Chapter 273: Atop the Cliff

The yellow wall that Stanley had seen turned out to be a hot shield that burned anything that it came in contact with.

It wasn't just one shield either, but a dozen different shields working in random intervals such that at any time, there would be at least half the number of shields active.

And unlike regular shields, which stopped around the object if something was caught in it, this one seemed to attack it with lasers. 

'I can't go past this,' Stanley thought with a frown. He had tried with his dead left hand and knew that if he tried to go past that barrier, he would be shredded by the laser before he made it halfway through.

"How is this barrier even active?" he wondered. "From outside… or…" It had to have a powerful plasmium core somewhere running everything. 

"And a powerful computer too to know what to shoot and what not to." There were trees around the barrier that moved but were completely fine.