Although Gao Yuan believed that with his current strength, even if these puppets had a numerical advantage, it would be difficult for them to pose a substantial threat to him.
But when I saw these behemoths, over three meters tall, standing in a neat line together, I still felt an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Especially in the middle of the team, the row of pale invisible puppets gave people a very intrusive feeling.
Therefore, when he saw this astonishing scene, he subconsciously retracted his body.
"retreat!"
"Many puppet guards! Dozens of them!"
While retreating into a visual blind spot, he signaled Fei Ru behind him to retreat while transmitting a message to her.
The two people's figures flashed one after another, and soon they flew back dozens of meters.
At this moment, Gao Yuan's heart moved and he suddenly stopped.
I saw him looking towards the area just now, pretending to be listening attentively.
"Eh, that's not right!"
"Aren't these puppet guards very sensitive to the light emitted by the moonstone?"
"Why is there no movement this time?"
He and Fei Ru looked at each other and said with confusion on their faces.
"There's really no movement!"
"According to previous experiences, these puppets should rush over quickly when they sense the light of the moonstone!"
Upon hearing this, Feiru listened carefully for a while, and then sent a message to confirm.
The two looked at each other wordlessly for a moment, and Gao Yuan suddenly heard a message and suggested:
"How about we go back and check the situation?"
"……good!"
When Feiru heard this, a look of confusion suddenly appeared on her face, and she gritted her teeth after a while.
"Well, then get ready for battle. Follow me. Remember to pay attention to the surrounding areas."
Gao Yuan nodded when he heard this, hesitated for a moment and then sent a message to remind:
"I just took a look, and there was a whole row of pale puppets with the ability to hide. I'm afraid there are at least six or seven of them!"
Feiru's face tightened when she heard this, and then she started preparing carefully.
Gao Yuan himself was not idle either. He first took out two 'Difu Pills', stuck them between his teeth for later use, and then directly turned on the 'Burning Blood' state.
Under the dazzling halo of Qi and blood, the jelly-like viscous 'body-protecting blood light' quickly penetrated the body.
At the same time, he skillfully chanted curses and made seals, and soon he cast the 'Golden Light Curse: Ninth Level of Power', turning it into armor to protect his whole body.
Fei Ru, who was prepared with the same method, signaled, and the two of them performed their duties and slowly moved forward along the corridor.
The distance of tens of meters was reached in an instant, and not long after, the two of them returned to the area where the abnormality had just been discovered.
Sticking to the wall on the left, Gao Yuan activated the thread of spiritual thought and guided a spherical battle puppet, slowly approaching the center of the corridor in front, facing the abnormal area.
After a while, the puppet floated to its designated location and suspended in mid-air.
The top of the robotic arm that stood above it like an antenna held a fist-sized moonstone.
Countless soft moon-white rays of light emanate from the surface of the moonstone.
While illuminating the corridor, it also spontaneously spread towards the area on the right.
"..."
In the wordless silence, time passed by breath by breath.
However, in the space they were in, not even the slightest vision occurred.
Looking at this from a high perspective, I know that there must be something different.
He did not pull away in a hurry, and directly used voice transmission to say to Fei Ru, who was nervously alert behind him:
"Be careful, I'll go to the front and take a look."
After receiving the latter's confirmation response, he no longer hesitated, took a deep breath, pressed against the left wall, and moved forward bit by bit.
Soon, the previous scene came into view again.
As far as the eye can see, dozens of huge puppet guards are standing together in a neat row.
A melee puppet holding a giant sword in each hand, a long-range puppet with empty hands but with transparent crystals embedded in the palms, and a hidden puppet with a pale body and no contours anywhere on the body!
Gao Yuan took a quick look and found that there were forty puppet guards in total.
According to different types of functions, they formed a queue of eight columns and five columns.
The number of each type of puppet guard is exactly in line with the combination ratio of 'two near, two far and one hidden' that he had observed before.
At the same time, Gao Yuan also discovered the reason why these puppet guards remained silent.
I saw these puppet guards, and the mask areas that originally had bright silver abstract patterns were now dim.
This made the puppet guards in front of them feel a little more lifeless than those they had encountered before.
This situation is not unfamiliar to Gao Yuan. He has seen similar situations before in the ruins of Qingyuan Mountain.
