However, as all the fighting robots appear, taking their battle stances and continuing their alert scans for enemies around them, they find themselves lost. This moment, they were completely surrounded by allies. Where was the enemy?
The Goblins too are all lost. With this many of them and a Mecha Army surrounding the area, how could they let the enemy escape from under their noses?
"All fighting robots, freeze immediately!"
At this moment, Old Goblin Barney suddenly shouted this order.
Others might not know what’s going on, but he understood perfectly. This was the one capability he feared the most: disguise.
This person had just deliberately killed a fighting robot and caused chaos, obviously doing so to disguise themselves as a part of the fighting robots!
With his order, all the fighting robots in the distance immediately put away their weapons. They stood still in their standard charging posture, unmoving like stone statues.
Scanning the robots, Barney sighed, his gaze cold as he issued the order: "Open fire, annihilate them all!"
The Goblin Commanders up front were all startled, thinking they had misheard, looking towards Barney with disbelief.
Fighting robots were advanced robots. Each one cost a hefty sum, and there were nearly a hundred fighting robots on the scene. If they were all destroyed, the loss would be immeasurable!
Barney’s eyes flickered with regret at everyone’s doubts, but he still spoke decisively: "You heard correctly, annihilate them all, now, open fire immediately!"
The surrounding robots no longer hesitated, all the long-range Mecha raised their guns, launching an attack on the hundred motionless fighting robots.
In front of the rain of bullets, the high defensive power of the fighting robots couldn’t hold up. Soon they were twisted and ruined, drowned in the flames.
Several minutes later, the gunfire finally ceased. When the smoke cleared, not a single Mecha remained standing on the battlefield, not even a single intact body. All were reduced to pieces of wreckage and metal scraps, scattered across the scorched earth.
The gathering Goblins exchanged looks, then turned to look at Barney.
They had carried out the Elder’s orders, but where was the enemy?
At this moment, Barney was completely dumbfounded. This wasn’t what he expected. Shouldn’t the enemy have been exposed as soon as they started firing? Where was he?
Could it be that from the beginning, the foe had never planned to mix in with the fighting robots, and that everything just now was meant as a diversion?
The color of Barney’s face fluctuated between green and red as he finally realized this possibility.
While the Goblins were slaughtering each other, Mu You’s Mecha, disguised as an inconspicuous cleaning robot, had already left the battlefield and headed straight for the Bell Tower in the city center.
[You have reached the foot of the Clockwork Bell Tower.]
[You stop in a dead-end street a hundred meters from the Clockwork Bell Tower, equipping the charging cannon, aiming towards the top of the bell tower.]
The Clockwork Bell Tower, as one of the most important buildings in Clockwork City, was bound to have an outstanding defense setup. It was almost impossible to destroy it with ordinary attacks.
Mu You had no time to prepare. He directly activated the most powerful weapon on his body, the full-powered attack of the cannon. The might of one cannon was enough to split mountains and earth. If it still couldn’t penetrate the bell tower... then he would fire another one!
As Mu You’s Mecha entered charging status, Barney and others in the distance immediately received a warning.
"Warning, high energy detected near the bell tower, Bell Tower defense barrier activated automatically..."
This alarm echoing across the city made all the Goblins present momentarily confused.
Barney too was startled and then quickly shouted: "Not good, hurry to the Bell Tower!"
He had originally thought that the target must be the Eternal Power Furnace. However, the Eternal Power Furnace was concealed quite securely and not something the enemy could find in a short period of time. They should have had ample time to find him.
To his surprise, the enemy’s target was actually the Bell Tower, or more precisely, the Golden Gearwheel in the Bell Tower!
Barney hastily ordered all the Mecha in the city to rush to the Bell Tower at the fastest speed.
But it was a step too late.
Before anyone could locate the enemy, a thunderous noise rang out in the city. Intense light lit up the whole city like the sun, and under that beam of light, the protective shield that rose around the Bell Tower had no effect. The upper part of the Bell Tower crumbled, countless metal parts and gears were turned to dust in the beam of light, falling like rain.
Among the thick smoke, a small golden light was particularly noticeable.
The Golden Gearwheel with its everlasting trait was the only surviving part of the top of the Bell Tower, completely unscathed by the legendary weapon’s attack.
Many people saw that golden light falling from above, Barney instinctively shouted. However, before his words could finish, that golden gearwheel was attracted by a force and swiftly flew towards somewhere below, disappearing from sight.
"Close all city gates, seal the sky, don’t let a single fly out!"
Barney watched helplessly as another top-grade item was stolen; those red eyes of his frightened the surrounding Goblins.
"Everyone, find him, he must be found!" Barney stomped his foot.