After listening to Mercury's explanation, Fang Xing didn't know what to say for a moment.

Spending money to buy a city structure diagram, even if such things are not in compliance with the rules, they should not make such a big deal as they are now.

After pondering for a moment, Fang Xing sighed:

"Forget it, this kind of low-probability event is really unpredictable and has nothing to do with fellow mercury. It can only be said that I am not lucky enough to suffer this unpredictable disaster."

Seeing that Fang Xing did not blame him, the expression on Mercure's face became a little relaxed.

However, he asked with concern:

"The thing has reached its current point, and fellow Taoists have plans in their hearts."

Fang Xing heard this and said decisively:

"What I can do now is to fight a bloody path and leave the area controlled by the strip palace first."

After listening to Fang Xing’s plan, Mercury stopped him anxiously:

"No, Fellow Daoist Fang, although the hive clan of the intelligent machinery is not as strong as that of the human cultivation sect, they are not vegetarians.

Especially the Barbed Palace, which lasted from the first intelligent weapon crisis to the present honeycomb clan. The long years have allowed them to accumulate a lot of powerful means.

For example, they developed a smart weapon specifically for human monks using demonic energy - the forbidden spirit worker bee.

There is also a bee-eating swarm that is good at group combat and is famous for its mechanical devouring and fusion.

It is really not a wise move to confront such a guy."

Seeing Mercury shaking his head like a rattle, Fang Xing said helplessly:

"I don't want to be enemies with the Barbed Palace, but I have any other choice now."

Seeing this, Mercury asked tentatively:

“Have fellow Taoist considered giving up resistance and talking to the Barbed Palace?

After all, this incident was a misunderstanding. Fellow Daoist does not know Cicada3301, so I can guarantee this."

Fang Xing heard this and asked without comment:

"Daoist Mercury dares to guarantee that the Barbed Palace will definitely agree with your and my words?"

Looking at Fang Xing's eyes, Mercury was silent for a while, then shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"I really can't guarantee this kind of thing."

Fang Xing showed a clear expression on his face and continued to explain:

"I have this question, but it is not difficult for fellow Taoist Mercury to ask. I just want to tell fellow Taoist that I cannot surrender if I cannot ensure the attitude of the bars.

Even if the same kind cannot trust it, I will be even less likely to believe in aliens like smart machines.”

Seeing that Fang Xing's words were very decisive, Mercury Tu said with a good attitude:

"Fellow Daoist Fang's concerns are indeed very reasonable, but no matter what, fighting alone with the strip palace is actually like hitting the stone with eggs.

Let me see this, I know a secret path from Lion Camel City to the mechanical giant lion below.

I can bring fellow Taoist there. With the help of that secret passage, we can avoid head-on encounters with the Barbed Palace and leave the Lion Camel City as soon as possible. I wonder what fellow Taoist Fang thought."

Fang Xing pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then he agreed:

"Since that's the case, then there will be fellow Taoist Mercury."

Seeing Fang Xing agreeing, Mercury said with a smile:

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Fang doesn't have to be so polite.

As I said before, if I hadn't led my fellow Taoist to meet Cicada3301, this wouldn't have happened.

This was originally my mistake, and now I naturally have to try my best to make up for it.

Okay, let’s talk about it again.

The intelligence equipment of the Barbed Palace should be about to find us. Fellow Taoist comes with me, let’s leave here soon.”

As he said that, Mercury took Fang Xing into the pipeline behind him.

…………

The two of them quickly shuttled through the maze-like underground pipes, although with the help of the structural diagram, they were both familiar with these pipes.

However, there are too many intelligent weapons sent by the Barbed Palace, and the two of them will inevitably be intercepted by intelligent weapons.

Fortunately, Fang Xing and Mercury were both not weak, and when they encountered the Barbed Palace Intelligent Machinery.

The enemy can always be solved quickly and avoid being double-teamed by subsequent intelligent weapons.

Of course, strong strength is on the one hand, while relatively weak blade intelligence equipment encountered is on the other hand.

At least, neither of the two intelligent weapons were encountered, including the forbidden spirit worker bees and the bee-devouring swarm mentioned by Mercury.

As Fang Xing's hand was still like a bunch of flowers, a pillar of fire rose up on the ground, swallowing all the enemies within the range of the focal circle.

Fang Xing easily cooked the pursuers, while the Mercury Gate shouted excitedly on the other side:

"Fellow Daoist Fang, come here."

