Chapter 1404 - The Control System of the Statues (2/2)
“Did you see those shadows?” Hao Ren pointed to a statue that had just been smashed to pieces by Lily’s fists and feet. “When the statues fall, some shadows will float out of them!”
Y’zaks eyes widened. “Shadow? What shadow?”
Hao Ren was in a daze: only he could see it?
But he soon forgot about it. The list of unexplained peculiarities that had happened to him was endless and he just wanted to tell them what he thought. “I can see that after each of the statues fell, something like a soul floated out of them and seemed to be joined together farther away. That’s probably why these stone soldiers can act in unison!”
“High spirits? A mastermind network?” The demon girl sitting on Y’zaks’ shoulder was instantly reminded of her familiar territory. “Uncle Ren, can you see where the floating things are gathered?”
Boom!!
A deafening explosion was heard nearby. Behind Vivian, the two increasingly bright ‘lightning turbines’ cross and shoot a huge electric arc. The energy level of the arc finally directly broke through the insulating shell of a stone soldier, blasting it apart.
Hao Ren immediately captured the transparent phantom that escaped from the stone soldier.
It drifted up into the air, toward the temple in the center of the city. As it drifted away, it became more and more transparent and illusory, and soon even Hao Ren could not see its trace. But before that, Hao Ren could roughly confirm that the ‘shadow’ was indeed combined with a larger transparent virtual shadow when it rose to about four or five hundred meters in the air.
It was as if an invisible ‘jellyfish’ was floating in the air, and the jellyfish was pulling back its tentacles.
“There!” Hao Ren pointed to the position where the transparent shadow finally dissipated. “There’s something there! It’s floating over the city, probably covering at least a third of the city!”
Y’lisabet nodded, and then, observing the distribution of the colossus in the aerial view of the battlefield and the movement of the colossi in the street nearby, and then began a swift mental calculation.
Lily rushed toward Hao Ren with the smell of stone and asked, “Landlord, what is Y’lisabet doing?”
“She seems to understand how these stone soldiers work,” answered Hao Ren. “These statues should have a higher chain of command. We have to find a way to interfere with the system.”
“Better hurry up,” said Lily as she picked up a heavy slab from the side and smashed it into a black colossus not far away. “There seems to be another wave of stone people coming! We are moving slower and slower!”
“Don’t worry.” Hao Ren had great confidence in Y’lisabet. “She’s an expert on this.”
Boom–
A nearby building suddenly collapsed. The granite walls fell, a huge stone hand emerged from behind, and colossus after colossus climbed over the walls and fell into the street.
The bats behind Vivian made an ear-piercing sound, and the increasingly intense electromagnetic vortices swirled in two storms. Everyone at the scene felt a slight tingling in their skin: the new electromagnetic storm was ready.
Y’lisabet also finally finished her mental calculation. She pointed to a place in the sky and yelled, “In that direction! Throw the electromagnetic storm in that direction!”
Vivian did not hesitate. The electromagnetic vortices generated by two groups of bats had turned into a dazzling light stream. It was more terrifying than the electromagnetic explosion she had created in the temple. Just moments before the two spinning electric fields were about to spin out of control, she threw them straight in the direction Y’lisabet had indicated.
Lightning and a strong magnetic field erupted simultaneously at high altitude. This was definitely a powerful EMP.
The colossi were extremely resistant to simple electric shocks, but the oscillating electric field produced strong magnetism, which was enough to incapacitate the stone figures.
The same time the huge electromagnetic storm erupted completely, a previously hidden thing finally emerged in front of everyone.