In Liao Fei's panic, enormous bubbles of blood surfaced from the deep ocean and gathered around him, swallowing him one mouthful after another.
He struggled hard in the bubbles of blood, but he could not get rid of the skinny hands and the tentacles that had sucking discs at all. Very soon, he was dragged into the depths of the ocean of blood. His screams turned into bubbling noises, and his soul completely melted into nothingness.
"What a 'paradise of sins'!"
The mental devil grinned hideously. "It is indeed not a simple test base for new magical equipment and techniques. I didn't know that there were so many tricks. This' Wuying Lan 'is truly a genius!"
"Yes. Even I am very curious about him and want to meet this' Wuying Lan 'so that I can explore the deepest secrets of the Imperium through him."
Li Yao said, "By the way, we can destroy the 'paradise of sins'!"
"According to Liao Fei, 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is a highly-dangerous prison and laboratory," the mental devil said. "It is in line with our speculation in the past. It is estimated that the strongest experts in the paradise of sins are locked here. They are the 'perfect test subjects' that are screened naturally in the wild environment. After studying the mysteries of their bodies and souls carefully, a lot of precious information and data will be parsed."
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "In that case, there must be 'high-molecular layer-by-layer scanning magical equipment' up there. On the other hand, those highly-dangerous' perfect test subjects' must be extremely angry and hateful about their fate. If we have a way to sabotage 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and set them free …"
The mental devil smiled. "Have you figured out a way to go to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'?"
"It's certainly not feasible to fly in by ourselves."
Li Yao said, "The Immortal Cultivators have deployed barriers of the highest level in the entire sky. Manjusaka is of paramount importance, too. It is impossible for us to compete with the super arrays that surround the entire planet. Even if we can break in by brute force, it will be difficult for us to carry out any follow-up operations if the Immortal Cultivators notice us and strengthen their wariness.
"However, I'm thinking about something. With so many Immortal Cultivator players and tourists landing from the sky, they can certainly rely on the stealth landing capsules when they come down, but how can they go back? It was impossible for them to fly directly to the Heavenly Rails. If they did, they would be seen by the sinners. Wouldn't that be too much of a spectacle?
"Also, the 'slaughter game' in the Land of Sins has a very high death rate. The odds of being heavily wounded must be high, too. Many low-level Immortal Cultivators do not have the ability to soar into the sky in the first place. Once they are heavily wounded, it will be even harder for them to fly.
"Therefore, there must be another secret and convenient passage that can allow them to return to the Heavenly Rails comfortably."
The mental devil pondered for a moment. "Well … Right, the Empyrean Tower!"
Li Yao perked up. "That's right. Every Elysium has a material transmission pipeline. It's made of high-strength fiber, ceramics, and metal. It's connected to the Heavenly Rails and used to transport large-scale materials. A few days ago, I've been feeling a little strange. No matter how many materials the Heavenly Rails want to send down, they can just throw them away. After all, there's gravity. Why go through so much trouble to make so many Supreme Towers?
"Now that I think about it, the most important function of the Supreme Towers should be to carry the Immortal Cultivator players and tourists back to the Heavenly Rails!
"In the language of virtual games, the Supreme Towers and the Elysium are the 'birth points' and the 'return points' for most players. Of course, some of the trial players are randomly 'born' in the wilderness, but when they complete their quests and return to the Heavenly Rails, they have to go to the Elysium or the Supreme Towers."
"There are also the 'perfect test subjects' in the Land of Sins."
The mental devil smiled. "Other than the sinners, many mutated beasts that have significantly evolved are also the research subjects of the Immortal Cultivators. Some of the mutated beasts are even larger than the super-heavy crystal tanks. Naturally, they cannot fly to the sky and can only be transported through the Supreme Towers.
"It is well known that the high and mighty angels will issue all kinds of quests through the Elysium. According to my investigation, most of the quests are about hunting mutated beasts that must be captured alive. Think about it. After the experts of the sinners in the Land of Sins hunt a king of mutated beasts after all the trouble and accumulate enough contribution points, they will be sent to Manjusaka together to be sliced and studied together. Wouldn't it be more convenient? It will save the precious strength of the Immortal Cultivators, and it will not raise the resistance of the sinners in the Land of Sins. Until the last moment, the perfect test subjects are still foolishly thinking that they are going to become angels and live a good life. Hehehehe! "
"Then —"
Li Yao thought of something. "If we can somehow sneak into the Immortal Cultivators or the perfect test subjects and enter the Heavenly Rails through the Supreme Towers, we will certainly have a chance to break into Manjusaka, won't we?"
"There is a Supreme Tower in Liberty City," the mental devil said. "Also, after the Battle of Liberty City is over, a large batch of Immortal Cultivator players and tourists will return to the Heavenly Rails and leave the planet.
