Translator: AnubisTL
"Is this what science is?" Chen Jiang asked after a moment of strange silence. "Now I finally understand why you were called a 'Folk Science' enthusiast back on Blue Star."
"What does 'Folk Science' mean?" Zhao Ritian asked, puzzled.
"It means a grassroots scientist who serves the people," Scar Dog explained, patting Zhao Ritian on the shoulder. "Alright, enough questions. None of that matters now."
He raised his walkie-talkie and shouted into it, "Brother, how are you holding up? Can your body handle it?"
Heavy breathing crackled through the speaker.
"I can handle it!"
"Brothers, can you push even harder?!"
"This feeling is absolutely incredible!"
Wang Defa, drenched in sweat and trembling with excitement, stared at the cave entrance. Warm currents surged endlessly from his fists into his body—a sensation beyond exhilarating!
For the first time, he felt his strength surging at an unprecedented rate.
Before, when fighting alone, it would take ages to find a single mutated beast or a lone alien race player. His progress had been agonizingly slow.
But now, in less than a minute, he had slaughtered countless mutated beasts, feeling the warm currents flooding his body without end.
The sensation was like... like... like constantly doing 'that'.
No wonder he was the strongest of the human race. Even his subordinates were so resourceful!
At this rate, in just a few days, he'd be able to arm-wrestle a titan!
"Not bad," Scar Dog nodded approvingly, then glanced at Zhao Ritian standing nearby. "What are you waiting for? Go cheer on your slime! Get it moving!"
"Yes, sir!" Zhao Ritian shouted in response, then hurried toward Machine No. 1234.
"To be honest," Chen Jiang paused, then murmured, "when we recruited Zhao Ritian, I never imagined a slime would become our power source."
"Well," Scar Dog shrugged with a grin, "it's cheap to produce, has no operating costs, is environmentally friendly, highly efficient, and only knows how to work tirelessly. It's practically the perfect power source."
"The current speed isn't very high yet."
"Wang Defa's physical constitution is clearly far superior to that of an average person. If an ordinary person were subjected to this kind of exertion, their body would either break down completely or come close. But Wang Defa shows no signs of distress whatsoever; in fact, he seems to be getting excited."
"Machine No. 1 is currently rotating at just over 100 revolutions per minute."
"Once Wang Defa adapts to this speed, we'll start switching to higher-tier slimes—three-star, four-star, even five-star slimes."
"At this rotation speed, it should reach a maximum of 3600 RPM."
"At 3600 RPM, Wang Defa's daily kill rate of mutated beasts with his fists would be nearly as fast as using a cannon."
"...I never imagined that something like 3600 RPM would ever be applied to humans."
"That just shows how times are constantly changing, Brother Jiang."
"You're right."
Soon, twelve hours had passed.
Dawn had broken.
Wang Defa, who had been working tirelessly all night, finally stopped.
The moment the machine came to a halt, Wang Defa didn't immediately react. His arms continued to swing instinctively until he noticed the effort required to swing his fists felt heavier than usual. He paused, confused, and glanced over at Chen Jiang and the others.
"It's stopped?"
"Yeah."
Scar Dog nodded helplessly. "Brother, we need to pace ourselves. If you keep pushing like this, I'm afraid you'll collapse from exhaustion."
"I don't feel any different. I think I could keep going for a few more hours."
Chen Jiang, however, turned to the world tree's interface and removed Wang Defa from the "tireless" whitelist.
The next moment—
Wang Defa, who had been standing just moments before, suddenly went limp and collapsed to the ground. His entire body ached, and his head swam.
"Let's take a break."
"Put the space bracelets on these slimes, then grab some food and get some sleep."
"Try this—it's a black pepper meat patty I just made."
Wang Defa glanced at the slimes approaching him, hesitated for a moment, then nodded, feeling the fatigue in his body. "Alright."
He removed the black pepper meat patties from the slimes and took out his space bracelets, placing them on the slimes.
"Over 67,000, Brother Jiang!" Scar Dog's eyes flashed with shock as he stared at the several fully loaded space bracelets. "That's nearly 70,000 one-star items in total!"
