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Chapter 383: After modification - 352 Poison Gas

Chapter 383: After modification: Chapter 352 Poison Gas

"A high-rise in Kuala Lumpur has experienced an ammonia and chlorine dioxide leak during a charity event, resulting in hundreds being rushed to the hospital."

The next day, Li Cheng swiped his phone, looking at the news on Weibo, mumbling to himself: "Can’t they be more creative? It’s always a gas leak."

To cover up the paranormal events at the killing fields, the GOC and various governments often concoct bizarre excuses.

Villagers collectively saw a flood dragon emerge? Don’t panic, it’s just a gas leak from a nearby chemical plant causing mass hallucinations.

All the teachers and students at the boarding school saw a ghost arrive in the middle of the night? Relax, it must be food poisoning from the cafeteria, compounded by the students’ psychological stress resulting in mass hysteria.

Unusual celestial phenomena are caused by the condensation trails from new rocket launches, and sudden cordoning off of busy areas is due to natural gas pipeline explosions.

Over time, the explanations inevitably seem a bit too forced.

Fortunately, with AI technology now available, the network monitoring department can simply label all supernatural videos circulating online as AI-generated, significantly reducing their workload.

Thus, some extremely abstract videos, like an elementary student using summoning techniques to summon a milk dragon to beat up a mutant three-headed shark, or a middle-aged salaryman transforming into a Magic Girl to heroically rescue people from a fire, though appearing blatantly fake, might actually be real...

"Too bad Gouchen didn’t get killed."

Li Cheng regretfully closed the news. Gouchen had countless enemies in the Arctic. Li Cheng could go to the black market without even asking around; just hanging up a piece of Gouchen’s meat would instantly attract high bidders.

A few hours later, Gouchen was cursed with high-power hexes, as cameras caught him releasing his intestines and viscera like a flood from the Yellow River.

Unfortunately, Transcendent’s survival abilities are astounding. Arctic managed to shove his brother’s organs back in with his hands, pump him full of Life Potions, and rush him to the slum hospital where experts resuscitated him.

However, some rumors suggest that after surgery, Gouchen’s fart now comes with a whistle...

Buzz buzz—

His phone vibrated, showing a message from the Toy Factory’s intelligent core, notifying him that the new batch of items had been completed and was ready for pickup.

Now that the shop was officially open, orders kept flooding in daily,

A few players who possessed valuable Holy Relics from the Otherworld but were not in a hurry to craft equipment would come by to sell relics.

So, Li Cheng simply started a new business, using Game Coins to purchase Holy Relics, confirming orders, receiving goods, replenishing stocks, notifying clients to pick up items, and authenticating relics kept him busy non-stop.

Typically, hiring a few clerks and managers would help a lot.

However, Li Cheng didn’t trust outsiders from the job market; who knows if they are corporate spies sent by other guilds.

He also couldn’t let Gray Rain manage the shop—this girl was genuinely scatterbrained; she would believe someone who brought in a life-sized full-metal Freedom Gundam figurine claiming it’s one of the Changle Palace bronze statues made by Emperor Qin Shi Huang himself.

When she grows old, she’d surely buy dodgy health products zealously.

Letting her manage the shop would bankrupt it in no time.

"Seems I need to find a way to have the Toy Factory churn out more robotic employees to lighten my load—I hardly have time to tighten screws now."

Li Cheng thought silently and teleported to the Toy Factory located in the wild via the slum’s telephone booth teleportation array, then rode his bat-winged motorcycle to the factory.

Daily screw-tightening on tanks steadily increased his Magic Cannon Master level, unlocking two new traits.

First was [Defender], the magic cannon can release magic energy, providing an invisible temporary shield for himself and any assigned nearby units by the Mechanical Master.

The shield can withstand one shot from a tank’s main cannon and disperses automatically upon impact.

The second was [Self-Destruction], the Magic Cannon Master can remotely control the cannon to disassemble and self-destruct,

Depending on the type of magic cannon, it would create explosive, flame, or force-field damage.

