Chapter 127: Go, Mischievous Bullet, use self-destruct!

The trial consists of three rounds in total; after you complete all trials, you will receive a generous reward.

As long as you obtain this reward, it is enough for you to successfully advance to the Third Tier; if used properly, reaching the Supernatural Fourth Rank is also possible!

In the blue projection's mechanically synthesized voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, there lurked an indescribable sense of temptation.

Upon hearing his words, people subconsciously began to daydream about completing the trial and the future after obtaining the reward.

After the blue projection finished its last sentence, the corner of Da Xiong Mao's mouth uncontrollably drooled a strand of saliva.

Even Su Hao began to fantasize about, after obtaining the reward, leaping to become a Third-Tier Supernatural and then using that to become a Supernatural Fourth Rank.

However, unlike Da Xiong Mao, Su Hao's mind contained two independent yet closely linked souls; when one soul was influenced by the blue projection's words,

the other soul issued a warning, instantly bringing Su Hao back to clarity.

He controlled the flesh on his face, keeping his expression unchanged, stared deeply at the blue projection, and then slightly nodded.

"I accept this trial; tell me the content of the first round."

After discovering something off about the blue projection, Su Hao's first thought was to simply turn and leave this place, regardless of what kind of feather trial it was.

Once I figure out what this blue projection actually is, I'll come back later; there's no rush.

But when he remembered that behind him the elevator only had a working button to go to the top floor, he changed his mind again.

According to the structure of this pyramid and the buttons inside the elevator, Su Hao could confirm that this place is the pyramid's top.

Moreover, adding the trial spoken of by the blue projection, there are three rounds in total.

So, in this pyramid top floor where besides the blue projection there are only various high-tech instruments, it is obviously unsuitable as a trial site.

That means the actual trial site is likely on the pyramid's first floor or other underground spaces.

If I accept the blue projection's trial, I can use this opportunity to go to other areas of this pyramid and continue my unfinished exploration.

As for whether I need to return after completing the trial, that will depend on the situation.

"Congratulations, stranger, you made the correct choice!"

"However, you got one thing wrong: you have already completed the first round trial by walking out of the elevator within ten seconds."

"Next, you need to take the elevator to the basement level of T235 Experiment Base and obtain the permit key."

"Finally, hand the permit key to me; then the second round trial is considered complete, and I will tell you the final trial content at that time."

"The 97th trial participant, I wish you smooth sailing on this journey!"

As the blue projection's voice fell, the elevator behind Su Hao made a 'clang' and shook violently; the originally dim basement button also lit up at that moment, emitting a soft white light.

"Permit key? I got it!"

Su Hao expressionlessly nodded, turned around, leading Da Xiong Mao and the others back into the elevator, and pressed the button for the basement level.

Although Su Hao appeared calm on the surface, in reality, upon hearing that the trial location was on the basement level, a feeling of delight spontaneously arose in his heart.

Being able to enter the basement level would already be a good gain.

As for that permit key and the final trial, Su Hao simply didn't want to think about them at all.

Who knows what changes will happen after handing the permit key to this blue projection; perhaps he himself will become part of the final trial, doing someone else's work.

……

Just as when coming up, the elevator's descent speed was equally fast; after a short while, it had already arrived at the pyramid's basement level.

As the elevator doors opened, what came into view was a huge space nearly 50 meters high.

On the ground of this space stood densely packed bronze robots, some holding energy hot-melt blades in their hands, positioned at the front of the formation.

Some held energy laser guns, standing at the rear, aiming their muzzles toward the elevator.

Sizzle—! At the moment the elevator doors opened, these bronze robots wielding energy laser guns simultaneously pulled their triggers, emitting blue beams as thick as arms, shooting toward Su Hao and the others inside the elevator.

For such a situation, Su Hao had already prepared while riding the elevator from the first floor to the second floor.

Without any command from Su Hao, the skeleton warriors stationed on both sides of the elevator door simultaneously activated their energy mechanical shields, placing them at the elevator entrance to block all energy beams.

Boom boom boom—! The energy laser beams, pouring down like rain, densely struck the energy mechanical shields, producing deafening roars.

Under such fierce attack, even though the energy mechanical shields had been activated at full power, they already showed obvious deformation, the blue light on them flickering incessantly, as if about to go out at any moment.

Even this huge elevator shook violently along with it.

Fortunately, this elevator is made of silver alloy and did not malfunction due to the violent shaking; even the lights did not go out.

This made Su Hao a little disappointed: such a fierce attack could not affect the elevator in the slightest, so the idea of relying on the elevator to drop down to the basement level became somewhat difficult.

"Forget it, first deal with these bronze robots on the basement level, then retrieve my energy hot-melt blade and energy laser gun."

Su Hao shook his head, temporarily putting aside the plan to go to the basement second floor, looked through the gap in the energy mechanical shield at the bronze robots outside.

However, facing such intense firepower output, the skeleton warriors activated their energy mechanical shields at full power, their bodies continuously retreating backward.

