"It does make sense. I'll figure out a way to upgrade it after I find a settlement for human beings."
Li Yao mumbled to himself. His soul turned into hundreds of streaks of bright gold brilliance and flowed out of Neltharion into the body of the 'Universal Janitor', which had been ragged before he tied up the crystal processor that was riddled with holes. Then, he infiltrated, controlled, and melted!
"Kacha kacha, kacha kacha!"
The spiritual puppet shivered slightly, as if it had been endowed with a brand-new life. Spluttering sparks were bursting out of the mechanical joints. The indicator lights on the surface that had been polluted by dust and mud were flashing, as if a mysterious behemoth was waking up.
However, the sparks and flashes only lasted several seconds before they dimmed again.
"Somebody seems to be coming!"
Li Yao and the mental devil sensed the new intruders at the same time. They immediately stopped moving and turned into cold iron blocks again.
Hardly had peace been restored when hissing noises echoed from the exit of the deep, dark drainage tube.
Two people, one tall and the other short, jumped on the wall of the tube agilely and dashed in.
They were two human beings who were wearing airtight anti-radiation suits and fully-enclosed gas masks.
Their anti-radiation suits and gas masks were both light gray, with rust-colored camouflage cloth sewn on the surface. If they crouched in the debris, they would be completely melted into the environment.
It was obvious that they were very experienced explorers. They should be natives of the Martial Meritocrats Sector.
It was not until deep below the ground where the natural light was barely visible that four dim redness glowed on their gas masks and scanned the surroundings in four pillars of light.
Something similar to compressed gas cylinders was tied to their waists and their backs, which spurted out large clusters of white air now and then. With the force of the jets, the two local explorers moved quickly in the complicated underground environment. They jumped agilely and quickly.
"Huh?"
The tall explorer spoke from below the gas mask. "I clearly heard a sound here just now. Coloured Glaze, you heard it too, didn't you?"
"Senior Brother, lower your voice."
The short explorer could not keep up with the former's jumping speed. He breathed heavily and said, "This place is not far away from the territory of the Thunder Salamanders. It will be terrible if we run into the monsters that are out for food."
"Hehehehe!"
The tall explorer stomped on the ceiling of the drainage tube heavily and dashed forward a hundred meters like an arrow. He laughed arrogantly. "What's a Thunderous Salamander? If it dares to show up, I'll let it taste the toughness of my 'Electric Strangle'. I can cut off its tongue and bring it back to my master as a tonic. I'm told that the tongues of Thunderous Salamanders are great tonics that are known as' Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures'. My master will definitely be cured after he eats it!"
The two explorers were a man and a woman. Their voices were very young, suggesting that they were no more than twenty years old. However, their Cultivation was quite impressive. At the very least, according to Li Yao's senses, the spiritual waves spreading out of their bodies were very weird, as if …
"Senior Brother, there seems to be something over there."
The short explorer named 'Coloured Glaze' suddenly pointed in the direction of the 'Universal Janitor' and said.
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He did not expect that the girl's spiritual senses would be so keen. He had only released a few telepathic thoughts, hoping to explore the circulation of spiritual energy inside the girl's body, and she had already detected it.
As expected of the center of the cosmos. Even a common local girl in such a 'land of doom' as the Martial Meritocrats Sector boasted such extraordinary abilities.
Naturally, Li Yao did not care about the young brother and sister. He was only very curious about the current situation of the Martial Meritocrats Sector. Therefore, he simply stayed put and asked the young man and the girl for more information.
The two explorers were both veterans. Very soon, they discovered the location of the 'Universal Janitor', or 'Li Yao'.
"Is there any treasure here? We're going to be rich this time!"
The tall teenager chuckled strangely. Even though he was wearing a gas mask, Li Yao seemed to be able to sense his twinkling eyes.
The young man swallowed and took out an iron ball that was full of spiritual stripes from the leather bag on his waist. Holding it in his hand, he squeezed it hard.
After cracking sounds, the iron ball immediately turned into an iron glove that covered his right arm from his elbow without the slightest gap.
He warmed up his fingers that were armed with iron and cleared the collapsed debris around 'Li Yao' before he picked 'Li Yao' up.
"What? So, it's just a garbage puppet!"
Seeing clearly the rusty cylindrical body of 'Li Yao', the young man was greatly disappointed. He tossed 'Li Yao' aside casually. "Seriously. Why isn't it a battle puppet of the highest level? A military model that is embedded with tens of thousands of kinds of battle simulation telepathic thoughts? We're going to be rich if that's the case!"
"If it were a battle puppet, it would've been picked up hundreds of years ago. How could it be ours?"
The girl named 'Coloured Glaze' stepped forward and fell on one of her knees. She stroked 'Li Yao' softly with her hands.
