Chapter 71 There are actually two experts
Qian Jing swept all thirty elemental strike sticks, dragged them all the way, and moved them to the bottom of the wellhead. If the two-headed ogre helps, this job is easy, but he does not lend a helping hand. Because Qian Jing's efforts are not to keep the weapons for their own use, but to send them to every inmate who comes down from the wellhead. Every time a person comes, Qian Jing handed over one, and said tirelessly: "Hold it, hold it, fight for freedom! You have to find a way to go back to the fortress star, don't be caught again, and you must not be trapped in this damn half plane."
About half of the people stayed after getting the weapons and decided to act with Qian Jing and Hu Ga. On the one hand, the action of giving the weapons added a lot of favor to Qian Jing. On the other hand, many people had no plans, and they might have hope of success with those who could take the lead. Of course, after Hu Ga returned to the prototype, his huge body, strong body and lightning that kept jumping with his fingertips were also reasons why some people were willing to join.
However, Hu Ga believed that this was a waste of time and energy. He firmly believed that "the more heads the easier it was to mess up." Qian Jing smiled after hearing this, and did not refute it, but he should continue to do what he should do. He knew very well that the people who stayed could not immediately become a united group, and it was impossible to establish a solid trust so quickly, and he himself was even more unlikely to become the real leader of this group of people. However, it would be no harm to arrange things within his ability, even if there were more people and more ideas to solve the problem faster? Now a good word, a point, and a weapon may be useful in the future. Besides, these elemental blow sticks are all free to be picked up, and they will not be given for nothing.
"Okay, we can't help but not yet come down. Let's go! Some of my friends have already explored the way forward." Qian Jing looked at more than a dozen people with various looks around him, raised his shoulders and carried a sack, held an elemental strike stick in his hand, and another one was hanging around his waist, so he set out first. The special weapon of this fortress star is similar to the long baton on the earth. It is black all over. There is a threaded handle for easy grasping at one end, and a metal hard head on the other end.
At Qian Jing's request, Hu Ga demonstrated the usage of this thing to them on the road. In addition to knocking directly, if you poke it with the metal hard head in the front, it will release the elemental power in the hit stick. The fortress star is mainly based on the power of the earth element, so the elemental hit stick here releases an inflatable shock shock wave, which can knock creatures weighing less than 300 kilograms and cause dizziness at the same time - assuming the impact just now did not kill it. Hu Ga said that even if he was hit head-on, he would be shaken away and then lie on the ground and lose all his ability to move - this is a personal experience.
Ordinary armor and shields cannot resist shock shock waves. The effect of hard skin and scales is minimal, so the soft fat can also play a certain protective role. With this thing, even a small person can defeat the strongman with hand-to-hand combat. However, the elemental strike stick needs to charge and recover after each release of impact, and cannot attack continuously, which is the only disadvantage.
"You must bring this thing back to the earth, and it is absolutely easy to defend yourself!" Qian Jing led a team of people forward, and looked carefully at the walls on both sides whenever he turned. The red sticks really left marks at the corners. The particularly neat strip-like marks were very easy to identify. Qian Jing and Hu Ga followed the marks, turned left and right, and moved quickly in this semi-plane castle.
Most of the places in the castle are empty. Although it is possible to accommodate many people, it seems that no one is taking care of the ground, walls and surrounding furnishings. There is a thin layer of dust on the ground, and the footprints and the marks of drag objects are very obvious. The magic lighting devices in many passages have been damaged, and the cracks on the walls have not been formed recently, and there are no traces of repairs. Qian Jing recalled that after entering the cell, there was indeed a lot of dust on his shoes and pants, but the cell was not actually dirty, so it must have been stained on this road.
They walked forward and saw many doors that were obviously opened with three-dimensional sunken door handles - intact, half-covered, and opened as soon as they pushed. There was no guard on the road. Everyone guessed where the staff here were going, worried that they would hide and prepare to ambush. Only Qian Jing, who was walking in front, was very relaxed because he knew that Liu Ming and others had passed by here. On the one hand, he was glad that there was no enemy, but on the other hand, he actually wanted to try the power of the weapons in his hand. However, when he entered Liu Ming's spiritual communication range and reconnected with everyone, Qian Jing had no chance to take action.
