Beast Taming: Abyssal Descent
Chapter 576 - 413: The Iron Labyrinth
Inside the Underground Steel City, it appears pitch-black, with no trace of a light source.
Yet, Mo Qingchen constantly feels that something is odd here, especially the steel walls, which give off an illusion of continuous movement.
"Alright, boss, I’ll check it out now."
Grey Wolf responds, then controls a Transformer to fly directly to the fractured fault layer and begins to examine the melted and cracked layers of steel passageways.
On the arm of the Transformer, a laser cutter appears directly, slicing open the melted opening.
After slicing one meter, the true appearance of the steel walls is revealed on the monitor.
"Interesting, these steel walls are actually layered, with some sort of liquid circulating in between, allowing a special magnetic field to be emitted."
Seeing the inspection by the Transformer and the resulting data fluctuations, Grey Wolf’s interest is instantly piqued.
This is bona fide advanced alien technology creation, and if thoroughly researched, it might be applied to the Wolf King and the Spacecraft, making them even stronger.
"It can affect our perception through detectors; this thing definitely has high technological content and might cause bodily harm. Luckily, we didn’t go down directly."
No matter what situation it is below, even with exploration, one can pretty much know where the danger lies, but this black technology invention might truly be unpredictable.
"Let me first detect the situation, explore whether this special magnetic field is harmful to the human body."
Grey Wolf said gravely, and began various operations with his hands.
A total of ten Transformers around begin cutting each layer of the steel walls, then excavating various items from the three-layer steel walls.
Cables, optical fiber, steel, liquid filling material... items are sorted, and different Transformers open their chest armor to store them inside.
Grey Wolf already uses data collected by each Transformer to perform various simulated analyses on the special magnetic field within the steel passageways.
In a short few minutes, coupled with the intelligent programs from the Spacecraft, the special magnetic field data is studied through hundreds of thousands of simulations.
"Boss, the test results are out; the underground steel city’s passageways emit a special magnetic field that causes a certain degree of damage to the cells of flesh-and-blood organisms.
Tier One and below creatures entering would experience rapid cell structure collapse, leading to death.
Tier One to Tier Three creatures entering would also experience gradual collapse of cell and flesh, it’s just a matter of time.
Creatures Tier Four and above can emit energy from within to form an energy shield to resist the damage caused by this magnetic field.
Resistance by physical body alone would require at least Tier Six physical strength to automatically immune this special magnetic field damage.
Considering the structure of the entire underground Steel City, there are five layers in total, with the area getting smaller further down, but the upper four layers should be specialized experimental Steel Maze.
This may be some experimental site created by aliens."
Accompanied by various images transmitted back by dozens of Transformers, processed by the spacecraft, combined with the previously scanned structural map, it’s basically possible to restore nearly half of the model of this underground Steel City.
From these models and the newly acquired substances for analysis, Grey Wolf quickly reached a conclusion.
"Grey Wolf, what do you mean by Steel Maze? From the models, it doesn’t look like a maze?"
The steel buildings in the underground city are not in a winding maze form, and no dead ends are seen.
"No, this is indeed a maze, and it’s a maze that can keep moving.
Indeed, as you sensed, boss, these steel walls move periodically.
Each layer stays in a certain range and doesn’t have dead corners, instead it forms a circular arena pattern.
Boss, look here. The first, second, and third layers only have one Tier Nine Exotic Beast.
Whereas, the fourth layer has as many as ten, apart from Tier Nine Exotic Beasts, other beasts haven’t reached Tier Nine.
Clearly, each layer is deliberately separated, and the nurtured Tier Nine Exotic Beast monsters are concentrated in the fourth layer.
As for the fifth layer, it only covers such a small area, it’s clearly meant for researchers or those in charge.
Moreover, these Tier Nine Exotic Beasts must be restricted by some means.
We’ve made such a big uproar and directly opened a skylight for the Steel City, breaching all five layers, but the Tier Nine Exotic Beasts show no response.
While other levels of Exotic Beast monsters in the Steel Maze have already begun to scurry around."
In the real-time transmitted images, the Transformers naturally encountered some mechanical creatures and engaged in combat.
The Transformers dispatched are all Tier Four level, but after Grey Wolf’s adjustments, these Transformers can engage in a combination mode.
Once combined, they can reach up to Tier Six.
Certainly, only the attack ability reaches Tier Six, the defensive capability can be enhanced partly, but not significantly.
After all, the basis of these Transformers is here. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
In combination mode, the defense capability of the body only adds a few layers of steel plates, the improvement in machine strength is not that great.
However, with spacecraft intelligent control, cooperation between these Transformers is flawless, clearing mechanical monsters inside the Steel Maze is not as difficult as imagined.