Chapter 214, clever plan
The four of them went down to the tomb again, and outside the two stone doors, they saw that the puppets had returned to a neat queue, still standing majestic and solemn in the evil aura, except that there was one less puppet in the first row, and the other One puppet is missing an arm.
Duan Wutian said: "Qingshi, please take out your big net and let us open our eyes."
"No!" Chen Tianye said in shock, "You still use a net?"
"Didn't Qingshi say he wanted to catch them all in one fell swoop?" Duan Wutian said, "Of course he made a super big net! Right Qingshi?"
"Hey!" Chen Tianye said with contempt, "Catching them all in one catch is a metaphor! Duan Tu, do you have any education? How big of a net would it take to cover these thousands of puppets? Absolutely impossible!"
"That's right," Xiang An also said, "Even if we really build such a big net, we still have to use it widely! Who is so capable as to really cast a net and catch all these puppets? Say you are uneducated, but you have a rich imagination!"
"It was Qingshi who said 'catch them all'! I didn't say that." Duan Wutian also figured it out, scratched his bald head and asked, "What are you going to do with Qingshi?"
Qingshi ignored their bickering and took out a few items to play with. Chen Tianye and the other two people gathered around him when they saw it. They saw Qingshi putting together a few things in his hand, but it turned out to be an armored vest.
It is better to say that it is a vest, and it is better to say that it is an iron plate on the front and back, connected by a few cloth strips in the middle. Qingshi passed his head between the two cloth strips, which were hung on his shoulders, and the two iron plates were drooped on his chest and back, one behind the other.
"This is cut from the puppet," Duan Wutian stretched out his fingers and tapped on the iron plate on Qingshi's chest. Hearing the iron plate make a clanking sound, he said, "Well, it's hard enough! But you can use this thing As armor, I'm afraid it won't be able to block the two shots and three knives of these puppets."
After listening to Duan Wutian's words, even Qingshi couldn't help but despise his IQ. Because he said: "What kind of armor? If you want to protect yourself, my Xuanyuan Armor is a hundred times better than this."
"What is that?" Chen Tianye also stretched out his fingers to knock, and asked curiously, "What's the use?"
"This is my magic weapon for protection!" Qingshi said proudly, "With it, I won't be afraid of puppets attacking me."
"Isn't that still armor?" Duan Wutian said disapprovingly.
"If you insist on calling it armor, that's right," Qingshi said with a smile, "But the function of my armor is not to resist sword attacks, but to prevent them from attacking me at all!"
"I know!" Chen Tianye shouted, "Invisibility cloak!"
"It's okay to understand it this way!" Qingshi said, "I have figured out the identification system of these puppets. The front and back parts of this vest contain the spiritual devices for the puppets to identify themselves and the enemy. Put it on, and then use my Xuanyuan If A blocks my aura, these puppets will treat me as the same kind and won't attack me. Isn't it the same as being invisible!"
"That's great, hahaha..." Duan Wutian laughed loudly, "If you smash them to pieces one by one with that big hammer, they won't fight back, right?"
"They don't attack anymore, so why hit them?" Chen Tianye said, "Qingshi must transform these puppets one by one and turn them into his own personal weapons. That would be awesome!"
"That's natural. Qingshi said he wanted to build these puppets into his own army!" Xiang An said, "But Qingshi, it took you more than ten days to get one puppet. You have to conquer these puppets one by one. Then it won’t last three to five years? I think you’d better not touch these puppets yet. Go directly through the puppets, open the stone door, and loot the treasures buried with the Poseidon first!”
"That's right!" Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye agreed together, "Search for the treasure first!"
It's rare for these three guys to agree.
"It won't take that much time to get rid of these puppets. I said, 'The mountain people have their own tricks'!" Qingshi said with a smile, "It's okay if we don't get these puppets first, but then I'm the only one who can break down the door and hunt for treasure. If there is danger, you cannot come to help me. But if there is no danger, the treasure inside will belong to me alone!"
"No, no, no! We must get rid of the puppet first. How can we let you go on an adventure alone?" The three of them said in unison, and this time they were more unanimous.
"Then just wait here," Qingshi said with a smile, "Watch me go in and collect them!"
After Qingshi finished speaking, he stepped into the stone gate and walked towards the puppet army formation.
Qingshi originally thought that these puppets would not react to his entry, but the result was not exactly as he imagined. As he walked into the recognition range of the puppets, the eight puppets in the first row all moved. Some raised their weapons, and some turned towards Qingshi, but fortunately, although they felt something was wrong, they did not move in the first row. Attack immediately.
Qingshi had an idea, took a few steps to the empty seat in the first row, and stood still imitating the posture of a puppet. Sure enough, as soon as he was in position, the puppets immediately returned to their original postures and stopped moving.
Seeing that they had deceived these puppets, Duan Wutian and the other three all laughed.
"Stones!" Duan Wutian laughed, "They won't hit you, but there's no way you can stand still like this!"
Qingshi ignored them and suddenly turned around and came to the back of a puppet in the second row behind him. Before these puppets could make any move, Qingshi pushed the puppet in the second row to where he originally stood.
This moment confused the puppets. The puppets in the first and second rows all noticed something was wrong and were a little ready to move, but they couldn't fully understand the problem. Several puppets raised their swords but didn't know who to attack.
Qingshi kept walking under his feet, pushing the puppets around him to change their positions. Originally, he was the only one who was standing in the wrong position, which seemed a bit out of place. Now, many puppets were standing in the wrong position, causing the surrounding puppets to be confused. There was a commotion.
