Chapter 284: We Don’t Create Training Methods; We’re Just Porters Of Civilization
“What are they trying to do?”
“Do they really intend to capture those prisoners?”
Fansen and Lan Yu looked at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples in the distance who had already begun besieging a prisoner. They felt that these people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were simply insane, daring to target the prisoners of the cultivation ground, as if they did not care what this forbidden zone was.
All the major power teams that had entered the Mist Mountain Prison Lower District avoided the prisoners of the cultivation grounds like the plague, afraid that provoking them would draw out all the prisoners from the cultivation grounds and leave them no chance to explore the Lower Level.
Yet these disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were the opposite. When they saw prisoners from the cultivation grounds, they were like hungry wolves that had not eaten for three days spotting a lamb, biting into them directly.
But the two also had to admit that these Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples were highly skilled and possessed extraordinary strength.
Prisoners that normally required the combined effort of the two of them, both super geniuses, just to suppress could now be directly confronted head-on by a single Bone Forging Realm disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, who even fought by trading injury for injury, solely to inflict impact damage on the prisoners’ mechanical bodies and increase their energy consumption.
With this playstyle, after only a few minutes of battle, that Bone Forging Realm disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was covered in wounds, blood flowing freely, clearly not long for this world, yet still kept fighting by trading injury for injury until the very last moment.
After three or four Bone Forging Realm disciples took turns dying, the besieged prisoner had also consumed a great deal of energy and began retreating toward the cultivation grounds.
However, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples seemed to have anticipated this. Instead of sending up one Bone Forging Realm disciple, they sent two at once, completely suppressing that prisoner so he had no way to advance toward the cultivation grounds. From time to time, other Advanced Martial Artist disciples also rushed up to self-detonate, forcing the prisoner to actively fall back and defend.
Finally, after more than two hours of battle, that prisoner, having been under massive strain the entire time, exhausted all his energy and collapsed directly to the ground, while the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall lost dozens of people in the process. Even so, they remained enthusiastic, and the later-arriving Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples continued to surround and kill other prisoners.
This left Fansen, Lan Yu, and the others watching from afar completely dumbfounded.
“Insane! These people are all insane! Just to capture one prisoner, do they really need to go this far? Each of them is a super genius able to rival the Blood Condensation Realm!” Fansen looked at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples going off to besiege another prisoner, utterly confused in his heart.
Any one super genius was a precious treasure to a faction.
Normally, losing a few would be enough to make a top-tier faction of the Four Regions ache. If they lost more than a dozen, even the Domain Cities of the Four Regions would go mad, as these were the foundation of a faction, its future pillars.
Yet for the sake of capturing a single prisoner with unknown returns, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had sacrificed so many super geniuses. No matter how he looked at it, this was not a worthwhile trade, but the people of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall were relishing it.
Aside from the word “lunatics,” he really did not know how to describe the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
At the same time, Fansen was also deeply regretful that he had canceled the cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
A lone prisoner, together with a group of prisoners that had left the cultivation grounds—if he had cooperated with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall back then, he would have at least gotten a share.
Even if not much, as long as he could get one prisoner, his future would be set.
Although the key information obtained from each prisoner was uncertain, and it was very possible that the data those prisoners had stored in the Guard Robots contained no cultivation methods or martial skills, there would definitely be plenty of Recorded Battle Videos stored by the Guard Robots. Those were excellent materials for studying cultivation methods and martial skills.
After all, martial artists at their level could already begin creating martial skills suitable for themselves, and some powerful super geniuses would even modify Supernatural Martial Skills, making those Supernatural Martial Skills fit them better. Especially when they had already cultivated those Supernatural Martial Skills to the Perfection Realm, calling them grandmasters in this aspect would not be an exaggeration.
As long as enough resources were provided, especially high-level combat data, it would not be impossible to absorb and evolve from it martial skills that could rank among Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills or even stronger ones.
But this opportunity had been missed by him just like that…
On the other side, after the players delivered the Guard Robots to Lin Qi and Xie Feina, the long-waiting Xie Feina and Precia were both stunned.
