Chapter 57: Traps and a Beauty at the Chest (1/2)
Neat, agile, and efficient; the Basic Grade Mechanical Beasts completely lacked the strength to resist under Lin Yingmei’s spear techniques, and the Arctic Star Spear swept through those mechanical puppets one by one in clean destruction. At the very end, there was only a pile of scrap iron left. Lin Yingmei’s spear technique’s brilliance was demonstrated under the exquisite attacks, breaking the Mechanical Beasts into four limbs without a single whole, yet the all-important “souls” were spared.
This made the Thief Star that toiled for a month to only draw out the majority of the Mechanical Beasts receive a great shock.
Only when she saw that renowned Arctic Star Spear did she wake up.
“You, you…are the Majestic Star Lin Chong??”
Shi Yuan was unable to conceal her shock, “How could Lin Chong sign a contract…” She thought this matter had already exceeded her understanding.
Lin Yingmei gave her an ice-cold glance, not paying attention to her big fuss, “Young Master can take these souls for his use.”
“Ah…this originally should have been this servant’s…” The Thief Star Shi Yuan opened her pair of eyes wide at Su Xing, launching a lovely, pitiful attack.
Su Xing rolled his eyes at her: “Give them to the Thief Star. I have no use for them.” Although the Mechanical Beasts were fine and mystical, right now, Su Xing currently put priority on considering the matter of the Blooming Water Divine Thunder. He was just not that interested in the Mechanical Arts, and seeing the Thief Star with such a pained appearance, taking them away in this manner was embarrassing.
Lin Yingmei’s actions were truly violent, with more than ten Mechanical Beasts collapsing at the first blow.
Shi Yuan gratefully received those scattered souls, her gloom from before swept cleanly away. With someone working in her stead, she could pick up things for cheap; the Flea on a Drum definitely would not ignore this.
After clearing out the surrounding Mechanical Beasts, everyone then entered the Mo Clan Ruins. With crumbling fences and dilapidated ramparts, fragmented walls, tiles and bricks, and completely filled with dust, it seemed this ruin was quite old.
“Where we’re going is the main hall in the center. You all must be mindful of what is underfoot, so don’t blame this Young Lady for not warning you. Hee hee, you’d best hide in the Star Nest.” Shi Yuan carried a sly smile, and she leapt onto the broken walls, flew onto the eaves and walked along the ramparts. Lithe as a swallow, it was just like this that in the blink of an eye, she had covered forty, fifty meters.
Underfoot?
Su Xing felt he did not understand the words of the Thief Star directly across from them.
Lin Yingmei who was walking at the very front suddenly whirled her body, avoiding a blaze that abruptly rushed out from within the ground. Just when she sidestepped, it seemed this had already been anticipated, for an iron cage fell to the ground, just happening to trap Lin Yingmei.
The girl swept her long spear to easily break the cage, but before she had time to breathe, the surrounding floor suddenly fell away to reveal a deep and immeasurable dark hole. This completely went beyond Lin Yingmei’s expectations, and she immediately fell downwards without warning.
“Yingmei!!” Su Xing was alarmed.
However, as Lin Yingmei was falling, she stuck her spear into a crack in the rock face, thereupon using it to spring upwards, jumping out from the hole of that abyss.
“Yingmei, careful!”
Wu Xinjie loudly warned.
Subsequently, jets of flame, knife blades, cages, rocks and every sort of mechanism emerged in succession. There were common steel weapons as well as mysterious Earthly Fire artifacts and so on. Fortunately, the Panther Head’s reputation was not for show. The girl was like a cheetah shrugging off its chains, pushing through within the mechanisms at lightning speed such that several mechanisms could not even react.
Without another moment, Lin Yingmei arrived in front of the flabbergasted Thief Star Shi Yuan, and turning her head: “Young Master, please be a bit careful.”1
Su Xing nodded.
Wu Xinjie stuck out her tongue: “Young Master, Xinjie will first enter the Star Nest to rest for a bit.” Giggling, the Knowledge Star’s beautiful figure whirled and then hid inside the Star Nest. Su Xing’s mind gave rise to the sound of her encouragement.
Su Xing smiled. At this time, he saw An Suwen standing hesitantly at the edge, all along incapable of treading a step forward. The Efficacious Star The Divine Physician was more than capable of treating diseases to help patients, whereas intruding into mechanisms, her spirit was willing, but her flesh was weak.
“I’ll carry you over then?” Su Xing extended a hand in invitation.
“This will bring harm to the young master.” An Suwen shook her head, retreating a step.
“This is only a small mechanism.” Su Xing disapproved. A forest of spears, a hail of bullets, and detonations of landmines2 were all approaching. How could anything be figured out in this situation. Su Xing did not like to hesitate, and seeing An Suwen unable to make a firm decision, he stretched her body across his arms and held her in a princess carry.3
An Suwen’s cheeks flushed red slightly, wrapping both her arms tightly around Su Xing’s neck. Burying her head, she almost inaudibly told him: “Young master, be careful!”
“En.”
Su Xing took a deep breath. Fiercely rushing forward, it was just as he was taking a step that the ground suddenly raised countless sharp and coldly glinting blades. A ripping sound filled the air, as these blades seemingly came to life, like a rolling wave coming to kill them.