Y 'zaks pulled his head out of the wall with a thud, leaving behind a pile of metal debris and stones. He spat them out. "I don't want to fight here, it's easy to blow up the whole tunnel."
Uruk turned to look at the huge man with a weird expression, and found that the latter was almost squatting. "Can you still fight like this?"
Nangong Wuyue snorted. "Don't underestimate the big guy. He can beat everyone here even if he's lying down, let alone squatting."
Hao Ren waved his hand. "Stop mumbling, be careful."
The mechanical sound came from a branch tunnel on the left, but they did not see any enemies, and from the sound, it seemed to be some kind of transmission device. Nangong Sanba cautiously went over to take a look, and then waved to everyone. "There's a gate here!"
Everyone hurried over and saw a bright light at the end of the tunnel, and the mechanical sound came from that direction. It seemed to be an exit.
After confirming that there were no traps, Hao Ren walked in front with his Steel Membrane Shield up, and led the team out of the long tunnel. They came out from a round gate, and then found themselves in an unusually wide and tall corridor. The corridor was square and dignified. It was more than ten meters wide and more than ten meters tall. Raising one's head to look up would cause one to feel dizzy. The corridor was brightly lit, and the walls were made of some kind of greyish-white metal, and where the metal was not covered, there were exposed rocks. It seemed to be a place that was not completely finished.
Y 'zaks stretched his arms, and coming out from the narrow and cramped tunnel made him feel good. "Finally, I don't have to suffocate … Ugh, but this place is a bit too wide."
This huge corridor was obviously not made for creatures of human size. Hao Ren suddenly remembered the giants on Io, and he knew very well that the brain monster was the result of the giant's mutation. But the brain monster had already lost its body, did it still need to live in a nest of this size?
Uruk, on the other hand, was dumbfounded by the sight before him. "The Sacred Mountain … there's such a thing in the depths of the Sacred Mountain?!"
"I'm afraid it existed before you came here." Vivian glanced at Uruk. "I can understand how you feel. In a sense, the brain monster and its servants are the original inhabitants of this place. You just moved here a few thousand years ago."
Uruk waved his hand. Clearly, he did not want to discuss this topic with anyone. Ophra ordered the knights around her, "You guys, go ahead and scout. Come back in a minute. The rest of you should rest here for now and wait for the reinforcements to arrive before taking action. The situation here is unclear, so it's best if we don't go in too quickly. "
Hao Ren agreed with Ophra's arrangement, but the scale of the underground fortress made him feel anxious. He held the MDT up and down. Lily saw it and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
"The space here is amazing." Hao Ren looked at the MDT. Although the powerful energy interference in the mountain had reduced the accuracy of the MDT, the MDT still managed to get some data as they went deeper. "There's a giant hole a few hundred meters away from here... I can't see the edge of it."
Lily stuck out her tongue. "Is this mountain empty?"
Just as Hao Ren was about to say something, he suddenly heard a burst of shouting and the sound of weapons clashing at the end of the corridor. The few Royal Knights who went to check the situation earlier retreated from the corner of the corridor. And they were fighting a combination of monsters that they had seen on the ground before!
Ophra saw the situation and immediately drew her sword. The long knightly sword was burning with sacred flames. The female marshal's figure flashed in the air like a phantom, and a few of the stitched monsters did not even have time to react before they were burned to ashes by the sacred flames. A few of the rescued knights did not even have time to catch their breath before they reported loudly, "There are a lot of monsters coming out of various gates in front. They seem to be blocking this place!"
As soon as the knight's voice trailed off, there was a harsh sound in the corridor, followed by a burst of mechanical friction from all corners in the distance. It sounded like more mechanical gates were opening. Everyone immediately understood what was going on: the controller of the base had sounded the alarm and began to release the stitched monsters to stop the intruders.
Ear-piercing sirens sounded one after another as the entire underground fortress's defense system was activated and quickly locked on to the location of the invasion. Sluices were slowly descending, and exits set up all over the corridors were opened one after another. A large number of stitched monsters roared as they rushed out from a hidden biological modification factory deep underground. At the same time these defense systems were activated, there was a voice coming from the pipeline behind them: the follow-up troops of the Royal Knights had finally arrived.
