It did not look like an explosion or a natural earthquake but more like an artificial earthquake that was highly regular and rhythmic. The source of the earthquake was moving upward at a high speed and lunging at their feet.
Thinking quickly, Li Yao calmed down his agitated soul again. He sent waves to Han Te and Coloured Glaze, telling them to stay alert and stay calm. Then, he controlled the tracked spiritual puppet 'Fiend Star' remotely on the Tarantula and crouched next to the two little fellows obediently.
In the setting that they had made up, the two little fellows' professions had been changed to 'puppet masters'.
It was a profession that manipulated spiritual puppets and beast puppets. It was a cooperation between human beings and machines. The relationship between a puppet master and a spiritual puppet was like that between a sword cultivator and a flying sword. One must never leave the sword, and the sword must never leave the body. One must be one with the sword.
Therefore, it was quite reasonable that Han Te and Coloured Glaze were always close to the two war machines.
After Li Yao finished his instructions, a lot of bandits and thugs who had keen senses all sensed the quakes from below the ground.
Including A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin, all the sinners in the Land of Sins were greatly alarmed, fearing that some other terrifying monster would pop up from below the ground.
But out of their expectation, the skeleton lizards around were also circling anxiously or extending their necks and shrieking. Their heads were shivering slightly as if they had been seriously interfered with.
Right then —
BOOM! BOOM!
The earth turned into mud. Mud and pebbles soared high like a fountain and fell to the ground in spluttering noises. A weird-looking enormous machine crawled out of the ground!
It looked like a thick and long metal earthworm and an armed crystal train that was moving underground. At the front was an enormous drilling system that looked like a shield tunneling machine. Every helical pattern on the main drill was like the sharpest chainsword. Dense, complicated runes and spiritual energy circuits had been carved on the inside of the drill. Mystic rays were vaguely glittering on the surface. It turned out to be a drill that was both metal and mystic rays. It was multiple times tougher and more efficient than the drill of mystic rays adopted on 'Neltharion', Li Yao's multipurpose exploration starship!
Next to the main drill that was more than three meters in diameter, more than twenty ancillary drills and vacuum holes that looked like bloody mouths were distributed densely. All the rock scraps that had been minced by mystic rays and super alloys could be transmitted to the tail of the entire underground vehicle through the vacuum holes.
The entire body of the vehicle was full of thick and enormous tracks, on which sharp and tensile grappling hooks were arranged. Li Yao estimated that the vehicle must be very good at grasping and climbing. Such a structure would even allow it to move up and down in the underground rocks at a speed no lower than on the ground.
"What a powerful penetrator!
Li Yao secretly complimented.
Today, when the technology to build underground cities and explore and exploit lodes was popular, 'penetrators' that could run and work for a long time below the ground were not rare 'artifacts'. For example, Li Yao's' Neltharion 'and its prototype, the multi-purpose exploration starship' Sparkle ', both boasted the ability to dig holes and move forward below the ground.
However, the super penetrator in the form of an enormous boa or earthworm was indeed the most advanced magical equipment that Li Yao had ever seen in the relevant fields. Judging from the high speed of the source of the earthquake just now and the feebleness of the quakes before it burst out of the ground, it was not hard to estimate the high comprehensive combat efficiency of the vehicle!
Who produced and manipulated the war machine exactly? Was it the Immortal Cultivators in "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky"? It did not look like it!
Li Yao saw that the front end of the super penetrator had crawled out of the ground, but the rear half of the vehicle, which had an unknown length, was still hidden below the ground. The front part of the vehicle, like an infuriated boar, protruded countless barrels and spurted almost a hundred enormous iron cans into the sky. Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa!
Pa! Pa! Pa!
The iron cans exploded one after another. They turned out to be smoke bombs that covered a large area. Very soon, more than half of Liberty City was enshrouded. At the very least, the battlefield that they were in was completely covered, making it impossible for anyone to see what was going on from the sky.
Then, a lot of foldable dish-shaped antennas appeared next to the cannons, triggering invisible, super ripples.
Li Yao could clearly sense that the communication of the Immortal Cultivators, especially the remote command of the City in the Sky to the skeleton lizards, had been seriously sabotaged by the indiscriminate waves.
The skeleton lizards were just ignorant animals. When the chips inside their brains were interfered with and they lost the command of external signals, they immediately panicked.
Some of them were stimulated by the explosions on the battlefield and tried to escape into the underground out of natural instincts. Some of them lunged at the tough bandits, only to be blown up by the tough bandits very soon after they lost the coordination in the battle. Some of the skeleton lizards even attacked each other brutally. A couple of 'man-eating flowers' bit each other brutally until they were bleeding and deformed.
Only the skeleton lizard kings almost ten meters tall were back to themselves after being shocked by the super penetrator. Shaking their heads, they hesitated whether or not they should launch another attack.
