Chapter 471: The Shockingly Hard Arsenal
There was silence all around, but there was a constant sound behind them. Everyone then realized that the sound came from the huge half-crystal-shaped building behind them.
Spider-web-like cracks emerged from the center and quickly spread to both sides. It was already shaky and now collapsed even faster.
"It's going to collapse?" Reynolds asked in surprise, "Just because the assessment is over?"
Snap——
In the cracks, brilliant rays of light emerged and gradually dissipated in all directions. The randomly scattered energy particles could easily cause changes in space.
"With this kind of energy intensity, no wonder it can suppress us." Lancaster's face changed slightly, and he was quite surprised.
"Such a strong energy is still left. Let's step back..."
Everyone was confused about the situation and retreated at the same time, moving a long distance away.
At this moment, the broken giant crystal was like a piece of paper wrapped around a ball of fire, and was about to collapse.
boom!
At a certain moment, the crystal completely shattered, and a brilliant energy glow instantly burst out, rushing straight into the sky with an unstoppable force, forming a giant pillar of light.
When the energy was poured into the outer space-time isolation state, Mikhail looked nervous and almost pale, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that the energy did not cause space-time distortion.
The brilliant beam of light illuminated the entire area like daylight, so bright that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes, but to them, it was nothing.
The wind howled with a sharp roar, carrying with it the black mist, creating a creepy scene. A low roar could be heard faintly in the mist.
This energy explosion was not primarily destructive, and the aftermath posed no threat to anyone, and was suppressed in the blink of an eye.
"Did he destroy himself?" Li Ming couldn't help but sigh as a beam of light that penetrated the sky and the earth was reflected in his pupils.
"The trial to become a king..." he thought to himself.
The most difficult trial in the Titan Trial seemed to be even more difficult than the trials he had experienced. I don’t know what was going on.
"That's really perverted. No wonder all the Titans are macho men."
Just hearing the name sounds like choosing the King of Titans, the King of Kings, whose status is more noble than that of the Overlord Titan.
But as far as he knew, there seemed to be no such King of Kings among the Titans.
"What's the point of being in the Guixu stage... Even Titan was buried there, so who could possibly escape?"
He frowned slightly and thought of the Holy Castle Inspector again. That guy always thought he was cheating and never said anything on his own initiative.
And the questions he asked were sometimes limited by authority.
“Stop.”
Reynolds spoke, and everyone flew forward again.
Where the half crystal was originally, there is now only a bottomless black hole.
Dong--
Reynolds kicked down a piece of iron, silently, without even an echo, as if it was swallowed.
His pupils lit up, and the inner and outer mechanical rings kept spinning. "Damn it! I can't even see the bottom. All kinds of detection waves have been swallowed up."
"What the hell is this?"
On the other side, Deus was also performing some tricks, sending in a ball of runes, and on the other side, pulling an energy line. Under her control, the line was released at an extremely fast speed, but there was no bottom.
With a casual pull, surprisingly, the rune ball was pulled up in just a few seconds.
"Strange... The spatial characteristics are very special." Dius frowned. The others used their own methods but didn't find anything.
"Mikhail?" Kostat looked.
"We haven't even passed the assessment yet, do you think we will know what this black hole is?" Mikhail shook his head.
Cedric frowned and said, "Don't waste time here, go somewhere else."
Gonzalez swept his gloomy eyes over Li Ming. Being interrupted like this, he did not get support from others, and it would be fruitless to continue to attack.
Everyone quickly reached a consensus and left a group of men to guard here.
Then he followed Mikhail to the next location.
The silent black hole seems to be able to swallow everything. In the bottomless deepest part, time and space are stagnant.
A pair of gray eyes suddenly opened and stayed still for a long time, as if adapting and recalling.
After a long time, an unidentified sound was heard in this dark space.
"The things above your head are gone, you can go out now."
Another pair of eyes opened and looked up at the tiny speck of white. "I smell the breath of life, powerful life, the scent of Titans. We need to replenish our energy..."
………
Meanwhile, in the imperial capital, inside the magnificent palace, Heckler stared at Jon with a frown on his face. "What do you mean Azure Dragon didn't go to the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization?"
