Li Yao agreed with the mental devil.
Every movement of Neltharion consumed tremendous fuel. He had just advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage and could not control his spiritual model well, either.
Should he encounter any danger, and the structure of the attack model was flawed at the critical moment, the energy would be drained when he launched a super ultimate attack.
Besides, a piece of high-precision, super-tiny magical equipment such as Neltharion was too eye-catching after all. There were too many traces of the magical equipment of the Xing Yao Federation on it. It would be hard to explain if the Immortal Cultivators discovered it.
Besides, he had come to the Martial Meritocrats Sector to collect intelligence, resources, and maintain magical equipment. It would not do for him to be stealthy all the time. He needed a body that was easy to blend into the local environment and boasted a large storage space.
Of course, Li Yao was not trying to 'possess' a new body of flesh and blood, which was not in line with his beliefs.
Besides, possession was too dangerous. One moment of carelessness and he might be swallowed by the soul of the original owner, exactly like how Li Yao's soul swallowed Ou Yezi in the past.
Since it was a temporary infiltration operation, there was no need to possess somebody else's body. All he needed to do was to find an artificial body specifically designed for spectral Cultivators.
After all, the Cultivators whose souls were out of their bodies could be understood as the strengthened version of spectral Cultivators.
If he could not even find an artificial body, then spiritual puppets, beast puppets … All in all, any piece of magical equipment that was embedded with a crystal processor and could control the limbs with the crystal processor to perform relatively complicated movements would suffice.
In the past five years, Li Yao had grasped most of the techniques that the extraterrestrial devils used to hack crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus from Professor Mo Xuan.
He was not a crystal processor specialist. Naturally, he could not be as awesome as the extraterrestrial devil Mo Xuan in the past. However, it should not be a problem for him to hack and control the most common spiritual puppet.
Neltharion hovered in midair for a long time. Then, it chose a city ruin that had been mostly destroyed by an enormous crater and descended quickly.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
Beep! Before they reached the skyline of the city ruin, feeble alarms immediately echoed from Neltharion, reminding Li Yao that it was a highly-polluted radiation area down below.
When he scanned the area with his Spiritual Eye, he found that the originally gray, rusty ruins were now like a colorful, slowly swirling vortex.
The dust, which contained a large amount of radiation, danced wildly like the tentacles of a demon.
"Although the radiation here is not as high as the radiation ejected by the Devilish Scorpion Nebula, it is still quite shocking.
"If the ordinary people enter the radiation zone recklessly without any protection, although they will not be killed on the spot, their mitochondria and gene strands will certainly be seriously twisted, and all kinds of weird mutations will occur.
"No wonder this place is deserted. No one is trying to rebuild a civilization on the ruins."
Li Yao sighed and activated his Spiritual Eye to the limit.
As far as the eye could see, almost all the giant craters on the ground were emitting radiation waves of different colors.
At first glance, it was as bright as fire, extremely dazzling.
Only Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators such as Li Yao could sense the evilness hidden under the brilliant light.
Before, Li Yao only had a rational understanding of the evilness of the Immortal Cultivators.
But everything that happened on the planet of the Martial Meritocrats Sector had shown him exactly what the Immortal Cultivators were.
Looking at the picture in front of his eyes, Li Yao was more confident in finding 'Starlight', the resistance organization of the Cultivators, and the 'lost Cultivator' despite his fury.
Where there was oppression, there was resistance. This was indeed a world that had been most oppressed. If a resistance organization did exist, it must be here.
Neltharion snuck into the city ruin and moved forward on the zigzagging main road. The broken walls on the two sides were like tombstones that rose to the sky.
It had been a long time since there were any traces of human activities. The ruins were covered in thick dust of radiation, which looked like fluffy snow in many places.
From the skyscrapers that had been burnt into nothingness and had nothing but iron bones left, squeaking noises were echoing. The roars of ferocious beasts were vaguely echoing, too.
It appeared that certain beasts that had mutated due to excessive radiation but luckily survived had become the new masters of the city of tombstones.
Li Yao had no time to bother with the ferocious mutated beasts for now. He was busy searching for the feeble responses of crystal processors deep inside the ruins.
But to his disappointment, after searching for a long time, he did not find a single chip of the control chip of the lowest level, not just a crystal processor.
With Vulture Li Yao's abundant experience in the magical equipment graveyard for more than ten years, he could tell that the debris of the city had been searched again and again. Also, it was not by one group of people but by hundreds of groups of people with different styles. It was like sugarcane that had been chewed for ten days and ten nights without leaving the slightest juice.
Li Yao was somewhat bummed, but he was also somewhat delighted.
Since this place had been explored countless times in the past hundreds of years, it meant that there must be a lot of settlements of human beings not far away from this place.
Pondering for a moment, he moved toward the enormous crater.
The closer he was to the crater, the higher the level of the radiation was. The mini crystal processor of Neltharion beeped nonstop.
Finally, he reached the edge of the enormous crater.
Looking forward from where he was, he could not imagine that it was a crater at all. The abrupt collapses on the left and right were boundless. It was more like a bottomless abyss.
Black fog was enshrouding the bottom of the abyss. He could vaguely sense the stinky water vapor, which must have been the puddles caused by the heavy rain for hundreds of years.
