Universal Mechanic

Chapter 498

half an hour later

They finally found the stairs leading to the second floor.

Luo Yuan looked at the endless grassland and said: I didn't expect it to be so big. It seems I have to spend the night here.

After comparing the location of the stairs on the map in his hand, Xi Qiling said: "Well, it's troublesome. The map I have is no longer accurate. It's worthy of being the Tower of Babel maze that has never been conquered. This kind of situation also occurs."

Charlotte: I heard that this place has the same functions as various mazes in the world, and it seems to be true.

As they talked, everyone started walking down to the next floor.

Ashtar: So what we saw outside was a tall tower, but now we have to go down?

Xi Qiling: It is said that this staircase is not fixed and sometimes you even have to climb up.

Asta touched the stone brick wall and said: The space here is very distorted. I'm afraid I can't open the space door casually from here on, but the time has not changed.

Luo Yuan: It would be troublesome if it changed, but the stone brick walls and torches are classic styles.

Xi Qiling: ...That's terrible. I didn't expect it to change so drastically. I just got this information yesterday, but it seems to be out of date now.

As he spoke, Xi Qiling reluctantly put away the map and information in his hand.

Luo Yuan: Looks like I really have to spend the night here. Luckily I’ve managed to find a lot of edible ingredients before this, and I also have some seasonings on me.

Luo Mengli: I have some canned food on me so it won’t be a problem to eat a few meals since Fang Mengtie is not around.

Xi Qiling: ...I have a few cartons of milk on me.

Charlotte: I have some fruit and cakes. Why do you have several cartons of milk?

Xi Qiling: I don’t drink blood, so I can only drink milk instead. And I have not only milk but also yogurt!

Asta: This isn't much better, is it? But this is the only way we can do it anyway, since we don't need to sleep, we can just set up a tent and rest.

Xi Qiling: Let's kill it once or twice first? The CD time of the dragon demon is half an hour, which means we can kill one every half an hour. If we are lucky, it may drop after two kills.

Luo Yuan: ...Give up. We forgot to pray to the boss before we went out. It's impossible for us to hit the target with one shot and get three golds in ten consecutive shots.

Xi Qiling: ...Can't we have a little dream?

Luo Yuan: Give up. Our game is to change fate and do good deeds without gaining merit. Otherwise, it would be unacceptable if I don’t get five gold pieces ten times in a row after cleaning up so much garbage.

Xi Qiling: You are dreaming. It's just sweeping up some garbage. It's good enough if I don't crook it for you.

Asta: Okay, okay, let’s stop talking for now. Why are there no monsters here?

Xi Qiling: This is the trap layer. There are traps everywhere. If we weren't used to avoiding traps, we would have to run for a while.

Luo Yuan: The problem is that the space here is chaotic and we can't detect where the stairs are.

Asta: But it will only come slowly.

As he spoke, Asta threw a burning spell card forward.

Asta: Is there a fork in the road ahead? Left or right?

Xi Qiling: Try the right side first?

Asta: It looks like it will take quite some time.

When a few people were looking for a way

Zhu Rongnian: It has strong ductility, but it will retract as soon as you let go.

As he spoke, Zhu Rongnian placed the crystal that he had tossed around with on the table.

Lin Changye: How can it be used?

Zhu Rongnian: It’s just as you thought, it’s usable but there’s too little of it. If we give it to Luo Yuan and the others, it might be useful, but for the two of us, it would be more useful to make a new version of the alloy.

Lin Changye: So, any ideas?

Zhu Rongnian: There is one thing. I originally planned to make a chain sword for Li Yisheng. However, although the blade made of the dragon demon's spine is durable, its recovery efficiency is too high. The hole that was just opened closed the next second and there was no way to add metal. Otherwise, I would have been sharpening the blade at this time.

Lin Changye: Why are the parts not usable?

Zhu Rongnian: After all, it has been cut into parts, so I asked them to explode another spine, but...well, forget it, it's good to have a backup plan. If it really doesn't work, I can just help them build something.

Lin Changye: What do you want to do?

Zhu Rong thought: Well, since this crystal can return to its original shape even if it is broken, if it is fused with the dragon demon's spine, then this characteristic should be able to be used to replace the mechanism.

Lin Changye: But are you sure that they won’t be stuck together and cannot be separated after they are done?

Zhu Rongnian: ...Theoretically, this won’t happen, but we need to test the strength of the mutual attraction.

Lin Changye: Do you need help?

Zhu Rong thought: I don't have to do it myself. I can finally do my old job! I've been helping my sister these past few days and I'm almost bored to death.

After saying that, Zhu Rongnian picked up a crystal and left.

Lin Changye: Then I’ll make something small too.

As he spoke, Lin Changye stood up and was pulled back by Anna with a battle flag.

Anna: Don't hold on. You haven't recovered from the energy you consumed after sending the sword. Otherwise, you would have hit harder.

Lin Changye: Everyone else asked me to go a little slower, but you asked me to go all out.

