Chapter 126: Heading to the top floor, this blue projection is problematic

Are you that confident?

Looking at the bronze robot blocking the way, Su Hao couldn't help but chuckle, with no intention of attacking.

I want to see how long you all can keep watching the show here.

At the same time.

The bronze robots closest to the giant panda raised the long blades in their hands; the blue stripes on the blades suddenly glowed blue, and the edges turned crimson, releasing scorching heat.

Immediately after, they exerted all their strength and, from various angles, chopped down at the giant panda.

With seamless cooperation and precise calculation, the attacks of these bronze robots cut off all the giant panda's escape routes.

This is the advantage of the robots: in a one-on-one situation they struggle to exert their full combat power, but in two-on-two or three-on-three, the advantage brought by this computational ability becomes obvious.

The more bronze robots there are, the stronger the effect of this computational ability becomes.

If the giant panda cannot escape from here before the blade falls, then don't even think about escaping again.

However……

The giant panda had no intention of fleeing; it didn't even think of dodging, as if it hadn't seen those crimson blades releasing terrifying heat, and continued waving its claws, launching attacks at the surrounding robots.

In the blink of an eye—less than a second—the bronze robots finished charging their long blades, calculated each person's attack angle, and the motion of raising and chopping down, then heavily struck the giant panda's body with a single blow.

Moreover, these bronze robots possess tremendous strength, far surpassing the energy laser gun-wielding, long-range-attack bronze robots outside the pyramid.

Their powerful strike could even cut through second-tier armor.

However, in the face of absolute strength, neither this powerful strike, nor their seamless coordination, nor precise attack positions, meant anything.

Only the sound of 'clang clang clang' rang out repeatedly as the long blades in the bronze robots' hands, imbued with immense force and terrifying heat, heavily struck the giant panda's petrified skin.

Unfortunately, the bronze robots, despite all their calculations, never accounted for the defensive power of the giant panda's petrified skin.

Their strike produced nothing but a few crisp sounds.

It merely left a shallow white mark on the giant panda's petrified skin, failing to break through its defense.

On the contrary, the strong recoil disrupted the circuits in their arms, causing electric sparks and temporarily losing control of the entire arm.

In contrast, the giant panda's combat record was far better.

All it did was let the long-blade attacks hit it, smashing the heads of two bronze robots and sending them flying.

Then, with a sideways sweep of its right hand, it grabbed one bronze robot's arm, using it like a humanoid iron whip, and lashed out at the surrounding robots for half a circle.

With a 'bang', the bronze robot held in the giant panda's hand was left with only half a leg in its grip after that swing; the rest of its body turned into a pile of scrap metal that flew away.

The situation was no better for the surrounding bronze robots.

Being whipped by the giant panda, seven or eight bronze robots instantly had their bodies torn apart, collided with nearby robots, and were flung backward dozens of meters.

Seeing this, the roughly fifty bronze robots originally tasked with blocking Su Hao from the encirclement and preventing his support saw a faint red light flicker in their eyes, then returned to the encirclement.

Together they launched the fiercest attack on the giant panda, intending to first kill this formidable foe before turning on Su Hao and his companions.

Unfortunately, all of this was destined to be futile.

Even the bronze robots' full-force strikes could not break the giant panda's defense, while a casual blow from the panda could twist and deform the opponent's body, completely destroying its combat ability.

This was completely a one-sided situation; even though the bronze robots had a numerical advantage, relentless attacks on the same spot eventually broke through the giant panda's defense.

However, the giant panda possessed extraordinary regenerative abilities; simply eating a handful of purple gold bamboo would heal everything, and even the white marks on its petrified skin would disappear.

Under such a huge disparity in strength, in less than half an hour, all the second-tier bronze robots were reduced to scrap metal by the giant panda's successive slaps, scattered across the corners of this hall.

Then, even after the last bronze robot was smashed by the giant panda, Su Hao remained fully alert, keeping his wary gaze fixed on the robot statues on either side of the hall.

Last time, in the Ice Snow Goddess's temple, he suffered greatly on the statue of the Ice Snow Goddess, nearly meeting his end there, leaving him a deep impression.

Now, seeing these strange statues again, he couldn't help but heighten his vigilance.

Thus, Su Hao stood still in place for over ten minutes.

During those ten-plus minutes, the giant panda endured agony, not daring to take a breath.

Why won't my thigh speak? Is it dissatisfied with my performance just now? I admit I was a bit lazy—'a hundred million' points—didn't give my all, but didn't I also kill all these machines?

