Countless shadows flew out of the cabin door. Illuminated by the purple clouds of Kunlun, they were emitting dangerous brilliance.
In only three minutes, hundreds of black shadows had occupied the entire sky. They were holding chainswords and crystal cannons. The structure of their crystal armor was entirely different from that of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector. It had a more primitive feel to it, but judging from the flawless joint system at the joints, it represented a higher expertise in refining.
Hundreds of Immortal Cultivators?
Li Yao felt that his blood was freezing, but he was confused.
It did not make sense. The Imperium of True Human Beings could only teleport the star child, who did not have a real body, to billions of lightyears away. Only a hundred years had passed, and they could teleport hundreds of Immortal Cultivators instantly and precisely?
Were they not scared that the teleportation would go wrong and the hundreds of Immortal Cultivators would be obliterated in the depths of the sea of stars?
The development of this level of technology was too exaggerated!
However, after observing carefully, Li Yao soon noticed that something was wrong. The 'Crystal Suit' was around 1.5 meters tall, which made them shorter than ordinary people. Also, their limbs were long and slender. Unless the Immortal Cultivators were all dwarfs, it was impossible for them to fit into such a Crystal Suit.
They were not Crystal Suit but some sort of battle puppets. There were no signs of life inside. No wonder such a large batch of them could be teleported over.
Although they were lifeless puppets, their tactical coordination was extremely exquisite. About three hundred battle puppets were like a well-trained army. They quickly set up defenses around the tortoise shell and began searching in all directions. It was as if there were invisible threads that were guiding them.
Li Yao thought quickly. Suddenly, a lightning struck deep inside his brain. His eyelids twitching, he said to Professor Mo Xuan in a low voice, "Grand Illusionary Soldiers?"
The action pattern of the battle puppets was very similar to that of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. No, they were even more sophisticated than the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. They seemed to be some sort of upgraded version.
"It's very possible," Professor Mo Xuan said in a low voice.
"In the Flying Star Sector, the Grand Illusionary Soldiers were once the main force of the Immortal Cultivators' rebellion. Although the plan was proposed by Xiao Xuance, it was in fact influenced by Xiao Tianbao, who pretended to be Xiao Xuance's foster son, or the 'star child' from the Imperium of True Human Beings. One might even say that the star child was the mastermind behind the plan!
"Even the 'star brain' that controls the Grand Illusionary Soldiers is an illusion of the star child.
"It means that the 'Grand Illusionary Soldiers', a piece of unmanned, fully-automatic magical equipment, is a very mature technology in the Imperium of True Human Beings. They are even very popular main battle magical equipment, especially for such a long-distance expedition mission. The Grand Illusionary Soldiers, which are lifeless and incapable of agitation and betrayal, are the best choice."
Li Yao recalled the suffocating feeling when he was mired in an ocean of Grand Illusionary Soldiers during the riot of the Immortal Cultivators.
He mumbled, "I hate the Grand Illusionary Soldiers!"
Thankfully, the combat ability of a single Grand Illusionary Soldier was not very high. The victory was mostly about quantity. There were only three hundred Grand Illusionary Soldiers in this place.
Even though the Grand Illusionary Soldiers of the Imperium of True Human Beings were stronger than the 'counterfeit versions' produced by Xiao Xuance and the star child, Li Yao was much stronger than before, and he was assisted by two experts of the Yuanying level. Therefore, he did not consider them a threat at all.
However, there must be other tricks hidden inside the turtle shell. There was no need for them to risk a head-on battle. It would be better to wait for Burning Prairie to arrive and deal with them later.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
More than ten Grand Illusionary Soldiers of the Imperium of True Human Beings flew over their heads.
They had been through delicate camouflage a long time ago. They had deeply embedded themselves into the gaps of the rocks and covered the outside with a lot of mud and rust. They looked no different from other primeval relics.
The metal reactions and spiritual waves in this place were so intense that they were like a few drops of fresh water that had melted into the ocean. Unless they were right next to each other, it was barely possible for them to be discovered.
As it turned out, the masters of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers did not expect that somebody else would arrive on Kunlun before them, not even in their dreams.
The purpose of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers was probably to explore the local lives of Kunlun. After discovering that there were only low-level lives such as moss, weeds, and insects, the Grand Illusionary Soldiers soon returned and formed an alert formation near the turtle shell.
Hundreds of shadows dashed out of the dark cabin door again. They were not the Grand Illusionary Soldiers but beast puppets more than one meter long.
Most of the beast puppets were in the form of six-legged spiders, similar to the 'Tarantula' that Li Yao had refined before. Also, there was a jet system on their round abdomen, which allowed them to move quickly among the rugged folds.
The metal spiders crawled among the rocks agilely and knocked on the rocks nonstop in cracking sounds. In the end, most of the metal spiders congregated as if they had found a good place.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The four extendable arms of the 'turtle shell' that had been deeply stabbed into the ground were unsheathed again. They were thrown forward and 'crawled' toward the spot that the metal spiders had chosen!
