Chapter 883: Chapter 839: Boy, Clockwork Technology!_1 Chapter 883: Chapter 839: Boy, Clockwork Technology!_1 The vast scale of chanism City put imnse pressure on Warehouse Bird.
Therefore, just in case, he directly placed the [Curse Pendant] on his chest, ensuring that he could feel even the slightest vibration at any ti.
Then he took out a [Chinese Hamburger] ticulously reproduced by Shaanxi players in the ga, and ate it leisurely, granting himself a [Satiety] status, thus boosting his physical recovery rate.
Next was the [Blue Dew Pill].
Upon consumption, it could slightly enhance a player’s movent ability within an hour.
When combined with lightness skills, it could effectively improve exploration efficiency.
Last was a [Sharpening Stone].
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There was no need to actually grind it for a long ti; just a couple of swipes were sufficient to provide weapons with half an hour of [sharpness] bonus.
Only after making these preparations did Warehouse Bird stride into Bronze City.
However, to his relief, the scenario of “traps everywhere”, which he had imagined, did not occur.
The Curse Pendant remained well-behaved, neither illuminating nor vibrating.
Warehouse Bird’s anxious heart cald down a little.
Then —
“CLANG!”
A crisp tallic collision sound echoed abruptly in the silent chanism City.
The next mont, Warehouse Bird felt a heavy blow to his head!
He was sent flying and crashed heavily on the ground, dizzy and with ears ringing like thunder.
The Curse Pendant, which was expected to alert him of danger, didn’t react at all.
It only trembled a mont before he was hit.
After Warehouse Bird was hit, it once again beca silent, signifying to him with its actions:
[Rest assured, it’s safe all around.
There’s no danger.]
“Damn!”
Warehouse Bird, wiping off blood from his forehead, stared at a chanism Puppet around eighty ters away from him, “Are you a moron?
If it’s beyond 20 ters, you just pretend to be blind, right?”
Just as he was exasperated, the chanism Puppet eighty ters away once again raised its hand, pointing the long tal tube in its hand at Warehouse Bird.
“Damn!” Warehouse Bird instinctively blocked with his sword!
“CLANG!
CLANG!”
There were two crisp sounds this ti, but they were so close that they seed like one.
Warehouse Bird, a notorious player, moved quite neatly and effectively blocked the attack — a bronze bullet hit right onto the sword!
But —
The bronze bullet shattered upon hitting the sword.
The powerful kinetic energy forced the sword back onto Warehouse Bird’s face.
The bullet fragnts, in turn, hit his face and neck, causing the effect of a shotgun!
“Damn…”
Warehouse Bird spat out blood and could only get out two last words before being transford into light to be reborn again.
Luckily, the developers did keep their basic conscience intact — the respawn point of chanism City was right outside the Bronze Gate.
In fact, Lincoln had suggested making players respawn inside Francis’s underground lobby.
That way, each ti a player respawns, Francis could taunt the player in a weird voice, which would certainly make for great entertainnt.
But unfortunately, this idea was fervently dissuaded by his employees.
After respawning, Warehouse Bird’s shock was not lessened in any way:
“That was definitely a gun, right?!”
“Why is there a gun?!”
“The production team is cheating!!!”
“Also that strange gunshot sound!
Isn’t that supposed to be the sound of gunpowder exploding?”
The audience in the live streaming room were equally astonished.
When Warehouse Bird had sent out chanical Birds earlier, the bird’s eye view cara already took them by surprise.
Now, a chanism Puppet suddenly popped up with a gun.
The audience couldn’t hold it in, their question marks and exclamation marks instantly filled the entire live stream screen.
Warehouse Bird, feeling vexed, once again took out a Chinese Hamburger and a Blue Dew Pill.
After eating them and restoring his statuses, he returned to the original location to investigate.
Upon reaching the location this ti, he decisively sprinted at full speed, his gaze intently focused on the spot where the chanoid had appeared before.
Sure enough, once he started sprinting, the previously flat ground suddenly lifted a square cover, the chanoid stood upright and imdiately fired with the gun in his hand!
“CLANG!”
As soon as Warehouse Bird saw the chanoid appear, he was on full alert.
Naturally, he would not fall for it as easily as before.
He even boldly played a trick — while evading by diving, he slashed out with his sword following his intuition!
“CLANG!”
The bronze bullet was split in two!
“Haha, aweso!” Warehouse Bird was overjoyed.
This was based purely on raw instinct!
Being able to cut a bullet with his sword was solely due to his gut feeling!
From then on, things beca far simpler: when the chanoid bowed his head to reload his weapon, Warehouse Bird had already switched to a javelin, extending his body to make a full-powered throw!
The chanoid did not appear to be agile and was hit in the chest by the javelin.
Although the javelin didn’t penetrate its body, it knocked the chanoid to the ground.
By the ti the chanoid climbed up again, Warehouse Bird had already rushed to its front.