Yoen was sweating profusely. "I don't know the specifics, but I found information from Costat that Li Ming went there on Qinglong's behalf."
"Li Ming is going on Qinglong's behalf?" Heckler was stunned. "He's willing to let Li Ming take the risk of going to the Red River Star Stream, and to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization? And he's accompanied by people from the three major civilizations?"
"I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be fake." John lowered his head.
"Qinglong, he didn't go there in person." Heckler paced back and forth, still puzzled. "I remember that Gonzales was the leader of the Star Alliance. It seems that he was also involved in Ryan's interstellar massacre, which caused him a lot of trouble."
"And there's Claude. The Kingdom of Bavaria, where he lives, has always coveted talents with high development potential. I'm afraid they won't let Li Ming go easily during the process."
Heckler's eyes flickered. "Does Qinglong really trust Reynolds and Mikhail? No, even if these two are willing to protect Li Ming, they can't withstand the pressure from the other three parties..."
"What is he thinking?" No matter what standpoint Heckler used to speculate, he could not figure out the reason why Li Ming did this.
"Who's behind this? He said he didn't go, but he actually did." Various speculations emerged in his mind.
"Then should we still send people to the Mechanical Court..." John asked hesitantly.
"Go, we have to send people." Heckler said decisively, "Whatever the reason, Qinglong has to do this, and it can't be to protect the Mechanical Royal Court."
"This might still be an opportunity." Heckler said solemnly, "I will send Ivan..."
"Sir Scarlet Wolf?" John was surprised, this person was an X-level life form.
"It's better to be prepared." Heckler shook his head. John nodded, and then reported: "One more thing, I have contacted the guy who sold Ryan's information..."
At this point, his expression turned slightly strange. "He actually asked me to contact him on the Black Hole Network, and the quote was very expensive."
"What's the price?" Heckler couldn't help but look.
"Let's get rid of ten planetary governors." John had already prepared a plan and added, "I've checked. These ten planetary governors are all Lord Rest's men, and many of them are hostile to him."
"We can only roughly estimate that the other party might be a prince."
"Haha..." Heckler laughed, as if recalling something. "What's the reason for him to ask such a high price?"
Jon was a little bewildered. "I don't know. I don't understand whether his methods are deliberately clumsy, or whether they are just that clumsy. He keeps hinting to me that the information he possesses is very important and worth such a high price."
"Leave him alone for a while..." Heckler didn't care. The matter was almost settled. He didn't care where Ryan was being held or what experiments were being conducted on him.
"Understood." John nodded and hurried away.
………
"Mikhail, you should tell us in advance what the situation is like in the place we are going to next."
Halfway through, as they passed the large ruins below, Costat asked, and Dius echoed him.
Mikhail didn't hide anything this time and said, "According to our and Forge Hammer's speculation, that place should be a weapons warehouse or something like that."
"Arsenal?"
Hearing him say this, everyone immediately became excited and asked, "Tell me in detail."
"There's nothing much to explain in detail. You'll understand when you get there." Mikhail shook his head.
"Then why can't you get in? Do you still need some kind of assessment?" Dius asked, and everyone else's hearts couldn't help but tighten.
"How is that possible? A place like the armory only requires permission verification at most. What's the point of an assessment?" Mikhail was speechless. "We can't get in because the energy source for the armory has been depleted and it's locked. No matter what means we use, we can't get in."
"Oh?" Lancaster looked over, but before he could say anything, Mikhail interrupted him unhappily, saying, "It only took a few minutes. It's hard to explain in detail. You'll understand when we get there."
Hearing what he said, everyone frowned slightly, but no one spoke.
Arsenal?
Li Ming's heart moved slightly, and he felt a little regretful. It seemed... it was not his special show.
If there are a lot of things in it, you can still drink some soup, but if there are too few things, it’s hard to say.
Suddenly, while everyone was thinking different things, the swirling black fog around them was suddenly cut apart, and a beam of light cut through the sky.
"Where did the attack come from?"
Lancaster was the first to react. He stretched out his hand and energy particles gathered in his hand.