These puppet guards clearly look like they are in a shutdown state and have not yet been officially activated.
Gao Yuan was slightly relieved at this, and at the same time, he informed Fei Ru behind him of this discovery through sound transmission.
Then he carefully looked at the puppet guards lined up in front of him.
All the latter were seen standing silently on the spot, and beneath their huge bodies were patches of blue luminous areas three feet square.
Lines of hazy and unusually light blue mist-like halos rise from the surface of these blue luminous areas.
Spontaneously gathering at the feet of these puppets, there is a circle of dark blue mysterious runes the size of a palm.
I could only see the spiritual light flowing on its surface, constantly capturing the mist-like halo gathering around it.
"This is……?"
With this thought in Gao Yuanyuan's mind, he subconsciously activated the second-level Qi-gazing technique.
As expected, the color of these light blue mist-like haloes in the field of vision of the second-level breath-seeing technique is more concentrated than before.
This is a manifestation of the energy-filled atmosphere inside. Judging from its color, it should be specially purified water-based energy!
Thinking of the figures of these puppet guards standing quietly, as well as the mysterious runes on their feet that were constantly swallowing the blue halo, Gao Yuan suddenly had an idea in his heart:
"Damn it! Isn't this supposed to be replenishing energy?"
"So this area is the charging station guarded by these puppets?"
With this in mind, he carefully observed the blue runes with flowing light and the mist-like halo around them.
In my heart, I became more and more certain about my guess just now.
"But this is normal. The construction history of such underground ruins is basically tens of thousands of years."
"No matter how sophisticated the manufacturing process of these puppet guards is, in order to keep running for such a long time, sufficient energy supply is essential!"
"So, the energy security system in this underground ruins must still be running stably!"
"And once the energy supply is stable, what about other energy-consuming facilities?"
"Is it possible that they are still running like these puppet guards?"
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan became more and more cautious.
According to Fei Ru's description before, when this underground ruins was just exposed from the earthquake, there were still many remaining restrictions still in operation in the corridor.
But as time goes by, most of these restrictions have become invalid.
At least since entering this ruins, apart from the mysterious 'Forbidden God's Restriction', Gao Yuan has not found any signs of other restrictions operating here.
He didn't find even a trace of dazzling remaining signs of energy movement.
But the area in front of him that looked like a charging station reminded him.
This mysterious ancient ruins may have been partially damaged due to the accident a few years ago, so that the restrictions on some areas have become invalid.
But apart from that, there must be quite a few areas where the restrictions are still operating in a stable state.
And these restrictions are often accompanied by huge risks!
After all, if you don't have enough understanding, sometimes you don't even need to have attack capabilities. Just a slightly stronger isolation barrier may trap people to death inside.
"Looking at it this way, even if it is somewhat inconvenient, the second-level Qi Watching Technique cannot be canceled at will!"
"After all, you must always be alert to those potential energy flows, otherwise you may suffer big losses if you don't pay attention!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan converged on his soaring thoughts.
Then he turned to look at Feiru, who still looked tense, and informed him of his conjectures and conclusions via voice transmission.
Then he looked at the other person again and asked in a consulting tone:
"What do you think should be done with these puppets?"
"Although these puppets have not been activated yet, they are definitely running according to a certain mechanism."
"Maybe at a fixed time point, or under certain specific conditions, these puppets will start on their own."
"If we just leave it alone, when we come out, our retreat might be blocked by these puppets again!"
Hearing this, Fei Ru frowned and considered for a while and said:
"What you said makes sense. If these puppets are left here, they will always be a hidden danger."
"It would be fine if everything goes well for us in this ruins, but if we encounter danger inside and even need to escape for our lives, it will be really troublesome if we encounter these puppets blocking the road again!"
"Otherwise, let's clean them all up!"
When Gao Yuan heard this, he subconsciously felt a little reluctant.
After all, these puppets in front of you are all combat puppets that can run automatically!
Its strength is at least comparable to that of the mid-stage Kaiyuan Realm, especially the kind of hidden puppet. Even if an ordinary monk in the late Kaiyuan Realm encounters it, he may not be sure of winning.
In this era where high-level puppets are almost extinct, each of these puppets can be said to be valuable.
What's more, he is also very interested in the manufacturing process and related principles of these puppets.
And these finished puppets that have gone through the test of time undoubtedly have extremely high research value.
