Chapter 360: Ch 360 : Nice! I love it!
As Tartaglia, who was controlling Su Yuan’s body, pierced the core of the final mechanical construct with his weapon, all of the constructs were easily defeated...
Afterward, Cloud Retainer appeared before everyone.
"As expected, my mastery of mechanical arts... is ultimately nothing but worthless trash..."
Cloud Retainer spoke with a hint of resignation:
"So many powerful constructs—immune to elemental energy—yet they didn’t even slow you down, let alone injure or kill any of you..."
"Exactly! These constructs were nothing more than junk and scrap metal!" Su Yuan responded bluntly.
Based on his earlier analysis, Su Yuan suspected that Cloud Retainer’s descent into an Eerie state—due to her loss of confidence in her mechanical arts—was likely Dottore’s doing...
Although Dottore wasn’t a specialist in mechanology, putting aside his character and morals, his academic abilities were undeniably top-tier in all of Teyvat.
So the idea that he might’ve bested Cloud Retainer in the field of mechanology wasn’t impossible.
And the reason Cloud Retainer lost her confidence was likely due to comparison—
She had compared herself to Dottore and concluded her skills were inferior.
If they wanted to help Cloud Retainer regain confidence in her mechanical craft, they had only two options:
Lift her up—or tear Dottore down.
Because Su Yuan had already learned from the information written on his left palm that these mechanical constructs were actually created by Dottore, all he had to do now was slander them as viciously as possible!
Su Yuan gave a hard kick to a pile of construct wreckage nearby, then spat on it and continued berating them:
"I have no idea who created these pieces of trash—brainless design, slow movements, hideous appearance—they’re utterly unpresentable!!!"
"These worthless constructs are worse than unrecyclable garbage and floating crap! They’re a disgrace to the art of mechanology!!!"
As Cloud Retainer listened to Su Yuan’s harsh insults and relentless mockery, her expression grew darker and darker.
She glared at Su Yuan coldly and said:
"Su Yuan... So that’s what you really think of my mechanical constructs?"
"No, no, no—Cloud Retainer, you’re misunderstanding completely..."
Su Yuan waved his hands and shook his head repeatedly, quickly explaining:
"My criticism just now wasn’t directed at your skills in mechanology—just these particular constructs!"
"Honestly, I’ve never seen such ugly, idiotic, disgusting, and useless constructs!!!"
"Whoever made them must be a colossal idiot!"
"With constructs this garbage, their creator’s learning ability, research capacity, and academic standards are probably worse than a floating slime’s poop, a hilichurl’s nose hair, or an Oceanid’s foot skin!!!"
"Su Yuan!!!!!!"
With an enraged roar, a furious Dottore appeared in front of Su Yuan!
"What the hell do you mean by that???"
"Even if you insult me personally, I wouldn’t care in the slightest!!!"
"You might not understand my research methods, but no one has ever dared to deny the value of my research results and academic prowess!!!"
"Even the God of Wisdom, Buer, couldn’t refute that!!!"
Seeing Dottore worked up like this, Cloud Retainer gave a knowing smile on the side.
Su Yuan pointed at Dottore and grinned mischievously:
"Look at him—he’s panicking, he’s heated, he’s losing it!"
Noticing Su Yuan’s expression, Dottore quickly realized something...
He forced himself to calm down, looked at Su Yuan with a stern face, and said slowly:
"Su Yuan... You knew all along, didn’t you—that those mechanical constructs weren’t made by Cloud Retainer, but by me?"
"Huh?" Su Yuan feigned a shocked expression and said in an exaggeratedly surprised voice,
"Is that so? I honestly had no idea that those worse-than-garbage constructs were made by you, Dottore..."
"Cloud Retainer, don’t listen to Su Yuan’s nonsense!"
Dottore turned to Cloud Retainer and said urgently:
"Those constructs of mine—you even praised them yourself!"
"Don’t let a few of Su Yuan’s petty words affect the bond between us!"
"The bond between us?"
Cloud Retainer looked at Dottore with utter disdain and said coldly:
"And what shady bond would that be, exactly?"
"In fact, I think Su Yuan’s words... make a lot of sense."
"Sounds nice... I love hearing it."
Seeing all this unfold, Su Yuan felt even more confident that his strategy was working perfectly!
As long as he kept trashing Dottore’s mechanical creations, he could boost Cloud Retainer’s confidence in her own mechanology—just from the opposite angle!
"Su Yuan, I’m sure you’ve already figured it out by now—why Cloud Retainer fell into a state of Eerie corruption..."
At this moment, Dottore had regained his composure.
After thinking it through, he looked directly at Su Yuan and said:
"You’re trying to free Cloud Retainer from her Eerie state by belittling me, aren’t you?"
"But... why would I ever let you succeed?"
The next moment, Xiangling’s figure appeared before everyone...
She looked vacant, expressionless, and her body was embedded with mechanical components—clearly transformed into a living automaton.
"Su Yuan, since you want to prove that my mechanical creations are trash and that my academic research is worthless..."
Dottore continued:
"Then go ahead—kill Xiangling. Prove it to me!!!"
"That’s right, Su Yuan..."
Cloud Retainer also spoke:
"Dottore has always claimed that pure mechanology isn’t his strong suit..."
"His true expertise lies in human experimentation and modification..."
"If even the Xiangling automaton he created can be easily destroyed by you all..."
"Then maybe, just maybe, Dottore’s mechanology really is absolute garbage."
Faced with this, Su Yuan and the others were left in deep hesitation...
If they didn’t defeat the mechanized Xiangling, it seemed they wouldn’t be able to prove that Dottore’s mechanology was inferior—and without doing so, there would be no way to help Cloud Retainer regain confidence in her craft and break free from her Eerie state...
However, although Xiangling currently appeared expressionless and dazed, she was still alive—there was still hope of saving her...
Was there a way to both save Xiangling and restore Cloud Retainer’s confidence in mechanology, so she could exit her Eerie state?
Moreover, removing Cloud Retainer’s Eerie wasn’t the end of the problem—there was still the Eerie-corrupted Madam Ping, who remained hidden in the shadows and had yet to reveal herself...
Su Yuan looked at Dottore and suddenly thought of a possibility—
Even though human modification and experimentation were Dottore’s specialties...
What if... this mechanized Xiangling wasn’t actually created by Dottore—
—but by Cloud Retainer herself?
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