As soon as the twenty-four-hour cooldown period for the Little White Spider's talent [Split Level] was over, Li Cunxu immediately instructed the bronze and black iron doppelgangers of the Little White Spider to mimic the appearance of tiny mosquitoes. They flew into the pit cave to assassinate the mechanical mother body of the demolition robots.
As long as they were hit by the Little White Spider's holy poison, the mechanical mother body of the demolition robots would be doomed.
The idea was beautiful, but reality was starkly different.
The first half of the cave allowed for smooth flying, but the latter half became impassable.
Dozens of demolition robots with radar scanning capabilities killed the mosquito-mimicking doppelgangers with lasers.
"What should I do?"
Li Cunxu was at a loss for ideas.
"Should we rely solely on Xiaoruan's direct assault? It seems like there's no other way. First, clear the demolition robots on the ground, then those in the pit."
According to the intelligence, the demolition robots were frantically mindless but very united. Once an external enemy appeared, they would prioritize dealing with the enemy.
Before starting the battle, Li Cunxu, as per his usual style, prepared a retreat path, digging a tunnel to hide if faced with an unbeatable opponent.
However, this time, digging the tunnel led to an unexpected encounter.
Li Cunxu encountered a demolition robot that was even better at digging tunnels than he was.
After digging down more than ten meters, they reached an underground city developed by the demolition robots.
The underground city was vast, with thick black metal pillars rising from the ground like giant celestial columns supporting the surface above and preventing it from collapsing.
"There are so many demolition robots underground."
Looking at the seemingly endless underground city, Li Cunxu couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.
It was nighttime, and the demolition robots, with hammers and drills in their hands, were fervently dismantling the underground city they had built during the day.
"Fortunately, we didn't start fighting. By digging the tunnel, we saw the demolition robots down here. If a fight had broken out, these demolition robots would have all swarmed out."
The consequences, Li Cunxu could hardly imagine.
Li Cunxu ran far away, stopping only when he reached the boundary of the secret realm.
Along the way, there were city ruins, with evidence of buildings being constructed and then demolished, even at the boundary.
The demolition robots built and demolished repeatedly. Li Cunxu was exhausted just watching, not knowing how many cities they had constructed and demolished on this land.
He summoned a group of Miner Slimes, dug tunnels for hiding, and then went to find trouble with the demolition robots.
By this point, the city newly built during the day had been completely dismantled, and the demolition robots had started their daily infighting and smashing mode.
When they were almost done fighting, Li Cunxu, the old schemer, struck.
A fireball shot out, and its scorching heat caused the circuitry of the demolition robots to short out and become damaged.
He launched five consecutive fireballs, hitting the dense spots of the demolition robots, resulting in the deaths of over a dozen of them.
The surrounding demolition robots noticed an attack and stopped all actions, collectively turning their gaze towards Li Cunxu.
Seeing pairs of eyes glowing red staring at him, Li Cunxu bent his fingers and scratched his nose.
"Don't look at me like that; it's a bit spooky."
The demolition robots surged like a tide.
"Xiaoruan, fireball, full firepower."
Xiaoruan transformed into a fireball shooter from a tower defense zombie game, launching a series of fierce fireballs, while the demolition robots surged fearlessly like zombies.
Xiaoruan's fierce firepower wiped out the entire batch of demolition robots, but the commotion just now attracted even more.
Seeing demolition robots rushing over from all directions, Li Cunxu shouted, "There are too many. Xiaoruan's firepower can't hold up, start implementing the second plan."
Before the fight, Li Cunxu had prepared several response plans.
The second plan involved fighting while retreating.
The Raven of Secret Crossing picked up Xiaoruan, acting as Xiaoruan's wings.
The combination of Xiaoruan and the Raven of Secret Crossing was like a flying bomber. The Raven flew while Xiaoruan bombarded the demolition robots below.
Xiaoruan flew away; what about Li Cunxu on the ground?
No need to worry.
After the battle began, in the eyes of the demolition robots, Li Cunxu was nowhere to be seen.
Li Cunxu donned an invisibility cloak, an electronic jamming cloak to block radar scans, a thermal cloak to prevent body heat from being detected by infrared thermometers, and a soundproof cloak to muffle sound.
Cloaked in four layers, with his Silent Step shoes, Li Cunxu was invisible to the demolition robots.
Even the orders to Xiaoruan just now were given through a communicator, making it impossible for the demolition robots to detect his position.
Xiaoruan continued the bombardment for a whole day and night with astonishing Spiritual Energy reserves.
Yet, the demolition robots did not diminish; instead, they seemed to increase in number.
Li Cunxu seriously suspected that there was more than one mechanical mother body, and Xiaoruan might not even have destroyed as many robots as the mechanical mother bodies could produce.
"Xiaoruan, stop the attack, let's retreat."
If Xiaoruan wanted, it could bombard for ten days and nights.
After exhausting the fire-based Spiritual Energy, it could use the waterball skill; when water-based Spiritual Energy was depleted, it could switch to the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade; when wood-based Spiritual Energy ran out, it could use the Silver Sword...
After one full cycle, the fire-based Spiritual Energy would be replenished.
If not for the need to recover energy, Xiaoruan could continue the bombardment indefinitely.
Li Cunxu recalled Xiaoruan and the exhausted Raven of Secret Crossing into the Beast Taming Space, quietly returning to the dug tunnel to rest.
"The Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm is incredibly difficult and without a solution. No wonder so many predecessors have failed before it."
Li Cunxu found himself lost in distress.
The Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm is too hard to conquer.
From yesterday's attempt, Li Cunxu knew very well that it was impossible to clear the minor enemies due to the prolific nature of the hidden mechanical mother bodies.
The key to the strategy lies in the mechanical mother bodies. Ideally, the goal should be to eliminate them.
However, the mechanical mother bodies are heavily guarded, even the doppelgangers of the Little White Spider can't infiltrate, and Li Cunxu has no knowledge of their location, making the idea of eliminating them a pipe dream.
Charging underground to brutally kill the mechanical mother bodies?
The probability of success is almost zero.
Xiaoruan is incredibly powerful, easily crushing all demolition robots, but it can't handle the overwhelming numbers, and endless robots swarm, preventing Xiaoruan from making any headway.
Furthermore, the whole day and night of bombardment yesterday were just minor skirmishes.
The demolition robots on the surface were only black iron level, and the bronze level robots hadn't joined the fight yet.
If the bronze-level demolition robots were to join, Xiaoruan might be unable even to move.
Bronze-level demolition robots are not like the defenseless black iron level ones, which can only take hits from Xiaoruan.
Equipped with advanced weapons, missiles, lasers, and Spiritual Energy saws, bronze-level demolition robots are on a different level from those with mere hammers and drills.
In battles with bronze demolition robots, their concentrated attacks would force Xiaoruan to defend, leaving no room for counterattacks.
"Should I give up?"
Li Cunxu pondered for a long time, unable to come up with an answer.
In the current predicament, the only option seemingly available to Li Cunxu is:
Give up!
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