Li Nuo detoured about five kilometers to the south, far away from the temporary camp of the Golden Merchant's sword, approaching the rift from the south side of the rift.

Standing on the edge of the cliff of the distortion rift and looking down, you will see cliffs that stretch vertically downward, and darkness that the moonlight can't illuminate.

This steep terrain is not suitable for human activity.

Alchemists from Convergence City use scaffolding, ladders, telescopic rails, and improvised mechanical platforms to create temporary passages to the bottom of the cliffs.

For distortions, it is much easier to move around this terrain.

Grade 1 and 2 aberrations, i.e., aberrations of small and standard body types, are aberrant northnoses that have just hatched from aberrant eggs.

The aberrations of these two grades have not yet grown suckers on the soles of their feet and are unable to move vertically over the smooth cliffs.

Starting from the level 3 aberration, as the level increases, the functional organs and external tissues on the body of the aberrant will increase.

Suction cups that can be adsorbed on smooth planes, hard lumps in vitro that protect joints and vital parts, sharp fangs that strengthen the bite and lethality of mouthparts, bone claws that can be closed in hand joints, parotid glands that spit acid, etc.

It can be said that for the same large class of aberrants, the higher the level, the more "small parts" on the distortion body, and the stronger the comprehensive strength.

In addition to the level that affects the power of the aberration, the "type" of the distortion also has an effect.

Flightless aberrations are defined by the Alchemy Sanctuary as "walking footsteps". In this category, distortions with four legs are the most common. Like a two-legged devourer, a six-legged sower, a serpent without a leg, these are the elite aberrations of the walking aberrations.

Flying aberrations are defined by the Alchemy Sanctuary as "wings". The more wings, the more powerful. Those with only one wing are called one wing, those with two wings are called double wings, those with three wings are called three wings, and so on.

A flying aberrant like this is the backbone of patrolling back and forth in the distortion rifts.

Li Nuo jumped down from the edge of the cliff and performed the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique", flying to the bottom of the cliff in the form of a skull.

At the moment when the surroundings became dim, the sound of wings flapping could be heard in the air.

In the dark zone, where the moonlight does not shine, several winged distortions have spotted visitors who are not on the invitation list.

They flapped their wings and flew out of the hole in the cliff, circling around the white skulls that had rushed into the place.

Li Nuo pre-drank the high-quality night vision potion he had bought from Meow Meow Trial.

His field of vision in a dark-free environment is approximately 300 meters.

As soon as the group of flying wing distortions flew out of the hole, they were locked by Li Nuo's gaze.

Li Nuo threw a deconstruction spell at them, consuming a few energy points to obtain a small amount of personalized panel information.

…

Identity: A flying guard of the aberration's lair

…

The panel information shows that the winged distortors have and only have the identity of "Flying Guards", and do not have the identity of "Sergeant of MI5 of the Tatis Empire".

It can be seen that the aberrations in this lair are not all transformed by MI5 people.

Li Nuo judged the situation and adopted his own preset course of action.

At the same time as he unleashed the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique", he activated the "Breath of the Dead", transforming into a miserable white skeleton of bones.

He allowed his body to fall downward in obedience to the pull of gravity.

The winged distortors circling around him didn't seem to quite understand why the visitor had gone from a skull to a skeleton.

They flapped their wings and hovered in the air, watching the skeleton fall to the bottom of the cliff.

When Li Nuo saw this scene, he knew that his action tonight would be a great success.

The biwinged distortions transformed by MI5 members must master the following two skills in the process of transporting life potions:

First, they must know how to recognize their direction and be able to cross the vast sea of sand without getting lost. At the same time, they have to find the hole in the cliffs of the Blade Mountains to accurately connect with the Imperial army.

Second, they know how to communicate with the Imperial Army, know how to distinguish friend from foe, and then peacefully exchange life potions with the Imperial Army.

These two skills are based on a level of near-human intelligence.

