Terraria: Cruel World Legends

Deep underground in the jungle, in the Jungle Empire Military District——

In the relatively bright room, a major general sat lazily on a military chair, and a captain stood across an office desk from him.

The major general spoke slowly: "Captain Yu, in view of the results of the Miriast raid, the top brass has decided to award you the rank of major. The major's uniform and school-level equipment will be delivered to your military quarters later."

The captain on the other side just nodded coldly.

"Why, Major Yu, you should smile when your rank is promoted, right?" said the major general, picking up a major badge on the table and throwing it to the expressionless prospective major opposite him.

Major Yu raised his hand to catch the card, glanced at it casually, and then hung it around his waist, then turned around and was about to leave the room. Seeing this, the major general seemed to remember something and immediately called him.

"Major Yu, there will be a crushing battle on the northern battlefield the next day. After discussion with the superiors, it has been decided to let you, the newly appointed major, take the lead in commanding this battle to test your command and combat capabilities. The detailed location will be informed the next day. In addition, this is a notification, not a request."

Major Yu nodded slightly, and left the room without saying a word during the entire promotion process. He then walked on the dark road towards the officers' dormitory.

...Not long after, Major Yu returned to his military quarters. After locking the door, he took a deep breath, and then his cold expression changed and he laughed like crazy.

...It must be said that if the rooms in the officers' dormitory were not soundproofed enough, this crazy laughter would surely spread all around...

I don't know how long he laughed, but the major immediately stopped smiling and laughing like a madman, his face became cold again, completely different from his crazy look just now.

"I was looking forward to reaching land as soon as possible. This so-called combat command... is exactly what I want... hehe..."

After talking to himself, Major Yu walked to the table, picked up a piece of paper with a prismatic crystal drawn on it, and stared at it intently. In his cold expression, there was actually a hint of... tenderness... ?

"I will find you." Major Yu suddenly muttered to himself, and at the same time reached out to smooth a strand of snow-white hair on his temples.

"No matter where you are, I will find you."

……

At the battle site south of Dongfang Town——

Elias was the last one to arrive at the battlefield. As soon as he arrived, he found Xiyao talking to Prism. He leaned over to listen to the conversation: "It should be the mechanized creation of the Eye of Cthulhu."

After saying this, Xi Yao also noticed Elias, who raised his hand and greeted him: "Good evening, both of you. What were you two talking about just now?"

Xi Yao held his forehead with his hand: "... about the prototype of Jiaden's third creation. The prototype of the Destroyer is the World Devourer; the prototype of the Mechanical Skeleton King is its last three characters; then I guess that the prototype of the third mechanical creation may be the Eye of Cthulhu."

After saying that, Xiyao and Elias looked up at the dark sky at the same time, only seeing a few stars and a particularly bright moon... The moon tonight was a crescent with the tip facing upwards, which made it look a bit like a smiling mouth...

The uncanny valley effect has occurred (

…At this moment, a scout suddenly flew over from the darkness, and finally floated in front of Xi Yao, and then projected a holographic display screen, on which subtitles gradually appeared:

[Test personnel, the third test object, codenamed "Twin", has been fully infused with souls and is about to fly to the test site. After this battle, this round of testing will end. I hope the test personnel will do their best.]

Xi Yao knew who was typing these words, and immediately said, "Don't tell me anything else, just tell me the arrival time of the so-called experimental creature."

【Expected to arrive at 7:36 p.m.】

After reading this line of subtitles, Xi Yao raised the Flame Frost Blade and was about to chop the scout into pieces. The scout, who seemed to have anticipated this, immediately flew down and finally avoided Xi Yao's sword.

The scout flew up a distance, and the subtitles appeared again: [Even if the scouts can self-regenerate and automatically connect to the control center for my use, you cannot destroy them at will. You do not have the right to do so.]

Xi Yao ignored the controller on the opposite side and looked down at his pocket watch: 7:19 p.m. There was still some time left before the estimated time. It was this long period of time that was the most torturous.

