Chapter 44: The Strategy of Acting as a Substitute for Peach Stems.

As the hacker's head was blown apart by Cheng Huaiyan's handgun, Xing Junmo had already invisibly pounced behind the mechanical engineer.

Wan Zhongquan unleashed it's full force, directly punching through the mechanical engineer's body.

However, Xing Junmo's expression changed, and he swiftly retreated:

"Not right, they are synthetics! Not originals!"

"Oh my." The voice inside the room responded, "To actually fire shots inside the metal hydrogen factory, Tian Luo, aren't you afraid of triggering a detonation from ricochets?"

Cheng Huaiyan hurriedly flew towards the direction of the voice, only to discover it was a speaker stuck to the wall.

And these paint webs on the wall are...

Ah, I see! He instantly understood everything.

The other party activated electronic suppression, making people think that the communication frequency of the entire area was being disrupted, but in reality, they installed a paint mesh on the walls around the central workshop to shield the interference signals.

So, in the central workshop, there isn't intense electronic interference to suppress wireless signal transmission. Therefore, the two engineers hid the device elsewhere, remotely controlling two synthetic persons disguised as themselves, deliberately working, conversing, and interacting conspicuously.

Meanwhile, he, along with Xing Junmo, erroneously assumed they were in an electronically suppressed environment, where wireless signals couldn't be remotely transmitted, so they never even considered this possibility. It's too late to think about it now.

A large number of synthetic humans poured out from both sides of the workshop, their arms uniformly adorned with modified firearms, firing wildly at Xing Junmo, who was defenseless in the center—clearly, this was the adversary's reserve tactic.

Wait, why are they daring to open fire?

Cheng Huaiyan once again lightning-quickly realized: There was simply no metal hydrogen in the central workshop at this moment! Otherwise, once a massive detonation occurred, it would inevitably affect their hidden main bodies nearby!

The gun roared, and bullets rained down.

Xing Junmo had already noticed something was wrong and jumped away. Utilizing his agility with the Light Body Technique, he slid into a corner behind the production line, narrowly avoiding being turned into Swiss cheese by the torrent of bullets.

Even so, he was still pinned down by heavy fire, unable to escape. He quickly activated his stealth mode again, then looked around for an escape route.

None.

The position the opponent previously used to disguise themselves as a synthetic person was obviously carefully chosen. Now, finding himself cornered into a dead end, it's likely within the opponent's calculations as well, which means...

Sure enough, several objects resembling high-explosive grenades, trailing white smoke through the rain of bullets, are shot towards Xing Junmo's hiding corner. But at this moment, he has no way to dodge. Once he leaves cover, he will inevitably be shot dead.

Trapped in a hollow!

In a weightless state, Cheng Huaiyan relied on jet propulsion to swiftly skim along the ceiling, while simultaneously creating a void in midair and barely managed to deflect the trajectory of the grenade, causing it to explode on either side of Xing Junmo, with the debris being completely blocked by the production line and equipment.

However, he was soon forced into a tight spot by the firepower redirected from below, having to perform various high-difficulty maneuvers in the air to evade the projectiles. Meanwhile, Xing Junmo took out a hand grenade, trying to find an opportunity to throw it.

This is bad... he thought bitterly.

Being invisible, being in a small indoor space, and being premeditated by the other party to set fire, meant that all the advantages that he and Cheng Huaiyan had were wiped out.

Did the opponent anticipate the involvement of the Tianluo Department long ago?

He nervously and calmly observed, suddenly inexplicably thinking of Cheng Jinyang and Xing Yuanzhi outside the field.

If they could support from outside the field... there wouldn't even be a need for risk; just use the Iron Shoot algorithm to find a heavy object and disrupt the attacks of the synthetic humans around...

Then, as if in response to his thoughts, countless whistling sounds of breaking wind erupted.

A large amount of metal debris flew out from an unknown direction, violently knocking down all the synthetic humans around the workshop.

Following swiftly was Xing Yuanzhi, with the peacock feather in her backpack unfurling rapidly. The densely packed gun barrels revealed themselves like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, and then they all thundered simultaneously, riddling the fallen synthetic humans with bullets.

The Peacock Feather, full official name the "Pulse Ignition Bullet Weapon System," can fire far more bullets per unit of time than a heavy machine gun. Coupled with the kinetic energy amplification of the Mass Effect, it is capable of penetrating the vast majority of fortress defenses and killing enemies behind walls.

But now that they were in the same room, Xing Yuanzhi didn't need to activate her powers. She simply utilized the dense barrage of peacock feathers to rotate once, shattering everything, including the synthetic humans and everything around them, into a torrent of bullets.

Cheng Huaiyan quickly landed on the ground, while Xing Junmo emerged from the corner. Both of them wore expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces.

Our two cousins showing up here aside, this battle strategy is quite aggressive, isn't it?

Peacock Feather just spraying like that, aren't they worried about accidentally piercing through walls or causing a fire, potentially affecting the metal hydrogen stored in other chambers?

Cheng Jinyang, who entered from the entrance, immediately noticed the horrified expressions of his two cousins.

However, he couldn't speak directly about it. The princess sister who sneaked in together had investigated and found that there was not much metal hydrogen left in the warehouse, and the location of the remaining reserves was far away from the central workshop...So, he inquired about the condition of his two cousins' injuries.

"Huaiyan is fine. I was slightly scratched by the shrapnel, so it doesn't matter." Xing Junmo wiped away the mixture of dust and blood stains on his face and revealed a shallow wound, then chuckled, "Where did you two come from? All the entrances should have been mined by them."

"We came in directly," Cheng Jinyang raised the non-flame welding gun in his hand, which was confiscated from the synthetic person in the garage.

Came in directly... Xing Junmo was speechless

This special welding gun is used to cut steel plates, but cutting walls? You got to be kidding.

"Ventilation ducts," Cheng Huaiyan reminded.

Then Xing Junmo suddenly realized.

Factory workshops are all connected by ventilation ducts, allowing air to circulate between them. Ventilation ducts in large factories are typically thick enough to allow normal-sized adults or synthetics to pass through for cleaning and maintenance work.

Of course, at intervals inside the ducts, there are iron grates installed to prevent passage. The two cousins should have used a welding gun to cut through the iron grates, avoiding the mine-laden pedestrian passages, and made their way through the ventilation ducts to reach this side.

"Since everyone is fine, let's hurry up and find those two engineers!" Xing Junmo said fiercely.

"No need," Cheng Huaiyan suddenly said.

He stood in the corner of the workshop, staring at the opened floor gate.

Below the gate was a huge cylindrical tunnel, with the top closure panel wide open.