Li Nuo detoured about five kilometers south, far away from the temporary camp of Jin Shang Sword, and approached the crack from the south side of the crack.
If you stand on the edge of the cliff of the aberration's crack and look down, you will see the cliff extending vertically downward, and the darkness that cannot be illuminated by the moonlight.
This steep terrain is not suitable for human activities.
The alchemists from the Convergence City will use scaffolding, hanging ladders, telescopic rails and simple mechanical platforms to build temporary passages to the bottom of the cliff.
For aberrations, moving on this terrain is much easier.
Level 1 and Level 2 aberrations, that is, small and standard body aberrations, are the aberrations Beibi that have just hatched from aberration eggs.
These two classes of aberrations have not yet developed the suction cups on their soles and are unable to move vertically on smooth cliffs.
Starting from level 3 aberrations, as the level increases, the aberrations have more and more functional organs and extracorporeal tissues.
Suction cups that can be adsorbed on smooth surfaces, external hard lumps that protect joints and vital parts, sharp fangs that enhance the lethality of mouthpart bites, bone claws that can be retracted in hand joints, parotid glands that spit acid, and so on.
It can be said that for the same category of aberrations, the higher the level, the more "small parts" the aberration has on its body, and the stronger its overall strength.
In addition to the level factor that affects the combat power of aberrations, the "type" of aberrations will also have an impact.
The flightless aberrations are defined by the Alchemy Temple as "walkers". Within this category, aberrations with four legs are the most common. Like the two-legged devourer, the six-legged sower, and the snake-like legless impaler, these are the elite aberrations among ambulatory aberrations.
Aberrations that can fly are defined by the Alchemy Temple as "flying wings". The more wings, the more powerful it is. Those with only one wing are called Pianyi, those with two wings are called Double Wings, those with three wings are called Three Wings, and so on.
Flying aberrations like this are the backbone of the patrol in the rifts of the aberrations.
Li Nuo jumped down from the edge of the cliff and used the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique" to fly to the bottom of the cliff in the form of a skull.
At the moment when the surrounding environment became dim and dull, the sound of flapping wings could be heard in the air.
In the dark area where the moonlight was not visible, several flying wing aberrations discovered visitors who were not on the invitation list.
They flapped their wings and flew out of the hole in the cliff, circling around the white skull that had rashly entered the place.
Li Nuo drank the high-quality night vision potion purchased from Miao Miao Judgment in advance.
His field of vision in a dark environment is approximately 300 meters.
As soon as this group of flying wing aberrations flew out of the hole, they were locked by Li Nuo's eyes.
Li Nuo threw the deconstruction technique at them, spent a few energy points, and obtained a small amount of personalized panel information.
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[Identity] Flying guard of the aberrant lair
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The panel information shows that this group of flying wing aberrations has and only has the identity of "Flying Guards", and does not have the identity of "Tatis Empire MI5 sergeant".
It can be seen that not all the aberrations in this lair were transformed by people from MI5.
Li Nuo understood the situation and took his own preset action plan.
While deactivating the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique", he activated the "Breath of the Dead" and turned into a pale skeleton.
He let his body fall downward according to the pull of gravity.
The flying wing aberrations flying around him didn't seem to understand why the visitor had transformed from a skull into a skeleton.
They flapped their wings and hovered in the air, watching the skeleton fall to the bottom of the cliff.
When Li Nuo saw this scene, he knew that his actions tonight would most likely be a success.
The two-winged aberrations transformed from members of MI5 must master the following two skills in the process of transporting life potions:
First, they must know how to identify directions and be able to cross the vast sea of sand without getting lost. At the same time, they have to find the exact hole to connect with the imperial army on the cliffs of the Blade's Edge Mountains.
Second, they know how to communicate with the imperial army, know how to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and then peacefully hand over life potions to the imperial army.
These two abilities are based on nearly human levels of intelligence.
Li Nuo thought that this level of intelligence was possessed by every two-winged aberration.