"Just in time." Ophra nodded to Elson who jumped out of the gate first. "It seems that the defense here has been activated. All we have to do is to rush in. Bring your men and follow me. "
In fact, Hao Ren was not surprised that the defense system had been triggered because it was inevitable: the brain monster with the power of mind could not have sensed that someone had invaded its territory. The only thing that puzzled him was why the alarm had not sounded until now. The slow reaction of the brain monster was inconceivable. In his estimation, they should have encountered a fierce counterattack as soon as they entered the underground fortress, but the counterattack had dragged on until now.
"MDT, try to navigate as much as possible." Hao Ren temporarily put aside his doubts and threw the MDT into the air. "Take us to the depths."
The MDT did not waste time in this situation. It let out a roar and then rushed forward.
Everyone immediately followed the blue light. The knights raised their swords, the mages surrounded themselves with the light of magic, and the priests raised their holy relics and Bibles high. The Purification Force, driven by faith and a sense of justice, ignored the strange alien base environment around them. They threw all doubts to the back of their minds and charged towards the end of the corridor that was blocked by the monsters.
The MDT tried to eliminate the ubiquitous energy interference in the fortress and tried to draw a map of the route to the depths of the cavern. It led the team quickly through the gateways blocked by monsters and the main roads blocked by the gates. Sometimes there were some deviations in its navigation: some kind of automatic system of the fortress seemed to be aware of the existence of the MDT, and it was consciously using strong interference to affect the route. But this deviation did not seem to have much effect on the guys around Hao Ren who had long been used to breaking through the barriers. When there was a thick wall in front of them and the road ahead was on the other side, they would not look for a new way at all.
Y'lisabet held up a super hell lava ball that was twice the size of her whole body and threw it at the wall. The wall was gone.
That's right, the only way for Hao Ren and his companions to get out of the maze was to find a direction and then blast all the way through. They did not care about the gates and obstacles.
As time passed, more and more reinforcements entered the place through several tunnels. Ophra ordered the new soldiers to split into several groups to wipe out the Patchwork Monsters. At the same time, it also relieved the pressure on the main force. Soon, the underground fortress was filled with explosions and battle cries. But the other troops did not advance as fast as Hao Ren and his group of explosive maniacs, so most of them stopped at the outer corridor blocked by layers of alloy gates. In the end, only Hao Ren and his group broke into the core of the fortress.
Monsters continued to come out of all kinds of corners and corners. The knights formed a line of defense on both sides to resist these monsters and ensure that the long-range professions in the team could maintain the rhythm of bombardment and advance quickly. Ayesha and Nangong Wuyue, as powerful healers and boundary masters, constantly healed the wounds of the knights and dispelled the poisonous stench of the stitched monsters. They looked at the way Y'zaks and his daughter blasted their way in front and could not help but feel a little worried. "What if the sacred mountain collapses?"
"Do you think the brain monster would not know to strengthen the outside framework when it dug such a big hole in the sacred mountain?" Hao Ren replied loudly in the midst of the explosions. "The sacred mountain has been standing hollow for thousands of years, it will not collapse!"
As soon as his voice trailed off, there was a sudden loud bang under their feet as if the sky and earth were collapsing, and for a moment, the earth and mountains shook.
"Mr. Landlord, that mouth of yours..." Lily suddenly shouted.
Hao Ren was also startled, but he soon realized that something was wrong. "Wait a minute, it's not the mountain collapsing! I don't think it's an earthquake... "
The loud bang only lasted for a few seconds, and the shaking around them quickly calmed down. But after a while, a similar shaking and loud bang came again!
As Hao Ren said, the movement did not seem like the sacred mountain was collapsing, but it was not a good sign either!
A burst of the stitched monster's roar came from the front. Hao Ren saw a heavy gate at the end of the corridor seemed to have a problem, it was swaying and could not close. He immediately picked up his spear and strode forward. "Hurry up!"
After passing through a few more gates and a few corners, the surrounding space became more and more spacious. It even made people wonder if the entire main peak of the sacred mountain had been hollowed out. And the strange shaking continued to sound regularly, it sounded like some super huge equipment was warming up and ready to start. A sudden thought flashed in Hao Ren's mind, and almost at the same time, he found that he had come to the end of the corridor.
At the end of the corridor was a platform suspended in mid-air. In front of them was a huge and shocking cave in the mountain, and the thing in the middle of the cave was stunning.
Hao Ren knew what the brain monster was doing in the sacred mountain for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
"He's repairing the spaceship..." Lily looked up and said blankly, "It's fixed..."
Rollie also looked up and curled into a small ball at Hao Ren's feet. "I'm going to die, meow!"
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