However, at the edge of the crater that was closest to the top, black holes could be seen, which looked like beehives that had been dissected in half.
Li Yao's guess was correct. Judging from the scale of the city, it should have been built in the most glorious years of the Martial Meritocrats civilization. At that time, the natives of the Martial Meritocrats Sector had already grasped the technologies to develop underground towns.
The more developed a civilization was, the more efficient the utilization of the space within the atmosphere would be. Like the natives of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the natives of the Martial Meritocrats Sector had developed delicate, large-scale, and comfortable underground cities below the ground.
The terrifying weapon tests conducted by the Imperium of True Human Beings had destroyed both the aboveground and the underground parts of the city.
But the underground parts were blocked by thick rocks and soil after all. Maybe something was left behind.
Naturally, the intensity of the radiation in this place was the highest, too. Even though Li Yao's soul was in the Divinity Transformation Stage, he could still sense the blasts that felt like surging tides.
It was a good thing. The radiation might be able to resist the explorations of the survivors in the past hundreds of years. Something would be left behind for him.
Neltharion flew into the underground city along an enormous drainage tube that had long dried up.
The environment of the underground city was more complicated than the aboveground. After hundreds of years of continuous collapses and collapses, the place had turned into a messy maze.
Li Yao's guess was correct. The powerful radiation and the complicated environment were enough to stop most of the explorers. He discovered a lot of things that seemed to be spiritual puppets in the underground space that was emitting lackluster fluorescence.
It was a pity that the glory of the Martial Meritocrats civilization was a thousand years ago. Most of the magical equipment here had a history of at least a thousand years.
At first, they had been seriously scourged in the big explosion. Then, they had been savaged by time for at least hundreds of years. All of them were riddled with holes and rust. Even their crystal processors had been melted into piles of scrap iron. It was barely enough for them to serve as temporary bodies.
Li Yao scratched his nonexistent hair and searched for three hours, only to find a body that was more or less usable. It turned out to be …
"A universal cleaner? What the f * ck is that? "
Looking at the remains of the spiritual puppet that he had dug out of the debris after all the trouble, Li Yao was stunned.
The remnant of the spiritual puppet that was displayed before him was about one meter tall and in the shape of a cylinder.
At first, it might've been a futuristic silver color, but after the savagery of the explosion and the torture of time, it had turned into an ugly gray color. Brown traces of rust were all over its surface, too, as if it had been diseased.
It looked like a garbage can from afar and an asphalt bucket from close up. What was most unbelievable was that it was not even moving in the anti-gravity way. It did not even have feet. Below the 'garbage can' were two tracks that had been installed.
The cylindrical body structure was very simple. There was a tool storage cabin that could automatically open and close on both sides. More than ten different mechanical limbs were folded and stored inside, including pliers, drills, and chainsaws for gardening. However, most of the tools were rusted and could not be moved at all. Even those that could be moved were of dubious hardness. At the very least, one of the giant scissors was broken apart when Li Yao's soul slightly shivered!
On the bottom of the 'garbage can' was a large metal nameplate. Through the fuzzy words on it, Li Yao managed to confirm the identity and purpose of the spiritual puppet.
It was a cleaning and maintenance puppet that was very suitable for underground cities.
It could enter the depths of the underground tubes that were complicated, stinky, and sunless, clean the filth on the walls of the tubes, drive away the cockroaches, rats, and other pests that were lurking there, and perform simple maintenance on the damaged parts.
Of course, after the replacement of the various parts, it was good at sweeping the road, trimming the flowers, cleaning the garbage in the city …
All in all, it was a multipurpose spiritual puppet for the cleaning and maintenance of a city. That was why it was called a universal cleaner!
"Are we going to carry out highly dangerous infiltration and intelligence gathering operations with this thing?"
Li Yao was very suspicious.
"It can't be helped. We've found hundreds of spiritual puppets, but they are all garbage. This one is the only one that is not too shabby. The crystal processor and the circuits of spiritual energy are both salvageable. Let's use it for now and change it after we find a settlement of human beings!"
The mental devil said, "I think the 'universal cleaner' is quite good. Look, its crystal processor is not particularly complicated. Even we can hack and control it easily. Also, it has stored multipurpose mechanical arms that can help us perform complicated actions. It is also thick-skinned and has a lot of room for maintenance and upgrade. Most importantly of all, it comes with a tiny garbage compression cabin that can store Neltharion inside.
"After all, we do not need it to fight. In case of emergencies, we still have Neltharion and our soul. Isn't such a low-key and luxurious configuration enough?"
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There were only two updates yesterday …
This was what happened. In fact, Old Bull had finished writing the two updates yesterday morning. After he finished his lunch in peace, his wife said that it was not easy for her to have a rest at home. She asked Old Bull to accompany her to buy a sports coat in a sports store not far away from home.
Old Bull thought that it would only take an hour or two. It was enough time for him to digest the food.
But as it turned out, Old Bull thought too simply.
We changed three subways, walked fifteen thousand steps, and visited a couple of shopping malls. It was nine o 'clock in the evening when we finally returned home.
The most important thing was that … we had not bought the clothes yet!
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