Li Nuo thought that this level of intelligence was possessed by every biwinged aberration.

Now looking at the performance of this group of flight guards, Li Nuo knows in his heart:

Only wing-wing aberrations converted from MI5 members possess a level of intelligence comparable to that of humans.

Other flying wing aberrations, like walking foot aberrations, are mentally retarded and have flaws in their logic of action.

They are unable to distinguish between skeletons and skeletons, and are completely incapable of understanding the magic that turns living people into skeletons.

In their eyes, humanoid creatures in the form of skeletons are not enemies.

Only the big creatures who are lively and fluttering, with breathing and heartbeat, are their enemies.

With clever use of this, it won't be a problem to sweep the nest here.

After confirming that the group of flying wing distortions were not chasing, Li Nuo activated the "Bone Spirit Flying Technique" in the space below twenty or thirty meters away from the opponent.

He transforms back into a flying skull.

This scene was seen by the group of stupid winged distortants, but it did not cause any reaction.

After a few chirps, they seem to have little interest in the changeable bone.

They flapped their wings and flew back to the hole in the cliff, disappearing into the darkness.

Li Nuo continued to fly downward, and encountered several groups of flying wing distortions crouching in the cave.

Concocted in the same way, using the skeletal form of the "breath of the dead" to evade tracking, he passed through the lines of defense without hindrance.

After a minute-long flight, Li Nuo finally landed at the bottom of a dark cliff.

He activates the "breath of the dead", transforms into a skeleton, and looks up at the sky.

The moonlit night shrank to the size of a bowl, surrounded by a thick darkness.

Looking around, Li Nuo saw not a carpet of slime covering the ground, but square openings carved out by hand.

He raised his non-existent "eyebrows", a little surprised in his heart.

In his vision, the bottom of the cliff of this aberrant crack should be covered with the slime of the aberration. On the slime up to half a meter thick, there are many aberrant eggs placed. In the vicinity of the dense crowd of eggs, there will be all kinds of aberrants patrolling back and forth, caring for the aberrant eggs, bringing them nutrient solutions and transporting nutrients.

But strangely, how can there be no slime and eggs at the bottom of this rifted cliff?

Li Nuo's original plan was to quietly kill a group of deviants, transform them into his own dead, and then manipulate them to reach the designated location and use the "Evil Explosion Technique" to detonate and harvest one soul crumb after another.

Now, the plan has been shelved because of the anomaly at the bottom of the cliff.

Li Nuo settled his mind and did not panic in the slightest.

He came to the square hole with obvious signs of artificial excavation, threw a mind-controlled spider, and manipulated the little creature to explore the hole.

A cavern like this on the wall at the bottom of a cliff should also have a lot of slime carpets and distortions. But now, it's empty, the ground is smooth and flat, and there's not a trace of slimy slime.

"It's really weird," Li Nuo muttered to himself.

The mind-controlled spider made its way through the narrow tunnel, and after about 3 minutes, a faint light scattered from the end of the tunnel.

This glimmer of light was captured by Li Nuo, who controlled the mind-controlled spider.

He suppressed the doubts in his mind and slowed down the walking speed of some of the mind-controlled spiders, minimizing the noise caused by the mechanical spider's legs rubbing against the ground.

As he approached the light, a faint mechanical sound entered the mind-controlled spider's radio array, and was heard by Li Nuo.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

This is the sound of a metal piston in a reciprocating motion.

"Puff~呲~,poof~呲~..."

This is when the valve is performing a regular exhaust.

A half-hidden metal gate appeared in front of the mind spider's eyes, and light shot out through the crack in the door, shining on the smooth wall. There is a regular mechanical rhythm, which also comes from behind the door.

The mind-controlled spider leaned over to the crack in the door and peeked inside.

Li Nuo took a slight breath.

The bottom area of this aberration's rift is not an aberration's nest!

He saw a large underground space with a large number of glass culture tanks erected on the floor.

