76: Chapter 76 A Cunning Rabbit Has Three Burrows! Single-Player Secrets

Spiritless Ruins, Underground Second Level, Security Center secret room.

On the cold mysterious iron floor, Gu Shen sat cross-legged, his whole body surrounded by an extremely steady dark golden luster.

Two full days of rest.

He had completely calmed the Qi and blood in his body that had been boiling due to successive bloody battles. The residual medicinal power of that drop of dark green marrow fluid had been completely squeezed dry by the Bone Refining Art, thoroughly fused into his two hundred and six bones.

Gu Shen opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of turbid air.

With a movement of his Divine Sense, he took out a can of iron-sealed meat paste and a bottle of pure water from his Storage Ring.

Eating the salty, fishy meat paste with the clear water, the hunger was swept away.

Gu Shen lowered his head, looking at the black terminal iron plate strapped to his left leg, and the mechanical spider resting beside it.

"Crab." Gu Shen spoke coldly.

The terminal screen instantly lit up with blue light: "Master! My battery is sufficient, ready for orders at any time!"

"Last time I used the Transmigration secret technique to go to another world, you, this Artifact Spirit, were like a dead object, completely cutting off perception." Gu Shen's tone was stern. "Since you have acknowledged me as master, you should act as a competent advisor. I need you to inscribe a secret technique inside this Magic Treasure (terminal) that can operate on its own even if it is isolated from the world's Qi mechanism and has no Formation network (no network signal)!"

Crab's central processor ran at high speed for a moment, and it instantly realized.

"Master, you mean a standalone offline operation protocol! No wonder I crashed directly when you Transmigrated across dimensions last time. My previous underlying logic was that I had to send a heartbeat packet to the Shelter's local area network every second. Once the network was disconnected, the System would judge the hardware as damaged and force it into deep sleep!"

Crab's voice carried a hint of annoyance, and then it immediately promised confidently: "Don't worry, Master! Give me the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and I will immediately rewrite a set of independent standalone code in the local cache of this terminal! Even if we arrive at your Cultivation World, as long as you give a voice command, I can still call upon the local database to perform tactical deductions for you!"

Gu Shen nodded slightly.

Standalone code? Although the terminology was strange, the meaning was very clear: Crab would be able to listen to his orders anytime and anywhere in the Cultivation World in the future.

Half an hour later.

"Master, code overwrite complete! Standalone mode has been activated!" Crab reported.

Gu Shen stood up, tidied his robes, and took the mechanical spider back onto his shoulder.

"Let's go, back to the first floor on the surface."

"Master, are we not building a Puppet army here anymore?" Crab asked with some confusion.

"A wily rabbit has three burrows."

Gu Shen strode toward the entrance of the ventilation air duct, his eyes deep. "This secret room is our last fortress under the noses of the monsters on the Thirteenth Underground Level. It must not be exposed because of the noise of refining Puppets. Moreover, the underground is extremely dangerous. When I am not here, I need someone to help me scavenge the supplies in these ruins."

"I have already roughly explored three of the five floors above ground. There are no high-level Aberrations, so it can serve as my logistics workshop!"

Gu Shen took Crab and climbed all the way up along the secret air duct they had come from, returning to the empty hall on the first floor of the Spiritless Ruins.

The hall was as dead silent as before, and the floor of the hall was covered with thick dust.

Gu Shen walked to the center of the hall and flicked his large sleeve.

Clatter!

Four sets of extremely heavy Wasteland mecha parts, dismantled from the heavy riot robots on the Sixth Level, slammed onto the ground. High-frequency servo motors, ultra-lightweight skeletons, and precision steel drive shafts piled up into a small mountain.

"Crab, guide me. Assemble these parts into the simplest humanoid shells capable of walking upright."

"Understood! Master, some of the parts from the four heavy mechas are damaged, but there is absolutely no problem in piecing together three simple bipedal scavenging robots!"

For the next three hours, harsh sounds of metal cutting and friction constantly rang out in the hall.

Gu Shen used his hand as a blade, combined the sharpness of the Golden Light Finger with the microscopic immense strength of the Bone Refining Art, and under Crab's precise computational guidance, he extremely roughly forcibly twisted and spliced those metal skeletons together.

Without complex furnace smelting, Gu Shen directly engraved the most basic Gathering Spirit Formation patterns on the armor surface, using three Low-Grade Spirit Stones as the central energy source to forcibly connect those servo motors.

By evening.

Three humanoid armored puppets, eight feet tall, with extremely rough and simple appearances, covered in Formation patterns and weld seams, stood quietly in front of Gu Shen.

"Master's Formation patterns are simply universal interfaces!"

Crab couldn't help but praise, and then it split out three extremely weak data streams, which flowed along the mechanical spider's probes into the control boards of these three Puppets.

Hum—!

The electronic eyes of the three armored puppets simultaneously lit up with deep blue light, and they stiffly moved their precision steel arms.

"I have already written the most basic automated collection scripts for them."

Crab reported the results, "During the time you are away, Master, they will be like worker ants, searching all areas of the five floors above ground twenty-four hours a day without interruption. No matter what kind of supplies they are, they will transport them to this first-floor hall and hoard them!"

Gu Shen looked at these three tireless armored laborers, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

No need for feeding, no fear. Only a few of the lowest-grade Spirit Stones were needed to continuously scavenge the heritage of this Spiritless Wasteland for him.

This was the absolute dividend brought about by the collision of resources from two worlds.

"The rear is secured. It is time to go and take the Puppet Legacy of the Great Yu Cultivation World."

Gu Shen turned and walked to a hidden corner of the hall.

He took a deep breath, adjusted the mana of his Qi Refining Level 7 to its Peak, gripped the black turtle shield tightly with his left hand, and grasped the hilt of the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade with his right hand. The red light on the mechanical spider on his shoulder flashed, entering a silent standalone standby mode.

With a thought.

Deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the Heaven and Earth Furnace emitted an extremely vast roar.

The pale white fire of rules swept out instantly, completely engulfing Gu Shen's figure. In the empty first-floor hall, only those three armored puppets remained, walking with heavy steps toward the dark stairwell.