dmims Chapter 12 The Shield: This is how the code is written...
Chapter 12 The Shield: This is how the code is written...
"Hey, you... is it you who's bullying my sister?" Gyutaro's voice was as harsh as rubbing glass.
The two poisoned scythes in his hands drew two deadly arcs in the air, aiming straight for Pei Qi's throat.
At this distance and with this burst of speed, it would be a dead end for any demon hunter!
However, Pei Qi merely smiled when he saw this.
He did not raise his sword to parry, but instead took a light step back.
"Click".
A crisp metallic click.
That was a stone pressure plate that Pei Qi had already buried underground. In order to deceive the Upper Moon demon's eyes, he even made the plate color completely match the surrounding gravel.
In the next instant, a terrifying upheaval occurred in the space.
The originally stable ground, under Gyutaro's astonished gaze, suddenly contracted rapidly to both sides like two open doors.
It was a redstone mechanism hidden underground, driven by a sticky piston.
"What?!"
Due to gravity and inertia, Gyutaro and Daki instantly lost their balance.
And the final sight before them, besides the enormous crater beneath their feet and the obsidian surrounding the crater walls, was a dense mass of TNT that hissed as it fell with them...
"What are these red and black cubes?! Why are they making that creepy hissing sound?!"
Daki's shrill scream echoed back and forth in the narrow, vertical pit.
At this moment, she had completely lost the elegance of a courtesan; eight ribbons were wildly waving in the air, trying to grab onto anything she could get a foothold in.
But those obsidian stones, smooth as if cut by a knife, were not only sturdy and difficult to break, but their surfaces were also so smooth, as if coated with hot oil, that she had nowhere to put her grip.
"Idiot! Stop yelling and cover your head with the ribbon!"
Gyutaro lay on his sister's back, his face, gaunt from long-term malnutrition, contorted in pain.
His beastly instincts were screaming alarms; those constantly flashing red cubes contained some kind of extremely violent energy.
The pungent smell of sulfur mixed with saltpeter even overpowered the long-standing perfumed smell of Yoshiwara.
"It's all your fault, brother! If you hadn't insisted on getting close, we wouldn't have ended up in this godforsaken place!"
"Damn it! Who was it that got yanked down with a single hook?! Shut up!"
Even when facing life and death, these six siblings from Upper Moon Six did not forget to blame each other.
However, the man in black armor above them seemed out of place.
Pei Qi also fell with them.
Through the gaps in the alloy helmets, I observed the brother and sister who were in disarray with great interest.
He calculated the time of his fall: one second, two seconds, three seconds...
Just moments before the explosion, Pei Qi pulled out a square wooden shield with an antique design and iron-plated edges from his backpack.
"Click".
The shield was held horizontally in front of him, and his movements were so clean and efficient that there were no unnecessary curves.
This deep pit mechanism is Pei Qi's masterpiece.
The system utilizes redstone pedals to trigger the logic, with only a camouflage layer less than one meter thick on the surface, and a fake ground supported by sticky pistons underneath.
If it were the natives of this world, to quietly dig a vertical pit tens of meters deep and tens of meters in cross-section on the edge of the bustling Yoshiwara, it would require at least a construction team of a hundred people working day and night for several months.
But in Pei Qi's eyes, this was nothing more than a few hours of physical labor.
After all, with a Netherite pickaxe enchanted with Efficiency V, a cubic meter of rock can be destroyed in seconds. Such an exaggerated speed is practically a cheat-level miracle in this backward world.
He was like a human-shaped tunnel boring machine, precisely cutting and stacking in the pitch-black underground, excavating huge spaces, and finally adding various redstone mechanisms and a large amount of TNT as seasonings.
Four seconds after the fall, when the three were less than five meters from the bottom of the water, all 108 TNT charges detonated at the same time.
"boom--!!!!!"
A blinding white light instantly filled the square tunnel, and the entire pit groaned in pain as it trembled.
At the epicenter of the explosion, Pei Qi's wooden shield, which looked like it could fall apart at any moment, displayed its unreasonable and unpredictable power.
As long as you block head-on, whether it's a firecracker or a powerful explosive capable of leveling mountains, its damage will be forcibly adjusted to zero the moment it hits the shield's surface.
Pei Qi couldn't help but think to himself that if the physicists of this world saw this scene, they would probably turn Newton upside down.
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
The sounds of three heavy objects falling into the water rang out almost simultaneously.
To prevent the explosion from damaging the surrounding buildings, Pei Qi left a five-meter-deep pool at the bottom of the pit.
While the explosive power of TNT remains undiminished when it explodes in water, most of its destructive force on the terrain is absorbed by the water.
Pei Qi put away the undamaged shield and quickly adjusted his posture in the icy water.
Opposite him, those originally incredibly strong ribbons were almost torn to shreds in the close-range explosion.
Daki's face was covered with charred marks, and she floated limply in the water, clearly in a deep coma or even on the verge of death.
"Tsk, Upper Moon's health bar... is indeed quite thick."
Just as Pei Qi was about to step forward and deliver the final blow, an unprecedented chill suddenly pierced the back of his head.
It's Gyutaro! Pei Qi looked at the Upper Moon demon, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
At this moment, Gyutaro's physical condition had deteriorated to the extreme. Just now, in mid-air, he had almost used his own back as a shield to protect Daki.
Now, large patches of skin on his back have completely disappeared, revealing his vertebrae, which are charred black from the high temperature.
On the handles of his pair of poisonous scythes, you could even see the finger bones cracked from the violent shaking.
The Upper Moon demons' supposedly superior regenerative abilities now appeared extremely slow and stagnant.
Tiny granulation tissue writhed along the edges of the charred wound, and even a strong wind could not completely repair it in a short time, demonstrating the immense power of the explosion.
"So that's how it is... This high-density explosive damage has already exceeded your regeneration limit?" Pei Qi thought to himself.
Gyutaro's eye had been completely ruptured by the explosion, leaving only a dark, bloody hole.
But he still stared intently at Pei Qi with his remaining eye.
His originally hunched body was now trembling incessantly, only his hands, tightly gripping the sickle, maintained a spasmodic strength due to his last obsession with protecting his sister.
Gyutaro wielded his poisoned scythe, drawing a deadly crimson arc in the water.
This is five meters underwater. For ordinary humans, and even for most demon hunters, the water resistance, lung pressure, and blurred vision are all deadly obstacles.
Gyutaro was confident that in this narrow and difficult water, the bulky "tin can" in front of him would have no chance of escaping this attack.
However, the next second, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Pei Qi's body moved so lightly in the water that he was like a fish, even faster than on land.
With just a slight turn of his body, he created a string of fine, streamlined bubbles, easily avoiding the scythe's blade at an angle that defied fluid dynamics...