Chapter 1,074 Guardians

The Sky Tower is a giant building made of advanced composite materials. Its height exceeds the largest thing that ordinary civilization can build - a vertical height of more than thirty kilometers, which is completely sensational for a building. If it If the builder is not a giant but a creature similar to human size, then this height will be even more shocking.

Of course, the Xiling Empire has built many behemoths. We built planetary ecological controllers several kilometers high, battleships more than ten kilometers long, heavy aircraft carriers tens or hundreds of kilometers long, even planetary fortresses, and even more crazy ones. An extreme product of the military: the Nether Death Star. Each of these things is exaggerated in size, even to the point where it is difficult to describe it in terms of size: the height of the last coronal material ejection from the Nether Death Star was thousands of kilometers. But the single buildings we make are never too exaggerated: because there is no need. As a planetary surface building, a height of tens of kilometers is unnecessary and wastes energy, and it is easy to be attacked by heavy firepower.

I don’t know why the builders of the Sky Tower built such a huge tower back then, let alone what level of civilization they have developed to. What surprised me was that when Sandora was scanning the Sky Tower, she sensed an energy barrier inside. Its strength was enough to affect part of Sandora's radar. Of course, for a Xiling Emperor to break through this The barrier is quite simple, but Sandora is worried that forcibly destroying it will cause some sensitive equipment in the Sky Tower to activate, so she has not acted rashly for the time being.

"There is an entrance at the bottom of the tower. But it looks like we have to get some things done first..." Sandora pointed to the bottom of the tower in the distance, and her words were interrupted by a close explosion. "Boom!" The hot air waves set off by the explosion even distorted the air in a considerable area, but it was completely impossible to break through the energy shield around us. Sakina and Sona were protected inside the shield, and they saw the twisted surroundings. The hot air made all the faces change color. And this was just the beginning. Just a second or two later, deafening and continuous explosions covered the space where everyone was.

"Get rid of some unfriendly guards." Sandora shrugged. Look towards more colossi rising from the ground in the distance.

After we approached the Sky Tower for a certain distance, the guard system here was activated. Sakina and Sona told everyone from the beginning that there were very dangerous ancient guards here, so we were not surprised at all, but those ancient guards The shape of the guards makes people admire the imagination of their designers: they are giant statues made of silver-white metal, with an average height of about ten meters, and they seem to be covered with metal rings. Or it itself is made of metal rings, with parallel ring-shaped folds from head to toe. This layer of metal is both their skin and their armor. Apart from this, no other armor or clothing can be seen on them. These silver-white metal giants have no facial features or gender characteristics, only thick humanoid structures, and their faces are located on a smooth trapezoidal mirror surface. Reflecting the sparkling light in the sky. After locking onto us invaders, all the colossi immediately launched ferocious attacks - to my surprise, they all used long-range attacks. The hands of the colossus are some kind of artillery launchers, relying on the ring-shaped metal structure. Their entire palms can instantly shrink and fold into their wrists, leaving a round black muzzle. The golden-red high-temperature sphere flying out from medium-high speed can produce a big explosion instantly when it touches the ground. The speed of this attack is extremely fast, almost like a machine gun. It instantly forms a barrage coverage around us. As for these golden-red The power of the sphere...

Well, we have a group of leader-level guys holding up the joint shield, and Ilson, a professional MT, has activated the deflection halo. Who knows how powerful they are, I just know that there must be something special about this square, or it is those metals. The attack of the Colossus can automatically identify ourselves and the enemy. In such a massive and indiscriminate bombardment, not even a single crack appeared on the dusty boulder ground around it.

Because the existence of the Sky Tower itself has exceeded our expectations, everyone has also become quite curious about the guard system here. When more than a hundred metal giants rose from the ground, my sister and I stood on one side. After holding down Pandora and Viska who were about to escape, we want to see how strong the guard system here is. Sandora activated her backup radar matrix and began to measure the attack capabilities of each metal colossus, frowning deeply.

"The outer layer of these golden-red light balls is arcane energy, and the core has an unstable mass collapse point. The arcane energy layer is used to produce range damage. The mass collapse point in the core is obviously to destroy physical armor. This ammunition structure ...It seems that they are not designed to deal with ordinary invaders, they are more suitable for attacking things equipped with both shields and heavy armor, such as...ground assault vehicles of interstellar civilizations."

Sandora raised her head and glanced at the colossi. The unconscious guards were still unswervingly carrying out saturation bombing on the invaders. After discovering that their firepower did not achieve the expected effect, they changed their formation. The colossi formed a three-person team. , covering alternately front and back, each three-person team has a colossus with a slightly special appearance: the smooth trapezoidal metal plate on their faces is constantly refreshing with complex magic runes, like a display screen, this kind of colossus Maybe it's an elite unit like a team leader.

I was already a little dazed at this time and looked at Sandora in disbelief: "You said... I can understand the arcane layer easily. You said that there is a mass collapse point in these light balls? Such a high-end thing?"