It was exactly at this moment that Li Yao noticed the woman who was standing on the enormous drill and carrying an enormous vibration saber that was three meters long. She was wearing a green battle armor.
She faced the three skeleton lizard kings coldly. The aura around her was no weaker than that of A Boxing Champion or Xiahou Wuxin when they were at their peak. Thousands of runes were floating on her Crystal Suit, condensing and revolving three meters away from her body like thousands of tiny drills.
"I'll give you one minute. Get on the vehicle now!"
Her voice was so deep and coarse that it seemed to come from the depths of the earth.
The plate armor on the two sides of the super penetrator was opened, revealing the spacious interior. Several mysterious people in lackluster Crystal Suits waved their hands at everybody. "We can only persist for one minute. Hurry up! Hurry up!"
The tough bandits and thugs were slightly dazed. Behind them were the ferocious skeleton lizards, and in front of them were at least their own kind that they could communicate with. They had no choice but to rush forward!
While they followed the main troop and boarded the super penetrator in a hurry, Li Yao still focused his attention on the female warrior who seemed to have grown drills all over her body.
The result of the scanning of his soul happened to capture the picture where she slashed the head of a skeleton lizard king and blew up its entire head with the force of high-frequency vibration. Then, she crashed into the arms of another skeleton lizard king with rapidly spinning runes, mincing it into meat paste together with it.
Then, the hatches on the two sides of the super penetrator were closed. The tracks reversed quickly, and they retreated into the underground world again.
The carriage was surrounded by iron chains. Everybody was following the example of the mysterious warriors and tying themselves with the iron chains to resist the crazy vibration of the super penetrator.
They retreated quickly along the underground cave. The hole above them seemed smaller and smaller.
Countless skeleton lizards jumped in from the hole, trying to track them down, but the super enormous drill more than three meters in diameter was still revolving rapidly, mincing any creatures and machines that jumped down.
"Boom, boom boom boom boom!"
Those mysterious people must've installed crystal bombs on the two sides of the cave a long time ago. They detonated them at the same time after they retreated for a while, collapsing the entire cave and blocking it.
Also, a certain silver gel could be spurted out from the front of the vehicle or the rear of the vehicle. It looked like the liquid metal that was used to repair the damage on a starship in an emergency. When it leaked into the gaps of the debris and the collapsed cave, the structure of the blockage was even more solid.
Everybody was clearly below the ground, but under the high speed of the super penetrator, they felt that they were on a lone boat at the peak of a surging ocean. They were shaking up and down violently, and they could not even stand steadily.
The mysterious people who had guided them in just now, on the other hand, were all holding their posts and operating anxiously. They had no time to talk to them at all.
Even A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what was going on.
Li Yao explored with his soul, but he could only sense that the super penetrator was almost a hundred meters long from the front to the back. It was truly like some sort of amazing metal life that lived below the ground.
There was no telling how long it took, but the bumps and quakes gradually decreased.
By Li Yao's estimation, they had reduced their speed when they were three to four thousand meters below the ground. They were still moving forward slowly, but the quakes and noises they were making were significantly weaker. They looked like silkworms that were gnawing on mulberry leaves. Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha! Sha!
Sha! Sha!
The door leading to the operation cabin of the tunneling system was opened. The female warrior who had been standing on the enormous drill a moment ago strode in with the smell of blood.
The vibration saber that was more than three meters long was gone. The upper half of the thick Crystal Suit had been taken off, too, revealing the dark green vest and the stunning body inside.
Li Yao discovered, to his surprise, that the woman who did not look ugly had a bald head, except for an enormous tattoo of five stars on her forehead. The five corners of the five stars turned out to be five drills.
Also, her left arm that was holding the saber just now turned out to be fake. It was a glittering artificial arm.
The bald female warrior who did not have a left arm glanced at the mobsters who were still in shock. She raised her eyebrows, not disguising her disdain for the tough bandits and thugs at all.
It made Li Yao even more curious. If she hated the tough bandits in the Land of Sins so much, why did she save them?
"My name is Zuo Jingyun. My name is' Jing ', which means' Yun 'that breaks through the sky," the bald female warrior said coldly.
In the end, she focused her eyes on A Boxing Champion and Xiahou Wuxin, still full of wariness and even hostility, like two drills that were pressed against the throats of the two tough bandits. "I know that you must have a lot of questions and have absolutely no idea what is going on right now. Just be patient. I will certainly tell you what you need to know. But let me make one thing clear first. This is Cloud Penetrator, my 'earthly dragon'. In this place, my words are the only rules. Whoever does not abide by my rules will be thrown out and left to fend for themselves in the debris and rocks thousands of meters below the ground!"
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I'm sorry, brothers and sisters. I've been cleaning tombs and climbing mountains for the past two days during the Tomb Sweeping Day. I'm truly exhausted.
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