Shadow Trails in Azeroth

"So, what happened to you? Did you accidentally find some strange dark red liquid, then inserted it into your belt and pressed the button on your gloves?"

In the room at Camp Kenings, Blake, who had just finished lunch, looked at the glass bottle in his hand with strange eyes.

He put the glass bottle in front of his eyes and looked at Mathias Shore sitting cross-legged inside through the wall of the bottle.

The latter seemed very angry.

He shouted into the bottle:

"Let me out quickly! You bastard, you are still laughing, find a way to recover from this evil magic!"

"Yo, such a small person has such a big temper."

Blake said with a smile on his face and full of malice.

He unscrewed the cap of the bottle, poured the pocket version of Shore inside onto the table, stretched out his fingers to flick the smaller Shore, but was stabbed hard by the latter with a dagger that was also shrunk.

"Ouch, it hurts!"

The pirate swung his fingers and looked at the bleeding fingertips. He blew hard at the table with dissatisfaction. The blow made Xiao Er struggle to maintain his balance as if he was being pulled into a storm.

"Quack."

The little fishmen next to him were stunned.

It quickly jumped onto the table and circled around Xiao Er who was shrunk to one-tenth its size in wonder, its big cute eyes full of curiosity.

The fishman compared his current body shape with Xiao Er's, and felt that he could bully Xiao Er, who usually had a cold face and pretended to be cool.

So it yelled, waving its claws and rushed over, trying to catch the shrunken Shaw like an insect.

But Shore was simply shrunk.

His power hasn't changed.

The speed became faster due to the shrinkage. The moment the murloc rushed towards him, Xiao quickly jumped into the shadow, and when he took off, he swung a punch and hit the overestimating little murloc on the head. .

Benbol screamed and was thrown away with a punch, and was picked up in mid-air by Blake's quick eyes and claws.

"You little idiot, just because his body was shrunk, it doesn't mean he has become weak and easy to bully."

Black left the little fishman aside who was covering his eyes and crying bitterly after being beaten. He no longer paid attention to this shameful thing, and then focused his attention on Xiao who was brandishing a dagger on the table.

Finally, he turned to look at Kelsey Steelspark, who was holding a coil pistol and guarding the prisoner.

He asked:

"Is this shrinking effect on Shore caused by the 'World Amplifier'? Is there a way to restore it?"

"As expected of you, Blake, you saw the problem right away."

Dwarf agent Kelsey spread her hands and showed a helpless smile. She said:

"But I'd tried it on the way here, tried it with all the engineering equipment I could find, and apparently the World Amplifier the Mechagnomes were using was an improved version of the prototype we were using.

It's more stable, more powerful, and the shrinking effect lasts longer.

And the resulting energy constraints are completely different from our design. If Mr. Shore wants to recover, he must be released by my 'terrible' compatriot myself. "

Speaking of this, Kelsey added with a happy tone:

"But actually, don't worry too much. According to my understanding of the world amplifier, this shrinking effect will last for at most two days before it will be cracked due to energy dissipation."

"Two days?"

Shore retorted dissatisfiedly:

"No! I refuse! This shrinking state is too uncomfortable. I don't want to wait for a moment. Let your evil compatriots change me back! Before I lose my patience."

"Don't worry, my dear brother Ant-Man, don't you think this state is great?"

Blake stretched out his hand and held Xiao in the palm of his hand. He seduced with his eloquent words:

"After being shrunk, you maintain full destructive power and become more flexible due to your smaller size. Even if you are not sneaking, no one will notice you.

And the same force is exerted on smaller fists, so that the effect of your fists is the same as that of bullets. It is harder for other people's weapons to hurt you, and they can't even catch your dodge.

You can easily play with them and you can become a real ghost.

You should accept this gift from engineering. "

"I do not need!"

Shore crossed his arms, stood in Blake's hands, and said:

"Change me back! Now!"

"Okay, okay, you grumpy little devil."

Blake curled his lips and was angry at Shore's "unkindness". He stood up and walked to the captive guarded by Kelsey, carefully looking at the unconscious mechanical dwarf in front of him.

Well, he lives up to his name.

She is a machine and a dwarf.

His height is about the same as Kelsey's. Up to the waist of an adult human, he is definitely not more than 1.2 meters tall. His cheeks are also a standard dwarf baby face. He has a super cool messy and fluffy hairstyle. His white hair should be permed and dyed.

