Chapter 283 - Nuclear Power

Chapter 283: Chapter 260 Nuclear PowerNight, atop a skyscraper’s rooftop, Li Cheng, dressed in a night suit, swiftly scanned the intelligence on his tablet.

This tablet is the standard model of the Whale Song Guild, storing the guild’s offline database, which includes access to other players’ information, containing some quite intriguing intelligence.

For instance, Gouchen was actually a new creation modeled after the soul of a strong figure from a dramatic world; his original body was merely an empty-headed rich second generation;

Joker initially started as an ordinary livestreamer, but after dealing with too many refund requests from underage viewers, he passed out from rage and awakened his player status in a hospital bed;

(Assuming the viewer tips 100 yuan, the platform takes 50, taxes and withdrawal fee 10, the guild takes 15, the host gets 25. If the underage viewer demands a full refund, the platform refunds 50 and the host refunds 50, effectively losing 25)

That Eugene, initially an apprentice in the Bell Tower Mage Guild, had a dubious relationship with his male tutor. It was because of his tutor that Eugene, a low-level player, had the opportunity to access guild secrets and seize the chance to steal a guild treasure and defect.

Considering Bell Tower Guild is located in the UK, it’s not surprising.

Degenerate country, mygo, quite normal.

As for Li Cheng himself, there’s not much content in the database, mostly from descriptions by the Stack Soldier, praising his meticulous mind, courage, calm rationality, and still maintaining moral bottom lines (not using characters from the dramatic world as shields),

However, his flaws are his nasty personality, liking to feign insanity and stupidity, harming and intimidating his teammates, particularly his malicious sense of humor.

The words "malicious sense of humor" are enlarged and bolded, as if one could feel the resentment from the Stack Soldier through the tablet.

Really, am I that terrifying?

Li Cheng smirked, deleted the last segment of the text, and added his own description, "capable in both literature and martial arts, handsome in appearance."

Bartmos is still a good-hearted man,

He not only gave equipment and tablets but also helped erase traces—when Bartmos thought of controlling Li Cheng, actively hacked into the Toy City network, and erased the surveillance footage of Li Cheng’s route to the park.

By the time Toy City officials discovered the chaotic battle traces in the Southern City Park and sought to investigate, they couldn’t find any leads on Li Cheng immediately, at least buying him several hours of activity time.

More crucially, Bartmos discovered secrets deliberately hidden by the City Hall.

The spread of the malfunction disease was far more severe than publicly reported. Some civilian patients, fearing being seized by Stormtroopers and disappearing without a trace, directly hid in the Lower Nest—

The Lower Nest comprises a complex geological structure connected by abandoned subway tunnels, sewers, and natural caves, rumored to be home to a myriad of bizarre, unintelligent, non-communicative toy monsters.

"According to official records of Toy City, over twenty years ago, when the first toy (who is the current mayor, Dumbledore) awoke on the assembly line of the Holy Factory, there were already many toy monsters in the wild.

This seems to be a kind of watershed; before him, the factory’s creations had no self-awareness or intelligence, and it was after him that civilization emerged..."

While Li Cheng pondered, he saw an unmarked large truck maintaining its headlights off, slowly driving along the road in the darkness, and turning into the nuclear power plant.

The teddy bear guards at the entrance of the nuclear power plant did not bother to check the truck, directly raising the barrier to let the vehicle in.

This must be the sneaky convoy that Mario talked about, really as suspicious as one can expect—suspicious to the core.

Li Cheng stowed away the tablet computer and pulled out a pile of parts from the three-dimensional warehouse, including high-power battery packs, elongated rails, and C-type armatures.

Activating his Mechanical Master ability, all parts floated in mid-air, self-assembling into a practical, boxy electromagnetic gun.

The manufacturing process for the electromagnetic launcher wasn’t difficult, plenty of information available online, and relatively low cost. With the enhancement of Mechanical Master’s Magic Cannon technology, the range of this launching device could easily reach 5 kilometers.

Then, Li Cheng snapped his fingers, summoning a paper origami crane, gently placing it into the hollow warhead of the conical projectile.

