Steel steam and flame

The shield was shaped like a powerful fan blade, and when it was waved by Cassia, it produced extremely strong wind force. The steam flowing in the entire wide mine was unbalanced at this moment, and all of it changed direction at once, pouring back towards the position of the steam furnace. The flowing steam was sucked back, as if the stock was insufficient. Where the shield was swung, the torrent of steam immediately broke, revealing a large blank space. In the common vacuum process in food factories, the waving shield achieves the same effect for a short time.

The enemy captain showed a clearer appearance. The strength was not his body, but the gray-white hard cuticle that proliferated from the inside of his body. It looks like the cracked old bark of an aged tree, in the form of pieces or blocks, like tiles, stacked up on the body irregularly. Fragile places like the heart and neck are thickened intentionally, and the shape is more like a smelted metal block, with sufficient density and weight. As an attack method, in addition to artificially adding something like an iron chain to the joints, the enemy's own cuticle also formed a cylindrical trapezoid-like cone-shaped object according to his development requirements.

In a very short period of time, Cassia's rapidly spinning thoughts reminded him of two similar things. One is that we have just solved a few power-assisted armors, and the cuticles on the enemy's body are very close to them. If you can follow your own consciousness to form some beautiful tubes, the only difference between the two may be the inner material. . The second is the ability to develop full-coverage bone surgery that Cassia is very reluctant to encounter.

That layer of seemingly hard bones has extremely high toughness. The metal-like layer of bones has an extremely fine sponge-like structure inside, which can absorb most of the force and impact of objects that hit him. If it can exercise the internal organs and tissue structures, it can indeed be regarded as one of the strongest defensive properties among the various surgical developments that Cassia knows.

Although the opponent is not the thirty-six knight attendants themselves, their identity will definitely be one of the top few in the team. Perhaps it was an advanced version developed for full-coverage bone surgery. At this point in Cassia's thoughts, the shield he swung crashed down and landed on the enemy.

His weight could only be considered as being slightly obese among surgeons. The shield disconnected with a huge sound, and Patrick flew out and hit the rock wall of the mine. The torrent of steam surged back at this moment, filling the empty space between the two in an instant.

"Bengbeng..." Another person captured Cassia's position and raised a firecracker to shoot in this direction. Cassia caught the direction of the muzzle, held half of the shield in front of her, and caught all the bullets fired like a catch game between children. At the same time, he rushed towards the man who was moving and shooting, keeping a good grasp of the distance. When he got close, he used the half shield in his hand to hit the enemy's head.

Without a good defensive surgical development project, this enemy could only rely on his body to resist. Furthermore, he had no way of knowing Cassia's attack method, so he simply took a defensive posture, hoping to rely on his own reflexes to deal with the enemy's attack.

But Cassia didn't give him such time. The next moment the shield fanned away the steam, it came into contact with his upper body. The spine in the waist was immediately twisted under the huge force, and the crackling sound of bones breaking had a tangible touch that penetrated the skin. The enemy flew out and rolled for more than ten meters in the mine before hitting the rock wall and stopping. He could no longer climb up.

"Huhu..." Patrick, who had already stood up, caught up with him and punched him hard, and the steam flow became chaotic around his fist. The short battle just now had already let him know that the enemy had some special way of sensing, similar to temperature sensing that was not affected by the ambient temperature, and could capture his position in this environment.

Not having an advantage in information, Patrick understood that if he wanted to kill the enemy, he had to stick closely to the enemy and rely on his keen perception to catch the enemy from the steam torrent. A suit of cuticle armor is just right for him to act like this.

The punch missed as expected, and Patrick immediately retracted his fist and swept towards Cassia with a kick.

A blurry shadow in front of "Boom" immediately changed its form. The influence of the steam, as well as the enemy's flexibility and speed, left Patrick no time and opportunity to capture it. When Patrick's instinct drove him to close his feet, his vision was already unbalanced.

The ankle was grabbed, and the astonishing chimera force that came from it turned Patrick upside down in an instant. The shock spread from the heart through the blood to the whole body. The next moment, Patrick felt that the foot he was preparing to fight back was also caught. He immediately bent his body with his waist strength, and when he wanted to hug the enemy, his entire body was centered on the enemy and was caught. Swing it with you.

The huge force created an irresistible centrifugal force on Patrick, and his bent waist was straightened directly. Before Patrick could hold his head with his hands to defend himself, a panicky feeling of weightlessness suddenly came over him.

"Boom!" It suddenly touched the ground, and among the splashing rocks, a semicircular impact pattern appeared in the torrent of steam. Fine lines burst out on the cuticle, and the huge impact force directly penetrated Patrick's body.

"Ha..." The air squeezed out of his body was accompanied by a large mouthful of blood, forcing Patrick to open his mouth.

"I'm definitely stuck in the mine floor." When his thoughts returned to his head, Patrick had only this thought. I don't know how long I was in a trance, but in a battle like this, any loss of concentration would cause great trouble. At this moment, even though the thick cuticle armor was used as a buffer to absorb most of the force, the damage to the body's internal parts was still beginning to show.

The pain made Patrick wake up very quickly. When he flexed and stretched his feet to kick out, he supported the ground with both hands at the same time, pulling himself out of the ground. He immediately went to get the short knife at his waist, and his flexed and extended feet kicked out at the same time.

It was unclear why the enemy let go of his grip at this moment, but the sense of danger on the road emanating from the black shadow in front of him made Patrick just want to put his feet on the ground as soon as possible in order to distance himself from the enemy.

The black shadow in front of him shrank into an irregular spherical shape, and Patrick urgently urged his feet to hit the ground quickly. When his toes touched the ground, an air burst sounded in his ears. Then the sound was replaced by the sound of tearing wind. This was a subconscious feeling in the body. Patrick suddenly felt like something had kicked him in the chest, and the sunken cuticle gave him the illusion of suffocation.

"Shouldn't it be flowing behind you?" From his sight, Patrick realized that the torrent of steam was actually flowing back towards him and going away in the opposite direction. Blood poured out of his mouth, and the black shadow disappeared in his eyes.

Patrick flew out with a "boom" and stopped when he hit something hard. When he returned to consciousness, he realized that he seemed to be in the lounge just now, and Janet, wearing power-assisted armor, was helping him up. On the side, Daniel's face reflected in his pupils from a very close distance.

"It would be better to retreat." Patrick said weakly while coughing up blood. He lowered his head and saw that the two footprints were deeply imprinted on the cuticle of his chest.