One… two… three…
At a glance, there were six Guard Robots. This made both Xie Feina and Precia doubt their eyes, especially Xie Feina, who felt like she was dreaming.
Previously, in order to capture that lone prisoner, she had prepared for a full year, and even under those conditions, she had still failed.
Yet the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had spent less than a day to directly capture six, including the lone prisoner she wanted.
“Miss Xie Feina, this is the prisoner you wanted. I have fulfilled our agreement. I hope that once we get out, you can send over this prisoner’s information and the twenty machine tools as soon as possible.” Lin Qi pointed at the agreed-upon Guard Robot, speaking quite happily.
Although he had already guessed that capturing these Guard Robots would not be difficult for the players and was only a matter of time, he had not expected that in less than a day they would capture six. This number far exceeded his expectations.
Guard Robots had at least Initial Stage Blood Coagulation strength, and the weaker Guard Robots usually moved in groups, making them harder to capture. Lone prisoners were extremely rare, and there were only 197 players who had entered the Lower Level. In his view, capturing just a few within three days would already be good.
Now they had secured six in one day, which was definitely a huge gain.
“No problem.” Xie Feina, seeing how readily Lin Qi handed over the lone prisoner, also replied straightforwardly, “Once we are out, I will have the Domain City transport twenty machine tools to the City of Light Chasing. As for the data of this Guard Robot, I can give Hall Master Lin a copy in a little while.”
“You can give it to me in a little while? Do you have an instrument that directly extracts Guard Robot data?” Lin Qi looked at Xie Feina with some surprise.
From what he knew, the civilization of the Guard Robots was completely different from theirs. Parsing data from the Star Energy Civilization should take quite some time. Even though the Domain City had already analyzed many things from inside the prison, it was not an easy task.
As for the prisoners he obtained, once he went back, he would have Luo Qi, a Mechanic skilled in mechanical data, slowly analyze these Guard Robots. As for how long it would take to obtain the Stored Data recorded in the Guard Robots, he had no idea.
However, he had the Inheritance Metal Plate, which contained some textual information of the Star Energy Civilization. If Luo Qi could learn it, the analysis speed should increase significantly.
“Yes. The Domain City has been researching the prison for over a hundred years. It has a considerable understanding of this civilization’s culture, script, and Mechanical Equipment. There are also scrapped Guard Robots in the Upper Level and Middle Level, and the Domain City has done plenty of research on them. So they specifically designed an Analysis Device that can quickly extract the Stored Data from these Guard Robots.” Xie Feina nodded, then took out a football-sized Instrument from her backpack to show him. “But with our current research, we still cannot extract the memory region of the Guard Robots, so what we can get from these prisoners depends entirely on luck.”
“Can you sell me one of these devices after it finishes the analysis?” Lin Qi looked at the Analysis Device in Xie Feina’s hand, clearly tempted.
Although he did have ways to analyze these Guard Robots, it would take a long time, which would greatly affect his improvement speed and the growth of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
If he could directly obtain this Instrument, he could quickly retrieve the Stored Data from these prisoners, and might rapidly acquire the Star Energy Civilization’s martial skills and cultivation methods. After all, for other factions this place could only be explored three days a year, but for him it was open year-round.
The only issue was that the ones who could enter were limited to these players, and they could not bind other Resurrection Points. Otherwise, the Resurrection Point in the prison would be overwritten.
But this was not a real problem. As long as the Rewards he offered were generous enough, players who could use Death Teleportation to enter the prison would never pass up the opportunity.
At that point, these players would continuously capture prisoners and transport them outside the prison.
Once the Mist Mountain Prison closed, only exits were permitted, not entries. Of course, staying in the prison outside the exploration period was not easy.
The fog shrouding the prison would erode a normal person’s Spirit as long as they stayed within it. Even wearing completely sealed Tier 2 Battle Armor, they would still be mentally corroded. If they stayed too long, they would go mad. Previously, some people had tried to remain in the prison to wait for the next year’s exit, and all ultimately died. So after that, no one dared to stay in the prison outside the exploration period.