The mechanical sound he heard was coming from the ceiling. It was a tank transport system consisting of dozens of robotic arms, steam pipes, and metal slides.

The exhaust sound of "puff puff" is the movement made by the steam pipe when it drives the mechanical arm. The air valve on the pipeline dynamically regulates the steam pressure in the pipeline to match the handling action of the robotic arm.

The piston sound of "squeeze" is produced when the suspension device of the steam-driven robotic arm moves quickly on the metal slide rail and stops urgently.

Dozens of robotic arms are busy between a large number of culture tanks.

On the left wall of the underground space, there is a row of mechanical conveyor belts.

Tanks with no contents are transported here via a conveyor belt. The robotic arm grabbed them from the conveyor belt, moved them to the ground, and placed them on the empty tank base.

The base of the tank will deliver a pale green liquid to the tank.

On the right wall of the underground space, there is also a row of mechanical conveyor belts.

When the tank is filled with liquid, the robot picks up the tank from the floor and places it on the mechanical conveyor belt on the right wall.

Li Nuo had played a lot of "base construction" games before crossing over, and at this time he immediately understood the meaning of this scene:

This is a machine shop that automatically fills culture tanks, using steam as the power source, and the filling operation is carried out by robotic arms, slide rails and other facilities.

Considering the number of mechanical conveyor belts on the walls on both sides, other workshops connected to this machine shop may be of the same size.

"So... The aberration's nest I'm in right now, artificially transformed into a massive machine factory? ”

Li Nuo raised his hand and pressed it above his head, delighted by what he saw.

He is somewhat obsessive-compulsive about "base building", and likes to arrange buildings and facilities according to grid lines.

Especially those facilities and conveyor belts with regular outlines, if they are not placed neatly, Li Nuo always feels that there are ants crawling on his body, which is very uncomfortable.

Look at the slides and robotic arms on the ceiling, and look at the neatly arranged steam pipes, conveyor belts, and culture tanks.

The people who designed and built this machine shop definitely had obsessive-compulsive disorder too.

Just a simple glance at the layout of the mechanical workshop, Li Nuo had a feeling of "winning my heart" in his heart.

"Click, click..."

Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps in the machine shop.

Li Nuo hurriedly hid the mind-controlled spider.

He uses the magical vision provided by the mind-controlled spider to cast a psychic beacon through the crack in the door, using the "psychic vision" to change his perspective.

After some operation, he was at the bottom of the rift cliff, and he saw the whole picture of the machine shop, and then successfully locked the figures walking in the workshop.

"It seems that three black-bone hermits with a few alchemy minions are inspecting the base of the cultivation tank."

Li Nuo closed his "eyes" and observed the mechanical workshop intently, staring closely at the figure in the black robe.

A string of deconstructions was thrown out, and Li Nuo confirmed the identity of this group of people from the message fed back by the system.

It is indeed the illegal alchemist of the Black City, the Black Bone Hermit.

Of the three Black Bone Hermits, one was a second-order, and the other two were first-order.

They each took two alchemy servants and inspected the base of the cultivation tank in the machine shop.

Take out a wrench and tighten the screws on the base, take out the brush to clean the liquid outlet on the base, or wipe the water off the ground with a rag.

The group was so immersed in their work that they didn't notice that someone was staring at them with mind magic.

Just as Li Nuo was thinking about whether to kill this group of people, a rush of footsteps came from the aisle in the corner of the workshop.

"Damn! The Elixir of Life can't be taken back! Those Imperial sergeants are useless! They can all be caught by the people of the Golden Merchant's Sword when they are flying in the air! ”

The people who came were in a hurry, and their voices were so loud that they drowned out the mechanical noise in the workshop.