"The magicians obviously evacuated this area and also removed the portals that were in and out." After everyone met, Liu Ming was shocked by the team size first, but quickly adjusted his emotions and said to everyone: "Originally, the portal should be able to bring people into and out of this semi-plane. When we arrived, the portal had become a shell and part scattered all over the ground. It seems that there is no other choice except to seize control of the entire castle and fly back to the fortress star."
"Wait, I'm going to take a look." A gray man with eight tentacles under his mouth and a head looks like an octopus, said: "I, the support staff of the Lingxi Star Magic Competition Team, are good at maintaining space teleportation devices. I have worked in the Sixth Division of the Ring Alliance, namely the Teleportation Standardization Department. I mean, if the parts are enough, I have the ability to install a temporary portal."
Those who can come to participate in the magic competition, even if they fail to escape the capture, are still crouching tigers and hidden dragons. Compared to snatching control of the entire flying castle, if they can assemble the portal and escape directly, it is obviously a better choice. So everyone unanimously asked Liu Mingzhe to return and take everyone to the portal room to check.
Any hope is extremely precious at this time, and the son of hope will of course be more valued. Everyone formed a circular array at once, protecting the "octopus head" in the middle, and eventually squeezed Qian Jing, the "son of former hope" outside. Hu Ga was very unhappy when she saw this, and kept waving her fists, pushing everyone away to Qian Jing to protect him.
"Thank you." Qian Jing tried hard to raise his hand and patted the two-headed ogre on the shoulder.
Hu Ga avoided Qian Jing's gaze and looked up at the ceiling with his two heads: "Hmph! We have good vision and good luck. Knowing you is the key. You don't need to thank us."
From leading everyone to being swept and following, Qian Jing stumbled to the teleportation hall. The teleportation hall is by far the cleanest place except for the cell, at least there is no dust on the ground. Under the roof of the round arch is a large room without column support, with only a platform slightly higher than the surrounding one in the center. Originally, there should be a portal on the platform, but now there is only a door frame shell that is dismantled into four pieces. The grooves on the ground of the platform used to portray the magic array have also been removed. On the side, there should be a device to control the platform, and only the key shell and some damaged parts are left.
"Look, all the things here have been removed, and no one is left for us." Liu Ming sighed and said, "This area on this side provides support for the portal, and there is no one at all now. Obviously, those guys gave up this area and went to another location to establish a defense line."
Octopus Head Doraemon (transliteration) narrowed his eyes and looked around, then waved his hand, "Come on, follow me, gather all the parts, I will start assemble!"
He only took a look and said he started assembling. Is this too confident or a reason? Qian Jing did not come forward to help, but continued to observe the octopus head. He had a kind of intuition...
Hu Ga suddenly touched Qian Jing with his elbow and pushed him staggered. Qian Jing stood firm and looked at him. Seeing the ogre frowned four clusters of eyebrows above his four eyes, he looked worried: "It's so strange here..." Hu Ga murmured to himself and searched carefully in the scattered shell. "Didn't you take things from it? Is this what it was when I came?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" The people from Earth gathered over and the pen tip with great memory replied with great affirmation.
"This is not a destructive demolition, nor a transfer demolition, but a very detailed removal of the materials of the magic device. Look at this small container, the liquid inside is drawn out, which requires very cumbersome steps. Obviously, those magicians are not in a hurry when doing these things." Hu Ga threw down the shell fragments and began to check the remains of the magic array on the ground. "Although there is plenty of time, but so many things are left, it is obviously because he thinks that it will never be used in the future. I am absolutely right. All the valuable ingredients in this are carefully removed, not for transfer or reconstruction, but for use on some other function devices. Even if something as important as a portal is removed, what they want to build must be more important!"
"Other important devices?" Qian Jing flashed inspiration and immediately thought of the inexplicable green toothpaste he had locked down. Maybe it was related to that thing. "Hu Ga, can you sure that you built a non-portal device? Why couldn't this portal have a fault and the parts were removed and used on another portal? By the way, will there be a portal here?"