Upon the next upgrade, he could activate new traits, increasing the limit on controlled magic cannons. A solo firepower rivaling or even surpassing modern artillery regiments.

As he thought, the Toy Factory came into view.

"What the heck is this stuff."

Just walking through the gates, Li Cheng’s eyelid twitched.

The once rugged and simple industrial style of the Toy Factory was now adorned with numerous vertical banners.

The banners had a red background, featuring a black and white side view of the Toy Factory’s profile, fluttering in the wind.

Beneath the banners, the loudspeaker was broadcasting an electrifying speech.

"锟斤拷缁忔祹,绀句细_x0010_!绔嬪嵆杩囧!!"

Although he couldn’t understand a single word of the electronic speech, from the powerful and rhythmic tone, Li Cheng roughly guessed what it was trying to convey...

"Honorable factory owner, welcome!"

The intelligent core hurried over, followed by all the cylindrical robots.

These little robots, somehow sourced materials, had tailored and sewn tubular military uniforms for themselves. The uniforms were decorated with numerous intricate collar patches, chest badges, and shoulder epaulets. Additionally, each robot had a large brimmed hat and a Ruger pistol at their waist.

At the sight of Li Cheng, they excitedly raised their right-side mechanical arms in unison, producing a synchronized electronic chant, "Xi! Hai!"

"What’s going on here,"

Li Cheng brushed past the cylindrical robots and directly asked the intelligent core, "Explain."

The intelligent core responded: "It’s like this, with the recent surge in factory orders, some cylindrical robots have experienced increased battery wear, reduced efficiency, and prolonged maintenance times after extended periods of work.

Through data testing, it has been verified that if a slight relaxation is allowed, giving the cylindrical robots a choice in exterior clothing, interior decoration styles, and broadcast music,

Factory efficiency can be enhanced significantly, approximately by 19.6% compared to before."

Meaning, listening to broadcasts and learning failed art students’ philosophies and Taoist thoughts made screwing bolts more enthusiastic?

Li Cheng’s mouth twitched, but since the cylindrical robots hadn’t gone as far as playing "Erika" or posed in a windmill shape with four arms, he chose to ignore it,

immediately instructing the intelligent core, "Report the factory’s recent status."

"Yes, in the past two weeks, the Toy Factory produced a total of 60 items of various qualities. The retained concepts include three A-level concepts, six B-level concepts, and twenty-seven CD-level concepts.

The remaining Special Points total 28,157."

Indeed, it’s all about wringing out every advantage!

Who said this wool was old? This wool is fantastic.

Li Cheng couldn’t help but rub his hands together, his heavy investment in buying land and opening a shop had indeed paid off. It maximized the production advantages of the Toy Factory, earning continuous funds for the Magic Cannon Master profession.

At the same time, he could fleece customers extensively, hoarding Special Points and concepts for himself to craft equipment.

"Pour all the Special Points into upgrading the Analysis Room and Design Room."

Li Cheng waved his hand. Upgrading the Analysis Room would improve concept quality, while upgrading the Design Room would optimize blueprints, creating products more aligned with customer demands.

In fact, players had already come by to complain—one customer requested the creation of a humanoid combat robot like Battle Angel Alita, but Li Cheng delivered a Dongbei Yu style instead.

The customer was greatly dissatisfied, demanding a refund and return, escalating the matter to the Slum Management Committee.

Market regulation departments had tested the combat angel Dongbei Yu, concluding that the battle angel stood at 1.8 meters, weighed 200 pounds, and possessed size 45 feet. Performance-wise, her power, endurance, and combat capabilities far surpassed the slender and weak Alita.

Literally, her arms could run horses, and her fists could stand men.

Thus, the customer’s request for a refund and return was rejected, he was made to post an apology on the player forum, and the Star-casting Anvil gained further reputation.

Onlookers exclaimed, "Too awesome."

Incidentally, the presiding chairman of the Slum Management Committee at that time was [Side of Truth]...

As Li Cheng was planning the Toy Factory’s future development directions, the system’s task prompt sounded.