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When Catherine saw that the barbarians had found a suitable weapon, she focused on the kind of parts that could be assembled. She fiddled with the rings and iron pipes, assembling them in a few clicks.
The two of them got their own way and got out of the big iron box again. Sitting on top of the iron box, Catherine inserted the square piece of iron she had brought with her into the bottom groove of the conical device.
However, it was clear that Catherine could not activate the weapon at all, due to the inability to attach the cone device to her body like the two robot golems.
The female mage did not give up, and went back into the big iron box, and took out several sets of parts one after another to study. These parts are cast with good steel, the craftsmanship is fine, and the parts are engraved with a lot of special lines. As soon as two matching parts are fitted together, the lines glow with a burst of light.
After experimenting a few times, Catherine felt some patterns of the lines. These patterns are very similar to the magic array inscriptions, and Catherine, who has a good foundation in magic, can touch the like.
But as a shaman, the Ice Bear Abyss is not very interested in alchemy, witchcraft and magic and the alchemy system are completely different ways of thinking about obtaining the power of nature. So after he took a few glances at those parts, he stopped paying attention to them, but took the initiative to take on the task of vigilance.
Catherine was unwilling to let go of this opportunity, going back and forth in and out of the large iron box many times, studying almost all the parts that could be moved. I have a lot of understanding of the lines on the alchemy parts, and some simple functions have also been tested. Even in the end, she was very lucky to find a weapon that suited her use and didn't need to be attached to the machine golem to activate.
The front end of the weapon is a heavy hammer that is snapped into a thick rod elbow-long, which is inserted into another steel pipe and joined to the parts at the bottom of the pipe. Both the inner wall of the steel pipe and the thick rod are engraved with special lines. Different types of gloves can be installed at the rear end of the tube, and the different models of gloves appear to be designed to match the size of the user's palm. When using, put your hand into the glove and hold the handle inside, there is a switch on the handle in the glove, hold the handle firmly and press the switch, and the hammer at the front end will pop out. The force of the hammer is very high, but the distance is only a palm long, and then it retracts into the steel pipe.
When Catherine showed the weapon to the Ice Bear Abyss, the Shaman tried to pop out the hammer a few times, and said with a smile, "Hehe, this is not a weapon, it's a hammer, a tool for forging or beating." ”
The Ice Bear Abyss swung two more times. "It's good to be a blunt weapon in battle, but you have to use it hard. ”
Catherine took the hammer and swung it twice herself, a little effortlessly, as the Ice Bear Abyss said. It's a pity that she is only in the form of a soul will now, if in the real world, her body has been descended by a giant elephant, which can be compared to the strength of an ordinary barbarian warrior, and wielding a hammer is naturally not a problem.
After working for a long time and gaining little, Catherine was a little depressed. As a mage, you shouldn't pick up a hammer and melee with people.
The Ice Bear Abyss probably saw through Catherine's thoughts, and comforted: "If you don't take this hammer too heavy, you still carry it on your body, it can play a role in self-defense." ”
Catherine smiled helplessly.
The robot puppet snail climbs down half the height of a deep well-like vertical burrow. The exit of the cave can already be seen, and if you calculate the time, it should be two or three hours to climb to the exit.
Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss judged that the top of this cave was likely to be directly connected to Gear City. After all, the two of them are no strangers to the robot puppet snails they carry, and the walls of Gear City are made up of these robot puppet snails.
Time flies, and two hours pass in the blink of an eye. The two robot puppet snails crawling in front of them climbed out of the hole above, and nothing new happened.
The two did not intend to go out directly with the robot puppet snail, but dropped the snail before exiting. The black-fronted rat instinctively was released again, and under the control of the two of them, he dived out of the exit to reconnoitre.
In Catherine's mind, the black-fronted rat instinctively transmitted a busy scene. The scene outside is somewhat similar to the dock in the deep pool of molten steel, with towering steel frames. The large iron boxes transported out by the machine puppet snails are piled up, and the large and small machine puppets are busy carrying them.
Catherine recalls the black-fronted rat instinct and tells the abyss the scene outside the cave. The two decided to sneak out.
The ramp in the cavern of the deep well connects to a large clearing outside, where the robot puppet snails can rest and rest. There are three robotic puppet snails lying lazily in the middle of the clearing, and three or five humanoid robotic golems crawling on their backs to scrub. The scrubbed back shell is very shiny, far from the black appearance when it comes out of the deep pool of molten steel.
Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss hid by the exit and watched for a moment, and with the help of the back shell of the robot puppet snail like a small floating island, they quickly ran under the body of a robot puppet snail. The pair's ultimate goal is a flatbed truck on the other side of the clearing.
The flatbed truck was already piled up with all kinds of small iron boxes, bundles of steel pipes, steel cables and other equipment parts, and a bull-headed humanoid machine puppet was still carrying iron boxes to the car. At the front of the flatbed is a robotic puppet cow, which is huge, three laps larger than a real-world cow.
Catherine and the Ice Bear Abyss spotted the gap between the bull-headed humanoid robot puppet and sped towards the flatbed. Catherine still had a hammer in her hand, and she was exhausted and out of breath when she ran to the flatbed. The Ice Bear Abyss picked her up and threw her onto the flatbed with the hammer.
Catherine fell on a pile of screw caps, grinning in pain, but she didn't dare make a sound. The Ice Bear Abyss also flipped onto the flatbed, dragging Catherine behind several iron boxes. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and heard a "clang" sound, it was the bull-headed humanoid puppet who brought a new iron box and loaded it onto the flatbed.
Catherine rested for a while before she regained her breath. The ice bear abyss beside him didn't look like a person at all, and he was looking at the iron box. Sure enough, the mage's physical fitness was no match for that of a barbarian warrior, even though the barbarian had become a shaman who practiced witchcraft.
The flatbed truck moved slowly. The machine puppet cow in front of him spewed puffs of steam from its nostrils and walked forward with four hooves. Next to the bull's head is the bull-headed humanoid robot puppet, who has finished carrying the goods and started to drive the car.
Catherine hid in the stacked iron boxes and looked up into the dark depths of the sky, where a bolt of lightning lit up from time to time. Just a few hours ago, the two of them had flown to the edge of lightning with the instincts of the bull's-eyed demons. I don't know if the battle between Gear City and Hisulu has come to an end.
However, Catherine expected that if the fish-headed behemoth did attack Gear City, they would not be able to hide in the flatbed truck safely.