Chapter 176 : 175-176

After all, a monster that could hover in the air was not only powerful in output but could also fight and tank.

More importantly, it could interfere with enemies, making it most suitable for disrupting the enemy’s rhythm.

“Nevermind, this card is also good. If there’s a chance to enhance it in the future, miracles might happen.”

Luo Sheng put away the card.

He glanced at the card’s enhancement information, realizing that none of the cards in his possession could serve as material cards for it.

Evidently, the Relic Guardian and the Mechanical City were not from the same card world, just similar cards.

The dimensionally polluted areas of the invading world were not singular, just like the ghostly polluted areas could produce eastern ghosts like Bai Moxue, as well as western evil spirits like the Grim Reaper.

Because they all belonged to the undead.

This was a conclusion Luo Sheng had drawn from his observations, not mentioned in the textbooks.

Because he could enter the card world, he could also discover the dimensional invasions of the world, which could summon cards from other worlds, these kinds of strange phenomena.

Luo Sheng continued walking through the Mechanical City in his mecha suit.

Occasionally, he found one or two bodies of Card Masters who had died carelessly, all their cards destroyed. Luo Sheng buried them all.

He also found some villages that had been covered by the Mechanical City.

Because he hadn’t walked far.

He discovered a village that looked like a water town in Jiangnan, transformed into metal by the Mechanical City, with stone walls turned into iron blocks.

Some tiled houses were even buried directly within the Mechanical City walls.

Only the corpses of the villagers remained, they hadn’t survived until the rescue moment, their appearances extremely tragic.

Some had been killed by artillery shells, some had been cut in half by metal blades, and more had been shot. The only fortunate thing was that they hadn’t suffered torture, but were killed immediately.

“If not of our kind, their hearts must be different?”

Luo Sheng frowned slightly at this scene.

Bai Moxue also appeared in the darkness, surveying this human tragedy, shaking her head, “Pitiful, perhaps the world is just a tragedy.”

She was equally deeply moved.

In her card world, ghosts escaping from the netherworld to invade the world of the living would also slaughter innocents indiscriminately.

Perhaps weakness was originally the original sin, this was a world where the strong preyed on the weak.

“Hmm, let’s bury them.”

After Luo Sheng spoke, he summoned the mechanical mole to dig a deep pit. Bai Moxue used her red sleeve to place the corpses inside, one by one, and finally covered them.

Afterwards, the two continued walking in the Mechanical City that was like a desert.

There was not a single green plant here, everywhere was thick metal, apart from the maze-like Mechanical City, there were only steel buildings.

A strong smell of iron permeated the surroundings, along with a hint of rust.

As they went deeper into the Mechanical City, the sky became darker, and the sounds of fighting around them gradually lessened.

Or rather, the number of Card Masters who could penetrate this deep had decreased.

The level of the Card Master students from the five major academies was ultimately too low, most were around Bronze Full Star, with less than 10 Silver rank Card Masters.

Even the No. 1 Middle School, which ranked first every year, only had 10 Silver rank Card Masters.

And among the five major academies combined, there were no more than 40 Silver rank individuals.

Letting the remaining Bronze rank Card Masters deal with the Silver rank creatures in the Mechanical City was quite challenging.

It was estimated that the development of the Mechanical City had exceeded the expectations of Pingcheng’s upper echelons.

It had already reached the point where it had to be eliminated.

And Pingcheng had recently experienced the turmoil of the black market riots and prison attacks, making it impossible to gather powerful Card Masters for a strategic attack.

So they turned their attention to the academies, since academy Card Masters were numerous and a powerful force.

Suddenly.

Just as Luo Sheng took a step, his spiritual jade sent out frantic warnings. He instantly activated his Hall thruster backpack, shooting straight into the air.

The moment his feet left the ground, the metal floor emitted a piercing cutting sound, and a huge monster burst out from the ground.

Only then did Luo Sheng see its appearance clearly from the air. It was a giant metal man-eating flower.

At its center was a huge metal bud, two men tall. When the flower opened, it was full of sharp gears that could grind any metal, including living beings, into dust.

Around it were more than a dozen soft metal tentacles, like an octopus, with basketball-sized metal claws at the ends that could lock onto anything around them.

Seeing Luo Sheng, the metal man-eating flower attacked without a word, a large number of metal tentacles frantically extending towards the sky, trying to drag him down from mid-air.

