Chapter 138: I Figured The Smart City And Justice Children’s Knight Order
The City Lord of Cao Ling City was calculating furiously, while on the other side, Meng Xiyue was extremely obediently releasing bait continuously, putting on a performance.
She translated the ‘cutting-edge contemporary academics’ of Du Ling Star into ‘local knowledge’ that Qi Refiners could understand, coming up with some low-end get-rich-quick tricks like making candles from insect fats, burning glass with flames…, improving the living standards of the natives and earning recognition.
After gradually gaining trust, she immediately began showing off her skills, displaying the [Head Refinement Technique] she had mastered at the academy.
Starting with the most ordinary ‘Human Rank heads’, using the most simple and unadorned methods, she refined them into basic ‘Skull Servers. Biological Calculators’, successfully completing calculations at the ‘calculator’ level, eliciting waves of exclamations.
Then she pressed on relentlessly, through rounds of trial and error, successfully creating a [Classic Basic Mechanics Model] using Human Rank heads, demonstrating it and shocking the numerous observers.
The power of the [Classic Mechanics Model] wasn’t high, ordinary Human Rank could defend against it, but this unprecedented ‘mysterious power’ and its mechanism, especially the universality it implied, gave the cultivators of Cao Ling City a sense of subversion.
Including the [Shadow/Holy Light Qi Refining Technique] created by Yuan Zhu, all required cultivation, deep contact, mastery… to turn into one’s own and touch higher realms.
But the [Skull Server] that Meng Xiyue demonstrated to [Cao Ling City] was different; like firearms, it had almost zero threshold, anyone could use it. For [Cao Ling City], this was very magical.
So the City Lord waved his hand boldly: I’ll invest in this project of yours!
Soon, more worthless ‘heads’ were taken out from the plantation. Compared to the nutrient-rich torsos and limbs better for planting flowers and grass, heads were indeed in a chicken-rib niche in the ‘human body flowerpot world’.
Low-end heads had little value for planting grass, but the ‘Three Flowers Above the Crown’ needed for high-end pill refinement required ‘Heaven Rank heads’ for cultivation and planting.
After a while, the City Lord even brought several advanced heads for Meng Xiyue to squander.
Miss was also bold and daring with a social bandit personality; her life’s dictionary had no word like ‘stage fright’, daring to practice on whatever heads were given.
Moreover, she never withheld anything, teaching whatever she knew, fully cooperating unconditionally, positioning herself as a ‘captured freebie tool person’. Using the way her professor taught in class, she sold the knowledge she learned to these natives, answering all questions.
She even recorded her teaching videos through [Mouse], spreading them everywhere via ‘encrypted channels’.
After Little Spicy Stick’s decoding, Yuan Zhu was also forced to watch a segment of ‘Teacher Meng Xi’s Little Class’, the content so cringy it made one want to dig their feet. This guy definitely had superiority complex, a performative personality.
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In the short video decoded by Little Spicy Stick, Teacher Meng Xi taught the core knowledge of her [Knowledge School]: Skull Servers, or head servers.
Every head is a priceless treasure. The stronger the person, the higher the value contained in their head. Even for an empty shell that lost its soul, the microscopic neural structures in its brain still retain records of the ‘skills’ the deceased mastered in life.
Even a ‘skeleton’ that died long ago and decayed empty still leaves behind a large amount of lifetime information. It’s just that such ‘information remnants’ cannot be extracted, cracked, or utilized by ordinary means.
But the [Knowledge School] is an exception!
Meng Xiyue, with her mere ‘sophomore’ amateur skills, could like a computer repair master restoring data from a damaged hard drive, use crude methods to unlock the hidden potential of one ‘cultivator head’ after another.
Refining a head with a semblance of [True Qi Martial Arts Model], then connecting it to a ‘Tube Worm (Spiritual Energy)’ power line, roughly activating the head, and using Spiritual Energy infusion to cast simple True Qi Martial Skills out of thin air.
This scene is very basic in the [Knowledge School], something even sophomore students can manually practice; but for Cao Ling City’s cultivators, it was simply heaven-defying and absurd. Couldn’t understand it, totally couldn’t understand!
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Relying on this ‘cognitive gap’, she successfully proved her own utilization value. She made a humble request: have the Qi Refiners help her hatch ‘Mao Mao King’s insect eggs’.
Because he valued Meng Xi highly, the City Lord had no choice but to treat Mao Mao King’s insect eggs with utmost importance, cultivating and researching them as if facing a great enemy.
Meng Xiyue herself had no interest in raising bugs, nor any ideas. She just tossed them out casually, hoping they could be raised alive, mission accomplished. If large-scale breeding could be popularized, even better.
