A huge piece of armor plate fell to the ground with a clang under Shallow Shallow's forceful kick. It smashed into the alloy floor that we were standing on, causing a cloud of smoke to rise.
The two words "Scammer" rose from the southeast, covering the sky and covering the sun.
… Speaking of which, were all the ancient Schilling designers this adorable? A door that couldn't even be destroyed by naval cannons was actually installed on a wall that could be kicked open with a single kick. What was even more ridiculous was that we actually foolishly bombarded the door for a few minutes!
If it wasn't for Shallow Shallow's unique brain, we would probably still be bombarding the door!
"Err, I'm afraid … Cough cough, I'm afraid it's not a design problem." Tawil was covered in cold sweat as he squatted on the ground to study the armor plate that Shallow Shallow had kicked off. After a long while, he finally explained the reason for this ridiculous situation. "This is an enchanted armor. After applying energy, it will become stronger than normal armor. However, the outer energy system of this ruin seems to have been shut down by someone. That's why it has become an ordinary metal plate. Otherwise, forget about the Matriarch's flying kick, even a helium flash might not be able to break through this super armor that is normally only used on royal fortresses. Hmm, I've discovered a situation that we need to pay attention to. The residual activity of this armor indicates that its energy source was cut off not too long ago. It could even be that the moment General Pandora ended her attack, Tawil was already making his move inside. "
Thank you, Tawil. You've saved the last bit of moral integrity of the Schilling people.
"Ahaha, so that's how it is." Shallow Shallow had a "I don't understand what you're talking about, but it sounds amazing" expression on her face. She didn't care about what the enchanted armor was. The energetic girl was currently busy tearing a hole in the wall that had lost its power supply. "Hey! Hey! Yo ha — Hit! "
"Clang!" Another metal plate fell to the ground. After Shallow Shallow forcefully dismantled it a few times and Pandora and her sister dismantled it with their bare hands, a two to three meter tall hole appeared in front of us. Looking through the hole, it was completely dark. Only the dim light of the guiding lights flickered in the depths.
"There's no energy reaction," Sandora said as she led the way in. The rest of us hurriedly followed behind her.
This was a maintenance passageway that usually didn't have any personnel to transport. That was why even though it was dark, it was abnormally spacious. Perhaps it was to facilitate the storage of equipment during maintenance, the area near the exit was over a hundred meters wide. That was why Shallow Shallow tore a hole far away from the main door so that we could smoothly enter the normal path instead of entering some equipment. This spacious area extended for a few dozen meters before it gradually narrowed to become a six meter wide corridor. Just like what Tawil had said, most of the energy in this area had been cut off. Naturally, that included the lighting system. After walking a few hundred meters forward, the area around us was almost completely pitch-black.
With a thought, a certain silly cat angel who had just woken up and was doing radio calisthenics in her mind immediately appeared in the air. She hurriedly regained her balance and looked at us with a confused expression.
I explained with a solemn expression, "The path here is too dark. I told you to come out and light up the place."
Everyone: "..."
Alaya didn't pay any attention to the circle of black lines around him. He simply nodded with a dazed expression and replied with an "Oh." Then, he skillfully adjusted his own light source to four hundred lumens. He even focused it back and forth to ensure that the lighting in front of us was more even. In the end, he nodded in satisfaction and smiled sweetly at me.
Tawil usually didn't interact much with Alaya. Now that he saw an arbitration organization and a leader apostle who was so familiar with lighting, he immediately collapsed. "Your Majesty! What exactly did you do to her? "
I knew that most scientists were straightforward and didn't know much about the ways of the world, but your ambiguous words would make me feel embarrassed.
No matter what, with Alaya's illumination, it was much brighter along the way. Otherwise, even if my enhanced vision wasn't afraid of the dark, it would still be quite uncomfortable to look around. Also, I wasn't too used to using military lighting equipment. If it wasn't for the fact that I had an angel girl at home, I wouldn't have to worry about anything. She could warm my bed when it was cold, light up my house when it was dark, and relieve my boredom when I was bored. I could even ask her to come out and act cute when I was depressed after reading Ol 'Boku's stuff … Speaking of which, ever since I discovered QB in the City of Shadows and had him stew me, I had sent people to search for his homeworld and hunt for such species in the macro world. I wondered if they had gone extinct by now … Say, when would my habit of wandering while walking come to an end?
The paths within the ruins were complicated. After walking along the maintenance passageway for more than ten minutes, we encountered several forks in the road. According to Tawil, this place was something similar to a database and computing core. However, the complicated flow of people inside seemed to indicate that this place had other important functions. It seemed like bringing Tawil along was the correct choice. Her super-fast data analysis abilities saved us the trouble of randomly walking around. If we didn't meet any forks in the road, Tawil would stick a scanning terminal that extended out of nowhere and connected to her body on the alloy wall. Then, she would use the command flow rate inside to determine the direction of the control core. Our speed didn't slow down at all due to the endless forks in the road.
"Tsk, after we find Sister Sylvia, we'll just blow this place up with a cannon. Ruins and whatnot, I hate them the most." Visca puffed up her cheeks with a depressed expression.
