Chapter 83: Breaking the Ban, Seizing the Text, and Finding the Truth  

"No!" Dai Shiya shouted in despair, but she was powerless to stop the mechanical arm from dragging her off the stone platform. The document was close at hand, yet out of reach, as if mocking her powerlessness.

"Shiya, don't give up!" Wei Qing shouted anxiously. She waved a metal stick she picked up from the ground, trying to repel the mechanical arm that grabbed Dai Shiya, but the metal stick slipped on the hard metal shell of the mechanical arm, leaving only a shallow scratch.

"It's useless," Dai Shiya shook her head painfully, "These mechanical arms are too powerful. We are no match for them at all." She was swung around by the mechanical arms, hit against the wall, and fell heavily to the ground. Every impact made her feel heartbroken.

Wei Qing was also forced to retreat by several mechanical arms, but she did not give up. She kept scanning the surroundings, looking for something useful.

"Shiya, try to use the things around you to block their attacks!" Wei Qing shouted to Dai Shiya while dodging.

Hearing this, Dai Shiya endured the pain, picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, and threw it at the mechanical arm that was holding her. The gravel was smashed into pieces by the mechanical arm, but it failed to stop it at all. She tried to kick it with her feet and pry it with her hands, but to no avail.

"Damn it!" Dai Shiya panted, with sweat on her forehead.

"Their attacks... seem to have a rhythm!" Wei Qing suddenly shouted. She had been observing the attack patterns of the mechanical arms and finally discovered some patterns.

Dai Shiya heard this and began to pay attention to the rhythm of its attacks. Sure enough, the mechanical arm's attacks seemed chaotic, but in fact they were regular.

"One, two, three... dodge!" Wei Qing shouted the rhythm loudly, and the two began to try to dodge the attack of the mechanical arm according to the rhythm.

One, two, three... Dodge! One, two, three... Dodge!

The two of them cooperated well and actually dodged several attacks. A glimmer of hope ignited in Dai Shiya's heart, maybe they can really...

"Be careful!" Wei Qing's face suddenly changed and she exclaimed.

However, just when Dai Shiya thought she was about to find a breakthrough, the mechanical arm suddenly changed its attack rhythm, and the original regular "one, two, three, dodge" turned into a chaotic and disordered rapid attack. Dai Shiya was unable to dodge and was severely scratched by a mechanical arm.

"Ah!" Dai Shiya screamed in pain, and bright red blood flowed down her arm, staining her sleeves red.

"Shiya!" Wei Qing was extremely anxious and rushed to Dai Shiya to check her injuries. She saw a long cut on Dai Shiya's arm, with blood dripping, which was shocking.

"Damn it!" Wei Qing cursed softly, tore off a corner of her skirt, and helped Dai Shiya bandage the wound.

"I'm fine..." Dai Shiya said with a pale face, enduring the pain, "We can't just sit there and wait for death. We must get the document as soon as possible!"

Wei Qing looked at Dai Shiya's determined eyes, feeling touched and worried. They were trapped in a secret room, surrounded by highly aggressive mechanical arms, and they had no idea how to destroy them.

"There must be a way..." Wei Qing forced herself to calm down and looked around the room, hoping to find something to destroy the mechanical arm, but apart from the cold walls and the waving mechanical arm, there was only the stone table with the documents on it.

"Is... there really no way out?" Wei Qing felt a deep sense of powerlessness in her heart.

"No, there must be another way!" Dai Shiya endured the pain and stood up with the help of the wall. She stared at the mechanical arms and replayed their attacking movements in her mind.

"Although their attacks have become chaotic, but... there must still be a pattern!" Dai Shiya murmured to herself, her eyes becoming brighter and brighter, as if she had grasped a glimmer of hope in the darkness.

"What have you thought of?" Wei Qing asked anxiously.

Dai Shiya did not answer, but just stared at one of the mechanical arms, observing every detail of its movements. Her breathing became more and more rapid, as if she would suffocate in the next second.

Suddenly, Dai Shiya's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered something. She pointed at the mechanical arm and said to Wei Qing, "Look at its attack trajectory! Although its speed has increased, its mechanical joints will have a slight pause before each attack!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Qing immediately focused her attention and found that just as Dai Shiya said, before each attack of the mechanical arm, there would be an almost imperceptible pause in the mechanical joints. If you didn't observe carefully, you wouldn't be able to detect it at all.

"This is... their weakness!" Dai Shiya took a deep breath, a trace of determination flashed in her eyes, "As long as we can seize this moment of pause, we can avoid their attacks, and even..."

She didn't say anything else, but Wei Qing already understood what she meant, and a glimmer of hope ignited in her eyes.

Dai Shiya no longer hesitated, endured the pain, and rushed forward when a mechanical arm attacked. However, just as she was about to reach the stone platform, another mechanical arm attacked from the side and hit her back hard. Dai Shiya groaned, and her body flew out like a kite with a broken string, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Shiya!" Wei Qing exclaimed, watching Dai Shiya fall down, her heart aching. The flame of anger burned in her heart, and she rushed towards the mechanical arm that knocked Dai Shiya down, trying to buy time for Dai Shiya with her body.

The mechanical arm swung ruthlessly, about to hit Wei Qing. At the critical moment, Dai Shiya, who was lying on the ground, suddenly found that there was an area on the wall in the corner of the room that was flashing a faint red light. She suddenly realized that it was the power source of the mechanical arm!

"Wei Qing! Left! Wall!" Dai Shiya shouted with all her strength, her voice was hoarse but filled with unquestionable firmness.

Wei Qing heard Dai Shiya's call and subconsciously looked to the left, and saw the area flashing red. She immediately understood what Dai Shiya meant, dodged the attack of the mechanical arm, and ran towards the power source.

Dai Shiya struggled to get up from the ground. She knew she had to buy time for Wei Qing. She endured the severe pain and staggered towards the other mechanical arm, holding it with all her strength to prevent it from getting close to Wei Qing.

The mechanical arm was so powerful that Dai Shiya felt like her bones were about to be crushed. But she still held on to the mechanical arm tightly, using her last bit of strength to shout, "Quick! Wei Qing!"

Wei Qing had already rushed to the power source. Without hesitation, she used the metal hairpin she carried with her to fiercely stab the red light area. With a "sizzle", the red light went out, and all the mechanical arms in the room stopped working instantly, like cold sculptures.

The two looked at each other, and saw in each other's eyes the relief of surviving the disaster. Regardless of the pain in their bodies, they supported each other and walked towards the stone platform.

The document lay quietly on the stone platform, as if it was within reach, yet far away. Dai Shiya stretched out her hand, trembling as she wanted to touch the document and uncover the truth behind it.

At this moment, the document suddenly burst into flames without any warning. The flames reflected on the two people's astonished faces, instantly swallowing up their hopes.

Dai Shiya looked at the burning documents, a trace of determination flashed in her eyes, "It's too late..." She murmured to herself and stretched out her hand...