If this continues, let alone launching a counterattack, before long those few energy mechanical shields will be shattered into fragments under the opponent's violent firepower.

Moreover, it's out of the question to withstand this firepower, charge out of the elevator, and launch a counterattack.

No wonder that blue projection said Su Hao is the 97th trial participant; as soon as the elevator doors opened, they encountered such firepower output.

If the people inside the elevator had reacted a bit slower or their defensive measures were slightly worse, they might already have been turned into sieves by now.

Being able to sit in the elevator again and leave the basement level alive is already no easy task, let alone launching a counterattack to complete the second round trial mission.

"Hmm..."

"Even wanting to leave the basement level alive by elevator has become impossible..."

Looking at the buttons for all floors beside the elevator door, all turned gray, Su Hao laughed and shook his head.

In order to make trial participants exert their full effort to complete the task, the blue projection left no retreat at all.

Fortunately, Su Hao also had no intention of just leaving like that; at the very least, he needed to retrieve the energy hot-melt blade and energy laser gun from the bronze robots' hands first.

Moreover, for the current situation, Su Hao also had a countermeasure.

He casually grabbed five hellfire pumpkin heads, stepped back two steps, aimed at the gap between the energy mechanical shield and above the elevator door, and threw the hellfire pumpkin heads in his hand with force.

"Alright, it's you, Mischievous Bullet!"

Although the demonflame pumpkin heads look like they would shatter at a touch, in reality, the hardness of these pumpkin heads is even greater than that of the tyrannical demon ox's body.

Those powerful energy lasers, when they struck the demonflame pumpkin heads, merely left a shallow dent on the pumpkins, slightly reducing their flight speed.

Thus, the pumpkin heads flew straight into the midst of the bronze robots wielding energy laser guns, despite the dense barrage of energy lasers.

"Puny shells, use self-destruct!" With Su Hao's command, the black soul fire inside the demonflame pumpkin heads' heads turned a deeper hue, generating violent energy fluctuations, and the temperature rapidly rose at that moment.

The next moment.

With a loud 'Boom', the demonflame pumpkin heads erupted in a violent explosion.

A scorching black flame burst from their heads, instantly sweeping across an area over a hundred meters around, raising the temperature of the entire underground level by several tens of degrees.

Accompanying the black fire was a strong shockwave carrying black thick smoke, spreading several hundred meters away, making it impossible to see the scene at the explosion's center.

During this time, it was unclear whether the black smoke made aiming difficult or due to some other reason, but the bronze robots' shooting noticeably weakened.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the 24 skeleton warriors riding on the tyrannical demon oxen dropped their spears, picked up two energy mechanical shields, fully activated them, and placed them in front of the tyrannical demon oxen.

Immediately after that.

These 24 tyrannical demon oxen used Bull Rush, charging through the still-dense energy lasers from the elevator, and slammed hard into the frontmost longsword robots, breaking their formation.

Any bronze robot that suffered a frontal collision from a tyrannical demon ox instantly deformed severely and was flung backward tens of meters.

After breaking the longsword robots' formation, the tyrannical demon oxen showed no hesitation; after a brief pause, they again used Bull Rush to charge into the black-mist-shrouded blast zone.

At the same time.

At the same time, the skeleton warriors inside the elevator also used Savage Charge, holding an energy mechanical shield in one hand to block ahead, pressing through the dense energy lasers, and rushed to the front of the scattered longsword robots.

A flicker of soul fire flashed in their minds; they forcefully hurled their spears, piercing two or three longsword robots in succession, expending the spears' energy completely before they slammed heavily into the ground.

But it didn't end there; after throwing their spears, they followed through and surged into the longsword robots' formation.

Some of the skeleton warriors raised their energy mechanical shields in front, took the energy laser guns from their waists, and fired indiscriminately at the surrounding enemies.

Others wielded an energy mechanical shield in one hand and an energy melting blade in the other, engaging in melee with the surrounding longsword robots.

The ventilation system of this underground space was highly effective, just as the skeleton warriors charged into the longsword robots' ranks.

At that moment, the black thick smoke was also expelled through the ventilation ducts, and the scene at the explosion's center reappeared before Su Hao's eyes.

"Hiss! Isn't the power of this self-destruct a bit too great?"

Seeing the destruction caused by the self-destruct of two magic medicine pumpkin heads, Su Hao involuntarily sucked in a breath of cold air.

Only a few bronze robots nearest the blast center had half their bodies melted by the intense heat, turning into scalding molten iron that flowed onto the ground.

Even the Energy Laser Guns in their hands were no exception, likewise half-melted by the high heat.

But this was not all the effects caused by the explosion; any bronze robot within about 100 meters of the blast center.

Their bodies suffered varying degrees of injury from the blast's strong shockwave, with electric light flickering over them as they fell to the ground, unable to rise for a moment.

The self-detonation of five Hellflame Pumpkin Heads rendered one or two hundred bronze robots combat‑ineffective; if those 160 Hellflame Pumpkin Heads all self‑detonated at once, the scene…

"Back then I actually thought of trading 160 Hellflame Pumpkin Heads for the roughly 1000 robots outside the Pyramid—I was giving them far too much credit."

