate and cleared out the zombies that Lin Feng had brought from Dafang Village in front of the gate.
In the blink of an eye, all the special police officers stood up, tested their limbs a few times, and then charged towards the two corpse demons at the entrance to the underground palace once again.
"who are they?"
The scarred man had finished his work and, after discovering the sorceress hiding, quietly crawled over into a clump of weeds.
The sorceress stared intently: "A mechanical puppet, whose treasure is it? It's so powerful... Has it arrived?"
"No," the scarred man answered in a low voice, gripping the stone bricks by the flower bed, and peering out at the mechanical policeman who had punched the corpse demon several meters away, his mouth agape in disbelief.
He had seen puppets before, but those iron lumps controlled by talismans didn't have such power. They mostly relied on weight and defense to suppress the zombies and ghosts.
“Go find him…” The sorceress couldn’t contain herself any longer, her gaze shifting back and forth between the entrance to the underground palace and the robotic policeman, before picking up the compass in her hand again.
The compass needle pointed to the entrance of the underground palace, and even though her hand trembled slightly from the sounds of battle, it still pointed steadily forward.
Upon hearing this, the scarred man lowered his head and shrank back, slowly crawling out of the weeds and carefully rolling out of the yard.
Just as the commotion here grew louder, T3010, who had entered the underground palace from another entrance, discovered the Red Spirit Ghost that had suddenly appeared in front of them.
Just like last time, the Red Spirit tentatively floated past them, trying to lure them into the dangerous area, but the three T3010s completely ignored her and coldly stepped into the depths of the underground palace.
The last time in the cyber world was intentional on his part. If he hadn't wanted to increase his importance in Arasaka's eyes, he wouldn't have been tempted.
Just as they were about to leave, the Red Spirit reappeared, tossed out a small communication device, and it flew towards the T3010.
"Lu Yuan".
A T3010 user raised their hand and grabbed the communication device. Just as they touched it, Lin Feng's voice floated in, carrying a hint of doubt: "This...is this your real name?"
The T3010s stopped and looked at the communication device they were holding. After a brief wait, a light blue light covered their eyes, and the heads of the three T3010s simultaneously raised.
A long silence followed, until a cold wind blew through the underground palace, at which point T3010 chuckled: "Heh heh, we've been discovered..."
It wasn't Lu Yuan's voice, but the voice of a participant in the cyber world.
A touch of humanity took over T3010, who grabbed the communication device, held it up to his face, and turned to face Hong Linggui: "How did you come to suspect me?"
"What should I call you?" Lin Feng did not answer. His voice was extremely calm, as if they were two strangers with no hostility.
"Lu Yuan." The voice from t3010 was similar, the brief tone quickly swallowed by the darkness.
After listening, Lin Feng said, word by word, "There are three main halls in the underground palace, each containing a demonic corpse, a fierce spirit, and a yin energy... You cannot enter."
"How do you know you can't get in if you don't try?" Lu Yuan said dismissively. The blue light in his mechanical eyes flashed, and a T3010 began to move towards the underground palace again.
As I watched the T3010 turn into a road, the voice coming from the intercom suddenly became much more flippant: "I'll wait for you."
The moment the word "wait" was uttered, the communication device automatically burned out, releasing a burnt smell that drifted deep into the underground palace with the slight breeze.
T3010 tossed aside the communication device, but things had changed inside the underground palace. One by one, green eyes opened from the darkness and looked in the direction from which the smell was coming.
The next second, the red ghost drifted towards the direction that had just lured T3010, disappeared into a darker passage, and vanished.
The blue light in 3010's eyes returned to red, and its figure continued towards the underground palace. The five police officers in front of the palace gate all stopped and looked at the sorceress hiding behind the flower bed.
Suddenly, grotesque fleshy bulges appeared on the body of "Lu Yuan," which was being controlled by the sorceress. The body mutated wildly like a runaway horse, growing more than twice its original size. Then, layers of mechanical frames embedded in the flesh grew out of thin air.
"Compliant bioengineered zombies"
The bulging muscles were forcibly ripped apart by black artificial muscles, and sporadic steel armor protruded from the chest and joints. The power armor that had been used for protection automatically shed its heavy outer shell, revealing the true structure, and forcibly connected to the back of this flesh and blood body, merging with it.
Click!
Lu Yuan raised his head, and a human face trapped in pale flesh and blood faced the sorceress. He slowly raised the hard bone claw that grew out of the flesh and blood and grabbed the other's panicked face.
The sharp claws clenched and pinched the skin on the sorceress's face, then plunged in hard.
In a short while, black blood flowed from the sorceress's face, forming bulging tendons that quickly spread to half of her body.
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