Chapter 1 Overnight

The night passed without incident.

The next morning, Li Ang, slightly disguised, rode his bicycle to various parts of Yin City, collecting large and small gifts, and returned to let Miss Chai open the boxes herself.

Faced with all sorts of boxes, Miss Chai reached out and pressed her heart to calm her mood. With a flick of her sharp fingernails, she opened a box, cautiously taking out a liquid crystal television, a PS4 Pro, an Xbox 360, game discs, manga art books, and various figurines. Her expression was even more solemn and serious than it had been at the Guhan Temple.

To prevent this armchair gamer from breaking the electronic devices, Li Ang helped install all the facilities, casually telling Miss Chai not to break the game controller—

Miss Chai nodded vigorously, placing the PS4 controller on the glass coffee table. She extended two index fingers, rubbing them on the controller buttons. A pair of starry eyes looked forward to the television's startup screen, her leg constantly shaking.

This kid is hopeless.

Feeling as if he had raised a good-for-nothing, Li Ang helplessly shook his head and entered the automated pet breeding box to continue debugging the insects.

The new trait added an upper limit to his Sanity value, allowing Li Ang to use the biological templates to modify the insects for a longer duration.

After several hours of hard work, Li Ang transformed a new batch of soldier bees in the hive.

These soldier bees shared almost nothing in common with honeybees in terms of appearance. Instead, they looked more like large, yellow dragonflies. Their pollen-carrying legs had atrophied considerably, their bodies had become more slender, their muscles controlling the wings were stronger, and the number of plate-shaped receptors (the receptors most closely related to the sense of smell) on their antennae had doubled.

This batch of soldier bees, which Li Ang named "Scouts," were fast-flying, long-lasting, and had a keen sense of smell. As long as Li Ang sprinkled a drop or two of extremely rare pheromones (mainly queen substance components, fatty acid larval pheromone components, alarm pheromone components, and other pheromone components) in a certain place, these soldier bees would automatically go to the location of the pheromones, conduct olfactory reconnaissance, and return to report to Li Ang.

Li Ang could not yet understand the specific components of the pheromones, but these Scout soldier bees could demonstrate the specific direction and relative distance of the pheromone location to Li Ang through differently shaped dances.

In some cases, the modified Scout soldier bees were even more useful than drones—they could fly out to a distance of 20 kilometers at a time, and fly back after a short rest.

"Finally made the first batch of usable weapons, although the number is only thirty."

Li Ang rubbed his temples, having consumed a lot of Sanity. He used the biological motherboard to make ten hard chrysalises with many vent holes, and put ten Scout soldier bees into the chrysalises, putting them into a dormant state.

When necessary, he could take out the plastic cup-sized chrysalises and reawaken the Scout soldier bees inside.

The other twenty Scout soldier bees were released back into the hive by Li Ang.

Through the tireless transformation of the mutated worker bees, the hive, originally a wooden box, had become several hexagonal pillars one meter in diameter, with a constant stream of mutated bee eggs hatching every day.

"Sugar water is being used up so fast."

Li Ang scratched his head, let the diligent bees continue to work, and walked into the alchemy workshop.

Calculating the time, the materials thrown into the forging furnace last time should be ready to be made into equipment.

Inside the alchemy workshop, which was much more crowded than before, the display panel of the steampunk-style forging furnace had counted down to zero, and a spacious metal drawer extended from below the furnace's trapezoidal hopper.

A pale arm, still steaming, drooped out of the drawer. With the light from the light strips buried above the alchemy workshop, one could vaguely see a humanoid object lying in the drawer.

Li Ang's expression remained unchanged, and his heart didn't skip a beat. He walked forward, moved the object out of the forging furnace's drawer, and placed it on the workbench next to the furnace.

Without a doubt, this was a humanoid puppet. It had a human-like outline, and its entire body was made of a very pale material that was neither gold nor wood nor stone nor iron. It felt cold and hard to the touch, and its firmness was no less than that of a special alloy.

The puppet had no hair, and its face had no carved features. Its elbows, ankles, and other points were connected by flexible and smooth ball joints, and its fingers and toes could move freely.

The only thing that was recognizable was the armor on the puppet—a red and white, close-fitting, thin armor that covered the entire body. The chest was covered by thin plate armor with the ornate striped curves of Gothic armor, and the edges were decorated with golden lines. The plate armor near the limbs was connected by fine scale armor.

"From the appearance, this puppet is female?"

Li Ang rubbed his chin. In his eyes, a line of explanatory text floated above the puppet.

[Name: Qing'e Armor]

[Type: Puppet]

[Quality: Common]

[Effect 1: Accommodate Divine Soul. The user can entrust their Divine Soul into the Qing'e Armor to remotely control the armor.]

[Effect 2: Levitation. After loading the Divine Soul, the Qing'e Armor can float in the air. The flying speed is equivalent to the Divine Soul's moving speed.]

[Effect 3: Charge Punch. After loading the Divine Soul, the Qing'e Armor can launch several punches forward. The speed and damage of each punch will stack. The strength of the charge punch depends on the duration of the release, which is determined by the Divine Soul's strength.]

[Effect 4: Petrification. After loading the Divine Soul, the Qing'e Armor can petrify objects through physical contact.]

[Effect 5: Healing. After the Divine Soul leaves, the Qing'e Armor will slowly heal.]

[Equipment Condition: Divine Soul can separate from the body]

[Note: Controlling the Qing'e Armor will cause the Divine Soul to consume power normally.]

[Note: The strength of the Qing'e Armor depends on the strength of the accommodated Divine Soul.]

[Note: Qing'e Armor undone, pure song surrounds the beams.]

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Li Ang sighed, "I should say, as expected, the ritual materials from the Williams mansion can indeed create a puppet that can house a Divine Soul.

It's clearly wearing red and white armor, but its name is Qing'e."

Li Ang was just casually complaining. He naturally knew the term Qing'e referred to the goddess Qing Nu, who was in charge of frost and snow. It also referred to a beautiful girl.

No matter how you looked at it, this Qing'e Armor, with its prominent figure curves, didn't seem like something Li Ang could use—moreover, he didn't have any special skills like Divine Soul Out-of-Body.

Can only give it to Chai Chai.

Li Ang put the Qing'e Armor into his backpack and walked out of the automated pet breeding box.

At this time, Miss Chai had been playing video games for several hours in a row, wearing headphones, eyes wide open, concentrating on manipulating Kratos on the screen, hacking and slashing through all kinds of gods.

"Stop playing."

Li Ang snatched off Miss Chai's headphones, paused the game amid the latter's complaints, took the Qing'e Armor out of the backpack column, and placed it on the ground.

"Uh"

Miss Chai looked at the puppet with obvious figure curves, her face a little red, pointed at the puppet, and said to Li Ang with a strange expression, "This is"

"What are you thinking?"

Li Ang frowned, tapped Miss Chai's forehead with his knuckles, and briefly introduced the usage of this equipment in a few words.