It's a very strange-looking Soul Eater. Although Ma Cheng had never been to the front line, as a native of Purple Stem City, he still knew a lot about Soul Eaters. Purple Stem City is the rear of the anti-monster coalition army, and almost every citizen has a good knowledge of the breed of Soul Eater and its combat characteristics. But he had never seen a Soul Eater of this breed. It is shorter than the nobles and similar to the Mud Man, a height that is larger than the average Scout among the Soul Eaters, but much smaller than the size of the Shield or Siege Monster. It is slender and well-proportioned, not as muscular as other of its kind, and if it wears clothes to cover its scales, it can even disguise itself as a human from a distance. The only thing on its body that is difficult to disguise is that it has a small horn on its head, which is as clear as jade and looks extremely sharp.

Ma Cheng stared at the monster in front of him and didn't dare to move, and the other party also looked back at him motionlessly, as if he was competing to see who couldn't help but move first. The strong man next to him was already frightened and didn't dare to move, and the meat tower stared at the monster nervously, ready to shoot at any time. Suddenly, the setting sun cast several swaying figures in front of them, and the three of them couldn't help but look at the base, only to see a few people walking around the periphery of the base, as if searching for something. Ma Cheng and the other three only shifted their attention for a moment, and when they turned their attention back to their side, they found that the Soul Eater was nowhere to be found. None of the three paid attention to when it left.

The five members of the search team are checking the rune shield at the base's borders. Fu Yi walked and introduced the knowledge of the Talisman Array to the other four. Although Xing Guang, Jin Jianfeng and the others had seen a lot of rune arrays, and some people had even used a lot of rune arrays, they didn't know much about the structure and operation principle of the rune array.

Generally, there are two kinds of talisman arrays, one is tandem. It is made up of several talismans of the same kind connected by internal force alloy wires, connected in series to form a whole, and then together emit a powerful talisman force. Its advanced form can also be connected to each other by means of rune beams instead of alloy wires. The other is the parallel type. That is, several different types of runes are operated by one operator, so that these runes produce different runes, and under the joint action of these runes, a specific effect is achieved. The spaceship can actually be said to be a kind of parallel rune array. It is composed of many different types of talismans, controlled by a single operating talisman board, which can generate a variety of different talismanic powers, and under the combined action of these talismanic powers, it can achieve the purpose of allowing humans to travel in space.

The rune array used in the base's rune shield is a tandem one. Around the boundaries of the base, there are more than a hundred small shield charms distributed in a circle, which are strung together by an alloy wire, and when they together emit runes, they form a spherical rune shield. The function of this rune shield can be adjusted as needed. For example, in a place where the aura is strong, you can adjust it to allow the aura to enter and exit, and if the aura is weak or there is no aura at all, you can adjust it to not allow the aura to enter and exit. In addition, it can also be adjusted into a shield force mode to block the matter of the bright world, such as preventing the invasion of foreign objects and the escape of air.

Of course, the blocking power of the rune shield is not absolute, whether it is the barrier to the aura of the dark world or the barrier to the air of the bright world, it is relative. The aura and air inside the rune shield will still slowly seep out with the passage of time. Therefore, the aura and air in the rune shield must be constantly replenished. The rune cover is a bit like those large inflatable trampolines or castles on Earth, and there must always be a blast inflator working non-stop to keep it full. Therefore, under normal conditions, the gas storage device should not only provide spiritual energy to this talisman array, but also replenish the spiritual energy into the rune shield to maintain the spiritual pressure in the hood. In addition, there is also an oxygen generator that is also working non-stop to ensure the oxygen concentration in the hood.

The place where the search team checked the talisman array was an open area, and the surrounding vision was wide, and they were not as nervous as they were when they searched the room. Among the five people, the inspection of the starlight and the rune is mainly carried out, the rune follower is inspected in terms of the operation of the rune, and the starlight is inspected in terms of traces. The other three remained on guard in the surroundings.

Xing and Fu carefully inspected every place where the small runes should be installed along the perimeter of the base, only to find that they were all gone, leaving only a long alloy wire buried in the earth. There are obvious excavation marks on the ground, and these marks do not look like they were left by tools, nor like fingers, they are more like those left by the claws of animals. Xingguang's face was solemn, and he used a record to record some of the more obvious traces.

Eventually, they came to the gas storage unit. The gas storage device is placed outside the range of the rune shield because it receives the aura packs that the emitter shoots down from the sky. It was still there, black, the size of a human head, in a round shape, and the receiver was open, indicating that it was still receiving the aura packet that the emitter in orbit had sent to the ground. However, the interface connected to the rune array was artificially disconnected, and the exit to replenish the aura into the cover was also closed.

Fu Yi glanced at the capacity display on the side of the gas storage device, and found that the aura inside was basically empty. He then passed the message on to the others.

"Empty? Is this normal? Starlight asked.

Fu Yi looked at the air storage balloon in front of him and said, "This kind of air storage device is quite airtight, unlike ordinary rune covers, which will constantly ooze out spiritual energy. As long as the aura enters its interior, it will fold and compress, and the form of the aura particles will change and will not be easily lost. The last five days are the time when the aura torrent arrives, and it is also the time when it replenishes the aura, if it has been disconnected from the rune array, and the outlet for spewing out the aura is also closed, because the aura in it is not used, it stands to reason that it should be at least half charged, right, how can it be almost none? ”

"Not good! Something must have been relying on it to absorb aura. As soon as this thought came to Xingguang's heart, suddenly the sunlight reflected in the distance flashed, and a black shadow instantly came to everyone. Among the five people, Yue Lingzhi stood closest to this black shadow, and he instinctively opened his shield. The black shadow quickly stretched out a withered and slender claw, and passed through Yue Lingzhi's rune shield without any effort, and then this claw continued to move forward with a cold light, passing through Yue Lingzhi's rune shield more easily, and plunging straight into his chest. At this time, everyone had already seen that this was a small soul eater.

Yue Lingzhi was horrified! He has fought countless battles on the Blue Star, and has experience fighting all kinds of creatures, including humans, soul eaters, and strange beasts. But he's never seen such a quick and sharp attack, and he's never been able to break through the defense so easily. You must know that the shield talisman he used is a treasure that has been inherited by the Yue Mansion for more than 500 years. After several generations of the Yue family's predecessors honed and improved, the shield talisman power it formed was very strong. He had used it to fend off a general's full force on the Monster Fighting Battlefield. Even Zhou Baiping, who was present at the time, couldn't help but praise: "Good charm!" ”。 You must know that Zhou Baiping is the vice chairman of the Pink Star Military Committee, and a military boss like him has never seen any good talismans in the army, so he can call it a "good talisman", which shows that this is really a superior defensive treasure.

But now, the short, skinny little monster broke through his defenses in one fell swoop. The other party's speed was too fast, and he didn't have time to react at all. But fortunately, the place where the claw is inserted is the location of his heart. In his heart, on his chest and back, there is a talisman heart guard made of grinding and tempering the skull of the Great Monkey, protecting his chest and back, respectively.

With a "bang", Yue Lingzhi felt a huge shock in his chest, and then flew out upside down. He saw a white thing stuck in the tip of the monster's claws, and attacked the golden sword blade next to him. The white thing looked like his heart guard, so he looked down and saw that the heart guard was gone, and his chest was a blur of flesh and blood. He hurriedly sealed the blood vessels of the wound with internal force, preventing the blood from flowing out, and at the same time tightened the muscles and closed the wound.