Chapter 37: Beginner Mechanical Dungeon
After speaking, he strode away without taking a single wisp of cloud.
South Dimensional Port was bustling with cargo transport.
“Hey hey hey, where are you going? Trucks go that way!”
Seeing an unidentified truck turning toward the internal area, the port staff waved to stop it.
Wu Xian hurriedly got out of the car and stored Brother Pillar, “Sorry, I’m heading to the Dimensional Gate over there.”
There was no choice; trucks in the urban area had dedicated roads and couldn’t use normal road sections.
“For instances, drive a small car. Why drive a truck?” the staff member said with full resentment.
“The car broke down, so I temporarily borrowed a truck. Sorry~ Really sorry.”
The staff member irritably waved his hand, signaling Wu Xian to hurry off.
From the cargo port all the way to the foot of the Dimensional Gate, the entrances to various instances had already returned to their usual bustle, with many new adventurer students at the Beginner Instance side.
However, Wu Xian wasn’t planning to go to the Beginner Instance this time.
He went straight to the Beginner Instance side, where the atmosphere was clearly different from the Beginner Instance side.
The adventurers coming and going were steady and professional, completely without the chattering scene from the Beginner Area side.
Wu Xian, this Tier 2 Spirit Tamer, was obviously a bit out of place.
“Where did this stunned kid come from? Hurry back to the Beginner Area side,” a passing helpful Brother kindly lectured. “With only Tier 2 Spiritual Power, coming to the Beginner Instance—don’t your family adults care?”
“You really think it’s still like playing house in the Beginner Area?” the teammate beside him chimed in.
Wu Xian gratefully thanked them for their kindness with a honest look, then strode toward the lowest-level Beginner Instance entrance, leaving the two helpful Brothers stunned.
They’d seen people courting death, but never someone courting death like this.
“Good words can’t persuade a ghost seeking death. Don’t mind other people’s business,” the teammate beside him said irritably.
Though there were quite a few excellent university students in the Beginner Area, they were basically those with prominent family backgrounds and luxurious setups.
This kid in front of them was only a Tier 2 Spirit Tamer, definitely a university freshman, and he didn’t look like a child from a wealthy family either. Coming to the Beginner Area instance was purely seeking death.
Wu Xian reluctantly paid the three hundred ticket fee.
The ticketing staff also tried to persuade him kindly, but couldn’t stop him from insisting on going in to “die.”
Space twisted, and he appeared in a familiar Mechanical System outpost.
The familiar outpost announcement sounded in his ears.
“Why is it still the【Dimensional Defense Fortress】?”
Just like the previous new phone Mechanical Instance, the Beginner Mechanical Instance here was still that familiar【Dimensional Defense Fortress】 Domain Scroll Painting.
It had just upgraded from Copper Scroll Three-Star to Silver Scroll Four-Star, with a larger outpost scale and stronger defense capabilities.
After a simple resupply, he arrived at the outpost exit.
The vehicle rental salespeople quickly surrounded him. Wu Xian originally wanted to stand tall, refuse them, and enjoy the superiority of having a vehicle.
Who would have thought, the salespeople took one look at his Tier 2 Spiritual Power and turned away.
“This… alright then…”
Wu Xian’s expression stiffened.
The salespeople probably thought he was going to die too. Renting him a vehicle was basically like throwing a meat bun to a dog.
Of course, Wu Xian knew that Beginner Instances were much more dangerous than Beginner Instances.
But the Beginner Instance really had no difficulty for him.
He could only blame their【Scroll Painting】 for having too high prestige and too solid a foundation.
As for the shortcoming in Spiritual Power, the【Laurel Tree】 could perfectly compensate.
Walking out of the outpost, the aura of the Mechanical Wasteland hit him head-on, a smell similar to a car repair shop.
Driving Brother Pillar’s heavy truck, he sped along. Since it was his first time, he didn’t dare go too far and first tested the waters in the area around the outpost.
From the shattered Mechanical Ruins ahead, a Tier 2 Mechanical Monster darted out, incredibly fast.
Brother Pillar transformed into Robot Form on the spot, facing the Mechanical Monster’s drill-like Mechanical Arm, and smashed back with a punch.
Boom!
Steel Body collided, sparks flying everywhere.
Brother Pillar was shaken back several steps.