Without Hu Ga's mouth, Liu Ming directly answered: "From the arc of the ground, this half-plane is too small to accommodate a second portal, and the spare ones are not enough. There is a minimum safety distance requirement between portals, because they will interfere with each other, and even make the transmission clap into diversion - no one wants to pass half of the body to two doors. At the same time, there is a second door nearby, which will also cause harm to the teleportation leaving, so no one will do that."
Qian Jing then asked, "Since that's the case, what are they most likely to assemble with the parts inside?"
"Uh...we have to think about it..." Hu Ga ran around, relied on his height and strength to squeeze into the crowd, and looked at the parts they gathered together, and even reached out to pluck it. Naturally, some people were dissatisfied with this and hummed, and the red stick knocked the iron stick in his hand to the ground at this moment, and the whole room felt trembling.
So the ogre pushed everyone away easily and walked back, lowered his voice and said, "This teleportation system should be a standard three-type improved design. The price of the Alliance of the Rings is 200 Fate Gold Coins. It is super expensive, and these people are really willing to dismantle it. I thought it was good. The magician definitely wanted to build other types of devices. I saw that all the polycrystalline wall piercing stabilizers were left with only shells, and the penetration medium inside was gone."
Qian Jing asked, the standard three-type crossing medium is a light cyan viscous substance. When the portal opens up two planes, it is necessary to first establish a standard energy channel that spans the rules of the two worlds. The crossing medium is a collective name for a type of substance that can create and maintain this energy channel. Some crossing mediums are very stable and safe, such as those used in various standard portals of the Alliance of the Rings...
"Is there a green, particularly viscous, with some crystal texture to penetrate the boundary medium?" Ethan was dead, so Qian Jing told me about the fact that he seized "green toothpaste" from Ethan.
"That may be a boundary-breaking medium, which is used to blow up the world barrier, and is dangerous and controlled products. The boundary-breaking medium I mean is not green. Wait, wait... it won't be that way, right?"
Hu Ga looked at each other with four eyes, and his two heads talked in ultra-high-speed language that only they could understand. Then, the two heads controlled one hand and slapped their chests, and said, "Oh, we thought of it! The standard three-type transmissive medium has been transformed and used with a large number of transmissive mediums, which is also OK! Ah, this group of people and I thought about it, yes, yes, there is only one possibility!"
"What did you understand? Don't just keep it aside." Qian Jing looked at Hu Ga's expression and immediately added: "Double-wise smart mind is extraordinary. Nothing can hurt you. Come and inspire us!"
Hu Ga laughed: "Simply put, these magicians are building something that can penetrate powerful magic barriers, so they need a lot of breakthrough medium. There is only one place on the entire fortress star worth the effort! Think about it, they have been catching people participating in the magic competition, and they will also reveal their disgust for us outsiders during interrogation. Obviously, they don't want us to get the prizes for the Ultimate Magic Competition. But the safest way is not to imprison everyone, but to get it yourself, once and for all."
"The final prize is placed at the end of the competition venue, protected by the fortress magic tower. It is the highest magic protection level on the entire planet, and you cannot get in without the corresponding qualifications. However, if you can break the defensive barrier and then use special equipment to rush in - such as this semi-plane flight fortress - it is still possible to succeed." Hu Ga clenched his fist hard and gritted his teeth and said truthfully: "If we have the wealth and mightyness of them, we must rush into the venue directly, smash the prize cabinet, and run away after taking it. Who can catch up with us?"
"There is no logical error at the moment." Bi Tou said: "Through my own observations, coupled with the explosion incident that I heard from Sanzhi'er later, and the information about the current crossing and breaking the boundaries, Hu Ga's inference is probably correct. The ultimate goal of the magician here is a magic competition, not us yet, so after we caught us, we did not kill it."
"The blessing of misfortune." Qian Jing said: "What are we going to do next?"
The ogre squinted his eyes and looked at the octopus head in the crowd, then said to Qian Jing: "If you want to believe me, we can only go and grab control of the castle."
"Then let's go." Qian Jing said: "I believe you in this matter."
Chapter completed!