Hailstorm cursed under her breath.
"You don't know how to clear this trap?"
Meng Chao asked. "I thought that since you're one of the four aces of Blood Skull Coliseum, Casa would definitely bring you to Blood Skull Temple before and let you see all sorts of traps."
"He did come a few times, but every time, Casa would make me wear a special mask. Once I put it on, not only would my senses be cut off, even my sense of time would become blurry. When I removed the mask, I would already be at the core of the temple," Hailstorm explained.
"Since I didn't receive Casa's blood, I'm not an official member of the Blood Hoof Family. That's why I don't have the right to know the secrets of the temple."
She thought about it and spread her fingers. Blue palm lines appeared on her palm, and they looked like small vortexes that absorbed a lot of water from the air. They formed a few frost flowers on her palm.
She curled her fingers and flicked them lightly. The frost flowers flew at different speeds to the corridor formed by the two rows of statues.
When the first frost flower touched the arm of one of the statues, faint cracking sounds rose.
After a few light cracking noises, crisscrossing, glittering patterns appeared on all the statues.
It was as if the nerves and blood vessels that had been blocked for thousands of years had been unblocked. The statues were all revived!
Whoosh!
The statue of the ox warrior swung its huge sword and swept through the entire corridor. It created a piercing sword glare.
Boom!
The statue of the wild boar warrior swung its heavy warhammer down, and it made Meng Chao and Hailstorm's legs turn numb.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The statue of the centaur warrior controlled a real longbow and fired three arrows in quick succession. They landed in the gaps between the sword shadows and the sabers. There were only a few places where the arrows could land.
The statue of the elephant warrior, which was the largest among them, pounced on them and practically blocked the entire corridor.
More than one hundred statues attacked madly for more than half a minute under the guidance of the traps before they returned to their original state. The shining patterns on them gradually faded away.
At first glance, nothing seemed to have happened.
But there were a lot of marks left behind by sabers, swords, and axes on the ground.
Besides, when Meng Chao narrowed his eyes to observe, he noticed that there were actually thousands of marks left on the ground.
However, other than the hundreds of marks created by the ice storm using the frost, most of the marks were left behind thousands of years ago. After repeated friction and erosion, they were already as thin as a strand of hair. That was why they did not notice them at first.
The two of them looked at each other and saw the shock and seriousness in each other's eyes.
"These statues seem to be made of very special metals and rocks. They might even be made with a lot of materials used to make totemic armors, and they contain violent totemic power."
The Ice Storm frowned deeply and said, "The corridor is so long. Once the mechanism is triggered, even if we can force our way through, we will have to pay a huge price."
Meng Chao sank into deep thought.
He noticed that when the statue was slashing down crazily, the operating sound of the mechanism that was controlling and driving the statue seemed to be a little strange.
"Use the method you used just now and try again."
He said to Icestorm.
Seeing his serious expression, the ice storm did not waste any more words. It spread out its hands and formed dozens of frost flowers, which shot out at the same time.
When more than one hundred statues started moving with loud rumbling sounds again, Meng Chao closed his eyes.
But he focused all his spirit energy and attention on his ears so that his eardrums, cochlea, and auditory nerves became incredibly sensitive. It was as if he could see through the ground and use the feedback of sound waves to outline the details of the mechanism under the statue.
This time, when the statue calmed down again, he knew what was going on.
"The mechanisms in these statues are a little jerky and sluggish when they operate."
Meng Chao opened his sparkling eyes and said to Icestorm, "It should be because the gears, bearings, and engines have been eroded by the passage of time. In any case, if my guess is correct, the sensitivity of these mechanisms has definitely dropped. As long as I'm gentle enough, I can walk through them without triggering any of the statues."
"Engines …"
Icestorm was already used to hearing strange words that she could not understand from Meng Chao's mouth.
But she still understood the second half of his sentence.
"Walk through them? Are you sure?" Icestorm asked in puzzlement.
"I'm basically sure," Meng Chao said.
He had seen similar traps in the No. 1 Ancient Ruin in the center of Dragon City and the No. 2 Ancient Ruin in the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain.
He had even stayed in the Ancient Ruin No. 1 as a tester for half a year and cleared a lot of ancient mechanisms. He also solved the puzzles in them.
At the same time, he learned a lot of knowledge about mechanisms, mazes, and puzzles from the seniors in the ancient research center.
He knew that most of the mechanisms left behind by the ancient civilizations were practically invulnerable when they were first set up.
At the very least, with Earthlings' current level of technology, they would not be able to crack them.
But time was still the strongest force in the universe.
Even the Ancients or the Matrix couldn't fight against time.
