Chapter 997 (1/2)

Chapter 997

BOOM!

Long Chen’s fist smashed into a large hand . However, he found that it wasn’t a human hand, but a wooden hand .

As soon as he blocked it, another whistling attack came for the back of his head . He hastily reached his other hand out, using his fingers as claws to catch it .

After catching this hand, he realized that its owner was an extremely refined wooden puppet . The details on its fingers were perfect, and it even had fingerprints .

Although it was a wooden puppet, it was as hard as metal, and as Long Chen caught its fist, it rapidly retreated . Suddenly, it sent a downward kick toward Long Chen’s shoulder .

Long Chen snorted and also gave it a kick, striking its leg . This time, Long Chen used eighty percent of his power, and he blew apart its leg . But he also felt a burst of pain in his foot and grumbled inside about how hard it was .

His current physical body was extremely powerful, to the point where even Treasure items would find it difficult to injure him . However, kicking this wooden puppet caused him a burst of pain . It was extraordinary .

The wooden puppet rapidly fell back again after its other leg kicked at Long Chen . He was startled, as this didn’t make sense . With both its legs off the ground, how was it retreating?

Long Chen smashed apart its other foot and realized what it was . There was a rod supporting the puppet’s body beneath its b.u.t.t . There should be some mechanism below that controlled its attacks . Even as Long Chen smashed the puppet and grabbed the rod, it continued to move around him rapidly .

“So the mechanism is activated once you walk into a set range at which point the wooden puppet will attack you from the front, back, left, and right . Hehe, there are a total of four attacks, and they all come from different directions . Interesting . ”

With his hand on the rod, feeling it move around, he gradually came to understand the puppet’s function . It truly was interesting . The person who had set it up had calculated the person’s retreat path, so these four attacks could all cause quite a bit of damage .

If a person blocked the first attack from the front, they would a.s.sume their enemy was at the front, and then it would be easy to fall for the next attack .

Just at this moment, a miserable scream rang out and a figure flew by Long Chen’s body . After being in the mist for so long, he had gotten accustomed and could now see things within a few meters .

He saw a man whose shoulder had been destroyed . As this man shot past him, it was clear he probably hadn’t understood what was happening before being sent flying by a wooden puppet .

That injury on his shoulder was exactly where the wooden puppet had first tried to hit Long Chen . This fellow had probably been struck without sensing anything .

“This level of spiritual perception toward danger is truly amazing . ”

Long Chen was speechless . Although the puppet’s attack was sudden, the surrounding s.p.a.ce was essentially still . The puppet would cause quite a disturbance when it attacked, but this person hadn’t been able to sense it? Truly marvelous .

He was sure that any Dragonblood warrior would be able to dodge all the wooden puppet’s attacks . That was due to their experience from life and death battles .

He continued forward for several miles . Suddenly, he heard the sound of digging . What was going on? Was someone trying to bury the evidence of killing someone? That was far too brazen .

“Guo Ran, what do you think you’re doing?” But when he got closer, he saw that it was Guo Ran digging .

“Boss, the core of the mechanism is down below . I want to go study it,” said Guo Ran .

“Why waste the effort? Once you pa.s.s, you’ll have plenty of things to study and research . ” Long Chen was speechless .

“Boss, you just don’t understand! If I don’t figure it out, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Ah, boss, I hear that Han Yunshan was stripped naked, and his little dingding was blown off by a firecracker . It was done by you, right?” said Guo Ran .

“His little dingding is so weak?” Long Chen was startled . But then he quickly realized that with his spiritual yuan sealed, Han Yunshan hadn’t been able to protect himself . As for his life rod, that place was naturally weaker . Then that really was possible .

“d.a.m.n, you really know how to work . When I heard that news, I almost died of laughter . That idiot deserves to be played to death,” said Guo Ran excitedly .

“Are you really planning on digging more? It might be very deep, or maybe someone will stop you before you get there . Don’t waste the effort . ” Long Chen didn’t have a high opinion of Guo Ran’s choice .

“I have to dig more . I just can’t drop this matter,” said Guo Ran .

“Alright then, go ahead . I’m moving on . ”

Long Chen didn’t bother him any longer . In truth, Guo Ran was a very pa.s.sionate fellow . His talent and pa.s.sion toward forging arts and mechanisms were incomparable . Since he had decided on this, Long Chen didn’t force him to stop . He could do what he wanted .

Three days later, Guo Ran finally dug his way to the core . But what dumbfounded him was that the underground core was one complete piece, and he was unable to break it open to see the secrets within .

Just as he was preparing to break a piece of it to see inside, an Elder appeared and harshly berated him, warning him not to break public property . Only then had Guo Ran left, almost crying . But that was something that happened later .

Long Chen continued onwards . He suddenly saw some disciples rus.h.i.+ng forward without any misgivings . They weren’t afraid of activating the mechanisms at all, startling him .