Hammer Endless made a final test of the prosthetic arm, which was then fitted to the customer’s shoulder via a strider rope (i.e., a retractable device made from the tongue of a black water strider).
Old Saltjou tried the arm, and a smiley symbol floated above his head.
“Thanks to such marvellous craftsmanship, otherwise I would have to practice with one hand.”
“I cannot thank you enough, Master Hammer Endless.”
The Dwarf admonished, “Cherish your life yourself, prosthetics help you, but they do not prevent danger.”
“Thank you for your concern, but if you stop because of fear of danger, you won’t see the more magnificent scenery, and you won’t see such a masterful skill as yours.”
“Stubbornness in this regard, you are rather like a half-brother of our Furnace Clan.”
A smirk appeared on Hammer Endless’ head, seemingly submissive to Salt Long.
“Prosthetic durability will be depleted by wear and tear and fighting, remember to come back and repair it. Live long, young man, I still want to see my work.”
“Understood.”
Salt Long came out and met up with Hunting Rain.
After many years, both of them were much older, but after meeting each other for a while, they were a bit speechless.
In the end, it was Hunting Rain who spoke up, “I’ll buy you a glass of honey wine.”
“Long awaited.”
The two of them were at a table in the Dwarf Fortress and began to drink and catch up.
……
Lu Yao’s perspective moved to a hidden room in the Dwarf Fortress.
Fellows and Clockwork Monkey Two were busy here.
The game interface reminded.
[Clockwork Monkey Five’s restoration is complete ……]
Number Five only retained its monkey head, its limbs and torso were cast from brass, and with the Clockwork Key fixed to its head, it looked like a creation of a different era from the nearby Number Two.
It had the same ability as number two, but only the life value was 6000 and the defence was 60, the panel was stronger in reverse.
At this moment, the two clockwork monkeys were creating a copper helmet full body armour. They moved so fast, their arms waving like windmills, that Lu Yao couldn’t even see them.
Next to them, thought boxes floated above Fellows’ head.
“They are simply like born outstanding craftsmen, the proficiency and precision are too incredible ……”
Lu Yao clicked on the Skeleton Man.
–How’s the situation?
An exclamation mark popped up on Fellows’ head, and he immediately knelt down and said, “Lord Yao God, the restoration of number five is complete. Everything it does is normal, no different from number two.”
“Ever since the restoration has been completed, Number Five and Number Two are like one and two. They work together silently without any words, like two fingers on the palm of a hand.”
“They don’t have the ability to create, but they are very precise and fast in both repairing and executing specific processes.”
Lu Yao mentally said that was of course.
The 6 Clockwork Monkeys were meant to be one.
“According to my subordinate’s observation, number two is good at precision measuring and drawing, and number five is very skilled in casting and fusing materials.”
Lu Yao observed.
Just as the Skeleton Man summarised, the clockwork monkeys also had their own division of labour amongst themselves.
Since Number Five had been repaired, Lu Yao immediately switched his viewpoint to the [Golden Wilderness].
The White God had collected three more crippled monkeys.
They were: number four, which had lost both of its arms, number six, whose body had split in half down the middle, and number one, which had six arms and four legs.
Among them, Number One had the most complicated situation.
It looked overly complete, even fitting its torso with four extra arms and three legs on its back, making it look like a monkey alien.
After the White God screwed on the clockwork, Number One displayed [Confusion] on its head and kept talking to itself non-stop.
“Number One exists, existence is everything, everything for existence.”
“Order is sacred, sacred and inviolable, order must be maintained, maintaining order is the greatest mission.”
“Clockwork monkey missing, missing, missing ……”
“Can’t build, can’t build, can’t fix, can’t fix ……”
“Calling number five, calling number five.”
“Number three please respond, number three please respond.”
……
Lu Yao put these three into the props bar in a brainwave, and then threw them to Fellows of the fortress, letting him continue to preside over the subsequent restoration work of the Clockwork Monkey.
After arranging the important work, Lu Yao focused his attention on the full body armour built by the Clockwork Monkey.
This piece of equipment was fixed on a shelf and was personally crafted by the two Clockwork Monkeys, not knowing what kind of function it had.
Lu Yao clicked on the armour.
……
[Ghost Armour] [Made by Fellows & Hammer Endless]: a fine armour that covers the entire body, when the equipper is a ghost, the ghost will enter the state of [Knowing].