A full-powered slash landed on the thinnest part of the chanoid’s neck.
“Crack!”
The chanoid’s tal-covered wooden head flew off instantly!
“Cool!” Warehouse Bird stood in place after completing his move, praising himself.
Unfortunately, his handso mont lasted only a second.
The next mont, he was forcefully kicked in the chest by a headless chanoid, launching him into the air.
With a loud “bam”, he heavily smacked into the bronze wall.
“Pu!” A mouthful of blood spurted out from the Warehouse Bird, “You mother…”
Before he could finish cursing, the headless chanoid dropped its firearm and pounced on him in a beast-like posture with all limbs on the ground!
“Treating like a chicken?” Warehouse Bird was furious and t the challenge with a sword.
…
Four minutes later, Warehouse Bird dismantled the chanoid puppet into a heap of parts.
Instead of rushing to express his thoughts, he imdiately picked up the weapon that the chanoid had discarded earlier.
He examined the weapon in his hand ticulously.
No matter how he looked at it, it was a gun –
With a gun barrel, handle, sight, and the ability to fire, it was indeed a gun!
Although he couldn’t find any gunpowder even after a thorough search.
Warehouse Bird studied it for a while, then loaded a bullet and fired a round.
He couldn’t help but exclaim incredulously, “Can this thing be winded up…
with a clockwork chanism?”
“A clockwork gun??”
“Is that even possible!?”
The viewers in the live streaming room made sharp comnts:
“Fake cheater: self-developing and making gunpowder guns.”
“True cheater: openly cheating, equipping monsters with clockwork guns!”
—Because Victoria and Shuihua openly used flintlocks, information about gunpowder guns was rapidly spreading in player circles.
Warehouse Bird decisively strapped the clockwork gun to his back, and after studying the chanoid puppets for a while, he finally concluded:
“I can’t understand it at all.”
After that, he set off again.
After defeating the chanoid puppet, it seed as if he had crossed an invisible line, and the intensity of the battles suddenly escalated –
The frequency of various chanoids and chanical beasts increased significantly, and various traps started to appear consecutively.
The Amulet of Repelling Evil finally ca into play and began to shake incessantly.
Several tis when Warehouse Bird approached so seemingly damaged and abandoned chanism puppets, the Amulet of Repelling Evil was still vibrating relentlessly, alerting him of danger.
Eventually, those damaged chanism puppets lying on the roadside like junk indeed launched dangerous attacks.
This completely changed Warehouse Bird’s previous dissatisfaction with the Amulet of Repelling Evil.
However, even with a trap warning, Warehouse Bird’s progress was still slow due to his strong technical skills.
The reason is simple: just because the Jade Pendant vibrates, doesn’t an you can see the trap.
Many tis, traps were hidden in the ground and walls.
Without setting them off, they will not appear.
Warehouse Bird had to tread carefully and search for them, which significantly slowed down his progress.
Moreover, the strength of the monsters was also astonishing.
Unlike the enemies on the ground, these chanoid puppets were odd and varied.
So were humanoid, others were beast-like.
Both humanoids and beasts had many different variants.
The humanoids ca in all shapes and sizes with different weapons.
So even ford groups, using different weapons to coordinate with each other and cover each other, which made the battle much more difficult.
The beasts were lions, tigers, spiders, wolves, etc.
Their thick skin and different fighting styles greatly differed from humanoids.
Most troubleso of all: these creatures had no fatal weaknesses!
Even cutting off their heads was useless, and battling them was a waste of ti.
And this was not all.
After Warehouse Bird strenuously explored and fought for an hour and a half, the huge bronze structures in the city center were still out of reach.
He turned a corner, planning to rest for a while when he suddenly felt sothing was wrong –
“Why does this place look familiar?”
The scattered puppet parts in front of him looked strikingly similar to the first chanoid he had dismantled after entering chanism City.
—Back then, he was a bit furious and didn’t figure out how to fight more efficiently.
Subsequently, he didn’t dismantle the chanoids into such small pieces.
Warehouse Bird turned to look around, saying in disbelief:
“I’ve been sniffing the ground for an hour and a half…
and I’ve returned to the sa spot?”
“Damn you…”
“Oh~~~oh-oh-”
Just as he was about to curse to vent his anger, he was interrupted by an impressive piece of music.
Then…
the ground below suddenly started shaking!
Looking around in bewildernt, Warehouse Bird soon realized that it wasn’t just the ground underneath him that was shaking.
The entire city was shaking violently under the grand music and the thunderous noise and then –
It started to move!
This was a structural shift of the whole Bronze City!
The architecture moved, the roads changed, the ground broke neatly and reassembled, the bronze mirrors moved but continued to reflect bright light, shining the whole city with a changing white light that switched between brightness and darkness…
Standing in the midst of it, Warehouse Bird, small as an ant, stared wide-mouthed, speechlessly watching the scene unfold, overwheld by the sheer scale of it.
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