Chapter 1 Joe Elm Sits Astride Mond

Joe Elm straddled Mond.

According to the strategy guide, the passage to Hua Jun's laboratory was all iris recognition.

As long as he obtained the eyeball of a high-ranking figure, he could find Hua Jun unimpeded and obtain the Heart of Machinery.

"Don't worry, I just want your eyeballs, not your butthole."

After explaining, Joe Elm stretched three fingers towards Mond's eyes.

Mond's face was filled with horror. Injured, he could only watch helplessly as three slender fingers approached his eyeballs.

Five centimeters!

Three centimeters!

One centimeter!

Closer and closer!

*Thwack!*

Just as Joe Elm was about to succeed, a colorful small ball hit Joe Elm's head.

Joe Elm turned his head, and Nannan was staring at him angrily. Obviously, the ball had come from the little girl's hand.

"Bad guy! You hit Mond Daddy, you're a bad guy!"

Nannan cursed while continuing to throw various toys at Joe Elm.

Balls, small trucks, Barbie dolls…

"Let go of Mond Daddy!"

The little girl threw everything she could lift at him.

The other children quickly joined the battle, using their meager strength to try to stop Joe Elm.

"Nannan, go! Don't mind me!" Mond shouted.

Joe Elm stood up with a gloomy face and walked towards the little girl step by step.

"Human Saint Body! Joe Elm! I beg you, I beg you, if you have anything, come at me! They're just children!"

Mond begged, dragging his wounded body. However, Joe Elm was unmoved. He walked firmly in front of the children, his expression like ice that wouldn't melt for ten thousand years.

Joe Elm stretched out his hand towards Nannan. With just one move, the cute little girl in front of him would turn into a pile of minced meat.

"I beg you, I beg you! Don't hurt them!"

Mond pleaded frantically. His heart was filled with fear. He now regretted it immensely. Why had he trusted a stranger? Why had he brought a stranger in front of Nannan and the others?

In Mond's pleading eyes, that hand finally landed on Nannan's head.

"Good girl, it's okay. Uncle Joe Elm is just joking with your dad."

Joe Elm smiled and rubbed Nannan's head, messing up the little girl's hair.

"Really? You really won't hurt Mond Daddy?" Nannan's voice trembled slightly.

"Really, I promise," Joe Elm said with a smile.

"Then pinky promise!"

Nannan stretched out a chubby little hand.

"Okay, pinky promise!"

Two little fingers, one big and one small, hooked together. With the thumbs touching, Nannan's hanging heart finally settled down.

Joe Elm pulled Mond up and said.

"It seems that the Mechanical Empress you believe in can't save you and these children. Instead, it is my conscience as a human being that saved you."

Mond's expression was uncertain, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Joe Elm took a pen and paper from the side and handed them to Mond.

"Help me draw a map, a map of the route to Professor Hua Jun's laboratory."

In front of a group of orphaned children, gouging out the eyeballs of the man who adopted them.

Having experienced the socialist core values of prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and amity in his previous life, Joe Elm simply couldn't do such a cruel thing.

"Are you really planning to rescue Hua Jun single-handedly? That's impossible!"

Mond directly denied Joe Elm.

"The place where Hua Jun is located is the Empress Tower! The Mechanical Empress is on the top floor! To get to the Empress Tower from here, you have to go through seven lines of defense, and each line of defense is guarded by an extremely powerful mechanical warrior!"

"They are called the Mechanical Seven Generals, and even I am no match for them! Forcing your way in is the same as suicide!"

Mond tried his best to persuade him. After what had just happened, his mentality had changed slightly.

He didn't want Joe Elm to die.

"Hmm…"

Joe Elm pondered for a while and asked with some doubt.

"Are you strong?"

Mond: "…"

He had a curse word in his heart that he didn't know if he should say.

"You don't need to say so much, just draw me a map. I have to go back and take the college entrance exam after completing this task," Joe Elm said.

Mond suppressed the swear words that had already rushed to his throat and drew a map of the Mechanical Kingdom for Joe Elm.

Joe Elm took it and raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, you're so considerate, you even helped me think of an escape route. Speaking of which, isn't this a betrayal of your Mechanical Empress?"

"Hmph! I just don't want you to die outside and implicate me!" Mond turned his head away proudly.

"Okay, thank you, then I'll leave first." Joe Elm turned and left.

Mond looked at Joe Elm's leaving back. The human teenager gave him a feeling he couldn't explain, a kind of sunshine-like feeling.

"Perhaps… this Human Saint Body can really change something…" Mond murmured to himself.

Just as Joe Elm was rushing to the Empress Tower, Yang Xiangdi and the others were in trouble.

*Bang!*

Zuo You, who was carrying a large shield, was kicked back by someone.

Her large shield was covered with cracks. The newbie shield was obviously about to be scrapped, and Zuo You herself was panting.

"Ma Fei, are you okay!" Zuo You asked with concern.

"I'm fine!"

Ma Fei leaned on half of a broken sword. A terrible scar ran from his back to his chest, and blood stained Ma Fei's shirt red.

"Damn it, who is this new man? His strength is too terrifying!" Zhao Ziyue said.

Originally, they had been advancing triumphantly and were about to defeat Ishtud and complete the task.

But at this moment, a tall man in a black trench coat suddenly appeared.

Holding a long sword, he injured Ma Fei with one strike and almost shattered the defense of the strongest Zuo You.

The situation took a sharp turn, and the four of them were suddenly in danger.

"Wait for me! As long as my mana recovers, we can fight!" Yang Xiangdi said eagerly.

He was very regretful at the moment. If he hadn't been having too much fun using skills against the mechanical soldiers just now, he wouldn't be in the embarrassing situation of having no combat power because he was out of mana.

After all, a mage who can't use skills is no different from a minion.

"Hmph! Four ants!"

The trench coat man holding the long sword revealed a disdainful smile.

"Ishtud, you're really getting worse and worse. You almost died in the hands of four ants. Why don't you apply to the Empress to be remade? You've disgraced the Mechanical Kingdom!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Your Excellency is right, Ishtud is too incompetent!" Ishtud nodded and bowed, not daring to argue at all.

Because the man in front of him was Tian Shu General, one of the Mechanical Seven Generals!

As Tian Shu, who guarded the first line of defense of the Empress Tower, his strength was extremely powerful, ranking among the top ten in the entire Mechanical Kingdom.

"Hmph!"

Tian Shu snorted coldly. If Mond hadn't told him that the Tiger Ben Army in the north had encountered major trouble, and that Mond himself had important matters to attend to, asking him to come and support them, he wouldn't have appeared in this kind of place.

Tian Shu threw off his trench coat and pointed his long sword at the four of Ma Fei.

"Four ants, come and die!"