Chapter 288: Cyber City God
Zhou Qi couldn’t help but feel a bit stiff. “Do you have any ideas on that front too?”
“No conflict. Anyway, just emphasize the ‘fierce’ aspect and it’ll be done.” Wu Xian nodded with a smile.
Come to think of it, he really didn’t have any pure beast scroll paintings on his side right now.
The Twenty-Eight Mansions and such basically belonged to the true god series.
The current 【Ting】 could be considered a proper beast-type scroll painting, but Ting belonged to the auspicious beast category—impressive as it was, it wasn’t domineering enough or wild enough.
“How about I just forget it.” Zhou Qi started to back out.
No helping it—with a pervert like Wu Xian getting involved, how was he supposed to play from now on?
“Hey~ believe in yourself,” Wu Xian said righteously. “Your fierce beast concept has real potential.”
“Then… alright.”
As they spoke, a series of engine backfires echoed from above the club.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A string of mechanical landing sounds drew curious looks from everyone in the club.
“Shocked—how long has it been since this young lady left, and your club has already developed to this scale?”
The long-absent Tang Tiaotiao strode into the club, with female protector Tang Qingxuan at her side and several professional technicians from the mechanical dojo following behind.
Her entire entrance was incredibly imposing.
It had quite a “the young lady has arrived, make way” déjà vu vibe.
“It’s changed a lot indeed.” Tang Qingxuan couldn’t help but sigh deeply.
And in her view, it wasn’t just the Underworld Club that had changed a lot—the entire Yaoyang City had changed a lot.
Due to the intercity space lines being closed, they had come this time by fighting their way from the other dimension control zone and through various other dimensions.
They had encountered quite a few Yaoyang City spirit tamer adventurers along the way.
Not to mention anything else, just the several layers of control zone defense lines were almost approaching the dimensional rift vicinity.
It was hard to imagine this was just a low-level, unremarkable small city.
“Sister Tiao?” Wu Xian stood up in surprise to greet her. “Long time no see—Sister Tiao’s charisma is as radiant as ever~!”
“Of course~” Tang Tiaotiao grinned smugly, glancing back at the group behind her. “What are you all standing around for? Call Brother Xian!”
“Brother Xian, hello!”
The mechanical dojo big shots behind shouted in unison.
Seeing this, Tang Qingxuan silently rubbed her forehead—good thing she was used to it by now.
It wasn’t just her; the entire mechanical dojo from top to bottom was used to it.
“Little Xianzi, you coordinate with Sister Qingxuan and the others first,” Tang Tiaotiao said, looking around. “I’m going to find my brother.”
With that, she happily ran off to good big brother Tang Beng’s dedicated studio.
On Wu Xian’s side, under Tang Qingxuan’s introduction, he got a simple rundown on the several mechanical dojo tech big shots and called over Director Du from the network department along with his team to start coordinating the construction of the City God Temple network hub.
These few from the mechanical dojo were all noble family big shots, with each noble family sending their respective representatives.
They were basically all in their forties or fifties—prominent figures locally.
But upon seeing the City God Temple, the several mechanical dojo big shots were a bit dumbfounded and glitched out.
Even Tang Qingxuan was stunned by the City God Temple.
“What the heck? A domain scroll painting? Doesn’t seem like it though?”
“It has a bit of a domain scroll painting flavor, but it’s also merged with appliance concepts and character scroll painting concepts.”
“A fusion-type scroll painting?”
After the shock, the several big shots looked odd and fell into a state of scratching their heads in thought.
“You’re thinking of integrating the network hub into this bizarre scroll painting?”
Tang Qingxuan asked in astonishment, speaking for the several noble family big shots.
No way~ who in their right mind would think of fusing a network hub into a scroll painting facility like this?
Normally wouldn’t it be building a large mechanical device and then equipping it with a network hub?
In fact, that’s what they had expected before coming.
But the situation before them completely exceeded their expectations.
In a word: they really hadn’t done anything like this before.
“Uh, is it difficult?” Wu Xian couldn’t help but frown.
“This…” Tang Qingxuan said bitterly. “We really haven’t done it. Before coming, everyone thought it was some alliance device-type custom large mechanical instrument.”
Wu Xian smiled awkwardly. “My bad~ my bad, I didn’t explain clearly before.”
“Um, just timidly asking: Brother Xian, how did you think of integrating the network hub into this kind of scroll painting facility?” one mechanical dojo big shot asked softly. “Doesn’t it feel really weird?”
“Does it?” Wu Xian was puzzled.
The mechanical dojo big shot scratched his head. “It’s like you’re installing a network hub in a house, and having the network hub control the entire house. If it’s a mechanically built house that’s fine, but the key is your house is concrete?”
“What if it’s fused into a character painted spirit? Feasible?” Wu Xian pondered and inquired.
“Uh, that concept is relatively more practical.”
“Good then,” Wu Xian thought briefly, directly controlling the City God to manifest. “This is the painted spirit enshrined in the temple—fusing the network hub into this painted spirit would be the same.”
“An undead painted spirit? In the past that really wouldn’t have been easy, but thankfully the great Sister Tiao has brought fundamental change to our mechanical dojo.” One of the mechanical big shots sighed. “As for the space projection device, maybe we can try fusing that in too.”
With that, he pulled out two mechanical scroll paintings on the spot.
One of the scroll paintings turned into an energy luminous orb surrounded by particle data—this was the mechanical dojo’s unique 【network hub】.
It had a bit of a quantum computer vibe.
The other scroll painting turned into a structurally complex space projection device.
“Let’s sync up our scroll painting concepts and law networks, and adjust accordingly.” The mechanical big shot said.
Wu Xian understood, then exchanged basic scroll painting concepts and law networks with the other side.
“Huh~ Brother Xian’s scroll painting concept and law network have really high compatibility? Feels like no adjustments needed—it can integrate directly.”
“Is that so?” Wu Xian was surprised.
Perhaps this was the value of a well-conceived, excellent law network?
Then, under the several mechanical big shots’ attempts, the network hub integrated into the City God’s painted spirit body almost effortlessly.
Particle data effects started flickering on the City God’s body.
The space projection device fusion was relatively slower, but it ultimately merged perfectly too.
On Wu Xian’s side, he could clearly feel two additional vague law networks added to the City God Temple divine diagram imprint—like clothes worn over the City God Temple’s divine diagram imprint, very magical.
Looking at the City God before him now, he had fully become a cyber City God, with mechanical style decorations and components added to his body and the City God Temple.
“This just… worked?” Tang Qingxuan’s expression was odd.
“Mainly because Brother Xian’s scroll painting concept here is very complete and perfect.” The several mechanical big shots couldn’t help but sigh. “Cooperating with excellent people naturally means different efficiency.”
“So it means it’s usable?” Wu Xian said excitedly.
“The hardware side is in place now. Follow up by building the super hub, and for the software programming side you can handle it yourselves—maybe even develop other uses.”
Wu Xian was overjoyed and immediately called everyone back to the club for a meal.
As for the super hub server side, it was undoubtedly a big project—just debugging would take a day or two.
Tang Tiaotiao and brother Tang Beng had already finished catching up and came out to inquire about the situation.
Upon learning everything went smoothly, the several mechanical big shots also received Sister Tiao’s satisfied praise. “Not bad not bad, Sister Tiao is very pleased—there’ll be plenty of benefits for you all later.”
“Thanks to Sister Tiao for the support.” The several mechanical big shots grinned from ear to ear.
While chatting idly, Wu Xian received a match text message and suddenly remembered there was still a match. “Uh, you all chat first—I’m off to a match.”
