Chapter 3357 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Sixty)
Chapter 3357 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Sixty)
Sneaking is surprisingly easy.
Or maybe the group of stalkers were careless and didn't expect Elaine and others to escape under the cover of night.
Or maybe the stalkers were too primitive and didn't understand the technology that Elaine and the others had. They didn't even know that the cavalry could use the stealth system, so they were careless.
They probably thought that if Elaine and others wanted to escape from the house, they had to come out from the main entrance in a grand manner. Then the monitors guarding there would notice.
Knowledge limits their imagination. If they were more civilized and understood the principles of optical refraction, the stalkers might be able to make that kind of magic mirror out of ice cubes like Edmund did. If they knew more about optics
The principle of refraction means that you know better how to guard against cavalry with the stealth system activated.
But they couldn't after all. Most of the stalkers at this time were asleep. No one would pay attention to the scenery outside the city window, and it was almost impossible to see the two "air bubbles" moving slowly on the edge of the city. The two iron cavalry
Quietly walking around the city, he approached the stairwell leading to the next floor that Zuoli had mentioned.
But Elaine still miscalculated. There were more than 20 stalkers guarding the stairwell door that suddenly rose from the ground. It was obvious that they did not intend to let Elaine and others simply escape, and they had already sent people to guard it.
This is the only entrance to the lower level.
"Well, yes, it's as expected." Elaine groaned: "Guo, you really don't want to simply let us pass."
"What are you going to do? Are you going to break in by force?" Xuli asked in a low voice, "Why not? I don't want to see anyone killed or injured because of this."
"How about we act as bait and lure them away?" Edmund said over the radio.
"No, no. We can't sacrifice you." Elaine objected: "Yes, if we want to leave, let's go together."
"Use an iron cavalry to forcefully hit it?" Edmund added: "With Mr. Quigg's ability, maybe he can use that [virtual] to penetrate the wall and enter the stairwell from the rear. Maybe they won't notice us at all.
If it exists, we passed."
"Um...No, rejected." Elaine knew that she could not control [the virtualization] as well as Queeg.
Queeg might be able to bring his cavalry and Edmund through the wall and into the stairwell, but Elaine not only brought the cavalry, but also had to bring Xury and Bailey to [disappear] together, and his White Leopard Man Transformed
The body is not as powerful as Queeg, and is a degraded version of the clouded leopard. Maybe the activation time of [Virtual] is not long enough, and the [Virtual] will fail when the cavalry passes through the wall, and then objects will overlap each other and a big accident will occur.
Explode... the consequences would be simply unimaginable.
We must use a more reliable method to break through here, instead of relying on unstable [virtualization] to break through.
Elaine silently took out the [Sword of Mercy—Misterdin].
He thought of using poison, or in other words, "sleeping gas".
At this time, their iron cavalry is gradually approaching the sky above the stairwell. If the gas is released from here to the group of guards below, they can be put to sleep silently. Then Elaine and the others can pass here safely.
The question is whether the hypnotic gas can be made colorless, tasteless and odorless, so that stalkers will not notice it. Although these half-fish people have poor eyesight and it happens to be nightfall, their sense of smell seems to be good.
It's entirely possible to smell something bad in the air.
If they realize that it is a hypnotic gas and take precautions, it will be very difficult to knock out all the guards at once.
Do you really still have to use that trick?——
Elaine stood up from the cavalry and began to tear off fragments one after another from the holy cloth.
The Holy Cloth is a "theoretically indestructible object". No one except its holder Elaine can tear it apart like this. And as long as Elaine has this intention, he can remove it from the Holy Cloth without restriction.
Tear off fragments from the corpse cloth. The torn-off parts will be restored instantly, and the holy corpse cloth cannot be used up no matter how you "copy" it.
Once the torn pieces of cloth leave the holy cloth, they can only last for a few hours. After that, they will disappear and turn directly into fly ash. The farther the cloth fragments are from Elaine (the holy cloth), the shorter the duration.
However, this is enough. It is still possible to use this fabric to deceive people.
The holy cloth can be changed into any color and any material according to Elaine's consciousness, and the fragments separated after the change will also maintain the same color and material.
Elaine deliberately made the holy cloth white. He quickly prepared dozens of white cloth strips, each about three feet long, about the same size as the crotch cloth that Xury and the others wrapped around their waists.
In this undersea city, cloth is a precious resource, its value is about the same as gold in the human world. It is impossible for stalkers not to be attracted by this thing.
Elaine tied up the pile of cloth and threw it far away, so that the bundle of "precious cloth" fell just within the sight of the guards.
