CHAPTER 502: CHAPTER 373: SHOCKED! 8,000-WORD LONG CHAPTER! _3

Once you have enough experience points, you can upgrade?

Li Zheng carefully recalled that ever since Pink Poli tangled with Little Sakura, though he had participated in many battles, there didn’t seem to be many creatures that actually died by its hand.

No wonder he hadn’t seen it upgrade its tier; it turns out there was this kind of requirement.

Pink Poli appeared more and more in pain, the pink color in its body gradually deepened, moving towards a deep red.

Before long, its originally vaguely discernible facial features completely melted into its body, disappearing from view.

As the color deepened, the temperature of Pink Poli’s surface kept rising, so much so that even Li Zheng could clearly feel the burning heat, forcing him to apply a layer of Extreme Isolation on himself.

"Poli..."

With one last agonizing moan, Pink Poli fell silent.

[Upgrading... it’ll probably finish in about half an hour. If you don’t mind, you can do something else among these remnants.

For example, there’s a pretty lady over there, and Old Pu suggests striking while it’s hot...]

Strike, my ass!

Li Zheng rolled his eyes and walked over to Little Sakura. This little one had been in a state of slumber while being transported, and still hadn’t woken up.

He had no idea what kind of impact that so-called bloodline had on it, or why it suddenly became so sleepy.

The Demon Blade’s previous explanation was that drowsiness was a trait of the Blood Patterned Black Dragon tribe; they love to sleep when there’s nothing going on and only wake up when there’s life-threatening danger.

This nature is way too silly, and Li Zheng definitely didn’t want Little Sakura to get tagged as a lazy bum after being a foodie.

"Old Pu, can you detect Little Sakura’s current condition?" Li Zheng thought for a moment but couldn’t suppress his worry.

[For this kind of thing, you should check the little one’s panel. If the panel doesn’t show any anomalies, it means this situation is normal, and there’s no need to worry.]

Panel?

It’s not like Li Zheng hadn’t checked Little Sakura’s panel before.

When he got up this morning, he turned it on, and it showed everything was normal...

Li Zheng casually opened the pet attributes again, and this time, he discovered a small line of text at the bottom of the panel.

[Due to the influence of special factors, the pet is in a state of sleep.]

Alright, the terminal can’t be relied upon either. Anyone with eyes can see that Little Sakura is asleep, right?

The problem is, what if this sleep isn’t temporary?

Forget it, random speculations won’t solve anything. Thankfully, the little one isn’t in any life-threatening danger, and with Pink Poli around, moving with it isn’t too difficult.

Li Zheng released his capsule house, went inside, and fused all the Identity Cards together, successfully expanding his house to over three hundred meters.

"Xiao said to expand the house as much as possible before entering the Outer City. I wonder if this extent is enough?" Li Zheng mumbled to himself.

Originally a bit low due to tiered renovations, the ceiling height expanded again to nearly ten meters per floor, wasting a lot of high space.

The only advantage of such high ceilings is that Little Sakura wouldn’t easily bump her head if she flew up.

And yet, the little one is still asleep...

Li Zheng shook his head, took the item that recorded the battle humanoid blueprint, unfolded it to reveal a USB interface, and plugged it into the "computer."

Before learning this time, Li Zheng took a glance at the corner of the blueprint, which indeed had a design previously drawn by Zhan Zhouzhou.

Easily overlooked, Li Zheng wouldn’t have even noticed it if Ye Kai hadn’t pointed it out.

Flipping through the illustrations, since the text was unintelligible, he could only examine the design drawings of the battle humanoid, full of twisted lines, giving Li Zheng a headache.

"Really hard to imagine how those tech-route folks can make sense of this..."

Clicking the learn button, he directly converted the blueprint onto the crafting panel, and Li Zheng started checking the materials needed for the battle humanoid.

"All pretty standard items, most of which I have, except... damn it, this thing actually needs a Memory Release Device?" Li Zheng sighed deeply.

Not only does it need a Memory Release Device, but the battle humanoid also requires a No Tier material known as the "Autonomous Learning Core," which is the hardest to obtain.

Li Zheng has seen quite a few rare materials by now, but this is the only one he hasn’t even laid eyes on.

"Hmm? Right!"

Li Zheng remembered something and contacted Joanna: "Is that Ninja Robot still available? Sell it to me!"

Player-made items can also be decomposed. If I’m lucky, that one strike shouldn’t have damaged the core components!

"It’s here, I’ll send it over to you." Joanna immediately sent the two parts of the female ninja to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng calculated and sent Joanna twenty Hover Propulsion Devices. Although their value didn’t match that of the damaged battle humanoid, they can make up for Joanna’s team’s combat shortcomings.

"Thanks!" Joanna received the Hover Propulsion Devices and sent a brief message without any refusal, presumably still busy on her side.

Li Zheng extracted the two-piece battle humanoid from the trading hall. The separated state of the creature was somewhat eerie, giving Li Zheng the strange feeling of trading corpses.

Reattaching the head to its place, Li Zheng tried silently chanting decompose.

[Decomposed Intelligent Humanoid (Combat Model), obtained: Memory Release Device (Ninja Assassination Skill) +1, Autonomous Learning Core +1, ...]

"Got it!"

Intently watching the decomposition page, Li Zheng clenched his fist when he saw the two most crucial materials.

As expected, these two materials were intact and indeed decomposed successfully.

Next...

"Craft!"