Cedric had already rushed into the black fog. Kostart was only one step late. He subconsciously looked at Mikhail and saw that the other party had an indifferent expression. He felt relieved and thought that there should be no major danger.
Soon, amidst the swirling fog, Cedric flew back holding a large mechanical bird. Its wingspan was over a hundred meters, and its mechanical pupils were blood red and flashed continuously.
Mikhail finally spoke, "This is a broken machine. It's the greatest danger to the entire ruins. Any outsider will be considered an enemy and killed indiscriminately."
"Then the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization are really a good place." Cedric casually crushed the mechanical head in his hand.
Mikhail said indifferently, "Now the only ones left are ordinary machines like this. At the beginning, there were some broken X-class machines."
Everyone's expression couldn't help but pause, thinking of many things. For these master craftsmen, repairs are what they are best at.
They didn't know how many incomplete X-class mechanical bodies they had, but most of them should be on the forging hammer.
"Mr. Reynolds, what are you doing?" Li Ming finally couldn't bear it anymore.
From the very beginning, this guy covered him with an electromagnetic force field. The intensity was not high, but it was very inexplicable.
"Let me see if you are a mechanically modified body..." Reynolds withdrew from the force field somewhat embarrassedly, muttering to himself.
Is it really not a mechanically modified body?
So how high is this guy's development potential?
The group flew for a while and seemed to be approaching the core area. There were more and more wreckages of various tall buildings, and even half of a giant mechanical body.
But the surface looked very mottled, so it probably didn't have much value, which is why it was not recovered by Mikhail and the others.
At the same time, the attacks vaguely coming from the fog became more and more frequent, but they hardly posed a threat to them.
Reynolds had been holding it in all the way, but now he could no longer hold it in and asked in a low voice, "Li Ming, how high is your development potential?"
The others looked indifferent, but in fact they had pricked up their ears.
After the assessment, no one mentioned the fact that Li Ming was already an S-level life form.
It’s not that it’s unimportant, but that it’s too important. Even if they ask, they will definitely not get an answer.
However, before Li Ming could say anything, Mikhail said, "We're here."
Everyone's attention was drawn, and Reynolds seemed to have forgotten his own problem. He landed on the ground first, raising a cloud of dust.
Everyone landed one after another. They seemed to have entered a place similar to a military restricted area. The metal debris around them were obviously weapons.
There is a huge deep pit on the ground, with broken passages and lines underneath. It seems to be some kind of underground fortress, but it is severely damaged.
"They actually use physical circuits. I wonder what kind of energy they transmit." Li Ming was secretly shocked. He looked around but didn't see anything good. Most of these metal materials were just average.
I guess anything of some value should have been picked up by the forger and the two guys in front of me.
In the center of the deep pit, there was a small silver metal block, suspended in the air, slowly rotating.
The surroundings were too flat, and it was obvious that it had suffered a great blow.
"Is this their weapons warehouse?" Everyone gathered closer and was quite surprised to see the metal block in front of them which was only one cubic meter in size.
"What do you think? Are we really going to build a big warehouse?" Reynolds sneered.
"The Holy Spirit Civilization's application of space technology has reached the level of high-dimensional transmission. Within a certain area, anyone with authenticated authority can directly apply for access, and weapons will appear in their hands regardless of distance."
Li Ming raised his eyebrows. So powerful?
The group of people in front of me are basically not skilled workers, and they are obviously confused.
Gonzalez frowned and said, "So, if I don't have permission, I can't open it. Can't you, the master craftsmen, crack it?"
"Crack? It's already locked." Reynolds was speechless. Mikhail explained calmly, "Its supporting energy has been depleted over time to the point where it can only sustain its own operation. It has entered a closed state."
"To open it, the only way is to create instability in the space inside. But therein lies the problem. This thing is incredibly hard, with almost no space between molecules. It isolates itself from all interference, and therefore the space inside cannot be disturbed."
Mikhail seemed somewhat helpless when he said this: "Since the forging of the hammer, we have tried every possible method, but unfortunately nothing has worked."
Incredibly hard?
Li Ming, who was originally looking around, suddenly looked over here.
(End of this chapter)
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