Chapter 375 Ah, the Artisan of Light

Chapter 375 Ah... the craftsman of light

Ningen Town is particularly lively today.

The bartender wiped his wine glass and stood in front of the window, looking out at the old trucks passing by, causing waves in the flood-filled town.

There was only one drinker left in the tavern, sitting next to the bartender with a complaining look on his face.

"What the hell, it makes the wine taste bad."

"Something must have happened. Even the old president is here."

The bartender is also a member of the Adventurer's Guild and knows some rules very well.

One of the rules of Chuangjie Mountain:

In one day, no more than 100 troops can enter Chuangjie Mountain at one time. Otherwise, they will be teleported away indiscriminately. There will also be a cool-down period for personnel teleportation, which is a particularly troublesome "curse".

The principality tried to train soldiers in Chuangjie Mountain, but later it was discovered that there were always soldiers who were forcibly teleported out of Chuangjie Mountain and fell to their death from the sky. Later, the principality gave up its plan to take action here. It was not until fifty years ago that the old president took office and proposed that the dangerous environment of Chuangjie Mountain was a holy place for training soldiers, and began to cooperate with the principality in cultivating adventurers.

Excellent adventurers can get a good job in the army directly after leaving Chuangjie Mountain.

It played a great role in the development of Chuangjie Mountain.

"Since then...the survival territory of the Beast Ears tribe has been trampled by the principality, and monsters have become the basic diet for hunting. Thirty years have passed by so fast."

"I don't think you are thirty years old."

"I am an Elf with a lifespan of two hundred years. I am only sixty years old this year." The bartender poured the wine for the drinker and said uneasily: "So I know that the appearance of the old president and the army together means that Something big happened."

"event?"

"Don't think too much about it. It has nothing to do with us assholes."

The sound of footsteps stepping on the stagnant water resounded loudly.

"Run away?"

"No."

The old president got out of the car and looked around.

"Magic doesn't lie. Her magic is gone."

Elise's eyes moved, sensing something was wrong.

"We brought heavy weapons here, and now you say she disappeared?"

"I don't know about the old lady." The old president took a sharp breath: "I have a dog nose and can smell the magic factor. The black abyss-like power in her body is gone."

"That means death?"

"Dead."

"In other words, the dragon girl is not the root cause of the loosening of Chuangjie Mountain's barrier." Elise stared at the old lady and asked: "I hope you, who are highly respected, will think about it carefully and don't let me think that you just want to borrow our Come and kill that dragon girl."

"Don't go too far."

It was Sydney who spoke.

"The old president is old, but she who sealed the door fifty years ago..."

"The one who sealed the door?" Elise was delighted: "Who saw you seal the door?"

Sydney: "This..."

Elise looked at the old president, who still looked charitable.

"Old President, what the principality considers to be your credit belongs to you. If you are useless, you have no credit."

As long as Elysee gives up her obsession with being a military beauty, she will be a very reliable soldier.

"Seal the scene and arrest anyone who comes!"

As she walked to the car, she saw Amanda doing something in the corner.

"Amanda, let's go."

"Ah, um."

Amanda followed, holding the white hair she picked up from the puddle in her hand, and secretly hid it.

Old President: "The savior... is you, right?"

Amanda: "..."

The car started and slowly drove out of the town.

Dam anxiously ran to the town.

When he saw the dark clouds appearing here, he knew that something had happened to the dragon girl.

"Oh Dam!"

The bartender stood at the door and called him.

But Dam ignored it and ran straight over.

The bartender shouted, "You have a letter."

Only then did Dam stop, turn around and walk over quickly.

He took the letter from the bartender, opened it, and took out the crumpled paper inside.

The letter read: I'm ready to leave, don't look for me.

"Who gave it to me?"

"A girl with white hair, long legs, very pretty."

"That's it..."

Dam read the words on the letter over and over again.

Even though the handwriting is crooked, even though Dam has worked hard to teach the girl to write, even though the girl can never become a human being, even though Dam knows that the girl is a monster that can eat people.

"It's really annoying. I've obviously taught her that way, and yet she writes so ugly... I actually wrote it very hard..."

Dam muttered to himself and put the letter in his pocket.

Then he looked to the west, where the hut where he spent time with the girl remained.

But still chose to turn around and leave.

"By the way, why did you come back suddenly?" the bartender asked.

"It's nothing... I'm just scared."

When Dam said this, he was actually just worried about the girl.

The bartender lit a cigarette, looked at the sky blankly, and said, "Just come back. I was notified five minutes ago that the team mission you took on was destroyed by the hunting target group."

