In the ruined fortress, the leader of the adventure group, with two dark circles under his eyes, slammed the table beside him fiercely, and then asked his subordinates with an angry face: "Did he say that?"

The wanderer who had just returned dared not hide anything and quickly told the truth about his experience.

Just then, a middle-aged man in a black robe and a goatee walked out.

"Alas, I didn't expect that our plan would fail because of our background! Damn these guys who control resources by relying on their noble status!"

He first defined Carl's identity, and then attributed the failure of the plan to the corrupt system. Then, this middle-aged man who looked like a dog-headed military strategist continued, "It is impossible to trick these people into opening the gate of their base for the time being, but considering how often they go out and our combat effectiveness, as long as we launch a fierce attack while they are away, we should be able to seize the base!"

Upon hearing this, the leader of the adventure group, who was a champion warrior sub-class, nodded.

"Oh! What bad luck! I didn't expect that group of rookies and that mechanic to have aristocratic backgrounds! Didn't we come here because we were oppressed by the nobles? Then we must take over this base no matter what! Just consider it as paying back the interest!"

Patting the weapon in his hand, the captain secretly made up for it.

After hearing this, the adventurers who had been opposed to this matter before actually softened their minds, and some of them even followed the people around them and cheered.

They completely ignored the fact that if Karl was a great noble, why would he come to such a place to build a base.

He encouraged his men again, and they first repaired the wooden wall of the village, and then began to wait for Carl and others to leave the base.

But this wait lasted more than a week.

…

"Bang!"

It was the same table again, and the same people. The adventure leader looked at the wanderers returning to the village, and asked with bloodshot eyes:

"They still haven't gone out today?"

During this week, the adventure group has been waiting for an opportunity to raid Carl's base.

However, in order to make a breakthrough, Carl was concentrating on mechanical research.

The spiritual improvement brought by killing will decrease as the individual's combat effectiveness increases.

The more intense the battle, the more obvious the spiritual improvement.

On the contrary, killing a group of zombies with one shot like Carl did before did not help his spiritual improvement.

On the contrary, the inspiration and skill improvement brought by studying legendary equipment were of greater help to Carl.

At this time, Carl was on the second floor of the base, trying to study and activate the harp.

"The meaning of this string of runes should be..."

Holding the huge harp, Carl used his identification glasses to study the runes on the harp.

Unlike most modern equipment that uses magic patterns, this giant equipment is made directly with giant runes.

Carl didn't know the meaning of many runes, so he could only think and verify them by guessing.

This was an extremely huge workload, but fortunately Carl used this process to develop new weapons and equipment, so it was not a loss at all.

After picking out the giant rune whose meaning he didn't know, Carl took off his glasses, walked aside, and carved the rune on the metal plate.

To understand unfamiliar runes, you should start with the abilities of individual runes.

However, Carl tested it several times according to his guess, but the rune didn't respond at all.

The use of runes is actually somewhat similar to that of a magic wand.

Some wands have no special requirements for attunement, and as long as the user knows the principles of the wand spell, they can cast the wand's spell.

The Giant Rune can only be activated if the user knows its meaning.

Scratching his hair in distress, Carl put down the metal plate and picked up a gun next to him.

Aiming at the target not far away, Carl pulled the trigger.

Without much noise, bullets flew out rapidly like Go pieces.

Every bullet penetrated the target, and the recoil of the gun was quite small.

Electromagnetic submachine gun, Carl's latest product after lightweighting the electromagnetic gun.

This weapon solved Carl's problem of having trouble with long-range aiming.

As long as he keeps his hands steady, he can hit whatever he points.

However, this weapon has a shortcoming - it cannot use the rapid-fire weapon magic pattern.

Because electromagnetic force cannot accelerate magic bullets.

This made Carl depressed for a long time.

After venting his anger at the target, Carl was about to sort out his emotions and devote himself to research again, but he saw Yueling No. 1 coming down from the elevator.

"What's wrong?"

Because they are simple constructs, the Moon Spirit maids do not have a close spiritual connection with Carl like V does, so they can only communicate through language.

"Master, a large number of unknown adventurers are approaching from the northwest. Do you want to enter combat readiness?"

Carl was delighted to hear this.

"Go in! Let's go and see what those guys are up to. Are they still after my base?"

Following the Moon Spirit Maid, Carl returned to the first floor of the base.

At this time, Hope and Ying were ready for battle.

Bain was worried about Thorin and his teammates, so he went to look for them with Scorpion a few days ago and has not returned yet.

