"Why are you here?"
Gao Huating blurted out, then immediately wanted to slap herself.
Why had she let her shock show?
Black Obsidian turned and waved. A silver-white mech walked out and took the Mechanical Arm from his hand.
Black Obsidian was not particularly tall, and his appearance could only be called ordinary, but he gave off a remarkably gentle impression.
He smiled and raised an eyebrow at Gao Huating, speaking softly:
"Long time no see. Come sit down... Don't worry, I discovered your trail half a month ago. If I wanted to kill you, I would have done it long ago. Killing you would only make Wang Jixuan hate me even more.
"I don't want to become his number one enemy."
Gao Huating was a little dumbfounded.
Black Obsidian shooed away several mechs and ordered them to prepare some food. Amusingly, the mechs went off grumbling and cursing, clearly displeased.
"Do they look alike?" Black Obsidian gestured toward those mechs with his chin.
Gao Huating asked, "Like what?"
"Mechanical Life."
"Aren't they?"
"No."
Black Obsidian leaned back in his recliner, rubbing his brow wearily as he muttered in a somewhat unhinged manner:
"This is merely my clumsy imitation of Queen Peony."
Gao Huating: ??
Black Obsidian continued muttering:
"Although I quickly established myself at the Dark Cult Headquarters in the Immortal Realm and had them obtain mech production technology for me—the kind that was fully integrated, not merely limited to our original Star Domain...
"The Immortal Realm is, in terms of space-time, the very center of the universe. Yet the lifeforms here all pursue individual transcendent power. Only the Dark Cult saw the potential of mechs after I persuaded them.
"But who would have thought? No matter how hard I tried, once mechs developed Self-Awareness, they would fall into