The five-foot-wide corridor was filled with ceramic statues, blocking the way forward.
All these white and delicate porcelain sculptures are in the shape of curly-haired beauties, wearing floor-length skirts, with voluptuous and slender figures, similar in size to adult human women, and much taller than those dwarf statues seen on the street before.
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The beautiful appearance of the statue resembles that of a human being, but upon closer inspection you will find that the curly hair on its head is in the shape of a small snake.
It can be seen that these statues were shaped by the Gorgon Patra according to her own image.
Jiang Feng drew out his rapier and tentatively tapped the porcelain sculpture of a gorgon closest to him, eliciting a crisp echo.
"This porcelain sculpture is hollow."
Then, she shot the porcelain sculpture's head open, and it turned out to be hollow inside.
"This is normal porcelain carving craftsmanship." Ma Yun commented.
Jiang Feng tapped another porcelain sculpture next to him with his rapier, and the knocking sound was obviously duller than the one just now.
"This statue... seems to be solid."
Jiang Feng looked strange.
"So she was once a living person who was transformed into a porcelain sculpture after being stared at by Patra, like those poor porcelain gnomes on the street?" the Tin Woodman speculated.
Jiang Feng shook his head and remained silent.
"There is only one Patra in the world, and it is impossible for her to turn herself into a porcelain sculpture." The Scarecrow murmured softly, "Unless the original owner of this porcelain sculpture had one that was exactly the same as Patra's when she was alive.
Body shape and appearance.”
"Besides this situation, there is another possibility." Ma Yun added, "First use magic to turn ordinary people, such as any resident in the city, into the appearance of Patra, and then petrify it into a porcelain sculpture.
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"The method you pointed out is more feasible, smart mage lady. After all, it is difficult to find people with exactly the same appearance, but it is easier to turn people into your own appearance, and it is easy to operate in batches."
The scarecrow points down the corridor.
"Look, everyone, this corridor is full of identical porcelain sculptures. There are at least hundreds of them, and all the porcelain sculptures look like Patra. Even if only a small part of them are transformed from living people, it still needs to be
Facelift technology for mass production.”
"What's the point of analyzing it? After all, it's just a porcelain statue. No matter whether it's hollow or solid, since it's blocking our way, just push it away and that's it."
The lion impatiently raised its front paws and pulled aside the solid porcelain statue Jiang Feng had just discovered.
Bang!
The porcelain statue fell to the ground and cracked in half.
Something seemed to be moving among the fragments, which immediately aroused Jiang Feng's alert, and he raised his pistol without thinking.
Just under the muzzle of the gun, a skeletal tengu climbed up from the broken porcelain statue, raised its crow-like head, and glared fiercely at the outsiders, its eye sockets flashing with pale soul fire.
Bang! Bang!
Jiang Feng fired two shots in succession, knocking down the skeleton tengu before it pounced.
Nick added a shot of "Holy Fire" to completely destroy the skeleton.
"It seems that we all guessed wrong. The porcelain statue is not solid, but there is a skeleton tengu hidden inside the hollow statue."
The Tin Woodman stated calmly.
"So I'm just saying, what's the point of thinking so much? Just do it and it'll be over!" The lion laughed.
"This incident shows that sometimes our smart friends are mistaken for their cleverness." The Tin Woodman said sarcastically.
The scarecrow rubbed his cheek awkwardly, thankful that he was not given the ability to blush and be ashamed by his creator.
In fact, he really wanted to find out if the Tengu were still alive when they were sealed in the porcelain statues?
But considering the sarcasm of the Lion and the Tin Woodman, I feel embarrassed to waste everyone's time on such trivial matters.
To enter the central hall of the temple, you must pass through this corridor filled with ceramic statues.
The enemy hidden inside the porcelain statue is undoubtedly a threat and must be eliminated carefully.
The lion suggested that smashing all the porcelain statues was indeed the safest way.
It's too troublesome to smash them one by one. Goofy has a more efficient way of blasting.
Waving his hand to signal his companions to retreat, Gao Fei stood alone in front of the closely arranged porcelain sculptures and raised his hand to blast out a "thunder wave".
The rumble of thunder echoed in the narrow and closed corridor.
All the porcelain sculptures within 15 feet of the opposite side were smashed into pieces.
The skeleton tengu hiding in the statue was regarded as one with the porcelain sculpture. It also suffered double damage caused by the thunder wave, and all of them were damaged by the explosion with arms and legs broken.
Jiang Feng and others, who were standing behind Gao Fei, took the opportunity to take action together and killed the severely injured skeleton tengu one by one in the pile of broken porcelain.
After clearing this wave of monsters, Ma Yun said to Gao Fei: "Brother Fei! My psychic necklace has its own spell to detect undead creatures. Maybe I can see through the shell of the porcelain statue whether there is a skeleton tengu hidden inside."
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"Okay, richest man, just try casting a spell."
Ma Yun stimulated the energy stored in the necklace and cast the first-level spell "Detect Undead", and her pupils glowed with a faint silver luster.
The field of view radius of "Detect Undead" is 120 feet. As long as Ma Yun stays focused, she can see whether there are undead creatures in the field of vision, whether the opponent is an invisible incorporeal ghost or hiding inside a hollow statue.
"Oh! I saw the negative energy of the undead creatures fluctuating!"
Ma Yun jumped excitedly and pointed out the porcelain sculptures where the skeleton tengu was hiding one by one to Gao Fei.
Gao Fei ordered Pearl to use "psychic rays" to pull up one of the porcelain sculptures and smash it to the ground, shattering it into pieces.
Sure enough, there was a skeleton lying in the ceramic debris. Before it could get up, the Tin Man cut it in half with an axe.
Test results prove this trick works.
Next, Goofy can save mana.
Only when the porcelain sculptures hidden by the Skeleton Tengu were piled up together, he used "Thunder Wave" to smash them all.
For the scattered porcelain statues, Pearl could use the remote control to break them into pieces, pull them out and kill them.
It took nearly a quarter of an hour to finally clear a passage.
At the end of the corridor is a closed stone door.
Jiang Feng's "Temple of the Temple" has the skill of "Skilled Hands".
He stepped forward to dismantle the poisonous needle trap hidden in the crack of the door, opened the door lock, and then stopped, staring at the crack in the door, his face gradually becoming solemn.
"Sister Feng, can't the door be opened?" Ma Yun asked from behind.
"The traps and locks have been removed, but... we'd better not rush to open the door."
"Why?"
"The opposite side of this door is filled with strong negative energy, which is spreading through the cracks in the door."
"Templar" is not only a thief profession, but also has priest characteristics.
As a magical caster, Jiang Feng is very sensitive to changes in the concentration of negative energy, and high concentrations of negative energy often originate from high-level undead creatures.