Now looking at the performance of these flying guards, Li Nuo knew clearly:
Only the flying-wing aberrations transformed from members of MI5 have the same level of intelligence as humans.
Other than this, other flying wing aberrations, like the walking-footed aberrations, are mentally retarded and have flaws in their action logic.
They can't tell the difference between bones and skeletal undead, and they can't understand the magic of turning living people into skeletons at all.
In their eyes, humanoid creatures in the form of skeletons are not enemies.
Only living people who are active and jumping, capable of breathing and heartbeat are their enemies.
As long as this is used wisely, it will not be a problem to clear out the nest here.
After Li Nuo confirmed that the group of flying wing aberrations were not chasing them, he activated the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique" in the space below twenty or thirty meters away from the opponent.
He transforms back into a skull that can fly.
This scene was seen by the stupid group of flying wing aberrations, but it didn't trigger any reaction.
After they chirped a few times, they seemed to have no interest in the bones that could change.
They flapped their fleshy wings with a splash, flew back to the cave entrance on the cliff, and disappeared into the darkness.
Li Nuo continued to fly downward and encountered several groups of flying wing aberrations squatting in the cave.
Following the same pattern, using the skeleton form of "The Breath of the Dead" to evade tracking, he passed through every line of defense without any hindrance.
After a minute-long flight, Li Nuo finally landed successfully at the bottom of the dark cliff.
He activated the "Breath of the Dead", turned into a skeleton, and looked up at the sky.
The night sky with the bright moon hanging high shrunk to the size of a bowl, surrounded by dense darkness.
He kept his eyes level and glanced around. What Li Nuo saw was not the slime carpet covering the ground, but square holes dug manually.
He raised his non-existent "eyebrows", feeling a little surprised.
In his imagination, the bottom of the cliff of this aberrant body's crack should be covered with the aberrant body's slime. Many aberrant eggs will be placed on the half-meter-thick mucus. And near the densely packed eggs, there will be various aberrations patrolling back and forth, taking care of the aberration eggs, bringing them nutrient solution and nutrients.
But the strange thing is, why can't there be mucus and eggs at the bottom of the cliff in this fissure?
Li Nuo's original plan was to quietly kill a group of aberrations, transform them into his own dead, and then control them to reach a designated location and detonate them with "Evil Explosion" to harvest soul fragments one after another.
Now, the plan has been put on hold due to an abnormality at the bottom of the cliff.
Li Nuo calmed down and didn't panic at all.
He came to the square hole with obvious traces of artificial excavation, threw out a mind-controlling spider, and controlled the little guy to explore the hole.
A cave like this that appears on the wall at the bottom of a cliff should also have a lot of slime carpets and aberrations. But now, there is nothing here, the ground is smooth and flat, and there is no sticky slime at all.
"It's really weird..." Li Nuo muttered to himself.
The mind-controlling spider walked through the long and narrow tunnel. After about 3 minutes, a faint light scattered from the end of the tunnel.
This light was captured by Li Nuo, who controlled the mind-controlling spider.
He suppressed the doubts in his mind and slowed down the walking speed of some mind-controlled spiders to minimize the noise caused by the friction between the mechanical spider legs and the ground.
As he approached the light, a faint mechanical sound passed into the mind-controlling spider's sound-absorbing array and was heard by Li Nuo.
"Hangchi, bangchi, bangchi..."
This is the sound of a metal piston reciprocating.
"Puff~呲~, puff~呲~..."
This is the valve exhausting in a regular manner.
A half-open metal gate appeared in front of the mind-controlling spider, and light shot out from the crack in the door, shining on the smooth wall. Regular mechanical rhythms also came from behind the door.
The mind-controlling spider came to the crack of the door and took a look inside.
Li Nuo took a breath.
The bottom area of this aberrant rift is not the aberrant lair!
He saw a huge underground space with a large number of glass culture tanks standing on the floor.
The mechanical sound he heard came from the ceiling. It is a culture tank transportation system composed of dozens of robotic arms, steam pipes and metal slide rails.
