Chapter 122 - Powerful Metal Men
Chapter 122: Powerful Metal Men
“The Metal Men are a group of very strange people. Their bodies are indeed exclusively made of metals.
“Also, just like what Li Qing found earlier, their population isn’t large, but they’re all Extraordinary.
“Their Extraordinary ability, as Elder Jiao has speculated, should be some sort of power related to electromagnetism!
“Therefore, on their territory which is full of metals, they can fly over a distance from the ground in most areas. They can even launch metal objects with electromagnetic energy faster than cannonballs. Even the Extraordinary experts can hardly resist them!”
What happened to the gum girl Ning Ling was just a minor story for Ji Ye.
Though he had some mixed feelings about her experience, he soon returned to his room and logged in.
Of course, before he was back online, he had collected information about the Metal Men!
“Right, that agrees with the conclusion of our research!”
In the newly-established conference hall on the Twin Dragon Mount, Elder Jiao nodded after hearing Ji Ye out.
Next to him was a human-shaped metal object!
This metal object looked familiar to those who had fought the Forest Monsters because this was exactly the unique “metal armor” that the Forest Monster King wore and therefore was almost roasted by Ji Ye with the Nine Yang Divine Art!
It was not until he killed the Forest Monster King that Ji Ye finally learned that the thing was not a set of “armor” at all, but an Extraordinary Metal Man who had been completely squished and flattened by the Forest Monster King.
“During the past two days, we’ve learned a lot of information from the body of this Metal Man.”
“For starters, this Metal Man’s body contains a great number of metal elements, including the common ones such as gold, silver, plumbum, zinc and stannum and the less common ones such as cobalt, nickel, stibium, beryllium, and even uranium!” said a young man who was rather skinny.
His eyes were hollow as he had been wearing thick eyeglasses for years.
That deficiency had been repaired since he came to the Land of Inheritance, so he didn’t need glasses anymore, but he was still scorned for his skinniness in the settlement.
However, this young man named Guo Wei, just like Chu Yin, was invited to the strategic meeting against the Metal Men.
That was because he, as a graduate student of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, had passed Elder Jiao’s tests and was chosen as his assistant.
To be selected as an assistant to a member of the National Academy of Sciences as a graduate student proved that the young man had profound knowledge!
“The Metal Men have become a unique metal life mostly because of the silver liquid metal that flows in their bodies like blood.
“Such silver liquid metal boasts special features. After it combines with metals, it can slightly change the physical and chemical natures of the metals and even trigger a low-level nuclear reaction…”
Guo Wei introduced Elder Jiao’s findings in detail.
“Nuclear reaction? That’s awesome!
“Then we may get some special ‘nuclear weapons’ after we conquer their settlement, right?”
An Quan’s eyes bulged in excitement.
Nuclear bombs were definitely a romance for the players from Earth!
“Can they stand lightning strikes?”
Gongsun Sheng simply opened his mouth and asked.
He didn’t quite understand what Guo Wei said, but he was sure that lightning was the most destructive of everything!
“I don’t think so!
“Such metals are highly electrically conductive. The electric currents can even increase the energy in the silver liquid. Besides, they live in a huge magnetic field!
“So, their resistance to lightning must be very high.”
Guo Wei, however, shook his head.
“What about fire?” Gongsun Sheng thought for a moment and asked again.
The Five Thunder Heavenly Spirit Technique, apart from manipulating lightning, could also control fire.
He could even create a sea of fire and cover it on the Metal Men’s settlement, exactly like how he dealt with the Forest Monsters.
“Low-level nuclear reactions yield tremendous heat too. I don’t think regular flames will work on them!”
Guo Wei shook his head again.
“We’ve already tested it. Those Metal Men have strong body structures. They won’t die even if they’re shot in the head by cannonballs!” said a player who had been resisting the Metal Men along with Wu Song.
He wasn’t exactly an elite before he came here, but he had been fighting boldly since he arrived, so he was invited to this meeting too.
Just like what Ji Ye said before, anyone who was capable and who fought courageously could always distinguish themselves on the Twin Dragon Mount.
“They’re not scared of physical attacks, lightning, or fire… Do they have no vulnerabilities that we can take advantage of at all?”
Qin Yueyu frowned.
“Obviously, they definitely have vulnerabilities.”
“Don’t forget that this Metal Man was killed by the Forest Monster King.”
“Well, the Forest Monster King had two special ways of attack. The first one is the sonic attack, and the other one is…”
Ji Ye was deep in thought.
The other one was naturally the yellow mallet that boasted the power of destruction!
It meant that at least one of the two methods was lethal for the Metal Men.
“Have you ever fought a melee battle with the Metal Men?”
Ji Ye thought of something and asked the player who had been in the front line dealing with Metal Men.
“No, the Metal Men just stayed in their territory and didn’t come out at all!
“We only managed to hit them one time with a non-metal cannonball at the beginning when they didn’t notice us yet!”
The player shook his head.
Over these days, the Twin Dragon Mount fort had been confronting the Metal Men and didn’t launch any attack.
That was because while the Metal Men’s territory didn’t have natural obstacles like the Mirage Monsters’, they were capable of magnetic levitation and electromagnetic attacks, which made them the most powerful aliens when it came to settlement defense.
Of course, they had their disadvantages too.
The Metal Men’s combat ability was based on the special metal terrain.
Therefore, their combat ability would plummet when they entered another species’ territory.
That was possibly the reason why they failed to complete the first round of advancement even though they had much more powerful initial abilities than the other species did.
“According to a certain specialist in the Confederation Office, those Metal Men might be the only lives on a metal planet or a small plane. They don’t have any competitors, so they don’t have any experience in expansion at all!” said Ji Ye.
However, it was a shame that the Metal Men were such a rare alien species that he didn’t find any more information on the forum or in the Confederation Office!
“Let’s go to the defense line first and try whatever methods we have in a real battle.
“I believe that every species has shortcomings!”
Ji Ye made the final decision.