Fang Xing walked over and saw that a secret passage appeared beside Mercury Tu.

This secret passage is not marked on the structural diagram, and it should be the path to the mechanical giant lion as mentioned before.

In this way, Fang Xing followed Mercury directly into this secret passage.

After entering this place, the original bar palace intelligence weapons did not appear again.

Without the threat of pursuers, both of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

I felt relaxed and talked more.

After holding back all the way, Mercury talked endlessly about Fang Xing, what plans he had after leaving Lion Camel City.

“Hey, I’ve been in Yunzhou for several years.

Taking this opportunity, I can go back to my hometown to take a look." Mercury said with a reminiscence.

Fang Xing heard this and said with a smile:

"Yes, Yunzhou is far away from human society after all, and it is really not suitable for staying here for a long time.

However, I think you are a good adaptation for fellow Mercury. Few humans can match the same as smart machines.”

The implicit sound in Fang Xing's speech was already very obvious, but Mercury asked with an innocent look on his face:

"Fellow Daoist Fang, what does this mean?"

At this time, Fang Xing's smile gradually subsided. He stared at the mercury man and asked in a cold voice:

"What's the meaning?

I want to ask, what does it mean to cheat me out of here?"

Fang Xing turned against him without any warning, and Mercury did not expect it at all. He hurriedly wanted to explain.

However, before his words could be spoken, he was interrupted by Fang Xing.

"Hmph, I really want to hear you explain what the mark on your arm is like."

As he said that, Fang Xing snapped his fingers directly.

With a "bang" sound, the sleeve on Mercury's right hand suddenly started to burn out of thin air.

The flame quickly burned the sleeves to death. As a monk, Mercury would naturally not be injured under the flame.

However, a mark on his arm was directly exposed to the air.

The mark looks like a string of barcodes. Fang Xing has seen it on the arm of Chan 3301 and also on the chasing smart weapons.

This string of barcodes is clearly the symbol of the barcode palace, and this symbol appears on Mercury's arm, which means self-evident.

It turned out that Fang Xing had always felt that this matter was a little strange.

There are really too many coincidences. Fang Xing met Mercury by chance, and the other party coincidentally introduced the bar-shaped ghost of Cicada 3301.

What's more coincidental is that this incident was exposed after Fang Xing intervened, and Fang Xing was unfortunately implicated.

And without knowing where he was, Mercury actually found himself successfully with the strip palace intelligence equipment.

This is completely made up of low probability situations, and then how high are the events that occur?

Fang Xing secretly used the gods and ghosts algorithm to deduce it, and it was less than one millionth.

The most important thing is that Mercury is so enthusiastic that it would be fine if you can help some small things.

It is a bit contrary to common sense to inform Fang Xing later on in the danger of getting himself in.

When you change your position, Fang Xing will definitely not be so good at helping someone he just met.

However, although it was unreasonable, Fang Xing did not kill anyone in one stroke.

After all, all Mercury's actions have seemingly reasonable explanations.

What if the other party is a kind-hearted person, Fang Xing doesn't want to be a villain in vain.

Recalling the strangeness of Cicada 3301, Fang Xing was still using the art of the evil path of the flame wheel and stacking a little bit of the flame wheel aura on the mercury puppet.

This little bit of inflammation will not have much impact, but they will slightly burn off the clothes on the mercury puppet.

It was through this method that Fang Xing burned the other party's clothes into holes without disturbing the mercury disciple.

Then, through these fine holes, Fang Xing discovered the identity code on the other party's arm that represented the barbed palace tribe.

Since Mercury is a person from the Barbed Palace, it is interesting to note Fang Xing’s danger and help Fang Xing escape.

"Mercury, what else do you have to say?

I am really curious, as a human, why do you come together with the intelligent forces like Barbaric Palace?

I want to know more about the fact that there is no grudge between us, and what is the purpose of everything you are doing now."

Faced with Fang Xing's questioning, Mercury was silent for a moment, and then spoke:

“No reason, I’m just doing my job.

Now it seems that there is no way to go to the place to do it again. Since that is the case, I can only choose to take you down here."

Seeing that Mercury was no longer planning to pretend, Fang Xing's suppressed anger rushed up.

Originally, when he first met Mercury, Fang Xing thought he had met a rare good person, but he didn't expect that the other party always pretended.

No one likes to be deceived by others, so does Fang Xing.

