Over the next few hours, the team went through several more battles, killing more than a dozen ordinary Destroyers and 5 ordinary zombies. With the T-1 Terminator covered in pure armor as a decoy, it marches ahead, and once it encounters an enemy, it absorbs the strongest first wave of firepower, while Howling Wind shouts to increase defense within 20 seconds, and Paladin activates the aura [Contempt] to further increase defense. With the double blessing of shouting and contempt, and with the aerial fire support of the quadcopter Hummingbird unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the five-person squad rushed forward and easily eliminated the enemy.

Contempt: A defensive aura skill that can be lit when the paladin is upgraded to LV6, and the effect is to increase defense by 15%.

After these battles, the apprentice's Tianju Engineer level has also been successfully upgraded to LV6, based on the current career level, 1 new unlockable skill has been added to the matrix skill tree, and 2 unlockable skills have been added to the Skynet skill tree.

The initial unlockable skills in the Matrix Skill Tree are as follows:

Matrix Skill 3, [Consciousness Unit Edit X]

[Rarity: Purple.] 】

[Effect: You can edit some neutral or hostile units in the matrix consciousness space, such as civilians, vehicles, violent organs, etc., or units that have been wiped out by the War of Consciousness, or mechanical units that have been created by you on the spot.] 】

[Prerequisite: You need to enter the matrix consciousness space to edit neutral units.] 】

[Cast Range: Matrix Consciousness Space.] 】

[Cast Cost: None.] 】

[Cooldown: None.] 】

[Minimum learning requirements: intelligence 15 points, Tianju Engineer career level LV6, talent 'Matrix Child', Matrix Consciousness Link x, Matrix Consciousness Space x.] 】

[Learning cost: 2 skill points, 2000 general points.] 】

The initial unlockable skills in the Skynet skill tree are as follows:

Skynet Skill 3, [Updatex!] 】

[Rarity: Purple.] 】

[Effect: Active, based on your talent [Matrix Child], allows you to temporarily upgrade friendly mechanical units.] Upgraded allied mechanical units will have an increased combat power and a more powerful appearance change, and the upgraded state will last for 5 minutes. 】

[You can only temporarily upgrade the target when you activate the [Matrix Child] talent.] 】

[Cast Range: All mechanical units remotely controlled by your Matrix Child talent can receive your Temporary Update.] 】

[Cast Cost: Depends on the increased combat power after upgrading, the greater the increase, the greater the cast cost.] 】

[Cooldown: 6 hours.] 】

[Minimum learning requirements: Career level LV6, intelligence 15 points, mechanical industry theory proficient LV1, overload x, repair LV1.] 】

[Learning cost: 2 skill points, 2000 general points.] 】

Skynet Skill 4, [Energy Unit Detonates LV1]

[Rarity: Blue.] 】

[Effect: Active, detonates the target energy mechanical unit summoned by you, and focuses on the tipping point.] A circular area with a radius of 5 meters, dealing non-elemental spell damage of ×1.6 energy consumed when summoning the unit. 】

[Cast Range: All energy mechanical units summoned by you can be detonated by you.] 】

[Cast Cost: None.] 】

[Cooldown: 10 seconds.] 】

[Minimum learning requirements: Career level LV6, intelligence 15 points, mechanical industry theory proficient LV1, overload x, repair LV1.] 】

[Learning cost: 1 skill point.] 】

[Upgrade cost: 1 skill point.] 】

[The upgrade will increase the radius of the detonation and the damage dealt value, and reduce the cooldown.] 】

There are 3 more unlockable skills in front of the apprentice, and each one looks very useful.

Consciousness unit editing can edit some units in the matrix consciousness space, including the target unit that was obliterated by the Apprentice's Consciousness War, or the mechanical unit that was created by the Apprentice in the field.

So if Su Hao and his apprentice enter the matrix consciousness space again, and then edit out some target units, such as the Sinking Demon, the Sinking Wizard, the T-1 Terminator, the Hummingbird Drone, etc., then Su Hao and the apprentice can simulate various enemy combinations, so as to conduct various combat exercises. And this kind of exercise, regardless of the psychological state of the battle, is infinitely close to reality.

As for the upgrade (Update) and detonation, the data data of the former is introduced more vaguely, and its actual effect still needs to be tested on the spot, and the effect of detonation is also urgently needed by the apprentice, because its appearance directly makes up for the biggest shortcoming of the apprentice, that is, the gap in the means of killing.

Although these 3 skills are very popular with the Apprentice, it seems that the Apprentice will not be able to light any of them at the moment, as the Apprentice does not have skill points.

After another half of the day, it was getting late, and the team also encountered several "dead Rogge corpses" along the way. These corpses have obviously been dead for a long time, the corpses in Rogge's outfit have been gnawed, and some of the remaining remains have decayed most of them under the weathering of the air, but they can still find 3 summoning keys (white), and opened a [super short sword] + [small shield], the rarity is white.

This kind of tattered Su Hao and the apprentice of this white rarity can't look down on it, so they simply make a favor and the apprentice will give the [Super Powerful Short Sword] to Xiao Feng to replace the [Short Sword] without a prefix affix. In Diablo 2's item settings, the prefix modifier affects the item's stats, and with the prefix "Super Strong", the Shortsword's durability/attack damage will be given a small bonus.

In addition, the apprentice gave the [Small Shield] to Paladin to replace the original [Round Shield]. In general, a small shield is stronger than a round shield.

After a while of traveling, he encountered some common bristle rats along the way, killed them of course, and once again swept away the spikes on their backs and made 200 5.56mm bullets.

At this point, the five of them had fully penetrated into the heart of the Blood Wasteland, which meant that they were relatively close to the Evil Cavern.

But the bad news was that the heavy dark clouds had happened to float over, obscuring the pale crescent moon, so that the sky had completely darkened, and the wilderness was pitch black at this time, with only the whistling of the wind and the monotonous chirping of crows, and there was no second source of light at all.

With no light source, the five of them had to keep going until they found a suitable place to live.

Soon, through the quadcopter hummingbird unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the apprentice saw that in the direction of 25 degrees north-east, there was a simple shrine carved out of huge stones, in front of this shrine were placed some white candles that had been extinguished, and the stone walls of the shrine were carved with lines of Hradim characters, and the text strokes seemed to faintly flicker.

After detecting this shrine, the apprentice immediately reported the situation to Su Hao, and the group immediately walked in the direction of the shrine.