Recalling the thought he had when he first encountered bronze and black‑iron robots outside the Pyramid, Su Hao couldn't help but smirk at himself.

The power unleashed when 160 Magic Leaf Pumpkin Heads self‑detonate simultaneously is such that not only would 1,000 or so robots be doomed, even another two or three thousand would meet the same fate.

Fortunately, the robots here blocked Su Hao in the elevator, preventing him from throwing out too many Hellflame Pumpkin Heads at once; otherwise the loss would have been great, since he only brought 160 of them on this sortie.

Of course, the main reason is that the explosive power of the Hellflame Pumpkin Heads is simply too strong.

Just the self‑detonation of five Hellflame Pumpkin Heads burned out dozens of Energy Laser Guns; if a few more had come, would all of this battle's loot have been destroyed?

"Although the destructive power of these Hellflame Pumpkin Heads' self‑detonation is enormous, their manufacturing cost requires only one Fallen Evil Dog's heart + one Fire Worm's heat‑storage pouch, 100 ml of adhesive, plus 500 kg of tainted flesh."

"Moreover, this amount of material can be used to craft five of them—it's practically a steal!"

Recalling the materials needed to craft Hellflame Pumpkin Heads, the delight on Su Hao's face grew even stronger.

As long as the quantities of Fallen Evil Dog hearts and Fire Worm heat‑storage pouches required for crafting Hellflame Pumpkin Heads are increased to 100 portions.

With sufficient Energy Crystals and Infected Cells, in just a day or two we can obtain 100 batches of crafting material and begin mass‑producing Hellflame Pumpkin Heads!

By that time, Su Hao could simply attach Hellflame Pumpkin Heads to Skeleton Warriors and have them launch suicide charges.

Once the Skeleton Warriors crash into the enemy formation, he would then detonate the Hellflame Pumpkin Heads they carry.

Perhaps just one charge followed by one self‑detonation would be enough to end a small‑to‑medium engagement; as for large‑scale battles and even larger campaigns, that would…

Then let more Skeleton Warriors carry more Hellflame Pumpkin Heads and launch the charge—wouldn't that work?

Besides, Skeleton Warriors can be resummoned when they die, and even if Hellflame Pumpkin Heads are destroyed, their remains can be placed in the Hellish Demon Construct Device to attempt reviving them.

Roughly speaking, that amounts to consuming some Energy Crystals.

"In theory, the more materials used for refining, the stronger the resulting hellish demon should be."

Thinking of this, Su Hao gazed at the 24 Brutal Demon Oxen in the distance that were slaughtering the bronze robots.

He suddenly felt that perhaps the strength of these Brutal Demon Oxen wasn't so simple, after all the materials required to craft them far exceed those for Hellflame Pumpkin Heads.

Moreover, besides their Bull Rush, the Brutal Demon Oxen have a Feral Skill; after using it, they might yet bring Su Hao an unexpected surprise.

However, there was no need for that in this battle.

Under the self‑detonation of five Hellflame Pumpkin Heads, the bronze robots in the rear ranks wielding Energy Laser Guns had already suffered considerable losses.

Later they were hit again by the Bull Rush of 24 Brutal Demon Oxen, losing another few dozen.

Now, caught in close combat by the Brutal Demon Oxen and the 24 Skeleton Warriors riding them, having abandoned all their attacks and wielding double‑sided Energy Mechanical Shields, they go all‑out to block the oxen for the majority of attacks; these rear‑rank bronze robots, even if they launch a counterattack, can hardly inflict effective damage—instead, the oxen can casually strike them and leave them severely wounded.

This is completely a one‑sided situation; before long they'll be unable to hold formation, and the bronze robots' defeat is only a matter of time.

The bronze robots up front wielding Energy Heat‑melting Blades are no better off.

Under the consecutive charges of the Brutal Demon Oxen and Skeleton Warriors, they lost hundreds in an instant; more importantly, those charges shattered their formation, allowing over five hundred Skeleton Warriors to surge into their ranks.

Under the Skeleton Warriors' close‑combat strikes with Energy Heat‑melting Blades and the incessant sweeping fire of Energy Laser Guns, the front‑line bronze robot warriors collapsed even faster.

Within roughly ten minutes, the Brutal Demon Oxen and Skeleton Warriors, with near‑crushing power, slaughtered every bronze robot.

Of course, even though this was nearly a one‑sided battle, those bronze robots still inflicted considerable losses on the tribal warriors.

In this battle, the soul fire of seventy or eighty defeated skeleton warriors turned into a handful of black powder, drifting in the air.

Moreover, another about one hundred skeleton warriors had their bones damaged to varying degrees, equivalent to losing combat capability.

On the other hand, the twenty-four violent demon oxen, protected to the utmost by the skeleton warriors on their backs, suffered only minor injuries.

Even so, being able to dispose of nearly a thousand second-tier bronze puppets so cleanly and swiftly, such a battle record is enough to make one feel proud.

(End of chapter)