Chapter 570

 The first person to react was Shadow Wolf.

The moment the robots began to retreat to high altitudes, Shadow Wolf jumped up and rushed into the crowd of robots. He continued to climb higher with wind steps, and kicked the robots back to the ground one at a time.

At the same time, Mu You's Shenpi flew into the air again. He grabbed a handful of robots with both hands and threw them downwards.

 The players below also reacted at this time and flattened the robots falling from the sky.

 The current battle is completely different from before. Players no longer have to worry about the resurrection of these robots. They only need to break the air shields on their bodies and let the mirage leak in, and they are done.

Having been suppressed all the way, they were finally able to fight back. The players were all extremely enthusiastic, using all kinds of tricks to attack the robots for free. Dozens of robots turned into 'emerald stone sculptures' one after another.

At the same time, King Octopus and Bone Dragon, who had been guarding the base, also received orders from Mu You. Bone Dragon flew directly into the sky, its tail and claws swung, and a large number of robots were shot flying to the ground.

The Octopus King is even simpler. There is no need to take off. With its huge body and slender tentacles, it can easily catch these escaped robots by simply extending its tentacles.

The Octopus King moved his eight claws together, and robots fell like raindrops one after another, and they all landed accurately near the player.

The players who had been prepared below immediately swarmed up and violently tore open the air shield on the robot. After the robot was petrified, they immediately rushed to the next location...

 This one-sided massacre lasted for nearly five minutes.

 In the end, except for a very few lucky robots, more than 90% of the robots were left on the Sky City.

 The players were still not satisfied. Players with the ability to fly continued to pursue outwards, constantly intercepting and killing robots along the way, until they reached the edge of the mirage's spread, and intercepted dozens of robots.

 “That’s it, don’t chase the poor enemy.”

Mu You hovered in front of the mirage dividing line and promptly stopped several excited players who were ready to continue chasing.

At this moment, there were only about forty mechas left outside the mirage. However, they did not escape anymore. Instead, they wandered near the border of the mirage, always keeping a certain distance from the mirage.

 A group of players also realized that if these robots dared to stop, they must be confident. It seemed that as soon as they left the mirage, they had nothing to do with the robots and had no choice but to follow Mu You back.

 After returning to Sky City, Mu You immediately contacted other city owners through Sky City's communication system and informed them of the situation in the mirage.

 “No problem, just fly over here.”

“The mirage can indeed paralyze the robot! So as long as it enters the mirage range, it will be safe.”

“Haha, let me tell you, how come these guys don’t have any weaknesses...”

“I’m running away in the direction of the mirage. There are thousands of mechas chasing me behind me. Let’s see how I can trick them when they are about to arrive...”

“Unexpectedly, mirage has become our protection...”

 …

The owner of the city may be surprised or emotional, and the movements of their men are not slow, and they have controlled the city to turn in the direction of Bai Fengcheng.

 At present, Dawn City is safe for the time being. Mu You has arranged some manpower for defense, while others are teleported to other sky cities through the teleportation array to help defend.

Whenever a city is about to enter the mirage range, Mu You will lead his people to ambush near the mirage. As soon as the robots get close to the mirage, they will immediately emerge to intercept those robots that want to escape and try to kill them as much as possible. Remain in mirage.

However, after doing this once or twice, these robots also learned a lesson. Whenever the pursuit was close to the mirage, they immediately stopped and fled directly, without giving them a chance to intercept and kill. After several times, they intercepted the team. All in vain.

While chasing and escaping like this, a few hours later, as the last Starlight City also entered the mirage range, the other ten sky cities except Twilight City all converged in the mirage.

“Let’s make some statistics. How many robots have been captured so far?”

 Several city lords met at Dawn City, and Mu You asked.

These robots are not actually dead, but are temporarily paralyzed by the influence of mirage. If the mirage is sent out, they will be resurrected after the mirage dissipates in the body.

 So there is no way to say how many robots were killed, they can only be counted as prisoners.

 “I have six hundred and fifty-two bodies here…”

 “There are four hundred and three bodies in Sunrise City…”

 “Seven hundred and sixty-eight bodies in the City of the Rising Sun…”

 …

Everyone reported on their Sky City's achievements. At the last statistics, a total of more than 5,700 robots were captured!

However, Mu You knows that this seemingly huge number is actually only a small part of the "Exterminators" produced by the robots, and more Exterminators have not yet appeared.

 “What’s next?” Solomon asked.