Dam stopped.

In his mind was the dragon girl's expressionless face.

Are you protecting me...

…

When Li Nuo opened his eyes, it was already night.

He could tell from the smell that he was now at Henry's house.

Li Nuo covered his head.

"Ah... the pixelation lasted for at least ten hours."

Chabai fell asleep sitting on the chair.

Li Nuo wanted to take off her blindfold and see the injury on her right eye, but he didn't have the heart to wake her up.

He got out of bed quietly.

The face is hot, [Emil's Mask] has new data generated.

【Collapse of Leviathan】

[Analyzed data: Infected by the power of "Border Prison", he was not manipulated due to deification, but fell into a mental breakdown]

"Border prison."

Li Nuo thought of Croyd back then.

[Critical One] opened the door to the border prison, and finally turned into a monster with black flames burning all over its body.

The same goes for the Leviathan formed by the girl.

The water god Leviathan he had seen was a pure white dragon with a divine aura.

It's not the ferocious dragon from not long ago.

"The substances emitted in the prison will infect living creatures and cause morphological changes. The Terror Tyrannosaurus we saw before has dark energy, which is related..."

The data on the mask was not over yet, so Li Nuo temporarily put aside his desire to study.

[Available alchemy materials: Leviathan’s water vapor, water-type dragon scales]

[Combinable materials: dwarf spirits, magic crystals, wild boar tusks, overlord fire dragon's mutation inducer, salt, gunpowder dust]

"This is directly writing out what can be used."

Li Nuo touched his eyebrows.

"Hidden mission, warrior of light and craftsman of light, it's me and Uncle Henry."

"But there is another hidden mission. The Overlord Fire Dragon is the variable on the first floor. The variables on the second and third floors are the players, Marger."

For the first time he encounters two different hidden missions.

Li Nuo took a deep breath to feel more energetic.

"The story of the Dragon Girl is related to the Honkai Impact fifty years ago."

"March's matter is related to this collapse."

"It's equivalent to a past tense and a present continuous tense, but there may be some similarities between the two...Henry?"

Li Nuo looked towards the door of the house. He remembered that the voice woke up Chabai.

"woke up?"

Cha Bai rubbed his eyes, and when his knuckles slid over his right eye, he could clearly see the knuckles sunk into his eye sockets.

Li Nuo stepped over, squatted in front of her, and took off her blindfold.

Then he saw that Cha Bai's right eye had been removed, and the right eye socket was hollow.

"It doesn't matter. There are spare eyes like this in space. Just ask Victor to help install them next time."

"It hurts."

Li Nuo touched her cheek and slid his fingers around her eyes, feeling distressed and afraid of being hurt.

Cha Bai was happy.

"It hurts you more than me, right?"

She was teasing, but Li Nuo nodded seriously.

"..."

"Idiot, what's the matter?"

"As for."

With a sullen face, Cha Bai took out a book from the magic box and lightly hit Li Nuo on the head.

"Look at this, it has something to do with Marger's whereabouts."

"The Prince and the Village of Remains".

Cha Bai has read it all, but she hopes Li Nuo will use his own eyes to see it and check for any omissions.

Li Nuo turned over the pages of the book. The book only had 40 pages. It was just a note of what he had seen and heard. The content was not long. He spent an hour reading it.

"A guy who strives to become a top adventurer chases a Shining Big Bird and strays into a place called the Sea of ​​Monsters."

"That's the gap between the second and third floors of Chuangjie Mountain. The Adventurer's Guild has regulations that you can't just enter the third floor without special circumstances, but the adventurer still had the courage to break in. After all, the probability of a shining monster appearing is only 1 /4096 or so.”

Li Nuo closed the book and began to mutter to himself. The first twenty pages can be summarized by the above content.

The key is what follows.

"After passing through a cave, he entered a place called the 'Remains Village', where the residents were like crazy. Almost all the men became monsters, and the women became reproductive tools. They gave birth to demonized monsters. , everything is so weird.”

"The adventurers eventually encountered a man who claimed to be a prince in a dilapidated building."

"He is a destitute prince who fled to Chuangjie Mountain after the collapse of a small country. He was later taken in by adventurers. He said he was conducting an experiment on how to use these monsters. It was a great plan that would subvert the The plan for the whole world.”

"In the end, the adventurer escaped, and he wrote the story as a biography..."

So far, this is the outline of the entire book.

Li Nuo opened the teapot and took a sip of tea.

"Hmm...a shoddy novel written by a magician."

Chabai stared at his only eye and moved closer to him.

