Machine World Society Mash Gergang

It has to be said that the "Aura of Goodwill" did help me a lot; even my perfunctory teasing didn't make Dia Lan impatient.

With his meager physique of only 100 points in [Constitution], he'd probably lose most of his bones if the other person slapped him.

As for those clowns who harbored ill intentions towards him, Li Aoz was already prepared to fish them out, just waiting for them to make the first move and start a duel so he could go up and throw a couple of punches, a physical fight, to give these guys a little shock with his Frostplate Boxing.

As a result, they were scared away by just one look from Dia Lan.

It's a real shame.

However, it's always better to avoid trouble. Li Aoz had lunch at the cafeteria, then turned around and left the castle of the Magical Application Academy, taking a small boat to the island in the middle of the lake.

A dozen minutes later, the clouds and mist dispersed, and an island in perfect harmony with nature, teeming with Phantasmal Beast and thriving with spiritual plants immediately came into view of Li Aoz.

"Natural Ecology Academy, we've arrived."

As Li Aoz disembarked and stepped onto the island, the moment his feet touched the soil, he felt an immediate sense of comfort. The soil firmly supported his shoes, without any slipping. The air was fresh and invigorating, and the sunlight filtering through the trees felt especially warm and comfortable on his skin.

"This place is really nice," Li Aoz commented. "It looks like a perfect place to retire."

Although the environment was indeed beautiful, Li Aoz did not forget the purpose of his trip. He followed the country path through the island, and houses and treehouses appeared before his eyes. Among the students and staff he encountered along the way, the number of Elf Kind and half-elves increased significantly. These nature-loving races clearly liked the environment here. Both students and teachers lived in the trees and maintained relatively primitive and simple living and working habits.

Elves are a very large and typical type of creature in the universe. This is mainly because their genes are strong enough that no matter what creature an elf mates with, the resulting creature is always a half-elf. In addition, elves often only recognize their maternal bloodline, which leads to the fact that the actual number of elves is much greater than imagined.

Of course, the lower-level half-elves and High Elf are completely incomparable in terms of bloodline, strength, and quality.

The fact that a certain dim-witted Dark Elf was merely an isolated case cannot be used as evidence.

The elf faculty and students were quite friendly to Li Aoz, perhaps because his [Charm] was high enough that the elves took the initiative to come up and talk to him.

This really helped Li Aoz a lot. The island was quite large, and the academy also had its own experimental fields. It would probably take at least two days to explore it all.

The person Li Aoz was looking for was in one of these treehouses. Guided by a friendly elf, he followed the number and eventually found his destination.

"D-8746, this is the place."

The place is really remote, it's deep in the jungle. It's questionable whether even a courier service can get here.

Li Aoz put down the Information Rune Li Aoz knocked on the door of the wooden house.

Knock knock knock.

"Hello, Senior Melo, I'm Lioz. I contacted you on the campus wall before, and we discussed the issue of digging into Deep Memory. Do you remember?"

Li Aoz said politely.

However, there was no reply from inside the gate.

Not up yet? That makes sense, it's Saturday after all, and third-year students are probably all pretty lazy.

So Li Aoz waited a moment and then knocked on the door again.

Knock knock knock.

"Hello, Senior Melo, we had a date today—"

Perhaps Li Aoz had used too much force in his final strike, because the door suddenly opened inward.

"The door wasn't locked?"

Li Aoz was startled, suddenly sensing an ominous sign. He immediately stepped inside, passed through the entrance hall, and saw a messy room with a large number of books and medicine materials scattered on the floor, as if it had been ransacked.

The gramophone inside was still running, playing melodious symphonies at a volume loud enough to drown out the sounds outside the door.

He quickly adjusted his cloaked body to shut off fingerprints and scattered biological tissue, preventing damage to the scene.

Li Aoz quietly closed the door and tiptoed into the room. He slowly lowered his body, his eyes scanning the surroundings.

The floor here has drag marks, and although it has been cleaned, there are still obvious water stains that won't dry out quickly.

He looked toward the kitchen.

There's a lingering smell of cooking in the pot; it seems to be stewed fish? But I can't see any fish.

There were no tables and chairs in the living room, suggesting that the homeowner probably doesn't like to entertain guests and that meals are likely eaten in their master bedroom.

That does fit the image of a mental worker.

Several magazines were scattered on the ground, all of them works related to the major and the school's journal, nothing new or unusual.

Li Aoz couldn't see anything strange, but he just felt something was off.

He had no choice but to walk towards the master bedroom, gently push open a crack in the door, and prepare to peer into the truth.

Bang! The door was instantly shattered by some heavy force.

[Racial Talent: Super Sensory Thinking]

One bar of focus was instantly depleted, and the world in Li Aoz's eyes seemed to be filled with mercury all at once. Time seemed to slow down. He quickly changed his position, lowered himself, circled around, and left his original spot, then knelt down and stood up.

Pat pat...

The wooden door crashed to the ground, shattering into pieces. Li Aoz looked up at the attacker: standing before him was a girl with a strange mechanical body. Her lower body was no different from that of a normal person, while her upper body was a mechanical skeleton made up of springs, nuts, and rivets. Inside her hollowed-out body, a steam heart emitting white smoke was spinning intensely.

The mechanical girl casually picked up a woman's corpse, scanned her face with her electronic eyes, and then immediately copied her face onto her own.

The girl turned her head, her zircon eyes darting back and forth, flashing with a large amount of data, as if she were processing some kind of information.

[Automatic calibration complete][Restored social network connection...][Link successful, access to cluster network granted][Jury: Machine Soul Delafis] "Excuse me, what did you just say? I was cleaning and didn't hear you."

The girl slowly raised her head, dropped the corpse in her hands, and put on a gentle yet mechanical smile:

"Could you please repeat that?"

"Oh ho."

Li Aoz squinted:

"I knew it! Where did those social lackeys who invaded White Candle Star go?"

"... You just mentioned 'society,' right?"

The girl tilted her head.

The next moment, her cheek split open, and a large number of mechanical parts combined to instantly create a heavy cannon, which was aimed at Li Aoz.

Boom! Li Aoz's body was instantly engulfed by the intense white light, and the corpses scattered on the ground began to decompose and disintegrate rapidly after being merely grazed by the white light.

"[Machine World Society] Mash Gergang is about to make his appearance here!"

After the long, continuous exposure ended, Delafis, serving as the Machine World Jury, spoke in a cold, mechanical voice.

"You carbon-based rotten flesh will eventually decay and disintegrate. All of civilization has come to an end."

Clang! "Really?! Hahahaha!"

A longsword pierced through the white death light. Li Aoz held the sword in reverse, deflecting the white death light. Amidst Jannia's sinister laughter, the metallic substances in the house were instantly summoned and gathered as if they were servants and subjects.

Armed Empire

"I feel like this is just the beginning!!"

The metal melted and fell instantly, coalescing into a simple prototype of armor.

"Slay the souls of citizens, drink the blood of society!"

Delafis suddenly leaped high into the air, raised his foot, and slammed it into the armor. His calf pierced into the metal mass, which then quickly burst open, spewing out scorching steam.

"Come on, Lioz! Let's get this party started!"

Buzz—

The intense heat caused the armor to quickly turn red-hot.

Li Aoz raised his hand.

The next moment, thousands of red-hot metal blades burst forth from the armor!