"I'm afraid we'll have to mobilize a fleet to blow this place up. I don't know how expensive this ruin was to construct. It's even sturdier than the core armor of the Empire Admiral. Who knows what it was used for."
"Holy Temple, Document Library."
Tawil, who was reading the data flow of a circuit, retracted her probe and adjusted her spectacles. "After deciphering the data circuit of this building, I've discovered a few keywords that might be the answer to your question. This place is indeed a part of a larger facility. In the basic data, that large facility is called the Holy Temple, and this ruin belonging to the Holy Temple is called the Document Library. Other than that, the Holy Temple also seems to include 'residence', 'mausoleum', 'initial core', and 'end' as well as many other components. However, the records of those components are a little vague and there seems to be a lack of keywords. However, the words' Holy Temple 'and' Document Library 'are definitely correct — at least in theory."
"Let's continue forward." Sandora was silent for a few seconds before she suddenly said faintly with a slightly gloomy expression. "I don't remember which Emperor had such a hobby, but these names give me a bad feeling."
I didn't know what Sandora was thinking about, but the first impression that I had of the three words' Document Library 'was a' data file '. Could this metal structure that was several hundred kilometers long and even larger than a city be nothing more than a database? Then what was the calculation module that Tawil discovered previously for? This is getting more and more confusing.
Various guesses swirled in my mind, but my worry for Silvia still prevailed. I immediately caught up to Sandora's footsteps and called Tawil, who wanted to continue studying the data flow, to head deeper into the complex maze-like building.
"Buzz … Buzz … Beep, beep …"
It was at this moment that he heard a strange sound.
"Pandora? Are you bored again? "
I rubbed the head of a certain loli beside me. When she was bored, her stomach would make a beeping sound. When she was thinking, her stomach would make a 'zi zi' sound. This little sister of mine's adorable habits were really unique.
However, the latter raised her head and responded to me with a stupefied expression. I could barely read the word 'puzzled' from the almost unmoving curve of her face.
"Buzz … Beep …"
The strange sound rang again. This time, I could finally hear it clearly. It didn't originate from within Pandora's body.
Just as I realized this problem, the sound of something slicing through the air suddenly came from above me. Driven by my sense of danger, I activated my shield on reflex. Then, I heard a teeth-numbing slicing sound on my shield. Raising my head to look, I saw the appearance of the attacker.
It was a long and narrow diamond-shaped weapon that was about two meters long and less than thirty to forty centimeters wide. Its entire body was made of silver-white alloy and ice-blue crystal. It was currently embedded in my energy shield, trembling violently as it attempted to charge in. Its structure looked strange. It had a sharp edge that was obviously anti-phase. It seemed to be a type of melee weapon. However, in the middle of this item, there was a crack that was parallel to the main body. It was about ten centimeters wide, just like an electromagnetic cannon's acceleration track. This structure seemed rather weak as a melee weapon, but as a shooting weapon, it had an extra edge. I didn't remember the Imperial Army having such a weapon.
Just as I was stunned by the strange appearance of this item, the narrow crack in the middle suddenly flashed with a blinding white light. It instantly fired — that was indeed an energy cannon's acceleration track!
Since I was unable to move due to my energy shield, of course, this shot didn't hurt me. Pandora immediately grabbed this strange item. Her small hand, which had a psionic energy field around it, completely ignored the sharp anti-phase edge of the weapon. * Kacha! * The item was snapped in two by the little lass.
It seemed to be weaker than I had expected. Was it just a type of floating cannon that I had never seen before?
While I was guessing, I noticed that Sandora's expression had become serious. Pandora and Visca had also taken out their hand cannons that were suitable for use in small spaces. They looked like they were ready for battle.
"Locked on. Intruder. Identification. Malfunction. Elimination." An inorganic voice suddenly sounded not too far away. Immediately after, several "floating cannons" like the one earlier appeared again. This time, I could clearly see that they had flown out from the walls of the corridor. It was as though they had appeared from an illusory shadow, or perhaps they didn't have any physical connection with reality. They easily passed through the sturdy alloy wall and immediately locked on to the direction of the "intruder." Several bright energy beams, accompanied by the sound of air being burned, attacked us. However, all of them were blocked by our energy shields. Pandora and Visca's hand cannons fired at almost the same time. The advanced fire control system of the leader class Apostles ignored the instantaneous evasion of these strange weapons and accurately destroyed them. However, the crashing of the crystal floating cannons was only the beginning. Soon after, more of these things appeared around us. Some of them appeared from the walls, some from the floor and ceiling, and some even appeared out of thin air. It was obvious that they were equipped with very advanced space combat modules and had tactical teleportation abilities. This was the first time I had seen floating cannons with such a variety of attack methods.
"Intruder combat power rating increased. Radiant Leader Bee activated. Commanding Leader Bee to activate. Protect the document library."
