Chapter 235 - Chapter 235: 112. Start brushing, start brushing_4 (1/2)
Chapter 235: 112. Start brushing, start brushing_4
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“Oh… What happened next?” The team member asked, still utterly confused.
Unlike the perplexed team members, Noland Lee noticed the problem with the mechanical spider without even using Deconstruction Technique. He just stared at it for a few moments.
He probably figured out what’s going on.
However, he didn’t plan to get involved in this matter.
So, after mentioning it earlier, he became silent.
Fars Scott, who looked careless like a silly fool only interested in alchemy experiments, was actually very smart.
As long as he focused on a specific problem, he could grasp the answer.
“Damn it!” Fars cursed:
“I know what’s going on now! I’ve been set up!”
Fars placed the mechanical spider on the wall, and moved its legs to simulate the spider’s wall climbing motion.
When the spider’s legs touched the wall, a tiny gap was revealed between the base of the leg and the outer armor plates.
A hidden weapon shot through that gap, striking the energy storage array directly, making it highly likely to cause instability in the array and subsequently trigger an internal energy explosion.
That’s how the energy storage array got damaged.
The power of this explosion was average and the damage limited, but it was enough to cause the mechanical spider to fall apart.
The angle and target of the hidden weapon showed that the attacker was very familiar with alchemical constructs.
Also, the sudden appearance of the hollow in the floor and the enemy hiding right beneath it, was way too coincidental.
It was as if someone had known Fars’ schedule and his habits in advance.
All the clues indicated that it was not just a simple coincidence – there was an inevitability behind the randomness of this event.
“It must be the alchemist who took the same research task as me! This research task is like a bidding competition. There are over ten people who took it, but there are only five spots to complete it. The Alchemy Academy will grade our research outcomes from high to low and select the top five. If I lose my alchemical cube in the experiment… then I’ll be automatically disqualified!”
Fars appeared a bit agitated.
Kent sighed, patted him on the shoulder and said:
“You should consider yourself lucky, Fars. Your opponent only wants you to be disqualified instead of costing your life. I’ve told you many times not to take research tasks you can’t afford. You’ve invested at least one million union coins in this task, right? How many people in the Lower Town area can afford that?