two,
Three hundred and forty-two candidates took the giant elevator and continued to march into the deep underground.
The elevator is like a huge metal disc, relying on the anti-gravity talisman, it glides silently in the darkness.
The balance array on the edge of the disc emits a faint blue light, reflecting exhausted faces.
For more than ten hours in a row, the brain has been running at super high speed. Even if the candidates are all powerful cultivators, it is a bit overwhelming.
The candidates were clearly divided into two groups.
340 candidates sit outside the big disc to form a big circle.
At the center of the circle, there are only two candidates.
Li Yao and Jiang Shaoyang.
The crazy performance of the two monsters shocked everyone, and everyone couldn't help but stay away from the two, for fear of disturbing the confrontation between the two monsters.
Just like in the prehistoric times hundreds of millions of years ago, two Tyrannosaurus Rex were facing each other, and there would be no living beings who dared to stand between them.
After a while, everyone's eyes flashed.
The elevator finally broke through the darkness and sank a thousand meters below the ground.
But the majestic and magnificent scene in front of them made everyone's breathing stagnate.
They were in an extremely huge underground cave.
Looking up, there are hundreds of meters away from the top of the cave full of stalactites.
Looking down, it was still dark, and it was impossible to see the bottom.
Looking around, there is a cylindrical cave with a diameter of more than one kilometer, and the surrounding rock walls are covered with thousands of artificially dug caves.
The hive, here is like the inside of a huge steel hive.
And they are just the tiniest ants.
Even the giant elevator, after sinking into the cave, turned into a solitary boat, surrounded by countless shimmering metal discs flying around. It showed a busy scene.
"This is the power of the country!"
"Only by mobilizing the power of tens of billions of people in a country can we build such a magnificent world underground!"
"Only this kind of power can compete with the billions of monsters in the endless star sea!"
Li Yao sighed in his heart, while realizing his insignificance, he also felt that he was a member of such a powerful country. And feel deeply proud.
The disc slowed down and flew towards a rock wall reflecting metallic luster.
Two light spots like fireflies floated up from the underground abyss, and flew to the side of Yuanpan.
But it was two soldiers with metal wings inserted behind their backs.
The two soldiers held a magic weapon in their hands, which emitted red light and enveloped the big disc.
"Didi!"
The dazzling red light turned into a soft green, and everyone's identities were checked.
On the rock wall, outside the hundreds of artificially dug caves, there were originally cold metal gates blocking them, but now they all slid open silently.
The big disc rises and falls. Send everyone to the corresponding cave according to the test number.
Li Yao took a deep breath, strode into his own cave, and the metal door slowly closed behind him.
It's the last level!
Li Yao looked at the cave curiously. He was very familiar with the layout around it. This is a maintenance workshop with a small refining room and a material warehouse behind it, although the sparrow is small. It has all internal organs.
"Didi!"
The exam crystal brain sent out a message, the questions of the actual combat test session. It is within 24 hours, using the facilities and raw materials in the maintenance workshop, to repair a puppet war beast and restore at least 90% of its combat power.
"A maintenance type task?"
Li Yao was amused, didn't this just hit his muzzle
In the corner of the maintenance workshop, a small object was covered with tarpaulin. As soon as Li Yao opened it, his eyes lit up.
"Phantom wolf?"
The puppet war beast is similar to the "wooden cow and horse" that Li Yao repaired in the small mountain village a year ago. It is a man-made spiritual weapon that is controlled by a crystal brain and has a certain ability to act autonomously.
phantom wolf. It is a puppet war beast refined by the Valley of Wolves thirty-three years ago.
Because of its excellent design and excellent performance, it has been purchased by the military in large quantities.
This kind of puppet beast uses the principle of bionics, and its design refers to the appearance characteristics of many wolf and leopard monsters. Its body is long and narrow, streamlined, agile, and extremely fast. It is suitable for fighting in grasslands and jungles, and can climb freely even on steep rocks.
The phantom wolf is a light war beast, with a body length of 146 meters and a total weight of 15,633 kilograms. It is equipped with a light crystal magnetic cannon on both sides of the body, and a flying sword launch system can be attached to the abdomen. It carries twelve miniature flying swords, which greatly enhances the Long range fire.
In addition, the ends of its front and rear limbs are made of super-strong alloys to create four shock claws. The bite force of the steel teeth is also extremely strong. There is also a flamethrower in the throat, driven by the flame array. , can shoot out a stream of flame over 1,000 degrees, instantly turning the enemy into ashes.
Phantom Wolf has two combat modes.
It can be remotely controlled by soldiers or practitioners at close range.
You can also input general goals in advance, such as "patrol", "guard", and "free hunting", and then it will be controlled by the built-in crystal brain of the phantom wolf to fight on its own.
As soon as the phantom wolf appeared, it immediately replaced the status of many military dogs and spirit beasts, and became the favorite of the military, especially the scouts.