"And this is just after 12 hours!"
"That's just one day!"
"If we keep this up for a week, we'll be close to a million!"
"A month, and we'll be rounding up to ten million!"
"In half a year, we'll be rounding up to a hundred million!"
Scar Dog finally turned to Wang Defa, who had already finished eating and was snoring soundly nearby. His eyes reddened as he declared, "From this day forward, Wang Defa is my brother for life!"
"We must never let any harm come to Wang Defa!"
Chen Jiang's jaw slowly dropped as he gazed at the space bracelets piled high before him. Without hesitation, he pulled up a low stool and settled down to continue reinforcing his turret.
Seventy thousand one-star items!
During the Ten Thousand Races Blood Sacrifice Event, he had only managed to acquire around forty thousand one-star items in total. Now, in just a single day, he had obtained nearly double that amount.
"Enhance!!!" Chen Jiang roared inwardly, his excitement surging as he prepared to begin the reinforcement process.
Scar Dog promptly activated the Perpetual Motion Machine Series Product: the Automatic Reinforcement Machine!
Soon, items began raining down from mid-air, crashing into the turret and dissolving into streams of white light that fused into its core.
[Ding! You have consumed 720 one-star items to enhance the turret's barrel length from +69 to +70.]
[Current turret barrel length: 720 cm. Effective firing range increased to 7,500 meters.]
"Hmm."
Chen Jiang nodded with satisfaction.
He had just consumed approximately 7,000 one-star items to enhance the barrel length from +60 to +70.
The firing range had now reached an impressive 7,500 meters!
Starting from +50, each minor enhancement required several hundred one-star items.
In the past, this would have caused him headaches or heartache. But now, he felt no significant emotional turmoil. After all, as long as Wang Defa remained alive, he could generate nearly 70,000 one-star items daily!
Moreover, as Wang Defa's physical capabilities continued to improve, his maximum sustainable rotation speed would increase, further boosting the daily yield of one-star items.
It was a perfect positive feedback loop!
He then turned his attention to the turret's enhancement panel.
1: Ammunition capacity enhanced to +80
Caliber enhanced to +60. Rate of fire enhanced to +60. Barrel length enhanced to +70. Recoil enhanced to +20.
Enhancing all options to +50 would activate the +50 set effect. After a moment's thought, he began enhancing the recoil.
Soon, he had enhanced the recoil to +50.
The recoil force decreased from 1100 jin to 855 jin, a process that consumed nearly 5,000 one-star items.
Enhancements below +50 required minimal materials; only upgrades above +50 demanded significantly more.
Ammunition capacity was the exception.
The material cost for ammunition capacity only increased beyond +80.
Once all enhanceable options were upgraded to +50, a panel immediately popped up before him!
[Player Chen Jiang's Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret has had all five enhanceable options upgraded to +50.]
[Enhanced Set Skill 2 automatically activated!]
[Enhanced Set Skill (all five options reinforced to +50):]
[Giant Super Annihilation Bomb]
[Effect: You can fire a single, massive energy bullet with annihilation-level destructive power. However, this Giant Super Annihilation Bomb will instantly overheat your turret barrel to its maximum temperature. For the next three minutes, you will be unable to use the turret. Furthermore, as your turret caliber increases, the Giant Super Annihilation Bomb's destructive power will grow exponentially!]
[After reinforcing all five options to +80, a new Enhanced Set Skill will be unlocked.]
Chen Jiang paused, staring at the set effect. His eyes lit up, and he grinned with satisfaction.
The name alone sounded impressive:
[Giant Super Annihilation Bomb]
While there was a drawback—a three-minute cooldown period during which the turret would be unusable—it was more than sufficient.
After all, once this massive energy bullet struck, the enemy would likely be silenced for good, rendering further turret use unnecessary.
When all options were reinforced to +10, a set effect was also granted.
It was called Red Tracer Bullet.
Its effect was to make projectile trajectories more accurate.
Though he suspected the greatest benefit was simply that the red tracer bullets made the turret look significantly cooler.
Without pausing, he immediately continued reinforcing. Upgrading the barrel length and gravity had only cost him around 13,000 one-star items.