But apart from these, other parts of this female dwarf are very scary.

Her eyes were modified to look like engineering goggles. The eyeballs were two black electronic eye detectors. In the coma state, the mirrors of the detectors were still beating with green arcs like a heartbeat.

The body under her neck had no trace of flesh and blood.

The entire small body is composed of black and blue metal machinery, covered with a solid shell, or "outer armor", and the limbs have been transformed into industrial-style mechanical arms.

It is connected to the body with golden gears, and the elbows and wrists are shaped into a curved shape using classic transmission devices.

Her left hand is simply a silver metal pliers, like a crab's pliers.

Her right hand was shaped more delicately, with a mechanical palm spread out like the four fingers of a dwarf, and each finger joint was coupled with a small gear.

As for the legs.

It's even more terrifying.

It is a combination of mechanical legs, springs, and gear-shaped soles. At first glance, it is designed to be suitable for running and jumping. However, the left leg is broken from the connection between the spring and the sole of the foot. It seems that the scar was broken by an armor-piercing bullet.

Among the scars of the broken metal body, black viscous engine oil dripped down, just like blood flowing out.

"Bang, bang"

The pirate stretched out his fingers and tapped the shell of the mechanical dwarf, making a crisp metallic sound. He glanced at the other people in the room again, and little Gianna had already covered her eyes in fear.

The little mage obviously thinks that this kind of transformation is cruel and inhumane, and it hurts to see it.

And it is very inconsistent with the way of magic.

But Fenna's eyes widened, and she curiously grabbed the broken metal sole of the mechanical dwarf and looked back and forth. She thought this thing was so interesting.

A living "robot"!

The most exaggerated thing is the little star.

Princess Blue Dragon had never believed in the existence of mechanical gnomes before.

She felt that those were strange stories made up by the dwarfs themselves, and she did not believe that there were humanoid creatures in the world that were not made of flesh and blood.

But now the cruel facts were in front of her, and she waved her big hand and slapped Little Xingxing twice, which greatly expanded her knowledge and made her eyes widen, looking at the captured creature in front of her in disbelief.

"Is she alive?"

Little Xingxing said in a strange tone:

"I don't think she is alive. Maybe this is a doll that the dwarfs assembled themselves, specifically to scare people. This thing is too strange!

She doesn't even have flesh and blood, how can she provide nutrients for her brain? "

"Maybe we could take her head open and take a look."

Blake moved his fingers and said eagerly:

"Someone find me a wrench, screwdriver or screwdriver! I like to take apart such delicate things. Give me ten minutes and I'm sure I can take off her head."

"Stop it, Captain!"

Natalie, the black-robed ship doctor who came after receiving the news, was praying for the mechanical creature in front of her. She believed that this act of self-transformation was a blasphemy to the soul and body and was unacceptable in the teachings of any faith. .

While she was reciting scriptures, may the Holy Light and Shadow bless the miserable soul in front of her, she raised her head and said to Blake:

"It might be easy for you to take it off, but can you put it back on? We're talking about life, and I admit she's weird, but life is life.

Not your toy. "

"She should have an energy core in her body, as well as an information processor, and maybe a chip or something like that!"

The expert in this field, the extremely clever Oversback, put down the mechanical detector in his hand, raised his head, and said sharply to Blake and the others:

"You guys stay away, I'm going to use electric current to stimulate the circulatory system in her body to restart, which may activate modules like her life support protocol.

Hey, that priest, stop using the Holy Light to heal her.

Two-thirds of the flesh and blood organs in her body have been replaced, and she has no real body that can accept the power of your holy light. This is a marvel of engineering!

We can only use the power of science to save her! "

With a kind of ecstasy and excitement for research, the master craftsman quickly took Kelsey's coil gun and temporarily modified it into a pacemaker.

While everyone watched as they retreated, and with the assistance of Kelsey, the master craftsman connected the pacemaker to an electric socket in the abdomen of the unconscious mechanical dwarf.

The two dwarfs counted down three to two. After Overspark pulled the trigger, a huge strong current surged into the body of the mechanical dwarf.

The detectors in the latter's eye sockets suddenly turned blue, and he let out a harsh and trembling scream like a poor man being interrogated with electric shock.

"Look! She's awake! This is the power of technology!"