Now Sky City is temporarily safe, but keeping Sky City is only the first step. They cannot stay in the mirage forever, and they must find a way to fight out.

 Mu You looked at the Emperor.

 The emperor nodded and announced a piece of information.

"The news just sent by the frontline personnel is that the three mechanical warships are currently staying in a place called 'Rainbow City'. This place is where the mirage is currently spreading to the boundary of the Great Abyss. The three mechanical warships are already here. A battle started with mirage creatures, temporarily bringing the spread of mirage to a standstill..."

 The emperor pointed to a marked point on the map and explained.

Mirage does not leak from the Brave Tower and spread continuously in all directions. The natural diffusion of mirage has a range. After exceeding this range, mirage creatures must be active to ensure that the concentration of mirage nearby is greater than a critical value. value, in order to continue to expand toward the periphery, otherwise the expansion of the mirage will stagnate or even shrink.

This is because the essence of mirage is a mirage perception system. Mirage can sense the space within a certain range around the body. After exceeding this range, the mirage creature must act as a 'detector' and continue to face outwards. Only through diffusion can the mirage tapir gain more areas of vision.

 Of course, there are limits to this expansion.

The perception range of the mirage tapir body extends from the teleportation point at the bottom of the lake in the real world, all the way to the server entrance, and then to the star spirit world and the outskirts of White Maple City, which is the limit.

On this basis, the mirage creature can continue to help expand the mirage tapir's range of influence by about double, which is a circular area with White Maple City as the center and covering about one-third of the entire Star Spirit World.

 Beyond this circular area, no matter how hard the mirage creatures try, they can no longer maintain the concentration of mirage.

 This is why the Djinn God said that the mirage will only affect a third of the area of ​​the Star Spirit Realm at most. Once it exceeds this range, the mirage will quickly dissipate naturally even if it is forcibly transported.

Now, the robot's strategy is very clear: since mirage depends on the activity of mirage creatures at the edge of mirage, then it only needs to snipe these mirage creatures on the way to block their way forward, and then they can intercept them. The expansion of mirage in this direction.

Even as the mirage creatures retreat steadily, the edge of the mirage can continue to retreat until it retreats into the White Maple City. After that, we will find a way to block the leakage of the Tower of Brave, and we will be successful, successfully intercepting the mirage outside the star spirit world.

"The location of Rainbow City is exactly at the midpoint between White Maple City and the Great Abyss. The robots want to start from here and push back the mirage step by step. Then we will go here to support and help the mirage creatures resist. Robot, let the boundaries of mirage continue to expand towards the abyss!" Mu Youyou.

Their strategy is also very simple, which is to let the mirage cover all the way to the Great Abyss, and then use the cover of the mirage to disintegrate the robots' defenses step by step until the mirage penetrates into the Garden of Eden, and then find a way to break through their lair.

 After determining the course of action, everyone immediately went back and took control of their respective cities.

Ten sky cities formed a straight line in the sky and flew directly in the direction of Rainbow City.

The journey lasted more than ten hours.

By the next morning, before arriving at Rainbow City, many people’s ‘closing time’ was approaching and they had to leave the Star Spirit Realm temporarily.

But when someone leaves, someone comes. There are now more than two thousand discovered doors on the earth. Each door opens at a different time, which is basically evenly distributed within a ten-day cycle.

 So in theory, a group of new players can come to the Star Spirit Realm to support them every day. As long as the rotation is properly arranged, there is no need to worry about insufficient manpower.

In addition, there is another problem, which is the problem of falling asleep on time in mirage.

Creatures in the mirage must be forced to fall asleep every once in a while. This is a non-exempt rule. As long as they are in the mirage, even real beasts such as bone dragons and manticores will have to endure such side effects.

Fortunately, everyone has figured out the rules of mirage in advance, and has applied the nightmare powder early. Everyone takes turns to fall asleep. When the minimum time limit of two hours for falling asleep passes, they can be woken up by their teammates as soon as possible. , you can stay awake most of the day, and the impact is almost negligible.

“Now that the situation has stabilized, let’s leave first.”

 In the early morning, the watchman dragged Linglong, who was sleepy-eyed, to come to Muyou to say goodbye.

 They will next go to the Fatimid Empire to continue the mission of the Secret Church.

 The ensuing melee cannot be changed by the two of them. If they continue to stay, they will not be able to help much. It is better to continue to complete what needs to be done.