"What? Did you launch anything?"

"Ah..." Li Nuo stared with dead eyes: "The adventurer is the prince. To put it bluntly, the prince wrote the novel himself in order to attract the experimental subjects, and then published it. The question is, who published it for him? There must be someone with some ability, um... the top management of Chuangjie Mountain... the old president? The Honkai incident fifty years ago turned the dragon girl into a monster. The Honkai incident was actually solved by the old president. ...Dragon Girl failed, but the old president actually succeeded. There is something wrong with the top management of the Adventurer Guild. Is the old president the big BOSS? "

Cha Bai was stunned: "Huh?"

She looked forward to Li Nuo's leaping thinking, but she never thought that Li Nuo could spread the gyrus to such an extent.

"I'll just say it casually."

Li Nuo took another sip of tea, took a breath, and said, "Anyway, you'll find out when you get there. Anyway, Brother Shou's mission is to go to the third floor. We also want to find Marjie. That's the perfect location."

On the page of the book, Marger wrote "I am going to save those women", which means that Marger's essence has not changed.

It also symbolizes that the most dangerous person in the ruin village will always be Marjie.

"By the way, where are the others?"

Li Nuo wants to find everyone, especially Uncle Henry.

Cha Bai curled his lips.

"Mr. Security Officer is sleeping downstairs. Nanami and Chen Shou are on their way back. Mr. Henry has obtained all the materials in advance and is now making the Armstrong Cannon. He said...don't disturb him before it is completed. Otherwise, the craftsman’s magic energy will fluctuate and his efforts will fall short.”

Li Nuo took out his pocket watch from his pocket.

"It's half past twelve in the morning, and there's still some time before dawn. As long as Nanami and the others don't use cars, they should be back here in two hours."

After Li Nuo finished speaking, he showed a sincere smile: "Hey~"

Cha Bai narrowed his eyes, then stood up and began to take off his clothes.

"You are quite energetic?"

"This means there will be supplies after the war."

"Let's make a deal first, don't take medicine, don't collapse other people's floors."

Li Nuo took off his shirt. His body was sticky and stained with dried blood, but he didn't plan to take a shower. It felt like he was in the wild.

——There is sand in my heart, and the Maldives is everywhere.

"Ah, by the way, can you drive the Ghostback?"

"It's really perverted."

"Also, don't wear that blindfold. I like being half disabled."

Cha Bai was slightly suspicious: "You don't want to get in my eyes... do you?"

He did think: "Size..."

Cha Bai: "My eyes are relatively big."

At this time, there was a knock on the door downstairs...

Li Nuo just took off his shirt.

"Go and open it." Cha Bai wrapped himself in a quilt: "Mr. Henry's research is a big deal, don't delay it."

"Yeah." Li Nuo went out with his cane. If it was Chen Shou, forget it. If it was Nanami, he would throw her over his shoulder. If it was a stranger... there was a tiger in his eyes: "That girl is dead."

He was naked from the waist down and opened the door.

There was a cat standing at the door.

"The shipping fee is 500 in total, please pay me."

"freight?"

"Meow, your friend called our 'Meow Transport Team' on the way."

In the world of "Monster Hunter", there is a kind of creature called "Elu Cat". They serve as partners of hunters and coexist with humans.

Li Nuo originally thought that if he met an Elu cat, he would try anything and see if he could get one.

But the cat in front of him made Li Nuo think: I must get one.

Meow.

From the world of Pokémon.

And it’s the kind of meow that can talk.

"What are you looking at? Is there anything strange?" Meow Meow touched his furry face: "Meow?"

Meow Meow pointed at the approaching car not far away.

"A fat guy named Chen Shou had an accident on the road, and a good-looking boy called us."

A very good-looking boy... Li Nuo smiled: Nanami's label has another gender ambiguity behind the human pig.

Li Nuo took out a few banknotes from his pocket.

Meow Meow counted: "No, you have an extra 1,000 Creation Coins."

Li Nuo: "Well, that thousand is for you."

Meow Meow: "?"

Li Nuo: "Yeah~"

"Meow--!"

The miserable cat cry echoed in the night sky.

Two doors inside the house were broken open.

Uncle Henry ran out shirtless, covered in sweat from working.

"What's wrong!"

The security guard ran out of the bathroom, his lower body wrapped in a towel, and his whole body was wet.

"What's wrong!"

At this time, the Meows' van was parked outside. Nanami jumped out of the van and turned around to see such a scene.

Li Nuo, Henry, and the security guard, the three men surrounded a tied up meow.