Anna: That would be fun. By the way, Yunqi, drag this guy away and let him go to bed and rest. Just don’t let him use his brain.

Lin Changye: It’s not that serious, right?

While mocking Lin Changye, he had no choice but to hug Chu Yunqi who was flying towards him, and then was attacked by Li Yisheng through the space door and pulled onto the bed in the room.

Anna watched the space door close and said: You are really young, so I'll find something to do. After all, you will get fat if you don't exercise.

As she spoke, Anna put away the battle flag, stood up and walked towards the door. Suddenly, Anna turned around and said something.

Anna: By the way, those who had wrong thoughts just now should go and reflect on their mistakes. As for the good kids who didn’t have wrong thoughts, I wish you good luck.

Xiao Mingqin was preparing dinner in the kitchen.

Xiao Mingqin said as he watched Anna happily humming a song as she left: "...I seem to have seen something I shouldn't have seen. Is this maze so troublesome? There's no way to get back."

Xi Qiling: I'm a little curious about what you saw, but we really can't go back. We have only just found the stairs leading to the next floor, and it will take quite a while to reach the tenth floor.

Xiao Mingqin: Do you need me to save some food for you?

Xi Qiling: Uh, maybe it would be better if you prepare breakfast for us. Now I have to prepare to fight monsters. We’ll talk about it later when we have time.

Xiao Mingqin: Okay, I will prepare extra midnight snacks for you.

Xi Qiling: Thank you! Emma, ​​what kind of turtle is this?

Xiao Mingqin: Brush more and use it for hot pot.

Xi Qiling: Let’s talk about it after you know it!

After saying this, Xi Qiling hung up the phone.

Xiao Mingqin: Turtle? Then tomorrow's dinner will be hot pot and salty porridge, but what should we eat tonight? There are not many people, but there are a lot of ingredients. In addition, I have been roasting meat all day, so I want to change the style. So let's have fried food and vegetable salad. But since it's fried, let's prepare spring rolls? Anyway, we have to prepare sweet and salty food, so let's prepare sour plum soup and tomato egg drop soup. Then let's prepare fried noodles. Well, that's it. I thought of it and prepared it.

At this time outside

Mu Xingshuang looked at the design drawing while pulling up the pipes and connecting the components.

Mu Xingshuang: Uh, the component here needs to be connected to the gears here.

Just as Mu Xingshuang was sitting on the ground and slowly loading the naval gun step by step, an Alpha doll crawled out from the pile of spare parts.

Alpha: How long are you going to keep pretending like this?

Mu Xingshuang: It’s better than installing it in a hurry and ending up installing it wrong, right?

Alpha: There are fool-proof features on it. As long as you don't think about using too much strength to make bricks fly, you can assemble it even without the blueprint by spending more time. So, can you please not spend two minutes looking at the blueprint to connect a pipeline?

Mu Xingshuang: ...I'm just afraid of pretending wrong.

Alpha: This is a high quality naval gun, it won't break easily, so don't worry about it.

Mu Xingshuang: Why do I feel like you’ve become even more venomous?

Alpha: I upgraded myself to cooperate with a naive little girl. Now I can use various techniques to make people become autistic. Of course, physical techniques are the fastest.

Mu Xingshuang: What you mean by technique is hitting them on the head with a bazooka?

Alpha: Just tell me if it's useful or not?

Mu Xingshuang: Okay, okay, okay. Please help me move this component. It’s too heavy and I can’t move it.

Alpha picked up the components and said: It's really troublesome, you need to practice more.

Mu Xingshuang: Give up. The teacher said that unless I drink the potion from Sister Fenghua or Sister Li, or use some strange equipment, or unless I replace my arm, the strength I will have in this life will be limited.

Alpha: ...Why should you be so confident? You might not be able to get married.

Mu Xingshuang: It’s okay, at most I can just pick one up and take it home to raise like my mom did!

bump!

As Mu Xingshuang was hammered into the ground, Lin Xinglin spoke.

Lin Xinglin: I just worked for a while and you're so proud of yourself? And how many times have you told me to call me sister? I still want to get married!

Mu Xingshuang said as she was pulled out by two Alpha dolls.

Mu Xingshuang: The teacher said that he has given up and just wants you to live well and be my mother.

bump!

Lin Xinglin: Tsk, I feel like I raised it in vain!

Feng Xiaoyu jumped out of the space gate and said: Oh my god, you are too violent. Be careful or people will ignore you in the future.

Lin Xinglin: It’s okay. She’s very stubborn and will definitely become arrogant if you teach her a lesson. By the way, aren’t you farming materials in the maze?

Feng Xiaoyu: I just left the team temporarily to deal with some troubles. Anyway, the Tower of Babel is not difficult except that it is a bit big.

Lin Xinglin: Tower of Babel? Will they come again today?

Feng Xiaoyu: Maybe it’s impossible?

And this time in the third floor of the Tower of Babel.