What should I do? If my thigh is unhappy, will it make me wear small shoes and reduce my purple gold bamboo allocation……

No, no, I need to think of a remedy, do something to please my thigh.

Hmm……

Yesterday I brought back the shelter of a human female, and when those two foolish human females joined the territory, my thigh looked more satisfied.

Hmm…… my thigh even laughed; it must be fairly satisfied.

Or… from now on I'll go out more often, bring more human females back for my thigh—no, wait, that's wrong; I shouldn't limit myself to human females—spiders, tigers, anything that doesn't eat purple gold bamboo can also be brought back.

Right, that's it; anyway, I'm fast now, so when I'm free I'll just go for a stroll!

After making up his mind, the giant panda no longer seemed so tense; it quietly sat on the ground, slowly shifting sideways to get out of Su Hao's line of sight as much as possible.

If another ten-plus minutes passed, Su Hao would basically be certain that these two statues posed no threat.

However, to be safe, Su Hao still took out a 20m×20m×20m storage bag and handed it to a skeleton warrior.

He had him place the two statues into the storage bag, then bring the bag outside the pyramid, dig a pit over ten meters deep, and bury the bag there.

"Looks like I was overthinking it!"

Seeing this, Su Hao finally smiled faintly, completely relieved, walked up to a bronze robot corpse, and applied the Item Refining Technique to it.

After the red light of the refining faded, the ground showed about 100 kilograms of bronze alloy, and a mechanical sphere made from that bronze alloy.

【Bronze Mechanical Core—Melee Specialization】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

Effect: Place the mechanical device together with the bronze alloy into the Bronze Mass-Produced Robot Manufacturing Device.

By consuming sufficient energy, one can autonomously produce Supernatural Grade Second Rank bronze robots with enhanced melee capability.

(The rest omitted)

……

Melee specialization? This also counts as a new robot, who knows how many types of robots there are inside this Pyramid.

Outside the Pyramid, Su Hao encountered general-purpose bronze robots and black iron robots; now he has also encountered a melee-specialized bronze robot.

He had only just arrived at the Pyramid not long ago, yet he has already encountered three different types of robots; Su Hao is now very curious about what other robots he might meet here.

I don't know if I can encounter a lifestyle-type robot here.

Compared to combat-type robots, Su Hao looks forward even more to obtaining a lifestyle-type robot.

For others, naturally the bronze and black iron combat-type robots are the most useful.

But for Su Hao, combat-type robots are not particularly useful.

After all, he can refine hellish demons, summon skeleton warriors, and has Xiao Anni's mutated plants; he fundamentally lacks no combat-type units.

Conversely, lifestyle-type robots are more useful to him.

In Su Hao's current territory, he has planned a 1 km × 1 km living area, plus two 3 km × 3 km planting areas.

To manage these areas well, a large workforce is needed; however, the more people there are in the territory, the inevitable disputes arise, which Su Hao dislikes.

He does not want to waste time adjusting member relationships.

However, service-type robots would not have this problem; as long as they are given sufficient energy, they will strictly carry out Su Hao's assigned tasks 24 hours a day.

Whether watering plants, collecting fruit, or doing other things, they will have no complaints nor create any conflict—this is the ideal worker! However, even if lifestyle-type robots can be found inside this Pyramid, without a robot production facility it would be useless.

Afterwards, Su Hao stopped thinking further, picked up a long sword beside his foot, and used the Item Appraisal Technique on it.

【Energy Hot-Melt Blade】

Supernatural Grade: Second Rank

Effect: By consuming a large amount of energy, a special high temperature is generated on the blade, allowing extra fire-element damage when attacking enemies.

, if the attack target is metal, wood, or other types of supernatural items, or species, it will also cause extra damage.

……

Holy shit! This is actually a Supernatural Second Rank weapon!

After viewing the content displayed by the appraisal result, Su Hao couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Leaving aside the robots' quality, the weapons they use are truly luxurious; even the initial Supernatural First Rank black iron robot used a Supernatural Second Rank energy mechanical shield.

Never mind anything else; just these weapons alone have already let Su Hao make a big profit, and his anticipation for exploring this Pyramid keeps growing.

After refining all the bronze robot corpses completely, Su Hao had each skeleton warrior pick up an Energy Hot-Melt Blade and walk toward the opposite side.

After a simple study, Su Hao opened the elevator door, bringing Da Xiong Mao and his many underlings into the elevator.

Huh? Only the up button works?

After entering the elevator, Su Hao found that among the five buttons inside, only the button for the top floor was lit; the other four were all gray and had no response when pressed.

Given that, Su Hao had no other choice; he immediately pressed the button for the top floor.

The next moment.