No matter how precise, perfect, and terrifying a mechanism was when it was set up, after being activated and used countless times over millions of years, it was inevitable that it would be corroded, worn out, weathered, and deformed.
The energy source used to drive the mechanism might also be destroyed, or due to the changes in the planet's magnetic field, the spirit energy output would become unstable, and in the end, the power core would be damaged.
This was especially true after Dragon City transmigrated to the Other World.
It caused a large area of spirit energy magnetic field interference in Monster Mountain Range.
It was like tossing a huge rock weighing ten thousand tons into a calm lake.
The waves that were stirred up were enough to tear apart the duckweed floating on the surface of the lake.
Hence, when Earthlings explored the ancient ruins, they discovered that many of the mechanisms with tight structures, profound principles, and great power were all destroyed from the inside.
It allowed Earthlings to obtain the ancient power contained in them without much effort. With that as the foundation, they developed the spirit energy martial arts, gene technology, and runic symbol technology unique to Dragon City.
Turanze was very close to Monster Mountain Range.
It was impossible for it not to be affected by the same thing.
Meng Chao had used the sharp hearing that was close to that of a Spirit Sensor, which Lu Siya had instilled in him, and he could tell that the strange sounds coming from the mechanism in front of him were similar to the sounds coming from quite a number of the seriously damaged mechanisms in Dragon City's Ancient Ruin No. 1.
Hence, he was certain that the mechanism was not as terrifying as it appeared on the surface.
As long as he could find a suitable method, he should be able to get over it without much effort.
"Of course I can't just walk over there openly."
Meng Chao thought about it and said to the ice storm, "But the reason why the cold statues can sense intruders is because they detect our breathing, heartbeat, body temperature, and footsteps.
"And since the mechanisms in them are already badly damaged, their senses and reactions have become much slower.
"So, as long as we reduce our breathing and heartbeat to the minimum and our body temperature to the same level as the temperature around us, we should be able to get over there quietly and not make a single sound."
The ice storm frowned.
She looked at the serious Meng Chao, then at the murderous statues, and the archway that led to the depths of the darkness.
She looked at Meng Chao, who had a serious expression on her face.
"Trust me," Meng Chao continued.
"With your strength, it shouldn't be too much of a problem for you to control your breathing and heartbeat. And since you have the blood of a leopard, walking around sneakily is a natural talent of your race." As for your body temperature, it shouldn't be a problem. In any case, you're already as cold as an ice mountain, and you're already cold. You don't need to continue lowering your temperature. Instead, you just need to increase your temperature a little so that it's the same as the air.
"Also, when you walk over there, don't be nervous. Try to empty your mind and relax. Don't pay attention to just how strong and fierce the statues are. Just treat it as if you're strolling on a field with birds chirping and flowers blooming.
"Otherwise, the chaos in your brain waves and spirit energy magnetic fields might trigger the statues.
"Basically, it's just a normal operation. It shouldn't be a big problem for you, right?"
The ice storm continued glaring at Meng Chao.
Her face was full of 'It won't be a big problem? Why don't you give it a try? '
But Meng Chao did not notice her expression.
Because he was already walking toward the archway formed by more than one hundred statues.
Before the ice storm could cry out in surprise, Meng Chao stepped into the archway steadily and quietly.
No, the word "step" was not precise enough.
In truth, Meng Chao had "slid" in.
With each step he took, when his feet were about to touch the ground, his muscles would surge like waves, and the tips of his feet would nudge forward.
It was as if he was not moving his legs at all. Instead, he was sliding forward while stepping on invisible banana peels.
At the same time, the ice storm realized to her surprise that she could not find Meng Chao.
Normally, even if a living person was stuck on the ground and did not move, they would still make breathing sounds, heartbeats, blood flow sounds, body temperature, and body odor.
Elites like the ice storm did not even need to open their eyes to find their target through these tiny bits of information.
But now, the ice storm could clearly see that Meng Chao was there.
But she could not sense any information coming from Meng Chao.
It was as if the person sliding through the archway was just a shadow, an illusion!
And the mechanism that could even be triggered by a weightless flower had not been triggered by Meng Chao.
When the ice storm saw that Meng Chao had already slid through half the archway, all the monstrous statues with sabers, spears, swords, axes, and warhammers still did not move. They just sat there and ignored him.
In an instant, Meng Chao moved through the entire archway effortlessly, just as he said.
The ice storm was dumbfounded. She could not believe it.
"Look, I was right. The mechanisms here are really badly damaged."
Meng Chao waved at the ice storm from the other side of the archway. "Hold your breath and heartbeat. Control your body temperature and voice. Just walk over casually!"
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