Although Fang Xing didn't know what Mercury was planning to do, he could keep these things for him to clean up and then interrogate them.

As soon as he thought of this, Fang Xing kicked his feet and rushed towards Mercury.

"Buzz!"

During the rushing forward, a cold light flew out from Fang Xing and stabbed towards the mercury at a faster speed than Fang Xing.

On the other side, Mercury looked at the Qingxiao Sword that was stabbing quickly without any panic.

I saw that he suddenly pressed his hand towards his Dantian.

An incredible energy burst out from Mercury instantly.

The energy was as solid as the essence, and the dense energy wall directly knocked the Qingxiao Sword backwards, unable to touch the other party at all.

When we first met, Fang Xing had already learned that Mercury was a monk of the Reincarnation Sect.

Although the Reincarnation Sect is like the Spirit-Sealing Sect, it is based on the theory of entropy increase.

However, the conclusions drawn by the two are completely opposite.

The Reincarnation Sect completely overturned the theory of the Spirit-Defeating Sect, and by the way, they ruthlessly stepped on it a few times.

The relationship between these two factions can be said to be incompatible with water and fire.

The Spirit-Defeating Sect regards spiritual reversal entropy as its creed and criterion, while the Reincarnation Sect regards it as a dross, and even the Entropy Theory Reincarnation Sect will lose it after using it.

The only thing this faction believes in is enthalpy, which represents the state parameters of energy in a confined space.

Mastering enthalpy means mastering energy, and the Reincarnation School is such a faction that only energy is supreme.

After all, only when the energy continues to rise to the critical value can the practice concept of reincarnation be realized.

It is this concept that allows monks of the Reincarnation Sect to control the energy in the confined space through enthalpy.

The human body is obviously a confined space. The monks of the Reincarnation Sect can control the energy in their bodies more easily than monks from other factions.

It just so seems that there is a huge source of energy in the body of monks at this stage of Fang Xing.

That's right, this energy source is the outer alchemy furnace and cauldron.

At this stage, even if Fang Xing uses his own talent, he cannot control the nuclear fusion energy in his body for his own use.

Because this is just playing with fire, if you are not careful, you will disappear.

What Fang Xing could do was just to borrow the curse seal to use this nuclear fusion energy indirectly.

Even Fang Xing was like this, let alone monks from other factions.

If you want to fully master the external alchemy furnace and cauldron inside the body, the usual way is to wait for the golden elixir to be condensed.

However, there are always exceptions in everything.

The Reincarnation Sect, a faction that masters the enthalpy, can be controlled without any obstacles. Even without the assistance of the golden elixir, they can control the energy generated by the outer elixir furnace and cauldron without any obstacles.

Now, the energy bursting out from the mercury body should be produced by the outer alchemy furnace and cauldron.

After mastering this energy, no wonder Mercury dared to make bold statements and capture Fang Xing alive.

However, Fang Xing is not a vegetarian.

"Come!"

With Fang Xing shouting loudly, the Qingxiao Sword, which had been driven by energy, flew into Fang Xing's hand.

I saw Fang Xing pointed at the ridge of the Qingxiao Sword.

Sword threads suddenly clinged to the sword edge of the Qingxiao Sword, and instantly completely wrapped the Qingxiao Sword.

Then, Fang Xing held his sword and slashed towards the energy wall ahead.

The blade of the Qingxiao Sword suddenly turned into a huge phantom of thought, dividing the energy wall into two from the middle.

There has never been a conclusion on the sharpest and most solid things in the world, and in the era when sword cultivators still existed, ideas were generally considered synonymous with sharpness and solidity.

Because sword cultivators rely on their sword intent, there are indeed few things that they cannot cut through.

Fang Xing, who inherited Jianwan, could be regarded as inheriting the mantle of Jianjing.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the sword cultivator is a faction that fights the wind.

As long as you keep winning, your thoughts will keep getting stronger, so strong that it is terrifying.

Of course, if you are defeated, the sword will no longer be defeated. If you lose a few more times, you will be finished.

Sword Cultivator is such a faction with outstanding shortcomings and advantages.

So far, this faction is still mainly based on its advantages in Fang Xing.

After all, since he obtained the Jianwan, Fang Xing has not encountered an enemy that can make him unable to recover.

A mid-level like Pei Lei and Wu Yaocun died at Fang Xing's hands in the end.
Chapter completed!