He first used a telescope to observe whether there were captured Bane and Scorpion in the enemy team. After confirming that there were no two of them, Carl put aside the last bit of worry in his heart.

Carl took out many props he had made during this period and handed them all to V.

Just then, someone spoke over there.

"Listen up, everyone inside! You have been surrounded. If you are smart, give up the base as soon as possible. We can still spare your life! Otherwise, when we break through the defense line, you..."

Before the other party could finish speaking, the force field crossbow on the city wall had already been fired.

At the same time, all the compressors started working.

In a short while, solid nitrogen was dropped onto the battlefield.

Thick white fog covered the adventure group.

"Haha! If that's all you have, I'll take over this base today!"

As if abiding by the rule of "no harm if there is smoke", the leader of the adventure group who was determined to occupy this base walked out of the white fog, emitting the aura of magic props.

The remaining adventurers also showed their magical powers, but Carl noticed that a few people still suffered.

Their bodies had been smashed into pieces and were spread on the ground, making it difficult to put them back together.

"continue!"

After giving the order calmly, Carl opened his hands and allowed the Moon Spirit Marrow in his body to transform into Moon Spirit Armor to wrap around him.

For a moment, solid nitrogen, force field crossbows and electromagnetic submachine guns fired at full force.

The battlefield was almost completely covered by white fog.

These adventurers carry equipment with them that comes with mage armor. After activating its effect, an invisible force field begins to take effect.

This force field can deflect bullets to a certain extent. Combined with the professional's reaction speed, forcibly dodging bullets becomes not too difficult a task.

The prolonged extreme cold caused the equipment of some members of the adventure team to quickly become ineffective. Seeing this, their leader rushed towards the bastion at high speed with a battle axe.

"Take my axe!"

After spinning in the air for a circle, the axe blade chopped into the cement with a "ding" sound.

But that was all, and even the scar in that area looked only slightly larger than the axe blade.

The leader of the adventure team was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed.

If they occupied a base of this quality, no one would be able to break through it! However, before he could continue to be happy, Carl had already controlled his floating gun to release flaming arrows at the opponent.

The power of these two arrows was not that strong, and the opponent simply blocked them with an axe.

But he did not notice that after experiencing the extreme cold environment and the impact, the weapon in his hand was already overwhelmed by the sudden heat.

"Brothers! Charge in!"

With a shout, the remaining adventurers who were still alive rushed out of the white fog.

As the white mist dissipated, some ice sculptures emerged from it.

Carl was about to give the order to attack again, but Hope slapped Carl on the shoulder.

"It's been too long since I last exercised. Let me take over next!"

After saying that, she mounted two chainsaws on her arm armor and then jumped down.

A 5-meter-long giant bear with flaming chainsaws on both hands fell to the ground after going berserk and deforming.

The roaring flames and lightning rushed down towards the adventure leader, but the opponent also realized that he could not take this move head-on, so he retreated quickly.

Who would have thought that Hope actually somersaulted in mid-air, and the chainsaw that was originally falling vertically turned into a jumping strike.

The leader of the adventure team only had time to raise the Berserker Axe in front of him before he was knocked away by a brutal force.

The adventurers rushing forward wanted to stop, but they saw Hope land and then use another move to sweep away the enemy.

Several adventurers whose blood and energy were slowed down by the cold air had no time to jump, and were instantly turned into ghosts under the chainsaw.

The fierce flames even burned the remaining debris, leaving nothing behind.

The middle-aged man in the black robe was dumbfounded.

He originally thought that the red-haired kid who led this team looked like a newcomer to society, and that his combat effectiveness was all raised by his equipment. As long as he didn't run into the zombies stupidly, he would be fine. But he never expected...

"withdraw!"

Without any hesitation, the self-important middle-aged man pulled the two people beside him and ran back.

Of course, he didn't have good intentions, but he did it to avoid punishing everyone.

He ran away alone. Unless all the members of the adventure group were killed, they would never let him go as he instigated everyone to attack the base.

But if there are others who escape, then things are not the worst yet.

Of course, he was just thinking this for now; the battle wasn't over yet, and he hadn't left the battlefield.

Seeing that Hope's combo actually beat the entire adventure team like this, Carl was stunned for a moment.

It had been a long time since he had seen Hope fight with all his strength.

"Let's go down together. We can't let Hope fight alone."

After saying this to Ying, Carl also jumped down from the city wall.

The Moon Spirit Armor transformed into the Tiga Power Armor, and the flying technique was activated. White mist came out of Carl's limbs, and he performed a knight kick at the captain.

(End of this chapter)