But despite this, once it involves one's own safety, it is still far worse.
Just as Fei Ru said, if they really encounter danger deep in the ruins and run for their lives frantically, they will have great fun if they encounter these puppets blocking the road again!
As his mind turned, he quickly made up his mind.
These puppets are all potential hidden dangers. In this case, of course they must be eradicated without leaving any future troubles!
"Let me take action, please be careful here!"
After making up his mind, Gao Yuan no longer hesitated and sent a message to Fei Ru on the side.
After the other party nodded in agreement, he floated to the front of a melee puppet at the head of the first row.
With his right hand pointing like a sword, he quickly gathered a 'Finger of Nirvana' and then pointed it at the puppet's chest.
Following his movements, the melee puppet's body remained motionless, but the armor on its chest was violently shattered by a gentle force of Yin energy, creating a fist-sized gap.
At the same time, a cone-shaped stream of blood energy spurted out from the fingertips of his right hand, followed the gap, and poured towards the chest of the melee puppet.
"Buzz!"
"Wow~ la la!"
"Pfft~!"
Along with a series of dull noises, the body of the melee puppet suddenly shook vaguely.
On the armor on his chest, countless fine cracks suddenly appeared, and countless slightly dim blood energy escaped along these cracks, but soon fell silent.
In this very short period of time, the various components in the chest of this melee puppet were shattered into countless pieces by the violent blood energy of the 'Finger of Nirvana'.
With one blow, Gao Yuan swallowed two 'Difu Pills' with a 'dong' sound to quickly recover his energy and blood consumption.
After all, there are a total of forty puppet guards here. Even with his rich energy and blood reserves, it would be a lot of consumption to activate the 'Finger of Nirvana' forty times in a short period of time!
Just when he was about to float to the second puppet and destroy it in the same way, with the help of his keen spiritual sense, he suddenly felt a strange wave.
Before he could react, he heard a dense "clucking" sound.
At the same time, the area where these puppet guards were standing also changed from blue to red.
Then he was shocked to find that the masks of these originally silent puppet guards lit up one after another with mysterious patterns intertwined with bright silver lines.
"Qiang! Qiang!..."
In an instant, accompanied by clear metallic trembling sounds, the melee puppets beside them all waved their swords in their hands.
Especially the puppet guard closest to Gao Yuan saw a flash of golden light in front of him, and a huge golden sword, which filled the sky with light and shadow, swung towards Gao Yuan like thunder.
"Fuck!"
At this moment, Gao Yuan felt his scalp was exploding. Without thinking, he frantically activated the Wind Curse, used this to pull away and retreat sharply, narrowly avoiding the knife at a tricky angle.
Before he could stabilize his body, he suddenly felt something in his heart and subconsciously looked at where the eight hidden puppets were standing.
As expected, everything that came into view was empty, and those hidden puppets had disappeared without knowing when.
"Be careful behind you!"
At this moment, Fei Ru, who was not far behind him, suddenly sent a message.
Listening to his tone, there was already a faint tremor.
"Hiss~!"
Gao Yuan took a deep breath when he heard this. He still didn't know the meaning of this reminder?
In such a hurry, he didn't even bother to turn around and look back. He was distracted for a moment and used the "Heart Curse" mode almost instinctively to activate the Ice Curse.
On the other hand, a thread of spiritual thought is separated to communicate with the 'Guardian Shield' on the chest and the 'Soul Suppressing Seal' on the top of the head, so as to activate it with all its strength to prevent the soul from being attacked by the screaming attack of the hidden puppet.
Amidst the "clucking" sound of ice cubes squeezing, the arc-shaped ice wall had just emerged, and Gao Yuan heard the sound of the latter being hit hard and shattering.
But taking this opportunity, he frantically activated the Wind Curse, and used the force to forcefully move his body three or four meters to the left.
At the same time, two kinds of spells, the protective paper and the thick soil spell, were fired one after another in the 'heart spell' mode. Under the guidance of his spiritual thoughts, they all swarmed in the direction he predicted.
And his body was flashing non-stop, making a large arc in a 'C' shape at an extremely fast speed.
Partly due to strength and partly due to luck, he avoided various serial pursuits around him with an astonishing efficiency.
The moment he turned sideways, he saw four pale white figures coming into his eyes in no particular order.
