Inside a high-end hotel suite in Flotz, Dorothy, dressed in a loose cotton nightgown, sat on the sofa behind the coffee table, using her ""wen hai hang zhi"" to communicate with Beverly in the distance. After Dorothy presented some of her conjectures about Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument), Beverly paused slightly, then immediately responded by writing.
"Your idea is indeed feasible to a certain extent. According to Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument)'s battlefield self-adaptive function, there is indeed an option to optimize away useless Extraordinary mechanisms to free up resources for other mechanisms. If Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) determines that the user's stealth mechanism is useless on the current battlefield, then it will indeed no longer maintain stealth, wasting resources.
"However, if you want to use this point to counter Frederico's own stealth, then you must make Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) believe that you already have him completely figured out, and that the stealth mechanism is completely useless to you. But if you could truly achieve this, then why would you still need to find a way to deceive Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument)?"
Beverly wrote this to Dorothy, and Dorothy immediately responded after reading it.
"I have my own way to handle this. Right now, I just need to confirm with you that Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) has such an optimization function."
"Alright, since you said so yourself, I won't ask any more questions. However, I also need to remind you of one thing: even if you successfully deceive Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) and make it optimize away the stealth ability, as long as you make any move to detect Frederico at that moment, such as taking out a '""Lamp""' item or something, it will immediately sense that something is wrong and rapidly restart the stealth mechanism. After all, you already have him completely figured out, so any extra detection actions are unnecessary.
"Therefore, even if you deceive Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) into optimizing away Frederico's stealth mechanism, it will be extremely difficult to take the opportunity to perform Extraordinary detection on Frederico. As long as you make even a slight move to detect, using even a little '""Lamp""', Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) will immediately react and readjust. Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument)'s reaction speed is much faster than most Scarlet Extraordinarys."
On the pages of the ""wen hai hang zhi"", Beverly's printed words warned Dorothy in this way, and upon seeing them, she also nodded seriously and wrote her response.
"Mmm... I understand, I will pay attention to this issue. My plan is now set, and it will officially begin in less than a week. Before that, I would like to borrow a Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) from you for a verification test. Is that possible?" Dorothy wrote and asked, and soon Beverly responded by writing.
"That's not a problem. You are targeting a high-level member of the Dark Gold Society, who is also our enemy, so helping you is completely fine. Considering how long we've cooperated, I won't charge you rent this time."
"Taking direct action against a Scarlet from another society is a decision that we cannot make in a short time. You are my source of information regarding Frederico, and I don't plan to disclose your detailed situation to others. Therefore, we will not directly provide assistance for your action against Frederico this time, but if you truly succeed in eliminating that guy in the end, I am willing to find a way to get you a generous gift as a reward."
Beverly's words appeared on the pages before Dorothy. Upon seeing them, she nodded slightly, then wrote her response.
"Then... wait for my good news."
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Returning to the present, in a certain wilderness area of Faloro, beside a collapsed and shattered mountain, Dorothy, in a cloak, hovered under the morning light, her eyes coldly staring at the huge Golden Stone monster that had just burst out of the mountain. In front of her extended fingertip, the hovering counterfeit Golden base was completely ready.
With a sharp hum, Dorothy mobilized her Spirituality, directly activating the accelerating magnetic field in the invisible air. Immediately, the golden counterfeit hovering in front of Dorothy's fingertip flew out rapidly, accelerating layer by layer through the invisible magnetic field rings in mid-air, instantly tearing through the air and transforming into a dazzling bright orange thick beam of light rushing forward.
In just an instant, the high-speed projectile transformed from the golden counterfeit sliced through the air and traveled hundreds of meters. After passing over Thief K, it directly hit the lower right chest of the tall Golden Stone monster. Under the immense impact, Frederico's massive body was struck backward, and the Golden Stone in the impacted area shattered, with cracks spreading inch by inch. Frederico, who had not suffered a single scratch until this point in the battle, finally had his invincible defense shattered at this moment! Frederico's emotionless eyes couldn't help but widen directly at this moment.
Just like the first time she dealt with Stone Gargoyles, when facing Haolin Shigui, Dorothy chose the strongest penetration and armor-piercing move she could create: the electromagnetic cannon.
In the Chalk stage, Dorothy's electromagnetic cannon had the power to penetrate the defense of Stone Gargoyles. At the Scarlet stage, Dorothy's Scarlet-level electromagnetic cannon could naturally penetrate the body of Haolin Shigui. However, Dorothy only used her first electromagnetic cannon after fighting for so long, because there were several concerns before this.