Today, a standard reconnaissance team in the military consists of two scouts and a phantom wolf.
But the phantom wolf in front of Li Yao's eyes was in a bad situation.
It seems that it ate an acid attack from a monster at a long distance, the metal body was corroded and riddled with holes, and many crystal lines connecting vital parts were corroded and broken.
Then he started a hand-to-hand fight with the ferocious monster. One side of his head was deeply sunken, his body was torn to pieces, three of his four legs were broken, and only a few pitiful crystal lines were still connected between the two front legs and the body. with.
A shockingly large hole was pulled out of the abdomen, and many chips and organs engraved with key talisman arrays disappeared, and the rest were corroded by acid, mottled and mottled, and could not function properly.
Except for a spine made of a special alloy that was still intact, this phantom wolf was almost on the verge of being scrapped.
For Li Yao, this was a common scene.
Both in the magic grave. Still in the ruins of the Artifact Refining Department of the Great Desolate War Academy, 90% of the magic weapons are on the verge of being scrapped, or even completely scrapped.
so what
It hasn't been restored by him bit by bit, even stronger than before.
This phantom wolf is far from the most shabby magic weapon he has ever repaired.
Li Yao rubbed his hands together, concentrating on it. Into the intense maintenance work.
The first step is to disassemble all the components of the phantom wolf to see which components can be kept, which ones must be repaired, and which ones have no value for maintenance and can only be refined again.
"what?"
When Li Yao spent eleven minutes and completed 80% of the disassembly work, he suddenly discovered a very hidden problem.
In his hand is the phantom wolf's intact spine.
But the sound of rubbing between the joints made him feel a subtle strangeness.
He didn't hesitate. Folding his fingers, he flicked lightly towards the twenty-second vertebrae, listening carefully to the sound of metal vibrating, and sketched out an intricate cross-sectional diagram in his brain.
"Spine No. 22, there is a problem!"
"Although the exterior looks intact, it has suffered several strong impacts, and the interior is already full of tiny gaps that cannot be recognized by the naked eye, reaching the limit of metal fatigue!"
"Just another high-speed impact. No, no need to impact. As long as this phantom wolf makes another sudden stop and change direction during ultra-high-speed movement, this bone will completely burst!"
Wolves have a tofu waist with a copper head and an iron tail, and the waist is the fatal weakness.
The same is true for puppet beasts like phantom wolves. In order to pursue speed and flexibility, their bodies are streamlined. The waist connecting the front and back of the body is also the most vulnerable part, almost supported by the spine.
Moreover, unlike wolf-type monsters, the phantom wolf has crystal cannons hanging on both sides of its body, and the recoil when firing will also bring huge pressure to the waist.
And the twenty-second vertebrae. It is right at the waist, which is the key among the keys. Once it bursts, it is equivalent to paralyzing the lower body, and instantly loses 95% of its combat power!
"It seems that this is a trap."
"At first glance, this phantom wolf is riddled with holes, fragments, and bruises... But these are minor problems."
"This invisible hidden injury is the real fatal injury!"
"If you focus on repairing the obvious injuries and ignore the hidden injuries of the spine, even if you look brand new, you won't be able to stand the test of actual combat. When you arrive at the test field, just do a few high-speed maneuvers and your waist will be broken!"
Li Yao smiled slightly, since he found the problem, it will be easy to deal with.
He double-checked and confirmed that there was only one trap, and then walked into the material warehouse to find the materials needed for repairs.
Soon, he discovered a second fatal problem.
"This is not purple gold titanium, but... associated purple gold titanium!"
Purple gold titanium is a rare metal, a special alloy used to refine the spine of the phantom wolf, and an indispensable raw material, which can greatly increase the strength of the special alloy.
The associated purple gold titanium is a very strange associated metal in the purple gold titanium ore.
Although the appearance, color, and texture are almost the same as real purple gold titanium, there are some differences in properties, which cannot improve the strength of the alloy at all.
There are some associated purple gold titanium stored in the material warehouse, but there is not half a gram of real purple gold titanium!
"Is this another trap?"
"To test the eyesight of the examinees, see if we can distinguish the purple gold titanium from the associated purple gold titanium?"
"Without purple gold titanium, there is no way to refine new vertebrae."
Li Yao sat cross-legged in the middle of the material warehouse, tapping his fingers on the ground, thinking quietly.
In the monitoring room, the three chief examiners all showed strange smiles when they looked at a candidate who was grinning and thinking hard.
"Tell me, how many of these more than 300 candidates can discover the trap on the phantom wolf's spine? The real purple gold titanium?"
Dong Liuqi asked with a smile.
Yan Tianhe smiled slightly, and was about to speak, when a light curtain in the center suddenly flickered.
There is a candidate who sends a call request.
"Excuse me, why is there no purple gold titanium necessary for repairing phantom wolves in the material warehouse?"
In the light curtain, Jiang Shaoyang asked very calmly. (..)u
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