Chapter 431 Heart Search

"What's wrong?" Elodie asked.

Chaoyang told her discovery, "It seems that the Star Picking City has indeed welcomed a new god... This pillar of wish power is almost as strong as mine."

"You can actually see the flow of wish power?" Kokomochi has a new understanding of the younger gods of the new era, "But it's strange... When I was still here, I didn't hear of any new beliefs being born among the people. And I can see and feel the support of Paradise for you... So even if the Star Picking City can give birth to a new god, it shouldn't be able to reach your level of belief in a short time."

"Who knows, maybe the other party is another talented younger generation." Chaoyang said without comment, "The most important thing now is to find out where little Guinness is. Can you contact him?"

The magic goddess called for a while and shook her head, "No, maybe he has lost consciousness... or has already..."

"Could it be that the death of Lalot Guinness was actually caused by the invasion of Long Jiu's army?" The angel said.

"Does this political assistant often go to the front line on weekdays?" Chaoyang asked.

"That's not the case," Kokomochi denied, "He's a civil servant, and he spends most of his working time in the Ice and Snow Palace."

It was time to search for someone in the entire city again.

But this time Chaoyang came prepared.

He took out the beating heart from his waist bag and handed it to Kokomochi, "Try this."

"Ah..." The magic goddess took it carefully, "Do you want to use it to find Little Guinness?"

"Since it can lead the tribe to hunt prey, it should also be used to find people. We know nothing about the Guinness family, and only you can drive it. Try to think about... thinking of Little Guinness as your hunting target."

"It feels weird..." The little girl looked disgusted, but she still did what he said. In less than ten seconds, a puff of black smoke rose from the heart and slowly drifted towards the direction of the Ice and Snow Palace.

"Is this the guidance?" she said in surprise.

"I didn't expect it to really work. Let's follow the black smoke and see." Chaoyang said decisively.

The three flew to the edge of the Ice and Snow Palace and found that it had become a fierce battlefield. The soldiers set up multiple lines of defense in the square in front of the gate, blocking the waves of attacks from Long Jiujun. It would be fine if they only had to deal with the Steam Knights, but the most difficult thing was undoubtedly the sneak attack from the air - as long as a mechanical bird flew into the crowd, it would set off a bloody storm. Moreover, the three people also found that there were not only self-destructing birds in the sky, but also self-destructing spiders on the ground. They moved very fast and could spontaneously use bunkers to avoid concentrated fire, making this battle seem quite tormenting.

"These soldiers are not like ordinary people..." Elodie whispered.

Indeed, their skills are quite amazing. They can accurately shoot from a hundred meters away with a musket, and can also pull out cold weapons to fight the enemy in close combat. In particular, several self-destructing spiders that wanted to drill into the defense line were nailed to the door of the hall with spears ten meters away. Chaoyang has only seen such a combination of strength and agility in Sandra and others. If it weren't for the extraordinary strength of these soldiers, the defense line should have been broken long ago.

The question is, are there hundreds or thousands of master-level warriors gathered here? According to his understanding, the total number of warriors who are qualified to obtain this certification on this continent is only dozens.

"When did Zhaixing City recruit so many masters?"

"No, that's not what I'm talking about..." The angel shook his head, with a little doubt in his tone, "Their life breath is very weak, just like a dying person."

In Elodie's vision, there was only a glimmer of green light on everyone's body, like a candlelight that would dissipate at any time. Often people in the late stage of a serious illness or seriously injured and dying will have such performance, but the soldiers are still full of energy, and their performance is not like a dying person at all.

"And those iron warriors of the Longjiu family... I can't see any life breath in them, I'm afraid they are not controlled by humans."

Chaoyang also noticed that after a steam heavy tank hit by a mountain cannon fell to the ground, his entire chest was broken into several pieces, and there was no trace of blood and flesh inside, but all metal pipes and gears. He had also seen this design on Butler Gao Feng. With the addition of mechanical birds and self-destructing spiders, it seemed that the Longjiu family had completely replaced the human army in the past with mechanical troops.

This might explain why their counterattack was so fierce and rapid. A team that did not need to eat or drink, would not stop, and was always full of morale could indeed cross the mountains and reach the heart of the Kingdom of Winter within three days. In fact, such a "perfect" army could not be replicated even on Earth. Unexpectedly, the Longjiu family actually completed this feat a century or two in advance.

This time, it was indeed a wise choice to come to Zhaixing City for reconnaissance.

However, a new question followed. How did the Longjiu family mass-produce such a large automated mechanical army? Even if Gaofeng Company had more money, the steel production and industrial productivity were here. It was impossible to create it out of thin air, right?

"We are very close to the target." Kokomochi held her heart in one hand and pointed to the iron window on the side of the hall with the other hand, "Go in from there."

Flying to the window, she knocked on the window and whispered, "Open!"

The iron bolt on the back of the window bounced up!

Magic is really convenient... Chaoyang sighed again.

Behind the iron window is a glass window, one for the outside and one for the inside, which shows that the hall was built with defense in mind. The moment he stepped into the hall, Chaoyang's heart suddenly jumped, as if his body felt something abnormal. But after carefully observing the surroundings, he did not find any problems.

The house connected to the window was empty. Judging from the furnishings, it should be a side room used to entertain guests. Kokomochi performed invisibility, and the three of them seemed to disappear into the air. This kind of magic, which is almost optical camouflage, is very suitable for deceiving ordinary people who lack detection methods. They almost swaggered out of the side room and walked along the corridor to the entrance of the corridor.

Chaoyang saw that there were wounded lying everywhere in the hall, and medical soldiers running around to bandage them. But unlike the field hospital with constant wailing and extremely depressing atmosphere, these wounded were all smiling and full of fighting spirit. They neither cried out in pain nor complained. They just waited for their wounds to be slightly treated before returning to the battlefield.

"What happened to these people..." Kokomochi's tone was a little more horrified, "It's like they're possessed..."

"There's a strong belief driving them to fight." Chaoyang lowered his voice. He could see black threads floating above the wounded, still absorbing the power of will. If the soldiers' belief was formed spontaneously, it would be fine, but the weak vitality and abnormally strong tolerance at the same time are obviously not natural factors. The excited demeanor of these people reminded him of the players who weakened their pain perception - life and death were not difficult for them to decide.

The three did not stay on the first floor for long, and followed the guidance of their hearts and went directly underground. They went up the stairs to the second underground floor, and after passing through several locked doors, they found themselves in a cold cell. There were iron fences on both sides of the wall, dividing this place into more than 20 prisons of different sizes. Some of the prisons still had people moving around, while others were left with only jagged bones.