The first concern was the ammunition for the electromagnetic cannon. Although the current Dorothy had an extremely powerful electromagnetic cannon with Scarlet-level output, she lacked matching ammunition. If the ammunition was not qualified, it would melt from the high temperature generated by itself during the flight before hitting the target.
What eliminated this layer of concern was something Dorothy asked Beverly to do for her. For the successful counterfeit, the Craftsmen's Guild had a very accurate reproduction of the Golden base, including its sturdiness. To simulate this degree of sturdiness, the Craftsmen's Guild used a strange metal of extremely high strength when making the counterfeit, and this metal was now being used by Dorothy as ammunition for her electromagnetic cannon.
The second concern was the location of the "Baoku (Treasure House)" on Frederico's body, which was his vital point.
According to the information previously provided by Beverly, Haolin Shigui possesses a vital organ called the "Baoku (Treasure House)". To defeat a Haolin Shigui, this organ must be destroyed. However, the location of this organ is not fixed within the Haolin Shigui's body. Except for Frederico himself, no one knows where he will place his organ in his body.
Therefore, finding his vital point without attracting Frederico's attention became the key to the series of battles just now. What helped Dorothy locate Frederico's vital point was not any additional active detection method, but the ultimate goal of her action this time: the Maria's Light crystal.
The Maria's Light crystal and the Golden base were originally one entity, a regular ancient artifact from the First Dynasty. Although they had no Extraordinary traces before activation, their location information was actually perceived and recorded by the Great Library. And Dorothy could determine its location within Frederico's body through the location information of the Golden base crystal.
According to Beverly, the so-called vital point "Baoku (Treasure House)" of the Haolin Shigui is where he hoards and digests the treasures swallowed into his body, a compressed space within the Haolin Shigui's body. The moment Frederico felt the crystal was threatened, he swallowed it into his abdomen. Therefore, the location of the crystal is the location of the "Baoku (Treasure House)" within the Haolin Shigui's body. Dorothy only needed to use the Golden base to confirm the crystal's location coordinates to calculate Frederico's vital point.
However, the location information of this crystal is not so easy to obtain. The Great Library needs to sense the crystal to record its location information. Once the crystal is in a hidden protective environment, it can no longer record information, just like the situation Dorothy saw using the Golden Pedestal before. After the Dark Gold Society knew the value of the Maria's Light, they protected it in a hidden environment, preventing Dorothy from locating the crystal with the Golden Pedestal for a time.
Unfortunately, the body of Haolin Shigui is a hidden environment that can isolate the Great Library's perception of the crystal. If Dorothy wants to use the Golden Pedestal to locate Haolin Shigui's vital points, she must eliminate the influence of the hidden environment. This either requires using countless "Lamp" for strong detection or finding a way to make Frederico himself turn off his own hidden mechanism.
And the plan Dorothy chose was the latter. With the intelligence provided by Beverly, Dorothy asked Adele to intervene in this battle, using her repeatedly strengthened desire-inducing ability to influence Frederico, making him realize that he was in a difficult situation of mental interference, thereby prompting him to activate the Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) to counter it.
After the Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) officially took control of Frederico's actions, it immediately caused the mountain to collapse, attempting to bury everything. Thief K, played by Neff, transformed into a dream body with the support of Dorothy's phantom scale incense cage and escaped through the earth and stone during this process.
Neff attracted Frederico, who was in a wall-walking state, to continuously attack. Inside the mountain stones, which were his absolute home ground, she kept performing various perfect dodges and predictive dodges. Dodging once or twice was fine, but over time, with more rounds, Frederico's Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) would begin to doubt itself, judging that its hidden mechanism was completely useless against the enemy and that it would be better to optimize it and use the resources elsewhere for more useful purposes.
The final result of the entanglement in the mountain just now was that Frederico's Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument), just as Dorothy had judged, chose to optimize its seemingly useless hidden mechanism after countless consecutive misses in its home ground against Neff, allowing the Great Library to once again perceive the state of the crystal.
To achieve such an effect, Dorothy had to understand Frederico's real-time state inside the mountain using a non-"Lamp" method. The secret of this method was hidden within the earth and stone inside the mountain, hidden within the extremely fine iron sand in the earth and stone.
