Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 264 The answer
“You’ll never get out of this place.”

The puppet had absolute confidence in the maze he created, and its words made Duan Mingyuan even more certain that something had happened on the Mechanical Star at this moment, and the vibration just now was the commotion coming from outside.

This couldn't help but bring back some bad memories for Duan Mingyuan.

When the villain faced the "invincible" mentor of the protagonist's camp, he turned to the sealing technique.

The entire dream world was like a seal, woven by the "cocooned" consciousness of the Mechanical Star. Its complexity and energy intensity far exceeded any opponent he had encountered so far, and it trapped him in this empty room for a whole night.

"Because you never designed a way out of here from the beginning."

Duan Mingyuan roughly figured out the structure of the room. It was a closed space made of mechanical energy, and there was no road leading to the outside world.

He started the communication with the mood of participating in a puzzle game and with a "cocooned" consciousness, but the other party let him down and cheated on the puzzle.

“It’s too late to realize it now.”

The puppet sneered.

No matter whether Duan Mingyuan opens one door or thousands of doors, this space will not change. However, the place outside this space is not static. The flagship of the space pirates has opened a gap in the "Mirage". It will not be long before those who were rescued by Duan Mingyuan will be killed under the bombardment.

Although it was against his original intention to achieve his goal through the hands of others, this was the first time he had seen someone like Duan Mingyuan.

Although they exude the same aura, their way of thinking is completely different from theirs.

But when it first encountered Duan Mingyuan in the hall, it thought that the other party was a comrade from the same camp as it, and came here specifically to admire the transformation of the Mechanical Star into a completely mechanical cage without any life.

It also learned that there are many beings like it in the universe, and humans call them "cocoons."

"What a pity! I was planning to become your friend and listen to you talk about your planet."

The doll shrugged in a very human way, and its simple facial features expressed a look of regret.

"Yeah, that's a shame."

Duan Mingyuan felt the same way.

He was originally apologetic about the consciousness produced by "cocooning". After all, this was an internal affair of the Mechanical Star, and it should not be up to him, an outsider, to decide the future fate of the Mechanical Star people and the planet. But unfortunately, the Sixteen Star Summit was about to take place on this planet, and he would have to stay on this planet for a while.

So he accepted the other party's "invitation" after falling asleep and started this decryption game.

A puzzle that can never be solved because the designer cheated.

And now, something is happening outside that forces him to stop playing this game.

"Game time is over."

"Give up? Then just stay here and wait until things outside are over. Maybe I'll let you out."

"Thanks to you, you helped me understand how mechanical energy works through a game."

Duan Mingyuan expressed his most sincere gratitude.

Although he ultimately failed to solve the puzzle set for him by the "cocoon" of the Mechanical Star, he learned everything he wanted to know about Mechanical Energy.

In order to lock him up, the "cocoon" dragged his consciousness to the place with the most energy on the planet. Only here could the mechanical energy suppress the life energy to a certain extent, preventing him from arbitrarily modifying the space he was in.

Reversing the "cocoon" state did consume a lot of Duan Mingyuan's energy. What he did was to spread out his own energy, while what the "cocoon" did was to collect and gather all the energy, thus achieving a delicate balance in such an unknown space.

The puppet was not wrong. At least in the short term, he could not use his life energy to create a gap in this closed space.

So, Duan Mingyuan changed his angle.

Previously on the Embers Consortium's flagship, he learned that different energies were not mutually exclusive. In his opinion, life energy was always a gentle and inclusive energy. "What nonsense are you talking about?"

The puppet questioned.

It confirmed the integrity of the space once again and was very sure that not even a trace of life energy could penetrate into this place.

If it looked at Duan Mingyuan from the perspective of its own kind, it would admit that the man in front of it had a stronger control over energy than it did, but the other party's foolish behavior gave it an opportunity to take advantage of.

After spreading out such a huge amount of energy, how can it compete with the energy it deliberately gathers?

The only thing it couldn't understand was why the person in front of it would let itself be at a disadvantage in this fight for a group of strangers.

"I'm just saying, as a puzzle player, it's hard to leave this place."

As he spoke, Duan Mingyuan walked towards one of the doors. He had passed through this door dozens of times before. "So this time I want to change my identity and look at this puzzle from the perspective of a designer."

"you--!"

The puppet's words stopped abruptly, and its eyes widened in disbelief.

Duan Mingyuan disappeared, without a trace right under its gaze.

Although it could still see the other person standing only a few meters away from it, his breath and energy disappeared without a trace.

All that remains here is its breath and endless mechanical energy, and apart from that, there are no other impurities.

"It looks like what I thought."

Duan Mingyuan pushed open a door, and the scene behind it kept changing like his thoughts.

Every door here leads to the outside.

He saw the flagship of the space pirates hovering above the city, and the city set on fire by artillery bombardment, and he could reach anywhere he wanted to go in an instant through this door.

"This is your planet. Naturally, there won't be any cage that can hold you."

The puppet stared at Duan Mingyuan. Although the latter spoke in a calm tone and expressed respect to him modestly, he simultaneously opened up a path to the outside world in front of it... just like opening the door to his own living room!
At this moment, it was extremely sure that the person in front of it was definitely not of its kind.

But it was some kind of monster that it had never heard of and had never been recorded in history!

"Please rest assured, I will make good use of this power."

Duan Mingyuan expressed his final thanks to the puppet, then turned around and walked through the door leading to the flagship cabin.

A hole was smashed in the cabin, the alarm sounded, and gunshots rang out in the cabin.

It seemed that an uninvited guest had broken into the ship.

"What happened?"

Duan Mingyuan stopped a crew member of the flagship and asked.

"The enemy has made a hole in the ship. This time the idea is very tricky..."

Suddenly, the crew member froze. He looked at Duan Mingyuan and the person behind him, "Where did you come from?"

I will take a short break today to adjust my thinking, and will update the short drama tomorrow!

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(End of this chapter)