The inorganic voice sounded again. Hundreds of "floating cannons" suddenly retreated collectively. The crystalline luster on their surface seemed to have changed slightly. Then, they shot out white rays, but they didn't attack us. Instead, they drew a two-meter-tall square frame in the air not far away from them. Pandora and Visca started firing the moment they moved. However, due to the terrain's limitations, and the fact that these guardians would disappear into the wall from time to time, less than a third of them were destroyed. The remaining two-thirds drew a square frame in the air that looked like a teleportation door. Orderly footsteps began to sound from the square frame.
"Protect the document library!"
Following the first shout, the first enemy that suddenly rushed out from the square frame was actually an armored scorpion?
Of course, the enemy wasn't Vega and her scorpion soldiers, but an unfamiliar warrior who was covered in black armor. Needless to say, it was also an enemy. It was just that this was the first time I saw an armored scorpion in the enemy's camp, so I was momentarily stunned. This agile warrior brandished his twin swords and charged at us. More soldiers also rushed out from the white glowing square frames. Armored scorpions, ravens, heavy infantry, Agent Schilling, and even lower-ranking commanders wearing commander uniforms. In an instant, they filled the space around us.
The armored scorpion that charged at us first was hit head-on by Pandora's hand cannon. However, it didn't explode or leave any corpses behind as expected. Instead, it was like glass shattering, shattering into pieces with a crisp sound.
"These are shadow guards!" Sandora's voice sounded in our mental connection. "Their attacks are the same as the main body's, but their defense is weaker. Use your superior firepower to annihilate them!"
"Boom boom boom —" The guns in Pandora's and Visca's hands were the first to roar. Even though they were hand cannons that had an extremely slow firing rate, in the hands of these two lasses who were proficient in gunnery, they were able to fire like automatic rifles. The concentrated gunfire and the high damage of a single shot immediately suppressed a group of Schilling soldiers that were charging at us from the first corridor. Although the latter were elite soldiers, they could only obediently become cannon fodder against two generals. They didn't even have the time to activate their weapons before they were blasted into smithereens. Meanwhile, Shallow Shallow had long since transformed into the tyrannical Queen of Time. With a single sentence of "The Wheel of Time shall crush your corpses", the second corridor was instantly covered in mosaics and mosaics. Sandora was much more elegant than anyone else. She just quietly looked in a direction, and then the various enemies that charged at us would kill each other. My Energy Detonation was probably the one that took the least effort out of all of us. Although the enemies were all high-level soldiers of the Empire, some were even heroic soldiers, they were still only soldiers. With such a small number, I didn't even need to use any of my mental power to detonate the energy furnace in their bodies. However, the one who surprised me the most was still Tawil. I didn't know what was wrong with this quiet bespectacled girl today, or if her projection didn't really listen to her original body's commands, she shouted with great vigor, "I'll let you guys who only have muscles witness the power of a scientist!" Then, she took out a bunch of things that I couldn't name and threw them into the crowd of enemies — — I can only say that the explosion of those strangely shaped things was even louder than Pandora and Visca's hand cannons.
"These are the Resonance Bombs that will be used on the next generation of heavy-assault ships to verify their performance. They are high-power experimental bombs used to dismantle enemy aircraft carriers." Amidst the deafening gunfire, Tawil reported to me with a proud expression.
I feel like you've pressed some kind of incredible switch on yourself, Tawil. Is it really alright to continuously ruin your image like this? Or could it be that the bones of every Shiring Apostles are filled with nitroglycerin, even a researcher like you isn't an exception?
Although it wasn't difficult to eliminate the enemies in front of me, it wasn't my original intention to waste time here. Furthermore, a group of Commander-tier Shiring Apostles were actually held back by a few baffling guards using a baffling method. Although I had to admit that the other party's fighting style was strange and powerful, I couldn't help but feel frustrated. Thus, after blowing up a dozen ravens that were charging at me, I took the time to shout at Sandora, who was busy playing a "marionette" game, "Sandora, what exactly are these things? Floating cannons? Teleportation devices? Or swords? Speaking of which, is there no way for us to attack the main body of this defense system? "
The explosions in the surroundings were deafening, and ordinary words couldn't be heard anymore.
Sandora's voice immediately sounded in my mind, "Don't panic, Ah Jun. Summoning these temporary shadow guards consumes a lot of energy, and attacking them won't be able to take them down for a long time. The main body of the Guardian will appear soon. The other party should be a type of combat unit known as Bee Leader. They're incredibly annoying, but their main body isn't that strong. I'll tell you the details after I'm done with them. Also, why aren't you using your mental connection in such a chaotic place?"
I replied, "… Don't you know that your boyfriend's brain is acting up from time to time?"
"Invader's combat strength rating has increased. Bee Leader, activate. Protect the document library."
At this moment, the inorganic voice rang out once more. Seeing that the second defense system was still ineffective against us invaders, the self-proclaimed Bee Leader immediately switched to a new tactic. This time, I finally saw "its" main body.
In the sky above the guards that hadn't been completely destroyed yet, elegant figures appeared in the air like mercury.
Judging from the figures, they seemed to be female combat units? Could it be that they were another group of Empire girls with fierce combat strength?
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