356: Chapter 356: Unknown Crystal 356: Chapter 356: Unknown Crystal Just as Su Mo suffered yet rejoiced.
Elsewhere, Qian Chengxue was desperately fleeing with Xin Yang.
One Base Guardian after another relentlessly pursued them, with dense gunfire relentlessly firing from behind.
Xin Yang kept giving out cues.
“Move left thirty centimeters, right thirty-six centimeters…..”
As Qian Chengxue ran, she followed Xin Yang’s instructions to dodge blindly.
And surprisingly, Xin Yang’s cues were extremely precise; all the bullets and beams coming from behind were dodged by Qian Chengxue.
It was almost comparable to a small artificial intelligence.
Thanks to their seamless cooperation, they weren’t wiped out by the encircling enemies at the very beginning.
But even so, Qian Chengxue’s situation was still very grim; no matter where they ran, they faced enemies head-on.
There even started to appear masses of tiny mechanical spiders; part of the weapons previously dispatched to the sewers to surround them had been redirected.
“This can’t go on; we’re about to be driven into a dead end.”
Xin Yang analyzed their position and warned Qian Chengxue.
Qian Chengxue bit her lip; she knew that even without Xin Yang’s warning.
“Is there no way to break through?”
“No, all the paths leading to the armory and the central control room are blocked.
The enemy has anticipated our moves.
Unless you can fight your way through, but you don’t have a weapon, so it’s a vicious cycle.”
Xin Yang shook his head.
In the gap as they spoke, tendrils as black as misfortune and covered in suckers stretched out from around the corner ahead.
“Bad news—it’s a Super Biological Puppet!”
Xin Yang exclaimed in horror.
Qian Chengxue instinctively stepped back, but then a roaring sound came from behind.
One Base Defender after another rushed up, blocking their retreat.
Qian Chengxue bit her lip; ultimately, they were cornered by the enemy.
Everything was over, and although she was extremely reluctant, having finally made it this far, she really had no options.
In such a situation, nobody could turn the tide.
“Lock target and clear!”
One after another, the Base Defenders raised their gun barrels.
However, just at that moment, suddenly, several drab gray spheres mysteriously appeared in the metal corridor.
Suddenly, smoke exploded everywhere, followed by mechanical dragonflies flying out of the smoke with special guidance interference devices on their tails, each beeping with a red light.
Instantly, those Base Defenders immediately switched their targets and opened fire on the mechanical dragonflies.
But the mechanical dragonflies were exceptionally agile, easily dodging the attacks and then directly crashing into the Base Defenders and those black tendrils.
Ferocious explosions erupted continuously.
Qian Chengxue was almost in tears from the smoke, completely unable to understand what was happening.
At that moment, a hand grabbed Qian Chengxue’s hand.
Qian Chengxue instinctively recoiled, ready to fight back.
But then she realized that the hand grabbing hers belonged to a beautiful, mild-mannered girl who then spoke.
“I’m not an enemy; follow me quickly.”
A voice came from the ground, and through the thick smoke, Qian Chengxue saw that the metal floor had been opened up without her noticing.
“Move fast, or we’ll be too late.”
Qian Chengxue didn’t think twice, eager to escape the danger because nothing could be worse than death.
So, she grabbed Xin Yang and followed them into the tunnel below.
It was a very narrow passage with three other people hiding inside, and they immediately hurried away from there after descending.
In the central control room of Praying Dragon City.
AI Engrossed continuously popped up with alerts.
“Warning, under unknown attack!”
“Warning, lost target!”
A hoarse, unpleasant synthetic mechanical voice echoed in the central control room.
“These foolish rats have finally shown their heads!”
“Initiate the search plan!”
“Strangle the target immediately upon discovery!”
Another prompt box then popped up.
“Warning: Someone has invaded the National Treasury.”
“Foolish rats, daring to lay hands on my treasury!”
Engrossed artificial intelligence’s bulky body continuously emitted electric sparks, making an extremely harsh sound.
In the National Treasury of Praying Dragon City, Su Mo took 20 bottles of spark as a backup, as having more would not be useful.
Of course, this was just a comforting thought.
The reality was he could not carry any more, so he had to reluctantly leave the rest behind.
He took another round through the National Treasury.
The wealth and treasures stored here were indeed countless.
Unfortunately, apart from the gold points and silver points, most of them were of no use to Su Mo.
Su Mo walked back to the central platform and stared at the special, floating polyhedral crystal in front of him.
His expression grew more entangled as he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside the Treasury behind him.
Su Mo’s expression changed slightly, likely indicating that the enemy had discovered his location.
Indeed, the enemies had arrived later than he expected, probably due to the interference caused by the crystal in front of him.
The reason for being detected was probably because he had been too greedy.
By converting all the gold and silver, he must have triggered some alarm device.
It is said that people lose their senses in front of money, and he hadn’t expected to fall for it himself.
Su Mo’s expression fluctuated wildly, and he finally decided to take a risk.
He approached the mechanical platform and embedded the crystal in his hand into the giant crystal.
In an instant, the entire giant polyhedral crystal burst into dazzling light.
Su Mo also found it unbearably bright.
Just then, something unusual happened.
The shackles and mechanical tentacles binding the giant polyhedral crystal all exploded into beautiful sparks.
A crack also appeared in the center of the metal platform, revealing a passage.
At that moment, the giant polyhedral crystal began to shrink and drifted toward Su Mo.
Su Mo raised his hand to block it, but as the polyhedral crystals touched his hand, they directly penetrated his body.
Su Mo felt his heart beat violently.
A suffocating pain swept over him, causing him to drop to one knee.
Su Mo tried desperately to suppress the pain.
He did not know what use the polyhedral crystal could bring, but one thing was clear to him—if he continued to kneel here, the enemy could finish him off with a single shot when they arrived.
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If he had been trapped before, he might have been able to resist or escape; now he was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Furthermore, as the crystal disappeared in an instant, all interference also completely vanished.
The sounds of heavy weaponry moving were getting closer.
Su Mo grew increasingly anxious….
Moments before, on the battlefield above Praying Dragon City, Augustus had taken out the enemy’s Fourth Generation Mecha.
He then charged at those Type III Super Biological Puppet Monsters in his Fourth Generation Biological Mecha, Kwahizi.
He destroyed one with a single punch, his momentum like a tiger descending the mountain.
Under his one-sided slaughter, the Joint Forces quickly occupied most of Praying Dragon City.