The final trial was to find the Clockwork Monkey.
Lu Yao clicked his mouse back and forth on the wilderness and didn’t get any hints.
On the contrary, it was the White God that was in the [Golden Wilderness], which seemed to have discovered something, and ran all the way to a patch of golden grass, digging and flipping over the ground for a while, and dragging out something with an arch and a bite.
It was a brown monkey, about the size of a pixelated villain, with a springy, curly, long tail. It had dull eyes, was missing its left hand, and had a metal clockwork key on top of its head.
Lu Yao moused over the monkey.
……
[Clockwork Monkey II LV6]: a mythical wonder.
Originally twelve initial clay figures created by the Dike Builders to anchor the world’s landmass. The God of the Forest transformed them and brought them back from the dead through the Clockwork, giving them wisdom and self.
Operators of the Tree of Sylvanus, sustainers of the Golden Wilderness, and repairers of the rules of the world.
Life: 0/2000
Damage: 0
Defence: 20
Speed: 30
[Myth
Fringed in many epochs and thousands of worlds, through the rise and fall of the gods, celebrated and legendary by countless people.
Rule Repairer
Has the ability to repair and adjust the rules of the world.
[Resurrection Spellline]
After complete destruction, the Clockwork Monkey will regroup in the Golden Wilderness and gradually complete self-repair.
……
These 6 Clockwork Monkeys are significant.
From the description, they are closer to the rules than the scavengers, and can be called the programmers behind the world. The Tree of Sylvanus was more like a host device for them to operate and change the world.
Lu Yao tried clicking on the Clockwork Monkey’s blood bar.
The Flame of Faith didn’t work either, it couldn’t fill it up.
Could it really rely on twisting the clockwork?
Lu Yao ordered the White God to try.
A white mist emanated from the White God’s body, driving the Clockwork Key on top of the Clockwork Monkey’s head to slowly twist it.
As the clockwork continued to tighten, the Clockwork Monkey’s life value really began to gradually repair.
1/2000
2/2000
……
2000/2000
After its life value was congealed by the clockwork, the Clockwork Monkey II’s body wobbled and came to life all of a sudden.
It looked towards the White God and a dialogue box popped up above its head, “Are you my new master?”
An exclamation mark flashed on the White God’s head.
He immediately stated, “Your master is the great Yao God, and I am only Lord Yao God’s subordinate deity, His loyal and humble follower.”
Lu Yao was satisfied.
Understanding.
“Obey. Yao God is the new master.”
The Clockwork Monkey touched his crippled left shoulder, “I am in a broken state, please repair me and make me whole so I can work further.”
The White God inquired, “You are made of clay, will clay do?”
The clockwork monkey grabbed a handful of clay from the ground, coalesced it into an arm, and brought it up to his shoulder. The new left arm moved before it turned to pieces.
The self-repair failed, and a question mark rose above Clockwork Monkey’s head. At the same time a thought box floated above its head, and a dense mess of code popped up inside.
Soon, the question mark on the Clockwork Monkey’s head turned into an exclamation mark.
“A craftsman who can make special props is needed for a quick repair.”
“Self repair calculation ……”
“Needs 372 years.”
When Lu Yao thought about it, just according to the most basic ratio of ten years of time flow a day, then the fastest it would take would be more than a month for the second monkey to finish repairing itself.
This was still one monkey, there were five more behind it.
Too long.
Lu Yao noticed that the Clockwork Monkey’s life value was constantly decaying, with its life decreasing by 1 point with every passing second. After half an hour, it was motionless again.
The White God could only continue to twist the clockwork.
Lu Yao tried clicking and found that he could directly include the Clockwork Monkey in the props bar.
In other words, although …… there was no way to bring the outside in, it could be taken out and managed to be repaired.
There were quite a few craftsmen in the pixel world outside.
Lu Yao summoned Apostle Fellows.
The Skeleton Man himself was a [Skeleton Artisan], belonging to the Skeleton Lineage of Artisans.
