In the earsplitting noises, countless round metal balls rushed out of the cave. While they were still in midair, they were dissected into gliders and honeycomb-type launchers one after another, turning into round battle puppets that lunged at the earthly dragons that had not left yet.
"Stop them!"
Under Wei Longtao's command, the half-fixed turrets spurted out thousands of fire snakes in the roars of the resistance warriors, halting the iron tides that were spreading out. The battle puppets of the Immortal Cultivators were penetrated and blown up nonstop. Dazzling fireballs were blossoming below the ground!
Sensing the magnificence of the resistance warriors' firepower, the battle puppets soon changed their battle pattern. They turned into balls again and gathered together, releasing small spiritual shields that melded and resonated with each other into a solid wall that protected the entrance of the cave above.
After the entrance of the cave was protected, incessant battle puppets would be able to flood in, making it impossible for Starlight to resist in number.
Some of them were the skeleton lizards that savaged Liberty City the day before. The biological weapons that were close to perfect lunged at the resistance warriors in weird routes the moment they landed. They were so fast and agile that storm bolters and crystal cannons could not deal with them from a long distance at all.
"Ahhh!"
Several half-fixed turrets were focused on the battle puppets, but they could not spare any firepower to deal with the skeleton lizards that were lunging at them quickly. They were surrounded by a couple of skeleton lizards, who corroded the gaps and the cover of the cabin with acid and dragged the resistance warriors out by brute force. Their heads that looked like cannibals swarmed forward and gnawed them into a mist of blood and broken bones in the blink of an eye.
Another earthly dragon had been loaded with members, ammunition, and fuel. It was about to leave without bothering about anything when a few skeleton lizards crawled into the cabin door that was not closed yet. A storm of blood was immediately raised inside the cabin.
A lot of turrets and resistance warriors had to shift their firepower to the skeleton lizards. As a result, the battle puppets of the Immortal Cultivators in midair were able to lock onto and shoot at them unhurriedly. Their spiritual shields were on the verge of collapsing under the bombardment.
For a moment, exclamations, explosions, moans, and curses were echoing nonstop. The situation could not have been more perilous!
"B * stards, go to hell!"
Wei Longtao made his move!
The general commander of the ground branch of Starlight, in the Ares Extension that looked like a bronze gorilla, was truly like a dominating, invincible God of War. He leaped up and crashed into the place where the battle puppets were densest.
With his body that was so strong that it was somewhat clumsy, he performed the most agile and perfect battle dance. The revolving cannons that were supposed to be suppressing the enemy with a storm of firepower were thrown out by him like sniper rifles. Almost every bullet missed its target. Every bullet hit the weakest part of the spiritual shield of a battle puppet, and the next bullet would take advantage of the weakness and blow up the mainframe crystal processor of the battle puppet!
Around Wei Longtao, the battle puppets of the Immortal Cultivators all turned into burning scrap iron and smashed down like hailstones.
As for the two rotary cannons he was using, they gradually turned from orange to crimson. Finally, they began to sizzle. Because of the overload of the array glyphs, they entered a forced cooldown.
Dozens of battle puppets and almost ten skeleton lizards immediately lunged at him.
Wei Longtao burst into laughter. Holding the two burning axes that seemed to be made of magma in his hands, he waved them up and down crazily, stalling the attacks of almost a hundred enemy soldiers like a butcher dissecting a cow.
In the middle of the soaring flames and smoke, his body was particularly intimidating and magnificent. There was nothing better than one man holding the pass against ten thousand enemies!
"Let's go. Let's go now!"
Wei Longtao was as tough as a deity. The resistance warriors who stayed to cover the retreat with him also burst out their determination to die together with the enemy. Ignoring the broken bones and muscles all over their body because of the recoil of the crazy bombardment of the turrets, they seemed to have injected all their lives and all their hopes into the fire snakes and spurted them out. For a moment, the battle puppets and skeleton lizards of the Immortal Cultivators were barely able to crawl out.
The other resistance warriors took the opportunity to activate the earthly dragons to the maximum and slip away from the interconnected, complicated tunnels.
Explosions were echoing deep below the ground. The tunnel system that was as complicated as a maze in the first place was even more messy and impossible to trace.
"Let's go, too!"
Zuo Jingyun boarded "Cloud Piercer" last. Looking at Wei Longtao who was galloping among the storm of bullets and the sharp teeth, she gnashed her teeth and said, "We must find the 'temple' and avenge all our brothers and sisters who have been killed today and in the past hundreds of years!"
Right then, a few battle puppets and skeleton lizards suddenly tore apart the web of fire of the resistance warriors and lunged at "Cloud Piercer".
Zuo Jingyun raised her hand and was about to shoot, but a gray shadow was even faster than her. It was exactly the beast puppet in the form of a tarantula that belonged to the Coloured Glaze.
