"Hiss —"
The young man was immediately electrocuted and burnt. His messy hair that was rising to the sky in the first place was even smoking like a broom that was on fire.
Before he even had the chance to grunt, he had already been blown to almost five meters away. He fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth and cramping nonstop.
But he did not even have the time to wipe himself off. Protecting the Coloured Glaze behind him, he picked up a storm bolter casually. Blue spots of brilliance popped out of the barrel as he locked onto Li Yao.
There was surprise, delight, and greed in the young man's eyes. His big eyes were rolling crazily, and there was no telling what he was thinking.
"Senior Brother!"
The Coloured Glaze exclaimed and hurried to hold the young man's shoulder from behind. Ivory ripples spread out from her fingertips, healing the wounds on the young man's body that were ripped apart by Li Yao's electrocution at a visible speed.
"Watch out. This spiritual puppet is somewhat weird!"
The young man grimaced and stared at Li Yao warily. "It doesn't look like a regular electric leakage but more like —"
"Pi pi pa pa pa, pi pi pa pa pa!"
Colorful sparks spurted out of the body that was as round as a garbage can again. A series of rune arrays and indicator lights were flashing, triggering a mysterious vibe. The tracks that were condensed by rust slowly turned, throwing off the rust. The mechanical arms that had been folded together were slowly unfolded, and the chainsaws that were used to trim the plants revolved quickly, triggering coldness that could cut iron as if it were mud.
The two little fellows felt that their hair was standing on end. They were both dumbfounded and lost for words for a long time.
"Hey," the mental devil said, "you are not so cruel as to torture the two little brats for intelligence, are you?"
"Of course not," Li Yao said. "It just occurred to me that I could ask the two little fellows to lead me into the circle of locals of the Martial Meritocrats Sector so that I could take the opportunity to inquire about 'Starlight' and the 'lost Cultivators'. Wouldn't it be much more convenient with the two little guides than if we were to act on our own?"
The mental devil said, "That makes sense. But how are we going to explain our origins to those two brats?"
Li Yao: "Do you remember the 'Grandpa Plan' that Wei Qingqing and the rest of them carried out in the Tinder Base in Hundred Flowers City? Don't you feel that we look like a handsome, elegant, well-respected grandpa right now?"
As soon as he saw this little girl named Coloured Glaze, Li Yao thought of Wei Qingqing.
When he thought of Wei Qingqing, he naturally thought of Hundred Flowers City, the Tinder Base, the Grandpa Plan, and 'Grandpa Yao'.
"Now that you mention it, it does make a lot of sense," the mental devil said. "I am so handsome and charming, and you have a high Cultivation and a high reputation. Wouldn't the ignorant teenage boys and girls tell us all the secrets and intelligence that they know obediently when they see such kind, resourceful old grandpas like us? Also, they would listen to everything we say and do whatever we ask them to do. Hehehehe! "
"Despite your cunning smile, your basic idea is correct," Li Yao said. "Therefore, the most critical thing right now is how to convince them that there are such things as' old grandpas' in the world reasonably. It is a very complicated, professional, and difficult problem. Stop arguing and lend me all your computational ability. Let me think about it carefully …"
Li Yao was caught in silence. The only thing that could be seen was the rune arrays and the indicator lights on the surface of the 'Universal Janitor'.
The young man and the girl looked at each other in bewilderment. They circled around the 'Universal Janitor' for a long time, but they still failed to figure anything out.
The girl Coloured Glaze asked timidly, "S-Senior Brother, what is this thing exactly?"
Young Han Te's eyes, on the other hand, were brighter and brighter. Holding the storm bolter in front of his chest as if it were a fire stick, he glanced at Li Yao greedily and said, "If my guess is correct, this should not be a common spiritual puppet for cleaning purposes but a very powerful remaining soul that has been hiding in the darkness below the ground for hundreds of years. Now, it has been awakened by us accidentally.
"In order to thank us for waking him up, he will certainly teach us all the marvelous skills that he has grasped. He will also tell us the locations of many ancient residences and treasure vaults. He will also travel and fight with us without any regrets!"
"Huh?"
The girl Coloured Glaze covered her mouth in surprise. "Doesn't that mean something like an 'old grandpa'?"
Young Han Te nodded his head so hard that he was almost dancing in joy. "Yes, it's an 'old grandpa'. I didn't know that we would have such a great harvest on this trip. I thought that an 'old grandpa' would only fall from the sky. I didn't know that we could dig one out of the ground. I wonder what the quality of this' old grandpa 'is like. If it's good, even if it is not of any use to us, it can be sold for a lot of money on the black market. Then, my master's disease will be cured!"