However, this did not matter to players. Whether they died spiritually or physically, players would resurrect. It would only slightly increase the difficulty of capturing prisoners.
As long as he captured enough prisoners, he would not have to worry about obtaining the inheritance of the Star Energy Civilization.
“This thing is a secret of the Domain City and is forbidden to be traded externally.” Xie Feina shook her head, then quickly smiled. “Of course, if Hall Master Lin offers a high enough price, I can accept the Punishment from the Domain City and sell one to you.”
“Senior sister, are you crazy?” Precia, at her side, could not help but object. “This instrument is something Teacher worked so hard to develop. If it is gone, Teacher might cancel your instructor application eligibility.”
“It is fine. As long as I can break through to the Blood Condensation Realm with greater potential, even without instructor eligibility, I can apply to join the Garrison instead.” Xie Feina waved her hand, her gaze resolute.
The Domain City was different from other cities. To obtain its resources, especially high-level resources, one had to make various Contributions to the Domain City.
Among them, becoming an Instructor in the Domain City was the simplest way to earn Contribution. One only needed to teach the new students entering the Domain City each year. Generally, having High-level Blood Condensation Realm strength was enough.
Once she broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm normally, she would quickly reach High-level Blood Condensation Realm strength.
But she did not want to break through so simply and become just an ordinary super genius in the Domain City, or an ordinary Instructor.
Her goal was to become an Elder, a professor of the Domain City, a big figure like her Teacher.
Now she felt this was precisely the moment, perhaps the greatest opportunity of her life.
“Miss Xie Feina, state your conditions.” Lin Qi said directly as he looked at her. “As long as it is not too excessive, I can accept it.”
An Instrument that could quickly analyze Guard Robots was something he was determined to obtain. After all, he had plenty of trouble ahead, especially having to face Earth Star Pharmaceuticals.
Even if Earth Star Pharmaceuticals would not send Blood Condensing Realm masters in the short term, he still had to fight. With the current strength of the players, they were still somewhat lacking.
If he could obtain the Star Energy Civilization’s cultivation methods and martial skills, then when facing Earth Star Pharmaceuticals, his confidence would undoubtedly be much greater.
“Hall Master Lin is indeed straightforward.” Xie Feina smiled slightly. “My condition is simple. I only need to extract the Stored Data of the other five Guard Robots. I wonder if Hall Master Lin is willing?”
“The other five?” Lin Qi glanced at the five other Guard Robots lying there, thought for a moment, and said, “Alright, Miss Xie Feina, you can start extracting now.”
“You agreed?” Xie Feina looked at Lin Qi, a hint of surprise on her face.
Guard Robots were extremely difficult to capture. She had originally prepared to haggle with Lin Qi, at least to secure permission to extract the Stored Data from three Guard Robots. That way, her chances of obtaining an inheritance would be much higher, even if these Guard Robots were not strong.
After all, even the weakest Guard Robot’s cultivation methods and martial skills before death were not something the Domain City could compare to.
“Yes, but after you obtain this data, only you are allowed to view it, and that Instrument must be handed directly to me.” Lin Qi nodded, without the slightest regret or hesitation.
For those major factions who could not capture Guard Robots, the Stored Data of these Guard Robots was extremely valuable. But for him, it was only data from five Guard Robots. As long as he had the Instrument, he could extract as much as he wanted in the future.
Moreover, by limiting the data to Xie Feina alone, even if the data turned out to be highly valuable, its impact would be limited.
He was even planning, after the prison closed this time, to organize an Auction in Chiyue Town specifically for the data of these prisoners, inviting all major powers to bid, thereby earning a large amount of Energy Crystals and Energy Potions.
If this Auction went well, it might attract even more talent to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. After all, to upgrade his Administrator Permissions, he needed a large number of people to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“Alright, I will begin the extraction.”
After a brief daze, Xie Feina quickly picked up the Instrument and started extracting the Stored Data from the Guard Robots one by one.
