Nis glanced suspiciously at the ghostly floating Reynaud in mid-air.
Reynaud’s expression was also surprised at this moment. He looked at the Authority Eye flashing red with doubt in his eyes.
Nis: "Is this a warning that we’re nearing the limit? Does that mean someone else has entered the Exhibition Room and taken some items today?"
According to Reynaud, once the number of items taken from the Exhibition Room exceeds the limit, the Authority Eye will issue a warning.
But now, Nis followed the Exhibition Room rules by only taking three items, which theoretically should not trigger a warning. The only possibility Nis could think of is that he wasn’t the only person to enter the Exhibition Room today. Others, such as the researchers here, might also have entered and taken items, bringing him close to the limit when he took three more.
However, Reynaud shook his head at this moment: "No."
"No? Then what?" Nis looked at Reynaud.
"If it was nearing the limit, it should be flashing yellow as a reminder. But now the Authority Eye is flashing red light," Reynaud said, staring at the Authority Eye.
Nis thought about how Reynaud had expressed before that red was a more urgent state than yellow. So now, with the Authority Eye flashing red light, could it have triggered the Magical Energy Array?
Nis’ heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked, "What does this mean? Has the Magical Energy Array been triggered? Do we need to leave here?"
"No, I feel like it’s not the Magical Energy Array being triggered, but another mechanism." Reynaud’s expression was thoughtful: "It’s familiar, but I can’t quite recall..."
After pondering for several seconds, Reynaud suddenly seemed to remember something, his eyes lighting up: "I remember, sir, I remember!"
At this moment, Nis didn’t turn to look at Reynaud but instead stared seriously at the door.
On either side of the door, two white steel chambers filled with various energy tubes suddenly rose up.
With a loud boom, the chamber doors automatically opened.
Two silver-white mechanical puppets appeared before Nis.
These mechanical puppets were in a bare form, without clothing, directly exposing their mechanical parts, gears, and pipes all over their bodies. Under the halo illuminating their heads, all their components emanated a peculiar silvery glow.
Although they weren’t wearing clothes, it’s worth noting that, unlike Reynaud, their mechanical faces also had text etched onto them.
The left one displayed two overlapping "X"s, resembling "Yao" in the Chinese trigram system. The right one had numbers, one being 19 and the other 18.
As Nis observed them, the two mechanical puppets simultaneously opened their eyes, the energy tubes on their bodies instantly detaching, their whole bodies spewing steam and wild energy.
Click, click.
Two metallic footsteps sounded.
The two mechanical puppets stepped out of the chambers simultaneously.
Standing at three meters tall, they slowly lowered their heads, their hollow eyes locking onto Nis and Kanter. Then, their eyes unexpectedly turned red.
"Target locked, hunting sequence, initiated." A mechanical voice spoke from the mouths of the two puppets.
As soon as the words fell, Puppet 19 suddenly vanished, as if merging into the surface of water, integrating with the surrounding space.
The other puppet, with the number 18 etched on its right cheek, lightly leapt into the air, clutching its right wrist with its left hand, and forming a gun shape with its right index finger, bam—
Colorless energy flowed out from the hole at its fingertip, aiming straight at Nis.
At the same time, Reynaud, snapped out of his thoughts, saw the two mechanical puppets. A look of panic crossed his face, and he urgently shouted at Nis: "Not good, they are the base’s hunting sequence!"
"Hunting Sequence Number 18 attacks with spirit waves! Getting hit will directly explode your head!"
As soon as Reynaud’s warning ended, the spirit wave was already approaching Nis.
However, Nis didn’t move at all, as in front of him stood a "person"... Or rather, a knight’s soul clad in bone armor.
The Bone Armored Knight waved his hand, and the bone armor on his arm transformed into a giant square shield, with a whale-shaped relief engraved on it, indicating that this set of bone armor came from a whale-shaped Sea Beast.
"The shield is useless! The attacks from the hunting sequence operating in the Exhibition Room won’t directly target the Material Realm, all materials are ignored, including the shield..."
Before Reynaud’s voice fell, he saw the spirit wave emitted by Number 18 being blocked away by the Bone Armored Knight’s shield.
Reynaud’s mouth fell open, staring in amazement at this scene.
The bone shield... Isn’t it part of the Material Realm? How can it defend against spirit waves?
Reynaud felt perplexed, but if he had observed closely, he would have noticed that the Bone Armored Knight’s shield was also covered in a layer of ghostly blue energy, which was the Soul Power of the Bone Armored Knight. While spirit waves might not cause harm in the Material Realm, clashing with energy like Soul Power naturally leads to interactive reactions.
After blocking a spirit wave, the Bone Armored Knight charged forward, swinging his bone sword at Number 18.
As the Bone Armored Knight and Number 18 engaged in combat, Reynaud heard the sound of wind in his ears.
Instinctively turning his head, he noticed the nearby space rippling, with a human silhouette becoming faintly visible beside Kanter.
"Lord Night, be cautious! Hunting Sequence Number 19 excels in space assassination..."
Before he could finish speaking, Reynaud saw Kanter casually reach out, directly probing into the space ripples beside him, and with a boom, the mechanical puppet behind the space ripples turned into dust.
The dust scattered over the spatial gap.
Kanter pulled his hand out, casually wiped it on his Blue Vine Flower Star Moon robe, then looked at Reynaud: "What were you saying?"
"Nothing, nothing at all." Reynaud quietly shut his mouth.
So ruthless... In Reynaud’s heart, his evaluation of Kanter at this moment was summed up in this single sentence.
While Reynaud’s mind was fluctuating, on the other side, with a click, Hunting Sequence Number 18 was directly slashed into two halves by the Bone Armored Knight.
The mechanical structure and gear chains fell everywhere.
Number 18 flashed a spark, and then the red light in its eyes vanished, it was completely destroyed like Number 19.