NOVEL NEXT Chapter 366: 309 Chapter Kuro and Ys
[That guy was nervous the whole time he was talking to you, old Pu suspects he's lying.]
Li Zheng returned to the room of channel 995, and suddenly a prompt from old Pu popped up.
"There must be lies." Li Zheng released the capsule residence, opened the door and went inside.
He went straight to the bathroom and started filling the bathtub with water, muttering to himself: "The attributes of the Mysterious Declaration clearly state that it's a key to somewhere, how could it possibly be a bargaining chip for a mechanic?"
As more water filled the bathtub, the smile on Li Zheng's mouth grew wider.
When the bathtub was a third full, Li Zheng dipped a finger in and activated Fire Attachment to heat the water.
In just ten seconds, steam began to rise from the bathtub, more effective than a heater.
He took off his clothes and lay inside, placing a certain intimidatingly large object on the edge of the bathtub, the gentle warmth of the water soaking away the day's weariness.
"This is the life…" Li Zheng moaned comfortably.
[You've become smarter, it seems the enhancement in spiritual power benefits your intelligence as well.]
"..." Li Zheng suddenly fell silent, remembering how old Pu used to call him a dumb [beep], something he had almost forgotten.
"You should be thankful you're in my sight, or I would have smashed you to bits!" Li Zheng said fiercely.
[No, you wouldn't bear to do it.]
Li Zheng fell silent again, knowing that old Pu was right. Even in its equipment form, he couldn't bear to smash it.
Who could blame him, with such heaven-defying abilities? Without old Pu, Li Zheng might not even know how to explore.
Faced with such an untouchable "treasure," what else could he do?
The only thing was to ignore it as best as possible.
Li Zheng pretended not to see old Pu's prompt, instead recalling the information from Qian Buguo.
At first, Qian Buguo said the Nine Heavens sent them to channel 879 to find merchants, and he really believed it.
After all, similar entities existed in many channels, besides himself, others could certainly find a few.
An organization the size of Nine Heavens, wanting to find more merchants like that and maintain long-term transactional rights with human resources is a very normal decision.
Unfortunately, Qian Buguo underestimated Li Zheng and soon exposed a flaw.
He didn't know the specific attributes of the lantern, nor did he know Li Zheng could see information others couldn't, even more so he didn't know the lantern was with Li Zheng.
So when he mentioned that trading with the mechanic required holding the lantern, Li Zheng realized this information was half-truth.
Nine Heavens guarding the mechanic was true, the trading conditions were false.
This kind of half-truth intelligence instead exposed Nine Heavens' real goal — the mysterious lantern!
"Qian Buguo probably suspects the lantern is with me and wants to use the mechanic to trick me. As soon as I bring the lantern over, Nine Heavens will immediately find out." Li Zheng poured warm water over himself, the thoughts never pausing in his mind, "The members of Nine Heavens guarding the mechanic must be tirelessly watching me these days."
If an ordinary person obtained the lantern, unable to see its hidden information, and learned that bringing the lantern offered the chance to trade for Extraordinary Level items, they would definitely make a trip.
But Li Zheng was different. He had long known the lantern was not simple, and had further discerned the scheme of Qian Buguo, the old undercover agent, so of course, he wouldn't fall for it.
"You want to fish me, how could it go your way? Uh... huh???" Li Zheng suddenly paused, then chuckled softly.
Not long ago, he conspired with three players to set up a fishing scheme to trap some red-named players, yet unexpectedly, he was handled in a similar way by someone else.
"This really is karma, the one who fishes people will always be fished." Li Zheng shook his head slightly, contemplating another issue.
That is, should he go to the mechanic's side?
Following logic, knowing there is a special merchant in a certain channel, as the top of the power rankings pursuing strength, shouldn't he go take a look?
But Li Zheng also needed to present the appearance that the lantern wasn't in his possession, making this a tricky situation.
Not go?
A conspicuous cover-up.
Go?
Without the lantern, why go? Waste a cross-channel teleport, showing off wealth?
The right choice should be to take advantage of his frequent potion trades in the world channel to openly purchase the mysterious lantern.
By doing so, the initiative would be in Li Zheng's hands, whether to go or not would be up to him.
"Extraordinary Level armor, it shouldn't be cheap, right?" Li Zheng didn't doubt the other half of the information given by Qian Buguo.
Being a twelve-year-old undercover agent, Qian Buguo must understand that lies should be half-truths to achieve the effect of successfully mingling truth and falsehood.
Armor of this grade, at the current stage, almost no one can afford it.
Even Li Zheng couldn't afford it, who knows what price the mechanic might ask?
Therefore, Li Zheng wanted to accumulate some more resources before making a trip to the mechanic, at least after the auction was over.
As for the members of Nine Heavens guarding the mechanic, waiting for Li Zheng?
Whether they sleep or not, what does it have to do with Li Zheng?
Having made up his mind, Li Zheng quickly finished his bath, changed into clean clothes, and gave the bathroom to Xiao Ying and the others.
Walking to the living room of his residence, Li Zheng saw two blood-colored mechanical beings standing on either side of the door, like two door gods.
"Oh right, I haven't checked their attributes yet." Li Zheng slapped his head. Ever since he left the instance, he hadn't had any free time to do so.
It was just the right moment to check the attributes of these two mechanical beings with unclear ownership intentions, to see how they differ from intelligent humanoids and why they were categorized as "pets."
[Kuro
Race: Blood Mechanical Being
Gender: ♂
Character: ?
Loyalty: 75
Ability: Plasma Cannon (Gold), Energy Regeneration, Pure Intelligence, Infinite Technology, Mechanical Resonance
Energy: 98%]
[Issei
Race: Blood Mechanical Being
Gender: ♀
Character: ?
Loyalty: 80
Ability: (Same as above, not repeated)
Energy: 97%]
"Aside from a higher loyalty than Xiao Ying, it doesn't seem particularly special." After checking the attributes of the two mechanical beings, what Li Zheng saw was no different from the information provided directly by old Pu.
However, several abilities caught his attention.
The description of Pure Intelligence indicates they possess human-like consciousness, also capable of generating emotions and feelings.
From this, Li Zheng speculated that Xiao Siyuan might be right, that there was a swap between the consciousness of the Kron Race and the mechanical beings.
Infinite Technology is much more formidable, allowing modifications and upgrades to their existing mechanical bodies. Theoretically, as long as Li Zheng has the capability and materials, he can continuously improve these two blood mechanical beings without end.
The downside is… this upgrading must be done by Li Zheng himself, unlike other tools that can be "hand-crafted" or rely on some devices.
This means Li Zheng would have to learn the relevant knowledge afterwards…
"Ugh, I know nothing about mechanics, starting from scratch? How long would that take?" Li Zheng rolled his eyes, focusing on the last ability, Mechanical Resonance.
Blood mechanical beings can resonate with other mechanical life or bodies to achieve "data exchange" or "control."
Data exchange allows bypassing "language" restrictions for direct communication, considered a rather useless feature.
But control is much more formidable.
The blood mechanical beings can invade the database of unconscious mechanical bodies, bringing them under their own control.
For example, all the intelligent humanoids Li Zheng currently owns can be controlled by the two mechanical beings, and once authorized by Li Zheng, they can be instructed to carry out tasks.
This means Li Zheng does not need to directly issue commands himself, he only needs to convey his objectives to the blood mechanical beings.
The premise is, Li Zheng must resolve the communication barrier between him and the blood mechanical beings.
Furthermore, there is another type of mechanical body in Li Zheng's possession that can also be controlled by the blood mechanical beings.
That is: Mechanical Sword Mantis.