A black-boned hermit who was turning the valve of a liquid pipe walked up to the loud figure and asked:

"What's the situation? Lord Tarudo? ”

As soon as the black-boned hermit named Tarudo stepped into the workshop, he shouted dissatisfiedly:

"What else could it be?! The damned Golden Merchant's Sword has robbed us of the Elixir of Life! I used the Psychic Vision Orb given by Lord Samuelson to see that the Sword of the Gold Merchant created a thunderstorm cloud that blasted MI5 people to slag! They took away the life potion intact, leaving us with only a floor of glass slag and black charcoal! ”

The black-bone hermits and alchemy servants in the workshop gathered around when they heard these loud words.

The loud Tarudo said more and more:

"! I'm! How could the damned Gold Merchant's Sword know about our transport routes! What a bunch of idiots those MI5 guys are! Can't you just fly higher?! ”

One of the black-boned hermits couldn't stand the other party's noisy voice, and interjected:

"Lord Tarudo! Have you found the whereabouts of the Life Elixir? ”

"It should be in the temporary camp of the Golden Merchant's Sword!" Tarudo pulled his throat and said:

"I traced the ruts at the scene with the Psychic Vision Orb. The ruts were quite hidden by the sand blown by the night wind, but I was sure that the ruts were leading to the makeshift camp of the Golden Merchant's Sword! Our life potion was definitely hidden in the camp by the sword of the gold merchant raised by those bitches! ”

"What should I do?" The black-bone hermits looked at each other, and someone asked:

"Have you asked Lord Samuelson? Do you want to mobilize a team of aberrants to snatch the life potion back? ”

Tarudo shook his arm and said:

"No! No way! When I went to see Lord Samuelson, it was still locked in the central chamber! The door didn't even open! Without its help, how could we have mobilized the aberrations?! At most, use the Spiritual Vision Orb given by its old man to see the situation outside. ”

"Eh, that's a problem."

"Yes, without the life potion, the aberrations we spawn will be much less at once..."

The black-bone hermit was talking, and the atmosphere was gloomy.

With a wave of his arm, Tarudo ordered:

"Don't stick here! To reduce the operational efficiency of the workshop to 30%! Hurry up! There is only a small half of the life potion left in the nutrient bank! Before the arrival of the new life elixir, the operational efficiency must not be increased to more than 30%! Did you hear that? Do you want to see the pipes explode here?! ”

As he spoke, Tarudo reached out and turned the metal valve on the base of the tank, manually reducing the flow rate of liquid in the liquid pipe to 30% of its original level.

As he passed by the valve of the steam pipe on the wall, he twisted the disc to reduce the flow of steam in the pipe.

The black-boned hermits and alchemy servants in the workshop scattered and began to adjust the liquid pipe valves on the base of each cultivation tank, not forgetting the steam valves on the walls.

As soon as they did this, the efficiency of the entire workshop plummeted.

What used to take 10 minutes to fill a tank now takes at least 30 minutes.

The mechanical arms and slides on the ceiling have also slowed down, and they are no longer as busy as before.

Li Nuo looked at their figures thoughtfully, and his mind raced.

Things turned out as he expected.

Samuelson is located in the central chamber, which is near the heart of the nest.

It's so busy there, it's too busy to bother with anything other than magical enlightenment.

The black-bone hermits under its command can only observe the condition of the ground with psychic magic props, and they can't even organize a team of aberrants.

This is the golden window for Li Nuo to engage in sabotage, and it must be firmly grasped.

Judging from the conversations of Tarudo and others, the workshop is currently related to the nutrient bank. The so-called nutrient solution is a pale green liquid filled into the culture tank. Its main ingredient is none other than the Elixir of Life.

Li Nuo took out paper and pen from the blood space and quickly sketched the layout of the machine shop in the dark.

In this layout, he did not simply draw the orientation of the incubator and other facilities.

He also used numbers and arrows on the steam pipes to mark the direction, velocity, and temperature of the steam.

Similarly, the liquid flow rate of the liquid transport pipe connected to the base of the culture tank, the transport speed of the mechanical conveyor belt on the wall, etc., were also marked by him.

It's not a matter of interest.

As a veteran "base construction" player, Li Nuo knows very well what is the most lethal to the machine shop.

