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Chapter 520 Chiseling Through the Wall
The castle is located to the north of the town, while the shops and church are to the east. Theoretically, people should be sent to scout out the castle area to confirm the situation there.

But it's obvious that players have seen a lot of horror movies, so splitting up at this point would most likely mean they really would end up splitting up.

Therefore, the group did not separate, but continued to move eastward quickly together. At the same time, Reyes activated the Tattoo Fruit and peeled an ink clone from his chest skin.

"What is that? It's disgusting!"

Mian Yue's shocked words were also what Wanli Fengdao and the others were thinking.
Reyes's ink clone was a two-meter-tall oval-shaped egg-like object resembling a horsehair worm, with a pair of wings, four strong arms, and two legs that were unusually thin compared to its body.

"A multi-purpose tool!"

Reyes' own expression was quite regretful. The tattoo was originally of his first love from his teenage years. It was tattooed on his chest to symbolize a lifetime of love, but unsurprisingly, they broke up.

To avoid embarrassment, I could only scribble over the tattoo and replace it with images of angels from the Bible, which eventually turned into this lump of stuff.

After being activated by the Tattoo Fruit, its strength and agility are only slightly better than that of an ordinary person, but it has the advantage of having a greater range of movement and a stronger sense of self than other tattooed creatures.

He can go anywhere, sneak into the sky and into the sea, pick locks, cook, wash dishes, and destroy evidence. His only flaw is that his appearance is so outrageous that even Reyes himself finds it strange.

"Pah-chi-pah-chi."

The angel tattoo flapped its wings, and with the tattoo lines connecting to Reyes like a tail, it left the ground and flew towards the north of the town.

Reyes pulled with both hands, releasing ink that presented the scene seen by the "angel" in the form of animated lines.

The angels quickly approached the castle, which was surrounded by a dried-up moat. The round towers were topped with lifelike gargoyle statues.

As for the castle itself, its doors and windows were tightly shut, and no entrance could be found. If you pressed your "ear" against the frosted, opaque window, you could hear a clear clanging echo coming from inside.

Claudia reacted quickly, "What's that noise, Morse code?"

"No. The sound is too uniform; it sounds more like...churning a wall?"

Wanli Fengdao subconsciously turned his head to look at the Mushroom King, and the others also realized that it might be related to the ice axe they had saved as a quest item.
"I'll try to pry the window open."

Reyes took a deep breath and remotely controlled his clone to carefully pry open the window. However, because the angel clone's legs were too thin and weak to support itself on the windowsill, he failed several times.

Seeing this, Li Sheng said earnestly, "If you don't train your legs when you're working out, you'll regret it sooner or later."

Wanli Fengdao glanced at it and said, "Isn't it 'inevitably impotent sooner or later'?"

Li Sheng shook his head decisively, "Of course not, I have zinc tablets, Andean maca, and compound Xuanju capsules."

"Huh? You're making jokes and then bringing them up in the book, huh?"

In the midst of this absurdity, the angel tattoo finally pried open the opaque frosted glass, but there was still a sealed, normal glass window behind it.

Through the window, one can clearly see an extremely conspicuous dissection table with numerous supports on the dusty ground of the castle.

On the support frame are a series of prisms, microscopes, joysticks, and medical robotic arms.

Meanwhile, the astronaut, whose name the system had given him was "Annihilation Device," was wielding the same ice axe as the one used by the Mushroom King and his companions in their mission, smashing against a brick wall on the edge of a castle that was right next to the metal dome.

The players present felt a chill run down their spines, and all the extraordinary individuals realized one fact—the missions on both sides, escorting the astronauts and protecting the ice axe, ultimately led to the same destination.

"Clang clang clang!"

The astronaut wielded his ice pick, breaking through the brick wall to reveal a narrow mine tunnel that had been there all along. He seemed to sense a gaze upon him, looked up, and saw the angel tattoo perched behind the window.

The astronaut paused for a moment, not intimidated by the angel tattoo, but slowly and firmly waved his hands in front of and behind the angel tattoo.

