Tang Shidao floated in the air, quietly watching. These multi-legged snakes swallowed the soil and ice, then quickly transported them back to the tower. At the same time, the magic engineered puppets flew out of the tower, formed a formation, and then slowly flew into the distance, joining the battlefield. It felt like a group of ants moving. With the tower as the base, they kept spreading to the surrounding area.
After watching for a long time, Tang Shidao more or less understood.
It was like the automatic map refresh in games.
The tower wasn't alive, it didn't have a mind of its own, only a set of rules. The most obvious example was that the tower didn't understand tactics, nor did it know how to concentrate its forces. Every time a batch of magic engineered puppets was produced, 10,000 of them would be sent out. Tang Shidao watched for a long time, but never saw a '20,000' or '15,000' army attack.
Every time, it was 10,000, no more, no less.
Also, the tower didn't have a relay station.
This was very strange.
Because.
Once a distant army was scattered, the tower would no longer send reinforcements if they were too far away and lost contact. It could be said that the tower's communication range had always been the distance between magic engineered puppets. As long as the magic engineered puppets were too far away and couldn't be contacted, they would be disconnected. Whether they were killed in battle, damaged, separated, or interfered with, this communication would be interrupted.
Because of this inconvenience, the tower's' monitoring range 'was very limited, probably like the solar system of the mortal world, losing contact if they were too far away.
In just one day.
Tang Shidao made a rough calculation. It would only take about a hundred days for the tower to 'devour' the entire planet. Not just the soil and ice on the surface, but also everything underground. No matter what it was, the multi-legged snakes could eat it all. In fact, a dozen multi-legged snakes had already arrived on another planet nearby and had eaten their fill.
Because it was too far away from the tower, they were waiting on the other side.
As soon as they finished eating this planet, they would immediately start eating the next one.
Tang Shidao flew down.
Just as he was about to enter the tower to investigate. Unexpectedly, the multi-legged snakes suddenly ejected some insect-hunting magic puppets, and they all rushed towards him. Tang Shidao was also slightly surprised. These guys were different from the other magic puppets; they 'recognized' him. He then looked at the strange multi-legged snake eating the withered tree and the fish in the frozen sea. Tang Shidao could understand. These big eaters had eaten flesh and blood before, so they knew what flesh and blood were.
Very likely.
The Spire had the data of flesh and blood lifeforms, but it did not copy it onto the magical-engineered puppet.
For the time being, Tang Shidao had no idea what the reason was.
However …
"Idiot, be careful, dodge!" Several voices shouted almost at the same time. In the blink of an eye, dozens of half-armored young men and women appeared. Most of them raised their guns and shot to stop the Insect Hunting Magic Puppet. A few of them activated the device as if calling for help. One of them leaped closer, took out a watch-like device, and quickly put it on Tang Shidao's hand.
The device was put on, and the person pressed a button to start it.
In just a blink of an eye, Tang Shidao entered the 'invisible' state.
"Be careful, don't make a sound, don't activate your Mana, and don't knock into the surrounding rocks. Follow me, right now, they will cover us. Hurry up, or more people will die. "The person who came spoke, and it was a rough man's voice. From his tone, he seemed to be the leader of this group of people.
"Oh." Tang Shidao listened and followed.
In fact.
Were these Insect Hunting Magic Puppets scary?
No!
Not to mention them, with all the multi-legged snakes and the Spire, Tang Shidao could also burn them to death with a 'Divine Light Illumination'.
However …
From the universe graveyard in space, it could be seen that this was meaningless. There was not one Spire, nor were there tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of them. To be able to produce so many puppet remains, the number of Spire must be an unimaginable number. In addition, Tang Shidao did not expect how much technical information the Spire had. After all, the magical-engineered puppets it made could not even be distinguished from life, only the Insect Hunting Magic Puppets that were nearby could distinguish them.
It could be seen that the Spire did not have much information.
Then he looked at the equipment of these people. It was not too strong, but to dare to invade to this extent, it showed that the Spire was not too strong.
As Tang Shidao expected.
Everyone fought hard to stop the enemy.
Ask for reinforcements, escape.
Then …
In the pursuit of a group of flying magic puppets, the spaceship fled into deep space.
Into the universe graveyard in deep space.
Thrilling shuttle.
It was not easy to get rid of the magical-engineered puppets. At this time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The man in the lead took off his helmet, and as expected, he looked like a strong man. He gestured with his hand and turned on Tang Shidao's electric energy invisibility meter, and then introduced himself. "My name is Tie Peng, you have magic power cultivation, right? Can you understand what I mean?"
"Yes, magic power can directly sense your meaning." Tang Shidao nodded.
At this time, everyone did not put down their guns.
Their armor was not taken off.
Their fighting spirit had not disappeared.
"We have no hostility, and I hope you are not our enemy." Tie Peng put down his weapon first, indicating that he was harmless. "We saved you because we are all living beings, not magic puppets. If you have any other bad ideas, we will not be polite. Of course, you have no evil intentions, and we also hope to have a friend who knows magic power. "
"I just want to check the tower." Tang Shidao was only surprised that there were people inside.
"That won't do, the Ten Thousand Legged Worm will not let you in. Even if you have the ability to fly, the Ten Thousand Legged Worm, in addition to the Blade Hunting Worm, also has the Flying Hunting Worm, and can stop you in the sky. " Tie Peng turned on the imaging system, and some images appeared on the back of his hand. It was the image of the human army invading the tower from the sky and being stopped.
