Chapter 87 Mechanical Temple
The third floor of the maze, the Mechanical Temple.
As fast as lightning, a vigorous figure crossed over the towering mechanical platform and landed steadily on the platform connected to the stone pillars.
The slight sound of a mechanism trigger sounded, and the stone pillar that sensed the intruder began to rotate slowly.
Accompanied by the creaking sound of metal gears, dozens of platforms connected to stone pillars slowly rotated in the wide space like propeller blades.
Not just a vertical translation!
There is also horizontal rotation!
Facing the complex machine array, Sarah didn't have any panic in her eyes. She just took a deep breath and lowered her body. Then her whole body jumped into the air like an arrow and landed on the platform that was tilted at a 45-degree angle directly above.
There was no pause -
Almost at the moment when her feet touched the stone slab, the long legs pressed into an arch continued to exert force, pushing Sarah to jump to another platform.
Everything is as easy as breathing.
That vigorous figure is like a light feather, flying up and down between the rotating stone pillars and stone slabs, going up against the wind and gravity.
Finally reached the top platform.
Sarah touched the ground with her feet and turned the handle on the top of the stone pillar, releasing the alignment of a certain inscription inside the stone pillar.
The light blue light goes out!
Sarah quickly jumped back and pulled out the dagger hanging on her waist as a warning.
Accompanied by the creaking sound of the metal gears, the rotating stone pillar finally slowly stopped, and the blade-like platforms stopped with it.
Looking from top to bottom, the staggered platforms just surround the huge stone pillars to form a spiral upward staircase.
Looking at the mechanism being lifted, Sarah breathed a sigh of relief, raised her arms and quietly wiped the sweat hanging on her cheeks.
However, even though the mechanism had been lifted, her tense nerves still did not dare to relax at all, and her smart eyes kept watching the surroundings alertly, not daring to miss any slightest movement.
It wasn't until she saw Luo Yan leading Octo and Bond up from the steps under the stone pillar that Sarah's lips curled up with a hint of pride.
With eyes full of expectation, she glanced at the adult quietly, then quickly looked away, and then couldn't help but glance at him quietly again.
It didn't take a guess to know what she was looking forward to, so Luo Yan naturally wouldn't pretend not to notice her efforts and sincerely praised her.
"Well done!"
To be fair, even if my panel data is much higher than Sarah's, I will never be able to do this set of moving movements.
Proficiency cannot be achieved by stacking a few BUFFs. In addition to talent, it also requires years of training.
Sarah's skills are not just the thieves' skills she learned from Chris, but also the survival skills she was forced to learn in the past ten years as an "untouchable person" wandering on the fringes of human society.
For example, hunting, such as surviving in the cracks, such as avoiding the "just execution" of fanatical believers, etc.
Hhearing that heartfelt compliment, Sarah could no longer suppress the corners of her mouth that had been raised earlier, and the cat ears on her head couldn't hide their happiness.
Luo Yan looked over her head and towards the suspended corridor directly in front of her.
Dozens of self-destructing robots are ambushing down the corridor, ready to come out at any time to surprise intruders.
But they are destined to have no chance.
Luo Yan discovered their existence long before he came up from the bottom of the stone pillar, and froze them all with a blast of frost breath.
Holding the wand in his hand, he continued.
"Let's move on... I can feel that we are not far away from the "mastermind" who built these mechanisms."
"I can feel that they are almost at the end of their skills."
All the mechanical mechanisms related to the inscriptions were added later.
Luo Yan learned from the Nightmare Land that the previous mechanisms on the third floor of the maze were mainly elemental magic enchantments.
Such as rock and soil puppets, metal golems, etc.
Hence, they just need to continue walking along these superfluous mechanisms, and sooner or later they will be able to find the guys who made these mechanisms.
Luo Yan couldn't help but be curious.
Who on earth could transform an area that even adventurers are reluctant to stay into like this in such a short period of time.
Even if only a small fringe area in the northern part of the maze is renovated, and even if local materials are used, the amount of work involved in this "decoration project" is quite staggering.
Dwarf?
Or a goblin?
Soon he will know...
Just as a group of people walked through the frost-covered corridor, several sneaky minds peeked out from behind the gears hanging on the towering wall not far away.
They have furry bodies, fleshy claws, eyes so small that they are almost invisible, and noses so big that they take up one-third of their faces.
These guys are not dwarves or goblins, but "mole people" living in the mountains of the Wanren Mountains.
Some humans will regard them as rat-men, but the underground creatures living underground know very well that these furry guys have nothing to do with rat-men, whether it is physical structure, beliefs, culture, etc.
In addition, apart from their poor eyesight and inability to cast spells, their attainments in stonemasonry and metal processing are not inferior to those of the dwarves at all.
Watching the man who was suspected of being the devil continue to move forward through the layers of mechanisms, the moles who were hiding in the dark and watching were all panicked.
"Damn! How did he discover our mechanism?!"
"Frost magic! Damn it! The weakness of this magical human thing was actually discovered by him!"
"We can't let him do it again! Keep going! The front is the territory of the Iron Fang tribe! We cannot lose our mine! "
"What must be done!"
"Release the big guy!"
"Are you sure!?"
"Sure! Hurry!"
"Who's going to drive?!"
"You go!"
"No! You go!!"
"I will never ride on that untested thing!"
