The confession consumed all of Gu Zhengyang's strength. He waved his hands and said, "There was a fierce battle last night and a bumpy day. Everybody must be tired. Let's go back and take a rest!"
Han Te rolled his eyes and asked in a hurry, "Master, what about the bandits? The Black Water Gang is not to be messed with. Their scheme in Broken Stone City did not work out. They will not let it go easily! "
"I know what to do about that."
Gu Zhengyang struggled to unleash killing intent from his eyes. He said coldly, "The Black Water Gang is indeed strong, but the Village of Peace is not to be messed with, either. If they want to eat meat from us, they must be prepared to lose a few teeth!
"The Black Water Gang is not the only dominator in Double Dragons Valley. Let's see how many bodies they are willing to leave in the Village of Peace. When we are truly in peril, we will just die together. I will not leave a single bullet or a piece of compressed food for them! "
Han Te received Li Yao's brainwaves again. Rolling his eyes, he scratched the back of his head and said, "Master, we looted tremendous assets last night, mainly attack magical equipment and crystal bombs. But a lot of our warriors were killed in the process. Right now, we have more guns than warriors. We have a surplus of weapons and ammunition. Can you … allocate some for my junior sister and me?"
Gu Zhengyang was slightly dazed. "Crystal bombs are very dangerous magical equipment. Of course, there are explosives specialists in the village. What do you need crystal bombs for?"
With an innocent face, Han Te said solemnly, "Didn't I tell you a few days ago that we found tremendous battle data stored inside the crystal processor of the 'Universal Janitor', including the deployment and manipulation of crystal bombs? It seems that by connecting a lot of crystal bombs and connecting them with appropriate arrays, their power will be multiplied. We are trying to do the village a favor, too."
"Is that so?" Gu Zhengyang asked suspiciously.
"Yes, sir," Li Yao said casually.
Gu Zhengyang raised his eyebrow in surprise. "It can talk?"
"Sir, sir."
Li Yao continued to say calmly, "I have the most advanced human-computer interaction system built in. It can use more than thirteen plain text and password methods to communicate with humans."
"It is indeed not a common civil spiritual puppet for cleaning and maintenance!"
Gu Zhengyang circled around Li Yao's iron shell and tapped his tracks. "What … What are you exactly? Are you some sort of military puppet? What era are you from? What's your initial mission? Do you have any memories of the past?"
"Village Chief, I don't know."
Li Yao said calmly, "My previous mission data has been completely erased during the last forced shutdown. My initial setting data is to obey the first human who reboots me, which is Han Te. However, I still remember my code name. I am called Fiend Star-59."
"What a rather advanced human-computer interaction mode!"
Bulging his eyes, Gu Zhengyang mumbled, "It is much better than the few spiritual puppets that we assembled after all the trouble. Those spiritual puppets could only speak the rigid instructions intermittently. It is impossible for them to be so logical. We have truly hit the jackpot this time. However, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"You are flattering me, sir."
Li Yao went on indifferently and rigidly. "I boast the automatic learning and upgrading function of the language database. The longer I spend time with human beings, the more my database will be enriched, and the more my communication mode will be similar to that of human beings.
"However, I need tremendous energy in order to further open the database and extract more powerful functions. The human-computer interaction ability has just been turned on."
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze did not expect that 'Grandpa Yao' would make such a move. After a long daze, Han Te stammered, "Yes, we — we have only just developed … such an advanced function."
"Exactly, Dad."
The Coloured Glaze managed to say, "All kinds of weird things can happen in the Land of Sins. Even Mom ran into a mysterious old woman and gave her a chip that stored the information of the Cultivators. We have only excavated an ancient battle puppet. It's — it's perfectly normal, isn't it?"
Gu Zhengyang was more or less confused at first. However, when he thought of the world described in 'Little Cultivators', which boasted such an advanced civilization and such an advanced system of magical equipment, the magical equipment that flew in the sky, crawled underground, and swam in the water … all kinds of magical equipment were beyond the limits of his imagination.
Spiritual puppets that could communicate with human beings fluently had appeared in 'Little Cultivators' before. They seemed to be quite normal.
He opened his fingers and pressed them on Li Yao's iron shell softly, sending his spiritual energy into the body of the 'Universal Janitor' to explore.
With Li Yao's mysterious soul in the Divinity Transformation Stage, naturally, Gu Zhengyang could not detect any soul waves from him at all.
Gu Zhengyang explored for a long time, only to sense nothing wrong. He was finally reassured. Frowning, he asked, "You know how to use crystal bombs?"
