CHAPTER 525: CHAPTER 468: GRATITUDE

The so-called villains live for a thousand years. Jokers, transcendent beings who don’t care about distorting, altering their very soul, will, and existence, undeniably possess superior survival abilities.

To completely annihilate him, only an Lv40 could take action,

or some reality-twisting facilities in the killing field could instantly and permanently erase all factors related to Joker from the real world,

or perhaps a specific punishment task in the killing field—some punishment tasks will literally eliminate, making one cease to exist.

Of course, from a more macro statistical perspective,

the average lifespan of people like Joker, either true jokers or players pretending to be jokers to reduce their pain, doesn’t differ much from other groups.

The only things that truly determine how long a player can live are personal qualities and ethereal luck.

Worldview, values, personality, and moral character are only minor factors.

At this time, the upgrades of various modules at the toy factory have been completed, with buildings like the crushing room and the refining room keeping their floor space but with both external structure and internal decoration completely revamped,

it’s almost like it got upgraded from a county factory at the start of the century to today’s semi-automated factory.

"Oh yeah!"

The cylindrical robots saw the factory’s shutter doors open and cheerfully put on their questionable red and black two-tone safety helmets, one by one.

Their enthusiasm for work, their high motivation, is as if their work is paid by piece.

Hmm... Considering this, the personalization and intelligence of these cylindrical robots could easily pass the Turing test, and even when compared to the androids from "Westworld" or "Detroit: Become Human," they don’t fall short.

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, pondering whether he should pay them wages since the toy factory generates substantial daily profits.

The problem is that there are no basic facilities near the factory, so what could they buy with money?

Surely they couldn’t buy Volkswagen, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, or Porsche S2 season commemorative model cars, or Adolf’s strong degreasing shampoo, right?

Li Cheng mused while continuing to browse his phone.

Under the post, Joker and other netizens had been trolling each other for thousands of floors. Due to the Whale Song Guild’s recent increase in monitoring automated scripting, these words were all typed by the players themselves.

Li Cheng marveled at how such boring people exist in the world, while following the "dog don’t coward" "dog keep barking" battle that went on for hours.

Tss—

The Reforging Room’s chimney emitted white thick smoke as the conveyor belt leisurely moved, bringing out more than forty intricately structured block-shaped mechanical creations.

The blocks had a diameter of about one and a half meters, semi-hollow with steel-toughened glass protective shells on each of the eight corners, an HD LCD screen on the front face, and a gyroscope in the middle.

Accompanied by two clicks, all block machines extended four flexible mechanical limbs as arm and leg supports, jumping down from the conveyor belt. The limbs ended in gripping structures with three fingers.

These robots were a new batch of mechanical servants Li Cheng had the Smart Core manufacture, using concepts like "Loyalty," "Mechanical," and "Internet."

"Grace! Favor!"

All block robots simultaneously opened their electronic eyes, raised their flexible mechanical arms, and with exaggeratedly enthusiastic mechanical electronic voices, shouted at Li Cheng, "Factory Owner, we love you! You are the sun of our hopes, you are the sun guiding us!"

The HD LCD panels on the front of all robot blocks displayed comically tear-filled emojis,

while the block robots at the back even played a BGM background sound from who-knows-where, "You come from Dandong to give me pure white, want to eat Guangdong dishes~"

WTF?!

Li Cheng twitched at the corner of his eyes, somehow feeling the brightness in the factory had increased,

He turned to look at the Smart Core, which timely explained, "The ’B-level Mechanism’ concept for this batch of mechanical bodies comes from the tractors of Sariwon Tractor Factory during the Cold War,

’B-level Cartoon’ concept comes from the drawing tablets used by the 4.26 Animation Movie Studio,

’B-level Internet’ concept comes from the Lazarus Group hacker organization’s network server usage,

’B-level Loyalty’ concept comes from American youth Otto Warmbier’s possession of anime merchandise posters..."

"I’m impressed. How do the other players in the killing field manage to get their hands on anything?! Are they like Doraemon or something,"

Li Cheng’s expression turned extra awkward, as the 4.26 Animation Movie Studio is one of the top foreign exchange departments in Cao County, undertaking anime outsourcing work from around the world, having participated in the creation of well-known animations like "The Simpsons," "Lion King Simba," "Ninja Turtle," "Invincible Young Hero," among others.

The art is exquisite, efficiency is high, and it’s renowned in the industry.

The Lazarus Hacker Organization really exists in the real world. Don’t be fooled by the name from the Bible; it’s actually under Cao County’s Bureau of Investigation, known for once hacking Bangladesh’s central bank out of 80 million US Dollars and later attacking cryptocurrency exchanges to loot Bitcoin.

These feats make one highly suspicious whether the Whale Song Guild has people from Lazarus often silencing certain users on the forums.

As for the Otto Warmbier incident, it’s hard to maintain composure. It’s essentially a bloody case triggered by an anime merchandise poster.

Oh my, this Otto’s hands aren’t very clean.

"Forget it, let’s leave it at that for now."

Having a batch of abstract mechanical servants, Li Cheng couldn’t even complain, sighed, and said to the block robots, "Do you know how to draw? Just right, delegate a batch to the Design Room to sketch some device diagrams.

The rest can assist the cylindrical ones; they’ll tell you what to do."

"Yes!"

The block robots saluted, then headed towards the cylindrical robots.

"Prosperous Han!" The cylindrical robot’s mechanical arm was rigid; both sides shook hands passionately, though for some reason the atmosphere felt subtly awkward.

Overall, after the factory’s modules upgraded to the second level, operational efficiency significantly increased.

The two groups of robots were busy transporting and dismantling relics, sending them first to crush and refine, obtaining concepts for the Smart Core to analyze, and based on customer orders, figuring out where they could cut costs and where they should reserve high-grade concepts for themselves.

Then the cylindrical robot artists would draft the tool sketches—though investing concepts into the factory couldn’t 100% determine a tool’s attributes,

the specially designed structure could partially influence the tool’s function.

"The S+ Sin concept obtained from the Otherworld Tower mission will remain untouched for now. Put the remaining two S concepts and several A-Level concepts in, and produce one piece of equipment and one skill scroll respectively."

Li Cheng gave a few instructions to the Smart Core, then logged out of the killing field and went to school.

When he returned, both items were already manufactured.

The data on the sheepskin skill scroll was as follows,

[Skill Scroll Name: Summoning Skill: Farmer]

[Attribute: Learning Type]

[Type: Spiritual Energy]

[Usage: Active]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: Most Beautiful Fantasy. Summon the projection of a farmer, who will appear in the form of horseback riding or driving a non-electric pickup truck, immune to any form of external attacks, and listen to the summoner’s command. It can use firearms, long whips, and lasso as weapons. All attacks cause no substantial damage, only immense psychological and spiritual pain. The projection lasts up to 30 seconds]

[Consumption: 200 Spiritual Power Value]

[Cooling Time: 2 hours]

[Use Conditions: Under ITA° skin color classification, the angle must not be less than 27°]

[Note: Kids, I’m back]