Why do I feel like I jumped from Middle Earth to Battlestar in an instant!

"Their attack power is almost equivalent to that of elite imperial soldiers. If there are other attack methods, it may even be the same as that of grassroots commanders - not counting the imperial soldiers summoning super-dimensional firepower." Sandora Yun Danfeng Said softly.

Just when I was taken aback and was about to confirm whether Shandora had made a mistake, a frantic call finally came from beside me: "Hey! Let me tell you! Now is not the time to discuss the problem calmly! We are being attacked. . Being bombarded by hundreds of ancient colossi! This is enough bombing to evaporate the entire knights in an instant! Can you think of something to do quickly?"

I turned around and saw Sakina's grinning, frantic expression. Next to her, Sona was nervously watching the big explosion outside the shield, a golden-red arcane energy ball. The shock wave did not produce much smoke, so she could see more Colossi approaching closer through the twisted air more clearly. Although Sona remained calm and silent, her tail was moving every time. It flapped rapidly on the ground three times a second, and Sakina was even worse. She had already tucked her tail up in her arms: this was her subconscious habit when she was severely insecure.

"Ugh - at least get rid of the Colossus soldiers here first?" Sakina said with a grimace as the scales all over her body turned green.

Shandora shrugged and indicated that I could let Pandora out. I let go of the little head that I was holding in my hand and warned the girl uneasily before rushing out: "Try to leave one or two whole corpses. We still want to Do some research."

Pandora paused and nodded aggrievedly: according to her idea, she must have wanted to cut those colossi into pieces. The height of each section cannot exceed one meter and two meters, but now it seems that this idea can only be given up.

When Pandora and Viska rushed out, they caused a burst of exclamations from the half-dragon girl duo. They may have subconsciously thought that it would be too dangerous for those two short (!) little guys to rush out. But soon they remembered that there were examples like Medivh and Lin at the scene, so they calmed down instantly - until they saw two short winter melons facing the swarms of Colossus soldiers, and they took out two weapons with almost Up to a giant cannon equal to their height. I suddenly felt that it was a huge mistake to let these two little lunatics out: did they really have the concept of keeping the whole body? Especially when facing a group of huge humanoid objects that are more than eight times their height. But it was too late to say anything now: the roar of a huge cannon came from outside the shield.

The loud noise of the explosion has swept through the entire place, and there are distorted halos and harsh metal tearing sounds everywhere. The combat power of the Metal Colossus is said to be on par with elite imperial soldiers or low-level commanders, which is already quite staggering. Power, but they are unlucky. What we encountered was a group of people who could already be classified as outside the specifications. The mass collapse bombs they released could not break through the already messy and indescribable joint shield around us (if you think about it, you will know that this shield has many ingredients. It’s complicated. All the leaders of the four major systems of the God Clan and Xi Ling are charging the shield inside), and the layer of arcane energy outside the natural bomb has no effect. Pandora and Visca's cannons are specially prepared for destroying heavy targets. They are called anti-ship cannons. Small warships can be penetrated from head to tail by those cannons. The Colossus is like a giant under the bombardment of such cannons. They exploded one by one like flies, and I noticed a detail: when they were attacked, a layer of crystal-clear crystal-like shield would instantly appear on their bodies. Although this shield could not block the bombardment at all, its existence This in itself enhances the strategic value of this colossus in my mind. Perhaps while possessing the attack power of the elite elite soldiers of the empire, their defense power is not weak at all?

Although these defenders are just mere soldiers in front of Pandora and the others, in a place like this, seeing a group of ancient colossi that can rival the private soldiers of the empire still makes people very concerned.

In less than a minute, the world became quiet. Those huge colossi were actually not slow in moving, and were even as agile as humans. However, no matter how fast they were, they could not match the Pandora sisters' enemy-detection radar. Between the two naval guns and A group of floating cannons that joined the battle later concentrated on destroying them, and all the defenders in the square held on for a total of forty-six seconds.

Sakina stared blankly at the pockmarked square after the smoke cleared (the potholes were all caused by Pandora and the others. Although the sisters had carefully limited the firepower, the escaped explosion shock wave still shattered the nearby boulders. board, and the attacks of those giant statues did not harm the square itself at all, which is really amazing). After a long time, he finally regained his composure: "Ah——"

I estimate that she has never seen so many explosions appear around her at the same time in her life. The fact that her legs are weak is already a sign of this girl's strong will. The little crow was also frightened along with Sakina. Although the bird was no less powerful when it fluttered by itself, after all, she had just turned one month old and had never seen a big scene. The stupid bird looked around. , opened his arms and flapped twice. Make a "quacking" sound. Then he grunted and got into his sister's arms.

"Brother, you want the whole corpse." Pandora ran over, raised her little hand, and pointed not far away.

