Yang Yong watched the movements below.
The Buddhist Cultivator Society's group had also begun moving.
It seemed...
To bolster that old bald donkey Mingdeng's confidence, Konghai was the first to leave the city.
Who knew what method he had used, but a lotus bloomed with every step he took.
He seemed to move extremely slowly, yet in just a few steps, he had approached the city wall.
With each step, a golden lotus bloomed beneath his feet.
Each lotus withered as soon as it bloomed, its withered petals turning into specks of light that dispersed into the air.
Those specks drifted toward Bone City, as though something were drawing them in.
Yang Yong saw it clearly...
It was not as though they were being drawn in.
They really were drifting toward Bone City.
Every single speck of light, without exception, drifted into the gaps between the bones in the city wall.
The Light Gates.
Mechanical City's Light Gates were not positioned directly in front of the city gate.
Both Light Gates were several li away from the city gate.
The Buddhist Cultivator Society emerged from the Light Gate on the right, while Mechanical City's people emerged from the one on the left.
A distance separated the two sides, and neither interfered with the other.
This time, Mechanical City had sent out nothing but logistics robots that had no capacity for thought and could only obey orders mechanically.
Every last one of these robots swung hammers, shovels, and sickles, furiously prying at the bones in the wall.
Crack.
Crack.
The sounds of bones being pried loose came back through the surveillance feed.
It sounded like teeth biting into something.
One bone after another was pried free.
For a moment, all manner of murmurs began coming through.
"Fuck!"
Cao Xianming reeled