Li Yao: "…"
The mental devil: "…"
Li Yao tried to activate the broadcast rune arrays of the spiritual puppet, only to hear dry and astringent noises. "Cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough, cough."
Young Han Te and the girl Coloured Glaze said at the same time, "Ah, the 'old grandpa' is awake!"
The two little fellows squatted in front of Li Yao obediently, blinking their big, glittering eyes like two curious babies.
"What … is this place?"
Li Yao was of a mind to ask why the two little fellows were so weird and why they were so certain that he was some sort of 'old grandpa'. Also, what was the meaning of the 'old grandpa' that they were talking about? Was it something that could be sold on the black market?
After thinking for a long time, he managed to hold himself back and asked a safer question first.
"Ah. It does not look like a common spiritual puppet for cleaning purposes. Even if a remaining soul is not hiding inside, it must be controlled by a high-level quasi-artificial intelligence. Otherwise, it wouldn't have said such a thing!"
Young Han Te clapped his hands and was even more certain of his judgment. He opened his hands and waved them in front of Li Yao. Tilting his head, he asked, "Hello. Can you see us? Can you hear us?"
"What … is … this place?"
Li Yao repeated in a heavier tone, "Why am I here? Who are you?"
The girl Coloured Glaze said, "The old grandpa seems to have amnesia."
"Most old grandpas suffer from amnesia. Didn't the old grandpa in Zhao Dazhuang's house in the east village suffer from amnesia?"
Young Han Te examined the environment. "I assume that the old grandpa's fleshly body must've been destroyed in the great explosion. In his panic, he managed to escape into the spiritual puppet for cleaning purposes with part of his remaining soul. After hundreds of years of corrosion, it is already not bad that he still retains his basic self-awareness. Naturally, it is impossible for him to have the memories of the past."
If Li Yao still had the corners of his eyes, they would've been cramping like cramps.
"Explosion …"
He continued to mumble in a dry, metallic voice. "Yes, I still remember the explosion, the overwhelming white light, and the endless darkness. What was going on? What was going on?"
"It must've been 'Judgment Day'!"
Young Han Te said casually, only to be poked by his junior sister in the back. Rolling his eyes, he licked his lips and said stealthily, "Well, I don't know how I should address you. Is your head blank right now, and you have lost all your memories? Do you not even remember who you are and how you were stored into this iron puppet? Don't get me wrong. We are all kind and friendly people who sincerely want to help you. Naturally, we will tell you everything exactly as it happened. But please don't get too excited after you hear it out, alright? "
Li Yao was silent for a moment. Then, the broadcast rune arrays shivered again. "Alright. Tell me everything about 'Judgment Day'."
"The Great Judgement was from your era. Erm, I'm not sure what era you lived in. Anyway, it's about five to six hundred years ago, or seven to eight hundred years ago."
Young Han Te scratched his messy hair and said quickly, "The people in your era lived an extravagant, chaotic, and sinful life. In order to compete for resources or for other reasons, various forces launched wars and messed up the most precious surface of the entire planet with weapons that could destroy the world. The entire civilization was almost destroyed.
"The overwhelming brilliance that you saw must've been the 'planetary magical equipment' that the hostile forces launched at you. You will understand it when you take a look outside if you have a chance. The entire city has been leveled by the attack, and it hasn't recovered to this day.
"If I were to guess, you must've been hiding in a secret chamber below the ground and luckily escaped from being obliterated instantly. Your remaining soul escaped. Having nowhere to run, you hid yourself at the core of the spiritual puppet. Who knew that you would hibernate for hundreds of years until we finally woke you up at the cost of countless crystals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures?
"This kind of thing has happened before. I've heard about it a few times. So, don't worry. We'll be good people until the end. We'll definitely do our best to help you. I just don't know if you've mastered any divine abilities or skills. Can you remember the coordinates of any important places in the past? Hehehehe … "
The young man smirked and bashed his chest hard, as if he were the most righteous man in the world.
"It's been five hundred years since 'Judgment Day'," Li Yao said. "I remember that this place used to be called … Hiss. I can't remember it. Who are you? Survivors of 'Judgment Day'?"
"The war known as' Judgment Day 'lasted hundreds of years. We don't know exactly when you were caught in the explosion."
Coloured Glaze bit her lips and said, "The people before Judgment Day seemed to call the land below our feet the 'Martial Meritocrats Sector'. But right now, all the survivors call it 'Land of Sins' and call themselves' sinners'.
"It was exactly the sinful life that our ancestors lived that led to the destructive war that swept across the entire planet, turning the beautiful home in the past into the ragged 'Land of Sins' today.
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