As he expected, the stalkers' attention was instantly attracted by the cloth. They were very wary at first and didn't quite understand what this thing that appeared out of nowhere from the sky was. But one of the guards stepped forward to investigate and found that the bundle of objects was actually
When it was made of fabric, he shouted excitedly.
Then the guards went crazy. They rushed up to look at the bundle of cloth, and even started to snatch it. Elaine had obviously prepared the same amount of cloth according to their number, but she didn't expect that greed still defeated the reason of these half-fish people -
- Instead of making an agreement to share the cloth equally, they snatched it from each other and even fought.
This group of half-murlocs actually got into a fight over a few pieces of rags. They didn't even question why the cloth appeared here out of thin air.
It's so stupid and barbaric.
Why did the originally superior and great Sea Royal Family degenerate into this state?
Did [Heart of Disaster] not only erode the protoss of Atlantis, but also erode the minds of the Atlanteans?
Anyway, the opportunity has come.
At this time, Elaine's iron cavalry was staying above the fighting guards. He used Misterdin to release the hypnotic gas. The gas was heavier than air, and it naturally sank slowly.
A dozen guards gathered together and struggled, not noticing the gas gradually falling from their heads, and they didn't even smell the slight sweetness in the gas.
After a few seconds, the guards' fighting strength weakened. As they fought, they fell to the ground one by one and fell asleep.
It's almost like children who have started to sleep after being tired from playing.
"Okay, done. Come in quickly." Elaine drove the cavalry towards the stairwell. The two cavalry entered the stairwell without being blocked.
"Here, there should be no problem here." Elaine jumped off the iron horse, pushed the iron horse, and walked down the spiral staircase.
"Should we block the road behind?" Edmund asked, "We can plant explosives or something like that and destroy the stairs. Then they won't be able to catch up for the time being."
"Ah, no!" Zuoli said urgently: "There is an important water circulation system on the floor below. The Yate people will regularly go to get purified water from there, and even catch marine fish from the sea water before circulation. If the road is blocked, they will
Their livelihood will be ruined, you will kill them!"
Elaine also winked at Edmund. Blowing up the passage was a bad idea.
If we really do this, I'm afraid it will arouse the anger of all stalkers. No one can predict what drastic things this group of barbarians will do.
Elaine could have visions of angry stalkers mobilizing all their strength to chase Elaine and his party wildly. The barbarians fighting for their lives were terrifying.
"Is that so?" Edmund wondered for a moment: "But the pursuers will come after all, and at least we have to find a way to stop them. How about I block the road with ice cubes? They will need some time to dissolve the ice cubes.
But at least the passage was not destroyed."
"Just, that's it." Before Xury could continue to say anything, Elaine intervened and said, "Just stop them, don't go too far."
"As long as we break through the lower level, the Art people will not continue to pursue us." Young Hayato also said: "The lower level is a restricted area, a cursed place. No Art person is willing to break into that kind of place - unless they
Regardless of the danger to his life, he will pursue us."
Edmund nodded, transformed into a stalker, and began to release ice magic. Ice blocks appeared above the stairwell. At first, it was an ice wall rising from the ground. Then there was ice on the ceiling, and the same thing appeared on the wall.
Thick ice. An ice wall dozens of feet thick formed in an instant, sealing the passage, leaving only a few small gaps. Whether it was burned or smashed, this ice wall was not easily broken.
Edmund seemed to feel that this was not enough. After the cavalry advanced a certain distance, he created more ice walls again, blocking the road even more.
"Enough, enough!" When the length of the roadblock Edmund made exceeded fifty feet, Elaine spoke up to stop it.
"It's still a bit worrying. What if they keep burning with torches?" Edmund complained.
"What are torches?" asked Xury.
Oh, yes. The Yat people rely too much on heat conduction columns for cooking and heating, and do not know how to use fire.
"You, haven't you ever encountered something like letting fabric come into contact with the heat-conducting column, causing a fire?" Elaine asked repeatedly. In the impression, the spider silk of the cloud spider is flammable, so use the spider silk to
The manufactured fabric must be able to adhere quickly, right?
"What is a fire? If it's made of fabric, it will turn into ashes immediately if it touches the heat conduction column. That is a sad loss, and no one would do that."
So the cloth woven from spider silk is indeed flammable. It is so flammable that the Yat people cannot use the cloth to make fire or learn to use fire. What's more, cloth is a luxury product and no one will burn it.
That kind of thing.
The civilization of the stalkers is a twisted civilization, a weird civilization that can't even use fire. Without the system of Atlantis to take care of them, can these stupid half-mermaids really survive?
