Chapter 317: Amended - 289 Education

Chapter 317: Amended: Chapter 289 Education"What did you just give me to drink? My body feels hot and strange now."

In the three-dimensional warehouse, Gray Rain blushed and said to Li Cheng, unable to resist a soft hum.

"Youlemei’s new milk tea. If you don’t drink it, give it back."

Li Cheng’s eye twitched, he snatched the Youlemei away from Gray Rain’s hand and crawled back to the turret to continue screwing.

It’s been more than half a month since the dead fight mission in Toy City, this period has been unexpectedly peaceful, no killing field tasks were assigned, and Bartmos and Gouchen didn’t come seeking revenge.

That’s right, Gouchen is still alive and continues to be a distinguished representative of young entrepreneurs in the real world, attending Southeast Asia charity events with a United Nations background.

As for Bartmos, maybe because Li Cheng and Gouchen are still alive, he’s unclear which of the two actually won the dead fight, thus hasn’t made a big deal about it.

But the future can’t ensure Bartmos and Gouchen won’t make contact.

So Li Cheng has been busy enhancing his strength during this time.

Firstly, the Mechanical Master profession has leveled up again through days of screwing, reading books, and transitioning from imitation to invention.

The caliber of the magic cannon he can create was upgraded from 122mm to 155mm.

The new magic cannon is modeled after the real-world domestically produced SH16A wheeled unmanned turret artillery, with a 52 times caliber barrel, featuring three interchangeable chassis: wheeled, tracked, and footed.

Additionally, it adopts automation and informatization technology, allowing it to network with Li Cheng’s often used drones to autonomously complete tasks like cannon deployment, ammo loading, adjusting, firing, and withdrawal.

Equipped with different ammunition types such as laser-guided missiles, cluster bombs, high explosive fragmentation grenades, smoke bombs, lighting bombs, white phosphorus bombs, it can handle various combat environments and task requirements.

If loaded with extended-range glide rocket ammunition, the maximum range can even reach an exaggerating 100 kilometers—although most script tasks don’t require such distant firepower support.

If one has to point out the new magic cannon’s flaw, it would probably be its high cost.

Li Cheng spent five thousand game coins purchasing a significant amount of enchanted metal from the slum, conducting repeated experiments to finally forge high-strength footed mechanisms for the magic cannon to maneuver swiftly in complex environments, preventing it from being hindered by slopes, ruins, or swamps.

To balance the expense from developing the magic cannon, Li Cheng first used a three-bitten Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills as collateral to borrow twelve thousand game coins from the slum’s commercial bank,

then used the twelve thousand to buy relics from the forum black market, refining them in the Toy Factory to produce one Perfect-quality and two Fine-quality items.

These were the Water Breaking Sword, a soft sword used close to the body, exclusively for players who are physiologically female or identify as female, silent, invisible, specializing in assassination.

Sold for thirteen thousand.

The 690 Tactical Nuclear Graphics Card, a bomb shaped like a graphics card, can easily demolish a building after a delayed explosion. Its small size allows it to fit in a bag.

Sold for two thousand.

The High-Play Cat Eudaimonium, a set of plush accessories resembling cat testicles, which, when worn long-term, provides continuous testosterone to the body, enabling an ordinary person to rapidly gain muscles and reduce fat without exercising.

Even if consuming high-calorie foods like burgers, pizzas, chocolates, one still obtains an exaggeratedly well-built physique.

Some athletes and fitness influencers in the real world inject various steroid drugs to externally increase testosterone for muscle growth.

This behavior not only harms the liver, causing acne, hair loss, and lowering intelligence,

but also inhibits the body’s own testosterone production, leading to irreversible testicular shrinkage.

The High-Play Cat Eudaimonium doesn’t have these drawbacks, hence, despite being a Fine-quality accessory, it astonishingly sold for eight thousand game coins at the auction.

It is likely bought by a famous athlete or a rich second or third-generation individual in the real world.

Li Cheng earned twenty-three thousand game coins from these transactions, not only paying off the magic cannon’s deficit but also reclaiming the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pills and gaining eight thousand.

He used the eight thousand game coins to gather relics, extracting Special Points and unlocking a new function in the Toy Factory—the Collection Room.

The Collection Room is located in the factory’s corner, resembling a large museum space.

According to the intelligent core, the Collection Room can store temporarily unused concepts, retrieving them when needed to place in the Reforging Room.

In the future, it can also store unsellable or items requiring strict conservation.

All glass display cases in the Collection Room are empty, except for one labeled "Toy City Crystal Ball,"

where velvet cushions inside still bear indents left by the crystal ball.

Now it seems the real situation matches Li Cheng’s guess, Toy City is indeed part of the Toy Factory. Although, its current whereabouts are unknown.

Since the Collection Room is available, Li Cheng went ahead and tossed the nuclear energy lighter, devoid of fuel, and the rusty machete into the Refining Room, extracting C-level combustion and D-level rust concepts.

Li Cheng likely rewrote the futures of Toy City’s eight million residents, incorporating the nuclear energy lighter and rusty machete used in the dead fight mission as entropy-rich special items.

"When collecting electronic mechanical concepts, maybe solid-state drives, memory sticks, CPUs, and similar equipment can be refined and equipped for Gray Rain."

Thinking of this, Li Cheng’s head popped out from beneath the turret to glance at Gray Rain,

she was happily drinking bubble tea, expertly spitting pearls into the air and catching them, occasionally boasting to Li Cheng.

Sigh.

Li Cheng’s head disappeared back beneath the turret to continue screwing, feeling like he shouldn’t skimp on education and burden the kids.

Gray Rain isn’t a player, and Li Cheng doesn’t intend to make her one.

With his level continuously rising, future tasks will be increasingly difficult,

It might be useful to buy Gray Rain some Intelligence Syrup and a Learning Device to enhance her intelligence, potentially developing more uses for liquid metal, indirectly increasing his strength.

"Hey,"

The friend communication page vibrated suddenly, a message from Yuan Zhixia, "Are you there."

Li Cheng raised his eyebrow slightly, responding, "Yes, what’s up."

"Something I should inform you about."

Yuan Zhixia said, "Your cousins fell into a coma simultaneously last night while attending tutoring classes outside, they were sent to the hospital and diagnosed as vegetative.

Meanwhile, hundreds of cases nationally and over ten thousand cases globally reported similar incidents—all involving teenagers from middle school to university.

The Special Affairs Bureau and Global Supernatural Alliance found an unidentified APP on these patients’ phones, allegedly enhancing brainpower and promoting learning."

"Hmm?"

Li Cheng halted his screwing motion, eyebrows furrowed, "Similar to the Evil Science Alliance’s APP?"

Members of the Evil Science Alliance developed many unscrupulous apps in their early days for money-making, like summoning demons, fortune changing, cursing enemies, causing many troubles.

"We consulted with the Evil Science Alliance, they said it’s not their doing, and experts at the bureau corroborated it wasn’t."

Yuan Zhixia said, "This APP seems more like the workings of the Otherworld."