The so-called Ten Thousand Legged Worm must be a multi-legged monster snake.
The Blade Hunting Worm and the Flying Hunting Worm were easy to distinguish, and those with blade claws and wings were different.
"Can I ask a few questions?" Tang Shidao gestured.
"Yes. As long as you are a living race, as long as you have no evil intentions, we are friends. "Tie Peng said with a smile.
"Thank you. First of all, don't you find my origin strange? "Tang Shidao smiled.
"Ah … Hehe, that doesn't matter. In this universe, the most insignificant thing is probably one's origin. No matter which fallen planet you came from, whether you just woke up from a deep sleep or died, as long as you are a living race, as long as you have no evil intentions, we are all friends. "Tie Peng repeated, indicating that all living races were on the same side.
"I see. Then, does the tower create life? "
"No. According to all of our history, the tower has never created life. It can even be said that it will not deliberately attack us, but … it will eat our planet. It will eat whatever has the most energy. For example, in this area, it will eat the sun first, and turn the other planets into cold dead stars. We can't win, and we can't wear it out, so we can only retreat. "
"Where do you live?" Tang Shidao asked subconsciously.
"The head of the giant magic puppet, or the body shell, or the arms and feet. In short, a place that is big enough is fine. The tower only eats planets with energy, and does not take back the remains of the giant magic puppets that have already died. Therefore, these giant magic puppets are very safe. But once there is too much energy inside, the Ten Thousand Legged Worms will discover it and they will invade to steal it. "
"Do you have a Magic Spring?" Tang Shidao asked.
"Magic Spring? He, that's an old thing. Yes, yes, yes, only some large powers have it. Our stronghold doesn't have it, most of our strongholds don't have it. It isn't easy to train mages and then again, the Ten Thousand Legged Worms covet the Magic Spring. If you want to borrow the Magic Spring, un, it is possible. But you have to join their army and help them guard their stronghold. "
"I understand." Tang Shidao knew that Tie Peng had misunderstood, but he didn't explain, "Why don't you use magic machines?"
"This ….. Guns? Un, we have them, but we don't use them. Because they consume too much energy, we can't afford to use them. Sometimes, we only use them when defending the stronghold. Moreover, magic machines are easily discovered by them, so it's hard to steal things. "
"Just now, you were stealing water and … …"
"Un, ice and some necessary industrial elements. Our stronghold needs these and the living races also need these. To put it bluntly, it was safer to leave things without magic power outside. For example, even if we meet a group of magic puppets, they won't harm us unless you walk under their feet and get trampled to death. Only around the tower or the Ten Thousand Legged Worms will they recognize us. If we have magic machines, we might be in danger here. "
Tang Shidao understood when he heard this.
The tower was not an invader that targeted living races, it wasn't here to slaughter them. Accurately speaking, it was here to 'eat'.
Unfortunately.
Living races needed planets to survive and its food was planets.
Vaguely.
Tang Shidao felt a bit strange, this seemed to be a very special setting. It didn't destroy living races, but it kept creating disasters. It felt like this was a kind of 'trial'. But this wasn't a trial for a single person, rather it was a trial for an entire race.
"Right, I still haven't asked for your name?"
"I am Tang Shidao."
"Oh, hello mister Tang. These are my teammates, they are … … "Tie Peng introduced the others. Everyone just nodded, clearly not trusting him. In their world, mages were not strange existences. But the existence of mages was very special. Some people had been sleeping since ancient times and had just woken up when they were disturbed. Some people were already dead, but with the help of magic, they came back to life.
Some mages liked to help everyone and some hated everyone.
There were also those who ignored everyone.
On the other hand, mages were a very useful force, but also a source of trouble. Other than being used to being free and unsociable, attracting the attention of magic puppets was also a kind of trouble. Some large strongholds would train their own mages and they did a good job. But according to some official explanations, there was a limit to the power of mages.
After reaching a certain level, the power of mages and spells couldn't increase.
The reason wasn't clear yet.
But in the end, people still needed to rely on technical power to protect all their members. Mages could only be considered special generals or special staff. These 'human shaped weapons' were good, but the bad ones were disasters.
Under normal circumstances, everyone would keep a respectful distance from him.
At this time.
They had arrived at the stronghold. Through the screen, Tang Shidao saw some seriously damaged spaceships that were on fire. These spaceships looked like 'hands', 'legs' or 'torso'. It wasn't hard to imagine that they were modified from the bodies of magic puppets. The flames of war were not extinguished, so it was easy to imagine that they were in a bad situation.
Tie Peng and the others frowned and sighed when they saw the signal.
Obviously, they were used to it.
"I hope it's not too bad." Tie Peng murmured softly. He knew that the army had gained something, but they also suffered a lot of losses.
In front of the stronghold.
It was a huge 'head', the head of a magic puppet.
The most surprising thing was.
"Captain Tie Peng, is it still alive?" Tang Shidao pointed at the stronghold and asked.
"No, because the information requires us to activate some of its functions. It can probably detect if there are any magic puppet armies around. If there are, we have to prepare for battle. Of course, we have to turn it off, otherwise we will be watched. "
"I see, you know how to use these technologies too."
"Some mages passing by helped."
"Oh."
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