Gentle spiritual energy flowed out of her fingertips like a stream that was warmed by the sun. It seeped into the shell that was riddled with holes and into the broken crystal processor, nourishing Li Yao's soul.
Li Yao thought of something. The girl's brain waves were rather weird. It seemed that she had some unique techniques that were worth studying.
"Huh?"
The girl named 'Coloured Glaze' was confused by the feeble feedback from the 'Universal Janitor', too. Pondering for a long time, she said, "Senior Brother, I feel that the crystal processor of the spiritual puppet is not broken yet. It can still be turned on."
"Is that so?"
The tall young man knocked on the gas mask for a long time before he squatted and opened the tool storage cabin of the 'Universal Janitor' with his iron glove. "Its replacement mechanical arms seem to be quite complete. If they can really be turned on, we can sell them on the black market and get some money for our master's medicine. Let's give it a try!"
"Alright!"
On her knees, the girl named 'Coloured Glaze' took out a weird-looking plant from the bulging backpack on her back.
It was a straight and bare flower bud. It was wrapped by four or five huge green leaves, as if a cabbage was planted in a flower pot.
The girl put the flower pot between her legs and waved her fingers while she chanted.
In Li Yao's senses, as she chanted, the girl's brain waves constructed delicate models that covered the 'cabbage'.
The enormous leaves of the 'cabbage' slowly opened, revealing a flower that was as glamorous as fire. In the middle of the flower were dozens of deep purple stamens that were stained with bright gold pollen.
"Pu —"
As the girl's brain waves suddenly intensified, the weird plant seemed to have sneezed and sprayed abundant bright gold pollen to the surroundings.
Something weird happened!
Li Yao sensed that, as the pollen spread out, the air within more than ten square meters was instantly purified. The radioactive dust and the toxic impurities floating in midair were all gone. The air was so clean that it was breathable.
"Hu …"
The two explorers were not surprised by the scene at all. Seeing that deep blue spots appeared on the tips of the leaves of the weird plant, they looked at each other and nodded. Taking off their gas masks, they took a deep breath of fresh air.
They were indeed two little fellows who were as tender as water.
The young man was about sixteen or seventeen years old. He had a messy head of long hair that couldn't be combed properly. There was a long scar in the middle of the bridge of his nose. He had an ambitious, unruly, and fearless appearance.
Indelible brilliance was shining in his eyes that were as dark as ink, exactly the same as Li Yao's in the magical equipment graveyard years ago.
However, the right half of his face was full of scars that seemed to have been burned by venomous fire, which spread all the way down from his neck to the entire right half of his body. It was inevitable that he felt rather uncomfortable after seeing it for the first time.
Perhaps, it was not because of the venomous fire but because of some sort of radiation mutation.
The girl Coloured Glaze, on the other hand, was as dazzling as a Coloured Glaze, as her name suggested.
She was at most fourteen or fifteen years old, and her appearance could not be said to be very beautiful. However, that pair of eyes that were shining with more than ten different colors bloomed at the same time with an indescribable stubbornness. Coupled with her straight nose and thin lips, she gave people a feeling that she was both pure and stubborn, just like …
A miniature version of Wei Qingqing.
If Li Yao had a heart, his heart would've been beating at least five percent faster at this moment.
He found it hard to imagine how such an innocent, untainted, and stubborn girl could exist in such a desolate world of radiation that was full of death and destruction.
Li Yao constricted his soul to the size of a bean and lurked deep inside the spiritual puppet, observing the movements of the two little fellows in silence.
The young man named 'Han Te' was truly similar to him when he was still in the magical equipment graveyard more than a hundred years ago. He was quite adept at dismantling and maintaining magical equipment, too. Very quickly, he examined all the circuits of the spiritual puppet and reconnected some of the broken spiritual threads and crystal wires, too.
"Let's give it a try!"
The young man took out a narrow, long rod from his waist and inserted it into a hole on the back of the spiritual puppet. A stream of feeble spiritual energy immediately flowed into the crystal processor.
Compared to Li Yao's unparalleled soul, the spiritual energy stored inside the rod was so insignificant that it would've been drained by him after he sucked it in without triggering any reaction at all.
"What's going on? All the circuits have been connected. Is the crystal processor inside completely broken? Then, it can't be helped. "
The young man scratched the eye-catching scar on the bridge of his nose hard, feeling baffled. He drew out the rod of spiritual energy and examined it, only to turn pale and shriek, "My spiritual energy! He still had seventy percent of his spiritual energy a moment ago. How did it run out all of a sudden? Are — are you a garbage bin or a rice bucket? Even the strongest battle puppet doesn't consume spiritual energy like this, does it? "
He flew into a rage and kicked Li Yao with his foot.
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