“Tsk~ Almost forgot Brother Pillar is only one star.”
Wu Xian suddenly slapped his forehead and hurriedly summoned the God of Wealth to assist in combat.
One Lightning Magic strike later, the Mechanical Monster was electrified into doubting its machine life, its senses unclear. It turned around and was flipped over by Brother Pillar’s transformed Mechanical Energy Battle Axe, then finished off at close range by Brother Pillar’s Ion Gun blast to the face.
The poor drill Mechanical Monster emitted a sound of engine stalling and died on the spot.
Worth mentioning was that after the Mechanical Monster died, besides Painted Spirit experience energy, there was also some energy resembling Mechanical Spirituality Substance that merged into Brother Pillar’s Energy Core in his chest.
After absorption, Brother Pillar’s Machine Body strength received a slight enhancement.
This was the【Leader’s Heart】 Talent Trait.
Taking Brother Pillar deep into the ruins, he continued hunting Tier 2 Mechanical Monsters. He could clearly feel that Brother Pillar’s combat power was a bit lacking.
No choice; after all, he was a postmodern sci-fi character, not as stunning as Mythological Realm figures.
Of course, this was only compared to the God of Wealth. Compared to those Mechanical Scroll Paintings on the market, Brother Pillar was definitely among the excellent ones.
The key was that their Brother Pillar could also serve as a Vehicle, with maxed-out practicality.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With the God of Wealth’s assistance, Brother Pillar grew rapidly.
By the end of half a day, he had successfully advanced to Two-Star Painted Spirit and could already go head-to-head against ordinary Tier 2 or 3 Mechanical Monsters.
One had to know that the same monsters were somewhat stronger in higher-level instances than in lower-level ones.
“Not bad, even better than I expected,” Wu Xian muttered to himself. “Feels like the follow-up pricing can be raised a bit more.”
He then had Brother Pillar transform into the heavy truck and return to the outpost fortress.
On the way, a roar of engines chased up from behind.
Looking out the window, it turned out to be Old Brother Mo from the black motorcycle earlier.
Their eyes met, and both sides were a bit dumbfounded.
“No way, little brother, how did you end up in the Beginner Instance? Not afraid of dying?” Old Brother Mo had a face full of incomprehension. “And how did you get a vehicle? What family background?”
Wu Xian answered irrelevantly, “Brother, weren’t you hanging out in the Beginner Instance? How’d you come to the Beginner Instance?”
“What kind of talk is that? At my age and Spiritual Power level, is it weird for me to be here?”
After pressing, he learned that Brother had gone to the Beginner Instance earlier to level up a newly bought Scroll Painting.
“But you kid, coming to the Beginner Instance—your family didn’t even assign you a Bodyguard?” Brother was full of question marks.
“I’m just seeing the world near the outpost. I know what I’m doing,” Wu Xian casually brushed it off, then patted the passenger seat and teased, “Ride? Flat rate, thirty.”
“…”
Brother was speechless for a moment, then floored it, leaving Brother Pillar far behind.
Wu Xian smiled slightly and immediately increased Spiritual Power output, starting instance drag racing mode with Old Brother Mo.
Suddenly, there was an explosion ahead, followed by a plume of black smoke. Old Brother Mo visibly slowed down.
Old Brother Mo stood by with a flushed face, angrily kicking the unreliable broken motorcycle. “Useless thing, what a huge loss!”
“Flat rate, thirty.” Wu Xian spoke again.
“Ten bucks!”
“Alright, hop on.” Wu Xian flashed the payment code from the window.
After Old Brother Mo got in full of resentment, he was soon attracted by Brother Pillar’s cab interior. “Your family adult is pretty interesting too, assigning you a heavy truck?”
“Just test-driving for the company. It’ll be released soon. Brother, want to consider switching to one?” Wu Xian promoted. “Trust me, this will be a game-changing model!”
“Laozi, a Tier 4 Spirit Tamer, driving a truck?” Brother raised his voice.
“Who said this is a truck?”
Wu Xian smiled slightly, and the whole vehicle suddenly started clanking.
Seeing the cab suddenly disassemble, Brother cursed repeatedly.
But soon it was replaced by stunned awe in his eyes.
Finally, looking at the five-to-six-meter-tall, domineering and cool Mechanical Giant before him, he silently swallowed hard.