After they were fixed again, more than ten drills extended out of the bottom of the turtle shell and pierced into the ground abruptly like the drill rods that were used to collect the minerals below the ground! Hum!
Hum! Hum! Hum!
The drill rods were spinning as if they were flying. The earth and the turtle shell were both shivering and emitting dull noises. Overwhelming spiritual waves were coming over from the depths of the turtle shell!
Li Yao and his companions looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what the hideous starship from the Imperium of True Human Beings was up to.
After observing for more than an hour, they vaguely guessed the purpose of the turtle shell. It seemed to be collecting the metal remnants buried deep below the ground incessantly and absorbing them into the turtle shell.
In the meantime, the metal spiders were hopping among the rocks, transporting the large pieces of the remnants into the turtle shell.
What was strange was that they did not care about the dead bodies of the primeval species at all. They did not even care about the completeness of the remains. They were only excavating the largest pieces that seemed to contain the most metals.
While Li Yao and his companions were confused, the turtle shell underwent new changes.
The 'turtle shell' above it was opened one piece after another, blossoming like thousands of flowers. A lot of metal spiders jumped out, with a lot of bizarre-shaped components attached to their backs by the force field.
The number of the metal spiders soon reached almost a thousand. They jumped to the turtle shell, circled the ground, and leveled the foundation. Then, they began to build the prototypes of some buildings with the components that they had just refined.
More than ten large buildings were being constructed at the same time. Therefore, the progress was rather slow. But it was not hard to tell that the buildings were spacious and magnificent. Once they were completed, they would be an impregnable war base.
Li Yao even saw that several buildings were in the shape of smaller 'turtle shells'!
Inside the turtle shell, there seemed to be a highly efficient workshop. As more and more minerals and metal remnants were sent into the workshop, more and more metal spiders and Grand Illusionary Soldiers were produced.
The metal spiders, on the other hand, could collect more remains and minerals and dedicate them to the construction of all kinds of buildings. The efficiency was exponentially higher!
Li Yao and his companions had decided to wait and see at first because their star beacons had been constructed in space under the cover of the meteoroids. The longer they delayed, the more likely it was that Burning Prairie would show up. Stalling for time was in their favor. They could always compete with each other in terms of speed.
However, after monitoring in secret for a long time, they all realized that something was not right. Five hundred Grand Illusionary Soldiers had been deployed around the turtle shell, which was almost double the previous number. In the meantime, there were more than two thousand metal spiders, and they were still reproducing!
A lot of buildings nearby were taking shape, too.
Deployed at the periphery were the guard towers that had been carved with countless attack rune arrays. Some of the guard towers were already releasing high-voltage electric arcs in spluttering noises.
Behind the watchtowers, cooling towers and furnaces were everywhere. They were all metal smelting factories and magical equipment factories of a fairly large scale!
Other than that, there were also some buildings that Li Yao had never seen before. Judging from the launch towers that were hundreds of meters tall that were being assembled, they must be the facilities to transmit telepathic thoughts to the depths of the universe!
Several Grand Illusionary Soldiers and the metal spiders were installing the crystal cannons that had just been produced inside the turtle shell to the highest point of the guard towers.
The weird scenes made Li Yao think of a possibility. The cold sweat on his forehead dripped into his eyes, and his pupils constricted to the size of needle tips.
"It's a MCV!"
Li Yao mumbled to himself.
"Li Yao, what are you talking about? Isn't this the 'minor apocalypse' of the Imperium of True Human Beings? "
Professor Mo Xuan asked in a low voice.
"It is not a minor apocalypse, but it is very likely to be even more dreadful than a minor apocalypse. Or rather, it represents thousands of minor apocalypses!"
Li Yao said gloomily. "It seems that we have underestimated the capability of the Imperium of True Human Beings!"
Professor Mo Xuan and Fire Ant looked at each other and sensed the disorder of each other's spiritual energy. They both asked anxiously, "What do you mean? Have you seen through the attack pattern of the Imperium of True Human Beings?"
"It's just a guess, but it shouldn't be wrong!"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and explained, "At first, we thought that the Imperium of True Human Beings might have launched a 'minor apocalypse' at us. But on second thought, the environment in the universe is ever-changing, and the forms of civilizations are different. How could the Imperium of True Human Beings know which kind of 'minor apocalypse' would work on us?
"Besides, the minor apocalypses are targeted at individuals. One minor apocalypse can't be powerful enough to lock down an entire civilization!
"That's why we speculated that the purpose of the 'minor apocalypse' was not destruction but reconnaissance and localization. It was meant to guide the direction and 'open the door' for the army of the Imperium!
"But now, it seems that we were probably wrong. The army of the Imperium was not needed at all. This ragged warship of the Imperium less than three kilometers long was enough to destroy us and conquer the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector!
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