The elevator doors slammed shut with a 'clang,' and the elevator rose upward at great speed.

At the same time.

At the lowest level of this Pyramid, there is a cylindrical unknown device filled with an unknown silver-white liquid.

Through these silver-white liquids, a naked humanoid creature can be vaguely seen; judging by its physiological features, it can basically be confirmed as a female within the liquid.

When Su Hao pressed the button for the top floor, this humanoid creature suddenly opened its eyes and awoke from its slumber.

The strange thing is that this person's pupils are silver-white.

Again? As long as I'm here, I won't let you take away my father's research results...

Afterwards, she crawled out of the cylindrical device, walked toward the nearby giant robot up to a hundred meters tall, and climbed into its cockpit.

……

Pyramid top floor.

The elevator's speed was very fast; in a short while it had covered over thirty meters and reached the top level of the Pyramid.

When the elevator stopped, its doors automatically opened.

Welcome, stranger.

After exiting the elevator, Su Hao entered a room about ten meters high, filled with various high-tech instruments.

In the middle of this room, there is a blue projection resembling a human male's skull, occupying nearly half the room; that voice comes from this projection.

At the moment that voice was heard, the skeleton warrior beside the elevator door activated his energy mechanical shield, blocking in front of the elevator.

The other skeleton warriors, in unison, raised the energy guns in their hands and aimed the barrels at the direction of that blue projection.

As long as Su Hao gives the order, all the skeleton warriors will without hesitation pull the trigger on their weapons.

They fire a blast of energy laser at that unknown blue projection, powerful enough that even all Supernatural Second Rank beings would find it hard to resist.

It is unclear whether this is due to the skeleton warriors' swift reaction or some other reason, but upon seeing this, the blue projection's light flickered slightly, as if showing a kind of surprise-like emotion.

This emotion-like change lasted only a very brief moment, quickly disappearing; if not deliberately observed, one might not even notice it.

However, unfortunately, this fleeting change was exactly captured by Su Hao.

After using the Twin Souls technique, Su Hao's body contains two souls.

Furthermore, after he advanced to Crimson Bone Demon, the strength of both souls was significantly increased.

Whether it is observation, memory, or the speed of casting skills, or anything else, Su Hao is far stronger than an ordinary person.

That brief change on the blue projection's body is naturally hard to escape Su Hao's observation.

This change made Su Hao frown slightly; according to the room's layout, this blue projection is obviously a product of some high technology.

Since it is a high-tech product, how could it display such an emotional change? Moreover, downstairs, when encountering any robot, they would attack on sight without a word.

Now encountering such a calm, willing-to-communicate blue projection, Su Hao does not consider this a good thing.

However, Su Hao also did not worry excessively.

These people either have bodies almost immortal, or can be reborn in a furnace; even if they encounter danger, they are not so easily killed.

After a brief moment of thought, Su Hao led Da Xiong Mao and the others out of the elevator, and seriously took a look at this top floor of the Pyramid.

Compared to the spacious hall on the first floor, this top-level space is much smaller in area, its height only over ten meters, and its length and width only about forty to fifty meters.

About half of the space is occupied by that blue projection, and the remaining area holds some high-tech equipment that Su Hao cannot understand.

When the last skeleton warrior walked out of the elevator, the blue-headed projection again emitted a machine-synthesized sound.

"Strangers, congratulations on passing the first trial."

"If you falter out of fear, the elevator will send you out of T235 Experimental Base, you will lose your trial qualification, and will not be able to enter T235 Experimental Base again."

"Now you have obtained the opportunity to participate in this trial; if you can pass all the challenges, I will, according to my master's settings, grant you a generous reward."

After saying that, the blue-headed projection again fell silent, saying nothing more and not urging Su Hao.

"A trial..."

Hearing this, Su Hao stroked his chin, showing a hint of being moved.

Since it's a trial, there must be a reward; moreover, that blue projection said that as long as one passes the trial, one can obtain the reward left by its master.

Furthermore, based on what that blue projection just said and Su Hao's memory of Lars in his mind, he can basically confirm that this experimental base called T235 belongs to Lars.

Then, the owner of that blue head is likely Lars; after completing the trial, perhaps he could obtain some data related to the mechanical angels.

Of course, all this hinges on an important premise: that this trial is genuine.

However, Su Hao has already come this far; the other buttons in the elevator are unusable. If he were to end the exploration of this Pyramid over this doubt, how could he be willing? After hesitating a moment, Su Hao lightly tapped his fingers and smiled faintly, saying:

"Sure, tell me the details of the trial!"

There are still five thousand words this afternoon (end of chapter).