And he still had nearly 57,000 one-star items remaining.
"Keep reinforcing!"
[Ding! You have consumed 820 one-star items to reinforce the turret barrel length from +79 to +80.]
[Current turret barrel length: 820 cm. Effective kill range increased to 8,500 meters.]
After spending nearly 8,000 more items to reinforce the barrel to +80, he finally began upgrading the caliber.
[Ding! You have consumed 820 one-star items to reinforce the turret caliber from +79 to +80.]
[Current turret caliber: 410 cm.]
He spent nearly 15,000 one-star items to upgrade the turret caliber to 410 cm.
Without pausing, he continued his frantic reinforcement efforts.
Soon, all 70,000 one-star items were completely exhausted.
The turret's stats had undergone a dramatic transformation:
[Item Name]: Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret
[Item Star]: Two-Star Item
[Item Effect]: After activating the turret and inputting a whitelist, any non-whitelisted individuals entering its effective range will be subjected to indiscriminate fire.
Ammunition Capacity: Enhanced to +80, increasing ammunition capacity to 81,000 rounds. Caliber: Enhanced to +80, increasing caliber to 410 cm. Rate of Fire: Enhanced to +80, increasing rate of fire to 8,900 rounds per minute. Barrel Length: Enhanced to +80, increasing barrel length to 820 cm, with a range of 8,500 meters. Recoil: Enhanced to +80, reducing recoil to 900 kg.
[Item Description]: This contraption guarantees you a good night's sleep in the wilderness.
[Modifiable Attributes]: Caliber, Ammunition Capacity, Rate of Fire, Barrel Length, and Recoil.
[Upon enhancing all modifiable attributes to +100, the Enhanced Set Skill will be activated.]
Yes.
After exhausting all 70,000 one-star items, he had reinforced all options to +80.
The caliber had reached an astonishing four meters!
The rate of fire was an absurdly high 10,000 rounds per minute!
The effective range had also increased to 8,500 meters.
Only the recoil, despite his efforts to reduce it, had stubbornly increased instead. This was unavoidable.
As the caliber, barrel length, and rate of fire options were enhanced, the recoil steadily increased. Although he continuously reinforced the recoil option to minimize it, the overall trend remained a slight upward curve.
This reinforcement had completely depleted his newly acquired one-star items, which hadn't even had time to warm up!
Moreover, because all five options were simultaneously reinforced to +80, he unlocked his new Enhanced Set Skill!
[Detected Player Chen Jiang's Steel Sword Autonomous Rotating Turret. All five reinforceable options have been enhanced to +80.]
[Automatically activating Enhanced Set Skill 3!]
[Enhanced Set Skill for having all five options reinforced to +80—]
[Crimson Light Pillar.]
[Effect: You can unleash a massive laser pillar capable of melting all targets in its path. This pillar surpasses your maximum range and consumes 10,000 rounds of ammunition per second until the energy cartridge is depleted.]
[Unlocking a new Enhanced Set Skill requires reinforcing all five options to +100.]
"Excellent."
Chen Jiang's face beamed with satisfaction, his smile irrepressible.
At that moment, he had only one thought:
I need to find a place to test out my two newly acquired Enhanced Set Skills immediately.
Giant Super Annihilation Bomb and Crimson Light Pillar.
He couldn't wait to see the effects of these hard-earned skills. Though he didn't know exactly what they would do, the names and descriptions alone painted a vivid picture in his mind.
He also wondered what kind of set effect he would unlock after reinforcing them to +100.
He was already impatient for Wang Defa to quickly kill more mutated beasts, earn one-star items, and bring them to him for reinforcement.
Meanwhile, the turret beside him had become even more menacing.
Both its caliber and barrel length had increased by more than an order of magnitude compared to before!
"Impressive," Scar Dog remarked, gazing at the increasingly fearsome turret beside him. "A 4-meter caliber? If this thing hits someone, there won't be a trace left—not even bones or blood."
"Forget about limbs or gore."
"If you get hit..."
"Vaporization is guaranteed."
"Basically, one second you're getting blasted, and the next you're meeting the God you've always longed to see."
(End of the Chapter)
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