The exhaust sound of "Puff, Puff, Puff" is the sound made by the steam pipe driving the mechanical arm. The air valve on the pipeline dynamically adjusts the steam pressure in the pipeline to coordinate with the handling actions of the robotic arm.
The "clang, clatter, clatter" sound of the piston is caused by the steam-driven suspension device of the robotic arm moving rapidly and making an emergency stop on the metal slide rail.
Dozens of robotic arms are busy among a large number of culture tanks.
On the left wall of the underground space, there is a row of mechanical conveyor belts.
Culture tanks without contents are transported here on conveyor belts. The robotic arm picked them up from the conveyor belt, moved them to the ground, and placed them on the base of the empty culture tank.
The base of the culture tank will deliver light green liquid into the culture tank.
There is also a row of mechanical conveyor belts on the right wall of the underground space.
When the culture tank is filled with liquid, the robot will pick up the culture tank from the floor and place it on the mechanical conveyor belt on the right wall.
Li Nuo had played many "base construction" games before traveling through time, and he immediately understood the meaning of this scene:
This is a mechanical workshop that automatically fills culture tanks. It uses steam as a power source and uses robotic arms, slide rails and other facilities to perform filling operations.
Considering the number of machine conveyor belts on both sides of the walls, other shops connected to this machine shop may be of similar size.
"So... the aberration lair I'm in now has been artificially transformed into a huge mechanical factory?"
Li Nuo raised his hand and pressed it on his head, feeling happy at the scene he saw.
He is somewhat obsessive about "base construction" and likes to arrange building facilities neatly according to grid lines.
Especially those facilities and conveyor belts with regular outlines. If they are not arranged neatly, Li Nuo always feels like there are ants crawling on his body, which makes him very uncomfortable.
Look at the slide rails and robotic arms on the ceiling, and the neatly arranged steam pipes, conveyor belts and culture tanks.
The people who designed and built this machine shop definitely have OCD too.
Just by briefly glancing at the layout of the machine shop, Li Nuo had a feeling that "it won my heart".
"Pap, tap..."
Suddenly there were footsteps in the machine shop.
Li Nuo hurriedly hid the mind control spider.
He used the magical vision provided by the mind-controlling spider to cast a psychic beacon at the crack of the door, using "psychic vision" to change his perspective of observation.
After some operations, he was at the bottom of the cracked cliff and saw the entire machine workshop, and then successfully locked onto the figures walking in the workshop.
"It seems that three black-bone hermits and several alchemy servants are inspecting the base of the culture tank."
Li Nuo closed his "eyes" and concentrated on observing the machine shop, staring closely at the figure in black robe.
Throwing out a series of deconstruction techniques, Li Nuo confirmed the identities of this group of people from the information fed back by the system.
It is indeed the Black Bone Hermit, the illegal alchemist of the Black City.
Among the three black-bone hermits, one is at the second level and the other two are at the first level.
They each took two alchemy servants and separately inspected the base of the culture tank in the machine workshop.
Take out the wrench to tighten the screws on the base, take out the brush to clean the liquid outlet on the base, or use a rag to wipe away the accumulated water on the ground.
This group of people were completely immersed in their work and did not notice that someone was staring at them with mind magic.
Just when Li Nuo was thinking about whether to kill this group of people, a rush of footsteps came from the aisle in the corner of the workshop.
"Damn it! I can't get the life potion back! Those imperial soldiers are so useless! They were caught by the Sword of Gold Merchant even when they were flying in the air!"
The person who came was walking in a hurry and had a loud voice. His voice alone drowned out the mechanical noise in the workshop.
A black-skeletal hermit who was turning the valve of a liquid pipe walked up to the figure with a loud voice and asked:
"What's going on? Lord Tarudo?"