After receiving the order, Fellows rushed to the Dwarf Fortress with Clockwork Monkey II.
The Furnace Clan now represented the best group of craftsmen in the world, and among them was born a [Skillful Craftsman] Hammer Endless, who was able to create equipment with extraordinary attributes.
Having them come together to repair the Clockwork Monkey might be the way to go.
After being announced the conscription order by Fellows, the dwarves throughout the fortress were excited.
“God Yao recognises our skills!”
“This is the best commendation the gods have given us!”
“We will definitely fix this monkey!”
“At all costs!”
“It must be repaired! Let it come to life completely!”
Hammer Endless immediately went into work. He walked around the clay monkey and started discussing with Fellows how to fix the clay monkey’s mutilated arm.
Lu Yao also locked his viewpoint to see what they would do.
Soon, Phyllus and Hammer Endless produced two arms each, one made up of bone and one made of metal.
These two arms were mounted on the Clockwork Monkey’s shoulders in turn.
As a result, the bone arm was too fragile and broke in no time.
Feedback from monkey number two: “The arms are very light and can’t withstand pressure and touch.”
After replacing the metal arm, it became clumsy again, couldn’t walk straight and kept going in an arc around the left hand.
“The arm is not flexible enough to work, affecting the torso.”
Fellows and Hammer Endless discussed it over and over again, combining the opinions and suggestions of other dwarves, and made a special plan: keep the inner bones of the arm, and externally cover it with copper skin wrapped section by section, using the grease of the sandworms as lubrication.
Finally, an all-purpose stone was burned and cast to ensure that the bone and metal could be connected perfectly.
Under the collaboration of Fellows and the dwarves, a special copper prosthetic arm was cast.
……
[Dexterous Copper Bone Arm (Left)] [Made by Hammer Endless & Fellows]: +1 Defence, +1 Speed.
Life value: 306/306
……
Lu Yao’s heart burst with joy.
During the process of repairing the Clockwork Monkey, the Dwarves had actively contributed and experimented, using this to point out the process of creating Transcendent Prosthetic Limbs. This technology would have far-reaching effects in the future.
After Fellows and Hammer Endless finished debugging, they installed the prosthetic limb onto the Clockwork Monkey’s left shoulder.
Clockwork Monkey Two moved the prosthetic limb, and its left hand showed great dexterity.
An exclamation mark popped up on its head, “Arm available for work.”
“Both dexterity and toughness, marvellous craftsmanship!”
The simulator showed.
[Clockwork Monkey Two’s repair is complete, please continue repairing the other Clockwork Monkeys.]
Lu Yao breathed a sigh of relief.
He glanced back at the Golden Wilderness.
The White God had already found another Clockwork Monkey. However, this [Clockwork Monkey No. 5] was even more outrageous, with only a monkey head with a clockwork key left. According to Number Five’s own words, the rest of the body parts had disappeared after falling off.
The restoration became even more difficult.
Lu Yao dragged it out and threw it to the Dwarf Fortress, allowing Phyllus and Hammer Endless to continue leading the attack.
This would allow the Clockwork Monkey to be repaired and also improve the Dwarves’ crafting technology.
Clockwork Monkey Two took the initiative to join in the restoration of its kind.
It displayed measuring and repairing skills that far surpassed those of Phyllus and the dwarves, and soon designed a brand new body for Number Five, and gave specific material ratios and crafting means.
It was just that it was much more difficult to create a full body prosthesis than an arm.
Even with Number Two on board, the progress of the entire restoration team was unusually slow. A single prosthetic arm and prosthetic body were forged by them to try out various combinations and mounting matches, constantly trial and error and adjustments ……
Lu Yao transferred 100 omnipotent stones to Fellows and let it use them first.
This was something that took its time and couldn’t be rushed.
Lu Yao stretched his back.
It was already white outside the window, and there were still three hours before the train would depart.
It was time for him to leave his warm and cosy old home and return to the hut where he lived.