The City Lord, unaware of her thoughts, instead paid high attention to the ‘alien insect eggs’, thinking it was a necessary part of her [head sorcery], so he researched and experimented with various modifications… the emphasis and development on the insect eggs even surpassed Yuan Zhu’s.
After all, Yuan Zhu was just a lone starter from scratch, only managing a ‘Shadow’ mutation version; but [Cao Ling City] with the power of the whole city, developed the insect eggs beyond [Animal Husbandry Village]!
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Later, Cao Ling’s cultivators continuously provided heads for Meng Xiyue to practice on.
Originally just a ‘pure academic’ sophomore, relying on her social cow personality and fearless courage, she happily practiced in Cao Ling City.
With a steady stream of free experimental materials, she practiced over and over. From initially following the script strictly, adhering to textbook guidance, wasting one cultivator head after another to create impressive but unclear ‘scraps’, shocking the local bumpkins.
Then accumulating experience from scratch, step by step, her skills gradually matured, consolidating her already confident Dao heart.
When the most perfect [Skull Server] work in her hands equated to her learning progress, Meng Xiyue had reached the pinnacle of her life, synchronized with her learning progress!
But the next moment, she completely let herself go.
Because beyond that, it was all unlearned knowledge blind spots, no path forward; so she no longer needed a path, directly escaping into the [unrestrained, wild imagination] [Realm of My Whims], freely creating and playing… fabricating the future of knowledge out of thin air, and realizing it through practice!
After all, the first person to reach this step back then didn’t have follow-up textbooks either, only attempting and exploring repeatedly to create a path?
So she muddled through by feel and created this ‘garbage human head matrix’, smugly self-satisfied with a delusion of being a genius, fully indulging in ‘my whims’ + ‘what the hell possession’.
On the other side, the City Lord, unaware of the inside story, saw Meng Xiyue so cooperative, teaching everything she knew, answering every question, even passing ‘Primordial Spirit’ lie detection smoothly. Especially her ‘confidence’ and ‘self-assurance’, so self-deceptive that even the City Lord was fooled.
Facing such an excellent tool person single-mindedly pursuing higher academic realms, the City Lord couldn’t help but painfully exploit her thoroughly. So he boldly proposed various demands, like connecting the [Skull Server Matrix] with ‘Insect City. City Protection Array’?
One dared to ask, the other naturally dared to answer.
After some brainstorming, Meng Xiyue even gave the heaven-defying answer of [Intelligent City].
Yuan Zhu listening to the [Meng Xi Broadcast], upon hearing this part, was directly shocked by Miss’s world-shaking wisdom. What the hell is this ‘head Lei Jun’? Using ‘Heaven Rank heads’ to build [Intelligent Matrix Servers], then fusing with the City Protection Array, letting ‘Insect City’ enter the ‘head AI’ era; then popularizing ‘Human Rank. Intelligent Skull Servers (mobile phones)’ for ordinary people…
So one dared to think, the other dared to do; their cooperation was currently going very pleasantly.
Meng Xiyue freebie’d the City Lord, gaining a steady stream of heads for practice, advancing her ‘summer internship’, crazily wasting high-level resources unavailable at the academy.
The Cao Ling City Lord was similarly freebie’ing Meng Xi, various functionally incomplete ‘shoddy server skulls’ handcrafted by her, constantly spliced and stacked into a ‘shit mountain server’, potentially giving Cao Ling’s ‘City Protection Array’ a round of pollution evolution.
Even if the ‘Skull Matrix’ is a huge pile of garbage, don’t underestimate the pollution attributes of the [Bubble World]!
The World Will invested in Yuan Zhu, and similarly heavily invested in Meng Xiyue, wanting exactly this huge pile! Wanting exactly its unreliability!
If it were a precise ‘genuine Skull Server Matrix’, wouldn’t it become the [Knowledge School] invading and possessing [Insect City]? But as a huge pile of crap, it can better pollute and claim it for themselves!
At the end of the broadcast, Meng Xiyue continuously analyzed her mental journey, boasted her achievements and accomplishments, fantasized about her bright future, and welcomed other teammates to come to [Cao Ling City] to start a business with her, using Insect City’s power to scale up, complete the mission.
“Being imprisoned isn’t scary, we can return anytime. So, partners, come lend me a hand, realize my dreams!”
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After listening to her [Meng Xi Broadcast], Yuan Zhu fell into a moment of silence.
Little Spicy Stick said, “A brilliant experience, isn’t it? Throwing herself into the fray, leveraging the power of a whole city. The influence she created is no less than yours, Boss.”
Yuan Zhu had to admit: “Understated it, her destructive power surpasses mine!”
