CHAPTER 351: CHAPTER 294: PICKING UP AN INTELLIGENT HUMANOID

Li Zheng personally watched as Misaka Tsuchiemon left with Yuanfei Yuluo, so how did they get separated after such a short while?

"Could it be that Yuanfei Yuluo woke up and realized he was being deceived, and the two had a falling out?" Li Zheng scratched his head, turned around, and walked towards another door.

Whether they fell out or not has nothing to do with him.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Li Zheng still had ten exploration opportunities that he hadn’t used. How could he have the time to care for others?

After thoroughly exploring the other four doors, Li Zheng was even more puzzled—where was Misaka Tsuchiemon?

Logically, as long as there were other players on the channel, they should inevitably connect to his room due to the characteristic of the Mysterious Declaration.

However, after investigating five doors, he only saw Yuanfei Yuluo, and Misaka Tsuchiemon was nowhere to be found.

"Could High Celestial Plain have acquired tools that ignore the jump restriction?" Li Zheng thought of the only possibility, that only tools similar to Star Thief’s could allow one to leave within the thirty-day teleportation restriction.

"Tools that can teleport across channels ignoring restrictions must be very precious. Given Misaka Tsuchiemon’s nature, leaving Yuanfei Yuluo behind to go alone makes perfect sense." Li Zheng swiped his card at a moderately valued metal door, looked back at the door where Yuanfei Yuluo was and sighed.

What a karmic bond!

This was a room with a cultivation dish, inside which a Gold Level wind element plant was growing and had matured.

Besides this, there was also a "corpse" lying next to the cultivation dish. According to Old Pu’s detection results, this "corpse" was a depleted energy Intelligent Humanoid, an agricultural model.

It was of the same type as the "Faceless" robot Li Zheng had obtained from the Treasure Chest.

[An agricultural Intelligent Humanoid has fallen into slumber due to a malfunction in its Power Core system, preventing it from recharging on its own.

You may replace its Power Core system, restore its energy supply, and it may be willing to leave with you.

Of course, you can also dismantle it directly and decompose it to recover a small amount of materials.]

"So it’s just a malfunction. I was just wondering why an Intelligent Humanoid, which is supposed to recharge itself, would run out of power." Li Zheng turned over the strangely designed robot and discovered it had been manufactured with six arms and had a grotesque monster appearance with a green face and fangs.

It was also dressed in some kind of dried beast hide, making it difficult to tell what kind of creature it came from.

"This is way too ugly!" Li Zheng was somewhat disgusted. He didn’t have many crops currently; the Faceless mainly took care of the Arctic Cattail, and other ordinary crops just needed incidental care, so he didn’t need a second agricultural model for now.

However, he was sure that the number of crops planted would increase in the future. If this oddly-shaped agricultural humanoid could be repaired, it could be put to direct use then.

"Ugly is fine as long as it’s functional. Now the question is how to repair it." Li Zheng cut open the beast hide on the agricultural humanoid, feeling a round, hard object at its heart.

Using the Sheathed Sword, he sliced open the surface biomimetic organization, revealing the internal structure.

[Congratulations, you’ve found its Power Core placement chamber. Now remove the damaged Power Core and install a new energy source; try to start it up.

Good luck!

Following Old Pu’s instructions carefully, Li Zheng found a pinhole-sized flaw on the surface of the Power Core originally placed in the agricultural humanoid’s heart, as if something had pierced it.

However, this Power Core was firmly locked within its chamber by several components, acting like a cage, very complex.

It took Li Zheng ten minutes to sort through the components, prying them apart one by one, and removing the old Active Core.

Afterward, he installed a Platinum Level Power Core as the energy source and restored all the components, attempting to start it.

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The Power Core activated, and energy was rapidly transmitted along the components below the Active Core, quickly spreading to the core parts of the entire agricultural humanoid.

Crackling sounds.

The agricultural humanoid trembled a few times and suddenly opened its closed eyes, revealing the eyes composed of electronic lenses below.

Li Zheng seemed to see a hint of "desolation" in those cold electronic eyes, or was it just an illusion?

It seemed that this agricultural humanoid possessed its own thoughts and emotions, unlike ordinary Intelligent Humanoids.

[This is an advanced Intelligent Humanoid equipped with an AI Core and Personality Release Device, much smarter than regular robots. Its previous master never returned after leaving, until its Power Core system malfunctioned.

Although it certainly does not understand your language, you can try to communicate with it. If you’re lucky, you might take it with you.]

Previous owner?

Li Zheng noticed the crucial point in the new tip: this Intelligent Humanoid was not unowned, but its master had left long ago and was likely dead by now.

"Hello?" Li Zheng waved his hand in front of the camera lens eyes of the agricultural humanoid to get its attention: "Can you understand what I’m saying?"

"..." The agricultural humanoid tilted its head, seemingly puzzled.

"Hmm, you really can’t understand." Li Zheng gave up on verbal communication, opting for gestures instead.

"I..." indicating himself.

"Repair... Damn! How do you gesture repair?"

Gesture communication reached an impasse, and after thinking for a long time, Li Zheng made a screwing motion, trying to convey that he had repaired it.

"..." This time, the agricultural humanoid tilted its head again, but Li Zheng noticed something from this gesture.

It understood, but not entirely.

After several attempts at communication, Li Zheng finally found the right way.

As long as he pointed to the new Power Core in its heart, it understood.

"I don’t know who your owner was, but I can tell you with certainty that they won’t be coming back." Li Zheng opened the door to his capsule residence and said, "From now on, you might as well follow me; it’s certainly better than waiting here in vain. At least if a part breaks down in the future, I can help fix it."

These words were somewhat complex, and Li Zheng wasn’t sure if the other party could understand him.

But when the agricultural humanoid got up from the ground and walked into his capsule, he understood this action.

"A wise choice." Li Zheng beamed with joy; now that he successfully persuaded it, his Platinum Level Active Core was not wasted.

"I don’t have much for you to do at the moment, so you can stay in those cultivation dish areas. Just occasionally help Faceless." Li Zheng pointed to the cultivation dish area with ordinary crops. Ever since the Ice and Fire Attachment reached Full Level, he had almost pulled out all the Flame Branches, replacing them with various edible materials.

In any case, he still had many seeds of Flame Branches. If needed someday, he could plant them again anytime, without delaying much.

To be honest, he had thought of planting more Flame Flowers to sell, but the nature of Flame Flower made its sales not very promising; only players who needed to upgrade their Genetic Ability would be willing to buy some.

Even so, this kind of trade didn’t profit him much; it was better to switch to regular crops, which would yield practical results once harvested.

The agricultural humanoid completely ignored Li Zheng, walking to the cultivation dish area to inspect the growth status of the crops.

After a while, it went to the place where Li Zheng stored materials, picking and choosing, and found several bones Li Zheng had thrown in there before.

Grinding all of them into powder, it mixed them in different proportions and used some on various crops.

When Li Zheng went to check the attributes of those crops, he realized he had found a treasure again.

With the help of those blended bone powders, the expected yield of several crops increased by ten percent!

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