As soon as the black-bone hermit named Tarudo stepped into the workshop, he shouted dissatisfied:
"What else could it be?! The damn Gold Merchant Swords robbed us of our life potion! I used the spiritual vision orb given by Mr. Samuelson to see that the Gold Merchant Swords created a thunderstorm cloud, and the The people from MI5 were reduced to rubble! They took away the intact life potion and left us only glass shards and black charcoal on the floor!"
When the black-bone hermits and alchemy slaves in the workshop heard the loud words, they gathered around.
The louder Tarudo spoke more and more energetically:
"Damn! I'm so angry! How could the damn Jin Shang Sword know our transportation route! Those MI5 people are really a bunch of idiots! Can't they fly higher?!"
There was a black-bone hermit who couldn't stand the other party's noisy voice, so he interrupted and said:
"Lord Tarudo! Have you found the whereabouts of the life potion?"
"It should be in the temporary camp of Gold Merchant's Sword!" Tarudo said in a loud voice:
"I used the Soul Sight Orb to trace the ruts at the scene. The ruts were covered up a lot by the sand blown by the night wind, but I can confirm that the ruts extend to the temporary camp of the Sword of Gold Merchant! Our life potion is absolutely The sword of the gold merchant was hidden in the camp by those sons of bitches!”
"What should we do?" The black-bone hermits looked at each other, and someone asked:
"Have you asked Mr. Samuelson? Do you want to mobilize a team of aberrations to get the life potion back?"
Tarudo shook his arms and said:
"No! No! When I went to find Mr. Samuelson, it locked itself in the central chamber! It didn't even open the door! Without its help, how could we mobilize the aberration?! At most, we can use it The old man gave me the spiritual vision orb to see what’s going on outside.”
"Hey, this is troublesome"
"Yes, without the life potion, the number of aberrations we have spawned will suddenly decrease a lot..."
The black-bone hermits were talking a lot, and the atmosphere was gloomy.
Tarudo waved his arm and ordered:
"Stop being stuck here! Go and reduce the operating efficiency of the workshop to 30%! Act quickly! There are only half of the life potions left in the nutrition library! Before the new life potions arrive, the operating efficiency must not be reduced Increase it to more than 30%! Do you hear that? Do you want to see the pipes here explode?!"
As Tarudo spoke, he reached out and turned the metal valve on the base of the culture tank to manually reduce the flow rate of the liquid in the liquid pipe to 30% of the original value.
When passing by the steam pipe valve on the wall, he turned the disk to reduce the steam flow in the pipe.
The black-bone hermits and alchemy slaves spread out in the workshop and began to adjust the liquid pipeline valves on the base of each culture tank, not forgetting the steam valves on the wall.
When they did this, the operating efficiency of the entire workshop plummeted.
The culture tank that used to take only 10 minutes to fill now takes at least 30 minutes.
The mechanical arms and slide rails on the ceiling have also slowed down and are no longer as busy as before.
Li Nuo looked at their figures thoughtfully, his mind racing rapidly.
Things turned out pretty much as he expected.
Samuelson is located in the central chamber, near the heart of the nest.
It was so busy there that it had no time to care about anything other than magical enlightenment.
The black-bone hermits under it can only use psychic magic tools to observe the situation on the ground, and cannot even organize a team of aberrations.
This is the golden window period for Li Nuo to cause damage, and he must seize it firmly.
Judging from the conversations between Tarudo and others, this workshop is related to the nutrient bank. The so-called nutrient solution is the light green liquid filled into the culture tank. Its main material is the potion of life.
Li Nuo took out the paper and pen from the Xuena space and quickly drew the layout of the machine shop in the dark.
On this layout map, he didn't just draw the location of cultivation tanks and other facilities.
He also used numbers and arrows on the steam pipes to mark the flow direction, flow rate and temperature of the steam.
Similarly, parameters such as the liquid flow rate of the liquid delivery pipe connected to the base of the culture tank, the transportation speed of the mechanical conveyor belt on the wall, etc. were also marked by him.
This is not done out of interest.
As an experienced "base construction" player, Li Nuo knows very well what is most deadly to the machine shop.
