The ordinary clockwork could be detached from an object in advance; all it took was destroying the point of connection.
Mo Qiong stabbed down with his sword, but immediately provoked the derivative's resistance.
Machines that already needed clockwork wouldn't become derivatives. But when something that fundamentally didn't need clockwork was forcibly fitted with a Universal Clockwork, it was as if it had been given life.
It was fine as long as it wasn't attacked. The moment it was, the clockwork creature would fight back.
That was what had happened when the Outsider Personnel had shot at the Treant. The great tree had lashed out without hesitation, striking back with its roots and branches.
The truck was the same. As if it could feel something, it immediately jerked in response.
The chassis separated from the frame above. The truck opened its "mouth wide" and flung Mo Qiong away.
"Bang!" The cab roof tipped backward all the way to the ground, crashing down with a thunderous boom.
Then it quickly closed again, as if a giant mouth were biting down, slamming toward Mo Qiong.
"Good grief... A normal car doesn't have a mechanical structure that can move like this, but it can just move like this..."
Mo Qiong knew that the clockwork hadn't changed the truck's structure. It had forcibly given all things the ability to move.
That ability to move didn't necessarily have to conform to mechanics.
In theory, if it chose Earth and was wound a few times, Earth might abandon the Sun, leave its orbit, and simply decide to go.
"No wonder they say that even the simplest Contained Object can potentially cause a major disaster," Master Gou said.
Mo Qiong nodded. Fortunately, the Universal Clockwork couldn't be manually carried over and inserted into a particular object.
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