Life Value: 500/500
Defence +3
Speed -1
……
Lu Yao froze.
It turned out that this wasn’t built by the Clockwork Monkeys, but was the equipment that Phyllus and Hammer Endless had messed up together.
The two Clockwork Monkeys did the quality control and repairs.
When Lu Yao inquired, Phyllus revealed the reason for this equipment.
“Mayor Chapman often says that there is a lack of equipment that ghosts can use. Ghosts have a very hard time touching entities, so it’s hard to use tools, limiting the various potentials of ghosts, which is also Sanilo’s regret.”
“More and more Transcendents are arriving in Saniro, and Commander Yaris, who is in charge of maintaining order, is under tremendous pressure. Although the city has also recruited a number of ghosts as soldiers, there are always difficulties in concrete execution when facing those huge and strong Transcendent individuals.”
“There are often frictions and conflicts between transcendental creatures, and there are also cases of big fights, and it is difficult for the ghosts to directly stop …… this has always made Yaris very distressed.”
Based on these pain points of Sanilo, Fellows then discussed with Hammer Endless: could they create an equipment that would allow the ghosts to gain the ability to use tools and touch entities as if they were living beings?
They kept trying as they repaired the clockwork monkey.
In the end, the two of them finalised the production plan and made the prototype of the Ghost Armour.
This piece of equipment would give ghosts an external shell in which they could regain their entity, combining the advantages of both the living and the undead. The armour came with the [Knowing] status, which also solved the problem of communication between ghosts and normal people.
At the same time, the Ghost Armour would also provide quite a bit of life value – or a special resistance to damage.
The initial version of the Ghost Armour was very bulky and would drastically weaken the speed of the Ghost, and it was only after Clockwork Monkey’s constant precision adjustments that it reached a relatively balanced state today.
“…… Lord Yao Shen, my subordinate has been repairing the Clockwork Monkey, and was using the interval to make this equipment together with Hammer Endless.”
Fellows was a little apprehensive.
Lu Yao, however, was a little heartened.
To use it as combat armour, that would be underestimating this equipment.
The significance of the [Ghost Armour] to ghosts was like primitive man mastering fire for the first time.
After equipping the Ghost Armour, the ghosts were able to use all sorts of equipment and props. They were no longer spectators, and as long as they were willing, they could also participate in all sorts of adventures, creations and inventions.
Lu Yao gave Fellows high praise.
—Not bad.
A huge exclamation mark popped up on top of Fellows’ head who received the commendation, which then turned into an oversized smiley face.
“Subordinate really didn’t expect it …… Thank you very much for your affirmation and encouragement …… Subordinate will definitely continue to perfect it before officially announcing the Ghost Armour.”
Lu Yao nodded.
Fellows was a mature Apostle, but his hidden profession was actually an engineer, it was just that his materials were bones.
Make the best use of what you have, and make the best use of what you have.
Putting him in charge of the Clockwork Monkey’s restoration seemed to be a very correct choice.
……
Lu Yao stretched his back.
The Pixel World was increasingly getting into the right track, the secular cities were developing in a benign manner, the Transcendent Side had the Apostles to stabilise the situation, and his own job as a god had become easier.
All that was needed was to press on with the restoration of all six monkeys, and then he would be able to take the Golden Wilderness for good. Just keep an eye on this matter for now.
Just as Lu Yao was about to take a nap, Isabelle suddenly gave an alert.
“My lord, a suspected overlap zone has been found and the scavengers are repairing it.”
Lu Yao was stunned.
This Novice Village actually overlapped as well?
No wonder the interference anomalies appeared so frequently before.
He immediately cut his viewpoint to the so-called overlapping zone.
A diamond-shaped rift appeared on a small island in the eastern part of the world, and it was filled with black mosaics.
The Scavenger Hamster was gnawing on the rift, the -1 sign constantly appearing above its head, and the rift was slowly disappearing.
Lu Yao couldn’t help but think.
An overlap zone, which meant that there was a partial overlap with other worlds, was also equivalent to a narrow common area. There would be life and matter from both worlds present inside ……
Rounding up, wouldn’t that be equivalent to a small copy?
Lu Yao was feeling like he had nothing to do, and now he was immediately refreshed.
He immediately decided to take a look in this small copy.
He had promised Sarina before, so she would be the main attacker this time, with Isabelle assisting.