I looked up and found that Pandora and Huesca actually remembered to leave a research sample: a colossus soldier was not beaten to pieces by them, but was knocked to the ground, and Huesca was carrying a huge cannon. Cannon, using the base as a hammer. Beating the unfortunate Colossus soldier everywhere. The Colossus Soldier obviously hasn't stopped functioning yet. It moved its slightly deformed limbs and tried to stand up again, while Viska used super-fast space jumps to dodge around nearby. As long as part of the Colossus's body was lifted to one meter and two meters, Above the height, the girl immediately hit her with a cannon. The cat-eye loli wielding the huge cannon just flashed and jingled in the air, and she was so happy to hit her. The air echoed with the loud sounds of metal knocking and Viska's cheerful cheers - this naughty kid really knows how to play.

And the Colossus soldier was also very stubborn, and his hands and feet were smashed. But he is still trying to stand up unremittingly - he is not as smart as Uncle B. At least Uncle B's first reaction after seeing the Pandora sisters was to squat down, but this guy actually wanted to stand up!

"Okay, okay, let's calm down for a while." I asked Lilina to use vines to firmly fix the colossus to the ground, and then reached out to hold Huesca's little head. The cat-eyed loli was still scurrying around under my hands. Jumping up: "Brother, brother, I'll hit you two more times, I'll hit you two more times!"

"If you hit it again, it will be flattened." I gave her a blow that would break her head. The little girl finally calmed down. Sandora squatted down and knocked on the metal statue that was tied up but still struggling angrily. There was a hollow metallic echo from where she struck.

"It's empty inside." One of Sandora's fingers turned into a blue needle and stabbed hard into the chest of the metal colossus. Then he slashed the knife vertically, cutting off the metal ring-like structures on the Colossus' body, forming a crack that was about a foot long. "It is a very strong shell, and its strength is comparable to the armor plate of a starship, and There are charged structures. Inside... that's it."

She tore open the solid metal shell with her bare hands. Amidst the harsh sound of alloy tearing, the chest of the colossus was cut open entirely, revealing the cavity inside. There was no mechanical structure in sight, let alone flesh and blood, internal organs and other Similar organs, the body of the colossus is empty. There is only a halo of constantly changing colors flowing in the cavity like water. This halo has an almost touchable texture and contains extremely powerful energy. Reaction - I feel that it is a bit close to the energy reaction on the raven. Of course, it is just the "mystery" of this energy that gives people a similar feeling. There is no psionic reaction on the colossus, they seem to be arcane-driven.

Even if the body is cut open, the colossus has not weakened its vitality at all. It is still vibrating violently, and the crack on the chest is slowly closing: this thing actually has a strong ability to repair itself.

"Fortunately, it was us who met us. If the Colossus went to war with the same number of imperial soldiers, it would have been a tough battle just now." Sandora couldn't help but said after seeing that the Colossus still had such a high ability to repair itself.

Of course, this repair ability cannot keep up with Sandora's dissection speed. Soon, the weapons of the Colossus were also displayed in front of us. Sandora cut off one of its arms, transversely severing the structure that could be retracted into the wrist and form a muzzle. What appeared in front of us was a complex array of runes and energy, as well as a circle of crystal structures. However, although there were many knowledgeable people at the scene, the technical content of the thing in front of us was indeed not low (with such a high combat effectiveness, this is also Not difficult to imagine), no one can see how it is driven.

There is no one on the mysterious side of the empire - and Bingtis, a technical geek, doesn't seem to be good at the field in front of him.

Hey, wait, it seems that the mysterious side is not completely deserted, I seem to have one with me all the time!

"Alaya, look at the principle of this... Why did this guy fall asleep again!" I called to some sleepy angel in my spiritual world, but what I received in response was a gentle and even snoring sound. After concentrating my energy to investigate, I found a certain silly cat holding Zhengxiang who was sleeping with little Qijing. I had to increase the intensity of my mental call, "Alaya, sleepyhead, lazy cat, get up quickly!" You’ve been sleeping on and off for nearly twenty hours and haven’t had enough sleep?!”

After calling for a long time, Alaya's lazy and soft hum finally came to my mind. It was not easy to wake up the angel sister from her drowsiness, but she finally woke up. I asked everyone to move aside. The next second The holy light that was wandering around condensed in the open space among the people. The holy light quickly condensed and took shape, turning into a snow-white and holy figure. Alaya, wearing a white dress, landed lightly on the ground with his bare feet. Stretched: in the process, he flapped his wings and flew away Dingdang, who was leaning towards him not knowing what he wanted to do. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the people around him with golden pupils in confusion.

"Wow! What is this!" Sakina finally exclaimed.

I thought about it and explained: "Remember Xiao Qijing, right? This is Xiao Qijing's mother - just understand it like this, otherwise it will be too complicated to explain."

Sona gave me a strange look and whispered, "Do you have the habit of carrying your wife and children inside your body?"

Me: "...let's talk about something light."

Alaya blinked incomprehensibly, and his golden eyes finally landed on the metal giant statue that was "clanging, clanging, clanging" next to him, and then he frowned.

As if recalling something, she whispered a word uncertainly: "Colossus of Gunda?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, your Support is my biggest motivation.)