They were both naked from the waist down and both were wet and sticky.

Although Nanami subconsciously felt that it was not what she thought, she still couldn't help but said: "I have seen people who abuse cats, but I have never seen people who abuse cats. You bunch of perverts."

…

Under the mediation of Uncle Henry, Li Nuo reluctantly let Miaomiao go.

Nanami and Chen Shou were attacked by multiple mutant dragons on their way back.

Those creatures were very strange, with red eyes and a dark death energy wrapped around their bodies. During the battle, Chen Shou was seriously injured and his magic power was sucked away by a strange kissing bird.

This led Nanami to use the phone booth to call the "Meow Transport Team" for emergency support.

"Anyway, Li Nuo, we brought you some things that can be used as decoctions. You can see how to use them yourself."

Nanami said, taking out a potion from her earrings.

[Alchemy Potion: If you are a man, jump down]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Toxicity: 1%]

[Effect: Automatically teleport to the nearest cave after drinking it]

[Brief description: Xiao Ming drank this bottle of potion, and then he was teleported to the nearest cave. After that, he called his ex-girlfriend his mother, and his mother's nickname was "Virgin Mary"]

"What shit?"

Li Nuo complained, but after thinking that it was actually useful, he accepted it. It was not a decoction or a magic potion, so it was really gone after drinking it.

"Nanami, the alien species you are talking about refers to..."

"Things that make [Realm of Reason] uneasy."

Nanami made a "shh" gesture, indicating that there were irrelevant people nearby and would talk later.

Li Nuo then looked at Uncle Henry, pretending to be embarrassed and said: "Um... I'm sorry, I disturbed you just now."

"It doesn't matter, I've finished all my stuff anyway. All that's left is the final assembly." Henry shrugged his shoulders. Although he was smiling when he spoke, he actually looked a little tangled. He pointed in the direction of the basement. Said: "Your weapons and appearance have been modified, and the things are in the basement."

He threw a key to Chabai.

"Thanks!"

Cha Bai, who was obsessed with the hammer, immediately went to the basement.

"What a lively girl..." Henry smiled.

Li Nuo asked: "Uncle, did you say that the 'Armstrong gyrojet Armstrong cannon' is ready?"

Henry nodded: "Yeah."

The light craftsman led them to the backyard and into an open-air studio.

Except for Cha Bai who didn’t come.

Li Nuo, Nanami, the security officer, including Chen Shou who came because he heard "Armstrong", all looked at the cannon pointing straight into the sky and fell into silence.

Henry smiled and said: "Look, what a beautiful cannon."

Li Nuo nodded: "Yes, it looks beautiful no matter how you look at it."

Chen Shou: "That's not right, something is missing."

Nanami: "Don't make me complain about this, please."

"This is the dream left to me by that brother." Henry thought of Marger, and he looked at the sky and said, "The new Armstrong cyclotron jet Armstrong cannon."

After the uncle finished speaking, he pointed to the two big balls placed in the corner.

"I'm a little weak, can you help me assemble it?"

Nanami slapped her forehead with her hand: "Ah..."

Li Nuo grabbed Nanami's collar unhappily: "Don't underestimate the 'Armstrong Cyclo-Acceleration Jet Armstrong Cannon'! It's very complete, okay!"

Chen Shou chimed in: "Yes, every man hopes to have an Armstrong cyclotron jet..."

"Shut up." Nanami felt that she was about to enter the [Asura Realm]. She slapped Li Nuo's hand away and said, "You guys can play by yourself. After this script is over, I will never rehearse the script with you again." ”

While talking, Li Nuo and Chen Shou helped Henry splice the two balls of the cannon.

"Ah ah ah, the degree of completion is so high."

Li Nuo and Chen Shou stood shoulder to shoulder, as if they were standing in front of a Gundam.

When I touch this thing, a panel with only one name pops up.

And there is a brief description: a serious operator is required to see all panel data.

Henry explained to them: "The two balls are actually the overlord's explosive eggs. There is dragon's fascia inside the cannon. In order to allow the cannonballs to compress the space, the ejection device of the 'Earth's Time and Space Dragon' was specially placed. As for the Sao Bird The cockscomb is actually the best long-range launch material. In theory, this cannon combines the best explosive impact and space-compressing magic energy. There are also some other substances that I have experimented with before. Things, well, I won’t mention them much.”

Although they didn't understand it, they thought it was awesome.

Henry finally introduced the wings on both sides of the turret.

"It's decoration."

Nanami couldn't help it anymore: "The ten fossil winged birds that Chen Shou and I hunted together were just decorations of a giant steel ○○!?"