Although he also assaulted an [Insect City], even wantonly detonating Holy Cough Bombs, his influence was definitely not as great as Meng Xiyue’s. After all, his [Animal Husbandry Village] pursued absolute control, small scale, slow development, all supported by him alone.
But Meng Xiyue’s approach was the opposite, letting go of everything, abandoning control, ignoring subsequent chain reactions, not pursuing any long-term profits… only coveting immediate ‘small gains’, yet leveraging an entire Insect City to foot the bill and labor for her, helping her complete [head cultivation], and originally creating a bunch of bizarre ‘head servers’, accumulating massive wealth for her cultivation.
Similarly creating profound influence, and able to further accelerate and expand through [Insect City]…
Although somewhat tempted, Yuan Zhu quickly solidified his own ideas, with no intention of copying her path.
Looking at the yet-to-come ‘rust-red sky’, he quietly waited: “Wonder what situations the other two teammates are in now? If someone reaches the surface, they’ll definitely receive the [Meng Xi Broadcast]. If it’s Zhou Chu… she might go to [Cao Ling City].”
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At this moment, the Investigator Lady that Yuan Zhu was thinking of was hunkered down in an underground cavern on the outskirts of [Ying Huo City], surrounded by more than thirty skinny kids with bewildered expressions.
At this time, a ragged-clothed little girl with the brightest eyes and best mental state came before Zhou Chu: “Evil Righteous Big Sister, the last new little partner has successfully passed through the [Law] self-binding, condensing the ‘law chains’.”
“Great!” Zhou Chu, clad in red Knight Armor exposing only her single ponytail pretty face, stepped forward, smiling as she ruffled the little girl’s head, “From now on, as long as you uphold [Justice] and stick to the law clauses, you won’t worry about demonic transformation losing control, becoming human cocoons. Because you are all under the protection of the [Pale Great Law].”
The little girl pouted upon hearing this, retorting: “Justice can’t be eaten, we’ve all believed in the [Law], how are we supposed to live from now on? How do we get food after you leave? Not eating will kill us.”
“Of course by acting heroically and upholding justice! This world is full of injustice everywhere, battlefields for rooting out the strong to help the weak, spreading justice, protecting kindness. As long as you practice the ‘Path of Justice’, you can get stronger, gain power, bind more pollution power, turn it to your own use.”
The little girl kept pouting: “You forced us, we don’t care about justice.”
“When I rescued you, you didn’t say that. You said you wanted to become like me, helping more pitiful orphans.”
“Who knew the [Law] was such an evil thing, actually requiring self-restraint? Damn, we fell for it, you’re too evil!”
“Right! Evil big sister!”
“Justice female demon!”
“Bad Woman!”
The group of kids forcibly joined into the [Law System] surrounded and attacked Zhou Chu. The latter wasn’t angry at all, instead full of smiles: “You’re very lucky, using your body’s [Meridians. Dao Seed] as raw material for the law, not only can you quickly cultivate ‘law clauses’, curb the risk of ‘human cocoon demonization’, but also through practicing the clauses, bind and contain more ‘Polluting Energy, Immortal Zombie Tendrils’, strengthening the [Law]. As long as you be good people, even eating Highly Toxic Mushrooms, you can survive.”
“Today, I’ll share a portion of [Armor] power with you, letting your law clauses have the ability to contain and subdue ‘Iron Poison’. This way, as long as you strive to guard justice, root out the strong to help the weak, clean up Magic Worm pollution for free, maintain Underground World safety, you can gradually bind ‘Iron Poison’, without relying on Insect System pollution cultivation techniques, complete [Armor Smelting], gain Knight System power part-time. And relying on [Law], form your own [Justice Knight Order], fight like the surface’s ‘Undead Knights’. Unite, oppose injustice and oppression, save your compatriots, save your world!”
“Bad Woman, are you serious?”
“Can we have both ‘Qi Refiner’ and ‘Undead Knight’ power at the same time?”
Zhou Chu nodded: “Yes, but all this is the power of [Law]. Stick to your law clauses, and you can bind and subdue ‘Dao Seeds’ and ‘Armor’, even more pollution, like [Immortals] and those [huge Magic Worms]…”
She clenched her fist, bewitching the kids before her: “Justice! Self-discipline!”
“Tch! When does that ‘raise bugs for resources’ you mentioned start? I’ve already hatched the bugs.”
“Once you use your own ‘law clauses’ to bind this armor gauntlet, I’ll help you contact buyers.”
With that, Zhou Chu activated [Knight System] power, decomposing part of her armor, building a red metal glove on the little girl’s right hand.
“Hiss!” “Hiss!”… The surroundings filled with exclamations and gasps.
Even after accepting that living people can control ‘Knight Armor’, these kids still couldn’t control their innate fear of ‘Knights’.
This woman is too evil! We have no way back anymore.