Today, half of the Fatimid Empire has been shrouded in mirage, including the imperial capital where the Secret Arts Church is located. With such a sudden natural disaster, you don't need to think about it. At this moment, the imperial capital must be in chaos. The stage when people are in panic is a good time to cause trouble.

Linglong, who was forcibly dragged here, yawned in distress: "Well, if I had known I wouldn't have returned to Earth in the first place, I would have had to deal with both sides..."

“Hey, our hands are tied in the game and many operations cannot be performed. Now that we are here in person, we can finally let go.”

The watchman looked at Mu You eagerly, raised his index finger and said, "I have thought of nine ways to deceive the priest, nine! They are..."

“Okay, okay, you don’t need to tell me, you can figure it out yourself!” Mu You hurriedly stopped. If he really wanted to start talking, he would have to talk nonsense for a while.

After watching the two clones leave, Mu You saw that the situation was still stable, so he told the herb collector to help guard Dawn City, and he took the time to teleport to the abyss.

  【You appeared near the ‘Great Abyss of Lohmadi’…】

 Following the prompts that appeared in his mind, Mu You appeared in a jungle.

 After taking a bottle of invisibility potion, Mu You flew up to the sky on a broomstick and looked down.

At this moment, the great abyss is still shrouded in a layer of clouds and mist, like a huge mouth opening on the earth, choosing people to eat.

The difference is that at this moment, around the abyss, there are huge long strips of deep caves on the top, bottom, left and right, showing the outline of a 'ship' as a whole.

Four deep caves are connected together, causing the surface of the entire abyss to sink hundreds of meters and become a basin.

Mu You estimated that these should be the traces left by those steel battleships. These warships had been hidden underground around the abyss until yesterday, when they were summoned by robots.

But what makes Mu You strange is that didn't he only find three battleships? Why are there four pits here?

  Could it be that... there is another ship that has not shown up?

Mu You searched around and found no trace of other warships. On the contrary, when he was close to the surface of the abyss, he suddenly felt a subtle sense of unreality.

Mu You couldn't help but stay just above the abyss, looking at the scene of the abyss below.

At first glance, it looked exactly the same as when he came before. It was shrouded in mist, bottomless, and unable to find any flaws.

 But under the influence of many top 3A masterpieces on the earth, Mu You suddenly had a sense of déjà vu at this moment as he was watching a game CG.

Mu You frowned and tried to fly downward.

 “Boom!”

Just when he was about to approach the surface of the abyss, Mu You suddenly felt that he hit an invisible wall. The invisibility effect immediately disappeared and he was forced to break out.

At this time, Mu You finally saw what was underneath him clearly: it was actually a transparent barrier, composed of countless hexagons, like an upside-down bowl, covering the surface of the abyss...

Mu You suddenly understood. No wonder it felt unnatural. The image of the abyss was just a projected illusion. It was just too realistic, making it difficult to distinguish reality from reality.

 But this is not the point. The focus at this time is what is inside the barrier.

Beneath this invisible barrier, a huge steel battleship is moored above the entrance to the abyss. With its huge size, it is like a cellar pressed stone slab, directly covering the entire entrance to the abyss.

“Invisible unit discovered, identity determined as: The Fool! Danger assessment: Highly dangerous. Execution of orders: clear, erase, drive away.”

Following the sound of an announcement, densely packed robots suddenly crawled out from all over the battleship and swarmed towards Muyou.

At the same time, the surface of the battleship facing Mu You was like a honeycomb, revealing countless cannon muzzles, and white light gathered one after another.

 The surging energy was quickly condensed, and thousands of artillery pieces launched a familiar covering saturation strike towards Mu You's position.

"Depend on!"

Mu You's eyelids twitched and he hurriedly looked back. Then without thinking, he decisively turned the broom and walked away from the surface of the abyss.

 Fortunately, he evacuated in time and did not come into contact with the surface of the barrier, so he was not exposed yet.

Hiding in the forest far away, Mu You looked at the mouth of the abyss in front of him, but couldn't help but frown.

Originally, he was thinking that if these robots were deployed in full force and the army was massing on the front line, the lair would be empty. If there was a chance, he might try to steal a wave of homes or something.

Unfortunately, it turns out that he thought too much. These robots acted very carefully and did not neglect the protection of their hometown. They directly arranged for a battleship to stay here.

And he did it even more brilliantly than he imagined: he actually 'covered' the surface of the abyss with battleships, simply blocking the path for outside creatures to go to the abyss.

 (End of this chapter)