The extremely clever master craftsman proudly declared to the others, but the awakened mechanical dwarf violently tore off the cable connected to himself.

The detectors in her eyes erupted with red light spots, and she cursed:

"Where does this bullshit layman come from!

You idiot, you injected such high-voltage current into my energy battery and almost overloaded it, okay? You idiot, once that thing explodes, it will destroy everything within fifty meters around me!

Are you trying to kill me?

My data has not been backed up in the Mechagon database yet. Now that it explodes, there is no way to return it to its source and resurrect it.

I think you really need to be taught a lesson! "

As he spoke, the little finger of the irritable mechanical dwarf's right hand popped open, and dangerous nano-cutting light surged out. As a result, the moment she threatened Oversbach, everyone around her drew their weapons.

The sharp blade shining with cold light, the magic being chanted, the dragon claw that was about to be swung out, the pistol aimed at her head, and the wooden stick that the little murloc croaked and waved, all of these made the furious mechanical gnome calm down instantly.

"Wow, don't be nervous, everyone! Calm down! Calm down! Haha, I was just joking with my fellow idiots who almost killed me."

The half-mechanical, half-flesh dwarf laughed dryly.

She raised her hands without any knowledge, then popped out the weapons hidden in her mechanical body and threw them on the ground to show that she had no ill intentions.

"Oh, you are indeed a pure dwarf. The way you raised your hands in surrender is exactly like the dwarf I know."

Black sneered. He tapped the irritable mechanical dwarf in front of him on the shoulder with his legendary sword and said:

"You'd better calm down and cooperate. The Eye of Invention left by your king is now in our hands. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

"certainly."

The mechanical dwarf curled his lips and whispered:

"It means that you can find the entrance to Mechagon without me leading the way. It means that my importance to you is greatly reduced. If I don't know what's interesting, I will be dismantled by you for study."

You're such a powerful bastard, you look like the boss here."

The dwarf glanced at Blake, and she said carelessly:

"Can you please keep these idiot compatriots away from me? The light in their eyes makes me very uncomfortable, and I am afraid that they will take off my hands or my feet while I am sleeping.

Or worse, steal my brain and study it.

But their backward technology has no way of dismantling my advanced body, they will only break me violently.

This is far from Mechagon, and I can't find the right materials to repair myself. "

"The way you put it doesn't sound like a decent mechagnome person."

Blake raised his eyebrows, looked up and down at this socially-speaking female dwarf, and said:

"Are you a subordinate of 'Thug' Bondo Bulk? Living in his compound? Are you also a member of the Mecha-Gnome gang?"

"Do you still know Boss Bondo?"

The mechagnome showed human surprise, then she whistled and said:

"Very good, it seems that you know Mechagon very well, so I don't need to waste any more words. My name is Trixie Shock, and I am the right-hand man of Boss Bondo.

Boss, tell me, how many parts and batteries do you need before you are willing to release me? "

"You're just going to test me with parts and batteries?"

Black sneered and scratched the dwarf's neck with his long sword. With fireworks flying, he said:

"I have a huge appetite.

Do you want freedom? no problem!

Get an HK-8 air suppression aircraft, plus five spider tanks and ten armed motorcycles, plus a hundred jetpacks in exchange! "

"You are blackmailing!"

Mechagnome Trixie jumped to her feet and screamed:

"You sold Boss Bondo and his compound, and we can't get so many things together! You still want the HK-8 aircraft? Why don't you want the big 'Mechanical Return to Origin' bomb that King Mechagon just made?

That thing is secret!

Do you understand?

After we mechanical scavengers were driven out of Mechagon City, we couldn't get good things like that at all. We did have motorcycles, but they were all on Mechagon Island. "

"Can't take it out?"

Blake snorted and said:

"Then the negotiation has broken down. You can just be a prisoner! After I go to Mechagon, I will talk to your boss in person. Bondo Big Block has a lot of good stuff in his hands.

From the Spider Tank to the Clockwork Giant, from the Mechanical Gorilla to the Iron Boxer, to the privately owned extra-large Rocket Chicken, there is also the only high-energy charging station on the surface of Mechagon that is still functional.

That guy is simply a 'Wasteland Overlord'.

He has everything there, you just don't know it, poor thing.

I think Bondo can barely be regarded as the strong one among the dwarfs. I think he and I must have a lot in common. "