Simply put, Dorothy just now confirmed Frederico's state by sensing the ubiquitous fine iron sand within the earth and stone inside the mountain. Under Dorothy's perception, these natural fine iron sands are widely distributed within the earth and stone and can be easily sensed. However, once an abnormal phenomenon appears in the iron sand in a certain place, it proves that Frederico has moved there by wall-walking and has had a certain impact on the matter there.
For example, when Frederico, who has activated his hidden mechanism, overlaps with the iron sand in a certain location, Dorothy can no longer sense the iron sand in that location. She can sense the surrounding iron sand but not that specific spot, which indirectly reveals Frederico's movements within the mountain stones.
Neff in the mountain not only had Dorothy's constant reporting tips, but Dorothy also specifically created her dream body clone in the mountain to interfere with Frederico. In this way, Neff survived in the enemy's absolute home ground and successfully escaped from the mountain, while Frederico, who was in hot pursuit, was directly hit by an electromagnetic cannon that Dorothy had prepared for a long time.
A scorching orange light beam directly struck Frederico's body. In a flash of lightning and fire, a large opening suddenly exploded in the lower right chest of the giant gold and stone monster, and countless cracks immediately covered his body. Carrying immense kinetic energy, the high-temperature imitation projectile directly broke through Frederico's sturdy outer skin and pierced directly into the vital point behind it, the Baoku (Treasure House). Frederico couldn't help but open his mouth wide.
Just as the imitation cannonball was about to pierce through the Baoku (Treasure House) and Frederico entirely, an unexpected situation occurred. When the cannonball directly hit the Baoku (Treasure House), an amulet nested outside the Baoku (Treasure House) activated. The cannonball that struck the amulet underwent a change in its material properties under a strange light.
The imitation cannonball, which was externally high-temperature molten and internally solid metal, instantly transformed into a mass of fine sand. The solid metal projectile became fine soft sand, and its power decreased countless times, completely losing the ability to continue piercing through Frederico. This mysterious amulet was clearly Frederico's life-saving item!
Although the amulet had the ability to change the form of matter, turning the metal of the cannonball directly into sand, it could not eliminate the powerful kinetic energy contained in the cannonball. The sand inherited the kinetic energy of the cannonball and continued to impact the interior of Frederico. Although it could not cause fatal damage to Frederico, it directly destroyed the amulet and breached the outer wall of the Baoku (Treasure House) behind it. For a time, the compressed space inside the Baoku (Treasure House) became somewhat unstable, and the gaping black opening couldn't help but emit waves of distortion.
Severely injured by a single blow, even Frederico in his Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument) state couldn't help but let out a loud roar. Having sustained such damage, the Xie Zhi Yi (Machinery Intelligence Instrument)'s escape command was immediately triggered, and Frederico was about to turn around and burrow into the mountain behind him.
Seeing this scene, Thief K Neff, who was not far from Frederico, couldn't help but frown. Then, she flew rapidly towards Frederico, her target being the large opening on Frederico's body, the Baoku (Treasure House) that had already opened a crack. Since she was already very close to Frederico, taking advantage of his unstable figure, the thief immediately rushed into the huge opening blasted open by the cannonball, charging towards the open Baoku (Treasure House).
Seeing this situation, Frederico immediately reacted, reaching out and directly covering the opening on his body, trapping the thief inside his body. And just as Frederico was mobilizing the elemental power within his body to perform a full-body high-temperature sterilization inside, eliminating the thief within, dozens of meters behind him in mid-air, there was a distortion and flicker, and the thief reappeared there again.
Using her last escape magic, Thief K successfully escaped from Frederico's body. This time, having come out of the Baoku (Treasure House), she not only stole some things but also kindly left some compensation inside. For example, her hat. She was wearing a hat when she went in, but she didn't have a hat when she came out.
Floating in the air in the distance, after seeing Neff successfully escape from the body of the gold and stone monster, Dorothy began her next move. At this moment, she took out a golden coin from her clothes, tossed it lightly, and held it in her hand. She put on a flicking posture, extended her hand, and aimed into the distance.
And what Dorothy aimed at this time was not the Haolin Shigui in the distance, but another black top hat floating in the air nearby, with its opening facing herself.
"Well... it's time to end..."
Muttering, Dorothy flicked the coin from her hand. Accelerated by a powerful magnetic field, another scorching light beam shot towards the distance, hitting the floating hat in the distance squarely. The orange beam directly drilled into the darkness of the hat's opening and then disappeared.