After Cheng Han settled on the "One Stone Five Birds" plan, Black Cat, ever decisive and efficient, immediately began carrying it out.
Having been influenced by its master for so long, the Sheriff's attack plan—or rather, its "framing" plan—was remarkably similar to the style of the Alien God Cultists.
Specifically: bloody! Anomalous!
Half a day later.
Outside Beiting City.
At a large farm.
Anomalies occurred frequently throughout this world. There was no small-scale farming model, only a semi-industrialized model centered around Gray Crystal Machinery.
It was called "semi-industrialized" because Gray Crystal Machinery was simply too bulky and inconvenient to use, requiring human labor to assist it.
For instance, right now.
Two farm workers were laboriously pushing a small flatbed cart carrying a Gray Crystal machine.
"Creak~"
The flatbed cart slid along rusty iron tracks, producing a piercing screech.
Judging by the corrosion and wear on the rails, they had been in use for at least twenty years.
Normally.
Once a Gray Crystal was activated by a ritual disk, it suffered substantial energy leakage.
To prevent the energy from dissipating, the Gray Crystal had to be tightly enclosed within a heavy metal casing at least twenty centimeters thick, reducing the loss by more than ninety percent.
That was precisely why Gray Crystal machines were so cumbersome.
Gray Crystal vehicles, meanwhile, greatly reduced the weight of the machinery at the cost of high energy loss, making it possible to put that power onto vehicles.
And that was why Gray Crystal vehicles were so expensive to operate. Only wealthy families could afford them.
Soon.
The flatbed cart neared a lush rice paddy and began to slow.
A bald worker yanked down the brake lever.
"Clack!"
A dull sound rang out.
The flatbed cart stopped at once.
A bald middle-aged worker smiled. "Lao Lin,