A group of mole people screamed, huddled together and pushed each other... These noisy guys are very similar to the rat people only when they are timid.
No way.
Fighting is indeed not something they are good at, not to mention that the opponent can also use magic, which is much more difficult than those clumsy rock puppets.
Finally, the three mole people were squeezed out. Under the urging of a group of tribesmen, they crawled deeper into the tunnel on their hands and feet with sad faces.
At the same time, on the other side, Luo Yan and his group entered an open area after passing through the corridor and the arches on the wall.
This place looks like an abandoned industrial factory and a steampunk-style temple.
Huge metal gears are placed close to the wall according to a special pattern like shrines in a temple.
What is even more eye-catching is the mountain of garbage piled up in the center of the hall... Densely packed parts and waste pipelines are piled here, presumably these are the materials used to make those self-destruction robots.
Luo Yan looked around.
If there was something missing here, the only thing he could think of was the statue of Lint Isaac.
"...Such a desecrated temple was obviously not the work of hell creatures, but indeed monsters spreading from the nearby mountains."
At this moment, the cat ears on Sarah's head suddenly moved slightly, and her amber pupils looked around alertly, like a cat that discovered a mouse.
"There was a sound..."
As she spoke, she sniffed lightly with her nose, becoming more convinced of her discovery.
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, there was a deafening loud noise from behind the huge mountain of garbage!
"You are the mouse! Your whole family is a mouse!!!"
The noisy sound was like a microphone being placed on a fan, and the sudden sound of popping wheat was even more frightening. Sarah, who was focused on alerting her surroundings, was so frightened that she screamed unconsciously.
Octot and Bond immediately clenched their weapons, one guarding the devil and the other standing in front of Sarah.
At the same time, Luo Yan saw a picture that could be ranked in the top ten among all the images that shocked his eyes since he traveled to this world -
"Holy shit!"
Gundam? !
That thing is obviously not a Gundam——
But Hi-Lo is also an enlarged version of the "Mechanical Enemy".
I saw a garbage giant standing majestically on the top of the garbage mountain!
It is five meters tall——
It may be six meters tall!
Since all its limbs are supported on the ground, Luo Yan cannot determine its true height and can only rely on intuition to make a rough estimate.
The twisted metal brackets and discarded gears and bearings formed its skeleton, and also supported the swollen armored shell. From a distance, it looked like faded pumpkins and pumpkin vines.
Its limbs are extremely thick, and none of them are symmetrical.
So that Luo Yan didn't know for a moment whether to be surprised at how this guy maintained his balance or to marvel at the terrifying inscription technology.
That huge metal structure has no head, or in other words, its head is hidden in its belly, which is most protected by armor.
Looking at the appearance that he didn't know whether to call it funny or miraculous, Luo Yan said with a solemn expression.
"Who are you!"
The noisy voice once again resounded through this temple covered with mechanical parts, and the giant standing on the top of the garbage mountain roared restlessly.
"You don't need to know! Bang, Bang, and Zhuangzhuang will smash you into hash browns!!! Have you seen hash browns? You will die! All of them will die!"
Maybe he was thinking of hash browns.
Sarah couldn't help but swallowed.
Hum, bang, and zhuangzhuang... So there are three operators in this big machine?
Didn’t you still tell me this?
Looking at the roaring mechanical giant, Luo Yan was speechless.
Although he always felt that the guy in front of him was not very smart, no one could guarantee that this was not a deception used by the other party, so he still put on a prepared posture for the time being.
"Prepare to fight."
While saying this, a ghostly light condensed on the tip of his staff, and white bones slowly emerged in the void.
Hunting for leveling up, Luo Yan usually either uses fire or water magic that he is not very proficient in, or uses dragon language.
As for the guy in front of him, he couldn't estimate the combat effectiveness. To be on the safe side, he planned to use his best undead magic.
Looking at the light flashing on the tip of the wand, the huge robot roared violently again.
"It's magic!"
"Quick! Do it quickly!"
"Turn off the speaker before talking! Idiot! He heard it!"
With a sharp noise, the mechanical giant slowly raised his arms that were on the ground, revealing the cannon hidden in the palm of his hand.
Luo Yan's pupils shrank slightly, he quickly changed the rhythm of waving the wand, and blurted out the spell.
"Wall of Bones!"
The white bones emerging from the void formed an indestructible wall in front of everyone!
Almost at the same time, two loud explosions came from the garbage mountain.
ifies the first artillery shell, which almost hit the floor as it hit the bone wall. Countless rock fragments carried dust and blew towards the semi-arc-shaped bone wall!
This cannonball hit a lonely spot, and the second cannonball was no less impressive. It simply hit the ceiling with one shot.
Luo Yan initially thought that it was some ulterior tactic. For example, the guy was not aiming at him, but at something hanging above his head... He was even nervous about it.
It wasn't until he saw that the giant robot could not withstand the recoil of firing that it lost its balance and rolled down the garbage mountain, falling to the ground in a mess. Luo Yan didn't realize how wasteful his worry was...
Looking at the "big guy" who collapsed on the ground, the Mole people who were hiding in the dark and cheering had despair written all over their faces.
"No!"
"Damn!!"
"Do you want to continue fighting?"
It didn't take long.
The metal hatch opened outwards, and a white flag was raised.
There was also a trembling voice.
"Surrender! We surrender!"
(End of this chapter)