While Zuo Jingyun blew up the other few battle puppets, it crashed into a skeleton lizard brutally. Its sharp limbs pierced deeply into the enemy's body, tangling with the skeleton lizard and falling into the depths of the dark mine. Then, a blue, tiny spark burst out.
Zuo Jingyun slightly frowned.
As a matter of fact, she could've taken care of the few troubles without sacrificing a spiritual puppet.
However, judging from the blank eyes of the Coloured Glaze and the cold sweat on her forehead, the girl must've been scared too. It was not wrong to choose a safer tactic.
Having no time to think, Zuo Jingyun slammed the cabin door of the earthly dragon and shouted, "Let's go!"
The remains of the tarantula under Li Yao's control were being torn apart by the heavily wounded skeleton lizards.
His soul, however, was hiding inside Neltharion. Under the cover of the explosions, fire, and skeleton lizards, he crawled into the crevices at the bottom level of the forsaken mine without a sound.
Neltharion was equipped with a tiny drill, too. It was an excellent tool for exploration.
With such a heated battle up there, naturally, nobody could've sensed that he was lurking in the place quietly in such a weird way.
It was not until Cloud Piercer, Zuo Jingyun's earthly dragon, completely disappeared into the depths of the tunnel and blew up the entire tunnel that Li Yao finally took a breath in relief and focused his attention on the battlefield again.
Then, he felt that his heart was tightened again.
As time went by, more and more small drills dug in from the walls around the forsaken mine, exhausting the resistance warriors and making it impossible for them to defend themselves.
Every time a tunnel was opened, more battle puppets and skeleton lizards would pour in.
When the enemy's troops were upgraded to the regular troops of the Heavenly Eye Legion in Crystal Suits and the crazy 'live streamers', the defense line of the resistance warriors finally collapsed.
"Long live the Cultivators! Long live Starlight!"
"Hahahaha. I've been a coward for fifty-five years, and today is the best day of my life. It's f * cking worth it!"
"Let's die together, b * stards from the sky!"
The resistance warriors roared, laughed, and burst into tears. Carrying the crystal cannons that were so hot that they were almost melting, they lunged at the enemy and turned into dazzling fireworks in the iron torrents.
Every firework was like a crystal bomb that exploded inside Li Yao's soul brutally, making him more infuriated than ever. He almost couldn't wait to charge out and fight side by side with the fellow Cultivators at the center of the cosmos so that he could ignite or even detonate the entire forsaken mine with his soul.
The mental devil shrieked next to his soul and even released bloody waves to tie up his soul, preventing him from acting on impulse. "It's useless. There are too many enemies, and they are all small fries and cannon fodder. Ten times more reinforcements will come incessantly after we kill a batch of them. Our existence will even be exposed, and the whole area will be turned into a real hell by the underground penetrators or the orbital bombardment. We don't have to die together with such small fries, do we?
"Besides, our soul has not been melted with our body yet. Even if you try your best right now, you can only wield 10% of your combat ability at best. What's the use?
"After your soul returns, you will be armed with the Crystal Suit and the Colossus, and you find the mastermind behind 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'. You can go on a rampage then!"
"I know."
Li Yao said, one word after another. His telepathic thoughts locked onto Wei Longtao, who was still fighting a bloody battle, like the unpredictable threads of spider silk.
He seemed to be really fulfilling his vow to cover the retreat. Waving the burning axe hard, he sent the resistance warriors around him into the depths of the tunnel.
How valiant, how valiant, how stalwart and selfless was that.
At this moment, even the toughest bandits and thugs would raise their thumbs for Wei Longtao and praise him. "What a man!"
Li Yao, however, was not touched or impressed at all.
He truly seemed to have turned into a human-shaped crystal processor and focused all his computational ability on Wei Longtao. To be more exact, it was focused on the bullets, flying swords, and mystic rays that brushed past Wei Longtao in danger again and again.
"Wei Longtao should be an expert in the Yuanying level. It is possible that he is in the middle level or even the high level of the Yuanying Stage."
Li Yao said coldly, "However, even the peak of the Yuanying Stage is not exactly invincible. Faced with the iron tides, the overwhelming attacks, and the storm of intensive firepower, they will still be wounded.
"Wei Longtao, on the other hand, has been fighting a hundred times more enemies on his own. After such a long battle, he is still able to perform such perfect dodging techniques, as if he can predict the trajectory of the enemy's attack in advance. It is truly … unbelievable that he is so gifted!
"Look. Look. Did you see that? The shot that was so close to him could've hit his head and blown up the crystal camera on his helmet or at least jammed it, but the guy somehow shook his hand and missed the shot.
"What do you think?"
"About that …"
The mental devil said, "There are three possibilities.
"Firstly, Wei Longtao is good at mental attacks. He has interfered with the minds and vision of hundreds of Immortal Cultivators, including the spiritual puppets and the skeleton lizards, before they knew it.
"Secondly, the Immortal Cultivators and the spiritual puppets that besieged Wei Longtao are all blind. They failed to hit his critical parts at such a close distance.
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