With the help of the artificial AI, Luo Sheng automatically dodged the tentacles of the metal man-eating flower.

He also aimed at the bud of the metal man-eating flower and bombarded it with his plasma cannon.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the metal man-eating flower, feeling the attack, immediately retracted many of its tentacles, forming a thick protective shell to resist Luo Sheng’s fierce attack.

“Is this flower actually a turtle?”

Witnessing this scene, Luo Sheng frowned. Its protection through the tentacles could effectively neutralize the plasma cannon’s attack.

The offensive had become very troublesome.

Just as Luo Sheng was about to summon Acoley to use her flames to scorch the metal man-eating flower.

Suddenly, a voice sounded from beside him, “Let me handle this.”

Luo Sheng turned his head to see Qin Jianjia riding a frost giant dragon, soaring through the air, then a heavy dragon breath directly froze the metal man-eating flower on the ground into an ice sculpture.

It struggled mightily, but the heavy ice sculpture only allowed it to tremble slightly, unable to break free.

Qin Jianjia revealed a card.

【Metal Corrosion】

As the name suggests, this card accelerates the corrosion of machinery or metal, with the effect of greatly reducing the defense of mechanical cards.

This effect card was applied to the metal man-eating flower.

It seemed to feel pain, struggling to break free from the ice sculpture.

But the heavy ice pressed down on it like the Five-finger Mountain, and it was like the monkey’s head trapped under the Five-finger Mountain, no matter how hysterical it became, it still couldn’t break free.

Qin Jianjia didn’t stop her attack.

Another card lit up.

【Metal Sulfurization】

A special effect card, its function is to increase the sulfur content in the metal.

Making the metal more brittle, so that even a light hit would cause numerous cracks.

It also weakens the defense of mechanical system cards, causing all attacks to have an armor-piercing effect.

After these two cards, the metal man-eating flower was in extreme pain.

Hiss hiss hiss!

It roared angrily, and cracks appeared in the huge and heavy ice block, obviously it had been pushed to the brink.

Qin Jianjia paid no attention, using her imprint ability to become a sword immortal’s daughter, holding a long sword in her hand, drawing a bright arc in the air, as well as terrifying sword energy.

Then on the ground, there was a blur of sword light and shadows, the sword energy moving too fast for the naked eye to catch.

Luo Sheng saw the metal man-eating flower split into several pieces.

Finally, it turned into a card, announcing its death.

Qin Jianjia picked up the card from the ground.

She threw it to Luo Sheng. It was a Silver 4-Star card. Although not powerful, it was nasty, especially with those dense tentacles that could both attack and defend.

This type of card was not cheap, but Qin Jianjia still generously gave it to him.

“Uh, thanks,” Luo Sheng was puzzled for a while, but eventually put away the card.

Then he looked at Qin Jianjia.

He saw her slowly walking to his side.

And she spoke: “I need your help.”

I knew it… every time this person helps me, she definitely has something to ask of me too. As they say, there’s no free lunch in this world.

So Luo Sheng asked, “You’re so strong, you need my help too?”

“Then let’s cooperate,” Qin Jianjia dispersed her sword immortal’s daughter aura, maintaining such a state would consume spiritual power, returning to her previous ice-cold appearance, her cold beauty making her unapproachable.

Then she continued, “I know the location of a world fragment in the center of the Mechanical City. There’s a Silver 8-Star mechanical monster guarding it.

After it’s over, the world fragment will be mine, and the Silver 8-Star guardian will be yours.

Of course, any extra things will also be yours.”

As expected, Qin Jianjia was aiming for first place, because the first place reward included spiritual jade refinement essence.

However, Luo Sheng wasn’t very interested in the refinement essence, but that Silver card did indeed make him very curious.

Moreover, the cooperation terms Qin Jianjia offered were indeed hard to refuse. The use of world fragments was still unclear, but the Silver card guarding the world fragment was full of temptation.

After considering for a moment, Luo Sheng nodded and extended his hand with a smile, saying, “No problem, it’s a pleasure to cooperate.”

Qin Jianjia didn’t shake hands, but instead came to the back of the frost giant dragon and extended her hand to him, saying, “Come up, or do you want to fly there by yourself?”

Faced with Qin Jianjia’s sincere invitation, Luo Sheng grasped her delicate hand and said, “I’m coming.”