In this way, the bluestone no longer looks so eye-catching. Qingshi was very happy in his heart, and followed the same pattern, making the puppet team even more chaotic while walking towards the depths of the passage.
Qingshi's direction was toward the depths of the passage, but he did not walk in a straight line. Instead, he weaved in and out of the military formation and disrupted the puppet team at the same time. As he moved forward, he caused a commotion everywhere he went, like a weasel scurrying into a chicken farm.
Qingshi's strategy is undoubtedly effective. Although his vest cannot completely blind these puppets, it seriously interferes with their judgment. In addition, Qingshi keeps disrupting the puppet team, which further affects their attention and discernment. Before they could complete the identification, Qingshi had already left the identification range of the puppets that noticed him and went deeper into the team.
Soon, Qingshi moved forward nearly a hundred feet. We arrived at the middle of the entire passage. Here, the puppet team was divided into two parts, front and back, leaving a space of about ten feet.
At this point, Qingshi found that he had walked through sixty rows of puppets. If his prediction was correct, there would be another sixty rows behind him. Counting this way, there are a total of one hundred and twenty rows of these puppets, one thousand and eighty in number.
There is obviously a reason for the appearance of an open space here. Qingshi discovered that in the middle of the open space there was a metal hemisphere with a diameter of more than one foot embedded in the ground. The hemisphere was dark gold in color, and the surface of the sphere was covered with complex patterns. There were also regularly distributed There are hundreds of small round holes about three inches in diameter.
Those round holes are spewing dark purple evil energy, which is obviously the main source of evil energy in the entire cave passage. However, Qingshi also discovered that the round hole spewed not only evil spirit, but also a large amount of spiritual energy mixed in, but the spiritual energy was colorless, so it could not be seen. But you can feel it.
It seems that this is the formation ball that controls the puppet army formation. If you can control this formation and dribbling, then it is equivalent to controlling the entire puppet army formation.
Compared to grabbing those puppets one by one and transforming them, taking control of the formation and taking them as their own, this is the best strategy. This is Qingshi's plan.
Qingshi stepped in front of the metal hemisphere in two steps, while paying attention to the reactions of the puppets.
Those puppets originally had objections to Qingshi disrupting the queue, and some of them seemed to want to attack him, but Qingshi moved very quickly, and although he caused a commotion, he was not really attacked.
What he didn't expect was that now that he was in front of this metal hemisphere, all the puppets thought he didn't exist.
The chaotic puppet army slowly returned to calm. Qingshi was happy to be able to study the metal hemisphere without being disturbed, and immediately began to observe it carefully.
Qingshi looked inside through the small holes and found that the inside of the hemisphere was empty. He originally thought that it must be a spherical array disk, but who knew that it was just a hemispherical metal cover.
This hemispherical lid covers a large hole nearly ten feet in diameter in the ground. All the evil spirits and spiritual energy emerge from this large hole.
Surrounding the entrance of the hole, there is a circle of fist-sized spherical protrusions on the ground, all of which are half-embedded in the ground. When counted, there are forty-nine in total in the circle. Each spherical bump is connected to a wire that leads from the hole.
These threads are obviously the same as the spiritual wires on the array cannons, which are the kind of metal threads used to make nets made of bluestone. Each of them is composed of thousands of filaments twisted into a strand as thick as a thumb, extending out from the large hole along the cave wall.
Qingshi thought for a while, then looked at the ashlar ground under his feet, and then discovered that there were many formation patterns carved on the ground, and many extremely thin metal wires could be faintly found between the formations.
It turns out that after the metal wires were led out of the holes, they passed through these spherical protrusions and were split into thousands of wires and introduced into the entire underground passage, covering all the ground.
Qingshi thought for a long time and finally understood the operating principle of this puppet army formation. These metal wires are used to derive spiritual power from underground spirit stone veins. The puppets rely on these filamentous wires all over the ground to obtain energy.
The advantage of this is that its spiritual power is endless and can be used up. The disadvantage is that once it leaves the scope of the passage, the puppet will quickly run out of energy. Therefore, they only move within the passage. Once the invaders like Qingshi exit the stone gate, they will stop and no longer pursue them.
Qingshi recalled the puppet he dissected. There was a top-quality spiritual stone and a bright purple black evil stone in its body as the source of spiritual power. Both the spiritual stone and the black evil stone had almost no spiritual power loss. It can be seen that when these puppets fight, they are indeed using energy transmitted from metal wires, which is the spiritual power of the underground spirit stone veins.
As for the evil spirits and spiritual energy emerging from the cave, they are naturally useful. The evil spirits are to drive away foreign invaders, while the spiritual energy is the medium that connects the control array disk and the puppets.
Since this is not a formation ball, the only way to control the formation is in this big hole. Qingshi pressed his hands on the hemispherical lid and groped along the patterns on the lid, trying to find a way to open the lid and enter inside.
Who knew that this hemispherical cover was more than just a cover? As soon as the bluestone touched it, it immediately caused a burst of energy ripples on the spherical surface.
Qingshi's mind was broken. There was actually a triggering defensive array hidden on this hemispherical cover! Qingshi, a great formation mage, accidentally got hit.
As the energy ripples bounced off Qingshi's hands, a sonorous sound of metal collision was heard.
Qingshi looked up and saw that at least a hundred puppets on both sides of the passage had awakened, all of them rushing towards him with swords, guns, swords and halberds.