"If we can seize the opportunity and even create an opportunity to turn the Battle of Liberty City into a large-scale chaos, we may have a chance to fish in troubled waters."
"Exactly. Then, let's continue lurking and waiting for an opportunity to have a competition with Wuying Lan, the helmsman of the Heavenly Eye Group!"
Li Yao ended the communication with the mental devil and focused his attention on the outside world again.
A long time seemed to have passed when he invaded Liao Fei's brain and constructed a bizarre illusion of mountains of corpses and oceans of blood, but in fact, it had only been three minutes.
However, during the three minutes, the situation on the battlefield changed drastically.
Under the cover of the enormous aerial firepower platform, Li Yao pushed Liao Fei's body into the burning debris without alarming anyone. Then, he threw more than ten crystal bombs into the debris. In the soaring fire and smoke, Liao Fei was blown into pieces and turned into bloody dust.
On the front defense line, A Boxing Champion's army retreated like an ebbing tide. The defenders of Liberty City, on the other hand, were unstoppable and reaping the casualties like wolves.
Li Yao had known from A Boxing Champion's arrangement that the attack today was just a test to find out the weakness of Liberty City's defense line. He was not surprised by the result.
The only thing that gave him a headache was that an elite troop of the defenders of Liberty City happened to be charging at him precisely.
"Run!"
Now that he knew clearly that everything was just a game of the Immortal Cultivators and that the battlefield of the sinners was a paradise for the angels, Li Yao was naturally not interested in fighting the ignorant sinners in public.
However, before he was about to escape at full speed, his crystal cameras detected a familiar shadow.
It was Xin Xiaoqi, who claimed to be a thief, a broker, and a merchant of the black market who had involved them in the whole thing by accident.
Li Yao hesitated for a moment, considering carefully whether or not he should waste one second to save Xin Xiaoqi's life. Compared to the brutal bandits, the woman was not exactly a villainous person. When she was faced with the Red Viper Squad, although she couldn't have been more scared, she still gritted her teeth and spoke for Han Te and the Coloured Glaze.
In the Land of Sins, people who had the slightest kindness in their bodies were as rare as the Gold Barley or the Green Bristlegrass that grew alone. Li Yao did not want such Gold Barley or the Green Bristlegrass to be completely obliterated by the radiation and the ocean of blood.
At this moment, Xin Xiaoqi noticed Li Yao, too.
As if she had seen her savior, she ran close while shouting.
The cat-like woman was exactly the same as when they had met for the first time. She moved quickly in the tiny space with the spring-like ejector magical equipment and fled in haste, dodging the blades and the storm of bullets. Although she was in a mess, she was miraculously unharmed.
Li Yao did not hesitate any longer. While activating the power rune arrays to the maximum, allowing him to accelerate at any moment, he extended his mechanical arms and picked her up.
Right when Li Yao took action, a deafening explosion burst out. In the smoke behind Xin Xiaoqi, a couple of furiously burning crystal tanks were blown away. From the debris in the sky, a black shadow almost ten meters long dashed out.
When the smoke dispersed, its hideous face was revealed. The lower half of its body was a coldly shining metal chassis, with six agile mechanical feet that were embedded with iron nails and barbs extending out from its two sides. Six honeycomb-type flying sword launchers were hanging in front of the body. The starry redness on the holes of the launchers made them look like the crimson eyes of a venomous spider.
But the upper half of its body was full of black hair, and it was wearing a heavy armor that made it look like an iron tower. It was holding a heavy armor-piercing cannon for crystal tanks casually in one hand and a vibrating hammer that boasted the functions of ejection and expansion in the other hand.
At this moment, the hammer was still vibrating at a frequency of more than five thousand times per second, shattering the bloodstains on it into a cluster of dense blood mist!
At first glance, it looked like a beast puppet in the form of a metal spider that had been grafted onto the abnormal body of a profound mutant!
"Hehehehe!"
The tough bandit, who was half monster and half machine, laughed in a low voice. The hammer tore apart the air, triggering blasts that bounced toward where Li Yao was at an unbelievably high speed.
Xin Xiaoqi shrieked and, at a loss, held Li Yao's iron shell tightly.
What kind of monster is this exactly?
Li Yao cursed deep inside his soul and retreated quickly. The powered hammer brushed past his face dangerously, leaving a deep pit more than three meters in diameter on the ground. All the dead bodies and debris in the dozens of square meters nearby bounced up, as if they had suddenly lost the restraint of gravity.
Yes. Li Yao discovered that the powered hammer in the hands of the monster was a rare piece of powerful magical equipment, too. Other than the power ejection and the high-frequency vibration, it also came with the technique of gravity disruption to a certain extent, which could affect the gravity in the twenty square meters nearby!
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