Chapter 291 What Does A Statue Like? (2/2)

This was all that Gao Peng had gathered so far about the statue. Luo Qian had also warned him that it was extremely aggressive and a Lord-tier monster to boot. ”If you can't handle it at your place, you can always hand it over to the police,” suggested Luo Qian.

”Thanks, I'll think about it,” said Gao Peng before hanging up the phone. Then he turned around and looked at the stone cottage that was designed to hold the Guan Gong bronze statue.

He didn't need to assign a guard to it. He had Stripey stay with the statue every day. Every time the spider felt bored, Gao Peng would let it play with the statue.

Inside the building, the Guan Gong bronze statue stood rooted to the ground, as if it had accepted its fate as Gao Peng's prisoner.

[Monster Name]: Animated Bronze Statue (Guan Gong)

[Monster Status]: Healthy (Calm)

[Likes]: 1. Standing motionless on the ground, pretending to be an ordinary statue 2. Decapitating evildoers.

Huh, an animated statue that likes standing still all day like an ordinary statue. Nothing wrong with that, thought Gao Peng.

Gao Peng entered the stone cottage and looked the Animated Bronze Statue up and down, from its feet to its head.

The Animated Statue didn't seem to have heard him come in. It had an imperious expression on its face while holding its spear to its side. The horse it was riding was frozen in place with both its front hooves up in the air.

”Can you hear me?” asked Gao Peng.

”...”

Gao Peng shook his head. Even though it was just a statue that was made in Guan Gong's likeness, he was quite impressed that it had the imperial air of one of the greatest figures in Chinese history down pat.

”I'll just let you do your thing,” said Gao Peng before leaving the building.

The next day, Gao Peng sent someone to bring a couple of chickens into the stone cottage. He also had someone set up a watering trough and some chicken coops there.

The bronze statue remained standing there without showing any signs of life.

In less than a day, the ground was already littered with chicken droppings.

The stench of the droppings became unbearable after a few days. Some of the chickens had even taken dumps on the statue's feet.

A week later, the ground was caked with a layer of droppings. The chickens had left poop tracks all over the statue's feet. Gao Peng noticed that all the chickens were still alive.

The bronze statue had remained completely motionless for the whole week.

”There's no way I can beat a statue in a patience contest,” muttered Gao Peng.

He ordered someone to bring out all the chickens and clean up the stone cottage.

Gao Peng then brought his laboratory equipment into the stone cottage. He had decided to stay alongside the statue for the next few days to continue his experiment.

Naturally, Stripey was ecstatic about this.

”So black dog blood can't corrupt it...” Gao Peng frowned. He had gathered quite a lot of information about the statue during his experiment, including its hardness, defense, and elemental resistances.

He had also discovered that all awakened statues shared the same weakness: the propensity to be corrupted.

If he could figure out what the Animated Bronze Statue's corrupting agent was, he would be able to break it.