While collecting the turtle meat floating on the water, Luo Yuan said: We have almost 100 portions. Do you want to continue?

Luo Mengli: There are quite a few grass shrimps here that make me want to eat vermicelli.

As she spoke, Luo Mengli threw out a fishing net and caught the grass shrimps on the water.

Asta: I picked up a lot of shellfish. This is a real gem.

Charlotte: That's true, but if it weren't for Li's potion we would all be wet now.

Xi Qiling: Then let's go downstairs. We've caught enough fish, shrimp and shellfish to eat. But you need a boat to get through here. There shouldn't be anyone like us who use alchemical potions to make ourselves waterproof and magic to stay on the water.

Luo Mengli: It’s a cheap thing anyway. The stairs here are quite obvious compared to this one.

Xi Qiling: After all, you can't let us dive.

As they talked, everyone walked down the spiral staircase to the next floor.

Xi Qiling: After water comes fire.

As he spoke, Xi Qiling quickly released magic to isolate the heat.

Luo Mengli said as she looked at the maze where the ground was filled with lava and there were only a few gravel slabs with room to stand.

Luo Mengli: Oh my, what a strong contrast.

Xi Qiling: It seems that this place is indeed in an active period, but fortunately the impact here is just that the difficulty of changing floors has increased.

Asta: Is that why there are no monsters?

Luo Yuan: ...No, there are still a few fire demons there, but it doesn’t matter, just speed up and run over to them.

As they talked, everyone began to move on the gravel slabs.

Xi Qiling: That’s too bad. I hope the Dragon Demon’s position won’t change.

Charlotte: Since it's the boss of the tenth floor, it shouldn't change its location, right?

Xi Qiling: I hope so. By the way, the boss on the previous floor was a big crocodile, what will be on this floor?

Luo Yuan: It is most likely the upper-level elite Fire Demon of the Fire Demon, and it is right in front.

Xiqi Lingfei was looking for the boss in the air and said: This special terrain is more convenient for us. At least we don’t have to find the way. The maze on the second floor just now was really like being in prison...

Luo Yuan: There’s nothing I can do about it. I almost forgot you could fly.

Xi Qiling: I am a vampire after all, right? Even though I only drink milk.

Charlotte: Compared to this, why did we just tie a rope on Xi Qiling and let him surf?

Xi Qiling: ...I knew you would do this, so I deliberately didn't fly!

Charlotte: ...Ah, I saw a relic up ahead!

As she spoke, Charlotte pointed to the ruins in the distance that were made of rocks from the Hell Realm.

Xi Qiling: It seems that is the boss’ room. It seems that the stairs lead downwards this time.

As they spoke, everyone jumped onto the ruins.

Asta: Finally I don’t have to keep jumping, but where is the boss?

Charlotte: There’s nothing in the sky either.

Luo Yuan: Don’t look anymore. Isn’t the boss right in front of us?

As he spoke, Luo Yuan raised his pistol and fired a shot at the Flame Demon statue in the center. As the statue's corner was broken, the stone on the outer layer of the statue shattered, and blue flames erupted from it, and the Flame Demon awakened.

Luo Yuan: The Blue Flame Fire Demon is an extremely rare species. It seems we can look forward to its drops.

As he spoke, Luo Yuan flashed and appeared above the Flame Demon, holding two guns, and fired continuously. Before the Flame Demon, who had just awakened, could react, his other horn was broken.

Asta: Hey, don’t start a fight all of a sudden!

Asta shouted, swung his sword and hit the Fire Demon hard, knocking it back and breaking the rock shell on its body.

Charlotte: You who just rushed in have no right to speak, right?

After that, Charlotte cooperated with Luo Yuan to draw the bow and blow up the Flame Demon's head! Then Asta jumped up and swung the sword with all his might, splitting the Flame Demon in two.

Luo Mengli: He actually left the assistant aside...

Luo Yuan: After all, it's just a blue-flame Fire Demon. Although it's rare, it's not much different from an elite Fire Demon.

As he spoke, Luo Yuan opened the treasure chest and took out the things inside.

Luo Yuan: Sure enough, there is such a thing! Blue Flame Demon's horns x2! It's worth it that I broke his horns first!

Luo Mengli: Ah, there are eyeballs! This way I can forge a sword! I just happen to be short of a big sword!

Xi Qiling: The rest are special metals and other things without cores.

Luo Yuan: After all, I can't ask for more after my horns and eyeballs exploded. This way I can ask Zhu Rongnian to help me make two daggers.

Luo Mengli: I want a broadsword. I don’t have any heavy weapons right now, and I always feel weird. Finally I can feel more comfortable.

Xi Qiling: You really are worthy of being called the Queen of Arms. You suffer from a severe fear of insufficient firepower.

Luo Mengli: That's right! As long as I have enough firepower, I'm not afraid of anyone!

Luo Yuan: Okay, okay, let’s go downstairs instead of this.

Just as several people were talking, stairs suddenly appeared on the ground.

Xi Qiling: Then let’s go to the next level!