Xi Yao looked at the investigator again: "Is the experimental creature on its way here?"

【no】

Xi Yao chuckled: "Just let it come, right now."

【Expected to arrive at 7:25 p.m.】

"Don't waste too much of my time." Xi Yao said calmly, "Let it arrive as soon as possible."

【Three minutes later】

Looking at these three words appearing on the holographic display screen, Xi Yao thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, let's do it this way."

[Load energy has been released... The door of the creation chamber has been opened... Buffer steam has been released... "Twin" is rushing to the target location and is expected to arrive in three minutes]

After seeing these subtitles, Xi Yao nodded, then signaled to Elias beside him with his eyes. Elias immediately understood, raised his gun and pulled the trigger, and several explosive bombs destroyed the scout.

Xi Yao picked up the broken scout and said slowly: "Also, I do not have the right to destroy your reconnaissance robot, but I have the ability to do so."

……

Jiaden crossed his fingers and looked at the snowflakes rising again on the reconnaissance screen. After a moment of silence, he fell into deep thought, holding his forehead and shaking it... After a brief contemplation, Jiaden sighed... Oh, if that was really a sigh.

"This is meaningless behavior... I have completely calmed down, but why do I want to laugh about this?"

Jiaden murmured, then adjusted to another scout's perspective. The picture immediately appeared on the screen, overlooking the battlefield from a God's perspective.

"Now, in this experiment with a huge error rate, let me see what changes you have made since the last experiment." Jiaden crossed his fingers and said to himself.

……

Three minutes passed quickly, and the test subject codenamed "Twins" also dimly entered the three people's field of vision. Xi Yao's guess was correct, the Twins were indeed mechanical creations based on the Eye of Cthulhu.

...But as the name suggests, the Twins are composed of two mechanical bionic eyeballs. Since there is still some distance between them and the Twins, they cannot see the shape of the two eyeballs clearly for the time being.

But at this time... the three of them saw a strange scene - because the twins were flying in the air, and their flying height was higher than the crescent moon with a smiling mouth, they were looking at the three of them strangely...

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So, this scene appeared... This smiling face was not worthy of appreciation, but it looked particularly weird... Elias could no longer bear to watch it, so he raised his gun, aimed at the twins from a distance, pulled the trigger, and took the lead in attacking.

...Soon, the twins seemed to be enraged after being hit, and they obviously increased their flying speed and flew towards the three people, while each of them fired laser beams and cursed fireballs.

Xi Yao tightened his grip on the Flame Frost Blade a little: "I can't guarantee that I can always attract the hatred of the two eyeballs, so I have to be flexible in battle."

Elias pulled out his left hand and waved it: "Okay, when you can't do it anymore, just watch me attract hatred and use my mobility to fly a kite."

"It would be great if you could attract their hatred." Xi Yao said as he immediately flew backwards and at the same time slashed out with the Flame Frost Sword Energy to attack the twins.

At this time, the prism also threw out a copy of the Shadow Graveraider, which hit an eyeball flying in front at the maximum distance of the throw. With the green light produced by the Shadow blast, Xi Yao could barely see the appearance of the two eyeballs of the "twins".

There is no difference in the basic shape of the two eyeballs, only the color of the irises is different. The one flying in front is emerald green, and the one flying in the back is scarlet red.

…And at this moment, the eyeball with emerald green iris fired a round of cursed fireballs that spread out, then rushed forward a few meters and fired another round of spreading cursed fireballs.

The other eyeball stared at Xi Yao, its pupil contracted rapidly and shot out four laser beams... After a while, the pupil gradually expanded to a normal state, and then contracted rapidly again and fired another round of lasers.

Seeing this, Elias raised his gun and smashed some cursed fireballs aimed at Xi Yao, then took off and retreated to shoot at the [Spazmarion] flying in front; Xi Yao raised his shield to block the laser and slashed with sword energy to attack the same target; Prism also threw Shadow Graveraider at Spazmarion.

The three seemed to have reached a consensus and decided to focus their fire on removing one eyeball first.