The first type of stuff is production materials that shouldn't be in conveyor belts and pipes.
The other is abnormal operating parameters in the machine shop.
The negative effects caused by these two can be large or small.
To put it bluntly, if clean water is mixed into the liquid pipeline that is supposed to transport the nutrient solution, the cultivation effect of the culture tank will be greatly reduced.
To put it more seriously, if the liquid pipeline is not transporting nutrient solution, but alcohol, strong acid, etc., then the things placed in the culture tank will most likely be killed on the spot.
In the same way, if the liquid flow rate and steam flow rate in the machine shop are abnormal, the liquid will overflow and the steam will spray out randomly, or at worst, an explosion will occur, destroying most of the machine shop in one fell swoop.
At this moment, Li Nuo suddenly realized that if he wanted to clear out this lair that had been artificially transformed into a machinery factory, he might not need to face the enemy head-on.
He only needs to figure out the layout and operating parameters of the machinery factory and focus on attacking a few key parts to paralyze the entire machinery factory.
If the strategy is used properly, he may be able to kill dozens of enemies at once and leave with full energy and soul fragments.
All this is based on a prerequisite:
He wants to fully understand all the details of the machinery factory.
Li Nuo turned the magic vision of "Psychic Sight" and pointed the camera at the entrance to the corridor in the corner of the machine workshop.
He cast a new psychic beacon and used it as a target to cast a new "psychic vision" to achieve a vision jump.
He can currently only perform three vision jumps, which is extremely limited and is not conducive to reconnaissance of a huge machinery factory.
Li Nuo decisively called up the spell list of "Psychic Vision" and invested 1450 energy points.
【system information:】
[You consumed 1450 energy points. 】
[The level of "Psychic Vision" is +10 and is now level 20. 】
[The number of vision jumps of "Psychic Vision" is +10, now 13 times. 】
[The level of "Psychic Vision" breaks through to level 20, and you trigger the upgrade reward. 】
[Please choose one from the following three options:]
[Option 1:]
[The visual field range of "Psychic Sight" is +100%, increased to 72.5% of the cast target's true visual field range. 】
[Option 2:]
[The "Visual Jump" feature is enhanced, the number of jumps is +10, from 13 to 23 times. 】
[Option three:]
["Psychic Vision" has a new "Energy-saving Spellcasting" feature, which reduces the cost of casting by 50%. 】
"I choose "Option 2". "Li Nuo muttered silently.
The spell panel of "Psychic Vision" was refreshed accordingly, and the number of vision jumps increased to 23 times.
Unless the entire machinery factory is as complex as a maze, Li Nuo will definitely be able to figure out the layout of the machinery factory with the help of these 23 jumps.
The only thing to watch out for is to avoid the Samuelson, and the central chamber it's in.
As a psychic wizard, this guy is unlikely to have any means to counter "psychic vision".
Li Nuo looked around and scanned the wall at the bottom of the cliff.
There are a total of six artificially dug caves here, and the one he just explored was only one of them.
Li Nuo took out another 11 mind-controlling spiders and controlled them to enter the remaining five caves.
Thanks to the "Joint Action" feature of "Psychic Beacon", he didn't get confused when controlling multiple mind-controlling spiders.
These mind-control spiders move just like Li Nuo's fingers, flexibly, quickly and silently.
He took the time to try it in the alchemy room. As long as the number of mind-controlled spiders controlled at the same time does not exceed the 12 limits of "joint action", there will be no operational errors.
When Samuelson couldn't get away, the entire aberration nest undoubtedly entered a state without a "monitoring system".
As long as Li Nuo is careful enough, with a total of 12 mind-controlling spiders at the front and back, and a "mental vision" that jumps up to 23 times, he can definitely explore the lair.
"Psychic Vision" is responsible for exploring the path, while the Mind Control Spider performs simple operations, trying to turn valves, open gates, etc., to prepare for Li Nuo's subsequent infiltration.
There is another chapter to come!
(End of chapter)
