The Witch's tone sounded like she was joking, but Huiye Qianfeng knew this was no joke—what kind of secret was it that even required sacrificing oneself to obtain?
Huiye Qianfeng's expression darkened at once. He had not lost his nerve; rather, he had become even more concerned about Master Lu's secret.
Just as he fell into thought, the Witch suddenly frowned and fixed her eyes on the screen.
Huiye Qianfeng instinctively looked over, only to see Master Lu—Tiangu—wearing a grim expression on the screen. At some point, a floating icosahedron had appeared in front of him.
"He's been discovered by those strange puppets!" Huiye Qianfeng said grimly.
"More accurately, he's been discovered by every guard here." The Witch shook her head. "These mechs share a network... Just watch."
Following the Witch's gesture, he saw countless icosahedrons rapidly converging in the same direction atop the metal bridges that crisscrossed the Gear World...
"This is bad."
The slovenly old man... Tiangu narrowed his eyes, his gaze constantly shifting. Besides the icosahedron directly in front of him, those troublesome things had begun emerging to his left, right, above, and below.
He looked like a homeless man cornered by a group of idle hoodlums, with nowhere to run, seemingly helpless.
Tiangu swiftly pulled two palm-sized metal plates from his body. He skillfully moved the small blocks on the plates, like pieces in a sliding-block puzzle.
The icosahedron approaching him from the front suddenly stopped. Not only did it stop, it even descended to the ground, and the silvery glow covering its body dimmed.
Tiangu seemed to let out a sigh of relief—but his expression immediately tightened!
The icosahedron that had just stopped suddenly activated once more.
Tiangu gritted his teeth. The two metal plates slid back and forth continuously, yet he still could