Mianyue hesitated and asked, "What is he doing?"

"Let's hurry." Wanli Fengdao's expression was grave. The next second, the gargoyle statues perched atop the castle towers shook, shattering the stones on their surfaces to reveal intricate mechanical bodies reminiscent of the Alpha Python. "Whoosh!!!"

Hundreds of gargoyles let out a shriek, flapped their wings and flew into the air, unleashing a beam of light that instantly annihilated the angel tattoo into ashes.

The intense light illuminated most of the town as if it were daytime, stretching the players' shadows long and narrow all the way to the street corners.

"go!"

Wanli Fengdao roared and suddenly drew the Dragon-Slaying Sword from his waist. He then tapped the spine of the sword seven times with the index and middle fingers of his left hand.

Clang clang clang clang—

A sharp sword aura surged forth from the Dragon-Slaying Sword, its powerful energy spreading in all directions, transforming into ethereal sword shadows that hovered around the Myriad Miles Sealing Blade.

With a flick of his sword, hundreds of sword shadows of qi soared into the sky, heading straight for the swooping mass of stone gargoyles.

The basic physical attributes of a mechanical gargoyle are roughly equivalent to a Lv15 melee-type superhuman, with a few gargoyles reaching Lv20.

Wanli Fengdao desperately urged his inner energy, his sword shadow cutting through the gargoyle's skin, sparks flying everywhere.

"Their material is as hard as that of the Alpha Python, allowing them to directly attack the cables beneath the exoskeleton!"

Brother Xiao Dao shouted a warning, and the gargoyles in the air swarmed densely. The large gargoyles spread their wings and blocked the way in front, buying time for their companions behind them to gather their breath and exhale.

While running wildly, Mianyue kicked the ground with her rabbit legs, twisted her rabbit waist in mid-air, and shot a series of vine arrows with her bow.

The arrow trembled violently, as if it had a mind of its own, curving around the barrier in front of it and precisely piercing through the sturdy metal support pillar of the gargoyle's neck behind it, wedging itself into the data cable behind the pillar.

boom!
The vine arrows exploded simultaneously, fireworks burst, and dozens of gargoyles spiraled and fell.

"Good job!"

Claudia, who was casting dark magic, couldn't help but exclaim, "What kind of skill is this?"

"It's not a skill, it's just a technique for shaking arrows."

Mianyue's ears twitched (rabbits mainly rely on their ears to dissipate heat), and she was panting heavily. A simple round of attacks had inexplicably consumed several times more energy than usual.

She didn't have the strength to explain, so Li Sheng quickly said, "Simply put, it's about adjusting the angle of the arrow shaft so that it's not pointing at the aiming point, while moving the arrow fletching from the tail to the front, so that the arrow's wing surface experiences stronger airflow pressure, which pushes the arrow shaft to rotate around the center of gravity during flight, automatically adjusting the pitch and climb angles."

This allows the arrow to curve once, twice, or even multiple times.

I know an archer named Cupid, and I heard he's been practicing this kind of archery lately.

???

Good heavens, the culprit behind the declining marriage rate in recent years has been found.

Li Sheng kept making up a joke, but his eyes were constantly focused on the rate at which the fluorescent line representing his physical fitness level on his arm was decreasing.

He unleashed a dragon's breath into the air, Claudia released acid rain magic, and Centipede used telekinesis to make gargoyles collide with each other. The players retreated while maintaining their defensive line.
All the superhumans were panting heavily, and their physical strength was dropping at an abnormally rapid rate with every movement.

At the critical moment, a two-story wooden shop suddenly opened, and the shop owner, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a toothpick, raised a strangely shaped rotary machine gun connected to a gas cylinder and fired at the gargoyles high in the sky.

Strangely enough, the rotary machine gun did not fire live ammunition, but blank rounds filled with gas. They did not hurt or itch the gargoyles, but they could cause them to panic and retreat drastically.

The cowboy boss spat out the toothpick and said impatiently, "What are you standing there for? Come in."

(End of this chapter)