Li Yao: "… A little."
"Shua!"
A cluster of green light darted out of a launch hole on his chest, which turned into countless glittering lines in the blink of an eye. The ever-changing lines were combined into the structural designs of crystal bombs, which were dazzling and too dazzling to follow.
"This is —"
Gu Zhengyang was dazed again. He was not a magical equipment specialist, much less a specialist of crystal bombs. Although Li Yao had only shown him some of the most fundamental and simplest structural designs of crystal bombs in fear of scaring him, he still did not know the first thing about them.
"Dad!"
Coloured Glaze struck while the iron was hot and further said, "Since you said that the future of the Village of Peace must be protected by us, let's start with this one. If you protect us behind you like chickens every time, how can we grow into falcons that soar above the clouds and explore the secrets of 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'?"
Gu Zhengyang's body trembled. After hesitating for a long time, he finally smashed his fists and said, "Alright. The assets we have collected this time are indeed too abundant. They are more than enough to arm all the villagers three times. The assets in the No. 3 warehouse were supposed to be sealed in case of emergency. Now, they will all be allocated to you and this … 'Fiend Star 59'. However, whatever plans you have, you must report them to me in advance. Do not act on your own!"
"Hooray!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze both cheered.
Li Yao squatted nearby in silence, truly like a … war machine that had been sealed for hundreds of years.
…
"Grandpa Yao."
On their way to the No. 3 warehouse, Han Te puffed his cheeks and said, "Why did you suddenly talk just now? You gave us quite a fright!"
"I can't play dumb forever, can I?"
Li Yao said casually. "Besides, it is true that you need some powerful crystal bombs to deal with the changes that are coming. The crystal bombs that fell from the sky are too lousy and need to be modified.
"The crystal bombs are too dangerous for the village leader to give them to the two of you who are still wet behind the ears without a good reason."
"The crystal bombs are too lousy?"
Han Te exclaimed in shock. "The largest crystal bomb I saw was almost half the size of an iron tank. Once it exploded, it would not be a problem for it to blow up three to five hundred square meters. That is lousy!"
"It is exactly because it can blow up three to five hundred square meters that it is lousy."
Li Yao said coldly, "If the power is evenly distributed within three to five hundred square meters, it can only be used to harvest the common soldiers and cannot deal a heavy blow to the elites of the enemy who are wearing heavy armor. If the purpose is to harvest the common soldiers, there are many ways to achieve it. Why waste the precious crystal bombs?"
"So, Grandpa Yao," Coloured Glaze said, full of expectation, "are you an explosion expert, too?"
Li Yao smiled. "I'm just so-so."
…
If there were seasons in the Land of Sins that were filled with dust and pollution, they would not be 'spring', 'summer', 'autumn', and 'winter' but two seasons, namely the 'dormancy season' and the 'hunting season'.
In the half year before the Bliss Ceremony, the assets that fell from the sky on a large scale had almost run out. All the forces were short of energy and ammunition. The precious strategic assets had to be stored for the next 'Bliss Ceremony'.
Also, at that time, all the forces were too poor to loot anything. Even if they breached the fortresses of other forces at the cost of tremendous resources, they would not be able to loot much.
Therefore, although the desperate people would have sporadic conflicts for survival, large-scale conflicts were rare. Like snakes, bugs, rats, and ants in winter, everybody lurked deeply, waiting for the arrival of the 'Bliss Ceremony'.
It was exactly the 'dormancy season'.
When the 'Bliss Ceremony' was just over, all the forces had been refilled with ammunition and energy. They were also given brand-new, more powerful guns, blades, and siege weapons. They also knew that other forces boasted abundant assets, too.
It was the carnival of war, the festival of blood, and the time to hunt and be hunted!
Gu Zhengyang had spent dozens of 'hunting seasons' in the Land of Sins.
He had also seen countless villages being completely destroyed by the gangs from Double Dragons Valley, looting all the assets that he had earned from the 'Bliss Ceremony'.
Now that it was said that the tough bandits from Double Dragons Valley targeted the Village of Peace this year, he naturally did not dare be careless. He had been preparing for war and reinforcing the water fortresses day and night. He had also sent out a large batch of exploration squads to investigate Double Dragons Valley.
The news from Double Dragons Valley was quite unfavorable.
In the 'Bliss Ceremonies' in previous years, the gangs of Double Dragons Valley often fought each other to the death. Several gangs would even be destroyed.
But this year, no large-scale battles were said to have taken place in Double Dragons Valley. All the gangs seemed to have been holding back their strength, and there was no telling what they were up to.
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