The inside of the warhead was filled with shock-absorbing sponge to protect the origami crane from shattering.

He lifted the electromagnetic cannon towards the distant nuclear power plant, placed the projectile in the middle of the rail, and pressed the launch button,

A huge current flowed from the left rail, passing through the projectile and flowing back from the right rail, generating a strong magnetic field between the two rail planes, propelling the projectile ferociously into the night sky.

When it reached above the nuclear power plant, the copper strip on the exterior of the projectile split from air resistance, the shell fragmented, and the inside paper crane fell out, flapping its wings slowly descending, falling into the ventilation duct of the factory.

The range and power of the electromagnetic gun might not match other kinds of Magic Cannons made by Li Cheng, but it caused much less light and sound effect, quite "silent."

Before, Li Cheng relied on this method to deliver origami cranes to the city from a long distance, catching Bartmos off-guard.

Perceiving that the origami cranes were in place, Li Cheng put away the Electromagnetic Gun and summoned a 105mm caliber six-legged turret, putting it in standby mode, ready to provide support at any moment.

As for himself, he activated the Demon Exchange Skill and directly teleported to the ventilation ducts of the nuclear power station.

At that moment, a large truck had reversed into the nuclear island (a general term for the nuclear reactor within the containment and the various systems related to the reactor) at the nuclear auxiliary plant and stopped.

The lights were bright inside the nuclear auxiliary plant, where a group of workers in full-coverage protective suits had already been waiting.

There are three types of protective work suits at the nuclear power station: paper suits (made of PR material with tape-sealed gloves), air suits (fully enclosed, with compressed air supply), and lead suits (usually worn together with paper or air suits).

These workers were wearing air suits, the highest level of protection, with a cable tied on their backs connecting to air tanks.

Usually used for large maintenance operations, they would not normally be seen in an auxiliary plant.

Click—

The rear doors of the truck opened, and the workers rushed forward, unloading several plastic containers from the truck.

Groups of three, with two people carrying iron boxes and one pushing a movable compressed air tank to inflate their air suits.

Everyone proficiently headed toward the core area of the reactor, clearly not their first time doing such work.

’So secretive.’

Hiding in the ventilation ducts, Li Cheng raised his eyebrows slightly and silently followed them.

The deeper they went into the nuclear island, the air became more stifling, and the workers, in silence, stood in front of the reactor core, gazing at the glowing blue cooling water.

"Let’s begin."

It was unclear who spoke, but everyone silently opened the plastic containers and used plastic tongs to take out... chunks of corpses.

The corpses of infected, covered in a purple-black unidentified substance.

Some plastic toys, some stuffed dolls, wooden carvings, or metal figurines, their faces either blank, fearful, or dull. The number of the deceased was about eighty.

"May our sins be forgiven."

As the workers murmured, all the purple-black corpse chunks were placed into the blue cooling water, quickly sinking, bubbling fiercely, and gradually dissolving.

WTF...

Hidden in the shadows, Li Cheng raised an eyebrow and quietly recorded this bizarre scene with the camera.

Is this Toy City nuclear power station even a real nuclear power station? What’s with the sacrifices?

After all the corpse chunks were disposed of, the group of workers closed the containers and were about to leave when two figures without protective suits approached from outside.

"Wait, there’s another batch."

The speaker was a weary-looking brown-haired man in a trench coat, levitating five plastic boxes with his palm.

It was Eugene, the Level 19 Transcendent who had defected from the Bell Tower Guild.

And the blonde young man following Eugene wore a black-orange loose outfit, toe-revealing boots, a metal forehead protector, and had three black lines on each cheek.

Oh my, Naruto Uzumaki.

Li Cheng’s eyelids twitched, instantly understanding what was going on.

Either Eugene was weaker than Li Cheng and got the status of core member at the Toy City Hall as soon as he landed, possessing the strongest "influence,"

Or he realized the gap in strength between him, Gouchen, and others was too great, making it impossible to win alone, thus he decisively sided with Toy City.