Chapter 1504
Chapter 1504 - 1500: New Toy
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The more grandiose the blueprint, the more it required step-by-step implementation.
The taller the tower reached toward the sky, the more it needed construction layer by layer... This wasn’t just about emphasizing the importance of foundations, but also about concrete limiting conditions...
"...Burning through money and resources is just ridiculous." After briefly calculating the recent expenses, even Lu Ping’an had to admit that "R&D" was simply burning money, a budget black hole with absolutely no cost-effectiveness.
To become a professional, one needed money and resources. Normally, professionals progressed while working part-time.
This was suitable as they needed time to absorb and digest new powers, but at higher levels, perhaps only one path could lead to a significant qualitative change. The growth rate inevitably slowed down, and without reaching a multiplicative combination or a chemical reaction, those low-level abilities were basically useless in practice.
High-tier professionals might need many years to achieve a qualitative change, but Lu Ping’an didn’t have time to wait.
Luckily, he was an "accumulative type", an "R&D type" ability user, who used his own concepts to simulate or even rebuild and shape a world—a special type that could produce more rapid outputs of phased achievements as long as he had enough resources and talents.
Unlike other professionals, each of his phased achievements, even a 10% enhancement in the base of enchanted flame oak on a weapon, would result in a noticeable improvement in his final product.
Fundamentally, possessing human spirit, he had the most layers of "sedimentation times"... The theoretical evolutionary upper limit of an independent life was infinite.
Too many research projects required investment, needed tracking, and summarization, and only his acceleration ability could ensure this work wasn’t measured in decades.
Thus, he had a rare quiet period, earnestly staying at home and working on screws.
His inactivity also relieved many people... Just a few days of closing the courtyard caused many delays, his mere presence at home was a significant contribution to the entire world.
Lu Ping’an returned to his daily life, but the courtyard and professional assembly lines continued to produce outputs every day.
The latest batch of Eastern Country warriors had arrived, with a large number of mortal warriors becoming extraordinary. Half of them might leave this world, but everyone had to undergo at least six months of training and refinement.
Lu Ping’an’s crash course training, the non-lethal deathmatch arena, the taboo library that facilitated rapid breakthroughs and even the once considered useless "ability trade column" had all become hot spots.
After all, it was previously not suitable, one reason being the newcomers didn’t have points, and the other being too little traffic; a "secondary market" with few people meant little inventory.
In the Taboo Library knowledge was provided, critical abnormal abilities time-intensively obtained via the trade column could be resolved even with insufficient innate talent, and the gym offered nearly real death combat experience... As long as you had enough points, advancing slowly was out of the question.
During this process, Lu Ping’an occasionally provided "Blessings" to eligible individuals to raise their limits.
Originally requiring sufficient trust to gain access (two gold coins)... but the tutor’s fanatical believers, the saved by the Salvation Commerce Association (Rebirth Commerce), and the Devotees of the Struggle and Redemption Church mysteriously met these criteria.
Once it was confirmed that "Trusting Lu Ping’an" and "Believing in the God of Struggle" could grant power, officials promoted Lu more straightforwardly.
He himself was in no rush... The more people tried the courtyard, the more "wealthy" he became, and these assets could rapidly be converted into power he could wield.
"This is interesting."
This time, Lu Ping’an had achieved a new phased result.
"Lu Ping’an" walked on the streets, but this time, nobody recognized him.
This was a tall "Long Hand Clan" member, aside from having darker, somewhat coarser skin and wearing a strange war wing helmet, there was nothing unusual.
This was Lu Ping’an’s "Possession Puppet," or rather, another set of body.
"Is this the perspective of the Long Hand Clan? Ugh, the limbs are a bit hard to control..."
The slender and elongated limbs were really not easy to control. If this was what it was like operating in the perspective of the Long Hand Clan, Lu Ping’an could somewhat understand why, despite their large size, they weren’t good at slashing and were slow runners on land.
"...The problem is in the joints, maybe they could be improved."
Lu Ping’an shook his head, then gave up. Since this was a simulation of the Long Hand Clan, it was probably better not to tinker carelessly.
Many times, you think you are correct... but when you change one code or one part, what you get is a complete collapse of the whole.
The cost of this body was not cheap, so until he collapsed and gathered enough data, it was better not to meddle.
"Try the new taste? Ugh, seems like the mouth is just a carved decoration."
This was a "puppet" body, but it was genuinely alive.
Whether Beast Tamers, Gardeners, or Puppet Masters, all had the ability to project their will onto their creations. The most adept were undoubtedly the Mechanic Spiritualists, who directly abandoned their physical bodies.
But their nature was different, Beast Tamers and Healers related to physical systems produced clones highly similar to themselves and then used remote control-like methods, while Gardeners could directly use spirit to control... what Lu Ping’an was doing now was similar and was also the "Undead Tactics" previously advised by Lord Xiuyi.
As long as those appearing were his puppets, how could the original body die?
However, unlike other superficial puppets, this time, the puppet was a genuine life and also a second-tier professional, a Storm Javelineer.
Lu Ping’an controlled it, allowing it to complete its self-advancement, following the universal extraordinary template of this world.
Unfortunately, this was already the limit... not only was the "wired signal range" quite limited, but it had also upgraded to the current body’s limit.
"If the technology is upgraded a bit more, it could probably use the Lamp Tree network."
Even if his current activity was limited to the city where his original body was located, Lu Ping’an was very satisfied with the result.
"I have a lot of free time, so why not wander around."
These days, whenever Lu Ping’an went out for a stroll, he occasionally felt watched... Lu Ping’an even suspected this wasn’t the action of eight-tier or ninth-order beings, but that the True Gods had locked onto him.
From the beginning, trying the pathway of the Puppet Master was also a method for Lu to gain "freedom."
Probably until he advanced further, able to easily protect himself even in front of Quasi-Gods, this kind of "benevolent surveillance" was unavoidable.
Lu Ping’an could understand, but being monitored by a higher dimension felt quite uncomfortable... Weaker beings could not sense top-tier observation, but for Lu Ping’an, it was almost like a staring contest with a slight advantage.
Because of this, Lu Ping’an hardly bothered going out.
But now, using this semi-finished product, Lu Ping’an could not only casually wander, but also experience the daily life of a local Long Hand Clan mercenary.
"Is there any combat commission available? This is also a test, a chess piece practical test..."
— End of Chapter 1504 —