Strictly speaking, these Mirror Sentinels, like demon hunters in the real world, served the same purpose: to prevent invasion of the world.
However, Wen Wen was now considered an invader, which made him quite emotional. He attempted to communicate with the Mirror Sentinel to avoid this meaningless battle.
"I have come to this world to save people. As soon as I rescue everyone taken by the Mirror Demon, I will return to my original world."
"Our enemy is the Mirror Demon. There's no need to fight here..."
Before Wen Wen could finish speaking, the Mirror Sentinel attacked again, its tongue and tail whipping towards him like long lashes.
"As expected... it can't understand me. It seems communication is impossible."
While dodging the Mirror Sentinel's attacks, Wen Wen tried various ways to probe it.
Wen Wen eventually confirmed that anything from the real world that was touched by a Mirror Sentinel would be expelled back to reality.
This applied regardless of whether it was an attack condensed by psionic power, ordinary matter, or even psionic weapons.
To the Mirror World, anything originating from the real world was equivalent to pollution.
The Mirror Sentinels were the tools for removing pollution. As tools, they only completed their tasks rigidly and without any flexibility.
After completing his experiments, Wen Wen pointed his hand at the Mirror Sentinel and unleashed countless chains, wrapping the sentinel like a large zongzi.
To Wen Wen's relief, the chains were not eroded by the Mirror Sentinel. However, the feeling of binding it was strange, as if the Containment Facility disliked this particular prey.
Wen Wen didn't have time to investigate further and directly dragged the Mirror Sentinel into the Containment Facility.
This was because Wen Wen could sense that the space here was rapidly twisting and rearranging, allowing the Mirror Sentinels that received the signal to reach Wen Wen's location more easily.
Therefore, Wen Wen wasted no more time. He pulled Meng Jiao into the Containment Facility as well, then placed bombs on the ground in front of him and on the wall behind him, waiting for the Mirror Sentinels to arrive.
He didn't intend to fight these Mirror Sentinels, but he wanted to see what differences the other Mirror Sentinels had compared to the one he had captured.
Soon, over a dozen Mirror Sentinels appeared one after another, surrounding Wen Wen menacingly.
These Mirror Sentinels were all angular, with skin like mirrors, but their body structures were mostly different. Some resembled humans, some beasts, and some machines.
"Humans... should not exist..."
"Expel... purify..."
These Mirror Sentinels repeatedly uttered these words with sounds that seemed to scratch metal.
Although these guys looked different, their intelligence levels were all the same.
After a brief observation, Wen Wen activated the pre-placed bombs, blasting open a wall to his side, and then jumped through the opening to the other side.
These ferocious Mirror Sentinels watched Wen Wen, eager to engage, but not a single one crossed the opening Wen Wen had blasted.
As expected, for these Mirror Sentinels, even without the walls, each cube of the giant cube maze remained isolated. Only specific passages allowed for traversal.
Having clarified this, Wen Wen directly detonated the other bombs he had planted in the rooms, blasting the Mirror Sentinels to smithereens.
Then, he swaggered away from the Mirror Sentinels and began a rather violent method of breaking through the maze.
Perhaps it wasn't "breaking through" but "destruction."
In every room he reached, he left a spatial imprint, and then, by destroying walls, he moved to other rooms.
If this giant maze could be freely combined, then Wen Wen would blast through every single cube. When no new rooms appeared, that would be the time Wen Wen found the Mirror Demon!
Hearing the continuous roars of explosions and sensing the constant damage to the maze he had painstakingly built, the Mirror Demon felt its heart constricting.
Its face contorted, and the wrinkles squeezed out by its ferocious expression were almost enough to catch flies.
"Damn it, why can't he just break through the maze honestly?"
"Why can he traverse the maze in this manner?"
"What exactly is he?!"
The Mirror Demon didn't know that if Wen Wen hadn't been concerned about the souls of the young girls within the maze, he would have blown the entire maze to kingdom come, and wouldn't be playing hide-and-seek with it here.
The various bombs Wen Wen had purchased at great expense, nearly equivalent to an arsenal, were not meant to be carried in his bag for show.
Guo Shengye also noticed that something was amiss. He walked behind the Mirror Demon, patted its shoulder, and said sincerely, "My dear friend... is it the troublesome fellow you mentioned who has attacked?"
"I don't want that picture album anymore. We can give him whatever he wants, as long as we are both here, we can make a comeback."
The Mirror Demon shook its head and said, "Even if I surrender now, they probably won't stop... But don't worry, this is my home turf. He won't find us."
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The deafening explosions continued for several hours.
Wen Wen became more enthusiastic with each blast. Initially, he simply used bombs, but later he began to experiment with them in various ways.
Some rooms, after being blasted, were enveloped in a white aura, others were covered in frost, and some were filled with dense poisonous fog.
He completely treated this giant maze as his experimental ground, trying out many abilities that were previously inconvenient to use.
As he continued bombing, Wen Wen gained new insights. He found that he had developed a profound understanding of bombs.
From simply placing and detonating bombs to knowing how to use the least amount of explosives, place them in the most suitable locations, and achieve the greatest power.
If he were to go back in time and recapture Tao Qingqing, he wouldn't need any ambushes or elaborate plans. A small trap set with bombs would be enough to cripple her without killing her.
After all, even a bombing fanatic wouldn't have the opportunity to use bombs as extravagantly as Wen Wen.
During the bombing spree, Wen Wen also found over a dozen abducted young girls' souls, all of whom he transferred to the Containment Facility.
However, even with the variety of bombing tricks, after several hours of continuous explosions, Wen Wen had grown somewhat tired of it.
This cube maze was too large. He wondered how the Mirror Demon had managed to create such a massive one.
As the one doing the destroying, Wen Wen was getting bored. The Mirror Demon, who was enduring the destruction, was suffering even more.
Wen Wen could clearly feel that the maze's movement speed had slowed down, and he was getting closer to the core of the maze.
He was close to catching the Mirror Demon!