"Ah~!"
At this moment, I don't know which of the hidden puppets it was, and they let out the soul-shaking screams at the right time.
At the same time, an inexplicable chill that far exceeded the previous one instantly enveloped Gao Yuan's body.
Affected by this, the movement of the true essence and blood essence in his body was instantly blocked.
Fortunately, he had been prepared beforehand. As soon as this cold feeling emerged from his body, it was instantly driven away from him with the cooperation of the 'Guardian Shield' and the 'Soul-Suppressing Seal'.
This pause was extremely short. If it had been normal, it wouldn't have mattered at all, but at this moment, there were dozens of attacks following him!
The moment he paused, the three melee puppets closest to him each raised their swords and slashed at him with light and shadow all over the sky.
And further away, the hands of more than a dozen remote puppets also lit up lights of different colors.
"What the hell!"
Gao Yuanyuan's scalp suddenly felt tight.
The long-range attacks in the distance that were still charging were okay, and the three golden swords in front of me were acceptable, but the personal attacks from the invisible puppets surrounding me were a bit troublesome!
Although the attack effects of these hidden puppets can be quickly dispelled by him with the power of 'Guardian Shield' and 'Soul Seal', if these eight puppets surround him in the middle, one after another, they attack continuously.
Woolen cloth?
Once he is glued to it, he will most likely be controlled by the chain and fall into a continuous state of immobility!
"Which is the lesser of three evils!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan immediately frantically stirred up the blood in his body, thickening his 'body-protecting blood glow' as much as possible.
And his body also actively moved towards the golden sword that was slashing diagonally on his right.
What he was trying to do was rely on his thick-skinned defense to resist the sword of this melee puppet, and then take advantage of the situation to dodge all other attacks!
However, at this critical moment, he suddenly noticed a red light flashing from the corner of his eyes.
Then he saw Feiru's whole body glowing with dazzling blood-colored brilliance, and she came to her side in an instant.
Above her head, there was a strange bluish-gray object hovering.
The aura flashed on the surface of the latter, spreading countless green energy light curtains, firmly protecting Fei Ru's body below.
In her hand, she tightly grasped a giant open brass umbrella.
A misty yellow halo circulated on its surface, blocking the three golden giant knives that were slashing at it.
"Qiang~Qiang~Qiang!"
In the sound of three almost overlapping metal clashes, three golden giant knives hit the surface of the giant brass umbrella heavily.
After receiving this heavy blow, Fei Ru's face suddenly became flushed, and then turned a little blue.
But she was completely unaware of this. Taking advantage of the force of the backlash, she reached out and grabbed Gao Yuan's arm, trying to pull her away quickly.
"..."
"Damn it! This script is wrong!"
This scene went beyond Gao Yuan's expectations, and his original dodge direction also conflicted with the direction Fei Ru was pulling at this time.
So much so that his speed decreased instead of increasing, and now he really couldn't dodge the attacks of those hidden puppets.
He quickly and speechlessly glanced at Fei Ru, who was unknowingly doing a disservice to him, and then turned to his side attentively.
Three hidden puppets have taken advantage of this opportunity and flashed to his side!
As soon as the latter appeared, they all reached out to touch Gao Yuan and Fei Ru.
"I don't care about that much anymore!"
As my mind turned, my thoughts flashed high and far away.
In an instant, he used the thread of spiritual thought to give the order to pour the 'Evil-Repelling Talisman' and 'Demon-Suppressing Talisman' towards him, towards the three spherical battle puppets behind him that were unable to catch up due to his continuous flashes just now.
"I hope these two talismans that can restrain the attacks of 'succubus' will be equally effective against this kind of hidden puppet!"
He muttered to himself helplessly.
At the same time, along with a series of dense spring ejections, dozens of 'evil-proofing talismans' and 'evil-suppressing talismans' were shot out from these spherical battle puppets.
Each of them buzzed, causing strange fluctuations, and Biao She came after them closely.
When the invisible puppet's arm touched the two bodies, these talismans also exploded.
In an instant, with the surrounding space violently oscillating, a sea of energy with strong auras of 'evil-destroying' and 'demon-destroying' suddenly expanded in all directions with Gao Yuan and the two as the center.
While the two people were instantly submerged, it also enveloped the various puppets surrounding them.