"Speaking of which, can you give me a piece of this cloth?" Xuri looked at Elaine's holy cloth with watery eyes: "Anyway, it can be repaired infinitely without loss? I can use this fine cloth to make a wrapping.
Loincloth."
"You, you'd better not." Elaine wondered: "Well, after this piece of fabric is separated from the main body, it will disappear in a few hours. If you use it to make crotch cloth, you will suddenly be able to wear it in a few hours." .Run.＂
"Uh." Hayato boy stiffened for a moment.
"Hey, when I get back, I'll change my clothes to be smaller for you to wear." Elaine said again, "You, it's really inappropriate for you to wear only a crotch cloth like this."
"Everyone wears this, so it's not too inappropriate." Xuri didn't care at all: "And it's so hot, I even want to take off this loincloth."
"No, don't!" Elaine hurriedly stopped him, because he really felt Xury moving his hand towards his crotch.
This Hayato boy is the type who doesn't even care about Guo and Ben. It's scary.
However, the "thing" of the bird people is usually hidden in the body and is only taken out when it is used. Elaine secretly confirmed this when she and Zuoli were taking a bath together. Strictly speaking, Zuoli was not wearing any clothes. It’s not a big problem to run around...right?
No, there are many problems. It is impossible to justify Guo Ben, whether it is a human or a bird. This is an ethical issue, not a physiological issue.
Elaine covered her face: "You, you'd better adapt to the civilization on the surface as soon as possible, if you want to live there. You, you don't want to be regarded as an uncivilized savage, right?"
"We'll talk about it then~" Hayato boy replied casually.
As they gradually approached the seventh underground level of Atlantis, an even more exaggerated feeling of heat hit their faces.
"Hurry, we're almost there." Elaine wiped her sweat and said, "Hey, everyone, stay alert!"
"Wow, it's super hot here..." Bailey also wiped his sweat and leaned on his iron horse, not wanting to move anymore: "Brother, do you still have that frozen powder? Can I have more?"
"Save it, there isn't much in stock, I need you to use it wisely." Elaine handed Bailey a small bag of frozen rosin.
He never thought that the consumption of frozen rosin would be so great, nor did he expect that the lower levels of Atlantis would get hotter and the frozen rosin would be consumed so much. He couldn't use it sparingly in the future.
While Elaine was thinking this, they also reached the end of the stairs. After pushing the door open, a fiery red scene appeared in front of everyone.
That's lava! The whole world is lava!
In addition to the pipes floating on the lava that serve as passages, red-hot, incredibly hot lava flows everywhere around it.
No. Although they look like lava, they are not as hot as real lava. They are still probably hundreds of degrees cooler than real lava.
If the lava flowing here was real, Elaine and the others would not be able to enter this maze at all, and they would be roasted as soon as they entered.
These things just look like the "heat-conducting fluid" of lava. They are similar to the upper air corals, only hotter. Elaine can even see some lava pillars being pumped up unreasonably in defiance of gravity. The lava on the ground The pool and ceiling are connected by these things.
"Are you sure there really is a so-called water circulation system here?" Elaine asked Zuoli, almost exclaiming.
"Yes. You can see it if you walk a little further. This city will pump in seawater from the outside and use the heat of the thermal fluid to evaporate the seawater and turn it into drinkable fresh water." Zuoli replied: "It's just that, Art Every time people come here to fetch water, it's very hard. When carrying ice cubes frozen with magic, half of them are lost in the process. Occasionally, people fall in accidentally and are burned to death."
So, how did those group of stalkers survive? In this kind of wild life where even getting water is life-threatening, it is a miracle that they can survive, right?
"Anyway, in short, everyone moves forward carefully. God, God knows what is waiting for us." Elaine said.
The stalkers are residents of this city and are taken care of by the Atlantis defense system. There is a high probability that the monsters here will not attack them. It is hard to say for Elaine and his party.
The White Lion boy looked at the road ahead, which was only ten feet wide and made up of numerous stacked metal pipes of unknown materials.
This road continues forward, stretching far over the terrifying lava pool. In the distance is a more complex cross-pipe structure, with more roads leading to everywhere.
A labyrinth on lava. And underneath the labyrinth is death. Absolute death. If you fall down, you will definitely not be saved.
Elaine swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He didn't sleep enough at all, and he didn't have enough energy at all. He still had to continue the adventure in this state with nervous tension. He couldn't even use the teleportation device to return to the ground to rest - Stalker's Pursuit
Will find it.
In order to get rid of possible pursuers, Elaine must bravely break through the purgatory-like seventh underground maze, the "Lava World".