"Hahaha..." Henry raised an apologetic smile: "It's a pity, it's nothing..."

Li Nuo didn't think so: "Uncle, don't think too much. This thing is very well made. Even an old man will recall his adolescent self when he sees it."

Nanami: "Li Nuo, you are such a bad person. What is our purpose?"

Chen Shou: "Ah? Isn't our journey just for..." Brother Shou and Li Nuo said in unison: "The new Armstrong cyclotron acceleration jet Armstrong cannon."

"Ah——!" Nanami was going crazy: "Ah——!"

Henry laughed when he saw these guys having fun. His home hadn't been so lively for a long time.

What an incredible group of kids.

He thought so, but turned around, his back was lonely.

"Uncle?" Nanami said thoughtfully, "You seem... not very happy? Although I really can't understand you..."

"It looks like the end of the world." Li Nuo thought of the hidden thread about the "Craftsman of Light" and said, "Try to speak out and we will help as much as we can."

In Li Nuo's calculation, the "Craftsman of Light" is connected to both hidden lines, and is also related to Marger.

But this Henry is obviously not confident enough. If such a master wants to "use" it well, he should probably solve his psychological problems first.

Anyway, Li Nuo felt that it didn't matter if he talked about it, it was a business he was good at.

Henry shook his head: "It's just a trivial matter."

He looked up at the stars.

Recalling the past.

"Since large-scale hunting started in Chuangjie Mountain, a large number of adventurers have come here. Monsters have been hunted, resources have been exploited, and nature has been destroyed. The territory where the Beast Ears live has become less and less." Henry lit a cigarette: "I When I became a craftsman, I vowed to use all resources effectively. As long as resources are not wasted, the number of monsters being hunted can be controlled, and the Beast-Ear tribe may be saved, but I thought too well. "

Li Nuo: "Then I was misunderstood and persecuted in various ways."

Henry: "Yes, the persecution of other races by humans and elves and the destruction of nature are actually impossible to reverse."

He looked at the "new Armstrong cyclotron jet Armstrong gun" with affection in his eyes.

"This is the last thing I can do to prove my ideals, but I'm afraid of failure."

This guy is a chuunibyou... Li Nuo cursed, and comforted him with his chuunibyou thinking: "Anyway, you have already stepped into the cemetery with half a foot. What if the sun rises in the cemetery?"

Although Nanami was used to hearing Marjie talk like this, when these words came out of Li Nuo's mouth, there was an insincere and disgusting feeling, full of conspiracy theories.

Chen Shou whispered: "It's a pyramid scheme again..."

Uncle Henry was silent and just smoked.

"Now that the thing is done, give it a try. It will become a watershed in your life." Li Nuo said firmly: "I am convinced because it is the first time I have seen a cannon with such a high degree of completion."

Henry: "Really...do you all think of me this way?"

Everyone nodded.

Anyway, just nod.

Henry showed a happy smile: "Sorry, I am obviously the eldest... Okay, I understand."

As he spoke, he took out a silver metal handle.

You can tell by looking at it that the handle should be the seed left by Marger.

Henry pressed the button on the handle.

A circle of balls gathered at the muzzle, and in the blink of an eye, slender light dust rushed into the sky!

In less than a second, the point on the sky where the light disappeared cracked with white spider web patterns visible to the naked eye, which were signs that the barrier of Chuangjie Mountain was about to break.

Li Nuo: "Wait..."

Henry: "Ahh! This time it doesn't break in one shot like the experimental cannon. The finished product is indeed different!"

"Wait..." The corner of Li Nuo's mouth trembled: "Experimental cannon? That one? The reason why the barrier of Chuangjie Mountain collapsed before..."

Henry looked at him.

"Ah, I blasted it out with an experimental cannon. It is the masterpiece of Mr. Humph and I, but thanks to your help, this time it is a finished cannon."

Everyone was stuck in place, and no one had a good face.

"Uncle Henry, um... what on earth did you do with this cannon?"

"Save the Beast Ears tribe and the nature of Chuangjie Mountain."

Henry thought for a moment.

"In other words... break the barrier of Chuangjie Mountain and let the things in Chuangjie Mountain go to the outside world."

Chen Shou already knew what was going to happen.

Nanami was staring at Li Nuo with "I'll fuck you to death" eyes.

Li Nuo finally confirmed: "Things in Chuangjie Mountain go to the outside world... Then what happens next?"

"Then there's no need to say anything~"

Henry smiled like a child.

"Destroy mankind."