The first thing is production materials that should not be in conveyor belts and pipes.

The other is the abnormal operating parameters in the machine shop.

The negative effects of both can be large or small.

To put it mildly, if the liquid pipe that is supposed to transport the nutrient solution is mixed with clean water, the culture effect of the culture tank will be greatly reduced.

In general, if the liquid pipeline is not transporting nutrient solution, but alcohol and strong acids, then the contents of the culture tank are very likely to be killed on the spot.

In the same way, if there is an abnormality in the flow rate of liquid and steam in the machine shop, it will overflow the liquid and steam spray indiscriminately, or at worst, "bang" and explosion, destroying most of the machine shop in one fell swoop.

At this moment, Li Nuo suddenly realized that if he wanted to sweep this lair that had been artificially transformed into a machine factory, he might not need to face the enemy head-on.

He only needs to figure out the layout and operating parameters of the machine factory, and concentrate on attacking a few key parts to paralyze the entire machine factory.

If he uses his strategy correctly, he may be able to take out swaths of enemies at once and leave with a lot of energy and soul crumbs.

All this is based on one premise:

He had to get to know all the details of the machine shop.

Li Nuo turned the magical vision of the "Psychic Vision" and pointed the camera at the entrance of the walkway in the corner of the machine shop.

He casts a new Psychic Beacon and uses it as a target to cast a new "Psychic Horizon" that shifts his vision.

He can only make three vision jumps at the moment, which is extremely limited, which is not conducive to scouting the huge machine factory.

Li Nuo decisively called up the list of spells of the "Psychic Vision" and invested 1450 energy points.

[System News:]

[You consumed 1450 energy.] 】

[The level of "Psychic Vision" is +10, and it is now 20.] 】

[[Psychic Vision]'s vision jump number +10, now 13.] 】

[The level of [Psychic Vision] has reached level 20, and you have triggered the upgrade reward.] 】

Choose one of the following three options:

[Option 1:]

[[Psychic Vision]'s vision range +100%, increased to 72.5% of the target's true vision range.] 】

[Option 2:]

[The [Field of View Jump] trait has been enhanced, and the number of jumps has been increased from +10 to 23 times.] 】

[Option 3:]

[[Psychic Vision] has added the "Energy Saving Spellcast" trait, which reduces the cast cost by 50%.] 】

"I choose Option 2." Li Nuo muttered.

The spell panel of "Psychic Vision" was refreshed, and the number of vision jumps increased to 23.

Unless the entire machinery factory is as complex as a labyrinth, with the help of this up to 23 jumps, Li Nuo will definitely be able to figure out the layout of the machinery factory.

The only thing to be aware of is to avoid Samuelson, and the central chamber in which it is located.

As a psychic wizard, this guy can't be sure that there is any means to counter the "Psychic Vision".

Li Nuo looked around, his gaze sweeping over the wall at the bottom of the cliff.

There were six artificially dug caverns here, and he was just one of them.

Leno took out the other 11 mind-control spiders and manipulated them into the other five burrows.

Thanks to the "joint action" nature of the "Psychic Beacon", he was able to control multiple mind-control spiders without any scramble.

These mind-controlled spiders acted, like Lenovo's fingers, nimble, swift, and silent.

He took the time to try it in the alchemy room. As long as the number of mind-controlled spiders controlled at the same time does not exceed the 12 limits of "joint operation", there will be no operation errors.

When Samuelson couldn't pull away, the entire deformed nest undoubtedly entered a state of no "monitoring system".

As long as Li Nuo is careful enough, there are a total of 12 mind-controlled spiders in front and back, and the "Psychic Vision" that jumps up to 23 times, he can definitely explore the nest.

The "Psychic Vision" is responsible for pathfinding, while the Mind Control Spider performs simple operations, trying to turn valves, open gates, etc., in preparation for Li Nuo's subsequent infiltration.

There's one more chapter to follow!

(End of chapter)