Chapter 822: Location
Twilight Dynasty Palace, seventh floor.
A former king sat on a throne made of gold. Although only bones were left of him, his greatness was still with him.
Bubtney had circled the throne several times and found nothing out of the ordinary, so he didn't look so scared now.
Looking at the pure gold throne, Bubtney's tail began to move non-stop from side to side, clearly indicating that he had come up with some great idea.
Walking to the left side of the throne, it raised one of its hind legs...
*P-s-s-s-s~*
A trickle of liquid ran down the throne.
That's right, Bubtney decided to take revenge on this skeleton.
Just as Bubtny was enjoying the process, an electric arc suddenly shot out from under the throne.
*Crackle!..*
Bubtney twitched. "Woof! he barked once, then whined. With its tail and hind legs tucked between its legs, it jumped out of the way.
Su Xiao stopped looking at the floor below when he heard the strange sound. "Bubtney?" "because of the unknown energy that was everywhere in this palace, Su Xiao didn't know what had happened to Bubtni.
Bubtney looked up the stairs. Its hind legs were still shaking.
— What just happened?
Hearing Su Xiao's question, Bubtney looked up at the ceiling, his eyes clearly wanting to say, " Nothing».
— What is this strange smell? Su Xiao's nose twitched. A faint smell lingered in the air on the seventh floor. Bubtney, when he reached the stairs, looked up at the nearest window, and his eyes seemed to say, " The weather is really nice today».
Su Xiao looked around and found nothing out of the ordinary.
Right now, they were the only ones in this palace. The first contractors of the Reincarnation Paradise will arrive here in about 10-20 hours. As for the contractors from "Apocalyptic Paradise", they will clearly be in this place a little later, because the battle for this world was supposed to start in 26 hours.
Su Xiao began to wander around the palace. He wanted to fully explore it.
If the two factions were forced to fight in this place, then apart from the ruins, the palace itself would eventually become a battlefield.
The internal structure of the palace was complex and the palace itself was huge, so there would be no problem accommodating hundreds of contractors. As for the ruins in the vicinity of the palace, they were not worth thinking about, as they were an ideal place with many different places where you could ambush a not quite attentive enemy.
The contractors of the Reincarnation Paradise will defend the palace and the world core on the seventh floor of this palace, while the contractors of the Apocalyptic Paradise will have to capture this world core.
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Three hours later, Su Xiao created a blueprint of the palace's internal structure.
From the first floor to the third floor, there were many rooms, many of which were connected to each other. If someone enters such a room for the first time and does not leave it immediately, it will not be a very easy task to eventually get back to the stairs.
From the fourth to the sixth floor, there were a large number of corridors and passageways. These floors were a level higher in complexity than the first three floors.
If the contractors from "Apocalyptic Paradise" can break into the palace, you just need to stop them from going up to the seventh floor.
However, there were two passageways in the palace that led to the seventh floor. The first and most important passage was a stone staircase that could be climbed from the first to the seventh floor, and the second was a staircase that was located on each floor. These stairs only led to a higher or lower floor.
Now it will be very easy for contractors from Apocalyptic Paradise to reach the seventh floor. Whether it was the stone staircase in the center of the palace or the numerous ascents on each floor, in general, climbing up to the seventh floor now was a trivial task. Of course, this ease was mainly due to the presence of a stone staircase, with which it was possible to climb from the first to the seventh floor. As for the stairs that led to the floor above or below, they were a very dubious way to get to the right floor, because they were randomly located and because of the size and complexity of the palace, it was very difficult to find them.
After looking at his blueprint, Su Xiao thought about it.
— The palace and the secret room... Control room? Su Xiao muttered. He noticed in his drawing a very inconspicuous room on the sixth floor, which could lead to a secret room.
After checking the map, he quickly made his way to the right room.
After a while, Su Xiao arrived at the hidden control room. As soon as he was inside it, he felt a little dizzy.
The control room was about ten square meters in size. It held an old-fashioned console with dozens of metal rods. Under each metal rod were inscriptions in some language.
Due to the fact that all the contractors were given a level 40 "Common Language" skill before moving to this world, Su Xiao was able to understand what was written.
The signs were mostly: "Protecting the car, flooding the floor, blocking the passageways, building barriers," and a dozen other similar signs..
Su Xiao touched his chin and tried to lower the metal rod labeled " Machine Protection».
*Click*
The metal rod was lowered, but nothing happened. Since this palace was too old, its defense mechanisms had most likely stopped working long ago.
Su Xiao looked at the metal rod labeled "Passageway Blockade" and lowered the rod down.
The entire palace immediately shook.
*Rumble*
Su Xiao ran out of the control room as the stone floor beneath his feet began to shake violently. Just as he was about to go up to the seventh floor to check if everything was in order, a stone wall suddenly appeared in front of him.
He was sure that this stone wall had never existed here before, but now it was right in the middle of the passage.
Because of this, Su Xiao started to study the changes in the palace.
After about an hour, he looked very satisfied.
Due to the activation of the Passageway Block mechanism, the windows and stone staircase in the center of the palace were sealed with layers of stone slabs. Now, if someone wanted to go up to the seventh floor from the first floor, they only had one way — to look for stairs on each floor and slowly but surely climb higher and higher.
Now, if the contractors from" Apocalyptic Paradise " want to go up to the seventh floor, they will be forced to clear one floor after another. Of course, they could have tried to break through the walls, but considering that the Dragon's Flash couldn't even leave a centimeter cut on the bridge, it was a real joke. Most likely, even his most powerful bomb wouldn't be able to do anything to this palace. In fact, even if a nuclear bomb were to explode inside this palace, it would only be able to break through a couple of walls at most.
Soon after, Su Xiao returned to the control room and decided to destroy this control panel, but even though he slashed at it with all his might with his sword, it only sent sparks flying.
Because of the unknown energy that enveloped everything in this palace and the palace itself, it was simply impossible to destroy anything.
But Su Xiao wasn't completely helpless. If he activated the Qing Gang Yin energy, he would sooner or later be able to temporarily knock that energy out of the control panel, which would allow him to destroy it, but it would most likely cause damage not only to the panel, but to the entire palace at once. As for dealing damage to the entire palace, it was clearly a very bad idea, for it was on the defense side, so the stronger the palace was, the better it was for Su Xiao.
If he destroyed too much of this unknown energy, the palace would clearly become less solid, and that would greatly affect the outcome of the battle.
Although he couldn't destroy this panel, Su Xiao had other methods. First of all, he found a large amount of fine sand outside the palace, mixed some alchemical reagents with this fine sand, and began pouring the resulting mixture into the shallow gaps of the desired metal rod.
After waiting for half an hour, Su Xiao tried to return the rod to its original position.
*Crackle-crackle...*
The veins on Su Xiao's arms bulged, but the metal rod eventually stayed in place.
It's like it's been welded shut.
After realizing that his plan had worked, Su Xiao took out some steel wires, several kilograms of very small iron balls, and three alchemy bombs.
Twenty minutes later, Su Xiao walked out of the control room. Nothing seemed to have changed in the control room, but in reality, it was now one big trap. If anyone dared to break into it, they clearly wouldn't be able to leave unscathed.
After doing all the necessary things, Su Xiao found a room and waited.
Bubtney was feeling much better now. He had even wandered around the ancient ruins, so he was now sleeping on his side.
What puzzled Su Xiao was that Bubtny kept curling up his hind legs like he was having a nightmare and whining from time to time.
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